In this world, it seems that everyone is building a fortress for themselves that they think is very strong, and then hiding in the fortress to watch the smoke outside, silently waiting for the end of the world, without realizing that they are in danger.

If a person is not aware that he is in danger, it means that he is close to death.

I told them that the fortress they had built was very fragile. It's a pity that their stubborn self-confidence made me completely give up pity for them!

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The yellow sand, flooding my knees and numbing my nerves. In front of my eyes, kneeling was a bloody, pointy-eared, green-haired young man, his eyes full of fear and despair. Looking around, there was no trace of life except for blood and stinking corpses.

I raised my hand, pointed the muzzle of my gun at his eyebrows, and pulled the trigger - ending this young life, and ending civilization on this planet once and for all.

I looked up at the sky, and the sun was so hot that it melted my soul. An urge swelled up in me, and my knees bent slightly, almost kneeling down to ask for forgiveness from the planet. In the end, though, I held back.

It's my job, and it's my mission and responsibility......

"Report to the Universe Center HQ, race clearance complete, request mission handover."

After reporting to headquarters, I boarded my Megaphage spacecraft and left the planet and headed into deep space.

The rest of the work is beyond my purview, and the headquarters will send the relevant personnel of the species reconstruction team to take over the planet, spread new genetic seeds, breed new races, and use them to screen for better genes.

My name is Dugu Qiwen, and this is the name I gave myself. It's a little embarrassing to say the name. Soon after I was born, I thought about becoming a wandering poet and spreading my fiery admiration and awe for the universe, but this romantic feeling was not recognized by them. They found out that I had the best fighting genes transcribed in me. So I was trained to be a great fighter. In order to reflect the value of the genes in my body, I gave myself the name of "Dugu Qiwen".

I don't have parents because I come from an artificially fertilized egg—an integration of the best combat genes of this cosmic age. Genetically, I have been set to become a devourer. Like every Devourer, I work for the Order Department at the center of the universe, and have been sent by the cosmic judges to the various spaces of the universe to clean up races that are developing too fast or evolving abnormally; The purpose is to maintain order in the entire universe.

If you don't understand what kind of existence this is, the following example might help you get some clarity on your thinking. If we think of the universe as an organism, the center of the universe is the brain, the order department is the immune system, and the phagogue is the immune cell; Those races that develop or evolve abnormally are cancer cells that destroy the normal growth of organisms. My job is to get rid of these cancer cells. For me, the slaughter of races is the most legitimate way to maintain order in the universe. If you can't accept it, it means that you are still an inferior race!

We are the best race and the best rulers of this universe! This view was instilled in me by the Supreme Judge of the Universe, and I held on to it to make it my faith. Without this faith, my spiritual world would probably be occupied by hundreds of millions of unjust souls. It wasn't until later that I came to this beautiful planet; Immediately afterward, my faith was shaken.

In retrospect, it's a bit embarrassing. Everyone has their own choices and must be responsible for their own choices. It's not about how to choose, it's about how to be responsible.

……

I quietly looked out the window at the dazzling nebulae, and I never got tired of seeing them. Their richness of color and variety of changes are the most mysterious wisdom of the universe.

As I immersed myself in these beauties, imagining myself as a tiny speck of light traveling through space, a call came from the communication device. This is an instant contact signal from my boss. My boss was a woman, a law enforcement officer, one level higher than me, named Bai Shimizu, an elegant name, as his name was.

I flipped the switch and projected her holographic signal in front of my eyes. She was as beautiful as ever, and as serene as ever.

"Abandon the text, you have worked hard this time. It's all right, right? ”

Her voice is still gentle and beautiful, and it sounds soothing. I knew that this gentle voice was deliberately pretended, but I was still intoxicated. This is a necessary condition for becoming a law enforcement officer, and using language and rhythm to comfort and assist the devourer at all times is her introductory exam. In this regard, she scored very well.

That said, I can't deny that she really has real feelings in her words. If she were genuinely concerned with me, my indifference would have stabbed her. Also, I remember the first time I went on a mission, after I slaughtered 10 billion lives alone, if it weren't for her, I would have been tortured to death by my own mental pressure. I am grateful to her.

"It's all good." My voice was a little cold, and although I wanted to speak passionately, I couldn't express my feelings.

"According to the rules, you need to take a break to heal yourself before you can take on the next task. However, a number returned from HQ indicates that one of our Devourers has disappeared on a mission to a remote star field in the Milky Way. Initial suspicions are due to the resistance of the field's mission objectives. This behavior has hit a security cordon, so HQ has decided to send the best Devourers to the field to solve the problem once and for all. ”

Galaxy? I have the impression that I have read the relevant materials, and there is a planet called "the miracle of life"; It gave birth to a giant animal that the Department of Culture of the Center for the Universe called a dinosaur. Due to their huge size, strong attack, and wide variety, it would be a waste of time and effort to exterminate them yourself. Later, the Devourer in charge of the cleanup mission used interstellar gravity to bring a group of asteroids and staged a star-studded fall in the "Miracle of Life", causing the race called "Dinosaurs" to be completely wiped out from this "Miracle of Life" planet.

After many years, I can't imagine that this "miracle of life" has once again bred an abnormal race, which is really a big tumor! According to the regulations, the planet must be ruined in order to prevent new troubles from arising.

"I don't have a problem with my spirit. I am willing to take on this task. ”

"Wait, abandon the text, don't cut off the signal just yet." Bai Qingshui said suddenly.

"Anything else?" I listened carefully when I heard what she was saying.

"Actually...... There should be nothing either. I just don't think it's as easy as I thought it would be. Maybe I'm thinking about it. In short, you must pay attention to safety. In the end, Bai Qingshui's tone was very gentle.

I smiled faintly. I've experienced a lot of moments when I'm on the brink of life and death. I have confidence in myself.

"I'll do this mission." With that, I cut off the call. I'm a fighter, not a piece of wood. I can perceive some subtle relationships between me and Shirakumizu, but I can't let this relationship have a chance to develop. I am a devourer, and my destiny has long been set. My enemies are scattered in every corner of the universe, and those who are related to me cannot obtain the peace of life and the security of life.

Once the mission was decided, I set the course and let the Megaphage make a space jump.

The center of the universe has the most advanced scientific and technological power in the universe, and our understanding of dark matter and the use of dark energy are many times stronger than other civilizations. Through the use of dark energy, we allow time at the center of the universe to remain frozen and still, thus eliminating the influence of time on living organisms. In other words, we are immortal. Dark matter fills the entire universe, and as long as you know how to use it, you can use the dark matter engine to make zero-time, unlimited distance space jumps. My Megaphage has one of these universal engines on it. Because of this, the next moment of the space jump, Megaphage and I appeared in the solar system of the target planet.

This is a young planetary system, so to speak, still in its infancy. The spherical nebula wrapped around the periphery is one of the characteristics. Such infant galaxies are generally difficult to find, and it would be difficult to find such a planetary system without having archived information.

In order to understand the cause and effect of a qiē, I need to call the relevant information of the universe center number jù library to the megaphage.

"Megaphage, learn about the basic information of this planet and the information of the Devourer on the last mission."

After a few seconds, nothing happened to the Macrophage. I'm just surprised, is this guy lazy? (To add up, Megaphage's operating system is a super-intelligent system, and its intelligence level is not low.) However, in order to reduce energy consumption, he often "dozes off". ）

"Megaphage, you know what it takes to anger me." I'm just talking about it, scaring and scaring him, as a way to eliminate the taste of loneliness along the way. Actually, I can't do anything with him. Unless I'm going to walk back to the center of the universe step by step on my legs.

"Dear Brother Dugu, I have tried my best, but Aunt Jùku blocked me at the door and refused to let me in. I tried my beautiful man's trick to no avail. ”

There is a reason for this, I can't help frowning, the security system has set up access permissions, it seems that these numbers are not simple.

"Find Shimizu and ask what the situation is." I commanded the Megaphage.

"Okay, little brother, let's go. Big brother, wait a minute! ”

In the face of such a wording habit and tone of voice like the Giant Eater, I can only smile wryly. At first, I was reluctant to accept such a geek as my partner, but my boss, Shirashimizu, insisted that this set would help me improve my emotional and mental stress. I had no choice but to give in. But she was right, and after getting along, I found that it could really make my life a little more fun, so I accepted it with satisfaction.

Looking out the window, I saw that the planet called "Miracle of Life" reflected blue light under the illumination of the stars, which looked quiet and mysterious. It's really beautiful, and if other higher races discover this planet, there will inevitably be a battle.

In the vast universe, energy flows, and the emergence of life is both random and inevitable. Our civilization's understanding of life has been refined to the energy level, and all material individuals who have the ability to actively obtain and use energy are called life. In our knowledge, planets that can rotate are also classified as a category of life. There are so many lives in the universe that there are too many to mention, so the battle for breeding grounds and interstellar wars are just a simple "metabolism" for me. Weak lives and civilizations are destined to be replaced by strong ones. And the planet in front of him, although it has the development potential that is strong enough to threaten the center of the universe, is still very immature, and if it encounters a strong voyage colony army at this time, I am afraid that it will collapse at the moment when the army attacks.

"Brother Dugu, something is wrong. I can't get a signal connection with Sister Shimizu. ”

Hearing the Giant Phage's uneasy call, I secretly screamed in my heart that it was not good. Is there really a problem? I felt a cloud of doubt loom over my head, causing my breathing to rapid. I quickly calmed myself down and developed a contingency plan.

"Giant phage, search for cache jù to see if there are hidden jù packets."

I know Bai Qingshui, and if she had realized in advance that something was wrong, she would definitely take action.

"God, big brother. There really is! is an embedded hidden encrypted packet that was sent at the end of the previous call. Big brother wait a minute, I'll try to decipher it now. ”

I don't think that the Giant Phage can decipher this embedded hidden number jù packet, although the performance of the Giant Phage is very good, but it still can't be compared with those ultra-high intelligent systems in the center of the universe, if it can be easily deciphered by him, then this number jù packet sent by Qing Shui will be intercepted and deciphered by the central server. In this case, the number jù packet sent by Qing Shui is meaningless.

While the Giant Eater was busy deciphering the number of jù packets, I was also concentrating on my thoughts. Think about all the techniques that encrypt your communications. I had to recall a cryptographic technique that only me and she knew about in order to be able to decipher this number of jù packets. Finally I found it. This is a special encryption technology invented by Shimizu, from a little game that she and I used to play when we were kids. If she hadn't told anyone else, she and I would be the only two people in this universe who knew about this particular encryption technology. If I were her, I would choose to use this method.

After the Megaphage raised its hand in surrender, I accepted the decipherment and switched to manual entry. I typed in the new decryption number and let the Megaphage run the decipherment. In the process of decryption, I remembered all kinds of innocence and happiness with Bai Shimizu when he was a child. I can't think of losing contact with her now, I hope she is well.

According to the time of the orbital period of this planetary system, it took me about a month to completely unravel this number jù packet, and six large characters appeared on the screen...... Protection...... This planet ......"!

As I stared at the decrypted information on the screen, I fell silent once again. I'm very conflicted, a second ago, my task was to devour and remove the highly intelligent species of this planet; And the next second, it hints that I want to protect this planet. How exactly should I choose? It is the task of choosing to stick to the rules of action; Or do you choose to trust your boss you've always trusted? It almost drove me into madness.

I don't know how long it took until I calmed down. It dawned on me that I didn't need to dwell on it.