"Therefore —"
Li Yao smiled. "Lu Qingchen is on the brink of collapse right now. He is screaming and yelling such magnificent words as' human beings will never yield '. Is it all an act? It's truly a great actor! "
"It's not necessarily an act. Did you not notice that the guy likes to be hung up and whipped? Maybe that's his … little hobby, "the mental devil said.
The mental devil said, "To be able to receive unparalleled stimulation from being whipped brutally and further release the strength hidden deep inside his soul to reach a higher peak … Trust me, of all the negative emotions, 'pain' is definitely the source of strength!"
"So perverted?"
Li Yao secretly clicked his tongue. However, no matter how delicate his plan was and how weird the source of power was, he was going to miscalculate this time because he missed two critical factors other than the five Ultimate Benevolence Masters.
"Firstly, it's naturally our existence.
"Secondly, it's the owner of the dark gold Colossus!
"There's no need to talk about us. But who is the owner of the dark gold Colossus exactly? Why is he on 'Ultimate Salvation'? How can he control a Colossus that does not have a spiritual residence? I vaguely feel that the owner of the dark gold Colossus is the real mastermind behind the curtain! "
"Exactly. The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. The Ultimate Benevolence Masters are the cicada, and Lu Qingchen is the mantis. Now, let's see who is the oriole, us or the owner of the dark gold Colossus."
The mental devil said, "The enemy may have thousands of soldiers under his control, but our greatest advantage is invisibility. To this moment, nobody has learned of our existence. So, our best strategy is to wait and continue lurking here until Lu Qingchen and the owner of the dark gold Colossus reveal their hideous faces and even fight each other until both of them are heavily wounded."
"Then, let's give them a taste of their own medicine!"
Li Yao mumbled, "Last time, in the Xing Yao Federation, it was Lu Qingchen who took advantage of the contradiction between the Federation and the Black Wind Fleet. This time, it's finally our turn to hide behind Lu Qingchen and let the guy lead the charge. After we figure out the situation, we will charge out and reap the benefits!"
While thinking in that way, Li Yao retreated most of his' telepathic thoughts', leaving only a telepathic thought that was as thin as a hair. It tied up the surveillance cameras on the bridge softly and observed the scenes where Lu Qingchen was' tortured 'with his crazy acting skills.
Right now, Li Yao's soul had been moved from the spider tank to the mainframe crystal processor in the maintenance workshop. His computational ability was more than ten times higher.
Summing up the abundant information from the 'Fuxi system' that he had just absorbed, and recalling the information transmission mode and data exchange protocol of the entire Fuxi fleet, Li Yao began a brand-new training. He changed the operation state of his soul and strengthened his soul according to the model of the 'Fuxi system'.
This was a kind of … mysterious and indescribable feeling.
The more he trained, the further away he was from being a 'standard human being' in the traditional sense.
He suddenly turned into a grain of dust and crawled into a certain spiritual puppet deep inside a certain starship, observing the monotonous world around with the cold and sluggish crystal cameras.
Then, it turned into an entire sea of stars. The hundreds of thousands of starships turned into hundreds of thousands of flowing, revolving, splitting, and condensing glittering data swirls in his perception. Every stream of data was like a shooting star that constituted a burning, splendid meteor shower that smashed into his soul brutally.
Life was information, and life was a torrent of data. The entire universe was nothing more than an ocean where information and data collided, surged, congregated, and changed nonstop.
For a moment, Li Yao had a deeper understanding of the saying.
When he was roaming in the ocean of information to his heart's content, 'reading' and 'analyzing' every starship of the Fuxi fleet at his will, he had asked himself for a moment — was he still a human being right now?
However, who dictated what a human being should be like?
From the most primitive microbes to the fungi at the bottom of the ocean, from the ferns below the volcanic ash and the worms in the mud, to the monkeys in the jungles and the naked apes in the concrete, life had never stopped evolving. Was' naked apes' the most perfect life form without any components that could be improved the final destination of evolution?
Of course not.
The journey of human beings was the sea of stars, or even the higher dimensional space that surpassed the three-dimensional universe. It was a new world that was infinitely exciting and ever-changing. They had to evolve step by step until they were beyond recognition, or even to the point of being shocking.
The difference between future human beings and modern human beings might be even greater than the gap between modern human beings and trilobites.
Cultivators, standing at the peak of the civilization of mankind, naturally had to play the role of vanguard and explore the direction of evolution in advance. Such exploration, on the other hand, was bound to be misunderstood, hated, and even resisted by many people.
It was lonely at the top. The experts ahead of their time were destined to be lonely.
In such a magnificent and desolate state of mind, Li Yao suddenly began to understand Lu Qingchen.
The future and the present were a pair of irreconcilable contradictions. Evolution meant change, and change always came with a price or even a high possibility of failure. It was never something that could be accomplished peacefully.
Lu Qingchen and Extraterrestrial Devil Mo Xuan had indeed been too hasty, but which evolution did not involve such hasty explorers? Who could accurately determine when the time was not "too hasty" and when the conditions were right for a perfect evolution?
Nobody knew when it was the right time for evolution.
Nobody could guarantee that they would not be lost on the path of evolution, either. It was the case for Lu Qingchen, and it was the case for Li Yao.
But as the saying went, understanding did not mean approval.
Perhaps evolution meant bloodshed, but Li Yao hoped to shed his own blood first, while Lu Qingchen hoped to shed everybody else's blood first. That was the greatest difference between them.
Then, let's try our best to play our roles and crash into each other brutally. With our blood, bones, and souls, we will create the future of the civilization of mankind. Then, let the future billions of years later decide whether we are right or wrong!
With a telepathic thought, Li Yao retracted all his' thoughts'. His soul was like a flower bud carved out of crystal. Gold and blood were vaguely flowing in it.
His belief had never been so clear, firm, and strong.
Another twenty-four hours passed. Shua!
Shua! Shua! Shua!
Shua! The pictures of 'Ultimate Salvation' and the Fuxi fleet popped up in the ripples of his soul clearly, allowing him to know the situation of the people of the Holy League like the back of his hand.
Lu Qingchen was still suffering in excruciating pain. His soul had been ripped apart into smoke, which was as soft and feeble as a dried earthworm and could not be condensed anymore.
His soul had been dissected into tremendous data and inputted into the crystal brain in midair and into the database of the Fuxi system.
Li Yao wagered that there must be something hidden in the data of the soul.
The five Ultimate Benevolence Masters had been monitoring his status at first, fearing that he might be up to something. However, after a day and a night of torture, Lu Qingchen's soul was almost exhausted. He could not resist at all except for struggling and cursing. Therefore, the five Ultimate Benevolence Masters gradually relaxed their vigilance.
A great war was coming, and they had a lot of military affairs to attend to after all. It was impossible for them to waste all their time on Lu Qingchen, the king of puppets.
At first, the five Ultimate Benevolence Masters took turns to monitor Lu Qingchen. Gradually, there were fewer and fewer of them. In the end, when all the secrets in Lu Qingchen's brain were about to be exploited, the five Ultimate Benevolence Masters simply disappeared, leaving only the medical team and the Meditation Healers to continue the interrogation.
"Idiot."
Li Yao thought to himself.
However, when he remembered that the owner of the dark gold Colossus had not shown up yet, he was greatly alarmed. There was no telling who was the idiot here.
As for Chu Zhixiao, Yun Haixin, Yuan Kou, and Guan Qixing, the four members of the yaksha squad, after a long hypnotic talk and comprehensive body examination, treatment, and disinfection, they were sent into four metal cocoons too.
Li Yao could sense that their brains were connected to their crystal processors and merged into the world of the Fuxi system, allowing them to exchange tremendous data instantly.
Li Yao estimated that it was to erase their memories of the past few days so that they would completely forget the influence of the king of puppets.
Li Yao was quite anxious. He did not know whether or not he should tamper with the Fuxi system so that the four members of the Yaksha Squad would remember something.
What made him drop the idea was the situation of the Fuxi fleet.
Since the thirty-first hour, the Fuxi fleet, which had been preparing for the battle, was suddenly relieved.
All the soldiers and workers kneeled on the ground and prayed in silence. Their monotonous brainwaves congregated like torrents that were mixed with ice, before they flowed to the five Supreme Battle Fortresses incessantly and gathered on "Ultimate Salvation" through the Supreme Battle Fortresses. The only message they were sending was that they hoped that the gods would bless them and help them win the final battle.
Then, the mainframe crystal processors of all the starships boosted their computational ability to the maximum. Buffer gels were injected into the cabins one after another. Everybody crouched in the seats that looked like eggshells obediently, allowing the gels to envelop them without leaving any gap.
The power units of the starships gradually dimmed, but the space jump units were more and more scorching and dazzling. The engine compartments inputted energy into the space jump units incessantly. Centered on them, the entire starship gradually became twisted and transparent.
They were like millions of pebbles that had been thrown into a pond, raising ripples on the calm water. All the starships were shaking and glittering in the middle of the ripples.
Even the ten thousand crystal brains on the bridge of "Ultimate Salvation" that carried the "Fuxi system" were shivering violently too, outputting data that felt like surging tides and issuing solemn and cruel orders to all the mainframe crystal processors on all the starships.
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