Chapter 518 (1/2)

Honestly, Hao Ren was not surprised by the First Born’s space combat capabilities.

This powerful primitive creature had already demonstrated a small part of its fighting ability. It could control gravity, produce shields, distort space, and know how to use anti-air firepower to destroy targets in the face of meteorite attacks. All signs indicated that the First Born knew what space was all about from the very beginning—at least it knew what ‘air combat’ was. Plus it had destroyed the lunar city of the Ancient Magic Empire. So of course this monster could take the war to space.

Only that Hao Ren did not expect that the ‘space ship’ it created could be so smart.

After confirming that the ‘seed’ had completely died, Lily cut through the skin of the seed with his claws, exposing the withered organs below. The shape of those organs was between animals and plants. Although they looked like organs, they were similar to wood fibres. Hao Ren also took a look at the annular structure at the core of the seed. It had a metallic lustre and seemed to contain a lot of minerals. Hao Ren reached out to touch it. It felt dead: its weight on the lunar surface was rather baffling, and was not known what kind of material it was constituted of.

“It’s a weapon, through-and-through,” said Vivian, scratching her chin. “It seems that it’s designed specifically to attack other planets.”

What Vivian said rang a bell as Hao Ren suddenly realized that the First Born was not a weapon when it hatched from the Seed of Origin. It was just a plant responsible for shaping the initial ecological environment. Although powerful, it did not have such meticulous weapon. This seed was obviously a well-designed weapon. It was not be the initial blueprint of the Seed of Origin.

No doubt that the First Born had designed this thing. It had been capable of designing this weapon despite of its madness. Or was it that some sort of logical thinking remained and was enough for it to complete this wonderful art of destruction despite its madness?

As Hao Ren spoke of his thoughts, the others were shocked and some began to contemplate. Lily had been wagging her tail for a long while in deep thoughts. She suddenly jabbed on Hao Ren’s stomach and said, “It seems that all civilisations of the universe have been wiped out, including those who had the ability to fly into space.”

Before Lily’s voice trailed off, Hao Ren instinctively bounced two metres backward with cold sweat trickling down his back. “Don’t poke me with this claw! We’re going to kill me!”

Nangong Wuyue reached out her hand giving the ‘seed’ a little push. She then stuck out her tongue and said, “You’ll surely die if you get marked by this thing. Anyway, is there really not a single survivor in this universe? The universe is so big yet it doesn’t even have someone strong enough to counter this thing?”

The survivors Wuyue mentioned were not like those in Holletta which had retrogressed but the ones who had succeeded in preserving their civilisation and even solved the First Born crisis themselves.

“The entire universe is dead. All of the channels have only our own reverberations, or broadcasts from the Imperial Data Link,” the MDT shook itself. “I don’t think there is any living interstellar civilisation left. The strength disparity between the Second Born and the First Born is too just obvious. The latter’s form of life has an absolute advantage. Unless a race had moved to another galaxy before the First Born went mad, completely cut off the connection with the parent star, and nothing associated with the First Born—not even a cell—could be taken, or they would surely get caught and then destroyed.”

Vivian hugs herself as she chimed in. “There is another possibility: there may be survivors. They are hiding and dare not respond to anyone.”

After seeing Hao Ren’s quizzical gaze, Vivian shrugged. “Don’t forget how otherworldlings on earth live under persecution by the demon hunters. They hide. They stay in shelters. They make no noise. They don’t not respond to any contact. But the First Born is even more terrible than the demon hunter, so the survivors will have to hide even deeper. There must be some civilisation still out there—alive. As Wuyue said, the universe is so big that there must always be someone who’s strong enough.”

Hao Ren felt a little emotional. He looked up at the stars in the night sky. Planet Holletta was hanging in the middle of the night sky, surrounded by endless glorious stars. A sense of inexplicable feelings came to mind as he thought of the few horrified eyes that might be hidden among the silent, icy planets. They were survivors of the catastrophe. They had a complete record of 10,000 years of history. They might have already demolished their communication equipment—obviously the First Born had the ability to track their signals—and locked themselves in a place that could completely blackout any sign of life. But the survivors would certainly leave some sort of window—unless they wanted to stay in the shelter until the time of the destruction of the universe, otherwise they would always leave a way to perceive the outside world.

It was like the pigeon that Noah released.

Hao Ren wanted to leave a broadcasting tower, sending out a ‘The catastrophic events have ended’ message to elicit those survivors, but he soon realized that this was very risky because he was completely unsure whether the catastrophe was really over!