Long River Eternity

After hearing Qin Hanming's words, Lin Ding froze in place, not knowing how to respond. Even Wei Wu, who was standing beside him, was shocked and kept looking at Lin Ding and Qin Hanming, his eyes full of questions and shock.

Only Liu Xianxian said innocently: "Well, old man, you recognized the wrong person. His name is Lin Ding, not the Yang An you are looking for."

At this moment, Yang An's calm voice came into Lin Ding's mind: "Let me out"

Hearing Yang An's words, Lin Ding breathed a sigh of relief. If Yang An was willing to come forward, then there would be no problem. However, there were other people in the room. Lin Ding asked uncertainly, "Xianxian and Xiaohao..."

"It's okay. They are one of our own now. It doesn't hurt to let them know." Yang An said.

After hearing what Yang An said, Lin Ding no longer had any worries. He raised his hand and condensed a human figure formed by water flow. Then he forced out a drop of blood and dripped it into the human figure. The water figure flowed for a while and became more human-shaped, but its appearance could not be seen clearly.

At this time, the water man said: "Old Qin, long time no see."

Qin Hanming watched Lin Ding complete all the actions calmly, and finally showed a hint of surprise when the water man made Yang An's voice.

When Liu Xianxian and Feng Hao saw this scene, they opened their mouths in surprise. They couldn't believe it. They didn't expect that there was another person living inside Lin Ding.

Qin Hanming looked at the water man and then at Lin Ding, as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.

Yang An said: "Don't look at him, he is Lin Ding, I am Yang An."

Qin Hanming carefully examined Yang An for a moment, then asked, "You look like neither a soul nor a consciousness, so what on earth are you?"

"AI," Yang An replied simply.

Qin Hanming's eyes widened at first, then he seemed to have thought of something. He looked at Lin Ding beside him with a look of sudden realization and said, "I see." Then he looked at Wei Wu and Liu Xianxian behind him and said, "They...?"

Before Qin Hanming could finish, Yang An said, "I roughly know where my sister is now. As for Hao Fei and Han Dong, one is missing and the other is unknown whether he is alive or dead."

Qin Hanming sighed and asked, "What's your next plan?"

Yang An thought for a moment and said, "I don't know either. I'm just the AI ​​that Yang An left behind five thousand years ago, so I have no idea what happened in the past five thousand years, nor do I know what his plan is. Do you know something?"

"Five thousand years ago?" Qin Hanming murmured. "So you said you wanted to go back to the lab alone so you could leave the AI ​​program behind."

"That's right, so I don't know what you did afterwards." Yang An said.

Qin Hanming recalled for a moment and said, "When the first humans capable of absorbing nuclear energy were born, we were shocked. We had never imagined that humans could evolve such a cultivation system. We initially taught them spiritual energy cultivation techniques, but we discovered that whenever they cast spells, they would suffer a strong backlash. We then gradually improved our previous cultivation methods and finally successfully activated the nuclear energy system. That's when you returned to the laboratory. You should remember all this."

Yang An nodded and said, "Yes, I know all this."

Liu Xianxian was shocked after listening to the conversation between Yang An and Qin Hanming. She patted Wei Wu beside her and asked softly, "How long have they lived? From what he said, the cultivation method we taught in school was created by them?"

Wei Wu nodded and said, "Strictly speaking, you can think so. Also, I heard that they have lived for more than 200 million years."

This answer shocked Liu Xianxian even more. She covered her mouth and asked, "Are they the gods written in the books?"

"Um... they should still be human beings." Wei Wu was a little confused by Liu Xianxian's question.

Hearing their conversation, Qin Hanming smiled, looked at them and said, "There have been no gods in this world since ancient times, only powerful creatures. If there really were omnipotent gods, we would have brought the dead back to life long ago."

Hearing about the resurrection, Lin Ding was startled, then asked, "Who died?"

Hearing Lin Ding's question, Qin Hanming looked at Lin Ding. Just as he was about to speak, Yang An's voice came first: "Gong Gong."

Hearing Yang An's words, Qin Hanming and Lin Ding looked at Yang An at the same time. Lin Ding felt that Qin Hanming was not referring to Gong Gong, but since Yang An answered like that, he didn't want to ask any more questions and stopped talking.

Qin Hanming had known Yang An for so long that even if Yang An moved his eyebrows or raised his fingers, he knew what Yang An meant.

So he smiled and continued the previous topic, saying, "After you returned from the laboratory, you said that humans now have the ability to protect themselves, so you would leave and find a way to revive the world's spiritual energy. At that time, finding a way to cultivate nuclear energy and spiritual energy simultaneously would find the key to breaking the deadlock. We all agreed with your approach. So for the next thousand years, we continued to search for a way to revive spiritual energy. Finally, we developed a huge spirit summoning formation, using the mother of the top-grade spirit essence that we had left behind as the formation's core. We set up formations in every corner of the world, hoping that one day we could successfully summon spirits. After setting up the formation, we parted ways, each looking for a way to cultivate both systems simultaneously."

After listening to Qin Hanming's narration, Yang An fell into deep thought. At this time, Lin Ding asked, "So that formation is the spirit summoning formation you set up?"

"Have you seen a spirit-summoning formation? Oh, are you talking about the formation underground in the south? That's just a sample. The real spirit-summoning formation is more than a hundred times larger than that. Once the formation is activated, a large amount of spiritual energy will escape, and the escaped spiritual energy will guide the spiritual energy of the entire world to start flowing again. So now is not the real revival of spiritual energy, it's just the stage where the spirit-summoning formation is overflowing with spiritual energy. I remember there was one underground in Zhongzhou, so some time ago, due to the leakage of spiritual energy, it was invaded by monsters." Qin Hanming said.

After hearing this, Lin Ding smiled bitterly and said, "So the monster invasion that caused my parents to disappear was caused by your spirit summoning formation."

"Oh? The Lin Tiansheng couple mentioned in the monthly report are your parents?" Qin Hanming asked.

"That's right." Lin Ding replied.

"Then they should be fine now. Didn't the report say that a mysterious person appeared? That mysterious person should be an old acquaintance." Qin Hanming said with a smile.

"Really? That's great!" Lin Ding was overjoyed to hear the news. The heavy burden that had been weighing on his heart for the past two days was instantly lifted, but the remaining weight still needed to be lifted when he went to Zhongzhou to see his parents. Wei Wu and Liu Xianxian were also happy for Lin Ding upon hearing the good news.

At this time, Yang An said: "I probably know what to do now."

"That's good." Qin Hanming said, then looked at Liu Xianxian and Wei Wu again, and finally looked at Feng Hao beside him, and asked Yang An: "I have been paying attention to this child since I came in. Why do I always have a strange feeling when I look at him?"