Flowers Blooming in the Wasteland

For a while, Thelister didn't know what was going on, or who he really was.

Am I still Celeste?

He pondered in bewilderment, then denied his own thoughts.

No, I should be "The Devourer".

I have a body that spans several galaxies, I have the most advanced technology and the most powerful strength in the entire universe, I have all the memories of the devourer civilization from its formation to the present, and every individual in all the devoured civilizations memory.

I am not the will of one person, not one planet, not even one galaxy, I am the will of the entire universe incarnate.

"Thelister" is just a part of my countless memories - a relatively large part.

After all, this is the first time I have merged with a race as powerful as the Guardians.

Yes, I am not Thelist, I am the Devourer.

It wasn't "my" lover who died, but an insignificant human being.

It can be said that I was the one who planned his death.

Because I saw a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity from the biggest stumbling block guardian.

There is an unprecedented weak among them. As long as I find a chance to devour it, I can use the knowledge and memory I get from it to deal with the entire guardian race.

Compared with the great enemy of the guardians, human beings are nothing more than insignificant pebbles. Since the guardians have invested so much resources and energy in saving this group of monkeys, of course I don't need to invest more resources than them to clean up the monkeys. This group of monkeys is not a threat.

So I paralyzed them with the appearance of retreating steadily, and took the opportunity to catch the lover chosen by the fragile guardian among human beings.

Lover...what a boring game.

I don't know why the guardians still have the time to study "emotions", which are useless to war, when the situation is so unfavorable.

Not helpful for them, but an "opportunity" for me to take advantage of.

I put the human back deftly, slowly devouring him with the madness and darkness implanted in the depths of his mind and memory.

Although I can't participate in the process, there is a high probability that the ending will be as I expected. In the end, the human will only have two choices, either kill Celeste or kill himself.

No matter which result, it will be very beneficial to me.

I succeeded. That human chose to commit suicide because he didn't want to kill the other party. His death made the fragile Guardian mess up and exposed its flaws. I seized the opportunity to devour it.

Yes, "I" led all of this, and it was "I" who killed Fu Yunlan.

So what?

Celeste knows more knowledge and secrets than I expected. Using the key information I got from it, I have at least a dozen ways to deal with the Guardians.

Compared with the upcoming overall victory, the negative emotions carried in this memory belonging to "Thelister" are just a trivial cold, and I will soon be able to throw away these meaningless sorrows and pains. Behind the heads.

I will accomplish the ultimate goal, I will be the ultimate will of the entire universe.

It's just that in this universe, Fu Yunlan will never exist again.

I can make a hundred, ten thousand him from my memory, but none of them are the real him.

I killed him.

He loved me so much, but I killed him.

No, what he loves is "Thelister", and "I" is the Devourer.

But is there any difference now?

It was "I" who killed him.

---

Sadness and self-blame continued to ferment in the Devourer's mind like poison, which was completely unexpected.

In the past, the individual it fused would also have some negative emotions, but that was easy to digest, no matter what kind of life you have had, as long as you become a part of the most powerful creature in the universe, you get unimaginable knowledge After , memory and strength, the original little troubles will become a fleeting existence.

It also knew in advance that devouring a guardian is a bit risky. The memory of a guardian is too large. If the impact of swallowing a human being on the devourer is like pouring a glass of ink into the sea, then swallowing a guardian , It's like pouring as much venom as Qinghai Lake into the sea, it may have an unpredictable and profound impact on its entire way of thinking.

However, after repeated calculations, the Devourer came to a conclusion—compared with the benefits, this negative impact is worthwhile.

The Devourer also thought that the negative impact of swallowing this most vulnerable guardian would be so small that it could basically be ignored.

But this time, it really seems to have miscalculated.

Emotion, which he thought was useless, is now seriously affecting his reason and judgment.

The Devourer had to use a lot of energy to resist the terrible effects of this negative emotion, but the problem was more serious than it expected.

It actually thought of death.

A strong urge to self-destruct paralyzes all functions of the Devourer.

It finally realized the seriousness of the matter.

At the same time, the members of the Guardian Alliance who were fighting desperately with the Devourer's tentacles on their respective fronts also discovered that the Devourer was paralyzed. The surprise came so suddenly that it almost made people suspect it was a conspiracy.

Without anyone notifying, all races seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and launched a counterattack.

With the mastermind in a mess, the tentacles of the Devourer were wiped out without any resistance, and the mainframes of the Devourer on one planet after another were destroyed one after another, and the battle line moved forward with a shattering momentum.

In the current situation, if he didn't want to sit and wait for his demise, the Devourer had only one solution.It had to completely remove from his consciousness the part that belonged to "Thelister", whether it was useful or not.

But once any consciousness is fused by the Devourer, it is almost impossible to extract it separately.

The data belonging to "Celester" infected the Devourer's system like a virus. In the end, the Devourer had to delete more than three-quarters of its own data to restore its operation to normal.

Numerous crucial data were deleted along with it, and the technological level of the Devourer was set back by at least several hundred years. During its paralysis, its body that spanned several galaxies was taken advantage of by the Guardian Alliance A considerable portion was destroyed.

After returning to normal, the Devourer is still the most powerful existence in the entire universe, and still has resources unmatched by other civilizations. It quickly created more tentacles, barely resisting the siege of many civilizations of the Guardian Alliance , the battle situation once again fell into a stalemate.

But the situation of the war has completely changed. The Devourer, who had an obvious advantage, may take hundreds or thousands of years to recover, and the balance of victory began to tilt towards the Guardian Alliance for the first time.

---

Many years ago, He Xiao was just a eccentric but talented boy in people's eyes. Before his rebirth, "Cherister" was his great-grandpa's younger brother, a Chinese-American named He Yuming.

There was such a conversation between them.

"Have you thought it through?" He Xiao asked He Yuming at the time, "The success rate of your plan is not high, and there are too many variables in it, especially the part about 'emotion', which is completely out of our control Domain, if you fail...for you, that is real death."

"The success rate is not high, but it is better than nothing." He Yuming's words carried the unique calmness of human elders, "If no one sacrifices, each of our lives with independent consciousness, whether wise or ignorant, noble or Mediocrity will eventually face the fate of being swallowed, and I do this only in the hope of finding a possibility for our race to survive."

"'Death to Survive'..." He Xiao said, "Is this what you learned from that human too?"

"...That's right." He Yuming looked away at a baby floating in the petri dish. It was the last clone bred with his lover's genes. At the moment, he was sleeping unconsciously, unaware of what he was going to do in the future. Facing fate.

---

After finishing this brief memory, He Xiao opened his eyes, and Case said without hesitation: "I received a message from my home planet, do you want to play it now?"

"Let's let it go first." He Xiao looked at the power distribution map on the three-dimensional projection, and the black area belonging to the Devourer had shrunk by more than half.

"His plan succeeded." He Xiao said, "I should be happy for him, don't you think so, Case?"

No matter how Celeste thinks of Masi, for He Xiao, the artificial intelligence system is just an auxiliary tool invented by He Yuming, and this is the first time he has chatted with the "tool" in many years.

"But you don't look happy," Case said. "Is there anything I can do for you?"

"No... nothing."

He Xiao remembered when he saw the artificial intelligence system for the first time. He felt that the calculation of the artificial intelligence system was not as fast as his own, and the things he could remember were not as many as he. Why did Yuming's research save a lot of unnecessary energy? It seems that he also wants such a helper.

So He Yuming copied Case and gave it to him according to Marth's data.

Shortly thereafter, without knowing why, He Yuming reset Masi's character profile, turning Masi into a playful, feisty, nonsense system.

Now, with the demise of the owner, Mars has also fallen into silence forever. He Xiao thought about it for a while, and asked a very human question: "Will you miss Mars?"

Case replied flatly: "Its relevant information will always be stored in my database."

"Yes, we will always remember." He Xiao sighed and stood up, "In addition to remembering their sacrifices, we have a lot to do, well, let's work."

The author has something to say: the next chapter will explain many unresolved mysteries, and then it will be the finale (≧▽≦)/.