"Nearly a year has passed since you last left here. I thought you gave up on your original decision."
Meredith walked in front, pushing away the bushes blocking the road, and said: "Especially after I heard about the sons of the gods... Do you know? The northern countries are either crazy about the rise of the gods,
Either tremble under the iron heel of the tyrant. If this continues, you will own the entire Northern Continent before long."
Todd looked at the dilapidated temple in front of him and said softly: "I never thought about giving up here. In this year, I just finished some things that I should do."
"What you said sounds like a terminally ill person fulfilling his unfulfilled wish."
Meredith's words stunned Todd.
The latter was silent for a while, then laughed: "It's really similar."
Meredith looked back at the man, turned her head, sighed lowly, and stopped talking.
The two walked to the high platform of the temple. Shadow Queen Scathach was looking at the mountains in the distance, seemingly not noticing the visiting guests.
Todd wanted to speak, but Meredith stopped him and signaled the former to wait a moment.
A few minutes later, Scathach withdrew his gaze from the distance and turned to Todd.
"There are more and more souls in the sky."
Scathach's sudden words made Todd raise his head in confusion.
He transformed his eyes into golden pupils in the form of a tyrant and looked towards the southern sky, where there was a thick layer of blue clouds that were constantly flowing.
Meredith frowned: "Those are the souls of the dead...souls will not stay together unless someone is behind it."
Scathach walked down the stone steps, came to the two of them, and said to Meredith: "Step back first, I have something to ask him."
Seeing the purple-haired Shadow Queen standing in front of him, Todd felt a little uneasy, always feeling that everything about him had been seen through.
"A human who is willing to become a monster for the sake of his fellow humans." There was an incomprehensible emotion in Scathach's words: "You let me see that there is still hope in human beings."
Todd said hesitantly: "Actually, I..."
Scathach continued: "But you may not know that you have chosen the most difficult path, Xia Shang..."
Hearing Scathach finally say that name in Chinese, Todd was stunned on the spot. He was at a loss and his mind was in confusion: "Do you know my name in another world?!"
"This is not something that should be surprising. A name is originally a symbol, and what you call it has no meaning. The key is, what is inside you?"
Todd became more and more confused as he listened: "Sorry, can you be more specific? I..."
Scathach closed his eyes and shook his head gently: "You have already met Jingsu, right?"
Todd was shocked again: "You don't even care about Jingsu..."
"Besides me, there is another living being who also knows about you and Jingsu."
"who?!"
"Leviathan."
Todd rubbed his temple vigorously with the index finger of his left hand, and made a pause motion with his right hand towards Scathach: "Wait! Wait! I'm completely confused! Who are you?!"
Scathach waved his hand, and a thick tree root burst out of the ground and grew into a tree chair in the blink of an eye.
Signaling Todd to sit down first, Scathach said: "Let me start from the beginning... When the universe was still in chaos, Jingsu created everything, including me and Leviathan."
Todd opened his eyes wide: "So..."
"Yes, Leviathan and I are the first creatures created by Jingsu. We are also called forerunners, helping it manage and supervise the world." Scathach looked at his palms and said, "With Levi,
Like Tan, I have had various names in the long history, Hecate, Sekel, Geofei... All these identities have only one purpose, which is to help Jingsu observe the creations in the world.
.”
Todd sorted out his thoughts and asked: "Forerunners? The first creations of Jingsu? So, this group is not just the two of you?"
"Yes, but in the long years, some forerunners chose to exile themselves to the corners of the universe, and some forerunners chose to turn their living bodies into inorganic substances. Only the individuals that still exist to this day are the only ones left.
Among the few, Leviathan and I are among them."
"I see... I have a question that has been bothering me for a long time. What is Jingsu? In other words, what does Jingsu want to do?"
"I don't know much about this. I only know that Jingsu created us, but above Jingsu, there is a group of higher-level creators who created Jingsu. According to Jingsu
, its creator only gave it one mission: to find the optimal existence mode of life."
Todd chewed on this passage over and over again and asked: "What is the optimal mode of existence of life?"
"I don't know. Jingsu once said that all created creatures have flaws. The optimal form of life should not be created, but should be formed naturally in the process of continuous evolution and evolution.
How to find the optimal model that is consistent with the development of life is the mission given to it by the master of Jingsu. As for why it is done this way, I don’t know, even Jingsu itself doesn’t know.”
Todd rubbed his eyebrows and continued to ask: "Change the question, what about the candidate for the god that Jingsu mentioned?"
Scathach replied: "The so-called god candidate is actually a method of life selection. Through the evaluation of individual strength, evolution and cognition, a ruler of the race is finally selected and given a strategy.
Ability higher than that of an ordinary individual to see how he will improve the race."
Todd had some doubts: "Can this method really optimize life?"
"Everything that happens in nature has proven everything, survival of the fittest, survival of the strong, and the same is the way life is optimized."
Todd shrugged: "Okay, even so, why did you suddenly tell me this today?"
Scathach said slowly: "What I am going to talk about next is related to racial differences. A long time ago, the species in the world showed diversified development, and humans were just one branch of them."
"In the subsequent tens of thousands of life selections, human beings have even been able to physically assimilate other races with the help of geometric speed research progress. This has also allowed them to gradually stand out among creations and become winners time and time again.
." There was a bit of sigh in Scathach's words: "But, with
Different from other races, human nature has a very serious concept of exclusion, so serious that it cannot even tolerate the existence of other races. In the divine selection wars again and again, relying on the divine power of the winning candidates, humans have repeatedly compressed the living space of alien races, and finally
Pushing other races to the brink of genocide."
"Seeing this situation, as the first batch of creations of Jingsu, the forerunners, they can no longer sit back and ignore it. More and more individuals have proposed to Jingsu to rebalance the entire racial environment and restrict human beings.
Power. However, Jingsu, as the creator, rejected this proposal. It believes that only in such a cruel competitive environment can the best life form be finally selected."
"More and more forerunners cannot agree with Jingsu's approach and leave this place... Those who stay are watching other species gradually disappear."
Todd was a little helpless: "So, humans have become the leaders of this world, so has life optimization progressed in the future?"
Scathach shook his head in frustration: "On the contrary, after humans took over the world, the optimal process of life has not progressed at all, but has continued to regress."
"Human beings, without their enemies, began to pursue pleasure and act arbitrarily. They launched internal battles one after another. In the wars of humans, the world was destroyed again and again, species stagnated, and even began to appear.
The situation of civilization retrogressing. Jingsu’s life has fallen into a vicious cycle that keeps repeating.”
"It was at this time that Leviathan and I had serious differences."
"Leviathan believes that human beings are inherently a failed creation. They are like viruses that have devoured other things and then devoured themselves. First, humans will destroy all races with development potential, and then, without external enemies, they will
, will seek self-destruction in endless battles and killings. Therefore, he believes that this failed product of mankind should be completely erased, and the optimal plan of the entire life should be reset."
"I believe that human beings are like the light and dark sides of the moon. They have both good and evil, and they cannot be generalized. If possible, they should be guided and managed instead of just supervising."
Todd sighed: "Let me guess, Jingsu didn't adopt your opinion."
"Yes, Jingsu still insists on not taking any intervention measures for the first choice, but...just when we were discouraged, you appeared."
Todd pointed to himself in surprise: "Me?"
"You do not belong to this world, but you can correctly influence this world. The most important thing is that your attitude and choice towards species happen to meet the requirements of both me and Leviathan."
"Meet your requirements at the same time?"
"For me, I hope that the winner of this battle of divine selection will be a human being who puts aside selfish interests and pays attention to balance; while Leviathan hopes that the winner this time will be a human being who subverts human dominance.
Alien creature. In comparison, you may be our only choice."...