Mythology: Ragnarok

Chapter 350 Pests

"The Path of Contempt? Is this the kind of thing the Mechanical Race uses for technological research?" Xuan Yuan Muze asked, looking at the disgusting wall in front of him. Clearly, he didn't believe that such a thing could provide the Mechanical Race with innovative ideas.

Forman explained, "You may not know what swarm thinking is. Swarm thinking is when a group becomes the embodiment of individuals. All consciousness is integrated into an overly rational single existence and coordinates all activities of the entire group. Typical examples are the Zerg and the Mechs. This kind of thinking can unite the internal structure very well, but its drawback is that this kind of thinking is too rational, which leads to a lack of imagination and creativity. If you ask them to solve a problem, they can give you the answer quickly, but if you ask them to create a problem, it is harder than climbing to the sky for them."

Therefore, these pests, the Machine Race, are destined to become thieves, keeping other creative races as pets to provide them with research ideas. This is why the Kingdom of All Races despises these beasts so much. The Machine Race are inferior creatures without principles or bottom lines, pests that have no reason to exist in the entire universe.

Even the Zerg, who follow the path of genetic evolution, only achieve genetic breakthroughs by constantly placing themselves in harsh environments and sacrificing a high rate of kin mortality. Even this suicidal method of evolution is far more humane than the experiments conducted by the machine race, those beasts.

A race with no future, constantly plundering the futures of others in their pursuit of evolution—that's not even the most hateful part. What's truly hateful is that even with this, their development speed is absurdly slow; they'll soon be overtaken and trampled underfoot by other races. The existence of the Machine Race is nothing but an extreme waste of cosmic resources. These ugly pests should be eradicated! Because in this universe, waste is the greatest crime!!

Xuanyuan Muze looked at the furious Foreman, then at the blood-soaked wall and the corpses scattered on the ground. For a moment, he seemed to understand why the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Races looked down on mechanical life forms so much.

Suddenly, an egg fell from the wall in front of them, and a conjoined twin sharing the same spine began to struggle inside. This was a species called "twins" that the machine race was experimenting on this planet. Twins share a spine but have two bodies. The stronger and more robust body is mainly responsible for physical labor, but the "mouthless person" is in front and is responsible for physical labor. The "mouthed person" has a mouth, can provide energy to the body, and has a higher intelligence and can think, and is carried on the back of the mouthless person.

Before the newborn twins could even break through their outer membranes, a large hole suddenly appeared below and swallowed the eggs. At this moment, Forman began to explain the process to Xuan Yuan Muze. After the twins gave birth to civilization on this planet, the mouthed people behind them began to despise their mouthless counterparts. So, the smarter mouthed people used technology to set up a separation device under the 'holy wall' where they were born. After their birth, the separation machine directly separated the mouthless people. The already dull-witted mouthless people could not believe that their counterparts would abandon them, which ultimately led to the mouthless people becoming the victims on the twins' evolutionary path.

However, the people with mouths also paid the price for their ruthlessness. After the people without mouths separated from their bodies, the bodies of the people with mouths would be greatly damaged. Even though they had acquired technology to make up for it, a lot of problems still inevitably arose. However, the people with mouths did not regret it until they began to realize that their intellectual development was starting to have problems after losing the people without mouths.

Unfortunately, the Machine Race couldn't wait. They had raised pigs for so long, and they didn't want them to grow into tigers. When the Twins' technology began to surpass that of the Machine Race on a small scale, the Machine Race, in the name of "divine revelation," forced the Machine Race to follow the same path of collectivism, build a consciousness network, and upload their consciousness to the main brain, euphemistically called "merging with the gods." In doing so, the Machine Race directly devoured everything of the Twins, turning their wisdom and their future into nutrients for the Machine Race's evolution.

However, the Twins do not think this is wrong; in fact, they are proud of it. Even though they are a technologically advanced civilization, they still believe that the Machine Race is their god. After all, the Twins know that their physical condition is not in line with the evolution of nature. If they were not created by humans, a race like them would never exist in the multiverse. Therefore, the Twins are unwilling and do not believe that their creator would persecute them.

Then tragedy struck: the entire twin race was devoured by the so-called path to godhood, becoming nourishment for the main brain.

Xuanyuan Muze followed the last twin, who had been specially released by the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Races and had also been propagated from within the wall. Xuanyuan Muze followed him into the facility responsible for the separation surgery and watched the twin undergo the cruel separation procedure. After being modified, the mouthed human passed through a series of tests of wisdom and creativity. After overcoming countless difficulties, he passed through the path of contempt, which was filled with mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Finally, the mouthed human who passed the test also received the divine oracle recorded by the mechanical race and the historical stone tablet left by his own people.

The last twin, like a pilgrim, endured countless hardships and finally resolutely connected his consciousness to the long-destroyed mainframe. However, because his consciousness was uploaded but had no carrier, his soul left his body and he died. During this process, Xuan Yuan Mu Ze appeared and tried to stop him, but the person with the mouth refused to believe Xuan Yuan Mu Ze's truth and, like a moth drawn to a flame, selflessly sacrificed his life to his so-called... 'god'!

Looking at the corpses scattered everywhere and the biotechnology, Xuan Yuan Muze felt a pang of pity for these experimental subjects. At that moment, he finally understood why Foreman discriminated against the machine race and why the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Races' policy towards the machine race was... to punish them no matter how far away they were!

Because any race deserves the word "kind" compared to the Machine Race. If even the evil deeds of the Machine Race can be tolerated, then there would truly be no bad people left in this world.

At this moment, Foreman walked over, patted Xuan Yuan Muze on the shoulder, and advised, "Honorable guest, don't think too much. In this universe, there have never been any truly good people, only two kinds: 'bad people with principles' and 'bad people without principles.' Just as the Dragon God said, life is destined from birth for us to be unable to escape killing."

Our nation of myriad races isn't exactly a bunch of good people either. If you don't want to end up like these experimental subjects, then listen to my advice: remember this: 'In this world, weakness is a sin.' Become stronger and stronger! Only the strong will not be slaughtered, only the strong will not be invaded, only the strong will not be humiliated, and only the strong can decide the life and death of others!

The Kingdom of All Races is no longer a sinner, for we are no longer weak; nor is the Kingdom of All Races condemned as evil by the world, for the world has long since knelt at the feet of the Kingdom of All Races, bowing and scraping before us with its cowardly and bullying nature!