Eternal Night.

Chapter 926 The Past!

"...Master Ma, may I ask, what is the Primal Creator?"

Good question!
Wu Pifu praised her with great excitement, though Qing outside certainly couldn't hear her.

When Master Ma, named Mazda, saw that Wu Pifu was completely dazed and couldn't explain Wu Pifu's lineage from Qingkou, he simply took the two of them straight to the Martial Arts Training Department of District Twelve. According to him, there were some of his fellow disciples and old friends there, all of whom were disciples and grand-disciples who had inherited the skills of the Primal Creators. He thought they would be very excited that there were still Primal Creators alive.

"This is not something you can know at your current level of access."

At the checkpoint at the end of the passage, Mazda casually asked the guards for a hovercraft and then took Wu Pifu and Qing towards the Martial Arts Training Department.

Inside the fully armored, enclosed vehicle, Qing asked cautiously, only to be met with Mazda's inattentive response.

"But... are you and this kid on good terms?" Mazda asked.

Qing nodded immediately, and said repeatedly, "He and I came from the same orphanage. Do you think we're close or not?"

"...Are you mentally prepared?" Mazda glanced at Qing, then looked closely at the stunned Wu Pifu. He kept talking, "Knowing the originator means you know the biggest secret, but at the same time you lose the freedom to choose. Ignorance is sometimes a blessing, understand?"

Ao hesitated, and Mazda seemed to know he would hesitate. Just as he was about to speak, Ao spoke first: "Does it include room and board? Are there any benefits? What about social insurance and housing fund? What about retirement pension? By the way, is it a civil service job?"

Mazda was taken aback, then laughed and said, "That's all you're thinking about? You're thinking about this at a time like this?"

Qing blushed and said, "What else are you thinking? Sir, you are a big shot, so naturally you don't understand the suffering of us lowly people. Wu Pifu and I are both orphans raised by the government. We don't know our parents. Whether they abandoned us or signed an agreement directly with the government, we are at the very bottom of society. Do you think what I'm saying is unimportant? This is..."

"No, it was my rudeness."

Mazda was truly magnanimous. He paused for two seconds, then bowed slightly to Qingwei to express his apology before looking up and saying, "All of what you mentioned is here, and even more than you expected. Let me put it this way: having enough to eat and drink is just the simplest and most basic thing. If you can really work until retirement, your status will probably be no worse than mine. So... have you thought it through?"

Qing swallowed hard, then looked at the dazed Wu Pifu and quickly said, "By the way, about my buddy's injuries, his dementia."

"We'll take them all!"

Mazda waved his hand, looked at Qing and nodded affirmatively, then thought for a moment and said, "There's too much to say, so I don't even know where to begin. So let me ask you first, how old do you think I am?"

Qing paused for a moment, looked at Mazda's appearance, and tentatively said, "He's probably over fifty, but the old gentleman is well-preserved; he might be over sixty."

"Do not."

Mazda chuckled and said with a strangely world-weary expression, "I'm about 860 billion years old."

"What? Eight thousand six hundred years old?" Qing exclaimed in surprise. "I had heard before that the government was secretly researching longevity potions, but I didn't expect they'd been researching them for so long! That's amazing!"

"What are you thinking about?"

Mazda tapped Qing on the forehead in an annoyed tone. Seeing Qing clutching his head, he continued, "It's not 8,600 years old, but 860 billion years old. If we use the current number of years, it would be about that. However, it's not a whole number. Because of the hazy dream effect, I can't remember the exact time. Let's just say it's 860 billion years old. By the way, I am the fifth generation."

Qing looked bewildered, his face full of confusion. He didn't even know what Mazda was talking about.

"Don't understand? Hahaha, it certainly doesn't make sense at first glance. To explain all this, we need to start from the very beginning. By the way, I don't know if what I'm saying is the whole truth, because I only heard it from the third, fourth, or original creators, my master..."

"To explain this, we need to clarify the full name of our government... Multidimensional Cosmic Unified Government. Doesn't that sound a bit incongruous?"

Qing thought about it seriously and nodded, saying, "Yes, it sounds... well, it's too chuunibyou (a Japanese term for someone with delusions of grandeur)."

"Yes, it's chuunibyou (a Japanese term for someone with delusions of grandeur).

Mazda nodded in agreement, but then shook his head and said, "But this name is truly fitting, understand?"

"Our government did indeed once rule the entire multidimensional universe!"

A very, very, very long time ago... long ago, so long ago that even the numbers of time seem unnecessary, there existed a multidimensional universe. This universe was incredibly vast and immense, with multiple layers of dimensions, including not only spatial dimensions but also temporal, conceptual, and essential dimensions. In short, it was an unimaginably enormous super-universe.

"...But our universe is old, too old, so old that the multidimensional universe is about to die."

Qing asked in surprise, "What? The universe can also grow old and die?"

"Why not?" Mazda shook his head and said, "Time is the most terrifying thing in this world. Take the three-dimensional natural universe that exists in the multidimensional universe, for example. There are ways to die of old age, such as heat death, tearing, and origin. The multidimensional universe is the same. After countless billions of years, the multidimensional universe will die of old age."

"The strongest individuals, civilizations, and other incredible beings in the multidimensional universe realized that the multidimensional universe was about to die. Although this period was only a brief final moment for the entire multidimensional universe, it was an extremely long time for sentient beings. In this final time, the strongest individuals and civilizations in the multidimensional universe finally stopped their wars, conflicts, or any discord. They united and first used the highest level of power, science, and the extraordinary to find out the cause of the catastrophe."

After a long period of discussion, deliberation, and research at the level of life itself, the Multidimensional Universe Unified Government was finally established, and a joint resolution was ultimately reached...

escape!

Carrying the most precious life forms in the universe, they build an ultimate ark capable of traversing the cosmos, and escape...

escape!!
This plan is so vast and ambitious, to build an ark that can traverse beyond the multidimensional universe, to carry even a fraction of the life essence, which is still nearly infinite, that it almost exhausts the last resources of the multidimensional universe.

"...Then, our ancestors succeeded. They truly escaped the multidimensional universe of aging and death. But beyond the universe, it was far more desolate and empty than they had observed or anticipated. And most terrifyingly, they encountered a catastrophe, a disaster, or rather, an unimaginable catastrophe..."

"The universe they inhabit, a collection of universes filled with various multidimensional universes, is undergoing unimaginable destruction. The entire ark has been adrift in this destructive wave for countless years. Just as the aging and death of the multidimensional universes was only an instant for the universe itself, but an incredibly long time for the life within them, this final destruction of the universe collection is unimaginably long. Only we, in our essence, possess incredibly long lifespans, yet we will still age and die. The last of the original beings were my teacher and a few others, but they still died of old age. I am the fifth generation descendant, and I have lived for 680 billion years, but this time is just a negligible fraction of the original beings' lives. By the way, the original beings are the initial people who boarded the ark from the multidimensional universes..."

Mazda rambled on and on for a long time.

Qing was completely dumbfounded. He didn't even know if Mazda was bragging or if it was true. So he pointed to District 12 outside the vehicle and said, "District 13 is the ark that crosses the universe?"

"How can it be."

Mazda shook his head and said, "The complete Ark probably has more than 130,000 districts, let alone thirteen. This is the wreckage... or a fragment of the Ark that has changed. In short, this is not the original Ark, but I don't remember the specifics. Didn't I just mention the hazy dream effect? ​​Our existence in the Ark was in the most primordial form of spiritual particles, without a physical body or mental consciousness. In that state, although we had the ability to think because of the circuits inside the Ark, it was only a kind of thinking ability similar to a hazy dream. Therefore, the theoretical lifespan could reach one second of eternity. Now that we have a physical body and mental consciousness, we can no longer specifically recall the past in the Ark."

"so……"

Qing hesitated before asking, "Did our ancestors, the original creators of the Ark, find a new universe?"

"No, of course not."

Mazda's expression changed drastically.

Just then, the vehicle stopped, the autopilot stopped, the door opened, and Mazda stopped talking. He looked at the vehicle's hatch with an incomprehensible expression, stretched, and stepped out of the vehicle.

Qing could only pull Wu Pifu along as they followed the equipment.

Wu Pifu was so anxious he wanted to punch someone!

What's the ending of this story? He really wants to know!
Mazda then led Qing and Wu Pifu into the depths of the Martial Arts Training Department, a department unknown to the outside world and that did not even exist... the Extraordinary Reproduction Department.

While waiting for the personal vital information of Qing and Wu Pifu to be recorded and determined, Mazda also reported on Wu Pifu's situation. The government attaches great importance to this, and a research team and a high-level team have set off for the Department of Extraordinary Reproduction.

Qing, holding Wu Pifu's hand, stood dumbfounded in the light—the judgment light of the main control system, Nuwa. He looked at Mazda, who was also in the light, and couldn't help but ask, "Mr. Ma, what about the ending? What about the ending of the story we just heard? Didn't we find a new universe?"

Well done, Qing!
Wu Pifu, in essence, cheered loudly.

Mazda paused for several seconds before shaking his head and saying, "Of course not..."

"In my hazy memories within the Ark, the last thing I remember... is the footage of the Ark's outer universe exploration provided by the Ark's main control system's main brain."

"The universe has shattered, and an eyeball even larger than the universe is looking in from outside the universe."

(End of this chapter)