Godlike: Starting with the fusion of Dark Zagi

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Meanwhile, at the other end of Juxia City.

Siye was strolling along the quiet street.

Because of his forceful intervention last night, Qi Lin, who should have been pierced through the chest by the Taotie Laser on Airport Road, was unharmed.

This has led to an inevitable butterfly effect—Super God Academy currently has no opportunity to discover the "Divine River Generation" super gene hidden within Qi Lin.

However, what Si Ye is most concerned about right now is the super gene technology of this universe.

As a scholar accustomed to tracing origins, he was well aware that the technological paths of each civilization were drastically different, and even the fundamental physical rules of different universes were vastly different.

To repair this body, he must first understand the mainstream technology tree and underlying physical logic of this world.

Originally, directly contacting the Super God Academy would have been the quickest way. However, after some rational logical deduction, Si Ye abandoned this plan.

Last night, his dazzling appearance, which could be described as a "world-destroying demon god," coupled with the despair aura that Dark Foundation himself possessed, must have left a huge psychological shadow on the decision-makers of that academy.

If you were to visit them now, it would most likely trigger extreme fear and a defensive counterattack.

Too much trouble.

In that case, why not adopt a more time-saving and labor-saving strategy: throw out a bait, proactively reveal some of your whereabouts, and play the "passive game," quietly waiting for the other party to take the initiative to make contact.

And Qi Lin was the perfect bait.

Si Ye closed his eyes slightly, and his immense mental power, like an invisible radar, instantly swept across most of Juxia City, easily locking onto Qi Lin's bioelectric signals.

At this moment, Qi Lin was in a studio apartment near the police station.

Since starting work, she has moved out and lived alone. Because of the hellish experience she had last night, the sacrifice of her partner, and being questioned overnight by an officer named Lianfeng, the police station granted her a short leave to go home and adjust.

Two o'clock in the afternoon.

"Ding-dong—"

The doorbell rang abruptly.

Qilin, who had just struggled out of sleep and was still wearing a fluffy bear pajama set, yawned and rubbed her messy hair as she walked to the door. She peered casually through the peephole.

The next second, Qi Lin felt as if all the blood in her body had frozen, and the lingering drowsiness instantly vanished.

Standing outside the door was none other than the black-haired, red-eyed man in a white lab coat who had blasted the alien mech into dust last night!

Qi Lin covered her mouth tightly, afraid to make even the slightest sound. Only one extremely strong thought occupied her mind: play dead! Pretend she's not home! She absolutely mustn't open the door!

I see you.

A cool, calm voice, devoid of any discernible emotion, reached her ears clearly through the security door.

Qi Lin froze, her face almost contorted with tears. She leaned against the door, hesitating for a full half-minute, going through an intense internal struggle, before finally, with trembling hands, slowly turning the lock.

The door opened.

Si Ye stood outside the door, his expression calm, showing no trace of the rage or frenzy that would lead him to break down the door. He looked at the girl inside, her muscles tense, and asked calmly:

"May I come in?"

Qi Lin was stunned. Her mind was a little blank, and she thought to herself, "This terrifying alien... how come it's so polite?"

"Please...please come in." She stiffly stepped aside, making way for her.

A moment later, the two sat down facing each other in the small living room.

The atmosphere was awkward and oppressive. Qi Lin swallowed hard, went to the kitchen, poured a glass of warm water, and carefully placed it on the coffee table in front of Si Ye.

Si Ye didn't touch the glass of water, but just sat quietly on the sofa, seemingly waiting for something.

Finally, in the suffocating silence, Qi Lin couldn't take it anymore. Clutching the hem of her bear pajamas tightly, she tentatively broke the ice: "You...are you really an alien?"

"Yes, for Earthlings," Siye said.

Qi Lin took a deep breath. Seeing that the other party didn't seem to have any immediate intention to kill her, she grew a little bolder: "Then... what are you doing on Earth?"

"I don't know." Si Ye leaned back slightly on the sofa. "I don't know how I ended up here. My civilization was just destroyed in an accident."

Has civilization been destroyed?

Upon hearing this, Qi Lin was momentarily at a loss for words.

Her brain, filled with the thinking of a modern Earthling, began to work wildly, instantly conjuring up a Hollywood-level sci-fi epic: a fierce civil war broke out among aliens for resources, or an ultimate world war that affected the entire planet, and in the end, the entire planet was blown to ruins, and the man in front of her became an interstellar refugee wandering the universe.

"It's not quite what you expected."

Si Ye suddenly spoke, interrupting her reverie, "My civilization does not experience internal wars. In fact, we have not experienced any form of internal violence for tens of thousands of years."

Qi Lin's eyes widened immediately: "You can read minds?!"

I didn't say a word, how could he know what I was thinking about—civil war or world war?!

Si Ye shook his head slightly and explained:

"Your brainwaves have not undergone any form of encryption or defense. The bioelectrical signals generated by your brain's thought process are, to me, equivalent to completely unprotected plaintext communication."

"What you call 'mind reading' is nothing more than a basic technology that can accurately receive and decipher other people's brainwaves."

Upon hearing this, Qi Lin's expression immediately became somewhat unnatural. She instinctively hugged the pillow in her arms tighter, her eyes revealing a sense of unease at being completely seen through. She stammered, "So... in your opinion, this kind of thing—directly reading other people's minds—is... science?"

"Science itself is the exploration, understanding, and summarization of the rules of the material world, and ultimately the formation of systematic cognition."

Si Ye leaned forward slightly. "And for those things that are still incomprehensible and beyond our current level of knowledge, you Earthlings seem to habitually define them as 'metaphysics.' And you like to use wild imagination or even idealistic concepts like theology to forcibly explain them."

"This is an extremely careless attitude."

"You cannot, because of your own ignorance, regard incomprehensible objective existence as falsehood or miracle."

"The so-called gods and ghosts, the so-called incredible miracles, are essentially just phenomena that your own technology is not yet capable of explaining. As long as the dimension of technology is high enough, even the metaphysics and gods that you understand can be perfectly explained and replicated with systematic scientific knowledge."

Qi Lin, clutching her pillow, listened in a daze.

She had initially expected to be facing a tyrannical cosmic destroyer or a warmonger with a mind full of aggressive ideas. But when the other person opened his mouth, he spoke with the air of an old university professor giving an academic lecture.

Her beautiful eyes were filled with a strange look as she sized up the man in the white lab coat with a face that would put any idol star to shame. Finally, she couldn't help but blurt out, "You...you wouldn't happen to be a researcher, would you?"

Si Ye paused for a moment, then leaned back on the sofa and nodded calmly.

"In my civilization, I am a senior researcher."

"Or, in your Earthly vocabulary, I am a scientist."

Qi Lin hesitated for a moment, but couldn't suppress her curiosity: "Since you're a scientist, what exactly was that... fifty-meter-tall black giant last night?"

Si Ye glanced at her and calmly replied, "That's just a physical application of a special technology. With your current level of knowledge, explaining it involves extremely complex underlying physical rules, which you wouldn't understand, and you probably wouldn't like listening to those long and boring formulas."

"To put it in the simplest terms you can understand, you can think of it as a 'special form' of a character in a video game."

Qi Lin swallowed hard. "So, in your civilization... does everyone have this 'special form'?"

"No." Si Ye shook his head slightly. "This is the highest level of cutting-edge technology. Currently, only I possess this body."

Upon hearing this answer, Qi Lin visibly breathed a long sigh of relief. If those terrifying monsters capable of punching through thousands of meters of clouds were mass-produced, the mere thought of them was enough to fill one with despair.