Chapter 302
Negri didn't pay too much attention to the stone statue empire. In a certain future, it had become a world boundary. However, it was clear that this world line hadn't stabilized yet. As long as Negri destroyed the stone statue that facilitated the birth of this world line, the false world line wouldn't even have the chance to leave a wreckage behind. It would directly collapse.
This Earthbound Effect clearly wasn't the complete appearance of the wreckage of that world line.
With a flash of golden lines, Negri arrived at the scene where the Earthbound Effect first appeared.
The information from the wreckage of the World of Darkness was stirred up by the [REDACTED] sword and impacted this world.
"I'm sorry, my child. For the sake of the tribe, you must go there." A middle-aged man with tears in his eyes sent a two to three year old, seemingly ignorant child on a small wooden boat into the river.
The development of human society was often accompanied by foolish beliefs. Even if some beliefs seemed very foolish today, it was something that people had no choice but to face back then.
With the development of the tribe, there were naturally all kinds of beliefs and rules, such as the sacrifice of the river god.
According to ancient legends, if young boys and girls were not sacrificed to the river every year, a flood would descend, drowning the land and destroying the crops.
This was because humans didn't have a deep enough understanding of natural phenomena. Of course, it was also because the divine fire had been recycled. If it was still the terrifying upright apes holding the divine fire, they would probably be added to the menu after the appearance of the river god.
However, when the upright apes became humans, they learned to revere and use their intelligence to solve problems. Thus, the drawbacks appeared.
The middle-aged man obviously couldn't sacrifice his child without feeling the slightest bit of guilt. It was this guilt that combined with the information from the wreckage of the World of Darkness that formed the Earthbound Effect. As time passed, it spread and occupied about ten years of time.
As long as one appeared on this land within these ten years and felt guilty, they would fall into a petrified state.
"Emotions are the correct way to operate?" Negri recalled the world line of the stone statue empire. After the necromancers of the empire obtained the stone statue, they discovered that the stone statue was still alive.
Through various sacrifices and rituals, they connected to the Earthbound Effect. If guilt was an emotion, then extreme worship was also an emotion.
It had to be said that the necromancers were quite capable. They changed the corresponding emotions of the Earthbound Effect. When people worshiped something to the extreme, they would turn into stone statues. They also researched a way to remove the stone statues.
In order to extend his life, the emperor of the empire sent people to research the Elixir of Immortality. However, the pill still needed to be refined for three years. The emperor couldn't wait that long and accepted the petrification ritual. due to his boundless worship, he was turned into stone statues along with his army.
Of course, these stone statues could also move when necessary. but because they had become stone statues, they didn't have any sense like a normal person. nor could they think rationally. They could only obey the orders of their worshipers.
Unfortunately, the Elixir of Immortality that the Emperor had been waiting for had been delayed for thousands of years because of the rebellion after the Emperor faked his death. Of course, none of this would happen now.
Negri reached out with his hand, and some kind of black gas was restrained in his palm.
Due to the changes in the past, the future's space-time structure had changed. The false world lines of the Earthbound Stone Statues were collapsing. This future might be caused by a large amount of information fragments that caused space-time chaos. Most of the things that existed were just information forms. Only a small number of them combined with the material energy of the world to become solid.
For example, the thousands of stone statue empire soldiers who were wreaking havoc in modern society were chasing a young man and woman. They had the Elixir of Immortality refined by the necromancers of the past.
As long as they seized these pills, the emperor would truly be resurrected and rule the world once more.
"Lin, come here." A handsome golden-haired young man climbed up to the roof through the obstacles and reached out his hand to pull the girl named Lin. Behind them were the stone statue soldiers with weapons in their hands, who were charging around recklessly.
Although turning into stone statues had all kinds of side effects, it had to be said that they also had their own advantages. Because they were stone statues, they wouldn't get tired and were as hard as stone. Moreover, the more worship they had, the harder it was to break this petrification.
Moreover, they wouldn't have problems like stiff movements or slow movements just because they were stone statues. Their charging speed wasn't much slower than human sprinters.
The two young men were quickly forced into a corner and captured. However, the stone statue soldiers didn't kill them immediately. Instead, they formed a formation and welcomed a simple carriage.
The dignified emperor, even though he had turned into a stone statue, was still oppressing the two young men to the point where they couldn't breathe.
After receiving the pill from the soldier, the emperor was extremely excited. He had been waiting for it for two thousand years.
After eating the pill, the emperor nodded to the necromancer beside him. The necromancer took out a stone dagger and stabbed it into the emperor's body.
A large number of cracks appeared on the emperor's stone body. The stones collapsed, revealing the old body underneath. However, under the effect of the pill, the wrinkled body was quickly recovering.
"This living world, I have returned." The emperor opened his arms. However, he was the founder of the great empire after all. The excitement of being revived only lasted for a moment before he forcefully suppressed it. Then, he saw the two young men.
"The descendants of the rebels. Execute them according to the law." The emperor gave the order and sat on the carriage again, planning the next step of the recovery.
The stone statue soldiers didn't hesitate. They raised their weapons and were about to kill the two young men. At that moment, all the stone statues collapsed. Even the emperor, who had been revived, couldn't escape and turned into powder.
However, the Immortality Pill still worked. The emperor's death was slightly slower.
He looked at his subordinates who had collapsed around him and himself who was disappearing. He was slightly startled, but then he became unusually calm.
"I will return." The emperor was extremely sure of this.
The two young men closed their eyes tightly, waiting for death to come. After a while, they opened their eyes and found that the enemy had disappeared. After escaping from death, the two of them hugged each other tightly.
However, blood splattered. A strange stone claw slowly retracted its hand. The bodies of the two young men fell to the street. A stone statue that looked like a demon walked out of the illusion.
Negri looked at the constantly changing information of the wreckage in his hand and had a certain understanding.
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