Five Frozen Centuries

Panda Novel

“Jump!”

A mental wave was transmitted over. At the same time, it carried a thought and an explanation.

Wei Huo immediately understood what ‘jump’ meant. He leaped into the four-dimensional space and saw what was attacking him.

It was a black fog. The black fog was filled with the same word. Wei Huo did not recognize the word, but he could feel the pressure coming from it.

However, instead of calling it a ball of black fog, he thought it was more like a weird substance formed by countless words. This weird thing seemed like it could only move about in three dimensions. Wei Huo jumped into another space with four dimensions, and the black fog formed by the words could not do anything to him.

Meanwhile, the Snake God and Chen Xuanyue had obtained information and leaped into the four-dimensional space. It was not difficult to jump into the four-dimensional space, as long as one knew about the four-dimensional space. A God could do that.

The spatial distance between four-dimensional space and three-dimensional space was completely different. That was why the three of them gathered again after jumping into the four-dimensional space.

At the moment, they were searching for the person who had provided them with the information. However, they could not see or hear anything.

Wei Huo transmitted his thoughts by using his mind. “Thank you for your help. Can you show yourself?”

At their level, language could no longer be used to communicate with everyone. Only mental communication was omnipotent.

As soon as Wei Huo sent a mental message, a spiritual wave was transmitted. “There’s no need to thank me. You saved yourselves.”

Soon, a spirit flame appeared in front of Wei Huo and the others. It was a golden-red flame. The mental wave had come from the flame, which was a soul flame. Although it was burning, no one could feel any warmth.

Wei Huo and the others could not tell what the level of the spirit flame was either. They could only tell that it was a flame and not anything else by spreading their mental waves.

The Snake God asked, “May I know what this is?”

The flame replied, “This is Darkness.”

“Darkness?”

Wei Huo and the others were confused.

The flame said, “The word that forms this mass means ‘Darkness’ in our world. It’s a very special substance. It will devour anyone or anything who does not abide by the rules. It will devour people or things who do not fulfill their duty. It will devour people or things that violate the rules. However, it is not intelligent. Sometimes, it will be deceived, just like at this moment.”

The flame seemed to know this thing very well. As it explained this to everyone, the mass started moving again. It was very fast and it moved almost instantaneously. After returning to the mountain, it swallowed 15 people who had just gone from the black-and-white Titan to the mountain.

The flame said, “You are not from this world, but you disguised yourselves well. That’s why Darkness did not devour all of you immediately. However, when it is 100% sure that you are not creatures of this world, it will attack.”

Wei Huo asked, “I know that this world has a repulsive force. Is that the reason?”

The flame said, “This world has a repulsive force and a suppressive force. However, when the repulsive force doesn’t work, it will produce a suppressive force. Darkness is such a thing. At the same time, it’s also responsible for knowing when people or things don’t fulfill their duty.”

Wei Huo asked, “What are the responsibilities of the people and things in this world? What is binding this world?”

The flame said, “There are only three responsibilities in this world. Production, combat, and defense.”

The Snake God immediately understood and said, “I see. No wonder the dead are all people who were in the creative and research field. The soldiers, commanders, and architects are all fine. What kind of world is this?”

The flame said, “This is a very monotonous world. The living creatures of this world have to start fighting as soon as they are born. The living creatures who don’t fight have to start producing. Every floating mountain has a base. Every time a world is formed, the living creatures of other bases will attack. Every once in a while, one has to attack other bases. After one takes down someone else’s base, one will have two bases. Then, one can produce, expand their army, fight, and invade again. This cycle will continue until one unites this world.”

Wei Huo and the others looked at each other. Upon hearing that, they understood what kind of world this was.

Wei Huo asked, “What are those metal particles? They can assimilate others and take their form. It seems like Darkness never attacked these people.”

The flame said, “This is a very special race. They entered our world because of an opportunity. If it were not for this species, I would not have awakened. This being has pure intelligence. It can only assimilate and imitate, but it has the ability to deceive the world. It can also connect to the outside world and send messages to it.”

Upon hearing that, Wei Huo understood the role of the metal particles.

If this world was a game world and a program, the metal particles should be a virus. They were a virus that kept replicating, assimilating, and emulating. Then, it would send messages to the outside world.

As for Darkness, that was easier to understand. Weren’t there bugs and cheat detectors in a game?

In order to maintain the stability of the game and to eliminate the restless elements of the game, Darkness had been created. The way it was completely formed by the word ‘Darkness’ was enough to explain this.

After understanding the standard operating procedure of Darkness, Wei Huo ordered the non-military groups to return to the black-and-white Titan. The black-and-white Titan was a four-dimensional creation. The black-and-white Titan that everyone saw with their naked eyes was only a part of the black-and-white Titan. Apart from that, 99% of the people in the three-dimensional world were unable to discover it.

After Wei Huo gave the order, the black-and-white Titan disappeared into the four-dimensional space. It was as if a finger had been lifted from a piece of paper. The black-and-white Titan left that space.

At that moment, the flame said, “I’ve traveled across many worlds. In the end, I realized that this world should be considered a game world.”

His words shocked the others. Wei Huo asked, “How can you travel to various worlds? Have you surpassed the laws of the world?”

The flame said, “No, I haven’t. The way I enter other worlds is very simple. In fact, all worlds exist around a center. If you want to go to other worlds, you have to go to this center first and go to other worlds through it.”

Wei Huo and the others turned around and looked in the direction of their original world. There was a four-dimensional barrier there, but they could see a small mountain in that world. However, they could only see chaos from this world.