Zhao Chenguang added to himself, "I think the female herder never dreamed that the one who would betray her in the end wouldn't be the 'Fire Seed,' but the servant who was tired of searching for answers with her."

"Because the meteorite's power weakened, the energy was no longer sufficient to sustain the female herder's life. As her life gradually withered, the two servants who accompanied her could not escape the fate of being terminated either."

"They understood that as soon as the female herder died, they would be buried with her."

"So, one of the two servants deceived the female herder. He assisted Zhang Jiao and Fu Xiumo in stealing the three magical artifacts and escaped from Kunlun."

"The empty coffin next to the female herder's black jade stone coffin was actually reserved for the servant who escaped."

"And the other unlucky servant, after the female herder noticed the betrayal, was forcibly sealed into the stone coffin while still alive."

"The servant who was buried alive had secretly used the iron mask a long time ago. He foresaw a certain scene in the future, but due to a deviation in the prediction, he did not foresee his own death. So, as he was dying, he carved the passage he predicted on the back of the stone coffin lid:"

"The Yellow River comes from the sky, rushing into the sea."

"A jade belt runs through the mountains, twin peaks hide the desolate lands."

"Treading the clouds, follow the wind, clear waves cleanse the living spring."

"Look in the white wilderness, green reflects the tiger rock."

"Where the coiled dragon dwells with the phoenix, there is also nothingness born."

"Zen practice is always full, candle dance illuminates eternal constancy."

"The Golden Light Celestial Lord descends, mortal dust enters the immortal path."

"Green lanterns lock human souls, the heart of Dao offers to the Three Pure Ones."

"..."

"Not long after the servant died, the 'Fire Seed' energy further weakened, to the point where it could no longer maintain the Red Sea state."

"Large areas of the Red Sea therefore lost control, engulfing the creatures inside and sweeping them into the quicksand. The servant's coffin was also mistakenly rolled into the Red Sea and sent into the desert."

"You all know what happened after that, so I won't say any more..."

Zhao Chenguang's explanation not only explained the origin of the Kunlun Mountain myth but also explained what happened during this period and everything they had been guided to along the way.

Everyone fell into deep thought, extremely shocked in their hearts, but tried their best to appear calm on their faces.

Han Yu's thoughts did not seem to linger on the history Zhao Chenguang told for too long, and she suddenly thought of another question.

"The 'Water Droplet' in the Devil's Valley of the Himalayas has swallowed so many scientists over the years, and these scientists are not short of top experts in certain fields, aren't they as smart as you? Couldn't they think of a way to get the password? After all, they also entered the meteorite!"

Han Yu seemed to have found another small "loophole" in Zhao Chenguang's words.

Han Yu's spirit of getting to the bottom of things made Zhao Chenguang feel both helpless and admire her.

But it didn't matter. In the current environment, it was impossible for Han Yu and the others to escape. The most urgent task was to solve the doubts in their hearts. As for time, Zhao Chenguang had plenty of it.

Zhao Chenguang explained, "The 'Water Droplet', it was originally a device in the meteorite, a crystallization of wisdom for the evolution of civilization built by that civilization over many years. Unfortunately, it was damaged by the impact, and a part of it was accidentally thrown outside."

"You can think of it as a tool for analyzing and transforming matter. It was designed primarily to absorb and store matter as a medium."

"No matter what the substance is, as long as it comes into contact with the 'Water Droplet', it will be broken up and reconstructed. Its molecular structure will be recorded before it is broken up. When the time is right, these broken-up structures can be restored to their original state."

"But humans are not ordinary arrangements and combinations of matter. When humans come into contact with the 'Water Droplet', although their molecular composition structure is stored, when rearranging and combining, all of their previous structures are broken up and reorganized. In any case, people can only return to the way they were when they first entered the 'Water Droplet'. There is no possibility of any development. Their logical thinking, imagination, and everything else will not return. They will only become specimens storing memories."

"In other words, the moment a human enters the 'Water Droplet', their life has actually stopped, no different from being dead."

"If you want to enter the interior of the 'Fire Seed' to explore the truth of civilization, then you need to take the 'channel', not take shortcuts."

"This channel is on the meteorite, not on the 'Water Droplet'."

"Therefore, only I and these people on Kunlun Mountain chose the right path."

"The others, the scientists you mentioned, unfortunately died in vain and became memory specimens of the 'Fire Seed'."

"Their memories will remain in the 'Fire Seed' as long as it exists, but they will not be able to think, imagine, and have a future like me."

"They are forever locked in their own prisons and will never be free again."

Along with the truth of the "Water Droplet" being revealed, so was the cruel reality. All the substances and people who came into contact with the "Water Droplet" were collected into the meteorite without exception, becoming specimens of Earth's civilization.

This also meant that all previous rescue plans were just futile efforts due to information asymmetry, meaningless efforts, and human ignorance under a higher level of civilization.