Chapter 56 What Lies Beyond the Five Continents?

What lies beyond the Five Continents?

This question usually only arises when people look up at the starry sky, and the answer, as Cui Zhongcheng said before... is beyond exploration.

Few people care about what lies outside this world.

Because the Five Continents are already vast enough, and each person is like a grain of sand in the deep sea.

Floating and sinking, just taking care of oneself is already extremely difficult.

Therefore, Gu Shen, who came from Wulao Mountain, has always felt that those who care about this question are usually only scientists, or... adventurers exploring the edge.

At least he didn't care before.

But now it's different.

Looking at the black spot that was collapsing inward from the outside.

Gu Shen murmured, "What is the world outside the Five Continents like?"

"Who knows? Who has been there?" Cui Zhongcheng said softly, "I don't know. I haven't been there. But those who have been there say... the world outside the Five Continents is darkness, frost, severe winter, eternal night, there is nothing there."

"Life perishes, order collapses, logic crumbles, quantum collapses."

"If we don't take action... the Five Continents will become like this too." Mr. Cui closed the last bronze door again. The small black spot, no larger than a fingernail, returned to the embrace of darkness under layers of red-silver wrapping. After the bronze door closed, no one knew that such a secret was hidden on the tenth floor underground, and no one knew what kind of fate this world was about to face.

"I still don't quite understand..."

It took Gu Shen a long time to bring his thoughts back to normal. The black spot and the collapse outside the Five Continents were really hard to accept.

"What does resisting disorder have to do with these infants?"

"The Gene Decree was a method of saving the world that the Council tried before the birth of the Deep Sea... The genes of the outstanding extraordinary individuals of the Five Continents were collected, and through artificial technology, these children in the nutrient tanks were cultivated. They should have great potential and extraordinary talent."

Cui Zhongcheng slowly said, "But the awakening of the extraordinary is uncontrollable... The 'excellent products' after the gene pairing of extraordinary individuals did not directly create the 'God-blessed Children' who were born extraordinary as they had hoped. Moreover, as time went by, some of the children cultivated by the Council back then gradually grew up, and in the process of awakening extraordinary powers, they became uncontrollable, and 'uncontrolled' phenomena appeared one after another."

"You should know... how much loss and risk the loss of control of the extraordinary brings to the human world. These children are too unstable. So... the Gene Decree was called to a halt."

"The children you see in the nutrient tanks now are the 'products' that stopped being produced ten years ago."

Cui Zhongcheng used such a ruthless word as 'product' to describe these children.

"You asked before... what the fate of these infants will be in the future..."

Cui Zhongcheng stood in front of the tank and said softly, "If the decree had not been called to a halt, some of the lucky ones among them would have opened their eyes smoothly and left the nutrient tank. The Council would have found suitable families for them, and at the same time monitored and observed them. If they did not lose control, they would never know their origins in their entire lives. But now... these children can only sleep in the tanks, perhaps until their consciousness is worn away and their thoughts are extinguished. No one knows what kind of fate they will meet. Perhaps the word fate does not exist for them."

"Out of humanitarianism, the nutrient tanks will continue to supply them with the energy they need to survive... but their consciousness is also in a chaotic period, and the rate of growth is greatly slowed down. If they die in the nutrient tank, then they will have reached the end of their lives."

"The Gene Decree... was an attempt by the Council to control 'the extraordinary'. Unfortunately, they all failed." Cui Zhongcheng looked at Gu Shen, like an outsider, without joy, anger, sorrow, or happiness on his face, without sarcasm or contempt, only calmness: "Some big figures in the Council tried to find a sufficiently outstanding 'savior' through this method."

"...Savior?"

"Zhong Gui mentioned a word earlier... called 'Fire Seed'. In ancient mythology, humans first had fire, and then they had hope."

"In the years before the Deep Sea was created, the Five Continents once possessed a 'divine object' that could contain a power of disorder."

Cui Zhongcheng said, "The ancient Council needed to rely on the power of the 'divine object' to collect the disordered extraordinary source quality... Later, this 'divine object' was divided into seven parts and handed over to seven great men who were able to bear its power. The divine objects after being separated... were called the 'Fire Seed' of human hope, and the seven great men who held the 'Fire Seed' were naturally the saviors of mankind."

"This is actually not a major secret, because as long as you join the Tribunal and serve for a certain number of years, or reach a certain height, you will know the existence of 'them'... There is a name you must have heard."

"Gu Changzhi."

"Changye was pushed to an unprecedented height because of Gu Changzhi, and Dongzhou also shone because of his guarding." Cui Zhongcheng said, "He has been sleeping all these years, and no one knows exactly why... But in fact, the reason why our Dongzhou can have its current status and voice is largely because of the existence of this man."

"Fire Seeds are common, but those who hold the fire are not. The real reason why the Gene Decree was passed was the fear of the human world of the lack of heroes... Once we lose the 'fire', what else can we have?"

Cui Zhongcheng said meaningfully, "Now you should understand what the meaning of the Gene Decree is, right?"

The Council wanted to create a savior who could bear the power of the Fire Seed through its own means.

"Later, the 'Deep Sea' appeared, and the Council invested huge computing power to find... a way to prevent the Five Continents from being destroyed by the collapse of order." Cui Zhongcheng said lightly, "So, there was the 'Awakening Decree'."

"Extraordinary source quality can be artificially absorbed. Once the number of extraordinary individuals can be controlled, then the extraordinary source quality can be controlled. Under the regulation of the Deep Sea, the order of this world will return to stability... But the prerequisite is that a large number of extraordinary individuals spontaneously awaken, and they will become the furnace of extraordinary source quality with themselves."

"And when they die..."

"New people will be born."

"This is a cycle."

"Yes. This is a cycle. If you don't want civilization to perish in a thousand years, perhaps this time will be greatly shortened, or perhaps it will be much longer than expected, but it will always come."

Layers of bronze doors closed.

The past beneath Huazhi was thus concealed.

Gu Shen looked directly into Cui Zhongcheng's eyes, wanting to see the emotions from the bottom of the other's heart, but there was nothing. Chihuo told him that the man in front of him was like a hollowed-out puppet, wrapping himself in layers.

No one knew what Cui Zhongcheng was thinking.

"Those who see the real method of saving the world are always in the minority. Such important matters as deciding the fate of mankind cannot be entrusted to the masses." Mr. Cui suddenly smiled, "No matter what the outcome, after seeing hope..."

"We always have to try, don't we?"