"If that's the case, it will explain why you passed the identification test on the Nuwa warship."
Li Yao said. "As for why a clone would have the memories of the original person, I don't know. Perhaps the Nuwa Clan is in possession of a certain technique that allows them to inject memories. It's like possession, except that the clone is possessing itself."
"Possessing itself."
Long Yangjun rubbed her cheeks so hard that smoke was almost popping up. "That is to say, a clone is produced by some sort of genome duplication method first before the soul is poured into the clone." "Yes.
Normal possession always involves the problem of mismatch between the soul and the body. It is also possible that the original owner of the body will suffer from the recoil. "
Li Yao said, "If the clone is possessing itself, I estimate that the resistance will be much smaller, and the speed of integration will be much faster. There will not be any sequelae."
Long Yangjun stared at Li Yao, as if she were a ghost in a trance. "Is the genome duplication technology very developed in your world?"
"We are not capable of such an unbelievable thing yet."
Li Yao opened his hands and confessed. "However, the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan are not necessarily so. In order to prolong their civilization for hundreds of thousands of years, it is not strange that they have tried their best to invent mysterious, if not terrifying, techniques."
"But …"
Long Yangjun paced back and forth anxiously and asked at a loss, "Why was I launched at this point a hundred years ago?"
"Assuming that the iron shell that carried you was truly an escape capsule, it is possible that the Nuwa warship sensed the intrusion of a certain danger and launched you automatically."
Li Yao thought for a moment and said, "Normally speaking, if someone on the Nuwa warship left an embryo through reverse growth or gene duplication, hoping that the embryo would be revived in a suitable environment, there was no reason for them to launch you into the wilderness tens of thousands of kilometers away. There would be too many variables.
"Thawing and hatching you inside the Nuwa warship. You will be protected by the Nuwa warship. Then, through a certain automatic education method, you will slowly recover your memories and understand your destiny. It will be the most reasonable choice."
"Unless certain anomalies happened on the Nuwa warship, which made the warship decide that it was not safe for you to stay on the warship as a fetus. That's why it threw you into a special escape capsule and launched you far away.
"Look. Although the Nuwa warship has been hibernating for hundreds of thousands of years, part of the facilities, including the gate of the bridge, are still functioning normally. I believe that the alarm system and the escape system are not completely hibernating but in a sort of half-triggered state. It is entirely possible that an escape capsule will be launched."
Long Yangjun was caught in a long silence. The brilliance in her eyes seemed to be mixed with the spots of light on the crystal pillars around. She seemed to be slowly drowning in the bridge.
After Li Yao finished his analysis, he fell into a long silence as he pondered over his own concerns.
"Are you pondering about our own origins?"
The mental devil surfaced from the depths of his brain again. There was a rare hint of solemnity on its face.
"Yes."
Li Yao sighed gloomily.
The reason why he was able to piece together two reasonably reasonable possibilities from the clues provided by Long Yangjun so quickly was naturally because he had been pondering the questions since a long, long time ago.
So long that his self-awareness had just surfaced from the endless chaos.
Who am I?
Where am I from?
Where am I going?
When he struggled out of the unpredictable dreams every night with a splitting headache and looked at the dim, yellow sky that was completely different with sweat, the questions would haunt him like invisible boas, making his soul shudder and suffocate him.
Long Yangjun was like a duplicate of him, or rather, a 'reduced version' of a certain form.
Both of them were lost outside of their real home. Both of them recalled the bits and pieces of another time and space under the stimulation of the weird dreams. Both of them wanted to figure out who they were and what kind of destiny they were shouldering at whatever cost.
They were the same kind of people.
They were the same kind of 'people' who had also been 'stranded'.
However, Long Yangjun was luckier than him. She had only been thrown tens of thousands of kilometers away from her place of origin on the same planet. Also, after a hundred years of hard work, she had finally returned to the place of her origin and figured out what kind of existence she was exactly.
Regardless of the reverse growth, the duplication, and even though there were many omissions in the details, Li Yao believed that his speculation was not far away from the truth.
But what about himself?
His origin was probably on the other side of the universe after billions of stars, and the approaches that had sent him to the Tian Yuan Realm at the edge of the universe were probably a hundred times more sophisticated than 'reverse growth' and 'gene duplication'.
When would he be able to find his origin and the real meaning of his life like Long Yangjun?
Taking a deep breath, Li Yao pinched his thigh hard, forcing himself to break free from the unhelpful, random thoughts.
Long Yangjun had understood her origin, but it was unclear what her stance and attitude was exactly.
There were still thousands of Cultivators outside whose belief had been corrupted by greed and could go out of control at any moment.
There was also 'Emperor Phoenix Zhu Zongyou', a mysterious person who was a headache even for Long Yangjun, and the forces behind him that were even more immeasurable.
There was also …
It was not the time to pretend to be sophisticated and a philosopher. He might as well focus on exploring the truth before his eyes. If his speculation was correct and Long Yangjun had been ejected out of the Nuwa warship through an escape capsule because of some kind of danger, then …
Li Yao's body suddenly stiffened, as if he had been electrocuted. Electric currents flowed into his brain from the cells all over his body and burst out, raising surging tides inside his brain.
About the mysterious signals that were sent to the Tian Yuan Realm and the Flying Star Sector, I've suddenly had a new speculation.
Li Yao roared in excitement inside his head.
"Oh? Tell me about it."
The mental devil was interested, too. Its two small ears slightly moved.
"For a long time, we thought that the mysterious signals from the Ancient Sages Sector were sent out intentionally or unintentionally by an unknown force that was either friendly or hostile. That was why we came to the Ancient Sages Sector after such a long journey to look for the force, right?"
Li Yao said quickly. "But what if we were wrong in the beginning? The signals were not sent out by a certain person or force but were triggered passively. Or rather, they were triggered when the triggering conditions were set in advance."
"Triggered passively?"
The mental devil was somewhat confused. "Triggered by what?"
"I assume that it was a distress signal or an alarm signal."
Li Yao spoke faster and faster, and his eyes were brighter and brighter. "If we accept that Long Yangjun was ejected out of the Nuwa warship when it was determined that the interior of the warship was no longer safe due to certain dangers, then the signals will be easy to understand. It was a distress and alarm signal sent out by the Nuwa warship to space, partly to remind the allies nearby of the danger, and partly to ask the allies to look for Long Yangjun."
The mental devil scratched its hair hard. "Allies? It's been hundreds of thousands of years. The Pangu and the Nuwa Civilizations are long gone. How can there be any enemy or allies?"
"Yes. Of course, we know that very well. But when the Nuwa warship crashed deep inside the Land of Eternal Night, the God-Sealing War was still in full swing. Who could've foreseen that the two dominating prehistoric civilizations would perish together? The creators and pilots of the Nuwa warship couldn't have foreseen that, could they?"
Li Yao further explained, "Look. The Kunlun relic is not far away from the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Flying Star Sector. The traces of the Nuwa Civilization and the coalition army of human beings were found in the early years of the war. But the Ancient Sages Sector was hidden deep inside the dark nebula. It was a war base with powerful firepower and a regional military base.
"Can we make a reasonable assumption that the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Flying Star Sector were occupied by the Nuwa Clan in the early years of the God-Sealing War and became the rear bases of the Nuwa Clan, and the Ancient Sages Sector was not attacked by the Nuwa Clan until the middle and the last part of the war."
The mental devil pondered for a moment and nodded. "That's a very reasonable assumption."
Li Yao clapped his hands and said, "Or rather, it is very possible that the Nuwa warship took one of the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Flying Star Sector as its home port and the other as its supply base. It set off from our hometown and flew all the way to the Ancient Sages Sector for an assault.
"If the assumption is valid, it will not be strange that the Nuwa warship boasted a certain method to reach out to the home port and the supply base instantly.
"I don't know what happened exactly when the Nuwa warship crashed, but it is very possible that it stored a distress signal and an alarm signal inside the mainframe crystal processor, which was set to be sent to the home port, the supply base, and even the possible allies in the entire sea of stars under certain conditions.
"Or maybe, it meant to send the signal at that time, but because of the exhaustion of spiritual energy or the disturbance of the magnetic field caused by the war, it entered the hibernation state before the signal was successfully launched.
"About a hundred years ago, when the Nuwa warship slowly gathered enough spiritual energy during the hundreds of thousands of years of hibernation and was able to resume the fundamental functions again, something happened that was enough to make the Nuwa warship believe that it was no longer safe to keep a fetus such as Long Yangjun inside the warship.
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