Chapter 734

If you work hard enough, you can grind an iron rod into a needle.

One by one, the Deviant corpses were meticulously dissected, deeply studied, and finally reduced to the initial materials for building silicon-based life.

Su Quan devoted himself wholeheartedly to the research, forgetting to eat and sleep; let alone Ajak and Thena, even Sersi and Makkari, whom he originally planned to flirt with, were left behind by him.

The first page of the sword manual: forget your sweetheart.

The final page of the sword manual: without women, you will become a god.

Su Quan is now in a god-like state; whatever 'one big tops everything,' 'cool female warrior,' 'gentle pretty girl,' or 'electric motor'—all of them get out of the way; women will only affect the speed of his sword drawing!

After days of this, day after day, Su Quan, who was studying the Deviant core, suddenly lost his composure and swung his fist hard.

"Click!"

A cracking sound actually came from the space in front, and a not-so-obvious space crack slowly emerged, producing faint fissures.

"Ah..."

A woman's exclamation followed, and soon stopped abruptly.

Su Quan, who had calmed down, looked at the sound and saw Sersi covering her mouth, standing not far away with a horrified expression.

"Why are you here?" Su Quan asked in surprise.

Sersi explained awkwardly: "I came to deliver the Deviant corpses; I, I have been here for a while."

Maybe he was too focused; Su Quan had no impression, but Sersi came at the right time. He had completely figured out the structure of the Deviants and was already confident in researching the Eternals without harming their lives.

"Hum!"

Psychic ability was released, and Sersi instantly lost control of her body, then floated up and, like those Deviant corpses, lay on Su Quan's research table.

Sersi was instantly stunned; is, is this going to dissect me like a Deviant?

He, he finally took action against the Eternals?!

"Swish—"

Su Quan, whose mind was only on research, didn't know what kind of misunderstanding his action—without even saying hello—had caused Sersi. He directly waved his hand in the air, dispelling Sersi's uniform, and then stared at her intently.

X-ray vision could not penetrate Sersi's body, which was the same as the Deviants, otherwise, he wouldn't have needed to use dissection.

Su Quan wrapped Sersi in cosmic energy to ensure her life state wouldn't have any problems, then extended Wolverine's claws and gently swiped against her body...

In no time, Sersi was like an opened suitcase, inside and out, completely displayed before Su Quan's eyes.

"This... what is going on?!"

Looking at her opened body, Sersi didn't even care about the pain or the threat to her life, shouting at Su Quan in disbelief: "What did you do to me?! Why is my body... all metal?"

"This is very reasonable."

Su Quan focused on observing Sersi's internal structure while explaining: "The life form and body material of the Eternals and Deviants are almost the same; the difference is that Deviants can absorb external energy to evolve, while you Eternals were fixed the moment you were born."

"Impossible!"

"How could we be the same as Deviants? This is absolutely impossible!"

Su Quan smiled and looked up at Sersi; in Sersi's eyes, there was nothing but panic.

"Because your creator is Arishem!"

"No, impossible, we were ordered by the Celestial Arishem to eliminate Deviants; if we are all Arishem's creations, how could Arishem let us eliminate Deviants?"

"This doesn't make sense!"

Su Quan scoffed: "There's nothing that doesn't make sense; you were all created by Arishem to cultivate new Celestials. Arishem first created Deviants, but Deviants had their own thinking, hunting intelligent life everywhere, affecting the birth of new Celestials."

"So Arishem created you, fixed your abilities and forms, controlled your memories and thinking, and let you solve the disobedient Deviants and take over the Deviants' work."

Sersi subconsciously wanted to refute, but opened her mouth and didn't know what to say.

Eternals do not age or die, and their abilities are fixed from the moment of birth; this constant state indeed does not fit the characteristics of natural organisms.

And...

The Eternals' only enemy is the Deviants, and their only mission is to maintain the developmental balance of intelligent life; thinking about it calmly, this is indeed very wrong!

"Could it be... everything he said is true? Are we really created by Arishem to eliminate Deviants and take over for them?"

"Why! Why not tell us the truth? Did Arishem really deceive us?"

Sersi looked at Su Quan, who was researching her, and felt a sense of sorrow; in his eyes, shouldn't they Eternals be no different from Deviants?

"Do, do you have proof?" Sersi asked unwillingly...

"Thena knows the truth; you can go ask her, but it's best not to let others know about this; now is not the time for them to know the truth."

Su Quan reminded her while using cosmic energy to heal Sersi's wounds, turning her back into a gentle pretty girl.

"You, you're done researching?" Sersi asked in surprise.

Su Quan nodded with satisfaction: "You and the Deviants are essentially almost the same, only with slight differences in structural construction; looking at the last one, I know what's going on."

"How does the saying go? It's not hard if you know how; it's hard if you don't!"

Su Quan signaled that she could get up, then seemed to think of something and said with a smile: "Wanda and I will be leaving soon; when we meet again, it should be seven thousand years later. How about we make a pact?"

Sersi got up and asked hesitantly: "What pact?"

"In these seven thousand years, you can do anything, except you cannot fall in love with anyone, and you cannot have any emotional involvement with anyone!"

"You must keep yourself pure for me!"

This request made Sersi pause for a moment; they were here to carry out a mission, carrying great love to maintain the ecological balance of intelligent life on this planet, and had never considered personal emotional issues.

And...

Knowing the cruel truth, she had even less interest in this aspect.

"Okay."

"But..."

Sersi wanted to know why she had to do this, and what she could get from doing so.

"Seven thousand years later, I will come to find you and help you get rid of Arishem's control and punishment!"

The biggest dilemma of the Eternals is that even if they know the truth, even if they are full of anger...

But Arishem, as the Judge among the Celestials and the creator of the Eternals, is simply not someone they can resist or contend with.

The picture is Sersi.

— Author's Notes —

PS: A bit of writer's block; it's mainly that when I think about how much content is left, I want to speed up the progress, but when I write, I don't want to gloss over it. Weighing it back and forth, the efficiency is slow.