Meng Chao could not see anything.
It was as if six pure white walls had appeared around him at the same time. They stretched endlessly toward the horizon and the depths of the universe, sealing all of his senses in a pure white cube.
After an unknown amount of time, a large number of windows that resembled screens appeared on the interior of the cube.
They were all from the monster's point of view.
Countless monsters' roars, wails, moans, and the sounds of them being reduced to ashes could be heard in the air.
However, all the windows and sounds were shut off and cut off at lightning speed.
It was as if someone had cut off the power.
It was only then that Meng Chao realized that he was reading the memories of the real microbrain, or rather, the mother's body.
As the ancient civilization's space-based orbital weapons blew the horn of Ultimate Destruction, the eyes, ears, tentacles, claws, and teeth of the mother were instantly reduced to ashes.
This meant that the mother's senses and influence toward the galaxy were gradually taken away.
Before the monsters died, they sent the last bit of information back to Meng Chao.
Meng Chao saw the monsters that rushed out of the atmosphere. Regardless of whether it was the Ancient Golden Eagles or the monster horde, they were all vaporized within 0.1 seconds. Not even a single molecule was left.
The monsters that remained on the ground and moved forward to form the Flesh Stairway were also engulfed in a boundless sea of fire within a few seconds. They were burned to a crisp.
The Sky Tower that was hundreds of kilometers tall collapsed. Countless monster carcasses were torn to shreds while they were still in the air. They turned into illusory black smoke.
The ground was melted by the powerful light and turned into boiling magma. It seeped into every crack and cave on the surface, burning or suffocating countless monsters lurking underground to death.
The monster horde that seemed to cover the sky and devour everything was wiped out in just a few minutes.
Of course, the primordial city itself, as well as all the facilities that the 'ancient people' had built on the surface of the planet, and all the traces left behind, had also been wiped clean.
Faced with the unparalleled power of the space-based orbital weapons, the magnificent, soul-stirring battle of the city that had just taken place was like a vicious joke.
From the looks of it, it wasn't that the ancients couldn't do anything to their creations.
However, the space-based orbital weapons were so powerful that they could burn a vigorous planet into a lifeless glass ball in the blink of an eye.
Therefore, unless it was absolutely necessary, the Ancients were not willing to kill.
Such a destructive attack would at least delay the development of this planet by hundreds to tens of thousands of years.
It was even possible that the planet, which had abundant spiritual energy, a pleasant environment, an atmosphere, and a moderate distance from the star, which was very suitable for carbon-based intelligent life to thrive, would completely lose its value of development and utilization.
The infuriated ancient would naturally not let the culprit go.
Therefore, the area where the 'mother' was, and the 'heavenly pit' at the center of the Hidden Fog Desolate Domain billions of years later, suffered the most ferocious bombardment.
In an instant, the mother's tentacles that protruded from the ground and the crystal pillars that nurtured monsters were uprooted and disintegrated into the most basic elements.
The ground caved in deeply, and a huge pit with a diameter and depth of more than a thousand meters appeared.
More than 50% of the mother's active tissues were vaporized and destroyed. Not a single bit of residue was left behind.
The shockwave, which had yet to fade away, continued moving underground and created countless earthquakes along the way. Thousands of intersecting cracks appeared on the mother's body and the rock strata around it.
Magma seized the chance to pour in and burned the 50% of the mother's active tissues that had not died into coke. Then, it melted the coke.
The mother knew that disaster was about to befall it.
But it had never been an independent creature. Instead, it was a huge amalgamation of living things. It was a man-made resource gathering base and monster factory.
Even though it had great gathering, production, and commanding abilities …
Its mobility was practically zero.
After losing the monster army, which served as its eyes, ears, and claws, the tentacles and organs that were spread out within a circular area of nearly one hundred kilometers could not withstand the bombardment from the space-based orbital weapons.
The giant brain, which was buried deep in the core of the huge body, could only instantly secrete a sticky liquid that was filled with metal and rock components outside its cerebral cortex to form a protective layer that was similar to a skull. Even so, it could not withstand the invasion of the shockwave and magma. 99% of its brain cells instantly died.
The array of 'microbrains' hiding below the 'colossal brain', on the other hand, grew tentacles that looked like flagella and fled like plankton. One after another, they were caught up by the blast and the magma, enshrouded, swallowed, and obliterated.
Meng Chao felt that the mother was like a paraplegic that was thrown on a beach at high tide.
It could not do anything.
It could only watch the tide of death drown its toes, ankles, calves, knees, thighs, pelvis, abdominal cavity, chest, neck, chin, mouth, nostrils, and eyes inch by inch.
In the end, it was completely enveloped by endless darkness.
However, at the moment it was about to die, the mother did not show any fear.
In fact, it did not show the anger, hunger, and killing intent it had when it attacked the ancient city.
The only thing that flashed in the depths of its consciousness and shone in front of Meng Chao's eyes was the incredibly distant, dazzling, and alluring star he saw when he broke through the atmosphere.
The star froze.
The mother's final consciousness sank into eternal slumber.
For a long period of time, new memories did not flash in its mind.
This allowed Meng Chao to finally sigh in relief and get rid of the shock to his soul brought by the ancient war.
He could also organize all the information he gathered from the past and future under the frozen star and think about it quietly.
'Looks like there was an accident that swept through the entire planet in the Other World during the ancient times. It's similar to a virus leaking and genes going out of control.'
Meng Chao's mind raced, and he thought about it quickly. 'The mother and the monsters were originally created by the ancients to modify the planet and push their civilization forward. But for some reason, the mother, which was a resource gathering base, lab, and weapon factory, awakened to its own consciousness and controlled all the monsters to fight against its creator and master.
'This accident is definitely not as simple as what I saw in the memories of the microbrains.
"You must know that the 'microbrain' is just one of the 'mother's' thinking units. There are at least thousands of similar thinking units in the 'mother's' body.
'By using the microbrains and the endless monster horde, the mother had the ability to attack more than one hundred ancient cities at the same time from every corner of the planet.
'This is a real natural disaster, a disaster!
'In the beginning, the ancients seemed to want to use normal methods to quell this disaster.
'After all, the price to pay for using space-based orbital weapons was too devastating. Not only would the ancients have to work hard to manage the planet, everything they built would be destroyed. In fact, the entire ecosystem of the planet might have to be rebooted, and it would take millions of years or even longer before it could regain its former glory.
'But under the mother's command, the strength of the monster horde far surpassed the ancients' expectations.
'As the ancient cities fell and were destroyed one after another, the mother evolved monsters that could survive and fight in the vacuum of space. It could even build a Flesh Ladder that was hundreds of kilometers tall. It was only one step away from using monster carcasses and living monsters to build a geosynchronous network around the planet!
'The ancients could no longer ignore the threat of the mother and monsters.
'They had no choice but to burn the rich planet and all the living things on it into high-temperature glass balls!
'All the ancient beasts were reduced to ashes.
'Even with the mother's size and strength, it could not withstand a full-powered strike from the space-based orbital weapons.
'99% of its flesh and blood had lost its activity.
'Only the last microbrain was left. It was lurking underground, and with the cover of the huge carcass, it managed to escape the search and attack of the ancients.
'But because the environment on the surface of the planet had become really bad, it was not suitable for carbon-based living things to survive and evolve.
'So, the microbrain and the remaining 1% of its living tissue entered a long slumber, as if it was in a state of suspended animation.'
Meng Chao sorted out the cause and effect.
He now had a deeper understanding of the Primordial Era's civilization and war.
But he did not feel as if he had come to a realization.
Instead, more mysteries rose in his mind.
First of all, no matter how devastating the price of destroying everything was, the ancient civilization had won the war to quell the rebellion.
Even if all the ancient cities on the ground were destroyed along with the monster horde, the geosynchronous network above the atmosphere and the cities in the sky were unharmed.
At the very least, the orbit network above the atmosphere and the City in Space were undamaged. The ancient people could still live and develop their civilization in the City in Space.
Billions of years later, the sequelae of the space-based orbital attacks had long since healed.
The ground had regained its vitality a long time ago. Hundreds of humanoid creatures and intelligent races had appeared, just like the Big Bang.
Why was it that he did not find any traces of the ancients?
When the first shoots grew on the devastated land, shouldn't the ancients have descended from the cities in the sky to modify and use the planet?
Also, the memories of the microbrain told Meng Chao that during the ancient war, the atmosphere of the Other World was not much different from that of Earth. At the very least, there was no barrier that could stop carbon-based living things from flying out of the planet.
But why was it that the Dragon Citizens who transmigrated to the Other World could not break through the atmosphere of the Other World no matter what they did?
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