Chapter 887: Exiled Here
The raven turned around and responded helplessly:
"Is this important?"
"Our race does not exist in physical form, and this is a world composed purely of consciousness."
"Our appearance naturally comes from the outside world's perception of us."
"Perhaps in the eyes of most intelligent creatures, this is the most suitable appearance for me."
"Enough of small talk... The most urgent task at the moment is how to leave this world."
As soon as the voice fell, a very harsh sound, like nails scratching a blackboard, suddenly sounded.
"Sizzle——"
Several people present couldn't help but cover their ears.
The [Observer] who turned into a raven kept shaking his head, and then aimed his sharp eyes at [Eternity] not far away.
At this time, Eternity used his ability to forcibly tear a hole in the air.
But looking at the chaotic space storm inside, he could only sigh helplessly:
"Although our power is still there, it doesn't mean much to this space."
"Let's find another way out."
"That thing must have had its own ideas to bring us in."
Before he finished speaking, the ground suddenly shook slightly.
"Something is wrong." [Observer], who turned into a raven, suddenly raised his feathers alertly, "Something is approaching..."
Before he finished speaking, a huge black shadow appeared on the distant horizon.
It was a giant entity composed of countless broken memory fragments, each of which contained a fragment of consciousness of different lives.
"That is...a concept that has been abandoned." A little brilliance appeared on [Eternity]'s decadent face,
"When a concept is forgotten or denied by the whole world, it will collapse into this form."
Li Yang stared at the approaching behemoth, and a strange feeling rose in his heart.
For some reason, some of the images in those broken memory fragments even made him feel instinctively repelled.
"Why did it appear here?" Bai Zhi asked with a frown.
[Observer] was silent for a moment:
"Maybe... your arrival alarmed it."
"After all, you once represented a challenge to the existing conceptual order."
At this moment, the entity composed of broken memories suddenly accelerated and swooped in the direction where they were.
The surrounding space began to distort, and those thinking plants grew wildly, trying to block its progress.
"Disperse!" Li Yang shouted.
The few people quickly dispersed, and the behemoth hit where they were originally, causing a violent space fluctuation.
Li Yang tried to mobilize the power in his body and throw it behind him.
But in this world composed purely of concepts, their abilities are useless.
"In this place, concepts must be used to fight concepts!" [Eternity] reminded loudly.
Li Yang suddenly understood something:
"If this is the sea of consciousness, then our thoughts themselves are weapons..."
After that, he stopped, closed his eyes, concentrated his mind, and tried to conceive some weapons in his mind.
Soon, a golden light surged out of his body, forming a dazzling long sword in the air.
Bai Zhi seemed to have realized something. She raised her hands, and the twisted thinking plants around her began to respond to her will, forming a natural barrier.
The entity composed of broken memories seemed to feel threatened and began to attack their defense line frantically.
Every time it hit, a large number of memory fragments would splash, and the broken consciousness contained in them would affect the surrounding space structure.
"Be careful to dodge." The [Observer] hovering in the air opened its beak and quacked,
"Those memory fragments may contain abandoned dangerous concepts."
"If you come into contact with them too much..."
Before he finished speaking, a fragment brushed past Li Yang's arm, instantly making him feel a piercing chill.
It was a conceptual fragment about "despair", and its deep resentment almost made Li Yang unable to bear it now.
"Ordinary attacks are useless, we have to find a way to trap it..."
Bai Zhi said to the others while maintaining defense.
[Eternity] narrowed his eyes:
"Maybe... we can try to understand it."
"Understand?" Li Yang was puzzled.
"It's just my idea..." [Eternity] explained, "Since it is an abandoned concept, it means that it was once part of the world's cognitive system."
"If we can understand its essence, we may find a way to restrain it."
At this moment, the huge entity suddenly stopped attacking.
It was suspended in mid-air, and countless memory fragments began to rearrange, as if responding to [Eternity]'s thoughts.
Li Yang observed carefully and found that most of the fragments contained some ancient wisdom forgotten by modern civilization.
Some even represent the unique cognition of the world by some disappeared civilizations.
"No wonder..." Li Yang slowly put down the sword in his hand. After the concept disappeared, the sword also shattered in an instant, turning into scattered thoughts and gradually drifting away.
"This thing, it seems, is not attacking us, but seeking understanding."
Bai Zhi thought thoughtfully:
"It's like marginal thoughts rejected by mainstream cognition... They are not really dead, but continue to exist in this way."
"But... is this helpful for our current situation?"
[Eternity] pondered for a moment and slowly spoke:
"Maybe this is what [Source of Rules] wants us to see."
"In the confrontation at the conceptual level, there is no absolute right or wrong."
"Every concept abandoned by mainstream cognition may contain important information."
As soon as the voice fell, the entity composed of broken memories suddenly began to fluctuate violently.
Countless fragments reassembled in the air, gradually forming a vague human outline.
"We... were once part of the world."
A reverberation composed of countless voices echoed in the air.
"Until [that] appears..."
Li Yang's heart moved: "Are you talking about [the system]?"
The human-shaped phantom trembled slightly:
"No...it was an earlier existence, the source that made the rules absolute."
Bai Zhi thought thoughtfully:
"You mean...before [the system], there was already some kind of power that gradually solidified the way the world works?"
"And you...are the concepts excluded by this solidification?"
The human-shaped phantom was silent for a moment, and then began to release a large number of memory fragments around.
This time, the fragments were no longer aggressive, but arranged in some strange patterns in the air.
[Observer] suddenly screamed:
"Is this... the configuration of the original rules?"
"These abandoned concepts are the first batch of rules to be formulated."
The human-shaped shadow slowly spoke and described the past events:
"In the beginning, concepts could be freely transformed and influenced each other."
"But with the intervention of certain forces, the rules began to solidify..."
"The boundaries between concepts became clear, and those that did not conform to mainstream cognition were thus pushed to the margins..."
"We were exiled here."
