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Shang Jingyan guessed that he didn't have any new tricks.
In the first confrontation, Wa tried to put her into an illusion again, but failed.
In the second confrontation, Wa wanted to make her succumb to fear, but failed again.
The pupils of her eyes shrank violently, and she immediately decided to escape. However, Shang Jingyan had already blocked this spiritual space, and Wa had nowhere to go.
Compared with the brain worm, Shang Jingyan's attack was much more direct and brutal. The dark clouds and blood beads in the sky were gathered together by a strong wind, condensing into a sharp long thorn, which pierced through Wa's eyeball with the force of thunder!
If an outsider saw this scene, they would definitely feel a stinging pain in their eyes. Needless to say, Wa, who felt the pain directly, let out sharp wails, and the blood vessels on the surface of her eyes protruded.
The sound waves were like knives. X71 had to stick close to Shang Jingyan: "Come on, Yanyan!!"
In the world of spiritual power, there is no entity, everything is a symbolic manifestation. Wa was severely injured, which means that her spiritual body was strongly shaken and almost collapsed.
What Shang Jingyan injected into the long thorn was the pain and fear that she had just felt, just as the saying goes, "give someone a taste of their own medicine."
Wa's resistance was obviously much weaker than hers. The edge of the entire eyeball was cracking, and a layer of colorful light like shedding a shell was emitting, and the jellyfish-like body was faintly visible behind it.
Those tentacles that were originally hidden in the void all hung down, carrying a huge amount of information.
Shang Jingyan received the flood of information, as if he had become a member of the brain worm and saw the collective memory of this race for thousands of years.
It turns out that in the beginning, brain worms were not a race with the dual attributes of "virtual and real" like they are now. At the beginning, they only had physical entities like humans.
But with the development of civilization, they evolved spiritual powers like humans, and gradually evolved and transformed themselves until they were able to fully spiritualize.
In their language, they call themselves "the eternal race".
In this process, not only the physical body, but also the original physical civilization was abandoned by them. In the spiritual world, they gained true immortality -
Just like the Turritopsis dohrnii, the young, young, and old form a closed loop independent of the river of time. Apart from the leader, they have no class, and every individual in the group is equal.
The way brain worms select their leaders has also returned to its most primitive way. The individual with the strongest mental power in the group automatically becomes the leader and connects with the tentacles of all individuals to obtain the largest body.
There is no individual dissatisfaction, because they can share the brain collectively anyway, and one is many.
However, everything in the world has a price. Everything seemed perfect, but after many years of evolution, the brain worm discovered the drawbacks of this evolution.
First, they originally believed that they could live forever without eating, but this was wrong. Some individuals within the group began to lose their ability to reincarnate, and even gradually weakened and died.
It was not until then that they realized that they still needed to rely on external objects to survive, but the food had changed from tangible elements to illusory "spiritual fluctuations".
To be more specific, these are the emotions created by intelligent creatures that have evolved spiritual powers, and they must be positive.
Before that, they relied on the emotions within the group to digest and eat.
Theoretically, brain worms can also form self-perpetual motion machines. However, if an intelligent life lives long enough, its emotional fluctuations will naturally become weaker and weaker.
Death spread among the people like a plague.
At that time, a disaster occurred inside the brain worms. After so many years, they finally experienced what a threat to their survival was, and they had violent emotional fluctuations. Unfortunately, they were all negative fluctuations that they did not need.
They have reached the highest point of evolution, where can they find higher happiness?
The brain worms seemed to be dying out, until they accidentally discovered humans.
Originally, they believed that their own race was the only intelligent life in the universe, and that the other observable life forms were too primitive. Not to mention mental power, it would take tens of millions of years for them to evolve into an independent intelligent civilization. They simply did not have time to wait.
What was even more surprising was that humans at that time were at the end of the single-planet era and were about to enter the cosmic era, and the evolution of spiritual power had also begun to take shape.
——If you cannot possess something, then plunder those who can possess it.
As a result, the brain worms easily intervened in human civilization, created wars at the beginning of the first human calendar, obliterated part of human history, and tampered with human collective memory.
From then on, the human cosmic age was accompanied by brain worms.
And the brain worms discovered that the emotions generated by human love can in turn promote their reproduction.
The higher the level of life, the harder it is to reproduce, not to mention that brain worms are a theoretically "immortal" species. A large number of their own kind have been eliminated, and they are in urgent need of filling this gap.
This is why interstellar romance is so popular.
From the collective memory of the brain worms, Shang Jingyan also saw in full the process of some humans trying to fight against it on the other side of history, including her original Return of the Goose plan.
There has never been a lack of wise men among humans. In fact, in the last calendar, someone quickly realized that something was wrong.
Why is human entertainment developing in an extreme, "positive emotion" direction?
These people also tried to make changes, but they were soon discovered by the brain worms and died in "accidents" for various reasons. Even their existence was erased, and no one paid attention to those works.
Even other dream builders have come to the conclusion from this: only romance works are feasible, and other styles are not popular in the market.
Perhaps during this period someone saw through the truth, but chose to remain silent for various reasons.
After a whole star calendar had passed, at the beginning of the second star ceremony, there were finally enough knowledgeable people to resist.
The Zhenwu Group was established among the people, and Shang Song was one of the earliest backbone members.
A small-scale mental barrier was established, allowing members to remain awake even when exposed to the sight of the brain worm.
As the name suggests, at first this group of members simply attributed the cause of cavitation to mental power.
As long as everyone stops using their mental power, the brain worm can be defeated - although this is feasible in theory, it is the same logic as "as long as all spaceships are destroyed, there will be no spaceship accidents."
Members led by Shang Song hold completely opposite views. They believe that given the huge gap in civilization between humans and brain worms, only by developing and utilizing their mental power more can they barely be on the same track.
Unfortunately, these radicals were too weak at the time, and Shang Song left the Zhenwu Group in disappointment.
As for the remaining conservatives of the True Object Group, their ideas have undergone even more bizarre changes over time - its upper echelons, led by Fu, have turned to the brain worms.
It may seem shocking, but looking at human history, it is not too strange.
They chose to be conservative rather than confrontational because they had already determined that the brain worms were unstoppable. However, when the conservative plan completely failed, they no longer had any hope for humans.
At this time, the brain worm induced them to kneel down in order to save their lives.
The further development is what happened after Shang Jingyan himself joined the Zhenwu Group.
Shang Jingyan inherited Shang Song's almost inhuman mental power. She was aware of the existence of the brainworm very early. She found the real group on her own and joined it naturally. In order to protect herself, all her files only said "B-level mental power".
Inside the organization, Shang Song's people did not all quit, and the remaining people could tell from their appearance that Shang Song and Shang Jingyan were mother and son when they first met her. However, since they were not clear about Shang Jingyan's position, they did not take any action.
It was Shang Jingyan who investigated Shang Song and showed ideas that were inconsistent with the mainstream concepts of the Zhenwu Group, and only then did Shang Song's former subordinates begin to contact her.
Therefore, Shang Jingyan's position in the group has always been awkward, just like her seat in regular meetings, outside the core.
The "Returning Goose Plan" is actually a legacy of the Shangsong faction.
The plan was simple. It was to send the executor's spirit into a parallel world to see what normal literary and artistic development should look like, then bring the results back to his hometown and use the method of "awakening the entire galaxy" to resist the brain worm.
But at that time, this was the least favored plan.
First, the executor cannot be determined. Second, they are not sure whether high mental power can connect parallel worlds. Finally, there is the obstacle of reality. Even if the executor comes back, how can we guarantee that his dream-building work can be promoted in the interstellar space? It is likely that his fate will be like countless pioneers in history, and the fire will be extinguished by the brain worm.
Seventeen-year-old Shang Jingyan went against all odds and finalized the plan. She decided to be the executor herself, and even found a new way to persuade Deboler to let her clean up the brainworms in the exiled galaxy, thus finding a strong backing for the promotion of the dream-building works in the future.
Then, the only thing left was to rely on luck. Could she successfully travel to such a parallel universe?
As it turned out, she succeeded, which led to the more than forty years in her "previous life".
However, not everything went smoothly with the Guiyan Plan.
Shang Jingyan and others carried out their plan without telling the higher-ups of the Zhenwu Group, but the brainworms were always aware of their actions.
The moment the plan was launched, their plan to obstruct it was also launched.
Wa sent out a newborn brain worm bound to the "knowledge base" to invade Shang Jingyan's mental picture at the most dangerous moment when her mental body was exposed.
If successful, Shang Jingyan will become a member of the brain worm at that time; at worst, this young body will follow her to a parallel world, a world without mental power, and Shang Jingyan will be vulnerable.
But unfortunately, they failed. Shang Jingyan's mental power was too strong, which caused the hatchling to suffer a backlash and half of its knowledge base was destroyed.
When she returned, the severely damaged knowledge base had to extract Shang Jingyan's memory for disguise, but the young body accepted mental suggestion and thought it was really a system, and named itself "X71".
X71, this is actually the number given to human civilization by the brain worm using human characters.
It's just that Shang Jingyan himself lost some of his memory due to the mental shock, so the two of them have been able to live in peace until today.
Shang Jingyan came back to her senses and saw that Nuwa's true form had almost completely revealed in front of her. It was larger than any brain worm she had ever seen.
Its body fell heavily to the ground, crawling on the ground, shivering like a dehydrated anemone.
The spikes nailed its core tightly. Shang Jingyan snapped his fingers, and more spikes fell down, piercing through the tentacles that wanted to resist.
She knew that the outcome had been decided.
In a high-level one-on-one duel, it doesn’t take too long to actually decide the winner.
But... Shang Jingyan suddenly became extremely clear at this moment that just as Wa could not wipe her out head-on, she could not defeat this behemoth.
If she wants to stop the brain worms from continuing to parasitize humans, she has only one choice - to stay here and fight against Wa forever.
Wa said that she would "face endless fear", which was indeed true.
She also had to continue to create fear, and even merge with this space. Perhaps she could only be free after all the brain worms outside were eliminated.
Wa's bloody eyes lifted up, and intermittent calls rang out around her:
"Is this the ending you wanted?"
Can humans endure endless mental torture? Prometheus, who stole fire for mankind, spent the rest of his life tied to a rack, with vultures eating his liver.
Shang Jingyan looked at him for a while and ignored him.
She thought of many things, including her studio with Ao Qingxue and Yun Yongxue, Pei Yi's confession that she did not accept, and the audience who screamed and their hearts beat for her... In the end, she just picked up X71 and asked, "Xiao Qiyi, do you want to go out?"
The original X71 was not a reincarnated brainworm, but a newborn larva that was truly a blank slate. It was not endowed with the memory of a brainworm, and it was baptized by Shang Jingyan's spiritual power as a human. It is difficult to say what species it is now, and it is closer to a spiritual body of "human and brainworm hybrid".
"X71", the number belonging to human civilization, is like a prophecy.
If it doesn't want to stay, Shang Jingyan can send it away from this world alone.
X71 sensed the choice Shang Jingyan wanted to make, shook the little ball, and said in a rare serious tone:
"Your nature is to follow fear, and mine is to follow you."
Isn't that the case for it?
In its cognition, it was born for Shang Jingyan, and naturally it will follow her forever.
Wa sneered mockingly, as if she was happy to be dragged into the water.
The smug mood didn’t last for half a minute before his eyes suddenly turned and he looked upwards in disbelief—
A ball of white light burst out from the dark sky, and a human figure appeared inside!
Shang Jingyan also raised his head and was surprised - it was Shang Song!
Shang Song looked very weak. He staggered after landing in front of Shang Jingyan. He turned to look at her and said with a sigh, "If I really let you take this responsibility, how am I going to cope with it?"
The words "a thousand twists and turns" are not enough to describe Shang Jingyan's emotions at this moment. She was happy because she thought she would never see Shang Song again and could only see a few words from him in her dreams like before; but she was shocked and scared because she also guessed what Shang Song was going to do.
Shang Song wants to take her place and become the person who is imprisoned forever!
Shang Jingyan suddenly ran forward, but she was not faster than Shang Song raising his hand. A mental barrier was erected in front of her, pushing her back.
The golden-white light as dazzling as the sun shone from Shang Song's body, causing her to shatter like porcelain. Behind her, Wa struggled and screamed frantically, but was no match for the white light that turned into ropes to tie her up and nail her to death.
Shang Jingyan had a premonition of waking up, and this time the illusion was really coming to an end. Shang Song's expression relaxed slightly, and he opened his mouth to say something.
When in the palace illusion, Shang Jingyan couldn't hear Shang Song's words. This time, she finally saw her mother's lip shape clearly.
"Let's embrace the future we all look forward to."
The last bit of black in the field of vision disappeared, and white light flooded everything.
On the real side, Blue River Moon.
The official changed his stance and looked ahead closely. She was in charge of guarding Shang Jingyan's home. Director Shang, who was worried about by the entire alliance, was lying in the holographic chamber in the room behind her.
The room was lit with a low light, and it had been like this for seven days. Deboler's people came every day, and Pei Yi would come here to sit for a while every day, and Shang Dao's friends would come here from time to time.
The clock on the wall showed that the seventh day of the official calendar had passed.
In the holographic chamber, Shang Jingyan's frosty eyelashes trembled and she opened her eyes.
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