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Chapter 54 7 fingers
Lu Cheng's finger stopped on the last three words.
God won.
The pre-civilization humans fought a final battle with the upright apes, not for territory, but to refuse to become a third kind of thing that was neither black nor red.
They both refused to integrate, and then they both lost.
The god with seven fingers won.
The water dragon emerged from the bottom of the cave, with a stone shard hanging from its large fangs.
It spat the stone pieces at Lu Cheng's feet, then lay down and pawed at his boots with its front paws.
The last line of words is engraved on the stone slab.
"Those who come after you, you need not choose, for God is already among you."
Lu Cheng turned the stone over.
The back is engraved with a hand with seven fingers.
……
Taro Tanuki Country, Kyoto.
When Kerry entered the courtyard for the fourth time, he brought three things with him:
A bowl of water dragon bone soup, and a piece of cloth woven by an upright ape.
This is the one I brought last time.
The extra item I brought this time was a photograph, a photograph of the concentric circles of the Lesotho statue.
He placed the three items in front of the upright ape, then squatted down.
The upright ape first looked at the soup, then the cloth, and finally the photograph.
I spent the most time looking at photos.
Then it started writing.
"What they did in Lesotho, we will do here as well. It's not about learning from them, it's about remembering. The concentric circles were etched in our minds before we came; they weren't invented by us, they were invented by God."
Kerry's fingers tightened slightly: "Who is God?"
The upright ape wrote: "Seven Fingers, it arrived on Blue Star before us. The previous civilization was the one that coexisted with us, and God appeared at the end of that coexistence. It didn't come to mediate, it came to reap. It fused black blood and red blood into a third thing, and then took it away. The previous civilization refused to merge, so it was destroyed. This time we have come, and God will come too."
How did you know?
The upright ape's hand remained still for a long time.
Then it wrote:
"Because God is already in Lesotho, the concentric circles were not invented by hypocrites, but taught to them by God. Hypocrites think they are establishing order, but in fact they are paving the way for God."
When Kerry came out of the yard, Massa was standing outside the bamboo fence, holding a mirror in his hand.
The mirror reflected the upright ape in the center of the courtyard.
It was squatting next to the stone slab, arranging pebbles in concentric circles.
A white ring with a black dot in the center.
Then it pushes the black stone outwards, to the edge of the white circle.
Black was next to white, and didn't go out.
This is what it was set up before—black doesn't have to replace white; black can stand on the edge of white.
But today it took an extra step.
It placed a gray pebble between the black pebble and the white circle.
Not too big, not too small, somewhere between black and white.
Then it pushes the gray pebble toward the center.
Gray entered the interior of the white circle, replacing the place where black should have been.
Black is at the edge, and gray is at the center.
The upright ape raised its head and looked at Massa and Kerry outside the bamboo fence with its clear black and white eyes.
Then it lowered its head and placed a line of words next to the concentric circles.
"Gray is not us, nor is it you; gray is a third kind. God does not want black, nor white, but gray."
That night, dawn broke.
[Day 58 of the Alien Creatures' Arrival - Phase 3 Disguise Progress Update]
【约翰牛国：81%。太郎狸国：92%。雅克鸡国：79%。朱赛狼国：80%。山姆鹰国：78%。伊万熊国：75%。布尔羚国：83%。阿三国：86%。棒子国：81%。袋鼠国：84%。狮子国：87%。】
[System Notification: The Kyoto Homo erectus from Taro Tanuki Kingdom has mastered abstract symbolic reasoning. The author "Little Bowl Spicy Soup" recommends reading "Exotic Creatures Destroy Our Home? Start by Killing Homo erectus!" using the "Renren Bookstore" APP. Download and install. This individual has been confirmed as the first Homo erectus with complete symbolic reasoning ability observed on Earth.]
[System Update: The Lesotho pseudo-human coexistence model has entered its second phase—order establishment. The concentric circle hierarchy has covered all 50,000 disaster victims in Lesotho, confirming this model as the "oracle order" from the intergenerational memories of the upright apes.]
[System Final Prompt: The ultimate goal of the Divine Order is the bidirectional transformation between Black Blood and Red Blood. After the transformation, neither side retains its original ecological niche. This system cannot define a third ecological niche after the transformation.]
The light curtain went out.
Lu Cheng stood on the balcony of the Executive Government building, looking in the direction where the light screen disappeared.
The system says the third niche cannot be defined.
The previous civilization refused to merge and chose mutual destruction.
Now God has come again, through the false man of Rasotho, through the "oracular order" in the intergenerational memory of the upright ape.
It arrived on Earth earlier than upright apes and earlier than humans.
It appeared at the end of a pre-civilization period and reaped the benefits of two species that refused to merge.
Now it has reappeared.
Carrie walked up behind him: "The system said the ultimate goal of the Divine Order is a two-way transformation. What does it transform into?"
"The third kind of thing, neither black nor red. The pre-civilization humans and hominids refused and fought a final battle. They lost, and the gods won. Now the gods are starting anew in Rasotho. This time, its starting point is not at the end of the conflict between the two species, but at the very beginning of the conflict. It does not intend to wait for the humans and hominids to fight to the end; it intervenes from the very beginning."
The water dragon emerged from the cave, covered in mud, with a stone shard hanging from its large fangs.
It spat the stone fragments at Lu Cheng's feet, then collapsed to the ground.
Today it has dug to 119 meters, and is less than one meter away from the last rock face.
There was a symbol carved on the stone slab—not a word, but a hand.
A hand with seven fingers.
The hand is exactly the same as the one on the stone tablet carved with "God won" on the 117-meter-long cave wall.
Lu Cheng held the stone slab in his hand; it was icy cold.
"Almost there, less than a meter away. The previous civilization buried the last stone wall at a depth of 120 meters, and the water dragon beast will be able to dig it out tomorrow."
……
The Lesotho mountain area.
Li Wei crouched in the same spot on the hill behind Camp 7, his binoculars showing the Stone Whisperers' activities for the evening.
It did not preach, distribute food, or carve concentric circles.
It placed a mirror on the stone platform.
It was round, and I don't know which abandoned village it was found in. The mirror was covered in dust, but it was wiped clean with a cloth.
It placed the mirror flat on the stone platform, with the mirror surface facing upwards.
Then, white pebbles were used to arrange a concentric circle around the mirror.
A white ring, with a mirror in the middle, reflecting the night sky.
Then it did something that almost made Levi roll down the mountain.
It placed its left hand on the edge of the mirror.
Its hand was reflected in the mirror—five fingers.
Then it used the nail of its right paw to carve a mark on the edge of the mirror.
One mark was carved next to five fingers. After it was finished, the hand in the mirror became six fingers.
It carved another line.
Seven.
The Stone Speaker pulled his left hand back from the edge of the mirror and placed it on the stone slab.
Then it used pebbles to spell out a line of words.
The words were very small; Li Wei could barely make them out with his telescope.
"God doesn't come from outside; God comes from a mirror. Every upright ape that looks in a mirror sees two extra fingers in its reflection. It's not the mirror's fault; it's our eyes' fault. We always see ourselves with two extra fingers compared to our true selves. Humans always see themselves with two fewer fingers compared to their true selves. God isn't a third party; God is the error between us and you."
The last line of Li Wei's twelfth telegram reads:
"The Consul says that God is an error. The upright ape sees itself with two extra fingers, while humans see themselves with two missing fingers. The extra and the missing fingers add up to seven. God is not outside, but in the gaze between humans and upright apes."
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