When a young man lies prostrate at his father's grave, weeping bitterly, he can't possibly imagine that he is the last human being on earth.

By pretending to be human and constantly having children, one can rule the world!

This is what makes the alien race truly terrifying!

“You must have been thinking before,” Mu Nandong said coldly, striding forward, “why can’t humans coexist peacefully with other races?”

"Now, the answer is obvious."

"If we don't resist, our entire race will perish."

"This applies to both humans and other races."

Chapter Twenty: Idle Chess

If humanity does not exterminate other races, if it does not do everything possible to kill them, then the other races will lurk among humanity, constantly multiplying. Then one day, humanity will perish, and everything will become a plaything in the hands of the ancestral other races.

As long as the alien races live, it is a victory; if humanity allows them to live, it will perish.

Therefore, humanity must kill other races. This is a struggle for the survival of the race. As long as a race is in it for survival, let alone slaughtering other races, even slaughtering its own people, there will be plenty of people wielding scythes.

As for other races... let's not even talk about them.

Their only option is to infiltrate among humans and then exterminate them.

Because humans will relentlessly hunt them down, and as long as any alien race lives, they pose a significant threat to humanity. The alien race cannot escape forever. Therefore, they can only hide, hiding in bustling cities. They might be the girl next door, the uncle at the breakfast stall, the lecturer with a pointer, or the bus driver... Most of them will never know they are aliens until their death; they will believe themselves to be human until the very end. And that is the most terrifying part.

Therefore, humans had no choice but to exterminate other races, and other races had no choice but to exterminate humans.

No excuses are needed, no reasons are needed; the continuation of the race is the greatest justice.

Ying Qin Guan was speechless.

Even he understood that when it came to the survival of the race, a matter of life and death for all humanity, everything else was trivial.

So in this world, there are animal protection associations, plant protection associations, all kinds of protection associations, but there is no "Alien Protection Association" for the alien races that are most similar to humans and have been persecuted so badly.

If this thing appears, your butt will really be... way too crooked.

"Then gazing at the autumn waters, wouldn't that be..."

Ying Qin Guan couldn't help but think of Wang Qiushui again.

As a magician who was granted divine status, Wang Qiushui's various deeds are widely known, including her attempt to preserve the fire of a different race.

Wang Qiushui works tirelessly for the "majority," but she doesn't care whether this "majority" is human or a foreign race.

Or perhaps, Wang Qiushui himself is that progenitor of the alien race...

This conjecture sent a chill down Ying Qin Guan's spine. He thought back to when he should have tried to kill Wang Qiu Shui, since she had been quite careless at first. After all, she was one of the six strongest people in history; it was impossible for him to go all out against a mere seventh princess of a small country who brought only a guard. Ying Qin Guan believed he might have had a chance back then... but in the end, it was all in the past.

"The eyes of the Rebellious Demons," Mu Nandong spoke again. He said, "Many people think the eyes of the Rebellious Demons are a capitalist scam like diamonds. This idea isn't entirely wrong, but it's a bit narrow-minded. In the current world, the most evolved, most human-like, and most numerous alien races are the Rebellious Demons and Demi-humans. Although humans have some methods to distinguish alien races, it's extremely time-consuming and energy-intensive, and it violates human ethics. So... to find the Rebellious Demons, we have to start with their characteristics, which is to agitate their emotions."

"There is a strange connection between the rebellious ghosts. When they see their own kind, they feel a strange tremor in their hearts. The Empire has conducted experiments. If a rebellious ghost sees the eyes of another rebellious ghost, there is about a 30% chance that it will have an emotional breakdown and show red eyes. The eyes of the rebellious ghost are actually a piece of chess that humans have played against the rebellious ghosts."

"If any rebellious spirit becomes angry or saddened by this, then it is walking into a trap."

Mu Nandong paused for a moment, then said meaningfully, "The efforts that humanity has made to fight against alien races are unimaginable to ordinary people. Even seemingly insignificant moves like the Eye of the Reverse Ghost are actually everywhere. Every seemingly reasonable or unreasonable existence you see could be a special arrangement made by humanity to target alien races..."

"I see.."

Ying Qin Guan nodded, roughly understanding.

As the two were talking, they arrived at a retractable gate. The gatekeeper was dressed in military uniform, stood tall, and was even holding a gun in his hand.

Mu Nandong showed his identification, and the other party let him pass.

Perhaps because Mu Nandong's identity was already sufficient, Ying Qinguan was able to enter without showing any identification. Looking up, the golden plaque shone brightly in the midsummer sun.

"National Alchemy Association Headquarters"

The two entered the empty hall, and Mu Nandong said, "I can't bring anyone in later, you can wait outside... but that's not necessary, you can go and check on her."

As Mu Nandong spoke, he gestured with his eyes, and Ying Qin Guan looked in the direction... and it turned out to be Nocturne.

She was dressed in a fitted outfit, playing with her fan in her hand, and walking towards the door.

"Why do I keep running into acquaintances everywhere I go today..."

Ying Qin Guan thought to himself.

"There's nothing interesting about being with me. I'm going back to school soon." Mu Nandong said coldly, "She likes excitement and will probably stay out for a while. You go with her."

After saying that, Mu Nandong quickly left.

Ying Qin Guan squinted, wanting to say something sarcastic. He always felt like a soccer ball, being kicked around by others.

At the same time, he noticed Ye Qu's gaze. It was clear that Ye Qu had seen him. Now Ying Qin Guan had no choice but to walk towards Ye Qu.

"What a coincidence, Professor Nocturne, what brings you here?"

Ying Qin Guan took the initiative and posed a question.

Nocturne snapped open the fan and smiled with satisfaction, "The woman came a few days ago and had something engraved on the fan. She's here today to pick it up... Where's Teacher Ying?"

"Me? That's a long story." Ying Qin Guan thought for a moment and said, "To put it simply, I was just wandering around when I met Teacher Mu, and he brought me here."

Nocturne said with a smile, "Teacher Mu must be out on important business. He should be heading back to school soon... If Teacher Ying has some free time, why not accompany the lady for a stroll?"

The two men, Ye Qu and Mu Nan Dong, were so in sync that Ying Qin Guan suspected they had conspired to use him as a football.

However... since he really had nowhere else to go, he wouldn't refuse Nocturne.

The two walked side by side. Ying Qin Guan was still quite frightened by Mu Nan Dong's words earlier, and now he looked at everyone as if they were foreigners, with a scrutinizing look in his eyes. This was quickly noticed by Ye Qu.

"Teacher Ying's gaze is a bit strange," Nocturne asked with a smile. "Why are you looking at people like that?"

"Is it strange?" Ying Qin Guan himself wasn't very aware of it, but since it wasn't a secret, he told her everything, and even made a joke at the end.

"Maybe we are all actually from different races."

Chapter Twenty-One: The Eternal Struggle

"When it comes to this, it's not necessarily a joke."

Although Nocturne said that, she still had a smile on her face. She waved her fan, her lotus steps were light and graceful, charming but not vulgar. Countless men on the street were infatuated. Her girlfriend next to her was so angry that her nose was crooked. She directly got angry and broke up with him.

Ying Qin Guan squinted and asked, "What do you mean?"

Nocturne, fanning himself, said, "Thanks to the widespread circulation of the various allegorical stories in the Hidden Chronicles, coupled with the collapse of the personas of the two popes of the Church of Light and the Church of the Goddess, leading to the disappearance of the churches, there are now few people on the continent who truly believe in the existence of the Goddess. But even something like the Primordial Alien Race exists, so scholars sometimes have to question whether the Goddess truly exists. But if we say the Goddess exists..."

Nocturne looked at Ying Qin Pass and said, word by word, "Then, could the goddess who created 'the sky, the earth, the sea, humans, angels, and everything' in legends be... the ancestral alien race?"

Generally speaking, if the existence of a goddess is assumed, it should be listed under the category of special alien races.

But now, Nocturne categorizes the goddess as belonging to the primordial alien race.

Ying Qin Guan thought for a moment and said, "There's probably nothing worse than this."

Nocturne nodded and said, "Yes."

If the goddess is the progenitor of humankind, and humankind itself is a branch of that progenitor, and if the goddess can control all humankind through "progenitor genes," then it means that everything humankind has created over countless years is but fleeting sand.

Everyone is a toy of the goddess!

Whatever the goddess might do, the very occurrence of this event signifies the greatest terror in the world.

Of course, such words wouldn't scare Ying Qin Guan, because the possibility was extremely small; it was purely Nocturne's wild guess. Furthermore, there was reproductive isolation between different races. If the goddess was just an ordinary ancestral alien race rather than a special one, she probably couldn't break this barrier... because no ancestral alien race throughout history had ever broken it. However, the abilities of ancestral alien races were mysterious, so it was truly hard to say.

"Perhaps we can only wait for humanity to find a way to decipher the ancestral genes." Nocturne fanned herself, her gaze calm. "But how many troubles will that involve?"

“Researching ancestral genes is bound to be very troublesome. Perhaps only the Black Dragon Empire is at the forefront. Most scholars believe that there is an ancestral alien race cooperating with their research, such as the Clown.”

"But even if we decipher one ancestral gene, so what? Are the ancestral genes of every ancestral alien race the same? Not necessarily."

"Beneath the shadow of the continent, how many primordial alien races still live? As we converse, could it be that somewhere, another magical beast has survived its fatal thirty-sixth tribulation and become a primordial alien race?"

Nocturne sighed.

Even if we crack the ancestral gene, does that guarantee its widespread adoption? What if the cost is so high that it can't be widely adopted and can only be used on a small scale?

If even alien races can evolve, why can't the ancestral alien race evolve?

But what can we do if we don't decipher the ancestral genes?

Where there are living beings, there will be magical beasts; where there are magical beasts, there will be primordial alien races; where there are primordial alien races, there will be alien races; and where there are alien races... this will never stop.

This is an eternal struggle.

Ying Qin Guan failed to grasp Nocturne's concern for the country and its people, and the two continued to wander aimlessly.

Nocturne was a very leisurely person; otherwise, she wouldn't have been the most randomly spawning NPC in the Royal Court. She was also very eloquent, making people feel comfortable and at ease. Ying Qin Guan, walking alongside her for so long, didn't find it boring at all.

"A Sweet Milk Tea Shop Opens for Qixi Festival! Couples Get the Second Drink Half Price! Ladies and gentlemen... Wait, teacher!"

Ying Qin Guan turned his head and saw A He, a girl with a bun hairstyle. On Qixi Festival, she was still working here... But this time, even without her saying it, Ying Qin Guan knew that this must be the boss's business again.

The boss recently gave Ying Qin Guan a voice-activated card, so since he has the chance, he might as well support his business... Speaking of which, Ying Qin Guan has never had milk tea before, even though he sees it all the time at school.

"Would you like a drink?" Ying Qin Guan asked.

"Then we'll have to trouble you, Teacher Ying... What would you like to drink, Teacher Ying? Just give the lady the same thing."

Ying Qin Guan nodded and stepped forward, the product list of the milk tea shop dazzling her.

"Teacher, you're truly a hidden talent." Ahe said playfully. She filled in for the board game cafe when the owner wasn't around, so she was quite familiar with Ying Qin Guan. She nudged Ying Qin Guan with her elbow, her expression gossipy, her face clearly saying, "I'm very curious."

"How do you manage to play cards at the board game parlor every day?"

Ying Qin Guan blushed. Although he was also being misunderstood, Ji Fa and Ye Qu were different, and the girl with the bun hairstyle was no stranger. But he was a man who cared about his reputation, and Ye Qu was right behind him, so he couldn't say too much. He could only whisper, "You've misunderstood. We just met on the road."

Ying Qin Guan originally thought the girl with the bun would continue to say things like, "Who would believe such a thing? Really..." with that gossipy look.

The other person instantly composed themselves, saying expressionlessly, "Ah, is that so? I thought so too."

So fast!

Ying Qin Guan inwardly cursed, "Your face-changing is too fast! Even the face-changing in Sichuan opera in Southern Qin isn't as fast as yours! And if you didn't believe me in the first place, what did you mean by 'in the first place'?"

Ying Qin was displeased and immediately hinted, "Hey... don't you think the chances of me and Teacher Ye Qu meeting outside are a little slim?"

Ahe shrugged and said, "Teacher Nocturne randomly spawns in various corners, so it's not surprising that she's anywhere. As for you, Teacher Ying... I guess the dean went out to be with his girlfriend, and you were feeling lonely and wandered around, which is why Teacher Nocturne caught you."

"?" Ying Qin Guan felt embarrassed that almost everything about himself and Nocturne had been guessed correctly, so he could only stubbornly say, "Where did Jiu Yi get a girlfriend!"

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