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Chapter 84 World Pillar

As the ghost narrated, the story about the natural gas family slowly emerged.

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From a long time ago, the Natural Gas Tribe only lived in the same pillar, which they called the World Pillar.

Countless natural gas species have turned into liquids and live inside the pores of this World Pillar.

Although this is a hard and dense rock pillar, there are many pores inside, extending in all directions, like branches of branches, extending to all parts of the World Pillar.

In the middle of the World Pillar is a large crack that runs from top to bottom, and most of the natural gas people live in it.

But the concept of World Pillar did not exist from the beginning.

The Natural Gas Tribe was born in the World Pillar. They once believed that these pores were their entire world.

The mineral tribe in the Acupuncture Stone Forest all have innate wisdom, names and certain knowledge, and the natural gas tribe is no exception.

However, this knowledge was completely inconsistent with the environment they saw.

What is the world? Is it the space composed of these pores?

What is the sky? Is it a pore branch that goes all the way up?
  What is ground? Is it a rock wall that keeps reaching downwards?

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Although they are full of theory, they are limited by the environment and have little thirst for knowledge, and they are simply unable to integrate it with practice.

As each new generation emerges, their worldview becomes increasingly distorted.

If the world is completely different from what you know in your mind, then if you don't explore the world, it won't make a difference.

The natural gas tribe, like other mineral tribes, only has one emotion: fear.

They have no curiosity and no desire to explore the world.

Ignorance is a good thing.

There is no sense of crisis in the pores, so they just keep messing around, turning into liquid and sinking to the bottom, and then turning into gas and floating to the top.

Even more boring than the mining clan outside.

At that time, natural gas was fully capable of exploring the entire pores of the world, but no one was willing to do such a thing.

However, as long as there are too many bases, there will always be some outliers like Shibeng who look for things to do when they get bored.

These aliens among the natural gas tribe began to explore the pore space, which is the "world" in their eyes.

At that time, all the natural gas species were concentrated in the large crack in the center of the stone pillar, and they moved up and down in the large crack as the gas and liquid changed.

Among them was a strange creature who suddenly had a whim when he was bored and wanted to look around, so he set off.

He did not choose to explore up and down the large crack like other natural gas tribesmen. Instead, he found a small lateral hole and drilled out.

He drilled along the hole and memorized the route of the hole. After a long time, he actually encountered the rock wall.

At that time, the idea that the rock wall represented the ground conflicted with the knowledge in his mind.

Why is there ground everywhere?
  He felt scared, this thing was so weird.

But he didn't go back the way he came, but kept going in one direction along the rock wall.

Until he drew a circle and returned to the dot.

The world is a circle?

The strange feeling of dissonance appeared again, and a fear that reached deep into his heart filled his soul.

no! We must know what is going on and eliminate this fear!

With this sense of awe in mind, he set off and began to explore the entire pore space.

The sense of awe slowly disappeared as he explored. After spending a long time, he finally memorized the pore map of the entire world in his mind. During his travels, he returned to the Great Rift countless times and passed on his knowledge to his tribe.

When he walked through the last corner of the hole, he stood in front of the rock wall and recalled the map of the entire world. The shape of the world appeared in his mind.

The world is a pillar?
  When he had this idea, the huge sense of dissonance appeared in his mind again.

wrong!wrong!
  too frightening.

The fear he had dissipated came back again, and the huge terror of knowing something completely different from the world suddenly hit him.

Already frightened out of his mind, he returned to the Great Rift and told his horrifying knowledge to his tribe.

"The world is a pillar! The knowledge in our heads is false! There is no sky, ground, or ocean! It is just a pillar!"

"Hahahahahahahahahahahaha! It's all fake! I'm fake too!"

He finally couldn't stand the huge terror that was weighing on him and did something that no mining clan would do - commit suicide.

There is nothing scarier than knowing that your thoughts are fake.

Driven by fear, these natural gas tribes also began to explore the pores.

Then they were surprised to find that what the alien said was actually true!

The world is a pillar!
  Countless natural gas tribes began to embark on the same path as aliens, and then began to go crazy with fear.

Emotions are contagious, and the entire group cannot live as leisurely as before.

The more you know and the deeper you understand the world, the more scared you will be to the point of going crazy!
  Finally, the Natural Gas Tribe decided to execute these tribesmen who had gone crazy and spread the World Pillar Theory everywhere.

Following a collective execution, something suddenly appeared in the execution ground - red cloth.

In front of everyone's eyes, red cloth appeared out of thin air from the place where the crazy people died.

This is also the origin of red cloth.

The red cloth was quickly hidden as part of forbidden knowledge.

As time went by, the natural gas tribe slowly returned to the state of being messy and wandering around.

Fewer and fewer people know the taboo knowledge.

It wasn't until the war in the Needle Stone Forest spread to the bottom of the stone pillars, opening up the path from the Natural Gas Clan's pores to the underground cavity, that they began to come into contact with the outside world.

After contacting the outside world, the Natural Gas Tribe also communicated with other Mining Tribes and gradually learned about the entire Acupuncture Stone Forest.

It turns out that there are so many things beyond the rock wall.

It was at this time that the taboo knowledge was brought up again, and they began to understand the world again.

Only then did the Gas Clan realize that pores are not the world, and the world is not a pillar, and their knowledge is reliable.

The outside world is very big, and it all conforms to the knowledge in my mind. The place where I live is indeed a pillar, but it is only a part of the world.

The knowledge that could scare people to the point of going crazy has gradually become common sense to everyone on the road.

Knowledge is like this. If there is a slight deviation in cognitive perspective, you will fall into a situation of no return.

It was only then that the Natural Gas Clan began to call the stone pillar upon which they were born - the World Pillar.

The name also signifies that they are making peace with the fears that once hung over their heads.

Because they came into contact with the outside world very late, the Natural Gas Clan has always looked aloof from the world.

They did not join any camp and did not dare to explore. Instead, they continued to huddle within the World Pillar and observe everything in the Needle Stone Forest.

Until something unexpected happens...

(End of this chapter)