Astral Cockroach

“Sword…weapon…”

“Baba…”

Ban Bu stared at the cushion, snapping out of his shock, and injected Origin Power once more.

Accompanied by cracking sounds, the cushion split into 55 pieces again, shifting outwards, and a 0.6-meter diameter hole opened in the center.

“Baba, you come out first…”

Before Ban Bu could finish, Baba had already taken off and rushed towards the hole.

Clang!

The sword-shaped electronic lifeform stuck in the cylinder suddenly flew up. With a flash of silver light, Baba was knocked to the ground.

“Don't move, or you die!” The sword-shaped electronic lifeform hovered in the air, its tip pointing down, locking onto Baba, its cold light flickering, and threatened in a cold voice.

This electronic lifeform was not only designed in the shape of a sword but also with attack capabilities!

“I… you… Damn it, you're dead! Do you know who I am?”

The sword-shaped electronic lifeform completely ignored Baba. The sword body rotated, and the sword guard's single eye locked onto Ban Bu, its sharp edge exposed, and said slowly, “The power of Star Piercing Divine Ability! Protoss warrior, you have secretly learned the human race's unique skill!”

“Damn it! Base electronic lifeform, you betrayed the human race. You were the one who taught it the Star Piercing Divine Ability. Damn you!”

“How dare you! Do you know who I am?” Baba was furious, but dared not act rashly while being locked on by the sword, and shouted, “Do you know Major General Phillyn?”

“Don't recognize.”

“You… Phillyn is the most outstanding genius of the Leake family in the Milky Way Federation, Pegasus Galaxy, are you afraid? If you know what's good for you, get out of my way!”

“Those are all things of the Old Universe Era. My information database does not record such garbage information.”

“You… What are you talking about? Old Universe Era?” Baba's anger vanished, and she captured the most crucial noun in the sword-shaped electronic lifeform's language.

“You don't know? That's right, you're not qualified to know.” The sword-shaped electronic lifeform said coldly, “The past is like smoke and clouds. Your so-called family and major general have long been annihilated. Now is a new Universe Era, and everything starts anew.”

Ban Bu suddenly thought of the inherited memories awakened when he advanced to the L2 Roach King and murmured, “Old Universe Era, New Universe Era, could it be…”

Baba asked, “Could it be what? Ban Bu, do you know?”

“Don't move if you don't want to die!” The sword-shaped electronic lifeform snorted, the sword body descended, the sword's edge close to Baba, its eyes turned to lock onto Ban Bu, and sneered, asking, “As a Protoss, you don't seem to know very clearly?”

“Not very clear…” Ban Bu's heart tightened and asked, “The Old Universe is gone? My inherited memories just awakened the relevant information, but there is no detailed explanation…”

Baba shouted, “Ban Bu, what do you mean? What's gone?”

A long silence.

“Everything is gone…” Ban Bu sighed and asked, “Baba, have you heard of it? There have been many times in history when human society has seen the 'Cosmic Destruction Theory,' but such remarks are immediately suppressed by the Federation once they appear. I just happened to experience it once. The first mission I performed when I joined the army was to arrest people who spread relevant rumors. In the name of rumors creating panic and seriously disrupting social order, they were directly exiled to abandoned dead stars without public trial, and never released.”

“I realized something was wrong at the time. The Federation's reaction was too intense. So, as expected, it wasn't a rumor!”

“Of course, it's not a rumor. Human scientists predicted the imbalance of the universe and its impending destruction 3 million years in advance and began preparing early on.”

As the sword-shaped electronic lifeform spoke, a sharp chill suddenly burst out of its indifferent tone, and it shouted, “What did you just say? Human society joined the army to carry out arrest missions? You…”

Baba said, “He is a human warrior. He was on the same ship as me. I don't know why, but our spaceship encountered spatial turbulence and crashed on Earth, the mother star, more than a hundred years ago. Phillyn's whereabouts are unknown, and he was reincarnated as a bug. I did not betray humanity, get out of my way!”

The sword-shaped electronic lifeform ignored Baba's clamor, flashed, appeared in front of Ban Bu, scanned Ban Bu, and denied, “No human aura, you are not a human soul.”

Then angrily, he shouted, “Protoss warrior, you have fused Bi Daozhu's Martial Dao core! And a metal core! And… what is that? Bi Daozhu was killed by you?”

Baba was freed, the anti-gravity engine started, accelerated out of the underground space, landed on Ban Bu's head, and shouted, “Ban Bu, set it on fire! Burn it to death!”

“Okay, Baba, stop it. I think there is a misunderstanding here. Let's calm down first, be calm, and clarify things one by one. First of all, Bi Daozhu was not killed by me, as for how he died… I don't know. What strength do I have? What ability do I have to harm him?”

Ban Bu shook his antennae and said to the sword-shaped electronic lifeform, “My name is Ban Bu, originally Ban Bu · Hoss, what's your name?”

“You haven't even reached the Cosmic level of life, you really don't have this ability.” The sword-shaped electronic lifeform hesitated slightly and replied, “Du Long.”

Baba immediately said, “One-Eyed Dragon.”

Du Long's sword body flipped, and on the other side of the sword guard, another single eye slowly opened, scarlet light scanning, indifferently said, “I have two eyes. Inferior electronic lifeform, you don't have any.”

“I…” Baba trembled with anger and said, “What do electronic lifeforms need eyes for? Ugly decorations.”

“Ignorance!” Du Long disdained and contemptuously said, “This is the pinnacle masterpiece of a level 7 technological civilization, you will never understand.”

“Who isn't level seven?” Baba said, “My information storage uses the Realm Lord level metal core material…”

Du Long said indifferently, “I use Dominator Realm material.”

“You… Where did you get it? I don't believe it!”

“What does whether you believe it have to do with me?”

“Stop! Stop arguing!” Ban Bu's antennae bent, pointed at Baba on his head, and introduced, “Her name is Baba, she is Major General Phillyn's daughter.”

“Let's talk about serious business, I was originally in the Thunder Expeditionary Army, Seventh Army, Logistics Transportation Unit…”

Du Long interrupted unceremoniously, “That was in the past, I don't record information that is useless to the current situation. I also don't care if your soul was once human. The current situation is that you are not human, but you broke into the human inheritance forbidden area and caused huge losses.”

“According to the plan, the dojo should have been activated after 340,000 years, and Bi Daozhu would select and train human martial artists to inherit the 《Star Piercing Sword Technique》. Now, Bi Daozhu is dead, who will choose? Who will be responsible for the inheritance?”

Ban Bu asked, “Aren't there many Dominator Realms in the dojo? Didn't you make a backup plan?”

Du Long said, “No.”

Ban Bu asked, “Where are the human martial artists? There are no humans living on the surface.”

Du Long said, “That's because the time hasn't come yet.”

Ban Bu was silent for two seconds, switched the topic, and asked, “The Old Universe is gone? Then… all the surviving humans are gone? All civilizations are gone?”

“It seems you are still a young Protoss warrior who doesn't understand anything.” Du Long's tone suddenly softened, and he patiently explained:

“The black hole in the center of the universe constantly devours matter, and at the same time releases matter in the form of particle streams and Origin Power, maintaining a delicate and fragile balance. In the universe, various civilizations arbitrarily transform planets, transport matter, war destroys, plunder Origin Power, causing irreversible damage to the balance of the universe, causing matter to accelerate towards the central black hole…”

“The central black hole absorbs matter overload, reaches its limit, terminates the outward ejection of particle streams, and in a brief ten-thousandth of a second, it swallows everything in the universe, including space, into one, returning to an infinitely small singularity. That is a destruction that no power can resist, with no survivors, including your Protoss.”

Baba became honest and said faintly, “Electronic lifeforms can't lie, what you said is true? Everything is gone?”

“This is exactly the scene I saw in the inherited memories! Could it be true…” Ban Bu asked with his mouth half open, struggling, “It's really gone?”

Du Long affirmed, “Gone.”

Ban Bu asked, “The human race and the Protoss reached an alliance to cooperate to overcome the disaster of the universe's destruction?”

Du Long replied, “That's right.”

Ban Bu asked, “What kind of existence are the Gods?”

Du Long said, “Human martial artists absorb Origin Power to cultivate, and the limit of gene evolution is the Dominator Realm, which is a level seven lifeform. Above that, level eight is a demigod, level nine is a god, and the Gods are the numerous level eight and level nine lifeforms of your race. There is also the supreme and unique Natural True God, speculated to be a level ten lifeform.”

“Level seven is the evolutionary limit of conventional life races. The reason you are called the Protoss is because you have obtained the recognition of the Natural True God and inherited its genes.”

“Could it be that the Natural True God is not a kind of belief?”

“Definitely not.”

Ban Bu's mouth opened wide, his thoughts were disordered.

A long time ago, he and Baba had boldly speculated about the possibility of level eight and level nine lifeforms existing in the universe, level ten…

Baba asked, “How powerful is level ten? Can't it resist the power of the universe's destruction?”

“Not sure.” Du Long said, “At least, it doesn't have enough power to protect the race from extinction. They need the assistance of technological civilization, so they sought cooperation with humans and reached an alliance.”

Baba asked with a difficult mentality, “Is a level seven civilization also qualified to talk about an alliance with a level ten civilization?”

“Don't talk nonsense if you're ignorant!” Du Long answered disdainfully.

Ban Bu asked, “How exactly do we cooperate? How to avoid the crisis of the universe's destruction?”

“This is a very complicated question.” Du Long considered, “It seems that even if you were once human, you were just an ordinary soldier and knew very little.”