[Fate's choices could never be observed or predicted, not even by so-called Future Prediction.] [Fate offers you hints.] [Fate Hint One: In the special region "Kingdom of All Beings Country," there are large numbers of formidable enemies formed from your "compatriots," and even "Island Country compatriots," transformed by hatred. Slay them and replenish the energy of the "Civilization Kindling." As long as you do not consider them your "compatriots," the "Longevity-Cursed Species'" methods involving the "Thought Seal" will have no effect on you.] [Fate Hint Two: No one will tell you that the "Civilization Kindling" actually has another use: purifying the erosion of the "Virus Source Species." Possessing the Unique-Level Talent "Fate Hint," you may not need the "Civilization Kindling" to unlock "Task Four." You could try heading due west while using the "Virus Source Species" in your mouth to erode the "Civilization Kindling," scattering it across the ground in this way. Choose this path, and you will receive an unexpected surprise in the Large-Scale Event "Kingdom of All Beings."]
Having spent ten years with the Unique-Level Talent "Fate Hint," Zhou Heng knew his old companion fairly well. For "Fate Hint" to offer an "unexpected surprise" as a hint meant that this "unexpected surprise" would be of great use to him. At that thought, he did not hesitate in the slightest. He decisively took the "Virus Source Species" of unknown type from beneath his "tongue" and tossed it into the "Civilization Kindling" in his hand.
As the "Virus Source Species" of unknown type entered the "Civilization Kindling," the kindling, which had absorbed only six billion points of "Civilization Power," began to twist and warp. Like a candle flame buffeted by fierce winds, it alternated between blazing fiercely and dwindling to the verge of extinction. As it fluctuated between