Chapter 2: We too will eventually be irretrievably gone
Yin Shen felt him flying out of his body and slowly floating towards the sky.
He overlooked the building, the city, and the continent.
even.
Overlooking the Earth.
He flew higher and higher, drifting in orbit, and suddenly discovered that the earth was changing rapidly.
In the blink of an eye there was no city, not even a trace of humanity.
The continent's continental plates were actually moving, and green plants gradually covered everything.
Yin Shen immediately understood what happened,
"Time is changing at an accelerating pace. The moment I perceive now may even last hundreds of thousands of years and millions of years."
"I just don't know whether it's against the current or downstream. If it's downstream, does it mean that all human beings have become extinct?"
He looked towards the universe, and then he was pulled or thrown into the vast and boundless universe by an invisible force, and disappeared above the earth.
Eternal silence enveloped him.
He saw the birth and annihilation of countless stars, and saw the rapid collapse of galaxies.
He had never imagined that there was such a wonder in the world, so majestic and marvelous that it could make people change their beliefs, feel that their life and everything they pursued were so ridiculous, and even feel terrified by their mediocre life.
Does our earthly life really have any meaning?
Are the birth of life, the origin of civilization, and the magnificence of science and technology really as great as human beings claim to be?
The life of human beings, even the history of the human race, and even the entire earth.
At this moment, Yin Shen could only describe it with a sentence he had heard before.
"We are dust!"
The race and civilization called human beings are like a ray of light that suddenly appears in the corner of the universe.
It goes by in the blink of an eye and means nothing.
No attention, no care, changes can't change anything.
We originate, we are born, we try our best to shine brightly, and we will eventually pass away irrevocably.
Disappeared in an insignificant island in the corner of the universe, disappeared in an instant that was no more than the blink of an eye to the universe.
Yin Shen's soul was shocked. Being able to see such a strange sight, his dark and short life seemed to finally have a glimmer of light.
He turned into a beam of light and headed towards the depths of the universe.
Time is flowing backwards, and he is heading towards the origin of everything in a way that transcends time, space and dimensions.
It seemed that at the source of time, there was some powerful gravity dragging him towards the beginning of everything.
at last.
The stars are annihilated and the universe is unified.
Everything disappeared.
He also reached the finish line.
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"This is where?"
Yin Shen asked himself.
In this place, there is no such thing as darkness, and Yin Shen even feels that he has disappeared, leaving only one consciousness silent in the endless emptiness.
This is a place without space, without time, without everything.
He could only answer himself, because he might be the first living being to arrive here and the only one in this place.
"Am I being thrown out of the universe? Or am I entering an unknown dimension?"
He couldn't shout, he couldn't feel anything.
He suddenly felt fearful, and his friend's words echoed in his ears.
"There may be another universe, it may be the source of time, it may be another dimension or an unknown that humans cannot imagine."
"There may be nothing there, just like a prison, and your soul will be trapped there for ten million years, one hundred million years."
"until……"
"eternal."
For a moment, he was extremely panicked.
However, as soon as this thought came to his mind, he suddenly saw a light shining in front of his eyes.
He heard the sound of sea water and tides, and just hearing the sound made him feel extremely clear and warm.
He even felt bubbles floating up from beside him.
Whispering, whizzing, gurgling.
The sound moved him.
The sea appeared in front of him, and the sandy bottom appeared.
He saw a three-lobed insect no bigger than a finger crawling away in the gravel, and a long noodle-shaped insect entangled in the sea water.
Trilobites called Leidlichia, and unnamed worms that are too small to be noticed.
He thought of his friend's words again and realized what exactly happened.
"Anchor!"
"My anchors above the Earth appeared, and they allowed me to observe the Earth."
"They are my eyes, my anchor and coordinates in the vast sea."
He did not expect that it would be the trilobite fossil given to him by his friend that would re-anchor him to the earth and pull him out of the eternal darkness and the bottomless abyss.
It's just that the other party probably didn't expect that the fossil contained not only a trilobite, but also a worm from a distant era.
He stretched out his hand to catch the bug named Lederiki.
He broke free from the prison and returned to the universe again.
Consciousness is pulled into the earth, pulled back from that unknown place beyond the universe and beyond time.
Anchored at a time node in the vast universe for hundreds of millions of years, anchored at an inconspicuous planet in a remote star field.
This is a shallow sea with the sun shining down from overhead.
The seabed is full of various ancient algae and naked ferns, and there are large undersea plants that look like tulips, gently floating and swaying through the waves.
There are also cactus-like sponges, with sharp long-pointed bone needles extending from the outer wall.
Tongue snails were embedded in the sand, and he also saw patches of trilobites crawling on the gravel.
Yin Shen walked up the seabed step by step. He was at a loss and felt something strange here.
This should be the earth, but it cannot be the earth he is familiar with.
He finally walked out of the shallow sea and stood on the earth.
A barren ground, an empty continent.
Yin Shen looked at the earth hundreds of millions of years ago, and looked at the clear sky and sun. He was the only existence named human being in the whole world.
"This is?"
"The Earth in the Ancient Era?"
He stood on the coast, but the sea behind him stirred up huge waves and made a loud noise.
"Bang buzz~"
The worm itself mutated with the appearance of Yin Shen.
It swallowed gravel, seaweed, and ocean water, and in the blink of an eye it expanded into a giant beast tens of meters tall.
Whether they are plants or living things, they are all integrated by it and become a part of it.
You can see a huge shell growing out of its back, spikes growing out of its body, and weird tentacles protruding from the shell.
There were cracks in the flesh and blood, and oozing green eyes opened from them, looking in all directions.
This is a terrifying deformed monster. In this era, he is an invincible overlord in terms of size.
And as Yin Shen looked over, this giant beast was lying on the ground, not daring to move, so humble that it seemed as if it had no self.
Immediately afterwards, an ever-increasing trilobite crawled out from the shallow sea.
As it climbs out of the water, it continues to change.
It grew a human-like torso, limbs, and head.
It was a creature that took the form of a human but was covered with a black carapace, and a bone helmet with a trefoil pattern on its head was tightly wrapped.
This creature walked onto the shore little by little. He looked longingly at Yin Shen standing on the shore and came to him step by step.
Yin Shen could feel his emotions, and he touched his fingers on the bone helmet on the other person's head.
Listening to the oldest life on earth shout out the first language and the first byte of this planet.