Mercury turned her head and stared at Xia Lian's side face. After a moment, she said, "Madam said that you are a very introverted child, but it doesn't look like that now."

"People will always change." Xia Lian said.

"Have you ever studied systematic military strategy in the past?" Mercury asked.

"If this accident hadn't happened, I would have gone to the military school in Helios for further studies this year." Xia Lian said.

"In other words, you thought of making a roundabout attack on Bahram Star without systematically studying tactical command and having no experience in commanding a fleet?"

There was a glint in Mercury's eyes.

"It's not that I have no experience at all. I have played some space strategy games before." Xia Lian said casually.

"What game?" Mercury asked.

"There was a game a long time ago, called Stars."

Mercury searched her database and found that there was no data about this game, so she continued to ask.

"Is this the game that taught you this roundabout attack tactic?"

"No, it taught me how to burn glass without any burden."

Mercury obviously didn't understand this term. She tilted her head and looked at Xia Lian with some confusion.

"what is that?"

"A form of space art." Xia Lian explained.

"So this game teaches art?" Mercury asked.

"Roughly the same."

After a pause, he smiled.

“Battle command is something that has a large proportion of talent. No matter how enriched the theory is, it’s another level in actual combat.

How can a game teach you this?"

Shuiyin nodded and did not ask any more questions knowingly.

Xia Lian found a chair and sat down, slowly closing his eyes.

The thrilling chase yesterday consumed a lot of Xia Lian's energy, and he barely slept last night.

Now that he has come to a relatively safe place, the fatigue is almost overwhelming. Although he can adjust the fatigue through AS, it is always harmful to the body.

So it’s better to take a rest first, after all, living longer is your capital.

"I'm going to rest for a while. If anything happens, remember to let me know."

"yes."

....

After an unknown amount of time, he was awakened by Wang Zhen's voice.

He slowly opened his eyes, and Wang Zhen stood in front of him, bending down to look at him levelly.

"Your Highness, we may have found what you asked us to find."

Xia Lian raised his eyebrows.

"Follow me, Master Mercury is already waiting there in advance."

Wang Zhen led Xia Lian down the main control room and walked towards the corridor on the left side of the workshop. After zigzagging for tens of meters, they entered a special room.

It seems that the lighting has been damaged due to disrepair, and only some green emergency lights provide some light inside.

There are some nutrition cabins all around. Looking inside through the glass, you can see embryos soaked in the nutrient solution. There are animal and human embryos. Their eyes are closed, and they seem to have been sleeping for a long time. There are some nutrition cabins.

The glass was broken and there were shards of glass on the ground.

The air was filled with a faint smell of medicine and formalin, and the cold wind coming from nowhere caressed his skin like a ghost, making people feel chills in their hearts.

These embryos are already dead. Even if there is nutrient solution, it cannot sustain the life of these embryos for more than a thousand years without energy.

Xia Lian and Wang Zhen continued to move towards the breeding room. Soon, a light different from the green light around him appeared in front of him.

It was a soft, blazing white light like warm sunlight. At the end of the light, he saw a cylindrical glass container. Inside the container was a transparent, water-like liquid.

And in this liquid, there is a broken arm that emits white light floating. The blood flowing out of the cross section does not mix with the water, but instead forms blood beads surrounding the cross section.

The fingers of the amputated arm are slender, the joints are clear, and the skin is smooth. You can even see the veins and feel the blood flowing on them.

It is alive.

This idea came to Xia Lian's mind, and his hair stood up subconsciously.

If they are the only visitors to this base in more than a thousand years, then this severed arm has been here for at least a thousand years.

Even those embryos soaked in nutrient solution are full of wrinkles and lifeless, but time has never left any traces on this broken arm...

The three members of the exoskeleton team stood next to the glass pillar, staring blankly at the severed arm. They were speechless for a long time. It was not until Xia Lian arrived that they realized what they were doing and said in unison to Xia Lian.

"Your Highness."

Xia Lian didn't respond, he was also looking at the broken arm.

After a moment, he came back to his senses and looked at Mercury who was sorting information on the control panel under the glass column.

At this moment, she was browsing the data in this base, and countless data streams were projected on her irises.

Then, she slowly closed her eyes and spoke.

"There are very few records about this severed arm in this base. It only says that it was brought by Joan of Arc, and she called this severed arm..."God"."

"God?" Wang Zhen raised his eyebrows, "Is it some kind of advanced alien life?"

"I don't know." Mercury shook his head.

Xia Lian was speechless. As a person who has truly seen gods, this title is clear enough to him.

Joan of Arc is a rational person like him. She can also go back to the past and witness the era of gods. Similarly, it is reasonable for her to obtain something from the era of gods.

"According to the data in this base, the ancestors of the Yongye Star humans who possess the fifth "overhead" element were transformed using the blood of this severed hand."

"How to transform it?" Xia Lian asked.

"Injecting blood into the blood vessels, this blood seems to have some kind of infectious nature like a virus, and can assimilate humans into beings similar to Him.

But the success rate was not high. They injected blood into a thousand cell samples, only two were successful, and the genes of the remaining samples all collapsed.

Joan of Arc named the embryos created from the two successful cell samples "Adam" and "Eve".

The subsequent humans of Yongye Star were all cloned and cultivated based on these two successful genetic samples. After generations of reproduction, the genetic map of humans on this planet already contains this special gene.

.”

Xia Lian nodded silently and stared at the severed hand quietly.

[It seems that the origin of this power is more interesting than I thought. Are you right, Alaya...]

After a moment of silence, the voice appeared in his mind again.

[This is a basic force that constitutes the universe. You can understand it as a basic particle. It is clouds, wind, mountains, rivers, everything. Human beings are also made of it. It is everywhere, but cannot be seen.

.

Billions of years ago, the Earth was not a planet suitable for survival. There were violent geological activities, volcanoes erupted all over the place, lava flowed everywhere, and no living material had yet been formed.

Therefore, the gods appeared. They are the agents of the fifth element. The meaning of their existence is to exercise this power to reorganize the rules of the world.

The earth you know is the world after they sorted out the rules.]

[Can gods be born on every planet?] Xia Lian asked.

【No, it requires a special condition.】

[This special condition also gave birth to you, right? 】

Alaya didn't say anything, but in a sense it was acquiescence.

Xia Lian continued to ask, "Is this hand alive? Or, if I am injected with this kind of blood, will I be controlled by the owner of this hand?"

【The gods are dead.】

The voice replied, [The divine factor keeps this hand alive but no longer conscious. His blood will make more divine factors appear in your body. That is a key and a channel.

In the Age of Gods, many human beings who called themselves "magicians" signed contracts with the gods to allow divine factors to exist in their bodies. In this way, they borrowed the power of the gods, that is, using what you call the fifth

elements.

The method of contract is relatively safe, but the direct injection of blood, because without the guidance of the gods, this transformation process will be more violent and generally impossible to succeed.】

[Probability of two thousandths.] Xia Lian said.

[In fact, it is even worse. Stealing divine power with one’s body is a kind of blasphemy, and blasphemy will eventually pay the price. 】

Xia Lian stared at the glass column quietly, with a glimmer of light in his eyes.

【That's a coincidence, I never believe in God.】


Chapter completed!