Chapter 473

Lin Xian felt that everything he wanted to say next had become nonsense.

Taking the red wine glass from Mo Nika's hand, Lin Xian did not speak. Mo Nika took a sip of the red wine and glanced at him. Seeing him silent, she immediately raised her brows and said:

"You worry too much. Look, even if we are inside a train deep under the sea, we still have to sleep when it's time to sleep."

She walked to the porthole, and her face was reflected on the stardust glass of the pitch-black deep sea.

"One moment of life, one moment of death; life and death may both be fated. Since that is the case, why not try to break through the power of evolution and see where the limits of the human species lie?"

"Limits?" Lin Xian swirled his red wine glass and said meaningfully, "Can one defeat darkness by using the power of the dark side?"

Mo Nika smiled faintly, looked at Lin Xian, and said, "Isn't what you want to say that since the dark civilization wants to exterminate the Blue Star, why would it give humans the power to resist? There are plenty of people with this kind of thinking. When we were fleeing in orbit around the star before, I also met some people. The optimists believe this is the power of assimilation, a transformation by higher civilization power, and that humans have gained a new life. The pessimists believe this is an experiment by the dark civilization, that humans are ultimately just test subjects in evolution, and that the dawn we follow is nothing but a futile effort."

"And you? What do you think?" Lin Xian asked.

Mo Nika shrugged: "I accept both, or, I accept neither."

"Actually, what the truth is doesn't matter, does it? Without superpowers, humans use technological weapons to resist; with superpowers, humans invest in research on evolution to resist. Just like a drowning person, whether it's a straw or a thorn floating beside them, they will grasp at it without hesitation."

After she finished speaking, she looked at Lin Xian with deep eyes.

"Low-level civilizations have no right to choose. If the dark civilization had exterminated the Blue Star on the Day of Apocalypse, and its purpose was merely to treat the Blue Star as a speck of dust, would all the thinking, hatred, and stances have any meaning?"

"Destroying you has nothing to do with you." Lin Xian responded calmly, recalling this sentence he had once seen in a science fiction novel.

"So," Mo Nika walked toward Lin Xian, "being able to double the superpower index, even if the survival rate can only be increased by 1%, is worth a gamble, isn't it?"

"That's right." Lin Xian agreed quite a bit and let out a long sigh: "After dawn, if there are no other troubles, we will prepare to try this lattice evolution. It just so happens that the people from the Falcon Sea Group are here, and there will be someone to guide us."

Hearing this, Mo Nika asked in return: "What about the Phoenix Society? Don't you have a way to contact them?"

Lin Xian's gaze swept across the countdown, then looked at the red wine in the glass, drank it all in one gulp, placed the glass on the table, and turned around with a stern expression to walk toward the front carriage.

"Should... know soon."

Watching Lin Xian leave, Mo Nika's eyes carried a hint of a smile. She turned her head to look at the light and shadow of the porthole and muttered: "Power is the foundation of struggle, and sacrifice is the ladder to victory. Our captain is just too considerate of us team members."

Lin Xian walked through the quiet carriage. At this moment, his heart was not calm at all. Although it seemed safe for the time being, he did not have the sense of peace he felt on the train after escaping a crisis before. One reason was the current underwater environment, and the other was that countdown.

With time approaching, it would be a lie to say he wasn't nervous. This time seemed to be around dawn, but Lin Xian seemed to have no other way but to wait where he was, which kept an uneasiness lingering in the heart of someone as cautious as him.

When passing through Carriage No. 3, Lin Xian stopped and came to the side of the Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Mistakes. This disaster plant with dimensional space power had saved them three times: once by the Bottomless Lake, once during the crossing of the Star Abyss, and then during the escape from the undersea vortex last night. At this moment, the dark purple light within the roots of the disaster plant planted in the culture pod had become restrained and dim, and the flower that had bloomed had disappeared. At this moment, it looked just like an ordinary grass flower.

"Just like a magic treasure, it's clearly just a plant, how could it possess such magical functions..."

Lin Xian studied it for a while, full of confusion. He looked up toward the direction of the lounge, thought for a moment, and then walked over to open the door of Ding Junyi's lounge again. Who knew that as soon as he opened the door this time, he found that Ding Junyi had already gotten up and was quietly putting on her clothes.

"You're awake?"

"I was already awake when you just came." Ding Junyi carefully put on her clothes, then put on her white research coat and black-rimmed glasses, before standing still and looking at Lin Xian, saying: "This is the longest time the Hell Black Chrysanthemum has released dark energy. All carriages were filled with it. The team members previously experienced a tense and dangerous escape, and factors such as energy consumption and injuries, coupled with the closed underwater environment and high oxygen enrichment, were the reasons why they entered a state of lethargy and deep sleep. This point had already been analyzed in my previous observations and research, but it was just a bit more serious this time. This is a key stage of evolution. Considering this, Captain Chen and I completely let Viola take over and didn't wake you up."

Hearing Ding Junyi's words, Lin Xian finally felt relieved.

"I didn't expect to absorb so much black energy. It seems it's not as simple as just hunting that monster." Lin Xian said.

Ding Junyi put her hands in her pockets and analyzed calmly: "When we rushed down the cliff, we passed by the Giant Ocean God at close range. This kind of energy in the ocean shouldn't be in a mist state, but it also indirectly shows that the energy level contained within this world-class disaster itself is very terrifying."

Lin Xian nodded and looked at Ding Junyi: "How is it? How much do you feel you have changed?"

Hearing this, Ding Junyi picked up a small spirit-swing value detector from the table, held it in front of Lin Xian, her eyes flashing with high-spirited green light, and soon, the peak value of the spirit-swing value was detected.

8000!

"My last test was yesterday morning in Haiyan City, at 9 o'clock sharp. The test result was 6900. An increase of 15.94% in one day, this kind of evolution speed is very exaggerated." Ding Junyi said.

"Indeed."

Lin Xian took a breath, was quiet for a while, and then looked up at Ding Junyi.

"Do you know what happened after that flower bud of the Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Mistakes burst?"

"No, I was just about to ask you." Ding Junyi said seriously: "There was no space bubble like the previous eruption, but I felt a strange fluctuation, and everyone's dark marks also disappeared at the same time."

"You didn't see anything?" Lin Xian frowned.

Ding Junyi narrowed her eyes and asked in return: "It seems you had a different encounter?"

Lin Xian paused, then told Ding Junyi about the dimensional entity, including the countdown. Now that he couldn't contact Chu Yan and the Phoenix Society, Director Ding was the only candidate to discuss this kind of super-physical phenomenon.