C31 — The Secret of Dark Beach

Long Ran wanted to take Zhuo Yu into his arms; he could have attempted to force a union like the Dream Viper, but he didn’t want to and couldn’t; he wasn’t that despicable a person.

 

Zhuo Yu didn’t choose him, and he had already changed his appearance; he was half human and half snake, like a monster. No human in the world would accept him like this.

 

Not to mention that Zhuo Yu was looking at another person through him.

 

That wistful look…

 

All the realities added up, almost crushing Long Ran’s reason and calmness; his hands, or rather, his claws, shattered the stone bricks, and he was like a string that had broken to its limit. He didn’t know what he would do when the string broke.

 

Zhuo Yu looked at the struggle in Long Ran’s eyes and hesitated, considering whether to use the teleporter to return to the second floor on Liu Jingyun’s side and temporarily stay away from the trouble in front of him.

 

“Alas.” Zhuo Yu sighed softly, “You don’t need to be so restrained with me.”

 

Long Ran’s red eyes looked over, and an animal-like whimper escaped from his throat, going so far as to look like he was confused and vulnerable, like a small beast that couldn’t find a home.

 

“Why are you afraid to approach me? Are you afraid of scaring me?”

 

 

Long Ran nodded.

 

Zhuo Yu held his chin and scanned Long Ran’s current appearance.

 

 

With an inhuman size, half of his face was covered with snake scales, sharp teeth, and claws; he looked like a horror character in a movie or TV drama. The moment people saw him, they would only worry about whether or not they were going to be eaten, rather than worrying about the monster’s psychological problems.

 

However, Zhuo Yu wasn’t an ordinary person; his fetish was also very unusual.

 

His eyes changed slightly; he actually became excited: “Who said, obviously now you are more to my liking; look at this size, look at these dragon horns and snake tail; can ordinary human beings look as handsome and heroic as you?”

 

The excitement in Zhuo Yu’s eyes wasn’t faked; he really felt that Long Ran’s current appearance aroused his s-exual interest. “Baby, I knew you were not ordinary; I like your current appearance even more.”

 

He reached out and stroked the black scales under Long Ran’s eyes, and the feel and color of the scales made him realize what he was thinking.

 

These were the scales given to him by Number One in his dream.

 

Long Ran was Asha, Asha was Long Ran!

 

Although he had long thought so, it was still hard to actually find the evidence.

 

Zhuo Yu’s eyes flamed up, and he lowered his voice and said.

 

“I’ve made my choice, baby; I will choose you without hesitation.”

 

[The groom has been chosen as the Long Ran.]

 

[Since there is a chance that the Long Ran will die in a fight, the betting board will still run and will not end until the bride reaches the top of the tower.]

 

Long Ran finally heard the words he wanted to hear the most, and as soon as he held Zhuo Yu in his arms, the hostility that filled his body disappeared.

 

Dong Yao, who woke up leisurely, closed his eyes tightly and pretended that he didn’t wake up; he didn’t want to join in this weird situation. Zhuo Yu’s fetish was also too strange, but… he seemed a bit sexy. It was over; he was also about to be infected. Who could save him?!

 

“Alright, get going.” Zhuo Yu pushed Dong Yao with his winged claws. “Let’s go back to the first floor.”

 

Dong Yao couldn’t pretend anymore and had to speak up, “First floor? Aren’t you afraid of being bitten by the snakes?”

 

“No…” Zhuo Yu licked the well-hidden fangs in his mouth. “The current me should be no different from the snakes.”

 

 

The snakes shouldn’t attack him.

 

Long Ran’s anger and hostility had melted away like ice and snow, and hearing Zhuo Yu’s affirmation of him, he also finally let go of his fear and got close to the other party, picking Zhuo Yu up and placing him on his shoulder.

 

His movements were gentle, with a care that didn’t match his size, and Zhuo Yu smiled, recalling back to the time at the Golden Lake when Asha had done the same thing.

 

Sure enough, it was the same person.

 

The three of them didn’t have the idea of advancing towards the fourth floor for the time being; they followed what Zhuo Yu said and returned to Liu Jingyun’s spot.

 

“Captain!!!” Seeing Zhuo Yu safe and sound, Liu Jingyun was also greatly relieved; she was a bit intimidated by Long Ran’s current appearance and felt that this scene seemed a bit familiar.

 

Why was he a bit like Asha?

 

Liu Jingyun strangely associated it with the guardian of the Golden Lake.

 

 

“How’s it going?” Zhuo Yu asked.

 

 

Liu Jingyun pointed at the several archaeologists who had fallen to the ground, “They’re already fine; they were just hit by Luo Musheng’s props; it’s estimated that the paralysis can only be lifted after half an hour, and now they can’t move and are in a coma.”

 

 

She said with a bit of bitterness, “Long Ran’s current appearance; it’s not good to be seen by them, right?”

 

 

Although the actors were sort of open and honest, there were still ordinary people in the team; if they saw Zhuo Yu’s dragon wings and Long Ran’s monstrous appearance, they would probably be scared to death.

 

 

Dong Yao looked at the non-human beside him who was even taller than him and said, ”Can you restore your original form? Or rather, do you remember anything yet?”

 

 

Long Ran shook his head then nodded again. “My memories are still very blurry; after losing my mind, it was genetic instincts that made me this way; a half hour of calmness should restore me.”

 

Although he disliked and was very repulsed by Dong Yao, Long Ran also understood that it wasn’t Dong Yao’s fault, and they were all tied to the same rope now, so he didn’t ignore the other party anymore.

 

For Zhuo Yu’s sake, he would make peace.

 

This was probably the treatment that Wang Dazhi would never receive.

 

Luo Musheng had held back a bellyful of questions, and only then did he find the opportunity to ask a barrage of questions. “How did you get to the third level? There’s nothing here, let alone any clues, but both of you seem to be able to see things we can’t see, which makes me very curious.”

 

Dong Yao tried hard to recall what had happened to this body of his, and to his surprise, he really did have a vague impression.

 

He first changed back to fifteen years old, letting the other actors see the rebellious look he had as a child. Then he was controlled by Dream Viper, snatched Zhuo Yu away, and said some shameful words…

 

His scythe was broken!

 

Gosh, why was he so unlucky? He couldn’t stay on this set for even a moment. Flame Source, please take me away!!!

 

Dong Yao fell into a deep breakdown.

 

 

However, he didn’t forget about the main event; he said in a trembling voice, “It’s heat sense; the temperature of the bricks has a nuance that the human body can’t recognize, so they can’t see the hints; only after being assimilated by the snake and possessing the heat sense function can it be seen.”

 

Dong Yao looked at the wall; the pattern on it was no longer visible as the Dream Viper was no longer possessing him.

 

 

“This is what I came back for.” Zhuo Yu pointed to the first level where the group of snakes were writhing: “I suspect that there are murals on the first level as well, and we missed them.”

 

“Captain, you’re not going down there, are you?” Liu Jingyun got goosebumps.

 

“It’s no problem, trust me. You guys stay on the second floor for now; Long Ran and I will go down and take a look.”

 

Zhuo Yu patted Long Ran’s shoulder, signaling that he could go.

 

The two of them leapt down from the cave entrance. Long Ran landed firmly on the ground; the height of more than ten meters was no pressure for him.

 

The Golden Sacred Tree remained the same; some of the yearling snakes that couldn’t find prey for a long time had already climbed back to the branches and continued to twine there; the body/fluid secreted at the crevices of the scales had been air-dried and had a golden look again.

 

After Zhuo Yu turned on his heat sense, he found that the first floor really did have large murals as well, and they were very fine, depicting in detail the past belonging to the Ming Country’s Culture.

 

He could tell that this was the story of a civilization that had just been “born.”.

 

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, this was just a tribe that shifted from a matriarchal society to a patriarchal society. Their houses were still built with straw and mud, and their tools were very simple stone tools used for hunting small prey.

 

Until one day, when they looked at the moon, they noticed the dark shadow of a giant snake on it.

 

The god that had influenced the tribe for tens of thousands of years had descended.

 

It was a serpent-like creature, so large that it could surround the tribe’s entire territory, and was called the “Serpent of the World” and the “Great Being” by the tribe’s high priest.

 

He descended here but didn’t bring killing or destruction. He was just like a silent, hidden sea for a hundred years, as if waiting for something.

 

After the people of the tribe got used to His presence, they worshipped Him as a heavenly god, building altars all over the place in an attempt to talk to the god. Perhaps the giant serpent was too lonely after this hundred years of waiting, so He responded by asking the humans to offer sacrifices.

 

Early human sacrifices were slaves, or weaker compatriots; it was very common during the Yin and Shang Dynasties; they easily slaughtered hundreds of people and cooked them in giant cauldrons Bu these tribes didn’t have so many tricks up their sleeves, so the ancient people’s practice was simple and brutal.

 

 

Throwing the slaves alive into the sea was their greatest sincerity.

 

 

The giant snake accepted the game, and every five hundred years, it would allow the humans to take one of its snake molts, and the one who ate it would gain powers like no other.

 

 

The first was the High Priest.

 

 

He crushed the precious snake skin and drank it, and soon found that his brain swelled, his brow glowed, and he could sense its surroundings even with his eyes closed, and he was better able to catch the heat of everything, which was simply the best benefit for hunting at night.

 

So the tribal warriors also received the blessing and consumed the snake molt.

 

 

With their night vision, they became good hunters.

 

 

With a large amount of meat to eat, the physical fitness of the Mount Ming tribe greatly improved, and they could launch surprise attacks on any hostile tribe at night. Within a few decades, the entire Northeast continent was ruled by the tribe, transitioning from primitive society to feudal slavery and even establishing small city states.

 

After another five hundred years, the successor priests of Mount Ming held a grand sacrificial ceremony, casting thousands of people into the sea at once.

 

This time, what they gained was a technological explosion, and people at that time didn’t know that they had obtained endless energy that even modern people would covet in future generations.

 

 

“Water”.

 

 

In the hands of the people of Mount Ming, water could actually explode, and that power…

 

 

Zhuo Yu saw the mushroom cloud depicted on the mural.

 

 

“…… ” He was silent for a moment, and after carefully studying the mural again, he suddenly felt that the giant snake on this painting should not be a mere large-sized animal.

 

This thing could transform human bodies, giving them abilities beyond the five senses as well as an understanding of physics and chemistry.

 

There were two possibilities now: if this film belonged to the religious genre, then this snake may be the true subspace ‘evil god’. Or, if this film emphasized science, could it be understood that this giant snake was an extraterrestrial creature?

 

Zhuo Yu remembered the genetically modified species that were everywhere in this Mount Ming Pagoda, and the truth was right in front of his eyes.

 

 

He took out the pen and paper he had with him from his pocket and traced down the mural before returning to the second floor with Long Ran.

 

Zhuo Yu now needed Luo Musheng to clear up his confusion.

 

Liu Jingyun and the others had already waited for a long time. Zhuo Yu handed the painting to Luo Musheng and asked questions that exceeded his knowledge.

 

“Can water be an energy source like oil or nuclear elements?”

 

Luo Musheng frowned as he looked at it. “Of course it can, and it has been successful before; do you remember the burning water automobile incident?”

 

Zhuo Yu was naturally knowledgeable as a writer; he had heard of this incident.

 

In 1996, there was once a man named Stanley Meyer; he invented a car that could boil water, and 83 liters of water could make the car travel 3,000 kilometers, which translated to only one or two hundred pounds of water to cross the entire United States.

 

With his speeches, many investors began to fund the project, yet he didn’t think about how much of a blow his invention would be to the oil men and the countries that used oil as a strategic reserve and manipulated their economies with it.

 

Many rich men and politicians could be left with nothing overnight.

 

 

So soon the tide began to turn, with many claiming that Stanley was a fraud, investors pulled out, and just days before Stanley was set to go for a patent, he suddenly collapsed and died, according to police analysis, from poisoning.

 

 

The most likely future for mankind’s utilization of water ended in poisoning.

 

But that was just anecdotal evidence, and no one knew what the truth was back then.

 

 

“I know that the person who invented water fuel either died strangely or was taken to jail as a fraud.” Zhuo Yu was a bit incredulous; did people from 130,000 years ago actually master such cutting-edge technology?

 

“Using water for energy is possible; many people are studying it; after all, 70% of the earth is water; it can be said to be inexhaustible.” Luo Musheng pushed his glasses and explained in detail for Zhuo Yu, “Water can be electrolyzed into hydrogen and oxygen, and hydrogen and oxygen can be burned, releasing a large amount of heat. As a result of the two meetings, it becomes water again, and water continues to decompose into hydrogen and oxygen to release heat.”

 

“What you mean is that the people of Mount Ming had obtained a method to make the hydrogen-oxygen bond break, so that this reaction continued to cycle on and on, releasing endless amounts of energy.”

 

“Yes.” Luo Musheng fended the paper back to Zhuo Yu: “In the end, it will create a force even more terrifying than a nuclear explosion.”

 

“At first I was skeptical that this stone brick was so neat and thought it could only be laser cut, but now it seems that water cutting isn’t impossible.” Luo Musheng knocked on the stone brick, “This tower, isn’t it wrapped in water?”

 

 

“That’s right, as long as a small hole is broken open and seawater is transported into it, blasting can be utilized to hollow out the mountain, and then the neatly cut stone bricks can be put in one by one to build this altar.” Zhuo Yu understood.

 

 

“So, the mapping team didn’t realize that there was water in the mountain because the water at that time was still hydrogen-oxygen, when the external environment changed, allowing the gas inside the mountain to produce unknown changes…” Luo Musheng murmured.

 

 

“And water formed again.” Zhuo Yu added for him.

 

 

[Congratulations to actors Zhuo Yu and Luo Musheng.]

 

 

[Hidden Branch Line: The Formation of Mount Ming Pagoda had been cracked.]

 

The two of them looked at each other and smiled silently.

 

Luo Musheng thought to himself that Zhuo Yu was just to his taste. He had originally only wanted to join the Knight Flame Union to investigate the rumors of “Number One,”  but now he sincerely wanted to be teammates with Zhuo Yu.

 

 

Zhuo Yu had also found the best military advisor; Luo Musheng not only had insights on the sets but also knew the abilities of each actor; he immediately recognized Dong Yao and reminded them of his skills and strength.

 

 

Perfect ah.

 

The two of them unanimously sighed from the bottom of their hearts.

 

 

Wait, there seems to be something wrong. Zhuo Yu suddenly reacted to a problem that had been overlooked by everyone; he hastily tapped on the system vision and found that he could chat privately with nearby actors.

 

 

[Zhuo Yu: Actors can only watch their own recorded replay; they can’t watch the movie, and at most they can only go on the forum. Then how did you know about Dong Yao and know him so well?]

 

 

[Luo Musheng: Oops, I really can’t hide it from you.]

 

 

The deeply hidden man smiled, a fine light flashing under his glasses.

 

 

[Luo Musheng: Not only did I watch Dong Yao’s movie, I also watched you in The Strange Tales of the Lakeside.]

 

 

[Zhuo Yu: That’s interesting.]

 

 

[Luo Musheng: Hahaha, sure enough, you’re different; you’re a boss attractor, right?]

 

 

[Zhuo Yu: You were an audience member before, and you just got cast?]

 

 

[Luo Musheng: It’s a secret that few people know.]

 

 

[Zhuo Yu: Ha, why don’t we make a bet? If I win, you’ll tell me how you did it. How about it?]

 

 

[Luo Musheng: Deal.]

 

 

Zhuo Yu sat up and patted the dirt on his body and rushed Luo Musheng: “If I can get you out of this movie safely, you’ll not only have to join my Knight Flame Union, but you’ll also have to tell me what the secret is.”

 

He was very straightforward; it was better to talk to a smart person with fewer twists and turns. “You can’t survive on your own, and exchanging the secret for your life is actually quite cost-effective.”

 

 

Luo Musheng accepted the challenge: “You’re right, I’m not someone who can’t see a good deal; let’s make a deal.”

 

 

Zhuo Yu nodded.

 

 

This was a perfect opportunity; if they took Luo Musheng under their wing, then they would have an information gap that other unions couldn’t make up for; those unions were at most collecting intelligence in the forums, whereas Luo Musheng already knew them like the back of his hand and even stripped them of their secrets.

 

 

If he wanted to maximize the collection of flame points, then the union would need such a talent.

 

Dong Yao and Liu Jingyun looked at these two suspiciously, wondering why they had gone from talking about heavenly books to playing dumb riddles; it was simply confusing; perhaps this was the world of intelligent people.

 

 

“Cough cough.” Long Ran gently coughed twice; although he couldn’t understand, he still had to remind them that now was not the time to chat; there were still murals on the second floor.

 

Zhuo Yu also stopped focusing on Luo Musheng; he knew that Luo Musheng would definitely become his partner.

 

Now, it was time to analyze the story of the second layer.

 

He had only glimpsed it when he was captured by Dong Yao before, but now he needed to look more deeply at what some of the murals depicted. The first layer not only symbolized the first birth of mankind but also the beginning of the Ming civilization, so what about the second layer?

 

Zhuo Yu looked towards the bare black stone brick walls.

 

In the developmental stage of the Ming country, they used water energy to build a country and then found many interesting energies, such as “radium.” But Ming country people didn’t want to develop nuclear energy. Nuclear energy was far less efficient than water energy, so they just used radius for lighting.

 

 

Only excellent human beings had the advantage of reproduction, so today’s countrymen of Ming had the ability to control water and night vision. They were all pure blood species passed down from generation to generation by the original high priests and warriors. They were in a high position in Ming country, and their genes were really different.

 

 

They weren’t afraid of radiation, but ordinary people and slaves were, so “radium beads” had become synonymous with nobility.

 

The third sacrifice was even more grandiose, with nearly 10,000 people sacrificed in one go after they slaughtered the enemy country founded by the rebels.

 

This time, the snake shedding seemed like a candy stained with poison, leading the entire Ming Kingdom to a deviant path.

 

 

–Genetic Engineering.

 

The use of genetic engineering by the people of the Ming Country was like opening Pandora’s Box.

 

Because the whole country believed in that giant snake in the sea, the human transformation program also started with the snake. The pythons that could roll up a thousand pounds, the pit vipers with deadly venom, the radiation-resistant brood serpents, and the slaves that were plundered from other countries all became test subjects.

 

 

What was more, those powerful and noble classes began to research immortality.

 

Obviously, Ming Country was still a stone civilization that used water to cut boulders to build buildings, but the technology tree had all of a sudden shifted to a completely different field, and they didn’t have any padding, but they were fearless and didn’t know what kind of disaster they were about to lead to.

 

 

This civilization, from childhood, began to grow crooked.

 

 

Firstly, genetic modification was something that everyone could do on their own, because as long as they had the courage to swim to the sea and come to the habitat of the snake god, they could see patches of sea god’s trees. By placing themselves and other species into the fruit of the sea god tree at the same time, they could be transformed and mixed by special powers. However, this wasn’t a technological force at all, but rather their genes were all disrupted by this strange plant, pieced together in chaos.

 

 

In Zhuo Yu’s view, it was like the tree was chewing two different flavors of gum, and the crumbs that were spit out were the results of the transformation.

 

The people of the Ming Kingdom only thought that this was a blessing, completely unable to imagine that this was just the Snake god having fun because he had waited for too long.

 

 

When the Snake god saw the powerful and wealthy stuffed into the fruit of the sacred tree in an attempt to return to youth, He knew that His game had achieved the desired result and that the people of the Ming Kingdom had lost their humanity under the sugar-coated bo-mbs.

 

They couldn’t be called human beings but rather embodiments of desire, pitiful and chaotic messengers of the serpent god.

 

The people of the Ming Kingdom, after a century-long haphazard editing, finally got what they least wanted: civil unrest.

 

The once-powerful people of the Ming Kingdom were the first descendants to possess serpentine traits, but with genetic programming, their advantage was gone. Ordinary people were no longer afraid of radiation and had the same night vision; this army’s greatest dependency was available to all.

 

The commoners, who had been oppressed for too long, united in an uprising and pushed the powerful to the guillotine.

 

They founded the New Ming Kingdom, symbolizing the civilization’s transition from ignorance to a brand new society.

 

The mural ended.

 

Zhuo Yu looked to the corner; there was a new small mural, the one that explained how to enter the dream world. Compared to the whole wall, there was no sign; it felt like it was added later.

 

And so it was.

 

The more perfect creatures, the Dream Vipers, should have appeared in the Mount Ming Pagoda later, and there was no way for them to know what had happened during that time.

 

 

“Well?” Luo Musheng couldn’t see the mural and could only ask Zhuo Yu.

 

Zhuo Yu sighed, “It’s the story of the opening of the era where everyone could become stronger, so the powerful and wealthy of the old world were pulled down and a new society was formed. So that’s how the Golden Sacred Tree on the first floor came to be.”

 

He gave the crowd a recap of what he had seen.

 

“In that case, let’s go to the third floor and take a look.” Dong Yao said, “There are more than a hundred people from the Ming Kingdom on the mural, some red and some blue, so if you follow the color pattern and hold on to the stone tiles on the wall, you will be able to enter the third floor. Although I can’t see the heat now, I still remember the way.”

 

The audience outside the screen finally got through the tense moment and took advantage of the current smooth plot to discuss.

 

[I can’t believe there’s a plot; I thought it was just Snake Battle.]

 

[Wake up, this is not a romance movie, much less a romantic action movie.]

 

[Reasonable guess: the people of the Ming Kingdom ended up destroying their country because of their inflated technology.]

 

[No, I think it’s because the evil god got tired of playing the game, so he ki-lled them all.]

 

[No wonder this ancient civilization’s technology is so weird, because it didn’t develop naturally at all. If aliens suddenly descended on our world one day, we’d worship them for their technology too.]

 

[Speaking of which, I feel like that Snake god is an alien creature with intelligence that was worshipped as a god by primitive people, and then the alien creature thought it was funny and just threw some random sweets at them.]

 

[Makes sense, so what did the Snake god come to Earth for? Look at that mural; it looks like it’s waiting for something.]

 

[Bride (i.e., answer)]

 

[Hahahahahaha, I died laughing.]

 

[Wait, Damn. It’s not impossible. Even the most powerful creatures need to reproduce. When we were primitive humans, we had to reproduce. When we landed on the moon, we still couldn’t escape reproduction. The low birth rate has even become an international problem.]

 

 

[So is there a possibility that although that giant snake is very powerful, it is difficult to reproduce, so it needed to wait for the birth of a creature that can bond with it, and that is why the monsters are looking at Zhuo Yu?]

 

The audience’s speculations coincided with Zhuo Yu’s thoughts.

 

Zhuo Yu could deeply feel that ever since he was bitten by that bite from the Dream Viper, his body had become very wrong, as if the snake genes in his body had been triggered, and he had now gone from wanting to be skin to skin with Long Ran to a more over-the-top desire.

 

But he remembered that he was in a movie, and every move he made would be watched by the audience.

 

Maybe if no one was watching, he would really have something with Long Ran that couldn’t be aired; Zhuo Yu could only restrain himself from thinking about these would-bes.

 

He could only distract himself with the murals on the third level.

 

This time, the murals symbolized “coming of age,”  indicating that the system of the Ming Country had matured and could really be called a country.

 

The things depicted in these patterns were too far ahead of their time. Starting from the first layer, in just two thousand years, the technology of Ming country far exceeded contemporary times. They began to manufacture water-powered machinery, emphasizing democracy for all and making tools affordable for everyone. Because there were too many types of people, society was also very developed and inclusive, almost a perfect utopian world.

 

But it was this peaceful and prosperous country that gave the leaders the illusion that they were powerful, and they began to stop respecting traditions, stop performing rituals, and even wanted to capture the giant snake for research.

 

Such audacious behavior, under the government’s propaganda, actually became a symbol of breaking down old ideas and liberating the new mankind, and the whole society began to be blindly confident and arrogant, turning the destruction of the serpent god into the slogan of an advanced movement.

 

Tens of thousands of troops drove their water arks forward to crusade against the Snake god; they held water fusion g-uns; on their bodies were high-energy radiation mine armor; they were singing the military song of Ming Country, singing all the way to the top.

 

 

They had no idea what they were about to face.

 

 

The Serpent god thought of the empire he had created as nothing more than a game, and with the people of the Ming Kingdom having consumed his genes in the first place, he had a clear view of what the head of the Ming Kingdom was thinking, and he had known this for a long time, and it felt like a nest of ants he’d raised were attempting to crawl out and tear at their master.

 

 

It was kind of funny.

 

Just like a human would douse an ant nest with water instead of picking them out one by one and crushing them to death, the god naturally didn’t care to do it himself.

 

As a result, the flood was so great that a hundred-meter tsunami submerged the entire army, and the humans didn’t even have the power to fight back before the waves swallowed half of the country, and the huge water ark was like a grain of dust that fell into the water in the wildly roaring sea, and those cutting-edge technologies and the most powerful fighters were even worse than the dust.

 

Children who had just come of age liked to challenge authority until they hit the wall; only then would they realize how ridiculous their arrogance was.

 

The people of the Ming country organized a large-scale sacrifice overnight, trying to calm the anger of the god; what they didn’t know was that it wasn’t even anger; it was still just fun, and the hard work of their entire civilization was nothing more than an appreciated, amusing, dying scandal.

 

The monstrous wave lasted for half a month, with death and injury in the Ming Kingdom, and it wasn’t until they truly and reverently communicated with the god that they realized what the god wanted.

 

“The Bride.”

 

 

The Serpent god had descended into the human world in search of a bride who would bear him an heir.

 

However, humans would not have such an honor. The god entrusted his bones and flesh to humans, and he waited too long. Instead of waiting for a similar creature to appear on this planet, it would be better to directly create one.

 

 

A bride with his bloo-d in his veins would be perfect.

 

 

Thus, the Bride race was born.

 

 

Humans used the Sacred Tree to create a new breed, and the 1,000 brides that were born would fight under the watchful eye of the god, cutting open the chests of their competitors, severing each other’s heads, and k-illing each other like the Roman Colosseum until the last person was left.

 

 

The only remaining bride would be united with the god.

 

At that time, the sins of the Ming country would also be washed away.

 

Zhuo Yu felt his bloo-d boiling when he saw this, his primitive genes calling out to him, echoing the glistening warm frescoes.

 

 

“The bride… I am the descendant of the bride…” Zhuo Yu covered his forehead and felt a burst of dizziness. He closed his eyes and saw countless sights in the midst of noisy snowflakes; he seemed to be holding a blade, k-illing countless people who were carved out of the same mold as him.

 

 

He was the final winner.

 

 

Zhuo Yu violently raised his eyes; his eyes turned into dark vertical pupils for a moment, but they quickly disappeared.

 

The genetic memory awakened, and the strong emotions inherited from the blo-odline were spewing out. Zhuo Yu could no longer judge whether it was attachment or resentment.

 

 

Long Ran also looked at the mural in a daze; he seemed to remember something, but he was confused; he only remembered that there was a bright star in his memory, and he was in pain under the ray that was as bright as day to the point that his whole body melted. He used his last strength to differentiate several creatures carrying his genes and then disappeared at the top of the Mount Ming Pagoda.

 

 

He was the groom… and the descendant of the Snake god…

 

 

The memories originating from the Snake god burst out in Long Ran’s brain, and the last thing he saw was a pair of dark snake eyes that were filled with ki-lling intent. The last thing he heard was also that person’s laughter that was like a mockery.

 

 

“How ridiculous! Why should I submit to your obscene power? I am also an existence that transcends humans; from now on, everything you have will be taken by me.”

 

At the same time, Zhuo Yu’s voice rang out.

 

“Hahaha, how ridiculous.”

 

The sneers of the two overlapped in Long Ran’s mind; yes, they were simply the same person!

 

“This is so interesting. In the end, the bride only had one left, but the groom split into so many, and now they have to fight against each other. Isn’t this the way of heaven’s good cycle?”

 

Zhuo Yu stroked his palm and laughed, his words filled with arrogance and abhorrence.

 

“Luo Musheng, I know the secret of this tower.”

 

Zhuo Yu told the frescoes one by one, then looked playfully at the chopped-up pieces of Nine-Headed Viper on the ground, “Do you dare to believe it? This tower wasn’t made by the people of the Ming Country to give thanks to the Snake god; it was made to ki-ll him!”

 

 

“What? This doesn’t make sense, right?” Luo Musheng was bewildered.

 

Zhuo Yu, on the other hand, sighed that his villainous persona wouldn’t fall, and in this new movie, he was actually so sinister and cunning too.

 

 

Since that Serpent god was naughty and treated humans as playthings, how could the brides created from His flesh and blood and forced to ki-ll each other be good?

 

Zhuo Yu thought this role was really tailor-made for him; if he were in his place, he would definitely do the same.

 

The bride who ultimately won was no ordinary human; he possessed wisdom and foresight beyond that of mankind, almost a replica of the other snake god; he demanded of mankind to build this Mount Ming Pagoda before the day of the union as a holy place to complete the ceremony.

 

Zhuo Yu looked toward Old Qin, who had awakened, and blurted out, “I know you’re an actor; do you have any knowledge of astronomy in your character’s memory?”

 

Old Qin froze and nodded his head under the compelling gaze of Zhuo Yu. “Field trips are often oriented according to the stars, and this character also studied astronomy.”

 

“Very well, look at the dimensions of this pyramid.”

 

Zhuo Yu took out the binder distributed by curator Li Chuanning from the lattice space, which contained a reduction map of the Mount Ming Pagoda with a very strict scale.

 

“Check it for me now.” Zhuo Yu’s tone was very nonchalant, but his gaze was burning. Old Qin felt as if he was being stared at by a poisonous snake; he broke out in a cold sweat and started counting.

 

 

Not a moment later, Old Qin sensed something was wrong, especially when Zhuo Yu mentioned astronomy; he was subconsciously brought towards astronomy.

 

The tower was about 230 meters long, with a circumference multiplied by 2, which was exactly the time division of the equator. The circumference of the base divided by the tower height was exactly the same as pi.

 

Old Qin touched his forehead, which was sweating profusely. The data estimated by Li Chuanning’s team wasn’t limited to these.

 

The weight of this pyramid plus a few zeros was exactly the weight of the Earth, one billion times the height of the tower, and the distance from the Earth to the Sun was exactly the same. The Earth’s meridian passed through the middle of the Mount Ming Pagoda, and the dead corners of the tower faced southeast and northwest with an error of less than one degree.

 

It wasn’t an altar casually constructed by ancient man but was erected with precise calculations beyond the knowledge of mankind at that time.

 

 

Such was the request of the Bride, who had mankind build the Serpent god the largest mausoleum and the largest astronomical instrument and altar of damnation that mankind had ever seen.

 

 

Each level symbolized a stage of life and civilization, and when the serpent god entered the temple on the auspicious day requested by the bride, the spire of this Mount Ming Pagoda would just be aligned with the constellation Serpentine, and the life of the one who entered the spire would come to an end.

 

This was a curse on the serpent god by the power of the stars.

 

The bride ki-lled the groom with his own hands.

 

Long Ran looked to Zhuo Yu, who in turn looked to the other with a heartfelt feeling.

 

The atmosphere in the air changed.

 

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Dun dun dun 😮‍💨

The next chapter is even longer, so it might take a while, maybe tomorrow or next ✌️