Not A God

Chapter 63

Zen let go of the mouse and loosened the box on the table and saw the little people in the box looking around in amazement, wondering where their companions who had just fallen out had gone. He found the mood-setting of these little people interesting, each with a different posture as if they were real humans locked in a box, giving him the illusion that he was keeping a box of pet humans. 

There happened to be a feeding option next to the options, so he clicked on the button and saw a lot of popcorn-like bait sprinkled in the maze grid, causing the little people to look upwards. Inside the main space Popcorn with a tantalising aroma suddenly fell from the sky, and the members of the main space, who were still hostile to each other because of the lack of resources for survival, looked upwards in bewilderment. As far as they could remember, the sky inside the main space, although azure, was not a real sky, but a virtual light screen created by Machine. It was strange enough that someone had just flown out of there, but now popcorn was falling, something so strange that everyone was confused and even wary that Machine was planning something. 

It was not impossible, after all, that Machine had been behaving strangely lately as if it had a data disorder, and anyone would believe that it wanted to destroy the world. The crowd raised their heads as their minds were wracked with speculation. As they looked upwards at the popcorn falling overhead, their eyes fell into an unprecedented dead silence as they touched the supposedly azure sky. 

A cold wind that shouldn't have existed blew through the main space, and a light grey mist followed the cold wind around the crowd. 

"......" 

No one spoke, everyone's eyes widened and their pupils trembled, reflecting everything above the sky. There, was a nameless mist. The light of the celestial bodies shone within it as if it was cloaked in a veil woven of celestial bodies and chaotic fog. From the tumbling fog, one could vaguely glimpse a corner of the vast and infinite universe within, inexplicably causing all those who glimpsed this scene to feel pain like every inch of their body was being torn apart. The confused murmurings coming from the fog penetrate the skull like a sharp knife and fork stirring the brain, forcing into it many incomprehensible phrases of unknown meaning, but chilling to the bone. 

Mist? 

The universe? 

Anyway, it was definitely not Machine. 

At this thought, the crowd, already suspicious of Machine's recent erratic behaviour, breathed a shudder and gradually felt a cold chill run through their bodies. They did not know what they had actually seen, and all their speculations seemed to pale in comparison, only that they seemed to have glimpsed something that no human being should have seen, so much so that their souls could not bear the enormous amount of information and made shattering sounds. 

 "Ahhhhhhh!!!" "...... No! NO!!! Aaaahhhh!" Some of the mentally fragile members of the main space suddenly twitched in pain on their knees, bleeding from their seven orifices, looking terrified as if they had seen something incredible, screaming and curling into a ball. 

Unable to spit out a single coherent word from their mouths, only screaming and hissing as if they were wild animals. The popcorn was still scattered and the fragrance filled the entire main space, contrasting with the screams that were rising and falling within the main space at this time. On one side was the supreme delicacy, while on the other was the appearance of humans twisting and crying under extreme pain. 

The other mentally strong members struggled to control their urge to consume the popcorn-like food and continued to raise their heads to see what was hidden behind the mist. As if to reward them for their tenacity of will, or to punish them for their excessive thirst for truth, the world in their eyes gradually dispersed the grey mists that covered the walls of the world and became clear. Clear enough to make out the huge human form that looked down overhead.