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“We can’t keep provoking the swarm. The swarm has already awakened once. Their evolutionary and survival instincts ingrained in their genes have been activated. The newborn alone obviously cannot stop the swarm, and the constraints it brings will eventually become ineffective,” Bai Ye said slowly.

This is an emergency solution, but not a long-term solution. Moreover, the Deep Sea Church could activate another nascent being at any time, which would be disastrous.

Bai Ye didn't even intend to release Isamara.

“I understand.” Luna nodded. “Then let’s continue deeper into this laboratory. There’s another facility there, and perhaps a new solution will be found there.”

Bai Ye nodded, and they left the core organ of the Deep Blue Tree and continued to descend deeper.

The deep-sea hunter followed beside him.

Goredia suddenly asked:

"If there really is no other way, the method we just used may be our only option."

“Yes… While it’s not a long-term solution, at least Isamara can tie down the large group and buy us enough time—provided she’s willing.” Bai Ye agreed wholeheartedly.

As they spoke, they ventured deeper into the laboratory, where a vertical pipe led straight down to what should have been an elevator shaft, but the elevator was damaged and unusable.

Seeing that the elevator could not be started, Luna had no choice but to let everyone descend the sky ladder shaft.

Fortunately, both Deepsea Hunter and White Night were superhuman, so they entered the area below without much effort. They could clearly sense that the surrounding environment was becoming abnormal.

“It’s very deep here…” Bai Ye murmured.

"Yes, we are now going deeper—we are about to enter the crust of Terra, and outside the laboratory, it is all mantle material."

The mantle lies between the Mohorovičić discontinuity and the Gutenberg discontinuity, with a thickness of over 2800 km. The temperature of the upper mantle can reach 1250 to 1400 °C, while the temperature near the core may reach over 4000 °C.

This demonstrates the remarkable technology of the pre-civilization. They built a laboratory in such an extreme environment, and the structure of this building has remained intact for tens of millions of years without any signs of damage.

After learning about her current situation, Laurentina stuck out her tongue in a slightly frightened manner.

If the outer structure of the laboratory were to crack and break now, mantle material would rush in. No, before that, the immense pressure beneath the Earth's crust would crush the place instantly.

Thinking about it that way, it is indeed quite frightening. Even a superhuman like the Deep Sea Hunter, or even Bai Ye, would have a hard time surviving in that situation.

“We have to be careful…” Goredia said softly, as if afraid that her voice would be too loud and shatter the structure here.

“Below lies the central hub of the Deep Blue Labs. This is where they are incubated,” Luna said calmly.

White Night and the Deep Sea Hunters naturally understood what she was talking about.

For they have arrived here, the cradle of life, the place where countless newborns are born.

The source of everything.

However, the advantage of building the laboratory in the mantle is that it also has a near-infinite energy source.

The "Deep Blue Tree" in the laboratory garden can continue to grow because its growth energy comes from the Earth's mantle. Geothermal energy can provide a continuous source of energy.

Everyone had already seen that, following them down were the roots of the Deep Blue Tree, extending ever downwards. Those root-like tendrils were constantly expanding and contracting, drawing energy from the magma.

"The part of this tree above ground is probably far less important than these underground structures..."

Chapter 192 Civilization

(KL truly lives up to its reputation as a emissions factory; the adult content they produce is utterly appalling. It's as if they can't even understand what this is like.)

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"I never expected it to be like this... The so-called gods are nothing more than manufactured things." Laurentina looked at the laboratory central hub in front of her and felt a little absurd.

If those in the deep-sea church who genuinely believe in the so-called "sea god" were to witness this scene, would their faith suddenly collapse?

The idea that gods are manufactured is a form of blasphemy against faith.

However, the deep-sea hunters had no interest in speculating about the thoughts of those scoundrels. As for these traitors, capitulationists, or schemers and ambitious individuals, they would eventually face reckoning once everything had settled.

“We should be able to find another solution here.” Bai Ye looked at Luna and then opened the main control panel of the laboratory’s central hub.

The main control panel lit up, the system restarted, and the fully automated modification process left over from the previous civilization could still be seen on the system interface. Obviously, this thing can still run now.

“Since the swarm is a ‘sweeping robot’ created by the previous civilization, then there must be a central control mechanism.” Bai Ye looked at the system interface. He could now recognize the characters of these previous civilizations, and in a short period of time, he had mastered a new language.

However, Luna didn't need to manually search for it herself; she had already entered the system on the main console. The almost omnipotent god in the online world was searching for the answers Bai Ye wanted.

"Such things exist, a central control mechanism, a last resort, a bunch of random little buttons, a one-click self-destruct program, the ability to paralyze all creations... or something like a core, a mother nest or something, destroying it can bring all the sea creatures to a standstill." Bai Ye muttered, looking at the system interface on the main control panel.

It didn't take long for Luna to browse through all the data in the system. She stopped, looked at Bai Ye, and said:

"Essentially, Hysteria is a planetary terraforming project. Once it begins operation, it will clean up planets on the verge of destruction. And this project does have a safeguard in place to prevent the terraforming process from spiraling out of control and destroying the original civilization itself—"

At this point, Luna very humanely stopped, and then gave Bai Ye an answer that greatly disappointed him:

"The so-called insurance measures do not exist in the planetary terraforming project itself, because no matter how perfect a single project is, there is always the possibility of accidents. Therefore, the control measures must be independent of the project and used to check and balance Hai Si on another level."

“That makes sense. Separate the programs and control the entire system by having something isolated outside of it.” Bai Ye nodded.

"So, what is their method?" Bai Ye asked.

“Destruction,” Luna said calmly. “The previous civilization created a super weapon, a bio-pulse weapon, which can efficiently destroy all life in the entire star system by radiating an incredibly powerful cross-phase neutrino wave.”

"This is the control method used against Haisi. They can directly destroy all life and then restart. As for the former civilization itself, their consciousness can be preserved and continued in another way. The physical body is not a container for their consciousness, so this pulse weapon that only targets living organisms will not affect the former civilization itself."

This answer was clearly not what Bai Ye and the Deep Sea Hunters wanted.

While the final self-destruct procedure appears highly efficient, it is far too targeted. Its near-neutron annihilation method can destroy the entire ecosystem, plunging the entire planet into a state of death. This is hardly a benign approach.

In order to resolve the issue of the Sea Heirs, Bai Ye did not want to jeopardize the future of two civilizations.

“Abandon this option. I think there must be other ways.” Bai Ye shook his head, rejecting this terrible plan.

“Then there’s only one option left, White Night.” Luna looked at him. “Create a new nascent being, communicate with the horde, guide them, and eliminate their hostility.”

Simply having Isamara occupy the remains of the "Deep Blue Tree" is not enough. After all, that body still possesses the instincts of life, and it is difficult for an external consciousness to completely take over the entire body. Moreover, as a newborn who has died once and is already incomplete, it is unable to compete with other newborns.

“I have no objection. If there’s no better way, let’s choose this one…” This time, Bai Ye agreed, then asked, “By the way, can’t we create a newborn with higher privileges?”

“An individual can never rise above the entire group. Although the primordial being is the leader of the group, it cannot become the controller of the group,” Luna explained.

Bai Ye, however, felt that the existence of large groups of such life forms was very suitable for the continuation of the species, and everything existed for the sake of efficiency.

However, it is also terrifyingly cold-blooded.

"What should we do?" Bai Ye asked.

Luna opened the transmission chamber in the experimental center:

“If you are willing to believe me, then go inside, and I will separate Isamara from your body and transform her into a new beginning.”

"Hey, will it turn me into one too? This thing..." Bai Ye didn't expect that he would have to go in as well.

He was indeed somewhat uneasy about things left behind by a previous civilization tens of millions of years ago. After all, the entire experimental center had even been partially assimilated by the nascent beings, its structure had mutated, and the conversion process might have been eroded. Bai Ye didn't dare to gamble with his own body.

“According to calculations, the success rate is 83.58%,” Luna replied. “However, I will always be outside protecting you, and if anything unexpected happens, I will do everything in my power to protect you.”

The first half represents Luna as a cold machine, while the second half represents Luna's human side.

Skadi and Laurentina looked at White Night with concern.

Suddenly, someone whispered from the side:

"No."

Bai Ye turned his head and saw that it was Gretia speaking, but her voice was very soft. If Bai Ye hadn't had good hearing, he wouldn't have been able to hear her clearly.

“No.” Goredia repeated, raising her voice, and looked up at Bai Ye with unwavering determination:

"Don't go in. Nobody knows what will happen next. We...we can still think of something else, keep looking around here—there must be other ways. There's no need to risk your life for our arrogant and foolish civilization."

Bai Ye's eyes widened; he found it hard to believe that these words came from Gretia's mouth.

This woman, who originally considered saving her homeland Agor her mission, is now personally criticizing her homeland as arrogant and foolish.

Clearly, this Agorian technocrat was driven mad by the various bizarre actions of his own civilization.

“Yes, I am very angry. Deep Sea Hunters, what a price we paid to be buried with Agor’s ambition. The root of it all is our own doing, not the monsters that we keep saying destroyed everything. We destroyed ourselves.” Godia looked at the experimental center in front of her and said slowly.

"Moreover, I just recalled once again what we saw on the stone tablet—in a possible future, Agor abandoned all the deep-sea hunters, and I think that is indeed the decision they would make."

"Therefore, we have no reason to pay any more."

Clearly, Goredia was still affected by the images displayed on the stone tablet. The successive revelations had been too much of a blow to her, and the deep-sea hunter captain's attitude had undergone a drastic change...

No wonder Bai Ye had sensed that something was off about Gretia's emotions since before.

"It wasn't the Deepsea Hunters who betrayed Agor, but Agor who betrayed us."

“Nothing else matters anymore. In the past, we have been losing things: losing teammates, losing our way home, losing our hometown… But the one thing I don’t want to lose is you.”

Perhaps it was because of utter disappointment that she began to value the person in front of her so much; she didn't want to lose anything more.

Bai Ye shook his head:

"But I also have my own homeland, and on land, there are civilizations that I want to save."

"Moreover, even if Agor did bring all of this upon himself, and it was those guys who arrogantly activated the planetary terraforming project left by the previous civilization, causing it to spiral out of control and become a monster—that doesn't mean we can completely deny the entire civilization."

"The civilization that can give birth to such lovely warriors as you, Skadi and Laurentina, is obviously not entirely without merit."

“White Night…” Goredia looked at the man before her. Skadi and Laurentina stood behind her.

Bai Ye smiled:

"Indeed, someone has to pay the price for all of this, but that is not a reason for us to disregard everything, let the entire civilization perish, and be buried with the decisions of a few. Moreover, I don't want you to be the last survivor of a civilization; that would be a very... painful thing."

As he spoke, Bai Ye turned around and raised his right hand, waving at Greta and the others:

"wait me back."

As he spoke, he walked toward the central transmission pod, which had already been opened.

"Luna, I believe in you. Let's resolve this together."

Without saying anything more sentimental, Bai Ye entered the teleportation chamber.

"I thought you'd try to be stubborn again, like saying something like 'I just want the scientific research technology of the deep-sea civilization'—" Luna suddenly told a joke, mimicking Bai Ye's usual tone of voice.

Bai Ye shook his head:

"We're all on the same side, what's the point of being stubborn..."

The hunters already knew what kind of person Bai Ye was. Ever since he arrived in Terra, Bai Ye had been doing foolish things, doing things beyond his duty under the guise of stubbornness and various excuses.

The same is true even now.

Of course, he also gained much more; unexpectedly, he received far more than he had anticipated.

……

Bai Ye lay down comfortably inside the cabin. The hatch, made of special materials, closed, and Bai Ye entered a closed environment isolated from the outside world.

The surroundings became quiet, there was no air exchange, and he couldn't hear any sounds from outside.

However, Bai Ye remained calm, and he truly felt no fear.

As Luna restarted the laboratory, Bai Ye took a deep breath and looked at his right arm. The sealed chains gradually emerged and then began to break one by one. Clearly, Luna had broken the seal and was preparing to release Isamara.

In fact, Bai Ye never stopped communicating with Isamara, and sometimes even shared information with her. He was constantly trying to communicate with the larger group.

The silver chains snapped one by one. Bai Ye looked at the girl in the red dress who appeared beside him, and seeing her face that was almost identical to Skadi's, he smiled and said:

"I've come to fulfill the promise we made in the past."

“I have helped you find the origin of your race.”

"Now, it's time to say goodbye."

"Please return to the main group, and then convey what we want to say to the main group, and stop all this meaningless fighting."

……

In reality, Bai Ye had already closed his eyes; clearly, everything that had just happened had occurred in his mind.

The experimental center restarted, and Luna had already disappeared into mid-air. She turned off her projection and began to monitor the system's status. Although with her computing power, there was no need to do this, the part that favored humanity still made this choice.

Goredia didn't speak, but simply sat down quietly against the wall. Skadi and Laurentina stood beside the transport chamber, watching as the white night inside was gradually enveloped by the special solution.

Everyone is waiting for the outcome, waiting for everything to settle down.

There was no progress bar or estimated completion time on the system interface. All they could do was wait.

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It was still the beach from my dream, still Skadi in red, and still Byakuya standing behind her.