This time, the 'mother' slept for a longer period of time than the last time.
Meng Chao felt that it wanted to sleep until the end of time. It wanted to rely on its most instinctive regeneration ability to slowly repair itself from 1% until its huge body recovered to 100%.
Because it lacked enough roots to entangle and absorb the crystal vein.
It could only passively absorb extremely weak spiritual ripples.
The entire restoration process was extremely slow. It might take tens of millions of years, or even longer.
But the Matrix didn't care.
The bigger its appetite, the better its patience.
Since the stars wouldn't be extinguished for billions of years, time didn't mean much to them.
However, this long slumber and recovery had only just begun when it was forcefully interrupted once again.
The 'mother' had awakened once more.
He also sensed strong earthquakes and spiritual waves.
The space in all directions was shaking, squeezing, merging, and exploding like a landslide.
Affected by the high temperature and high pressure, countless rocks turned into overflowing magma and corroded the body of the 'mother' that had just recovered after a long time.
The Matrix was once again threatened with death.
He had no choice but to wake up prematurely in an extremely weak and incomplete state.
Using the energy and resources that were supposed to be used to repair his body, he created tentacles that were as thin as a cow's hair to observe the surroundings.
The 'mother' smelled the scent of the ancient civilization.
Some of the sophisticated equipment left by the primordial civilization, after billions of years of silence, began to rumble again. They absorbed the spiritual energy around them and resonated with the natural magnetic field, affecting the space within a thousand square kilometers.
The parent's first reaction was that the Ancients had returned to the planet.
It wanted to run away in panic.
But before he could evolve limbs and tentacles to move, he couldn't even move half a millimeter.
However, the 'mother' soon realized that the ones that appeared around its nest were not the real 'ancients'.
Instead …
"Peach Blossom Town?"
In the mother's memories, Meng Chao saw the iconic twin towers and the skyline of the city that rose and fell.
He recognized it at first glance. It was Peach Blossom Town, one of the ten satellite towns of Dragon City, which had transmigrated to the Hidden Fog Desolate Domain.
'So, the mother was awakened by the dimensional storms and spirit energy ripples caused by Dragon City and Peach Blossom Town transmigrating to the Other World.'
Meng Chao came to a realization. 'Based on the original plan, the' mother 'wanted to sleep here comfortably for tens of millions of years or even hundreds of millions of years. It wanted to recover from its injuries and return to its peak before it broke out.
"Who would have thought that the arrival of the Earthlings would disrupt its entire plan.
"Although Earthlings are not the real 'ancients', and we don't have technology as powerful as the gods and devils, we are still inextricably linked to the 'ancients'. Once we inherit the technology and power left by the 'ancients' in Ruin No.1, it is very likely that our civilization will develop explosively.
"With Earthlings' personalities, they'll only feel uncomfortable if they don't go looking for trouble. Once their civilization level explodes, they will definitely dig deep and try to take all the resources in Monster Mountain Range for their own use.
"In that case, the Earthlings will definitely discover the existence of the 'parent'.
"If it is still sleeping at that time, it will be a fish on the chopping block waiting to be slaughtered!"
It was only then that Meng Chao understood that the human civilization and the monster civilization were actually afraid of both sides.
Earthlings might be troubled by the endless stream of ferocious monsters.
In truth, the 'parent' did not want to wake up prematurely while it was still 'weak' and end up in a bloody battle against the Earthlings.
But Peach Blossom Town, which came from Earth, had already slapped the 'parent' in the face '.
It could not possibly ignore it and just sit back and do nothing.
Hence, the 'parent' mobilized all its resources and temporarily created a rather independent organ to spy on Peach Blossom Town's development in the dark. It researched the characteristics of human civilization and made all preparations in terms of information, resources, energy, and soldiers for the clash between civilizations that was bound to come.
This organ was the wisdom tree.
The wisdom tree was the first Supernatural Entity created by the 'parent'.
In a certain sense, it was also its clone.
It was a fully weakened version of the 'parent's clone'.
Everything that happened next was similar to what the wisdom tree had told Meng Chao in the past.
By the looks of it, the wisdom tree had not lied. There were two reasons for the destruction of Peach Blossom Town.
One of them was the threat from the monsters.
Perhaps it was because the mother was lurking underground, but its incredibly weak vitality magnetic field could still form a subtle resonance with the spirit energy in the crystal mine around it, so that the spirit energy seeped into the cracks underground and gathered in the depths of the cracks to form a new crystal mine. It slowly but steadily grew in the direction where the mother was.
The crystal mine attracted a large number of monsters to live there. The diamond-shaped crystal did not manage to get rid of all the carbon-based creatures on the planet, so life would naturally find a way out.
The 'parent' might be asleep, but its vitality magnetic field could still provide guidance and protection for the carbon-based creatures, which allowed a large number of carbon-based creatures to gradually evolve into weakened versions of ancient fierce beasts. It also turned Hidden Fog Wild Domain into a paradise for monsters once more.
Peach Blossom Town had unfortunately transmigrated here, and its tragic end was already set in stone.
Speaking of which, there was a lack of resources, hope was gone, and order had collapsed. In such an apocalyptic world, humans had one hundred ways to easily destroy themselves. There was no need for them to use the monsters' claws and fangs.
The wisdom tree was right. In the face of the pressure of survival, Peach Blossom Town had indeed had many internal conflicts.
In every internal conflict, the rebel who claimed to represent justice and the masses would always swiftly transform into an even more deplorable evil ruler after defeating the evil ruler, only to be overthrown and killed by the new dragon slayer who was destined to become an evil dragon.
This tragedy repeated itself, and it made people wonder whether Peach Blossom Town had sunk into a never-ending cycle of hell.
Meng Chao also saw Jin Qianxi in the 'parent's' memories.
More accurately speaking, he saw Jin Qianxi's remains.
She had indeed been swallowed by a gigantic Tiger Leaping Fish in one gulp and swam upstream, bringing her to the source of Red Dragon River and Tiger's Wrath River. Then, she was discovered by the mother's clone, the Wisdom Tree.
Even though she only had half of her chest and a brain left, the powerful spirit energy surrounding Jin Qianxi still made the 'parent' treat it like a treasure.
It has to be known that at that time, the 'parent' was still very weak. It had not even recovered 1% of its fighting strength at its peak.
If it could devour Jin Qianxi's body, assimilate her soul, and absorb all of her spirit energy and life force, it would be able to speed up the recovery, evolution, and awakening of the 'parent'.
Hence, for the first time in its long life, the "mother" who had modified and controlled billions of monsters and could form monster hordes that filled the sky with just one thought and could even make monster carcasses pile up like mountains to form sky towers and pierce through the sky, for the first time in its long life, it "lowered its status" and sent an "invitation" to a carbon-based intelligent creature that was on equal footing.
'Fuse into my life.'
At that time, the 'parent' had already mastered the language and thought process of Earthlings through its observations of Peach Blossom Town.
It sent a message to Jin Qianxi's brain. 'I am a unique intelligent life form born on this planet.
'I have intelligence, and I understand civilization.
'So, I will not take away your strength, thought process, or will.
'It's the opposite. If you fuse with me, I will give you brand new power and a body so that you can carry out your own will.
'Regardless of whether it is to take revenge on the people who once humiliated, hurt, and tortured you, protect your own kind, build your civilization, or figure out the secrets hidden in the ancient ruins, figure out … where we came from, and what sort of mission we have on our shoulders, you can do whatever you want.
"You can do whatever you want, whatever you want to do.
'As long as you completely open up your brain and heart to me and become a part of me … No, become a brand new life form that is stronger and wiser, a part of us.'
The 'parent' showed Jin Qianxi the power it once possessed.
It included the fleeting images of the ancient war during its peak.
'Both of us are damaged and incredibly weak. With our own strength, we can't survive in this brutal world. Monsters aren't humanity's greatest threat, and humans aren't monsters' only enemy. In fact, they aren't even their greatest enemy. The terrifying diamond-shaped crystal is still wandering around somewhere, and the ancient people might return to this world at any moment. '
The 'parent' suggested to Jin Qianxi eagerly and sincerely. 'We should fuse together and create an even stronger carbon-based life form. We should create … the most perfect carbon-based life form. Only then will we be able to surpass this world and see the most dazzling light among the billions of stars.'
Meng Chao could sense that Jin Qianxi was paying close attention to the scenes of the ancient war the 'parent' showed her.
She was also listening and thinking about the 'parent's' suggestion seriously.
She was so serious that Meng Chao was afraid that she would nod at any moment.
But in the end, she shook her head gently and rejected the 'good intentions' of the 'parent'.
'Why?'
The 'parent's' mind was filled with great puzzlement.
Even if it had the ability to read and interfere with the brainwaves of intelligent carbon-based life forms and had a deep understanding of human civilization through its research of Peach Blossom Town, it still did not understand. "You're about to die, and there's a high possibility that your civilization, Dragon City's civilization, will be destroyed soon.
'If you fuse with me, you can stop all of this.
'Why are you refusing?'
'Because you're a monster.'
Meng Chao heard Jin Qianxi answer calmly. 'A monster who only knows how to kill, devour, and destroy.'
The 'parent' was stunned.
She could not help but laugh.
His ridiculing smile turned into shimmering ripples.
The ripples turned into the scenes that happened in Peach Blossom Town in the past. They showed humans scheming against each other and killing each other.
The scenes that were even more brutal than monsters devouring each other stirred up Jin Qianxi's cerebral cortex and stirred up the painful memories of her being controlled by Blood Alliance. She was forced to explore and experiment on others.
'Are you not monsters?'
The 'parent' asked. 'Aren't you monsters who only know how to kill, devour, and destroy?'
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