Fujen Zhen shook his head and sighed, but the scene of him boarding the Divine Light starship seemed to replay in his mind.
It was a world of light. The starship's internal structure was roughly the same as a human starship's, but all the walls, floors, corridors, control panels, and facilities were made of light. The only difference was the color of the light, but they could change forms at will.
For example, when Fujen Zhen and a group of Origin Ability users entered the corridor, the light in the corridor immediately turned into a solid alloy material. Clearly, it was meant for humans to walk.
Although the SS Expedition starship had been sucked in by a strange force, this Divine Light starship didn't seem to have any evil intentions. It was parked in the same space as the frogmen's exploration ship.
Ding Meng was curious. "No evil intentions?"
Fujen Zhen nodded. "Yes. After we got off the ship, we didn't find any living creatures nearby, including the Green Wild-class exploration ship of the frogmen. There wasn't a single monster on it."
Ding Meng asked, "What about other places?
Senior, have you searched? "
Fujen Zhen said, "We've searched everywhere. This Divine Light starship really doesn't have a single person. There isn't even a trace of life."
Ding Meng asked according to Little Rascal's instructions. "Is there such a possibility?
We humans and the Devouring World are all silicon-based life forms, but the Divine Light civilization's life forms are different, such as electromagnetic life forms, bosonic life forms, and degenerate life forms. "
"Absolutely impossible!"
This time, it was Xue Yue Mountain who answered him. "It doesn't matter if they're other life forms. As long as they're alive, they have consciousness. With consciousness, they can produce energy. We can naturally detect energy fluctuations."
Ding Meng nodded. Xue Yue Mountain's analysis made sense.
Fujen Zhen continued, "This starship is like a ghost ship. The strange thing is that there's clearly no one on it, but its system is running automatically. It doesn't seem like a central system like an AI because it can change its flight path at any time."
Ding Meng understood. They had to find the command center's control panel to figure out the reason.
"Senior Fujen, you must have found the command center, right?" Ding Meng asked.
Makoto Fujen turned his head to look at the Xue Yue Mountain: "Old Trash and I met in the command center."
Xue Yue Mountain replied proudly, "Little brat, you're not too bad. You were able to kill several hundred of my subordinates. It's already not bad that a mere combat master like you is able to fight me to a draw."
Fujen Zhen sneered: "A draw?
If you didn't devour your hundreds of disciples and grand-disciples, you would have been killed by me. "
Xue Yue Mountain said disdainfully, "You humans can't understand our great evolution."
"You think you're so great after devouring your own kind?" Feng Jian Zhen was even more disdainful.
Xue Yue Mountain retorted, "What about you? You can only watch hundreds of your brothers die."
Fujen Zhen said, "Hmph!"
Xue Yue Mountain said, "Hmph!"
Ding Meng sighed: "If I'm not wrong, the two seniors should have all died in that battle. The two of you should have been heavily injured as well."
Fujen Zhen said, "That's because my injuries were too heavy. I needed time to recover. Otherwise, Old Trash would have died long ago."
Xue Yue Mountain laughed: "Keep bragging. This Divine Light starship doesn't have a homogenous environment. Most of my energy has to be used to adapt to the Divine Light around me. Otherwise, do you think you would still be able to speak?"
Ding Meng said, "But the two of you didn't fight each other in the end?"
This was also a strange thing. The deep hatred between the Federation and the Devourer World wasn't just a matter of one or two lives. It wasn't just a matter of one or two lives. Tens of billions of resources, wealth, and lives were piled up. Therefore, it was a miracle that the two of them could still coexist peacefully.
Of course, there was definitely a reason that no one knew about. Although the two of them didn't say anything, the two of them knew the reason.
After a fierce battle that day, the control hall was littered with the corpses of human soldiers. The two of them leaned against the wall and rested.
Xue Yue Mountain was an Elder. He would definitely recover faster than Fujen Zhen. After he recovered, the first thing he did was not to kill Fujen Zhen. Instead, he checked the control panel, clearly trying to find something useful. After all, they were on the Divine Light starship. If he found one or two technologies and brought them back to the Devourer World for research, perhaps the entire frogman race of the Federal Empire would be wiped out.
Ding Meng said, "Did you find it?"
Makoto Fuuma laughed coldly. "It'd be strange if he could find it. He couldn't even understand the language of the Shenguang civilization. Instead, he rummaged through the cabinets and found something that looked like a test tube. From that moment on, we were out of luck."
Xue Yue Mountain's tone sounded regretful: "Yes, I should have listened to you. Otherwise, we wouldn't have ended up like this."
Ding Meng frowned: "What test tube?"
Fujen Zhen said, "There was a brown lifeform that looked like a droplet of water in the test tube. At the time, I sensed it. That droplet of water had an extremely weak life force."
Xue Yue Mountain said, "I sensed it too. My instincts told me that this might have something to do with the Divine Light civilization!"
Fujen Zhen said, "I advised you not to open that thing at the time. I felt that it was not normal for this starship to have transmigrated here. To be safe, it was best not to open it."
When he said not to open it, Ding Meng could tell that Xue Yue Mountain must have opened it.
Actually, this mentality was easy to understand. No matter who boarded the Divine Light starship from the Federation or the Devourer World, they would have tried to understand this civilization. If it had been Ding Meng, he would have opened it too. Fujen Zhen was not as immature as Principal Zhu had said.
This droplet of water was naturally released. It was very strange. It could float freely in the air and grow rapidly within a few minutes. It was as if it had absorbed part of the energy of the Divine Light around it. This growth speed shocked even a prodigy like Fujen Zhen.
"It's like …" Fujen Zhen's tone was full of fear. "It's like a single cell that suddenly evolved into a spongy body."
He finally found a reasonable analogy. Ding Meng was also shocked. In the history of mankind, it took hundreds of millions of years for a single cell to evolve into a sponge, but it only took a few minutes for a water droplet to evolve.
Actually, Xue Yue Mountain also felt that something was wrong, but it was impossible to put the droplet back. Most importantly, the droplet could communicate with them.
The droplet burrowed into the body of an adjutant on the ground. The body immediately woke up and told the two of them that he was actually a member of the Divine Light civilization. He had been engaged in a battle in a distant space battlefield. All his companions had been killed by strong enemies, and he had been beaten back to his original form. At the critical moment, he had sealed himself and forcefully opened a space-time rift to escape here. He needed their help.
With Fujen Zhen and Xue Yue Mountain's knowledge and experience, they definitely did not dare to trust each other.
Ding Meng's tone turned cold. "But it convinced you?"
Fujen Zhen sighed. "It's my fault. It told me that there was a warehouse of Divine Light Technologies on the starship. The warehouse had the Divine Light technology that we wanted, but the mainframe system was afraid that the enemy would capture us, so it automatically activated protective measures. It told me to operate the main control panel according to its instructions, and then I became addicted to it."
Xue Yue Mountain's electronic eyes glanced at Fujen Zhen and sighed deeply. "It's not your fault. It's my fault."
Fujen Zhen was shocked. "Why?"
Xue Yue Mountain sighed. "When I first boarded the starship, I carefully observed these symbols of Divine Light Technologies. I realized that they were very similar to some of the array patterns in our Devouring World. Some of the glyphs even matched. I guessed that our Devouring World might have some connection with the Divine Light civilization. Even if we didn't, I was confident that I could decipher them."
These two had disliked each other before, and now they were blaming each other. Ding Meng could only sigh. Sometimes, the only people you could appreciate were your enemies. Just like Lan Bing's theory, only a true enemy would study you, value you, and trust you.
"So, did you manage to decipher it?" Ding Meng continued to ask.
Xue Yue Mountain sighed heavily this time. "Although I didn't decipher it completely, I guessed the general meaning."
This time, Ding Meng did not have to ask. Fujen Zhen explained.
"The water droplet sealed in the test tube is not a Divine Light life form. It is a sample that the Divine Light life form normally uses for experiments. It comes from another civilization that is almost extinct. On some planets with extreme environments, there are life forms that use liquid helium as the foundation and superconducting electricity, superconducting energy, and superconducting sapiens as the medium. They are not afraid of cold or high temperatures. They have very strong abilities to imitate, devour, replicate, and evolve infinitely. They are terrifying special life forms that have dominated the universe for billions of years.
The only weakness of this special life form is that its initial form is too weak. Once it is placed in an environment with abundant energy, it can grow rapidly. Its growth rate is terrifying. After it reaches a certain level, even the Divine Light civilization finds it difficult to deal with. Therefore, after the Divine Light people sealed it, they repeatedly emphasized in the instruction that it must not be released in non-experimental environments. Not only can it threaten a civilization, but it can also threaten a star cluster or even hundreds of star clusters. "
Ding Meng was also shocked. He also knew that in the vast and infinite universe, humans boasted of being an advanced race. However, humans were definitely not creatures that were strong on their own. On the contrary, humans were very weak. Compared to this special life form, humans were really, really weak.
Xue Yue Mountain sighed. "Actually, it allowed Fujen Zhen to operate the control panel because it saw the intelligence and wisdom of human Origin ability users. Its goal was not to let us obtain the technology of the Divine Light civilization. It was because it was very weak and could not understand the powerful principles behind the technology of the Divine Light civilization. It wanted to use Fujen Zhen to open the warehouse and absorb the Divine Light energy inside. Everything it told us was a lie."
Ding Meng also smelled a bad signal. This was the rhythm of something super big!
Sure enough, Fujen Zhen sighed deeply. "By the time the two of us figured out the truth, it was already too late!"