The seventh day.
God said, “Die.”
With those words, despair spread throughout the entire area.
Numb people obeyed God’s will, ending their lives in various ways.
Some who still clung to hope tried to make others die instead.
But it was futile – God wanted them to die themselves.
On this day, God slowed the pace of punishment, only urging in their minds without hastily making people disappear.
Some took the opportunity to escape the range of the voice.
But after six days of torment, most people were no longer thinking about how to escape, but how to fulfill God’s command.
They had been tamed.
God’s punishment didn’t come until the very last second of this day.
In that instant, everything in the area that hadn’t yet died vanished.
There were no survivors.
God’s voice ended. After these seven days, only those who escaped the area could survive.
This incident was extremely harmful and full of unknowns. In the end, researchers could only classify it as an artifact phenomenon.
What happened in this area spread throughout the world, and people gradually realized the horror of artifacts.
After reading the account, Mo Ling couldn’t forget it for a long time.
He looked at Li Luo again and wrote a few words on the electronic screen: “Is what you’re hearing now the voice of God?”
Li Luo nodded very affirmatively, then walked a few steps on the platform.
“It disappears here, the range is very small.”
Mo Ling breathed a sigh of relief.
Thinking of the phrase “change,” Mo Ling suddenly had a guess.
Could it be that God’s voice caused the Theseus cells to change chaotically?
Li Luo also suddenly remembered something and said to the cube: “The range of influence of God’s voice is different for different creatures.”
Mo Ling suddenly realized.
God’s voice had such a wide influence on Theseus cells.
And Theseus cells, which originally had no self-awareness, could actually be affected by God’s voice?
Earlier, the tree people said Theseus cells didn’t follow instructions, which must also be because the instructions were overwritten by God’s voice.
In other words, God’s voice caused problems with their identification function.
Li Luo hurriedly took out the electronic screen and recorded this information.
“We can’t go any deeper, or I’ll be affected too.”
Li Luo planned to return to the tree people’s village first and wait for Captain Su to bring people before making further plans.
However, at this moment, a long howl came from the bottom of the giant tree hollow.
What kind of creature was that?
The entire tree hollow began to shake with this howl.
The tree roots surrounding the platform instantly broke, and the small car still on the platform slowly slid towards the abyss.
Li Luo quickly tried to control the car to go up, but it was all in vain.
Mo Ling could only watch helplessly as Li Luo moved further and further away from him, finally disappearing from view.
It’s over.
Mo Ling fell downwards, constantly accelerating.
The surrounding scenery kept rising, while Mo Ling, trapped in the cube, had no way out.
The cube hit protruding tree roots, tossing Mo Ling about inside.
In his daze, he didn’t know how long he fell.
Mo Ling felt gravity suddenly reverse, the original downward direction becoming upward.
The high-speed cube kept throwing upwards, finally landing on a flat piece of ground.
The cube hit the ground heavily, and Mo Ling lost consciousness.
When he woke up again, he was surrounded by a group of jelly-like little people.
Tree people? How did I come back up?
Mo Ling rubbed his bruised head, completely puzzled.
The group of tree people surrounded the cube, chattering about something.
“This is a sacred object!”
“Quickly, bring the sacred object back to the village!”
The tree people lifted the cube and slowly moved towards the village.
What do these tree people mean? Sacred object?
Where did Li Luo go?
Walking along the familiar path, Mo Ling soon returned to the tree people’s village.
The cube was carried to a podium, where a tree person was gesticulating excitedly.
The tree people carrying the cube approached and said, “Chief! We found the sacred object!”
The chief’s eyes lit up. He came to the front of the cube, his face full of excitement, and gave a thumbs up to the tree people who found the cube.
He turned to address his compatriots below the stage: “This is the sacred object of our Square Method tribe! Now that it has come before us, it means it’s time for us to fight back!”
Hearing this, the crowd below cheered jubilantly.
What’s wrong with these tree people?
Mo Ling only then realized something was amiss.
Throughout the tree people’s village, square-shaped totems could be seen everywhere, which hadn’t been present in the previous tree people village.
Mo Ling carefully observed the details of the village again.
There were no caged creatures, and the architectural features didn’t quite match up.
This wasn’t the previous tree people village!
“Where on earth have I ended up?” Mo Ling looked at these familiar yet somewhat strange tree people, his heart full of questions.
The chief looked at another tree person and asked, “How are the recent newborns doing?”
The tree person replied, “There are many, and they’re all very healthy.”
The chief was full of satisfaction: “Take me to see them.”
“Alright.”
The cube was carried along behind as they came to a forest.
The scene before his eyes shocked Mo Ling even more.
In this forest, countless trees were undergoing strange changes.
First, wave-like rings appeared on the trunk, gradually softening.
Then those waves would grow larger and larger, constantly rippling, spreading outward.
Next, something like jelly would continuously impact the liquefied bark from inside out.
Finally, a creature emerged from the tree.
It was a tree person!
After this tree person was born, it stumbled dazedly towards the direction of the giant tree hollow.
Until it was stopped by a group of companions, who kept saying something to it, after which it no longer continued moving towards the giant tree hollow.
It was like a sleepwalker suddenly being awakened.
Is this… the birthplace of tree people?
They are born from trees?
Mo Ling instantly connected the entire life of a tree person.
They start as just a tree, born from trees in this place, stumbling dazedly towards the giant tree hollow.
Then through the giant tree hollow, they come to another place, and through a lifetime of effort, finally turn back into a tree.
The giant tree hollow is the gate connecting two areas!
Mo Ling was now very certain that he had come to some strange place through the giant tree hollow.
Apparently, the tree people here were in the midst of a war.
Just as Mo Ling was still pondering, a tree person ran over.
“Chief, they’re coming again!”
The chief’s expression instantly became serious: “Let’s go! Defeat them! Protect the giant tree hollow!”
“Yes!”
The chief led a group of tree people to the battlefield, where several giant lizard-like creatures were currently attacking the tree people’s encirclement.
With a swipe of sharp claws, several nearby tree people were directly cut in half.
These tree people, with no combat ability, could only rely on numbers to win, constantly surging towards the lizards like moths to a flame.
The difference in combat power was simply too great.
