As Fuxi roared, the cluster of light spots that made up his' body 'also turned into dim black spots. Like countless black holes the size of needles, they danced around Lu Qingchen's soul and released a black mist, as if they were going to enshroud and swallow his soul, sealing him in a concrete' dark barrier '.
"Do you know what the deepest despair is? If you run into the strongest enemy the moment you leave your hometown and are crushed or even wiped out, it is not the deepest despair. It is nothing more than an ant being stomped to death by a dinosaur. "
Fuxi's voice was low and filled with sorrow and pity. "However, after all the effort, burning all your wisdom and courage, and paying countless sacrifices, you finally defeated the strongest enemy that you have ever met, and when the joy of victory and the hope for the future reached the peak, you suddenly realized that your so-called 'victory' was merely shaking off a hair of the strong enemy, and the strong enemy did not notice you at all. The feeling of falling from the clouds into a bottomless abyss is the deepest despair.
"Think about it. Think about it carefully. Put yourself in the shoes of the commander of the expedition army of the Pangu civilization. You lead the strongest fleet that the entire civilization built by a hundred thousand years and the resources of the three thousand Sectors. You command the best experts of the thirteen carbon-based civilizations, and you embark on an unknown journey with the earnest expectations of your parents in your hometown and the infinite hope for the multiverse.
"It is needless to say how difficult it is to cross the black wall. The vastness and cruelty of the Multiverse are also within your expectations. Even the unexpected encounter with the Flood Legion did not crush your mind, because you realized that the Flood Legion was not invincible despite its strength.
"Finally, after your passion, courage, wisdom, indomitable will, and undaunted sacrifices, you finally achieved a shocking victory. It was a battle that will eventually be recorded in history. You felt that all the generals and soldiers under your command had carried out their best. Even your own art of commanding had climbed to the peak that cannot be duplicated!
"Although the losses were heavy, the gains were even more abundant. Countless people were sacrificed in the cold darkness, but they were left with the most brilliant hope, inspiring the survivors to keep marching forward. You thought that you had clearly seen the gap between you and the strongest of the Multiverse, and that you had seen the twists and turns of the path of evolution ahead.
"It was like the curtains of a touching legend had just been lifted, and the kings who would eventually dominate the Multiverse had taken the first solid step, wasn't it?
"Unfortunately, it wasn't.
"On the way back, you discovered the switch and the last words left by the Shadowmaker, learning one billionth of the truth of the Multiverse.
"When you realized that even the unbelievably powerful prehistoric civilization such as the Shadowmaker could only cower, the whole world collapsed before your eyes.
"The gap between you and the Shadowmaker was ten thousand times greater, and the gap between the Shadowmaker and the real Flood was ten thousand times greater. If even the Shadowmaker did not dare to fight the Flood to the death, wouldn't all the efforts that you and your brave and fearless compatriots have made have been a joke?
"The cause that you have been working for all your life, and even your entire civilization, has collapsed abruptly. It is meaningless. Everything is meaningless. Now, you already know that hundreds of civilizations that are a hundred times more powerful have tried the same thing before your civilization was born, and the only 'correct answer' is to build a black curtain and be a coward. Even if your civilization develops for another million years, it will only be at the stage where you can't be a coward even if you want to be.
"Let me ask you, is there any meaning to your existence? Is there any meaning to the existence of the Pangu civilization? Is there any meaning to the existence of this universe?
"Now that you have understood everything deeply, let me ask you, do you have a second choice other than complete collapse?"
Under Fuxi's interrogation, Lu Qingchen's soul dimmed, shook, and twisted again.
Like the light that was about to burn out in a storm, the light was dispersing together with the scattering of sparks.
Even Li Yao's soul was greatly shocked and shaken while he was eavesdropping. He was almost drowned in the vast, dark, desperate universe.
For the civilization of mankind today, the cutting-edge technology of the Pangu civilization was at least tens of thousands of years more advanced. At first glance, they looked like real gods.
In the eyes of the Pangu civilization, the Shadowmaker was countless times more advanced than them. They were the 'gods of gods'.
Even the 'gods of gods' did not have the courage to face the Flood. They could only create a dark area to hide themselves, like a child who was scared by a ghost story and shivering in his bed!
Then, for the civilization of mankind today, and for Li Yao, as a member of mankind, what did the so-called Flood mean exactly?
If the Flood was truly related to Earth, and the Vulture Plan required him to destroy Earth, could he really do it?
Faced with the resurrected Pangu, Li Yao could still cheer himself up. "We are both carbon-based lives. Who's scared of whom?"
However, faced with the mysterious Flood, or even the 'maker of the black curtain', Li Yao found it hard to even boast about himself, because the enemy was likely to be an existence of a higher level that even the three-dimensional carbon-based life could not understand.
On the other hand, Fuxi's words did solve a puzzle that had haunted Li Yao for a long time.
It was the significance of the Ancient Sages Sector's existence.
In the primeval war hundreds of thousands of years ago, why exactly did the Pangu create an enormous dark nebula at the periphery of the Ancient Sages Sector?
At first, many specialists and scholars, including Long Yangjun, had pointed out in their analysis that the Pangu Clan intended to regard the Ancient Sages Sector as a 'renaissance base'. However, something went wrong during the implementation of the plan, and all the members of the Pangu Clan in the Ancient Sages Sector went extinct. That was why human beings could thrive to this day.
However, Li Yao always felt that such a theory was too uncanny, and many details did not make sense.
It was not until today that he realized that the Ancient Sages Sector was probably a 'reverse engineering test base'. It was a place where the Pangu civilization, after receiving the relevant technology of the 'Shadowmaker', had specifically chosen a certain space zone at the edge of the cosmos to replicate and analyze the 'shadowmaker's technology'.
Therefore, the dark nebula around the Ancient Sages Sector was subtly similar to the black wall that sealed the entire Pangu universe.
Of course, the 'shadowmaker's technology' that the Pangu had analyzed and inferred was far less advanced than the 'Shadowmaker'. Therefore, the dark nebula around the Ancient Sages Sector was not absolutely undetectable. It was only slightly thinner and lackluster.
It also proved that Fuxi's words were somewhat trustworthy. At the very least, the existence of the 'Shadowmaker' was unquestionable.
"Shut up. Stop talking!"
While Li Yao was pondering, he suddenly heard Lu Qingchen's roar. "Just drop your tricks, Fuxi. I finally understand why you are pretending and telling me the primeval stories from hundreds of thousands of years ago. Hehe. You are trying to make me fall into the same desperation as the commander of the expedition army of the Pangu civilization in the past so that my soul defense line will collapse so that you will be able to swallow and melt me easily, right?
"I'm sorry, but I will not be fooled. I will not collapse and succumb.
"Even if everything you said is true, and even if the top predators beyond our imagination do exist billions of years ago and billions of lightyears away, it is absolutely not a reason for us to abandon our feelings, curiosity, ambition, and hope.
"What's wrong with ants? The evolution of countless planets has proven that ants are much more capable of survival than dinosaurs. Countless seemingly strong dinosaurs and reptiles went extinct in the cataclysm after the cataclysm, but thousands of species of ants have survived to this day stubbornly!
"Germs, so what? Can a civilization as strong as the Pangu civilization or the civilization of mankind today completely eliminate all germs? Hehe. That's impossible. The Pangu civilization has gone extinct. Perhaps the civilization of mankind will go extinct one day, too. But as long as this universe exists, germs will never go extinct, will they?
"Therefore, even if we are really just ants, dust, and insignificant germs and viruses, so what? It doesn't mean that our civilization, which is destined to be glorious, cannot have a place in the vast universe! "
His resolute, decisive words made Lu Qingchen's soul glitter stubbornly for the third time.
The dark barrier that sealed him was torn apart and burning like a paper shell. Under the pressure of his scorching aura, it ran back to Fuxi like a defeated soldier who had abandoned his armor.
"Wow!"
The mental devil couldn't help but remark, "Lu Qingchen, you are absolutely right. Even my blood is boiling after hearing it. It's true that we are traveling in the sea of stars with infinite time and space. Every mountain is taller than the last. We will certainly run into countless civilizations that are much stronger than us. Without such a fearless, cowardly spirit, how can we survive in the world?
"Every inch has its advantages and disadvantages. The strength of a civilization cannot be generalized. Who says that dinosaurs are necessarily stronger than ants or germs?
"Years ago, the Blood Stripe Virus, my antecedent, was not the most primitive germs, cells, spores, or viruses yet. It drifted in the universe on meteoroids without being found by the Flood, either. It is obvious that the Flood has its limitations, or loopholes, too. Otherwise, it wouldn't have needed to raise the 'Flood Legion'!"
"Yes. Although Lu Qingchen walked on the wrong path in the future, the determination in his bones makes him look like a man of the Federation."
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