Chapter 1555 Neighbors who met for the first time
Amber and Modir disappeared, and the way they came was gone. They were sent to this dizzy giant city alone and completely cut off contact with the outside world. This situation seemed different from what Gao Wen expected.
But for a journey to visit the Ancient God Realm, anything that happens seems to be a "predictable" situation.
Gao Wen looked around quickly and saw everything he could see. He tried to sense the breath of amber or Modir, but he found nothing within his perception range. He was indeed standing alone in this vast city, as if he had only walked here alone from beginning to end. The way he came had disappeared, and there were only layers of towers and houses ahead of him, as if he was constantly repeating.
Gao Wen took a deep breath. He didn't know where Amber went, nor where Modir was at the moment. It was a lie to say that he was not worried or nervous, but he still forced himself to calm down after a moment of nervousness. He knew that this should be Ms. Ye's intentional arrangement in this "City of Thousand Towers", and everything was under the dominance of Ms. Ye. After the tide disappeared, there was no factor in this field that could affect the authority of the ancient god. Therefore, since he was facing such a strange situation at this moment, this situation was not an accident.
After he calmed down his mind, Gao Wen felt that his heartbeat slowly calmed down. He recalled the information he had collected before coming here, looked up and distinguished the shadowy streets and the silhouettes of the buildings in this "Thousand Towers City", trying to find a direction to move forward here. Since Ms. Ye took the initiative to invite him to come, he definitely did not bring himself here to make fun of him. Maybe this is the place to meet.
Soon, his eyes locked in the tallest and most eye-catching shadow deep in the city.
The shadow was hazy, as if it was shrouded in thick clouds and mist, and it seemed to change at any time. It seemed to be invisible under the dim and gray sky light. It was towering than any palace or tower around it, and it was entrenched high in the center of the Thousand Towers as if overlooking the entire city.
Gao Wen quickly thought of the core city of Thousand Towers mentioned in the information, and thought of the giant building called the "Dark Palace". It is said that the Dark Palace was once the residence of the rulers of the Violet Kingdom. After the dream of the Violet Kingdom ended, the Dark Palace became the "private residence" of Prince Nash, the gatekeeper of the Shadow God Kingdom. According to Modir and Maggie's speculation, this "Dark Palace" should be the entrance to the Shadow God Kingdom.
It seemed that the hazy and towering huge shadow in the distance should be the dim palace. Gao Wen quickly made a judgment in his heart, and then he took a step towards the direction of the shadow.
In the ancient giant city of dullness and silent, the footsteps of only one visitor broke the eternal tranquility. The sound of boots treading on the ground echoed in the long street. The spire-topped houses on both sides of the street were staring at the figure walking through the long street like silent guards. The dark doors, dark walls and the black windows embedded in the walls all seemed to have silent mouths and empty eyes, maintaining strange silence under the gray and white sky light...
Gao Wen even had a certain illusion. He felt that the street-facing houses seemed to have really cast a series of gazes, and some kind of gaze that spanned time and space fell on him empty and woodenly. The masters of these gazes have lived in this city simulated with some data technology since 1.87 million years ago. It was the ancient era of this planet. Even the giant dragons in Tarrond were called the "Northern Barbarians". Even the gods of the dragon clan still seemed young and immature. These gazes that spanned time and space were empty and cold, and became more and more real as Gao Wen moved forward.
Finally, Gao Wen stopped on the street. He stood there and thought for a while, turned around and walked straight toward a house closest to him, and opened the empty wooden door.
A tall and thin figure with a black rune wrapped around his body was standing at the door. Under the constraints of the rune cloth, there was a chaotic black mist that looked like a human-shaped shadow resident. He was standing there looking at Gao Wen with his face without facial features. Of course, there was no change in expression on the rune cloth, but Gao Wen felt that this guy was a little embarrassed.
Gao Wen recalled some knowledge about Shadow Inhabitants. These mysterious Shadow Inhabitants would not deal with "outsiders", and they were in a state of chaos that would be out of control at any time. Shadow Inhabitants would actively attack any invaders entering their territory, and there was no room for negotiation to slow down.
But Gao Wen confronted the shadow resident in front of him for two seconds, and at the first moment he felt that the other party seemed to be different from what he knew. The creature in front of him did not have any signs of violent attacks. Moreover, although he was just standing quietly in the door, Gao Wen still noticed a feeling that seemed... to be communicated. This feeling was very subtle, but Gao Wen was almost sure that the "shadow resident" in front of him was different from the kind that the world knew.
Suddenly, a cognition seemed to emerge from his mind that this was the shadow resident who returned to the Thousand Towers City, and the shadow resident who completed the "Return to Night" ceremony and finally arrived at the end after more than one million years of chaos wandering.
And the moment when this perception emerged from his heart, Gao Wen noticed that the clouds and mist in the shadow residents in front of him seemed to have changed. Some ripples appeared on the other person's face, which had no facial features. Seeing this, Gao Wen was blessed and asked casually: "What are you looking at?"
The shadow resident opposite was silent for two seconds, probably not reacting at once, and then a vague trembling sound rang out from the depths of his "bandage": "...Watch the fun."
It is communicable!
Although Gao Wen took the initiative to ask questions, to be honest, he really didn't expect to hear an answer from the other party. When the chaotic and vague sound came into his ears, he even hid himself. Then he instantly reacted and suddenly looked up at the entire street.
In every house, every door, and behind every window in this city, there are sights coming from "them". This is their "real state". It turns out that the shadow residents can communicate. In the past, the situation where they cannot communicate and blindly attacked was just a long sleepwalking.
Many fragmented information about the Shadow Realm in the past was quickly combined at this moment. The series of huge and far-reaching effects that Ms. Ye had on the Shadow Realm, the Shadow Inhabitants and the Violet Kingdom during her return turned into a clear chain in Gao Wen's mind, but these storms that set off in his mind did not affect Gao Wen's conversation with the indigenous people in front of him. He quickly calmed down and looked at the tall and thin figure in front of him: "Why are you all watching the fun behind the door?"
The tall, thin and weird black shadow was silent for two seconds again, and raised his hand to point at a row of houses in the distance: "No, there are still some behind the windows."
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"... Are you wrong?" Gao Wen's expression almost stopped in an instant. The strange, gloomy and mysterious atmosphere that had been lingering around since he stepped into the Thousand Towers City had broken all the time. The hollow gaze that he felt along the way across time and space was actually real in the physical sense. There was really a shadow resident of a whole city hiding behind the door and staring at him. Thinking of this, he had another layer of goose bumps on his body. Another sense of creepy emerged from the bottom of his heart, "Everyone hid behind the doors and windows staring at the guests. Is this your custom?"
"The hostess said that the guest came from afar and was not used to the scenery in the city. Let us stay at home and not come out to scare people," the tall, thin and weird black shadow spoke honestly, "but He didn't say he couldn't watch the fun secretly..."
Gao Wen: "...Is your hostess a little bit..."
He was really a little overwhelmed at this time. Although everything that happened to the journey to visit the ancient gods was considered an "expected" situation, the situation in front of him really made him unable to adapt and wanted to make some words about tigers and wolves on the spot. But as soon as he was halfway through his words, a slightly lazy and majestic voice suddenly descended from the sky, interrupting all his movements: "Sorry, it seems to cause some trouble to you."
The moment the sound appeared, Gao Wen felt a gaze with a huge breath falling on him. He heard the sound echoing throughout the city, as if even the breath between heaven and earth was frozen in this voice. Then, he realized the source of the sound and vision. He looked in the direction he felt, and saw his previous target, the huge shadow standing in the center of the city, which he considered to be the dim palace.
The huge shadow turned to this side, and at the top of the shadow, there were a pair of amber eyes staring quietly at Gao Wen through the clouds.
It was not a dark palace at all, nor a towering tower, and it was Ms. Ye.
He stood in His kingdom like a mountain, covering the city like a dark cloud. He looked down at the earth from the clouds, and with the limits of the eyes of mortals, he could not see all His posture.
Before today, Gowen had only seen such a stunning figure in Tallond once, the chaotic dragon that could cover the entire continent was also so amazing... No, that was even more amazing than Ms. Ye's posture, because it was transformed by the "gods".
The shadow resident standing in the doorway bent down respectfully in the direction of Ms. Ye: "Salute to you, Lord of Night."
"Well," Ms. Ye's voice fell from the sky, "Go busy, I want to talk to my guests."
"Yes." The tall and thin black shadow responded immediately, and then without saying hello to Gao Wen, he stepped back into the shadow of the house. The black door that could not be seen also creaked and closed, and no movement came from inside.
The next moment, Gao Wen felt that all the gazes from the streets had disappeared. Whether from behind the door or behind the window, all the snooping feeling disappeared in an instant. He even felt that what had disappeared was not just the gazes that were originally in the house, the shadow residents who had disappeared out of thin air after receiving the order from Ms. Ye, and no more breath came.
This feeling is like the shadows of the Aboriginals temporarily becoming a "non-existent state" to leave room for their hostess to entertain guests.
There were many mysteries under the night sky, but Gao Wen's attention was no longer on these irrelevant details. He raised his head and stared at the towering silhouette standing in the center of the city. The clouds surrounding the figure seemed to have faded a little. In the slightly clearer outline, Gao Wen vaguely felt a sense of familiarity.
But before he could ask, Ms. Ye's voice came to his ears: "They just returned to me, and the impact of the long chaos state has not completely subsided, and their words and deeds may still be a little weird. If it has caused trouble to you, please forgive me."
"They... are you referring to the Shadow Inhabitants living in this city?" Gao Wen frowned. It seemed that his judgment just now was correct. The "Shadow Inhabitants" in this city were indeed different from the "wanderers" known to the world. They were in a state of "after return". Then, he thought of the "knowledge" that came out in his mind just now, which made his expression a little serious. "Just just now, some 'cognition' about Shadow Inhabitants appeared in my mind. Did you instill in me? Is this an influence on some mental level?"
"...I don't do such rude things, and it's not realistic to want to interfere with you as a special 'mortal'," Ms. Ye's voice was filled with a smile, "Isn't it? The outsider above the sky, my neighbor for many years, your memory is not so easy to tamper with. You know this more than me."
Gao Wen's expression was calm, and he was not surprised at what he said to Ms. Ye in his heart.
People only know that Ms. Ye is an ancient god who has survived for millions of years, but he knows that the "orthodox" of this ancient god is actually the legacy of a setter in Cangqiong Station. In a sense, the anchor generator in space is Ms. Ye's real "home". On the other hand, he himself occupies an ancient monitoring satellite, and now he has become half of the administrator of Cangqiong Station through the replacement of authority. He and Ms. Ye are indeed neighbors.
They have lived next door for hundreds of thousands of years.
This is a wonderful bond of cause and effect, but this "friendship" did not relax him at all. The mysterious purpose and unpredictable temper of the ancient god in front of him made him cautious: "Since that's the case, how did you instill that knowledge into me?"
"That's not my indoctrination, but my neighbor's trickle of the past few hundred thousand years. The sky-mounted facility group is our common place to stay. In the same data system, you can actually know many things I know, and some things you witness can more or less map to me. I have not instilled anything in you. I just let you 'recalize' some knowledge you already know."
Gao Wen was finally stunned. This was really an answer he had never expected. He blurted out in shock: "You mean, some of your memories and I are interconnected?!"
He still didn't say a word, why didn't he know about this?!
"It has not reached the level of 'interoperability', but there is indeed some intersection," Ms. Ye's voice fell from the sky, with a little laziness in her calmness. "This time I invited you to come here, part of the reason is also related to this matter. Of course, more importantly, it is to discuss with you the future of the world, your own future, and by the way... transfer some 'legacy' that should be delivered to all living beings in the world."
Chapter completed!