As expected, relying on high technology, they quickly turned these people into slaves.
At the same time, they gained an understanding of the surrounding powers.
Around the sacred mountain and sacred tree were nine prosperous city-states, each with as few as tens of thousands of people and as many as over a hundred thousand.
According to those natives, they were nine kingdoms. They divided up territories among themselves and generally did not interfere with one another.
Having subdued one city-state and gained control of nearly a hundred thousand slaves at once, they were delighted at the thought of how much faster mining would become.
Having tasted success, they naturally had no intention of giving up on subduing the other eight kingdoms.
Su Qi floated in the air, watching their brutal actions with a frown.
Just then, a prompt sounded in his ear.
That day, the nine kingdoms centered around the sacred mountain welcomed their disaster.
The scenes before his eyes began changing rapidly.
One kingdom after another was subdued, but some refused to yield.
Those who refused to submit did not meet pleasant ends.
Su Qi witnessed a catastrophic scene.
Boom!
As an object fell from the sky, a dazzling mushroom cloud rose, and blazing fire swallowed everything!
The city-state of tens of thousands was instantly reduced to ruins!
Under that terrifying demonstration and warning, humanity fell silent and no longer dared resist.
Just like that, hundreds of thousands of humans became slaves, mining gold for Natalie and the others.
Yet Natalie and the others were not satisfied. In order to discover why human genes granted longevity, they began conducting continuous experiments.
The scenes before Su Qi changed rapidly, and then shock appeared in his eyes.
"They actually conducted genetic experiments?"
Inside a spacious silver laboratory, strange animals appeared within transparent glass chambers filled with blue nutrient solution.
Creatures with several tails or wings were nothing unusual. There were even many monsters with human heads or human faces and beast bodies!
Time flew by, and thirty years soon passed.
A scene appeared before Su Qi.
On mountain after mountain, grotesque, eye-searing animals appeared. The human-headed and human-faced monsters in particular were so horrifying they could scare people to death.
Then more scenes appeared before his eyes.
Aliens appeared in the scenes, and those Aliens actually mated with humans and gave birth to mixed-blood humans!
The mixed-blood humans looked much like ordinary people, but they were even taller than the two- or three-meter-tall Aliens. Even the shortest were four meters tall.
"Giants?"
He then discovered that some of those giants were foolish while others were intelligent. The foolish ones were mostly tyrannical and savage, without a shred of humanity.
The humans who had already become mining slaves suffered even more, falling victim to them one after another.
Then Su Qi saw a scene that made his gaze grow even colder.
As the years passed, the Divine Fruits that had originally been picked from the sacred tree grew back, and those people noticed this and set their sights on them.
The thousand-meter-tall Tree of Life towered atop the mountain. Nine branches pointed downward and one upward, while ten orange Life Fruits gleamed beneath the sunlight like ten suns suspended in the sky.
Looking at the fruits of the sacred tree above them and listening to the faintly worried words of the others, Natalie said, "After all these years, don't tell me you've been influenced too much by those natives? Do you really believe there are gods?"
Jonas frowned slightly and pondered without responding, while Farouk agreed. "Haha, Natalie is right. What gods could there be? It's just the ignorance and stupidity of those natives!"
"It's only a tree and some fruits. What could possibly—"
As he spoke, he flew up, casually plucked a Life Fruit, and stuffed it into his mouth.
After only a few bites, a warm current flowed through his body. Under everyone's astonished gazes, his face actually became slightly younger!
"This!"
Everyone was stunned. Even Farouk, who had casually eaten the Divine Fruit, froze.
"It really is... a Divine Fruit?"
"One fruit has such an effect?"
They could hardly believe it.
How could such a tiny fruit accomplish this?
The Divine Fruit was real. Then the gods from the legends...
They shuddered, then hurriedly denied it in their hearts.
Impossible!
There could not possibly be such a Great Existence!
In the end, the greed in their hearts forced them to ignore their misgivings as they desperately began fighting over the Divine Fruits.
The arrogant people committed that act of blasphemy. They did not realize what they had done and were still celebrating.
Su Qi's face was cold as he prepared to do something.
However, just as he was about to act, the prompt sounded.
Time passed, and five hundred years soon went by.
Seas turned into fields and fields into seas in the blink of an eye.
Everything before him had undergone immense changes.
The Tree of Life had grown even taller, while giants rampaged across the land.
At the same time, humanity had also changed greatly.
Su Qi discovered that perhaps they had mined enough gold, or perhaps they enjoyed their current lives too much and had no plans to return. Those Aliens rarely enslaved humans for mining anymore. Instead, they changed methods and began playing at ruling.
They lived decadent, depraved lives.
The prompt continued.
As the outsiders came into extensive contact with humanity, they continuously revealed the mysteries of the world to humans. Advanced knowledge far beyond that era, such as astronomy and mathematics, began to be mastered by humanity.
A look of surprise flashed across Su Qi's face.
The scenes flashed by, and he even discovered a prosperous kingdom on a continent in the Atlantic Ocean.
Complete ports, ships, aircraft, luxurious royal palaces, and other structures...
"Atlantis?"
While he was still puzzled, the prompt continued.
Humans learned knowledge and believed they had mastered everything. Under the deliberate influence of the outsiders, they became arrogant and disdainful of everyone else, even forgetting the original gods.
A scene appeared in Su Qi's eyes.
The morality of the past gradually vanished. People became increasingly indulgent and willful, and under Natalie and the others' deliberate encouragement, they grew even more fearless.
Amid the rapidly flashing scenes, Su Qi saw people slaughtering one another, busy plotting wars and thefts, living decadent lives.
And even...
In a prosperous city near the sacred mountain, a crowd gathered around a man standing atop a high platform, listening to his cries.
On the platform, a burly middle-aged man shouted arrogantly, "We have power. We no longer need to rely on gods!"
"We must commemorate and praise the greatness and omnipotence that belongs to mankind!"
"We must gather more people in this city-state and resist the gods together!"
"Legend says there is a sacred tree on the sacred mountain that reaches the heavens. Legend says it leads to the place of heaven, the dwelling of the gods!"
"Come, let us make bricks and fire them thoroughly. Let us build a tower whose top reaches the heavens, leading into the sky!"
The people cheered excitedly.
In the end, the middle-aged man even shouted, "We can build temples and statues, and create gods of our own!"
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