Technological practice: leading the human race to the stars

Chapter 129 Possibility

Yuanze struggled to get up from the whirlpool.

To be more precise, it was his will that drove him to wake up in this nothingness.

Because his body still does not exist, it is just a consciousness wandering in this void.

Even Astra, who had always been by his side, disappeared without a trace the moment she met the nightmare tapir.

Even this nothingness has become a lonely world, and even the concept of space itself has become blurred.

However, Yuanze saw the "strings" that made up everything, like exquisite lines.

These strings are constantly vibrating, the strings of a most sophisticated musical instrument, far beyond anything human can imagine.

Each of their vibrations seems to be playing the melody of the universe. Some form space, and some form various basic particles.

Some of them have formed existences that are incomprehensible and indescribable to humans. If Yuanze looks at them for one more second, he feels like he will go crazy.

Soon these indescribable beings discovered Yuanze, and the light appeared again, allowing Yuanze to finally arrive at the dream of the nightmare tapir.

In the tapir's dream, Yuanze easily found the nightmare of the devoured nature spirit.

But rather than calling them nightmares, it would be more appropriate to call them memories - they are all fragments of the past of the spirits of nature, those pasts that were buried by the years, swallowed by nightmare tapirs, but reappeared here.

Combining the damaged memories that the nightmare tapir did not eat, Yuanze knew a lot of information about her.

The spirit of nature was originally just a young white pine, affectionately called "Beauty Pine" by the locals. She was not a ginseng king or something like that as Yuanze had guessed.

At that time, ancient humans absorbed resources from Tianchi Mountain. Towering trees fell down and turned into wood; mountains were drilled through and mineral deposits were sent out...

Several decades later, she grew into a big tree, but a sudden volcanic eruption caused the plants that grew with her to wither one by one, and only she was still tenaciously alive.

In this way, she has lived as a big tree for thousands of years and has been listed as a precious protected plant. She has survived like this until the catastrophe. She has become the oldest creature here.

On the eve of the catastrophe, the power of the source of mutation swept in. With thousands of years of accumulation and tenacious will, the spirit of nature successfully transformed into a Nirvana-level source beast.

Not long after, she was promoted to a scout-level expert and became the true ruler of Tianchi Mountain.

Because of her existence, the source power here became relatively scarce, and most of it was absorbed by her.

Moreover, under her suppression, other source beasts also found it difficult to obtain sufficient source power and had no room to grow.

"So what on earth is she thinking about?"

There are still some fragments of the war in the memory of the nature spirit, but due to the long time, these memories have become fragmented and difficult to recognize.

And because she had not yet become a source beast at that time, she could not sense the emotions, but this did not seem to matter, because Yuan Ze seemed to have found a blind spot.

Therefore, Yuanze guessed that her series of behaviors might be related to the ginseng baby, because the ginseng baby's growth was not suppressed by her.

He continued to immerse himself in this memory, searching carefully for relevant clues, hoping to find the key to solve the mystery.

Finally, in an extremely blurry and fleeting image, Yuanze found an important clue.

That was a scene more than two hundred years ago. A ginseng was growing under the feet of the spirit of nature, accompanying her until the catastrophe came.

The next scene suddenly stopped. It seemed that this was the key to her memory, which should be able to help her get out of this maze.

Yuanze sent a signal to the Nightmare Tapir, asking it to pull him out of the dream he had devoured. "Buzz, did you find anything?" The Nightmare Tapir shook its nose and roared, waking him from his contemplation.

Yuan Ze nodded: "I have another question, did you eat these memories by yourself, or is there any special situation?"

"I remember that I was very hungry in my dream, and then I fell into a spring, and then I came here. There are a lot of useless memory fragments here, and I ate them bit by bit."

Yuan Ze was a little confused after hearing this. He originally thought that the dream tapir only fed on dreams, but he didn't expect that it could also devour real memories.

"Do you know that this is someone else's treasured memory?"

"I'm sorry, I know what I did was wrong. But these memories are so vague, they're no different from the dreams I usually have when I eat. And I was really hungry at the time, I had no other choice."

Yuanze sighed, thinking that this might be fate's arrangement. He patted Meng Mo's shoulder and said, "Let the past be the past. I have found a way to go back."

"Okay, okay." The nightmare tapir jumped up happily, with its front and hind hooves alternating in the air like waves.

"However, before I take you away, you need to enter my dream first."

The nightmare tapir nodded, indicating his willingness to cooperate.

So, Yuanze sat on the water surface where he entered this space, closed his eyes, and began to meditate. He opened the door to his dream and welcomed the arrival of the nightmare tapir.

Then, he used his mental power to wrap the Nightmare Tapir tightly and fell into a deep sleep together. At the same time, he sent a message to Dai Hui who was practicing.

After receiving the news, Dai Hui reluctantly interrupted his practice and began to stir the calm water surface according to Yuan Ze's instructions. A vortex gradually formed on the water surface, like a wormhole connecting the two worlds.

Eventually, Yuanze was thrown out by this force and returned to the dream maze of the nature spirit.

"Yuan Ze! Why did you bring a guy back!" Astra was surprised to find that there was a strange power in Yuan Ze's brain.

"Hmph, what's the matter? I'm just staying here for a while. It's not like I'm not leaving!" The Nightmare Tapir snorted, showing disdain.

"Ahem, alright Astra, why are you arguing? Come out of the dream completely, and this little guy can become a physical being."

Yuanze coughed dryly, stopping the quarrel between the two guys and also attracting Dai Hui's attention.

"What's matter?"

"Follow the map, we'll get to the finish line."

Yuanze was very familiar with the route and soon reached the destination marked on the map.

In fact, when Yuanze contacted Dai Hui for the first time, he had already reached the finish line, but was stopped by a big gate at the finish line.

When he returned to the center, the spring water attracted him, and then he was dragged into Dai Hui's treasured memories right in front of her.

In this memory, Yuanze also found the key to the end point she set, which was the memory hidden deep in her heart by the spirit of nature but was gnawed to pieces by the nightmare tapir.

Although the nightmare tapir was somewhat reluctant, it still spat out its memories and placed them on the gate when it thought about its upcoming freedom.

As the gate gradually disappeared, Yuanze and Dai Hui also appeared in the real world, as well as the naughty nightmare tapir.

"Oh, where is this place? Why is it so cold?" The dream tapir shuddered and returned to Yuanze's spirit.

"What was that just now?"

Second update, let’s eat and continue
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(End of this chapter)