Creation, Destruction, and the Giant God Outside the Crystal Wall
"Hey, it's me. Yes, I haven't left yet. No worries, let's meet up again in a couple of days." Li Qing called a few friends from school and obtained some simple instruments and tools. He set up a small Laboratory in his room, blinded the experimental rats to prevent them from looking around, implanted the Crystal Core into their flesh, and observed whether the rats were possessed…
Over the next few days, he conducted experiment after experiment to test for hidden dangers.
Splash, splash.
Late at night, a heavy rain suddenly began outside.
Under the dim incandescent light of the rudimentary Laboratory, Li Qing made notes in his diary.
"First, the eyes. When you haven't fully mastered the power, the eyes are uncontrollable. Seeing microorganisms will Awaken their Wisdom."
Ning Guochang had already provided a solution: one could apply special eye patches to forcibly close the eyelids, then wear sunglasses outside to conceal the abnormality. This would essentially prevent any accidents.
But what if he couldn't see anything?
That wasn't an issue.
Ning Guochang had communicated with him with his eyes closed the entire time, yet he could still see things, likely through a 'mind's eye' akin to spiritual power.
Li Qing's gaze was sharp as he continued to write:
"Next, there's the sterile workshop he left behind."
"Although he took most of it when he self-immolated, there might still be remnants of an Awakened Civilization Kingdom inside. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it a microbial universe."
"A Civilization has very likely been nurtured within it. The Atabia Kingdom? I don't know what kind of Life forms or systems are inside. In any case, Pangu, who created the heavens and earth, is dead. The Civilization he built must be dealt with!"
Li Qing pressed his forehead after writing this:
"If I've taken the benefits, I must bear the responsibility. I need to destroy that workshop Laboratory, but this mess is not easy to handle."
That workshop was built by Ning Guochang with his parents' accident compensation, without any shoddy work. It featured advanced bulletproof glass, and steel plates were welded to all four walls, making it completely sealed.
But what then?
It was impossible to leave it unchecked.
As the Civilization developed, it would surely try to find the 'flat earth' boundaries of its world, and it would very likely evolve to produce large amounts of strong acid to corrode a passage out of the workshop.
He couldn't let the Civilization escape the Laboratory.
Who knew what kind of Civilization it would ultimately become?
If it escaped the Laboratory, it could well be zombies, xenomorphs, Predators, Godzillas, Ultramen…
And how to deal with it was another complex problem.
Set off a bomb to collapse the workshop? Burn the room with gasoline?
This was the United States; putting aside the matter of me going to prison, this might help the other party escape, giving them freedom.
Open a small hole and shine ultraviolet light inside? Spray alcohol mist? Throw firecrackers in there? Exterminate the biological Civilization inside?
All these assumptions of doomsday scenarios remained to be tested.
Li Qing pressed his temples, feeling a bit troubled.
At the same time, starvation was impossible.
Ning Guochang had lived in seclusion inside, having already stored a massive amount of living Material: various canned goods, instant noodles, hot dogs, military rations. The water inside was a super culture medium, so the bacteria had no shortage of energy.
The next morning.
Li Qing began to prepare for a minor operation.
The moment the Crystal Core was implanted, a massive tearing sensation erupted from his brain, simultaneously feeling as if countless Nannies Rong were jabbing his eyeballs with needles.
Another half an hour passed.
His bedsheets were soaked with sweat. He struggled to get up and rotated his dry eyeballs, then went to the bathroom to look in the mirror. He couldn't help but say:
"So beautiful."
His eyes were incredibly vibrant, as if they contained the stars of the night sky, with an infinite pull that drew one's gaze in.
These were fundamentally not human eyes.
His pupils were very large, with almost no whites, like the pupil ratio of a two-dimensional manga character.
His vision had also become far superior to human vision 5.0. His eyeballs seemed to be filled with a large number of new cone cells, like an eagle's 10.0 eyes, allowing him to easily see a rabbit ten kilometers away.
The next moment.
Almost instinctively, his two eyeballs extended from their sockets like wriggling deep-sea tube worms, observing their surroundings like snails.
His vision was unsealed in that instant, observing the world with an almost 360-degree holographic camera.
"Holy crap!"
Li Qing immediately shut his eyelids in fright.
But there was no sharp pain like eyeballs being caught in a door. His eyeballs automatically retracted into their sockets with a whoosh, and then his eyelids closed, as if by instinct.
"These big eyeballs are just ridiculously absurd!"
Li Qing sat back on the bed, calming his nerves.
Despite his complaints, as a psychologist, his psychological fortitude was naturally not low.
The moment he made up his mind, he decided not to be a human anymore.
After all, humans have limits, especially a bottom-tier laborer like himself, who could be found everywhere.
"These eyeballs aren't a big deal; in fact, they feel quite cool." Li Qing got up and went to the experimental table, beginning to test his true abilities. His eyes, as if by instinct, magnified, magnified, and magnified again.
Click.
A microscopic world under a microscope appeared before his eyes.
Dense microorganisms were crawling.
One second,
Two seconds,
Three seconds.
After observing for more than a minute, as if stimulated by some mysterious ray from a bizarre creature, they began to move frantically.
The bacteria suddenly seemed to gain Wisdom, rustling and beginning to move, observing their surroundings like newborn infants.
"These single-celled organisms, they've truly come to Life!"
"Ning Guochang only needed three seconds. I'm still very weak now, but I need to observe for over seventy seconds for microorganisms to Awaken consciousness?"
He tried to manipulate them.
Next, Li Qing spent an entire day researching and conducting various variable experiments.
He fully understood his abilities.
1. Awaken microorganisms.
His gaze contained an unknown mental evil radiation light, which had to be continuously shone for more than 70 seconds to achieve the Open Wisdom.
Currently, it could only be bacteria; other viruses, or even various cells, would not work.
2. Control quantity.
Currently, 0.000013 grams.
If the quantity exceeded the control limit, they would gain freedom, become untraceable and imperceptible, and thus uncontrollable.
The above two points, after repeated tests, were absolutely effective, so Li Qing was completely at ease.
"I can start building my guard team now."
Li Qing then pulled out a special test tube the size of his pinky finger, filled with culture solution, where a group of microorganisms had already been multiplying.
He opened his eyes again.
Seventy seconds.
After Awakening the Wisdom of all the microorganisms inside, he closed his eyes again and sealed the special test tube.
A sealed microscopic test tube universe was thus formed.
Li Qing hung the glass bottle around his neck, ready to take it out and observe at any time, without fear of accidental breakage, as tempered glass was not that easy to damage.
At this moment, the small creatures on his neck were emitting simple consciousnesses.
"So warm," "God is watching us," "So comfortable," "Did you give us Life?"
They were all gentle, pure infant consciousness waves.
"Yes, I gave you Life, I created you. Hurry and build your miniature kingdom." Li Qing transmitted consciousness waves to the small bottle around his neck, without any pretense.
Moral character must be cultivated from childhood.
Look at Ning Guochang?
He was a negative example; he gave birth but did not educate, resulting in a bunch of rebels.
As for Civilization development beyond education, he intended to let nature take its course and observe the evolution of these tiny 'single-celled' embryos.
How to put it?
It was like a pet egg hatching in a nurture game.
These cells would build a 'Cell Civilization,' constantly modifying their genetic fragments, and might even evolve into advanced mammalian creatures: dogs, cats, lions, humans, or perhaps even elves, dragons, Qilin, and various other things.
By this time, it was already dusk.
Li Qing finally shifted his gaze outwards:
"I've tested my superpowers here, and I've created a world in the test tube. What species appear can be dealt with later. I need to go to Ning Guochang's sterile workshop for targeted doomsday…"
More than ten minutes later.
He put on his sunglasses and drove to Ning Guochang's previous house. He once again peered through the massive tempered glass window, observing the interior.
This time, he could finally see the sterile workshop world through Ning Guochang's eyes.
Special biological mushroom houses, like a fairy tale forest, a dreamlike world, where traffic flowed, magnificent, vast, spectacular… This was a Civilization World!
Moreover, the creatures inside were all humanoid!
Translucent Slime humans, with four flagella as limbs, and a coiled genetic sequence like intestines in their transparent bellies, possessing a Cthulhu-esque eerie aesthetic.
"Humanoid bacteria? That's absurd. Is their remnant microscopic kingdom Civilization really that exaggerated?"
He dared not look for too long.
After all, exceeding 70 seconds might cause another accident, so he directly picked up the prepared welding tools. "First, I'll weld a small opening in the door so I can spray alcohol inside for sterilization."
Sizzle, sizzle!
He began to weld.
Streaks of golden lightning flashed outside the world.
High-frequency noise began to erupt.
And with immense heat, like a massive volcanic eruption, it instantly incinerated the nearby citizens.
More than half of the Atabia Kingdom's populace stared blankly upwards. From where the sizzling lightning erupted, a vast and mighty Giant God stood amidst endless clouds and mist, looking down upon their world.
"What is that!?" a citizen shrieked.
It was an unimaginably bloated, corpulent Giant God, separated by the chaos beyond the world's Crystal Wall, surrounded by an endless torrent of lightning and lava.
"It's a Giant God from outside the wall!"
"It's another God! He once spoke with our missing God of Creation!"
"This is an evil God, coming with ill intent! The citizens in that area were instantly turned to charcoal in the demon's electric arc light and terrifying tearing sounds!"
All the citizens were stunned, running out of their houses to gaze at the vast and terrifying Giant God outside the Atabia Wall, towering and majestic, its full form unclear.
"Kingdom guard, to arms! To the front lines!" A tall hero stepped forward, looking at the dying populace with immense grief and roaring, "An evil God from beyond the heavens is invading our kingdom! We Atabia people are brave warriors, not cowards! We must, as in the past, defeat these vast Giant Gods!"
Sizzle, sizzle.
Under the watchful eyes of the multitude, as a cavalry unit rushed forward, Li Qing remained oblivious.
He continued to drill a finger-sized opening in the door.
The enemy could not approach at all. The thousand-degree high-temperature flame of the welding was enough to destroy the microorganisms near the small opening. Afterwards, Li Qing welded a specially prepared high-precision piston switch to the small opening.
From now on, this small opening would be the only entrance for the room to interact with the outside world.
In any case, he would never go inside.
Then, he connected a large alcohol spray tube directly to this small opening. Carrying the alcohol box, he started spraying gas through the tube. "Dear bacteria, dear intelligent single-celled organisms, please do not modify your genes or continue to evolve. Please take your medicine and go to your doom with your ex-husband."
Gurgle, gurgle!
A large amount of atomized alcohol was sprayed into the room.
The mist began to turn into a huge cold air current that swept inside, gradually condensing, and finally turning into a torrential downpour.
The kingdom's hero, who had led his troops to the entrance, was instantly hit first. A terrifying tide of death instantly corroded the entire unit, as if they had been subjected to the most horrifying acidic Material, their corpses rotting, their flesh gone.
"What was that???"
The citizens of the entire single-celled kingdom looked on in horror, "That was the great hero, Gerhance, who conquered nature and defeated the mite beasts! How could he be… in an instant?"
Splash, splash!
The torrential rain poured down completely, carrying the mist of death.
A tsunami swept across this prosperous land.
It instantly engulfed a large number of organisms, and vast forests of fungi resembling brachiopods, horsehair worms, and coral reefs suffered a catastrophic demise.
Thunder, golden light, lightning, floods.
"God is punishing the Celestial Beings on earth, destroying this world." Some Atabia people looked at the sky tearing open, with countless vast white mist floods descending from the heavens, feeling immense pain, and prostrated themselves on the ground, saying, "We beg for God's forgiveness!"
Wails, screams, pain, Despair, lamentations, roars—the mushroom city on the entire land was in chaos. The Celestial Beings were fleeing, riding their flagellum mounts and rushing out of the city, but they could not outrun the sky-covering flood behind them. The entire world became a kingdom of Despair and death.
Rumble!
The Celestial Beings on the land were corroded and rotted, washed away by the flood.
Before their deaths, they noticed the evil ancient God outside the Crystal Wall, who looked down coldly upon the entire world with huge eyes like a scorching furnace. He slowly turned and departed with overwhelming pressure, uttering the insane babbling of an evil God that the Atabia people could neither utter nor comprehend.
"Tomorrow, ultraviolet light."