Chapter 285: Origin

That was a bone staff made of dragon bone.

Luo Yan had seen similar things in Professor Lilith's magic workshop, so he recognized the material of this thing at a glance.

Identity scanning... could it be DNA verification?

The "Dragon Blood" bestowed upon him by the Dragon God wasn't really a blood transfusion for him, but just a buff in the context of the Dragon language.

Luo Yan's heart stirred slightly, and he immediately snatched the bone staff from the lizardman old man's hand and poked it at the silver-white metal structure.

Sure enough!

The moment that bone staff touched the silver-white metal structure, a faint shimmer indeed appeared on the silver metal mirror surface again.

"Identity scanning... information matching... verification successful..."

It worked!

Although this was mixed with some obscure and difficult-to-understand vocabulary, Luo Yan still relied on his limited vocabulary to understand the gist of it.

Accompanied by a soft "hiss" sound, the smooth metal outer shell cracked open a seam at some point, and then expanded to both sides like a wide-open mouth, revealing a passage leading to the interior.

Milky white light illuminated the interior of the passage.

Luo Yan didn't feel any fluctuation of magical elements from it, and the smooth surface couldn't find any specific light source, as if the material itself was emitting light.

This is...

Technology?

The expression in Luo Yan's eyes became more and more surprised, not only because everything happening in front of him far exceeded his cognition and imagination, but also because this strangely shaped device had been successfully activated after thousands of years of time and the tossing of tens of millions of primitive people!

This is just too incredible!

"Maj, Majesty..." High Priest Ze'er was full of excitement, walking to Luo Yan's side in two or three steps, excitedly prostrating on the ground, saying with eager eyes, "You, you actually opened the artifact passed down from generation to generation by our Ankylosaurus tribe! The blood of the True Dragon indeed flows in your body, you are the descendant of the Dragon God... We, the Ankylosaurus tribe, are willing to serve you forever!"

Luo Yan glanced at the prostrate High Priest and casually threw the dragon bone staff he had just used into his storage ring.

True Dragon blood, that's fine...

He clearly used the dragon bone to activate the mechanism on this thing, this guy is really capable of telling lies with his eyes open.

However, this is not the point.

"Artifact passed down from generation to generation? What do you mean."

Watching the Demon King confiscate his cane directly, Ze'er, although pained, didn't dare to ask for it back, and could only lower his head with a bitter face and say.

"Rumor has it... in the deepest part of the Dragon God Temple, the Dragon God's egg is buried, and only those possessing the Dragon God's bloodline can open it!"

Luo Yan raised his eyebrows slightly.

"Then why don't you use it yourselves."

"This..." Ze'er hesitated for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "Majesty... forgive me for being blunt, do you really hope the Dragon God returns?"

Looking at Ze'er's flickering eyes, Luo Yan immediately understood his meaning, and a playful smile couldn't help but rise at the corner of his mouth.

Indeed.

If it were him as the King of the Holy Ankylosaurus Kingdom, he wouldn't want that so-called Dragon God to return either.

What would He come back for?

To catch more slaves? To turn stones into gold?

No need.

A group of tribesmen combined couldn't beat a single finger of the Ankylosaurus tribe; as long as there were no internal problems within the Holy Ankylosaurus Kingdom, they were the invincible existence on this continent.

Occasionally, if two unlucky ghosts rushed to the beach, just kill them.

The statue can just honestly stay in the shrine and enjoy the offerings; if that Dragon God Gustav really wanted to walk down from the temple, I'm afraid these nobles and priests would be the first to be scared to death.

Thinking about it this way, this temple is probably not just for worshipping the Dragon God Gustav, using sacrifices to deter unfaithful believers, but also to "suppress" Gustav.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have built this temple higher and higher, and thicker and thicker.

This is not the will of one or a few ambitious people, but the consensus of the entire ruling class of the Holy Ankylosaurus Kingdom.

However, now that the Holy Ankylosaurus Kingdom has been completely defeated, the old consensus naturally no longer exists, and this High Priest very obediently offered the "key," handing over the power to settle history to him as well—

Whether to awaken the Dragon God's egg.

Or to maintain the old order!

Ze'er looked at Luo Yan nervously, waiting for the new master of this continent to make a choice for the future of all of them.

Unlike the nervous Ze'er, Luo Yan didn't have such rich inner drama; after all, he didn't think this thing was a dragon egg at all, but rather felt it was more like a spaceship.

Or to be more precise—

Like a landing module of a spaceship.

Luo Yan didn't find any obvious propulsion components on its external structure, and the long shuttle-shaped structure also seemed to be designed according to aerodynamics.

As everyone knows, a true spaceship doesn't need to consider aerodynamics; only aircraft flying within the atmosphere need to consider it.

Of course.

This is just his speculation based on his shallow knowledge; after all, there is no similar thing on Earth, and I'm afraid even some God of Machines might not be able to figure out the principles behind it.

"Sarah, you guard the door, I'll go in and take a look." Dropping this sentence, Luo Yan didn't hesitate at all and walked toward the open door.

"Yes!"

Watching the Demon King intending to go alone, Sarah, although worried, still placed her right fist on her chest and nodded, loyally guarding the door.

Ze'er leaned in, wanting to follow Luo Yan's footsteps, but before he had taken two steps, a sharp gaze was placed on his neck like a dagger.

A drop of cold sweat slid down his scales onto the ground, and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva unconsciously and took a step back, but bumped into Arakdo's spider leg.

"Be careful, little guy..." Arakdo opened his mouth dripping with drool, a ferocious smile appearing on his forehead with six eyes, "The Demon King told me to spare your life, but don't walk into my mouth yourself."

Ze'er was scared out of his wits.

"Arakdo, don't do anything unnecessary." Sarah looked at Arakdo with a cold expression and reprimanded him in a cold tone.

Arakdo's spider body shook; although he wasn't afraid at all on the surface and hummed back, his body still honestly lay down, only slandering in his heart.

On the other side, Luo Yan, who entered the interior of the silver metal structure, walked forward alone.

The floor beneath his feet had no seams, and every step he took caused shallow fluorescent veins to ripple, as if living metal was responding to his presence.

Luo Yan narrowed his eyes slightly and whispered in a deep voice:

"—Alchemical Eye."

A deep blue magic circle quietly unfolded beneath his eyes, his spiritual sense spreading to the surroundings like ripples, piercing through the solid walls.

This wasn't any high-level magic, but it was very useful.

With the assistance of the Alchemical Eye, his gaze easily penetrated the walls emitting milky white soft light, as if the entire structure was just a transparent skeleton.

However, even so, he couldn't understand the internal structure; that complex and exquisite design was like an alien's work to him—

No.

To be precise, it wasn't "like," but "was."

If it was just a guess before, then now he could confirm that this thing was a spaceship of an extraterrestrial civilization!

And the legendary "Dragon God" Gustav was actually an alien!?

"This is just too... incredible."

Luo Yan looked around, and couldn't help but let out a sigh of familiarity again. And Hearing You You's reaction was the same, floating quietly to the side, shocked and unable to speak.

"The Dragon God is actually not from this world..."

"Hmm... although I feel it's a bit outrageous, but thinking about it carefully, isn't Lin Te Isaac one too? And myself."

A certain substance widely existing in this world can respond to the strong spiritual energy of conscious individuals and interfere with the operating rules of the material world.

In order to anchor people's unstable spirits, gods were born in this world.

But this is deducing the cause from the result.

A more likely fact is that unstable spirits brought about disasters, and in order to seek spiritual peace, people unconsciously summoned the descent of gods throughout the long historical process.

In this process, the intelligent creatures living on this planet didn't just create local gods.

They also unconsciously pulled in some outsiders who didn't belong to this world from the outside.

Like the Four Chaos Gods.

Like the God of Machines.

And now—

Have to add a Dragon God!

Luo Yan was shocked.

Before setting foot on the Gana Continent, he never thought that on this island-like land, he would unearth such a shocking fact.

If the Dragon God is an alien, then these lizardmen who claim to possess the Dragon God's bloodline and the legendary giant dragons, aren't they the descendants of aliens?!

Truly terrifying to think about.

Luo Yan continued forward and soon arrived at a slightly protruding circular space.

The walls here were concave, and seats were arranged around the central silver platform. A large arc-shaped black mirror hung vertically in front, like a cockpit window.

However, when he was outside, he didn't see this window at all.

"This is... the cockpit?"

Luo Yan looked around, dispelling the magic gathered between his brows, trying to find the start button on this mirror-smooth black mirror.

It was a pity.

He looked around and didn't find it.

But just at this moment, he suddenly thought of the dragon bone staff Ze'er had given him, so he immediately took it out of his storage space and poked it at the screen.

【... Identified】

Dragon language characters appeared in the center of the black mirror, and Luo Yan roughly speculated that those few characters he couldn't understand should mean "DNA," "genetic information," and the like.

And just at this moment, a soft "beep" sound came from above his head, and a pale blue pulse ring instantly spread out along the center of the black mirror until it disappeared into the wall beside it.

Just as Luo Yan was carefully observing what had happened, low Dragon language came to him from all directions, and white subtitles appeared on the pitch-black mirror at the same time—

"Biological identification complete..."

"Registered name: Gustav; Access level: Captain; Permission activated."

Luo Yan frowned, holding his breath and listening while staring at the subtitles on the black mirror, relying on the Dragon language knowledge he had learned out of interest, barely understanding the content presented on the black mirror.

That seemed to be a diary, written by the Dragon God Gustav Himself, detailing the entire process of the crash of the "Conqueror" He was riding...

【Captain's Log · Cycle 5478 · Conqueror Temporary Record Backup】

【Recorder: Gustav A. Walter, Commander-in-Chief of the Zeta Empire's 9th Scientific Research Fleet, Chief Captain of the Conqueror.】

【Record Type: Personal Private Log (Unfiled)】

【—I know I will eventually be forgotten, but at least someone should know we were here.】

"Sand, stones, endless trees, and a group of hairless monkeys with not very smart brains; unfortunately, I crashed in this unlucky place. Fortunately, they didn't eat me, but treated me as a god who descended from the sky... just because a wildfire caused by a risky landing killed a few of them."

"As for why I am here, I have to mention a damn experiment... although I have no hope of going back, I still want to record what I know as much as possible."

"I can't remember the exact unlucky day, I only remember the experiment codename was 'Delta-71'. I don't know if you who picked up this diary can retrieve the relevant project name in the scientific research entries. My superior told me it was top secret, but now... screw it, I'll talk about it when I get back."

"In short, this research is very evil. The project leader told me that this is the Empire's highest priority research project, with the goal of finding subspace jump technology more advanced than hyperspace jump technology. It is said that in subspace, the concept of time does not exist, and even dimensions can be manipulated at will... I don't understand those complex terms, but as long as it is for the Empire, I am willing to accept even the most dangerous experiments."

"The content of the experiment is very simple. I need to pilot my research ship through a star gate located near Research Station 111, and then fly back from the other side of the gate... it's that simple, it should have been that simple! But the trouble is that after I passed, the gate disappeared!"

"This is a one-way ticket. I flew to a completely unfamiliar star field! There is no signal around, and there is no gate. I seem to have appeared here out of thin air! After the jump beam attenuated, my navigation chart became a blank sheet of paper, no star markers, no signals, and even the basic cosmic background radiation didn't match the model I was familiar with."

"This is not the worst part. The worst part is that the energy consumed by this jump far exceeded my imagination. The Conqueror is not a far-planet exploration ship, but a conventional research ship mainly performing scientific research missions near the near-orbit. The ship is not equipped with a hyperspace engine and jump guidance device, and that experimental subspace engine is completely paralyzed."

"It's really hell! I still remember the person in charge patting his chest and guaranteeing to me that they used an unmanned ship equipped with a subspace engine, and three consecutive jumps were successful, ensuring foolproof before finding me... how did it fail as soon as I sat on it?"

"Complaints end here. I tried to send a distress signal to nearby stations, but unfortunately there was no response. And just at this moment, the gravitational field of a nearby natural satellite captured my research ship. I didn't have time to adjust the orbit, so I could only switch to the emergency plan—boarding the landing module before crashing, and making a forced landing on an unknown planet suspected of having signs of life nearby."

"The landing was quite successful, except for causing a fire. Just like what I observed in outer space, this is a planet full of oxygen and liquid water, with gravity slightly greater than standard gravity, extremely active ecology, mammals occupying the dominant position in evolution, and even having nurtured civilization... it's just that their civilization is quite primitive."

"The brothers in the Colonial Department should be interested in this place, but I just want to leave here now. The trouble is that this accident made me completely lose hope of going back. The only hyperspace communication module is on the research ship and has completely lost contact. And the passive signal transmission device on the landing module doesn't have long-distance communication capabilities. I can only hope that a spaceship passing by here by chance will discover me."

"But I also know in my heart that this possibility is very slim. The abnormality of cosmic background radiation has already explained many problems, and the comparison of star maps has also made me more certain that this is probably no longer the universe we are familiar with..."

The diary was read halfway.

Luo Yan was more and more surprised as he read it. This was simply the interstellar version of Robinson Crusoe... or should it be called "Gustav's Travels."

"Good guy... the Dragon God Gustav is actually an alien?!" Hearing You You was shocked to the point that its entire soul was stiff, fixed on the pitch-black mirror motionless, its abstract mouth open and unable to speak for a while.

Luo Yan didn't pay attention to it, but rubbed his chin with his index finger, fell into deep thought, and muttered to himself.

"Zeta civilization... research ship... subspace? Experiment?"

Although he couldn't read every word in this diary and could only try to understand it by relying on his imagination and reasoning, he still understood the first half of the letter roughly and marked some obscure terms to help him understand the following content.

And what surprised him even more was indeed behind—

"... What surprised me even more is that what is different about this world from our world is not just the stars overhead, but also the physical laws of this world."

"I am a firm materialist, and I have always scoffed at the theory that spirit can influence matter, but those primitive people showed me that power that was unbelievable to me... they conjured fire from their hands out of thin air, conjured water out of nothing, and turned water into ice!"

"I initially thought it was some kind of trick, but the changes on the heat indicator told me that their energy indeed appeared 'out of thin air'! Or at least it was moved over from another dimension in a way unknown to the Zeta Empire!"

"Unbelievable! A group of primitive people actually mastered energy from a higher dimension! With curiosity about unknown things, I, having nothing to do, tried to translate their language and communicated with them in the posture of a god, learning about the existence of extraordinary power from their mouths. And this so-called extraordinary power is even more amazing than I initially imagined... this seems to be a spiritual force field that widely exists in all dimensions and is completely determined by consciousness!"

"Interestingly, they treated me as their god, believing that their power was bestowed upon them by me, and requested me to bestow more upon them. I told them it was too difficult and asked them to change their wish. Then the guy who called himself the king begged me to bestow upon him a mount, preferably one that could fly, and was big enough and fierce enough!"

"This wasn't difficult for me. The D-7447 meat lizard perfectly met his standards, at most adding a pair of wings in the DNA code. It just so happened that I also needed to supplement safe and reliable protein sources, so I used gene synthesis technology to make embryos of D-7447 meat lizards and instructed those primitive people to raise them for me."

"Those primitive people happily accepted this gift and called it a giant dragon, and then called me 'Dragon God'. Although I didn't like the name they gave, especially hating being lumped together with those meat lizards, I could understand this world more conveniently through them, so I decided to use them temporarily to satisfy their spiritual dependence on me... I swear, this is definitely not because I really have nothing to do, and even less because their flattery made me float."

"Just like that, we lived together peacefully for fifty years. They treated me as a god to worship, raised D-7447 meat lizards for me—that is, the giant dragons in their mouths, and then used the power of the giant dragons to conquer other primitive kingdoms. As for me, I lived in seclusion in the forests of this strange planet, waiting for the remote rescue while studying the mysterious extraordinary power with that abundant time that had nowhere to vent, and doing some experiments to pass the time."

"However, in the fifty-first year, something unexpected happened. A D-7447 meat lizard that shouldn't have possessed any intelligence actually acquired the mind of an intelligent creature and even mastered extremely dangerous magic! In order to escape the fate of being a sacrifice, it made a scene on the altar, not only killing the primitive leader who worshipped me, but also destroying his castle and burning his village to the ground!"

"I don't care about those hairless monkeys, but illegally enlightening non-intelligent creatures is a serious crime in the Zeta Empire! Especially enlightening meat lizards... damn, if others knew, I would definitely be on the headlines!"

"At that time, I hadn't given up the idea of going back. My first reaction was that I must do something before that damn rescue team arrived here! However, the trouble is that those damn giant dragons not only can fly, but also treated me as their father... damn, how can I lay a hand on them?!"

"I hesitated again and again, and finally decided to use the hands of those hairless monkeys. Although their power was weak, their numbers were enough. I told them that those guys who disobeyed me were evil dragons, and as long as they could kill those fallen scum for me, I would bestow upon them that so-called extraordinary power..."

"It just so happened that this group of hairless monkeys was also tortured enough by the out-of-control giant dragons, and immediately expressed their willingness to become dragon slayers, hunting down the traitors of the dragon race for me, and even offering their souls to me! Hehe, these idiots, they have no idea that the trouble was caused by me, truly both stupid and ridiculous."

"I handed the work of 'slaying dragons' to them, while studying why the D-7447 meat lizards suddenly awakened their minds and who illegally enlightened them."

"However, just at this moment, bizarre things happened again! A dragon slayer returned to my side, excitedly kneeling on the ground to express his gratitude to me. He seemed to have really gained power because of my promise... although I have no idea what happened."

"And even more bizarre things were behind—"

"I seem to have really possessed power comparable to a god..."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 286 =====