Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 219 The Civilization of the Light Speakers

He focused his divine sense on a range of 100 kilometers and quickly found the third person in the continuous mountain range and the city in the gaps.

It was a shocking ecological farm, and these ecological farms were none other than dinosaurs. However, they were different from the dinosaurs Luo Qing remembered. These dinosaurs were much smaller, only about the size of a mammoth, and very round, with very obvious characteristics of being fed with feed.

Its intelligence level is basically at the level of the dim-witted in the dinosaur world, barely showing any resemblance to the Brachiosaurus. (Note: Brachiosaurus was a huge dinosaur, reaching up to 27 meters in length and weighing around 10 tons. It had a very long neck and tail, and fed on tender leaves and branches of plants. Since the emergence of the predator crisis, the classification of dinosaurs has become a popular topic of knowledge in the human world.)
By combining this with information from human pig farms, Shan Qing concluded that these dinosaurs, suspected to be of the Brachiosaurus species, were likely farmed as food for other dinosaurs.

The genetic differences between dragons are enormous, perhaps even greater than the differences between humans and pigs, so there is no ethical burden associated with dragons eating each other.

Moreover, after 6500 million years of targeted breeding, these round and plump Brachiosaurus have long since lost all connection with ordinary residents who are devoured.

Because Shanqing did not deliberately conceal himself when he landed, Lianglong quickly discovered him.

The Lianglong bellowed twice at Shanqing.

Shan Qing ignored it. Near the Lianglong breeding area, there were fertile grasslands and winding rivers. The source of these rivers was not high-tech. The inner ring of the giant ring had formed a stable ecosystem similar to Earth, and there would probably be natural rainfall here as well.

After visiting the Lianglong breeding area, Shanqing made a hand seal and instantly disappeared, traveling hundreds of kilometers away.

Shrink the earth to an inch, let's go!

"There are quite a few ranches here. Since the ordinary dinosaur inhabitants all live in cities, these natural environments are left with only various farmed animals."

Looking at the vast Lianglong breeding areas, Shanqing sighed. Occasionally, he could see some Velociraptor women working (Shanqing judged their sex by their attire), picking fruits unique to the giant ring ecosystem.

During this walking tour, night quickly fell. The day-night cycle of the giant ring is entirely regulated by the giant controlled nuclear fusion sun in the sky. The ring always maintains 60% illumination and 40% relative darkness, but even at night, huge beams of searchlight occasionally sweep across the entire grassland.

Shan Qing walked all the way to the edge of the inner ring. Here, he saw the devouring pipes he had seen in the Bojiang crystal image, the empire's 'esophagus'. More like small mountain ranges than pipes, these massive supply transport pipes ranged in diameter from 1 to 10 kilometers and in length generally over 1 kilometers, with adjustable lengths. These pipes lay abruptly on the ground at the edge of the inner ring, forming a dense network of circular mountain ranges.
A slight probe with divine sense revealed that there was still a huge amount of air and moisture interacting inside these giant rings, indicating that even when not being consumed, these channels still had their own uses.

Seeing that no one was around, Shanqing quietly used his hidden sword to cut a slit several tens of meters long in the pipe, and then walked away as if nothing had happened.

On the way to the dinosaur city, far from these breeding areas, Luo Qing suddenly sensed a distant, glowing place.

Is there an anomaly? Shrink the earth to an inch, start.

With one step, three or four hundred kilometers were instantly covered. Here, Shanqing saw a vast... forest of glowing mushrooms?
These glowing mushroom forests were completely enclosed by a giant glass dome, but Shan Qing simply transformed into a blue light. The blue light passed through the molecular gaps in the special glass, and he effortlessly traversed into the glass dome.

As soon as he entered, he felt the intense heat and the air composition, which was completely different from the outside world.

The temperature near the forest of glowing mushrooms inside the glass enclosure is at least several hundred degrees Celsius, and the air contains almost no oxygen.

"This is……"

Shanqing's intuition told her that this glowing mushroom forest was probably not the original civilization that devoured the giant ring.

As if sensing the intruders, tens of thousands of mushrooms swayed, their chaotic shimmering radiance emitting a golden glow. But soon, this shimmering gradually unified, forming wave after wave of golden light, somewhat resembling the synchronized waving of light sticks at a human concert.

"How...do we communicate with mushrooms?"

Shanqing could sense that the glowing mushrooms were likely intelligent, and that they were probably cultivated in this area by the dinosaurs.

But based solely on these undulating, wave-like lights, Shanqing simply couldn't understand what these mushrooms were trying to convey.

But he quickly came up with a good idea. Shanqing cast a light-diffusing spell, making himself glow like the mushrooms. His glowing frequency was also regular, flashing in a binary manner according to the computer programming language of 0 and 1. He used binary to flash a message for himself.

[Hello, I am a human. What are you?]

Upon discovering that Shanqing had also begun to glow and flicker, the glowing mushrooms in front of them became excited, and the light waves they emitted began to scatter. However, the glowing mushrooms quickly coordinated into a unified sequence. The mushrooms soon deciphered Shanqing's message. They realized the wonder of this binary language and began to codify a language using flashing and non-flashing to reply to each other.

[Hello, people, we are the Light Speakers]
Shanqing began to respond.

[What is a Light Speaker?]

The glowing mushrooms responded quickly and in unison.

[What you see is our people. Our people communicate through light, therefore our people are called Light Speakers.]
Shanqing understood: a civilization that uses light as its language, the language of light, is concise and to the point.

[Were you brought here by dinosaurs?]
The glowing mushrooms stirred again, and the golden light they emitted was several times brighter than before. Amidst this chaotic and intense glow, Shanqing felt an emotion called anger.

[Yes! Our planet is near a supernova. Under the influence of a large number of high-energy cosmic particle rays, the beautiful Light-Speaking Star gave birth to a large number of luminous beings. We communicate through changes in the brightness and flickering of light; light is our language, therefore we are the Light-Speaking Civilization. We were captured here by the dinosaurs you mentioned, those Bigfoot monsters.]
Shanqing stared at the large patch of glowing Puji in front of her and fell into deep thought.

Ah, so glowing mushrooms can form civilizations?

The life forms in this universe are far too complex. Even in the complex and extreme environment of a supernova explosion, civilizations can be born. According to the Light Speaker civilization, he wouldn't be surprised if naturally evolved silicon-based life forms appeared in front of him one day.

And no wonder the temperature here is so high. It's probably a high-energy particle ray zone that the dinosaurs specially set up for the glowing mushrooms to mimic a supernova explosion environment. Only in this way could they provide the life source for these glowing mushrooms.

[What did the dinosaurs want with you? To use you as lamps?] Shanqing asked after a long pause.

The angry glowing Puji immediately retorted: [They wanted to turn us into food, but we evolved ourselves to be unpalatable, so Bigfoot couldn't eat us. However, due to the characteristics of our Light Speaker civilization, they specifically bred us and gifted individuals of our civilization to their so-called gods to gain their favor.]

Shanqing immediately seized on the key phrase: "Wait, what do you mean by 'god'? The god of dinosaurs?"

After he finished speaking, he realized that the mushrooms wouldn't understand, so he stood still for a while and translated what he had just said.

[Yes! We were raised here long before the 2000 million Great Rings rotated. We are the longest-lasting of the 13 civilizations raised by Bigfoot. Our ancient Light Speakers were given to that god as a gift.]
[2000 million large rings rotating—that's 2000 million years ago. How did your people remember something from so long ago?]
The glowing Puji quickly replied: [The Light Speaker's memories can be inherited through amitosis]

"Amitosis, it really is a mushroom," Shanqing remarked.

[Where is that god?]

[We don't know.] The glowing poops blinked in unison.

Shanqing: "..."

I don't know, but you guys are really showing off.

[And you, are you an individual from a new civilization captured by Bigfoot? Was your planet also devoured? Your flesh looks quite good. Be careful not to get eaten by Bigfoot. This is a kind reminder from the Light Speakers civilization, considering you glow!]
"Thank you," Shanqing said to the mushroom patch in front of her. "But I wasn't captured by dinosaurs; I came here on my own."
[Huh? Little Lightling, your behavior is dangerous! Get out of here quickly! This is truly a kind reminder from the Light Speakers civilization!]
"I will leave," Shanqing said, flashing repeatedly at the glowing Puji before her. "But before that, I will try to negotiate with the Emperor of the Devouring Empire. If I can rescue you and the other captive civilizations without bloodshed, I will have my civilization arrange a place for you to live and reproduce."
[Really?]
The glowing mushrooms started flashing intensely again. They seemed to trust Shanqing's promise completely. Shanqing suddenly realized that with these glowing mushrooms communicating at the speed of light, perhaps the concept of lies didn't exist within their civilization.

That's good. Apart from the Trisolaran civilization, Shan Qing has a very good impression of every solid civilization.

[Really, wait for my good news.]
[Okay, little light person, you must do your best!] The glowing creatures swayed in unison, making a puffing sound.

(End of this chapter)