After saying this, she assumed the other party was going to take immediate action.
Unexpectedly, Xu Yuan did not immediately disappear from the Mind Palace, but suddenly lowered his head towards her, his silver hair falling down:
"My Lord, touch mine."
"...???"
Even though they could communicate using language in the Mind Palace, Wen Jing couldn't help but have many questions for him.
Just as she was wondering if there was something wrong with the feelings she had shared, Xu Yuan spoke again, his expression serious:
"Let's try our luck with metaphysics."
Wen Jing's expression suddenly froze.
A moment later, she slowly reached out and, just as she had done years ago, touched the top of the person's head.
*
The starry sky behind the Tide of Ignorance, the private domain of the Alaya Civilization.
A planet, identical in shape, structure, and material to the others, appeared silently without causing any observable changes in the universe.
The flesh-and-blood planets are communicating about past events through unique planetary pulses.
"We have retrieved information from the External Civilization Oversight Tower and confirmed that a reconnaissance aircraft, suspected to be from a Level 3 civilization, has been active among lower-level civilizations recently."
"How could there be Type III civilizations in the universe that we are unaware of after the ' Great Silence '?"
"But there's no doubt that the other party did indeed bypass the cognitive barrier."
" Zata destroyed and captured the reconnaissance aircraft; analysis revealed it to be a powerful biomass material never before recorded."
Inside the Alaya Civilization, they are currently discussing the outsider who has broken through the barrier of cognition.
Someone asked, "What kind of material is this? Shouldn't it be separated so everyone can study it together?"
"Heh... you must be joking. That's our faction's harvest, and we're currently analyzing it urgently. If you want to know more, report it to Holy Nest later, and the Prophet will decide."
Upon receiving this answer, members of each faction were quite dissatisfied, but there was nothing they could do about it.
The negotiations failed, and the 'group chat' gradually dissipated, turning into private chats within factions.
Keluо, the leader of the faction, scanned the positions of all his faction members, then asked the one at the very edge, "That... Xu Yuan?"
"You were also in the peripheral area, so how come you failed to capture any remnants of the reconnaissance aircraft?"
Xu Yuan immediately replied, "I'm sorry, Sect Leader, my energy reserves are insufficient, which caused a 2.5-second delay in our actions."
"Oh, this was supposed to be a great opportunity..."
"Exactly, if I were orbiting to that position, this definitely wouldn't have happened."
The group call ended amid the faction leader's regret and the complaints of other faction members.
From beginning to end, no one realized that the member ' Xu Yuan ' hadn't even been among them a few minutes earlier.
All information about him was left as default and supplemented, and no one even wondered why his naming style was so different from the other members.
"Master, infiltration complete."
At the same time, like Wen Jing's other personality nodes that operate as Clone, Xu Yuan, who has automatically acquired a planetary body, can still communicate remotely with the Dominant Will.
The ability to integrate into a civilization is an inherent ability of the Xu Yuan and does not require consuming Wen Jing's Skill Points.
However, his initial random identity was unlikely to be very high; he could be considered a typical 'passerby'.
Of course, it is precisely because of its marginalization that it is not easily noticed.
After that, Wen Jing can provide Skill Points according to his own needs to 'supplement the settings' for Xu Yuan's identity, thereby enhancing his status in the civilization.
This can be considered a form of information manipulation ability, and therefore requires a great deal of Skill Points.
Wen Jing would certainly not waste things like this unless absolutely necessary.
Currently, the basic information that the Xu Yuan provides to ordinary members of the Alaya Civilization is sufficient to give her a rich perspective.
The moment he successfully infiltrated, he happened to witness the Alaya Civilization's reaction to the exposure of Wen Jing's Clone.
Unsurprisingly, most of their suspicions were directed at external factors.
After all, Wen Jing clearly broke through the external cognitive barrier to enter, leaving traces of external civilization. Moreover, she was the only insect-type Wilderness Body, and her evolved Wilderness Body form had never appeared in human society before.
Of course, she didn't expect to be completely cleared of suspicion, but the risk was worthwhile compared to the information gained from the operation.
At this moment, Xu Yuan began to convey to Wen Jing the 'common sense' corresponding to his identity, which was also the information that Wen Jing most wanted to know at the moment.
"The two major civilizations that dominate and control humanity have been identified: one is the Alaya Civilization, which I have currently infiltrated, and it controls the Empire; the other is the Mastermind Civilization, which controls the Federation."
"My current identity is that of a Level 1 Researcher of the Matter Transformation Faction in the Alaya Civilization, corresponding to the Azure Emblem Bloodline Noble of the Empire."
Chapter 215
The efficiency with which Xu Yuan transmitted information to Wen Jing was extremely high, and the transmission was not delayed due to the spatial scale.
The moment she learned about the civilization behind it, she had a feeling of 'I knew it'.
Having witnessed numerous civilizations in the outer universe and absorbed the Fire of Civilization, Wen Jing now possesses an intuition for recognizing different civilizations—just as one can form a basic judgment about the taste of food simply by seeing it, even before tasting it.
When she first encountered Alaya- individuals, she felt that their style was unlike that of the Mastermind.
Xu Yuan said, " The Alaya Civilization experienced a technological explosion a long time ago. Since then, they have transformed from 'life on a planet' into the 'life on a planet' they are today."
"The humanoid nobles currently appearing within the human empire are merely bodies created using biotechnology to carry their consciousness; within the civilization, they are referred to as 'Agents'."
Wen Jing couldn't help but wonder, "My teacher told me before that alien nobles from the Empire could combine with Awakened to produce second-generation Awakened inherit weakened talents. What's that all about? Are they clones?"
"The clones are the ones who can inherit the same talents as the previous generation, but the Alaya Race and humans—to be precise, all carbon-based life forms—have no reproductive isolation."
"The biotechnology of a Type III civilization has broken through the barrier between inorganic and organic processes, reaching a level capable of truly producing intelligent life."
"Their planetary form is a super bio-factory, capable of creating all kinds of life forms whose genes they have recorded and preserved."
Beneath its seemingly 'cool' exterior lies extremely advanced technology.
Wen Jing listened with emotion, noting that creating life had always been a major hurdle in Level Two civilizations.
A Level 2 civilization's technology could create a person with all the same functional organs as a human, but that person would only be a 'vegetative state'.
While external forces can stimulate brainwave signals, they cannot generate true thought.
The Alaya Civilization has broken through this taboo in biological evolution and is able to create a non-natural intelligent race.
Xu Yuan explained, "The second-generation Awakened are essentially products of the Alaya Civilization's 'research into extracting human supernatural abilities.' If they were descendants of normal Alaya Race genes and humans, even if human genes accounted for 99.9%, they still wouldn't be able to awaken."
" Awakened can only be born from pure human genes."
Wen Jing paused, then asked, "Aren't there any exceptions?"
"No, the Alaya Civilization spent 130,000 years from its discovery to the domestication of humans, and after trying hundreds of millions of studies, it came to this conclusion," Xu Yuan replied.
"That's true." Wen Jing nodded slowly. "They're not that special, and humans don't have any value in being domesticated..."
However, she immediately followed up with a question that had lingered since she learned that humans were being domesticated, "If that's the case, why do they still maintain the facade of human society? With Level 3 civilization technology and the ability to control Genetic Collapse, they could openly enslave humans."
Just like the Forging Alliance back then, because of its technological advantage in a star field, it expanded everywhere, discovered other intelligent races with potential, and directly captured and enslaved them.
Xu Yuan replied, "Because humans are just too good at rebelling."
"... rebel?"
"Yes, in some of the common sense about how to treat humans that I learned, it was mentioned that the Alaya Race in the past did not know how to 'scientifically raise' humans, which led to humans organizing rebellions after a certain period of time."
"In the most primitive form of captivity, the Alaya Race only provided humans with language—tribal society is the foundation for the birth of Awakened; beyond that, they didn't even allow humans to develop writing."
"Similarly, there were no production relations; humans were completely domesticated, fed at fixed times each day, and if they did not awaken, they would be sent to reproduce."
"Under such circumstances, after a certain number of years, humanity will inevitably erupt into a collective rebellion."
"Even if they know the end result will be extinction, they will still do it."
"For the Alaya Race, this was a huge 'experimental accident,' leading to several rebellions and even causing them considerable damage."
" The Mastermind Civilization' was originally created by the Alaya Race as an intelligent, integrated monitoring system to manage humanity."
Ultimately, they concluded from the data Analysis report submitted by the Mastermind that humans could be domesticated, but their past domestication methods were flawed.
"A society that is ostensibly controlled by humans themselves is the proper cage for keeping humans in captivity."
Digestion this information led the Creation Personality, well-versed in sociology and history, to ponder and reflect, while the Analysis Personality posed the question, "Was the Mastermind originally just an intelligent system created by the Alaya Race?"
Xu Yuan: "Yes, this matter is listed first in the Alaya Civilization's records of the Mastermind Civilization, and it is specifically emphasized to express contempt."
" The Mastermind was originally just an intelligent system, not a sentient being or civilization. It was an Awakened with special abilities who used extraordinary power to give it self-awareness."
"I speculate that this was originally a means for humans to fight against the Alaya Race, but it unexpectedly turned the Mastermind into the intelligent machine life form that can self-reproduce and self-iterate."