mchenry-crisis.org Chapter 332: Where did you come from?
Chapter 332: Where did you come from?
The sudden scene left Lin Fan frozen in place.
The scene depicted an endless expanse of pitch-black void.
As the scene gradually brightened, he saw countless tiny things slowly gathering in the dark depths of space.
He gradually realized that those things were actually dust, and the mixture of countless dust particles gradually formed a sphere.
The sphere was bare and desolate, seemingly devoid of any life.
But the very next second, magma erupted from the sphere. Before Lin Fan could even be surprised, the magma rapidly cooled and solidified.
Then very quickly, oceans began to appear on this previously lifeless planet covered in a thick layer of magma, and then land began to rise...
This process was extremely long, but in Lin Fan's mind, it was as if billions of years had been fast-forwarded. In just a few seconds, he witnessed the birth of a planet...
"What does this mean? Are we watching an educational video?"
However, just as Lin Fan was surprised by the images in his mind, another change occurred.
Life began to appear on the planet that was originally lifeless.
From the simplest single-celled organisms to complex multicellular organisms.
Then, from fish in the ocean, to beasts on land, and finally to birds in the sky.
The speed of this evolution is outrageously fast, as if everything is accelerating.
But just as he was getting into watching it, the planet was destroyed.
There were no signs, and the cause was unclear.
The sky collapsed and the earth cracked; the ocean evaporated, and all life was wiped out in an instant.
Before Lin Fan could process this information, the scene changed.
The destroyed planet fell silent once more.
Another long period of time passed. Then, new life was born from the ruins.
This time, there were more creatures appearing, including humanoid ones.
At first glance, they look almost exactly like humans.
They walk upright, have hands and feet, know how to use tools, and can build cities.
But Lin Fan noticed a clear difference.
These people have human appearances, but they all have three eyes.
Each individual has a third eye in the center of their forehead.
The eye is a different color...
Some are golden, some are crimson, some are jet black...
"What is this?" Lin Fan murmured in the video feed, "A three-eyed tribe?"
As he marveled, the video continued to play.
Soon, those three-eyed humans established a civilization.
Cities, nations, technology...
Or rather, a system that is similar to technology but closer to supernatural forces.
Their third eye seems to be the source of their power.
Just when Lin Fan thought they would advance towards higher levels of technology, the struggle began.
It started as a small-scale conflict: a brawl between dozens of three-eyed people.
Next came a war involving hundreds of people.
Then came the thousand people. Then the ten thousand.
In the end, all the three-eyed people on the entire planet were drawn into the war.
Until the very end of the war, certain extremely powerful individuals intervened...
Those powerful individuals with a special colored third eye can single-handedly tear apart the earth and cleave the ocean.
The war escalated to a devastating level.
Ultimately, this planet met its end once again.
Just like the first time, the sky collapsed and the earth cracked, and everything returned to nothingness.
The scene paused here.
Then, life reappeared on the ruins after the destruction.
New plants sprouted from the scorched earth, and new streams began to converge.
Another cycle begins.
Lin Fan was completely captivated by these scenes.
But just as he was preparing to see what new civilization would appear next...
"Bang!"
A loud bang interrupted Erpang's movie-watching session.
A strong feeling of weightlessness pulled him back again...
……
He suddenly opened his eyes and sat up abruptly.
My heart was pounding, and my back was covered in sweat.
"Am I... back?"
He glanced inside his car, then turned to look outside...
Outside the car window, the sky was just beginning to lighten. The rays of dawn were filtering through the horizon.
In the hood of his pickup truck, a gray-white rabbit was lying sprawled on the ground. Its four legs twitched a couple of times, then it scrambled to its feet, glanced at the vehicle in terror, and ran away.
The rabbit was more than twice the size of a normal rabbit, and it had strange bone spurs growing on its ears.
"..."
Lin Fan watched the rabbit run away, then looked down at the front of the car...
There is a shallow dent on it.
"Did this rabbit knock me back from that awful place?"
"Damn! I was really getting into it..."
The thought of being suddenly interrupted and not seeing what happened next made Lin Fan feel inexplicably irritated.
That damned rabbit, of all times, it had to run into us at the most crucial moment...
He leaned back in his seat, somewhat irritated, and rubbed his temples.
My mind is still replaying the scene I just saw.
Planets are born, destroyed, three-eyed humans, war, destruction again, and rebirth again...
"What I'm seeing is the Earth?"
"It shouldn't be!"
"If this is Earth, why would there be humans with three eyes? There's never been any record of such a civilization on Earth!"
"Or... is that not Earth at all, but some other planet?"
or……
That is Earth.
It is simply a past that is much, much older than human history.
So long ago that all traces have been erased.
For a moment, even Lin Fan himself couldn't figure out what that planet was.
But one thing he was certain of was that those images did not appear randomly.
There must be something deliberately making him see these things.
That withered tree? That gloomy space itself? Or something else entirely?
"And also..."
He frowned. "Why is it that this time, surviving means we can go in?"
At this moment, his mind was filled with questions.
Previously, I only entered that space after I died.
This time he was just asleep when he was forcibly pulled inside.
The rules have changed.
Or is there something special that affected him and caused the change?
I don't understand.
I can't figure it out at all.
Lin Fan took a deep breath and temporarily suppressed these questions.
Forcing yourself to think about things you can't understand will only make you overthink.
He glanced at the sky outside the car; it was already fully light.
"Forget it, let's find that thing Da Wu mentioned first."
With that, he started the engine and continued heading northeast.
……
The vehicle was traveling on a road that had long been overrun by vegetation.
As Lin Fan drove, he couldn't help but recall the scenes from his dream.
Although he said he didn't care, he was always thinking about it.
The birth and destruction of that planet, in a never-ending cycle, is like an unbreakable vicious cycle.
What other three-eyed humans have appeared that he is most concerned about?
The third eye on those guys' foreheads is clearly not just for decoration. Judging from the battle in the scene, it's some kind of "power core" organ.
"Could it be..."
He muttered something, then shook his head. "Never mind, I'm overthinking it. It's too much of a brain drain."
The scenery outside the car window is changing.
At first, he didn't pay much attention, only noticing that the roadside plants were growing quite densely.
But after driving for about two hours, he gradually realized that something was wrong.
I don't recognize the trees on both sides of the road.
Grass, I don't recognize it.
They didn't even recognize the vines crawling on the ground.
It's important to know that although many plants mutated after the mutation, at least their original features can still be seen.
The mutated pine tree still has the shape of a pine tree, and the mutated shrub still looks like a shrub.
But now these things on both sides of the road...
He doesn't know any of them!
The tree's leaves are deep purple with finely serrated edges.
The tree trunk was abnormally smooth, and its color was between gray and silver.
Some plants have swollen, spherical ends at the tips of their branches, with what appears to be liquid slowly flowing inside.
"What the hell is this plant? Where did it end up for me?"