Godlike: Starting with the fusion of Dark Zagi

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After listening to this detailed explanation, Si Ye now has a systematic understanding of the war system in this universe based on "super genes" and "dark planes".

After completing a thoroughly enjoyable "mentorship session," Angel Yan's beautiful eyes were filled with intense curiosity. She adjusted her posture, crossed her arms, and stared intently at Si Ye.

"I've taught you everything I needed to, now it's my turn to ask questions."

"Since your visiting civilization didn't pursue the path of developing the dark dimension, how did you create your gods? Also, if, as you just said, there's no dark dimension as storage space and logistical base, how did you solve the problem of massive energy reserves and weapon mounting after miniaturizing individual war machines?"

Si Ye shook his head. "We never developed any so-called 'super soldier' ​​system."

"As I've said before, the visiting civilization has not waged any form of war for 50,000 years. Since there's no need for war, why bother mass-producing super soldiers?"

Seeing Yan's astonished expression, Si Ye continued, "As for the technological development path... to be honest, if we set aside the purely destructive power, the overall level of people's livelihood and basic technology of the visiting civilization is still far behind the level that you angels have achieved so far."

"In fact, in the short few hundred years that the alien beasts descended and we were forced into a technological explosion, the entire civilization's technological path was almost entirely steered to two extremely narrow branches: one was to study how to specifically eliminate the alien beasts; the other was to frantically analyze the genetic and energy structure of the miraculous light like 'Noah'."

To help Yan understand more intuitively, Siye used his hand to draw the outlines of two trees in the air.

"To put it simply, the technology tree of your Shenhe civilization started from basic science and steadily extended upwards. Over the long years, in order to cope with various complex interstellar environments and the needs of war, this tree has spawned countless dense branches, such as super genes, dark planes, god-killing weapons, celestial computers, and so on."

"But our visitors' technology tree is a typical 'crippled war god.' It has almost no extra branches and leaves, but is just staring at an absolute height, like a spear piercing the sky, extending wildly in one direction."

"As for the dark dimension you just mentioned," Si Ye shook his head, "we haven't really studied that technology in depth. We have also noticed some 'dark information' left over from the real world, but in our academic definition, it's not called a dark dimension, but rather a 'shadow world'—a reflection of the physical dimensions of reality."

"But as I said, our research on the 'world of shadows' was only superficial, remaining merely at the theoretical observation stage. Because at that time, we had more important and urgent things to grasp."

A trace of sorrow and helplessness flashed in Si Ye's eyes: "To put it bluntly, we were completely terrified by the massacre of the alien beasts that nearly wiped out our race. That kind of instinctive fear that runs deep in our bones has led the decision-makers of the entire civilization to develop a morbid pursuit of 'extreme violence'."

"However, the arrogance accumulated over fifty thousand years of peace has left us with a deep-seated disdain for conventional weapons of war and the use of violence. We have no desire to build massive fleets or mass-produce super soldiers like you."

Si Ye pointed to his own body, "Therefore, the visiting civilization has condensed all the cutting-edge technological achievements generated by the technological explosion over the past few centuries into an ultimate single creation without reservation."

"That is, the 'Zaki Project,' my physical body."

Upon hearing this, Angel Yan's expression became extremely strange. Her proud seven thousand years of wisdom on warfare felt intensely uncomfortable when faced with this almost magical history of civilization's development.

"Isn't this pure cheating?"

Yan couldn't help but complain, "Technological development is never something that can be achieved overnight. It inevitably involves a lot of erroneous deductions and trial-and-error costs, which is the fundamental reason why technological bottlenecks exist in the universe. When a civilization faces a technological crossroads, it always has to spend countless hours and resources on trial and error in order to find the path that can truly allow it to continue to develop."

"That's why our Shenhe Technology System spanned such a long period during the era of creating gods."

Yan looked at Si Ye in disbelief: "But you visitors... it's like you have a cheat code for 'predicting the future'! You completely skipped the trial and error phase and directly targeted that path of no return that is the fastest to climb, the most rapidly developing, and the most destructive."

"Your overall technological level is at best that of a civilization that has just entered the era of creating gods, yet you have poured the entire power of your race into creating this pinnacle of creation..."

Yan swallowed hard, still shaken by the terrifying image of Si Ye punching Soton so hard that it sent him flying around the Earth.

"You're quite accurate. That does indeed resemble a form of cheating," Siye said.

"Although we have 50,000 years of vast but stagnant basic science as a foundation, the biggest reason for that miraculous technological explosion was indeed because we chose a shortcut that had already been 'illuminated'."

"Our study of Noah's miraculous light is like obtaining a blueprint that leads directly to the realm of the gods."

"However, every shortcut bestowed by fate comes with a hidden, high price."

"The price of that path to heaven is that, in our extreme fanaticism and blind obedience, we have created an ultimate demon that we ourselves are completely powerless to control."

"From the moment Zagi was born, its very existence far exceeded the technological limits that the visiting civilization could comprehend at that time."

"To put it bluntly, we created a destructive machine... one that even we ourselves don't know just how terrifying it is."

Angel Yan fell into a long silence.

As she digested this heavy alien history, her eyes gleamed with intense curiosity and inquiry: "You mentioned 'alien beasts' several times, and that 'Noah' that you consider a miracle. What exactly are they?"

"Judging from the name, could 'Alien Beasts' be some kind of unknown, extremely bloodthirsty beast civilization? As for 'Noah'... since you visitors created Zagi, a weapon of destruction beyond its time, based on your genetic research, could it be a life form existing in a higher dimension?"

"Alien beasts are not a beast-like civilization. They are not any kind of conventional physical creature as you know them."

Si Ye shook his head slightly. "In essence, alien beasts are a kind of 'information collection,' or more accurately, they are a kind of 'conceptual life form.'"

"They do not have a fixed physical form, but rather they become physical by attaching to and assimilating the native matter of the land they arrive in, whether it be humans, animals, or plants, twisting and recombining these organisms. They have no need to establish civilization; they are predators and destroyers who exist purely for the purpose of devouring."

"Moreover, alien beasts possess terrifying learning and evolutionary abilities."

"In each battle, they absorb the opponent's data and use a special energy fluctuation called 'Alien Beast Vibration Wave' to share tactical intelligence across the entire population regardless of spatial distance."

"This allows them to evolve relative resistance to enemy attacks in a very short time. For example, if you burn it with a high-temperature beam of light, its next resurrection or that of its kind will immediately evolve special armor that is immune to light."

Si Ye put down his water glass. "What's even more troublesome is that, as conceptual life forms, they primarily feed on the negative emotions of intelligent life, such as fear, hatred, and despair."

"Physical extermination is only temporary for them. As long as intelligent life still harbors fear and hatred for the alien beasts, as long as the breeding ground for this negative emotion remains, these monsters will never truly die, and they can always rise again from the darkness."

Upon hearing this description, Angel Yan felt a chill run down her spine and straight to the back of her head, and her scalp tingled.

A collection of information without a physical form? Capable of assimilating everything? Sharing intelligence and evolutionary resistance without limit? Even... feeding on intangible negative emotions like human fear and hatred to achieve true "immortality"?!

This extremely bizarre thing, which completely violated the known laws of conservation of mass and the logic of dark energy operation in the universe, and was far beyond the scope of conventional scientific understanding, instantly made Yan's brain nerves tense up.

As Keisha's left-wing bodyguard, she had access to the most core secrets of the known universe. This ultimate fear, which could not be explained by conventional physics and fed on concepts and emotions, instinctively caused a taboo word to jump out of her mind—a word strictly forbidden by the angelic civilization but fanatically pursued by the god of death, Karl.

Void.