"It … does make sense."
Li Yao thought for a long time. Although Long Yangjun's words were mostly groundless speculations, they did make sense logically.
While she was talking, Long Yangjun seemed to have entered a trance. She extended her hand to touch the black tides created by the light beam, and her voice suddenly became old and profound. She mumbled, "I drew a sketch for the leader of the Pangu civilization. In my eyes, the leader of the Pangu civilization who made the decision was like an experienced, sophisticated, and even cold-hearted hunter in the depths of the dark forest.
"No, he was not just an old hunter. He was also the leader of the tiny tribe named 'Pangu'.
"As the village chief's old hunter, he went through a lot of hardships and used his incomparable wisdom, courage, hot-bloodedness, and even schemes to struggle for survival in the Dark Forest. He even had a heart filled with longing for light like yours. He ended the cruel hunting between the thirteen hunters and built the tribe together, bringing peace and light to this small Dark Forest.
"Then, after countless efforts and sweat, they chopped the weeds, cut down the trees, prepared the supplies, and drew the map. Finally, one day, they broke out of the forest that had trapped them for millions of years!
"However, after they left the dark forest that had been cursed for a long time, the first picture they saw was bones, the bones of behemoths that were a hundred times more enormous and hideous than the beast kings that they had encountered before. Even such behemoths were not something that their tiny tribe could resist, not to mention the catastrophes that killed the behemoths.
"Then, they may have run into the scourge of the Flood, such as behemoths that were swallowed, mountains that were crushed, and rivers that were tens of thousands of meters deep. They also learned the horror of the Flood from the survivors who were dying after the disaster.
"The old hunter had dealt with countless enemies in his life and resolved all kinds of catastrophes, but he had never encountered anything as great as the Flood. He was scared out of his wits. Of course, he was scared out of his wits. Also, he had to be responsible for his tribe, for all the hunters, and for the old, the weak, the women, and the children.
"Therefore, the old hunter retreated without a sound, completely abandoning the plan to break out of the dark forest, and he was haunted by the greatest fear for the rest of his life.
"He listened to the sounds outside of the dark forest and the approaching Flood in panic all day long, thinking about how to avoid the scanning and sniffing of the Flood.
"He also planned the food and other resources in his tribe carefully, hoping that his children could survive the next million years before he went out.
"Of course, it is the nature of children to explore, to laugh, to sing, and to dance, but those things are absolutely forbidden. Exploration may cause disasters, and laughter, singing, and dancing will consume a lot of resources. It is also possible that the Flood will hear them.
"Besides, where there is laughter, there is pain, where there is crying and screaming.... The children taste joy today, but tomorrow, they will be haunted by the horror of the Flood for the rest of their lives in eternal pain like the old hunter!
"Therefore, for the children and for the tribe, it is better to forbid, seal, and obliterate them all!
"Of course, the children do not like such a cold and even inhuman 'Grandpa Village Leader'. The young, fearless hunters who have never joined an expedition and never seen the outside of the forest do not like him, either. They think that he is exaggerating and that the Flood is not so terrible at all. There are great contradictions among them, and the contradictions may even develop into wars. In the most extreme cases, the old hunter has to choke the children who are laughing and singing aloud and stab the dagger that has been smeared with venom into the chests of the young hunters.
"Li Yao, for you and I, who are standing millions of years in the future and have seen the ending of the small tribe clearly and know the general trend of history, of course, we can mock the old hunter's cowardice, criticize his cruelty, and lash at his inhumane approach. After all, he failed to save the Pangu civilization in the end despite all the extreme approaches! He had failed, and that was the greatest sin of all.
"However, no matter how prosperous and advanced the Pangu civilization was, it did not have the ability to predict the future. At that time, before all the consequences were revealed, they were haunted by the greatest fear, and the entire society and civilization might have collapsed abruptly. At such a perilous moment, can you say that the old hunter did not have his reasons for his decision? Can you say that you would have come up with a better solution if you were in the old hunter's place? "
"I … can't."
Li Yao said dutifully, "In the past, I liked to mock and criticize those people — Xiao Xuance, Lu Zui, Extraterrestrial Devil Mo Xuan, and perhaps the old hunter of the Pangu civilization that you just mentioned. But honestly speaking, it is always easy to point out their mistakes, especially from the perspective of the latecomers. Isn't it just a case of hindsight?
"However, when I was faced with a future that I knew nothing about, when I was faced with an imminent threat, and when I had to make a certain dilemma with incomplete or even completely wrong information, I finally realized that it was difficult. Truly difficult!"
Long Yangjun looked at Li Yao in surprise and smiled. "It seems that your mindset is truly different now that you have made up your mind to walk on the path of the great devil king. You are now able to understand the difficulties of the great devil kings of the past!"
Li Yao smiled in embarrassment. Then, he suddenly remembered a detail that Long Yangjun mentioned just now. "Right. You said just now that the young hunters disagreed with the old hunter's judgment and believed that the Flood outside of the dark forest was not as terrible as it appeared to be, and they still wanted to take a look at it at the risk of their lives. Was that a hint? Who were the 'young hunters' referring to? Ah, I got it. The Nuwa Clan! "
"You are a promising child!"
Long Yangjun was truly surprised. She complimented Li Yao half-sincerely and nodded. "Exactly. If the 'Flood' is added to the primeval war between the Pangu and the Nuwa Clan as an important factor, it will be more interesting and reasonable.
"The Pangu and the Nuwa Clan did not start a war for such a simple and violent reason as whether or not they should preserve their feelings and desires. Instead, they started a war for such a reason as whether or not they should activate their feelings and desires and explore the vast sea of stars beyond the three thousand Sectors!
"The Pangu naturally insisted that we should hide behind the black wall in the depths of the dark forest as cowards for at least a million years.
"The Nuwa Clan, on the other hand, was the 'young hunters'. They joined the alliance the shortest time and probably did not know the horror of the Flood. They were not convinced by the authority of the Pangu, either. Challenging the authority and marching to the extraterrestrial lands were their undying ambitions.
"Such two opposing forces naturally led to a war. Don't forget that for the Pangu civilization, any starship that intends to break out of the three thousand Sectors is a threat to the entire civilization. Is there a second choice other than obliteration?"
Li Yao was fascinated. "That's … too unbelievable. Do you have any proof?"
"Does tenebrum energy count?"
Long Yangjun said, "Tenebrum energy is an energy that is full of feelings. It is a more advanced form of spiritual energy. It is even the prerequisite to break out of the three thousand Sectors. Only the starships powered by tenebrum energy have the highest odds of breaking out.
"In order to seal themselves, the Pangu civilization destroyed all the technologies that studied tenebrum energy, but the Nuwa Clan was studying them in secret. Isn't their ambition obvious?
"Also, the extraterrestrial devils — the Nuwa Clan waged a war against the Pangu civilization because they were corrupted by the extraterrestrial devils. The so-called 'extraterrestrial' naturally refers to the worlds beyond the three thousand Sectors and even the black wall. I believe that the so-called 'extraterrestrial devils' are probably the pieces of the civilizations that were destroyed by the Flood that were preserved in the form of certain energy or information. They leaked into the black wall and had a certain influence on the carbon-based intelligent lives in our world.
"To put it simply, the billions of broken souls and ghosts of the civilizations that were destroyed by the Flood are the last obsessions of the civilizations that were destroyed!
"The broken pieces and the last obsessions of the ghosts and ghosts leaked into the black wall. After billions of years of changes, they turned into 'extraterrestrial devils'. Then, no wonder the Nuwa Clan, which was corrupted by the extraterrestrial devils, not only awakened abundant feelings but also unlocked the ways to utilize the tenebrum energy. They grasped the remarkable technology and were able to compete with the other twelve tribes led by the Pangu on their own!"
"Hey, hey, hey!"
Li Yao shouted. "Last time, you said that the 'extraterrestrial devils' were 'extraterrestrial devils of desire' and that they were naturally generated by the human brain. Now, you are saying that the extraterrestrial devils are the remaining souls of the civilizations that were destroyed by the Flood beyond the black wall? Why are you telling the truth? Are you telling the truth or not? "
"The combination of internal and external causes!"
Long Yangjun sniffed and said, "The birth and development of a thing depend on the combination, contradiction, and promotion of internal and external causes. In the Pangu civilizations' alliance, some of the people, mainly the Nuwa Clan, could not erase their feelings in any case. There were still a lot of simmering emotions, desires, or devils deep inside their hearts. Then, they attracted the remaining stubbornness of the civilizations that were destroyed by the Flood. When the two parties combined, a brand-new Nuwa Clan was born! —
"The obsessions of the civilizations that were destroyed perhaps contained the most intense hatred and resentment for the Flood. They hoped that a brand-new, young civilization could destroy the Flood on behalf of them.
"It is also possible that, well, they lured the Nuwa Clan out to be killed with the malice that 'since my civilization has been destroyed anyway, we might as well die together'.
"Or rather, those obsessions had been stripped of wisdom and rationality. The only thing they had was absolute fear, chaos, and mania the moment they were destroyed by the Flood. It was exactly like the original meaning of 'chaos' that we talked about in the past.
"All in all, the brand-new Nuwa Clan could not stand the oppressive and boring life inside the black wall anymore. The universe is so vast that they had to break out and take a look. That was the fundamental contradiction between them and the Pangu. They could only fight each other to the death!"
Li Yao was rather stunned. "You … You are almost telling a story. Did you imagine or deduce such complicated and bizarre things?"
"Some of them were, and some of them were not."
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