Thirteenth month of death

Chapter 177 A Bug

Although I already had some ideas in mind, it was still so surprising when the truth appeared before my eyes.

At this moment, everyone thought back and realized that the name Tanlong Gathering Place was actually the answer.

A short-lived prison.

From the moment I stepped into it, my consciousness was already trapped in the dream woven by this royal pest.

"Why is it like this?" Li Daosheng asked the flower bird.

She is the one who knows the most about insects here.

Flower Bird looked at the green bug that was constantly losing fluids and said, "It's the same backlash I suffered before, only this one is more severe."

"To spy on memories, one must be prepared to be spied on. It weaves a world of its own, so... the backlash it suffers is rejection from the real world."

It turned out to be the case.

After he finished speaking, Hua Que took a step forward and crushed a white flower with the sole of his shoe. The juice shone like pearls in the moonlight.

She squatted down and touched the body fluids flowing out of the royal insects with her fingertips - these fluids were rapidly crystallizing, like tears condensing into amber.

"Look." Huaque raised his finger, which was stained with the condensation of the insect's body fluids.

Its body fluids have a peculiar fragrance and are not as disgusting as those bugs I have seen before.

At this moment, Huaque raised his finger, not because he wanted everyone to see the body fluids of this royal pest.

These liquids have crystallized and become like grains of crystal clear sand. At this moment, under the moonlight, these tiny grains of crystal sand are difficult to see clearly.

But everyone present was not ordinary. With the blessing of the Book of Destiny, their basic physical qualities had already far surpassed those of ordinary people.

So... everyone saw that there were tiny spots of light flickering in the "sand" in Huaque's hand. If you looked closely, you could see a miniature human figure curled up in each spot of light.

Hua Que suddenly covered her forehead, and the images emerging from those light spots flooded into her consciousness.

The pioneers in the jungle, holding flashlights, once again come to search for the missing humans and the criminals who have fled into the jungle with nowhere else to go...

All the living creatures that strayed into this place, their consciousness is actually in the body of this royal pest!
"There are a lot of human consciousness hidden in its body, including the three people mentioned before." Huaque opened his eyes and looked at Li Daosheng and others with a complicated expression.

[Thirteenth Moon]'s request was to get rid of this bug, but at this moment, so many human consciousnesses were hidden in its body. Killing it would basically be equivalent to erasing the consciousness of thousands of people.

What's more, although these people are conscious beings, everyone has seen their real existence in the environment of Tanlong gathering place.

Li Daosheng's memories of the past twenty years are all about being an ordinary college student, and he simply can't bring himself to do it.

Ren Ou has his own logic, and his judgment tells him not to kill.

Even the relatively ruthless flower bird could not make up its mind for a while.

"Are you going to kill me?" The dying insect suddenly made a human voice. This time, the voice did not appear directly in everyone's mind, but through the vibration of the insect's wings, it made a metallic buzzing sound.

Li Daosheng's long sword hung in front of the royal pest, its blade reflecting the dying body of the insect in the moonlight: "Even if I don't kill you, you will die soon."

"Hehe..." A strange light flickered in the eyes of the royal insect. "I am a special insect. Do you know why I created a gathering place for Tanlong?"

Its sound echoed in the moonlight, and the others just listened quietly.

"You said... a pest, from the moment it was born with consciousness, has the self-awareness of a human. Is this possible?" The royal pest murmured. The miserable moonlight shone on the green pest. The lower half of its body seemed to be completely crushed by some mysterious force, and its body fluids continued to leak out. These body fluids carried the consciousness of each human.

Chen Qing said without hesitation: "Of course not! Self-awareness is exclusive to intelligent life. With wisdom, coupled with the influence of the acquired environment, self-awareness can arise. You said that you thought you were human from the moment you were born? What a joke..."

The royal pest tilted its head, its insect eyes looking at Chen Qing, a hint of bewilderment flashing in its voice: "When I was born, I thought the same as you. I saw my own body. I am a bug? Why does my consciousness tell me that I am a human? I was very confused, so I began to search for the reason, to find out where this strange cognition came from. I was lucky that I found the reason without much effort. Because it is here, in the place where I was born."

"You are not from this world, so you may not know that these small white flowers are called afterlife flowers. They often bloom in places where human corpses are scattered."

Everyone immediately turned to look at the small white flowers swaying in the moonlight. Could it be that the bottom of this valley was full of human remains?

"Indeed, that's why I consider myself human." The royal pest's voice gradually faded, as if the moonlight was too cold, making it tremble slightly. "Here, a group of people once fled into the valley, intending to build a human settlement. But that night, a terrible earthquake struck, swallowing them all and burying them underground. Here, fields of afterlife flowers bloomed, and I... was also born here."

“The remains of human beings are my nourishment, and the consciousness that has not yet completely dissipated is my teacher in my ignorance.”

"I am a special kind of worm. From the moment I became conscious, I believed I was a worm of the human race."

He repeated this sentence.

"Later, I discovered my ability. I could change cognition and even... make the consciousness of dead humans believe they were still alive. I successfully came to a place called Tanlong Gathering Place and started a new life."

Listening to the voice of the green insect, everyone gradually understood everything.

There is no need for Li Daosheng and others to take action.

Its life was inexorably heading towards death. A bleak, pale moon hung over the valley, emitting a slightly softer light, no longer so cold.

The royal pest lay on its back on the ground, staring blankly at the sky, and then at the white flowers of the afterlife that were swaying in the night wind all over the valley. It itself was so weak that a gust of wind could blow it away.

“I am constantly constructing, constructing the society and the world as seen from human consciousness…”

"Let them come alive, let them... exist."

"I've thought about my motivation for doing this for a long time, but I still can't figure it out."

"Do you know... why I created the Tanlong Gathering Place?"

It turns out that the question it asked before was not a rhetorical question, but a real doubt.

Until this moment, it didn't understand why it created the Tanlong gathering place.

At this moment, everyone is helping it think about the answer.

But... it's too late.

The liquid in its body has drained away, and its green body has slowly shriveled up, gradually fading to grayish white under the moonlight.

And from grayish white, gradually melt.

In the eyes of the six people, it slowly melted into the ground and disappeared completely.

At this time, lines of text appeared in front of Li Daosheng and others.

[The spirit controls the body, the body carries the soul]

[Looking through the mirror with suspicion, burning one's name with a torch]

[There is no question of self, but there is self]

--Finish.

The wedge is set.

It's time to go back.

[Thirteenth Month] and [Fifth Season] were not at loggerheads. Instead, they stood in this silent valley filled with small white flowers, thinking about the last question the insect had before it died.

why?
Until finally, the time is almost up.

Everyone had to leave.

They didn't say goodbye to each other, and maybe the situation wouldn't be the same the next time they met.

But at this moment, Flowerbird suddenly said, "Look!"

A door quietly opened behind everyone.

It was [Season 5] and [Thirteenth Month] who came to take them back.

The light inside the door illuminates the soil in front of you.

The ground that was just full of insect holes, suddenly, without knowing when, was covered with small white flowers?!

And where the royal pest had just died, a large and dense patch of white flowers emerged.

"The flowers of the afterlife often bloom in places littered with human corpses."

The voice of the royal pest appeared in everyone's memories.

correct……

Everyone suddenly realized the answer.

If you think of it as a human, the answer is clear.

It's so lonely...

From the moment human consciousness was born, he created the Tanlong Gathering Place, revived the dead human consciousness, and enriched that world. There was only one reason for that.

It just wants to confirm that it really exists.

as human beings.

(End of this chapter)