Chapter 309 Time is the enemy of civilization

   In the great Zhou Dynasty of the earth, Wan once again sent several tons of rice, as well as a large amount of meat and vegetables.

   And she also brought Xiao Ke over. This cat was not timid at all after coming to a strange world. It ran around the village, and even dragged Xia Shumin, master and servant, together.

  I came back after lunch.

   Everyone had a meal together, but this time the villagers did not let go of their food, and only ate half a ton of it reservedly.

  Chen Ji couldn't help but ask the guardian, how much can Maien people eat?

  The answer is:

   "In my memory, the Maien people can absorb the power of spar, and they can fly to the highest place in the world from here in their prime."

  Chen Ji was a little surprised, meaning he could cross the entire world? Could it be that the world is small?

   "But they don't have this ability now. It would be a waste to directly absorb the power of the spar, and they will not control their own powerful power. Eating so much food is enough."

  The guardian said again.

   Let the villagers stop overeating before they are familiar with their own power.

After lunch, Chen Ji asked Ma Yien to drive the pepper-chopped fish head cart, looked at the villagers and asked, "I'm going to check outside the village, who wants to go with me? I can probably go more than ten personal."

  Although there are guardians following him, he is not strictly a Maien, but an existence created by the altar, similar to an intelligent robot.

  So, Chen Ji wanted the real Maien to go out of the village with him.

   "Master Chen Ji, me!" Cassian raised his hand and said.

  Chen Ji nodded.

   Soon the village chief Ogar, Cassian's father Santos, and several villagers expressed their willingness to go.

  The other villagers didn’t want to go, but they took the initiative to stay, because the rain outside had stopped, and they wanted to go to the spar mine to watch.

"good."

  Chen Ji smiled and nodded, "You can dig out the crystals in the pit, but as for the void below the ground... put it away first!"

  He drew a large amount of energy from the void with a single finger, thus creating a large area of ​​spar.

   Outrageously home.

  Chen Ji didn't know how to deal with this matter for the time being, and waited to observe for a while to confirm that the spar was okay.

  Everyone got into the car, Xia Shumin and the others sat on the sofa next to the bar, while the villagers sat or stood on the ground, which was nothing to them, as there was no such luxury as chairs in their village.

The car drove out of the village, and the villagers also ran to keep up. When they arrived outside the village, the weather had cleared and the sky was bright. The gray-black barrier that originally enveloped the village turned into the color of the sky, and white clouds could be seen. .

   Obviously, this is what it is!

   "Let's get out of the car and have a look."

  The car stopped beside the spar mine, and Chen Ji got out of the car and stepped on the muddy ground.

  The pothole has accumulated a lot of water, but a large number of crystals still emit light, making this puddle as if a fairy treasure was born.

  The magic is that with the appearance of spar, some rocks, iron, and other kinds of ores also appeared on the surface.

   It seems that the root of this world is the spar!

   "Wow~~ so beautiful."

  Xiao Ke shouted cheerfully, ran into the glowing pit, stepped down along the pit with her little feet in sneakers, eagerly dug out a few beautiful crystals with her hands, and played with them fondly.

  Chen Ji's mouth twitched.

   "Xiao Ke, come back quickly!" Da Zhou Wan, who brought her here, shouted helplessly.

  Zhou Wan laughed, "Cats don't seem to like shiny things...but they like to play!"

   "Miss, these gems are so beautiful..." Cuizhu whispered in Xia Shumin's ear.

  Chen Ji heard it, and turned his head to look, the little lady looked like I was very excited, and I wanted to pick up gems like Xiao Ke, which made people laugh:

   "Shu Min, go and help me pick up a few spars...be careful."

   "Huh? Young Master..."

  Xia Shumin was stunned for a moment, and soon agreed with a blushing face, and led the two maids down, looking for what she liked among the large pieces of spar.

  The villagers also went down to pick up spars around the riverbed. There were too many of them. There were many on the riverbed alone, including blue, green and orange, and colored ones were in the pits.

   "I'm going to pick up a few pieces as a souvenir too~ Do you want to go?"

  Zhou Wan couldn't bear it any longer, and asked Da Zhou and Mu Xiaoxiao the truth.

  Mu Xiaoxiao shook her head, indicating that she was not interested.

   "I'm not going... Hey, don't pull me."

   But Da Zhou was held by Zhou Wan's hand and dragged down.

  Chen Ji searched by the riverbed, and found several exquisitely shaped spars.

   "The color of the crystals determines the energy they contain."

Seeing that Chen Ji was interested in this, the guardian took the initiative to explain: "In my memory, the white spar has the least energy. As the energy is lost, it will gradually turn black until it turns into black soil, which is what you see. ground."

   "Black soil?"

   This seems to be a proper noun, and Maien also said this word before.

   "On top of white is blue, with ten times more energy."

The guardian continued: "Afterwards, green, red, blue, orange, yellow, purple, purple is the highest energy in the single color, and then there are two colors, three colors, four colors... Seven colors are the most precious of all crystals. Each of the treasures has been recorded in history. In my memory, there are the glory of Lanikea, the scepter of Kairuth X, the crown of Sansk, the tears in the sky, the dark blue phantom, and the final work..."

  He was talking, and suddenly shut up again.

  Chen Ji looked at him and saw that the guardian's expression was calm, but there were violent emotional fluctuations in his eyes.

   "Every name represents a piece of history."

Maien stared at the spar in the pit, and murmured: "The glory of Lanikea...is the earliest empire of the Maien people. It wiped out dozens of kingdoms, unified the entire underground, and ended the chaos of the ancient age. , After building a ladder and digging out a colorful spar in the sky, Lanikea proudly inlaid it on the altar, symbolizing his supreme right and identity, being the son of the gods."

  The guardian looked at her in surprise, and his calm expression finally changed.

   "How do you know this?!"

   he asked.

  Even in the memory given to him by the altar, there is no record of this period of history. It only records the name of the colorful spar and a short paragraph, which is far less detailed than Maien said.

  Because the history to be recorded by the altar is too long.

   Maien didn't answer him.

  Chen Ji rubbed her head, and handed the spar he picked up just now to her, "Mayen, take one as a souvenir."

  The girl raised her head, stared at him for a while, then stretched out her slender hand, selected a long spar from among them, and held it in her hand as a gift.

   "And your little one."

   Chen Ji smiled and asked her to choose one too.

   "..."

  The empress, who is not very good at emotional expression, blushed slightly, and chose an oval spar from him.

   "Okay, come back quickly, we are ready to go!"

  Chen Ji yelled at the people in the pit, telling them to come back quickly.

  The little lady's face was flushed and she was very excited. She packed a lot of crystals in her two little hands and pockets, and Xiao Ke was even more exaggerated, bringing a lot of crystals in her pockets.

  The two Zhou Wans are not bad either, they have a lot in their pockets, and they seem to want to make crystals into necklaces.

   "Master, do you want it?"

  The little lady showed Chen Ji the spar she had picked up, her eyes shy and expectant.

"OK."

  Chen Ji glanced at it, and selected a dove egg-shaped, red and white spar.

   "Chen Ji, do you want it?" Xiao Ke also came to join in the fun, with a pile of them in his pocket, imitating the words of a little lady.

   "Okay, okay, you can keep it yourself, Xiao Ke, and put it at home later."

   "Oh~~"

  The black cat girl happily agreed, humming a song she heard from somewhere, and was the first to run back into the car.

   Zhou Wan and the others also got into the car.

  The villagers stood there and looked at him.

  Chen Ji stood still at the car door, thought for a while, and said to them: "You dig some crystals back first...we will talk about it when we come back."

   "Yes, Master Chen Ji!"

  The villagers agreed excitedly.

  The car starts up again.

   Originally, Chen Ji wanted to come to the edge of the village and ask the guardian if he could break through the wall and get out.

   Unexpectedly, the guardian reminded Maien: "You can use the shuttle mode of the car to locate the open space in front of you for space transition."

   Mai En nodded, and tapped her fingertips on the virtual operation screen, and the on-board AI automatically entered the shuttle mode.

   "Drip, I found a space landing point five kilometers ahead, and the car will travel through space in three seconds. Please wait... three, two, one."

   The countdown ends.

  The scenery outside the window suddenly became blurred and distorted, but in less than two seconds, it immediately returned to normal—that is, it was pitch black.

  The influence of the spar is limited to the village, and the outside world is still dark.

  Ma Yien reached out a little more, and rays of light burst out from the car body, illuminating the surroundings. Chen Ji, who was sitting at the bar in the car, saw the outside world through the video.

   Sure enough, it was pitch black.

  The ground is also covered by soft black soil.

   "Incredible."

  Zhou Wan couldn't help admiring, "Looking at a very ordinary car, it can actually jump through space!"

   This kind of chopped pepper fish head cart is used to buy vegetables on earth, and it can't even go on high speed.

  But in the Maien world, a car with chopped peppers and fish heads is actually equipped with a space jump function.

   "What's this!"

  The empress snorted, her face was quite depressed: "In the Nine Realms, even immortals can break through the space...The storage bags and teleportation arrays made by monks also have this function."

  She has a sense of honor to Jiuyu, or rather, she has confidence in herself.

  Zhou Wan laughed, "Yes, of course, Xiaoxiao is also very powerful... However, the world of Maien seems to be realized with technology."

  Chen Ji shook his head, "At this level of development, there is no difference between technology and immortal cultivation... It's not right, it should be said that two different worlds cannot be compared. Perhaps the Nine Realms are more suitable for cultivation rather than technology development."

  The "technology" of each world is different. In the Nine Domains, the way to understand the world is to practice, and their cultivation method is to explore the mysteries of the world.

  Chen Ji helped her speak, but Mu Xiaoxiao, who was the empress of the Nine Regions, fell silent instead, looking at the external images.

   "Nine Realms...Earth."

  The guardian was meditating on the world of these outsiders, and he vaguely felt that he had forgotten a very important thing.

  He looked at the Maien people present, and O'Gar and the others were also talking in a low voice.

   "Young master, there is nothing outside the village~"

  Xia Shumin and Xiao Ke were not at the bar, they looked directly at the outside world from the window.

  In their line of sight, everything they saw was exactly the same, and wherever the light shone, it was pitch black everywhere.

  The guardian came back to his senses and said, "There are a hundred layers of protective walls outside the village, and this is the second layer."

"What?"

   A group of people looked at him in shock.

   A hundred layers of retaining walls?

   Doesn't this mean that there are a hundred layers of shields outside the village, one layer inside the other, a full hundred layers? !

   "Are you trying to prevent the enemy from rushing in?"

  Mu Xiaoxiao asked him.

   "The enemy? If time is the enemy of civilization, it is."

   The Guardian replied calmly.

  Time is the enemy of civilization?

  Chen Ji heard for the first time that the village was covered with a hundred layers of shields to prevent the erosion of time?

  The chopped pepper fish head car continued to move forward and gradually accelerated. The body radiated light, illuminating all the way, and the speed was galloping.

  In the blink of an eye, the car came to the second layer of protective wall.

  Chen Ji got out of the car to check, and stretched out his hand to touch it. As soon as his hand touched it, a large amount of gray-black dust fell down.

  The corrosion of the second layer of retaining wall is much more serious than that of the first layer.

  The guardian was silent, recording this scene.

  The car jumped again and came to the third floor.

   This layer is very weird, there are pyramids made of black soil piled up on the ground.

"ah?!"

  The little lady and the others were very surprised. This scene was weird and evil. The pyramid was located in the ground like a tomb.

   "It fell from above?" Da Zhou Wan saw it.

   Sure enough.

  After Mayen let the car fly into the sky, she saw holes appearing in the dome of the retaining wall, and the black soil fell from these holes.

   "Corroded by time?"

  Chen Ji thought of what the guardian said.

   Coming to the edge of the wall full of holes, the car jumped again.

   This time, the ground was covered by a large amount of black soil, and the car flew against the dome that was about to collapse several times.

  The next leap, the car flew millions of meters away.

  Because, all the places in the middle are occupied by black soil.

  The hundred-layer retaining wall outside Maien Village has been corroded to only two layers, and the rest have all collapsed!

   After the car jumped, it appeared in a huge space with no clear boundary.

   "...Let me stroke it."

  Chen Ji rubbed his head and looked at the guardian: "The place where the altar is located, that is, the village, is at the bottom, right?"

"Yes."

   "Above your sky, there is still a layer of soil... All collapsed in the middle?"

  Chen Ji remembered what Maien said before, "If you build a ladder...that is to say, the people of Maien explore from the ground to the sky. What is your world like?"

  He finally started to get in touch with the structure of Maien's world. From the current point of view, it looks a bit like the Nine Realms where Mu Xiaoxiao lives.

"like this."

  The guardian answered with an image. He summoned a cuboid with a hollow in the middle. If you look carefully, you can see that there is a building in the hollow, which is where the Maien people live.

   "A rectangular world?" Everyone gathered around and looked at it curiously.

   "We're right here."

The guardian pointed to the bottom, then pointed to the top of the cuboid, and said: "I know from the memory of the altar that using the Babel altar can go to the top of our world, where there is the last hope of the Maien world. , is also the place where all the previous people were buried..."

   "The last hope of the Maien world?" Zhou Wan asked, "Isn't the altar the last hope?"

   "The altar is the hope of the Mayen people, and above it is the last hope of the world... I don't remember what it is specifically."

  The guardian shook his head.

  One world, one person.

  Da Zhou Wan looked at Chen Ji, wanting to ask him what he thought, but saw him frowning, staring at the cuboid world map.

   "... Maien!"

  Chen Ji looked at the girl.

  Unexpectedly, she guessed it with him.

Ding.

  Accompanied by strange fluctuations, a constantly rotating four-dimensional cube with a hollow in the middle and changing colors such as red, blue, yellow, and green appeared in front of everyone!

   Comparing the four-dimensional cube with the Maien world map given by the guardian, everyone can see it:

  Mayen's body is clearly the entire Maien world!

   It should be said that the appearance of the Maien body is built according to the entire Maien world!

  (end of this chapter)