Chapter 926: The Truth of Destruction, Countdown

Chapter 926: The Truth of Destruction, Countdown

Chapter 926: The Truth of Destruction, Countdown

"You are truly an outstanding king. The development of this world is better than I imagined."

Lu Li said with emotion, "My purpose is very simple. I just want to trouble you to help me collect the ancient history of the world's development in the past nine thousand years. You should know that most of the history books on the market are nonsense."

"How can you be sure that the royal family will have a true historical record?"

Pompey asked back.

Lu Li stood up, walked to the window, and looked at the glorious imperial capital from above. "Because without any breakthrough evolution in productivity, it is a miracle that a human empire has lasted for nine thousand years without splitting or perishing. I believe that most of the kings in the history of the empire were outstanding. You can fool your subjects, but you cannot be ignorant of the true history yourself."

Lu Li's words were a little sharp, but Pompey smiled. "You are not entirely right. In fact, a lot of ancient real history has been buried, but fortunately my family still has most of the historical tablets."

"Only by learning from history can we understand the rise and fall of nations. Your family must have many wise men."

Lu Li smiled and said, "Can you take me to see it?"

"Of course, it's an honor."

Pompey said.

The transaction between them went smoothly. Pompey was a wise and intelligent monarch. He saw that Lu Li had no intention of reconnecting with this world, so he naturally responded to his request.

The best way to resolve this matter is to meet Lu Li's requirements. Otherwise, if the Human King really appears in the world, it will cause some minor problems for his rule.

Lu Li reviewed various stone tablets in Pompeii's family, and used the camera function to send them to Aizen for review and analysis.

Because they have a God's perspective, Lu Li and Aizen can see things that people in this world cannot see.

For example, they now know further that the system of the Ci'ai Continent collapsed in 891, when the empire was founded, which was years ago, and a large number of players began to arrive.

The empire in history believed that it was a golden age and many powerful people were born, but in fact they were all foreign players.

The records about those people mentioned that when the Golden Age came to an end, many strong men died inexplicably, and some even disappeared right before people's eyes.

At that time, the people of the empire once believed that this involved God, and there was a wave of new religions, but they were later suppressed by the empire.

Lu Li asked Pompeii to help him find more historical materials about this period. He also traveled around the continent and used his divine sense to search for various documents, and finally found a black stone slab.

The information recorded above is even more shocking than what Lu Li and Aizen saw in the tribe.

The stone slab was collected by a group of cultists who thought it was some kind of divine revelation or myth, but they didn't know that what was recorded on it were all real events in the upper world.

The stone tablet recorded in detail the process of the demise of the Ci'ai Continent. When Lu Li and Aizen were interpreting the stone tablet, he instantly gained a large amount of world exploration.

It turns out that the Continent of Compassion was originally a world dominated by humans. It was a highly developed but increasingly cold human society.

Since the basic energy level of the Continent of Compassion is very high and various mineral resources are abundant, the speed of human technological development is changing by the day.

But this also contains some problems. A highly cyberized society cannot bring people spiritual satisfaction. Instead, many people are in dire straits.

The person who recorded the stone tablet was obviously an educated person and should be a senior employee of that company, so he knew a lot about human beings of that era.

In his records, he explained that he entered the virtual world in order to escape the horrific doomsday. He used high-level authority to teleport his soul into this world, and his physical body in reality should have been destroyed.

However, due to the limitations of this world's worldview, he could only be born as a human being, which meant that he could not live long. In addition, the situation of escaping into this world was too urgent, so he did not give himself too many benefits as a player, and therefore he was not doing well in this world.

He had a premonition that all human beings would be destroyed, so he wanted to record a piece of history in this world, even though no one from their world might ever see it, because he had locked this world when transmitting his data, preventing Weird and others from coming in.

The slate says it started as a small matter, a massacre of a settlement by a company to deal with the untouchables who breathed the air of their property but didn't pay.

After that incident, the first strange creatures were born. Subsequently, more and more similar incidents occurred across the continent. Various people died tragically at the hands of unknown forces, and fear swept across the entire continent.

The companies that control the resources of the continent used their most advanced technological power and destructive weapons to wipe out a large number of strange creatures, but for some reason, the more strange creatures were killed, the more they became.

At the same time, an uprising was born among the people. They wanted to resist the tyranny of the company. Regardless of region or race, they accepted all kinds of brothers and sisters who were determined to fight for a free future.

This rebel army was unprecedentedly powerful. Some of them discovered a way to devour monsters and gain strange powers, and at one point they defeated the company's security forces.

But the recorder of the stone tablet thought this was a mistake. He believed that if the company and the rebels had joined forces at that time, they could still save the human race.

After all, the strange creatures were not a big deal at that time, and the company could have used high-tech weapons to cooperate with the rebels' extraordinary people to suppress the strange creatures, but the war between the two sides broke out, and even the strange creatures were forgotten.

The war was protracted, lasting for thirty years on the Continent of Mercy. The long war failed to break the will of the rebels, nor could it erase the greed of the company.

But in their stalemate war, the large number of human casualties, the spread of negative emotions such as despair and fear, led to the birth of a group of powerful beings among the strange creatures.

They began to no longer stick to physical form, and even had no souls. Their evil will swept across the continent, and neither the rebels nor the company were able to resist.

Finally, like a domino effect, the doomsday frenzy swept in, the strange creatures became more and more powerful, and the company's top executives frantically invested in destructive weapons.

It was an extinction weapon that was powerful enough to destroy an entire continent. When it exploded, the entire continent shook, mountains and seas turned upside down, and the world-destroying frenzy swallowed up all high-end civilizations and buried the human civilization that relied on technology to reach the threshold of the ninth level.

After the apocalypse, only a very small number of shelters had humans alive, and all industrial systems were destroyed. The howling of death echoed between heaven and earth. The company's weapons killed 99.999% of humans, but failed to kill all the monsters.

Thus, a strange era officially began. Without the remnants of the once prosperous technological civilization, humans no longer had the power to resist.

It was during that period that the recorder of the stone tablet entered the virtual world, hoping to exchange the death of the body for the freedom of the soul.

"So... the Human King is the leader of the rebel army?" Lu Li began to understand a little about what had happened on this continent before.

"That should be the case. He might be a saint with great talent, who protected a part of the human race during the mass extinction with his overwhelming strength."

Aizen analyzed, "But he should have died in that destructive weapon. After all, the strange creatures at that time should not be as strong as they are now, and his strength limit would not be too high."

It is also recorded in the stone tablet that although the rebel army had many saints, they mainly relied on human technology during the war. Human technology at that time was extremely advanced, and mere supernatural strength could not compete with high-end technological weapons.

It’s a pity that after the mass extinction, those ancient technologies, including the technology of the virtual world engine that Lu Li is currently in, were lost.

Just imagine the technology that can turn fantasy into reality and create a whole world. That is simply the power of a creator god. If the people of the Continent of Compassion can do it at that time, how powerful their military technology will be.

The game company they have destroyed now was just using the high-tech left over by their predecessors to operate low-quality games. Aizen has already confirmed that those game worlds are different from the world of the Undead King where Lu Li is. They are purely virtual, so they do not require too much computing power. A few master brains can operate many games.

"Although I gained a lot of exploration points, I'm really not happy about it."

Lu Li sighed. He and Aizen further revealed the truth about this world, but there was no good news.

First of all, they knew the turning point of the human extinction, but they also knew that human society had already been very distorted before that, and the strange creatures were not to blame for it.

Although the so-called will of the human king is great, resisting tyranny and pursuing freedom, judging from the results, he is also an indirect destroyer of human civilization.

However, there is a saying that goes, the development of history is inevitable. You cannot ask victims not to resist, nor can you ask humans who pursue dignity to keep a cool head and deal with the weirdness first.

What's more, the weirdness is not so easy to eliminate. It is like a singularity point between quantitative change and qualitative change. It is suddenly born at a certain moment and then it becomes uncontrollable.

Lu Li felt that when invisible individuals with pure spiritual will evolved from monsters, if humans could not develop weapons to protect and deal with monsters in time, extinction would be a matter of time.

The technology of the Continent of Ci'ai was once extremely advanced, but humans are still humans after all. They do not seem to be focused on their own evolution and are too dependent on external technology.

For example, a mecha with ninth-order strength may still need a person to drive it. Once something goes wrong with the person, it will be ruined. But if a person has ninth-order strength, he would have killed all the strange creatures long ago.

Aizen analyzed that this native world is not actually in a stable state. According to the energy level of the world, human civilization in this world should be just a ripple in a long period of time, and even the system of strange creatures is just a process.

From a macro perspective, if this world continues to evolve, there will eventually be creatures with a maximum strength of level nine. However, at the current stage of evolution, the world still seems very young.

After it becomes stable, perhaps the lower difficulty level will be 70 and the upper difficulty level will be over , but no one knows what the world will look like by then.

Of course, the space does not care what a world will eventually evolve into. For the End Space, perhaps it does not even care about the upper limit of the difficulty of a world. What matters is the value of a world itself, that is, the various resources it contains.

There is no doubt that from this perspective, the Continent of Compassion is definitely the most fertile and high-quality type in the native world, because compared to its resources, its difficulty is actually... too low!
"Brother Lu, I've noticed that you can always choose the best answer without thinking."

Aizen grumbled, "I admire you for that."

"Maybe it's luck. I was just thinking about coming to find Chuchu."

When Lu Li was talking in the group channel, he was already saying goodbye to Pompey. He had no intention of staying in this world for long. Besides, the outside world was also passing by. They had already stayed there for several days. It would be bad if the pursuers from the commercial city came to find them.

Pompeii watched Lu Li disappear in the light. Even until Lu Li disappeared completely, he still felt like he was dreaming.

He smiled and shook his head, then returned to his study and continued to review today's documents.

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In the Land of Mercy, Lu Li's consciousness returned to his body. "It's really amazing. Sosuke, how much do you think this Unreal World Engine would be worth if I took it back?"

"Don't even think about it. I just checked it out. This is a Chaos-level item. The certification price is beyond our ability."

Aizen said, "We should focus on what's in front of us, like this."

Aizen pointed to the sky, and Lu Li then noticed that Near next to him was also staring at the sky.

During the day, the sky was cloudless, but there was no sunshine. There was only endless gray fog. The temperature of the air was also much cooler than before Lu Li entered the world of the Undead King. This situation had probably been going on for some time.

And in the gray fog, huge white numbers can be vaguely seen, appearing and disappearing from time to time.

Lu Li has very good eyesight. Even though they are far apart in time and space, he can still see the number clearly. It is now 99.

"What's the use of this number? What weird thing made it up?"

Near always speaks his mind. He had asked Aizen before, but Aizen was so immersed in studying the stone tablet in Lu Li's world that he didn't reply to him, so he had no choice but to go hunting in the wilderness out of boredom.

"I don't know, but it's not a good thing."

Aizen looked serious, and so did Lu Li.

Because they all remembered what the Sword Keeper said, that passage about the end of the era, it was like a prophecy, and the beginnings of it were already showing.

The gray fog has obscured the sun, and the stars may not be visible at night. Above the sky, numbers are jumping, as if it is some kind of countdown.

"It was still one hundred yesterday. Does this mean that there are only so many days left in this era?"

Nia said that he was simple-minded, but what he said made sense.

Because Aizen felt that this was like some kind of life countdown, they could no longer go to the old city and had to return to the tribe immediately.

(End of this chapter)