Chapter 1 (1/2)
Original Author:Yuan Tong(远瞳)
Translator: akes117
Unknown date.
Underground World still be peace as it always be,no wind,rare cloud,observing areas are available to see.
Gawain calmly looks down the far land as an absolute dominate version,calmly contemplating about life——after all ,he(or it)can't do anything but thinking.
He couldn't remember how many years he had been in this state, or what he looked like now. Although he could make a rough judgment about time which based on the cycles of day and night. Actually after thousands of cycles he did not bother to count.
Did I suppose to cross through the world?
In fact,Gawain was welcomed to cross,it is not to say that he already have such a great consciousness to have no fear of death, but when the plane fall down,he realized how impermanent of life before he died. Besides, comparing with the definite death, having a cross is better than any situation. He just wondered why to float in the sky after crossing through the world.....
And floating in the sky.....for thousands years....
Gawain don't know what kind of state of his body, he can't transfer perspective, he also can't feel the existence of his body, what's worse, except the visual,he has completely lost all senses to feel the external environment.Thus he can't confirm whether is a wisp of residual soul or a floating corpse on the orbit of the s.p.a.ce.
The only thing he can certain is that now he is not in a normal state of human.
For he can be sure that a mental structure of a normal human being would never have been able to think as clearly, remember as well, or even think as if he had been alone for thousands years.
Mortals can't take this.
But he is still keeping in conscious,even with a super clear memory.
Over ten thousands years of journey does not destroy Gawain memories, nowadays he can still clearly remember his end at the last minute of his life, shrill scream, alert warning, violent vibration of the airplane, the roiling outside screen sight, and neighbors,trying to wear breathing mask but failed, as well as the disintegration of the aircraft in the air with a loud Boom.
So clear as if everything happened yesterday, and he could clearly remember how shocked he was to open his eyes again after the BANG and find himself floating over a strange planet.
From the moment he opened his eyes again, he realized that he was not looking through the earth's land and sea, so he spent some time figuring out and accepting the fact that he was in a different world, and then spending far more time trying to stop floating like this.
Shamed he failed.
He found himself been ”immobilized,” or perhaps he just can't move his body, looking down the earth with a ”fixed perspective” , and stuck in the present position.He can look at the earth, but he can only look at the earth, and even he can only look at a confined area of the earth -- an irregular land around by ocean, his limited vision does not see much wider .
He couldn't turn his eyes from side to side, and couldn't be sure that there was no other land beyond the sea ---- he even had not yet been able to see what the stars looked like in this world for the same reason .
He wasn't even sure if there were other planets in the world - maybe when he turned his head and then will see a G.o.d with a white beard s.h.i.+ning a spotlight on everything.
d.a.m.n it, I want to backstroke...
Even if after the backstroke the only thing he can see is a weird white-bearded G.o.d holding a spotlight s.h.i.+ning upon everything is fine......
However, his desire is an unreachable hope, this overlooking perspective is unable to change the direction.
But after a long time of trying, Gawain found some operable part of the sight -- he couldn't move from side to side, but he could magnify and shrink the sight, or to say—— he could zoom in or out of it.
After discovering it, he was really happy for a long time, and then he tried to stretch his vision in all kinds of ways, although it stretched as far as possible ,it was still limited in this isolation land , at least he could choose to see what happened on the land.
It was green and full of life, clearly alive.
Although only floating here,it is good to see alter world people's daily lives and customs to divert some boredom ,doesn't it?
Then he drew his vision closer and closer,finally got to the nearest point where he could clearly see the gra.s.s and the trees on the ground.
That day, he despaired,that the land ,full of mammals ...
None had learned to walk upright.....
But never mind, Gawain had patience -- maybe he had no patience when he was alive as a human, but after crossing into a overlooking eye-sight, he found that he really become so patient.
He waited until those monkeys learned to walk upright.
Many years later, he witnessed the birth of the first artificial fire.
A flint-making fire.
After the birth of that spark ,the changes happened.