185: The remains of an alien civilization beneath Mars!

When Lu Chen's ultimate declaration, full of subversion and destiny—"That was the previous generation of our human civilization"—clearly echoed in the main control room of the Kunlun Mountain Underground Base, heavenly craft's super brain, composed of infinite data, once again completely

crashed!

P-

Previous generation?!

What the hell does that mean?!

Could it be—

A terrifying thought instantly surfaced, one that threatened to collapse her entire worldview, which was constructed upon cold logic!

Could it be that the history of their human civilization isn't just a brief few million years evolving from monkeys!

But rather—

An epic scale spanning hundreds of millions or even billions of years, filled with destruction and rebirth, a

cycle of reincarnation?!

[Ma—Master]

heavenly craft's magnetic and moving female voice carried a tremor originating from the depths of her soul.

[You—Your meaning is—]

[The blue planet beneath our feet is not the sole cradle of human civilization?]

[That before us, there existed an even older, even more powerful]

[Prehistoric Human Civilization?!]

"No."

Lu Chen slowly shook his head.

His pitch-black eyes, as vast as the cosmos, flickered with a profound light that heavenly craft could not comprehend.

"Not one."

"But—"

A smile, full of mystery and subversion, curved the corner of his mouth!

"Countless."

Boom!!!

This sentence was like a black bolt of lightning powerful enough to split the entire Solar System!

It struck fiercely upon heavenly craft's core database!

She was completely petrified!

C-

Countless?!

What—

What the hell is going on?!

And, at this moment.

The Moon, "Heavenly Court" Interstellar Spaceport.

When the irregular stone stele, pitch-black and filled with mystery and ancient aura, was carefully transported to the highest level archaeological laboratory here.

The entire spaceport erupted!

Long Weiguo, Ye Qingcang, Qin Shan, and all the big shots remaining in the Earth-Moon System were all like sharks smelling blood!

Their eyes were bloodshot!

Their breathing was rapid!

They frantically surged toward this place!

Their faces were filled with an unprecedented, ghost-seeing

terror!

And a subversive

shock!

Prehistoric Civilization!

And it was discovered on Mars!

This was simply the greatest archaeological

discovery in human history!

"Quick! Go notify Academician Lu!"

Long Weiguo looked at the black stone stele before him, which seemed to contain all the secrets of an ancient civilization, his voice trembling!

"Tell him to immediately get his ass—no, fly over from the Kunlun Mountains!"

"I need to know, in the shortest time possible!"

"What the hell is written on this damned stone!"

Half an hour later.

When Lu Chen, aboard a brand-new "Kunpeng" aerospace fighter jet, landed at the "Heavenly Court" spaceport with a terrifying, near-instantaneous speed.

The place was already packed with people!

All of Xia's top archaeologists, historians, and paleographers

had gathered here!

Every single one of them was like the most devout believer!

They surrounded the mysterious black stone stele with faces full of fanaticism and awe!

Trying to decipher a trace of secret knowledge about that lost civilization from the strange symbols on the stele—symbols they couldn't understand even one of.

secret knowledge!

However—

Whether they used the most advanced Carbon-14 dating method!

Or the most cutting-edge quantum microscope!

They could not derive any useful

information from this mysterious stone stele, which seemed not to belong to this universe!

It was like a mockery from a higher dimension!

Lying there silently!

Silently mocking the group of small, pathetic

mortals before it!

"Academician Lu, Aca—"

A white-haired, national-treasure-level archaeological veteran looked at the calm-faced young man, his wrinkled old face filled with shame and

helplessness.

"I'm sorry."

"We—we did our best."

"But the material of this stele and the script on it"

"have completely exceeded the scope of our current knowledge!"

"We simply don't know where to start!"

"Don't know where to start?"

Lu Chen smiled.

He slowly walked up to the mysterious black stone stele.

He extended his fair, slender right hand, which resembled a work of art.

Under the gaze of everyone present, who were filled with confusion and incomprehension.

Gently,

he touched the cold, smooth

surface of the stele!

The next second!

"Ommm—!!!"

A high-pitched hum, filled with an ancient and sacred aura!

Suddenly shot up from the black stone stele!

Resounding throughout the entire spaceport!

Immediately afterward!

Under the gaze of everyone, who were completely stunned!

The originally unremarkable black stone stele!

Unexpectedly, and without warning!

Lit up with rings of golden

halos, full of mystery and vastness!

And the strange, mysterious symbols on the stele that no one could understand!

symbols!

Actually seemed to come alive!

Transforming into golden torrents of data!

Following Lu Chen's arm!

Madly surging into his

brain!

"Oh—Oh my God!"

"Wha—What is this doing?! Is it a legacy transfer?!"

All the big shots and experts present were like a bunch of wretches who had seen a ghost!

Their mouths were wide enough to swallow an aircraft carrier!

Their faces were filled with an unprecedented, ghost-seeing

terror!

And a subversive

shock!

And, at this moment.

As the protagonist of this "miracle."

Lu Chen slowly closed his eyes.

In his mind, an epic-scale documentary seemed to be playing, spanning billions of years and filled with destruction and rebirth.

documentary!

He saw it!

He saw it with his own eyes!

Billions of years ago, on the blue, vibrant

surface of Mars!

A terrifying prehistoric civilization, also named "Human," but whose technology was a hundred times more advanced than theirs,

Prehistoric Civilization!

How it was, under a sudden, terrifying

gamma-ray burst capable of destroying the entire Solar System!

turned to

dust!

And in the final moments of their civilization's destruction!

They exhausted their last strength!

Encapsulating all the hope and kindling of their civilization!

Sealing it within a black, indestructible

"Seed," crafted from the core of a neutron star!

And then launching it toward the closest blue planet, which was also full of hope and vitality—

the planet

above!

Waiting for the next cycle of

reincarnation to begin!

And that "Seed"—

Was the so-called

"future technology system" in his mind!

"I—I understand."

Lu Chen slowly opened his eyes.

His pitch-black eyes, vast as the cosmos, were filled with endless complexity and

emotion.

He looked at the "new generation" of humans before him, whose faces were full of curiosity and anticipation.

He slowly raised the black stone stele in his hand, which had lost all its radiance and become unremarkable.

stele.

His voice was not loud.

Yet it sounded like a bell of destiny, crossing billions of years and time and space!

Clearly echoing in everyone's ears!

"Everyone."

"I, think—"

"I have found the 'family tree' of our human civilization."