ATDIWR Chapter 133

Chapter 133: Earth Prison Theory, Life Sharing Source

Gu Jinsheng’s face, which usually maintained a poker-face, could no longer keep its composure. He suddenly looked at Ji An, his pupils wide.

“You can understand?”

Ji An nodded. This was the reason he had suddenly chased everyone away. He didn’t know why he could understand the alien language, but he knew everyone else couldn’t, and this fact itself was definitely unusual. The human heart is unpredictable and cannot withstand testing. In the current complex national situation, it was not easy to create further complications. The best way was not to let anyone know.

“Am I very strange?” Ji An looked at Gu Jinsheng, his eyes solely focused on Gu Jinsheng. He stared intently at Gu Jinsheng’s face, not missing any change in his expression.

However, after the initial shock, Gu Jinsheng returned to his usual expressionless face, as if Mount Tai could collapse before him without him batting an eye.

He walked closer to Ji An and suddenly pulled him into his arms.

“Little An, I am not Chen Chen. You don’t have to test me.” A hint of heartache flashed in the depths of Gu Jinsheng’s eyes. “Let alone just being able to understand alien speech, even if one day you turn into an alien, I will still love you.”

Ji An seemed to hear something break the ice in his heart, and something else quietly peeked out, leaping out. Sunshine cast gold and warmth, and everything was full of vibrant life.

Gu Jinsheng held Ji An tightly in his embrace, his arms squeezing him until his ribs hurt.

“Little An, I will always be by your side. No matter what you become, I will still love you.”

Ji An’s eyes curved into crescents. The dim light made his face look even more beautiful.

“Sizzle sizzle…” The alien suddenly made a sound, breaking the romantic atmosphere in the room.

Gu Jinsheng reluctantly released Ji An, somewhat complaining that the alien lacked perception.

“What is he saying?” Gu Jinsheng asked.

“He’s calling out in pain,” Ji An said.

“Pain? Is he injured?” But they had just examined the alien and didn’t see any wounds on him at all.

Ji An didn’t know what was going on. He shook his head, looked at the alien, and asked, “We just examined you, but didn’t see any wounds on your body.”

The alien answered hoarsely, “With your current technology, there is no way to repair the problem with this body of mine. Of course, perhaps in your terms, ‘treating’ would be more accurate.”

Ji An translated the alien’s words to Gu Jinsheng. Both of them were bewildered.

Ji An asked, “In your place, is treating illnesses not called treating illnesses, but rather repairing the body?”

The alien shook its head. “We are different from you. We do not exist in a physical form, but as spiritual bodies.”

“Spiritual body?” Ji An repeated.

“Yes, in your terms, you could also call it a soul.”

“So the soul is real, and people don’t cease to exist completely after death?” This was a question that had puzzled humans for thousands of years, involving religion and belief, and Ji An was also very curious.

“The human spirit is eternal.”

“Is there reincarnation?” Ji An translated every sentence for Gu Jinsheng. When Gu Jinsheng heard this, he couldn’t help but press the question.

The alien ignored Gu Jinsheng. Its gray, hazy eyes kept looking at Ji An.

Ji An repeated the question, and only then did the alien reply, “You humans call that reincarnation, but in our view, it is another form of annihilation.”

“Why do you say that?”

“After you humans die, your spirits will be formatted by some kind of power, clearing away all memories, and then put into new bodies again.”

“Then your aliens won’t?”

“No,” the alien said. “Actually, on our planet, we exist as spiritual bodies. This way of existence has many advantages. The most basic advantage is that we are not bound by physical bodies, are not tormented by various diseases, and have no worries about lifespan.”

“You won’t die?” Gu Jinsheng questioned.

This time, the alien still ignored Gu Jinsheng’s question. Ji An knew the alien was deliberately not responding to Gu Jinsheng.

Ji An repeated Gu Jinsheng’s question. However, the alien fell silent. It chose to avoid this question.

Gu Jinsheng scoffed, “So you actually still die, is that right?”

Ji An turned to ask the alien, and the alien remained silent.

The alien was unwilling to answer. Ji An knew that if he kept pressing this question, even if he got an answer, it was likely to be an answer whose truth was difficult to discern.

Ji An no longer dwelled on this question and instead asked another question he was very concerned about. “You just said that after we Earth humans die, our memories will be formatted by some mysterious power, and then we will continue to be reincarnated. So what kind of mysterious power are you talking about?”

The alien did not refuse to answer this question, but it also did not know.

“We are also investigating what kind of power it specifically is. However, it should roughly be some kind of operating law, or the Earth’s own magnetic field. It should be a natural rule of the Earth that nurtures life.”

This passage left Ji An confused, able to understand some parts, but not others. Ji An wanted the alien to explain further, but the alien just kept repeating the same sentence.

Ji An didn’t know if there was a problem with their communication, or if in the alien’s eyes, this sentence was already quite straightforward, so straightforward that it couldn’t be explained further. It was like one plus one equals two; how do you explain that? You can’t explain it; it just equals two.

Ji An attributed this passage, which he couldn’t quite understand, to a knowledge system that his current civilization level couldn’t grasp. Once civilization improved, he should be able to understand.

“Are you thirsty? Do you want some water?” Ji An saw that the alien still seemed uncomfortable and wanted to help relieve its physical discomfort.

“No need, thank you,” the alien said. “We are different from you. Even when we wear this shell of a physical body, we cannot consume any food from Earth. Earth human food is the most powerful destructive substance for our bodies. Eating even a little bit will damage our bodies, and this shell can no longer be worn, and we will leave this shell.”

“Can you return to your planet after leaving the shell? And can you Changea new shell?”

“Yes, once we detach from this shell, we can return to our planet. Shells can be changed freely; they are not important things. Damage to the shell will not affect our spiritual body, but while our spiritual body is within the shell, if the shell is damaged, we can feel the corresponding pain as long as we are inside the shell. Once we detach from the shell, it will be fine.”

Ji An stroked his chin and thought quietly. The alien’s words gave him many inspirations.

“You just said that humans also have spiritual bodies. Can I assume that the human body is the shell? The human spiritual body is put into the shell, so it gets sick and feels pain. This is all because the shell is damaged and affects the spirit. And human lifespan is equivalent to the lifespan of the shell’s use. Whether the lifespan is long or short is just a matter of the severity of the shell’s damage.”

“Looked at this way, aren’t humans bound by the physical body? If they existed only as spiritual bodies without a physical body, humans would actually be invincible.”

The alien was silent. After a long time, it slowly said, “You are still so smart!”

Gu Jinsheng noticed the alien’s wording. “Still? Did you know Ji An before?”

“You know me?” Ji An also felt a bit strange. Why did this alien use the word “still,” making it sound as if they knew each other very well before this.

The alien did not directly answer Ji An’s question but instead told Ji An a story.

“On our planet, there has always been a legend circulating, just like the myths about the origin of Earth humans that have always circulated on your Earth.”

The alien slowly spoke. “On our planet, there circulates an ancient myth. In the vast universe, there exists a planet with scarce resources, completely unsuitable for our survival.

Moreover, this planet is equivalent to a form of restraint for us. Because once we come to that planet, our spiritual bodies will be severely suppressed, many abilities will be infinitely suppressed and unable to be exerted. Even our boundless thoughts will be limited. Matters that were simple and could be thought of easily without thinking become difficult problems that seem impossible to break through once on that planet.

And without external help, we cannot leave that planet on our own.”

Ji An almost immediately realized which planet the alien was referring to.

“The planet in your myth is Earth?”

The alien nodded.

“In our place, there is no death penalty, because death means the complete annihilation of the spirit, which is a very inhumane act. Later, our leadership decided to use Earth as a planet where criminals could be imprisoned. Each criminal would be put into a shell with a different lifespan depending on the length of their sentence.

Once the sentence was served, the prisoner could detach from the shell, and those responsible for receiving them on our end would bring the finished convicts back.”

Ji An listened. The logic of this myth was somewhat coherent, but there were also inconsistent parts.

“If Earth truly is your planet’s prison, and according to your statement, convicts can return to your planet after serving their sentence, then what happened later that caused the two planets to lose contact and the Earth Prison theory to become a myth?”

The alien looked at Ji An meaningfully, its smile seeming to hold both pride and a sigh.

“You are truly smart. Criminals with long sentences were given such long sentences because they did very excessive and terrifying things; their spiritual bodies were inherently wicked.

They were confined together with criminals with short sentences. At first, the criminals with long sentences were fine, but as one short-sentenced criminal after another was released, their own sentences were still far off, and they suffered from various physical illnesses and other torments. How could these inherently wicked people be willing to suffer such torment? They actually rebelled, killed the personnel responsible for guarding them, re-established order, and proclaimed themselves kings.”

“This matter was kept very secret. For a long time, they disguised themselves as caretakers and contacted our main planet, releasing people normally. Later, the truth came to light, and the main planet discovered the actual situation. By then, Earth had become a planet with chaotic order. The main planet found that none of the criminals exiled to Earth were innocent; they had all become fierce and combative, their spirits contaminated, with no value for salvation. So they abandoned Earth and even directly deleted Earth’s coordinates from the main planet.”

“This story has some logic to it,” Ji An did not immediately deny this myth, nor did he firmly believe it.

“I will temporarily not question the authenticity of this myth. I only want to ask, after so long choosing not to contact Earth, what reason forced you to log back into Earth, and even actively step into this place of sin in your eyes? Enduring the suppression of your spiritual bodies and the sealing of your minds and certain special abilities just to come to Earth, what is your purpose?”

“You are truly sharp,” the alien said. “I knew you would immediately think of these things.”

“Thank you for the compliment. Can you give me an answer?”

“Just for the sake of our personal acquaintance, I can tell you,” the alien said directly. “As the price of development, we have not had new life born there for a very, very long time.”

“You also need the birth of new life, so it seems you will also die.” If they didn’t face death, new life would lose its meaning and become insignificant.

The alien fell silent again, perhaps regretting its slip of the tongue.

After a while, the alien spoke again. “Our lives are very, very long, so long that we have almost forgotten that we will still die. But there are always various accidents, such as war, such as the environment, which also cruelly take away life. So we still ultimately need new life.”

“No matter how vastly different the civilizations of our two planets have developed, we are ultimately from the same source. Perhaps in you, we can find the answer we want, to regain new life and welcome the birth of new life.”

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