NIP Chapter 678: Literal meaning
Chapter 678: Literal meaning
The light dissipated, and Li Yang and Ella found themselves in a desolate desert.
In the distance, a blood-red sun was slowly sinking into the horizon, giving the entire world a strange red color.
"Here 놆..." Ella looked around and started to look a little cautious.
Li Yang frowned and said: "It seems that [Water Lily]'s transmission has been disturbed...interfering with our original itinerary. This place is obviously not my original goal..."
"But...the power that can affect mythical plants...what kind of being can possess it?"
Before he finished speaking, the yellow sand in the sky began to dissipate little by little.
The surrounding scenery became clear, and a huge pyramid was revealed among the sand dunes of varying heights in the distance.
The surface of the pyramid is covered with strange runes, which shine strangely in the sunset.
A golden sun stood directly above the pyramid, sending out billowing heat waves.
"That..." Ella's eyes widened.
Li Yang nodded slightly and said:
"Although it was sent to a strange place...if nothing unexpected happens, this thing may very well be the [heart] of this world."
"Let's go and have a look."
Just as the two were about to set off, another strong wind suddenly hit them.
Dust obscured their vision, and when the wind died down, they found themselves surrounded by a mysterious group of cloaked figures.
The leader took a step forward, took off his hood, and revealed the face of a young woman.
She has deep black eyes and bronze skin, and looks like an aborigine of this desert.
"Who are you?" she asked in a strange accent, "Why are you here now?"
Li Yang could kill all these guys of unknown origin with just a raise of his hand, but out of politeness, he replied calmly:
"We, 놙놆, are just two travelers passing by this place by chance. There is nothing worth noting."
The woman stared at Li Yang for a while, then suddenly showed a surprised expression: "Wait a minute, you...the existence in your painting!"
"놆Kami-sama!"
"So...what the elder said is actually true!"
She turned around and said something to the others, and then faced Li Yang and Ella:
"Two distinguished guests, I am so lucky to meet you! Please come with us!"
"No matter what questions you have, you will definitely get answers from us!"
Li Yang smiled at this.
Looking at the civilized structure of these guys in front of them, they are like tribesmen, and their technological level is probably not much higher.
Not to mention the abnormal interference of cross-universe transmission, I'm afraid they don't even know anything about the universe.
In the current situation, I'm afraid these people may regard themselves as some kind of aliens.
Li Yang didn't think these guys could answer his questions, but seeing that the road they were leading led to the pyramid, he was curious and followed these mysterious people silently.
They came to a hidden entrance at the foot of the pyramid.
After passing through the winding passage, they entered a spacious hall.
In the center of the hall sat a white-haired old man, his eyes covered by a black cloth, holding a scepter inlaid with gems in his hand.
"Welcome! Travelers from another world!"
The old man said in a hoarse voice, "I am the elder of this tribe and the guardian of [heart]."
Hearing the familiar words from this old man's mouth, Li Yang couldn't help but startled slightly, and suddenly became confused:
"Do you know [heart]?"
The old man nodded and said: "Of course, because this is what you...you left behind."
"If it weren't for the prophecies you left behind, we wouldn't be able to persist until now."
"Prophecy?" Ella was a little curious about these two words from the beginning.
In order to answer her doubts, the old man slowly said:
"Our world... is a world whose lifespan is approaching its end and should have been annihilated long ago."
"But it was you who once... extended a helping hand to our dying world, and gave us the warm sun when we were about to freeze to death in the endless cold night..."
"You saved us, and you also left a prophecy. When you come next time, you will bring salvation to our world."
Li Yang thought thoughtfully: "Save your world? So what trouble have you encountered?"
The elder sighed: "The sun of our world is dead..."
"But you...came suddenly more than a hundred years ago and created a sun for us."
"But this sun gradually lost control as you disappeared."
"It gets hotter and hotter, turning the green world below into an ever-expanding sea of sand."
"If this progress continues, within a hundred years, the world will be swallowed up by this infinitely expanding sun."
"According to the prophecy you left behind, you will reappear in the place where you originally appeared one day in the future..."
The elder's voice lowered,
"놙Only you...can bring salvation to those of us who should have died long ago."
The "you" in the old man's words basically refers to yourself in other universes who have been here before.
According to the old man, the sun in the sky is the [heart] that he once left here.
Because the sun in this universe has dried up, that person used the [hearts] he collected to create a fake sun for them.
But because the original host was missing, this fake sun eventually went out of control.
Wrapped in boundless burning flames, this world is about to be swallowed up.
The self, who could have foreseen such a result a long time ago, set up a position here to interfere with the transmission in order to prevent the situation from getting out of control.
When I teleport across the universe through [Water Lily], there is a chance that I will be sent here due to interference.
Well, since I'm here... no matter what, I have to get that thing.
"Li Yang, what are you going to do?"
Seeing that Li Yang seemed to have finalized his idea, Ella beside him asked casually.
Li Yang naturally replied calmly:
"Of course I just took the [heart] away."
"This is something that doesn't belong to them in the first place. It should be reasonable for me to take it back, right?"
This is a very reasonable statement.
Ella was stunned for a moment, then nodded without comment.
This unabashed statement made the aborigines who had just brought Li Yang there dumbfounded.
The bronze-skinned woman at the head froze on the spot and murmured:
"Wait...wait a minute..."
"Don't you want to fix it?"
"【心】놆The thing you gave us, now it has a problem, shouldn't you fix it?"
"What do you mean you want to take it away!?"
Li Yang narrowed his eyes slightly, scanned everyone with his sharp gaze, and replied calmly:
"Literally."
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