Ascension journey - 430. Chapter 425 Slime's Peculiar View of Life and Death and Two Gods Beyond the Plane

“Forever…Farewell?” Arthur almost tore off his beard, with an incredible expression on his face.

“You like shock a lot…” The slime turned into fluid, slowly sliding down the canal on the terrace to the ground, and then said to Arthur in a full tone of breath, “It’s actually death, this Is it hard to understand?”

“No,” Arthur took a deep breath. “Doesn’t life all yearn to live? You don’t look like it at all… Well, as far as I know, slimes are very low-level monsters, but their lifespan is almost There is no limit…”

“You are talking about our brainless kinsmen on other planes, right?”

In addition to mobilizing the magic net for space transfer, the slime’s four-branched stripes have always moved very slowly. Its body slowly recovered its gel texture from a fluid state, and said with a slight emotion: “Perhaps while we gain wisdom, we also A corresponding price has been paid. Anyway, our lifespan is far worse than that of your human beings…”

“Even so, depending on your strength…” Arthur recalled the time and space manipulation that Slime had just been so adept at that made his legendary creepy, “…it shouldn’t be difficult to find a way to extend life, right?”

“I think there are some differences in the definition of’strength’ between us,” the blue and green striped jelly began to roll forward slowly, “but that’s not important… indeed, as you said, this plane’s There are many ways to change the form of life and prolong life on the Magic Net, and there are many ways that our people can use…”

Seeing the slime slowly rolling in the ruined mini-city, Arthur took a step to follow him: “Then why don’t you use it? Are those methods costly?”

“What the cost is, it’s a matter of opinion…” The slime, who gave up all the original sensory organs, looked at Arthur through the sensory information fed back by the magic net during the scroll. “Our Gambou clan is also developing It’s not that we haven’t studied the body transformation, or that the flexible transformation of ourselves to adapt to various tools is our way of survival…

“After reaching the limit of life, we choose to return to the earth. This behavior of giving up life will surprise you. It’s just that we have some differences in our understanding of culture and life concepts.”

Difference in concept? Arthur was silent for a moment-in his past travels, he did encounter many races with bizarre views of life and death, and many of them would devour the intelligent life of the same race under certain conditions… This family of intelligent slimes also has What’s special?

“I don’t know how you define life. I’ve heard that the way humans define life and death is very…well, it should be similar to the early elves.”

The slime thought for a while, and then said with a smile: “This topic on life cognition is quite popular recently. There are flesh and blood parties, memory parties, real-name parties and other different cognition factions involved in the dispute. If you’re interested, you can search on the Internet.”

Arthur, who had initially learned to use the special magic net of this plane, immediately used his mind to control the magic net interface and searched it, and then he found the discussion mentioned by the Slime Four Branch.

Generally speaking, the reason for this hot topic is that some people of the old generation of the elves are on the verge of lifespan. A considerable number of elves will gradually reach the end of their lives within a period of time. Therefore, regarding the extension of lifespan and the form of life The knowledge and technology of transformation and other aspects were taken out by those who were willing to conduct in-depth discussions.

Here, Arthur saw a variety of ways to prolong life and longevity that countless mortals in other planes dreamed of, ranging from relatively conservative body system transformations to very radical souls uploading magic nets, dazzling Arthur’s eyes. Vision.

However, after seeing the divine shaping and injecting technology that touches the realm of gods in the plans discussed on the Internet, Arthur couldn’t help but feel heavier in his heart.

“Slimes like me are actually quite interested in the reliable and unreliable solutions on the Internet-purely technically…”

The slowly rolling four-branched stripes seemed to have discovered something, and began to slowly turn and roll to another road. At the same time, it explained to Arthur: “Compared with those living methods, we are more eager to return our body and consciousness to the mother body. For us, returning to the aquamarine land at the end of our life is like returning home to rest at last…

“Actually, this cannot be defined as death. It can be regarded as another form of continuation of life. It is just a continuation that does not even preserve the real name and memory and thoughts, and is not recognized by most lives. Well, from this perspective, our family It should be regarded as a party of flesh and blood.”

Arthur hesitated, and then asked, “Does the aquamarine earth and matrix you mentioned refer to the blue ground under our feet or the elf named Ivey?”

“Forget it again, you don’t know much about the history of our clan…” The slime who stopped rolling in front of a broken building half swallowed by the earth sighed with emotion. finally reached…”

After rubbing against the surface of the broken building, the slime said to Arthur: “The first individuals of our race split from the aquamarine land, and our civilization started by digging the aquamarine land and mining deep buried in it. The magical crystalline mineral veins sustain…

“Later we learned that those mineral veins containing high-fit magic power are actually the magic lines left in the body of the mother god Ivy of our family, that is, her magic lines, rune arrays…”

Arthur was taken aback, then suddenly turned his head to look around, and said unbelievably: “Wait, you said this whole piece of blue land is actually a body of a super life?”

“Well,” said the slime proudly, “Although it looks like an elf on the outside, our mother god is a god-level slime whose body is big enough to cover the entire plane.”

A slime that was so huge that it turned into a plane land… Arthur flashed Ivey’s elves in his mind. Under this strong sense of contrast, he was speechless for a while-although it was because of the two elves a long time ago. He knew something about Ivey, but he didn’t expect that Ivey’s body would actually look like that kind of horror.

Imagine that the boundless ground under your feet is the body of a monster, and you are standing on the surface of its body like a dust on a giant… Arthur couldn’t help feeling a shudder.

The blue and green stripes on the slime changed a bit, and then continued: “Because of the problem of faith, this fact has brought a great impact to our family, although the mother god has personally explained the causes and consequences, and said that she does not care about her. These things happened on the body, but the impact of these things on our family is still very far-reaching…

“Return to the earth after natural death, and return everything that was excavated from the earth. This ideological concept was gradually clarified during that period. As an old man, you should be able to understand my approach, right?”

Arthur, who was as energetic as a strong man, touched his white beard and nodded silently.

“That’s good,” the slime rubbed between the rubble, clearing out a small patch of pure blue, and then stayed there and said, “Thank you for listening to my nagging, I thought it was the last part of my life. I should go alone, but it feels good to be accompanied by someone…”

Arthur was taken aback, and then he saw that the texture of the slime’s body began to slowly change, gradually becoming homogenous with the ground beneath it.

“Hmm…” The voice of the soul language became a little long, the slime sighed after looking at the buildings around him, “This was once my home, but the experiment of reactivating the aquamarine land by our family caused disasters. , After attracting the attention of the mother god, we have never come again. We will choose to return to the earth, more or less to make up for the mistakes we made at the beginning…

“No matter how strong the civilization develops, we cannot be proud and complacent. We should always retain humility and awe in our hearts… Farewell, my friend.”

After the words fell, Arthur had completely turned into aquamarine slime in front of him, and his body was slowly shrinking, and it seemed that he was being swallowed by the earth.

Silent Arthur thought that this friend who had known him for a short time would leave like this, but he did not expect that after a while, the shrinking slime suddenly stopped assimilating, and muttered as if not awake, “It’s all at the end. Let’s make a good environment and go…”

Standing in the same place, Arthur suddenly received several magic net notices. Before he was stunned to open and watch, he found that the surroundings suddenly became dark.

Arthur looked up and saw a cloud suddenly condensed in the sky, and then dense rain fell precisely around the building in front of him.

Arthur took a step back subconsciously, and then stood in a rain-free space. He looked at the small circle of rain in front of the aquamarine earth that made the aquamarine land appear a little soft, and listened to the exciting music accompanied by the crackling thunder. A complex and unspeakable feeling could not help but arose.

Arthur, whose inexplicable sadness was completely diminished, stood quietly in front of the rain, until the ultra-small-scale thunderstorm stopped and the music that sounded around disappeared, and he got off the blue land without any bulging abnormalities. Withdraw his sight.

After a light sigh, Arthur Dongnian unfolded the Monet interface and looked at the information he had received before——

“Notice of Temporary Weather Adjustment…You are within the adjustment range and you do not have the authority to vote against it. Please be prepared for protection… The specific form, range, and time parameters are as follows…”

After looking at the ripple notifications generated by the slime’s dying environment modification, Arthur shook his head. He found that he had completely adapted to the strangeness of this plane, and adjusting the weather and atmosphere for the mood would not make him at all. Surprised.

“It’s a wonderful journey…” Arthur looked at the sky without a trace of cloud and fog. After a few words of emotion, he looked at the Monet interface again, and after hesitating for a moment, he began to consult the legendary powerhouse for Monet points acquisition. channel.

“There should be more interesting things on this plane. I don’t know how the intelligent life here maintains the operation of society…”

Intuitively I can find Arthur who wants what I want here. After a half-life of manipulation on the Monet interface, the whole person disappeared from the place in an instant, but he went to a certain management center by means of time and space transfer. The demiplane.

……

When Arthur was carrying out a bizarre adventure in the pilot plane, outside the plane covered by the new version of the magic net, in the special area where the void layer and the material layer overlapped, the red dragon that could not be judged size and a burning sea of fire were overlooking On this plane.

The god of fire element whose sight passed over Arthur sneered: “God of justice and judgment? I have heard of him, an idealist who can toss himself into schizophrenia… even I am so independent of the world. The rule of God, all have their own will bias, how can absolute justice come from?”

“That’s right, but it’s normal and legitimate to pursue better justice from a certain standpoint,” Cheng Bin smiled at the God of Fire Elemental. “The God of Justice and Judgment is just a discovery. The real obstacles in front of one’s own path, and at the same time, were eroded too much by the priesthood, so they escaped from the lower realm of the source of light and reincarnated to change their perspective and restore the ability to think.”

“Whatever, it has nothing to do with me anyway.” The god of fire element said indifferently.

Then it looked at the new version of the magic net covering the entire plane thoughtfully: “This is the basis of the new era magic net, the new rule god you said? You let go of the shield and let me examine it carefully from the perspective of rules.”

The red dragon glanced at the sea of fire next to him, symbolically stretched his claws and nodded on the plane, and then wrapped them into the void barrier layer before saying: “I am shielding it not only for confidentiality, you should just relax.”

In the next moment, the sea of fire, the incarnation of the God of Fire Elemental, was like taking a big tonic, suddenly exploded and expanded, and after several twists and changes, it regained its original form.

“Is this the power of civilization development?” It took a long time for the ignorant fire elemental god to slow down, and he said in an incredible way, “Only one plane, in such a short period of time, they have advanced the exploration of elemental rules to At this level, it’s almost as high as your paradoxes…

“Fortunately, I have become accustomed to your system, so there is nothing wrong with absorbing the results of these rules and derivation…”

“Civilization, the union of different individuals at the same level, the development speed will skyrocket as the efficiency of information interaction increases. The short time in the eyes of the gods is enough for a civilization that has solved the need for survival. Level up.”

Cheng Bin sighed, and then shook his head: “However, there is very little progress in research involving the void. No matter how the element rules are deduced and changed, the power it brings can hardly exceed the interference of the underlying information of the void. I don’t know if civilization will eventually touch this. The deepest limit lock in the world…”

“The material element layer can’t contend with the void? This is not necessarily,” the god of fire element said nonchalantly. “If this new version of the magic net covers the entire astral realm, the dream of the Titans, the predecessor of the dwarves, dominating the material movement of all planes will be achieved. It is impossible to say what power will be born.”

“That’s true,” Cheng Bin recalled some of the research results on the Abyss Demon, and nodded thoughtfully. “Matter and the void are mutually transformable poles of the world. In terms of importance, they should not be the completeness of the void. It’s right to suppress matter…”

Although for now, a series of the most mysterious and powerful things, such as the godhead, real name, etc., all exist in the void to dominate the matter…

Cheng Bin thought about it for a while, and rearranged the plan related to the Abyssal Expedition, then turned his head and smiled at the God of Fire Elemental: “Forget it, just leave it alone…Are you ready to experiment?”