Chapter 678: Literal Meaning

The light faded, and Li Yang and Ella found themselves in a desolate desert.

In the distance, a blood-red sun was slowly sinking into the horizon, dyeing the whole world with a strange red color.

"This is..." Ella looked around and began to be cautious.

Li Yang frowned and said: "It seems that the transmission of [Water Lily] was disturbed... It interfered with our original itinerary. This place is obviously not my original goal..."

"But... What kind of existence can have the power to affect the mythical plants?"

Before the voice fell, the yellow sand in the sky began to dissipate bit by bit.

The surrounding scenery became clear, and a huge pyramid was revealed between the high and low sand dunes in the distance.

The surface of the pyramid was covered with strange runes, flashing strange light under the reflection of the setting sun.

A golden sun stood right above the pyramid, emitting rolling heat waves.

"That is..." Ella widened her eyes.

Li Yang nodded slightly and said:

"Although it was sent to a strange place...but if nothing unexpected happens, this thing is likely to be the [heart] of this world."

"Let's go and take a look."

Just as the two were about to leave, another gust of wind suddenly hit.

The sand and dust obscured their vision, and when the wind stopped, they found themselves surrounded by a group of mysterious people in cloaks.

The leader stepped forward and took off his hood, revealing the face of a young woman.

She had deep black eyes and bronze skin, and looked like a native of this desert.

"Who are you?" she asked in a strange accent, "Why are you here?"

Li Yang could kill all these unknown guys with just a wave of his hand, but out of politeness, he calmly answered:

"We are just two travelers who happened to pass by here, nothing worth noting."

The woman stared at Li Yang for a while, and suddenly showed a surprised expression: "Wait, you...you are the existence in the painting!"

"It's the Lord God!"

"So...what the elder said is actually true!"

She turned around and said something to the others, and then turned to Li Yang and Ella:

"Dear guests, it's a great honor to meet you! Please follow us!"

"Whatever questions you have, you will definitely get answers from us!"

In response, Li Yang just smiled.

Looking at the civilization structure of these guys in front of him, which is like the natives of the tribe, the level of technology is probably not that high.

Not to mention the abnormal interference of cross-universe transmission, I'm afraid they don't even know what the universe is.

In this situation, I am afraid that these people think of me as an alien.

Li Yang did not think that these guys could answer his questions, but seeing that the road they led was to the pyramid, he followed this mysterious group of people with curiosity.

They came to a hidden entrance at the foot of the pyramid.

After passing through the winding passage, they entered a spacious hall.

In the center of the hall sat a white-haired old man, his eyes covered with a black cloth, holding a scepter inlaid with gems in his hand.

"Welcome! Travelers from another world!"

The old man said in a hoarse voice, "I am the elder of this tribe and the guardian of [heart]."

Hearing the familiar words from the old man, Li Yang was slightly startled and suddenly a little confused:

"Do you know [heart]?"

The old man nodded and said: "Of course, because this is exactly what you... what you left behind."

"If it weren't for the prophecy you left behind, we wouldn't have been able to hold on until now."

"Prophecy?" Ella was a little curious about these two words from the beginning.

As if to answer her doubts, the old man slowly said:

"Our world...is a world whose lifespan is infinitely close to the end and should have been annihilated long ago."

"But, it was you who...reached out to our dying world and gave us the warm sun when we were about to freeze to death in the endless cold night..."

"It was you who saved us, and you also left a prophecy. When you come next time, it will be the day to bring salvation to our world."

Li Yang thought: "Save your world? So what trouble are you in?"

The elder sighed: "The sun in our world is dead..."

"But you...suddenly appeared more than a hundred years ago. "

"But this sun gradually lost control as you disappeared. "

"It became hotter and hotter, causing the originally green world below to become an expanding sea of ​​sand. "

"If this progress continues, within a hundred years, this world will be swallowed up by this infinitely expanding sun. "

"According to the prophecy you left behind, you will reappear in the place where you originally appeared one day in the future..."

The elder's voice lowered,

"Only you... can bring salvation to those of us who should have died long ago."

The "you" in the old man's words is basically the self in other universes who have been here before.

And according to the old man, the sun in the sky is the [heart] left here by the former self.

Because the sun of this universe has dried up, that person used the [heart] he collected to create a fake sun for them.

But because the original host was missing, this fake sun eventually went out of control.

Wrapped in the blazing and boundless flames, it was about to engulf the world.

That person may have foreseen such a result a long time ago. In order to prevent the situation from getting out of control, he set up a certain interference transmission position here.

When he used the [water lily] to transmit across the universe, there was a chance that he would be interfered and sent here.

Since he was here... no matter what, he had to get that thing.

"Li Yang, what are you going to do?"

Seeing that Li Yang seemed to have made up his mind, Ella beside him asked casually.

Li Yang naturally replied calmly:

"Of course, I will take this [heart] directly."

"This is not their thing in the first place. It should be reasonable for me to take it back, right?"

This is a very reasonable statement.

Ella was slightly stunned, then nodded without commenting.

But this undisguised statement dumbfounded the natives who had just brought Li Yang here.

The bronze-skinned woman in the lead was stunned and murmured:

"Wait...wait..."

"Aren't you going to fix it?"

"The [Heart] is something you gave us. Now it has a problem, shouldn't you fix it?"

"What do you mean by taking it away!?"

Li Yang narrowed his eyes slightly, swept his sharp eyes over the crowd, and replied lightly:

"Literally."