Chapter 7
At this point, Liu Dajun glanced at them. Everyone was breathing rapidly now. Something had already occurred to them, but no one spoke. They simply waited for Liu Dajun to continue.
Liu Dajun fell silent for a moment before continuing, "But combined with what's happened here, this gave me another idea: the fundamental purpose of the apocalypse isn't destruction, but a test!
"As long as you pass this test, you can survive. The main reason so many civilizations have appeared in your world is that none of them passed the test.
"And the reason my civilization survived for over five thousand years was that we survived the flood!"
In the real world, Su Mo shook his head as he watched Liu Dajun constantly boosting morale like the leader of a pyramid scheme. "Nice guess. Don't guess again!"
He had never said he would spare them if they survived the flood.
Whether a world-destroying meteor would follow the flood was really just a matter of his whim.
As for why the previous civilizations had always been destroyed in a pattern of meteor, flood, meteor, flood, it was mainly because he felt that using the same method to destroy the world over and over would get a little boring.
If he really wanted to, he could destroy the world with a single slap.
But doing that felt a little lacking in ceremony, so he had chosen floods and meteors instead.
If it were another civilization, and Su Mo was in a good mood, he might really give them a day-one thousand years-to develop after they survived the world-ending flood.
But absolutely not this civilization!
First of all, this civilization was developing far too quickly. If he really gave them a thousand years, they might actually become a Type II civilization.
After all, a Type II civilization could already travel all over the universe. Then, if he wanted to kill them, he would have to search everywhere. How could that be as quick as destroying them right here?
Come to think of it, that actually wasn't much of a problem. Su Mo had created the entire Microcosm, and going anywhere within it took no more than a thought.
The main reason was that he had just finished reading this civilization's entire history of development. These little fellows he had created actually wanted to capture him.
It would have been one thing if Su Mo hadn't known, but now that he did, there was no way he would let them off so easily.
Although these people couldn't possibly hurt him, that didn't mean Su Mo would ignore it.
He had already made his plans. If they were still alive after the flood, he would hit them with a world-destroying meteor next.
If they could survive both waves of attacks, then all Su Mo could say was, "Since even heaven doesn't want you to go extinct, I'll give you another thousand years to develop."
But all of that depended on them surviving this world-ending crisis.
He glanced down at the time. It was now eight forty, and in less than four hours, the thousand years would be up.
Then he would see how they would get through this crisis.
Now that Su Mo was awake, he had no intention of going back to sleep. He got up to make breakfast and prepare today's world-destroying equipment while he was at it, so he could give them an extra-large helping when the time came.
After hearing Liu Dajun's words, Ultra V asked him, his face filled with excitement, "Are you sure?"
Liu Dajun shook his head. "No, but does being unsure mean we shouldn't do it? What if it works?
"Others couldn't survive the world-ending crisis because their civilizations weren't united enough or strong enough. But you developed your technology to this level in just eight hundred years. I don't believe you can't do it!"
Liu Dajun's blunt wake-up call lifted the spirits of everyone who had looked dejected just moments before.
But because of this incident, they also buried all their earlier little schemes deep in their hearts.
After all, pitting that Giant of Light they had developed against that god was simply a joke!
"We have two hundred years left. As things stand, the eighty-one undersea fortresses we've built are already more than enough to house our people. But if the flood is too massive, our Giant of Light may still not be enough, so I request that we mobilize more biological brains to develop more Giants of Light!"
Ultra V shook his head. "That's still nowhere near enough. I want you to incorporate the Eye of Ultra into the Giants of Light as you develop them.
"Two hundred years. I want you to create seven Giants of Light integrated with the Eye of Ultra within two hundred years!"
After finishing breakfast and preparing a bucket of water and a large shovelful of sand and soil, Su Mo returned to his room.
Su Mo was also interested in what would happen next, so today, for once, he didn't even scroll through videos of pretty girls. Instead, he looked at his Microcosm.
He intended to see what other surprises this race, which had gained a transmigrator and reached Type I civilization within eight hundred years, would come up with.
Looking back into the Microcosm, Su Mo was instantly stunned. Then a choice national expression slipped out of his mouth. "Holy shit! That's fucking Ultraman Tiga!"
Previously, he had only suspected that Liu Dajun, who had transmigrated from Earth, might stir up some trouble. He truly hadn't expected the guy to create Ultraman Tiga.
On that azure planet, five enormous statues now stood towering, each nearly a thousand meters tall. Even their positions had been carefully chosen, with one each in the east, south, west, north, and center.
Of course, none of that was why Su Mo was surprised. After all, a thousand meters in the Microcosm might not even be as long as a hair on his body. What really struck him as surprising and absurd was that all these giants had been modeled after Ultraman Tiga!
These Giants of Light had slender, well-proportioned physiques, with smooth muscle contours brimming with power.
His head had sharply defined contours, with a blue diamond-shaped crystal embedded in his forehead. His eyes shone silvery white, and his head crest extended backward, looking sharp and sacred. This was the Eye of Ultra they had installed.
The original plan had been to install only one, but at Liu Dajun's strong insistence, they had installed another in the chest.
Most absurdly of all, Liu Dajun had also designed the colors of these five Giants of Light after Ultraman Tiga.
Red, blue, standard form, dark form, and, right in the middle, glitter form.
So this guy was treating me as a monster to fight!!!
Fine, fine, fine. So that's how you want to play!
Ultraman Tiga, huh!
Treating me as a monster, huh!
Since you've gone this far, wouldn't I be letting you down if I didn't put a monster in there for you?
At that thought, Su Mo hurried outside and caught a caterpillar in the vegetable garden. Glancing at the large green caterpillar in his hand, he felt it still wasn't quite enough, so he caught a few ants from the ground as well. When he reached the entrance, he happened to spot a dragonfly and caught that too.