naruto-story Chapter 266 The Legacy of the Shadow
Chapter 266 The Legacy of the Shadow
"Sizzle—"
Like a red-hot iron hitting ice, the golden willpower and the dark red resentment energy clashed violently the moment they came into contact.
Countless chaotic fragments of memory, filled with negative emotions, frantically assaulted Su Chen's mental world.
Kill! Kill them!
Why! Why should my opportunity be taken away!
This world is fake! It's wrong!
That was all the resentment, anger, jealousy, and madness that Shadow had experienced throughout his life.
Anyone with a slightly weaker mental strength would be corrupted into a complete madman the moment they come into contact with these things.
But Su Chen's heart remained as calm as an ancient well.
He was like a highly experienced bomb disposal expert, using his willpower to peel away the chaotic "emotional dynamite" bit by bit.
Go find the truly valuable "intelligence core" hidden deep within.
"Prophet, simultaneously filter and reorganize the data. Filter out all meaningless emotional information and piece together valuable memory fragments according to timeline and correlation."
"Executing..."
This process is tedious and dangerous.
Fine beads of sweat gradually appeared on Su Chen's forehead.
His mental energy was being depleted at an alarming rate.
Time passed by, second by second.
After an unknown amount of time, the raging dark red sphere of light finally calmed down, revealing its core, which was composed of pure data.
"Crack complete. Data reconstruction complete."
The prophet's voice echoed in Su Chen's mind.
The next second, an unimaginably massive torrent of information flooded into Su Chen's memory.
Those are the memories of Youying from his previous life, a hundred years ago, as a reborn individual!
The rise and fall of thousands of civilizations in the Milky Way, the distribution and secrets of major interstellar powers, hundreds of unknown secret routes, and the coordinates of dozens of long-lost ancient ruins...
The value of this intelligence is simply immeasurable!
It's like a complete "world map of the Milky Way," nakedly revealing the darkest and most real side of this starry sky to Su Chen.
With it, the development path of Earth's civilization for the next hundred years will be able to avoid almost all pitfalls and directly target those most core interests!
But these are not the most important things.
Su Chen's consciousness quickly picked up two keywords from this massive amount of information that made his heart race.
"The Shepherd" and "The Ark of Creation".
In the Shadow's memory, there was little information about the "Shepherd," and it was filled with fear.
He had never had direct contact with the "Shepherd," but in the ruins of a top-tier civilization in his previous life, he discovered a fragmented warning.
In that cautionary tale, the "shepherd" is referred to as the "final producer."
They do not participate in the struggles between civilizations, nor do they care about the gains and losses of star systems. They walk at the end of time, the final destination of all civilizations.
When a civilization develops to a certain "stage," and when it bears its most abundant "fruits," the final harvester will arrive.
They will "collect" everything from this civilization—its knowledge, technology, soul, and even the very concept of its existence.
After being "collected," this civilization will be completely erased from the universe, leaving no trace, as if it had never existed.
We... are all their crops.
The ultimate producer!
This word is colder and more despairing than "shepherd".
It signifies an ultimate harvest that cannot be resisted, escaped, or avoided.
Su Chen felt a chill rise from the bottom of his heart.
The description of the "Ark of Creation" completely overturned his previous understanding.
In Shadow's memory, it was only in the final stages of his life that he learned the ultimate secret of the "Ark of Creation" from a dying, more ancient reborn being.
[The Ark... The Ark is not a ship...]
It wasn't meant for fleeing...
It is... a key...
[A key... capable of restarting the rules of the universe!]
[Collecting all nine fragments isn't for activating the Ark, but rather... to gain the... qualification to use this 'key'!]
The reapers want it so they can rewrite the rules of the universe to create a 'hunting ground' that they can exploit indefinitely.
And if we... could get it... perhaps... perhaps we could completely smash this damned 'farm'!
Su Chen suddenly opened his eyes.
His chest heaved violently, and his brain buzzed from receiving such overwhelming information.
The Creation Ark is not an escape ship, but a key that can rewrite the rules of the universe!
The stakes in this game are many times greater than he imagined!
What he is fighting for is not just the right to exist for Earth's civilization.
It is also a qualification that is so weighty and unimaginable that it can determine the future direction of the entire universe!
He looked at the data orb that had become gentle and pure, and his eyes became incredibly firm.
He knew what he had to do.