Chapter 287: Demon King, there seems to be one egg left in this fridge

With the last syllable of the Dragon language falling, the cold cockpit was silent, with only the temperatureless text lying quietly on the pitch-black mirror.

This is the past left a thousand years ago.

It is also the life of Captain Gustav, who drifted to a strange star.

Luo Yan quietly watched the place where the diary ended, that last sentence of relief still echoing in this lonely cockpit.

"It's an honor, I succeeded."

But obviously—

He also failed.

"The Dragon God died in the end." Hearing You You said in a low voice.

Luo Yan nodded.

"Yes."

If that guy were still alive, the Holy Ankylosaurus Kingdom would definitely not be in its current state. Even if this group of lizardmen hadn't run into the eve of the interstellar era, they wouldn't have suffered such a serious civilization regression, worse than a thousand years ago.

After the completion of the Great Barrier, something unexpected to the Dragon God must have happened here.

Gustav obviously didn't expect this diary to be his last words, so many things didn't have time to be explained in the diary.

Like why there was a pyramid covering this hibernation pod.

Like what happened after the descent of the Great Barrier.

And—

What exactly the Holy Ankylosaurus Kingdom's millennium-long sacrifices were sacrificing to.

Looking at Luo Yan who was deep in thought, Hearing You You floating on the side let out a light sigh.

"Truly incredible... just because of the fear of Chaos, this guy used the power in his hands to cut out an entire continent."

Under the protection of the Great Barrier, the Ankylosaurus tribe indeed avoided the harassment of Chaos, but it's hard to say whether the Dragon God or Chaos had a higher KD.

After reading the whole diary, it didn't see any lizardmen die from the invasion of Chaos, but instead saw them die one after another in Gustav's seemingly logical but actually crazy plans.

Although they themselves were created by the latter.

However, this is not a reason for Him to do whatever He wants. And it's hard to say that being entangled by the corruption from Chaos and eventually dying in a foreign land was the punishment of causality for Him.

"... There's nothing left to explore here, let's go to the next area."

Withdrawing his gaze from the pitch-black mirror, Luo Yan searched around the room, then turned and left, starting to search the rest of this "remains" spaceship.

Although the technology used in this landing module is like a heavenly book to him, its own structure is not complicated, basically a three-bedroom-one-living-room layout, utilizing the limited space to the extreme.

Hearing You You floating beside Luo Yan looked like it couldn't stay idle, looking left and right, full of curiosity about everything here.

It's a pity that it couldn't touch anything, and could only look at Luo Yan with eager eyes, hoping he could figure out what those strange instruments were for.

Is this also the "divinity" inherited from the God of Machines?

Looking at Hearing You You frantically hinting at him to touch those strange buttons, Luo Yan sighed and said.

"I don't oppose your curiosity, but before determining the specific functions of these buttons, it's better for us not to move things here casually."

"But but, Demon King, what if it can help you conjure a giant dragon?"

Circling around Luo Yan, Hearing You You said excitedly.

"But a giant dragon! Riding a giant dragon... isn't it much cooler than that stupid spider of yours!"

Luo Yan admitted that this sounded very tempting, but he was a cautious Demon King.

"... I know, but it doesn't exclude another possibility, it will take me to the sky."

This landing module probably carried anti-gravity devices or something similar, and he didn't want this thing to fly up and then fall again.

Even if he could stand it, Assam City couldn't.

Better leave it to Ouke and his goblin technical team to figure out how to utilize this advanced antique.

Coming to a closed door, Luo Yan took the bone staff in his hand and pointed it at the door, easily passing the DNA identification and obtaining access permission.

The silver-white door retreated to the side, and milky white light soon lit up from the walls, illuminating the dim room in front of him.

Judging from the layout here, this is probably an experimental cabin.

Or rather—

The place where the first dragon egg was born.

The air was filled with a stale smell, which was out of place with this room full of technological texture.

Luo Yan stood at the door and waited for a while, the ventilation system that was working again exhausted the suspicious smell, and only then did he step in.

Looking around, his gaze soon focused on a headless dry corpse.

"This is..." Hearing You You exclaimed in a low voice, quickly flying to the side of the corpse, looking at it carefully.

That corpse was lying quietly on a tilted bed, just like an operating table.

And what was eerie was that its head was gone.

Not only that—

It also lost a leg.

Luo Yan subconsciously looked at the bone staff in his hand.

As expected, this was the leg bone that Mr. Gustav had lost.

This bone could remain uncorrupted for a thousand years, not like the power of technology, but more like magic—

Or "divine blessing."

"... Once the creed set by a god is formed, even the god himself cannot change it?"

Luo Yan pondered secretly in his heart.

The Dragon God's remains, because of the worship of believers after the Dragon God's death, automatically became an artifact material of a higher level than ordinary giant dragon remains, and even gained hardness and durability that He didn't have when He was alive.

It's a pity that no dragon slayer sealed His soul in a "sacred vessel," otherwise he would have liked to liberate Him and have a face-to-face chat with this captain friend about the Zeta Empire.

Thinking of this, Luo Yan couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Looking at it this way, his players are still more convenient.

Through the activities or update announcements released on the official forum, he can easily modify the consensus of the players and let the players believe in the changes of the game content without any doubt... even if some changes are not in the interests of the players, and may even make some players curse.

Dried blood formed dark red patches below the neck.

Dripping along the control panel onto the floor, leaving a row of small and messy footprints and spots.

Because it was "Dragon God's blood," they didn't completely weather, but were air-dried and preserved.

Based on the principle of not wasting, Luo Yan squatted down and carefully put these powders into a glass test tube.

And just at this moment, he noticed that on that tilted bed, there was a tiny interface that was almost invisible, completely blocked by the solidified air-dried blood scab, almost impossible to find without careful observation.

Luo Yan thought for a moment, his gaze continued to move along the wall, and soon saw an oval-shaped closed device, a bit like the life support pod common in science fiction novels.

Perhaps because of the Zeta Empire's aesthetic preference or some other reason, its appearance looked like an oval egg.

Luo Yan walked over and took a look, finding that the interior was already empty, the nutrient solution dried up, and a layer of faint white frost on the glass cabin wall.

He remembered that casual statement in the diary:

"... I can completely use my own DNA to create a brand-new species."

—Not just creating others.

He obviously could also create "himself."

"Cloning...?" A flash of realization rose in Luo Yan's heart, and then his gaze swept over the experimental table, cooling tank, nerve ports on the treatment bed, and then looked at the headless corpse.

Combined with the traces at the scene, the state of the corpse, and the data clues around, he soon pieced together the story that wasn't written in the diary—

That was the history deliberately erased by the Dragon God's descendants after the Great Barrier was closed.

"... So that's it, I thought it was strange before, he seemed not to age, it turns out it was 'head swapping'." Luo Yan clapped his hands and stood up from beside the device suspected to be a hibernation pod.

Of course.

Head swapping is just a figurative metaphor.

A more academic way of saying it should be—with the help of cloning technology and nerve transplantation technology, constantly stripping the nervous system from the old body and then transferring it to a new body.

However, this technology is obviously not perfect—before detaching from the old body and not yet completely integrating into the new body, his spirit and flesh are in the most vulnerable state.

His encounter is obvious.

At that moment—He was betrayed.

Luo Yan turned his head to look at the blurred finger marks on the wall, which seemed to be traces left when the life support system was forcibly cut off.

Gustav mentioned in the diary—although His children worshipped Him, they didn't like Him.

Now it seems that those who didn't like him were not just "D-7447 meat lizards," but also included those other models of lizardmen.

They not only murdered Him, but also took a bone from His remains and turned it into a specimen.

"It was actually murder..." Hearing You You whispered, the fog ball reflected on the glass cabin door rolling with confusion, "But... why? Isn't the Ankylosaurus tribe worshipping Him very much? And if His believers don't believe in Him, how was the Great Barrier completed?"

That couldn't be the power of magic.

Not to mention that until now, the Ankylosaurus tribe is still carrying out activities to sacrifice to the Dragon God.

Looking at Hearing You You who was trapped in confusion, Luo Yan was silent for a moment and replied casually.

"This is not contradictory, the living are always people, only the dead can become true gods."

The completion of the Great Barrier made Gustav believe that his authority had reached its peak, and this also meant that his guard against those around him had dropped to the lowest point.

This is not without cost.

Although there are no historical materials to study, what happened here a thousand years ago is unknown, but he can still restore the process of the incident from those trivial clues.

A thousand years ago, the first king of the Holy Ankylosaurus Kingdom took advantage of Gustav's weakest moment and backstabbed Gustav—completing the dragon slaying!

This guy is obviously a smart lizardman. He knows very well that all the disasters encountered by the Ankylosaurus tribe are because of that guy who talks nonsense—saying he wants to lead them to escape the slavery of higher civilization, conquer the universe, and move toward civilization.

The future Gustav depicted was too far away for them, as far as a lie. And this kind of lie completely built on castles in the air might be able to fool some idiots who don't understand anything, but it's still a bit difficult to fool smart lizardmen.

Those cunning guys knew very well that the lizardmen killed by Chaos could fill several ships, but the young guys killed by Gustav were piled into mountains of flesh and blood.

Maybe this guy himself is one of the "gods outside the domain," or he has already been corrupted by Chaos!

Otherwise, how can it be explained that, as believers of gods, the extraordinary power of the Ankylosaurus tribe is always a cut below humans, and they can't win even if they try their best against human God-Chosen.

Perhaps only by killing Him can He be liberated from the mortal body, and can the fate of the Ankylosaurus tribe be freed from the cycle of turning into mountains of corpses and bones again and again.

It's a pity that although the guy who completed the dragon slaying had something extraordinary, he was ultimately just a mortal.

Between being burned to death by believers for martyrdom and becoming the master of believers, he ultimately chose the latter—using more lies to cover up lies, entering another downward spiral from one downward spiral.

"... He held Gustav's remains high, wept bitterly for Gustav's departure, and then compiled the last page of the epic for Him—on his deathbed, He instructed him to hand over His remains to the most devout believer, as the priest of the Holy Ankylosaurus Kingdom. Then the priest put on the crown for him and ruled the kingdom on earth in the name of God."

"... Smart lizardmen might have guessed the truth, but because Gustav died, they didn't have to sacrifice themselves as offerings again and again, they very smartly stood by the king and priest, becoming nobles united around the Parr family. As for those not-so-smart lizardmen, they didn't need to know, because that didn't matter at all."

"As for the temple outside..." Luo Yan looked up and thought for a moment, "The initial purpose was probably not to worship the Dragon God, but to bury this landing module."

The conflict a thousand years ago should have had some accident.

For example, because the life signal of Gustav could not be monitored, the anti-gravity return device on this landing module was activated... with Gustav's cautious personality shown in the diary, it is highly likely that he left such a backup plan.

In order to seal this landing module, Gustav's God-Chosen—that is, the first king of the Holy Ankylosaurus Kingdom, used a subspace similar to the Great Barrier to temporarily suppress this landing module, and built a huge pyramid on top of the landing module in the name of "building a tomb for the Dragon God" just in case.

It's just that, perhaps because the beauty filter was turned on too much, the descendants of the Parr family gradually forgot the original intention of building this pyramid, and even forgot what lifting the seal on the Dragon God Temple meant. The Dragon God Temple, which was lifted to the sky by the anti-gravity device, not only didn't save the Holy Ankylosaurus Kingdom from fire and water, but instead brought down "divine punishment" on Assam City.

This is also the disadvantage of lies.

Telling lies is like tricking people into taking poison; as time goes by, it's inevitable that you will get contaminated yourself.

Perhaps the second and third generation kings still remembered what happened, but by the fourth and fifth generation, influenced by murals from childhood, they would definitely believe their own lies.

And the lizardmen of the Holy Ankylosaurus Kingdom had to start bearing the price of "using lies to cover up lies"—the sacrifices in the name of the Dragon God started again.

For the stability of the Great Barrier, they needed to irrigate it with heart blood, eventually turning this pyramid into the bloody state it is today, and also bringing huge disasters to former allies.

The archaeology of the Dragon God Gustav ends here.

Luo Yan recovered the Dragon God's corpse into his storage ring.

For a necromancer, this is incredible material, and it cannot be wasted like this.

The huge faith power condensed on these remains that hadn't rotted for a thousand years had already turned it into something like a sacred relic. The Ankylosaurus tribe only took one bone from Him, which was still too polite.

But this also made it cheaper for him.

Luo Yan searched around this room like a laboratory again, but it was a pity that he didn't find more useful things, and those instruments that seemed very useful didn't know how to start because there was no manual.

To be honest, he didn't have much hope of putting these instruments to use.

After a thousand years, it was already a miracle that this landing module could be opened.

And just when Luo Yan was planning to leave here for the time being and hand it over to the "professionals" of the Great Graveyard to continue the investigation, a surprised cry suddenly came from the next cabin.

"Demon King, there seems to be one egg left in this fridge!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 288 =====