"That's right …"
Long Yangjun did not deny it at all. She mumbled, "When I was pierced through by the green-haired gorilla's electric arcs, a seal deep inside my soul seemed to have been broken, too. Countless bizarre pieces spurted out. My head is a mess right now. Countless shadows, thoughts, and thoughts are echoing crazily. I do need to go up there to calm myself down.
"Perhaps, our views in the past were wrong, or at least incomplete.
"All this time, we have regarded 'human beings' as tools of the 'Pangu', which is based on the 'Three Fundamental Laws' that you discovered on Kunlun and explained by the Immortal Cultivators. They are also the so-called 'Path of Ultimate Benevolence'.
"Whether they are called 'Fundamental Laws' or 'Path of Ultimate Benevolence', they deprive human beings of their feelings and even their free will. That's why we believed that human beings and the Pangu were 'tools' and 'masters'.
"However, the 'Three Fundamental Laws' are carved in the primeval languages. Nobody can guarantee that they are 100% correct when they are translated. Right now, more and more evidence suggests that the Pangu did not just deprive human beings of their feelings and free will. They also deprived themselves of their feelings and suppressed their own will. Therefore —"
Li Yao craned his neck without him knowing it. "What do you think?"
"Perhaps, human beings and the Pangu are not 'tools' and 'masters'," Long Yangjun said solemnly.
"Instead, just like the 'father-son civilization' theory that you proposed, it is the relationship between an ignorant 'child' and his strict, perverted, and paranoid 'father'."
"… Now that you mention it, it is truly a great relief!"
"Let me think about it again. I have a feeling that I will remember a lot of new things that are of paramount importance very soon."
"That's easy," Li Yao said. "Why don't we prepare some rune arrays of the thunder class up there and electrocute you? Chances are that you will remember everything."
"That won't be necessary. You can just keep exploring. I feel that the environment down there is more and more familiar, as if I've been here a long, long time ago."
Long Yangjun was a clone of the Nuwa warrior from hundreds of thousands of years ago. Then, if her 'original self' had once broken into the Pangu laboratory, it was only natural that she would have kept part of the memory pieces of the original self in a certain mysterious way.
The research team continued to move into the depths of the Pangu laboratory. This time, they had learned their lesson. They had deployed a large number of high-pressure spray tanks filled with frozen foam from above. If there was even the slightest movement, the dark depths would be completely frozen.
Li Yao and the other Yuanying experts had no time to worry about the consumption of their telepathic thoughts. They had been controlling the Colossi and spreading their telepathic thoughts to the maximum.
On their way, they found another two 'Giant Crab Factories'. However, all the Giant Crabs had been destroyed hundreds of thousands of years ago, losing all their vitality.
It was obvious that the laboratories had been sabotaged by the Nuwa warriors before they were sealed.
The deeper they explored, the greater the damage and collapse became. Several floors had completely collapsed, resulting in enormous hollows. Both the pathways, the laboratories, and the dead bodies had been squeezed together by the rocks. The surface of the rocks had also been burnt into mottled Coloured Glaze by the high temperature at the moment of the explosion.
It seemed that this place was the 'main battlefield' of the great war hundreds of thousands of years ago.
"I seem … to have attacked this place before."
Li Yao was focusing his telepathic thoughts to scan the depths of the rocks when he heard Long Yangjun say uncertainly, "Can you scan the third pathway on the left and see if there is a gate?"
Li Yao blinked. Triggered by his telepathic thoughts, three floating crystal cameras flew out. After a few beeps, dozens of streaks of scarlet brilliance were unleashed, scanning the environment deep inside the pathway clearly.
As he expected, there was a magnificent gate more than twenty meters tall.
In the same style as all the buildings, magical equipment, and facilities of the Pangu Clan, there were no decorations on them. Instead, they were carved with square, complicated geometrical patterns.
The gate had been damaged hundreds of thousands of years ago, leaving a hole almost five meters in diameter. It might have been difficult for the enormous bodies of the Pangu and the Nuwa Clan to crawl in, but it was more than easy for human beings to do so.
Now that there was such a huge hole, they should've crawled out a long time ago if there were any ghosts.
Li Yao still did not dare be careless. He summoned the exploration team to deploy defense rune arrays, semi-fixed turrets, and frozen foam on the entire pathway outside of the gate. Then, he blocked the entrance of the hole with Meng Chixin, Wu Suiyun, Yan Liren, and other experts and commanded a hundred beast puppets to crawl in through the gate.
Scanned by the hundreds of crystal cameras from multiple angles, the world behind the gate gradually popped up on the 3D light beam.
Its scale was far beyond everyone's imagination. It was more like the factory where human beings were manufactured that Li Yao had seen on Kunlun. It was also made of countless metal pillars that looked like giant trees. Dark red vesicles were dangling from the branches.
However, the vesicles here varied in size. The largest vesicle was more than a hundred meters long. It was obvious that they were not used to grow the embryos of human beings.
Perhaps, the Pangu people had once stored tremendous seeds of the creatures in the primeval era in this place. It was a colorful, all-inclusive 'warehouse of embryos'.
After all, if the Pangu people were to be reborn, they certainly would not be the only ones to wake up. They would also need the microbes, animals, and plants that they were familiar with, as well as the entire ecological environment.
It was a pity that the 'warehouse of embryos' had been sabotaged by the army of the Nuwa Clan, too. Almost all the vesicles had been burnt into nothingness.
Li Yao's attention, however, was not on the vesicles.
His attention was entirely occupied by the hundred culture cabins at the front of the entire 'warehouse of embryos'.
The translucent culture cabins had a defense level multiple times higher than that of the common vesicles. Therefore, some remnants could still be found in the few broken culture cabins.
Some of them were covered in scales and had no eyelids. Their eyeballs were covered in dry crystals, and there were still traces of parotid glands on their heads. They carried the intense features of the aquatic species.
Some of them had the head of a human and the body of a snake, combining the features of mammals and reptiles.
Or they were covered in thick hair. Their finger bones were extremely flexible. They were like sharp blades that could be folded, ready to spring out at any time to fight.
Some of them were giants that did not have the slightest hair and had bright gray skin that was as rough as that of dinosaurs, like the ones that Li Yao had seen in the 'primeval memories' deep inside his cells at the beginning.
Those corpses should belong to the various tribes that made up the 'Pangu civilization' hundreds of thousands of years ago.
The Pangu civilization was not a single civilization in the first place but thirteen independent carbon-based civilizations. After they developed to a certain stage, they discovered each other's existence and established an 'alliance' for a certain 'purpose', perhaps to fight against 'Chaos'.
Li Yao had seen tremendous corpses of the Pangu civilization on Kunlun and the Nuwa warship. It was not surprising at all.
But what was very strange was that the corpses here were smaller in size than they were outside, and the 'features' of the Pangu were not as obvious, either.
Also, the further they went into the culture cabins, the smaller the corpses were and the less hideous they were. In other words, they were more and more similar to human beings.
When they reached the last row of cultivation cabins, regardless of whether they were human-headed, snake-bodied, scaly and horned, or even three-headed and six-armed, all of them were less than two meters tall, with smooth but slightly hairy skin and normal facial features.
"What's the meaning of this?"
Li Yao was deep in thought. "Has the Pangu developed a certain drug or secret technique that can 'compress' them step by step until they become human beings in the end?"
"I've just discovered something very interesting. I wonder if you've ever thought of it," Long Yangjun suddenly said in the communication channel.
"Look, the Pangu civilization is actually made of a dozen or so carbon-based intelligent lives that developed independently. Therefore, their body shapes are constantly changing. The difference between the 'Pangu' and the 'Gonggong', and the 'Gonggong' and the 'Kuafu' is enormous. It is hard to tell that they are related to each other because they are not related to each other in the first place!
"However, however weird they look, most of their features are very similar to that of human beings.
"In mathematics, there is the concept of 'greatest common divisor', and human beings are like the 'greatest common divisor' of the dozen or so carbon-based intelligent lives. They have inherited part of their features that are of paramount importance."
Li Yao thought of something and said, "In the 'Legends of Ancient Demons', there is indeed such a theory. The Pangu civilization ordered the Nuwa Clan under their command to extract part of the features of many species and assembled a brand-new species — human beings."
"Perhaps it is not 'assembling' but screening, optimization, and condensation," Long Yangjun said.
"Chances are that human beings are the strongest form of the essence of the thirteen carbon-based lives and an 'evolved version' of the Pangu civilization. I still feel that such an explanation is more reasonable than the 'tool theory'. Besides, even if it is based on the 'tool theory', human beings should still be stronger than the Pangu."
Li Yao found it odd. "The Pangu created human beings and regarded human beings as tools, but human beings are stronger than the Pangu? What kind of logic is that? Please explain. "
"To some extent, the tools have to be stronger than the users in order to make and use them," Long Yangjun said matter-of-factly.
"Why do human beings use swords and sabers? Because swords and sabers are sharper, harder, and more durable than fists! If swords and sabers are more sluggish than fists and will break at the first touch, who will use such swords and sabers at all?
"By the same logic, why do human beings use guns? Because the bullets shot out of guns are much more 'powerful' than the bullets with bare hands in terms of range and power!
"Shuttles, crystal processors, Crystal Suits, starships … All the tools that human beings invented are at least much better than human beings themselves in some aspects, such as speed, strength, or computational ability. That is why human beings created them and utilized them.
"Then, if human beings are weaker than the Pangu in all aspects, what's the point of creating such feeble tools?"
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