Meredith looked at Todd, who was sitting on the ground, and asked funny, "How's the training going?"

Todd, in the form of a tyrant, glanced at Meredith and pointed to his feet in frustration.

The latter looked at it intently and couldn't help laughing.

Todd had a bunch of 2B pencils at his feet, the same style, the same size.

Meredith picked up a pencil and asked with a smile, "It seems that you are very interested in this kind of stick." ”

"It's not a matter of interest at all!" Todd spread out his hand and said helplessly: "Originally, I thought that as long as I used the soul power to pinch out the things in my soul space according to the shape, it would be fine, but things are not that simple at all!"

"You not only need to know the shape of things, but also understand the structure of objects, and even be familiar with the molecular formulas that make up matter, so that you can use dark matter to reshape objects!" Todd picked up a pencil with his fingers, held it up in front of him, and said with a smile: "Moreover, the embodiment of soul power is also related to the user's mental ability." The stronger the ability, the greater the mass of the concrete object and the more complex the composition, and the worse the ability, the vice versa. ”

Todd dropped the pencil at his feet and sighed: "It's been a long time, and with my current ability, I can only make a few 2B pencils at most." ”

Meredith shook his head lightly and encouraged him, "Do you know how many people have really learned the ability to manifest souls since I came to the Shadow Realm?"

Looking at Todd's puzzled face, Meredith raised a finger and shook it in front of the former's eyes.

"Only one person?!"

Meredith tapped Todd's arm, "That's right, you're the only one...... To be honest, I'm jealous of you, I've been with my master for so long, and she never mentioned teaching me this ability. But I've only met you a few times, but I've decided to teach you. ”

Looking at Todd's stunned appearance, Meredith said angrily: "If the soul embodiment ability has a limit on the weight and structure of the object. Can't you try to make something small in size, light in weight, simple in structure, but very useful? Like this useless little stick, no matter how much you make, it can only be used for fire!"

Meredith's words made Todd's eyes light up.

The latter held his chin in his hand and said to himself: "There is something, small in size, light in weight, not complicated in structure, and the molecular formula is familiar to me...... Wait! I think there is, isn't that ......?"

"Todd. ”

Skaha's voice woke Todd from his musings.

The latter looked at the purple-haired Queen of Shadows, walked slowly towards him, and unconsciously stood up from the ground.

Skaha walked up to Todd, looked up at the tyrant's golden beast eyes, and asked quietly, "Do you remember how long you've been here?"

Todd replied, somewhat uncertainly, "A month?"

Meredith rolled her eyes and said loudly, "It's been almost half a year!"

Todd's eyes widened, "So long?"

Skaha shook his head and said with a smile: "Is half a year a long time? Let me tell you a fact, you have learned something in half a year that other trainees cannot learn in their lifetime. ”

Todd looked at Skaha in disbelief, "So, is it ......?"

"That's right, I don't have anything to teach you anymore. ”

Raising the tyrant's iron claws, Todd looked at his whole body, and then said to Skaha, "Training is complete?"

The Queen of Shadows closed her eyes, smiled and shook her head, "No, your training is only half done...... Come with me. ”

Skaha walked ahead, Todd followed her, still the dilapidated hallway, still the spiraling staircase.

Following the green glow of the radioactive ore, Todd returned to where he had been—the ceremonial hall beneath the Shadow Country.

Short and looking at the slate beneath his feet, Todd said to Skaha, "I seem to have guessed who you're going to let me see next......

Skaha looked at Todd and said, "Of all the forerunners, Leviathan was once a passionate and upright individual. He has invested too many hopes and dreams in human beings...... However, humanity has disappointed him again and again. ”

"Todd, remember my words, Leviathan may not want to help humanity anymore, but he won't refuse hope. ”

Looking into Skaha's eyes, Todd nodded slowly and said, "I see." ”

Skaha placed his hands on the stone pillar in the middle of the ceremonial hall, and the entire hall slowly turned, and the whole space rumbled and rubbed.

The stone slabs on the ground slowly opened, and a bottomless black hole appeared on the ground.

As the roaring sound became louder and louder, the rushing sea water slowly rose like a rising tide, filling the entire giant cavern.

Todd looked at the surface of the sea beneath his feet, took a deep breath, nodded at Skaha, and jumped into the sea in desperation.

Although there is no maelstrom, the body of the tyrant is as free and comfortable as a fish when swimming in the sea.

The deeper you dive through the shallow depths of the ocean, the darker the surrounding color and the greater the pressure of the sea.

Just when there was no light in the surroundings, Todd faintly heard a dull thunderclap.

Leviathan is coming.

The town-sized, tentacled creature came to Todd's side and opened its huge eyes to look at the visitor.

Todd was just about to communicate with Leviathan when a deafening question caught his attention.

"Self-interest or altruism, which one in your opinion contributes more to the species?"

After careful consideration, Todd gave his own answer: "Neither pure self-interest nor altruism can make the right contribution to the development of the species." The greatest role of self-interest is to trigger the motivation of individuals to pursue profits, which is the most basic element for the development of species. Altruism, on the other hand, is more like a mediator between individuals, which can seek a peaceful solution to contradictions when they arise, rather than blindly going to the same end. So, I think the contribution of altruism and self-interest is equally important for species. ”

Leviathan was silent for a moment, then asked, "Should the Creator interfere with the world of creation?"

Todd was a bit embarrassed about the question.

Leviathan was apparently asking if Jingju's actions were correct.

But this question involves too many premises to be answered simply.

Todd hesitated for a long time, and finally said, "I can't give you an exact answer. But I can give you an example, in my world, when conducting experiments, I will adjust the temperature, oxygen, pressure, and other indicators of the experimental environment at different stages to observe the changes in the sample. However, there is an iron rule in the laboratory, which is to absolutely prohibit direct contact with the sample, because this practice can contaminate the sample and cause distortion of the experimental results. ”

"But......" Todd took a deep breath, "I think I'm a researcher, but the relationship between God and his people is much more than that, so I can't answer the second question." ”

Leviathan was silent longer this time than the first question.

After a long time, Leviathan asked Todd the final question, "Answer me, are you still human?"

Without the slightest hesitation, Todd blurted out, "No matter what shape I become, I'm still a human being." ”

Leviathan's massive body trembled slightly, and he only said one sentence: "Interesting." ”

Todd's soul was suddenly pulled out of his body and into an unknown space.

Floating in the air, Todd looked at the world below, huge ironclad monsters rose from the bottom of the sea, and countless humans wearing flying armors took off from the back deck of the monsters, generating flames, frost and thunder in their hands, venting the wrath of war to the earth.

On the other hand, on the other side, the armies of different species are defeated and collapsed under the attack of humans.

"The era you see is called the Age of Extermination. Leviathan's voice came from the sky: "In this battle, humanity has finally exterminated other races by virtue of its absolute superiority. ”

Hearing Leviathan's words, a startled Todd looked at the fighting humans, and he quickly saw something wrong: "These humans don't look very different from us. ”

"Humanity before the Age of Extermination was far superior to humanity today in terms of individual ability and racial talent. After the extinction of other races, humanity began to focus on pleasure and infighting, gradually weakened its abilities, and began to degrade its talents, and finally became what it is today. ”

Todd asked curiously, "Were humans in the past stronger than they are now?"

Leviathan shifts the scene to a giant temple of steel.

Dozens of human researchers gathered to tie a blue-skinned, pointy-eared xenomorph to a giant glass jar.

With a sharp scream, countless metal drills pierced into the alien's body. In an instant, the alien race was disintegrated into only a skeleton.

"What are they doing?!"

Todd watched this scene in horror, and his whole body was cold.

Humans call this process 'assimilation', which simply means breaking down the flesh of other races and analyzing the excellent genetic formulas contained in their bodies. Finally, these substances are extracted for their own use. ”

Todd lowered his head and said slowly, "Anyway, it's too ......"

With this method, mankind has accumulated more and more advantages in war, and gradually grasped the initiative of the situation. Leviathan's voice slowly grew colder: "So, I like to call humans locusts. ”

Todd sighed dejectedly, "I can understand how you feel. ”

"I don't have the last hope for humanity, but Skaha is different, she still wants to find a balance between the races, so she recommended you to me. ”

Todd looked at the sky, his words full of helplessness: "To be honest, I really don't know if I can do what you expect." In the original world, I could only be regarded as an ordinary person, and even classified as a loser. ”

"In the dictionary of the forerunners, success and failure are not defined by wealth and status. The reason we value you is because of who you are. ”

As the picture goes black, Todd's soul returns to his body in the sea.

Leviathan turned his eyes to Todd, and a voice like thunder rang through the latter's mind: "I will unravel some of the 'assimilation factors' in your body to increase your strength...... Perhaps, as Skaha said, there is a glimmer of hope somewhere in my heart. ”

A scorching force burrowed into Todd's body, tearing every cell of his body.

Todd writhed in pain, and the tyrant's body underwent drastic changes.

The tyrant's body length of ten meters extended again to twenty-four meters, the neck began to elongate and gradually thickened, becoming able to rotate freely and flexibly, the scales on his body began to layer and arrange, and looked more staggered, the head resembling a lizard, with sharp and strong horned spines sticking out diagonally behind it, and growing angular folds, the lower limbs became thicker and more powerful, and the upper limbs stretched forward, looking slightly smaller, and a pair of huge bat-like wings grew on the back。

Leviathan watched Todd's changes and dropped a sentence: "Go ahead, use your methods, change the world, and seek the ultimate answer." ”

With that, Leviathan closed his eyes and sank his body to the bottom of the sea.