Li Zhen noticed her little movements and said with a smile: "Relax. When I first learned about this, I was the same as you. Even though I knew that even the ancient star king could not wake it up, I still subconsciously didn't want to use my own abilities anymore."

"But you said...even the ancient gods fear it--" Bai Xiaodang forced himself to calm down, but he always felt that something was burrowing around under his feet. At this moment, down-to-earth could no longer bring her a sense of stability, but it made her feel even more cold air was drilling from the soles of her feet into her mind.

"Yes. We should all be afraid of it. However, for it, we are just an insignificant existence." Li Zhen smiled, pressed Bai Xiaodang on the stool, thought about it, and said, "It's actually not a bad thing."

"I... want to know more." Bai Xiaodang finally calmed down a little. After panic, he felt uncontrollable curiosity. This curiosity made her hold Li Zhen's hand tightly, as if she had made up her mind to not let go if the other party was not satisfied with her.

Li Zhen glanced at Zeus, then looked at Bai Xiaodang and smiled: "Of course. Maybe I need you to organize the text information for me soon-to-mortar - on the day when everyone knows the truth."

"Actually you already know enough. If you can calm down and straighten your thoughts, the answer is in your mind." Li Zhen gently pulled his hand and whispered, "We can call it Gaia - I don't care about how to explain it has life from the perspective of human science, because the definition of life is diverse. In fact, some people have thought this way a long time ago - decades ago, a British meteorologist thought that the earth and the entire biosphere might constitute a holistic consciousness - of course, the Gaia in his theory is not the same as the Gaia we know now, but that is indeed the idea closest to the truth."

"But for the planet under our feet, we, the ancient gods, species, and all other creatures and plants may be things that dislike it - if you think so, if there are a group of inconspicuous little things on the surface of your body, and these little things use pointed awls to pierce you and extract your blood, how would you feel?"

"...It's like a mosquito." Bai Xiaodang murmured, "Then we... dig minerals and oil. It's like a mosquito sucking its blood?"

Li Zhen smiled and shook his head: "No, humans are just bacteria to it. To achieve the level of mosquitoes - that is something that only the ancient gods can do."

"Fortunately it has been sleeping all the time - you can think of it as a baby. A baby who can have tens of billions of years of life and is only over four billion years old now." Li Zhen continued, even making a joke, "Babies are snooze."

"But the sleeping baby will occasionally be awakened - the fluctuations of the universe will wake it up. I said that the ancient god was born more than 4 billion years ago, but then suffered heavy damage - that was because the fluctuations caused by a collision woke Gaia up. The awakened baby found a mosquito fell on his body, so he patted it with his hand. But he did not slap it to death. He only injured it. The baby quickly fell asleep again, and the mosquito continued to survive."

Bai Xiaodang realized that Li Zhen was explaining what he said at the summit that day that day that the ancient god suffered extremely serious injuries 300 million years after his birth.

"Then Gaia continued to sleep until 530 million years ago, the ancient gods created species." Speaking of this, Li Zhen looked at Zeus. "The species civilization then declared war on the ancient gods - I think it was because they knew Gaia's existence."

"Yes." Zeus said in a low voice, "it created us, telling us that there is a stronger and stronger existence than it - right under our feet. And it creates us, just like we create humanity. It does not know how to completely get rid of this great threat, so it wants more wisdom to think about this problem together."

"Wait..." Bai Xiaodang interrupted Zeus. "Why... is a threat? You said that we, or you are equivalent to bacteria on it, and the ancient god is just a mosquito. Mosquitoes can not suck blood or sting it. As for bacteria... it will not care about our existence, right? After all, we are so small to it."

"Small?" Zeus smiled, "The individual is indeed small for it. But you should know how all life in this world is produced today - the ancient god was injured for the first time, and the flesh and blood that fell from his body formed the initial life, and then those lives flourished and formed the biosphere afterwards. Humans, life, also include the plants around you."

Li Zhen took Zeus's words: "If a person or a tree is equivalent to a small bacteria that is invisible to the naked eye. Then what is this biosphere spreading across the surface of the earth?"

Bai Xiaodang opened his mouth as if he woke up from a dream: "It's... ringworm and scab."

"Yes." Li Zhen nodded, "We have become some kind of disease, something that shouldn't have existed. Perhaps we have nothing to do with Gaia, but no one can tell if it will be wiped out as easily as before once it is woken up."

"——This is what we once thought." Zeus took over Li Zhen's words, "We were created and told about our mission. In the first ten million years, we faithfully fulfilled this mission and worked with the ancient gods to think about the way to relieve the threat - but despite our brilliant civilization, it was futile."

"In the second ten million years, we realized that we didn't seem to be able to solve this problem. Because thinking is not what our tribe is good at. We are better at destroying. So we began to doubt and fear. We fear not only Gaia, but also our creator. In our opinion, it has a terrible power second only to Gaia. It was even noticed by Gaia and suffered heavy damage."

"We fear that it will become stronger and stronger, so powerful that one day wakes up Gaia and triggers a second disaster - when I called the expected disaster the 'last day'. So we decided to eliminate the hidden dangers before it happened. Almost at the same time, it also decided to eliminate us - it intends to reclaim us, the creators of wisdom, and try again."

"Then the war broke out. At first it was just a low-intensity war, and then it escalated into a war of extinction. The result of the war was a loss-stricken - it failed to destroy us, but was severely damaged by us. We failed to destroy it, and the survivors were less than one. So we reached an agreement - it dismembered itself and dispersed all over the world to avoid growing too strong and awakening Gaia. And we continued its work."

"So... the first thing you created was the dinosaur civilization?" Bai Xiaodang asked with wide eyes.

"It is not creation, it is just a little guide," Zeus replied. "At that time, they already had their own civilization. During that time, we got along well. We created a safe environment for them, and they gave all their wisdom. The development of dinosaur civilization was beyond your imagination - even faster than you. It was at that time that we saw hope, and we found some methods - at least three methods."

"One of these things, today's humans also want to get."

"Interstellar immigration." Li Zhen whispered, "You can try to migrate some people to another planet - not every planet has life."

"Yes. At that time, this was also the most promising method." Zeus narrowed his eyes slightly, but his face was not good-looking, and seemed to be trapped in some unpleasant memories. "This place is called Olympus, but it was considered a huge laboratory at that time. Two kinds of experiments are conducted here at the same time - the first is interstellar immigration, and the second is to create independent space."

"For the dinosaurs at that time, interstellar immigration was not very difficult. They had already established an outpost on Mars, and even formed a small city that could be self-sufficient in a short period of time. In fact, in one hundred years, they could develop a starship civilization - everyone, embark on huge starships, or immigrate to other planets, or start traveling without ends - for another hundred years."

"Well... it seems that the latter is safer." Bai Xiaodang commented - her mood has gradually calmed down. He was attracted by the true stories told by the two people, "because I think that maybe another planet will come alive."

Li Zhen and Zeus looked at her at the same time. Zeus smiled slightly: "Indeed, this is a normal idea—but not a rational idea. From which point of view, it is easier to move to another planet and easier to achieve. But like you, many people surrender to the huge fear from their feet—they don't have the courage to experience the kind of risk you said. So we made a wrong decision—after building the outpost city on Mars, we decided to give up that plan and instead build an incredibly huge starship."

"So we delayed for a hundred years." Zeus sighed softly, "In this century, space technology has stopped in this huge laboratory, and starship technology has developed rapidly. Together with the power of the entire civilization, we built the shell of the huge spacecraft and let it anchor in the orbit of the moon."

"The first collision was more than 3 billion years ago - this period of time was extremely long for life. So at that time we thought there would be enough time for us to realize our plans." Zeus said in a low voice, as if the past was vivid in his mind. "But when we were still happy for the huge spacecraft, the second impact came."

"Before this shock, we were lucky enough to think that Gaia might wake up again and would not care about our existence. However, luck failed to escape the fate of destruction... It waved another hand."

"We are only one step away from the dinosaur civilization to escape. However, Gaia's wave completely erased the traces of the existence of that civilization." Zeus sighed, "It was after that mass extinction that civilization was almost interrupted - only a very small part survived with its tenacious vitality."

"It's indeed... it's a pity." Bai Xiaodang sighed in a low voice, "but at least you can have a third chance."

"The third chance?" Zeus smiled with a complicated expression, "Human, you don't know what that great extinction definitely means to a kind of civilization. In your heart, we are cruel, bloodthirsty, and want to destroy everything. But if you look back at humans - in the era of human ignorance, will it be equally cruel and bloodthirsty if you have powerful power? Yes. The kinds you see now cannot be called a civilization - they are just individuals with minds and physical strength. They are nothing but destruction and vague memories of the 'last day'."

"I do not agree that they are the successors of civilizations, because now they have no civilization at all. They are abandoned beings--although that great master created you again, trying to use your wisdom to continue our unfinished careers to revitalize civilizations... But the last master lost hope in the end. Therefore, there was suppression--I did not surrender to the power of Huangdi or the gun of Longineus, I just surrender to despair. I will be the only witness of the previous era and the last one."

Bai Xiaodang didn't know what to say for a while. It took a long time before she forced a smile: "But humans have at least reached today-"

But before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by Zeus again. It seemed that memories of the past made his temper become irritable. He was no longer the gentle and quiet person, but slowly turned into a volcano that wanted to erupt in anger: "Today? No, human. You are too optimistic."

"I don't deny that you have wisdom comparable to dinosaur civilization, but you are more unfortunate than dinosaur civilization. You have left too little time, and the peak has appeared three times - maybe tomorrow, maybe next year, a stronger peak will appear, and Gaia will wake up for the third time - and you can't even land on Mars now - with your chemical fuel propeller."

"The last time the Great Extinction completely destroyed the system of civilizations, and you did not receive enough guidance. So you were divided and loved internal struggles. Neither the Great Lord nor I could produce enough influence - the influence of a powerful civilization on another civilization - all your wisdom and energy were wasted." Zeus severely accused the clan represented by Bai Xiaodang, and then sighed dejectedly, "But we are not a race that is good at creating..."

Li Zhen smiled bitterly. People did waste a lot of energy and time - he could understand Zeus's regret and anger. Because just after he knew everything from the memory of the ancient god, he also had the same emotions. He was even more cautious and conservative than the civilizations of the past - he tried to surrender to the ancient god.

In Murmansk, he reached an agreement with Yinglong.

The ancient god tried to resurrect—the increasingly strong impact awakened it. It wanted to resurrect it. It thought it had been waiting long enough, and now no force in the world could hinder its pace like the civilizations of the past. Li Zhen knew how powerful it was, so he felt the invincible despair for the first time in front of this power.

He bought seventy years from "God" - he planned to accompany the people around him through his life and then handed over the world to the existence closest to the origin.

Li Zhen knew what the "God" wanted to do. It was fearing - Gaia was also its "God". Gaia's two awakenings made it realize that this planet would eventually become an extinction land, and it also had the instinct to continue to survive.

It was this instinct that made it try and created a variety of civilizations. But this attempt was wrong for it. So after sleeping for hundreds of millions of years, it decided to survive in another way. It intended to devour the "bacteria" on the surface of this huge living body - they were originally part of it.

Then it tries to fight to the death as the third strong impact arrives—maybe it completely erased. Perhaps it will gain more powerful power—just as the first impact has given it birth in this world—and then escapes from this dead place.

Humans who are smaller than reptiles cannot stop the ancient gods. However, humans who are smaller than reptiles have become extremely aggressive and destructive in the long internal struggle.

The 50 million tons of TNT equivalent nuclear bomb "Ancient Star Lord" is the most terrifying weapon that humans have ever made, but it is not the limit that humans can do. If they want, even this devastated world can create 100 million tons of TNT equivalent hydrogen bombs in one month - perhaps such power is not enough to destroy the ancient gods, but putting them to some of the most vulnerable places on the earth's plate is enough to awaken Gaia.

Death together - this is the craziest deterrence. Even "God" will not doubt the tragic determination when a civilization is forced to the brink of extinction.

Seventy years are just a blink of an eye for the ancient god - so it temporarily compromises. It gives Li Zhen seventy years to spend his life with the people around him.

However……

Li Zhen suddenly realized that he had a child.

"God" knows this, but God doesn't care.

Because it ultimately cannot fully understand what a unique existence human being is.

Perhaps it also believes that letting some people survive the Mars base that Li Zhen mentioned is a good choice... However, human beings are not "gods" after all.

After the first self-conscious existence was born on this planet, it became a colosseum—the beasts tried to break through an extremely strong wall, but the failures again and again made them realize that only the ultimate survivor might have enough strength to escape.

Therefore, the beasts began to bite each other, trying to fill their appetites with each other's flesh and blood.

Now, on this bloody battlefield, a strange guy appears. It grows alone in the wilderness and is not very strong. However, it has the most painful memories and lessons of the former losers, as well as the most cruel eyes and the most persistent desires-
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