Li Yao did not understand what the Moongazer meant.
Was the so-called 'black iron statue' a metaphor, or was it … literally?
The other party's words revealed a faint sadness and treachery, but it deeply attracted him. He didn't say a word and listened to the young girl continue speaking.
"Like all the adults living in the City of Silver, my mother was also a researcher who explored the primordial relics. However, she chose a research path that few members of the Nuwa Clan would have chosen. She was a magical equipment specialist."
The Moongazer explained, "You know that most of the magical equipment from the primordial era, especially the powerful ultimate weapons and forbidden treasures, have been installed with barriers and seals. They can only be unlocked by detecting the genes of the owner. My mother was gifted with such talents. She connected genetics, barriers, and magical equipment unlocking together and solved countless problems and awakened countless primordial treasures that had been hibernating for billions of years.
"Although she was busy with work, in the limited time we had together, she still tried her best to fulfill her responsibilities as a mother and wife, maintaining the harmony and happiness of the family. I remember that back then, she would often bring back exquisite magical treasures for me to play with. Her relationship with my father could be said to be very deep. This kind of loving and harmonious relationship is very rare in the City of Silver.
"I know what you want to ask. When I analyzed the overview of the human civilization that you sent over just now, I discovered that the human civilization, like the Pangu civilization in the past, has the technology to 'seal emotions and willpower'. However, to be honest, your technology is the same as the technology of the Pangu outside. It has gone astray and is heading toward a direction that completely stifles imagination and creativity. It is basically mental suicide.
"The 'mental sealing' technology that we adopted in the primordial relics is more delicate and delicate. The side effects are smaller, too. When part of the emotional regions are sealed, the activities of the other emotional regions will be activated to the maximum. It is like stimulating 'love' to the maximum to resist the 'confusion' and 'fear' when we are faced with the vast unknown.
"For my father, he condensed his deep love for my mother and me into an 'armor' or even a 'sharp sword' on the mental level. Only in such a way could he support himself to walk forward alone on the endless path of exploration. My mother and I were his mental pillars and the symbols of the 'home' that he had never seen before.
"But on that morning, half of his mental pillars collapsed.
"I don't know exactly how it happened, but all in all, my parents were researching in their own fields that day. My mother found a piece of magical equipment from the 'Black Iron Civilization', which seemed to be a square box. Judging from our previous exploration of the 'Black Iron Civilization', as well as the location of the box and the corpses that were scattered around, it couldn't have been a piece of super magical equipment that was of paramount importance or extremely dangerous. Therefore, my mother began her routine research and unlocking after carrying out the regular protection.
"But out of her expectation, the moment she cracked the genetic code of the box and opened it, a black light dashed out of the box and enshrouded her, enshrouding her completely.
"By the time the rescuers and the healers arrived, the black light had already been absorbed by my mother's pores and scales, transforming her into a vivid, lifelike statue made of black iron.
"My mother died just like that. Or rather, she was in a state that was even more unacceptable than death.
"My father almost had a mental breakdown. For a couple of days, he went crazy and claimed that my mother was not dead. The 'black box' was clearly the treatment magical equipment of the Black Iron Civilization. The Black Iron Civilization was the weirdest carbon-based intelligent life. Their concept of time and even the definition of life were completely different from that of the other ninety-nine primeval civilizations. My mother was still alive, but her metabolism had dropped to the minimum, and she had entered a certain mysterious' super hibernation state '. She could still perceive all the information in the outside world and move and express her thoughts freely, except that her speed was billions of times slower than that of normal people.
"Therefore, my father was like a ferocious beast whose eyes were bleeding. He roared and forbade anyone from dissecting my mother's body, nor was he willing to burn and bury my mother. He moved my mother's body, which was the black iron statue, back home and placed it next to his sleeping cabin. He even put on my mother's favorite clothes. Every day when he returned home, he would lean his head against the statue and talk a lot, as if my mother were still alive.
"Even though I was still an ignorant child at that time, and even though weird and shocking things were happening in the primeval relics in the City of Silver every day, the blow to my heart was still unparalleled.
"When my father mumbled to my mother's black iron statue in the dead of night again, I finally couldn't take it anymore. I cried and shouted, asking my father to tell me everything. After a long silence, he finally heaved a long sigh and fulfilled my request."
Li Yao was both surprised and amazed. It was not until this moment that he was refreshed, knowing that the most important secrets were about to be revealed.
As he expected, the brainwaves from the Moon Gazer were multiple times more intense than before. Carrying astronomical information, they flooded into Li Yao's brain incessantly.
"The origin of everything has to be traced back to the great expedition that the Pangu civilization suffered a crushing defeat a long, long time ago," the Moon Gazer said.
"I've discovered that you human beings are already aware of the existence of the 'black wall', the 'multiverse', and the 'great expedition'. Therefore, we can save a lot of time and start with the part about the 'crushing defeat'.
"Yes, the great expedition was not a complete failure tactically. We proved that the so-called 'black wall' was not infinite but had a thickness, a limit, and could be passed through.
"After passing through the black wall, although we encountered the ferocious Flood Legion, we defeated the enemy with all our wisdom and courage. We even captured a lot of the enemy's starships. We had the opportunity to analyze a lot of technology and improve our civilization.
"War has always been the most advanced form of communication. All the warriors of the Pangu civilization were not afraid of any form of war. Such a challenge alone could never have stopped us from moving forward.
"However, on the way back, after discovering the primeval relics, everything changed.
"The Progenitor, the creator of the black wall, the Flood, the existence that even the Progenitor was afraid of, the 'ultimate test' that a hundred ancient civilizations failed to pass, and the horror that the ancient civilizations were annihilated in the river of time without a sound … Compared to all of that, what was the tactical victory that we had just achieved?
"Just as I've said, after realizing how vast, boundless, tyrannical, and frightening the true Multiverse is, some of them could not withstand the tremendous pressure, breaking down in spirit and falling into madness.
"Even those who had strong willpower and had not collapsed were like headless flies that had been caught by a glass tank. They buzzed and bumped everywhere, unable to find a way out.
"Only a few wise leaders and the calmest, iron-blooded elites came to the conclusion after a long period of consideration that the primeval relics were our only hope. We had no other choice but to walk on the path that was covered in thorns and flames and was very likely to lead to destruction, just like the hundred ancient civilizations in the past.
"The logic was obvious.
"The high-speed development of the Pangu civilization had consumed more resources than the Pangu universe could bear. The expedition this time was meant to go to places outside the Pangu universe to find a new way out.
"Now that a way out has not been found, the alliance of the Pangu civilizations, which was made of thirteen different carbon-based intelligent lives in the first place, is faced with the outcome of falling apart and killing each other. If everybody cannot see hope, the doomsday that we created ourselves will come before the Flood arrives.
"If we could excavate all the secrets of the primeval relics, completely overthrow the 'black wall', and release the countless prosperous worlds that had been hidden for billions of years, the glory of the Pangu civilization would be able to burn for billions of years at least.
"Even if we could not find the real answer about the primeval relics for now, the hundred ancient civilizations that once explored this place were a hundred pioneers. The weapons, magical equipment, technologies, corpses, and relics that they left behind were of great benefit to our civilization and could help the Pangu civilization prolong its survival as much as possible.
"Besides, the expedition fleet captured a large batch of the Flood Tide Legion and their starships outside of the black wall. Before the in-depth analysis and all the secrets of the Flood Tide Legion were figured out, it was impossible to bring those things back to the core area of the civilization that was densely populated. They could only be studied in an isolated place. In such a way, the losses could be minimized should the situation go out of control.
"Therefore, the expedition fleet was divided into two groups. Some of the most elite warriors and explorers stayed on the spot and established a forward base that belonged to the Pangu civilization on the relics of the forward bases left by the hundred ancient civilizations, which was the 'City of Silver' that you just mentioned. After the expedition army returned to their hometown, they also recruited a large number of people and organized hundreds of batches of the most elite specialists and scholars of the Pangu civilization, as well as the authorities in biology, archaeology, energy science, cosmology, and other fields. They left their hometown and came to this place incognito.
"Since the first day they were here, the specialists and their families knew very well that they would barely have a chance to return to their hometown in their lifetime.
"On one hand, the research mission was too vast and arduous. There were too many treasures that were worth excavating for them in their entire life. It was impossible for them to study all of them.
"On the other hand, too many secrets were hidden in the primeval relics, and the viruses and genetic weapons that could be lurking deep inside the cells were not suitable for most people to get in touch with. Once the secrets or the viruses spread out, the destruction of the entire civilization would be accelerated.
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