Chapter 372: The God Race
Xia Fei walked down the dark corridor, not needing any light. Once his eyes, which had cultivated the Beast Spirit Codex, got used to the darkness, he could see everything around him clearly.
Pushing open the cold alloy door of the command deck, he saw that the command center of this warship was clearly larger than the insectoid warship he had seen before. After all, it was a capital ship, so it was only natural that the command center was much larger and had more functions.
Right in the center of the room was a biological solution pool about ten meters in diameter. An insectoid brain was soaked in the transparent walls of the pool. The dark red liquid was slowly flowing, flowing out from the water inlet above and out from the water outlet below.
Xia Fei lit a cigarette and walked over to take a closer look.
The insectoid cerebrum's structure was different from that of a human's. It did not have a left and right brain and was completely a single entity. Tiny red capillaries covered the surface of the brain, and upon closer inspection, it seemed like the brain was still moving, though the movements were very subtle and unnoticeable unless one looked closely.
Countless transmission wires were connected to the brain through a golden fixture. These transparent wires would flicker from time to time, indicating that the insectoid cerebrum was transmitting information from time to time. Unfortunately, the warship itself was already damaged, so even the insectoid cerebrum could not move it.
The liquid soaked in the brain tasted slightly sour. Xia Fei furrowed his brows and followed Daimu's instructions, picking up two nerve conduction wires and sticking them to his temples.
"Who are you? Why have your seventh brain region completely opened? "
The moment the nerve conduction wires were connected to Xia Fei's head, a terrified voice rang out in Xia Fei's mind, and it actually sounded like a mature female voice!
Xia Fei could not help but admire the powerful capabilities of the expensive language chip in his head. Not only did it successfully decipher the Tulon language, it could even quickly decipher the neural signals from the insectoid. As for that female voice, it was very likely that the translation chip had added it on by itself. As a semi-intelligent, mystical biochip, it did indeed have this ability.
Xia Fei threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stepped on it before sitting in the comfortable captain's chair and closing his eyes. His heart sank as he entered the state of conversing with the insectoid cerebrum.
Xia Fei said, "My name is Xia Fei. Insectoid, why are you so surprised that my seventh brain region is completely open?"
The insectoid cerebrum cautiously replied, "Of course I should be surprised. No intelligent lifeform should have their seventh brain region completely open. Could you be a legendary god?"
Xia Fei smiled. "There's no god in this world. Am I just a human who happened to have his seventh brain region open?"
The insectoid cerebrum was confused. "Humans? I only know that there are Zergs, Tulons, and Gods in this world. What race are humans? "
Xia Fei thought about it and said, Humans are just an ordinary intelligent race in the universe, living right next to insectoid territory.
The insect cerebrum asked again: 「 Are you really not a lifeform of the God race? 」
Xia Fei found it funny. The so-called gods were nothing more than legends. How could they possibly exist? However, he did not know why this insect would associate him with some God Race.
"No, I'm just a human."
The insectoid cerebrum sighed. "Perhaps you're telling the truth. I've already detected that your seventh brain region has been forcefully opened, and it's not something you were born with. I believe that you're not a member of the God race."
Xia Fei stroked his chin and asked, "The God Race. You seem to be very afraid of them. Is there a race in this world that can completely open their seventh brain region at birth?"
The insectoid cerebrum snorted coldly, "If you're not of my race, why should I tell you this? However, since you've already completely opened your seventh brain region, I'd advise you to behave yourself. "
Xia Fei laughed coldly. "I don't know what kind of insect you are, but all that's left of you is your brain. I can easily kill you with just a slight twitch of my pinky."
The insectoid cerebrum replied in a rather tragic manner, "It's very easy to stop my brain, but I'd rather die than submit to you, for my life belongs only to the great God Race."
Xia Fei opened his eyes, and his gaze instantly became extremely sharp. He activated the Beast Spirit Codex, using his eyes to send countless pieces of information into the insectoid cerebrum.
Xia Fei had tried doing this a long time ago. Though the Beast Spirit Codex was not enough to control the insectoids, it was enough to make them wish they were dead. Since this insectoid cerebrum was unwilling to cooperate, Xia Fei decided to use force on it. He wanted to see if it could withstand the waves of mental assault.
The insectoid cerebrum began to tremble rapidly as if it was connected to a wire. The dark red fluid began to ripple, indicating that the insectoid cerebrum was in a state of intense activity.
"Heavens! This is simply too terrifying! Just what have you done to me?! "
"Stop! I'd rather you kill me than suffer such torture! "
Xia Fei laughed coldly. "Kill you? No, that's too easy. I hope that you like your current state. Since I'm trapped on this planet and can't leave, I have all the time in the world to play with you. "
The insectoid cerebrum did not answer Xia Fei. It began to forcefully endure the influence Xia Fei was exerting on its brain. Xia Fei chuckled and increased the output. He needed to be very careful when doing this. The result of his previous experiment was two insectoids exploding because they could not withstand the increasing pressure. Xia Fei did not want the same thing to happen again. The secrets of the insectoids and the Tulons, the secrets of the God Race, and the method to return to the Panhuman Alliance all needed this insectoid cerebrum to answer.
The situation continued like this. The Beast Spirit Codex was extremely taxing on Xia Fei's mental strength, but he had no choice but to persevere in order to uncover the truth.
The insectoid cerebrum displayed an extraordinary ability to resist pressure, constantly resisting Xia Fei. Occasionally, it would even launch a counterattack at Xia Fei, hoping to trigger a backlash from his mental strength and destroy Xia Fei's brain region in one fell swoop.
Alas, its counterattack was powerless in the face of the powerful Beast Spirit Codex. This was not just a difference in technology. Xia Fei, who had a second special ability, mental manipulation, was also far stronger than the insectoid cerebrum.
The only commendable thing was the insectoid cerebrum's willpower. It was persevering and slowly crumbling, albeit at a slower rate than Xia Fei had imagined.
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The cruelest way to deal with an enemy was not to destroy them but to torture them. This law was the same for any species. This insectoid cerebrum was very unfortunate, for Xia Fei happened to be an expert in torturing his opponents.
The insectoid cerebrum wanted to compete with Xia Fei in terms of willpower, but it had no idea that Xia Fei had always been a madman with a steel-like will.
After a whole twelve hours, the insectoid cerebrum sighed, followed by a crazed roar in Xia Fei's mind, like the hysterical outburst of a severely mentally ill patient.
Xia Fei was a little worried. Could it be that the powerful aura had tortured him to the point of insanity?
Lighting a cigarette, Xia Fei sat in the captain's seat and waited. At the same time, he adjusted his state of mind and replenished his severely depleted mental strength.
After a long time, a heavy sigh came from Xia Fei's mind. "I admit that you're very powerful. I admit defeat."
Xia Fei coldly said, "Tell me everything you know."
The insectoid cerebrum said, "A long time ago, the insectoids and the Tulons were slaves of the God Race, serving their master together. Later on, the God Race left us, and the insectoids and the Tulons gained their freedom.
"In the beginning, the two races were still able to coexist peacefully, but the insectoids and the Tulons were both extremely selfish. They kept fighting for their own interests, which eventually led to an all-out war. The weak Tulons were, of course, no match for the insectoids. They didn't have strong bodies, nor did they have the ability to reproduce like the insectoids, so the war slowly tilted in favor of the insectoids.
"Back then, when the God Race left, they warned us to coexist peacefully. Our master didn't like the sight of us killing each other, so my eight brothers and I sought out the Tulon High Priest Sik, bringing the last of their tribesmen through many hardships to come to this foreign part of space."
Xia Fei asked, "Who are you people? Why haven't the insectoids created semi-biological warships like yours? "
The insectoid cerebrum answered, "We were created by our master, the God Race. After our masters left, the insectoids naturally lost this ability."
Xia Fei understood. It turned out that it was not that the insectoids did not want to create biological warships, but that without the technological support, the powerful God Race had piqued their interest. Xia Fei asked, "From what you're saying, the seventh brain region seems to be related to the God Race in some way."
The insectoid cerebrum was silent for a moment. "Normal sapient lifeforms can't fully open their seventh brain region. This is a rule set by the God Race. By fully opening your seventh brain region, you've already violated the rules set by the God Race. If you're discovered, you'll disappear from the universe forever."
Xia Fei chuckled. "Rules? Why should I abide by the rules set by others? "
The insectoid cerebrum answered, "You'll understand one day. The God Race is extremely powerful. Back then, there were only two people who ruled over the insectoids and the Tulons, but they relied on their extraordinary abilities to enslave countless other sapient lifeforms. They're existences that aren't even on the same plane as you."
Xia Fei lit a cigarette. "I understand three things from what you're saying. First, other sapient lifeforms can also fully open their seventh brain region, but they're extremely rare, and once they do, they'll be hunted down by the so-called God Race."
"That's right."
"Second, the God Race is actually a type of sapient lifeform. Aside from having a fully opened seventh brain region, they're no different from other sapient lifeforms. In other words, they're not so-called Gods at all."
"That's right," the insectoid cerebrum answered.
Xia Fei fell into deep thought. All of this made him connect the fact that the God Race had Titan and destroyed that mysterious ancient civilization. A powerful race that had fully opened their seventh brain region had gone on a killing spree because they did not want to see other races rise up, and the other races had desperately tried to build the legendary Titan warship to prevent themselves from being wiped out.
Humanity's behavior before its extinction was very similar. They had been collecting information on Titan everywhere, hoping to build this ultimate weapon of mass destruction in the universe. It was just that the ones who destroyed humanity were not the God Race but the rebellious robots, which overturned Xia Fei's conjecture.
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