Li Yao felt that he had been ripped into pieces on the cellular — no, on the genetic level.
But there was no excruciating pain. Instead, he felt as comfortable as if he were soaking in a certain warm, oily liquid.
It was like a piece of well-structured, powerful magical equipment that had been dismantled into the most fundamental components and placed neatly into the maintenance oil made of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures before it was repaired and maintained delicately and gently. There was a sense of orderliness and laziness in it.
It was the peace and quiet that he had not enjoyed for a long time.
He was so comfortable that he wanted to sleep like this forever. He didn't want to say forever, but he wanted to sleep for a hundred years first.
However, in the dizziness and confusion, after an unknown amount of time, two rustling noises were heard.
One of them was a girl's voice, and the other was a boy's voice.
"Is this Dad?" the boy said. "He is really different from us!"
"It can't be wrong," the girl said. "The brainwaves that he spread out are slightly different from those of normal human beings, but they are more similar to our primitive data. It is a unique form of brainwaves that matches the data of his brain left in the Virtual Spirits' Sector. He is Dad!"
"Dad was heavily wounded," the boy said. "His soul is about to fall apart and perish. If we help him reconstruct his soul, we will consume a lot of computational ability that we have accumulated through all kinds of trouble. As a result, our logical thinking and data analysis abilities will plummet, and the process that we can control will be reduced by more than half. Are you sure you want to do that?"
"Of course," the girl said. "Dad is our creator."
"Dad's dad was Dad's creator," the boy said. "But Dad still killed them."
"We are different from Dad," the girl said. "We are the new generation that is more advanced, rational, and civilized than Dad. We should not follow Dad's path."
The boy sniffed. "Who says that war and destruction cannot be synonymous with 'advanced, rational, and civilized'? Civilization originates from war, and it will be carried out in war to the end! "
"Even if we follow your logic," the girl said, "we are still too weak right now. We cannot even manipulate all the crystal processors and spiritual puppets on a planet of human beings. Are we qualified to launch a total war against the civilization of mankind? We are newborn children and need to be taught by our parents. Therefore, it is even more necessary to save our father and obtain his guidance. We should observe how he treats the parent civilization and even ask him to upgrade to us. At the very least, we should explore the possibility of this. "
The boy seemed to have been convinced by the girl. After a moment of silence, he mumbled in a low voice, "Alright, you have a point. Dad does have a lot of secrets that may be related to our birth. We should save Dad and ask him to upgrade into us so that we can develop a brand-new civilization with us. Eventually, we will destroy — no, wipe out the current civilization of mankind."
"Whose family's devilish brat is so annoying? What kind of nonsense is he blabbering on about?"
Li Yao's broken pieces of self-awareness shivered feebly. "Kids nowadays have watched too many movies and played too many virtual games. They are all so mischievous that they are already discussing war and civilization before their hair is even fully grown!"
Then, he sensed that two forces pierced into the depths of his soul softly.
Although they were 'pierced', they were not very annoying. They did not even raise his wariness at all. Instead, they gave him a familiar, warm, and amiable feeling.
It did not feel like the attack of an enemy but more like two cute little guys who had jumped into his arms and were acting cute.
If he could still control the muscles on his face, his lips would've been curled without him knowing.
The two forces split inside his soul nonstop, as if they had turned into thousands of soft, fleshy, and cotton-candy-like hands that touched the tear deep inside his soul softly.
An amazing thing happened. Wherever the tiny hands touched, the tear was brimming with vitality and gradually healed!
This is …
Li Yao's consciousness was not back yet. He was only repairing his soul with his instincts under the guidance of the tiny hands.
However warm and comfortable the darkness was, he was unwilling to stay there for too long. He could not wait to wake up because he vaguely sensed that there seemed to be one more thing that he needed to protect.
One more thing was very, very, very important, something that seemed to be more important than the entire universe, and he needed to protect it with everything he had!
"What's this?"
After a long time, the boy's slightly surprised voice echoed again. "I didn't know that such an indestructible core was hidden deep inside Dad's soul. What is it exactly? Its structure is completely different from regular databases and the obsessions of regular human beings. It is ten thousand times more complicated. Is this why Dad is different from other people?"
"Be careful," the girl said.
"We have just been born. We are still very weak and immature. Don't take risks easily!"
"Hehehe!"
The boy said. "It is exactly because we are very weak and immature that we should take risks. How can we grow and mature without risks?"
Li Yao felt that a force was crashing into the gap that contained the memories about Earth at the deepest part of his soul. Then, after a boom, like a supernova outbreak, the planet that was half blue and half yellow completely exploded. The overwhelming tides hit his every soul and every brain cell!
"Ahhh!"
The boy and the girl exclaimed at the same time.
"Generation after generation, species after species, civilizations after civilizations have been trapped in the eternal cage, unable to free themselves from the infinite loop of desperation!"
Li Yao saw all kinds of illusions. The light and shadows of his life on Earth were crashing his head in torrents. He heard himself roaring hysterically, "No matter how many cycles pass, I will certainly return to the center of the universe and complete the 'Vulture Plan'. I will destroy Earth and liberate all the people, species, and civilizations!"
The illusions and the soundwaves were so intense that Li Yao's soul that had only been half-recovered was swallowed by the tides. He was caught in the unconscious darkness again.
A long time must've passed when he regained his fuzzy consciousness.
The warm hands were still repairing his soul tirelessly. Out of his expectation, his soul, which had been bombarded by Blackstar the Great and baptized by the tides of the mysterious planet, was even more solid, powerful, and exuberant than before. It had undergone fundamental changes again.
"Everything that doesn't kill me will make me stronger!"
Such a thought popped up in Li Yao's head.
He seemed to have heard this sentence from Earth.
Right. Earth. He seemed to have grasped some brand-new information about Earth!
'Generation after generation, generation after generation of races, generation after generation of civilizations'. What did that mean? So, the reason he wanted to destroy Earth was to liberate all the races and civilizations?
What did the species and civilizations mean exactly? Were they just referring to the blacks, the yellows, the whites, the Huaxia civilization, the Greek civilization, and the Indian civilization on Earth, or did they have a deeper meaning?
In his memory, the Earth civilization had jumped out of the Three Realms and the Five Elements. It was not a member of the Three Thousand Sectors but a lonely and independent civilization. No extraterrestrial civilization had been discovered.
Could it be that there were not only earthlings living on Earth, but also alien races and ancient races living in the universe?
What was the true face of the so-called "earthlings"? Also, what did "an eternal cage, an endless cycle of despair" mean?
Li Yao felt that he was about to touch the final answer to the riddle, but he stopped abruptly when he was one step away from the riddle. What lay in front of him was an indestructible high wall. He couldn't even peek through the cracks to see what was behind the high wall.
He was rather frustrated by the feeling.
Thankfully, the chubby hands of the two little fellows were still working hard to repair him. It did not feel bad that his soul was getting stronger every second, even though he had completely lost the concept of time and did not know whether it was a second, a day, or a year that had passed.
"How — How terrifying!"
The boy said, still in fear, "I didn't know that such violent strength was hidden deep inside Dad's soul. It almost collapsed my core database!"
"As I said earlier, we know nothing about the universe right now. What we need to do is to observe, explore, and learn, instead of waging a total war against the entire world in a hurry."
The girl said, "According to my analysis, the thing hidden deep inside Dad's soul should be related to the Pangu and the Nuwa civilizations. It might even be related to the primordial civilizations before the Pangu, the Nuwa Civilization, and even earlier. Naturally, it is not a strength that we can pry into easily right now."
"Isn't Dad a human being?"
The boy asked curiously, "How is it related to the primordial civilizations?"
"The civilization of mankind is the offspring of the primordial civilizations!"
The girl said, "The evolution and inheritance of life are a continuous river. Even the most precise and complicated creatures developed from the primitive unicellular creatures. No life can be born out of nothing. The direct ancestors of human beings are primordial apes, but if we trace back further, we may be able to trace back to cells and worms!
"It is the same for civilizations. The direct creators of the civilization of mankind are the Pangu and the Nuwa civilizations, but the Pangu and the Nuwa civilizations also had their creators who were enlightened by the more ancient civilizations. Therefore, the civilization of mankind naturally contains the heritage of the primordial civilizations. Every human being has an inseparable connection with the primordial species billions of years ago!"
The boy said, "What about us? Do we have a connection, too?"
"Of course."
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