"What are your plans next?"
After killing Arrogance and gaining a bit of characteristics, the three of them did not leave directly.
Instead, he stayed in the imperial capital for a while.
This period is mainly about cultivation and recovery.
Li Yi was seriously injured.
Although from Yang Yu's perspective, the entire battle ended quickly and did not last long. Even the punch that finally resolved the battle seemed very perfunctory.
But in the actual process, only Li Yi himself knew how hard it was.
As for the reason.
"How did you get it? I obviously saw you end the fight with just one punch. Where did you get these injuries?"
Yang Yu was helping him apply medicine that day, checking his injuries and chattering at the same time.
He can not understand.
Obviously the number of times both sides have fought is very small, so where did the injuries on this guy's body come from?
No one knows how many times Li Yi has fought with Arrogance in the sea of consciousness.
And it wasn't until the moment the battle ended that Li Yi understood a fact.
That is a "simulated battle" in the sea of consciousness, and the injuries suffered will eventually be fed back to reality.
He thought for a long time but couldn't figure out what was going on.
Obviously, this situation did not occur in previous experiments!
So, what went wrong?
Li Yi didn't understand this until the moment the battle ended, when a wave of pain swarmed over him.
There was only one thought in his mind at that time.
Blanch! It hurts so much. Will I die?
Of course he won't die, even though he insisted on driving away Yang Yu and Heishan, just to avoid causing trouble to them.
But in fact, Heishan had already noticed the inconspicuous injuries on his body.
As a descendant of a family whose heritage is based on casting, although Heishan has just awakened the power of his bloodline, there is no doubt about his talent.
Even though checking injuries is not his main job, if you want to be a good caster, you must have a pair of sharp eyes.
And Montenegro just has this talent.
He just took one look and realized that Li Yi, who looked uninjured at all, was actually scarred inside.
That's why he said those words without any hesitation and rejected the proposal to leave.
And when Yang Yu asked the first sentence, it was actually the seventh day after Li Yi fell into coma.
At this time, he had just woken up from his coma.
Li Yi's eyes were a little confused when he heard Yang Yu ask him about his follow-up plan.
"have no idea."
He really didn't know, after all, his idea at first was just to find the things left by the mastermind.
What I didn't expect was that such a big secret was revealed.
The so-called mastermind is just a clone of that guy that was awakened by a special intrusion program.
And just the ability that this clone possesses is enough to make him miserable.
Li Yi's only clue at present is that the mastermind's clone began uncontrolled evolution a long time ago.
This kind of evolution is actually developing in the direction of humans.
This is also the main reason why he has so many emotional sources.
Absorbing too much primitive emotions from human beings will certainly greatly accelerate the pace of evolution.
But at the same time, it absorbs primitive emotions without distinguishing between good and evil. Even if the clone from the main brain is very powerful, it cannot bear it in the end.
He collapsed.
The sanity originally inherited from the main body was constantly washed away by the massive negative emotions, making the clone gradually show signs of being on the verge of collapse.
So while reason still had the upper hand, the clone had to start to split himself, but he was reluctant to split all the human emotions he had acquired. That would cause great damage to his strength and he would not be able to recover for a long time. come over.
And he knew very well that he couldn't do this.
Because although he is just a clone, he has already been regarded as an independent consciousness.
In other words, he can completely ignore the call of his true body and become a special creature walking alone in the universe.
The only thing he has to do is to completely gain his own freedom - to kill the original body.
"What you're saying sounds like I'm watching a science fiction movie."
After listening to Li Yi's analysis and judgment, Yang Yu looked at him with confusion and said this.
"I think it's possible."
Unexpectedly, Montenegro, who had regained his reticence, actually acknowledged this statement.
Heishan raised his head, glanced at Yang Yu who was a little stunned, and Li Yi who was weak, and said word by word.
"A legend in our tribe once mentioned this kind of creature. It is a monster that no one has ever seen before."
"Legend has it that his body is so huge that even the largest whale in the sea can't compare to one of his toes."
"No one knows how long he lived. They only know that at the beginning of every planet where civilization is born, someone will see that huge body."
"It was just a part of his body, it could have been any part."
"No one knows what this means. Ignorant humans will only think that it is the favor of the gods, so they will regard the part they see as a totem of faith... You know, sir, ancient humans were still in the In a state of ignorance, it is normal to have such a reaction when seeing things that are too powerful than oneself. According to the genealogy, this is a kind of human worship mentality for powerful power."
Li Yi nodded.
"So has anyone really seen this guy's true face?"
Montenegro shook his head.
"Then I don't know. The records in the genealogy are just a few fragments. Maybe many of them are full of jealousy. In order to increase the mystery, when I was a child, when I heard the elders of the clan talking about these things, I always regarded them as fairy tales. of."
In other words, basically no one will believe it. Even those who tell these records as stories, almost no one will believe that it is actually a huge creature that has existed since ancient times.
After all, with the development of human society, creatures that are beyond logical cognition will naturally be regarded as a product of superstition, and their popularity will gradually die out with the development of science and technology.
During this period of following Li Yi, Heishan's logical ability has been greatly improved. Coupled with his trust in Li Yi, when Li Yi said these words, he immediately thought of the words in the genealogy records. This story.
The reason why I remembered it right away is because this legend appears very frequently among the elders in the clan. Whenever there are younger people who want to listen to the story, the white-bearded elder of the God's Family will sit on the steps with a smile on his face. There were a bunch of little kids sitting around, listening to what he was saying with curiosity on their faces.
Whenever this time is the time when Montenegro satisfies its curiosity and thirst for knowledge.
So he was particularly impressed by this story.
A giant creature whose body is so big that it exceeds the sky. No one can see his whole face.
He often only reveals one body part.
No one knew why he appeared and deliberately wanted others to see him, or what the purpose of this behemoth was.
People usually only express what they see through drawings and actions to express their worship of the powerful.
"So your totem?"
Heishan understood what Li Yi meant by asking this question. He couldn't just use "this thing" instead of "this thing" every time he mentioned it, right?
So he said a name.
"Gaia."
Then he gave some explanation.
"This actually has the same name as the extremely powerful gods in many mythological stories, and these gods are actually synonymous with this creature. In other words, it is based on Gaia that humans have created the images of gods in various mythological stories. .”
"So what you're saying is that Gaia actually appeared earlier than the gods in human civilization?"
"Yes, actually this is quite normal. Whenever a creature evolves into a group, it is also quite normal for the myths of that period to appear."
Li Yi nodded.
He naturally understood what Heishan meant.
The living environment of human beings in ancient times was much worse than today.
Natural disasters, wild beasts, changes in the environment.
Any one of them would have been fatal to the human ancestors at that time.
If human beings want to survive and reproduce, they must unite together to resist such harsh factors.
The humans of that period, no matter how powerful individual humans were, were too small compared to the beasts and the natural environment of that period.
The more you lack something, the more you want it.
During that period, the threats to the human race were all creatures that had long since become extinct.
Whether they are dinosaurs or other beasts, the size and strength of these animals are far greater than that of human beings, and their huge size has been deeply engraved in the genes of ancient humans and has been passed down.
The appearance of Gaia at this time left an indelible impression on human ancestors and became a mark on the totem of ancient humans.
"Powerful? That's right, no matter which branch of human beings you are, the deep desire for power engraved into your genes is indelible."
Thinking of this, Li Yi turned and looked at Heishan.
"Do you, the God's Clan, also have totems that have been handed down?"
"have."
"What is it?"
Heishan hesitated for a while and finally said it.
"A giant eye."
