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Chapter 146 The Origin of Dual Awakening

Chapter 147 The Origin of Dual Awakening

To Dong Qi's surprise, even though he had deliberately chosen a sparsely populated, narrow path, he encountered a group of refugees who shared his thoughts, and they were all driving their own cars.

Actually, thinking about it the other way around is quite normal, if one joins an officially organized migration group.

Even if they can still ride in their own cars, they will inevitably have to tow some unpowered vehicles carrying people and goods, just like other cars on the highway.

And most importantly, because the group was so large, its speed of movement was bound to be slow.

On the contrary, although the road conditions on these remote roads are much worse than those on wide highways, the travel speed is much faster because the roads are very ordinary.

Because most of the people Dong Qi encountered left by car, even though they found Dong Qi's behavior strange, they did not stop to intercept him.

As Dong Qi drew closer to Phoenix City, the outside temperature continued to drop.

Dong Qi never expected that his car windows would be covered in frost.

It's important to know that if the outside temperature is simply cold, it's very difficult for frost to form.

Frost will only occur when the outside environment is not only cold but also has a certain level of humidity.

This is because the car undergoes a comprehensive upgrade with each promotion. If it were a regular windshield wiper, even the most advanced one, it would be unable to remove the frost from the windshield at this point.

In fact, according to common sense, even if there is frost on the windshield, it will melt quickly due to the temperature inside the car.

However, the actual situation was beyond reason. The temperature inside the car did cause condensation to form on the outside of the windshield, but as soon as the condensation appeared, the cold outside air froze it instantly.

If it weren't for the powerful windshield wipers on my car, the windshield would probably be covered in frost by now.

Unlike the last time when the air cooled down and was followed by snow, this time the outside temperature simply dropped.

And most importantly, the closer you get to the sea, the greater the temperature drop.

What no one knows is that both this sudden and significant drop in temperature and the last sudden drop in temperature were actually the natural will of Earth trying to save itself.

The reason for the last cooling was mainly to remove meteorite dust floating in the atmosphere.

The fragments of the meteorite that were shattered were carried by water vapor during the last cooling process, turning into ash and snow that fell to the ground.

Although the snowfall caused considerable pollution to the earth, it must be said that without that snowfall, the meteorite dust would have remained suspended in the atmosphere, having a greater impact on the Earth's ecosystem.

The reason for this sudden drop in temperature is also the instinctive will of Earth's nature, which wants to save itself in this way.

However, compared to the last time when we were lucky enough to get a satisfactory result, this time the result may not be as satisfactory as last time.

If humans and other organisms are considered native to Earth, then the mutated marine life in the ocean, due to viral contamination from meteorites, and with the increasing severity of the contamination, are essentially no longer native to Earth.

Those mutated marine creatures are like external viruses that invade the human body. When the number of these viruses reaches a certain level, the original will of Earth will instinctively initiate a cleanup process.

In fact, at the very beginning, those mutated marine creatures couldn't wait to attack humans at sea or invade the land.

Throughout this process, the original will of Earth was present. Otherwise, even if those marine creatures underwent mutations, as long as they stayed obediently in the sea, they would naturally become very powerful over time.

If those mutated marine creatures were to reappear after undergoing multiple mutations, they would inevitably cause extinction-level damage to other life forms on Earth.

Therefore, the original will of Earth secretly manipulated things, causing those newly mutated marine creatures to develop a strong subconscious desire to attack other native Earth creatures.

This intense subconscious attack targets not only humans living on Earth, but all living things on Earth.

It's just that because those mutated marine creatures live in the sea, and since only humans can move freely in the ocean besides those marine creatures, everyone feels that those mutated marine creatures have a strong sense of aggression towards humans.

Perhaps it was because, in the early stages of those mutated marine creatures landing, humans fought continuously with them, leading the original will of Blue Star to believe that those mutated marine creatures would soon be wiped out by the native life forms of Blue Star, so the original will of Blue Star did not continue to interfere.

However, when humans discovered that these mutated marine creatures, even when they went ashore, only stayed in coastal areas, they abandoned those remote and uninhabited areas in order to preserve their own strength.

In addition, many mutated marine creatures in the deep sea are constantly evolving, which leads to the perception of the original will of Blue Star that Blue Star creatures are now at an absolute disadvantage and can only barely survive the attacks of those mutated marine creatures.

That's why this extreme cooling occurred a second time; essentially, it's an attempt to plunge Earth into a major ice age.

Since the source of those mutated marine creatures' mutations is the ocean, in the understanding of the original will of Blue Star, as long as the ocean is frozen, all those mutated marine creatures can be eliminated.

As for the other native creatures living on Earth, they are not important to the original will of Earth.

After all, it's not uncommon for Earth to enter a major ice age. Every time an ice age ends, as long as a long period of time passes, new native Earth life forms will inevitably emerge.

Therefore, for the original will of Earth, the most important thing now is to eliminate the invading alien creatures.

In fact, the original will of the blue planet has not awakened its own intelligence; it only has the most basic instinctive reactions.

If the original will of Earth awakens its own intelligence and can communicate with humanity, perhaps humanity, upon learning of the current situation, could act in concert.

Even if it's just superficial cooperation with no real harmony, it's estimated that they can still inflict heavy damage on those mutated marine creatures through various means.

Putting aside other issues, if humans truly understood the threat posed by mutated marine life, they would be facing a vast majority of mutated marine creatures that had not yet left the ocean.

Humans will definitely develop various water-soluble poisons or genetic weapons that are highly contagious and infectious, targeting mutated marine organisms.

If humanity were to focus its research on how to quickly eliminate those mutated marine creatures, it would likely inflict a heavy blow on them, even if it couldn't completely eradicate them in the short term.

It will not cause the original will of Earth to intervene again.

Unfortunately, while the idea was good, the reality was quite different from it.

No one, not even Dong Qi, knew about the resistance from the original will of Blue Star. They simply assumed that the sudden drop in temperature was another natural disaster.

Actually, there is another important point for the original will of Earth: ordinary people who consume the flesh and blood of giant mutated marine creatures over a long period of time may seem to be able to continuously enhance their physical fitness.

However, after prolonged consumption, the level of pollution in the body gradually increases. Once the level of pollution reaches a certain point, the organism will lose its identity as a native species of Earth.

Those who awaken are different, because the reason they awaken their superpowers is entirely due to the favor of the original will of Earth.

When they awaken and gain superpowers, they have already deeply imprinted themselves and even their souls with the mark of the original will of Earth. Therefore, even if they consume the flesh and blood of many giant mutated marine creatures, their identity as native Earth creatures will not be stripped away.

Even for an awakened being who wants to voluntarily give up their identity as a native creature of Earth, they need to perform a very complicated ritual in order to remove the mark that was imprinted on their body by the original will of Earth.

Dong Qi, this transmigrator, not only awakened his Blue Star abilities but also received gifts from Earth, thus he was essentially branded with a double mark.

The reason why Dong Qi did not obtain the golden finger that every time traveler must have after so many years of time travel was that he had never activated the gifts that Earth gave to every time traveler.

It's essentially the so-called "barren land goes uncultivated, but if it is cultivated, people will compete for it."

Most of the world's will doesn't pay much attention to transmigrators who don't cause trouble, so it didn't specifically target Dong Qi. Therefore, the Earth's gifts hidden within Dong Qi's body have never been activated.

This is why most transmigrators, if they don't cause trouble after transmigrating, live peaceful and uneventful lives, even without obtaining the so-called "golden finger" (cheat code).

They will immediately awaken and receive the golden finger that Earth bestows upon every transmigrator after their first mischief.

However, after receiving the golden finger bestowed by Earth, they will also attract the attention of the local primordial will. The various troubles that follow are simply the local primordial will's usual method of eliminating transmigrators as anomalies.

However, Dong Qi was different from most of his predecessors who had transmigrated. After transmigrating, he behaved himself and did not cause any trouble, so the original will of Blue Star did not pay attention to him.

However, when Earth was invaded by aliens, in order to improve the fighting ability of the native creatures, some creatures with higher status were enlightened.

At this time, humans were undoubtedly the most powerful species on Earth, so the vast majority of the Enlightenment slots went to humans, but a small number of Enlightenment slots were obtained by other species.

Dong Qi, a transmigrator, was unexpectedly lucky enough to obtain a spot to awaken his superpower. Because his superpower was awakened through the original will energy of Blue Star, even though he was a transmigrator, he would inevitably be marked with the affiliation of Blue Star.

Even though the gifts from Earth that Dong Qi carried were not activated, they had already been imprinted with Earth's mark before he transmigrated.

It is precisely because of this that, while Blue Star awakened Dong Qi's superpowers and marked him with the Blue Star label, the gift that Earth gave him during his time travel was also activated in order to avoid being covered or swallowed up by the Blue Star mark.

Furthermore, when activating Earth's gifts, Dong Qi's original Earth imprint was naturally deepened and was not swallowed or cleared by the Blue Star imprint.

With this experience, Dong Qi can be said to have acquired a dual identity as both a planet and an Earthling.

This dual identity is actually similar to dual citizenship, and it doesn't have much impact on daily life.

However, if any problems arise, they will have to abide by the laws and regulations of both countries.

Of course, every loss has its gain.

Even though they are subject to dual restrictions, they can still enjoy the dual benefits provided by both countries to their citizens.

Of course, such dual control and benefits are rarely seen in daily life, but in critical moments, this advantage can bring Dong Qi benefits that are hard for ordinary people to imagine.

In simpler terms, every country has special attractions that are not open to foreigners and are only open to its own citizens.

If Dong Qi rarely travels, this benefit won't be of much use to him.

However, if Dong Qi wants to travel to these special tourist attractions, he will not be barred from entering the attractions due to his Chinese citizenship, unlike other foreigners.

Of course, if it's just a tourist attraction, even if you're blocked from entering, at most you'll just be in a bad mood, and you won't suffer much loss.

But what if we transformed the tourist attraction into a special hidden gem?

Generally speaking, secret realms like these, which have local identity restrictions, are basically welfare secret realms. These secret realms generally offer high rewards and low risks.

This is why most primordial wills have seemingly lenient, but actually strict, identity restrictions when it comes to such welfare realms.

Without a local identity mark, even native creatures might not be able to see the entrance to such a secret realm, let alone enter it.

Dong Qi was able to acquire the dual identity mark not only because of luck, but also because of his peaceful mindset of not causing trouble.

If Dong Qi had started causing trouble immediately after transmigrating, and as some of these troubles escalated, he would have activated the gifts that Earth had given him much earlier than he is now.

However, if the gift that Earth bestows upon time travelers is indeed activated at that time, then the activated gift from Earth must be a cheat code that fits the current situation.

However, the upper limit of that "golden finger" is definitely not as high as the potential for the manifestation of ideas that Dong Qi has now obtained.

In theory, as long as Dong Qi collects enough unknown energy, he can exchange it for any cheat codes that appear in Earth's movies, TV shows, or novels.

To be honest, even if Dong Qi is a time traveler, in order to give Dong Qi a unique identity mark from Blue Star, the awakened superpowers he was given were not actually that strong.

This ability to continuously enhance vehicles, if we exclude the blessing of the Treasure Forging Technique, even if you choose the best vehicle at the beginning, it's useless unless you can choose a spaceship from the start.

Otherwise, even with repeated enhancements or modifications, given Earth's current technological level, the actual enhancement ceiling is not very high.

The simplest problem is the materials. The upper limit of the quality of materials on Earth has locked the upper limit of this superpowered vehicle.

However, just as Dong Qi awakened his superpowers, he also activated the gifts from Earth that were hidden within him—gifts that every transmigrator carries with them when they travel through time.

When Earth's Gift is passively activated, in order to preserve the Earth imprint on Dong Qi, the potential value given will inevitably be higher than that of the other party.

After all, this is an away game, and even if they are not thinking about winning but only about maintaining the balance, they will have to pay a higher price than their opponents.

Therefore, the gifts from Earth that Dong Qi received could be considered top-grade among most transmigrators.

Dong Qi enjoys double benefits, and naturally he will also be subject to double control.

Fortunately, neither the original will of Blue Star nor the original will of Earth had awakened their own will at this time, and all their actions were still operating according to instinctive rules, so it did not have any impact on Dong Qi.

Even though Dong Qi has already traveled to Earth and left Earth's jurisdiction, even though Dong Qi has received the gifts from Earth and awakened his "golden finger" ability.

Even though Dong Qi violated the rules of the Earth's original will at this moment, the Earth's original will was unable to punish Dong Qi in any way.

Simply put, even though Dong Qi, who is on Earth, has received double benefits, he only needs to abide by the rules set by the original will of Earth.

However, Dong Qi's action of going against the sudden thought in his mind and heading to the coastal area was a violation of the warning given by the original will of Blue Star.

In fact, by this point, anyone who is even slightly intelligent and frequently reads various novels could probably guess that the ability to generate the same thoughts in the minds of all awakened beings is now at hand.

After excluding aliens whose technology far surpasses that of Earth, only the original will of Earth, which has never appeared in reality but is often mentioned in novels, could accomplish this.

This is clearly just a well-intentioned reminder, without any mandatory restrictions. Although it only appears on awakened individuals who have gained superpowers, ordinary people who have not awakened superpowers are unaware of it.

However, this well-intentioned act also proves that the other party has no ill will towards the awakened one.

Furthermore, the unusual situation currently occurring in those coastal areas can indirectly confirm the other party's identity once again.

However, this sudden reminder that appeared in the minds of all awakened individuals caused some other thoughts to arise in the minds of many people.

However, those things were not something Dong Qi needed to pay attention to at this moment.