Fortunately, Wang Qi's state of excitement subsided after only a short while. He sat back down and laughed sheepishly. "Sorry, sorry. I got too carried away just now and made you listen to a whole lot of half-baked ideas. Really, sorry about that."
Feng Luoyi had warned Wang Qi that afternoon not to delve too deeply into this subject. But Feng Luoyi also understood that a scientist's curiosity was one of the greatest driving forces in the world, so he had told Wang Qi some things, as well as the Immortal Alliance's conjectures about civilizations.
However, Wang Qi had been poisoned by all manner of science fiction for over twenty years in his previous life. After hearing the information Feng Luoyi had provided, he inevitably fell into wild flights of fancy. And the long speech he had just given Huangfu Lian and Mo Zhenzhen was really only because his own fantasies had been bottled up for too long, and he simply had to let them out.
Huangfu Lian and Mo Zhenzhen were so frightened they could no longer speak. Huangfu Lian asked, somewhat nervously, "Half-baked... half-baked ideas? That Dark Forest thing..."
Wang Qi laughed. "Hahhh... The prerequisite for something like the 'Dark Forest' is that every civilization in this universe has to firmly believe bullshit like 'those not of our kind must harbor different hearts'—but in this universe, following that creed would undoubtedly be inefficient. It would slow the progress of an entire civilization, because anything here might gain intelligence, turn into a demon, and slap you right across the face. Your own home planet alone has countless different races."
Mo Zhenzhen cautiously asked, "Really?"
"Though I can't be certain, I'd say the coexistence of multiple races is probably the norm in this universe, right?" Wang Qi said. "If you