Chapter 1676: Chapter 654: The Invader’s Regret Pill

Tai Hong asked again, "Why do quasars explode? What exactly happened to humanity? According to what you said, humanity has already been destroyed 99,999 times? What’s the point? What’s the motive?"

City Lord: "The explosion of the quasar is certainly not a human action; I call it Jeroth’s cycle. And humans, they are the computational units within this cycle. As for the meaning... such reincarnation certainly holds no meaning for humanity, but for Jeroth, it is a very normal production process, just like humans producing toys on an assembly line. Jeroth also needs the products produced by humans."

Tai Hong continued to ask, "What is Jeroth? What are the computations done by these computational units? What exactly are the products?"

City Lord: "Don’t worry, don’t rush. Wait for your companion to arrive, and I’ll explain everything to you from the beginning. Her thoughts are more complex than yours, so it’ll take a bit more time."

Tai Hong suddenly had a vague sense of unease in his heart.

Instinctively, he wanted to say, aren’t you afraid we’ll leak the secret? But then he thought again, if the other party really has survived nearly a hundred thousand cycles of extinction, they must be unimaginably ancient and possess astounding wisdom, definitely not foolish, so they must have the capability to ensure that no secrets can be leaked.

What is that capability? Never mind, it’s not important.

In any case, we might not be able to leave here.

This was Tai Hong’s speculation.

But Tai Hong did not continue to question, knowing that when you’re under someone else’s eaves, you have to lower your head, and eventually, the truth will reveal itself, so Tai Hong just put on a calm and assured waiting expression.

Sure enough, after waiting a little while longer, Zhi Nu also appeared in the hall.

Unlike Tai Hong’s calm composure at this moment, Zhi Nu, who should be the wise backbone, had a face full of alertness and suspicion. She made her emotions clearly visible on her face.

This was very unusual. One should know, between Tai Hong and Zhi Nu, Zhi Nu was usually the one who was more in control, while Tai Hong basically had no ideas.

Unexpectedly, this time she was the one to show fear first. Tai Hong, who usually didn’t like to think and waited for Zhi Nu to make decisions, instead appeared deeper and more unfathomable.

Upon seeing Tai Hong nearby, Zhi Nu immediately pointed to the City Lord’s projection and stated openly, "You’re lying, what exactly is your intention? No, you must be Ren Zhong, right? We won’t believe you."

Faced with the accusation, the City Lord wasn’t alarmed, nor did he become indignant at being exposed, he simply said calmly, "I’m only responsible for narrating, you can judge whether to believe it or not on your own. I’m not in a hurry. Now, do you want to hear this story?"

Tai Hong, based on Zhi Nu’s reaction, was unconsciously planning to say no, but unexpectedly Zhi Nu replied instead, "If you’re willing to talk, why wouldn’t we listen? Go ahead."

The first sentence from the City Lord’s mouth plunged Tai Hong and Zhi Nu into great confusion.

"The place of human origin was not in the Ancient Disk Galaxy, but in a location within the Laniakea Supercluster known as the Milky Way Galaxy. The distance between the Milky Way and the Ancient Disk Galaxy is greater than a billion light years."

"What!" Tai Hong and Zhi Nu exclaimed in unison.

Zhi Nu added, "So you were indeed making up stories before, if Source Star isn’t the place of origin, then what do those primitive people mean?"

City Lord: "They are humans after atavism. Don’t interrupt me. Let me continue. Once I finish, you’ll understand."

Zhi Nu: "Fine, continue."

"In a very ancient period, humanity was born on a planet in the Solar System within the Milky Way Galaxy, called Earth. After hundreds of thousands of years of development, they had begun to reach the technological level of quantum physics, starting to explore the mysteries of antimatter like positrons, and boldly estimating the lifespan of the universe. Humans at that time boldly asserted that the universe’s lifespan is over ten billion years, and its diameter is 90 billion light years. This statement is correct and also incorrect. To be precise, the lifespan of the observable universe originating from singularities that humans can access is over ten billion years, and its diameter is 90 billion light years. But the statement is both correct and wrong. If measured by matter and energy, the observable universe’s lifespan is indeed over ten billion years, but space itself has long existed, far beyond human imagination. Outside the observable universe are unknown singularities. Indeed, there are far more than one singularity in this universe. Unknown singularities have created observable universes for other life forms, originally unrelated to humans."

"However, there was a civilization from another observable universe that came into the observable universe of humanity and began a long journey, seeking a foothold. Ultimately, they very fortunately, or perhaps inevitably, found the Solar System through the messages that humans themselves had broadcast to the outside, discovering the only true intelligent species in the observable universe, the humans of Earth. Sadly, at that time, humans were stuck at the last barrier before controlled nuclear fusion. Even though the enemy was weakened to even less than a billionth of its peak time, the true humans had no ability to resist at all, and even escaping the Solar System was a luxury."

"Of course, humans did eventually try. A scientist discovered the enemy gradually approaching Earth through gravitational wave observations and prepared several hundred years in advance, first developing human freezing technology, establishing an enterprise to accumulate vast wealth, while also collecting as many as a million frozen individuals, attempting to escape into the cosmic deep space with aimless luck, using an immature and unstable nuclear fusion engine to propel a space carrier before the enigmatic enemy arrived."

At this point, Tai Hong and Zhi Nu couldn’t really determine whether to believe or not.

If the City Lord was making up a story, it was far too absurd, showing no sincerity in lying.

Tai Hong couldn’t help but ask, "What happened next? Was the escape successful?"

The City Lord finally exhibited a human-like reaction, sighing, "It failed, the initial nuclear fusion engine was indeed unreliable and didn’t last long. However, it wasn’t a total failure."

Tai Hong: "What do you mean?"

"The invading civilization arrived first on Earth, easily destroying everything without even contacting the humans on Earth. Because they deemed it meaningless. I found out after the fact, their last failure was due to once attempting to coexist with another civilization born in the same observable universe, but time is infinite, even though peace lasted for over ten billion years, ultimately when both had trodden every corner of the observable universe, there had to be a loser."

Zhi Nu: "Lies again, if humans were all annihilated, then how do you and we exist now?"

"But during the process of annihilating humans, the invading civilization analyzed the existence form and thought structure of Earth’s humanity. They saw the potential of humans and found a way to develop and exploit this lower civilization in their eyes, and they regretted, thinking they shouldn’t have completely wiped out Earth’s humans. That Escape Ship, it was their antidote of regret. And I am one of those antidotes."

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