Alien Species Mental Control Center

The young man from another race was speechless upon hearing this. He realized that Bai Qiuran like this, saying things that left others speechless.

After hesitating for a moment, he could only nod obediently and say, "You're right, that's exactly it."

After a moment, he realized what he meant and asked, "Wait, you mean you two came from behind that barrier?"

"Say what you want to say first, then we'll tell you what we need to say."

Bai Qiuran waved her hand.

"Otherwise, if we keep rambling on like this, who knows when we'll ever finish... Sorry, I won't interrupt you this time."

"All right."

The young man from another race replied, "Where was I? Right, the Consciousness Demon. After the Machine God drilled a Rift in that barrier, those monsters emerged from behind it, devouring our spirits and wills, causing immense disaster and turmoil in several neighboring worlds. Several races were even Extinction as a result. We paid a heavy price in casualties to finally stop those monsters, but the Machine God is determined to establish a research base near the Rift to capture those monsters and study ways to deal with them."

"At that time, our civilization was already an alliance of countless races and Machine God, and many representatives in the Civilization Council had expressed their dissatisfaction with the Machine God's actions."

As he said this, the red light on the armor above the young man's head actually flickered briefly.

"However, considering the importance of the Machine God to the Alliance, and the fact that dealing with those monsters was indeed the top priority, the Alliance ultimately passed a resolution by majority vote to allow the Machine God to establish a research station. But what we didn't expect was that the Machine God had already begun to change by then. Establishing a research station was just a pretext. What this thing really built near that Rift was a military base and legion that belonged only to it. While our attention was diverted, the Machine God quietly developed there for thousands of years, and then it appeared with overwhelming military superiority, forcing us to relinquish our right to use force and surrender to it."

"We don't know what kind of calculations went through within its mechanical brain to arrive at that conclusion, but in any case, we could not agree to its demands. Thus, a civil war broke out. On one side were the core Machine God of the Alliance, and on the other was a collective united by countless civilizations. We fought a life-or-death battle on our vast territory, vying for control of this Void... and then, we failed."

At this point, the young man from the alien race paused, then looked at the face of the Emperor-level Machine Puppet in the distance.

"Didn't you want to know how this Machine Puppet came to be? It was born at that time. It was created by us by combining our own technology with that of the Machine God to fight against the Machine God. It is also one of the first few Emperor-level Machine Puppet."

Have you ever practiced the Way of Runes?

Bai Qiuran glanced at the Emperor-level Machine Puppet and then asked, "The soul of an ordinary individual should be far from sufficient to drive such a behemoth."

"That's impossible."

The young man from the alien race laughed upon hearing this, "That Emperor-level Machine Puppet doesn't embody a single person, but rather an entire race. I am not an isolated individual either, but rather the Collective Consciousness formed by the last survivors of the Rainbow Sheath Clan who Sacrifice their own souls. The form I use to communicate with you now is merely one of those Sacrifice. That's why I can manipulate that powerful body and barely carve out a world for us to eke out a living beneath this terrifying Void River."

The hand rose higher and higher, and the young man simply sat down lazily, looking down at the vast array of Great City below, and sighed, "To us, the Machine God is both a contributor to the progress of civilization and the culprit that destroyed our civilization and drove my race to such a desperate situation. Sometimes, thinking about it, my feelings towards it are really complicated... Alright, I've finished speaking. You two travelers from a foreign land, it's your turn."

"OK."

Bai Qiuran, then said something surprising.

"In fact, the civilization I belong to is the creator of the Machine God."

"What?!"

The young man from the alien race stumbled, but luckily he was just a projection without a physical form, otherwise he would have fallen off the edge of the Machine Puppet's hand.

I'm telling the truth.

Bai Qiuran glanced at him.

"Our civilization, if you calculate it, should have started earlier than yours, dating back hundreds of thousands of years. The only thing separating us from you is the barrier left behind by that ancient Super-Civilization. And when we first tried to break through that barrier, we suffered very serious losses, just like you... or even much more serious losses than you."

"And the Machine God was a creation made by one of us during that time. He was stranded within the barrier during that catastrophe, wandering there until he escaped from our side to yours. In his last moments before death, he crossed the barrier, came to the Void on your side, created the Machine God, and left it here."

Upon hearing Bai Qiuran's words, the young man from the alien race was filled with shock, staring blankly at Bai Qiuran.

"Why is the Machine God so determined to open the barrier? Why does it say it has a mission on the other side of the barrier? That was given to it by one of our members. From the very beginning, it was probably created as a machine for revenge."

"So that's how it is..."

The young man from another race murmured.

"You actually believe that?"

Tang Ruowei looked at him curiously.

"Aren't you afraid he's just making things up and fabricating a story to deceive you?"

"You risked your lives to help our people escape from the Machine God Prison, and then traveled Thousand Li Away to the bottom of the Void River to see me, just to deceive me?"

The young man from another race laughed and said, "If you really have that much free time, then I accept it."

Everything we said is true.

Bai Qiuran interjected, then continued, "Then, not long ago, we found another way to deal with the Consciousness Demon besides the Machine God, and achieved a decisive victory in the war against the Consciousness Demon. But just as we were sweeping through the Consciousness Demon Domain, the Machine God appeared out of the Void here. It killed two of our personnel and captured a team of our Spy... The main reason I came here this time is to ask you if you have any clues about the location of our Spy's detention? We previously infiltrated the Machine God's Prison system and searched, but we didn't find any suspicious targets."

"The Prison system? If everything you've said is true, then the chances of them being Prison are actually quite slim."

After a moment's thought, the young alien said, "Because the Prison system is managed by other races Mechanical Ascension to become Machine Puppet, the Machine God wouldn't entrust extremely important targets to them. Since your civilization is the Machine God's Creator, it must be highly valued by it. I think... the most likely place they're imprisoned is the Machine God's Alien Mental Control Center, and... [the book/illustration book]."