The serpent led Silin and the others in. After entering, the cave entrance was obviously much wider. Some of the mountains had a large hole dug out, forming a passage. Even the serpent could crawl freely in it. It was obvious how big the project was.
The most valuable thing was that Silin could feel that the entire mountain range was a combination of mechanization and nature. Advanced technology had been integrated into the primitive foundation, and there were countless mechanisms and hidden compartments. If the serpent hadn't led them here and someone had tried to barge in, they might not be able to find those hidden things even if the entire mountain range was turned upside down. It might even cause the entire planet to explode.
This was the true core of the entire planet.
There was no mechanical lighting in the passage, only traces of light cast through the cracks in the stones. Finally, Silin saw a place that was glowing. It was a rather spacious area surrounded by mountain walls. There was an opening above, and the light shone down, illuminating the place.
A large circular pool came into view. The water surface reflected the light, and there was a floating hut on the pool. However, the serpent didn't allow Silin and the others to approach the hut. There were some small flowers on the grass beside the pool, and they were growing very well.
It was very warm here.
Silin and the others came down beside the pool and looked at the place.
There were many murals on the surrounding mountain walls. They had been specially treated to prevent the rain from corroding them, so that these murals could be preserved here forever.
They were very simple strokes with a somewhat childish feeling. Then, slowly, the strokes matured, becoming smoother and more detailed. It was like a record of a person from childhood.
In those simple murals that looked like graffiti, Silin felt that they were related to the serpent and a person. In the simple sketch of a person, there was a thin curved line wrapped around the small person's arm. That should be the original appearance of the serpent.
Most of the murals were drawings of a person and a serpent. The small person threw the serpent above his head, twisted the serpent's tail, and gave the serpent a fruit, but it got stuck. It looked like a line that was tied into a knot …
Three light screens popped out and flew in front of Silin and the others. There was a light screen in front of each of them, and on it were some drawings and text records.
The light screen flickered, and the rectangular light frame covered Silin and the others. The three people who were enveloped in this rectangular light shield would see a projection, as if they were inside it. The light screen in front of them was like a navigator. Where they wanted to go, and what they wanted to know, it would be displayed and analyzed for them.
First, Cillin chose a button under the root directory. It was the section about the origins of Black Viper, and very few people paid attention to it. Normally, people would choose the general origin of Black Viper first, but Cillin chose the individual stories.
After making his choice, Cillin felt the projection around him change. Then, a different scene appeared. A little boy was sitting in the courtyard. He was very quiet, and unlike the others, he did not fit in with his surroundings at all. No one wanted to talk to him, and even if they did, they would only say a few words to him before leaving with a bad look on their faces. This was because no matter what they said, the little boy would either stare at them silently, or reply with a few completely unrelated words. It was no wonder that such a strange scene had formed.
This young boy was another core figure of the origin of Black Viper. He was the fourth son of the Mist Bodhisattva Emperor from a thousand years ago. He was the most influential person in the history of the Mist Bodhisattva Empire. Compared to his father's famous name, there was very little information about him in the historical records.
Silin learned a lot about Mist Bodhisattva Freeman from the written records on the light screen. Silin was very interested in this person. He even looked through all the video records about Mist Bodhisattva Freeman. He only skimmed through the development of Black Viper, its combat strength, and destructive power.
Mist Bodhisattva Freeman. Among the sons of the Mist Bodhisattva Emperor of that generation, he had a very low presence. In fact, he was a person that many people gossiped about out of boredom. This was because Freeman was different from other children after he was born. He was quiet, of few words, and looked at people with a very strange gaze, even to his birth parents. Most of the time, he entertained himself, like a person living in his own world.
Later on, Freeman saw a little black striped viper in the garden and raised it. However, in order to protect the prince, the Mist Bodhisattva Emperor had his men inject the little viper with a toxin dissolving agent.
And so, when Freeman was seven years old, he made his first friend. This friend couldn't talk, couldn't laugh, and wasn't even human. Freeman named this viper "Black Viper."
Many of the drawings on the mountain walls that Silin saw were Freeman's drawings. Just as Silin had expected, they were all drawn by the Mist Bodhisattva Freeman.
Although Freeman didn't talk much with other people, he talked a little more with Black Viper. Perhaps in the eyes of others, Freeman was talking to himself.
The reason why Silin paid so much attention to Freeman wasn't entirely because he was curious about the prince. In the first image, Freeman was only a two-year-old child.
Freeman played with the levitating blocks that were very popular in that era. Because Freeman was a bit of a loner, he was often alone in his small room. Freeman took out the levitating blocks and assembled them. He assembled a picture of an airplane.
The workmanship of the levitating blocks was very detailed, enough for any child to use their imagination. Perhaps many children would assemble some strange patterns, or just play according to their preferences at the time, but Freeman treated it like a mission. When assembling, he placed almost all his attention on the levitating blocks in front of him.
His assembly was similar to the airplane toy on the table next to him. The placement and assembly of each levitating block seemed to have been rehearsed in advance, without the slightest mistake. Starting from the head of the airplane, he gradually completed the other parts, and soon, an aircraft-shaped block puzzle appeared.
If it were any other child, regardless of whether they could complete such a task alone, they would definitely show it off after they completed such a project together, win their parents' praise, and enjoy the envy and jealousy of their peers. However, Freeman did not do so. With a wave of his hand, he messed up the pattern and then assembled it for the second time.
However, he didn't look at the model during the second assembly process, and he didn't start from the front of the airplane, but from the fuselage.
The second assembly took much less time than the first, and it was much more perfect. Even though it was just a levitating block, the compatibility between each block was perfect.
Such a assembly was actually the work of a two-year-old child.
Then, Freeman messed up the completed work again and assembled it again. However, the result of the assembly this time was somewhat different from the airplane toy.
Silin deliberately pulled out the actual picture of the fighter jet of that era to take a look. There must have been some simplified parts in the toy, but Freeman relied on his intuition to restore the simplified parts of these toys without seeing the real thing.
It had to be said that Freeman was a genius.
And in the later images, as Freeman grew up, he no longer came into contact with levitating blocks, but some more sophisticated toys. He disassembled these toys and assembled them into jaw-dropping works.
The Emperor of Mist Bodhisattva discovered something special about this child who had a very low sense of existence, so he found a tutor to teach him, but the effect was very frustrating. No matter how teaching was done, there had to be a process of communication between the tutor and the student first. Even if there was no communication, as a student, it was right to listen to what the tutor said and see what the tutor did, right? But Freeman didn't. He was still the same, minding his own business. Other than the little viper wrapped around his arm, there seemed to be no one else in his world.
Therefore, the Emperor of Mist Bodhisattva had no choice but to let Freeman fiddle with it himself. In a part of the palace, there was a special activity area for Freeman, which provided all of Freeman's "toys" and some teaching videos.
Gradually, Freeman faded out of people's sight and out of the circle of people's topics. Occasionally, someone would mention him in private, "the child whose soul was eaten by the devil", that was how people described Freeman.
Later, Freeman fiddled with something and blew up a building in the palace. Since then, Freeman was classified as a dangerous person, and many people in the palace tried to avoid Freeman as if he were the plague. And because of the communication barrier, he had a grudge with his big brother who was chosen as the heir back then. Perhaps he didn't even know that he had a grudge with his big brother, and he didn't realize it when he offended someone. He just lived in his own world, and didn't even feel lonely.
The Emperor of Mist Bodhisattva had no choice but to send Freeman away in order to better train his eldest son as the heir. Freeman chose a place in the star map, an obscure planet. That was the planet Silin was currently staying on.
As a prince, the Emperor of Mist Bodhisattva provided Freeman with a lot of things. Anything Freeman wanted, he would provide. Perhaps this was the Emperor of Mist Bodhisattva's compensation to this son who had no sense of existence.
When Freeman was seventeen, a large-scale civil war broke out in the Empire. Several high nobles joined forces to rebel, and for a time, the Empire was filled with an uneasy environment.
People of the royal family had to be protected by guards, even Freeman, a prince who had been "kicked" out of the capital star region. One day, a team of royal guards was sent to this planet. By chance, the captain of the guards found a gun that Freeman had casually tossed to the side like a toy. This gun was very similar to the common guns the captain had seen before, so the captain fired a shot when he was bored. As a result, the area was blasted into a huge pit more than a hundred meters in diameter, and the area around the pit was filled with sporadic sparks that didn't go out for a long time. The soil and stones there didn't look like they had been blasted to this state, more like they had been instantly burned away.
The part between the captain's thumb and index finger that was holding the gun cracked, just like when Silin first used the Purgatory Thunder Snake S. Seeing this result, the captain's hand trembled, not knowing whether it was because of the crack or because he was shocked.
Later, the captain found a lot of weapons that were much better than those of that period in Freeman's place, so the captain reported it to his superiors. In that chaotic period, the Emperor of Mist Bodhisattva was very surprised by this news.
The main reason that turned the situation around wasn't these much improved weapons, but the birth of high-density compressed energy reserves and the discovery of the Steady-State Enhancement Potion. These were all created by Freeman, and it was also a technological reform with far-reaching significance in the history of the Empire. However, the public history of the Empire didn't record it in such detail. It only mentioned that these new technologies were discovered during the rebellion, and didn't mention Freeman himself.
But after that, news leaked out, and Freeman was assassinated. The assassin broke through many obstacles and finally had the chance to shoot Freeman. At the critical moment, the black-striped Viper blocked the bullet for Freeman, and the Viper itself was broken into several pieces by the bullet. If such a bullet had hit Freeman, it would've killed him instantly.
Freeman ignored the others, ignored the assassin, and ignored the guard captain's shouts of "hide". Instead, he left with the broken Viper and entered his room.
Freeman's room was also his laboratory. When Freeman came out again, the broken Viper had been reconnected, but its appearance had changed a lot.
Silin also finally understood that the reason Black Viper was able to live for more than a thousand years and grow into its current appearance was all because of Freeman.
After watching all the images of the prince, Silin finally understood what Gu Changan meant when he said "this kind of people".
After learning about Freeman's abilities, the Mist Bodhisattva Emperor formed a group to gather children like Freeman. The Mist Bodhisattva Emperor asked Freeman to give the group a name, and Freeman only said one word — "Black Viper".
That was the embryonic form of Black Viper.
As time passed, the group grew larger and larger, and the emperor discovered more and more that these people were different from ordinary people. In many ways, they were even stronger than the people of the RAS. While it was a pity, these people also obtained a talent that others didn't have.
It was like a sharp blade that could be used as a weapon, but a moment of carelessness could also cause damage to the user. If the enemy got their hands on it, it would be even more dangerous. Therefore, the emperor issued an order that from then on, Black Viper would move completely into the shadows.
People would forget some of the short-lived rumors of that time, but Black Viper's technological achievements had unknowingly spread to every star region of the Empire.
These people in Black Viper couldn't blend into normal life, and they were always subconsciously ostracized. Even the most advanced technology couldn't make them the same as a normal person. It couldn't change their special central nervous system, or their strange behavior or temperament.
They seriously lacked emotional contact with other people, and they didn't realize that their strange behavior would be ostracized by others. Some people were terrifyingly quiet and unapproachable.
However, their narrow self-world allowed them to have more eye-catching skills, extraordinary memory, calculation, and so on. These skills were a stark contrast to their learning difficulties in other areas. Ah Shou, Neo, and the others were just like Silin.
Some people didn't know how to laugh or cry, but that didn't mean they didn't have feelings. Freeman, for example, didn't cry even when Viper was cut into several pieces by a bullet. He always looked indifferent to everything. However, Silin believed that Freeman was sad when he saw Black Viper being cut into several pieces. In fact, he was a little desperate and painful when he stayed in the lab for five days and five nights until he snatched the snake's life back from Azrael's hands.
People like this had their own unique frequency. It was just that no one else could obtain it.
They weren't sick, they weren't weirdos, and they weren't people whose souls were devoured by demons. They were just different from us. Even though this world has its flaws, we should all believe that every flower has its own reason for blooming.
Looking at the technology that had slowly seeped into people's lives over the past thousand years, Silin finally understood what Gu Changan and Guan Feng really meant when they said "don't look at Black Viper the same way you used to".
So that's why.
This was the source of Guan Feng and Gu Changan's strong emotions.
Guan Feng might not be this kind of person, but Gu Changan definitely was. After seeing all this, Silin could already tell them apart.
The reason why Gu Changan liked to stay in a wheelchair despite his nimble legs was because he could only feel at ease in a wheelchair. To others, this habit might seem like a strange habit, a strange habit that couldn't be explained. But Gu Changan was exactly this kind of person. Sitting in a wheelchair and staying in a small, if not dark, room would make him unusually focused.
There was also White Night. White Night's example was similar to the one recorded on the screen. That person had two-colored pupils just like White Night, and they seemed to see a different world than normal people. Silin didn't know what kind of world White Night saw, but Silin finally understood why Guan Feng had asked White Night to fight for this position. Maybe only someone like him would be able to think for the sake of the group.
Black Viper was no longer the small group it used to be. Their strength and ability had grown considerably. Back then, the Mist Bodhisattva Emperor hoped that this "blade" could be used to protect the empire in the end. This blade was a gift from his son who had a weak sense of existence.
That was why the Mist Bodhisattva Emperor put a lot of effort into choosing a leader for Black Viper. In the end, he decided to choose three leaders to manage this special group together. Each of them had their own role, and that was how things developed to this day.
Every successor would come here to visit this giant snake who had lived through many generations of Mist Bodhisattva Emperor. If it hadn't been for this giant snake — no, it should be a small viper — who had saved Freeman back then, there wouldn't have been any more technology, and there wouldn't have been an organization called "Black Viper".
Every time the Mist Bodhisattva Royal Family saw the giant Viper, they would feel an inexplicable sense of confidence. The existence of the modified Black Viper was like … faith. Yes, it was like a kind of faith. If this faith was gone, Black Viper would suffer a huge blow.
Silin and the other two went about their own business, trying to understand this mysterious organization through their own questions and the answers they hoped to find.
Black Viper coiled quietly at the side. It had seen too many generations of leadership candidates, and most of them could only make it say "yes" instead of "good".
"Yes" meant that the candidate who came here could truly inherit the position of Black Viper's leader, and "good" meant that the candidate was truly acknowledged by the giant snake. However, there were very few "good" comments.
The giant snake looked at White Night and Silin with a bit of warmth, especially Silin. The giant snake was very satisfied with Silin. He knew what everyone was looking at, and he could see their temperament and priorities from their choices.
There were very few people who would patiently watch all of Freeman's videos, and Silin was one of them. The giant snake approved of people like him even more.
Huimao rolled a few times in the grass nearby before jumping onto the giant snake's back. He lay there quietly and closed his eyes to sleep.
"You're a good master," the giant snake said.
Huimao's ears flicked. "He's not my master, and I'm not a pet!"
"Good, you're not a pet," the giant snake said with a smile.
"However, Silin is indeed a good person … No, let me tell you, this kid was very cunning back then! He made me sign an unfair contract! Back then … "
Huimao angrily told the giant snake about how Silin tricked him into signing an unfair contract and debt agreement. The giant snake listened quietly, and its eyes that were as cold as the abyss gradually warmed up.
The gray cat grew tired of talking, so it jumped to the side of the pond and drank some water. When it saw that Cillin was still standing there, it ran to the light barrier where Cillin was and urinated in passing.
After he was done, Huimao twitched his nose and chuckled. He ran to the giant snake's nose and continued to criticize Silin's misdeeds.
There was wind here, and the wind was warm, giving people an inexplicable sense of tranquility and warmth. The giant snake liked to stay here. Even when there was no sunlight, it was still warm. It was the same warmth he had felt back then.
Finally, the time was up. The light shield faded, and Silin and the other two recovered from that state. The way Silin looked at Hei Teng also changed.
However, a familiar stench soon attracted Silin's attention.
Even a cyborg cat's urine smelled!
"Huuu …" Silin gritted his teeth.
Huimao wagged its tail and flicked its ears, ignoring Silin. It looked like it didn't know what was going on.
The smile in the giant snake's eyes surprised White Night and Hadar. They didn't expect the snake's eyes to be so easygoing.
Why was Silin able to make this snake, who didn't even give face to the Mist Bodhisattva Royalty, look at him like this? Was it because he had a cat? White Night and Hadar couldn't understand.
But after reading the information on the light screen and learning more about Hei Teng, they didn't have time to think about why Silin was given special treatment. They waited for the giant snake's evaluation.
The giant snake obviously knew what they were thinking. It said slowly, "This generation is pretty good."
Hadar let out a sigh of relief. The giant snake gave him too much pressure. He didn't feel this way even when he was facing his grandfather.
After receiving the giant snake's evaluation, the three of them knew that their inheritance was confirmed.
A large light screen appeared not far above them. After the giant snake tapped a few times with its tail, a small hole appeared in the mountain wall, and a small flying robot flew out.
"Go out. It will take you away. There will be a spaceplane parked there after you leave the mountain range. You can take that spaceplane and leave." After saying this, the giant snake looked away.
The three of them looked at each other, bowed to the giant snake, and left.
"Goodbye, I'll come back to see you when I have the chance!" Huimao said as it patted the snake's scales, which finally had some warmth.
The giant snake watched as the gray cat jumped down and chased after Cillin with its tail raised. Then, it jumped up onto Cillin's shoulder familiarly. Its eyeless eyes carried a kind of inexplicable emotion. It was a little sad, a little emotional, and also a kind of nostalgic happiness. It was as if it was recalling certain memories.
Silin used to say that people blinked when they were smiling because they were thinking of happy things. However, the giant snake didn't have eyelids, so it couldn't blink. Some people could only see the coldness in its eyes, but few could see the emotions hidden deep in its chilling eyes.
Silin and the other two left through another tunnel with the small robot. This tunnel wasn't as big as the one they came from. It was meant for humans.
The three of them didn't say anything. After reading the records, they were all thinking about it. Their thoughts might be different, but one thing was the same. The three of them had a clear change in their view of the Black Viper organization. Even Hadar, who grew up in the Black Viper, was shocked.
Any one of the things they learned today was enough to shock people for a long time, so it was understandable that the three of them were behaving this way.
When Silin was reading the records, he also realized that the rise of the robots in the Black Viper happened a thousand years ago. However, Silin couldn't find more detailed information here. If he wanted to know more about the robots, he had to go to the people involved.
"Wheeze, I suddenly remembered something," Silin said.
"What is it?" Huimao asked lazily. He had been complaining to the snake about Silin and didn't get much sleep.
"Did you wash your claws after you peed?"
"…" Huimao pulled his ears back and pretended not to hear it.
Not long after Silin and the other two left, a sound came from the other side. It was the sound of the giant snake. However, this sound was different from the hissing of ordinary snakes. This sound was like a wonderful carrier, with solemnity and tranquility, containing some indescribable emotions. After hearing it, people would be moved, and their consciousness would recall many things that had left a deep impression in their memories of the past.
The giant snake raised its head and let out a cry, then went to the hut above the pool.
The modified Viper had changed a lot over time. It could speak, but the person it wanted to speak to was long gone.
There was a person inside the wooden house. This person was quietly lying there, as if he was in a deep sleep, but his face was still clear. Although he was old to the point where he no longer looked young, his sleeping appearance was the same as before, as beautiful as a child.
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