Jin Qianxi was silent for a long time.
"That's right. Many of us are like you. We're monsters who only know how to kill, devour, and destroy," Jin Qianxi said seriously.
Jin Qianxi said seriously, "But I firmly believe that no matter how dark and sorrowful it is right now, most of us are constantly searching for and building a better tomorrow.
"Darkness will pass, and tomorrow will come. One of these days, my comrades will evolve into something completely different from monsters."
"Completely different?"
The mother asked. "What is that?"
"People," Jin Qianxi said.
Jin Qianxi said, "Human."
A mocking ripple rose in the depths of the mother's soul.
It did not lie to Jin Qianxi. It originally wanted to preserve her free will so that it could provide another angle of reference, suggestions, and modifications for its own evolution and actions.
But since Jin Qianxi rejected its "good will", it immediately got rid of the "good will" it had for the first time in ten million years.
The mother's mental power turned into thousands of visible, semi-transparent spirit energy tendrils that surged into Jin Qianxi's brain through its Wisdom Tree clone.
It tried to forcefully pull this carbon-based intelligent life, who only had a head and a shattered chest, into its arms.
When it was at its peak, with just one thought, even ancient beasts that were one hundred times stronger than Apocalyptic Beasts had to submit to its will and listen to its orders.
But against its expectations, while Jin Qianxi was heavily injured and on the brink of death, her fighting strength was one hundred times weaker than the ancient beasts that were dozens of kilometers long.
But her burning mental flames and the walls of her mind that were even sturdier than diamonds were things the mother had never seen in the brains of all carbon-based intelligent life forms.
The mental power of the mother's body was like the raging waves under the howling storm.
But Jin Qianxi's free will was like an impregnable lone island that stood in the middle of the sea.
At the highest peak of the lone island, a glittering lighthouse was still standing, releasing the most stubborn light toward the endless darkness and the boundless ocean.
"Humans can be destroyed, but we can never be conquered!"
That was the message that Jin Qianxi sent to her mother through her brilliant brainwaves.
Her injuries were too severe. If the 'mother' wanted to completely destroy her brain on a physical level, she would not be able to resist at all.
In fact, her "mother" did not even need to do anything. After the last bit of her spirit energy was drained, her brain tissues would dry up and slowly rot.
However, even if her every brain cell turned into unsubstantial bubbles and dust, she would not allow her 'mother' to swallow her spirit, will, memories, wisdom, and personality easily.
It would not allow its mother to stimulate its ambitious, insatiable soul with her own soul and accelerate its evolution toward the goal of a perfect carbon-based intelligent life.
The 'mother' could easily destroy Jin Qianxi's brain.
However, doing so would be a waste of God's gifts.
Moreover, Jin Qianxi's extremely proud soul reminded him of the high and mighty "ancients" during the Primeval War.
The 'mother' was engulfed in an unknown rage. She insisted on using her own method to forcefully fuse and conquer Jin Qianxi's soul.
It ordered some unique monsters and etherealized plants with cell repair abilities to "pluck" Jin Qianxi's brain tissues from her shattered body.
Then, it sprayed a large amount of adhesive liquid containing spirit energy and nutrients around Jin Qianxi's brain.
When the adhesive liquid hardened, it turned into a shell that resembled a skull.
Then, it fused Jin Qianxi's brain into its body, which was the depths of the monsters' nest. Then, it launched mental attacks on Jin Qianxi day and night.
It created countless illusions in Jin Qianxi's brain.
Sometimes, the theme of the illusions was the Primeval War.
It made Jin Qianxi return to the Primeval War and turned her into one of the billions of monsters. She continued killing, conquering, and devouring all the resources in her field of vision. In the end, she evolved into an ancient beast that could move freely on the ground and soar in the sky. Jin Qianxi followed its will and vision and saw the complicated and dazzling geosynchronous structures the ancients had built above the planet's atmosphere.
She also saw the incredibly majestic, brilliant, and glorious galaxy that served as the background of the geosynchronous structures.
"Come into my arms and become one with me. We will eventually become the masters of this galaxy."
Once it realized that Jin Qianxi's free will was incredibly strong, the mother sent another invitation.
Sometimes, it implanted the emotions and memories of the Peach Blossom Town residents into Jin Qianxi's brain.
It implanted the panic and despair of the normal town residents.
It implanted the cruelty and darkness of the powerful.
It implanted the adrenaline rush of humans killing each other, and the pleasure of crushing all morals and laws.
"Look, these are your compatriots!"
The mother asked. "Do you really believe that these naked apes who have just shed their fur can find the so-called 'light'?"
Sometimes, it stimulated Jin Qianxi's brain cells and made him return to the nightmare where he was controlled by Blood Alliance and lived a life worse than death.
"Peach Blossom Town is a mini version of Dragon City, and Dragon City is a larger version of Peach Blossom Town. There's no difference between them. They're both irrevocably heading toward destruction."
The mother coldly pointed out this fact.
But no matter how many illusions it created, no matter how many times it turned the illusions into heaven or hell, no matter how much it threatened and tempted her, Jin Qianxi remained unmoved.
This superhuman girl whom Battle God Lei Zongchao believed to be more talented than Meng Chao and more deserving of the title of the strongest in Dragon City was not corrupted by her mother. Instead, she seized every chance she could and projected her mental power into the depths of her mother's soul. Then, in a subtle manner, she influenced the mother.
The Matrix was trying to brainwash her.
She also relentlessly tried to make the mother understand light and darkness, justice and evil, kindness and cruelty, beauty and ugliness.
She wanted it to understand that civilization was not just about conquering everything that could be conquered and devouring every planet in the galaxy. There was a richer, deeper, and more interesting meaning to it.
In the fragmented memories stored in the microbrain, the mother had been through three soul-stirring battles that were still fresh in her memory.
The first battle was the ancient war when the monster horde attacked the city and the space-based orbital weapons opened fire.
The second battle was the first time it woke up after sleeping for thousands of years. It was chased down by the lifeless diamond-shaped crystal that swung a whip of light.
The third battle was the most recent one. It was a clash of souls with Jin Qianxi.
In terms of scale and energy level, the third battle was clearly the weakest. It was insignificant.
However, it was precisely because the "mother" was at an unprecedented low that it could not be like in the past, where it did not care about any tactics or strategies. All it needed to do was simply and crudely plunder resources and accumulate numbers to crush the enemy with absolute advantage in numbers.
It had to rack its brains and distribute the few resources it had carefully while trembling in fear.
In fact, it had to learn all sorts of schemes, double-dealing, and honey-tongued techniques from humans.
It had to learn how to hide its desires and goals. It had to wrap the overly obvious goals of devouring the world and conquering the galaxy into grandiose slogans like making the universe a better place.
This battle of souls lasted for several decades.
During the decades, both parties had been prying into the weaknesses of their opponent's soul, trying to implant their thoughts into the depths of their opponent's soul, and "brainwashing" the other party in a subtle way.
When they collided so hard that their souls were both weakened, they would temporarily stop fighting and enjoy the dazzling sparks caused by the collision of different logical thoughts and survival philosophies.
War was the best motivation to promote the development of a civilization.
War, on the other hand, was the strongest "accelerant" to accelerate the evolution of carbon-based intelligent life.
Whether Jin Qianxi was willing or not, the mother had a deeper understanding of the definition of "life" and "civilization" through the battle of minds with her.
Because of this, the 'mother' actually felt a kind of … joy in thinking.
Of course, Jin Qianxi was not a simple warrior who only cared about willpower and strategies.
Aside from fighting head-on, there were plenty of times when she would pretend to be weak and think of problems from the mother's point of view. She would modify the mother's strategy and toss out a second possibility that the mother did not think of. Then, she would come up with a plan for the mother, just like what the mother wanted her to do.
For example, when the mother tried to release a large amount of super zombie viruses into Dragon City and turn more than 50% of the humans in the city into zombies, turning Dragon City into a living hell, Jin Qianxi stopped it in time.
Of course, the reason was not that it would kill tens of millions of humans and destroy Dragon City's civilization.
Instead, it was that the super zombie viruses would stimulate cell activity and unlock the originally stable gene chains. It would open up a brand new possibility of evolution that cannot be controlled or predicted.
"When 50% of the humans turn into zombies, there are also 0.5% or 0.05% of the survivors who might accidentally break through their limits and surpass Deity Realm!
"Right now, you've only managed to recover 1% of your cell activity. You don't have any mobility or defense at all. If a human surpasses Deity Realm and they discover that you're the one who released the super zombie virus and turned Dragon City into hell, think about it, will they let you go?
"Be careful, or you'll end up in trouble and die!"
Another example was that when the Survival Committee and the Red Dragon Army were formed one after another and gradually became stronger, they launched ten "expeditions" into the depths of Monster Mountain Range. At that time, the "mother" had once planned a large-scale monster horde to charge into the main city area of Dragon City as revenge.
Jin Qianxi had also used detailed data and ingenious deductions to prove that the resources the monster civilization used up would be far greater than Dragon City's losses, so she stopped this revenge operation that was highly likely to result in a great loss to all living beings.
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