While talking, Long Yangjun suddenly narrowed her eyes and stared at Li Yao. The four clusters of crystals revolved faster and faster around her, emitting brilliance that was as sharp as her eyes. She said, one word after another, "That's the whole story. I've told you everything that I know exactly. You said that you had a basic speculation about my identity just now. You can't be lying to me, can you?"
"Of course not."
Li Yao put on a smile. "However, my speculation is based on the details that you told me. If there is anything wrong with what you said, my final conclusion will certainly be wrong."
"Hehe. There is no need for me to lie about the trivia. After all, I want to know who I am more than you do," Long Yangjun said coldly.
"If your speculation is reasonable, chances are that we will still have a chance to cooperate. But if you are lying to me, I'm afraid that only one of us can walk out of the bridge."
"That's my speculation."
Li Yao coughed softly and said unhurriedly, "Assuming that what you said is true and that you fell from the sky on a burning iron shell when you were still a baby, the key here is whether you fell from the outside of the atmosphere or from the inside of the atmosphere. Or rather, you were launched to the outside of the atmosphere first like a cannonball and cut into the atmosphere again after traveling in the orbit of the planet for a while. Right, you should know what the atmosphere is, don't you?"
"Of course I do," Long Yangjun said.
Long Yangjun said, "I once soared into the sky and broke into space. Naturally, I know what the atmosphere is."
"However, does it matter where I fell to the ground exactly?"
"Of course it does."
Li Yao nodded and said solemnly, "When normal people run into such a thing, they will suspect that you landed in the Ancient Sages Sector from the depths of the sea of stars far, far away.
"However, the Ancient Sages Sector is enshrouded in a thick, dark nebula. Even the super warships equipped with the most advanced navigation and cruising magical equipment cannot break through it easily. Can an iron shell that is not large in size and has a simple structure really pass through the entire dark nebula? I highly doubt it."
Slightly dazed, Long Yangjun mumbled, "I never saw the thing that carried me to this world in person. After my foster parents died, I tried my best to look for it, but I couldn't find its exact location. Also, ten years had passed. It was impossible for me to find it now. However, since they described it as an iron shell, it should be a vehicle that was simple in structure and not very large in size."
"That's it."
Li Yao clapped his hands and said, "Such an iron shell, which is simple in structure and not large in size but appears to be very solid and anti-blast, does not look like a warship that can travel long distances in the sea of stars but more like an escape capsule on a warship."
"It means that you did not fall from the sky but were launched from a certain warship. After flying for a short distance, you entered the atmosphere again.
"Considering the uncanny dreams in your head, it is very likely that you were an important person on the Nuwa warship below our feet in the past. You were launched from this place in an escape capsule."
Long Yangjun's eyes suddenly shone. Observing Li Yao carefully for a moment, she nodded and said, "Up to this point, your speculation is quite reasonable. However, it has been more than a hundred thousand years since the Nuwa warship crashed into the Land of Eternal Night. Can anybody really sleep in an escape capsule for such a long time?"
Li Yao hesitated for a moment and said, "Theoretically speaking, maybe. But I feel that your situation is different."
"Of course it is different," Long Yangjun said. "If I was really an important person on the Nuwa warship, why would I be in the form of a baby at the beginning and not remember what happened in the past at all?"
"Perhaps," Li Yao said, "it was not the past but the previous life."
"The previous life."
Long Yangjun was amused. "Are you talking about possession and rebirth? I've thought of that possibility a long time ago, but it doesn't make sense. There are indeed many uncanny things about my body that cannot be manifested by the regular locals of the Ancient Sages Sector. If I were to be possessed and reborn, my soul would've mutated at best. Why would my body undergo such drastic changes?
"Besides, as you saw just now, I passed almost ten entry tests with this body. It means that the relevant information about this body has been stored in the — what's it called again? Right, the mainframe crystal processor on the Nuwa warship. How do you explain that?"
"I've thought of two possibilities."
Li Yao extended two fingers and said, "Firstly, is it possible that the Nuwa Clan boasted a mysterious technique that could reverse one's growth and restore one's youthfulness? From an adult to a child, from a child to an infant, and from an infant to an embryo or a fertilized egg?"
Long Yangjun's eyes suddenly shone. She asked, "What are the benefits of doing that?"
"Of course there are benefits. The greatest benefit is that you can hibernate for a longer time."
Li Yao said, "For an adult, especially an unparalleled expert with a high Cultivation, their fleshly body and enormous soul will consume astronomical spiritual energy every second. It is almost impossible for them to hibernate for hundreds of thousands of years."
It was true that Li Yao had run into a Pangu who could be revived after hibernating for hundreds of thousands of years in the depths of Kunlun.
But that was a very special case. Kunlun was built on a pulsar, which meant that the pulsar had been providing energy incessantly for hundreds of thousands of years. That was why the Pangu had been hibernating all the time.
Under normal circumstances, few magical equipment and energy sources could allow someone to hibernate for such a long time without suffering any damage to their body.
"I know a special kind of lotus. When the environment changes drastically and the climate is too dry for survival, the seeds of the lotus will enter the special spore state. They will be like lifeless pebbles and can hibernate for hundreds of thousands of years until the climate is moist and the water source is found. Then, they will be thawed from the spore state and revitalized again."
Li Yao continued. "Perhaps, the Nuwa Clan thought the same. In perilous situations, where they had to hibernate for a long time and were short of sufficient spiritual energy and nutrition, they would put them into the reverse growth state and slowly grow from an adult into a fertilized egg. Then, they would cover the fertilized egg with a special shell, turning it into a solid spore that barely consumed any spiritual energy or nutrition.
"Then, with the slightest bit of spiritual energy and nutrition, and a space no larger than a fist, the spore could hibernate for hundreds of thousands of years. Wouldn't its survival ability be greatly improved?
"After hundreds of thousands of years, when the world changes and the danger is long gone, and enough spiritual energy and nutrition have been accumulated, it will enter the thawing phase. The shell will split, and the fertilized egg will be released. Then, it will develop for the second time in a similar artificial environment. Then, it will be reborn as a human being.
"When you grow into a fertilized egg in reverse, because your brain is completely gone, most of the information and memories stored in it will naturally be lost. Therefore, the only things left will be the mottled memories that are like uncanny dreams.
"Perhaps, as your brain continues to develop, you will find more memories in the future.
"This is the first possibility that I speculate. Is there any problem?"
Long Yangjun was dumbfounded.
"Well …"
She wanted to say something but stopped herself. Her face was full of confusion, and she even looked a little crazy. "Wait, you said too much too quickly. I need to digest it properly. Alright …"
Her eyes were transfixed for a long time. Taking a long breath, she said with a bitter smile, "Did the deities and devils of the primeval era in reverse growth, spore state, and secondary development really have such incredible methods?"
"I don't know."
Li Yao replied dutifully, "This is just my wild speculation based on the information you gave me and everything I've seen so far."
"Alright."
Long Yangjun said uneasily, "The truth is naturally not something that you and I can figure out immediately. At the very least, your speculation is rather reasonable. Why don't you tell me the second possibility?"
"The second possibility is actually the same as the first possibility, except that the methods are slightly different."
Li Yao said, "Perhaps the Nuwa Clan does not have such a mysterious technique as reverse growth, but they have grasped another marvelous method. I wonder, have you ever heard of the full genome duplication technology?"
"Full genome duplication? What's that?"
Long Yangjun was at a loss.
"To put it simply, as long as one hair, one drop of blood, or one piece of fingernail is retrieved, it will be possible to create a duplicate whose genome is exactly the same as yours without any difference in every cell."
Li Yao said, "Of course, it can't be a tall and strong adult like you at first, but an embryo that contains all your genome. It doesn't matter if you don't understand the concept of genome. All you need to know is that the embryo will grow into a person who is identical to you once it grows up."
"Identical to me."
Long Yangjun touched her face subconsciously.
"To be more exact, it should be identical to her."
Li Yao said stiffly, "Identical to the one who left her hair, blood, fingernails, or other body tissues hundreds of thousands of years ago."
"I get it now."
Long Yangjun's hands were shivering. "Are you suggesting that someone left their hair, blood, and fingernails on the Nuwa warship hundreds of thousands of years ago and refined them into an embryo, which grew into a duplicate after hundreds of thousands of years?"
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