Chapter 914 Mutable Yet Eternal Things (5200)

For Eve, the little girl of the Ji Zou Era, her life became much more exciting after a gentle, white-haired elder sister popped up in her basement.

Her father, Alan, no longer frowned, and his luck had improved a lot. Although the situation where a random poisonous spider would fall into his glass even when drinking cold water would still happen occasionally, there were invisible spirit siblings who would help him solve these problems.

Those invisible siblings were almost everywhere. According to Sister Aura, those were her 'teachers,' and they had already restored their bodies in her original world, but after hearing the summoning of the Zhuzhou Divine Lord, they were curious and unwilling to be lonely, so they returned to their spirit form and came with Sister Aura to answer the call.

Speaking of Sister Aura, Eve was always very happy and interested.

The white-haired girl, although she didn't look much older than her, was exceptionally mature. Even though Aura had repeatedly stated that she was only seventeen years old, Eve nodded understandingly, thinking that she must be seventeen years and hundreds or thousands of months old—just like those hundreds-of-years-old elven sage characters in legendary stories who usually said their age like that!

In any case, Aura's appearance did change the fate of Eve and Alan.

Compared to Eve, Aura, who was more mature, was the direction the girl yearned for.

In particular, Aura's existence brought many new things to this world.

For example... virtual reality games in the Dream Realm.

With the end of the 'Grand Farce' battle, various forces, due to public demand, increased their investment in virtual games. The Radiant Light Church's Dream Realm, as the most mature system architecture, naturally received the most resource tilt. Now, it has completely replicated several classic gameplay methods from the battle, and even innovated, abandoning the constraints of the two major camps, and adding a 'sixty-person battle royale' mode.

In this mode, the Radiant Light Church selected their famous commanders and warriors as templates to create hero characters, endowing each hero with unique abilities and passives, and fighting in vast archipelago maps, fortress maps, mountain maps, and city maps.

Compared to faction battles, this game, which focuses more on individual ability, is also extremely popular.

Eve was one of them.

As the only daughter of Alan, a wealthy man and major shareholder of the Radiant Light Church, Eve was naturally an internal tester for these games... and, in these combat-related games, the girl showed an extraordinary and terrifying talent!

Not powerful, not outstanding, but terrifying!

Now, when Eve plays duo battle royale with Alan, she can easily achieve an average of ten kills and more than two thousand damage per game, and even twenty kills and four thousand damage often happen.

If the Dream Realm couldn't cheat, Eve would be reported for cheating every game on Earth.

And Alan is old after all. Although he also has some miracle abilities, his reaction ability is really not good without miracle buffs, so he can only be carried by his daughter.

Nowadays, Eve and Alan's game identities are already well-known high-end duo in the Dream Realm. Every time they appear, someone will live stream and record the screen, editing the scene of being killed from the enemy's perspective.

Playing games every day, learning how to control mecha armor in the game, and learning miracle magic and knowledge of other worlds under the guidance of her father and Sister Aura.

Eve felt that this kind of life was already very good.

Compared to before, when she knew that either her father or she had to choose one to die, how happy the present time was.

Even...

"Even if it continues like this, forever, it wouldn't be bad."

The blonde girl sat on the balcony, watching the sun slowly fall to the horizon in the twilight, and couldn't help but sigh: "Time, please slow down a little... I really want this tranquility to stop forever."

She thought so, from the bottom of her heart.

Longing for time to stop eternally.

For the beautiful fleeting moments.

For the moments of happiness.

For a little girl who had once experienced great entanglement and considered whether to commit suicide so that her father could be freed from his inevitable fate of death, this wish was not strange, and could even be called natural.

However, someone still spoke.

"Eve, why not think about it from another angle?"

Accompanied by light footsteps, white long hair fluttered, and Aura's figure appeared behind Eve, touching the little girl's head from behind: "Imagine making the future better, making the current happiness even happier."

"Wouldn't that be better?"

"It's Sister Aura!"

Hearing the familiar voice, the girl also happily stood up and gave the other party a hug, and then invited her to sit down and have tea together.

Eve has always admired Aura, who has her own dreams, has the ability to do what she wants to do, and has courage. She also believes that Sister Aura's words must be right.

But... she also has doubts.

"Sister."

The girl propped her cheek with her hand, and asked curiously, "What you said about becoming better, after all, requires effort to do it."

"But, there will also be people who don't want to work hard, who just want to live a plain life, who don't want to struggle and just want an ordinary life, right?"

"Since they are already very happy now, then they don't want to continue to work hard, they don't want to change, they just want to continue like this forever... there must be no shortage of such people!"

She said so, raising a question: "In that case, Sister Aura, would you force them to become better?"

"No, no." Speaking of this, Eve immediately realized that she had misspoke, and she waved her hands in a panic: "What I mean is, if other people work hard to become better, but those who don't want to work hard will be left behind... clearly the happy life is broken like this, and they have to be coerced to progress in order to restore the original happiness... that's not good, right?"

"Although everyone says that progress is right, and it's your fault if you don't work hard... but like this... is this really good? Effort should be an inner desire, not forced by others, right?"

"Hmm..."

Aura couldn't help but raise her eyebrows. The girl, who had only come to see how Eve was doing recently, was really a little surprised at this moment.

This child in her teens has already considered things like involution and snowballing? As expected of a very intelligent child.

However, this way of thinking is still too limited to 'ordinary people.'

So, the silver-haired girl smiled. She reached out and pinched Eve's cheek, and before the other party said shyly, "Sister, you're annoying," she calmly said: "Eve, do you really understand what is called forever... what is called eternity?"

In the girl's unresponsive and somewhat dazed expression, Aura smiled slightly: "A truly happy world is a gentle world that allows waiting, allows latecomers to catch up, and allows slow and peaceful life."

"No one urges, everyone is tolerant, and no one will be left behind if they fall behind... only such a world can support the 'correctness' of 'innovation'."

"Only then can it be called 'eternity'."

Standing up, Aura stared at the dark sky where the sun had already fallen below the horizon. She stretched out her hand and pointed to the night sky where the stars were gradually emerging.

The girl said in a firm tone: "Eve—not forever said casually, not eternity said as a joke, think seriously, facing the true meaning of 'infinite time', can you really guarantee that you won't work hard at all, never work hard, always want to play like this, and eternally enjoy this tranquility?"

As Eve widened her eyes and fell into contemplation, Aura still used an extremely serious tone, staring at the seemingly endless boundaries of the world, she said solemnly: "Ten million years, one hundred billion years, one hundred million years... from this moment on, until the end of that he, black holes evaporate, and the universe eternally reincarnates."

"Just like this, time that is even more infinitely longer than the limit of imagination."

"Is it 'infinite' time like this, can you firmly want to stagnate to forever?"

Eve listened.

Eve struggled.

Eve frowned, she didn't know how to say what she thought in her heart.

The girl's small face pouted. She thought seriously for a long time before she had to admit: "Probably not?"

"Just like I want tranquility now... in the future, when I'm tired of playing, I might want to change to another way of life?"

Saying so, the girl said somewhat unwillingly: "It's not necessarily for the better. It's like changing to another game when you're tired of playing a game, and changing to another way of life when one way of life is boring."

"Thinking about it carefully, I also want to adventure, want to explore, want to help other people whose lives are very bad, I don't just want to play games... I have many, many things I want to do!"

Speaking of this, Eve cheered up again, she smiled and said: "Because I always felt that I wouldn't live very long before, so I wanted to be as happy as possible, and stop as much as possible. Now that I think about it, if I really have infinite time, then there are too many things I can do, I can't count them all."

"If I could really live to infinity, that would be great." The girl even began to imagine happily.

"Actually, all the things you want to do, facing eternity, will eventually be done."

Slightly closing her eyes, the artificial human girl, whose life was also extremely short, recalled the past.

She remembered her teacher's figure and his dream, and couldn't help but whisper to herself: "But, there are always some things, some 'correctness', that need to be pursued with eternity."

——Eternally pursuing better is also a kind of eternity.

Eternal Innovation...

The white-haired girl, raised her head, looking at the sky full of stars.

"The path that I and my teacher are pursuing is like this, a mutable yet eternal thing."

——Ji Zou Era·4453——

The Dream Realm technology promoted by the Radiant Light Church has been completely matured. Now, in the entire Song of Praise Great Universe, whether it is the Continental Alliance or the Atlantis countries, all the people can communicate and connect with each other through this huge network connected to everyone's souls.

As long as they want, everyone can know each other's joys, sorrows, and pleasures, can understand each other's thoughts and ideas, and share some knowledge... Of course, all of this is limited. The real, true thoughts, even a person themselves doesn't know. What humans can interact with is always just the most superficial of thoughts.

But even so, it is already enough, because under the power of this network, all hypocrisy no longer exists.

Of course, some people protested, believing that the Dream Realm deprived humans of their right to privacy. This is not nitpicking, but a real and true trouble. After all, the power of human wisdom comes from independence and autonomy, having one's own private thoughts and soul—without privacy and secrets that belong to oneself, humans cannot drive desire forward.

Moreover, lies are also absolutely necessary, some sad news requires kind lies. People have the right to know the truth, but equally, people must also have the right to be hypocritical and lie.

But the Dream Realm is not like this. People can, of course, protect their secrets—the Dream Realm can only guarantee one thing, and that is that people can guarantee their 'sincerity'.

When a person doesn't want to lie, and wants to prove that they really only ate one bowl of noodles, they don't need to open their hearts and dig out their lungs, they only need to prove it in the Dream Realm, then it is the most real and true evidence.

People can still be silent, can have their own privacy, can lie, can deceive and hide from each other.

But, those who want to tell the truth, no one can question their truthfulness and sincerity.

This ability, seemingly one of the Dream Realm's inconspicuous ancillary functions, is actually the most core function.

But for the masses, the most important thing is the entertainment brought by the Dream Realm.

The current world is still continuing with peace and prosperous development. With the 'Gods' as a potential enemy, the two sides are considered to be working together... After all, the source of the two sides' war spanning two eras is the gods' insistence on their own way.

The gods possess supreme power, but this power itself has been gradually caught up by humans—the power of Poetry Magic and Miracle lies in the fact that it is calling upon the power of the entire Song of Praise Great Universe itself, possessing infinite power, with no upper limit at all.

As long as the group studying this path delves deep enough, then humans can also forge 'giant god soldiers' comparable to gods!

The people of the Ji Zou Era certainly don't know that in the future 'Finale Era', SkyNet and the Resistance even created giant god soldiers of the god-king level... Although one of them relied on the divine power of the Starry Sky God-King, and the other had the knowledge of Zhuzhou to help, but after all, this also proves the possibility of magic and miracle.

Walking on this path, the two major forces have been building 'ultimate weapons'... they even began to explore the distant sky, exploring that seemingly eternally endless sky.

——If it were normal space-time logic, from this time on, the Ji Zou Era would embark on the path to the 'Starry Sky' of the 'Finale Era', and be destroyed by the gods at the height of its prosperity, becoming the 'background setting' in the Finale Era that awakened SkyNet's self-will.

This is the destiny that the gods have set for all living beings. When all living beings obtain power comparable to them, they will destroy the era and erase it.

But this time.

Because Zhuzhou cut off causality, and a great god blocked the destiny of the gods' destruction.

Therefore, everything is different.

Ji Zou Era, 4467, many Tai Xu-class floating fortresses set sail. Those were generation arks comparable to when the first prophet of Atlantis led the pioneers to the Atlantis continent in the Overture Era. These enormous giant ships roamed above the sky, exploring the eternal distance.

Then, they really saw it. On this vast and endless infinite world, there were actually planets like the sea of stars!

Not only the two major forces, but even many pioneer space explorers were boiling—because these planets were all rippling with obvious 'divine power'!

Yes... the entire sea of stars is the 'body' of the many gods who remained before the Ji Zou Era!

And not only this era, but also countless true era cycles, those who once achieved godhood, but eventually decayed back to the notes of humans, the 'echoes' remaining in this Song of Praise Great Universe!

In this sea of stars, one can even vaguely hear distant and ancient sighs, and hear the sad whispers of gods from prehistoric eras, that unwillingness, that hatred of their own powerlessness, that despairing sinking, turning into a solitary movement of music enough to drive people crazy.

But, with the sound of clanging blade sounds as if originating from outside the universe, all these sighs, all these whispers, all these lonely murmurs and sinking cries, dissipated in the blazing, surging performance and bell sounds.

Yes, every star in the starry sky is the body of a loser, is a memory of pain and despair, is the wreckage of a group of people pursuing eternity but ultimately failing.

But……

So what?

If it were only the local residents of the Song of Praise Great Universe, they would probably fall into shock and fear, and then fear that sea of stars in the sky full of corpses.

However, for those explorers of the pioneer space, for those local explorers who yearn for the endless distance and abandon their own Dao imprints in order to go to the outer universe.

So what if it's a corpse?

Aren't humans also such beings?

Human flesh and blood also contain a part of the predecessors, humans are creatures that devour countless corpses and move towards the future, humans are creatures that must trample on despair and pursue meaning from nothingness!

Every atom and dust, spirit and energy that makes up the human body, brain, and soul, is the ashes of all things in the past.

The mud that the burned fire finally condensed into created the vibrant myriad of things now.

For the sake of all those losers, for the sake of those flames that once burned fiercely, the people now should, of course, without hesitation, move forward, abandoning all confusion and fear!

Therefore, they should move forward and seek the path to a more distant place!

[Exhaust the Distant Path]

Under the guidance of this burning, flame-like spirit, the people of the Ji Zou Era can finally look up at the starry sky full of unknowns without fear.

——The body of God is the echo of the starry sky.

——The endless sea of stars is the vast movement of music called the Joy of the Gods.

Yes, in this starry sky that may reveal the true nature of the entire Song of Praise Great Universe, no one can resist the urge to move forward.

Without those gods who have been covering up the truth, preventing humans from going to the starry sky, humans are finally going to rely on their own strength to step into the edge of 'truth'.

Ji Zou Era, 4467.

The Era of Seeking, begins its prologue.

Not the past, not the future.

Not the beginning, not the end.

But……

——Now——

Song of Praise Great Universe, a movement of music happening in 'now'.

Ringing the notes that are both alpha and omega.