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Luo Qi stared blankly at the frozen crystals on the ground. The rapid refrigeration seemed to have extracted the phantom of a magical creature from the void. He raised his head and glanced at the dim wall in a daze. The wall that had lost its brilliance once again became gray. However, Roach seemed to be able to see countless cracks on the wall of this ruin. Countless cracks had been created or created by the ancestor mage. The captured lives are breaking free from the shackles, breaking free from the seal of the ancestor mage with a time unit of thousands of years.

He turned his head vaguely and looked around at his friends or enemies. The familiar friendly face, the unfamiliar face that disgusted him, the confused face, the face that was intoxicated by the shock of the ancestor's magic, and Liu Ziyu's focused face that was completely focused on the magic in question. What he saw seemed to be another group of people, a group of people who had lived here and were omnipotent but just as ordinary as them. He quickly pieced together the world of the First Mages, and the problems they encountered in their final moments were now almost clear.

They can create sealed beasts and drive them with their thoughts. They can even transfer their consciousness into the minds of sealed beasts like downloads, and use sealed beasts like wearable devices. Of course they can also create bodies exactly like their own. The brains of the sealed beasts are incomplete, and the creators suppressed the generation of their selves. The soulless sealed beasts are just zombies running on instinct. Of course they can also create puppets in human form.

Luo Qi once again thought of the sandbox he was thrown into. Qiong Lin said that those sandboxes were inherited by them from generation to generation and could be completely isolated from the outside world. They trained mages in the sandbox.

But what do the little mages know? The little mage discovered a city enclosed in a sandbox, filled with zombies and humans. It had complex situations and changing test conditions, which was naturally suitable for training mage. For the little mage who has lost his ancient memory, the sandbox is a testing ground, a dangerous trial ground where magic can be used safely. It's almost like a child picked up a rocket launcher made by an adult, but mistakenly thought it was a climbing frame used to exercise courage and skill. If... no, Luo Qi knew deep down in his heart that there was no if, and the sandbox should be a small closed experimental space powered by magic. He originally thought that the sandbox was the work of some evil ancestor, probably the ancestor he had already encountered a copy of, and was secretly conducting experiments on humans in a place even more secretive than the Sealed Land. But if things are not that simple, or she is not the initiator, the ancestors have already been experimenting with making human bodies.

They need a healthy human body, a complete human brain, and they need to suppress the self-awareness that occurs during brain development. In that series of exploration and experiments, how many failed products and semi-finished products were produced? Are there cities with humanoid creatures that need to be hidden? So that city looks so much like a human city, but it has cultural characteristics that have never existed before.

Luo Qi felt a sense of nausea. All mortals are mortal, but if a mortal has reached an extraordinary stage, it is indeed a difficult question whether he can accept his death calmly. The ancestral mages have gone too far. They are too curious, too self-righteous, and too greedy. They created countless creatures that could travel over greater distances than Roach could understand. Roach clearly remembered what he saw in the memories of the alien creatures, their memories of their ancestors, and the environment in which they lived. It's not the earth he's familiar with, and he doesn't think the earth can evolve such creatures. So they also collected creatures from countless worlds. They collected alien creatures, and maybe they also collected this energy-eating non-carbon-based creature. Unfortunately, any creature that can eat energy is a disaster, especially at a time when magical energy is already waning. These creatures must have burdened the First Mage in his final days.

Roach has been able to piece together the last days of some mages. They must have continuously created healthy and beautiful bodies, changing their bodies like changing clothes, always young, beautiful, healthy and fresh. Until one day, I don’t know what went wrong. Maybe it was an infectious disease, maybe it was the natural degeneration mechanism of some creature that caused a problem with the spare body. The ancestor mages no longer dared to change lives at will, and the real doomsday came.

Judging from Luo Qi's current understanding of the ancestral mage, that was definitely not the first big disaster they had caused. They must have caused great trouble in a certain world somewhere, causing the energy on which magic depends to exist to begin to dry up, and their fate also came to an end. They brought their collections from countless worlds, maybe on a big boat, maybe on a flying bird, maybe the big boat was a flying bird. In short, they came to the current world and collected local dinosaurs. This seems to be roughly inferred. time they came here.

Roach imagined what their final moments would be like. Did they die like mortals? The highland mage said they ascended to heaven, like immortals. The description doesn't sound like they went to another world. If they could go, they should take the collection with them, just as they brought them with them. They must be unable to leave. Maybe their energy is exhausted, maybe their physical life is limited, and they can no longer wander to another world. Ascension to heaven, whatever that actually means doesn't matter, gods have no regard for mortals. But will there be some ancestral mages who have never left? Will they snatch the minds of mortals, generation after generation, continue to be reincarnated with the metabolism of mortals, and always stand among the mages?

Suddenly, Luo Qi felt a chill running down his spine, and he couldn't help but look at those faces, wondering if the real ancestral mage was standing among the mages and watching him calmly. But no one pays special attention to him now, almost everyone is acting like they should be right now. Luo Qi persuaded himself to relax. At least he could check the brains of all the mages here. They could not block him or completely lie to him.

So what about the brain that he couldn't examine?

A thought that made him shiver flashed through his mind, something he couldn't check.

"Du Zhengyi?" He was so emotionally confused that he spoke subconsciously.

"Ah?" Mahjong responded immediately and looked around, "Where is Du Zhengyi?"

"It's okay, I'm thinking about it and using the elimination method." Roach said bravely. "Don't interfere with my thinking."

"Exclude him from this crystal? You are really smart." Mahjong said nonchalantly.

Of course it couldn't be Du Zhengyi, but he was too obsessed with Du Zhengyi, so his first reaction was always him. The remaining people, the remaining people were actually clear at a glance... He whispered the name deep in his mind, "Pei Shu."

Suddenly many things made sense, but the huge fear and vigilance made Roach resolutely stop thinking and hide it in the depths of his mind. He didn't have any evidence, he was just speculating, it was just his suspicion.

He should go back to more realistic things, what are more realistic things? Luo Qi turned away his thoughts with difficulty and induced himself not to think about the name "Pei Shu". His ability as a mind mage made him instinctively wary of many things. He hurriedly diverged his thoughts, causing his thinking to lose linearity and regularity. He started to shift from the mind mage. The ancestor mages were all mind mages, and the alien creatures were also mind mages. No, the Ancestral Mage is not an alien, but the Ancestral Mage is very much like an alien...

Luo Qi was stunned again. The Ancestral Mage looked a bit like an alien. The one who looked more like an alien than the Ancestral Mage was the Wushan Mage. The alien creatures form groups, or... tribes, through the power of their minds. When a new member appears in each tribe, they add the new member to the chain of ideas, share their memory of knowledge, and share their experience. Therefore, the new aliens also possess part of the memory of their ancestors. Just like the Archmage Wusu standing here, he vaguely remembers the fragmentary memories of the ancestor mage. Those memories come from the inheritance of the Wushan mage. Of course, the prerequisite for this is that the participants are all mind mages, or there are a large number of powerful mind mages involved. The mage is very clumsy when doing this, not as natural and smooth as the alien creature. This is determined by the physiological structure. Like Mr. Shi, she passed on a large number of memories to Roach, but it was difficult for Roach to "remember" them naturally. How to retrieve it in memory is still a big problem he has to face, and now he has no teacher to help him.

Putting it this way, the situation is more like the Ancestral Mage studying alien creatures and imitating their patterns. The way the ancestor mage passed down knowledge should be similar to that of today's humans and mages, both of whom need to open schools. Perhaps, in the distant past, they were inspired by alien creatures and tentatively learned their ways. Today's Wushan Master may be the successor of this experimental model.

The Ancestral Mages have endless curiosity. They collect creatures from different worlds and study them, perhaps not for the purpose of enslaving and possessing them, but perhaps also to learn from them. Maybe...they also learned something from these non-carbon-based organisms in front of them? Luo Qi subconsciously reached out to touch the crystal, but Mah Jongshou quickly stopped him. As a result, Luo Qi lost his balance and kicked the crystal. The crystal instantly broke into three pieces like a porcelain maniac. What made the mages crazy was that each piece split into three pieces. One of the pieces collapsed out of the mage's freezing zone and suddenly disappeared, and the magic energy flickered slightly. . The battle mage quickly replenished the freezing magic, but this time nothing was frozen.

But the moment Luo Qi touched the crystal, a scene suddenly unfolded in front of him, and he saw Du Zhengyi's face. Du Zhengyi stared in his direction in astonishment, but his eyes failed to focus properly. Luo Qi suddenly realized that Du Zhengyi didn't see anything, he just felt it.

"Du Zhengyi!" Luo Qi roared in shock and reached forward to pull him.

Mahjong suddenly grabbed Luo Qi's outstretched wrist and pulled him back, away from the pile of broken crystals.

"What's going on?" Mahjong asked in a low voice, about to start diagnosing Roach.

"I'm fine." Roach said quickly. He took two steps back in surprise and looked around again to confirm everything. "I'm fine. It's not here. I just saw Du Zhengyi. But it's not here. It's another room, a room I haven't been to."

He suddenly stopped retreating. He was sure that these crystals, these crystal slimes, or whatever they were, were alive, they were conscious, and they or he had just seen Du Zhengyi. That might be the reason why Du Zhengyi turned off the transmission elevator. Du Zhengyi felt unsafe and didn't want them to go there again. But this thing came here on its own, perhaps because Du Zhengyi turned off the energy in that space. As a result, these energy-eating things instinctively followed the energy radiation to find this place.

Roach's thoughts changed and he quickly asked, "Are the split pieces frozen?"

"No, it's gone." Someone answered him immediately.

"It's gone, that's right." Luo Qi understood. The crystal creatures appeared in such a short time. He knew very well that they appeared from the void. Since they can move in another space, the real space must not prevent them from moving, and their spatial movement ability should be very strong. The Ancestral Mage trapped these creatures, perhaps to study the ability to move in space, or perhaps some of the "magic" came from the study of these crystals.

"We are now..." Roach only said half of what he said when a voice came from behind his head.

"Du Zhengyi." A rough voice.

Luo Qi turned around quickly. Wen Lin was faster than him and blocked him in front of him, preventing him from taking a step forward. Together they looked at the figure at the end of the corridor. The tall human with blue eyes appeared again. From such a distance, Roach couldn't be sure if it was the one who was injured just now. The smell of blood everywhere also blocked his sense of smell.

"Did he speak?" Luo Qi asked in a low voice, regretting his loud voice just now.

This time, blue eyes said slowly, "Du-Zheng-Yi."

"Hey, you're learning to speak, right? You're evolving very quickly!" Luo Qi said angrily.

"Du——zheng——yi."

"I'm going to be pissed now," Roach whispered unhappily.

I didn’t catch up to say Happy New Year, but I still want to say it!

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