novelraw Chapter 126 The Ephemeral Era
Chapter 126 The Ephemeral Era
Chapter 126 The Ephemeral Era
Liu Bai looked at the robot that had turned to ashes, then turned his gaze back to the stone tablet.
Le Yu opened his mouth, still not realizing what was happening.
Just then, the robots in the other three corners also looked over.
Liu Bai raised three more arrows.
boom! boom! boom!
The number of robots in the room immediately dropped to zero.
"Brother Liu, should we evacuate now?" Le Yu looked at the robot with a worried expression.
"Let's continue looking at the information on the stone tablet." Liu Bai wasn't in a hurry, nor did he intend to leave.
Once his whereabouts are exposed, the panda spirit will come knocking, so there's no need for him to leave.
Given Panda Ling's speed, he'd be doomed no matter where he ran, so he might as well wait here and gather more information.
He is now very curious whether the king of this civilization is the kind who is above one person.
If that's the case, then he can use the emperor to command the feudal lords; if not—
Liu Bai frowned slightly.
If not, then the only option is to penetrate the singularity and then evacuate.
Thinking of this, he looked at the stone tablet.
Seeing that Liu Bai remained so calm after being discovered, Le Yu hesitated for a moment and then fell silent.
If Liu Bai wasn't flustered, then neither was he.
After all, this kid remained calm from beginning to end, so he must have some confidence. After all, no one can remain unfazed in a life-or-death situation.
Thinking of this, he calmly looked at the stone tablet—
The following content on the stone tablet.
After the mayflies set foot in the starry sky, the entire civilization began to focus all its efforts on technological development.
However, an era of mayflies lasts only one hundred years, and the achievements of each era must be built from scratch, so the subsequent dozens of eras have been characterized by slow development.
Later, mayflies even developed gene-based technology, creating a technology that allows offspring to hatch in just one day.
However, this technology was immediately shelved after its release, and the mayflies planned to use it only after solving the problem of world doom.
Then, in the 398th epoch, the mayflies successfully built an expedition spaceship.
A spaceship capable of bypassing the three stars surrounding Ephemeral Star.
This era is known in mayfly history as the Age of Hope, as large numbers of mayflies boarded spaceships and traveled into space on Civilization Day.
They plan to find a new home.
but.
An hour after Civilization Day ended, the hopeful spaceship returned from space.
The mayfly, braving the intense heat of the flames, came to the stone tablet and carved two sentences with its life.
"A cage! We are already in a cage!"
"We can't leave! There's nothing beyond the stars!"
Let us conclude with these two sentences of the Hope Era.
The mayflies that later experienced a gradual revival of civilization were completely baffled by these two sentences.
They could only build one more spaceship to go into space and explore.
The spaceship returned as scheduled, but the returning mayflies all looked desperate.
According to the navigation logs, the mayfly civilization was near a colorless cave entrance, along with three stars.
This hole is constantly swallowing and tearing apart all the celestial bodies around it.
The star they are on is also being pulled by the gravity of a black hole!
The spaceship glanced at the black hole and quickly turned back, because the gravity system began to go out of control after it saw the black hole.
In the end, the spaceship relied on the gravity of the sun to escape from being out of control and return to the mayfly star.
"This civilization is near a black hole? No wonder."
Liu Bai suddenly realized.
He had always wondered why a civilization with a different perception of time would emerge.
Emotions are caused by a black hole.
Because of their powerful gravity, black holes can distort the passage of time in surrounding celestial bodies, potentially making the passage of time faster or slower.
Having figured things out, Liu Bai continued to look at the stone tablet.
Next, after discovering that their planet was enveloped by the gravity of a black hole and that no one could escape, the mayfly civilization entered a long period of despair.
It is estimated that the black hole will devour them in a few dozen epochs.
And they have no way to deal with it.
Technology develops extremely slowly because it requires rebuilding every time it is needed.
The mayfly started to slack off.
Technology ceases to advance, and order begins to collapse.
Theology, religion, and the division of civilizations have played out continuously in every era.
How can a mayfly, living only a day, shake the heavens?
From that moment on, no mayfly felt they still had hope.
An endless cycle of despair.
This situation continued until a mayfly named "Liang" was born.
In the 423rd era, a mayfly named Liang used ruthless methods to integrate the fragmented mayfly civilization.
After unification, he first devised the Fire Seed Project, creating a massive star fleet in an attempt to escape from the black hole in the opposite direction.
In the process of escaping, they attempted to develop technology to escape the black hole's gravity.
However, just after the plan was finalized, a stone tablet came from the stars.
Black stone tablets, accompanied by creatures capable of camouflage.
"A memorial tablet?"
Liu Bai was taken aback and looked at the stone tablet in front of him.
Only then did he realize that the stone tablet in front of him seemed to be similar to the Blue Star Spirit Tablet.
Is this memorial tablet controlled by mayflies?
Still puzzled, Liu Bai continued reading.
The area where they were located had been surrounded by robots, but they didn't come in, as if they were waiting for something.
Upon seeing this, Liu Bai immediately sped up his reading.
But as soon as he saw the next words, his face was filled with surprise.
"How do you mean the creature inside the stone tablet has been killed?"
The inscription reads, "At that time, King Liang of the Fu directly killed the creature that emerged from the stone tablet. He then gained the creature's abilities, achieving immortality and the ability to transcend eras."
"Mayfly Bright, is he an ability user of this civilization? But what does it mean to have gained biological abilities? Isn't that just being replaced by a spirit?"
Liu Bai had many questions.
"He's an ability user." Le Yu's expression turned strange as she slowly said, "As for the replacement—"
He paused for a moment before continuing, "He may not have been replaced, but rather inherited the identity of a spirit."
"The identity of an inherited spirit?" Liu Bai's eyes narrowed. "Like my girlfriend?"
"That's right."
"How did he do that?" Liu Bai asked, his tone full of curiosity.
He asked Su Yumu, but didn't get an answer.
"This—it involves a fifth-tier civilization." Le Yu looked troubled. "If you know about this before you reach the third tier, the Alliance might target you."
After speaking, Leyu pointed to the personal terminal.
Liu Bai immediately understood that the terminal information would be uploaded after they went out, but he wasn't afraid. After the rollback, no one would know that he knew.
After a moment's thought, Liu Bai continued, "Brother Yu, I have a solution for being targeted by the Alliance, so you don't need to worry about it."
"Are you sure?" Le Yu turned her head to look at Liu Bai.
"OK." Liu Bai nodded immediately.
Seeing this, Le Yu's face turned solemn: "To understand the story of replacing a spirit's identity, we need to go back a thousand years, and based on the information we have, the starting point of all this might be the mayfly brilliance right in front of us—"