On the streets of the sea floor, the Atabians had all become Sea Giants as beautiful as Mite Giant Beasts, thoroughly multicellular beings.
And not only had the human pilots grown larger, but the fish they piloted were even bigger, already turned into super small fish fry the size of ants, swimming in the ocean floor.
The largest of these fish were already the size of small tadpoles.
This was already a civilization that no longer needed a microscopic view to be seen.
As long as you had good eyesight, the entire kingdom's civilization was visible to the naked eye.
Li Qing found this simply wondrous.
Single-cell—fish—Merfolk Race.
This path of evolution was a wise race civilization developed under the environments of alcoholic oceans and ultraviolet light.
The small size was also due to the laboratory conditions, lacking resources.
"I wonder how my advance team is mixing in there, internal power struggles and seizure are the true means to cure the root," he said, as he squatted down with his phone, the flashlight flashing, taking a picture through the glass.
Click!
Then he opened the photo album, enlarged the photo with two fingers to observe.
"This underwater kingdom is at the level of a high-definition camera, capable of shooting an epic mythological film scene!"
Li Qing began to consider buying cameras to monitor the entire laboratory, as the microbial civilizations in these petri dishes had completely detached from single-cellularity and evolved to be visible to the naked eye.
...
At this moment.
The Atabians, calling themselves the Sea Divine Race, had invented the Divine Tree, capable of absorbing ultraviolet rays and performing special photosynthesis.
"We conquered the great flood, feeding the flood to the fish!"
"We conquered the Purple Haze Thunder, feeding the death ray to the Divine Tree!"
The Atabians were shouting.
They explored truth, pursued knowledge of the entire world, ardently thought, having evolved from fish to underwater humans, underwater Divine Trees, to various coral reefs.
Their pride made them unwilling to submit to the gods above! After several days, their population, once six trillion, dwindled to seven hundred billion, showing extreme devastation, and in the prolonged war between man and god, the Atabian population was left as only a hundred times that of Earth's population.
Yet the present larger size, typically like mites, had instead formed a grand civilization nation, appearing as an unprecedentedly brilliant spectacle visible to the naked eye.
And they attempted to turn into giants, to grow bigger! To challenge the gods with mortal bodies!
However, their wise men shockingly discovered that once their cell numbers increased, the entire structure would become uncontrollable, and they would revert to short-lived life.
One must know they had achieved longevity early on, the bacteria had been long-lived from the start, understanding the simple structure of single cells, cellular aging, telomere damage?
What was that?
With simple body structures, repairs were easy.
But if they became complex beings, with more cells, it became chaotic, impossible to repair individually, a giant complex internal ecosystem would become uncontrollable, leading to aging.
"We cannot grow larger; this present size is the limit. Large multicellular life, we cannot achieve structural stability."
Emperor Atabia, now a tiny mite human, transferred hatred to all subjects, establishing a common enemy of civilization, accusing someone:
"This must be the curse of the Evil God. Once we try to become truly gigantic beings, our lifespan reaches its end, rapidly dying of old age. One day, we will break him!"
The charismatic Emperor Atabia made a complete vow to the world:
This time, the Atabians would strike back against the Outer Evil God, building a god-slaying weapon!
A towering structure rose abruptly in the ocean's center.
This was a grand tower standing magnificently on the ground: the Tower of Babel.
And the King of Atabia commanded the world's seven hundred billion Sea Race Fish People to unite and build this tower, raising its height to rival the heavens!
The Atabians wanted to secure the tower's foundation on the earth realm's chest, with the spire piercing the clouds, ready to meet the Giant God!
Meanwhile, Li Qing's expedition team had secretly taken root.
In the shadowy, dim sea floor palace of the Church.
"The arrogance and self-assuredness of humans cannot be described by any text; it is a cruelty rooted deep in the soul, a greed inherent from original sin."
Within the Light Church, the Pope worshiped an idol, leading a group of new recruits in reciting the Bible:
"God saw that the wickedness of man on earth was great, disrespecting the creator, descending a great flood to decimate the world, yet offering a thread of hope by having Noah build an ark."
"And after the great flood, man did not repent; again divine lightning was sent to cleanse the earth of original sin."
"But now, Emperor Atabia's desires swell even grander, attempting to reach outer heaven!"
"Thus, the cruel, tyrannical emperor, built the Heaven-Reaching Tower, which angered the god, causing us to be sent into this world, voicing other conscious sounds to prevent the construction of this sinful Babel Tower."
"Oh True Lord, forgive the people of the earth~~"
"Merciful Lord, I am guilty~"
"Prayer and repentance shall be the road to the Holy Hall~~"
All the church believers present hummed, firmly believing:
The arrogance and ambition of Emperor Atabia would ultimately anger the god entirely! Leading the Atabians to destruction, the tyrant would guide them on a path to extinction!
Only through their clandestine infiltration, obstruction, assassination, preventing the completion of the Tower of Babel, and ushering the divine radiance to descend upon this world, ruling the earth, could be the only possibility to save this world.
The entire Atabia Kingdom was long surging with undercurrents.
Snap.
Li Qing took a photo, the flashlight illuminating all the Atabians.
The third generation of Atabians had long since evolved into the Sea Race. On the glass wall, a specially built small observation tower was constructed to observe the world beyond the glass.
A guard post holding a bone-spined trident suddenly shouted, "The Evil God is coming, the Evil God is coming again..."
A tall and handsome Atabian scribe emerged from the house, holding a transparent square slab of cell stone, inscribed with rows of genetic text.
The historian looked at the vague gigantic Evil God outside the crystal wall of the sky, feeling both excited and fearful, yet writing down rows of text:
"After the great flood, the apocalyptic purple heavens descended. The God beyond the heavens, seeing that the people of our earth were not yet destroyed, discovered the great Emperor of Babelonia Kingdom leading the mortals on earth to build the Tower of Babel. God felt both surprised and angry!"
Li Qing: "….."
Now, where is the surprised and angry God? Although history is written by the victors, is it really okay to just create random stories like this? He looked south of the kingdom, at an ordinary white tower base the size of a water pipe, standing five to six centimeters high on the ground.
Countless engineers were driving away towering Sea Giants, working day and night to build this white tower, exhausting the entire nation's resources.
Is this the Tower of Babel, a weapon the Atabians used to slay deities?
What is the principle behind it? What are they preparing to do?
"They have become proactive, even wanting to strike back," Li Qing stood outside the glass window, somewhat silent.
On the watchtower.
A historian was incredibly excited:
"As we guessed, the Evil God, He is too powerful to easily descend upon our world!"
"Evil God! We discovered your wickedness long ago!"
"Unable to descend, the bloody and cruel you can only send cultists to infiltrate our world, to divide our rule, to assassinate the great emperor of our world! To stop us from building the Tower of Babel!"
It seems that their church has been exposed, wanted throughout the kingdom.
"Look! He can only gaze through the world's crystal wall, beyond the chaos, with a terrifying form, an indescribable monster, watching us with evil eyes!"
"He has a bloated, fat, gigantic body, his exterior like an abyss, from which numerous vast pits constantly oozing a massive amount of foul, sticky slime, within which black tower-like structures occasionally stand."
Pits and slime?
Indeed, Li Qing just back from exercising, was dripping with sweat.
Li Qing once again thought their civilization's linguistic domain was very sophisticated.
Without the slightest fear or reverence, Li Qing casually took off his sports jacket as if he were at home, displaying his well-toned and smooth upper body, brought over a chair, and sat before the glass, staring at them.
Some scholars, fearless and upright, risked their lives to document a piece of historical record: "He sheds his evil outer skin, revealing his flowing, oceanic currents, sweeping over the countless writhing tiny subjects on his surface."
"Separated by a world's crystal wall, when I gaze at Him, it is as if He is also staring at me from beyond the world; He is indescribable, His voice unheard, that frenzied consciousness enough to drive us insane, His colossal orifice emits rippling hymns enough to shake heaven and earth!"
Li Qing slightly furrowed his brow.
There was no time to say anything.
Across the enormous glass window, someone at the far corner had secretly breached the empire's border defenses, approaching the wall's exterior.
It was a group of zealous cultists, emitting the aura of their subordinates, shouting at him: "God has descended; we pray to You, revealing the sins and foundations committed by Atabians over the years!"
Great, a traitor has appeared.
Li Qing's expression turned peculiar behind the glass.
After all, the large glass wall, this vast border now seemed to be guarded by the empire's forces, yet the church had still managed to break through.
In the distance, an Imperial Border Guard quickly approached, led by the Imperial Hero Herodotus, riding on the shoulder of a Sea Giant, swiftly charging forward:
"Quick! Quick! Stop these followers of the Evil God!"
"They have been bewitched by the evil whispers of the Evil God, they betray the Atabians, spilling our internal affairs to the world outside!"
"Quickly capture them!"
The imperial elite forces attacked.
Li Qing slightly furrowed his brow, the empire's think-tank indeed had some skill.
They confidently assumed that as an Outer God, he couldn't descend into this world, daring to attack his informants in front of him?
Dong!
He lightly tapped the glass window in one area with his fingernail.
The entire force pursuing them on the opposite glass seemed to experience a level seven earthquake, the intense glass vibrations causing these tiny ants to fall to the ground instantly.
The entire Imperial Royal Guard fell into the ocean, tumbling like dumplings.
"Welcome the great Eternal God! The True God who created the entire world! The Celestial Lord of the Atabians!"
The leading Pope who successfully breached the border line excitedly shouted, and the fanatical believers instantly knelt, gazing at the majestic heavenly giant, a stance as grand as the Supreme God Demon.
How powerful!
How magnificent!
The followers became even more fervent.
He used Divine Technique from beyond the world, needing no entrance; the world's entire crystal wall quaked intensely, instantly defeating the most elite Imperial Guard.
If He could be welcomed across the world barrier into this realm, then this world would be incapable of resisting such a divine power!
God will descend, bringing the day of judgment.
God will cleanse the original sins of the Atabians anew.
"Speak."
After eliminating the pursuing Royal Guard, that Supreme God outside the world, majestic yet gentle, spoke: "The people of the earth, working day and night together to build the Tower of Babel, what exactly is it?"