Chapter 460: Chapter 335: All That Trouble for Nothing_3
He said he received the information transmitted by the shadows, the one in the underground transit line that I hadn’t received before.
I originally planned to use the tribe’s ’sign language’ to communicate with the shadows, but ever since entering the Ancient City, they have disappeared from my sight.
Chen Qinghan said it was because the Evil Spirit found out about the shadows’ contact with me at the station.
The ’traitor’ has been imprisoned, and the other shadows also don’t appear in front of me; they are guarding against me.
Now I know the shadows in the buildings are those who died in the city; the shadows wanting to communicate with me are the Ancient City’s ancestors.
"What information are they transmitting, to destroy the core?" I asked.
"No, on the contrary, to protect the core, not to be destroyed," Chen Qinghan’s answer surprised me.
"We were on the underground transit line, haven’t even entered the city yet; how did they know why we came?" And protecting the core means most of the people entering the city will be controlled by it, which is not good for us.
"Because of you and me, they thought the two of us were descendants of the Ancient City’s people, coming to find our ancestors’ ’treasure,’ so he told me so much."
"Hey... how come you can receive information, and I can’t? What’s your structure, have you mutated?"
"Maybe, anyway, he said the descendants of the Ancient City’s people have the responsibility to protect the core."
"The Ancient City was abandoned by the ancestors because of pollution, and even those who have been polluted were sealed inside the city to die naturally, to this extent, and still need to protect the core, I think they’re deeply poisoned."
"There’s no problem with the core, the problem is the people who use it; the real enemies of the Ancient City are the invading outsiders."
"Oh... it’s those Big Heads!"
"What Big Heads?"
"This relationship is too messy. I found some big-headed creatures in the power supply room, the Ancient City’s buildings and corpses are maintained in their original form by their thoughts. I thought..." They supplied power to the core, but could it be the opposite, the core provided energy to them, allowing their thoughts to create real illusions?!
Because I unplugged the energy-supplying lines, they either self-destructed or depleted, unable to sustain life anymore.
We’ve seen the corpses of the Ancient City’s ancestors, clearly not the same species as the Big Heads, so the Big Heads are actually enemies of the Ancient City’s ancestors?
How did they appear in the Ancient City and ’occupy’ the core energy; it seems what’s happening in the Ancient City is more complicated than we imagined.
As for Ou Chen, what role does he play in all this?
The Ancient City’s ancestors don’t want us to destroy the core, yet Ou Chen continuously incites me and Gu to destroy the core, and the Big Head, before dying, also urged me to protect the core.
Thus, the Ancient City’s ancestors and the Big Heads, though enemies, have surprisingly consistent attitudes toward the core.
Only Ou Chen thinks differently from them; he also denies being an Ancient City person, so he is likely from another third-party force.
Before our era, there was a more ’lively’ era; this is something I have known for a long time. As Ou Chen said, what happened back then is no longer important now.
Except for one thing, I’m very curious, so I asked Chen Qinghan, did the Ancient City’s people tell him who their ancestors were, where they came from.
Regarding the timeline, the Ancient City’s people might have appeared on this blue planet at the same time as our tribe.
Perhaps we are even related, maybe by researching their history, we can find our common homeland and ancestors.
"There’s a building underground similar to a museum; I went there, the Ancient City’s people’s creation myth doesn’t have a written record, only murals. Their ’Fu Xi’ is a man with extraordinary abilities, ’Nuwa’ is a mermaid."
"Ah? That’s clearly not the same species!"
"Yes, so the murals depict them discarding deformed dead infants."
"How many do they have to birth to produce a normal one?"
"The exact number is unknown, but I’ve noticed there’s a mark on the man’s clothing, but none on the mermaid."
"What do you mean, the man has the familiar symbols our tribe uses, the mermaid doesn’t, does that mean they are really human... that crop of rice?"
"Perhaps, the mermaid has a lower status; they appear more like a union of disparate status."
"Mermaid, wait." Mentioning this creature, I do have some impression; it’s a very ancient legend from our tribe.
I recalled and asked, "The mermaid you mentioned, does it have legs but no eyelids and has gills?"
Chen Qinghan immediately nodded: "Yes, its limbs are like fins, without palms or fingers."
