Chapter 694 Flood

Xu Jing and Li Weigang arrived at the archives on the 198th floor of the Foundation Building.

After exiting the elevator, a golden light appeared on the floor under their feet, just above their ankles. This was not technology or psychic power, but a memetic barrier film that isolated the entire 198th floor from other floors.

Xu Jing had not been to the archives many times. She would never get used to the feeling of losing part of her memory every time she entered and exited. This was the O5 Council's protection of itself and its reservation for lower-level personnel.

Every lower-level personnel who entered the 198th floor would forget three things when they left:

First, they would forget how many people there were in the O5 Council and what they looked like.

Second, they would forget the words that the O5 Council wanted you to forget.

Third, they would forget when and with whom you had been to the 198th floor.

Xu Jing only remembered how many times she had been to the last floor, but as for how many times and when, she could not tell clearly. The mission and task given to her by the O5 Council on her smartphone.

"How many times have you come here?" Li Weigang didn't like this feeling either. After getting out of the elevator, he asked Xu Jing, which was rare.

"I don't remember, but it doesn't matter." Xu Jing shook her head.

The white walls changed their positions in front of them, leaving only a road in front of them. There were many strange places in the foundation building. Xu Jing couldn't guarantee that she had gotten used to such a working environment.

The two walked forward along the corridor, following the direction of the light, and walked into the paleness at the end.

Then, the surroundings suddenly turned black, and the dark blue halo that made people feel comfortable slowly lit up from the darkness, and the surrounding environment turned into a deep night.

Starlight flickered above their heads, and Xu Jing and Li Weigang seemed to be in the vast galaxy. The purple, red, and blue nebula projections passed through their bodies, and the huge white dwarf passed by their side. The cry like a dolphin resounded in their ears, and everything was like a dream.

At this time, Xu Jing saw a man in a suit standing in the nebula in front of him. He looked up and put his hands behind his back, admiring the magnificent view of the universe. He looked like a white man with gray hair on his temples.

Because he was so engrossed in watching, he didn't seem to notice the arrival of Xu Jing and Li Weigang.

Li Weigang looked at Xu Jing, hesitating whether to say hello. Xu Jing didn't say anything, and she was unsure. Maybe the other party had dealt with subordinates many times, but for Xu Jing and others, every time was always the first time.

"We..." Li Weigang couldn't help but spoke.

"Hush..." The man in the suit made a gesture, still looking up at the starry sky. The observation distance of the universe in the room was greatly enlarged, showing a larger scale picture. At this time, those originally very huge white dwarfs, stars and star clusters became only the size of the little finger nail, and more space was pitch black.

"The universe is beautiful, isn't it?" the man asked.

Xu Jing and Li Weigang didn't know how to respond.

"We live in this wonderful phenomenon without knowing it. How many people look up at the stars at night?" The man smiled.

He retracted his vision from the sky and looked at Xu Jing and Li Weigang. It was the face of a very kind and wise middle-aged white man in his 50s, with a high nose, angular cheeks, blue eyes, and brown hair.

"Are you... the O5 Council?" Xu Jing asked.

"We are O5. Xu, Li. We meet again." The man smiled.

"Excuse me... I... I have already..." Li Weigang was stunned.

"I know, I know... Hahaha..." The man laughed and walked to Xu Jing's side with his hands behind his back.

"Call me Douglas. This time." Douglas smiled and sat down out of thin air. It seemed that there was a transparent chair under his buttocks. Not only that, he also made a gesture of invitation, asking the two of them to sit down like him.

Xu Jing and Li Weigang looked at each other, and then sat down in doubt. Sure enough, their buttocks felt the touch of the stool.

"We lost in 2006..." As soon as Li Weigang sat down, he couldn't wait to report the situation of the previous mission.

But Douglas gently placed his index finger on his lips, signaling him to stop, as if he wanted to say something else.

"Have you ever thought about this question? Humans have existed for millions of years, but the recorded history is only more than 4,000 years. What were we doing in the unrecorded deep sea era?" Douglas laughed.

Li Weigang shook his head gently, while Xu Jing remained silent.

In front of the three people, the earth appeared, and the moon around the earth, followed by other planets in the solar system. The fiery red sun radiance instantly illuminated the room, and Xu Jing could even feel the hot wind blowing from the surface of the sun.

"That is unrecorded history. Countless indescribable things rule the universe. Our ancestors who still have great power continue the fire of human civilization under their threat. Some things are protecting us..." Douglas said softly.

Around the earth, dense markings appeared, all in the format of "HCP000X".

Xu Jing and Li Weigang could understand that this was the Foundation's numbering of the objects in storage, from specific objects to abstract concepts to unspeakable gods...

"Then they disappeared, and we rose." Douglas clapped his hands, and the densely packed markings began to decrease.

"We have experienced more than 4,000 years of recorded civilization changes, and gradually prospered and grew, but the good times did not last long..." Douglas shook his head.

The marks on the earth began to increase again.

"Now, they are coming back, the strange spiritual energy is reviving, the human civilization is gradually dying out, and the king is nowhere to be seen..." Douglas said.

"You mean, the Chadian Sahelanthropus 700 million years ago was competing with the gods?" Xu Jing asked.

"Chadian Sahelanthropus...? What is that?" Li Weigang didn't understand.

"It is a kind of ancient ape with only fossils, the ancestor of all humans." Xu Jing replied.

"Isn't that ridiculous? A group of monkeys competing with gods?" Li Weigang shook his head.

"Hahahahahaha..." Douglas also laughed.

"What I am going to say next will be forgotten after you leave, but every time, I can't help but want to tell you." Douglas said.

"That must be something very important, why don't we remember it." Xu Jing asked.

"It is to protect you, to prevent you from thinking that this world is hopeless." Douglas said.

Li Weigang sat upright, trying to remember what Douglas was going to say next.

"In that unrecorded deep sea era... remember? The deep sea era. That was the source of everything, our origin." Douglas said.

The starry sky in the room disappeared, replaced by a deep blue similar to the deep sea, with countless cheongsams and black shadows floating.

"We are from the bottom of the sea...?" Li Weigang asked.

Douglas shook his head.

"At the origin of our world, there was an invisible flood. And that flood was the end of another world." Douglas said.

"What do you mean?" Xu Jing seemed to understand something.

"We are the era that survived after the 999th flood, but soon, this world will become the 1000th flood and become the raw material for the next world." Douglas said.

"You mean... we live in a certain cycle..." Xu Jing's forehead was covered with cold sweat.

"That flood... what's in it?" Li Weigang was also a little weak.

At this time, seven red eyes lit up in the heavy shadows of the room.

“At the end of the flood, there’s that thing,” Douglas said.