Having made up his mind, Zhang Ming began carefully studying the token in his hand again.
His brow furrowed as he recalled the terrifying hallucination before he lost consciousness. "This diamond-shaped gem really was dug out of a Blue Crystal Person's head!"
"What I encountered last night might have been the deceased's final memories."
"His death might have had something to do with the Red Moon in the sky."
At the thought of the living "Red Moon" in that vision, Zhang Ming rubbed his temples, his heart jolting with wave after wave of fear.
That Demon God had been far too terrifying. Even a fleeting glimpse in a vision had made his soul tremble and his entire body break into a cold sweat.
Was that thing really something... an intelligent civilization could defeat?
And there had been another statement in that remembered vision, one packed with implications: "Only civilizations that hunt Demon Gods can endure forever in the Demon God's Sea!"
Zhang Ming fell silent. If that was true, it was simply... too staggering. Horrifying, even!
"There are immensely powerful civilizations in the Demon God's Sea that can hunt Demon Gods!"
"Otherwise, how could the Blue Crystal Civilization have said something like that? There must have been successful precedents for them to dare attempt it."
Then he thought of human civilization, which could not even break through the "human limit" and remained fragmented, yet to achieve unification...
Well, we're beyond saving!
I'm out!
Can I stop being human?!
"Squawk, squawk!" Right on cue, the pelican called from outside.
Stone Mama also soared around the sky once before rolling inside with a rumble.
Seeing Old Zhang awake, Stone Mama stuck to his backside in surprise. After all, remaining unconscious for eighteen straight hours was pretty unusual.
Zhang Ming silently rose from