Li Yao's heart skipped a beat, and he could not help but exclaim, "That's the Emperor!"
"That's right. I've never seen such a magical embryo. Before it was conceived, it already had a strong sense of self-awareness. It could even control objects remotely and interfere with other people's brainwaves. It communicated with me in this way."
The Moon Gazer said, "In the beginning, I only wanted to find a way to wake up my mother through it. However, as the communication deepened, I gradually became addicted to the ancient memory fragments that it released. I even treated it as a living person and sincerely befriended it. From what you said, after it was conceived and became 'him,' it still remembered me, a good friend from the embryonic age. Thinking back, I really sighed and was touched."
"I see."
Li Yao let out a long sigh of relief. When the Moon Gazer said this, everything was connected. He just did not understand, "Since the project of 'copying the ancestor' is so important and has made a breakthrough in the Emperor, why was it suddenly stopped? Is it really as the Emperor guessed? Is it because the ability he revealed is too powerful, and you are worried that you can't control it, so you were forced to stop it?"
"No, at least not the main reason."
The Moon Gazer shook his head and said, "We have long had a deep understanding of the strength of the ancestor. To be able to create such a huge ancient relic and the mysterious Tower of Babel, and to be able to easily wipe out a hundred ancient civilizations hundreds of millions of years after its own destruction, the ancestor is, of course, unfathomably powerful! If we were afraid of the ancestor's strength, we wouldn't have started the 'copying the ancestor' project from the beginning.
"The reason why we stopped the 'copying the ancestor' project and even closed the entire ancient relic, completely isolating the Immortal Palace from the outside world, was mainly because of the leak of the forbidden technology and the civil war."
"Oh?"
Li Yao said, "What do you mean by leak? Isn't the technology in the Immortal Palace shared with the outside world?"
"Yes and no."
The Moon Gazer explained, "When the Divine Palace was established, all the experts, scholars, and researchers made a vow that all the technologies and secrets in the ancient relics belonged to all the races of the Pangu civilization. No race or person could claim them as their own. In the two thousand years that followed, we did keep our vow and spread most of the technologies without reservation.
"However, you know that the ancient ruins contain many extremely dangerous military technologies, including the manufacturing methods of weapons of mass destruction or deadly viruses. Once these things spread, they will bring disaster to our civilization.
"The top specialists in the Heavenly Palace are well aware of the dangers of such technologies. Since the entire Pangu universe is in a relatively peaceful phase, why is it necessary to develop a genetic weapon that can instantly kill the intelligent life of an entire galaxy?
"Therefore, many of the technologies in this area have been sealed by the top experts in the Immortal Palace. They haven't studied them in depth, so naturally, they haven't spread to the outside world.
"However, the politicians, soldiers, and ambitious schemers in the outside world have a different idea.
"Under the pretext of 'resisting the coming Flood', they have been forcing the specialists in the Divine Palace to export more advanced and destructive military technologies. After being rejected by the specialists in the Divine Palace, they have even infiltrated the Divine Palace through whatever means possible, bribing some of the specialists, stealing a lot of technologies, and studying them in the outside world.
"Such a situation is getting worse and worse. In the most serious moment, they have even stolen a lot of secrets about the Flood Legion and conducted thousands of highly dangerous studies in the outside world, making the forbidden technologies completely out of control.
"It must be noted that the starships and captives of the Flood Legion were all kept in the Divine Palace because this place is isolated from the outside world. Even if the Flood Legion contains dangers and infectiousness that we do not know, the losses can be minimized. However, their hasty approach has allowed part of the strength of the Flood Legion to spread out. It is even possible that the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan in the outside world are corrupted into a new Flood Legion. Who knows whether or not the outbreak of the civil war later is related to such factors?
"What is most intolerable for the people in the Divine Palace is their spying and theft on the project of 'Ancestor Duplication'.
"The people in the Divine Palace are very clear about the strength of the 'Ancestor Duplication'. When they are duplicating the Ancestor Duplication, they have taken the utmost safety measures. For every duplicated Ancestor Duplication, even if they seem to be too weak to awaken the slightest strength, they will pay close attention to them. Absolutely no mistakes are allowed.
"In our communication with the outside world, we also pointed out very solemnly that this is a serious matter. Other technologies can be handed over to the outside world, but the technology of duplicating the Ancestor Duplication, including the precious' Ancestor Genes', cannot be spread out for the time being in case the situation becomes unmanageable.
"But as it turned out, the more we said so, the more the soldiers, politicians, and ambitious schemers in the outside world coveted the relevant technologies of the Ancestor Duplication. No matter how we took precautions, the technologies and the genes of the Ancestor Duplication were still secretly leaked out. By the time we discovered it, many Sectors outside, including the military fortresses, had already established their 'man-manufacturing factories' and began to manufacture the Ancestor Duplication — human beings on a large scale."
"Wait. I don't understand."
Li Yao scratched his head and said, "You are 'duplicating the Ancestor Duplication' in the Divine Palace because you want to obtain the wisdom of the Ancestor Duplication and solve the puzzle of the ultimate test. But why are the politicians, soldiers, and ambitious schemers outside creating human beings on a large scale?"
"Of course, it's to save our civilization."
The brainwaves of the Moon Gazer were once again tainted with a touch of sorrow. "Perhaps, for a high-level intelligent life, the most unbearable thing is to sit there and watch other people save their civilization. It is absolutely impossible for the politicians, militarists, ambitious schemers, the bravest warriors, and the fiercest experts to do nothing and let us, the people of the Divine Palace, save the entire civilization. In other words, it is absolutely impossible for them to leave their fate to us to decide.
"Perhaps, in the first thousand years, people still placed all their hopes on the people of the Divine Palace.
"However, after a thousand years of futility and the shortage of resources in the outside world, seeing that the entire civilization was on the verge of collapse, the top experts who were determined and intelligent could no longer hold back their ambitions and sense of mission. They wanted to take over the mission of 'saving the civilization' from the hands of the people of the Divine Palace. They even thought that we were the stumbling blocks in their way.
"Under the heavy pressure of the arrival of the Flood, any bizarre method could become a life-saving straw. Perhaps they thought that the ancestors, or human beings, were highly efficient tools with low energy consumption and the best helper to help the Pangu civilization get through the shortage of resources. Or perhaps they thought that the form of human beings represented the ultimate development of carbon-based intelligent lives, so they wanted to create human beings on a large scale and then transfer the souls of the thirteen carbon-based intelligent lives into the shell of human beings. Or perhaps they felt that the progress of the 'Ancestor Duplication Project' in the Divine Palace was too slow, and they could not wait to activate the genes of human beings that had been dormant for a long time in the vast world outside through barbaric reproduction and natural screening so that human beings could recover the glory of the ancestors in the past. All in all, there were many reasons, and more than one research team was exploring the project. By the time we discovered it, billions of human beings had already spread across the entire Pangu universe as a 'multi-terrain, all-weather universal tool'.
"The incident greatly shocked and infuriated the leader of the Divine Palace. For the first time, they began to seriously consider the possibility of completely isolating the Divine Palace from the outside world. They also accelerated the establishment of an artificial ecosystem inside the Divine Palace, hoping to be 100% self-sufficient.
"Before the incident was settled, even more shocking news came. A civil war broke out in our civilization. The flames of war led by the Pangu and the Nuwa Clan swept across the entire sea of stars and every planet in every Sector.
"It was a war of an unprecedented scale and unimaginable cruelty.
"Both parties were equipped with tremendous magical equipment and technologies that did not belong to our civilization. They were the magical equipment and technologies that belonged to a hundred primeval civilizations that were leaked from the Divine Palace and were even used to destroy a hundred primeval civilizations.
"The politicians, soldiers, and ambitious schemers outside, after receiving the technologies and running a few unreliable experiments randomly, installed them on a large scale in a hurry. They did not even consider the consequences of abusing the destructive technologies.
"By the time we discovered it, the universe outside had already been turned into a scorched land riddled with holes. It was impossible to stop it with the strength of the 'scholars' who did not even have the strength to truss a chicken. Also, the two parties of the civil war issued very tough threats to us, demanding that the Divine Palace surrender to their side and be loyal to their ideology. They also demanded that we provide incessant brand-new military technologies to help them win the civil war."
"Then, what is their ideology exactly?"
Li Yao could not help but ask. "In the original studies of human beings, the Pangu seemed to be the 'evil' side, which represented the annihilation of feelings and the suppression of self, while the Nuwa Clan, on the other hand, was the 'righteous' side, which represented vigorous vigor, abundant feelings, and infinite possibilities in the future. Was it true?"
"Justice and evil are just relative concepts. Faced with the vast, unknown space, who knows what path we should choose in order to save our civilization?"
The Moon Gazer said. "There were a lot of contradictions between the two parties of the civil war. The one that was most closely related to the Divine Palace was that the side led by the Pangu believed that the studies in the Divine Palace were too dangerous to continue, especially the 'ultimate test'. They insisted that the tower should be completely sealed, in case a certain reckless adventurer destroyed the entire civilization on impulse.
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