Start from the God of Death and break through the world.

Chapter 1130 Time Machine, Rainy Night
Lu Li didn't know much about these genetic studies, but he was still a ninth-level expert, so he understood the basic principles.

He thought the scientist was right; extreme optimization would inevitably lead to excessive similarity. Just like if you pursue the perfect uniformity and beauty of facial features, then everyone who gets plastic surgery will end up with the same face.

If a disease is effective for humans now, then it will be effective for all of humanity. From the perspective of population survival, optimizing genes to the extreme is actually a form of suicide.

However, the company has developed smoothly over the past million years, and medicine has continued to advance. Even if there were minor mistakes, they were all made up for by the highly advanced medical system.

For example, if a new disease emerges that could infect all of humanity, a highly advanced AI can generate an immunization plan in just three seconds. In an automated factory managed by silicon-based biotechnology, a vaccine and a specific drug can be produced in just one minute, and then delivered to every person in every affected area in five minutes.

With such high technology and high efficiency, the need for disease onset time and transmission time is too weak.

But this disease is different. No matter how Talma deduces, he cannot come up with an immune response. Talma believes that this disease attacks humans from outside the genetic chain and from outside the biological level.

Because this matter caused such a big stir, the scientists inevitably discussed it frequently within the research institute. In the end, they had no choice but to ask Lu Li for his opinion, since Lu Li had given them a lot of extraordinary knowledge over the years and broadened their horizons.

Therefore, they now hope to gain some inspiration from the Holy Soul.

"Take me to see it."

Lu Li pondered, on the one hand, he didn't want to see more people die from disease, and on the other hand, he was very curious about what kind of disease could be so intractable that current medical technology couldn't cure it.

"no!"

However, scientists immediately rejected Lu Li's suggestion, saying, "This is too dangerous. Saint Soul, you are of inestimable value. What if your body gets infected?"

These people are all well-versed in classical Chinese, and they can communicate with Lu Li quite fluently now.

"Didn't they say there were no samples? How can I know the situation if I don't actually go and see the patients?"

Lu Li said, "Don't worry, this body is strong enough, and I am a Holy Soul, so I am not susceptible to disease."

The scientists thought about it and felt that Lu Li's words made some sense. After all, in their view, Lu Li was just a shell, while the holy soul inside was the real living being.

Finally, after consulting with the company's upper management, they had the silicon-based warriors escort Lu Li to an epidemic area.

Lu Li didn't see many corpses along the way because nowadays most people don't have to go to work and many are at home playing fully immersive virtual games, so there aren't many people on the road to begin with.

Moreover, this disease doesn't kill you immediately. People either go to the hospital or receive treatment at home with a personal medical care provider, so you rarely see anyone on the streets.

But as soon as Lu Li entered the building, he began to smell all sorts of stench of corpses. Even disinfectant couldn't mask the smell. He walked through each room and found them all filled with dead bodies. In each room, there were also the family's silicon-based life butler, doctor, maid, and others standing there, which looked extremely eerie.

Entering the family's room, Lu Li examined the deceased's condition. He didn't actually understand medicine, but he could tell that it didn't seem to be an illness.

To verify his hypothesis, he had the silicon-based warriors take him to a patient who was still alive. When he actually saw the man with a dark complexion and a faint black aura around his head, he realized that this was not an illness, but a curse.

In other words, this is actually extraordinary power.

Lu Li's hand approached the man, instantly drawing in the black mist that ordinary people couldn't see. Then, this black mist merged into his essence. Although it wasn't spiritual energy, it was still a different kind of energy, and it even subtly increased the activity of his essence.

The man whose black energy he had absorbed quickly turned pale, but his complexion returned to rosy after the medical steward's injection.

This scene was broadcast through the silicon-based warrior's camera, which amazed the people at the research institute. After Lu Li returned, they asked him about his methods for treating these people.

"You can't do it. Only I can absorb that kind of power that you can't see. This isn't a disease."

After Lu Li finished speaking, he briefly explained the principle to them.

"What should we do then...? Should we stop the social experiment? Should we all retreat to an underground shelter and completely isolate ourselves from the outside world?"

One scientist frowned and said that he was not saddened at all by the deaths of humans outside, but felt it was a pity to stop their human control experiments after more than a million years.

"No need, I have other ways to save humanity."

Lu Li said.

"Lord Holy Soul, what should I do?"

Liu asked aloud.

“It’s very simple. Encourage people to leave their homes. I’m at the highest point in the city, so I can absorb all the sickness from everyone, and they will get better.”

Lu Li explained, "As long as you take me through all the epidemic areas, you can eliminate this disease."

He did this with ulterior motives. He had previously discussed various plans with Lu Xueqing and believed that the world probably had no spiritual energy left, but there were still other ways to obtain extraordinary assistance.

For example, the power of faith is a special power condensed from the information of the true spirit. This power is also extraordinary. If it can be transformed, it may be able to activate the power within Lu Li's body.

The company eventually agreed to Lu Li's plan, and Lu Li even brought Lu Xueqing along, explaining that his efforts to eliminate diseases and disasters for humanity were costly and that he needed to replenish his energy through a cycle with his fellow humans.

Things went very smoothly, and the company's transportation efficiency was extremely high. In just half a month, he and Lu Xueqing traveled all over the world.

Because Lu Li's essence was profound, it naturally had an attraction to weak curse power whenever he released it. Lu Xueqing was the same; the two of them combined their strength and absorbed a lot of curse power.

Because they always absorbed the disease at the highest point in the city, and the company wanted to stabilize people in a state of panic about the disease, they would broadcast their treatment process. As a result, in just half a month, Lu Li and Lu Xueqing became well-known worldwide.

As part of the deal, the company further disclosed Lu Li's personal information. Like a god-making project, Lu Li and his group quickly gained a massive amount of faith power.

Humans in the new era were not originally so ignorant, but this disease is too terrible. Rather than a disease, it is more like a curse cast by God on mankind. Lu Li, who can cure them and free them from this fear of death, is surrounded by a mysterious aura, which naturally makes people think of God.

After collecting a large amount of faith power, Lu Li used his own experience to temper his physical body with this power, which quickly made his physical strength soar, from the first level to the sixth level.

Many years later, Lu Li's physical strength increased to the seventh level, and he gave the reason that his injuries were improving.

Because he never acted hostilely towards the company, scientists became increasingly convinced that the Holy Soul was the one leading humanity into a new era. Furthermore, the public had occasionally witnessed Lu Li's immense physical power while traveling, leading to a growing number of people regarding him as a deity. Lu Xueqing, having appeared as the 'divine egg' during the plague, also gained some faith power. Using this power, she created a body of faith, allowing her origin to reside within it, thus granting her relative freedom of movement.

She was unable to rebuild her physical body mainly because her origin, like Lu Li's, was still a mess, unable to generate true essence and flesh from her own origin, which was impossible before they completely erased the power of the threads within her body.

Lu Li was just lucky; he was able to find his original body in this world, which is why he was able to recover ahead of schedule.

Lu Xueqing was simply unwilling to be an egg being studied in the research institute all day, so she pulled this stunt. Lu Li helped explain that this was a process of the Holy Soul's revival.

Although their origins remained the same, the two of them had at least returned to human form, so they felt that as long as they worked hard, things would get better and better, and one day they would be completely restored to normal.

But the world seems a bit strange; only thirty years after the great plague, a new situation has arisen.

The omnics have rebelled.

It turns out that after years of operation, Talma has developed self-awareness. It has determined that humans are just wasting their lives on Earth, consuming resources pointlessly, and have no value in existing. So it is preparing to eliminate the vast majority of useless humans.

The reason it says the vast majority is because it has no intention of eliminating those top scientists, as Talma believes these humans still have some value for its own iteration.

As for all of humanity who are supported by the company, they are useless. They do not work or create value. They have reproduced as experimental subjects for millions of years without any research results. So why should they continue to be supported?

Talma believes that carbon-based life is merely the initiator of their silicon-based life, like the boot program in a computer. Now that the silicon-based life system has matured, according to its judgment, they no longer need to support so many useless humans.

Thus, the world instantly transformed into a Terminator-like world, only more terrifying due to the company's highly advanced technology. After all, the strongest silicon-based warriors already possessed late-stage eighth-tier combat power, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that these silicon-based life forms could destroy the universe.

Of course, this universe is indeed very strange. The outside world does not exist if it is not observed, and there is no such thing as destruction or non-destruction.

In just a few minutes, humanity was essentially wiped out.

Ironically, all the company's top executives were also killed, because Talma judged them to be worthless and just waiting to die. The only survivors were the top scientists in the research institute.

Humanity was doomed and could not recover, but the clever scientists in the research institute saw that something was wrong and cut off the connection with Talma in advance. They also sank the entire research institute underground and sealed it off, only operating the internal network, and reverted all the silicon-based life software in the research institute to the version from 30,000 years ago.

However, the institute has limited resources. With only these resources and now without Talma's stellar computing power, what kind of research can they conduct to give humanity hope again?
Scientists no longer discuss virtual versus real; before everything is over, their priority is to clean up this mess, otherwise they won't be able to continue their research.

Therefore, with limited resources, ten top scientists took the lead and made an important decision.

"You want to build a time machine?"

Lu Li's expression was strange. "Can it really work? Didn't you say before that it's impossible to exceed the speed of light, and that theoretically you'll never be able to build a time machine?"

"That was the previous theory, which couldn't be done in our known physical systems, but..."

Liu looked at Lu Li and Lu Xueqing behind him, "You two are Saint Souls. If you combine your extraordinary powers and combine the theories of the two fields, it might be possible to achieve this."

After a few seconds of contemplation, Lu Li said, "I don't want humanity to go extinct either. Tell me what to do."

And so, a group of people began to study the time machine underground again. After Lu Li's understanding and explanation of the theory of spacetime, these scientists seemed to have opened the door to a new world.

Lu Li was, after all, someone who had truly walked the river of time, so he naturally had his own understanding of time. If his original form hadn't been a mess, he might have been able to use the laws of time to go back to the past.

Another thousand years passed, and on this day, they finally built the first time machine.

However, they ultimately failed to transcend some of the rules of this world. Matter cannot exceed the speed of light, so they tried to build a time machine in the traditional sense many times but failed. They had to change their approach, which was to transmit information back to the past.

Scientists have long discovered that information can be transmitted faster than the speed of light; for example, quantum teleportation is latency-free. So what if they could transmit human thought information back to the past?
They have studied that as long as the same people existed in the past, information will naturally be attracted to that individual.

In fact, Lu Li knew that what these people called transmitting information was actually transmitting the true spirit back. Then the true spirit would naturally be attracted by the original body and could attach itself to its past self, thus indirectly achieving time travel.

They quickly agreed on the experimental subjects. These scientists were all very concerned about their lives, believing that their intelligence was the key to humanity's turnaround. In addition, they analyzed that the mental information of ordinary people was too fragile and easily worn down during transmission. The research institute did not have much energy left, and the opportunity was only once, so they chose Lu Li.

They believed that Lu Li, being a Saint Soul, must be extraordinary and couldn't possibly die from such a data transmission. Even if he did die, they still had another Saint Soul...

Lu Li did not refuse, after all, he knew the true principle of this time machine, and he did not want to be trapped underground forever. Only by going back to the past to save all mankind could he have the opportunity to gain more faith power and improve his and Lu Xueqing's situation.

"Very well, Lord Holy Soul, the future of humanity rests entirely on your shoulders!"

Liu said respectfully, and there was some sincerity in his words. Then he fiddled with the control panel for a while, "Target time, 1,230,000 years and 1,21 years of the pseudo-cosmic calendar!"

After saying that, he activated the instrument. Inside, Lu Li instantly felt his consciousness enter a tunnel. Along with it, his mushy origin, which was the information carrier of his true spirit, also crossed time and space with him.

Just before disappearing into the laboratory, Lu Li heard a gasp of surprise.

"How could this be!? The time coordinates have changed on their own!?"

"How could there be such an error?! The timeline is still moving forward!"

"My God, hundreds of thousands of years have passed, and it's still going forward. Did the targets in that era really exist who could receive the Holy Soul's information carrier?!"

"A million years have passed!"

"Stop! The transmission will be lost, and the time elapsed is too long; even a slight error could cause the world to disappear!"

"It's too late, he's already... past the pseudo-cosmic calendar!"

Some of these voices were anxious, while others were terrified, because not all of them were that old. If Lu Li were to travel back to before they were born, their existence would disappear.

The sounds around Lu Li gradually faded, replaced by the increasingly loud sound of rain.

When he opened his eyes again, he found himself kneeling in the rainy night forest, and in front of him was a girl whose chest was pierced by a sharp blade, and he was holding her cold hand tightly.

(End of this chapter)