The Demon King is unfathomable

Chapter 286: Lord Demon, there seems to be an egg left in the refrigerator!

As the last syllable of the dragon language fell, the cold cockpit fell silent, with only the temperatureless words lying quietly on the dark mirror.

This is a memory from a thousand years ago.

It is also the life of Captain Gutaf who was stranded on an alien planet.

Luo Yan stared quietly at the place where the log ended. The last sentence of relief seemed to still echo in the lonely cockpit.

“I’m honored that I succeeded.”

But obviously——

also failed.

"The Dragon God died in the end." Youyou said in a low voice.

Luo Yan nodded.

"Yes."

If that guy was still alive, the Saint Ankylosaurus Kingdom would definitely not be in its current state. Even if these lizardmen had not rushed into the eve of the interstellar age, they would never have experienced such a serious regression of civilization, and would have been worse than a thousand years ago.

After the great barrier was completed, something must have happened here that was beyond the Dragon God's expectations.

Gutaf obviously did not expect that this diary would be his last words, so many things were not recorded in the diary in time.

For example, why is there a pyramid on top of this hibernation capsule?

For example, what happened after the great barrier descended.

as well as--

What exactly is the Holy Armor Dragon Kingdom worshipping after thousands of years of sacrifices?

Looking at Luo Yan who was in deep thought, Youyou, who was floating beside him, let out a light sigh.

"It's incredible... Just because of his fear of Chaos, this guy used the power in his hands to cut out an entire continent."

Under the protection of the great barrier, the Ankylosaur clan did avoid the harassment of Chaos, but it is difficult to say which one has a higher KD, the Dragon God or Chaos.

After reading the entire log, it did not see any Lizardmen die in the invasion of Chaos. Instead, it saw them die again and again in Gutaf's seemingly logical but actually extremely crazy plan.

Although they themselves were created by the latter.

However, this was not a reason for Him to do whatever He wanted. He was corrupted by the chaos and eventually died in a foreign land, which was a punishment for Him due to the cause and effect in the dark.

"…There's nothing left to explore here. Let's go to the next area."

Taking his eyes away from the pitch-black mirror, Luo Yan searched around the room, then turned and left, beginning to search for the rest of the "wreckage" of the spaceship.

Although the technology used in this landing capsule was like a mystery to him, its structure itself was not complicated. It basically had three bedrooms and a living room, making the most of the limited space.

Youyou, who was floating beside Luo Yan, looked restless. She looked left and right, full of curiosity about everything here.

Unfortunately, it couldn't touch anything and could only stare at Luo Yan, hoping that he could help it figure out what those strange instruments were used for.

Is this also the "divinity" inherited from the God of Machinery?

Looking at Youyou who was frantically suggesting that he touch those strange buttons, Luo Yan sighed and said.

"I don't object to your curiosity, but before we are sure of the specific functions of these buttons, it is better not to touch anything here casually."

"But, but, Lord Demon, what if it can help you transform into a giant dragon?"

Circling around Luo Yan, Youyou spoke excitedly.

"But it's a dragon! Riding a dragon... isn't it much cooler than your stupid spider!"

Luo Yan admitted that it did sound tempting, but he was a cautious demon king.

"...I know, but I can't rule out another possibility. It will take me to heaven."

This landing capsule was probably equipped with an anti-gravity device or something similar, and he didn't want it to fly up and then fall again.

Even if he could bear it, Assam city could not.

Let Oak and his goblin technical team figure out how to make use of this advanced antique.

Coming to a closed door, Luo Yan took out the bone staff in his hand and tapped the door, easily passing the DNA recognition and retrieving access rights.

The silver-white door moved aside, and a milky white light soon lit up from the wall, illuminating the dark room in front of him.

Judging from the layout here, this is probably an experimental cabin.

Or--

The place where the first dragon egg was born.

The air was filled with a stale smell, which was out of place in this technologically-filled room.

Luo Yan stood at the door and waited for a while. The ventilation system was working again to expel the suspicious smell, and then he walked in.

Looking around, his eyes quickly focused on a headless corpse.

"This is..." Youyou exclaimed in a low voice, and quickly flew to the side of the corpse and looked at it carefully.

The body lay quietly on a tilted bed, like an operating table.

The strange thing is that his head is missing.

not only that--

He also lost a leg.

Luo Yan subconsciously glanced at the bone staff in his hand.

As expected, this was the leg bone that Mr. Gutaf had lost.

This bone has been able to remain intact for thousands of years. This is not the power of technology, but more like magic.

Or "the blessing of the gods".

"...Once the creed set by the gods is formed, even the gods themselves cannot change it?"

Luo Yan pondered secretly in his heart.

After the Dragon God's death, due to the worship of his believers, his skeleton automatically became a superior artifact material than ordinary dragon skeletons, and even gained a hardness and durability that he did not have when he was alive.

It’s a pity that no dragon hunter sealed His soul in the "holy vessel", otherwise he would like to free Him and talk to his captain friend about the Zeta Empire face to face.

When thinking of this, Luo Yan couldn't help but sigh in his heart. It seems that it is more convenient for his players.

Through activities or update announcements posted on the official website forum, he can easily modify the consensus of the players and make the players believe in the changes to the game content without any doubt...even if some changes are not in the interests of the players and may even make some players curse.

The dried blood formed dark red patches below the neck.

It dripped down the console onto the floor, leaving behind a row of tiny, messy footprints and spots. Because it was the "blood of the dragon god", they did not completely weather, but dried and preserved.

In line with the principle of not wasting anything, Luo Yan squatted down and carefully put the powder into a glass test tube.

And just at this moment, he noticed that there was a small, almost invisible joint on the slanted bed, which was completely blocked by solidified and dried blood clots and was almost invisible without careful observation.

Luo Yan thought for a moment, his eyes continued to move along the wall, and soon saw an oval-shaped enclosed device, which looked a bit like the life support cabin commonly seen in science fiction novels.

I don't know if it's because of the Zeta Empire's aesthetic preference or for some other reason, but its appearance looks like an oval egg.

Luo Yan walked over and took a look, and found that the interior was already empty, the nutrient solution had dried up, and a light layer of white frost had formed on the glass cabin wall.

He recalled the casual statement in his diary:
"…I can definitely use my DNA to create a whole new species."

——Not just creating others.

He was also apparently able to create “himself”.

"Clone...?" Luo Yan suddenly realized something, and then he swept his eyes across the experimental table, cooling trough, and nerve port on the treatment bed next to him, and then looked at the headless corpse.

Combining the traces at the scene, the state of the body, and the surrounding data clues, he quickly pieced together the unfinished story in the diary -

That was history that was deliberately erased by the descendants of the Dragon God after the great barrier was closed.

"...I see. I was wondering why he seemed to never age. Now I find out he has a 'head transplant.'" Luo Yan clapped his hands and stood up from the device that looked like a hibernation capsule.

of course.

Changing heads is just a figurative metaphor.

To put it in a more academic way, with the help of cloning technology and neural transplantation technology, the nervous system is constantly separated from the old body and then transferred to the new body.

However, this technology is obviously not perfect - before he is separated from his old body and fully integrated into the new one, his mind and body are at their most vulnerable.

What happened to Him is obvious.

In that moment—He was betrayed.

Luo Yan turned his head and looked at the blurry fingerprints on the wall, which seemed to be the marks left when the life support system was forcibly cut off.

Gutav mentioned in his diary that although his children feared him, they did not like him.

Now it seems that it's not just the "D-7447 Meat Lizard" who dislikes him, but also those other types of lizardmen.

Not only did they murder Him, they also took a bone from His remains and stuffed it.

"It turned out to be murder..." Youyou whispered softly, and the fog reflected on the glass door rolled with confusion, "But... why? Don't the Ankylosaurs worship Him? And if His followers don't believe in Him, how can the great barrier be completed?"

It couldn't possibly be the power of magic.

What's more, until now, the Ankylosaur clan is still carrying out activities to worship the Dragon God.

Looking at Youyou who was in confusion, Luo Yan was silent for a moment and replied casually.

"This is not a contradiction. When one is alive, one is always a human being. Only when one dies can one become a true god."

The completion of the great barrier made Gutaf confident that his authority had reached its peak, and it also meant that his vigilance towards the people around him had been reduced to the lowest level.

This is not without cost.

Although there is no archaeological historical material and what happened here a thousand years ago is no longer known, he can still reconstruct the course of events from the trivial clues.

A thousand years ago, the first king of the Holy Armor Dragon Kingdom took advantage of Gutaf's weakest moment and stabbed him in the back - completing the dragon slaying!

This guy was obviously a smart lizardman. He knew very well that all the disasters encountered by the Ankylosaur clan were due to that guy who was talking nonsense - saying that he would lead them to escape the slavery of higher civilizations, conquer the universe and move towards civilization.

The future described by Gutaf was too far away for them, so far that it seemed like a lie. This lie, which was completely built on castles in the air, might be able to fool those ignorant fools, but it was still difficult to fool the smart lizardmen.

Those cunning guys knew very well that the Lizardmen killed by Chaos could fill several ships, but the blood and flesh of the guys killed by Gutaf piled up into a mountain.

Maybe this guy himself is one of the "Gods from Outside the Territory", or he has been corrupted by Chaos!
How else could we explain that, as believers of gods, the supernatural powers of the Ankylosaurs would always be inferior to those of humans, and that they could not defeat the gods’ chosen humans even if they tried their best.

Perhaps only by killing him can he be freed from his mortal body and the fate of the Ankylosaur clan be freed from the cycle of being turned into mountains of corpses and seas of bones again and again.

It’s a pity that although the guy who slayed the dragon had extraordinary qualities, he was still just a mortal after all.

Between being burned to death as a martyr by his believers and becoming their master, he ultimately chose the latter - covering up lies with more lies, going from one downward spiral to another.

"...He held up Gutaf's bones, wept bitterly for his departure, and then compiled the last page of his epic poem for him. Before his death, he asked him to hand over his bones to the most devout believers, to serve as priests of the Kingdom of Saint Armor Dragon. Then the priests put the crown on him, and he ruled the kingdom on earth in the name of God."

"...The smart lizardmen may have guessed the truth, but since Gutaf is dead, they don't have to be sacrificed again and again. They wisely stood by the king and the priests and became nobles united around the Pal family. As for the unintelligent lizardmen, there is no need for them to know, because it is not important at all."

"As for the temple outside..." Luo Yan looked up and said after thinking for a moment, "I'm afraid its original purpose was not to worship the Dragon God, but to bury this landing capsule."

The conflict a thousand years ago must have been caused by an accident.

For example, because no vital signs of Gutaf could be detected, the anti-gravity return device on the landing capsule was activated... Considering the cautious character shown by Gutaf in the log, it is very likely that he had such a backup plan.

In order to seal the landing capsule, Gutaf's Chosen One, the first king of the Holy Armor Dragon Kingdom, used a subspace similar to the Great Barrier to temporarily suppress the landing capsule, and built a huge pyramid on top of the landing capsule in the name of "building a tomb for the Dragon God" in case of an emergency.

However, perhaps because the beauty filter was too strong, the descendants of the Parr family gradually forgot the original intention of building the pyramid, and even forgot what it meant to unlock the seal on the Dragon Temple. The Dragon Temple lifted to the sky by the anti-gravity device not only failed to save the Kingdom of Saint Armor Dragon from disaster, but also brought down a "heavenly punishment" on the city of Assam.

This is also the disadvantage of lies.

Lying is like tricking someone into taking poison. As time goes by, you will inevitably become infected.

Perhaps the second and third generation kings still remember what really happened, but by the fourth and fifth generations, having been influenced by the murals since childhood, they would definitely believe the lies themselves.

The lizardmen of the Holy Armored Dragon Kingdom had to begin to bear the price of "covering lies with lies" - sacrifices in the name of the Dragon God began again.

In order to stabilize the great barrier, they needed to water it with their own blood, which eventually turned the pyramid into its current bloody appearance and also brought great disaster to their former allies.

The archaeological research on the Dragon God Gutaf has come to an end.

Luo Yan put the Dragon God's body back into the storage ring.

For a necromancer, this is a valuable material and cannot be wasted.

The huge power of faith condensed on this thousand-year-old skeleton, turning it into a holy relic. The Ankylosaur clan only took a bone from him, which was too polite.

But this is a good deal for him.

Luo Yan searched around in this laboratory-like room again, but unfortunately he didn't find anything more useful. He also didn't know how to start those instruments that seemed to be very useful because there were no instructions.

To be honest, he didn't hold out much hope that these instruments would be useful.

It's a miracle that the landing capsule can still be opened after thousands of years.

Just when Luo Yan was planning to leave here for the time being and leave the investigation to the "professionals" in the cemetery, a surprised cry suddenly came from the cabin next door.

"Master Demon, there seems to be an egg left in this refrigerator!"

(End of this chapter)