Author: Explosive Corpse

Along with his words, the translucent plants covering the observation deck began to tremble slightly.

The veins like blood vessels expanded rapidly and became entangled together. A large amount of unknown liquid gathered at the knotted place of the veins, and then gradually formed a large bulging bag.

The bulge is getting bigger and bigger, like a flower bud that has not yet bloomed. It has gradually grown to be as big as the "Light Chaser" leader. The translucent skin has become no longer transparent. No one knows what changes are happening inside.

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Not long after, a heartbeat appeared in the flower buds, which turned from weak at first to strong. In a daze, the leader of "Chasing the Light" seemed to smell the fragrance of flowers.

The next moment, the petals surrounding the bud began to fall off one by one, and a figure walked out of it. The leader recognized it as the "sacrificed" solar engineer.

But he also knew that it was just "another life" that looked exactly like the solar engineer.

It just walked out, and the leader of "Chasing the Light" looked at each other in silence, as if they were waiting for the other party to speak first.

In the end, the leader of "Chasing the Light" couldn't hold it any longer and asked first: "You, or rather, who are you?"

"We are 'Ashes', to use a name you are more familiar with, we are 'Fire Chasers'." The topic was opened by the leader of "Chasing the Light", but it was the "Fire Chasers" who kept talking.

Go down.

"From the memory of genes, we have roughly understood why we were revived again after our 'death'."

"There is a certain... gifted scientist in your tribe. He has noticed the secrets in your body and is trying to revive us by activating this gene."

"He is not a kind person. He only does this to master and integrate into this spread of genes and control all life in the form of 'pure consciousness' in order to complete his so-called goal of becoming a 'New God'

.”

"In order to achieve his goal, he first experimentally used this gene to control others. After finding that it was feasible, he controlled a group of people to quietly hijack the spacecraft."

"Someone discovered something was wrong during this process and tried to resist, but he only paid the price of a few corpses and completely took control of the spacecraft."

"After that, he sprayed a large amount of a catalyst here and began to induce the atavism in that gene, successfully transforming all the life on this ship into...'us'."

"And he himself is no exception. He has also become a plant."

From the words of the "Fire Chaser", the leader of the "Light Chaser" understood what happened on the spacecraft. He did not expect that the people who caused all this were actually people within their civilization.

And even if he wanted to disbelieve it, the "Fire Chaser" didn't care and continued on his own:

"But he obviously underestimated the power of genes. How could he control so many genes with just his consciousness?"

"The result is that his consciousness, like everyone else on the spacecraft, was torn apart during the process of becoming a plant, leaving only a large unconscious plant population."

"This mass of unconsciousness is still a little short of forming true consciousness, so they spontaneously begin to attract the creatures 'closest' to them through genetic association. This... solar engineer is the last drop of water that fills this mass of unconsciousness."

"From unconsciousness to consciousness, this is a huge transformation from zero to one. From then on, this unconscious mass became 'life'."

"The memory in the genes has become the leader of this group of consciousness, and we have been 'resurrected'."

"...So, this is the resurrection plan you have made for yourselves?" After hearing this, the leader of "Chasing the Light" couldn't help but ask about this matter, which was also the thing he was most concerned about.

In response, the "Fire Chaser" unexpectedly shook his head:

"No, we have never thought about resurrection. The people on this spaceship have no relevant memories, but I think as a leader, you should have learned about our origins through other channels."

"We are the dead souls from the previous era. We should have died before the big bang."

"While other companions are trying to leave help to the next era at the cost of destruction, we are hiding, and we are called 'using our own methods to bring dawn to the next world'."

"But in fact we just chose to escape. Would other people not think of this method? They have much higher technology than us. If this is feasible, why don't they do it?"

"Finally, we understood that everything in the previous era had been completely destroyed with that explosion. This is the rule of 'universe restart', and we are no exception."

"We have transformed all the planets here and left behind a variety of ancient technologies, especially super-light technology, because we found that the civilization here is severely restricted by the speed of light."

"But our wisdom begins to be lost, our bodies begin to decay, and we are being 'killed' by this universe, which wants to sweep us into the tombstones of the previous era."

"We also panicked and looked for ways to save our lives. We realized that we were not adapted to this universe, so we began to study methods of 'dimensional adaptation'."

"But in the end, we found that this possibility couldn't apply to us because our numbers were too large."

"This huge number even almost makes us the 'sinners' of this universe, and also makes us realize how much danger our 'escape' has brought, and what we think we have done as 'pioneers'

, and how much suffering it caused.”

"This galaxy is shrinking, and the space-time structure here is also extremely weak. There are still many dangers that you have not discovered. This is the universe that is using its own methods to eliminate us. The source of your suffering comes from

us."

When it comes to this, the "Light-Chasing" civilization already knows this past history.

At the same time, he also understood that their birth came from the "fire chasers", and their suffering also originated from the "fire chasers". This contradictory mentality made his eyes towards the "fire chasers" become complicated.

A lot.

"In the last era, our civilization's responsibility was to collect and preserve genes, so we are trying to recreate those lives here."

"The erosion of dimensions has not affected you, because you were created in this universe after all, and you are not considered remnants of the previous universe."

"But since the creation of life inevitably involves the use of our primitive genes, this leads to... the most tragic suffering."

There was no expression on the face of the "Fire Chaser", but his voice was unconsciously sad.

"All creatures that have been mixed with our genes have become objects of elimination. When we realize this, it is too late. Although you are very adapted to this universe, you are still marked by the universe as a 'clearance mark'. No matter you

No matter where you escape, you will be 'purged' by this universe."

"And we can't even eliminate this section of the gene, because it is the cornerstone of your life. All other genes can be changed, except this section. Changing this section means killing you, and we...can't do this.

Something..."

No one knows how much emotion the "Fire Chasers" have towards their "creations", but one thing they have shown is that at least they do not regard their "creations" as some kind of experiments or ornamental objects.

not as a truly independent "civilization".

They have no right to decide the life and death of these civilizations, even if they know that the final outcome must be destruction.

"We have foreseen the terrible scenes that will happen in the future, so we have retreated again. We have chosen to close ourselves and no longer resist the erosion of the dimension. As long as we perish first, we will not see that day."

"But we still didn't expect that there would be a chance of recovery by accident..."

The tone of "Fire Chaser" has become extremely depressed at this point. It is difficult to imagine that this is what a civilization from the previous era can say.

The leader of "Chasing the Light" was also affected by this depressed tone, and asked somewhat sadly: "...Then, why did you ask me to come here this time?"

"...Do you think there is hope for such a world?" "Fire Chaser" replied:

"The outcome of destruction has long been doomed and cannot be changed. Is it necessary to continue this kind of life? You are the leader of this civilization. You may not be able to represent the will of everyone, but we think that we only need to ask you one question.

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"Can you still go on?"

At this moment, the whole world seemed to have fallen into silence. Listening to the words of "Chasing Fire", "Chasing Light" also began to ask himself: Can they really go on?

Fighting out from the four hundred and sixty former companion civilizations, their passion for advancement has long since become as cold as glaciers.

Even the will to survive has become numb after witnessing countless failed struggles. Now he is also asking himself: Even if they become the final winner, what can they do?

Even the "guardians" who want to provide them with assistance can't find a way to get them out of here. Their future ending will most likely be reduced to historical dust in the "shrinking world".

Now that the outcome has been determined, what is the purpose of their struggle?

At this time, the "Fire Chaser" was still waiting for the response from the leader of the "Light Chaser". From the peripheral vision, it was difficult to see what the inner thoughts of the "Fire Chaser" disguised as a solar engineer were.

But the leader of "Light Chaser" understands that the survival of the entire civilization is on his shoulders at this time. "Fire Chaser" has the method to detonate the genes in their bodies. He believes that as long as he says "I can't go on anymore", then

The "Fire Chaser" will not hesitate to transform all of them into plants so that they will no longer suffer this suffering.

but……

The leader of "Light Chaser" also remembered that "Fire Chaser" did not directly destroy their civilization, but was seeking his opinion.

His memory began to go back, from an adult back to a child, and then from a child back to the longer past.

He had not experienced the events of that era, but he seemed to be on the spot and saw the time when his ancestors first entered space.

Their curious ship is violently chased away by a group of plant craft, who warn them not to do it again.

However, in the database of these expelled spacecraft, there is a complete set of archaeological technology and alien exploration technology, which seems to encourage them to go to more distant stars.

Finally, the leader of "Chasing the Light" raised his head and gave his answer:

"The starry sky is still vast, and we cannot stop here."
Chapter completed!