Li Yao's nose and chest were blocked by something sour and indescribable again.
With the last bit of his strength, he extended his hands, shivering, and controlled the arm of the iron giant to bid farewell to the withering lightning life.
"Goodbye, my friend. Although the odds are less than one in a billion, I still hope that a part of you, or at least one of your plasma cells, can return to the ancient giant planet and spread and pass on everything that happened during our amazing encounter.
"Perhaps I should save you, or perhaps I should destroy you, but I am also struggling for my own survival and destruction. I have to go to more mysterious and dangerous places to look for my origin, my fate, and my answers.
"So, let's part ways here and look forward to our reunion in the future.
"Today's encounter was too hasty and embarrassing after all. I truly look forward to the day when we or our descendants can get in touch with each other in a more dignified, calm, and wise way. Or perhaps, hehe, we can put on a more splendid and splendid war!
"All in all … Goodbye … Goodbye …"
The lightning life became smaller and smaller in Li Yao's eyes until it was melted into the gargantuan shadow of the ancient giant star and could no longer be seen.
Li Yao had drained all his spiritual energy in the fierce battle and the subsequent information exchange.
He did not even have the strength to shake his little finger.
Fatigue and drowsiness gradually flooded at him like a black and thick tide, swallowing his every brain cell.
Before he fell into a coma, he only had the time to turn on the automatic navigation system of the Colossus with the movement of his eyes and the release of his brainwaves. He asked the Arsonist to search for the landmarks that Li Linghai and Ding Ling Dong left on their way and catch up with the main troops to reach the entrance of the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum.
Li Yao did not know if the Colossus that was on the verge of collapse could accomplish the mission.
He was just like the lightning life. Faced with desperation, he held hope and moved forward!
Li Yao slept for a long time. His dream was full of lightning and almost infinite energy models.
When he slowly woke up, his condition was not much better than before he fainted. He was still tired, sleepy, and hungry. Every cell in his body was screaming.
A lot of high-energy nutrition drugs were stored inside the Colossus. Little Black should've injected and treated him in time.
However, these high-energy nutrient fluids were electrolyzed and vaporized during the penetration of the lightning life forms. The nutrients were almost completely gone.
Li Yao checked the logbook of the mainframe crystal processor and was surprised to find that he had actually slept for a full seven days!
Losing control and being unconscious for such a long period of time was very rare in his entire cultivation career.
Thankfully, according to the log, the Colossus carried out his orders dutifully when he was in a coma. Also, the marks left by Li Linghai and Ding Ling Dong were clear enough for him to be on the right route and get closer and closer to the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum.
Considering the damage of the Colossus and the amount of fuel he had left, it was an out-and-out miracle.
"Is it … you?"
Li Yao rubbed his aching head and felt that lightning was still dancing deep inside his brain.
He did not know if the lightning life had crawled into the fuel tank of the Colossus and changed the structure and components of the fuel, exploiting more energy in a way that the carbon-based intelligent life could not understand.
Just like he did not know if the glittering electric currents deep inside his brain carried the features of the lightning life forms, too.
However cruel the universe was, life would always find a way out, wouldn't it?
Li Yao smiled.
Looking at the ancient giant planet that had drifted behind him for seven days and seven nights but still felt that it was right next to him, and the giant planet that was as brilliant as the sun, Li Yao suddenly felt that the previously desolate and lonely universe was now lively and vigorous.
Who said that human beings were lonely? Perhaps countless amazing and brilliant lives existed in different levels of the universe in the first place. All human beings needed to do was to polish their eyes and find them.
It was like a lush forest. On different levels, there were towering trees, shrubs, and grass. There were jackals, wolves, tigers, leopards, antelopes, and deer. There were also reptiles and insects, and even fungi and bacteria.
The wolves, tigers, and leopards might never have realized that there might be countless well-structured, well-organized ant nests and ant colonies in the mud below their feet. The battles among ants were as solemn and splendid as the battles of ferocious beasts.
They were simply hunting and slaughtering blindly.
But human beings were not wolves, tigers, and leopards.
They should not be. They should never be.
Li Yao suddenly felt that the term "dark forest" was so self-contradictory and … groundless!
Most plants need sunlight to realize photosynthesis. Therefore, the existence of a forest means the existence of light itself. However dark the forest seems, it must be bright outside of the forest!
Even if there is an environment of 'absolute darkness', the lives born naturally in such 'absolute darkness' will never evolve light-sensitive organs such as' eyes' in the first place. Then, what is the significance of whether or not the surroundings are dark for them? What kind of trouble is it?
Even if they do not evolve 'eyes', they will certainly have ways to perceive the information around them and communicate with their companions or even other species. Communication, whether they are willing or not, is the first and only motivation for continuous evolution!
As long as we can get in touch and communicate with each other, light is destined to be born in darkness no matter how dark it is. The civilization of mankind has come so far because of light in the first place. Now, all we need to do is to continue spreading and passing on the light! "
Li Yao extended one finger.
An insignificant ball of lightning was born on his fingertip. It was no more than five millimeters in diameter, but it was changing into all kinds of delicate shapes into almost a hundred complicated three-dimensional structures. It was even blossoming like a flower and dancing like a butterfly, inadvertently demonstrating Li Yao's abilities in energy construction and control that surpassed all carbon-based intelligent lives such as human beings and even the Pangu.
That was the gift of the lightning life, just like he had offered the ability to smelt metals and manipulate materials to the lightning life.
If the lightning life, which has a history of only two thousand years and a life span of no more than ten seconds, did not give up hope when faced with the catastrophes of supernova explosions and planetary collapses, is there any reason why human beings, the greatest miracle in the multiverse, should give up hope when faced with the insignificant Flood?
Li Yao smiled and absorbed the lightning back into his palm, driving the Colossus for the final sprint.
An hour later, at the entrance of the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum, the pearl floating in the sea of stars quietly, appeared in his eyes again.
In the meantime, he received the message that Ding Ling Dong left for him from a crystal processor that was floating not far away from the entrance of the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum.
"Li Yao, it will be great if you can see the message!"
Ding Ling Dong on the light beam was exhausted, and the bridge behind her was smoldering. "The meteoroid storms and the electromagnetic interference are too serious. Our fleet has suffered heavy losses. Many starships have lost the ability to sail and fight.
"To make matters worse, the navigation and communication systems of many starships have been completely sabotaged and have drifted to unknown places. Right now, we have only found a dozen starships. The rest of the starships will not arrive until they are repaired on their own.
"Time is of the essence. We can't wait any longer. We have to enter the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum to capture Lu Qingchen right now. Therefore, we have set up an information node here. If there are any anomalies inside the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum, we will send out a message in time.
"If there are no anomalies, it means that we are still in the process of capturing Lu Qingchen. Li Yao, or everybody else who reads the message, please enter the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum to reinforce us immediately!"
The message was sent five days ago.
Then, there were some broken, messy messages that sounded like squeaking noises. It seemed that Ding Ling Dong and the rest of them had encountered serious interference inside the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum, and the messages that they sent out were all ruined.
Five days ago, Ding Ling Dong and the rest of them had entered the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum and had yet to come out. Did they fail to capture Lu Qingchen, or …
Li Yao did not dare to think further. He accelerated and approached the entrance of the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum.
The ball that looked like mercury and a pearl had features that were entirely different from those of the ancient giant star.
If the ancient giant star symbolized primitive, natural, wild, and violent, this ball was a symbol of absolute precision and control. It was a man-made product of a super civilization.
Arsonist was only a hundred meters away from the entrance of the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum. However, at such a close distance, Li Yao still could not detect the slightest defect or irregularity on its surface. On the surface that was more than a few kilometers in diameter, there was not even the slightest rise or fall of 0.001 microns.
With Li Yao's understanding of materials science and metal processing, it was absolutely impossible to process solid metal into such a precise ball.
Besides, it was not solid at all but some unknown material that was similar to liquid metal but a hundred times more marvelous. It was an 'entrance' that could be passed through freely.
Just like that, it quietly, faintly, and stood aloof from worldly affairs, blooming its own light, displaying its own strength, making all the latecomers feel like they were looking up at a lofty mountain.
It was no longer appropriate to call it 'the entrance to the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum'.
It was because Li Yao was certain that even the Supreme Emperor, the ultimate expert of the civilization of mankind, was not capable of creating such an entrance.
Furthermore, judging from the relics of the Pangu Clan and the warships of the Nuwa Clan, their metal smelting and processing abilities were far, far from such a level.
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