Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 1025: The day when the sun sets?

"...Tantis?"

The noise from above made Tianjie a little uneasy. She raised her head timidly, her pale face scratched by tears. Tiantis reached out and gently wiped the tears from her cheeks, and comforted her softly but firmly: "It's okay, it's okay."

"I know what those guys want to do, but as long as I'm here, I will never let them succeed."

Her unquestionable tone made the girl feel a little relieved. She clenched her fists, as if she had made some incredible determination: "I, I will stay and help you too, Tiandis!"

The heavens believe that one should make amends for the mistakes one has made.

However, Tiantis just looked at her deeply, with deep thoughts hidden in his dark eyes. The elevator was still going down, as if it would never reach the end in a lifetime. The girl slowly shook her head: "No, heaven."

"Why?" Tianjie was a little anxious: "Do you think I can't help you, Tiantis? I, I can fight too, and I will never hold you back..."

"Of course I believe you can fight, but if you're not here, who will take Alice to find her mother? Do you think she can hold on until then in her current state?"

Tiantis shut up all the arguments in the heaven with just one sentence. She opened her mouth, but couldn't say anything to refute. Her clenched fists loosened silently, as if she agreed to the matter.

Tiantis retracted his gaze and stopped looking at her, only sighing softly in his heart. She knew that the heavens could fight, after all, she was also a descendant created by the mother, and inherited some of her laws. Moreover, she also had control over the Heavenly Temple. If she could stay, she would definitely play a key role in the next battle.

But just as she said, the seriously injured Alice cannot be left unattended, and besides... she doesn't really want to involve the Celestial Realm in this battle.

As the offspring of the goddess, Tiandi and Alice had lived with her day and night for a period of time and grew up under her careful teaching. Only Tianjie was born, and the goddess left Eden soon after she was born. Apart from the instinct that blood is thicker than water, she actually did not experience much affection from the goddess. This made Tiandi feel more pity for her and always hoped that she could grow up to be a girl with normal emotions. So she never criticized Tianjie's work too much, and turned a blind eye to Alice's behavior of dragging her to play games. She even went to the mall to pick out her favorite star gummy candy, and secretly put it on the bedside when she fell asleep, but refused to admit it... It was all based on this complicated psychology.

The conflict between her and Alice, the conflict between mortals and her, the conflict between infinite desires and limited magic power, in the final analysis, are all problems between the girl's kingdom and mortals, and the heaven is not the girl's kingdom, so she does not need to bear these overly heavy responsibilities.

The roar from above became louder and louder, like the slow-moving thunder in the rainy season, the prelude to a rainstorm. The deafening thunder even made people feel that the entire earth was shaking and about to be torn apart. There was no doubt that the rebellious false gods were attacking the control center, trying to destroy the culprit who controlled them and prevented them from gaining true freedom. Tiantis knew it well, but he did not show any panic or anxiety on his face, and remained as calm as water.

After a while, the elevator finally stopped. Tiantis held Alice in one hand and Tianjie in the other hand, and led them out of the elevator and into a dim room. There was nothing here, not even air or dust, only the light of varying brightness constantly refracted and changed, sprinkled on the silver-white ring device in the center. That was the Tianjie Bridge, a mysterious bridge that was born with the original root consciousness of the universe and connected to another world. It could be considered one of the origins of Eden.

Tiantis handed Alice over to Tianjie, who struggled to lift the bruised and battered blonde girl onto her shoulders. Ignoring the pungent smell of blood, she looked up and watched Tiantis quietly as he stepped forward and pressed a few buttons on the operating panel of the ring device. Her movements were a little awkward, after all, it was almost the first time she activated the device.

When the words "Authorization permission, activating the Sky Bridge, please input energy to activate the device" flashed on the operation panel, Tiandis took a deep breath and exhaled gently, as if she had made sufficient mental preparations, and then stretched out her hand without hesitation and placed her palm on the cold screen. Through this contact, the magic power in her body began to be continuously injected into the ring device, causing its dim surface to gradually light up with quiet, faint blue light patterns.

The dim room was illuminated, and Tianjie subconsciously opened his eyes wide, and was surprised to see circles of ripples gradually appearing inside the ring, and then the magic power gathered together to form a translucent foggy mirror. In the mirror, one could vaguely see familiar high-rise buildings, as well as people, vehicles, and an endless stream of life that he had never seen before.

Inside and outside the mirror, two different worlds.

Tiantis retracted his hand, his face had turned much paler. Activating the Bridge of Heaven is not an easy task. Except for the mother who is the root consciousness, who can enter and exit the portal freely, others who want to cross the Bridge of Heaven need to consume a lot of magic power. Moreover, the magic power is not transferred, but completely disappeared. Even the mother cannot sense its existence. According to Him, that part of the magic power is very likely to have entered the earth world and been transformed into the physical rules that adapt to that world. If you want to retrieve this part of the magic power, you must first destroy the physical rules of the earth world so that the magic power can take effect. Similarly, if the magic rules of the Eden world are destroyed, the physical rules from the earth world can also take effect here.

With the magic power of the young girl's royal power, opening the Sky Bridge once would cause great loss of vitality. For this reason, the mother always forbade them to cross the Sky Bridge privately. Tiantis didn't care. She had no interest in the earth. But Alice used to pester the mother to take her to the earth to play the latest games.

She is very familiar with Earth, so she should be able to adapt to life there, right?

It doesn't matter if she's not familiar with it, because she still has her mother and the heaven to accompany her.

Tiantis turned around and signaled Tianjie to come over with her eyes. When the girl dragged Alice to the bridge of Tianjie with difficulty, she reached out and gently smoothed the messy bangs on Alice's forehead, and looked deeply at this thin, pale, and sad face, as if she wanted to remember her deeply in her mind. Then she shifted her gaze to Tianjie, staring at her deeply as well. When the girl began to feel uneasy, she whispered, "Tianjie, take Alice to Mother immediately after arriving on Earth. Alice's injuries are very serious. I guess Mother will keep her on Earth temporarily to recover. You...you should stay on Earth too and take good care of Alice. Although Earth is a very strange place for you, it is Mother's second home. She has many friends there. You can live like an ordinary girl, read more books, play more, make more friends, and smile more instead of always having a stern face. Come back when Alice's injuries are healed or the situation here improves. By the way -"

She was silent for a moment before continuing, "After Alice wakes up, let her play more games. It would be best if she could play all the games that were released in recent years that she didn't have time to play."

Tianjie couldn't help but widen his eyes: "Tiantis?"

She remembered that in the past, Tiantis was clearly against Alice playing games, and often complained that games made Alice become casual and unruly. Whenever Alice refuted by saying "Mom also likes to play games", she would mock Alice for having no self-control. She didn't play games like her mother did, to learn new knowledge, but simply because she was addicted.

But why now...the girl couldn't understand this line of thinking.

Tiantis smiled, but his smile was somewhat helpless: "Because I just realized a truth now, sometimes the more obsessed you are with something, the clearer you can distinguish it in the end. If Alice could really treat everything as a game, she probably wouldn't be forced to this extent by her friends. Unfortunately, she couldn't do it. So, from now on, it's up to you to help her understand this truth."

Tianjie seemed to understand, but still nodded and agreed. For some reason, she didn't want to question Tiantis at this moment. She even had a vague feeling of sadness in her heart. If she refused, Tiantis would definitely be very sad, right?

Seeing her agree, Tiantis finally smiled a little happy, but it soon faded. She gently rubbed her sister's head, remembering the feeling for the last time, and then pushed her and Alice towards the silver-white ring device: "Okay, the situation is urgent, don't delay any longer, go in quickly."

Tianjie didn't even have time to say anything before she stumbled through the dark blue fog mirror. The mirror surface was rippling like the surface of water. The backs of her and Alice only flashed for a moment and disappeared in Tiandis's eyes in an instant. Tiandis watched them leave until the last trace of color left by the two disappeared in the dim room. The smile on the corner of his mouth completely disappeared, and his face became as gloomy and indifferent as the rain clouds over the city.

She looked up at the ceiling, no longer suppressing her strength.

The violent magic power instantly tore the void apart. …

As the holy land of God, the Temple of Heaven had never suffered such serious damage. One by one, the glass trees collapsed like a landslide, and sharp glass fragments flew all over the sky, as if a transparent rain had fallen; the streets were torn apart by the terrifying tremors, like giant snakes that had lost their minds, easily tearing apart the hard and solidified strata, causing a terrifying movement. The dark clouds in the sky stirred up a dark vortex, weighing heavily on the top of the Temple of Heaven. The distance from the tallest glass tree was only a breath away, or perhaps it could be considered within reach. The glass fragments were swept up by the strong wind. Dust and leaves flew together in the depths of the vortex, blocking the sunlight and bringing low temperatures. Surrounding them were solidified raindrops, hail, frost, and even electric snakes that appeared and disappeared, constantly flashing.

At this moment, if you look from the distant Dragon Howl Mountains toward the Heavenly Temple, you will doubt that this area has fallen into darkness. At this moment, the sky and the earth are in contact for the first time in ten thousand years. The vortex in the sky is constantly pressing down, as if it is about to fall into the crack in the giant's mouth; the giant hidden under the city is constantly rising up, as if it is about to jump into the terrifying and turbulent vortex. The sky and the earth are merging together. From a distance, it looks like the palms of a giant are merging, and every life in the palms is a tiny ant, destined to be crushed to pieces.

As the main battlefield of this catastrophe, the headquarters building of Game Command Company was undoubtedly in an even worse situation: every glass curtain wall was shattered, every corridor was torn and collapsed, and every room was crushed to pieces by the aftermath of the battle... The precious game consoles and cartridges that Her Majesty the Goddess who once created the world had painstakingly collected were naturally turned into debris along with the coming of the catastrophe, proving that people's fantasies can sometimes be very powerful, but so weak when facing the crushing reality.

The ancient dragon summoned thunder, the one-winged winged man called for a storm, the mirror elf with crystal pupils stirred up a tsunami, and the sage of truth sent down countless rounds of starlight bombardment... Gods from dozens of races jointly besieged the only enemy, and there was only one reason that was worthy of them putting aside their pride and gathering together.

"Why are you rebelling?" Tiantis said coldly, ignoring the bright wound on his cheek. Although he was the one being besieged, his momentum was even more aggressive: "What do you want to gain by abandoning the honor bestowed upon you by His Majesty?"

"For what we deserve." Nigflam, the virtual dragon god, replied.

Tiantis smiled even more cruelly: "Those powers that do not belong to you?"

“Since power is a gift, it has no ownership. The only difference is whether you fight for it or not.”

On Nigflam's body, every wound from the past was glowing with old and tough blood under the dragon scales, as if to confirm his statement: "All creatures in the world are struggling and sinking in the same desire, which is also the most essential pursuit. Plants expand their roots to absorb more nutrients, even if it takes away the vitality of their own kind. The growth of a towering tree is accompanied by the withering of countless plants. Wild beasts sharpen their claws to hunt stronger prey, even if it takes the lives of others. A thousand-year-old monster often steps on thousands and tens of thousands of rotten bones... The nature of living things. It is fighting, fighting promotes self-evolution, and because of evolution, it gains stronger power, and because of power, it takes absolute dominance in the fight, until all living beings are piled up into steps, paving its own way to the strongest. We trace back the meaning of our birth, so it is allowed to do whatever it takes, or rather, it is never said that it is unscrupulous. Those minions' fighting or rejection of their own kind have been passed down in our memory, and are unchangeable instincts, just like babies instinctively monopolize their mother's love, so you say he is greedy, selfish, cruel, and dictatorial, is this reasonable?"

"When creatures develop unnecessary pride, their so-called pride is to give up their instinct to fight, and learn to be humble, cautious, and to examine and judge. This unnecessary emotion hinders their evolution, making them gradually weak and vulnerable."

"The true pride of living beings should be to obey their instincts since birth, to complete their own evolution through endless struggles, to step on countless bones and to reach the top. For this reason, violent killing is allowed, as is conspiracy and intrigue. Because the great goddess created living beings, they began to fight and evolve from then on, which shows that our nature originally came from Her expectations."

"Give up the fight, give up your nature."

"That is a betrayal of Him."

Hearing the goddess's name from Nigflam's mouth made Tiantis, as the young queen, feel very ironic. Her eyes became colder: "So, you seem to think that you are the life that inherited Her Majesty's will, and I violated Her original will?"

"That may not be the case." The battlefield was swept by chaotic magic, and a natural disaster was about to overturn the world. Including the giant dragon, all mortals who claimed to be gods had dangerous flames in their eyes: "When living beings came into the world, the goddess gave them the instinct to fight. Just like humans did not know how to control weapons at first, but fighting with wild beasts made them understand that sharp blades can scratch the flesh and blunt weapons can crush the bone marrow... This is the evolution brought about by struggle, and it is this evolution that has made them strong. If living beings can become stronger without fighting, why would the goddess give us such an instinct?"

"Struggle represents evolution, and endless struggle represents endless evolution. This is the infinite potential of living beings!"

He shouted, and suddenly spread his huge wings, casting a shadow as big as a mountain. A howling hurricane swept past, and his body covered with scars was like a prehistoric beast in the thick fog, carrying a wild and wild aura, attacking everyone. This was the result of his evolution, a strong body that no one could reach or surpass: "Just imagine, living beings originally have infinite power, but they are bound and have to be locked in a weak body, unable to fully exert it."

"So we seek evolution in the struggle, crave magic power from the world, and untie the constraints imposed on the body, just like breaking free from the shackles that entangle our nature, and step by step towards the path to the strongest. Smash all those redundant natures, abandon all those meaningless entanglements, and trample all those weak hesitations underfoot... until we achieve the only and eternal that we want."

"This kind of evolution is what I pursue. Or rather, it is what all living beings pursue."

The false god, determined to evolve through struggle, gazed at the offspring of the goddess with a deep and calm gaze, and stated the facts word by word: "Therefore, my way - our way, is the right way."

“High-sounding words.”

Tiantis slowly raised her hand, and endless magic power gathered towards her, brewing the power of destruction and the end, but she also revealed a sense of grief and anger at the end of her rope: "I see you never say this to Alice, right? But I'm also tired of this boring question and answer. At this point, what else is there to say? Come and take what you want, and then see if you are qualified to control it."

That’s right, at this point, what else is there to say?
The false gods looked at each other and without hesitation, they launched an attack on Tiantis at the same time. The terrifying tide of magic instantly swept across the sky above the entire Holy Temple of Heaven, like the thick clouds before the rainy season, and it was as dark as the end of the world.

Tiantis calmly looked at the overwhelming attack. Somehow, she didn't feel angry or unwilling, but just a little regretful. She felt that she had failed to fulfill the mission given by her mother, which led to everything turning out like this. If she could do it again, she might do better.

She slowly closed her eyes.

The next moment, magic power exploded.

The horrific explosion made the world so noisy that it lost its sound, and so brilliant that the naked eye lost its color.

On that day, all the creatures in the world of Eden, no matter where they were, on the highest mountain top, the deepest sea abyss, the vastest grassland, or the most precipitous canyon, all looked up and saw a scene that would never be forgotten for thousands of years.

The magnificent and sacred temple in heaven, which had been floating vaguely in the clouds, fell from the sky, burning with raging flames and trailing thick smoke.

Like the setting of a sun.

……

"Archive Record No. X51, Rebel, has been played."