Chapter 219: Secrets Revealed

Li Yidao:

"Of course I don't have any evidence. These are just some of my conclusions based on my superficial understanding of divine civilization so far."

"For example, in the heritage ruins, we found a 100-meter black ball that existed in the illusion space. When we first saw that thing, it was fighting with the Thunder Mech of Commander Mu of the Border Star Garrison Corps."

"After the black ball is cut open, the body parts containing the memories will be absorbed by the black mist of the ruins."

"When we whittled the black ball down to a diameter of only 30 meters, we discovered that it had forgotten a lot of things."

"We then handed the black ball over to the Biological Research Center on Biostar for research."

"On my way here on the starship, I communicated with the person in charge of the research there. They told me that this black ball is a very strange creature. It seems to have a physical body, weight, and can speak, but in fact, it is a special stream of information."

"So, its body represents its brain, knowledge, and memory."

"And the amazing thing is that the language this thing speaks is the same as the armored man just now. That's why I can understand the armored man's language, because I have deciphered the language of the black ball."

"From it, I learned that ever since the black ball became conscious, it has had an inexplicable subconscious requirement to protect the ruins and prevent foreign invasion. It doesn't know why, but it has been sticking to this mission until we passed on the ruins strategy and took it away."

"Since there is no trace of a thought stamp implanted on the black ball, the head of the research institute and I both believe that the black ball is essentially a highly intelligent AI created from the heritage ruins, an AI with a soul."

"I have heard before that humans possess two major technologies that are completely absent from divine civilizations."

“They are AI and virtual reality technology.”

"Later, as I explored the heritage relics and studied some of the knowledge inheritance, I discovered that the ancient divine civilizations did not lack these technologies, but had other technologies that replaced the roles of our two types of technologies in daily life."

"The alternative to AI is artificial soul technology."

“AI is based on models and computing power.”

"Artificial soul technology is based on the brain of a living being and the soul that we humans cannot observe yet but really exists."

"The alternative to virtual reality is the technology of turning the virtual into the real."

"Many of the divine creatures we saw in the Starlight Division, as well as the various illusionary levels in the Heritage Ruins, seemed so real that they did not require any helmets to be inserted, and there were no obvious entry and exit signals."

“It seems like you have encountered many monsters, but once you defeat them, you will find that the monsters are all fake.”

"These are all obvious technologies of making the virtual real, or in other words, virtual technologies belonging to the ancient divine civilization."

"Combining these two technologies may be able to create intelligent life."

"However, this intelligent creature is apparently unable to leave the area where it was created, or the area where it is restricted."

"At that time, I shared my suspicions with the head of the biological research institute, and he also said that the black ball did have many traces of civilization creation, and it was not a natural creature. It was also possible that it was a fusion product of artificial souls and the technology of making the virtual real."

"And the black ball, perhaps by chance, became a life form that can still exist in reality after leaving the illusion space. It is a very unique case."

"Of course, all of this is just my speculation. It is still unknown whether this technology actually exists."

"But at least, the inner workings of the Heritage Ruins and Earth Ruins are the most likely places to verify this hypothesis. If we can crack the true core of the ruins, perhaps we can prove it."

When everyone heard this, they were secretly surprised. Artificial souls and the ability to make something real appear virtual, these technologies sounded very amazing.

Moreover, it seems that Li Yi has done in-depth research on divine technology.

For a warrior to be able to study these things so deeply, I can only say that he is a genius.

Unknowingly, several people added three more labels to their views of Li Yi: expert in divine civilization research, decryption expert, and analysis expert.

As high-ranking figures in the human race, they have met countless experts in different fields. Naturally, they can tell how much credibility there is in what Li Yi says.

As they were about to speak, Li Yi continued, "In addition to the points mentioned by Staff Officer Chen, when I was in the inheritance ruins, I also encountered simulated opponents who were proficient in combat tactics and were like real people. And coincidentally, the opponents in the corresponding levels were all armored men."

"When I defeated every armored man who had mastered a high level of skills and tactics, I could clearly feel his emotions, posture, eyes, and unique personal fighting style, which were like those of living intelligent creatures."

"At that time, I tried to touch their dripping green blood in order to find evidence of their existence. Unfortunately, the blood quickly dissipated with their failure and never let me succeed."

"And when fighting in the Crystal Realm, I also encountered several opponents whose intelligence was obviously different from other low-level simulated creatures."

"There are many other cases that can serve as supporting evidence."

Hearing this, Chen Yanzhang interrupted and said, "Okay, Li Yi, I actually agree with your opinion, but I just want to hear your analysis from other perspectives. I didn't expect that you are so knowledgeable."

Li Yi shook his head and said, "I said so much because I hope that the superiors will pay more attention to these things."

"If we can master this kind of technology, perhaps that will be the day when our technological level completely surpasses that of the aliens, and we can rest assured."

"After all, the best strategy is to attack the enemy's plans, and the worst strategy is to attack the enemy's battles. The best strategy for the ages is to plan ahead."

Although the evidence is not solid enough, Li Yi is very sure that ancient people had these two technologies.

He has seen a lot of experimental situations about intelligent species in the various experimental notes of the gourd man and the two deciphered experimental cases.

We also know that in the definition of gourd man, the fundamental difference between intelligent creatures and divine creatures lies in whether or not they have an independent soul.

Why are there so many failures when the gourd people try to integrate the wisdom of intelligent creatures into divine creatures?

At that time, the gourd man's initial conclusion was that the divine gene chain was too powerful and the intelligent gene could not shake the divine gene, causing his transplantation plan to fail.

Afterwards, the Hulu people began to study the fusion of intelligent species and divine creatures at the genetic level.

Later, due to the repeated failures of gene fusion experiments, he started various attempts, and during these attempts, he created the antisocial factor virus, and used it to successively create 'Heng', 'Zhen', and 'Lu', three species that are most likely related to humans.

It was only after Li Yi had read so many cases recorded by the gourd man and the corresponding experimental records that he clearly knew that divine creatures and intelligent creatures are completely different species.

He believes that the divine creatures found in various ruins at this stage are most likely experimental products created by ancient divine civilizations, or they are successfully cultivated products.

These divine creatures have no intelligence, only the instincts of beasts, a single attack mode, and a long lifespan. Many of them have survived to the modern era under the protection of the ruins.

Logically speaking, such a huge divine creature should have a large brain and a neural network. It clearly has the factors that can produce intelligence, but it has never developed intelligence.

This just shows that these divine creatures most likely lack independent souls and are manufactured weapons of war.

Of course, there must have been real divine creatures in ancient times.

In Li Yi's judgment, the divine creatures that exist deeper in the Tianshu ruins, below the seventh or eighth floor, are more likely to be native species.

The supporting case is the slime creatures originating from the bottom of the eighth layer, which are biologically completely different from other species in the ruins.

After all, among so many ruins, only the Tianshu ruins have a lower rate of material change as you go down a level.

If we can break through to the tenth floor of the Tianshu ruins and capture the corresponding divine creatures, we may be able to investigate this part of the situation.

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Chen Yanzhang praised him: "Good boy, you are so young but you have such a broad mind and foresight. You are really capable and responsible!"

Tu Kuangyi smiled and said, "What you said is too complicated. It is not my professional field, but seeing that you have provided so much evidence, it is probably possible."

Zhang Shengfeng nodded and said:

"It's a very good idea. I understand what you mean. Divine technology is very complex and has many branches and applications."

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"However, it is indeed important to determine which technologies are the core of divine science and technology, because this determines the main route of our technology and the direction in which we will accumulate more research resources, so as to achieve overtaking on the curve."

"This is a very deep topic that can be studied in detail. It was triggered by what happened today. Once this matter is resolved, we can gather experts to further study the possibilities and implement specific research projects as soon as possible."

"As for today, let's prioritize dealing with the armored man's matter and talk about it after the dust settles."

Everyone was talking very quickly, and the divine creatures in front were still fighting and getting bloody.

Even if they wanted to take further action and go deeper into the inner seven districts, they could only wait for the time being. Otherwise, once they went over, they would likely be affected by the battle between those S-level divine creatures.

Li Yi also saw the scene of the divine creatures fighting for the red blood in front of him, and he suddenly felt something, and said after hearing it:

"Of course, I was inspired to speak out. In fact, I have something else I want to ask Chief Zhang about those divine creatures."

"May I ask Commander Zhang, after becoming the strongest, whether you can observe the souls of others?"

Zhang Shengfeng was startled when he heard this and said:

"I can't. But on Earth, there are the strongest and the high-ranking ones who possess soul-related characteristics. They can observe the souls of others."

Li Yi nodded slightly and said, "I think the information detection system of the divine mecha has the ability to observe the soul, but this part of the information pattern is very secretive and requires certain skills to master."

"I discovered this when I was studying some of the soul knowledge in the heritage ruins. However, I have only just realized it and am not sure whether it is soul information."

"But I just tried to use this information model to observe those divine creatures and found some anomalies."

"If they died in a fight, then those dissipated light particles must have hidden some soul-like wave information."

"If they died after drinking the red blood, not only would the dissipated light particles become extremely tiny, but the soul-like information fluctuations within them would also become extremely tiny."

Chen Yanzhang said:

"Indeed, I was just wondering why the scattered light particles were so different between the two ways of death."

"According to your speculation, Li Yi, this blood-colored liquid is probably something similar to soul information, which has a fatal attraction to creatures like these who are born with defects."

"Every explosion caused by drinking too much will cause their soul information to flow out and turn into this bloody liquid."

"Perhaps if there is a character among them who can successfully make up for the defects in his soul without causing himself to explode, he may be able to truly escape from the ruins and become a living divine creature."

Just at the moment when Chen Yanzhang said this.

Roar!!! A 330-meter-tall giant tiger took advantage of the gap between the fights between several nearly 400-meter-tall divine creatures and drank a large amount of overflowing red liquid. When it slowly expanded to a height of 400 meters, it did not explode!

Moreover, the figure seemed to become unusually solid, and the roaring sound shook the heavens and the earth, and even the blood liquid below was constantly bounced up as if it was boiling.

Then, the four-hundred-meter-long gorgeous tiger turned around and faced the huge divine creatures fighting beside it. With just two attacks, one punch and one claw, it tore apart the two most ferocious divine creatures fighting each other and threw them out fiercely.

Swoosh!!! One of the divine creatures, which looked like a giant eagle, fell directly into the huge pit created by the falling star meteorite. Its body collided with the star meteorite and exploded on the spot, turning into light particles.

However, just as these light particles were about to disperse, they seemed to be attracted by the starry meteorite and fell into the starry meteorite one after another.

Seeing this, Mo Zhenkong frowned and said, "It seems that this star meteorite is not a good thing. The light particles disappear, and the divine creature may not be refreshed in the future."

Li Yi was somewhat puzzled. Chen Yanzhang seemed to have guessed Li Yi's doubts and said:

"In fact, we have also conducted experiments on various simulated divine creatures. We have tried to use some methods to absorb and take away the light particles that defeated the divine creatures."

"After this, the divine creature will no longer be able to revive and refresh on the Myriad Races Road."

"We considered that this would not have the effect of training high-level A-level and S-level soldiers, so we did not conduct similar experiments again."

"And that's one of the reasons why I agree with your point of view."

During the conversation, Zhang Shengfeng said:

"The fighting between the divine creatures is almost over. It's time for us to enter the battlefield. We now have two goals."

"First, capture this giant tiger and confirm whether it has escaped the control of the virtual ruins and turned into a real species."

"Second, while the armored men are causing unrest, go explore the inner seven districts!"

"Everyone, move out quickly and clear the area!"

(End of this chapter)