NOVPUB779: Chapter 10: The Heart of Eden of the Pit_2
779 -10: The Heart of Eden of the Pit_2
“By the time it came to our generation, I indeed could feel that Constantine was very off, this offness appeared suddenly; after a certain summer, he was as if he had become a different person.
A Yao was the Ju Mang before your generation, and I was Prometheus.
The reason we could survive and be responsible for educating you was that for a period, there was no one among humans found to replace us.”
“Was it good luck for A Yao and me, or perhaps fate did not intend to end us?
The Eden’s Heart left by Jing Jian, by our generation was finally completed.
The efforts of people over hundreds of years finally bore fruit.
But as if destiny deliberately wanted to increase the difficulty for this story, A Yao and I were surprised to find that the Orderers—the gods—had started to develop their own thinking.
The previous generation’s Child of Order had already hinted at this, but it was only when we saw it with our own eyes that we truly felt the horror.”
“Its awakening was too swift; perhaps in a few more decades, it would become a genuine intelligent life form.
It was then that I understood why Constantine had undergone such a huge personality shift, seemingly parasitized—because that was not Constantine, that was an existence named Angel Envoy, which is the god.”
“As time was of the essence, A Yao and I decided to head to the ruins of Eden to complete the final step in creating Eden’s Heart, at that time you were not yet born.
The last step of the Eden’s Heart was to go to the ruins of Eden and find the baby that was the master of Eden, to have it implant its own crystallization.”
“Indeed, we found a legitimate reason to go to the mining district following the clues left within the human Pyramid by the organization developed by the previous Child of Order and Jing Jian.
In fact, it wasn’t the first time since Jing Jian that someone had found the ruins of Eden; in the human exploration teams, there had been those who stumbled into the ruins of Eden, but they were sent back.
These people were travelers, mapmakers for mankind, and they were innocent, for every one of them died not long after their return.”
At this point, much of the content matched Tang Xian’s memories.
The ones who died were those greater scholars who had left behind the legend of the ruins of Eden.
They had entered the ruins of Eden, but it seems the baby that was the master of Eden, upon discovering that the arrivals were not the ones it had waited for centuries, was likely very angry.
However, out of appreciation for human courage and a generally favorable view of humans, the master of Eden spared these people.
Yet this kind of sparing was nothing more than a false mercy given by a deity; it was probably just to allow them to die in human territory, to return to their roots.”
“We, too, found the ruins of Eden, but this negotiation was also the end of mine and A Yao’s destiny.
The master of Eden indeed activated Eden’s Heart but deemed that A Yao and I lacked the capacity to change human destiny and conquer the Orderers.”
“It even sensed something on A Yao and me that it despised.
At that time we did not know that both A Yao’s and my bodies had already been transformed by the Orderers’ Angel Envoy.
That is the real reason the Orderers allowed us to work in the fortress of God’s Seat.
We underestimated the speed of its awakening.”
Sorrow struck Tang Xian’s heart.
It turned out the experiences of Tang Jing were also those his parents had gone through.
“We didn’t even know when we were transformed by the Angel Envoy, but A Yao and I indeed had a period of lost memories.
The master of Eden told us that around twelve years later, when the new Child of Order reached the age of about twelve, we would be replaced to become the Angel Envoy, which is the vessel of the Orderers.
Unless we went to the mining district to sever our connection with the Orderers.”
“And in the time that followed, Eden’s Heart remained at the ruins of Eden, and the master of Eden waited for us.
A Yao and I returned to the Seat of God, needing to find a human that could inherit Eden’s Heart.
This human we searched for a very long time.
I had always hoped it was Konstant, for he was the supervisor, the strongest in comprehensive abilities.
But your mother, A Yao, she insisted that you were the most humane.”
“What happened next you may also know, for you will inevitably recall this day.
At that time, A Yao and I had an argument, but in the end, I followed her suggestion, and you became the inheritor of Eden’s Heart.”
“Maybe there really is something like fate, for when you were brought to the ruins of Eden, the master of Eden’s expression when it saw you was entirely different from when it saw A Yao and me, it was as if imbued with the pleasure of revenge, as well as the wildness of proving oneself.
It was very satisfied with your qualifications.
And because of that, I became even more worried about the future of mankind.”
“You have no special talent, or perhaps in my eyes, you might have already burnt through your talent.
Maybe what you are doing is similar to what Jing Jian had done, having your own scheme, but I do not know which side you are on.”
“But later on, I gradually changed my mind.
A Yao and I did not have much time left; I could only choose to trust you.
No matter which side you were on, you are my son.
No matter what you did, if A Yao says you embody the deepest humanity, there must be a reason for it!”
“In the future, there will certainly be people who love you that arise in this world, and the future you will surely take up a certain awakening because of these people.”
