The Cracked Sky

"Father, Mother, what happened?" Habil asked curiously.

The netizens stared intently as well, their faces full of curiosity.

Adan said excitedly, "God has just bestowed knowledge upon us—the knowledge of animal husbandry and farming!"

Everyone's faces froze.

What had they just heard? Animal husbandry and farming?

It was actually those two methods?!

They were skeptical, but as Adan explained methods for growing plants and raising animals, they had no choice but to believe him.

Holy crap, it really was farming and animal husbandry!

They listened blankly as Habil said in admiration, "As expected of the God who knows everything. Humanity's troubles were solved so easily, with methods we never even thought of."

Looking at the worshipful and fearful Adan and the other three, the netizens were not as awestruck as they were, thanks to their broader knowledge.

Still, they felt a chill toward that mysterious God.

What exactly was that unknown being?

It had not even revealed a trace of itself...

The unknown was the most terrifying!

If it was aliens, it should at least show itself, right?

What exactly was It?!

Adan and the others could not possibly have been lying, nor could they have suddenly learned farming and animal husbandry.

They had simply knelt in worship for a while and somehow gained that knowledge?

If this was not a movie, then what kind of power was that?

The scientists among the viewers kept muttering that it was unscientific...

Next, they saw Adan and the others praising God, seemingly hoping to gain God's approval.

The prompt continued.

Adan and Hawa hoped their two sons would gain God's approval, but the unknown being known as "God" did not respond to them.

This was different from what the netizens had expected. They had thought God would reveal some clue, but God was even more mysterious than they had imagined.

Next, the human tribe developed rapidly. Under Adan's leadership, the people learned and experimented with farming and animal husbandry, while the scenes flashed by swiftly.

Finally, the images flickered, and the prompt sounded.

Time passed. Another two hundred years went by...

Things changed rapidly.

The mountainside was covered in crude triangular wooden houses, penned animals, and plots of cultivated land planted with clusters of grain.

The camera zoomed in, revealing the brothers Habil and Gobil.

The sunny and cheerful Habil had just returned from herding sheep. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and said to his brother with a bright smile, "Tomorrow is our time of sacrifice again, Brother. Have you prepared your offering?"

Gobil, with a blade of grass hanging from his mouth, was stunned for a moment before answering vaguely, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's ready..."

"What about you?"

"I prepared three firstborn lambs and some fat. I think God will like them," Habil said happily.

"Oh, oh..." Gobil replied casually.

Compared to Habil's seriousness, Gobil's careless expression was plainly visible to them.

Early the next morning, the sky was gloomy, dark clouds covering the heavens.

The camera swept past Habil as he headed toward the mountaintop with his offerings, then shifted to Gobil.

When they saw him carrying a Stone Knife toward the fields, how could the viewers not understand what was going on?

"This Gobil has some nerve, sheesh..."

"Yeah, it's almost time for the sacrifice, and he still hasn't even prepared his offering. That's pretty damn bold! He's nothing like his brother."

They clicked their tongues in amazement, marveling at Gobil's audacity.

"Even us viewers are afraid of that mysterious God, yet this guy dares to be so disrespectful. That's something."

What made them view Gobil in an even more astonishing light was that he not only intended to casually cut some grain from the ground to muddle through, but the grain did not even belong to him!

That kind of behavior...

"What a lazy, selfish person."

"Compared with Habil's fine and plentiful offering, Gobil's is inferior, meager, and completely half-hearted."

Just as they were sighing over it, the prompt suddenly sounded.

The two brothers prepared their offerings one after another, but they did not know that all their actions were being watched by the unknown being.

The viewers shuddered and instinctively drew in a breath.

The implications behind the prompt were terrifying to think about.

"Had the two brothers' actions been under observation all along?"

"Wait! Did that unknown being only watch them, or did it watch everything? Hiss..."

As soon as that comment appeared, someone raised an even more scalp-numbing possibility.

"Then... could it be that we too have been watched by that unknown being all this time?"

Hiss...

The more everyone thought about it, the more terrified they became!

Back in his old home, Su Qi sharply sucked in a breath. His hand holding the phone trembled, and he nearly flung it to the floor.

He was terrified too!

Dumbfounded, he said, "Am I really that powerful? Why didn't I know?"

After the panic, someone among the netizens forced themselves to remain calm and said, "No, that's absolutely impossible. Let's not imagine things. How could such a being exist?"

"Right, exactly. There can't be!"

Everyone echoed the sentiment in panic.

In the end, years of scientific thinking prevailed. They gradually comforted themselves, assuring themselves that no such unscientific being could exist.

After temporarily steadying their emotions, everyone turned their attention back to the scene.

They watched Habil offer three lambs and fat, then watched the flames ignite. Naturally, their gazes shifted to Gobil.

With the offerings piled up, Gobil was about to light the fire.

At that moment, the viewers began discussing it.

"That unknown being has always been so mysterious. Gobil should be able to get away with it."

"Mm."

Everyone agreed with that comment, believing that nothing would happen.

However, just as they thought that, and just as Gobil picked up flint and struck it against stone to start a fire, something strange happened.

Whoosh, whoosh~

A strange wind swept through.

Not only was Gobil's newly lit flame blown out, but the offerings were scattered everywhere by the wind.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

"My offerings!" Gobil cried out in shock.

He was not the only one stunned. Everyone else was too.

How had that happened?

Someone hesitantly guessed, "Maybe it's because of the weather. Look at how gloomy the sky is—it's obvious a storm is coming. It's perfectly normal for there to be wind."

Most people agreed with that idea. They thought the person was right; the weather was an obvious factor, so it was probably just a coincidence.

But just as they, like Gobil, believed it was an accident, they saw a breathtaking scene.

The gloomy sky, blanketed by dark clouds, slowly split open with a crack, and a pillar of golden light poured down from the heavens.

The brilliant, dazzling golden light shone directly upon the altar and Habil.

The flames burning on the altar appeared even more sacred beneath the sunlight.

Gobil's face was filled with shock.

Habil's face was filled with delight.

The viewers, who had believed nothing would happen, stared blankly at the crack in the sky and the golden light pouring down through the dark clouds...