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Chapter 783 In the Temple
Just by looking at the sculpture, Li Luo couldn't guess what the craftsman was thinking.

She only knew that this sculpture placed in the center of the temple must have some special meaning.

While Li Luo was still thinking about the meaning of the sculpture, Fangkuai came over and gently touched her shoulder.

"What's wrong?" Li Luo asked curiously.

The cube turned around and flew to the side. Li Luo immediately understood that it wanted him to follow it, so he immediately chased after it.

"Are you going to bring me here?"

The cube stopped in front of a stone wall behind the three-branch statue.

Li Luo was originally wondering why she was brought here, but soon she noticed that there seemed to be something on the stone wall...

“A mural.”

Soon after Mo Ling entered the temple, he saw the murals on the stone walls.

He did not check the statues like Li Luo did, but kept looking at the contents of the murals.

The murals extend from the stone wall to the ceiling, and there are even some on the ground. There are also some reliefs and hollowing out on the stone wall to match the content of the murals.

It seems that this mural is so important that even the architectural structure has to give way to it.

The creatures depicted on the murals all looked like "headless wolves". Mo Ling immediately realized that this was a race.

"The statue outside records the appearance of this race."

Hunched body, thick hair, tail hanging down to the ground, sharp claws...

"Is there any connection between the races that look exactly like me now?"

Mo Ling continued reading.

The content of the mural was very complex, densely covering the entire wall, but after looking at it for a while, Mo Ling discovered the "order" of the mural.

Those reliefs and hollowings just happen to distinguish different areas of the mural, and divide the content using something like stone walls or gaps. Just like in "Night Revels of Han Xizai", the contents recorded in these mutually divided areas are at different time points.

The first thing recorded was the scene of the normal reproduction and life of this race. At that time, this race was a very powerful force in the darkness. They were numerous, intelligent, able to use tools and traps, and work as a team. They were one level stronger than other creatures in the eternal night.

Relying on the power of the tribe, this creature has occupied a place in the eternal night. Just relying on hunting, it is able to feed all members of the tribe and reproduce more and more.

Their bodies are completely built for darkness. Their hair is used to resist the temperature changes in the eternal night, their claws are used to tear the fragile skin of their prey, their tails are used to maintain balance when running, and their senses can capture all kinds of information in the darkness. They are truly the children of darkness.

Because of this unique advantage, they are like fish in water in the darkness and live more and more comfortably and easily.

The very beginning of the mural depicts the power and prosperity of this creature. Although it feels exaggerated, it should not be exaggerated by much.

Mo Ling himself could also feel this creature's "adaptability" to darkness.

It's not just like a fish in water, there is also a booming potential.

Just like the amphibians that have just climbed onto land, stepping onto the hard land, there are still infinite possibilities in the future. This kind of dark creatures have just emerged, and they have unlimited potential. With their comfortable creatures and powerful wisdom, they may really be able to establish a unique civilization in the darkness.

Their bodies have evolved to the appropriate level. Now all they need is time to settle. This race will slowly occupy every corner of the Eternal Night, just like humans on land.

Among all the creatures that Mo Ling had seen, none of them had ever given him such a feeling. Even those powerful beings did not have such strong "adaptability".

This is a property that has nothing to do with strength. Some lives can be seen to be incompatible with the environment, while some can be seen to have completely merged with the environment and become a part of the ecology.

"It seems that the maximum environmental carrying capacity no longer exists, and this species can continue to adapt until it becomes the master of this environment."

Mo Ling is now in the form of this kind of creature, and he has a very deep understanding that this mural is not exaggerating the facts. If it continues to develop in this way, this race will definitely become more and more powerful and occupy the eternal night.

However, a gap lies behind the prosperity...

The picture changed, becoming somewhat dilapidated.

This race with unlimited potential seems to have encountered some problems:
An unknown messenger came to the dark race, bringing with him a terrible mutation.

This mutation will directly change the foundation of the dark race.

According to the description in the murals, this mutation will cause them to lose their hair, break their claws, lose their tails, and even make their perception in the dark become blurred.

The most terrifying thing is that this mutation will make them afraid of the darkness and turn them into timid cowards.

This mutation is constantly stripping them of their adaptability to darkness, driving them out of the darkness, and turning them into another creature, a twisted, weak creature that is completely unable to adapt to the darkness.

Not only that, after being transformed into this kind of creature, one will be controlled by the messenger, obey it, become its slave, become a traitor to the race, and even help it spread mutations, turning other companions into that disgusting form and betraying the darkness.

This was absolutely unacceptable to them. After realizing the actions of the messenger, they began to kill the traitor and the messenger. However, they discovered that the messenger was immortal.

After being killed once, it will appear somewhere else and start spreading the mutation.

Those alienated compatriots did not lose their self-awareness and still retained their original memories and thoughts, but they just could not accept the darkness. It was as if their souls were placed in the body of another creature.

Although the dark race can kill these traitors, these alienated traitors will pass on the mutation to the dark warriors who killed them before they die, causing these powerful warriors to slowly turn into weak beings and become traitors who have forgotten the darkness.

This is a dead end. The messenger's intention is very clear, which is to spread the mutation to the entire dark race and turn them all into that completely distorted appearance.

As long as you come into contact with it, you will be infected and mutated.

The leaders of the dark race could not think of a way to deal with the situation, so they could only organize the entire race to migrate to avoid the messenger and their alienated companions.

They completely blended themselves into the darkness, fleeing further and further away.

But the messenger was still omnipresent, often suddenly appearing within the tribe and starting to spread mutations, bringing them a heavy blow.

In order to prevent the mutation from spreading completely, the leaders had to lead a part of the tribe each, act separately, and disperse into the eternal night.

The once prosperous race fell apart, and the civilization that was supposed to emerge was stillborn.

(End of this chapter)