Such a short but brilliant civilization made Li Yao more or less have mixed feelings.
Although he knew that the lightning life made of plasma cells could not have the social form, emotional waves, and thinking style of the carbon-based intelligent life, Li Yao still could not help but imagine the attitude and resistance of the lightning life when they were faced with the apocalypse in the way of 'anthropomorphism' childishly.
Did the lightning lives have scholars, astronomers, and energy scientists, too? Yes. Even if they could not understand the concepts of astronomy, they must have the concepts of energy science, and they must be a hundred times more proficient than the carbon-based intelligent lives.
Then, decades or a hundred years ago, or "billions of generations" in the time scale of the lightning lives, could those scholars have sensed the impending doom through the subtle changes of radiation and magnetic fields? Had they ever hesitated, been desperate, rose up, and calculated every escape route crazily for the one billionth chance of survival?
Did the lightning beings also have priests? When all the scholars' efforts to save them failed, would these priests pray to the stars more devoutly, or would they be horrified to find that their stars could not even protect themselves, and had already died in the violent explosion long before they were born?
Or rather, they would discover that they were the products of the supernova explosion, the ghosts of the star, not the "children of the sun" but the "children of the devil who destroyed the sun". After the mission of destruction was completed, they would be destroyed together with it.
With such a cruel recognition, could those priests still hold on to their original beliefs, or would they "degenerate" and "degenerate" into believers of darkness, just like the strongest human beings who could not accept the truth of the darkness of the universe and walked toward the abyss?
Did the lightning lives have warriors, too? Warriors like the Cultivators and the Immortal Cultivators, who would sacrifice themselves for their homeland, compatriots, and the continuation of their race and civilization without hesitation? Yes, they certainly did. Their lives were only a few seconds, which meant that they were a species that was more resolute, brutal, and pursued momentary blossoms than the carbon-based intelligent lives. To achieve the greatest goal, survival, the warriors of the lightning lives would even fly to the exhausted neutron stars in enormous spaceships of lightning, trying to ignite the dead sun with their own life as the fuel and restore the stability of the entire galaxy.
Li Yao could not help but picture such a picture in his mind.
Countless bolts of lightning were launched from the ancient giant planet and projected to the pale neutron stars across the long distance and the chaotic radiation belts. Even though the neutron stars were collapsing and cooling quickly, they did not care. They crashed, shattered, and obliterated again and again like moths darting into a flame, but they did not give up.
Then, in the decades or billions of "people", how did the lightning lives prepare to face their doom? Had they been divided into the 'home faction' and the 'space faction' like the human beings of the Flying Star Sector in the past? Had they tried to build enormous material spaceships with the materials of the ancient planets themselves so that they could escape from the enormous gravity? Did they have a clear understanding of the vastness, emptiness, and barrenness of the universe? Had they had countless debates and explorations? How many heroes and touching stories had popped up in the debates and explorations?
In the end, it was the super plasma torrent in front of Li Yao's eyes.
No, it was not "it" but "them". It was not "one" lightning life form, not even a "group" of lightning life forms, but an amalgamation of countless generations of lightning life forms, a magnificent exploration team and expedition army!
Li Yao and the super plasma torrent struggled inside and outside the gravity sphere of "Gu Shisan" for at least two to three hours, or about ten thousand seconds. Assuming that every plasma cell could survive for ten seconds, it would be a thousand generations of "people".
A thousand generations. A "great expedition" that spanned a thousand generations!
Li Yao could totally imagine how overjoyed and excited the lightning creature was when Lu Qingchen pushed the 'Dry Wood Fortress' into the Great Red Spot of the ancient giant star and detonated the 'Sharp Metal Fortress' and the 'Phantom Ocean Fortress' in space, allowing the lightning creature to sense everything clearly.
They must've thought that it was a "revelation" from the gods, right?
However, such a revelation could only be obtained with infinite courage and sacrifice.
An 'army' made of the most elite and fearless warriors was immediately gathered. The entire race had crafted a gargantuan lightning warship that was thousands of kilometers long with the purest and most violent energy. Having no time to say goodbye to their family and the plasma cells that shared the same atomic vibration frequency, the warriors hurriedly embarked on the journey of no return.
For a single plasma cell, the ancient giant planet was too far away from the exploration fleet of human beings. The first generation, the second generation, and even the tenth generation of the warriors of the expedition army were obliterated in the few minutes when the lightning roared out. But during the few minutes, they were divided again and again, creating new warriors from the eleventh generation to the hundredth generation. They also passed on their "mission" in the form of electromagnetic radiation.
Just like that, after hundreds of generations of plasma cells marched forward one after another, they finally reached the exploration fleet, only to fall into Li Yao's trap and be attracted to the wrong direction.
Due to the blind area of observation on the microscopic level, they were destined to fail to see through the traps and plans of human beings. They were mired in the swamp step by step, sinking deeper and deeper.
Their speed of annihilation was higher and higher, but their speed of division was lower and lower. The ubiquitous radiation in space seriously interfered with the transmission of electromagnetic radiation, too, making the atomic vibration frequency inside their body more and more inconsistent. Part of the plasma cells gradually forgot their mission and even lost their "wisdom". They fell into ignorance again, turning into common, lifeless electric sparks.
However —
Although a thousand generations had passed, although countless warriors had perished, perished, and forgotten their mission and wisdom, although they were getting farther and farther away from their home and might lose the opportunity to return and save their compatriots forever, although their atomic vibration frequency was gradually disordered, and more and more information was dying and dispersing in the vast space, the last batch of lightning warriors still remembered their mission and accomplished the almost impossible task by pouring all their energy into Li Yao's vitality field.
At this moment, Li Yao's vitality field and the vibration frequency of the lightning life gradually converged and resonated.
Li Yao could completely understand their sad destiny, and he was deeply obsessed with the magnificent journey, unable to free himself.
His eyes were brimming with tears, but the tears were vaporized by the electric current, making the jumping lightning even more hazy and brilliant.
Countless plasma cells surrounded his limbs and his neural network, which were the "coils" of his vitality field, revolving, groping, and simulating quickly.
Very soon, they crawled out of Li Yao's pores and formed a small, haggard, and shivering human figure in front of Li Yao. It was especially so for the brain. Billions of plasma cells rushed forward in a hurry, splitting and annihilating nonstop, condensing into a marvelous "energy brain".
Li Yao knew very well that it was meaningless to do that.
The brain and the fleshly body of human beings were the most suitable carriers for carbon-based intelligent lives, but it did not mean that the energy life could have the same abilities as human beings simply by simulating the form of human beings.
Besides, even the top-tier experts among human beings, such as Li Yao in the Divinity Branching Stage, had to rely on the protection of starships in order to pass through the four-dimensional space for a long interstellar journey.
As an enormous planet of gas and liquid, the enormous gravity and the thin materials on the surface of the ancient giant planet were destined to be impossible to build a real warship on its surface. Most of the materials would be crushed when they reached the surface of the ancient giant planet. How could they be refined and refined at all?
Li Yao did not know what the lightning life had to do in order to break its destiny and escape.
In his eyes, the clumsy imitation of the lightning life before his eyes was merely a waste of his precious energy and one step closer to the abyss of death.
Such a conclusion made the lightning lifeform's movements seem even more tragic and clumsy.
Li Yao could not help but extend his hand to the lightning life. He did not know what he was going to do exactly.
The lightning life, however, could sense the subtle changes of the vitality field inside his body. Mimicking him, it extended its "arm" that was surrounded by electric arcs.
The fingertips of the carbon-based life and the energy-based life touched each other softly, raising indescribable sparks.
Complicated feelings popped up in Li Yao's head. They were not his own feelings but the feelings that the lightning life triggered when it stimulated his brain cells.
They were … sorrow, jealousy, anger, desperation, envy, confusion, and all kinds of other feelings.
Perhaps, "they" had also read — or at least vaguely perceived — the information in Li Yao's head in a certain way. They had realized the vastness and cruelty of the universe and learned the truth of the supernova outbreak and the end of the ancient giant planet.
Or perhaps, the long journey that spanned a thousand generations made them understand their insignificance and frailty, and that even the path of escape did not exist.
They were desperate about the end of their civilization, envious of the carbon-based intelligent life with a stable structure, infuriated by the Heavenly Path that created them and was about to destroy them, and confused about whether or not the Heavenly Path existed.
What was the truth of the universe? Did the Heavenly Path really exist? Were they the products of a certain consciousness, or at least slaves, toys, or experiments? Or was it an insignificant coincidence?
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