Looking at the silent struggle of the lightning life, Li Yao vaguely felt … ashamed.
He had thought that the universe was so unfair to human beings that if there was really a 'Heavenly Axiom', human beings would be nothing more than slaves and playthings of the Heavenly Axiom. How cruel was the world that human beings lived in? The resources of the Pangu universe were always scarce, forcing human beings to walk on the path of destruction, where they had to kill each other or die like moths to a flame.
Now, from the lightning life of the ancient giant star, he finally realized what real 'cruelty' was.
Human beings, or most of the carbon-based intelligent life forms, were lucky.
They lived on solid and liquid two-state planets with stable structures. Such planets could be found everywhere on the scale of the grand universe. The natural advantages of carbon-based life forms allowed each of them to have a relatively long lifespan. They could also withstand the storms of shuttling through the four-dimensional space and the pain of disintegration and condensation again and again, making space travel possible.
The combination of those advantages made the fire of carbon-based intelligent life spread across the entire universe and burn fiercely. The carbon-based intelligent life forms in various space zones and even different universes could communicate with each other very easily. And communication, even in the cruelest way of war, slavery, and slaughter, would promote the explosive advancement of a civilization.
It was like the civilization of mankind today. They used to have many brothers and sisters, and they kept advancing while killing each other with their brothers and sisters. They also found their 'father', the Pangu, the Nuwa Clan, and even the creator of the black wall, who were also carbon-based life forms. They also began to create the next generation of information life forms that could carefully and gradually get rid of the carbon-based shell.
Such a civilization with parents, brothers, and children was so blessed and lucky, and the way the universe treated carbon-based life forms was so generous and extravagant!
But what about the lightning civilization?
The giant planet that they were born on was the rarest existence among the planetary families in the first place. Also, not every giant planet had an atmosphere, and not every lightning and thunder in the atmosphere of a giant planet could give birth to plasma cells.
It required two adjacent supernovae to explode at almost the same time, sweeping countless materials and radiation into the atmosphere of the giant planet. The intensity of the radiation could not be so strong that it could swallow the giant planet. That was the only way to bring about a one-billionth miracle.
With such harsh conditions, Li Yao believed that the lightning lifeform from the ancient giant planet was a unique existence even in the countless multiverse, let alone the Pangu Universe.
This meant that they were destined to be alone. They were born orphans, and it was impossible for them to receive any help from their own kind or the enlightenment of their ancestors. They had almost no possibility of communicating with the outside world, and could only stumble and grope in the boundless darkness until they fell into the abyss.
Also, the time that the 'Heavenly Axiom' left for them was too short. They were like children who had been infected with a fatal virus in their mother's womb and sentenced to death the moment they were born. After only three thousand years, even if their development and mutation speed far exceeded the limits of the imagination of carbon-based intelligent lives, it was still not enough for the weak little lives to defeat a giant planet, two supernovas, and the entire desolate and barren universe!
Therefore, the resistance of the lightning creatures was destined to be a hundred times more difficult, tragic, and splendid than the resistance of the human civilization.
It — they were still struggling.
After only a few minutes, the lightning that formed the shape of a human dimmed even more. It also shrank and withered.
They were still wandering around Li Yao unwillingly, trying to crack the secrets of Li Yao's vitality magnetic field and brainwaves.
However, the secrets had been studied by human beings for a hundred thousand years without being fully understood. How could the lightning creatures completely crack them in only a few minutes?
Sensing the electric currents passing through his brain cells, Li Yao was caught in a dilemma.
After recognizing the magnificent civilization of the lightning creatures and the magnificence of their resistance against fate, Li Yao's first reaction was, of course, to help them.
However, his rationality also told Li Yao that, in contact with an unknown civilization, it was an indispensable procedure to assume that the other party was hostile first.
Intentionally or not, the super plasma torrents had paralyzed a lot of starships of the exploration fleet of human beings in the two attacks. A lot of crew members were heavily wounded and even killed.
Just a moment ago, the lightning creatures had even unleashed undisguised hostility toward him, trying to possess him clumsily. The lightning creatures were like innocent children who did not disguise their purpose at all. They were the purest, most extreme 'evil thoughts'.
Li Yao had no doubt that, if destroying mankind could save their civilization, the warriors of the lightning civilization would certainly do it without any hesitation.
He should completely annihilate them, shouldn't he?
However, deep inside the Pangu universe, in the multiverse that boasted infinite possibilities, how many amazing and magnificent life forms were there like the lightning creatures? Was the civilization of mankind going to sweep across the entire universe and turn the entire universe into a barren desert just like what the Flood did?
Was it possible that the so-called "Flood" was exactly such a super civilization that believed that all the unknown civilizations were malicious civilizations, and only the civilizations that were destroyed were friendly? Was it possible that the so-called "Flood" was exactly such a super civilization that intended to kill all life forms and the vitality of the civilization heritage to ensure their own "safety"?
Was the ultimate purpose of human beings when they marched into the sea of stars to become a second 'Flood', or were they going to stand on the opposite side of the Flood and resist the Flood together with the most glamorous species?
To save them or not to save them?
If they were to be saved, how would they be saved? If they were not saved, how would they be destroyed?
The waves inside Li Yao's eyes were shivering violently.
At this moment, he suddenly sensed that a few lightning bolts that were as thin as hairs crawled into his brain and tied up his soul softly, melting with it.
Some of the plasma cells crawled into the fuel tank and the crystal reactor of the 'Arsonist', before they disappeared, too, as if they had been completely obliterated.
Li Yao's pupils constricted violently.
He really did not know whether it was another failed attempt of the lightning creatures or whether the little things had truly grasped certain secrets that even he did not know himself during the arduous exploration of 'dozens of generations', turning his fleshly body, soul, and even Colossus into brand-new 'starships'.
Li Yao was dazed for a long time. Then, he smiled. His muscles that had been cramping violently because of the electric arcs were all relaxed. Taking a long breath in relief, he said to himself, "Yes. I was too arrogant. I was so arrogant that I thought that I could be your 'savior' or 'destroyer'.
"Compared to the supernova explosions and the collapse of the galaxy that are about to destroy you, my strength is nothing at all. Having resisted such a cruel universe and such a cruel fate for such a long time, you have long become the strongest warriors. You don't need anybody else to save you at all. You can save yourselves on your own.
"By the same token, what can I do to destroy you? Even the explosions of two supernovae, the superstorm of the ancient giant, the super gravity, and even the laws of the universe itself have failed to destroy you. What can I possibly do to destroy you?
"Then, come on. Unleash all your methods and continue the battle like just now. Perhaps this is the most efficient way to communicate and save each other between two different civilizations. Or perhaps, this is the highest respect that a warrior who is struggling on the path of survival and resistance can express to another warrior of the same trade!"
At this moment, Li Yao closed his eyes and burned his vitality to release the most powerful vitality field, trying to expel the lightning creatures that had invaded his body.
But it was also possible that he was not expelling them but releasing all the information about human beings, the Pangu, the creators of the black wall, and other carbon-based intelligent lives. He was also delivering his precious energy to the lightning creatures to prolong their lives.
Another's arsenic, another's honey. It was hard to define whether to destroy or to save in different life forms.
By the same logic, the lightning creatures were shaking violently inside Li Yao's head, too.
Perhaps they were malicious. They were trying to erase all the memories and self-awareness in Li Yao's head in such a way, but they were 'migrating' their entire civilization into it.
Or maybe they were doing it out of good will. Sensing that their life was about to wither, they were trying to teach the marvelous techniques to manipulate energy to Li Yao, a 'passerby'.
It was also possible that they had not seen the whole picture of carbon-based intelligent lives even to this moment. They did not have the concept of good and evil at all. They were merely trying their best to build a tomb and a monument for their civilization that had perished prematurely between Li Yao's brain cells and nerve currents.
Li Yao did not know how long the process lasted.
In front of two civilizations whose timescales were so different, 'time' itself had lost its significance.
All in all, when he gradually woke up from the marvelous energy models of lightning that he had never seen before, the first picture that he saw was that the human-shaped lightning creature was gradually drifting away from the spiritual residence of the Colossus and sinking into the depths of space.
It seemed to have completed its mission and could welcome its annihilation in relief. The jumping electric arcs were dimming, rippling, and dispersing one after another. The lightning that should have been the most violent was as quiet and clear as a stream.
It opened its' arms' and drifted further and further away, becoming smaller and smaller. It was truly like spreading out its long hair and sinking to the bottom of the ocean quietly.
No, not the 'bottom of the ocean', not the depths of space, but the direction of the ancient giant star!
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