Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

“Daddy...”

Pepe feels that today's father is extraordinarily different - although he is usually also a frown locked, worried and even highly unpredictable, today's father appears to be extraordinarily suicidal and indifferent, as if there is an invisible layer of blood armor that wraps him tight.

For a moment, Pepe even suspected that the man standing in front of him, as if he were covered in darkness and scarlet, was not her father, but the cruellest creature that could be found in countless stars.

The girl took a step back and stumbled, “That's why? Just because Shannua awakens her own consciousness, wants to know who it really is? Isn't that what everyone wants to know? When every child grows up, they always have to figure out who they are! ”

“Others may or may not, but void hunters cannot, because they are too vast and have too much dangerous power, and once they have figured out their fate and come up with independent ideas, they are most likely to have… unimaginable consequences. ”

Daddy Cold Road, “For thousands of years, countless bitter lessons have taught us that we can't be more vigilant when dealing with empty hunters, so we formed the" Dream Control Bureau "and came up with various methods of mental scanning and consciousness testing to form a heavy line of defense, and the core of all lines of defense is also the most critical one, which is its name.

“You may not know that since the ‘blast' of the first empty hunter our ancestors encountered in the depths of the stars and seas, all newly born empty hunters have been named 'Shannua’, which of course refers to the brutal King in The One Thousand and One Nights, metaphorically describing the fate of all of us, just like the daughter of the Chancellor, Shanruzood, who lived under the King's demons, and all the girls, our lives and deaths depend on the joy of the 'King', whose joy depends on the story we provide, only if we keep providing fresh stories and sincere emotions can we survive the hard nights of hope.

“When a new void hunter had just begun another journey of life from tentacles to rebirth, its nervous system was relatively simple and did not produce enough intelligence - in fact, if it had not been for the unexpected stimulus of our human race, the void hunter would never have needed so-called ‘intelligence’ to live well in space.

“Unfortunately, we humans need the Vacant Hunter to master a certain amount of intelligence so that we can better… work with it to grow, jump, roam, devour and destroy it in accordance with our intentions. After thousands of years of effort, various ways to stimulate the growth of the Vacant Hunter's neural network, including the mysteries of how to communicate and control, are ripe, and Shannoua and all its‘ brothers and sisters' are the products of artificial intervention and enhanced stimulation.

“But we don't need the intelligence of a void hunter to be too mature, too powerful, to learn the darkest things in the human brain in deep communication.

“In other words, we want the void hunter to remain at the intellectual level of a four-five year old, up to seven or eight year old, which is too, too dangerous once his intellectual level is over ten years old.

“A four- or five-year-old child, not necessarily curious as to the origin of his name, but a child who understands the meaning of ‘Shannua' and expresses a clear aversion to it, certainly has an intelligence beyond the age of seven, eight or even ten years, and from the point of view of his unauthorized claim to name himself 'Prince of Happiness’, his personality is strong, if not uncontrollable - which is why we have to arrange its‘ rebirth ’. ”

“Just because of the name? ”

Pepe stared and finished listening, just thought the whole world had become distorted, she wanted to smile to alleviate the absurd atmosphere, but laughter sounded like a sob, “What's the danger? I mean, what does it matter if Shannua finds out who it really is? What if it's intelligent enough to reach the age of twenty or thirty? Aren't we friends? We are close friends who need each other and have fought side by side for thousands of years! We can't do this to friends and partners, can we? ”

“Remember, my daughter, always remember, there's never been a ‘friend' between the dark stars in front of you. ”

Dad cold-blooded, "Only the prey and the hunter, or the ruler and his slave. ”

Pepe subconsciously embraced her arm and the girl felt cold.

“Besides, even if we were willing to treat it as a friend, what about it? ”

Daddy asks, "After knowing everything and taking control of a day more powerful than a day, is it willing to forever treat us as friends, forever selfless for us, as our towns, warships and mines? ”

“Of course!”

Pepe did not hesitate to say, "Shannua is kind and it will never change! ”

“Don't be silly, Pepe, it's going to change, everything's going to change. We humans come from Earth to the center of the universe, and all the races that float and struggle in the stars and oceans, to survive, are going to change dramatically all the time. ”

Daddy sighed, "Now Shannua is like a child of seven or eight years old, from seven to twenty to seventy to seventy to eighty years old —— no one can make any clear how many changes one's mind, and its power is so powerful that it just flips over slightly, or a sudden, unprotected four-dimensional ‘thrust’ is enough to destroy our entire fleet once, no one dares to risk it, no one dares to put the lives and future of the hundreds of millions of people in the fleet in the trust of a little girl and a giant octopus, no one dares.

“More importantly, Shannua's intelligent level will not stop at the age of thirty or forty for humans. No, it has far more neurons than humans, even though the neural network's growth pattern is more primitive, but after our intervention and stimulation, no one knows exactly how horrible the fire of consciousness can strike the 'neural network of the void hunter' and the 'human mindset'. If left unchecked, its intellect is most likely to increase indefinitely to ‘10,000 times smarter than the wisest humans'.

“A monster 10,000 times smarter than mankind, with the power to crush the stars, can jump four dimensions at will and travel the entire star sea - it will be the scariest life form since the birth of the universe, or, in other words, the eternal end of all mankind!

“What's wrong with stopping all this from happening, stopping it from awakening with a stronger ambition than we do, killing hundreds of millions of people, becoming eternal rulers of the entire universe, enslaving us forever, having to prevent it from happening, strangling all the dangerous buds in a swaddle? ”