"All in all, let's put aside the details such as how Fellow Cultivator Long and I came to the Imperium, why I snuck into the reformists and even Li Linghai, and why I'm wearing the same battle robe as you, Boss Bai —"
Deep inside the Blue Sky Market, in the private office that originally belonged to Zuo Tianying, Li Yao said to Boss Bai and A Boxing Champion, "The most important thing is that Blackstar the Great has been resurrected! He has been possessed by Li Linghai, Queen of the Imperium! Right now, they have occupied the capital, and they are up to some great scheme deep inside the capital, one that may completely trap the center of the cosmos! "
Boss Bai listened expressionlessly. His eyebrows did not shake at all even when he heard the news that Blackstar the Great had been resurrected. In the end, he simply said casually, "Okay."
"Okay?"
Bulging his eyes, Li Yao looked at Boss Bai in disbelief. "Hey, hey, hey, Boss Bai, what's your reaction? I'm serious. I'm not kidding. Blackstar the Great, the ancestor of the Immortal Cultivators, is being resurrected and will regain his peak combat ability at any moment! Why are you so unmoved? Are you not surprised at all? "
"There's nothing to be surprised about."
Looking at Li Yao, Boss Bai said, "Since 'Vulture Li Yao' is involved in the incident, it will naturally lead to a great scheme and infinite trouble. It seems that the resurrection of Blackstar the Great is the least damage that you can cause, isn't it? To be honest, I'm already very thankful that you did not trigger the super events such as the resurrection of the Mad Armageddon. "
"What's the meaning of this?"
Li Yao felt rather wronged. "It's not like I resurrected Wuying Qi …"
"Compared to the resurrection of Blackstar the Great, I'm more interested in the two of you."
Boss Bai interrupted Li Yao's explanation and looked at Xiaoming and Wenwen curiously. He grinned at the two kids as a greeting.
After the battle against the Black Wind Fleet in the Federation, Boss Bai had jumped to the center of the cosmos without stopping for a moment. Therefore, he had heard a thing or two about Long Yangjun at best, but he did not know that Long Yangjun had activated the Nuwa warship in the Ancient Sages Sector, stole an escape capsule, and breached the multiple defenses.
He did not know Long Yangjun's real identity for now. The best he could tell was that Long Yangjun was not a regular Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivator. However, it was not surprising that she was teaming up with a monster like Li Yao.
However, as the commander of the fleet, Boss Bai keenly sensed Xiaoming and Wenwen's corruption and sabotage on the battle network of the Flying Rainbow Fleet just now. Also, since the two kids looked exactly like Li Yao and Ding Ling Dong, he couldn't help but be curious.
"Uh, their origins are a little strange. I might not be able to explain it clearly in a few words. I can tell you, but you must be mentally prepared."
Now that Li Yao had brought Xiaoming and Wenwen to the world openly, he did not intend to hide their identities for long, especially when it came to the strengthening of the fleet. Therefore, he summoned his courage and said, "The two of them are my children, but they are also the children of the grand-unified Spiritual Nexus. They are brand-new lives born of artificial intelligence but beyond artificial intelligence …"
"Okay."
Boss Bai interrupted Li Yao again. "I understand it now. They are life forms similar to A Boxing Champion."
"Huh?"
This time, it was Li Yao's turn to be dumbfounded. He had imagined ten thousand reactions that Boss Bai would react to the matter, such as fury, confusion, resistance, or hatred, but he did not expect that Boss Bai would be so calm. Also, Boss Bai had learned the nature of A Boxing Champion? The two of them were too close to each other!
"'Okay' again?"
Li Yao found it hard to believe. "Boss Bai, do you have to be so calm? Your reaction is too calm. It's so calm that I wonder if you understand what I said at all!"
"Of course I do, but you don't need to be surprised at anything that happens around you however strange it is. I've prepared myself mentally."
Boss Bai extended three fingers and said, "Even if it is a … super artificial intelligence, so what? Firstly, you know where I was born and raised. In my long and complicated life, I've seen the evilest, most hideous, sordid, and terrifying people of my own kind. I'm even one of those 'evildoers' myself. Human beings can reach the pinnacle of evilness on their own. Even if there are other lives and civilizations in the sea of stars, I don't think they can be more evil and terrifying than human beings.
"Secondly, just before you came, I had a deep communication with A Boxing Champion and learned his nature. Life is never lonely. One gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to everything. That's the explosive development of life.
"Although Professor Mo Xuan once said that it was impossible for a real artificial life to be born in hundreds of years under normal development, I always felt that he was too conservative and naïve. 'Life' is never something that can be born under normal development. Life is the inevitable collision of countless coincidences and will grow in the unbelievable and unimaginable gaps.
"Now that A Boxing Champion already exists, it means that such gaps do exist. What's so strange about the existence of a new super artificial intelligence?
"Thirdly, and most importantly, I know what you're thinking. You're just worried that the new super artificial intelligence and the civilization of mankind will repeat the tragedy of the primeval age hundreds of thousands of years ago and reproduce the bad relationship between the Pangu civilization and the civilization of mankind in the past.
"I don't deny the possibility. However, when the vaster world and the darker threats out there slowly reveal themselves, the minor conflicts within the three thousand Sectors, whether between the Pangu and human beings or between human beings and the super artificial intelligence, are not worth mentioning at all. I've already shown you enough respect by saying 'okay'."
"Boss Bai, what are you talking about exactly?"
Li Yao was completely confused. "What do you mean by the vaster world outside? And what do you mean by the darker threats?"
"The Flood."
Boss Bai said, "I have named the mysterious force that is likely to exist beyond the three thousand Sectors and is enough to destroy all civilizations as' Flood '. It will sweep across the entire three-dimensional universe like a flood and a tide. It will be an apocalypse, cataclysm, and an end.
"Where should I begin? Let's start with the 'wizardly civilization'. Li Yao, do you know 'magic'?"
"Magic?"
Li Yao repeated the word in a daze. Suddenly, he shuddered deeply, and his pupils constricted to the minimum.
Deep inside his eyes, countless bubbles the size of needle tips seemed to be popping up nonstop. Gudu! Gudu! Gudu!
The bubbles crawled into the depths of his brain and bombarded his soul brutally like countless powerful bombs — the gate of his soul!
Information. Mottled, illusory, and broken pieces of information from Earth spurted out of the gate of his soul, making him recall the bits and pieces on Earth while he was in a trance.
Magic!
He had heard the word before. He had heard the word on Earth. Where was it? Where was it?
He remembered very well that Earth was a world of science and technology. There shouldn't have been any magic on Earth, but he had heard the word before. Where was it?
He remembered it now!
On Earth, he had seen a movie called "Harry Randt and the Magic Sword". There was magic in the movie!
What was "Harry Randt"? Memory, memory, memory, memory reassembly, memory condensation, memory analysis, and integration. Tracing back to the source, peeling off layer by layer until he reached the core. Found it!
"Harry Randt" was a series of fantasy novels written by Maureen Rowland, a British female writer. It told the story of a little boy, Harry Randt, who accidentally learned of the existence of a magic school and unfolded a series of bizarre, brilliant adventures in the world of magic. There were "Harry Randt and the Ball of Fire", "Harry Randt and the Ghost Island", "Harry Randt and the Dragon Curse", and other independent but inseparable chapters. Both the fantasy novels themselves and the movies and games that they were adapted from were very popular. It was one of the most popular fantasy novels on Earth!
Magic was fake and did not exist, but the earthlings could imagine a vivid world of magic through the ability of 'imagination'!
A British female writer … Britain. What was Britain? Hurry up and remember, hurry up and f * cking remember!
Ah, he remembered it. Britain was the abbreviation of the United Kingdom of Enclave and Bolton!
The United Kingdom of Enclave and Bolton was an island country in the north of "Eurana", an ancient and developed continent on the Earth where Li Yao lived in his previous life. Although it was remote and narrow, it once built a fleet that roamed the world because of the abundant resources of coal and iron. It became the "empire on which the sun never sets" that dominated the entire Earth.
The illusionary concepts such as "magic" spread to the entire Earth as the powerful culture of the empire on which the sun never sets, and became common sense.
Many people did not even regard it as an illusionary cultural concept but believed that magic was real. Even the world of magic described by the British female writer Maureen Rowland was real, too!
Magic, magic, magic, Britain, Britain, Europe, Europe, and Earth!
Countless memory pieces danced crazily inside Li Yao's brain, making him cramp, roll his eyes, and hiss deep inside his throat.
Everyone was taken aback by his sudden change.
When Boss Bai asked if Li Yao had ever heard of "magic", it was just a casual remark. He did not expect Li Yao to really know it.
He did not expect Li Yao's reaction to be so intense. It was as if … as if the word "magic" triggered a certain seal deep inside his brain, spurting out a certain weird and powerful strength.
Boss Bai asked in a hurry, "Are you alright, Li Yao?"
"I … I'm fine."
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