"Wow. How am I supposed to answer such a profound, mysterious question that contains the ultimate truth of the universe?" Long Yangjun said with a smile.
Long Yangjun smiled. "In fact, everybody has their own understanding of such a vague, empty question. There might not be a correct answer. Or rather, there might be ten thousand correct answers. They can all explain the tip of the iceberg of the unknown universe from a certain perspective."
"Then, what's your 'correct answer'?" Li Yao asked.
"I don't have a 'correct answer'," Long Yangjun said. "The best I have are some immature inferences and hypotheses that I can share with you.
"Although we have been talking about the rivalry between the 'Pangu civilization' and 'Chaos', and we have even described it as an unprecedented war that involved the three thousand Sectors hundreds of thousands of years ago, before the division of the Nuwa Clan, the form of the so-called 'war' and the judgment of 'victory' were beyond our understanding and imagination.
"The Pangu civilization is like moving mountains, and Chaos or the extraterrestrial devils, on the other hand, are countless times smaller than the tiniest microbes. They do not even have a real body and are merely the shadows of microbes. They do not have self-awareness, self-awareness, or civilization. You must not imagine Chaos or the extraterrestrial devils as anthropomorphic beings. That would be the greatest mistake."
Li Yao frowned. "However, I have indeed seen a lot of extraterrestrial devils who boasted intense emotions and self-awareness, such as Extraterrestrial Devil Mo Xuan, Extraterrestrial Devil Lei Yuqin, Extraterrestrial Devil Lu Qingchen, and even the commander of the Nuwa Clan who tried to possess me just now. Isn't there an ancient extraterrestrial devil that has hibernated for hundreds of thousands of years inside her head?"
"You couldn't be more wrong," Long Yangjun said.
"The so-called 'Extraterrestrial Devil Mo Xuan' is entirely specious. To be more exact, what lives inside Professor Mo Xuan's soul is not an extraterrestrial devil but the amalgamation of thousands of 'Chaos' and 'extraterrestrial devils'.
"No. Not just Professor Mo Xuan, there are thousands of extraterrestrial devils inside the head of you, me, and everybody else."
"Thousands of extraterrestrial devils?"
Li Yao was completely confused. "I don't understand …"
"You can imagine our soul as an ecological system with a sky, a land, an ocean, plants, and animals. It is a unique, thriving planet, or even a world, a mysterious, immeasurable 'mini universe'!
Long Yangjun said, "Every breeze, every ray of sunlight, every blade of grass, and every dew in this small universe cannot be counted as' you ', but the' ecological system 'that everything makes up is your mind, your self-awareness, and your soul. Is such an analogy acceptable?"
Li Yao pondered for a moment and nodded slowly.
"But a long, long time ago, at the very beginning, such an 'ecosystem' did not exist."
Long Yangjun said, "At that time, human beings, as' tools' or 'carriers', would only be a barren, lifeless planet deep inside their brains. It would be a world of absolute desolation and stillness. It would be a tiny universe without the slightest heat or waves. The best that could be found were some unconscious waves, like the wind, the rain, the lightning, and the earthquakes.
"However, perhaps because the 'seeds of life' were implanted deep inside the bottomless, scorching ocean when the planet was born, or perhaps because of the amazing gifts brought by the meteoroids from outer space, ancient lives gradually emerged on the dead, silent planets after a long time.
"There were more and more lives, and they were more and more complicated. They blended, swallowed, split, and evolved with each other. They slowly modified the desolate planets and covered the lifeless land with colorful moss. From the moss grew trees that were full of fruits and nurtured countless creatures. Everything constituted an extremely complicated and precise ecological system, which was the soul of human beings."
Li Yao was stupefied as he listened.
"The extraterrestrial devils are like cells," Long Yangjun said.
Long Yangjun said, "Your body is made of billions of cells, and your soul is made of billions of extraterrestrial devils. A single cell or a single extraterrestrial devil is not you, but when billions of cells and extraterrestrial devils are gathered, they constitute your fleshly body and powerful soul.
"The fleshly body can get sick. It can be invaded by foreign viruses and bacteria. Mutated species that look like 'cancer cells' may even grow, leading to self-destruction.
"By the same logic, the extraterrestrial devils are neither good nor bad. Grass swallows dew and sunlight, sheep eat grass, and wolves eat sheep. There is no distinction between good and evil here. As long as they constitute a food chain that is balanced enough to maintain the order of the entire ecological system, everything will be fine.
"However, once a certain ferocious alien species barges into the ecological system and shatters the fragile ecological balance brutally, there will be dire consequences."
Li Yao thought of something and asked, "So to speak, the so-called 'invasion of extraterrestrial devils' is not as simple as an extraterrestrial devil swallowing a person's soul, but 'some' extraterrestrial devils invading the closed ecological system inside someone's brain, leading to the destruction and even collapse of the entire ecological system, leading to catastrophic consequences in the end?"
"Exactly."
Long Yangjun said, "The name 'extraterrestrial devils' is too derogatory. Sometimes, people can't help but imagine them as dark, evil, and bloodthirsty existences. I prefer the name 'chaos'. By chaos, there is no distinction between good and evil. It is light, it is darkness, it is kindness, and it is evil.
"As the saying goes, 'Lust is the head of all evils, regardless of one's heart, and there are no good people in the world. Everyone always has a lot of good and evil thoughts in their head, but most of the time, everyone can control their evil thoughts. It's like an ecosystem where wolves, sheep, grass, sunlight, rain, and dew coexist, maintaining a delicate balance.
"However, the arrival of extraterrestrial devils is like a virus that has never appeared in the ecological system before brought by a meteorite, which leads to the destruction and even collapse of the entire system instantly. That is the 'bedevilment' in the general sense.
"How do you measure the strength and weakness of the soul? In my opinion, it is based on the complexity of the ecological system.
"The simpler an ecological system is, the more fragile it is. It's like an ecological system that only has wolves, sheep, grass, sunlight, rain, and dew. As long as a random external variable is added, it will collapse. The variable does not even need to be a raging tiger or a lion. It only needs to be some insignificant germs that can cause the death of the grass on a large scale.
"The soul of the ordinary people is exactly such a 'simple and fragile ecological system'. Therefore, in the arrival of the extraterrestrial devils, even the devils of the lowest level were enough to collapse the brains of hundreds of thousands of people at the same time and turn them into 'devilized people'.
"Through training, the soul becomes stronger and stronger, which means that the ecological system becomes more and more complicated. It really becomes a planet that is full of vitality, with billions and billions of different creatures living on it. One or two foreign germs or creatures are not enough to destroy the entire ecosystem at all. Or rather, they will soon be grasped by thousands of food chains, digested, and absorbed, and become part of the ecological system.
"The reason why you were able to swallow the enormous tenebrum energy left by the extraterrestrial devil Mo Xuan and Lu Qingchen was that your 'ecological system' was highly complicated and boasted high anti-corruption and assimilation abilities. After adjusting the structure of the food chain, the 'foreign species' were embedded into it organically and turned into 'local species', restoring the ecological balance.
"Therefore, there is no need to dwell on whether or not the extraterrestrial devils have invaded the depths of your soul. The extraterrestrial devils are not scary per se, just like our cells and the bacteria that live inside our intestines. What is scary is that the whole ecological system will lose balance and walk toward collapse and destruction!"
Li Yao listened in silence. At this moment, he finally could not help but take a long breath in relief. "Such a theory is indeed unheard of. How refreshing!"
"Of course it is unheard of, because I made it up without thinking!"
Long Yangjun's eyes were glittering with eagerness. "Whether or not it is true, I'm more than willing to jump to the center of the cosmos right now to find out the answer!
"Hehe. We've talked for such a long time without us knowing it. If we keep talking, chances are that we will really be locked onto by the starships of the Federation. I have to go now. I'm going to search for … no, to create my destiny. Li Yao, if you want to continue the conversation, come to the center of the cosmos and find me!"
Deep blue ripples appeared on the light curtain, as if a translucent flower was slowly blooming.
"I hope that by then —"
Staring at Li Yao thoughtfully, Long Yangjun said thoughtfully, "Can you tell me what your 'destiny' is? No. It is not a destiny that somebody else has given you but a real destiny that you have created for yourself!
When the last word of 'destiny' was uttered, the light beam had already turned from deep blue into white. Long Yangjun and the chair behind her were both enshrouded in dazzling white light, as if they had been completely melted.
In her gloomy murmurs, Li Yao saw an unbelievable scene through the other hundred surveillance cameras deployed around the Land of Eternal Night.
In the clouds that were rolling like surging tides above the ice field, a deep blue flower that looked like an octopus slowly blossomed. The petals extended all the way to the horizon, and the pistils intertwined with each other helically, establishing a bridge that extended to the depths of the sea of stars.
Hiu!
A streak of glamorous brilliance surfaced in the void. Before all the starships of the Federation realized what was going on, it darted out of the dark nebula along the bridge and disappeared into the infinite stars!
"Long Yangjun …"
The dim blue flowers in the sky gradually dissipated, turning into streaks of dazzling blue light that splashed onto the ground. It was as if the frozen land within a radius of a thousand miles was completely enshrouded in a beautiful aurora.
Li Yao watched everything in a daze, but his mind was gradually focused on the last sentence that the person said before she left.
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