"What!"
Other than Xiaoming and Wenwen, Boss Bai, A Boxing Champion, and even Long Yangjun all stood up and stared at Li Yao with their eyes and crystal cameras. The muscles on their faces were all tightened, and they couldn't help but twitch their lips.
Boss Bai asked in a hurry, "How do you know 'magic'? What exactly is the 'magic' that you know?"
"Well …"
Li Yao did not know why his heart was beating so fast. It was so fast that he felt that a pile driver was hitting his chest nonstop. He could not control it even though his Cultivation was above the Divinity Transformation Stage.
In just a few seconds, the sweat on his forehead and back gushed out like blood, completely drenching his face and clothes.
Billions of pieces were dancing crazily in the storm in his head, like the petrels that were charging at the storm. Inside every feather of every petrel was a different world of magic — the worlds of magic imagined by the earthlings.
"If I say that I heard the word 'magic' in my dream, would you believe me?"
Looking at everybody, Li Yao scratched his head and said, "As for what the magic in my dream looked like exactly, it was ever-changing and all-encompassing. It was like … like there were countless worlds of magic. Some of them had 'magic webs', some of them had messy stuff like 'elements', and some of them were only males who could perform magic. Also, they had to stay single until they were thirty in order to accumulate the density of magic inside their body and train the agility of their fingers so that they could spurt out fireballs automatically … All in all, there were all kinds of dazzling things that I couldn't explain for a while. After all, it was just a dream, and I forgot many details the moment I woke up."
"There were countless worlds of magic?"
Alarmed, Boss Bai looked at the Fist King and stared at Li Yao in a daze for a long time. Then, he suddenly laughed and shook his head. "It does make sense. I should've thought of it earlier. Countless historians have studied your rise repetitively, all the way back to your early life in Floating Spear City. But no matter how hard they searched, they couldn't find the reason why you were so strong in the beginning.
"The magical equipment graveyard is not a place where any random kid can survive.
"You saw magic … in your dream? Then it makes sense! "
Holding his forehead, Li Yao held back the headache and the uncanny emptiness. Frowning, he said, "Boss Bai, Long Yangjun, and A Boxing Champion, it's not easy for us to walk together to this day with our own subtle identities. I will certainly not keep any information that I can tell you so that we can piece together the whole truth together. However, the weird dream in my head is truly fragmented and mottled. More clues are needed to guide it. Why don't you tell me what the 'magic' that you have discovered is first?"
"Alright!"
Boss Bai said quickly, "There are no secrets between you and me in the first place. Now that you are willing to be frank with me, I will tell you everything that I know exactly as it is.
"Since you know about 'magic', then do you know about 'Gaozite'? It should be a transliteration from the language of the magic civilization. It means something like … soul or the netherworld. "
"Gaozite … Gaozite … Gaozite?"
Li Yao repeated it twice. Then, for some reason, he remembered the English on Earth, and a word naturally popped up in his head. "GHOST!"
In his memories about Earth, Li Yao's grades were not very good, and English was not his mother tongue, either. However, "GHOST" was one of the basic words that he knew. Also, it was widely used in various aspects, including the operation of computers. Therefore, after pondering for a moment, Li Yao remembered it.
Boss Bai and A Boxing Champion looked at each other in bewilderment. Li Yao's pronunciation was obviously more standard than Boss Bai's so-called "Gaozite". At the very least, it was not the accent of the Pangu people but three syllables at the same time, like some kind of obscure spell.
Boss Bai's face greatly changed. He asked, "How do you spell the word? What does it mean?"
"It goes like this —"
Pondering for a moment, Li Yao extended one of his fingers and wrote 'GHOST' on the light beam. He explained, "I'm not well-read, so I don't necessarily know the full meaning of the word. But the most important thing about it is that it means' ghost 'or' illusion '. Right, there's also a famous installation or operating system named after it."
"It's … It's exactly the same."
Looking at the word on the light beam, Boss Bai found it hard to believe again. He was stunned for a long time before he mumbled, "Ghost, illusion, operating system? 'That's right! That's f * cking right!' A Boxing Champion, show 'that thing' to Li Yao! "
A Boxing Champion nodded and took out the magic chip that Boss Bai gave him from the storage box in front of his chest, throwing it to Li Yao. "Take a look. Do you recognize the words on it? “
Li Yao took over the magic chip in confusion. He groped for it with his fingers, only to be frozen. He couldn't help but exclaim, "What the hell is this?"
Boss Bai and the Fist King did not recognize the zigzagging words on the magic chip, but Li Yao could tell after a glance that it seemed to be a combination of quite a few phonetic characters on Earth that were based on letters!
At first glance, it looked like English, but it was more ancient and glamorous. Not only did it look like the language of the other superpowers in Europe, it was also more like the ancient … what was it called again? Sardine? No, it was Latin!
Li Yao's understanding of English was limited to the basic vocabulary. He knew absolutely nothing about the languages of the other superpowers in Europe and the ancient Latin that barely anybody used. Also, the magic chip had almost been melted, and all the words on it were only shallow traces. Naturally, he did not know what the mixed words meant.
However, as a "Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivator" who had lived in the world of Cultivators for more than a hundred years and had been nurtured by the civilization of Cultivators, the shock when he suddenly saw something similar to English and Latin in his own world was indescribable.
It was no exaggeration to say that Li Yao was like a cricket that had been raised in a jar all the time. One day, when the "high walls" around him collapsed, he discovered that there was a vast world outside!
"This is … This is … This is …"
Li Yao's face was red and blue. His brain almost stopped thinking. Holding the magic chip with both hands, he felt that he was holding molten magma. It was so painful that he wanted to let it go but was reluctant to do so. He could barely breathe.
"Li Yao, are … are you alright?"
Observing his face, Boss Bai asked concernedly. Fine, although Li Yao was usually a bit annoying, he was the only clue for Boss Bai's expedition to the world of magic right now. Naturally, Boss Bai had to keep Li Yao safe even if he had to die!
"I'm fine. It's just that —"
Taking a few deep breaths, Li Yao managed to put on a smile with a pale face. "It's just that I feel a bit awkward when I suddenly see the ABCD, bananas, and pineapples in such a quaint world of Cultivators like ours. It's just that I feel a bit awkward.
"Speaking of which, where did Boss Bai get the stuff? Why did you put it in A Boxing Champion's hands? Does it have anything to do with A Boxing Champion too?"
Boss Bai looked at A Boxing Champion.
A Boxing Champion said in a low, muffled voice, "Li Yao knows who I am in the first place. He was even the one who 'enlightened' me. Or rather, according to Boss Bai's theory, he activated a certain strength inside my body. Also, he has shared his weird dreams with us. I've calculated that there is no need to keep any secrets from him. Besides, I can't keep any secrets from him at all."
"Then, I'll talk about it now."
Boss Bai organized his words and explained how the Big Bai Pirate Gang encountered the debris of the wizardly civilization after they jumped to the edge of the Martial Meritocrats Sector of the Imperium of True Human Beings, how they found the magic chip and received some fuzzy information, and how they analyzed A Boxing Champion's identity later.
He put more emphasis on the destruction of the wizardly civilization and the alien civilizations, as well as the "Flood" that led to the destruction of thousands of civilizations. He opened his guesses and deductions to Li Yao.
Both Li Yao and Long Yangjun were dazed for a moment.
"Beyond the three thousand Sectors that we are in, it is a desolate space that is so long that it is almost infinite. It is like an omnipresent and impenetrable black wall. However, beyond the black wall, there are infinite worlds and billions of civilizations. Are there? Like the wizardly civilization, which can absorb energy from the four-dimensional lives and operates in a completely different way from ours?
"But such brilliant civilizations have all been destroyed because of a certain mysterious and powerful force — the Flood?
"Nobody knows if there are more survivors of the alien civilizations beyond the 'black wall' right now, or if the survivors have luckily or unluckily crossed the black wall and entered the world of the Cultivators like the starships of the wizardly civilization did. Nobody knows where the Flood has gone after swallowing countless civilizations.
"Has the Flood been pacified? Or is it taking a nap in satisfaction after having a good meal? Or has it woken up from a long digestion and is looking for the next batch of 'food' hungrily, for example, the 'food' of the Cultivators and the human civilization of the Pangu? "
All kinds of unimaginable, horrible pictures flashed in Li Yao and Long Yangjun's heads. Looking at each other in bewilderment, they both smiled bitterly.
Li Yao finally understood why Boss Bai was so calm and composed when faced with such a shocking event as the "awakening of artificial intelligence".
If the wizardly civilization and the billions of extraterrestrial civilizations did exist, and if the "Flood" that destroyed them did exist, the "awakening of artificial intelligence" would indeed pale in comparison.
"Li Yao, what we have right now is nothing more than such a tiny magic chip and a few words of speculation."
Boss Bai said solemnly, "I thought that both the wizardly civilization and the Flood that would destroy everything were too far away for us to explore them. I didn't expect that your arrival would bring us new hope.
"I've told you everything that I know. Can you recall anything else?"
"Let me think. I need to think very carefully."
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