hsntnovel Chapter 259 It wasn't a natural disaster! The truth behind the great flood is actually this?
Chapter 259 It wasn't a natural disaster! The truth behind the great flood is actually this?
The moment the soles of my feet touched the warm, white jade floor, an intense, pervasive spiritual energy filled my nostrils.
Daozifeng.
This place is definitely something special.
The white mist was not water vapor, but liquefied spiritual energy, flowing around my ankles.
The palace next to it, hollowed out entirely from a single piece of thousand-year-old spiritual jade, seemed out of place in this apocalyptic world, exuding an air of nouveau riche extravagance.
The flowers planted in the flowerbeds aren't flowers, but spiritual plants from outside that could splatter someone's brains out; and the water flowing down from the artificial hill isn't water, but high-purity spiritual liquid.
If it were a naive survivor, they'd probably be kneeling on the ground licking the floor tiles by now.
But Lu Sheng only glanced at it.
Then he walked to the spring, bent down, scooped up a handful of water, and took a sip.
"It's sweet, and it's alright."
Lu Sheng shook the water droplets off his hands, his evaluation was both fair and perfunctory.
It's like commenting on a bowl of soy milk from a roadside stall.
Li Xiaoyao stood to the side, his hand behind his back stiffening for a moment.
The old man's well-prepared speech—about how amazing Daozi Peak was, how powerful its formation was, and how much the Daozi of each generation cherished it—was all choked up by this single word, "It's alright."
This reaction is wrong.
According to the script, shouldn't this kid be moved to tears, or at least show a shocked look as if he's "never seen the world before"?
"That's it?"
Li Xiaoyao couldn't help but point around: "This is the convergence point of the nine major veins. One day here is equivalent to a hundred days outside, and this is your reaction?"
Lu Sheng turned around, put his hands back in his pockets, and there was not a ripple in his dark golden vertical pupils.
Elder Li.
Lu Sheng didn't respond to his comment, but instead steered the conversation to another level.
"The house is nice, and the water is good too. But I didn't come up here to find a nice place to sleep."
He took a step forward, and the oppressive aura of a true dragon, even without being deliberately released, caused the surrounding flowing spiritual mist to pause for a moment.
Let's be frank and open with each other.
Lu Sheng stared at Li Xiaoyao's wrinkled old face, his voice steady, yet like a sharp knife, directly piercing through the polite barrier between the two.
"I want to know, how did this massive global flood come about?"
The smile on Li Xiaoyao's face gradually faded.
The wind blew across the mountaintop, and the wind chimes on the eaves of the palace made a crisp, ringing sound, but it only made the atmosphere seem more deathly still.
Lu Sheng didn't give him time to think; the questions came one after another, like a barrage of bullets, or like a trial.
"Global sea levels are rising dramatically, and billions of people are dying without knowing why."
"Where was your Immortal Island back then?"
"If these so-called blessed lands possess the power to overturn rivers and seas, why do they stand by and watch civilization perish?"
"besides……"
Lu Sheng raised his finger and pointed to the sky above, which appeared to be azure but was actually filled with an eerie, deathly aura.
"What exactly are those dead bodies crawling out of the water, those mutated monsters in the sea, and that so-called abyss?"
Lu Sheng had been holding these questions in for a long time.
From the very first day he transmigrated here, this world had an absurd feel to it.
If it's a natural disaster, why would there be a spiritual source?
If it's an evolutionary frenzy, why are there those malicious floating corpses?
Li Xiaoyao fell silent.
He looked at the young man in front of him.
There was no reverence, no greed, only a thirst for knowledge and... anger that wanted to strip the world bare.
Yes, anger.
That was the most instinctive question a survivor could ask of those high-and-mighty bystanders.
"Good question."
Li Xiaoyao finally spoke, his voice hoarse, and the playful old man's teasing was gone.
He waved his sleeve.
hum!
A cyan light curtain instantly enveloped the entire Daozi Peak, and the sounds of the wind and birds outside vanished in an instant. The whole world was so quiet that only the two people's heartbeats could be heard.
Soundproof enclosure.
It seems that what follows is a taboo that cannot be easily heard, even on this Immortal Ascension Island.
"You think we don't want to save them?"
Li Xiaoyao turned around, no longer looking at Lu Sheng, but walked to the edge of the cliff and looked down at the boundless ocean.
His back looked somewhat hunched at that moment.
"Lu Sheng, do you think this great flood was water?"
Lu Sheng frowned, recalling the first time he activated the system, when it mentioned the Water of Calamity. The system walked to his side and asked, "Contaminated seawater, or perhaps the Water of Calamity?"
"Disaster..."
Li Xiaoyao gave a bitter laugh and reached out to grab at the void, as if trying to grasp something unseen.
"That's not a disaster, that's an invasion."
"This water is not from Earth at all."
"The spatial barrier shattered a few months ago."
The old man's voice turned low and had a bloody smell: "You can think of our world as an egg, and outside is endless darkness."
"Someone, or rather something, cracked a hole in the eggshell."
"So, the 'things' from outside poured in."
"We call it—the Abyssal Tide."
Lu Sheng's pupils dilated slightly.
Although he had suspected it beforehand, hearing the truth with his own ears still sent a chill down his spine.
It was not a natural disaster.
It's an intrusion.
It was a civilization from another dimension, or some indescribable being, that launched a dimensional reduction attack on Earth.
"Those waters are the embodiment of energy from the abyss dimension."
Li Xiaoyao pointed to the true sea below: "They carry high-dimensional law toxins. Creatures on Blue Star will die instantly upon contact with them. After death, their bodies will be eroded by energy and turn into floating corpses that only know how to kill."
"As for sea creatures..."
"They are variants that have adapted to this toxin."
At this point, Li Xiaoyao suddenly turned around, staring intently at Lu Sheng, his eyes filled with extremely complex emotions.
There was guilt, helplessness, and above all, a deep sense of powerlessness.
"You're asking where we are?"
"At the moment the tide broke out, all the Spirit Kings, all the Lords of the Grotto Heavens, and even those old monsters who had been in seclusion for hundreds of years all went to the same place."
Lu Sheng asked instinctively, "Where?"
Li Xiaoyao raised his finger to the sky.
No, it doesn't refer to the sky.
It points beyond the atmosphere, to the void rifts invisible to the naked eye.
"We are on the 'wall'."
"If it weren't for us old bones risking our lives to fill that hole, using our bodies to plug that crack..."
Li Xiaoyao's voice suddenly rose, trembling slightly: "What's being poured in isn't just this 'water'!"
"But a true demon god of the abyss!"
"If that's the case, among humankind, not even a bacterium could survive! Earth would become a dead star in an instant!"
Lu Sheng was stunned.
A picture flashed through his mind.
While ordinary people were killing each other for a few packets of instant noodles and struggling to survive in floods.
High above, where it cannot be seen.
A group of the strongest humans are facing a terrifying torrent that could destroy the world, and they are going to their deaths one after another.
"In that battle, thirty percent of the human race's Spirit Kings perished."
Li Xiaoyao's tone returned to calm, but beneath that calmness lay mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
"We blocked the demon god, but we couldn't stop the energy from seeping in."
"This is the truth about the Great Flood."
"We can't save everyone, we can only protect the last spark."
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