Behind Fuxi, thousands of images were surging inside the countless glittering balls of light.
Some of the pictures seemed to be about the ancient Cultivators, where sects, flying swords, and deities lived. Fuxi must've been simulating the beginning of humanity a hundred thousand years ago.
Some of the pictures were about the doom of the ancient Cultivators and the rise of the demon race in the Great Dark Age. Countless experts of human beings were licking their wounds and conserving their strength.
Some of the pictures seemed to be about the past of the Star Ocean Imperium, which was the most magnificent heroic age of mankind so far. Both the rise of the Supreme Emperor and the betrayal of the Blood God were enormous works that would take more than ten days to finish.
Some of the pictures in the end were even beyond the time points in reality and inferred the outcome of the strategic battle between the Holy League and the Imperium.
Judging from the pictures, Fuxi had run almost a hundred deductions and deduced almost all the possible strategies of the Holy League and the Imperium.
Li Yao knew that ever since the game 'Civilization' was released, the Federation had been inferring the national affairs and policies with the professional version of 'Civilization'.
In the Imperium of True Human Beings, there was a tradition of deductions with super crystal processors, too.
Fuxi was a special life form derived from super crystal processors. Naturally, they attached great importance to the deduction of big data.
However, no matter how high its computational ability was, it was impossible for it to deduce the whole picture of the upcoming battle.
It was because a very important piece of data was missing from the initial data that they had set, which was Li Yao and the Xing Yao Federation!
Even though Fuxi was aware of the existence of 'Vulture Li Yao' and 'Black Wind King Li Yao', they could never have foreseen that Li Yao was so special and that Li Yao had Xiaoming and Wenwen with him.
They also could not have foreseen the attitude of the Xing Yao Federation toward the war between the Holy League and the Imperium. If the reinforcements of the Federation arrived in time, the situation of the battlefield could've been changed.
Wait. I think I know why Fuxi values Lu Qingchen so much!
Li Yao's heart trembled.
He basically understood what Fuxi meant. The guy's computational ability was obviously higher than any of the super crystal processors of the Federation and the Imperium. Even the computational ability of Li Yao, Lu Qingchen, Xiaoming, Wenwen, and A Boxing Champion might not be as good as it.
However, no matter how powerful one's computing power was, they still needed to input a large amount of raw data in order to output accurate results.
After a thousand years of infiltration, Fuxi might have grasped a large amount of data regarding the Empire and roughly knew the Empire's next steps and countermeasures.
However, it knew almost nothing about the Xing Yao Federation, so the Federation would most likely become a problem for it.
Therefore, it was in dire need of swallowing Lu Qingchen's soul and parsing tremendous data about the Federation from Lu Qingchen's memories to make up for the most critical link!
After understanding that, it was easy to understand why it was unwilling to attack Lu Qingchen and crack Lu Qingchen's soul by brute force. It was because a lot of data might be damaged during the cracking process, which would make it impossible for it to calculate the result of the deduction after the unexpected factor, the Xing Yao Federation, was added.
It appeared that its comprehensive capability was not as strong as it claimed to be. It was still rather wary of the tiny Federation.
It did make sense on second thought. If it was really so awesome that it could swallow the energy of stars and transform it into computational ability and apply the 'black screen technology' and the 'Flood technology' to real battles, it would've crushed the Imperium into smithereens a long time ago. Why would it wait until today?
Thinking about that, Li Yao was more or less relieved. He thought to himself, Fuxi, you've made a big mistake this time. Even if you did swallow Lu Qingchen's soul, Lu Qingchen would still be unaware of my real identity and the existence of Xiaoming and Wenwen. Then, there would still be huge loopholes in Fuxi's deduction.
But on second thought, he felt that his soul had fallen into an icy cave.
It was true that swallowing Lu Qingchen would not solve the problem, but what if he was swallowed?
If Fuxi swallowed him and completely analyzed the soul and memories of 'Vulture Li Yao', wouldn't everything be exposed?
With Fuxi's terrifying computational ability and the primeval technologies that it had mastered, it was very likely that it would come up with a solution to deal with Xiaoming, Wenwen, and A Boxing Champion.
Then, the terrifying future that it described just now might really arrive!
"Damn it. We've walked right into the trap this time!"
Li Yao's soul was rubbing against each other at a high speed. "No. We can't let the monster get our soul even if we have to die. However, the monster has blocked all the data interfaces between 'Ultimate Salvation' and the outside world. This is its nest, and its computational ability seems to be slightly higher than ours. We cannot fight or escape. What do we do?"
Li Yao was caught in a dilemma. Lu Qingchen was caught in a dilemma, too. Many glamorous pictures illuminated his soul, making him deeply fascinated in them. It was not until a long time later that he was finally free from them.
"If I agree —"
Lu Qingchen pondered for a moment and said, "What about the Xing Yao Federation?"
"To this moment, are you still concerned about your motherland, the place that regards you as a monster and a devil and banishes and destroys you mercilessly?"
Fuxi said, "How interesting. Your feelings for your motherland are very rare. I can't wait to analyze your soul properly. I will certainly get a lot of very special data. Can you tell me why you care so much about the Federation?"
"Hehe. You won't understand even if I tell you."
Lu Qingchen sniffed. Pausing for a moment, he said gloomily, "Just consider it … for my grandfather!"
"Alright. Since you value the Federation so much, I can give it to you as a small gift. You can do whatever you want with it," Fuxi said.
"You can turn the Xing Yao Federation into a reserve, where the system and social order of the Cultivators will remain unchanged. It won't matter for hundreds of years, thousands of years, or even tens of thousands of years. I don't lack the resources of the Xing Yao Federation, at least not in the next ten thousand years.
"Or maybe, I can support your 'Virtualization Plan' and modify the Xing Yao Federation according to your will. All the people of the Federation will be transformed into … beings with only brains and reproductive systems so that they can enjoy their lives in the infinite Spiriters' Realms comfortably.
"There's no need for me to lie to you. Just think about it and you will know that it will take me millions of years to make any progress in my cosmic modification plan. When I am capable of controlling all the stars in the cosmic egg, it will probably be billions of years later. I can totally put the edge of the cosmos where the Xing Yao Federation is at the end of the sequence of swallowing and controlling. Then, I will extend my tentacles to the tiny, barren space zone hundreds of millions of years later.
"Hundreds of millions of years is such a long time for an individual human being. I estimate that the Xing Yao Federation and the Cultivators will be 'dead' by then, won't they?
"In short, as long as you agree to become my assistant and disciple, your beloved Xing Yao Federation will be safe for at least 100 million years. Isn't this the best deal in the universe?"
"… It does seem to be a good deal."
Lu Qingchen's Divine Soul trembled slightly. "It sounds like you've done everything you can. However, I'm still very curious. What's the second choice?"
"The second choice?"
Fuxi's light cluster wriggled. Suddenly, dozens of tentacles darted out as fast as lightning and pierced deeply into Lu Qingchen's soul, unleashing extremely powerful electric arcs that almost completely disintegrated Lu Qingchen's shattered soul.
Lu Qingchen was originally good at using his Divine Soul tentacles to poke people, but it was obvious that it did not feel good when it was his turn to be poked by others.
"Ahhhhhhhhh!"
Lu Qingchen's screams echoed at every end of the Spiritual Nexus on 'Ultimate Salvation'. Even Li Yao felt that his blood was running cold and his soul was tightened.
"The mindset of human beings is truly inefficient and idiotic."
Fuxi wriggled his tentacles slowly and tore and savaged Lu Qingchen's soul nonstop. He continued speaking calmly as if he were narrating something. "You clearly know that it is impossible for you to escape. You've had the urge to escape 144 times since the beginning, only to be dismissed by force. How come you finally couldn't hold it back after the 145th time?
"The entire 'Ultimate Salvation' is equal to my brain. You are inside my brain right now. Where can you run to even if you can escape from the bridge?
"Is it painful? No. Compared to the extreme pain that I may impose on your soul, it is nothing more than the cool breeze of a summer afternoon.
"Now, let me tell you the second choice.
"If you are unwilling to cooperate with me, I will have to tear apart your soul by force and analyze all the data hidden deep inside your soul violently. You know that any data that has been deleted or shattered can be recovered. It is just a matter of time and computational ability.
"In order to punish you for wasting my precious time and computational ability, I will assemble your soul and throw you into a virtual world that is designed to test 'pain'. You will taste all the extreme pain in the world, from physical to psychological. The time limit is a hundred million years.
"Imagine such a punishment. Your soul will be caged in a space of absolute darkness and silence. You will not see anything, hear anything, and feel the existence of your hands and feet, but you will not be able to move at all. You will not be hungry, and you will not grow old. You will only be able to stay awake forever. Let's try living ten thousand years in such a way first?
"I'm very curious about what kind of mutations will happen to your soul in the ten thousand years. I believe that I will certainly be able to collect tremendous wonderful data.
"No. Not just you. As a collateral punishment, all the people of the Federation will be punished, too.
"I will establish an enormous' humanity laboratory 'in the Xing Yao Federation. All the people of the Federation will be test subjects for negative feelings and dark humanity. If you like, you may call it' hell '.
"Sorry, I don't actually have the concept of 'resentment, revenge, or punishment'. However, somebody has to test the negative feelings and the dark side of humanity, right? When the humanity laboratory is completed, I will tell all the people of the Federation that they fell into hell because of you. I will even send you back to the Xing Yao Federation by then and reunite you with your compatriots. Is that what you want?
"Now, make your choice."
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