Chapter 330: The World Tree

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

“…Leader, is it really a good idea for us to hand over the secret of the lost database?”

Wandering the streets of the Homeship, a scientist who followed the Lightchaser Leader was still trying to present the pros and cons of the situation to their leader.

The decision to share the lost database with the aid civilization was passed by the Scientific Assembly. Logically speaking, this matter should be forgotten. However, there were very few people in the parliament who disagreed with this matter. They still wanted the leader to change the subsequent decision.

The Lightchaser Leader disagreed.

“We have to show some of our value. Although the other party might have chosen to help us out of goodwill, life can’t always rely on the kindness of others.”

“A useless piece of trash can’t make people do their best. We have to understand this. Benefits between civilizations might not be the most important, but it will definitely have a huge impact on decision-making.” “Besides, we can’t crack most of the data, right? If we hand it over to the other party, we might be able to obtain some shared knowledge. Even if we can’t, we can still form a good relationship.”

When the scientist heard the leader’s answer, he could not help but smile bitterly, but he did not refute it. He just kept sighing.

He actually understood these principles. At best, he was a hamster and did not want to let the things in his hands leak out. At worst, he was selfish. Even if they could not analyze the data, they would rather let it rot in their hands.

However, the Lightchaser Leader didn’t care about this matter. Instead, he was thinking about the response he had received previously.

As he expected, that civilization did show interest in their lost database. At the same time, he learned that the civilization called themselves the Administrator. In the future, they would no longer need to call them aid civilization.

However, due to the long distance, it was impossible for the Administrator to personally visit the lost database. They could only extract the incomprehensible damaged data as much as possible and send it over to be cracked.

The Lightchaser Civilization had done a lot of research on the data that they regarded as their lifeblood. Most of it had been shattered beyond repair, and they could not reassemble it with their current methods. The rest were all encrypted data, and not many could be cracked.

There was nothing to remember about these things. He was only thinking if there was a way to help them leave this Cradle of Hell.

Although the Administrator didn’t say anything, he knew that the way the spaceship teleported across five million light-years was most likely the way the Administrator prepared for them to leave.

Reality proved that this method was indeed feasible under normal circumstances. After all, he had personally witnessed a cargo spaceship appear in their galaxy without any warning. With this method, it was not impossible for them to use the same technology to move outwards.

However, the special galaxy environment here prevented them from using this method to leave. Even civilizations outside the galaxy could not use the same method to enter this place.

They seemed to be trapped here, but the Lightchaser Leader believed that there was always a way out.

They had met a benefactor at the most critical moment, which meant that their path to civilization should not be cut off just like that. Even if they were really destroyed, it would only happen after they became the last victors.

He convened the Scientific Assembly again to discuss the follow-up policies for the Firechaser.

Logically speaking, with the hope of external help, they should stop their endless internal strife and unite their last strength to study how to leave this place.

However, the Lightchaser Leader knew that they could choose to do so in any other civilization, except the Firechaser.

Only the lost empire was not feasible.

The stars spun. With the high-intensity work of the Surveillance Outpost around the clock, Li Wenyuan gradually received the lost data.

Due to the fact that extracting data from ancient archives buildings was an extremely troublesome matter, the slightest mistake would cause the data to be damaged. Even though the Lightchaser Civilization had studied for so long, the amount of data they could transmit was extremely limited, but it was enough for the time being.

After receiving the current data, Li Wenyuan immediately compared it to the data in the Voyager’s archive building.

He felt that it was definitely not a coincidence that the same building would appear in two galaxies far apart. There must be something behind all of this.

In the end, after a long comparison, Li Wenyuan finally realized that a portion of the data was completely identical.

Even broken data or encrypted data could be compared through various methods, and the exact same data could be found.

This almost proved that the Archives building that carried the data came from the same civilization. However, there was a huge gap between the Milky Way and the Cradle.

“Is this a civilization similar to the scribe?”

This kind of behavior that seemed to leave marks in many galaxies made Li Wenyuan immediately wonder if these buildings were built by another civilization similar to a scribe, but he quickly denied it.

This was because the style of this building was extremely diverse, and the encryption methods were different. Even the language in which the data was written was different. It looked more like a building built by many civilizations.

Not only that, but a portion of what was suspected to be left behind by humans also existed in these two archive buildings. However, humans had never been to the Cradle.

This portion of data that was extremely similar to human methods had once puzzled Li Wenyuan, but later on, he thought that it might have been left behind by a civilization that imitated humans, so he didn’t take it to heart.

However, now that he saw this data again, he could not help but think, “Was it done by a loose alliance? Perhaps there is a civilization that has seen humans? But how many years has it been since humans became rich…”

With doubts, Li Wenyuan tried to crack the data sent by Lightchaser, hoping to understand the origins of this portion of data.

Unexpectedly, he really learned a shocking truth from it.

It was a string of information that might be related to the lost empire in the Cradle—the Firechaser.

Lightchaser had dealt with the lost empire many times and discovered that this data was very similar to the Firechaser’s style.

They were limited by their own technology and could not crack this content, but they provided Li Wenyuan with ideas and possible solutions.

After a series of complicated calculations, this string of information related to the Firechaser gradually appeared in front of Li Wenyuan.

[…We experienced the last cosmic era and tried our best to survive the Big Bang just so that we could come to this world earlier.]

[But what method can we use to make us move faster than last time?]

[The other methods have already been put into practice. The effects are still unclear. Now, we can only rely on ourselves. We also have to choose a path that suits us.]

[Perhaps a Gaia Galaxy is a feasible method?]

[…]

And at the same time that this string of information was exposed, in the distant Cradle galaxy, the Firechaser, the lost empire that had been silent for a long time, once again ignited its ancient vitality.

On the Dead Planets that were filled with the aura of death, a large number of plant branches suddenly appeared. They pushed away the sand, gravel, and soil, pushed away the ruins of buildings, and instantly covered the entire surface of the planet.

However, the scene that should have looked lively seemed lifeless because of the image of the plant itself.

This was a strange translucent plant. It clearly had the appearance of an ordinary seed plant after it had grown, but it was magically translucent. One could even see veins that looked like blood vessels inside with liquid flowing in them.

The withered branches and yellowed stems seemed to indicate that they were not in a good state. However, after a tiny cockroach climbed up their translucent branches, it seemed to have fallen into the glue. It quickly fused with the plants and was digested visibly.

However, his translucent body did not receive any replenishment from eating. Instead, it became even more transparent.

In the end, these plants seemed to be stimulated and trembled crazily on the ground. A large amount of land was thrown into the sky, revealing the dense and complicated roots under the crust.

As for these squirming roots, they did not seem to have any will. Other than destruction, there was no possibility of intelligence.

This was the Firechaser, a botanical civilization.

If the Solar Engineer had seen this scene, he might have remembered something.

This was because he had seen this plant in the virtual image of the Gaia Supreme Galaxy—a giant tree that looked like a World Tree..