Saladin finally obtained the Key to the Dreamscape.
He tracked Yao Jingjing and Hou Biao all the way from Egypt to Rome to Paris to Moscow... and finally returned to Cairo. After playing hide-and-seek in the Khan el-Khalili Market for a day, his men finally disguised themselves as Arabia thieves and obtained the Dream Box that Mei Yiqiu had given to Yu Jianguo.
Bian Ziyuan cracked the code inside the box, unlocking the fundamental lock of the Dream Guide world, and there were no longer any barriers between the dreams of five billion people.
He completed his mission, but Saladin was unable to help him regain Mei Ziqing's consciousness.
Bian Ziyuan was heartbroken. He threw away the Space Box, his old dreams and glory, and left with the eccentric Mei Ziqing. No one knew where they went.
Players of Dream Guide suddenly discover that the game space has changed. The boundaries of their painstakingly built independent dream kingdoms have disappeared, and players can now enter other players' dreams. This privacy breach is unexpected but also increases the game's replayability. Furthermore, the conflicting rules between dreams make the entire game unpredictable and difficult to control.
Spaces began to merge, rules compromised with each other, like the birth of a universe, dust, radiation, nebulae, life, demons...
Saladin and Kronos merged into one, and a vast Internet Consciousness flooded into this nascent universe, accelerating its evolution.
The rules were unified once again, everything was settled, and a magical and wondrous new world was born along with its God.
As more people become engrossed in the new world they dream of, those who are awake begin to panic.
Ten Sun appeared in the sky above the Earth, scorching the land. The ice in the Arctic Ocean began to melt, especially near the Queen Elizabeth Islands, where the ice and snow disappeared almost overnight.
Strangely, however, nothing seems to have changed in Antarctic. The Sun in the sky seems only interested in the ice in the north.
Meteorologists couldn't explain this strange phenomenon, while physicists confidently asserted that it was an optical illusion and that it was impossible for ten stars to be shining on Earth.
Everything felt like Judgment Day.
Everyone heard a voice, seemingly from the heavens, yet also from the depths of their brains, like the call of the ancestral bones buried deep underground:
"It's been so long, my children!"
Floods brought by melting ice and snow in the north ravaged Siberia and Alaska, while frigid ocean currents surged into the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean. At the same time, the melting of large amounts of ice and snow absorbed heat, causing temperatures to plummet around the world.
The spectacular phenomenon of ten suns in the sky and snow falling in June occurred simultaneously.
Qingmu stood atop Mount Denali, gazing at the sparse snowflakes falling before him. At the foot of the mountain, a great river surged, and the home of the Native American guide had long since vanished in the flood.
"In the end, we still couldn't stop Gaia from coming," he said.
Situ kept staring intently at the Sun in the sky, as if admiring an ancient painting.
"I understand now, Gaia's arrival cannot be stopped," he said. "The oldest secret the Alliance has kept is not about preventing Gaia's arrival at all."
What is that?
"I don't know, but there must be another plan."
"So, everything we've done has been a waste of time?"
No, everyone has their own mission. We are all part of this plan.
What is our mission?
"Prevent Gaia's arrival."
The Crow shook its head Guagua, "Should we stop it or not? It's making this bird dizzy."
Qingmu smiled and said, "We'll stop it if we can, and try our best to stop it if we can't. That's our mission."
He and Situ exchanged a glance, then said simultaneously, "Let's begin!"
Duwa also said, "Let's begin!"
Petru asked, puzzled, "Start what?"
Qingmu said, "There can't be ten Sun in the sky; it's just an illusion. From the moment Ronald activated the Sacred Land of Fire, two more Sun appeared in the sky with each activation. So, after all Five Great Sacred Lands were activated, ten Sun appeared in the sky. These are the tentacles of the octopus. Cutting them off might not stop Gaia's descent, but it's at least something we can do."
After he finished speaking, he raised the Soul of Wood, and Mental Power from the void surged forth continuously.
People saw him transform into a tree, its roots sinking into the soil, weaving through the crevices of Mount Denali, all the way down to the foot of the mountain, spreading across the vast land of Alaska. The trunk also began to grow taller and taller, reaching into the clouds and the sky.
At the same time, Situ transformed into a mountain peak, standing tall on the already majestic Mount Denali, like a stalagmite growing from the earth and piercing the sky.
A gust of wind swept across the flat ground. It first enveloped Duwa's body, then suddenly became fierce, rising up like a tornado. One end gripped the ground, the other seized the canopy of the towering tree, bending the tree into a bow.
The mountain peaks swayed precariously in the wind. (And - Picture - Book)
A large bird flew out from the treetops, its wings casting shadows that covered the entirety of Alaska.
It stretched out its claws, grasped the mountain peak, and grasped the wind, and flew away into the distance.
The trees were bent even more, the wind was pulled even straighter, and the mountain peaks stood obliquely on the ground, like spears piercing the Milky Way or arrows pointing straight to the sky.
Petru understood, and he lunged forward with the Soul of Fire in his hand.
The flames started at the tree roots, quickly igniting the trunk, and then burned along the wind's path, setting the mountain's arrows on fire and the birds' claws ablaze.
People saw it, not only those on Mount Denali, but also those below, those from Alaska, those from the Americas, those from Europe, those from Asia, those from the Southern Hemisphere...
The whole world saw a great, burning bow, on the earth, beneath the sky, in the void of consciousness—
The bow stood at an angle, the bowstring fully drawn.
A string rang out, accompanied by a strong tremor.
The bow is broken, the string is snapped.
A rocket with black tail feathers roared into the sky.
It struck and passed through the first Sun, leaving behind a trail of golden flames; then it struck the second Sun, and the third Sun.
The path ahead was empty; suddenly, the arrow's black tail feathers spread out like wings, and the arrow changed direction, heading straight for the fourth Sun, the fifth Sun...
One Sun after another burst open in the sky, like fireworks during the Lunar New Year, emitting colorful and dazzling light.
When the fireworks died down, people were momentarily blinded. Behind every great light, there is always a great darkness.
It took a long time for people to regain their sight.
The bow is broken, the string snapped, the arrow lost, the fire extinguished; black feathers dance in the air like a falling black snow...
After the snow fell, the earth returned to its old appearance.
Only one Sun remained in the sky, as if nothing had ever happened.
However, when people gaze at it, they see its illusory image, as if another Sun is hidden behind it.
Many years later, people are still discussing Sun there were ten or eleven Sun in the sky back then, where the bow and arrow came from, and whether the archer was a god or an alien.
The younger generation, however, completely disbelieves it, believing it to be merely a new myth born from a time of catastrophe, and that only the ignorant would believe it.
Bi Shenghua also witnessed that magnificent fireworks display. However, what she cared about was the trees in the Mulberry Garden.
On that very day, the mulberry trees in the Mulberry Garden began to wither. Two days later, all the mulberry trees had died, leaving only the willow tree standing alone by the lake.
Without hesitation, she found the key Mei Yiqiu had given her and pressed the button on it.