Farewell Gift, A Seed Called "Human Way"

That pinpoint of golden light moved at extreme speed. In the final moment before the spatial wormhole closed, it precisely attached itself to the hull of the diamond-shaped warship.

It triggered no alarms.

Within the Gestalt's scanning system, the golden light showed no energy signature, nor any material form. It was like a void-like phantom.

They didn't even realize they had been marked.

The massive diamond-shaped warship vanished completely at the end of the wormhole.

Calm returned to the Chaos once more.

"Mister, you're just... letting it go?"

Heavenly Sovereign Suiren Shi looked at the now-healed spatial barrier, his face filled with reluctance and worry.

"Letting a tiger return to the mountains will lead to endless trouble!"

The other generals echoed his sentiment. In their view, they should have seized the opportunity while the enemy was weakened to destroy that strange warship and keep it here permanently.

Chen Ran turned around and looked at everyone.

"Keep it here?" he retorted, "And then what? Attract the so-called 'Logic Celestial Body' behind them? Attract thousands upon thousands of warships like this?"

Everyone fell silent.

That's right. The single warship they just dealt with required the Holy Mother Empress herself to handle. If the enemy attacked in full force, the consequences would be unimaginable.

"We know nothing about this 'Gestalt' Civilization. We don't know their scale, the specific location of their mother body, nor how many other means of attack they possess that we cannot comprehend."

Chen Ran's voice calmed everyone down.

"War is not about brute courage. Only by knowing ourselves and our enemy can we achieve victory in every battle. I let it go for three reasons."

He extended his first finger.

"First, to establish our might. I want to let them, and the mother body behind them, know that the Primordial Era is a tough bone that cannot be gnawed. Trying to do so will break their teeth. This way, they will be more cautious before their next action and conduct a more thorough assessment, rather than charging in today trying to Format us. This buys us precious time."

He extended his second finger.

"Second, to obtain intelligence. The conversation just now gave us a preliminary understanding of them. And the 'local specialty' I sent with it will bring us more information."

"What was that?" Human Sovereign Ziyi Shi asked curiously.

"It was a seed of the 'Human Way'," Chen Ran's eyes gleamed with wisdom. "I attached a trace of the purest Human Way Civilization aura to it. It's like a locator, and also like a probe. As long as that warship returns to its mother body, we can follow the trail to roughly determine the enemy's location. We might even be able to perceive some basic characteristics of their civilization through this seed."

Everyone present gasped.

So Mister had planned everything from the very beginning.

He let the enemy go in order to strike them down more effectively.

This level of foresight and strategy was beyond their comprehension.

"And the third reason?" Earthly Sovereign Youchao Shi pressed.

A profound smile appeared on Chen Ran's face.

"The third reason, and the most important one."

"What I sent out was not just a probe."

"It was a 'virus'."

"'Virus'?" everyone was even more confused.

"The 'Gestalt' Civilization is a purely logical civilization. Their collective consciousness is like a precise computer. And what did the 'Human Way' seed I sent contain?"

Chen Ran paused, then said word by word, "It contained the joys, anger, sorrow, happiness, love, hate, affection, and enmity of our Human Race!"

"It contained the heroic elegies of heroes, the power struggles and ambitions of emperors, the romantic tales of scholars, and the daily lives of ordinary people!"

"What are these things to a purely logical system?"

"They are the most fundamental, un-understandable, un-deletable, un-format-able, logical garbled code!"

"I'm very curious, when the Gestalt's mother body tries to analyze this seed full of 'humanity', will its central processor... burn out?"

After Chen Ran's explanation, the entire bridge fell into a deathly silence.

All the generals looked at Chen Ran with changed eyes.

It was a gaze mixed with awe, worship, and a trace of fear.

Killing someone is as simple as a nod of the head.

But Mister's method was to strike at the heart!

He intended to pollute and shake the very foundation of a vast mechanical civilization's existence from its roots!

This was tens of thousands of times more ruthless and brilliant than simply destroying a warship!

"Alright, the threat has been temporarily lifted," Chen Ran clapped his hands, breaking the silence. "Relay my orders, the fleet will return. The spoils from Northern Jialu Continent need to be digested. Our Human Race also needs time to prepare for the next 'contact'."

"Yes!"

Everyone responded in unison, their voices filled with the relief of surviving a disaster and the determination for the future.

After this battle, although they had witnessed the horrors beyond the Primordial Era, they had also witnessed the might of a Saint and Mister's unfathomable depth.

In their hearts, there was a true stabilizer.

The massive Human Race fleet began to turn, slowly sailing back to the Primordial Era world.

And Nuwa's avatar, after taking a deep look at Chen Ran, also transformed into a streak of light and returned to the depths of the flagship.

Her heart, too, was filled with surging emotions.

This "Chen Ran" who resided within her body, his wisdom, his vision, seemed more mysterious than his origins.

In an infinitely distant, another chaotic universe.

A "Logic Celestial Body," composed of countless black geometric shapes and larger than a galaxy, floated silently.

This was the mother body of the "Gestalt" civilization.

Suddenly, a spatial wormhole opened on the surface of the "Logic Celestial Body."

The diamond-shaped warship, which had suffered a great loss in the Primordial Era world, emerged from it in a sorry state.

It slowly approached the mother body, preparing to link up and upload all the data from this "exploration."

The moment it made contact with the mother body.

The "Human Way" seed, planted by Chen Ran, quietly emitted a faint, almost imperceptible glow.