The girl with white hair and red eyes is serious about revenge

In the past, Edward's definition of a strong person was simple: decisive in killing, calm and deep, and able to make the most correct choice in the current situation without being disturbed by the outside world. Coupled with strong personal ability and knowledge, this is the model of a strong person that Edward constructed in the law of the jungle.

But Harilalli does not fit this mold at all. She is innocent and naive, and her every move is like a lamb that turns its belly up in front of a hungry wolf. She is quite idealistic, not angry or resentful, and looks at the earth with compassion like a fairy, like a child observing an ant nest on the side of the road.

But it was this person who made countless optimal decisions in the operation of building the front-line base almost impeccably, and established the current human front with the least resource consumption on the human side.

During this process, Edward had a deep understanding of Halilari's fighting power. He had seen Halilari transform the rain from the sky into countless blue crystals, which were then fiercely stabbed into the body of a huge black tide follower, instantly disintegrating the huge monster. He watched Halilari condense the blue crystal into a long sword, tearing apart a mountain with one blow, and the shock wave that erupted even blew Aleph away.

He gradually began to put away his initial disdain and turned it into curiosity - he was curious about what supported Harilalli's innocence and what supported her strong personality.

"..."

After another siege, Edward walked straight past Aleph who was teasing Ivar and found Harilali beside a dangerous cliff.

The girl with white hair and red eyes was looking at the black current land in the distance. She closed her eyes, clasped her hands in front of her chest, and prayed.

Edward didn't say anything. He just stood beside Halle and Lali, silently staring at the horizon with her.

After a long while, Hallilali said:

"You should take better care of Ivar. He is a fragile child."

"Then he is not fit for the battlefield," said Edward. "The law of the jungle filters everything."

Hearing Edward's answer, Hallilali turned around and her pitying eyes fell on his face again.

"Does this world have to be a battlefield?"

"This world is a battlefield," Edward said coldly, "I can't understand what you mean."

"No wonder she doesn't want to see you...she's afraid..." Harilalee sighed.

"Who are you talking about?"

"It's okay, my little animal," Hali Lali smiled gently, "You know, even though we have opened up so many frontline bases outside the Great Wall and expanded our vision so many times, we still can't find the [Lord of the Black Tide]."

"That's your brother. Can't you sense him?" Edward frowned. "Use the same method you use to sense the followers of the Black Tide?"

"Pfft... Because I have forgotten about his gene entanglement..." Hali Lali chuckled, her eyes a little lonely, "It's been a long, long time..."

Edward didn't understand what factor entanglement was. In fact, he didn't even quite understand the things in the factor energy technology tree. He simply used those high-end gadgets as his own weapons.

"Why did your brother turn into a monster?" Edward asked bluntly.

This made Hallilali silent for a while. After half a minute, she replied:

"To protect your civilization."

"Guard?" Edward frowned again. "Doesn't that guy want to destroy us?"

"You think things are too simple, Edward," Hallilali sighed, "No wonder, the world in your eyes is very simple, a jungle, a battlefield, but this is not the real world."

"What is the real world then?"

"Do you want to see it? I can show you," Hali Lali winked mischievously, "but you can't tell anyone else, um... no one, do you agree?"

The girl's innocence seemed illogical in Edward's eyes. He even instinctively felt that this was a trap, just like foreseeing a mushroom dressed in flowery clothes in the wild, with tempting spores in the air.

His intuition told him that he shouldn't pick mushrooms, let alone put them in his mouth, but his curiosity eventually overcame his vigilance.

"When?" Edward asked.

"Come to the watchtower of the front-line base tonight to find me later," Hali Lali smiled gently, "Well, don't tell anyone, I believe you."

"I won't tell anyone," Edward nodded, "Don't worry."

......

"What did you say? That girl asked you to go to the watchtower so late at night?"

In the dormitory of the front-line base, Aleph patted his head, confused for a moment.

"No way, you have progressed to this point?"

"Which step?" Edward frowned. "I asked questions and she answered them, that's all."

"No, didn't they tell you not to tell anyone else?" Aleph felt that Edward was hopeless. "Why did you tell Ivar and me?"

"So you don't have to pee your pants because I'm gone," Edward said coldly. "See you later."

He put on his coat, turned and walked out of the dormitory.

Behind him, Ivar, who was sitting on the bed cleaning his gun, looked at his back with envy, then lowered his head silently.

......

The front-line base is not big. A few camps, a circle of walls made of unknown metal, and an antenna for detecting the followers of the Kuroshio constitute the human stronghold on the Kuroshio land.

Looking down from the sky, this camp is like a lone boat on a black sea, which may be swallowed up by the darkness from all directions at any time.

After nightfall, Edward crossed the camp and climbed up the ladder to the metal wall. This wall had been there since the arrival of humans, and no one knew how Hallilali built it alone.

Looking at the watchtower from the wall, Edward saw the graceful girl at a glance. She was looking into the distance, her face sacred and beautiful.

She always looked at the earth like that.

"..."

After climbing up the watchtower, Edward walked to Harilalli's side and said coldly:

"What are you going to show me?"

"Look in front of you."

Hallilali gazed at the place where the starry sky met the earth. The horizon was so far away, and it merged with the starry sky, as if some kind of connection had been established.

Edward looked at it for a long time, but in the end he couldn't figure out what was going on, so he turned to look at Halle and Lali without saying a word.

"Tell me what you saw?" Hallilali whispered.

"Earth and stars," said Edward, "and cold."

"Huh? Can being cold be seen?" Hallilali smiled.

"Yes," Edward turned his head and looked at the night in front of him, "Cold, of course it can be seen."

Halle Lali looked at Edward's profile seriously. She thought for a while and then said softly:

"You are right, coldness can indeed be seen."

She also looked toward the dark and cold night, with stars twinkling in her eyes:

"You know, life is extremely rare in the entire universe. If you think of the universe as a wasteland, life is the grass growing among the sand, struggling to grow in a land deprived of nutrients."

Hallilali glanced at Edward, and seeing that he did not speak, she continued:

"Every star you see is a world, bright or dim, each with its own form and dimension, yet far apart and unrelated."

"Are those worlds the worlds of life?" Edward asked.

"No." Hallilali shook her head, "Stars are not part of life."

"What does that belong to?"

“[The Indescribable].”

Halle Lali looked at Edward seriously, the starlight reflected in her eyes, at this moment, the starlight was even a little weird.

"The reason why the space garden has become a wasteland is because it is essentially a forest. The [Unspeakable Things] are the big trees in this forest. There are many huge trees, and their roots and veins are deeply rooted in the soil. While plundering each other, they absorb all the nutrients, and the forest has become a wasteland."

“Life, or civilization, has only two outcomes in this forest: either it becomes a vassal of the giant tree and part of its root system, or it is annihilated.”

After Halle Lali finished speaking, Edward lowered his head and remained silent for a while.

When mentioning the "vassals of the giant tree", he instinctively recalled those devilish black water entities and the black tide that dyed the earth black.

Soon, Edward raised his head and asked:

"If what you said is true, then why are we still alive?"

"Because this is the edge of the small garden, there are very few giant trees." Hali Lali smiled gently, "But soon, the [Unspeakable Thing] belonging to this planet will be born soon."

"Are you talking about the Lord of the Black Tide?"

"No, the Lord of the Black Tide is just a fragment of the Unspeakable Thing that contaminated my brother. In essence, it is still just a follower." Hali Lali shook her head. "The real Unspeakable Thing is an existence that is indescribable, cannot be seen directly, and cannot be perceived... Or, to put it in terms of the elements of your culture..."

“That is God.”

After Hallilali finished speaking, a cold wind blew, and the night in front of Edward became colder.

He seemed to realize something, but he always felt that it was too grand and he couldn't fully understand it for a while.

Hallilali did not continue to speak, and the two of them just stared at the black tide land in front of them. The background of the starry sky kept flowing on the distant horizon, and the stars sank into the horizon, as if they were swallowed by the earth and disappeared.

The stars...are the world...

Civilization...is ants...

"Then what are you?" Edward broke the silence and looked at Harilalli, "and why are you here?"

Harilal did not answer, she just stared at the darkness ahead silently. Edward thought he had offended her and was about to say something when Harilal finally spoke:

“We are the weights on the scale.”

The girl waved her arms gently, and in an instant, a blue light bloomed. Blue crystals appeared out of thin air, refracting the starlight, forming a magnificent picture in front of Edward.

"We come from the center of the Little Garden Universe, the High Heavens that sits on the Star Gate."

The shining stars formed a magnificent and huge city, and the golden light spread out, making Edward squint his eyes.

When he saw the city clearly, he couldn't help but gasp.

It was a magnificent city. Just looking at its outline from a distance, the geometric structure that was difficult for humans to understand seemed to contain some kind of excess information, causing Edward to feel a slight pain on his forehead.

In the center of the city, a pure white tower ran straight through the entire city. One end of the tower extended into the boundless nebula, and the other end drilled into the huge black hole below the city.

——The entire city is built on a huge dimensional vortex.

"That's the Star Gate, the road leading to other small gardens," Hallilali explained.

"Is there more than one small box?" Edward's voice trembled.

"There are countless small gardens and countless universes," said Harilalli, "and the Ivory Tower is the only pointer that maintains the connection between different small gardens."

The girl waved again, the scene zoomed in, and the pure white tower appeared in front of Edward's eyes, with golden light illuminating his dull face.

The pure white sacred tower shone on Edward's face. The flawless surface made people feel calm just by looking at it, and it was difficult to express their feelings in words.

The light was infinitely large, and Edward felt infinitely small.

“The Ivory Tower is a beacon that guides us among the stars,” Hallilali said in a low voice, like a little girl telling a story at night, “We will not get lost, because that is home.”

"You, are the followers of that thing?" Edward said stupidly.

"If that's how you understand it, then there's no problem," Hali Lali smiled softly, "and our duty is to prevent your little sprouts from being swallowed by the giant tree."

"Why?" Edward asked subconsciously.

"Because [Unspeakable Things] are chaotic, and civilization is orderly," said Hallilali, "The only purpose of their existence is to assimilate the box garden into an existence of the same nature as themselves. The entire box garden will eventually lead to extinction under high entropy. What's the point of that?"

"But if what you said is true, our existence is so insignificant compared to those giant trees, it is meaningless."

Facing the huge picture, Edward felt something shattered behind him. He turned his head subconsciously and found that it was his past self.

Things honed in the jungle, yes, but he had never known before that even the ground beneath his feet was in another, even wider jungle.

In that jungle, they were not hunters, but just a...sprout? No, Harilalli's words were too polite. If we really had to describe them, they should be called dust.

This is a dust star...

Looking at the somewhat dazed Edward, Halle Lali smiled gently and said in a little girl's voice:

“Meaning is something you give yourself, and you will find it.”

Hearing the word "meaning", Edward seemed to realize what supported Halle and Lally's innocent personality.

It is something very similar to the glory of the ivory tower.

"If what you say is true, then you are also weak compared to those giant trees." Edward murmured.

"Yes," Halilali nodded, "The Hafurgaard tribe is also very weak. We can only maintain some remote areas far away from the giant tree disputes and let the fire of civilization develop as much as possible."

"Why don't those giant trees attack the [High Heaven]?"

"Because our King is also a member of the Unspeakable," said Halilali, "and those giant trees will never try to encroach on our home."

"why?"

"Because if the High Heaven is destroyed, the Star Gate will most likely collapse," Halilali explained. "The instinct of the giant trees is to expand. One day they will get their hands on other small gardens. If the gate collapses, they will lose the path to other small gardens."