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Chapter 1146: Life and Death
"Mo Ling, are you nearby?"

Just as Mo Ling was looking at his hands in a trance, he suddenly heard someone calling him.

It's the voice of the router...

He quickly looked around and found that Luqi was standing in the darkness, groping towards him.

"Why is it so dark in here?"

Mo Ling then realized that something was wrong. His vision could see through the darkness, so he had not noticed the problem just now.

"I'm here!" he quickly shouted to the router.

After hearing Mo Ling's voice, Lu Qi quickly adjusted his direction and ran over in a hurry.

"Can you see clearly around you?" he asked Mo Ling.

"Yes, but it's too dark. I'm not used to it. Didn't we bring lighting equipment?" Mo Ling said as he flipped through his backpack, but his actions were immediately stopped by the router.

"Don't turn on the lights." Lu Luqi said seriously.

"why?"

"It's too dark here. Turning on the light might cause unnecessary trouble..."

"Trouble?" Mo Ling asked doubtfully, "What kind of trouble is it?"

"Intuition." Router replied with just two words without giving any further explanation.

He took Mo Ling's hand off the backpack, thought for a while, and then whispered, "The others should be nearby, find them first."

Mo Ling nodded in understanding and began to search the vicinity with his vision. Sure enough, just as the router had said, he soon found the figures of Ah Dai and the Stone Man. They were standing together stupidly, like two sculptures.

He quickly controlled Ah Dai to walk back, and the Stone Man immediately followed behind Ah Dai and continued his imitation behavior.

After sending Ah Dai and the Stone Man to his side, Mo Ling looked out again, searching for the elf.

"Doesn't it glow? It should be easy to find..."

However, it took Moring about ten minutes to find the elf.

It was standing blankly beside a large rock, its light dimming, like a broken light bulb, and its entire body had turned into a whitish porcelain texture, seeming to be extremely fragile and would break at the slightest touch...

"Something's wrong."

Mo Ling immediately realized that the elf might be in a very bad condition.

So he quickly told the router about his discovery.

"Let's go and take a look at it..."

After making up their minds, they walked towards the direction of the elf, and it took them some time to find the elf's location.

"What's wrong with you?" As soon as he came to the elf, Mo Ling asked with concern.

"I'm too far away from the Sea of ​​Creation, and my strength is fading." The elf said weakly. "Can you still walk now? Do you want Ah Dai to carry you?"

"No need, you can still leave."

The elf's dim light could only cover a small area around its body at this time. The inky darkness seemed to be aggressive, swallowing up all the already scarce light.

"There is no need to go any further. We are already at the entrance to the sixth floor. Now we just need to change our life state to enter the sixth floor." The elf looked at the two of them and said slowly.

"So fast? We're at the entrance to the sixth floor already?" Mo Ling said in surprise.

"Well, the Eternal Thirst sent us directly here. He should be very satisfied with this deal."

"What does it mean that the life status changes?" asked the router at the side.

"This is the condition for entering the sixth floor. Only when the state of life changes, the entrance to the sixth floor will open. The simplest state of life is two, life and death. If you are alive now, you will die. If you are dead now, you will be resurrected..."

"So we're going to die?"

After hearing the elf's explanation, Router frowned. This way to the sixth floor was really too unbelievable.

"Yes, die, but we won't really die. Dying at this entrance will allow us to have the same attributes as those worlds swallowed by the abyss. Only then will we be allowed to enter the world of destruction."

"The sixth layer of the abyss is a world swallowed by the abyss?"

"Yes, it is a collection of those worlds. Their remains are piled up there and have the attribute of 'death'. Living people cannot enter the underworld unless they become dead."

"Then what about the state of life you just mentioned? Are there other states besides life and death?"

"Of course there are. There are not only two states of life: life and death. There are also some states that humans cannot understand... For example, in the infinite sea, there is a kind of fish. In addition to life and death, they have a third state of life called 'enlightenment'."

It is a peculiar kind of fish called Sansheng fish. Under normal circumstances, they are not much different from other ordinary fish. They just swim around in the sea, eating this and gnawing on that.

However, this kind of fish has no reproductive ability and no gender distinction. They spend their entire lives eating and drinking. After their short life is over, they turn their belly upside down and continue floating in a different posture.

If you are lucky, the body will float away and rot. If you are unlucky, the body will be eaten by other marine life.

And these "unlucky" Sansheng fish corpses will begin the third stage of their life - start.

These marine creatures that eat the bodies of the three-life fish will go through a process:
They will slowly transform into the appearance of Sansheng fish.

Their habits will gradually transform into those of the Sansheng fish. They will slowly lose their ability to reproduce and their gender, and then in the process of eating and drinking they will become the next identical Sansheng fish, continuing to repeat this cycle of "birth-death-restart".

In this process of "initiation", if we say that the Sansheng fish is still alive, it has already died. If we say that it is dead, it is actually alive in another way, so it cannot be described simply by life and death, and can only be classified as another state of life.

"As long as there is a change in the state of life, it can pass through the gap between the fifth and sixth layers." The elf repeated again.

"Don't you mean you have to possess the attribute of 'death'? Even resurrection is fine? Doesn't that mean you have the attribute of 'life'?" Mo Ling asked doubtfully.

“Life and death are relative, just like the front and back of a coin. The reason you know its front and back is because you define it. The same is true for life and death. If you define one side as life, the other side is death. If you define one side as death, the other side is life.”

The elf raised his hand softly and pointed downwards: "The Abyss does not care about any absolute definition of life and death. It only detects the 'change of state', the process of 'coin flipping'. As long as this process occurs, the crack will cause the object to sink from the fifth floor to the sixth floor, and enter the world of death..."

(End of this chapter)