On the Eve of the Great Flood

With no surprises, they quickly enslaved these people using high-tech means.

At the same time, they gained an understanding of the surrounding powers.

There were nine prosperous city-states surrounding the Sacred Mountain and the Divine Tree, each with tens of thousands to over a hundred thousand people.

According to the natives' accounts, these were nine kingdoms that divided their territories and generally did not interfere with each other.

After conquering one city-state and gaining control of nearly a hundred thousand slaves, they were overjoyed at the thought of how much this would accelerate their mining speed.

Having tasted the benefits, they naturally wouldn't give up on conquering the other eight kingdoms.

Su Qi floated in the air, watching their brutal actions, his brow furrowed.

Just then, a prompt sounded in his ear.

[On this day, the nine kingdoms centered around the Sacred Mountain welcomed their disaster.]

The scene in his eyes rapidly changed.

Kingdom after kingdom was subdued, but there were those who refused to yield.

However, their fate was not a pleasant one.

Su Qi witnessed a catastrophic scene.

Boom!

As something was dropped from the sky, a brilliant mushroom cloud rose, and scorching flames engulfed everything!

The city-state of tens of thousands of people was reduced to ruins!

[Under this terrifying display of warning, humanity fell silent, no longer daring to resist.]

[Thus, hundreds of thousands of humans became slaves, mining gold for Natalie and the others.]

[However, Natalie and the others were not satisfied. In order to research the reason for human longevity, they began continuous experiments.]

The scene before Su Qi changed rapidly, and then his eyes revealed shock.

"They're actually conducting genetic experiments?"

In a large, silver laboratory, inside transparent glass containers filled with blue nutrient solution, appeared various strange creatures.

Creatures with multiple tails or wings were no longer unusual; there were even many monsters with human heads and beast bodies!

[Time flew by, and thirty years quickly passed.]

A scene appeared in Su Qi's eyes.

On the mountains, eye-searing creatures appeared, especially the monsters with human heads and faces, which were horrifying enough to scare people to death.

Then, more scenes appeared in his eyes.

Aliens appeared in the scenes, and those aliens actually combined with humans, giving birth to hybrid humans!

The hybrid humans looked similar to humans externally, but they were taller than the aliens' two to three meters, with the shortest being four meters.

"Giants?"

Then he discovered that some of the giants were foolish, while others were intelligent. The foolish ones were generally barbaric and inhumane.

The humans, who had already been reduced to mining slaves, suffered even more, falling victim to their cruelty one after another.

Following this, Su Qi saw a scene that made his gaze grow even colder.

As the years passed, the Divine Fruit that had been plucked from the Divine Tree had regrown, and these people noticed this, coveting the Divine Fruit.

The thousand-meter-tall Tree of Life stood tall on the mountaintop, with nine branches pointing downwards and one pointing upwards. Ten orange Life Fruits shone brightly under the sunlight, like ten suns suspended in the air.

Looking at the fruits of the Divine Tree above their heads and listening to the hesitant words of others, Natalie said, "After all these years, haven't you been too influenced by those natives? Do you really believe in gods?"

Jonas frowned slightly, remaining silent. Farouk, however, agreed, saying, "Haha, Natalie is right. Where are the gods? It's just the ignorance and foolishness of those natives!"

"It's just a tree, and some fruit, what's the big deal..."

As he spoke, he flew up and casually picked a Life Fruit, stuffing it into his mouth.

After a few bites, a warm current flowed through his body, and under the astonished gazes of others, his face actually showed a hint of youth!

"This!"

Everyone was shocked, and even Farouk, who had casually eaten the Divine Fruit, was stunned.

"It's... it's actually a Divine Fruit?"

"One fruit has this effect?"

They found it unbelievable.

How could such a small fruit achieve this?

The Divine Fruit was real, and the legendary god...

They shivered, then quickly denied it in their hearts.

Impossible!

There couldn't be such a great existence!

Finally, greed from the bottom of their hearts made them forcibly ignore their inner worries, and they desperately began to fight for the divine fruit.

[The arrogant ones committed the sacrilege. They didn't realize what they had done and were still celebrating.]

Su Qi's expression was cold, and he wanted to do something.

However, just as he was about to act, a prompt sounded.

[Time passed, and five hundred years quickly went by.]

Seas changed into mulberry fields; it was fleeting.

Everything before his eyes had undergone tremendous changes.

The Tree of Life grew even taller, and giants rampaged across the land.

At the same time, humanity had also changed greatly.

Su Qi discovered that perhaps because they had dug enough gold, or perhaps because they were enjoying their current lives and had no intention of returning, the aliens were now rarely enslaving people to mine. Instead, they had changed their approach and started a game of domination.

They lived lives of decadence and depravity.

The prompt continued.

[As the outsiders and humans had extensive contact, the mysteries of the world were continuously leaked to humans. Advanced knowledge far beyond this era, such as astronomy and mathematics, began to be mastered by humans.]

Surprise flashed across Su Qi's face.

As the scene flashed before his eyes, he even discovered a prosperous kingdom on a continent in the Atlantic Ocean.

Perfect harbors, ships, aircraft, luxurious royal palaces, and other buildings…

"Atlantis?"

While he was still wondering, the prompt continued.

[Humans learned knowledge and believed they had mastered everything. Under the intentional influence of the outsiders, they became arrogant and conceited, even forgetting the original gods.]

A scene appeared in Su Qi's eyes.

The morals of the past gradually disappeared. People became more and more indulgent and did as they pleased. Even with the intentional push from Natalie and others, they became even more fearless.

In the rapidly flashing scenes, Su Qi saw people killing each other, busy planning wars and stealing, living decadent lives.

Even…

In a bustling city near the Sacred Mountain, a group of people were watching the shouts of someone standing on a high platform.

On the high platform, a burly middle-aged man shouted arrogantly, "We have strength, and we no longer need to rely on gods!"

"We want to commemorate and praise the greatness and omnipotence of humanity!"

"We want to gather more people in this city-state to fight against the gods together!"

"Legend says the Sacred Mountain has a Divine Tree that reaches the heavens, legend says it leads to the abode of the gods!"

"Come, we will be the bricks, we will burn the bricks thoroughly, and build a tower, its top will reach the heavens, to the sky!"

The people echoed with excited shouts.

Finally, the middle-aged strong man even shouted, "We can build temples, statues, build our own gods!"

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