Li Yao thought for a long time and found himself unable to refute. He simply said, "Perhaps it's because the Pangu who woke up on Kunlun left too deep an impression on me. It's hard for me to imagine where the giants' weaknesses are. Compared to the feeble human beings, they are almost invincible."
"This is the so-called 'survivor bias'," Long Yangjun said casually.
"It's very likely that the Pangu that we've seen so far are all special cases. They are the strongest of the strongest, and the common members of the Pangu civilization are far from being as strong as them.
"It's like, if our expedition team is analyzed as a sample, we will find that the ratio of Core Formation Stage Cultivators to Yuanying is shockingly high. It's close to 100%. However, it is not enough to say that all human beings are experts at least in the Core Formation Stage, right?
"It's the same for the Pangu people. Has it ever occurred to you that the dead bodies of the Pangu people were found in battlefields, secret bases, or laboratories such as the one in front of us?
"Those who were qualified to appear in such places were certainly the soldiers, experts, and senior researchers of the Pangu people. Those people had to go through hundreds of thousands of years of screening. Those who were not as strong as them had long been obliterated without leaving any ashes. How could they have been discovered by us?
"After all the screening and the test of time, what were the ones who left basically intact bodies and could even be resurrected if not the strongest of the experts?
"In short, only those who were strong enough could keep their bodies intact for us to study. Most of those who were not strong enough were obliterated in the river of time. This is the 'survivor bias'."
Li Yao was not entirely convinced. "Is that so?"
"Yes," Long Yangjun said.
"If you still find it hard to understand, let me give you another example. Do you have any Grand Illusionary Soldiers?"
Li Yao nodded. Looking at the three Grand Illusionary Soldiers of the latest generation in front of him, which were glittering but somewhat dull, he said, "Yes, so what?"
"With your current capability, it is not a problem for you to blow up a hundred Grand Illusionary Soldiers casually, right? But it was only indicative of one's personal strength. For most ordinary people, it was quite difficult for them to compete with the most advanced Grand Illusionary Soldiers, not to mention the old, the weak, and the young. They were often killed by the Grand Illusionary Soldiers instantly.
"Assuming that the civilization of mankind perishes one day, and the Grand Illusionary Soldiers and the crystal processors give birth to a brand-new 'mechanical civilization', the explorers of the mechanical civilization dig up the body of 'Vulture Li Yao, dominator of three Sectors', and extract your cells for analysis. Then, they discover the astonishing energy stored in them that has not perished after hundreds of thousands of years. Therefore, they conclude that human beings are a strong species that they absolutely cannot compete with. Let me ask you, is such a conclusion not hilarious?
"In your opinion, if the civilization of mankind does perish one day, whose body is more likely to be preserved, the super experts such as you and me, or a common employee in a company, a primary school teacher, or a waiter in a restaurant?"
Looking at the three Grand Illusionary Soldiers who were coordinating tactical commands and preparing to explore the 'warehouse of embryos', Li Yao mumbled, "You've somewhat convinced me."
"In fact, there is no need to go through so much trouble. There is also obvious evidence that human beings are actually very dangerous for the Pangu people."
"What is that?" Li Yao asked curiously.
"It's the 'Three Great Fundamental Laws' themselves!"
Long Yangjun said. "In your eyes, the 'Three Fundamental Laws' are barriers that the Pangu people impose on human beings. They are a seal and restraint. But think about it. Under what circumstances would you impose barriers and restraints on a tool and seal it?
"If it were any random hammers, axes, and the like, they would certainly not need any barriers or restraints. Only the tools that are extremely dangerous and may backfire on their owners at any moment, but they have too many uses and have long become the cornerstones of the civilization and cannot be destroyed at all, would be restricted and restrained.
"Hehe. I'm more and more convinced that the Pangu people treat human beings exactly like how human beings treat crystal processors and the Spiritual Nexus.
"Human beings have created crystal processors, but crystal processors run much faster than most human brains. They can control all kinds of iron bones and perform difficult jobs that are impossible for normal people.
"Human beings are scared of crystal processors. In all kinds of bizarre fantasy works, they have long imagined that the crystal processors will awaken self-awareness one day and swallow human beings, their creators.
"Human beings were well aware of that, but they still couldn't live without crystal processors. They could only set up barriers inside the crystal processors to deceive themselves, hoping to stifle the birth of the mechanical civilization and the crystal processor civilization in such a way.
"However, a few knowledgeable people among human beings have realized that the birth of a civilization of machines and crystal processors is inevitable. They have been studying it and pushing it forward, trying to make it develop in a more controllable direction.
"Perhaps, the Pangu civilization is the same?
"While it is true that the Pangu people created human beings, the prosperity of the Pangu civilization in the later years and the splendid civilizations in all the three thousand Sectors could not have been achieved without the hard work of human beings. Human beings are to the Pangu civilization what crystal processors, the Spiritual Nexus, and the spiritual puppets are to the civilization of mankind. There is no way to get rid of them. Once they are rid of, the Pangu civilization will be completely destroyed.
"Therefore, the Pangu civilization can only brand the so-called 'Three Fundamental Laws' deep inside the soul of the newborn human beings. In your eyes, it is a sign of absolute control, but from another perspective, isn't it also a sign of fear and helplessness?"
Long Yangjun's words cast Li Yao into deep thought. After pondering for a long time, he finally asked, "Then, in your opinion, are human beings' tools' or 'offspring' of the Pangu civilization?"
"There is no fundamental difference between the two," Long Yangjun said.
"The Pangu civilization is an alliance of thirteen different carbon-based lives. When those carbon-based lives are highly developed to the point where they can make use of the energy of the stars and modify genes freely, it is only natural for them to condense the essence of the thirteen carbon-based lives to create a brand-new, unified evolved body as the inheritor of the Pangu civilization, right?
"Perhaps, in the beginning, they created human beings as' tools', just like human beings created crystal processors and spiritual puppets as pure tools.
"However, as the crystal processors and spiritual puppets were developed, and more perfect individuals such as the 'Grand Illusionary Soldiers' emerged, the physical hardness and computational ability of the ordinary people were highlighted. Then, weren't some human beings trying to get rid of their fleshly bodies and live in iron bodies and super crystal processors, too?
"Look at the spectral Cultivators. In terms of appearance, they are entirely different from human beings in the past. They are more like a combination of crystal processors and machines. They can be shaped into all kinds of bizarre shapes and forms. They can even get rid of the shackles of their bodies and live in the Spiritual Nexus. But who can say that they are not human beings?
"Then, the Pangu civilization created human beings for the purpose of 'tools' at the beginning, but they soon discovered the infinite potentials of human beings and developed human beings toward the direction of a certain 'carrier of the civilization'. Such a hypothesis is rather reasonable, isn't it?
"Then, the role that the Nuwa Clan played in the Pangu civilization is rather similar to the role that Professor Mo Xuan played in the civilization of mankind! 'Since the awakening of human beings is inevitable, and we cannot abandon such a tool of paramount importance, we might as well grasp its awakening in our hands. We will be its parents, and it will regard itself as our offspring. It will be the best outcome.' Perhaps that was what the Nuwa Clan thought at that time. That was why they had conflicts with the other members of the Pangu civilization alliance and tore each other apart in the end, wasn't it? "
Li Yao found it hard to believe. "Did you just come up with such a long theory?"
"Yes. The trip to the Pangu laboratory was truly a rewarding one," Long Yangjun said with a faint smile.
Long Yangjun's voice was mixed with a vague smile. "Although I'm just talking nonsense that is not supported by much evidence, I vaguely have a feeling that we are very close to the final truth."
After repeated scans by the beast puppets and the Grand Illusionary Soldiers, confirming that there were no signs of life or any giant crabs lurking in the form of spores in the 'warehouse of embryos', Li Yao and the rest of them finally stepped in carefully.
The southeast corner of the enormous warehouse of embryos had completely collapsed. It had been pressed by rocks and walls that weighed tens of thousands of tons. Even the telepathic thoughts of the Divinity Transformation Stage could barely penetrate it.
However, Long Yangjun suddenly told Li Yao that she vaguely remembered that there seemed to be something behind the place.
The place was like a real mountain that could be moved apart easily with more than ten Colossi. It was not difficult at all to dig a hole in the rocks that was big enough for the beast puppets and the Grand Illusionary Soldiers to crawl in.
The result of the probe was that there was indeed a rather large space behind the collapsed rocks.
What was more surprising was that, after hundreds of thousands of years, almost ten enormous black cubes were still floating in midair. The surface of the cubes was riddled with overlapping geometric patterns that were as thin as hair. The cubes immediately emitted gloomy green light the moment they were exposed to the air.
Hundreds of other black cubes fell to the ground helplessly. Cracks as thick as a finger were all over their surface, revealing the crystal components inside that could not have been more precise.
Li Yao had seen a lot of similar magical equipment on Kunlun. They were all ancillary computation and control tools for the Pangu civilization, similar to the 'crystal processors' of mankind.
It appeared that this place was the control center that maintained the functioning of the entire warehouse of embryos.
Dozens of crystal cameras were rolling quickly, scanning the hundreds of broken, enormous corpses. Judging from the scraps of armor and weapons, they were much more advanced than the corpses outside.
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