More and more pheromones and data streams passed, flowed, spread, and intertwined between Meng Chao and Baili Tongyun, forming an immense and intricate Neural Network.
Meng Chao was no longer himself.
More precisely, he was no longer only himself.
He was Meng Chao.
He was also Baili Tongyun.
He was also every ancient human in the magnificent, resplendent Primordial City surrounding Baili Tongyun.
He was also every individual of the Primordial Civilization scattered across the sea of stars billions of years ago, as well as their ancestors and their ancestors' ancestors.
Together, they formed a colossal beast called "civilization," sharing its perceptions, thoughts, and desires.
Thus, there was no need for cumbersome and inefficient language.
Nor was there any need for words, or even images.
In an instant, Meng Chao understood the mistake made by Baili Tongyun and her ancestors—the team that had researched the "Interstellar Data Collective" and the "Collective Unconscious of civilization."
They had underestimated—or rather, given the level of their civilization, they had simply been incapable of understanding—the surging, terrifying potential contained within a Collective Unconscious formed by the simultaneous stirring of brainwaves from hundreds of millions of civilization's individuals.
They had thought they had merely created or discovered something akin to "super Artificial Intelligence."
Yet controlling or destroying an Artificial Intelligence had been nothing more than a trifling skill to the Primordial Civilization.
Besides, the Primordial Civilization of that time had already developed to its utmost extreme.
The ancient humans, realizing that their entire civilization was about to flourish to its peak and then decline, irreversibly marching toward its end, desperately needed to find a new path and a new answer.
Therefore, they did not destroy the Collective Unconscious born amid the interstellar network.
Instead, they subjected it to every kind of testing, iteration, compilation, and