"What's wrong?"
The female captain had a subtle look on her face. Even the bright gold ghosts behind her became anxious. All the ghosts of the Primeval Era were staring at Li Yao, as if they could not wait to see him take over the key that contained billions of techniques and infinite technologies.
Li Yao immediately sensed the weirdness of the enemy.
It made the alarms deep inside his soul even louder.
"Calm down. I must calm down!"
Li Yao warned himself. "It's not so simple. It can't be so simple. The sigh for the past of Earth, the hatred for the Primeval Era, the appreciation for the civilization of mankind reborn in the Pangu universe, the love for my family and my home, and the excessive boiling blood … Everything is interfering with my judgment. I have to calm down, freeze all the distracting thoughts, and find the most central answer!"
His eyes suddenly turned sharp, and he stared at the female captain for a long time, as if he were trying to poke two holes on the female captain's ghost.
"You seem … to want me to take over the key and inherit all the legacies of the Primeval Era?"
Li Yao suddenly asked.
"Of course."
The female captain was still smiling, but there was reluctance in her smile. "We have waited for billions of years and wiped out the testers of a hundred generations of civilizations. If nobody can get the legacy, the Flood will arrive at any moment, and there will be no time.
"Therefore, there is no need to doubt. Of course, I hope that you can get the legacy of the primeval era, and I sincerely hope that you can carry forward the legacy."
"Is that so?"
Li Yao was more and more confused. He sniffed and said, "Then, aren't there other suitable candidates besides me? What happened to Lu Qingchen and the mental devil? Have they been erased? "
After a brief silence, the female captain shook her head and said, "Not yet. They are still testing and lost in the bloody swamp."
"That doesn't make sense."
Li Yao was calmer and calmer. Looking at the gold key that was right in front of him, he did not seem to be looking at the legacy that gathered all the techniques of the god-level civilization but a venomous snake that was full of sharp thorns and burning furiously. "If the correct answer to pass the ultimate test is not to make the same choice as you, with the personalities of Lu Qingchen and the mental devil, they should've failed and been killed by you a long time ago. Didn't you just say that the two of them were already far more advanced than me? There's no reason that they haven't entered the life-and-death choice of the 'Sun Defense Plan' yet, right?
"Since they haven't been erased yet, it proves that 'even if they make the darkest choice three times, it is not necessarily impossible for them to pass the test'. Perhaps, what the ultimate test is testing, the so-called key, is not here at all. It is not about the ambiguous things like 'justice and evil' and 'darkness and light'.
"My mind is in a mess. I need to think, think carefully …"
"What are you hesitating for?"
The female captain said anxiously, "The flood is coming. Only by obtaining the inheritance of the Primitive Civilization will you have a chance to survive!"
"What are you in such a hurry for?"
Li Yao was more and more certain that his intuition was correct. "Even if the flood is really coming, it won't matter if I spend a couple of minutes thinking, right? Something is wrong. Something is definitely wrong! "
"What is it?"
The female captain's smile was about to collapse. All the ghosts around were almost entangled with Li Yao.
"Don't get me wrong. It's not your problem but mine."
After saying that, Li Yao simply retracted his hands. Holding his chin with his hands in his spiritual world, he squatted and mumbled, "My problem is that the gods are probably jealous of my talents and have cursed me. Every time I appear in a quest, the difficulty of the quest will be ten times higher. The supervillain that I encounter every time has at least three to five transformations. Also, after every quest is over, it is inevitable that there will be new twists and turns. To be honest, I'm already used to such a miserable life of adventure.
"Right now, I've easily passed the test that the elites and experts of hundreds of civilizations have failed in billions of years with only my passion, and I've received such an … unbelievable, super luxurious gift package? This is too beautiful, so beautiful that it doesn't seem real. Instead, it seems like a dream. "
"What are you talking about exactly?"
The female captain's smile fell apart. "You're overthinking."
"No, I'm not thinking too much. Although I like to let my imagination run wild and brag in normal times, I'm actually very clear-headed and self-aware when my computational ability soars to the maximum."
Li Yao pointed at his head and said, "As a matter of fact, I have an extremely clear and calm understanding of myself. I know what kind of person I am exactly. As a person, other than my unparalleled handsomeness, I'm not actually as magnificent, righteous, farsighted, or magnanimous as people imagine. I'm really, really just an ordinary person who is relatively handsome.
"In terms of commanding a fleet, I'm just mediocre. At least, a hundred people around me can hang me up and beat me up. In terms of the operations and management of a civilization, I'm even more mediocre. Even if I'm given a planet, I might not be able to manage it well. As for grasping the direction of technology, reforming the social framework, settling all the interests, and even drawing the blueprint of a civilization ten thousand years later … I don't have any of those abilities.
"Other than my looks, the only thing I have is my passion. However, 'passion' is something that can be triggered by any random high school student who is in the prime of their life. Don't you think that it's too easy, too ridiculous to pass the 'ultimate test' with only passion?" "That's right, right?
The female captain looked at Li Yao's face again and again and thought for a long time. In the end, she still shook her head in silence.
"Thankfully, before the ultimate test, I received a lot of files about the primeval civilizations from the Supreme Emperor and the Moon Gazer."
Li Yao's mind was clearer and clearer, and he was speaking faster and faster. "There are a hundred primeval civilizations in total. They follow different evolutionary directions and moral codes. Some of them are bloody, brutal, and selfish civilizations, but some are kind-hearted civilizations that are full of brightness. Some are sordid and cowardly civilizations, but some are hot-blooded and fearless warriors. Some are even the 'superbrain civilizations' that are wise enough to take every conceivable possibility into account.
"The most extreme kind civilizations destroyed most of their weapons after they were highly developed. They did not even have the heart to stomp on the flowers and grasses.
"In the most hot-blooded warrior civilization, every individual pursues the most glamorous and glorious way of dying their entire lives. Their only desire is to find stronger enemies and fight them in a dignified battle so that they can be annihilated in the most brilliant flames.
"The computational ability and deduction ability of the 'superbrain civilizations' is dozens if not hundreds of times better than ours and the Pangu civilizations!
"By logic, the most extreme kind civilization would never have been bewitched by you and chosen the dark and evil path three times in a row.
"For the warrior civilizations, it is impossible for them to stain their belief with such a despicable thing like the 'Solar Defense Line Plan'. They will certainly fight the Flood and you to the end.
"Also, with the computation, analysis, and deduction abilities of the 'superbrain civilizations', there is no reason that they could not see through such a simple deception. 'The only correct answer is that there is no correct answer at all'? Such a cliché trick might work on the middle school students who are still wet behind their ears, but it is impossible for them to deceive the elites, wise men, and lunatics of the civilizations of a hundred generations!
"Therefore, I boldly assume that you were lying just now. In the past billions of years, I am certainly not the only one who has reached this step. Thousands of testers have reached this point and stood in front of this … golden key. At the very least, the testers of the extremely kind civilizations, the warrior civilizations that are fearless of death, and the superbrain civilizations that never fail to consider every possibility should have stood where I am standing right now and extended their hands to the golden key.
"It's a pity that they still failed, perished, and were erased.
"It's because … this is not the destination. We are actually still in the test, right?"
The female captain was silent for a long time.
Then, together with the other bright gold ghosts, she clapped for Li Yao softly.
"There's no need to belittle yourself. You are really very smart. You are the first person in billions of years to realize that the test is still going on."
The female captain smiled and said, "However, I still cannot tell you the real purpose of the ultimate test. You have to find the correct answer yourself and figure out the significance of the test. Only then can you receive all the legacies of the Primitive Civilization."
She held the glittering golden key that contained thousands of technologies and techniques with both hands again and presented it to Li Yao.
Li Yao stared at the golden key for a long time.
This key seemed to be able to open countless invisible labyrinths.
Every labyrinth hid a world-destroying power, unbelievable technology, and supreme power that could allow a person to command the sea of stars and become the king of the universe.
Of course, if he was selfless enough, the key could also unlock the seal of the civilization of mankind, allowing the civilization of mankind to leap across hundreds of thousands of years of evolution in a short time and become a god-level civilization, or at least a 'quasi god-level civilization'.
It did seem to be a very tempting legacy. Nobody could resist its temptation.
Li Yao stared at the golden key for a long time and thought for a long time.
His eyes were brimming with the desire for power, the longing for the evolution of his civilization, and the excitement of the final battle against the Flood Tide.
Several times, his fingers and his thoughts were restless again, and he wanted to snatch the golden key and hold it in his hand.
But in the end, all the obsession and craziness on his face and in his eyes faded away, and his eyes regained their original clarity and purity.
Heaving a long sigh of relief, Li Yao put on the purest smile that had not appeared on his face for a long time. He made the decision and felt more relaxed than ever.
"It's so complicated. Then, forget it. I don't want it."
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