Lin Muci walked out, not forgetting to ask Ling Kuang what to do with that divine artifact.
Ling Kuang said.
"Keep it, as an antique."
"That guy looks quite interesting, I'll torment him a few more times later to see if he can spill any more secrets."
Lin Muci, from the bottom of her heart, shed a tear of sympathy for the poor and unlucky blood race soul. However, she still turned to look at Ling Kuang, trying to probe further into the thoughts of this gloomy and difficult-to-deal-with guy.
"You really... have no intention of sacrificing yourself?"
"I always feel like you're still hiding something."
"I've told you all my secrets, yet you're still holding back from me, isn't that... a little unfair?"
Ling Kuang said.
"Didn't you say I would fall in love with you every time?"
"Then even if I die, as long as I can reincarnate... and I meet you again, I'll still recognize you."
"Unless I can't even reincarnate."
"But that's impossible."
"I won't let myself fall into such a desperate situation, so... you can be 100% sure."
He glanced at Lin Muci, and in the darkness, he silently held her, as if embracing his entire world.
"You only need to believe me, always."
"No matter what I do, I won't let you fall into trouble."
...
That afternoon, in the Council Hall, when Lin Muci met Yang Lanyan, she calmly and rationally stated her reasonable demands, while Yang Lanyan showed a look of surprise.
"The female scientist's notebook?"
"Who told you about this... this is classified information, is it Artus? How could he violate regulations and tell you something like this..."
A hint of coldness flashed through Yang Lanyan's eyes, as he thought of another possibility.
"Is it Ling Kuang?"
"He's prying into council secrets, what does he want? Does he want to rebel?"
"Simply lawless!"
"Ling Kuang is a madman, and you're going mad with him?"
"Knowing the council's core secrets will do you no good—"
Lin Muci looked at the elegantly featured man showing an enraged expression, but she still quietly watched Yang Lanyan. After the initial anger, Yang Lanyan gradually calmed down. He even sighed and gave a wry smile before saying.
"Do you really want to know what's in that diary?"
"But it involves many major secrets of the human race from many years ago."
Facing Yang Lanyan's bitterness, Lin Muci said.
"If I wanted to, Artus could also help me."
"So, you're not my only option. It's just that I think your memory should be much better than Artus', and you should be able to repeat the contents of that diary verbatim."
The man opposite her was completely dejected.
He no longer had the arrogance of a council executive. He bowed his head before this little female beast.
"Alright, I'll tell you."
"All of this started with a planet called Blue Star. You should know Blue Star, right?"
Lin Muci nodded silently.
Of course, she knew.
In her heart, her main world, Earth.
And Yang Lanyan was an old friend of hers from Earth, except he appeared in that world as a psychologist.
"Blue Star is actually a very ordinary-looking planet in the universe, unremarkable. If it weren't for a genius female scientist, we wouldn't have known anything about this seemingly ordinary planet."
Yang Lanyan paused here, then continued.
"But later, the Central Planet sent an investigation team to study this planet carefully, and they discovered many interesting things."
"This planet seemed to have its own barrier—although its technological level was only at a primary level, and it couldn't even achieve interstellar jumps, and humans couldn't travel between stars at all, we couldn't find this primary planet before!"
Yang Lanyan's tone even revealed a strong sense of exclamation.
"This is an extremely rare thing."
"Moreover, there were no female beasts on that planet."
"We have been investigating that planet and unexpectedly discovered that their civilization is far more interesting than we thought."
"Although their energy and technological levels were not enough to achieve interstellar jumps, their theoretical levels were already extremely high—they seemed to be trapped on that Blue Star for some reason."
"With just a little guidance—they could immediately transform!"
Yang Lanyan even became somewhat emotional as he said this.
Lin Muci then asked softly.
"If their technological level was not enough to achieve technological leaps, and you couldn't find that planet before, how did you find that... female scientist who saved humanity?"
She keenly sensed the crux of the problem.
Yang Lanyan was silent for a moment, and he said.
"It wasn't us who found her, in fact, the truth is she found us."
"Her diary details these matters. I've recorded it in the light brain, you can take a look."
Light brain?
Lin Muci immediately became interested, and when she actually opened the female scientist's diary, she felt as if she was reading a very excellent and brilliant autobiography, even giving her a sense of... eye-opening.
"Earth New Era Day 3762."
"Everything is fine in the flight cabin today."
"Leaving my home planet was a last resort. After all, I carry the hopes of all Blue Star people. If I can't find a new planet suitable for human survival, then all humans will die."
"But I never thought that..."
"I would actually receive a signal transmitted from outer space."
"Perhaps I've gone mad and am hallucinating? No, that's impossible. My brain tells me this is absolutely impossible."
"But this seems to be the truth. They say they are interstellar scavengers. If I am a human stranded in the interstellar wilderness, they are willing to offer me help."
"Perhaps I should choose whether or not to respond."
...
"Earth New Era Day 3763."
"The flight cabin can no longer maintain safe flight today."
"Perhaps I will die in this vast space, but I regret it too much—I could have tried to interact with those mysterious guys. What does interstellar scavenger mean? No matter what... as long as there's a chance to survive, I should try to seize that glimmer of hope."
"I cannot give up. I absolutely—cannot give up hope."
"I didn't expect my gamble to pay off. It's unimaginable, they are not monsters, but living humans, and they actually... I can understand what they are saying. This is already better than the best-case scenario I imagined." Dafeng Novel Network
"Thank God, I can communicate with them through brainwaves."
"But what does... the Interstellar Human Federation mean?"
"Why can't I understand a single word they say?"
"Are there other humans besides Blue Star? I must figure this out. I feel like my worldview might need to be rebuilt."
Then, after a few blank pages, Lin Muci saw the female scientist, who shared her name, continue to write her diary.
"So that's how it is. So that's how it is... so we are only one step away from the next level of civilization... so we are considered low-level civilizations in their eyes. How interesting."
"Am I a primitive and ignorant person?"
"It's like letting a primitive human from tens of millions of years ago enter modern Earth civilization; their first reaction would be fear and collapse... but I feel indescribably excited and thrilled!"
"I originally thought I had reached the end of science, but it turns out there are so many things to explore in this world... once technology leads by five hundred years, one can possess so many unbelievable abilities. And once technology leads by tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years..."
"I've finally found a cause to dedicate my life to!"
From this female scientist's diary, it was evident that she was truly excited.
Lin Muci read the subsequent diary entries very quickly.
This was a commendable story of a strong female protagonist, how she climbed step by step from the bottom of interstellar society, entered a low-level planet controlled by the Human Federation, started climbing from that low-level planet, broke through the limitations of her own life, learned the universal cultivation laws of the galaxy, and then began to research the latest interstellar technology.
Later, she returned to Blue Star, brought opportunities to the resource-depleted Blue Star, and integrated Blue Star into the Interstellar Universal Federation.
Then she entered the Central Planet herself, at a critical moment when the Zerg were about to exterminate humanity.
She turned the tide.
Invented Skynet.
Lin Muci was thrilled as she read, she could even imagine how excited that female scientist was when she said, "I've finally found a cause to dedicate my life to!"
The galaxy brought her a starry sea she had never seen before, a brighter, more glorious new world.
Then she continued to flip down.
She saw her write.
"Humanity may not exist permanently."
"The more I know, the more I revere this universe. This universe has no eternal existence; it is always in a state of disorder—everything is constantly changing."
"Even from my current height, becoming a galaxy-level powerhouse, I still feel that the existence of life is delicate, a miracle."
"Humanity may not exist forever, everyone will disappear... I am pessimistic about the future destiny of humanity."
"But this still cannot stop me from making the slightest contribution to the future of all humanity."
"Perhaps my efforts are just like a mantis trying to stop a chariot, or a mayfly trying to shake a tree, but if I do nothing and watch humanity head towards extinction, I cannot do it."
"In life, one must do something."
"Many years ago, I promised my fellow villagers on Blue Star that I would find a new way out for the soon-to-be-fading Blue Star planet."
"I did it."
"Now—"
"I hope even more that I can preserve the flame of hope for humanity."
"I don't wish anyone to remember me. After I'm gone, I only hope that everyone can live well."
"As they wish, as they think."
"Live happily."
"Because life itself is the most brilliant miracle."
"The world is wonderful because they are alive—the existence of life itself is the meaning of life."
Lin Muci silently read these words, and for some reason, her eyes suddenly became moist. Behind these words were large blocks of code.
She suddenly looked up at Yang Lanyan and said.
"You know Skynet is in Steel City, why don't you ask it for help?"
Yang Lanyan was not surprised that she knew Skynet's location, as she was the female beast sent by Skynet back then. Yang Lanyan said.
"It may not intervene. Moreover, we humans no longer need it to intervene. It has already done enough. Any more would overstep its bounds and disrupt the existing balance of human society."
"I hope you forget what you saw today as soon as possible."
"Many things are not up to you, a single female beast, to decide—"
Lin Muci heard his words, but she was not too angry. She simply fell into thought and then asked.
"Is the Council's goal to suppress Skynet, or to fight the Zerg?"
Yang Lanyan looked at her.
"We must do both."
He said it very frankly.
Lin Muci was silent for a moment, and she said.
"Aren't you afraid of failing at both?"
Her words, compared to Yang Lanyan's gentleness, appeared even more forceful.
Yang Lanyan looked at the sharp eyes of the young girl before him. She was clearly a female beast that should be pampered, but as he looked into her eyes, he seemed to see the monstrous waves surging within her heart. She was instantly as beautiful as a rose with thorns, but Yang Lanyan shook his head and said.
"No."
"We have our choices."
"As I said, these are not things a little female beast like you should worry about—"
"If you obediently remain a female beast, no one will treat you unfairly."
"Our choices are success, fame, and glory, and everything dazzling, and those belong to humanity, absolutely not to the Zerg or the cold and emotionless Skynet!"
"No one can stand above us!"
"Isn't it good to just be a well-behaved female beast?"
This was also the general evaluation of female beasts by the world.
Well-behaved and obedient.
Naturally, they would live well.
Moreover, she was a female beast with extremely high fertility potential.
Lin Muci then turned around, her words falling into people's hearts like fine rain.
"That's why you can't compare to Ling Kuang."
"You can never compare to him."
"You must have read that female scientist's diary too, right? In her diary, she wrote a few sentences about her thoughts on the world after her death, saying she didn't want anyone to remember her."
"The noble are eternally noble, the despicable are eternally despicable."
"She said she always found humanity lovable, even though humans are selfish and greedy—she said she never expected anyone to remember her, nor did she expect anyone to preserve her research findings... knowing the outcome, yet she persisted stubbornly."
"For the sake of letting you selfish, greedy, and despicable people live."
"The noble choose to sacrifice their souls."