"It has been almost a year since you left here last time. I thought you gave up your original decision."

Meredith walked ahead, pushing away the bushes that were blocking the way, and said: "Especially after I heard about the sons of the gods... you know? The northern kingdoms are either fanatical for the rise of the gods, Or tremble under the iron hoof of the tyrant. If this goes on, you will have the entire northern continent in no time."

　　 Todd looked at the dilapidated temple in front of him, and said softly: "I never thought of giving up here. In this year, I just finished some things that should be done."

　　 "You sound like a terminally ill person, fulfilling an unfulfilled wish."

　　 Meredith's words left Todd in a daze.

　　 The latter was silent for a while, then laughed: "It's really alike."

　　 Meredith looked back at the man, turned his head, sighed low, and stopped talking.

　　 The two walked to the high platform of the temple, and the shadow queen Skaha was looking at the mountain in the distance, seeming not to notice the visiting guests.

　　 Todd wanted to speak, but Meredith stopped him and motioned to the former to wait a moment.

　　 A few minutes later, Skaha took his gaze back from a distance and turned to Todd.

　　 "There are more and more souls in the sky."

　　 Skaha's sudden words made Todd look up in confusion.

　　 He transformed his eyes into golden pupils in the form of a tyrant, and looked towards the southern sky, where there was a thick layer of blue clouds that kept circulating.

　　 Meredith frowned: "Those are the souls of the dead...Souls originally wouldn't be condensed together unless someone manipulated them behind them."

　　 Skaha walked down the stone steps, came to the two of them, and said to Meredith, "You get out first, I have something to ask him."

　　 Looking at the purple-haired shadow queen, standing in front of him, Todd was a little uneasy, always feeling that everything about him had been seen through by the other party.

　　 "A human being willing to be a monster for the sake of human companions." In Skaha's words, there is an incomprehensible feeling: "You show me the hopeful side of human beings."

　　 Todd said hesitantly, "Actually, I..."

　　 Skaha continued: "But you may not know, you have chosen the most difficult path, Xia Shang..."

　　 When Skaha finally said the name in Chinese, Todd was stunned. He was at a loss and his brain was in confusion: "Do you know my name in another world?!"

　　 "This is not something to be surprised. The name is originally a symbol, and it doesn't make sense to call it. The key is, what is inside of you?"

　　 Todd listened more and more confused: "Sorry, can you be more specific? I..."

　　 Skaha closed his eyes and shook his head slightly: "Have you seen Jingsu?"

　　 Todd was shocked again: "You even the Jingsu thing..."

　　 "Besides me, there is another creature who also knows about you and Jingsu."

"Who?!"

　　 "Leviathan."

　　 Todd rubbed his temple vigorously with the index finger of his left hand, and made a pause with his right hand towards Skaha: "Wait! Wait! I'm completely confused! Who are you?!"

　　Skaha waved his hand, and a sturdy tree root broke out of the ground, and in a blink of an eye it grew into a tree chair.

　　 Instructed Todd to sit down first, and Skaha said, "I'll start from the beginning... When the universe was still in chaos, the crystal suspense created everything, including me and Leviathan."

　　 Todd opened his eyes wide: "So..."

"Yes, Leviathan and I are the first creatures created by Jingsu. We are also known as the forerunners to help it manage and supervise the world." Skaha looked at his palm and said: "With Levi Like Tan, I have had various names in the long history, Hecate, Cyker, Geoffee... All these identities have only one purpose, which is to help Jingsu observe the creations in the world. ."

　　 Todd sorted his thoughts and asked, "Forerunner? Jingsu's first creation? So, this group is not just the two of you?"

"Yes, but in the long years, some forerunners chose to exile themselves to the corner of the universe, and some forerunners chose to transform life into inorganic matter, and truly survive to this day, and there are only individuals who still exist. One of the few, including me and Leviathan."

　　 "So... I have a long-standing question, what exactly is Jingsu? Or, what exactly does Jingsu want to do?"

"I don't know much about this. I only know that Jingsu created us, but above Jingsu, there is a group of higher-level creators who created Jingsu. According to Jingsu. , Its creator only gave it one mission: to find the best mode of existence for life."

　　 Todd chewed this passage repeatedly and asked: "What is the optimal mode of existence for life?"

"I don't know. Jingsu once said that all creatures that are created are flawed. The optimal form of life should not be created, but should be formed naturally during continuous evolution and evolution. Yes. How to find the optimal model that fits the development of life is the mission that Jingsu’s owner has given it. As for why it does this, I don’t know, even Jingsu itself doesn’t know."

　　 Todd rubbed his eyebrows, and continued to ask: "For another question, what happened to the **** candidate that Jingsu said?"

Skaha replied: "The so-called **** candidate is actually a method of optimizing life. Through the evaluation of individual strength, evolution and cognition, we will finally select a race leader and give it a strategy. Higher than the usual individual ability, to observe how he will improve the race."

　　 Todd was a little skeptical: "This method can really optimize life?"

　　 "Everything that happens in nature has proved everything, the survival of the fittest, the survival of the strong, the same is true for the way of life."

　　 Todd shrugged: "Well, even so, why did you suddenly tell me this today?"

　　 Skaha slowly said: "The next thing I want to talk about is about ethnic differences. A long, long time ago, the species in the world showed diversified development, and humans were just one branch of it."

"In the subsequent tens of thousands of life selections, humans have been able to materially assimilate other races by virtue of their geometrical speed research and progress. This has also enabled them to gradually stand out in the creation and become winners again and again. There was a sigh in Skaha’s words: "However, unlike other races, the concept of human nature’s exclusivity is so serious that it can’t even tolerate the existence of other races. In the battles of God’s choice, Relying on the supernatural power of the winning candidate, humans have repeatedly compressed the living space of alien races, and finally pushed other races to the brink of extinction."

"Seeing such a situation, as the first batch of creations of Jingsu, the pioneers, can no longer stand idly by. More and more individuals have proposed to Jingsu to rebalance the entire race environment and restrict humanity. Power. However, as the creator, Jing Su rejected this proposal. It believes that only in such a cruel competitive environment can it finally select the best life form."

　　 "More and more forerunners could not agree with Jingsu's approach, and left here...the people who stayed, watching other species, gradually disappeared."

　　 Todd was a little helpless: "So, human beings have become the dominant players in this world, so in the future, has life progressed optimally?"

　　Skaha shook his head in frustration: "On the contrary, after humans dominate the world, the optimal process of life has not improved at all, but has continued to regress."

"Humans without enemies of other races began to greet pleasure and arbitrarily. They launched one internal battle after another. In the war of mankind, the world was destroyed again and again, and species stagnated and even began to appear. The situation of civilization retrogression ~lightnovelpub.net~Jingsu's life optimization has fallen into a vicious circle that is constantly repeated."

　　 "At this time, Leviathan and I had a serious disagreement."

"Leviathan believes that humans are inherently a failed creation. They are like viruses that have swallowed other things and then swallowed themselves. First, humans will destroy all races with developmental potential, and then they lack foreign enemies. , Will seek self-destruction in endless fighting and fighting. Therefore, he believes that the product of human failure should be completely erased, and the entire life-optimized plan should be reset."

　　 "I think that humans are like the light and dark sides of the moon. They have both good and evil and cannot be generalized. If possible, they should be guided and managed instead of just supervised."

　　 Todd sighed, "Let me guess, Jingsu did not adopt your opinion."

　　 "Yes, Jingsu still insists on taking any intervention measures when it is wrong, but... just when we were discouraged, you showed up."

　　 Todd pointed to himself in surprise: "Me?"

　　 "You do not belong to this world, but you are able to influence this world correctly. The most important thing is that your attitude and choice of species happen to satisfy both my and Leviathan requirements."

　　 "Meet your requirements at the same time?"

"For me, I hope that the winner of this battle of God’s Choice will be a human being who abandons self-interest and pays attention to balance; while Leviathan hopes that the winner this time will be a man who subverts the dominance of mankind. Alien creature. In comparison, you may be our only choice."...