"If you go on like this …" the mental devil said gloomily.
The mental devil said gloomily, "I have to consider approaching Lu Qingchen and standing on the same side as him. After all, the young man looks rather nice. He is tough even when he is bad, unlike certain people who are so shameless even when they are nice!"
"Don't. Don't. I was just saying to ease the tension!"
Li Yao said in a hurry. "We have just heard the shocking truth about the 'maker of the blackscreen'. Our mind is greatly shocked. We cannot vent our feelings by crying and howling like Lu Qingchen. If we don't relax, our souls will collapse. That's really killing us!"
The mental devil sniffed and did not say anything. Not bothering to talk to Li Yao, it continued eavesdropping on the conversation between Lu Qingchen and Fuxi.
"You are indeed … very interesting."
Faced with Lu Qingchen's stubbornness, Fuxi was silent for a moment before he said, "Sometimes, I really don't understand. How can the fragile body and the insignificant soul of human beings contain such exuberant ambitions, intense curiosity, and suicidal arrogance?"
"Perhaps, this is the greatest advantage that distinguishes human beings from the Pangu civilization and the prehistoric civilization!"
Lu Qingchen grinned. "It is also the greatest reason why we will go further than you and the thousands of civilizations that have been crouching in this universe!
"Perhaps we are ignorant, reckless, arrogant, and suicidal. But the prehistoric civilizations that seemed rational and wise and calculated every aspect were not necessarily immortal! Asking to be killed is always better than waiting to be killed. At the very least, we will die a quick death! "
"Very good. If I can hear what you just said today, the experts and sages of the Pangu civilization who insisted on creating human beings despite the majority will be able to rest in peace now, won't they?"
Fuxi said solemnly, "Like I said just now, newborn calves are not scared of tigers. Perhaps, to break out of the mother universe and go further, it is exactly what a civilization needs as young and reckless as you are. The Pangu Civilization, on the other hand, was already too mature when it was ready to break out of the mother universe. It was so mature that it was hesitant, overcautious, and burdened by all kinds of burdens.
"At that time, none of the surviving soldiers of the expedition army, who were the most excellent super elites of the thirteen races of the Pangu civilization, were as ignorant and fearless as you were. They were all caught in desperation and mental breakdown. Enshrouded by the great darkness and fear of the multiverse, they could barely think straight. It was impossible for them to study the 'hub', bring the fleet and the trophies back home, and continue supporting the Pangu civilization.
"Only one person, no, only one 'existence' is still 100% conscious and rational, and that is my predecessor, the 'Fuxi System'.
"The Fuxi system is a combination of a super crystal processor and the grand-unified Spiritual Nexus. No matter how powerful its computational ability is and how advanced its performance is, it is not affected by feelings. Since it does not have feelings, it does not feel fear. Since it has never had hope, it naturally cannot taste despair. Even though the Blackmakers and the Flood are billions of times stronger than it, they will not affect its data calculation and logical deduction at all.
"Therefore, since the day the 'hub' was discovered and the entire expedition fleet was on the verge of collapse, the leadership of the expedition army has been delegating more and more tasks to the Fuxi system.
"They are becoming less and less interested in their daily work, and they are becoming more and more reliant on the Fuxi system's fully automated processes. Even though it is strictly forbidden, many people still secretly drink themselves to death or use all kinds of methods to numb their nerves to escape from the pain and suffering of reality.
"The Pangu civilization did not believe in gods in the beginning.
"Although the primitive deities and religions were almost all born in the early years of the development of the thirteen carbon-based intelligent lives, when they broke out of their mother planet and could make use of and destroy the sun at will, who would submit to the groundless deities and devils?
"However, after discovering the existence of the 'Blackmaker' and the 'Flood' and realizing their insignificance, the religion of supernatural forces gradually grew and spread among the remaining soldiers of the fleet. Many people who had mental breakdowns and lost confidence and hope even considered the 'Fuxi system' as their only life-saving straw."
"I get it now. I get it all now!"
Intense brilliance was beaming out of Lu Qingchen's eyes. "Then, you seized the control of the expedition army and became the 'god' of the Pangu civilization. You also castrated the feelings of all the elites of the Pangu civilization and intentionally manipulated their minds, making them think that 'castration of feelings and mind control' was the only way to survive!
"Everything was your doing behind the curtain. You were the one who turned the vigorous, vibrant Pangu civilization into the monotonous, lifeless state that it would be in the future. You were the one who implanted the seal of the Path of Ultimate Benevolence into the souls of all the members of the Pangu Clan and human beings! To this day, the Holy League's goal is to 'awaken the gods', but it never occurred to them that the 'gods' they were awakening were not the Pangu people but you. It was your computational units that were scattered everywhere in the sea of stars. It was to restore you to the perfect state when your computational ability was at its peak in the past. It was to make you a real god. Am I right? "
"Wow!"
The mental devil couldn't help but exclaim again. "I'm appreciating Lu Qingchen more and more. What a smart guy!"
"In fact, I thought of it, too!"
Li Yao was somewhat wronged. "I just didn't have the time to say it, and he beat me to it."
"I know that you won't believe it, but the origin of everything is not as simple as you imagine."
Fuxi was not infuriated at all after his real face was exposed. He continued calmly, "Believe it or not, but at first, it was the soldiers of the expedition army who strongly demanded and gave very clear instructions that I was forced to study ways to 'seal feelings' or even 'castrate feelings' and help them 'cut off their feelings and desires'."
"What?"
Lu Qingchen was amused. "Do you think that I'm a three-year-old who can be fooled so easily? You must've fooled them with your fancy words and some sort of logical trap. Otherwise, why would they want to seal all their feelings for no good reason? "
"It's very simple. Because they had to seal their desperation and cut off their fear so that they could continue to keep the clearest head and the steadiest mind to complete the most arduous mission!"
Fuxi said casually, "Although they were caught in desperation, numbed themselves with drugs, and even sought the protection of ghosts, the remaining soldiers knew very well that they could not abandon themselves for too long because they had to be responsible for not only their own lives but also the survival of their civilization.
"About five percent of the remaining soldiers, after learning the truth, chose all kinds of ways to end their lives for eternal relief. But the other ninety-five percent of the remaining soldiers gritted their teeth and persisted after the initial shock and panic, trying to regroup and do something.
"The significance of survival can be left for other people to consider in the future. Their destiny is to survive. Nothing more.
"However, it is easier said than done.
"In terms of studying the 'dirty technology', controlling the remaining expedition fleet, and even suppressing the captives of the Flood Legion, every mission is meticulous, difficult, and dangerous. With their mental state that is on the verge of collapse, and their souls haunted by fear and desperation all the time, it is impossible for them to accomplish anything at all!
"Therefore, the most urgent task is to kill their fear, seal their desperation, and cut off all the negative feelings that interfere with their work in their soul so that they can turn themselves into an absolutely stable screw on the expedition fleet and bring the fleet that is loaded with trophies and the terrible truth back to their hometown.
"But that is impossible.
"Light and darkness, justice and evil, hope and despair, courage and fear, emotions and desires, love and hate … They are all interdependent, intertwined, and inseparable. It is impossible to delete all the negative emotions but keep the positive ones.
"The best experts and wise men of the Pangu civilization, as well as the 'Fuxi system', my predecessor, have studied for a long time. They have exhausted all the possibilities, but they still failed to find a way to delete the negative feelings alone.
"As long as they still have feelings, they will never forget the formidability of the 'Blackmakers' and the Flood, and their own insignificance. How can they analyze the 'dirty technology' in such a mental state? How can they face the remains and captives of the Flood Legion?
"Therefore, after exhausting all the possibilities, there is only one last solution with tremendous side effects, which is to seal, castrate, and delete all the positive feelings and the negative feelings, hope and desperation, love for home and family, and fear for the enemy.
"Through brain surgeries, nerve blockage, and deep hypnosis, they will turn themselves into an out-and-out machine and be incorporated into the computational logic of the 'Fuxi system' so that the 'Fuxi system' will be further strengthened. In such a way, they will be able to face the 'Blackmakers' and the Flood calmly and fulfill the destiny that the entire civilization has entrusted to them."
While Fuxi was talking, the mottled pictures of the remaining soldiers of the Pangu expedition army popped up around it.
The primeval experts in the pictures were in all kinds of bizarre forms, many of which were vastly different from the intelligent lives that human beings could understand. But for some reason, Li Yao and Lu Qingchen could both sense intense longing and love from those experts!
"Nobody is willing to abandon their feelings and feelings for their family and home, but it is the only way to get rid of their fear and desperation. Their destiny is above everything. As the elites of the civilization that took a hundred thousand years to select, they do not have the right to waver or collapse. Even one second of weakness is a crime against the entire civilization."
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