Chapter 363 - 305: On Mars: The Annihilated Golden Dawn

Chu Bamboo continued to read.

"It’s basically confirmed. The disappearance of Transcendents from the world... it’s possibly because, after a certain era, the newly generated Cultivation Resources began to carry some kind of contamination!

Using these kinds of Cultivation Resources makes it very easy for them to lose control..."

"I even suspect that the powerful Transcendents leaving Earth... might also be related...

Oh, I almost forgot, this is a conclusion I reached after excavating the ruins of a certain civilization in the Sichuan area!

These ruins should be from the same lineage as Sanxingdui...

It mentioned a line: The final home of gods is the endless starry sky! I have a feeling the Transcendents might have all gone into outer space...

This would also align with God’s suspected departure in the end.

Also, you should know the origin of the Han Race, right? The Han Race comes from the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty comes from Liu Bang’s original title, and Liu Bang’s title comes from the Han River... The Han River means the water of the Milky Way... which makes the Han Race the Galaxy Race!

Take a guess, why would Liu Bang, who has been confirmed to be Extraordinary, deliberately use the Milky Way... to represent the name of his dynasty?"

Chu Bamboo pressed his lips together as countless thoughts raced through his mind. ’Is this actually a hidden message... telling future generations that the starry sky, or the Milky Way, is the real future?’

Of course, compared to the possible destinations of the ancient Great Divine Power Users, what surprised Chu Bamboo the most was...

"Ancient Cultivators could cross the stars with their physical bodies?"

Chu Bamboo’s feelings were complicated. ’Wait, is this even reasonable? Do you guys have nuclear fusion reactors inside your bodies... or are you loaded with Antimatter?’

Ridiculous...

Chu Bamboo fell into deep thought. ’If ancient Cultivators had this kind of power... then I guess I need to re-evaluate the abilities of the top-tier Cultivators from the Dream World civilization...’

"Anyway... Earth’s environment might have become unsuitable for the birth of Cultivators at some stage! Though I’m pretty skeptical about whether the Cosmos is suitable either... but...

Hmm, a high concentration of this information converges on Mars! I have a suspicion... is this the first stop for Cultivators stepping into the stars? Uh, or maybe the second stop... I kind of suspect the first stop was the Moon!"

Chu Bamboo took a deep breath, his expression grim as he swiped to the next page.

Only to find... that one swipe took him directly to... Mars?!

"I personally piloted a version 7.8 Aerospace Fighter into low Mars orbit!"

Chu Bamboo: "???"

What the heck happened?!

"Oh, right. This version of the Aerospace Fighter is basically on par with the Sky Battleship we built last time... it’s the kind of thing that, while not quite at the level of a Cosmic Immigrant Ship, is getting pretty close..."

"7.8?" Chu Bamboo took a moment to sort through his thoughts. ’So what year is it? How did it skip forward again?’

And...

"He went himself!" Chu Bamboo sighed, a shadow falling over his eyes. ’Is it the contamination problem again?’

But he quickly continued reading...

"I have already annihilated and conquered the Golden Dawn. And from some of the classified documents I managed to sift through, I’ve deduced something terrifying..."

Chu Bamboo: "?"

Chu Bamboo sat up straight. ’Damn... he already finished off the enemy? I have to sit up and pay attention to this!’

"I have a suspicion that the reason the Golden Dawn received revelations from an Extraterrestrial Civilization and saw me as the Son of Satan... actually has jack squat to do with Z merging with the Hive!

And it probably has nothing to do with that prophecy we guessed at, either? I can’t be sure about that part, actually. The opposing civilization might have Divine Power Users related to prophecy! But this question isn’t critical..."

"Based on intelligence and some of my own deductions, this whole affair is related to that... Black Fog Monster God we saw, the one that possessed the Big Orange Cat!"

Chu Bamboo’s pupils contracted abruptly.

"Information entropy pollution! Information entropy pollution! How could we have overlooked this...

That damn Black Fog Monster God—isn’t its image a form of information itself?

Why didn’t we seal away our memories of it at the time?

Was it just because we didn’t sense anything was wrong...? But isn’t that, in itself, a huge problem?

The moment we returned, the image of that Black Fog Monster God in our minds... might have triggered some kind of mechanism!

Yes, I strongly suspect it! That Black Fog Monster God exists in our era.

As for whether it’s an Extraterrestrial Civilization! Or something else... I don’t know.

One more thing—don’t bother sealing your memories! You’ve already returned to the Real World... it’s too late."

Chu Bamboo, who had been about to seal his memories, froze. He let out a long sigh, his brow furrowing deeper. Then he started pondering another question, "If it’s confirmed that there will be problems in the Real World... then in the Dream World, after I saw that Black Fog Monster God, will I end up...?"

Chu Bamboo’s expression shifted, but in the end, he still chose to seal away the specific image of the Black Fog Monster God in his mind!

’It might not work... but I have to try.’

Rubbing his cheeks, Chu Bamboo continued to read.

"I came here to investigate!

Mars... is still Mars!

Whether it’s a crucial stop for Cultivators venturing into the stars... or something else...

It’s all more or less related to Mars!"

"This time the contamination embedded itself deeper, causing me to hallucinate and lose control... much earlier than in the previous timeline! I suspect it’s related to the Black Fog Monster God...

But, this is just a guess in the end..."

"I deployed a large number of unmanned jet-powered levitating fighters to explore..."

"The surface of Mars is completely unremarkable! I really can’t imagine what dangers could be lurking here..."

"After that, I sent out some engineering and excavation machines! And then... I encountered some extremely bizarre phenomena."

"A single machine or two was fine, and a dozen or so machines were also fine..."

"But when the number of machines reached the thousands, and they had been on Mars for more than three days... things started to get weird!"

"The machines broke free from Z’s control... but they kept on working!

Strange, it’s as if it, or rather they, have gained some kind of life..."

"No! That’s not right!"

"Wait, damn it... no, Z is also a kind of machine! Even if it’s become a true artificial intelligence, that fact remains... damn it.

I’ve forcibly severed the connection between this part of Z and the mainframe on Earth... I hope it was in time!"

Chu Bamboo silently swiped to the next page, only to find it was the last one.

He closed his eyes, remaining silent for a long, long time, and finally gave a bitter smile.

"...Don’t tell me! The real reason Z... has been so quiet is that in the previous timelines, my good brother just recklessly took Z straight to Mars! Then he recklessly used Z to observe and gather intelligence... and then, Z got contaminated..."