Concept of Civilization

Earth, Super Seminary.

After several days of initial contact and probing through Du Qiangwei and Aunt Lianfeng's personal channels, Aunt Lianfeng finally found a way to interact with Si Yao.

As long as it didn't involve any official stance or "greater good" like civilization cooperation, and they communicated purely as individuals, this ancient old god, though still indifferent, was at least willing to communicate.

Thus, one afternoon, Aunt Lianfeng, on her personal behalf, extended an invitation to Si Yao to visit Super Seminary.

Nominally, it was for some informal technical discussions and to satisfy her personal curiosity about Pangu Civilization.

Si Yao was noncommittal, but he still came. He was indeed interested in some of the technologies mastered by Super Seminary, especially knowledge regarding super genes and divine bodies. This would help him perfect his own power system and provide more real-world basis for "weaving lies" later on.

Walking within Super Seminary, Aunt Lianfeng didn't rush to bring him to the core laboratory. Instead, she led him through some relatively open training areas and living quarters.

Her purpose was clear: she hoped Si Yao could see the current situation of Super Seminary with his own eyes, see the people living on this planet, especially those young super soldiers who were highly anticipated.

"Mr. Si Yao," Aunt Lianfeng said, walking beside Si Yao, her tone calm as if just chatting, "I know that in your eyes, this pre-nuclear era civilization, and the vast majority of people living here, their thoughts are greatly limited."

She looked at Ge Xiaolun, Zhao Xin, and others undergoing physical training in the distance, her gaze calm. "They cannot understand things that exceed their own social moral framework and cognitive scope. Just like the cooperation between our Super Seminary and Earth, although we began attempting contact and guidance a thousand years ago, to this day, there are still many insoluble conflicts and misunderstandings."

"The most common among them is, 'If they are not of our kind, their hearts must be different.'" Aunt Lianfeng's tone carried a faint helplessness. "Many Earthlings cannot understand our thoughts and behavioral patterns. They always feel that we are pouring resources to help Earth cultivate super soldiers with ulterior motives, that we are dishonest, and even imagine that we will 'drive out the original occupant'."

She shook her head slightly. "But in reality, such thoughts, in our view... are simply childish and ridiculous."

Si Yao walked in silence, his ice blue eyes scanning the surroundings and the young faces full of vitality yet tinged with confusion, without interrupting her.

Aunt Lianfeng continued, "When a civilization begins to touch the threshold of creating gods, its values undergo a fundamental transformation. Especially when the individual great power of 'gods' begins to manifest, the very concept of civilization is completely reconstructed."

"What is civilization? Is it blood relation? Is it race? Is it a specific region or faith? No, none of those."

"Civilization is knowledge, information, science; it is the collection and inheritance of the highest achievements that an intelligent group can attain."

"The Denuo star system has been destroyed, and the Denuo people, as a racial entity, no longer exist," Aunt Lianfeng's tone carried a faint sadness.

"But Deno's 'civilization' will not disappear. Galaxy Power, Nuoxing War God... these super gene projects that poured the last efforts of Deno civilization, especially Galaxy Power, he himself carries the expectations of Deno civilization for the future and its highest technological crystallization."

"If we, the remnants of Deno, have any unfinished dreams,"

Her gaze once again fell upon Ge Xiaolun in the training ground, who was somewhat clumsy yet infinitely potential.

"It is to see Galaxy Power grow up, to see him and Nuoxing War God, these 'gods' created by Deno civilization, be able to open a new era in the future and pass on the flame of civilization."

"Just like the Shenhe Civilization, long since annihilated in the river of history."

Aunt Lianfeng paused. "The Shenhe Civilization as an entity has long since perished, but the 'civilization' of Shenhe Civilization exists forever. It has integrated into the genes of Angels, Demons, Lieyang, and even Earth today. Civilization, in this way, achieves eternal life. This is the essence of civilization inheritance, not clinging to narrow concepts like blood relations or surnames."

She finally looked at Si Yao, her tone returning to calm. "Of course, we do not expect Earthlings in the pre-nuclear era to understand this immediately. This is the gap of the era, the limitation of thought; it cannot be forced. We can only guide and wait."

"I brought you here not to beg you to change your mind, but only to hope that you can see that on this planet you consider 'primitive,' there is also a group of people striving for the continuation and sublimation of civilization, even if their methods may be immature and the road ahead is full of fog."

On the other side of the training ground, Ge Xiaolun, Zhao Xin, Liu Chuang, and others, who were undergoing basic combat training, saw Aunt Lianfeng and Si Yao walking side by side from afar.

"Hey hey, look over there!" Zhao Xin was the first to notice, nudging Ge Xiaolun with his elbow, winking. "Isn't that Commander Lianfeng? Who's that guy next to her? Silver hair, pretty cool! Could he be... her boyfriend?"

Liu Chuang narrowed his eyes and took a closer look upon hearing this. He shook his head and said in his somewhat street-smart tone, "Your eyesight is no good. Look at the way they're walking, you can feel a chill from far away. There's no warmth like when you're dealing with an object. I don't think so."

Ge Xiaolun didn't join the discussion. His gaze was fixed on Si Yao, his brow slightly furrowed.

Since activating the Galaxy Power gene, his perception of energy and danger had become extremely sensitive.

He felt an indescribable, unfathomable sense of oppression from the silver-haired man.

"That person... is very dangerous."

"What are you all muttering about over here?!"

A displeased female voice rang out. Lena, with her hands on her hips, walked over, interrupting their discussion.

"Is the training mission completed? Still have the leisure to watch the excitement here? All of you get back to training! If you don't run fifty laps before dinner, you don't eat!"

Zhao Xin and the others immediately fell silent, quickly retracted their gazes, and resumed their training, not daring to say more.

Lena watched them start training again before turning and walking towards Du Qiangwei, who was conducting high-intensity physical training alone nearby.

"Qiangwei," Lena walked up to Du Qiangwei, lowered her voice, and gestured with her eyes in the direction Si Yao and Aunt Lianfeng had gone. "What's going on? Why did Lianfeng invite this old geezer to Super Seminary? This place can't afford to be messed with by him."

She also knew what Si Yao had done in Huang Village – he had wiped out a demon legion that was likely about to revive and had repelled the Demon King Morgana. She herself had no confidence in dealing with such a figure.

Especially his control over power; while eliminating the demons, he caused no damage to the surroundings. She had only seen such skill in Pan Zhen.

If she had been there, eliminating the demons wouldn't have been a problem, but Huang Village would have turned to ashes along with them!

Du Qiangwei stopped her movements, wiped the sweat from her forehead, and glanced in the direction Si Yao and Aunt Lianfeng had disappeared. "Don't worry, he's not that bored. As long as you don't provoke him, he's usually too lazy to bother with others."

Lena raised her eyebrows, clearly not satisfied with this answer. She moved closer and asked with a questioning tone, "Not that bored? Then last time I met him, why did Dukao and the others insist on secretly monitoring and ruining the meeting? If they hadn't interfered, maybe I could have chatted with him more!"

Mentioning the unpleasant meeting last time, Lena was still somewhat resentful.

Du Qiangwei was silent for a moment. She had also asked Aunt Lianfeng about this. She sighed softly and replied, "I'm not too clear about the specific situation. Aunt Lianfeng later explained that it might have been a... not very successful risk assessment and contact attempt. They wanted to understand more information about him, but they clearly used the wrong method, and you saw the result, it was very unpleasant."

She paused and added, "However, since then, the higher-ups have changed their strategy. Now, they are using this relatively gentle, personal approach for contact. The effect seems to be better than before, at least he hasn't shown obvious hostility."

"If you want to get to know him, just go directly."

Lena pouted. "I'll just go up and strike up a conversation like this? If he doesn't talk to me, won't I be embarrassed?"

"No! You come with me!"

Saying that, Lena grabbed Du Qiangwei and forcibly pulled her to chase after Aunt Lianfeng and Si Yao.

"Hey! I still have training to do!"

"This Goddess personally approves, your training for today has ended!"