"Dad!"
Astounding changes took place in the control room below the Gold Crystal Pyramid in the Empyreal Terminus Sector!
Inside the cocoon launch capsule, Li Yao's brain had been releasing irregular, intense brainwaves since a few hours ago, drawing peaks that were higher than the previous one on the light beam, as if his brain would explode at any moment.
No matter how many tranquilizers Xiaoming and Wenwen injected into the medical drugs, they could not suppress Li Yao's intense brain activities at all. Even his body was affected. He was cramping so hard that the metal wall of the launch capsule was twisted again.
The neurotrophic liquids and the brain cooling liquids were boiling.
The boiling liquids turned into pungent steam and spurted out of the gaps of the soul launch capsule, enshrouding the entire launch room in smoke and added to the panicked atmosphere.
"Not good. Dad's brain activities are far beyond what it can handle. He'll lose control if it goes on like this. Find a way to calm him down!"
"It won't work. I've tried everything, but dad's brain is still burning. I've injected five times the standard coolant and even the hibernation potion, but it still can't calm dad's brain down. If I increase the dosage further, his brain will be directly 'frozen to death'!"
"Then, pull his soul back as soon as possible. Pull it back by force. We cannot leave his soul, which is in an extremely berserk state, thousands of lightyears away by itself!"
"It's impossible. Dad's soul must've been tied up by something. He must've been in the middle of a fierce battle. If we pull him back by force, his soul will be seriously damaged. Chances are that only one and a half of his soul can return to his body. Even if he does, he'll be a retard!"
"It can't be helped. We can't hesitate any longer. Dad will really be trapped there if we hesitate. Pull it now —"
"Ah, it's broken. Our connection with Dad's soul has been cut off!"
"How is it possible? Recalculate and try to connect again. Hurry up! "
"No, it's too complicated. We have to locate the Thick Soil Sector and the Black Castle precisely among the billions of stars, and we have to find the features of dad's soul in the chaotic tides of spiritual energy. Time. We need time. We can't do it in only several minutes!"
Amidst the exclamations of the two little fellows, Li Yao's violently struggling body was like a puppet whose strings had been ripped off. He fell limp and scattered, lying quietly in the almost solidified medicinal liquid. The last bubble came out of his nose.
Meanwhile, the values, spectra, and images that represented his vitality and brain activity on the light beam had all returned to zero.
"Beep!"
His brainwaves turned into a straight line, without even the slightest ripple.
"This, this …"
Even the information lives such as Xiaoming and Wenwen were stunned for a moment when they were faced with such a tricky situation.
The next moment, their computing power erupted like a volcano, and they immediately took action.
"Hurry up and help dad maintain his heartbeat and breathing with the medical devices. Inject high-energy nutrition drugs into his veins to maintain his body functions first!"
"Check dad's brain and see if it was hit when his soul was cut off. We still have a chance as long as his brain functions are intact!"
"Thankfully, thankfully, Dad's brain and body don't seem to have any major problems. Hurry up and change the types of medical drugs and nutrient fluids before his body undergoes any organic changes. Turn the launch chamber into a hibernation chamber and preserve Dad's body first!"
The two little fellows operated smoothly. Very soon, the neural interaction liquids in the launch capsule were replaced by the bright blue hibernation drug. As the temperature gradually dropped, the hibernation drug condensed into a translucent blue crystal, and Li Yao's body was perfectly embedded in the crystal, in the state of a vegetative state.
After everything was done, Xiaoming and Wenwen took a long breath in relief. Then, they looked at each other in bewilderment and saw the uneasiness and uncertainty in each other's eyes.
"Fortunately, dad's body has been saved."
"But where is his soul exactly?"
"Has his soul been completely obliterated, or is it still drifting in a certain corner of the planet or even wandering in the sea of stars like a lonely ghost?"
"What on earth can we do to find Dad again and drag his soul back into his body?"
"In any case, let's inform Aunt Long first and then send the message back to the Federation so that the parliament of the Federation and … mom can know, right?"
"Dad, where are you exactly? Do you know what you are doing? This is too outrageous. This is too terrible, dad!"
…
Li Yao heard laughter.
The children's laughter.
The children's laughter that sounded like silver bells washed over his ears like a warm wave.
No, it was not waves, but amniotic fluid. He had a very old and very long dream. In the dream, he was lying quietly in the depths of the sea like a baby. Accompanied by the wave-like laughter, he gradually rose to the surface and saw the blue sky, white clouds, and a golden beach. There was also a very good-looking child on the beach, giggling, holding a ripe red apple and handing it to him.
However, this apple was already overripe and was rotting at a speed visible to the naked eye. Between the child's fingers, there was a black liquid dripping down.
No, not an apple, but Earth.
In the dream, the seemingly innocent child was holding an Earth that was constantly changing colors in his tender hands. The liquid that was sprinkled down also turned into infinite data and information. Strings of numbers that were billions of times smaller than atoms were blown away by the wind like grains of sand.
Li Yao was deeply dwelling in the weird and amazing scene, unable to free himself. The sand that was falling from the tiny Earth seemed to be infinite and filled the ocean where he was, turning it into fertile soil. The child who was holding the Earth turned into an old man with wrinkled skin at some point. He poured the last bit of the apple core into the soil, turning it into bones and fertilizer, nourishing the data deep inside the soil.
Before Li Yao figured out the meaning of the weird dream, a seedling grew out of the piles of bones. The seedling was growing and unfolding at a speed visible to the naked eye. Very soon, it grew into a fruitful apple tree. Every apple on the tree was a tiny, colorful Earth in a myriad of forms.
Li Yao was so fascinated that he could not help but reach out to pick an Earth and observe it carefully. But before his fingers touched the Earth, the Earth was already so plump that it was about to explode like an apple.
Countless colorful, dancing butterflies flew out of the Earth where the juice was splashing everywhere. The butterflies circled above Li Yao's head and flew higher and higher, condensing into a burning, splendid firebird in midair. When all the vitality of the firebird was burnt up, it turned into a cluster of black ashes. Even so, it was still struggling to open its wings from the ashes, reminiscent of a vulture that was struggling to break free of death.
Vulture.
Vulture Plan.
Destroy Earth.
Destroy Earth for the 18,000th time. Destroy Earth for the 18,000th time. Destroy Earth for the countless reincarnations. Destroy Earth for the last time.
The weird dream was gone. Li Yao sank into the darkness again. He thought quietly in the darkness and got closer and closer to his truest self.
Some things were upgrading, some things were being reconstructed, and some things were being unshackled and sealed to reveal their true form.
Neither alive nor dead, neither dream nor reality. In a trance, Li Yao did not know how long he stayed in such a weird situation. He began to receive or capture some information intermittently again.
Sometimes, it was a series of inexplicable, monotonous, and boring numbers. Sometimes, it was mottled, black and white pictures. Sometimes, it was accompanied by the noises of spiritual and magnetic interference.
Although it seemed meaningless, there was nothing else to do in the dark void. He could only greedily devour and analyze the information driven by his instincts.
It took him a long time to grasp, or rather, awaken, the methods to analyze and process the information, to give the data meaning, and to figure out the sources of the pictures and the sounds.
As it turned out, the boring data was the graph of the output power of a certain power rune array on a certain starship nearby. He could control the power unit by changing a certain number on it.
A few mottled pictures were repaired by him, too. They were the pictures taken by a few starships from the high altitude.
From the pictures, it could be seen that the debris of the floating fortress was almost embedded into the ground that was riddled with holes. It had lost almost half of its mass, like a watermelon that had been stomped on brutally.
Countless Purgers and warriors of the Fire Clan were climbing up and down around the floating fortress. A few enormous tents had been established nearby, where a few fully-armed elite legions were stationed. A lot of elite Exos were searching in all directions on the super high-speed reconnaissance vehicles. Such a big fuss did not seem to be for the 'son of heretics' but for him, 'Black Wind King Li Yao'.
The voices that were echoing in his head all the time proved it, too.
Those voices were mostly the ripples from the remote communication channels of the people of the Holy League. Some of them were even the ripples of telepathy among the people of the Holy League. The voices of the people of the Holy League proved that they were greatly surprised by Li Yao's appearance. As if they were faced with a great enemy, they felt that they had found the ultimate treasure and were determined to find Li Yao at any cost. At the very least, they had to prove that Li Yao had escaped and was definitely not on this planet.
"I'm obviously here."
Delightful ripples spread out inside Li Yao's head. "Where are those idiots going to look for me?"
However, this ripple soon shattered and dissipated, turning into a strong sense of doubt.
"I'm right here."
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