Doomsday: I Build an Infinite Train.

Chapter 499 Angel
Looking at Chu Yan, who was completely naked, Lin Xian was overwhelmed with a mix of emotions. He had many questions and worries. They had once been comrades-in-arms, partners with one mind, but now, the first thing Lin Xian heard when he saw her again was that she wanted him to eat her.

He subconsciously tried to understand the meaning of 'eat' from other angles, but Lin Xian's personality still quickly anchored him to the most bizarre and literal result.

Even so, he still asked in return.
"What did you say?"

"Trust me, this is the fastest way." Chu Yan looked at Lin Xian meaningfully, then her gaze swept over the sea and mountains of this strange planet: "If you don't want to waste more time, or be eaten by them like me and then completely lose some kind of perception."

Lin Xian squinted, looking down at the strange creature devouring the creature in the valley below and the indescribable, absurd scene, before speaking to Chu Yan.

"I know this is a game, but I won't eat you. I don't know why you're in this game, but I'll save you no matter the cost."

Chu Yan's expression darkened, and she avoided Lin Xian's gaze. After a long while, she spoke in a low voice, "Why?"

"Why else?" Lin Xian smiled calmly and said seriously, "Because of our revolutionary camaraderie, because our minds are united, because we are comrades-in-arms, and even partners who fought side by side without pants on!"

Chu Yan smiled at his words. She looked up and quietly looked at Lin Xian for a while. Looking into Chu Yan's eyes, Lin Xian had never seen this ace of the North American United Front show such feminine tenderness, and he was immediately surprised.

"go!"

At this moment, Chu Yan suddenly pulled Lin Xian up, and the two of them silently hid in the grass of the strange vegetation, crossing the hillside forest all the way to the hillside of a mountain on the coastline, and then hid behind several huge flowers with bright colors.

"look."

Chu Yan pulled Lin Xian's wrist, her fingertips icy yet carrying an undeniable strength, guiding his gaze to the vast blue expanse in the distance. Lin Xian looked as instructed, and saw the surging ocean displaying an incomparably magnificent deep blue under the strange sky light, with waves churning up thousands of piles of foam, as if containing endless vitality and mystery.

However, the next moment, a breathtaking anomaly occurred without warning. As the indescribable, colossal creature in the sky slowly descended, the instant its immense shadow touched the sea, the entire vast ocean abruptly distorted! The magnificent azure faded and dissolved at a visible speed, as if an invisible giant hand had instantly drained all color and liquid essence, replacing it with a chilling, boundless expanse of pure white flesh!

It was no longer the ocean, but a colossal, unimaginably large human face stretching for thousands of miles! It silently appeared where the sea had been, its skin smooth as jade, yet cold and lifeless, its contours blurred and abstract, carrying an inhuman indifference.

At its edge, countless arms, tentacles, or twisted limbs, like giant pillars supporting the sky, burst out of the "surface" and pierce the heavens. They stirred up the space, and each swing caused the earth beneath their feet to shake violently and roar.

Amidst this earth-shattering tremor, the abyss-like maw, occupying the absolute center of the "human face," silently yet with a terrifying, all-consuming pull, suddenly opened to its limit! The enormous creature in the sky appeared small and fragile before that maw, like a bird plummeting into a bottomless abyss. There was no earth-shattering collision, no dying cry, only the colliding and devouring of flesh. The enormous creature in the sky was instantly swallowed by the snow-white "sea" maw, vanishing without a trace!
The instant the devouring was complete, the enormous fleshy face that filled the field of vision seemed to receive some indescribable nourishment. Its outline became clearer and "perfect," and a cold yet surging holy radiance of life suddenly erupted from every inch of its skin and every outstretched pillar-like arm! The radiance was so pure it was blinding, yet it also carried a nauseating evil originating from the abyss, instantly staining the entire coastline, mountains, and even the sky with a terrifying divine aura.

Lin Xian's heart felt as if it were being gripped tightly by an invisible giant hand. Witnessing this magnificent and terrifying spectacle that surpassed the limits of his comprehension, his pupils contracted violently in extreme shock, and he suddenly spoke.
"What on earth is going on?"

Chu Yan gazed at Lin Xian, her eyes shifting like a deep pool, flowing with an indescribable complexity. She reached out and hugged him tightly, the warm breath brushing against Lin Xian's ear. Her voice was low and husky yet clear: "Want to know?"

Before Lin Xian could react, Chu Yan's arms gently but firmly pushed him down, and the two of them fell into the center of the huge and strange flower behind them. The soft stamens supported them like a natural bed, and the huge petals closed up instantly, gently enveloping them and isolating them from the bizarre world outside, forming a safe and private space.

Lin Xian felt as if his consciousness had been thrown into a turbulent galaxy vortex, the world spinning around him, his thoughts completely shattered. Chu Yan's warm body was pressed against him, but at this moment it was no longer the touch of flesh and blood, but transformed into a surging torrent of information, directly and forcefully breaking through the dam of his consciousness and pouring in!

Everything before his eyes suddenly vanished, and Lin Xian's perspective was completely detached. It was as if his soul had been forcibly inserted into Chu Yan's vision. Then, endless fragments of light and shadow exploded and reassembled before his "eyes" as if the universe had just begun to open. The torrent of time swept him along, rushing back through countless eras at a breathtaking speed.

He saw the surface of a scorching, barren, primitive planet, where the most primitive and simple organic matter collided and coalesced under the catalysis of lightning and geothermal heat in the boiling ocean... The spark of life quietly ignited in the chaos.

Millions of years were compressed into a fleeting moment. Single-celled organisms floated and divided in the ancient sea. Strange brachiopods and arthropods were born in the warm, shallow sea, crawling onto the muddy mudflats and clumsily exploring the land. The spine took shape in the long process of evolution. Fish covered with scales leaped out of the water, grew four legs, and crawled in the shadow of fern forests.

Light and shadow shifted rapidly, and furry mammals rose from the dust of the dinosaurs' extinction. Their nimble claws began to grasp tools, and their innocent eyes reflected the flames of trees cleaved by lightning.

The scene focuses on a group of hairy primitive people hunting a huge beast, using crude stone spears and bone tools. Around the campfire, they make incomprehensible guttural sounds, and simple murals leave the earliest traces of civilization on the rock face.

Time continued to fly by, settlements expanded into villages, from the pottery and worship of matriarchal clans to the bronze and warfare of patriarchal tribes, farmland crisscrossed the land, the city walls of feudal dynasties stood tall, iron cavalry trampled through the smoke of war, and ancient epics were sung by wandering poets.

Steam behemoths roared through mines and factories, gears meshed, thick smoke obscured the sky, and steel tracks stretched into the distance.

In the information age, the light flow instantly overwhelms everything, the data torrent surges through the invisible network, and enormous starships break free from planetary gravity and sail into the boundless deep space. One after another, geometrically perfect towers, made of neither gold nor stone, rise from the ground on strange planets, piercing the vacuum of space and receiving energy from the celestial curtain, which is transformed into stars and then transmitted to the ground via microwaves—this is the starting point of the Tower Civilization.

The scene freezes inside the magnificent tower, where the sophisticated synthesis factory operates silently. Thick, nutrient-rich liquid, rich in all the necessary substances, gurgles out from the pipes. As Lin Xian sees this, he hears Chu Yan's cold voice.

"What you see is a simulation from a human perspective, not the real Tower People, including our own civilization iterations, but the message we are trying to convey is the same."

"The Tower people successfully synthesized all nutrients in a cheap way, and through new technologies and population control, they got rid of all hunger and increased their lifespan. In addition, the Tower people gained efficient communication methods, so society began to become more stable."

The scene before Lin Xian shifted, revealing an incredibly magnificent civilized city brimming with vitality and order. It was a more advanced and glorious urban community than the previous Civilization No. 807 under the Wisdom Movement. Billions of humans had escaped hunger, possessed almost limitless energy and productivity, and ushered in an era of unparalleled happiness.

Chu Yan's voice continued: "Then the Tower People began to explore the path to eternal happiness, how to bring the world into eternal peace, coupled with eternal and renewable or seekable resources, and the self-iterating wisdom and technology that drive civilization, but... they found that to achieve this, it was necessary to eliminate communication barriers, including individual differences in needs, that is, malice and selfishness."

Lin Xian asked doubtfully, "This can be eliminated?"

"They found a way."

The scene shifted, and Lin Xian found himself in a massive, sophisticated laboratory. The laboratory was filled with countless nutrient tanks, each containing a sleeping human being—half male, half female, of various ages, races, and nationalities. Upon seeing this, Lin Xian immediately frowned.

Why do we need to conduct biochemical experiments to eliminate human malice?

"Because the Tower People discovered that if they wanted to eliminate individual differences in needs, and to eliminate malice and selfishness, the most important factors were gender, desire, pain, and death. If these three were eliminated at the biological level, the foundation of an eternal civilization could be built. They called it the homogenized body of life, and it also had another name..."

"Angel."

"Angels??" Lin Xian was very surprised: "Could they be those strange creatures I just saw?"

"Yes," Chu Yan replied.
At this point, the scene continues to change. Countless years later, the technology of "homogenized bodies" has made rapid leaps forward. On the gene-editing operating table, gender characteristics are completely erased. Neural blocking technology severs the neural pathways that perceive pain and death. Human gender begins to disappear, and bodies begin to merge. When life loses the need to reproduce, those humans who ultimately survive in the world become "final life." These lives begin to merge continuously. Because they have lost the [social needs] and [reproductive needs], angels no longer have aesthetics or forms. Everything changes in a disorderly way, so the form of 'angels' begins to become irregular.

"Angels are carefree and have no desires. They communicate by preying on each other and merging. This process of devouring and merging allows the knowledge, joy, and happiness of two individuals to blend together without any pain or sorrow. At the same time, the lifespan of angels is almost infinite..."

A new scene appears, depicting the "life" of these angels. There is no language, no conflict, only a slow, almost religious, approach to each other. When one angel gently embraces another, their physical bodies begin to soften and merge. The eternally satisfied smile on the face of the embraced individual remains unchanged, as if it feels no pain. Its body melts like warm wax, slowly absorbed and devoured by the crystalline body of the other angel.

At the moment the fusion is complete, the Devourer's body shines even brighter, its form becomes more perfect, and even new, blurry facial outlines appear on its torso. There is no sadness, no screams, only an eerie tranquility and a sense of satisfaction that are silently conveyed—this is their "communication" and "shared happiness".

"Wouldn't such a civilization be equivalent to reverting to the age of beasts? How can it develop then?" Lin Xian couldn't understand it at this moment. He thought of the giant beast in the sky just now. Now he thought that it might be a life form of billions of humans merged together, and the even more terrifying human face in the sea might be a geometric shape of billions of humans.

At this moment, he suddenly remembered what Chen Yanxiu had told him at the submarine base: "When all life merges into one," so that's what it meant... "The Tower People naturally thought of this as well." Chu Yan's voice rang out again: "In the process of tens of thousands of years of evolution, the angels discovered that some of them began to have evil thoughts and selfish desires, which led to the formation of clans and territories among the angel race, and thus triggered wars and destruction."

"Ha, back to square one?"

"Yes, after thousands of years of war, the angels who survived began to reflect on what their perfect civilization was lacking. Finally, they discovered that there was still one enemy they needed to eliminate."

"what?"

"wisdom."

Chu Yan's voice continued, "When living beings possess intelligence, they can think. Intelligence extends the power of change and cognition, discovering gender, desire, and pain. This leads to cracks in civilization. So they destroy civilization and knowledge, re-integrate into a homogenized body, and concentrate their intelligence into a silicon-based intelligent entity, which you can understand as artificial intelligence. They iterate and upgrade their intelligence with absolute doctrines, thereby assisting and serving this body of civilization."

"Is this okay?"

Lin Xian was speechless for a moment, but then the scene changed. Millions of years passed in the process of devouring and merging. Countless peaceful faces appeared and disappeared on the huge crystal angel's body, and the body of civilization continued in an endless cycle.

"After that, the Tower Civilization continued for millions of years, its lifespan nearly infinite, until one day..."

As they devoured, the angels grew ever larger. The happiness and joy of countless people gathered together, radiating surging life energy. Then, the azure sea almost became a physical entity. A perfect body, as majestic as a planet, slowly straightened its spine. Its skin became even purer, its light as bright as a star, and its face was so perfect that it surpassed the limits of human perception. Its body structure contained harmony and power like the laws of the universe.

"During the process of evolution, the angels were shaped by the Tower's artificial intelligence into an incomparably perfect collection of angels. Because it was too perfect, it reached the level of an omniscient and omnipotent being of a first-class civilization. This was the pinnacle of the Tower civilization's evolution, and they named it... Uniga."

“Unica?!” Lin Xian was startled; why did this name sound so familiar?

Chu Yan understood his doubts and continued to guide him through the evolution of civilization: "However, this ultimate perfection, on the cold scale of the universe, is as dazzling as a lighthouse lit in a dark forest. During the iteration process, artificial intelligence discovered a problem: the Tower Civilization caused a force called 'Civilization Wave' due to the disordered increase of entropy. This force penetrated the interstellar dust and was captured by a more advanced civilization that is unimaginable and incomprehensible."

"so……"

"They have suffered a devastating blow!"

As Chu Yan's calm voice rang out, the once vibrant and vast planet instantly turned into cosmic dust. Angels fell, civilization was extinguished, and the final form of the angel Uniga, at the critical moment, sacrificed the remaining bodies of the entire civilization, carrying the core matter of the mother planet, and escaped into the wormhole vortex.

However, this advanced civilization capable of interstellar travel was completely annihilated in the wormhole. In the scene, a high-dimensional weapon uses the gravity of the galaxy cluster itself as a cosmic mirror to shoot an invisible destructive force at the fleeing tower people. That beam of light instantly changed the geometry of space itself and accurately hit the fleeing civilization.

A silent dimensional annihilation explosion occurred in the wormhole. The massive body of the Uniga Angel disintegrated and was reduced in dimensionality under the attack of a higher dimension. Fragments of the entire civilization were ejected through the cosmic mirror.

However, in the next instant, the scene froze at the perspective of Earth's orbit. The jet of debris that pierced through the depths of the universe instantly tore open thirteen bottomless, enormous wounds on the surface. Then, the point of impact erupted with a terrifying force that carried the fear that Uniga had developed in the face of an advanced civilization, spreading wildly and out of control.

The scene flashes by: on a bustling city street, pedestrians inexplicably twist and mutate, their skin turning ashen, their eyes bloodshot, lunging at their former kind; an infant in a cradle emits inhuman screams; birds fall like raindrops, their bodies undergoing bizarre deformations; plants grow wildly, contorting into indescribable shapes…

As city after city lights went out, global fear descended!
"This is……!!"

"Apocalypse Day, Star Abyss!" Above the Blue Star city, Lin Xian followed Chu Yan's perspective as he watched the devastating scene below, and immediately felt suffocated.

"The Dark Civilization...is a civilization that has been destroyed?!" Lin Xian exclaimed in surprise.

"They were shattered by an indescribable weapon, destroyed in the fast lane of the wormhole, and the 13 Star Abysses on Blue Star just happened to be 13 of those billions of fragments." Chu Yan's voice rang out: "This is the origin of the Apocalypse Day."

Lin Xian was speechless for a moment: "So, the Tower Civilization didn't intentionally invade Earth, but we were just really unlucky?"

"No, I think their goal was Earth, or Earth was one of their alternatives. There aren't that many coincidences among civilizations in the universe. They just crashed from their high-speed orbit."

The image disappeared, and Lin Xian's consciousness returned. When he opened his eyes again, he was back in the flower's heart, with Chu Yan standing opposite him, calmly looking at Lin Xian.

"This is the Apocalypse Day, and it's what the Tower Civilization wants to show us."

Lin Xian frowned and pondered: "What's the purpose of showing them to us? Do you think they're innocent and pitiful?"

Chu Yan looked at Lin Xian and said slowly, "From a human perspective, it's hard for you to understand. For the Tower Civilization, there are no adjectives like innocent or pitiful."

"Then what is their purpose?" Lin Xian asked.

"Without a doubt, they want to devour Blue Star." Chu Yan replied in a cold voice, "Combining the understanding of the Tower Civilization from the Civilization Preview Game with the information that the Phoenix Society has been obtaining from the Star Abyss, the conclusion is very clear: the Tower Civilization is attempting to occupy Blue Star and use the Star Abyss to dimensionally modify Blue Star in order to readjust to the birth of 'angels.' Blue Star and humanity are merely nourishment for the Tower Civilization's resurgence."

Lin Xian's expression changed immediately upon hearing this: "Isn't that still the same? But I don't understand, why would the Descent Faction create this civilization rehearsal game that could cause so many people to defect?"

"Did you witness the Tower People's civilization, which has existed for millions of years with eternal life and bliss? Do you want to shed the pain of death and become a unified angel? Or did you witness how easily a higher civilization was destroyed by an even higher civilization, so you completely abandoned resistance and faith, choosing to escape or join them?"

Lin Xian became somewhat emotional, then sighed and sat down on the ground, saying with a hint of self-doubt, "A prisoner of knowledge..."

He helplessly understood some of the issues: why the more brilliant scientists, leaders, and scholars were, the more they were influenced. He had to accept that the enemy's weapons were not only violence, but also the impact on cultural values.

"And what about you?" Lin Xian looked up at Chu Yan. "Don't you think humanity can win?"

Chu Yan shook her head: "I've never thought that way."

"Then why did you leave the Phoenix Society?"

"As I said before, it's difficult to understand from a human perspective." Chu Yan's gaze fell on Lin Xian.

Her gaze seemed to hold weariness and reluctance. After speaking, she raised her hands, lowered her head, and smiled as if admiring her completely human body before the prosthetics were applied. Then she sighed, raised her head, and looked at Lin Xiandao with a serious expression.
"But Lin Xian, I hope you will always stand from a human perspective."

"What……?"

Lin Xian didn't understand what these words meant, but the moment he raised his head, the sky suddenly darkened, and a huge mouth with a strange smile appeared like the eye of a storm, swallowing them whole!

(End of this chapter)