Chapter 75 - Chapter 75: Walled Garden
Chapter 75: Walled Garden
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
The Walled Garden was another Holy Land planet belonging to the Watcher.
Just like the Emerald Tomb, visiting here wouldn’t incur the punishment of the Watcher.
In fact, due to its excellent ecological environment, in addition to tourists and pilgrims, some biologists also had a special liking for this place. A large number of video records about the Holy Land were also spread in the Milky Way.
Of course, Li Wenyuan had also seen the recordings of these places, but he didn’t discover anything useful from them.
From all aspects, the Holy Land planets were extremely ordinary. Other than the sacred meaning given to them by the Watcher, there was nothing worth paying attention to.
“Then what would humans leave behind on these planets? What does the Watcher, who regards this place as a Holy Land, have to do with humans?”
As he pondered, the research spaceship approached the Holy Land.
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Unlike the deathly stillness of the Emerald Tomb, the Walled Garden indeed had a thriving ecological system.
In addition to various types of vegetation, a large number of strange-looking animals also formed a stable food chain here.
Li Wenyuan even saw some rare creatures that were being sold as pets at high prices in the private market. Perhaps it was not just tourists who came here, but also poachers who risked their lives for money.
However, perhaps due to the deterrence of the Watcher, the poachers only dared to engage in small-scale poaching.
They would even actively stop other poachers and carry out ecological maintenance for a certain period of time when they sensed that the food chain was about to collapse.
Perhaps they were more concerned about this place than the biologists and the Watcher.
Just as Li Wenyuan had expected, the rough scan did not yield any results. The various detectors that he had activated, including the psionic equipment, did not find anything unusual either.
He had no choice but to let a large number of drones continue to scan carefully and wait for a new round of results.
Gray Wind had also come here. However, compared to Li Wenyuan’s desire to find the remains of humans, she was obviously more interested in the lifeforms of the Holy Land.
“Did you see that? That animal can breathe fire!” She excitedly pointed at a tall deer-shaped creature that was spitting flames, her eyes filled with uncontrollable curiosity.
Li Wenyuan also noticed this scene and immediately discovered something strange about the Walled Garden.
The creatures here seemed to have a certain level of psionic ability potential.
It was like a canine whose body structure, logically, would not be suitable for flight, but its main food was actually birds.
Moreover, they did not even use sneak attacks to hunt birds that landed on the ground. Instead, they could directly fly into the sky and chased after the birds.
Such a situation was very different from the common belief of the idealistic civilization that ‘consciousness determines psionic energy’. They believed that creatures without intelligence should not be able to use psionic energy.
“But the psionic detector’s reading is normal. It only detected a thin layer of psionic surrounding the planet. It’s normal on a Holy Land.”
“Is it because the animals here have been immersed in psionic for such a long time that they have developed an instinctive way of using psionic?”
Li Wenyuan felt that something was not quite right. If psionic could be grasped so easily, the idealistic civilizations would not need to go through so much trouble to enter the void realm.
His intuition told him that this situation was related to the ruins left behind by humans.
Other than the research spaceship and the compound nanobots, someone related to the Watcher also arrived on this planet today.
To be precise, he wasn’t considered a member of the Watcher. He no longer planned on returning to that place filled with false beliefs.
“Holy Land… How long has it been since I last came here?” he murmured as he strolled along the forest path.
He was Zachlan, a Prophet who was still praised by the idealistic civilization even after he left.
As a Saint of the Watcher, his looks weren’t that outstanding. It didn’t seem to match the image of a Prophet.
The High Priest had suggested to him countless times to use genetic means to improve his physique, but he had rejected this action.
He believed that he did not have any physical defects. He was proud of his birth and his body. He did not need external interference to destroy this purity.
However, this was just a small matter in his life.
He had been an ordinary person for as long as he could remember. He was neither the Chosen One who was born with knowledge nor a psionic practitioner who possessed powerful psionic power.
He was like many ascetics in the Watcher. He trained his mental strength through meditation every day and ensured his health through labor.
Originally, his life was going to be very ordinary, but due to some accident or some unknown purpose, the ordinary Zachlan was chosen to be Prophet.
At first, he thought that God had blessed him, but he soon understood the truth behind it.
He only existed as a “spiritual idol” that gathered faith.
His name spread, and his deeds were praised by his believers.
Zachlan, who had been cultivating in the temple since he was born, only learned of his ‘sacred deeds’ of ‘traveling across the stars in the universe, influencing the Bloodthirsty Beast, and enlightening the ignorant sentient beings’ through the internet.
There were Icings from other idealistic civilizations who issued decrees to exploit the people in his name. There were also empires that had nothing to do with him that swore to fight for him, and then crazily expanded and seized resources.
He tried to explain, but all his words could be purposefully misinterpreted and become a useful “oracle”.
His fanatical believers revered him, and the enormous spiritual power he had gathered became an important part of the Watcher’s exploration of the void realm.
And he, Zachlan, a nobody, was unwillingly carried forward by the tide of history.
“Purpose and deception, greed and desire, these arc the most common things in the Milky Way. Great things are rare. Enlightened Ones, if you see this scene, will you regret your actions?”
Zachlan sighed and pushed aside the bushes in front of him.
A purple light flashed, and his vision suddenly became clear. A huge circular courtyard appeared in the dense forest.
The flowers here grew neatly. Even if no one came to maintain them, the plants seemed to maintain their growth order spontaneously.
Many animals rested here, and they could see animals that were supposed to be predators and prey interacting harmoniously.
There seemed to be a mysterious force calming all the creatures here, and the source of that force was the giant obelisk in the center of the courtyard.
An ancient aura lingered on it, but there was no sign of damage, as if time could not leave a mark on it.
Countless statues were placed around the obelisk.
These were statues of all the Saints in history that the Watchers could trace.
Even though most of them were already vague, and the Watchers only knew that such a person had once appeared in history and was called a “Saint”.
Nevertheless, they were still placed here as faceless sculptures.
Among them, the sculpture closest to the obelisk was the most special.
Its statue was the most blurry, and even its figure was only roughly visible. It seemed that even the sculptor didn’t know what it should look like. He could only try his best to show the differences between it and the other Saints.
It appeared to probably be a creature of another species. It was hard to imagine that the Watcher would erect a statue of another lifeform.
Li Wenyuan, who was still scanning the planet, detected an extremely weak abnormal wave with his psionic detector the moment Zachlan entered the obelisk courtyard.
He did not ignore of this anomaly. A large number of drones followed and soon arrived at a hole in the center of the forest.
This place looked normal, but Li Wenyuan saw an animal strolling around and disappearing into the hole.
It was obvious that there was a special space here that required psionic power to enter.
Li Wenyuan guessed that it was most likely another crack in the void realm, just like the pyramid in the Emerald Tomb..