Cutting-edge Technology: I Provide the Brains, the State Provides Everything

187: This stone tablet is actually related to my system?When Lu Chen’s ultimate declaration, filled with a sense of historical vicissitude and destiny, ”I’ve found the family tree of our human civilization,” clearly echoed in the archaeological laboratory of the ”Heavenly Court” Interstellar Spaceport, the entire laboratory erupted.

All the national treasure-level experts, who had previously been frowning over the mysterious stele they couldn’t decipher, looked like a bunch of poor wretches who had seen a ghost!

Their mouths were so wide open they could fit an aircraft carrier!

Their faces were filled with an unprecedented, ghost-like horror and a subversive shock!

Family tree?!

What, what does this kid mean?!

Could it be that a terrifying thought, which made them shiver, instantly popped into their minds!

Did he really see some earth-shattering great

secret on this dark, broken stone?!

”Academician Lu...”

The white-haired, national treasure-level archaeological elder looked at the calm young man, his voice trembling!

”Are you... are you telling the truth?”

”Did you really decipher this stele?”

”Decipher?”

Lu Chen smiled.

It was a smile filled with mystery and subversion.

”No, I didn’t decipher it.”

”I just...”

The corner of his mouth curved into a meaningful arc.

”Had a chat with it.”

The entire laboratory once again fell into a deathly silence.

All the experts looked at the calm Eastern Youth on the screen as if he were a monster!

Their minds were blank!

Had a chat with a stone?!

What kind of divine operation is this?!

Could this kid have gone crazy from doing research?!

However, before they could recover from this immense absurdity.

A cold voice that froze their souls.

Suddenly, and without warning, rang out through Lu Chen’s always-silent system!

[Alert! Alert!]

[’Kindling’ No. 1, ’black box’ detected and activated!]

[Data fusion in progress]

[Fusion progress: 10%...50%...100%!]

[Fusion successful!]

[Congratulations, Host, for successfully unlocking the first hidden permission layer of this system!]

[Now revealing the prehistoric truth that has been sealed for billions of years]

[Truth]

Boom!!!

This series of system prompts, filled with subversive information!

Was like a black lightning bolt, powerful enough to split the entire history of human civilization!

It struck deep into Lu Chen’s soul!

He was completely petrified!

Kindling?!

black box?!

What, what exactly is going on?!

Before he could react!

A cold torrent of information, filled with stillness and sorrow!

Instantly surged into his brain through his fingertips touching the stele!

Brain!

In an instant!

His mind felt as if it had been forcibly crammed with an epic documentary spanning billions of years, filled with destruction and rebirth!

He saw it!

He saw it with his own eyes!

Billions of years ago, on a vibrant, blue

Mars!

A terrifying prehistoric civilization, also named ”human,” but with technology a hundred times more advanced than theirs now!

How it was reduced to dust in a sudden, terrifying gamma-ray burst capable of destroying the entire

Solar System!

Gamma-ray burst!

Reduced to dust!

And, at the last moment of their civilization’s destruction!

They used their last strength!

To seal all the hope and kindling of their civilization!

Into a black, indestructible ”seed” made from the core of a neutron star!

Then they launched it to the closest planet to them, a vibrant, blue one also filled with hope and life!

Planet!

Waiting for the next cycle to begin!

And, that ”seed”

Is what he, in his mind, called the

”future technology system”!

And that black, mysterious stele!

Is the only relic that prehistoric civilization left for them, these ”descendants”!

It is also the black box that recorded their brilliant yet tragic civilization’s history!

”I... I understand...”

Lu Chen slowly opened his eyes.

His dark eyes, as vast as the universe, were filled with endless complexity and emotion.

He looked at the group of ”new generation” humans before him, their faces filled with curiosity and anticipation.

He slowly raised the black stele in his hand, which had lost all its light and become unremarkable.

His voice was not loud.

But it was like a fated bell chime, spanning billions of years and dimensions!

Clearly echoing in everyone’s ears!

”Everyone.”

”I think...”

”I’ve found the ’family tree’ of our human civilization.”

He paused, took a deep breath, and then, in a voice almost like a dream, he said word by word:

”We...”

”Are not descended from monkeys.”

”We...”

”Are descendants of Martians.”