Durin's Diary

Chapter 842: Complement each other

"You should know, so let me tell you about it."

When Lao Pang said this, the smile disappeared from his face. He seemed to recall something and began to tell Du Lin the original story of this ecosystem.

"Before the old era, before the gods and their people ever set foot outside their home planet, two world wars broke out between them. I don't know what happened during those wars, but after that, there seemed to be a subtle split between them. I followed Nuwa, or rather... Director Sun Guanzhi. Do you know this?"

"I have been to the research center near the moon and witnessed Director Sun in person," Du Lin replied.

"Then she should have told you the story about the old gods."

"Yes, she said that there are conflicts and contradictions between the Republic's scientific research team and the EU's scientific research team on many scientific research issues."

"At first, it was just conflicts and contradictions, but everything changed when the research center lost contact with the home planet." Lao Pang sighed. "The Dongtu team, represented by Director Sun, has stated that they must maintain the ecosystem and not let the established scientific research work within the ecosystem fail."

"At that time, many people thought it was just a temporary loss of contact, right?" Du Lin asked.

"Yes, everyone thought so at first. But as time went on and the Chaos Infection emerged, some lunatics gradually emerged among the Western Continent's scientific research teams. They naively believed they were true gods—this was the mission bestowed upon them by the times."

"Actually, this is caused by chaos infection." Du Lin said.

"Yes, Director Sun should have told you what happened later. She awakened her psychic powers, but to prevent herself from becoming a coordinate of chaos, she committed suicide. Her soul split into two parts. One part is her emotional self. To this day, she still works at the research center, watching over the bodies of the old gods. Those bodies are sealed in life support capsules, their souls and bodies separated, which prevented their deification from being fully successful." Lao Pang said this and stopped the car. He pointed to the large hotel not far away and said, "We old guys are waiting for you over there. Let's talk while we walk."

So Du Lin followed him out of the car.

Lao Pang threw the keys to the hotel waiter who was responsible for taking care of the vehicle.

"Since their deification was not completely successful, why did some of the gods' life support capsules leave the research center?"

"Those were the staff members who left during the early evacuations. Because they possessed visions far beyond their time, they were elevated to deities during the subsequent development of civilization. These deities harbor no hatred towards us, Chang Tang. Those who placed themselves in the life support capsules naively hoped to enter the biosphere through them and complete their ascension rituals, but they didn't anticipate..." "They didn't anticipate that Director Sun, at the cost of her own life, would commit suicide, cutting off the coordinates for the Chaos invasion. And the sentient incarnation that sprang from her death would also completely seal off the entire research center at the cost of being unable to fully ascend."

"You're absolutely right. Did the incarnation tell you that?" asked Lao Pang.

"I've made some guesses myself, because one of my wives, a deer-like girl from the Western Continent, is on the Sage Path. She's seen Director Sun's emotional incarnation and has even entered the research center." Du Lin recounted his adventures. Old Pang was silent for a moment, only to breathe a sigh of relief when he heard that the rational incarnation also knew about the place and had even appeared there. "I was truly worried. I was worried that even Director Sun, whom I trusted most, would lose her mind during the long period of being unable to advance. But now it seems I was wrong. I underestimated her resilience, and I underestimated my mother."

Next, Lao Pang began to explain the story of the Three Passes and Four Seas to Du Lin.

At the beginning, the East was the area with the fastest progress in research on the reconstruction of ecological civilization. The ancestors with the genes of gods and people established a great country, and all living beings built prosperous city clusters. Under the care of the Nuwa twins who had not yet been promoted to gods, life was very comfortable. However, the old gods transformed by those researchers later became extremely resentful after being distorted, and they corrupted and distorted the four borders of Chang Tang.

To the east, the inhabitants of the Eastern Kingdom, who once built a civilization on the four islands, gradually lost their humanity, transforming themselves into machines, madly seeking to assimilate all living things. To the south, life on the archipelago has transformed into monsters. These chaotic creatures once formed vast armies, repeatedly attempting to invade Chang Tang. The Chang Tang fleets fought both sides for a thousand years.

In the west, the Middle-earth civilization was also transformed by the chaotic old gods. Their legions fought with the Chang Tang people outside the Yumen Pass again and again, leaving the area outside the pass uninhabited for thousands of miles.

In the north, monsters roamed around on the endless snowfields. These lives that were once called human beings had long lost all their humanity, and even their appearance was no longer human. They madly attacked everything - whether it was the Changtang people or the alien humans in the west.

"Kid, you know, I used to naively believe that we and our Creator could move forward hand in hand. But everything that happened later made me realize that for some beasts, our well-being is a mistake. In their eyes, we must live worse than them to be satisfied." Lao Pang said this, reaching out and rubbing Du Lin's head. "I know the truth of all this is hard for you to accept. There are many people in the West Continent who are just like us Chang Tang people, just trying to survive. But their existence gives the Old Gods faith. We must destroy this supply of faith and make the Old Gods completely deprive them of the power of faith on which they rely for survival, even if it means committing the sin of killing hundreds of millions of lives."

Du Lin looked at the old dragon and asked, "Is there a better way?"

"In the past thousand years, I have thought of many things, child. I have thought of many ways for both of us to survive. But as you said, desire never ceases, and struggle never ends."

"No, since all this is the fault of the Old Gods, then we can just kill them. Gods who lose the power of faith will die, and gods who are killed directly will also die. In my opinion, since they will all die, then we should choose a way for them to die."

Lao Pang's face was filled with pain. "But they are Old Gods, beings that even someone as powerful as me cannot easily defeat. Moreover, the four Old Gods are closely related... Over the past thousand years, we have sacrificed too much in the pursuit of killing the gods." "No, Lao Pang, the Year of Turbulence has arrived. The Goddess of Wealth of the Western Continent has been annihilated by me and the Avatar of Reason, and the previous Blood God has been devoured by other Old Gods. Their alliance no longer exists. We can defeat them separately."

In front of the gate, Lao Pang turned and looked at Du Lin: "What did you say?"

"I say, we can defeat the Old Gods. We... can kill them directly. If any Westerners want to die with the gods, then we will send them to hell with their gods. But if they want to live, we don't need to make more enemies. Aren't the Old Gods our most core enemies?"

After listening to what Lao Pang said, Du Lin believed that the old gods were the greatest enemy of all living beings.

(End of this chapter)