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Chapter 913 Elephant Cemetery
A long time ago, there was a saying:
Before dying, elephants will run to the tribe’s secret cemetery to welcome death.

Wild elephants usually die of natural causes, but in the dense forests, people cannot find their bodies, and elephant carcasses are rarely found.

Some researchers believe that elephants may end their lives in a concentrated area.

After foreseeing their own death, old elephants will begin to refuse to eat, cry all night, significantly reduce their activity level, and lower their sense of presence. Then, when the herd is resting, they will quietly leave the herd and walk into the depths of the jungle.

It will circle around the jungle, not only to shake off possible predators, but also to look for traces left by previously dead companions. It will follow these traces, circling in the jungle, and eventually find a place.

The entrance to that place was covered with dense grass and huge rocks. The old elephant would use his long trunk to push aside the grass and rocks and enter.

This is the final resting place of all elephants after their death – the elephant cemetery.

It is filled with elephant bones and ivory. The old elephant will choose a suitable position among them, and never move again, waiting quietly until death comes.

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"We discovered a strange phenomenon in the eternal night."

"Some old dark creatures will quietly leave the group and walk into the depths of darkness. No one knows where they are heading."

"After the advance team noticed this strange phenomenon, they discussed and decided to track these creatures. We speculate that these creatures must have been attracted by some kind of force, and this force only targets creatures that are about to reach the end of their lifespan, which is why this strange phenomenon occurs."

"These creatures seem to be avoiding us intentionally. They actually haven't noticed our presence. They are just taking a detour out of habit. Perhaps they don't want to expose the force that attracts them, or perhaps they are also looking for traces of that force, so they keep changing directions."

"After tracking them for a while, we found that they climbed up a mountain and turned into a hidden valley. It looked very desolate here. There was nothing but rolling sand and gravel everywhere."

"Just when we thought they would continue to move forward, they stopped and lay motionless in the valley, as if they were about to meet their death."

"We hid our tracks and watched from a distance. We waited until the creatures died, but still nothing happened."

"The wind and sand quickly buried the remains of the dead creatures, and the valley became desolate again, and we found nothing."

"The advance team recorded this location and named this valley - the cemetery."

"The cemetery incident was just a minor incident at first, and no one paid much attention to it. But the next thing changed our view of the cemetery."

"When a team member was using a dream catcher, he accidentally discovered that a large number of Dream Kirins were gathering near the cemetery. It seemed that these Dream Kirins, like those creatures whose lifespans were about to end, used this place as their cemetery."

"Dream Qilin also has a lifespan? We immediately examined these Dream Qilin and found that their 'body functions' are indeed much weaker than normal Dream Qilin. They refuse to eat, their activity level has greatly decreased, they are no longer active, and they even lie like corpses. This process will last for a long time until they die completely."

"They do age, and they have a so-called lifespan. When a Dream Qilin is about to reach the end of its life, it will become less and less active, and will pile up with other aging companions, silently waiting for death to come."

"Here, we were fortunate enough to see the death process of the Dream Unicorns: the colors on their bodies gradually dimmed, and finally turned into an absolute black that could not reflect any light."

"But it seems that death is not the end. After a period of time, the completely dead black dream unicorns will gradually regain their brilliance, as if time has gone backwards. Their body activity increases and they gradually regain their youthful appearance." "These restored dream unicorns will leave here again and bid farewell to the cemetery. It seems that they have gained a new life here and embarked on a new starting point."

"After discovering the phenomenon of these Meng Qilins coming back to life, we quickly conducted a deeper exploration of the cemetery. With the help of a positioning relic, we implanted a positioning target into the consciousness of Meng Qilin. The target showed that Meng Qilin went to a distant place after death, and then circled back."

"According to the location of the relic, that place..."

"Below our feet, far, far away."

"After discovering this, the exploration priority of the cemetery was immediately raised to the highest level, because researchers unanimously agreed that this is the passage to the next level."

"As for the specific characteristics of the next layer, after discussing them, we came to a consensus that it must be related to death."

"Because of this characteristic of arriving after death, we will temporarily name the next level the Underworld."

"As we delved deeper into the study of creatures like the Dream Qilin, we discovered a characteristic of them: their consciousness is separate from their bodies."

"After their bodies die in a certain layer of dreams, they will turn black, and then regain color and revive in another part of the dream, while their consciousness will be reorganized to produce a new consciousness."

"We speculate that their consciousness also has the concept of 'lifespan'. When their lifespan is about to end, their consciousness will dissipate with the death of their physical body. When the physical body is resurrected, a new consciousness will arise."

"These dream unicorns do not want their consciousness to dissipate, so they come to the cemetery and silently wait for death. With the arrival of death, their consciousness will reach the underworld, and their bodies will be resurrected. They will then return to the cemetery through dreams and enter new bodies. In this way, they can achieve 'eternal life' in a sense, allowing their consciousness to continue and not be replaced by a new consciousness."

"This is why these Dream Qilins gathered in the cemetery."

"Whether they are consciousness or souls, these Dream Qilin are using the characteristics of the underworld to achieve a kind of 'natural rotation', using the characteristics of the underworld to avoid the fate of consciousness dissipating."

"The study of Meng Qilin also confirmed our conjecture - the souls of creatures that died in the cemetery will not dissipate, but will go to the underworld."

"The confirmation of this conjecture is of great significance to us. It means that we know the way to go to the next level. Although it comes at the cost of death, death with retained consciousness is not true death. Just like those Dream Qilin, the dead still have the possibility of resurrection."

"Before other passages are discovered, we have decided to protect the cemetery for research purposes, and to temporarily name the sixth layer of the Abyss 'Underworld'. If other feasible passages are discovered later, we will make changes."

"It is planned to build a city on the cemetery as a gathering point to house personnel and store equipment to ensure smooth access to the road down to the abyss."

"We are planning to select some seriously injured and dying people as the first batch of candidates to go to the underworld."

"It is planned to reduce the size of the cemetery, narrow the entrance, and reduce the influence of the underworld."

"..."

"Zeus recorded it in the 28th year of the Abyss calendar."

(End of this chapter)