Alien Knights

When Todd regained consciousness, he found himself in a large room.

On the wall, light blue light particles flowed everywhere like water.

One after another, strange conduits are laid in every corner of the room.

Countless screens flashing different pictures floated around in mid-air regularly.

Todd looked at everything in front of him and always felt that deep in his memory, he must have been here before.

"Does it feel familiar?"

An emotionless electronic synthesized sound sounded behind Todd.

The latter turned around and saw an inverted metal triangle the size of a palm, suspended in mid-air.

In the center of the triangle, there is a dark depression, with countless stars shining like the night sky inside.

"Jingsu?" Todd asked, "Am I dead?"

Jingsu: "The concept of death is difficult to define the boundary of the virtual body, but if you just want to ask whether your body has been damaged... then, yes, you are dead."

Todd was silent for a while and then asked: "Why are you here?"

The dark depression on Jingsu's body flashed with light: "I shouldn't have appeared here, but you are a special existence... No, it should be said that you are all special existences."

Todd said doubtfully: "You? I don't understand."

Jingsu turned his body, and a red light shot out from the dark recess, slowly pulling a screen floating in the air in front of Todd.

The scene in the picture is a street that can be seen at any time on the earth.

A man who had just been drinking couldn't dodge and was hit by a car speeding behind him and flew into the air.

The scene turned and this man appeared in the room, facing Jingsu with a look of panic.

Seeing this, Todd already knew that the man in the picture was his previous life - Xia Shang.

Looking at the screen floating in the air, Todd sighed: "Are these the memories of my previous life?"

Jingsu let go of the screen and said to Todd: "Every individual with soul memory, that is, the reborn person in your mouth, they have such a space to store the memory of past lives."

Todd heard the deep meaning in the other person's words: "You mean, only reborn people have such a room?"

Jingsu: "For normal individuals, from birth to death, their souls are like disposable containers carrying information. When the body dissolves, their souls will also be decomposed into information bodies of pure energy, which pass through the dark matter and reach the outer layer. High walls. However, the souls of the reborn are special beings, they will not disintegrate, each one of them will remain intact, passing through those passages."

After listening to Jingsu's words, Todd was confused. He hurriedly asked Jingsu: "Wait a minute! You just said, dark matter, outer layer, high wall... what on earth are those?"

Jingsu didn't answer. He just turned around and opened the door to the room with a red light. He floated outside and said, "Come with me. I'll take you to see the reality."

With an uneasy feeling, Todd stepped out of the door of his soul and came outside.

The outside world is an extremely huge giant pipe.

Standing in front of the door, Todd looked up and down. Under his feet was the bottomless black abyss, and above his head was the starry sky with no visible edge.

His soul door is located on the wall in the center of the pipe. Around it, there are countless densely packed doors arranged around Todd's room.

These doors are regularly arranged and evenly distributed up and down the entire pipeline.

Jingsu slowly floated toward the light blue light beam in the center of the pipe. When he found that Todd was still hesitating in place and not moving, he said, "Come on, we need to go up."

Todd looked at the abyss beneath his feet and said hesitantly: "There is no road here."

Jingsu: "You are no longer an entity. You don't need stones and soil to provide you with a place to stay."

Todd took a deep breath and tried to take a step forward. He was surprised to find that his body could actually float in the air, no longer bound by gravity.

Jingsu: "Don't let your thinking be bound by the physical world. You need to use a new perspective to look at everything that follows."

Todd nodded and followed Jingsu into the light pillar.

In the pillar of light, all the surrounding scenery accelerated downward.

The rising speed became faster and faster, and finally only a blurry halo of light could be seen filling the outside world.

When Todd reached the end, he found himself in a nebula, with countless stars and planets moving slowly under his feet, and the aurora composed of stardust shrouded his head like a veil.

Jingsu left the light pillar, floated into the air, "looked" at Todd, and motioned for him to come out and get closer.

Jingsu watched Todd walking slowly and asked him: "Look around you, what does it look like here?"

Todd: "Huh? This is the starry sky? The nebula under our feet is a bit like the Milky Way, and the one further away is a bit like Andromeda..."

Jingsu said again: "I told you, don't let your thinking be bound by the physical world."

Todd frowned: "Being bound by the physical world?"

Suddenly remembering the identity of his soul, Todd opened his eyes wide and used his soul vision to look at the starry sky in front of him.

Soon, he was surprised to find that he saw another world.

Countless light blue particles converged into strips and pieces of fluid tracks. They overflowed from every nebula and every planet, flowing in a regular direction in a fixed direction.

Todd was extremely shocked and asked Jingsu: "Are these flowing things the souls of living things?"

Jingsu: "The word soul is not accurate to describe it, because only part of it is the biological soul, as well as the hidden body, the sea of ​​consciousness, and some things that I can't even find suitable words to describe in your language. …These things are put together, and perhaps the term incorporeal body is a more accurate description.”

Todd looked at the light blue particles, which merged into a vast blue fluid, flowing towards the distant space, and then asked: "These souls... I mean, where are these virtual bodies going?" ?”

Jingsu emitted a red light, opened a screen, and said to Todd: "To answer this question, we must first start with the simplest things."

On the screen, a huge black building appeared - the beacon tower.

Jingsu: "I think this thing should be familiar to you."

"There are three of this thing on every planet in the nebula."

"Normally, they are buried very deep in the soil, and only during a specific period of time do they rise and start working."

Todd was puzzled: "Specific time period? Job promotion?"

Jingsu: "Yes, these beacon towers will only rise and work when the virtual body is being transmitted."

Todd: "But you still haven't explained where these incorporeal bodies went."

Jingsu turned off the picture in the sky, looked at the starry sky at his feet, and said: "Don't be impatient. If you want to explain, you need to do it step by step."

"Each planet has three beacon towers. When the towers begin to transmit virtual bodies, the planets are connected to each other through the beacon towers, forming a huge and regular virtual network."

"If you zoom in further, all the nebulae in this universe, and every planet on these nebulae, will transmit their own virtual bodies through the network, and finally reach the outer wall through the pipe."

Todd concentrated, he knew that Jingsu was about to start explaining, the most important part.

Jingsu emits red light, and the image of the nebula under Todd's feet shrinks again, eventually turning into a faint spot of light.

The stream of light blue particles composed of virtual bodies was emitted, penetrated from the light spot, passed through large areas of darkness, and finally reached the edge of the universe.

This flow of light blue particles passed through something similar to a wall, entered a long passage, and finally entered another dark area and arrived at another light spot.

Jingsu asked Todd: "Do you have any questions about the process?"

Todd shook his head and said, "I don't quite understand."

Jingsu used red light to return everything he just demonstrated to its original state, and began to explain it to Todd in detail.

"In this world, those virtual particle flows containing souls will first gather at the bottom of the beacon tower, and then they will pass through the channel inside the tower and enter the planet."

"Next, the flows of virtual particles from countless planets are connected to each other, forming a network, and finally converge into a huge flow of virtual bodies."

"This huge stream of particles passes through countless galaxies and nebulae in the universe, and first reaches the edge of the core of the universe."

Jingsu focused the red light into a beam, pointed at the light spot representing the universe and said: "This light spot is the core of the universe. With the level of technology in your previous life, human beings' understanding of the universe only remains at the core of the universe - which is the light spot. Inside."

"Actually, a complete universe generally consists of three parts: core, dark matter and dimensional walls."

"The observation instruments currently used by humans can only see part of the inner core of the universe at most, and they cannot see beyond it."

"If we use volume to compare, the size of the core of the universe is about 10 to the minus twenty-seventh power of the entire universe."

Todd was confused: "10 to the power of minus twenty-seven, how small is that?"

Jingsu: "The core of the universe is very small. If you open the map of the universe according to its original proportions, you can't even detect its existence with the naked eye."

"When the virtual flow is ejected from the core, it will then pass through this huge and boundless dark area."

"That dark area is called dark matter."

"After passing through the dark matter, the void flow comes to the real edge of the universe-the dimensional wall."

Jingsu pointed to a thick fog that was constantly changing at the edge and said: "The dimensional wall is the boundary that separates different dimensions. It does not actually have the attributes of a virtual body or entity. It is the energy hedge between dimensions. Embodiment.”

"To use an inappropriate metaphor, it is like a TV screen in a broad sense. Outside the screen is the world you are familiar with, and inside the screen is a completely different dimension."

"However, this is just a metaphor. The real situation of the dimensional wall is much more complicated than the TV screen."

Todd took a deep breath: "Then the other side of the dimensional wall..."

Jingsu moved the red light again, and the picture representing the entire universe was shrunk again.

The entire universe turned into a ball the size of a marble. On the surface of the ball, countless light blue axon channels "grew", looking like a bunch of biological tentacles.

These tentacles extend outward and connect many spheres that are exactly the same as those in the universe.

And those light blue virtual body flows, passing through the axon channels between the spheres, are constantly shuttling and shining like electric currents.