Zhou Yi opened a can of beer and took a sip.

The Night God was fiddling with the Gem Cube, and said, "It seems the Heavenly People didn't want Verne to access this part of the memory, so they used special shielding outside. Without knowing the internal structure, there's no way to dismantle it from the core area of 404 City or access it."

Her eyes flashed black and red, and she quickly cracked it.

The Ruby was extracted.

Zhou Yi reached out to touch it but found a strange barrier inside, preventing him from accessing it.

"This is a complete Ruby, not only with relatively complete records but also with a sealed structure that cannot be activated without a gemstone structure. It's different from the incomplete ones we obtained earlier, whose seals had been broken."

"This will do."

The Night God grabbed Zhou Yi's hand.

Through her perspective.

The memory inside the gemstone finally opened.

...

From the first-person perspective, Zhou Yi found himself in a scorching world full of volcanoes, the ground merged in yellow, red, and white, dry and riddled with ravines.

Volcanoes continuously spewed thick smoke, while the sky was overshadowed by a magnificent mirror that covered the heavens.

That mirror continuously absorbed the smoke rising from the ground and, like rain, expelled translucent minerals, dropping them into a massive volcanic crater directly beneath Zhou Yi's view.

It was a mirror-like Heavenly Person.

The volcano below was a Heavenly Person [Yu] who later fled to Earth.

Zhou Yi immediately realized.

This was Jupiter's moon, the nurturing hotbed for the Heavenly People breeding their offspring.

Indeed, 404 City was once Heavenly People.

Zhou Yi continued observing.

His perspective gradually rose, getting further from the ground, then stabilized at a certain height.

At this point, 404 was quite small, resembling a crystalline hexagonal star, with each point holding a Green Gemstone.

Numerous gemstones rose from the volcanoes, like pipes, connecting to the hexagon of 404, as countless white, blue, and Black Gemstones continued to shoot out from the pipes, linking to the Gemstone Body.

Throughout, 404 slowly rotated, its volume constantly growing.

Until it was approximately the size of a volcano.

The initial gemstone filling was complete.

Then, the mirror-like Heavenly Person formed strands of liquid methane into curling rain bands, injecting them into the body of 404.

With the fluid added, the Gemstone Body began to operate more frequently and smoothly.

The initially irregular shape gradually turned into a sphere through motion.

This appeared to be the scene of the initial birth of Heavenly People.

Zhou Yi focused on observing the seven glass men and found that they all had their eyes closed, their bodies highly fibered. The fibers slowly changed, continuously stretching and contracting, like certain organs or limbs.

Further magnifying the view.

Zhou Yi saw that part of the Green Gemstone consisted of Gem Fiber, while another part was a thread-like vascular structure not yet fully fibered, with thin lines meandering within.

This reminded him of the Light Core Arm Armor [Corridor Palace] on his right arm.

Those lines were too similar to the Cave People corpses.

"Can it be paused?" Zhou Yi silently thought.

"What's wrong?"

Although he couldn't see the Night God, she was right beside him, clearly in Zhou Yi's consciousness.

"I want to call Dong in to determine some things through the Cave People."

"Okay."

The Night God said, "As long as it resonates with your consciousness, it can join in."

Something stirred in Zhou Yi's heart.

Another Consciousness appeared by his side.

"Dong, take a look, are those fibers inside the Heavenly Person Green Gemstone the bodies of Cave People?"

After a moment of observation.

Dong replied, "Yes, Mr. Zhou, although there are differences from our group, they are indeed Cave People."

The Xiao Fu in his brain immediately said, "So, the fundamental unit of the Heavenly People is a combination of humans and Cave People. Macroscopically, humans are the main body, but in the microscopic realm, Cave People provide support... This is essentially another form of Gemstone Evil Brain."

"Heavenly People are products enclosed within this kind of brain using gemstone structures."

Inside the Green Gemstone, the Cave People bodies rapidly crystallized and turned into Gem Fiber, seemingly completing the final transformation.

Zhou Yi observed again.

As 404 slowly rotated in the air, the surface of the spherical Gemstone Body became increasingly smooth, and the flow of gemstones also became smoother.

Gradually.

Inside the Gemstone Body, the first Ruby began taking shape.

The moment the Ruby was born, all seven glass men opened their eyes.

However, they were vastly different from normal people, primarily because their eyes were dull, as if they were in a trance. Each Green Gemstone produced an endless stream of black and red light that converged into the Black Gemstone and Ruby, respectively.

The flow of this light resembled the formation of some kind of neural network.

Xiao Fu said again, "Da Zhou, my previous assessment was off. Originally, I thought that the basic unit of Heavenly People was the glass man, but now it seems incorrect."

"Below the glass man, there is a sub-unit, which should be the Intelligence Core. It needs to use the Intelligence Core as a foundation, combined with humans as the carrier, to construct the secondary unit of the glass man. Only then can the complete assembly of Heavenly People be achieved."

"It is a second-order assembly, with a three-layer structure. From macro to micro are Heavenly People - Gem People - Intelligence Core Cave People."

Zhou Yi immediately understood what it meant: "You mean... inside the glass man, it's the Intelligence Core Cave People controlling their actions?"

"Correct."

Xiao Fu excitedly said, "This answers a question I previously had, why it always seems that the interests and values of Heavenly People and glass people do not align."

"Like knowing the dangers of ultraviolet light on the Sun's surface, yet Heavenly People still go there to investigate, but if the glass man is exposed to string light, they die instantly. If the glass man were the brains of the Heavenly People, they should have controlled the Heavenly People to avoid those dangerous areas."

"Now I understand, it is because the glass people are not the core decision-makers; they are just a link in the sub-unit, and their brains are dominated by the Intelligence Core Cave People."

"So, can it be said that the Intelligence Core Cave People are the essence of Heavenly People?"

Zhou Yi asked.

"I'm not sure about that; I'm just a Reverse Flow,"

Xiao Fu showed a rare moment of humility and self-deprecation this time: "In low-level civilizations, we are great beings traveling across worlds, but in the eyes of mid-to-high-level civilizations, we are just a bunch of scavengers..."

"Now, this is beyond my scope of knowledge. You should ask Dong, it understands this better."

Zhou Yi transferred Xiao Fu's judgment and information to Dong.

Dong then said, "Mr. Zhou, regarding the Intelligence Core Cave People you mentioned, we've never seen them, but if we can find their corpses, we could retrieve some information from them."

Corpses?

Zhou Yi immediately thought of it.

Among the 7 glass people's corpses, 2 were still intact.

He immediately disconnected from the Ruby temporarily, found Lumi, and asked it to wrap those two gemstones with his Light Core Arm Armor that he removed.

After completing all this.

Zhou Yi returned once again, and held Night God's hand.

Night God couldn't help but complain, "Finish watching before doing anything else, suddenly pausing is quite frustrating."

"Sorry, sorry, my bad, it won't be interrupted again."

The celestial memory continued.

...

After the completion of 404 gestation, it started to ascend further, with the spherical gemstone body getting increasingly closer to the massive mirror-shaped Heavenly Person in the sky, and as it approached, that section of the mirror-shaped Heavenly Person began to morph into a ring shape.

The ring region adhered to 404, spinning it rapidly and sending it flying like a blue-tailed comet.

This scene Zhou Yi had seen before.

However, it was on the Sun's surface, where the Heavenly Corpse handler was throwing another similar corpse onto the inner wall of the Ring Solar Wall, a similar scene.

404 experienced a momentary high-pressure dark space warp, then the surroundings expanded once more.

This was passing through a space passage.

Outside, however, became an enormous Sun, with numerous burning mushroom clouds rising and collapsing, many black dark glares undulating.

404 was situated in the inner wall area of the Ring Solar Wall, within another ring area, still maintaining its rotation.

Zhou Yi extended his vision as far as he could, then discovered.

Apart from the same gemstone huge constructions forming tall walls and bridges, at the central nodes of some ring areas, there was a Heavenly People Gem Body rotating.

They seemed to be some kind of engines here.

From the 404 perspective, Zhou Yi could clearly see how, on the inner wall of the Ring Solar Wall, intricate web-like three-dimensional light structures were linking each gemstone, undergoing some alterations and activities.

The Heavenly People Gem Body continually arranged these lights, allowing them to flow steadily and self-circulate, visualizing the internal energy of the Ring Solar Wall.

The entire energy system is vast and complex, with intersecting flow paths, yet possessing a special mathematical geometric beauty.

They had another task, which was to capture string light.

In the ring area, the Heavenly People used a giant semispherical gemstone structure—they were even grander than the Heavenly People themselves, with the spherical side facing the Sun, gathering the purple string light, and handling it in some manner.

Only then did Zhou Yi see that those semispherical string light collectors eventually focused the string light into a violet laser wrapped in white light.

However, this purple-white line was also utilized, turning into the halo like those used to launch corpses into the outer world, a ring area.

String light surprisingly has some space ability.

The Heavenly People used string light to create artificial space passages, enabling them to reach from the Sun directly to outside the wall, to Jupiter's moon, and even to Earth.

404 rotated on and on.

As the process was too long and repetitive, Night God thus activated the super acceleration mode.

Zhou Yi noticeably found that the density of the string light eruption increased progressively.

Until it speeded up to a particular node.

Suddenly, within the gemstone body of 404, a picture appeared, depicting a scene of the Time-accumulating chamber.

In the picture, the Time-accumulating chamber was wrapping some unknown light source, preventing the purple light from leaking, instead making it swirl around before devouring it.

Next, 404 City departed from its location, transmitted to the sky above Earth, and dove into the Dead Sea.

Zhou Yi finally understood.

The Heavenly People intended to excavate the Time-accumulating chamber from the underground, to counteract the increasing eruptions of the solar string light.

Thus, they dispatched 404 to conduct underground operations on Earth.

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