Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 472 The Lamp and Puji (4k)

Unfortunately, cats don't really like these cat experts.

The cat refused all human help, said goodbye to Ding Yi and Dr. Chen, took a taxi by itself, bought a high-speed rail ticket, and took the train back towards Tsinghua University. Since the cat was just a cat, the train conductor assumed it was a passenger's pet and let it board the train.

But the cat still swiped the ticket.

As the cat boarded the train, it politely gave the train attendant a gentlemanly bow, leaving her quite taken aback.

After finding its parking space, 12A, the cat gently jumped in and then fastened the ill-fitting seatbelt.

Leaning against the window, watching the scenery rushing by outside, the cat looked somewhat sad, lost in thought.

Position 12B is a mushroom—it's not uncommon for mushrooms to ride on trains, after all, mushrooms also have the need to visit relatives and travel. In addition to this mushroom, there is even a baby Triceratops sitting in the dinosaur-specific seat on this train, except that the Triceratops is in a special dinosaur carriage.

Seemingly curious about cats, the little creature turned around and stared intently at the cat in front of it.

The cat seemed to sense the gaze from outside, and its pointed ears twitched.

Puji was very curious about the pair of moving, pointed cat ears, so she brought the mushroom hat closer and then gently flashed it twice, carefully examining the cat ears.

At positions 12C and 12D, a human couple is curiously watching the mushroom and the cat admiring the scenery. The man even secretly takes out his phone to take a picture. (Influenced by the Gregorian calendar, mobile phones have become a portable item for many modern people).

Click.

The flash was on.

The light-speaker, extremely sensitive to light, immediately turned his mushroom cap around, staring at the human with a puzzled look. The slightly upturned mushroom cap seemed to be questioning the other person: "Why are you flashing like that?"

"Uh, Sorry, apology, Sumimasen." The person clasped their hands together, their face quickly turning red, and hurriedly apologized to the little creature, deleting the photo.

The commotion also brought the cat sitting in 12A back to its senses. It turned its head and saw the boy in 12C apologizing, the girl next to him pretending nothing had happened with a straight face, and finally the mushroom next to itself.

The glowing creature flashed slightly at the boy, then turned back to look at the cat, only to unexpectedly meet the cat's deep eyes.

Ah, what wise eyes these are.

Ah, the most amazing cat in the universe!
Ah, cat.

The cat suddenly bared its teeth.

The light suddenly flashed, startling everyone. The brightness reached a terrifying one million lumens, equivalent to a hundred outdoor flashlights turning on simultaneously. The residents in the entire carriage felt as if they had been blinded for a moment.

Once it realized what was happening, Puji flashed dozens more times, trying to apologize to humans in binary light language... but the more it apologized, the brighter it became. Finally, a flight attendant wearing sunglasses and carrying a light language translator walked over with her eyes squinted, calming the startled mushroom down.

After the flight attendant left, the glowing Pooji flashed slightly at the cat again, as if it were a little embarrassed.

Unexpectedly, the cat also emitted a soft light towards the glowing puff, and its own light rapidly increased, turning it into... a glowing cat!
The cat uses the common language of the Light Speakers civilization.

Cat: "The Light Speakers Civilization? I remember you."

Glowing Puji: "!"

Glowing Puji: "Oh my god, the cat is glowing! The cat is glowing..."

Cat: "How rare! Cats can also emit electromagnetic waves, gravitational waves, nuclear waves, and string waves."

The glowing mushroom couldn't understand the physics terms that followed; it was just a mushroom that had never been to school.

Cat: "The cat is asking you, why do you only glow and not generate heat?"

Glowing Puchi: "Because I evolved..."

Cat: "Are you kidding me? You think you can evolve on your own? Those lamp spirits couldn't even solve the problem of only emitting light without generating heat. Tell me, what's going on?"

Glowing Puji: "I don't know either. Overnight, we all evolved. It seems to be because of the Bacterium Master."

Cat: "That green mushroom that always appears on TV?"

The glowing mushroom cap was tapped by Puji.

Cat: "Cat knows that there is also a blue lamp among the lamp spirits. You luminous civilizations always like to make mutated individuals with narrower light frequencies the leaders, but as far as Cat knows, your leader cannot lead the entire race to complete the evolution."

Glowing Puji: "The Bacterium Master once went to find the original form of the Little Light Man and turned us into the so-called 'Fairy Spirit Puji'. From then on, we no longer generate heat, but only glow."

Cat: "Little Light Man?"

The glowing puff said, "That's Shanqing's true form..."

In the underworld, Shanqing sensed a living being chanting the true name of the Lord of the Underworld. He opened his eyes, looked up, and his gaze pierced through the layers of separation between reality and the underworld, seeing the cat and mushroom talking to each other, as well as the terrified human couple across the passage.

Hmm? Has the world progressed to the point where even cats can glow? Did they implant glowing cells similar to fireflies? Has humanity lifted the ban on gene hybridization technology again? Shan Qing fell into deep thought.

Upon hearing Shanqing's name, the cat immediately realized what she meant.

"So it's Luo Qing again..." the cat pondered.

What kind of person is Luo Qing? The cat wondered.

It arrived too late. It had been harassing the Thinker from outside the observable universe until the Thinker suddenly fell asleep. Only then did it, along with the Cube Civilization and several other rule gods, investigate the reason for the Thinker's slumber and, through the thread of stellar will, dig all the way to the Milky Way.

Unfortunately, it arrived too late. Only the Deathline Sphere, two light-years in diameter, remained near the Silver Halo. By capturing visible light from light-years away and retracing the scenes of the region, the cat discovered that a God named Luo Qing had killed the Singularity God here, and the Singularity God had become the Deathline Sphere.

and many more.

The cat realized something was wrong; its memory was becoming disordered, as if the scenes it had seen during its recollection were two different scenes.

In the first scenario, God Luo Qing kills the Singularity God and is trapped in the Deathline Sphere after the Singularity God explodes.

Scene Two: The Deadline Sphere is kicked over from a region near the solar system, and then God Luo Qing voluntarily enters the Deadline Sphere.

The cat broke out in a cold sweat, its fur standing on end, trying to lock in the memory of Scene 1... but this was quickly proven ineffective. The memory of Scene 2 gradually overwrote Scene 1. The cat, heartless, simply died, becoming a dead cat.

The glowing cat, which had just been glowing, suddenly turned into a cat corpse and was so frightened that it started flashing again.

"What's going on?!"

"What's that mushroom doing? It's like there are flashbangs going off in the room!"

"Flight attendant! Flight attendant!"

"Hey, I'm here. Passengers, please don't panic. Close your eyes, I'll take care of it right away."

The flight attendant, wearing welding-grade sunglasses, squinted and staggered over. After glancing at the frantically blinking Puji, she lost her temper and, ignoring Puji's resistance, picked it up.

The glowing creature frantically flapped its two short legs, its mushroom cap swaying back and forth, and then frantically repeated a sentence in the language of light.

The cat is dead!

"The cat is dead!" "The cat is dead!"

Unfortunately, the flight attendant didn't have a light language translator with her this time, so she couldn't understand what the little Puji was saying. Instead, she wrapped it in her clothes, but even so, the clothes still emitted a strong light. In the end, the flight attendant forcibly carried the mushroom into the cockpit and handed the Puji to a male flight attendant. The male flight attendant then closed his eyes and stuffed the particularly lively Puji into a separate, light-proof confinement cell.

No wonder kids always like to scare mushrooms; they flash away as soon as you startle them. These things are really fun, especially in the middle of the night. If you find a wandering, glowing mushroom and scare it, you can get a wild flashbang. It's very interesting.

But the carriage is an enclosed public space, and the random lights are really bothering people, so let's close them for now.

Compared to dinosaurs, mushrooms, which are not particularly intelligent creatures, have always been regarded by humans as half-pets. There is no guilt in locking mushrooms in isolation rooms, as they are too troublesome to communicate with. Flight attendants often do this.

However, unlike the flight attendants who gracefully retired, the two passengers on 12C and 12D witnessed the entire process. They were so frightened by the sight of the cat, whose body had already stiffened, that they were speechless.

A perfectly healthy cat has died!
Before the two could tell the flight attendant what had happened, a cardboard box suddenly appeared on the cat's body. The box shook, and the cat climbed out and casually licked its front paws.

The cat is alive again.

Ignoring the terrified young couple, the cat nestled in its resurrection box, lost in confusion.

"The cat died once?"

Why did the cat die once? Did it encounter any enemies?

The cat scanned the Milky Way and found that the only one that could be called an enemy was the silicon-based god in the territory of the silicon-based empire. Sensing the cat's eleven-dimensional scan, the silicon-based god was so frightened that he hid in a silicon-based star and dared not come out.

"There are no enemies..." the cat wondered.

"Was it suicide?" The cat looked at its paws, then at the cardboard box. It rummaged through the box and quickly found the message it had left for itself before it died.

One set of information, Scenario 2, covers half of the information in Scenario 1.

The cat understood the message, and its expression turned terrified again.

They're actually distorting the cat's perception! The cat's memory!

Now, in the cat's memory, only two scenes remain: Luo Qing actively jumping into the Death Line Ball and Luo Qing being passively falling into the Death Line Ball. These two simultaneous realizations made the cat shrink in fear in the corner of the resurrection box, as if there was something terrifying outside.

...

"Hey? Isn't that the senior from our school? What's he doing on the train?"

At Tsinghua University Station, a few Tsinghua students who were traveling abroad during their morning off from classes looked at the gray striped fat cat in the box on seat 12A and said something.

"It really is...who left Senior Grey in the car?"

Several students looked around but did not find the suspect who had fled with the cat. One of the tall girls picked up the cat carrier.

The girl said, "Our senior is asleep. Let's take him back. We can have the cat club members investigate. It seems like someone from outside the school is keeping an eye on our senior. Li Ran, what do you think?"

The boy called Li Ran, who was clearly the student leader, nodded. "Okay, Xizi is right. Let's take it back first. After all, it's our own cat. I'll go and tell the president of the cat club to be careful. There might be cat thieves in the community."

...

"You mean, you encountered a cat that glows?"

Lin Jun, glowing, scrutinized the Puji in front of her.

Puji, who had just returned to Beijing by train, tapped her mushroom hat.

"It's not unusual for cats to glow, and human technology is certainly amazing, but you said that cat mentioned a lamp spirit?"

Puji tapped the mushroom cap again.
Lin Jun fell into thought upon hearing this.

A few glowing creatures nearby asked, "Master, what is a lamp spirit?"

Lin Jun hesitated for a moment, then flashed a soft light and explained to the hundreds of glowing Puji in the room: "This is a long story. According to my inherited memories, the Lamp Spirits should be a civilization that emits light, somewhat like our Light Speaker civilization, but more advanced, and they already have the ability to travel in interstellar space... However, this was at least 30 million Earth years ago."

The supernova remnant where the Light Speaker is located is a very large supernova remnant, located in the middle of the first spiral arm. This supernova remnant was formed naturally, and its duration was affected by factors such as the energy of the explosion and the density of the surrounding interstellar medium, maintaining a high-intensity radiation state for nearly ten million years.

Thirty million years ago, due to the intense activity of a supernova, the Light Speaker civilization was at its most prosperous and glorious state. By twenty million years ago, when the dinosaurs' devouring ring reached Light Speaker Star, the Light Speaker civilization had already declined to its lowest point. As for the Lamp Spirits...

Lin Jun's inherited memories only show that the Lamp Spirit Civilization seemed to be embarking on its first interstellar voyage. After encountering a similar civilization that emitted light, they were excited for a long time. Later, the glowing Puji and the Lamp Spirits spent a happy time on the Star of Light, but the Lamp Spirits seemed to have something to do and left after staying on the Star of Light for less than 10,000 Earth years.

Although they had only spent ten thousand years together, the gentle light of the lamp spirits left a very deep impression on the Light Speaker civilization. Otherwise, this memory could not have been passed down from generation to generation, and even continued uninterrupted for twenty million years in such a closed breeding area as the Great Ring.

It's important to know that although mushrooms reproduce through amitosis, there's a chance they'll lose some of their original memory during the amitotic inheritance process that spans thousands of years. The fact that they've managed to retain this memory over 20,000 inheritances shows just how profound the original impression was.

Lin Jun explained to the Lamp Spirits the wonderful times that the Light Speaker civilization and the Lamp Spirit civilization spent together 30 million years ago.

The puppies listened with rapt attention, and couldn't help but light up in unison.

"Sigh, I wonder how the Lamp Spirit civilization is doing. The universe is so dangerous, I hope those kind lamps won't get into trouble." After praying, Lin Jun looked at the glowing Puji that had just returned by train.

"You mean, that glowing cat knows about the Lamp Spirit civilization, right?"

Glowing Puji: "Not only that, that cat seems to have gotten to know our Light Speaker civilization through the Lamp Spirit civilization... It's just a pity the cat is dead. Sigh, should we catch some other cats to ask?"

The glowing Puji, with their intense flashing light, can scare away attacks from wild predators such as saber-toothed tigers (ancient tigers transplanted to Earth with large rings). Even city kittens are generally no match for them. In the city, the Puji's fighting power is second only to dinosaurs and humans; dealing with ordinary cats and dogs is no problem for them.

When I slam down with my big mushroom squat, any cat will be trapped between Puji's two short legs and brought to justice—not to mention some specialized combat Puji can even fire level 10 mushroom cannons.

The nuclear bomb mushroom is a strategic weapon, registered by humans, and can only survive in Australia, not allowed to enter Eurasia. The forest fungus does not dare to use it rashly, but apart from humans and dinosaurs, those animals that have not yet developed intelligence know that these mushrooms are not to be trifled with and dare not bite them indiscriminately.

Faced with the suggestion from the glowing Puji, Lin Jun shook his mushroom hat: "Most cats are ordinary cats, the one you encountered must be an exception... I have never told humans about the existence of lamp spirits, it's incredible that a cat knows."

Lin Jun thought for a moment and let the weary dog ​​go down to rest.

...

Sixty-seven light-years away.

The Singer's Spaceship.

The young singer had been working there for some time and realized that this monotonous job would be his lifelong companion, so he had to find something to do.

For example, it fell in love with another singer and even wrote a song for her.

The song title was already decided, it would be called "Frozen Love", and the melody was already tuned, but the lyrics still needed some work. Just as he was immersed in the illusion of love, the elder's message suddenly came through.

Elder: "Young singer, halt all Dark Forest attacks."

The singer asked, puzzled, "Why?"

The elder's message was brief and urgent.

"The edge world has been wiped out."

(End of this chapter)