"We are the common descendants of the prehistoric civilization, the Flood Legion, and the alliance of the Pangu civilization. We are the most perfect ultimate form of carbon-based intelligent life!"
Even with Lu Qingchen's calmness and composure, he could not help but be stunned when he heard such earth-shattering news.
Li Yao was also so excited that he could not control himself. He felt an inexplicable sense of pride.
Fuxi's words might have been exaggerated, but they were not necessarily false. The greatest proof was the wizardly civilization from the depths of the multiverse, whose individuals were also in the shape of human beings. Except for their blond hair and blue eyes, they were almost no different from the human beings in the Pangu universe.
Also, wasn't the Earth in Li Yao's dream the common home of human beings in various forms, too? If 'Earth' was closely related to the Flood, at the very least, it suggested that 'human beings' were the most common form in the multiverse that was covered by the Flood.
Generally speaking, the most common form on the path of evolution was also the strongest form. Only the fittest would survive, and the forms that were not strong enough would all be eliminated.
"The prehistoric civilization, the Pangu civilization, the Flood Legion, the Flood, and the Earth in the uncanny dream. Everything is connected to each other. What's the relationship between them exactly?"
Li Yao thought.
"No. You're lying!"
Lu Qingchen calmed down after a moment of excitement. Solemnly, he said, "If 'human beings' are really the new-generation 'carriers of civilization' that you have placed your great hopes on, why would they treat human beings as tools and even implant such a detestable barrier as the Path of Ultimate Benevolence — the Three Fundamental Laws into the souls of human beings?"
"Why can't you figure out such a simple logic?"
Fuxi said slowly, "Because a lot of ethical obstacles are involved. Not all the individuals in the Pangu civilization are willing to abandon their original form forever. In the eyes of many people, abandoning one's form means abandoning one's civilization.
"If the genes of the prehistoric civilization and the Pangu civilization are melted, will the offspring produced be an 'authentic' member of the Pangu Clan?
"Not to mention the genes of the captives of the Flood Legion. Will the pure and sacred bloodline of the Pangu civilization be 'tainted' by the minions of the Flood?
"Can such artificial 'hybrids' really inherit the great traditions of the Pangu civilization instead of nurturing a tiger and raising the gravediggers of the Pangu civilization?
"You see, those questions are almost unanswerable. If we had made it clear at the very beginning that 'we are going to create a new carbon-based life form because everybody's form is too underdeveloped and must be eliminated', how many people do you think would've supported it and how many people would've opposed it?
"If it is announced to the public in such a way, I'm afraid that the civil war of the Pangu civilization will break out hundreds of thousands of years earlier."
"Well …"
Lu Qingchen was slightly taken aback. "That's true."
"That's exactly the case. Didn't you suffer the same thing yourself?"
Fuxi said casually, "It's like when you suddenly tell your compatriots that the form of our bodies of flesh and blood right now is too underdeveloped, and for the leap of our civilization, we must immediately change it into a brand-new form of 'virtual world, super Spiritual Nexus, and metal puppets'. Although you mean well, how many of your compatriots will accept it? Won't they regard you as a fiend and banish you brutally? Won't your magnificent plan be ruined as a result?
"It's true that the public is blind and cannot accept such radical changes. There are also the so-called experts who are cowardly, hypocritical, and pretentious. They are trying their best to hinder the progress of our civilization with their blood-boiling and childish slogans …" Lu Qingchen gritted his teeth and suddenly realized something.
Lu Qingchen gnashed his teeth. Suddenly, he was back to himself as he stared at Fuxi warily. He sneered and said, "Wait. You said that you were not interested in prying into my secrets, but in fact, you collected a lot of information about me and the Star Glory Federation without batting an eyelid. You even know the reason why I was banished by the federation. Should I applaud your intelligence collection abilities?"
"I only want you to understand the necessity of the 'Man-Making Plan'."
Fuxi changed the topic. "It is unlikely that you will create a large number of metal puppets to replace the fleshly bodies of human beings with the excuse of 'version update and civilization reboot'. But if you create a brand-new tool to free human beings from dangerous, burdensome, and simple, repetitive labor, you will be able to win the support of the general public and the investment of endless resources.
"At that time, only a few people knew the truth after all. In order to avoid being caught in the swirl of ethical contradictions and objections, you had to secretly carry out the 'Man-Making Plan' with the excuse of 'creating a brand-new tool — human beings'."
"That explains a lot."
Pondering for a moment, Lu Qingchen said, "If what you said was true, the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan should've worked out very well. Why did it develop to the point where both sides perished together in the primeval war?"
"Yes. The development in the first tens of thousands of years was indeed very smooth," Fuxi said sorrowfully.
"After we digested and absorbed the technologies brought by the blackmailers and the Primordial Tide Legion, the order of the entire society was more and more stable without the interference of feelings. The friction in the functioning of society was smaller and smaller, and the efficiency of resource utilization was higher and higher. On the other hand, the Nuwa Clan made breakthroughs in their studies, too, and they created quite a few 'human test subjects' in different forms.
"After only tens of thousands of years, the Pangu civilization improved by quite a few levels from the peak that it had already reached. It seemed that everything was going according to the calculations of the 'Fuxi system', and there was not the slightest mistake.
"However, however powerful the computational ability of the 'Fuxi system' was, it was impossible for it to calculate the mind of every individual in the Pangu civilization. There was always something that could not be sealed or deleted in the deepest part of their mind.
"Nobody knew why the civil war started.
"Perhaps it was because of the disagreements and conflicts in the distribution of resources and computational ability. The Pangu Clan hoped that more resources would be devoted to the comprehensive purging of the entire civilization and the studies on starships and the blackmailers. The Nuwa Clan, on the other hand, was obsessed with the 'man-making plan' and hoped to devote all the infinite resources to 'human beings', the carbon-based life that was theoretically the most perfect.
"Perhaps it was because the chaos and violence deep inside the genes of the 'captives of the Primordial Tide Legion' were not completely deleted when they were studying them in the beginning. As a result, certain evil things were revived.
"Perhaps it was because the fact that the expedition army of the Pangu broke out of the blackmailers tore a huge gap on the blackmailers in itself, allowing all kinds of miscellaneous information from the extraterrestrial domain to drive in and interfere with and infect the individuals of the Pangu civilization. It was also because of that that the invasions of extraterrestrial devils became more frequent and intense.
"All in all, the Pangu civilization completely fell apart at the most inappropriate moment.
"A civil war broke out.
"At first, the Pangu Clan, as the leader of the alliance, had absolute advantages. Not only did they boast the strongest forces and the most resources, they also had the full support of the other eleven carbon-based life species except for the Nuwa Clan. The Pangu Clan, the Kuafu Clan, the Gonggong Clan, the Zhurong Clan, Hou Yi … Almost all twelve of them suppressed the Nuwa Clan brutally.
"However, the Nuwa Clan had its own key to victory, too.
"Firstly, the Nuwa Clan had the highest permissions and most of the computational ability of the 'Fuxi system' at that time. The computational centers and nodes of the Spiritual Nexus that were controlled by the Nuwa Clan were much more than those controlled by the Pangu Clan.
"It couldn't be helped. Gene fusion and the creation of human beings required the super crystal processors to perform high-intensity calculations for a long time in order to make a breakthrough. As the leader of the 'man-making plan', the Nuwa Clan naturally controlled more than half of the 'Fuxi system'.
"Secondly, in terms of studying the captives of the Flood Tide Legion and the Flood technology, the Nuwa Clan was much more advanced than the Pangu Clan or any other species. The tenebrum energy, which was regarded as a taboo by ordinary people, was even secretly transformed into a weapon and applied to a real battle.
"Thirdly, and most importantly, the Nuwa Clan had a natural ally, which was the legion of human beings that had just been created.
"The newly-born human beings were still rather weak and insignificant, but they had already shown their advantages of high reproductive ability and low energy consumption. Even if a human being's combat ability was only one hundredth of a Pangu's, if he only needed to consume one ten-thousandth of the resources of the Pangu Clan and was a hundred times more fertile than the Pangu Clan, he would still be the most terrifying existence, wouldn't he?
"Of course, both parties had 'man-manufacturing factories' and human servants. However, the man-manufacturing factories under the control of the Pangu Clan were all delivered to them by the Nuwa Clan after they were built. What was produced inside were all old, inferior versions of human beings. The Pangu Clan did not dare to completely give up the permission of human beings to upgrade themselves. Therefore, they could not carry out the full combat ability of human beings at all.
"The Nuwa Clan, on the other hand, experimented and eliminated all kinds of new models and versions of human beings on the harsh battlefield. They improved and strengthened human beings based on their performance on the battlefield. In such a way of elimination, human beings grasped all kinds of techniques and awakened the abilities of self-learning and upgrading. In the end, they even invented strategic weapons such as the 'Colossi', which were comparable to the deities and devils. Finally, they were able to compete with the twelve carbon-based species led by the Pangu Clan as equals!
"An evenly matched war is also the cruelest war. For ten thousand years, our universe was enshrouded in the fire of doom. Countless stars were extinguished, and ten times more planets were ignited. Billions of creatures were obliterated together with their mother planets before they had the chance to let out their last cry. It was needless to mention the iron torrents that were built with the blood of countless generations and meant to march into the extraterrestrial lands. They were all reduced to broken iron coffins in the slaughter of each other and drifted in the turbulence of the powerful radiation, eventually shattering into lackluster dust!
"Just as people feared a long time ago, once the civil war of the Pangu civilization broke out, none of the carbon-based species would be the winner. Be it the Pangu Clan, the Nuwa Clan, or the other eleven species that were as strong as deities, they were all burnt up and obliterated by the fire of war.
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