Li Yao's hesitation was clearly revealed to the Moon Gazer through the transmission of brainwaves.
The Moon Gazer blushed and lowered his head in silence for a long time. Then, with a bitter smile, he said, "Yes. It was not until a long time later that I learned that the outside world had so many suspicions, concerns, and fears about our exploration and research in the Divine Palace. In fact, after the news that the ancestor of the origin had set up an ultimate test that could decide whether to save or destroy our civilization in an instant was secretly spread out, such a chaotic uproar was raised.
"There were many people outside, mainly the Pangu who had sealed their feelings and wills and believed that we should continue to hibernate for billions of years. They believed that we should not touch the secrets left by the ancestors rashly. Among those people, there were even very extreme fundamentalists who believed that the ancestors established the black wall to protect us from the invasion of the Flood. Any action that attempted to overthrow the black wall would be a betrayal to the ancestors and would be subject to the most severe punishment. The corpses of a hundred civilizations were proof.
"Of course, there were also countless people, mainly the passionate, impulsive, and adventurous Nuwa Clan who were born with the spirit of adventure, who believed that the qualification to analyze the mysteries of the ancestors and perform the ultimate test should not be monopolized by the people of the Divine Palace like us. Instead, the ancient relics should be opened to all the people of the entire civilization so that everyone's wisdom and courage could be gathered to solve the problem together.
"For most of the ordinary people, they could not bear the price of the instant destruction of their entire civilization at all. Even the thought of it made them have a nervous breakdown. Since a hundred primeval civilizations did not succeed, why should they believe that we would be different and succeed? They believed that our action was purely the suicide of our civilization. Therefore, they supported the views of the Pangu fundamentalists at first and exerted tremendous pressure on the highest authorities, demanding that the exploration and research in the ancient relics be suspended immediately and that all the people of the Divine Palace should be evacuated.
"All in all, the messy, disturbing ideas became more and more intense and even more rampant. They evolved into a torrent that was about to sweep across the Divine Palace."
After hearing that, Li Yao could not help but say, "In fact, from the perspective of the ordinary people, it is not unreasonable to think that you are committing suicide. After all, the attempts of a hundred civilizations have failed …"
"But we have no other choice!"
The Moon Gazer shouted. "Do you think that the hundred primeval civilizations were all brawn and no brains, or that they did stupid things because they had the suicidal genes deep in their genes? Even if the first ten or twenty civilizations did not know how dangerous the ultimate test was and were trapped in it without knowing anything, why would the dozens of civilizations that came after them still charged forward and died when they discovered the relics and corpses of the civilizations that came before them and learned the dangers of the ultimate test?
"The reason is simple. By the time these civilizations had the ability to discover and delve deep into the ancient ruins, their civilization had already developed to its peak. They had also crossed the turning point from prosperity to decline. Population explosion, resource scarcity, social unrest, and their killing technology and war machines had reached the peak, even developing weapons that could instantly destroy themselves and their planet. They were already about to die, and could only watch as their civilization headed toward destruction. Even the wisest scholar and the bravest warrior could not stop it.
"Therefore, with no other choice, they risked entering the primordial ruins in an attempt to save their civilization through the 'ultimate test.'
"It is the same for the Pangu civilization.
"Of course, we can withdraw from the primordial ruins and completely seal this place, but even so, we cannot resolve the ultimate destruction that our civilization is faced with. We will only postpone the time of death by thousands of years, tens of thousands of years, or even hundreds of thousands of years. Is there a difference between the original instantaneous destruction and suffocation in an airtight iron house? If there is a difference, the latter way of death will only expose the ugliest side of our civilization before we die. It will be the most humiliating death! Why can't the people outside understand such a simple logic? "
Li Yao smiled bitterly. "As you said yourself, you grew up in a very special environment and were used to the rise and fall of a hundred civilizations since you were young. The glory of a civilization is nothing more than a spark in your eyes. Therefore, you can view the problem calmly.
"But for most of the ordinary people, as well as the politicians, soldiers, and rulers who are responsible for the ordinary people, it is impossible for them to rashly say something like 'we will be suffocated to death in hundreds of thousands of years anyway, so we might as well take the risk now'. The ordinary people cannot understand or accept it.
"Besides, there are also the interests of the politicians, the ambitions of the warlords, and the survival instincts that are hidden deep in our genes …"
The Moon Gazer was dazed for a moment. She sighed gloomily and said, "Perhaps you are right. All in all, the Pangu civilization was already in a turbulent vortex at that time, but the Divine Palace was like the eye of the storm and could still enjoy a moment of peace. I was very lucky to be born in such a brief and precious peace. After I grew up, I inherited my father's legacy and studied the frontier of gene duplication and fusion. I also got in touch with my father's research project. You already know what it is, don't you?"
"Yes."
Li Yao nodded and said, "After you noticed the failure of a hundred ancient civilizations, you did not dare to rashly activate the ultimate test. Instead, you found another way. You wanted to replicate the living creators of the black wall and pry into the mysteries of the ultimate test from them. You even used them to participate in the test to greatly increase the success rate."
"That's right. Amazing insight and deduction."
The Moon Gazer praised Li Yao and continued, "The project of 'copying the progenitor' is the most important and most difficult of the thousands of research projects that are being carried out at the same time in the entire Divine Palace. It can be said to be the core and crown of the entire Divine Palace Project. It has been going on for hundreds of years, and my father is the latest project leader.
"He has always been obsessed with the frontier of gene duplication and fusion. He is a genius who is brimming with talent and rarely seen in a thousand years. Even in a place like the Divine Palace where almost everyone is an expert and scholar, he can be said to be outstanding.
"And after my mother met with that accident, he was even more obsessed with his work, forgetting to eat and sleep.
"I can see through his mind. For him, the matter of 'copying the progenitor' is no longer just for the entire civilization, but also for my mother, his wife.
"He wants to replicate the real progenitor, then grab the progenitor by the collar and question them fiercely. Why did all this happen?
"Why did the progenitor find the universe with abundant resources and a stable environment, but why did he seal everything with the black wall?
"Why did the progenitor use his own genes to create everything and even countless civilizations, but why did he erase all those civilizations again and again?
"Why did the progenitor leave such rich treasures and advanced legacies for his descendants and civilizations, but set up a weird, unpredictable puzzle that did not even have a correct answer, as if it was just a cruel joke, giving hope to a civilization again and again, and then taking it away again and again, pushing the civilization into the endless abyss of despair?
"Most importantly of all, I know that my father wants to find a way to treat my mother from the progenitor. My father has always refused to believe that my mother is really dead. He firmly believes that my mother is still alive in the wonderful form of a 'black iron life' and in a way that her metabolism is billions of times slower. He wants to cut through all obstacles and overcome all difficulties to wake up his wife!
"In the beginning, I naturally could not understand my father's madness. I thought that he was on the verge of a mental breakdown and that he should take special measures to further suppress the emotional areas in his brain. Otherwise, it is very likely that he will suddenly go crazy during his research like many uncles and aunts. He will lose his mind, scream, and dance, and become a complete lunatic.
"However, my father's willpower is really unbelievably strong. No matter how heartbreaking and hysterical he cries against my mother's black iron statue in the dead of night, he will always return to normal the next morning. With red eyes, he will return to the laboratory and focus on his research. Not a single data will be wrong.
"Under my father's influence, I gradually began to wonder whether or not my mother is dead. Although her heartbeat, breathing, and metabolic reactions have been lost, and the flesh and blood cells all over her body have mutated into an unknown substance, is it possible that her soul is still stored in the marvelous substance, waiting to be reunited with her family one day?
"I remembered the researcher who fell into the space-time gap and fell in the void for a hundred years before he reappeared in the world.
"Is it possible that my mother's soul has also fallen into such a nonexistent gap and is struggling and groping in the maze of the void? As long as she and we do not give up, we will eventually find the exit one day?
"Therefore, I became a 'little lunatic' like my father.
"I couldn't wait to find a 'progenitor' and figure out what was going on exactly. I wanted to ask him if there was a way to save my mother.
"At that time, after hundreds of years of experiments, we had already replicated a batch of carbon-based intelligent lives that had 100% of the progenitor's genes. They were human beings like you.
"However, those human beings were just the simple accumulation and patchwork of the progenitor's genes. They were counterfeits that only had the appearance. Or rather, they were still in the spore hibernation state where the mysteries of their genes had not been unlocked. No matter how we studied and induced and hypnotized them, they could not tell the mysteries of the primordial era billions of years ago.
"Those human beings were naturally not the targets that I was looking for.
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