The instant those words appeared, the entire world began to tremble.
First, something strange happened to the river.
Countless fish leaped from the river and landed on this stretch of dry riverbed, surging toward the Black Statue like mad.
The flesh fell away from their bodies, leaving nothing but fish bones.
Then, a dense flock of birds appeared in the sky.
Their flesh peeled away from their bodies, forming a tornado that descended from the sky and vanished completely into the Black Statue.
The birds were left with nothing but bones and feathers, yet they seemed completely unaware.
They blotted out the sky and circled endlessly, forming a black ring that grew larger and larger.
The trembling of the earth grew louder and louder.
The beasts came, too.
All the flesh peeled from their bodies and flew into the Black Statue.
Only then did the Black Statue become more and more lifelike.
It remained silent.
But all life in the world began to die.
All flesh returned to the statue.
From within the statue, an insect-like face opened its mouth and spat out a lump of flesh.
The flesh hit the ground and began writhing incessantly.
It soon turned into a worm. It circled those strange words once, knelt on the ground, and spun silk around itself, wrapping itself into a cocoon three meters long.
A cocoon.
A line of text.
Gu Qingshan watched, fascinated.
Could the worm inside that cocoon be the origin of the Art of Universal Ignorance?
He wondered to himself.
Suddenly, an urgent voice sounded beside his ear:
"Gu Qingshan, we have to leave."
Gu Qingshan felt a hand grab his shoulder. In an instant, countless explosions sounded outside the archive world, and a wave of cold swept over him.
The ship was coming apart!
Gu