Li Yao watched everything in bewilderment.
He did not know whether it was a real picture of the primeval era or an exaggerated description that was highly symbolic. All in all, the tentacles extended out of the void tied up the immigrant starships one after another. No matter how the particle cannons and vacuum torpedoes of the starships attacked, it could not care less about them at all. It simply dragged all the starships together with the members of the Primeval Clan into the bright purple gap.
Then, Li Yao's vision seemed to have turned into a bizarre dream. In the middle of the surging tides that looked like kaleidoscopes, he saw a gargantuan monster that seemed to have occupied half of the sea of stars. It had ten thousand tentacles and a hundred million translucent organs that looked like eyes. Emitting dim brilliance, it was filled with indescribable weirdness and fear.
Then, the colorful pieces were condensed again, and the chaotic space and time were stabilized again. The immigrant fleet of the Primitive Species was brought to a brand-new world by the monster, a 'paradise' that was brimming with spiritual energy and crystals and had inexhaustible energy!
"This — this is —"
Li Yao's soul shivered in excitement, as if he could taste the sweetness of infinite spiritual energy from the picture. "What's this?"
"As you can see, this is an alien species that can travel in the four-dimensional space and perform space jumps freely. We call them 'Void Hunters'," the voice explained.
The voice explained, "Although our Primitive Civilization is one of the earliest civilizations to be born in this part of the Universe Ocean, we are not the first intelligent life form to be born. Long before us, in the Blessed Enclaves with abundant spirit energy, countless intelligent alien races were born, forming a huge cosmic ecosphere. The Void Hunters were one of them.
"However, after billions of years, they failed to create a highly-developed civilization. Most of the alien species were ignorant beasts that lived on their instincts like the Void Hunters. Their IQ was no higher than that of a seven-year-old child. Only a few of the alien species developed a primitive social form with a slavery system."
"Why?"
Li Yao found it hard to imagine. "They boasted abundant spiritual energy and even received preliminary wisdom, but they wasted billions of precious years without developing a civilization. It doesn't make sense!"
"On the ancient Earth, many species thrived for billions of years and resisted multiple extinctions. They were praised as' living fossils', such as turtles, crocodiles, and cockroaches, but they never developed wisdom and civilization."
The voice said, "If we get to the bottom of it, the so-called 'civilization' is not necessary for life, and evolution is definitely not an eternal path forward. The so-called 'evolution' is just a helpless evolution after cruel eliminations under the drastic changes of the environment.
"Life is a very lazy thing. As long as the environment does not change too much, and it can barely survive, it will never think of changing or evolving.
"It's just like turtles, crocodiles, and cockroaches. They are already the kings of their respective fields, or the top hunters at the top of the food chain, or they have unparalleled defense and unbelievable survival abilities. They do not need intelligence or civilization, and they can still live well and pass on their genes.
"So, what motivation do they have to change and 'evolve'?
You can simply imagine it as an enormous octopus that can survive in vacuum with the ability of space jumping. With its instincts, it chases the meteoroids and asteroids that contain mother lodes of crystals in the vast sea of stars. It extends its tentacles from the space gaps to tie up the meteoroids and absorbs the energy inside the crystals with the specially constructed negative pressure suckers. Such instincts allow it to reproduce comfortably at the center of the Universe Ocean for billions of years. Its enormous size and unpredictable abilities make it have no natural enemies. Even if it encounters an enemy that it cannot afford to mess with, it can always crawl into the four-dimensional space and escape a million lightyears away. What's the use of wisdom and civilization for it? "
Li Yao thought carefully for a long time.
He had to admit that the voice was right.
A creature that was born in a natural paradise with abundant spiritual energy and was born with the abilities to absorb crystals, absorb energy, and travel in the void did not need to develop wisdom and civilization through hard work.
It was just like the rich kids who were born with golden chopsticks in their mouths did not need to work hard either.
Only human beings, such as hairless monkeys who had been struggling for survival since they were weak and pitiful primates, had the need to evolve into unparalleled wisdom and create a powerful civilization.
"Then —"
Li Yao felt that his mouth was dry. "All the remaining immigrant starships were brought to the natural paradise at the center of the Universe Ocean by this … 'Void Hunter'? Did it not swallow you? "
"It swallowed some of them," the voice said.
The voice said, "Void Hunters are the travelers who are best at long-distance voyages in the Universe Ocean. They are born with the ability to perceive the shadow ripples that are projected into the three-dimensional universe by the four-dimensional storm. Then, they create fleeting wormholes with the shadow ripples so that they can perform space jumps over super long distances. In such a way, they chase the erratic meteorite showers and resource planets.
"The Void Hunter, on the other hand, sensed the exhaust flames released by the immigrant starships and regarded our fleet as a meteoroid belt that boasted abundant energy. That was why it showed up in the four-dimensional space and swallowed all of us.
"However, you should've noticed that our immigrant fleet had run out of supplies at that time. There was not a single drop of fuel left in the warehouse. The 'Void Hunter' shattered and swallowed three immigrant starships, only to discover that it could not exploit much energy except for the rusty garbage. So, it gave up eating.
"Although it did not evolve into a real civilization, the Void Hunter was a primitive intelligent life that had lived and prospered at the center of the Universe Ocean for billions of years after all. Very soon, it discovered that the Primeval Clan inside the starships was a tiny life form, too.
"At the center of the Universe Ocean at that time, there was a standard for judging the strength and danger of a life form.
"Basically, the more abundant the spiritual energy stored inside one's body was, and the more proficient one was at manipulating the spiritual energy, the stronger and more dangerous one would be.
"Although the Primeval Clan got in touch with a few crystals that fell from the sky on Earth and grasped the preliminary techniques, we were still beginners after all. Most of the propulsion systems on the starships that we boarded were based on chemical energy and nuclear energy, too.
"The Void Hunter could not understand our complicated social form and civilization. It could not sense the potential and danger behind our feeble appearance, nor did it understand what advanced technology and complicated industrial system our starships represented. In its eyes, we were just a bunch of harmless bugs."
"A harmless little bug?"
Li Yao could not help but laugh aloud.
Human beings, the toughest warrior species in the sea of stars, were considered to be bugs by an enormous octopus. It was truly interesting.
"The Void Hunter looked at us like an elephant looked at an ant. It was not a big deal to stomp us to death, and it was not a big deal to ignore us, either," the voice said.
The voice said, "However, for the survivors of the Primitive Clan, the arrival of the Void Hunters was no different from a world-destroying subversion. Our worldview and scientific outlook were completely shattered. The natural paradises that came one after another, and the infinite spiritual energy surged out, made our survival instincts that were almost annihilated expand again, unleashing the most ferocious flames of light.
"All the survivors immediately took action and racked their brains to figure out how to survive in such a weird and prosperous environment.
"Very soon, a few wise men whose brains were highly evolved and who could freely amplify and release brainwaves did find a solution. They tried their best to reach an agreement with the Void Hunter, and the two parties established a harmonious symbiotic relationship. The Primeval Clan became 'probiotics' and 'parasites' on the Void Hunter."
"Well —"
Li Yao was stunned. "How is that possible?"
"The Void Hunter is a traveler who travels alone in the vast universe. They do not have the concept of living in groups or society. However, on the long and desolate journey, they will inevitably feel lonely and bored. In particular, when they often travel through four-dimensional space and repeatedly tear apart their neurons, it will eventually affect their nerve clusters."
The voice said, "In order to survive, a special profession called 'dream creator' was born in the Primeval Clan. They used their complicated brainwaves to give the Void Hunter a 'spiritual massage' and weave all kinds of colorful dreams. The Void Hunter naturally could not understand the memories and emotions of the Primeval Clan, but when all kinds of strange dreams poured into its nerve clusters, it felt very comfortable, as if it was scratching an itch.
"Just like that, the Primeval Clan parasitized the Void Hunter's body and barely survived through the 'leftovers' that it leaked from its tentacles, which were the fragments of crystals. The Void Hunter, on the other hand, used our rich emotions and imagination to give us a 'spiritual massage' to eliminate the loneliness of the long journey and the side effects of the space jump.
"It looked like a very harmonious symbiotic relationship, but it contained subtle killing intent.
"One day, when the dream creators on a starship were giving the Void Hunter a 'spiritual massage', their starship was suddenly shattered by the Void Hunter. Millions of survivors who had finally arrived at the center of the Universe Sea died on the spot.
"The other survivors were shocked. They did not know what was going on. How did they anger the Void Hunter?
"It was not until nearly ten million people on the other four starships were casually killed by the Void Hunter that the remaining people gradually realized that the 'dreams' created by the dream creators on these starships for the Void Hunter were too old and boring. They had been repeated too many times and made the Void Hunter impatient.
"That was the most humiliating and dangerous moment for the Primeval Clan.
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