The Stranger Enoshia Could Understand

Although Enoshia inside it couldn't hear Dr. Einstein's analysis, a mere glimpse into its memories revealed it to be an extraterrestrial visitor—not only from outside the Solar System, but from an entirely different universe.

Long ago, in an unknown corner of the cosmos, there lived a race of snake-headed, human-bodied monsters. They had no name, and their only activities were reproduction, feeding, and excretion—no different from most animals on Earth.

Through the long process of natural evolution, some of them developed the ability to create illusions. Under natural selection, those who could use illusion magic survived, while the others, for various reasons, eventually went extinct. Thus, from that point on, the entire race possessed the power to fabricate illusions.

Up to this point, their fate remained no different from most animals on Earth—until the birth of a singular individual.

It accidentally ate a magical fruit, and afterward gained the ability to think. Driven by the instinct to survive, it began pondering how to improve feeding efficiency and how to feed more safely.

As its experiences accumulated, its thinking grew sharper. Finally, one day, it began to contemplate a philosophical question: What is the meaning of life?

But unlike philosophers from all corners of the universe, after racking its brain, it reached a conclusion: In the end, all life boils down to two outcomes—to eat or to be eaten. The forms of eating differ, but eating and being eaten are the meaning of life.

And just as it realized this, it encountered the gaze of a god. That god was unimaginably vast, with countless abyssal maws; suns, moons, and stars were its food.

After being gazed upon, it and its entire race gained enhanced abilities in eating. In theory, anything could be converted into energy and swallowed as food—unless it was stronger than themselves.

This wise one of the tribe, after receiving that gaze, gained greater wisdom and power. It then improved the race's language based on the texts it encountered, created a written script, and named the entire race after itself: [Huilizoo].

From then on, every newborn of the [Huilizoo] race possessed at least some degree of thinking ability.

That, in a nutshell, was how this Herrscher's vessel, the [Huilizoo], evolved from ordinary animals into intelligent beings.

Its mind was a jumble of information—grand settings and cryptic riddles right from the start, enough to put anyone to sleep. Faced with memories spanning nearly ten thousand years, Enoshia feared that if she absorbed it all at once, she'd end up like Xiao Shi—overwhelmed into stupidity.

So she filtered and processed the information first, and what finally entered her mind was a "Huilizoo race introduction that even Enoshia could understand."

"This description is undoubtedly [Voracity]'s Aeon, Ouroboros. Honkai: Star Rail's been out for over a year, but there's hardly any introduction to [Voracity]'s Pathwalkers. Today I've learned something new. Using Ouroboros as a reference, calling yourself a 'Hui' when you're only as tall as a building—that's quite bold."

From then on, Huilizoo society shifted from a primitive state to a tribal system. Huilizoo himself, with the greatest wisdom and strength, naturally became the tribe's chieftain.

The Huilizoo race thereafter steadfastly walked the Path of Voracity. They learned knowledge and waged war—all for the ultimate purpose of eating. Every Huilizoo who died was eaten by others.

Confronting the current state of his race, Huilizoo fell into another long period of contemplation. Finally, he concluded: Since It (Ouroboros) only eats others and is never eaten by anyone, it follows that those who eat others are nobler than those who are eaten. Caring for his entire race, Huilizoo thus abolished the practice of cannibalism. Everyone united to eat others and avoid being eaten.

It was during this period that the Huilizoo race evolved again. Their ability to dream could now be used not only on prey but also on allies. The Huilizoo could link dreams internally, effectively sharing vision and enabling team voice chat. This evolution brought another qualitative leap. Over the next few decades, through several wars, the Huilizoo unified their entire planet as absolute rulers.

As a race with strong expansionist and aggressive tendencies, the Huilizoo would never stop at one planet. Years later, they invented interstellar spacecraft and began invading and conquering other planets. But while other forces waged war for resources, their goal was simply to eat more races and diversify their menu.

However, the path of conquest was never smooth. The Huilizoo brought back not only food from beyond but also infectious diseases.

At some unknown point, a foreign plague swept through the entire Huilizoo race. Due to their unique physiology, diseases that were minor nuisances to other lifeforms were devastatingly effective on the Huilizoo. In just a few decades, their population dwindled to a third of its original size. To the eyes of their conquered victims, this was undoubtedly divine will—a punishment from heaven upon these terrifying barbarians.

In the midst of this catastrophe, Huilizoo—the strongest and wisest of his kind—began interstellar travel. Since the disease came from beyond the stars, the cure must also be sought there.

As it turned out, whether one's actions are judged right or wrong by others has no bearing on their luck. Huilizoo didn't directly find a specific cure, but he encountered another god.

This god had many arms and wore a pure white veil. Without a word, it granted Huilizoo's request. From then on, the Huilizoo race was freed from the nightmare of disease and granted boundless longevity.

"Good grief—if what's recorded in its memories is true, shouldn't the Huilizoo's rise be called 'One Lucky Bastard's Journey to Power'? Not only did they catch Ouroboros's gaze, but they also met Yaoshi at a critical moment of life and death. Two Aeons serving one race—how much more fortune could the Huilizoo ask for?"

That was the gist of the Huilizoo's prehistoric legends. Though legends inevitably distort details, this Huilizoo member named [Wang]—who could both devour energy and possessed terrifying regenerative abilities—was undoubtedly the strongest proof of the power of Voracity and the miracle of Abundance.

[Who would have thought, a Betrayer of Gods could give birth to a new god]

[Never imagined there could be a god as ■■ as ■■■■■■]

[Faster, faster, or else ■■■■■]

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"Wait, wait—why the riddles again? Did the Huilizoo convert to the Path of Mystery later or something?"

Due to massive gaps in information, the later parts couldn't be summarized as neatly as before.

In any case, some unknown upheaval struck the Huilizoo, causing a mass exodus. Four Huilizoo members—Chi, Mei, Wang, Liang—eventually arrived on this planet. These four were the race's exceptional talents. And Wang, who became the Herrscher of Frost's vessel, possessed a simple ability on top of the Huilizoo's baseline: whatever he ate, he gained resistance to.

"What about the middle? What exactly happened to the Huilizoo? How did they get here? Where'd it go?"

Its memories were like a book—Enoshia could flip through or even edit them at will. But if someone had torn out several pages in the middle before she got the book, she couldn't know what was written on those missing pages. She could only skip that part and keep reading.