If you were Lucifer, the year when the power went out would be the prime time for it to attack humanity.

Strangely enough, it has been dormant on the South American continent and has never touched any other region.

At the time, it was concluded that it might not have fully awakened, or that something was restricting it from leaving it.

The latter speculation has been falsified by the fact that it can not only leave, but also those who protect the Door of Truth.

So now it looks ...... It's as if it's giving humans time to breathe. In other words, I don't want to push the human community into a desperate situation in the first place.

The first few months of the human state were prevaricating and infighting, and did not pay enough attention to what was happening on the American continent, and that was the period when the occupied areas were expanding most rapidly.

After that, the armies of the Empire and the armies of other countries began to resist stubbornly, establishing forward bases everywhere, trying to reclaim the occupied areas with outdated weapons and equipment, and paying a heavy price. According to statistics, in the first two months of the large-scale counterattack, the number of casualties reached a staggering 600,000.

So after these two months passed, the expansion of the occupied area was temporarily stopped.

Many people believe that it was the courage of human beings that frightened the species, and made them see the faith of human beings to resist to the death, so the whole country rejoiced. And it was during that time that he himself was officially portrayed by the Empire as the war hero he is today.

But now that Li Zhen thinks back to those days, he comes to another conclusion.

The species has indeed seen the courage of the human race, and has also realized the determination of the human alliance to regard death as home. So they slowed down their offensive. But not out of fear. And more likely because of ......

Don't want to consume too much.

It's not just the xenos who don't want to consume too much, but also the human soldiers who don't want to consume too much.

They seem to have treated every living human being as a "resource" from the very beginning - they needed as many "xenospecies" as possible, not corpses everywhere.

If you look at what happened before from this point of view, many mysteries are suddenly cleared.

It is true that there have been no mass killings in the occupied areas, and all they do is only pollute and re-pollute.

Later, when humans began to resist to the death with the mentality of burning jade, they let go.

If these are just speculations, then you can look at the world today.

The entire world has been divided into countless small areas by the great power of nature, and it is difficult for humans to fight in large armies. In fact, this is also the best time for them to attack again. However, judging from the data of the past five years, only the awakening of the species has been recorded somewhere, and it has not happened as before. The phenomenon of large areas being polluted.

According to Li Zhen's speculation. This is because, before the advent of the Barrier, the total population of this world was 5.2 billion, and now five years later, the total population is less than 3 billion.

He remembered a single-player game he had played. The name of the game is "Don't Starve".

In that realm, players had to gather plants and kill wild animals to get food. On the game map, the yak herds that live in the grasslands are the main source of meat, food, and clothing materials. It's just that the yak herd can breed though. But it's quite slow. He used to slaughter all the cattle when he was new to the game. So in the next few years, the yaks disappeared from the grasslands. It was difficult for him to find that abundant source of food, and he eventually starved to death.

Then he learned the concept of "sustainable development" – he slaughtered two or three calves each year after the calves were in heat, and dried their heads as reserve food. But one winter, a terrible monster called "Winter Deer" appeared near his lair. So, in desperation, he lured the monster to the prairie.

The monster and the herd fought, and it took the cost of losing three herds before the deer was wiped out, and he later found that there were only three cows left in his pasture.

From then on he took great care of the three cows, starving them for five years without slaughtering them, watching them slowly grow from three to thirteen.

It was when he thought of this that he couldn't help but shiver.

If the current human beings are compared to the yak, then ......

The species is who they were at the beginning.

Now that the number of humans has been cut in half, they have stopped.

They're raising.

Lucifer's doppelganger once had a conversation with himself at the seaside.

It says that the day after the end is coming.

And it's preparing for that day now. It also says that once that time comes, it is up to humanity to accept the fate of extinction instead of the species.

Now he straightens out all the contexts, and finally realizes that Lucifer is true at that time. Even if it's unclear whether the "last day" is true or not, it seems that the idea of humans accepting destruction instead of the species is indeed their true idea.

And that's what it does now.

To achieve this, it seems that a threshold of human numbers is required. So they began to awaken and act on the occasion of the first peak, after the population of the world exceeded five billion.

What he wants to know now is, what is the so-called "last day"? Lucifer said that the "Day of Judgment" in human religion is the "last day," but does that mean that in some way there is a striking resemblance between the two?

On the occasion of the "Judgment Day", the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse will walk on the earth and destroy humanity.

And when the day after the end comes...... The one who should be judged is the species.

What is it that can destroy a powerful group of species with unrivaled power?

And they don't seem to be able to resist it, just bent on finding a replacement?

In fact, he was not clueless about this. He even felt that the key to solving the mystery was now in his own hands—not figuratively, but literally.

This Longinus spear.

This thing can suppress the species. And then there's the island, and ...... themselves.

That island can limit all abilities, psionic powers. And the amount of power he had after the second rebirth, the amount of power he named "power", also had the same effect. At least for now, the abilities displayed by the xenomorphs are only powerful psionic abilities, and they do not yet possess such special abilities of their own.

So it is because of this ability that Lucifer says that he is the "Lord"?

I am the "Lord......

Li Zhen frowned slightly and sighed deeply.

In fact, he has always had some kind of hidden worry in his heart. Lucifer said that either humanity should be destroyed, or humanity should be destroyed along with the species. If what it says is unquestionable reality, then the most rational way is to make humans die.

He is not a philanthropist who transcends race, but if you really put yourself in their shoes, do you want a lifeless, intelligent Earth, or an Earth where at least there are such intelligent creatures?

He felt he was leaning more towards the latter. Because in his body, it seems that there is indeed blood flowing in it.

But the reason why he refused to cooperate with the other party was partly because his sense of identity as a human made it impossible for him to completely abandon his sensibility and only be rational, and on the other hand, because he never believed the other party's statement that he was so sure.

As he said before, perhaps human civilization can really one day be strong enough to face the so-called "last day" and live to the last.

is even more because of the vigilance he hides in his heart, and the above two excuses seem to be looking for room to excuse that vigilance. That is why he instinctively feels that the species does not seem to be as "friendly" to him as it seems.

They say they are the "Lord", they "send" the egg for themselves, and then the two merge to produce a new individual.

If he were to guess the minds of the other party with the greatest malice, he would only come to one conclusion - they made him stronger, perhaps...... It is also making itself a "sacrifice" in a sense, or a weapon of sorts.

A "Lord" should naturally shelter his people. So what should this "Lord" do when great calamity strikes?

Sacrificing oneself to "shelter" them?!

Li Zhen put his hand on his forehead and exhaled softly. Smart people have room to do things, and Lucifer is not human, but he is also smart. So, how do you know that they are not their second move after trying to destroy humanity?

He has the same power as the One. And Lucifer says that the character of that one is not what they want—that he is too cruel.

Thinking back on it now, Li Zhen felt that it was simply saying-

That person is indeed too brutal to develop a final sense of identity with us as a group, so it is not fit to be the "Lord". Because this kind of character of his makes him not sacrifice himself for us when the great tribulation comes!

So he tightened his grip on the gun in his hand and forced himself to free himself from this terrible speculation.

He tried to continue to recall the materials he had seen before, the bits and pieces of information about the Siberian side. He knew that the decision to "kill the past" was very hasty, and he also knew that he was not fully prepared. But in fact, it is difficult for everyone to have the opportunity to draw a perfect plan and really implement it meticulously.

Besides, from the time he stepped into this world to the present, which time was he really fully prepared, and then waited for the opportunity to move?

has been pushed away by Lin Lin for all kinds of reasons...... And now he thinks it's not a big deal.

Because this time it was he himself who gave himself a reason.

I have one more promise. (To be continued......)