Chapter 1184: Super-tier Life

His face was grim with sorrow.

A Rui Er slowly loosened his grip, gazing desolately at the crimson on the ground.

"Speaking of which, it's ridiculous."

"Even though we clearly discovered this, we didn't think it was anything, and we never even considered what it meant."

"On the contrary, the Strange-armed People believe that losing power is right."

"Overly powerful individuals are not conducive to the world's later 'peace'."

"Under this mindset, we actually began to take pride in abandoning power, regarding Awakened Ones who do not participate in absorbing spiritual energy as heroes!"

"Anyone who fights to keep their power from declining is a monster! That shows they advocate violence!"

"Later, we actually developed the 【Awakened Ones Resistance Organization】! We regarded the Awakened Ones who once saved us, who saved civilization, as future enemies! Whoever holds great power is a sinister criminal!"

"Abandoning the identity of an Awakened One, abandoning power! That is a kind of rebellion against the system!"

"You say..."

"Isn't that ridiculous.."

In a low, bitter chuckle, A Rui Er trembled all over, as if wondering how the Heavenly-eyed People of that time could be so foolish.

At this moment, Lin An couldn't help but feel somewhat taken aback.

Going from one extreme to another.

The Heavenly-eyed People, who had fought for hundreds of years, grew to despise killing; even when facing the Apocalypse, they foolishly thought they actually didn't need power.

This actually sounds exactly like some protection organizations on Earth before the Apocalypse.

They clearly enjoyed the fruits of technology and industry, yet verbally opposed technological development, believing humanity should return to nature.

"So, the insects went out of control?"

"Without the power of Awakened Ones, were you destroyed by the insects you yourselves created?"

His brows furrowed slightly.

Lin An looked at the silent Ariel and asked in a cold voice.

But for some reason, he always felt there was still a problem with the logic; it didn't seem that simple.

He hesitated, then nodded.

Ariel hunched his body, and only after a long while did he continue speaking:

"The insects have indeed gone out of control."

"Because zombies and mutants are themselves transformations of the Strange-armed People; in our genetic design, we merely made a simple distinction between the two."

"After multiple iterations, gradually the insects began to go out of control."

"Without Awakened Ones, having abandoned high-end combat power, we indeed suffered huge losses."

"But..."

As his words shifted, Ariel suddenly revealed a strange expression.

"Your Excellency, Perfect One, I already said that—how could the insects possibly destroy us?"

"The real disaster is actually not the out-of-control insects."

"Without Awakened Ones, we could actually eliminate the insects and wipe out the monsters again."

"The disaster originated in a small town."

"The insects losing control is actually something that happened much later.. Strictly speaking, our destruction really had nothing to do with the insects losing control."

"When we began using insect beasts, most of them were actually controlled by artificial intelligence. Just as I said before, the Strange-armed People were even unwilling to control the insect beasts to clean up the mutants."

"Precisely because of this, amidst the accumulation of various errors, an inevitable disaster erupted!"

"In a remote small town with extraordinarily complex terrain, the terrain there is an underground cavern."

"Because cleaning it up was difficult, we let artificial intelligence control the insect beasts to clean it, unsupervised."

"The artificial intelligence was too rigid, and we also paid too little attention to the mutants."

"Without anyone among us noticing, that small town... was dispatched a full seventeen million insect beasts!"

"Manufacture, entry, devour!"

"That underground cavern was like the Gate of Hell, incessantly devouring everything!"

"We should have detected the abnormality there earlier! But with another internal surge of resistance from Awakened Ones, nobody noticed it!"

"When we first realized that there must be a powerful mutant there constantly devouring the insect beasts, it was already too late!"

"Because there were no Awakened Ones, or rather, because nobody was willing to fight."

"We naively continued to dispatch large numbers of insect beasts down there, hoping to see what it was and whether we could eliminate it!"

"The first batch of 150,000 insect beasts! All died within one hour!"

"The second batch of 700,000 insect beasts! All died within forty-three minutes!"

"The third batch of 1.5 million insect beasts! All died within thirty minutes!"

"The seventeenth batch of insect beasts, 8.7 million! That was enough to flood the entire small town, the total number of all biological weapons in one of our regions!"

"But... after three minutes and six seconds!"

"Died!"

"All the insect beasts died! We only saw a huge tentacle, as if an apocalyptic monster shot up into the sky, directly killing all Strange-armed People far away at a distance of 150 kilometers!"

His eyes showed fear.

Lin An also felt his heart jolt suddenly.

He seemed to see the scene Ariel described.

Within a 150-kilometer radius, that mutant's volume had probably grown to an unimaginable extent.

As he said this, Ariel couldn't help but his voice began to carry a sobbing tone:

It's over! Everything is over!

In extreme fear, we tried to throw all the world's insect beasts and any combat personnel into that cave.

We knew that an incredibly terrifying monster must have been born there! A super mutant that we raised!

But how could we, who have abandoned our power, possibly destroy it!

Under the endless blood-red whip that shrouded the entire sky, we lost everything!

The civilization we rebuilt was like a sheet of paper, utterly fragile before that monster!

With our last effort, we had no choice but to flee the planet, bringing the last of our people, to wander forever in space!

And then, at that moment, the system declared we had utterly failed! We could no longer produce any strong ones!

The voice sounded like weeping blood.

Ariel's tears streamed down his face; at this moment, his, already cannot be described in words how tragic and desperate the final battle was.

Perfect One!

You must remember! If you abandon power and indulge in a life of ease, you cannot survive!

The system has told us, told us that if we abandon killing and abandon combat, then this civilization does not deserve to survive!

Survival is an endless war!

Slightly loosening his grip on Cain's Blade, Lin An could feel, within the hall, that all the Heavenly Eye People harbored a sorrowful gloom.

That was an unforgivable regret and pain.

Just..

A chill rose in his heart, Lin An instinctively looked down at the planet beneath his feet.

That monster, is it right beneath our feet?

But why didn't you flee farther away?

Taking a deep breath, no matter how calm Lin An was, just thinking that beneath his feet there was a super mutant of unknown rank, he couldn't help but feel his scalp go numb.

However, this was beyond his expectations.

Ariel gasped heavily, laughing like a madman. That smile was so desperate.

Am I beneath our feet?

We didn't flee far enough?

No.. Perfect One, you are mistaken; you have greatly underestimated that monster...

Ariel's whole body trembled uncontrollably, he stiffly pointed his finger at the two suns in the extreme distance.

Have you seen those two suns?

If I tell you that our star system actually only has one sun, would you believe me?

The sun on the left, that burning fireball, is our former home star.

In order to escape the monster's pursuit, or to stop it... before fleeing, we launched an attack on the planet's core, igniting it...

In an instant, a full-system projection rapidly enlarged, appearing before Lin An's eyes.

In the continuously enlarging image, Lin An shockingly saw that on the so‑called second sun, there were countless black burning tendrils, like solar prominences, slowly swaying.

It isn't dead!?

It isn't dead even inside the sun!?

He cried out in shock, Lin An's pupils suddenly contracted.

He could certainly see that, according to the Heavenly Eye People, their home star had already, under fusion reaction, become a sun!

Of course it isn't dead.

In fact, it is about to emerge.

Perfect One, please remember its name.

Super‑rank life form, fifth‑stage organism..

【Planet Devourer】..

Ke Luo Si!