In 3161, several minor things happened in this year.
The first one was that the Havoc Fleet on the Monoceros Ring encountered an ambush by an unknown legion and suffered heavy losses.
It had to retreat to the vicinity of Deng Mars.
The next day, the Walker Fleet Responsible for taking over, the second thing is that Alpha Pisces Australis, the unknown prisoner Darakp who was held in the planet's cage, escaped.
Although both events caused quite a stir, from a historian's perspective, these events are just one of countless episodes in the historical process, not a turning point worth remembering.
For Cao Chuan, he would still subconsciously connect these things with the possible crisis, trying to find the real source of the crisis hidden behind it.
His way of observing the world has become quite advanced, relying on a virtual world constructed from thousands of digital planets to observe the operation of such an abstract thing as the human world, from its economy, culture, military, politics, technology, education, etc.
In terms of waiting, through Alice’s tens of thousands of clones and the super observatories standing in the frontier world, we observe the real universe, the operations of many planets, the rise and demise of cosmic disasters, the evolution of galaxies, and the reproduction of alien life. live.
With so much information flowing in, he monitors and manages the development of human civilization almost like a god.
Not only that, he is precise enough to detect any clues.
Slowly, he felt that he was getting closer and closer to that invisible and intangible dangerous existence, that nightmare that originated from a very small place and swept through the 100,000 light-year Galaxy like a butterfly storm.
In July 3161, Cao Chuan listened to the news reports as usual, "The moon will welcome another 1 million immigrants to leave this year.
With the continuous development over the past 1,000 years, all the mineral deposits in this place where the East Galaxy Company rose will be completely exhausted."
"Resources are the basic guarantee for the development of the planet.
The moon has the advantage of industry.
However, the location of the planet and the size of the satellite limit its development potential.
Therefore, in recent years, the development of the lunar star government has either stood still or continued to evolve. fall back."
"The head of the Lunar Planet government claimed that he would propose to open the moon as a permanent museum to all mankind, as its best destination, instead of stubbornly refusing to give up and wasting government funds."
After listening to the news, Cao Chuan did not expect that the moon back then would now be completely developed.
Indeed, satellites like the moon are too easy for crazy humans to consume all their resources.
And today, apart from historical reasons, the moon no longer has much competition.
Power, its fate can be said to be expected.
The news report is open to the world.
As a fairly major news, it will ultimately affect more than 1 trillion viewers who are watching it.
Cao Chuan sensed something.
The data running in the dark fluctuated with the subtle changes in the real world.
He raised his head and searched quickly, "The number of immigrants is increasing, and the influence of the central area is still expanding.
Human beings feel the attraction of the old world."
Strength is declining” Something in his mind that could not be connected before was finally connected, and slowly more information quietly emerged: "The decline in interest in pursuing planet development, the pursuit of a comfortable life, the difficulty of wealth flow, the pursuit of planetary control, the inheritance of social classes The solidification of alien culture, the pursuit of old culture, the restoration of old culture, the confusion of human existence, the slowdown of information dissemination efficiency.”
The next few days and nights were like a flash flood.
Events that were originally independent of each other were connected and converged into a complicated cause-and-effect tree.
In the tree, if there was a huge consciousness controlling the entire event, it would push mankind into a Bottomless abyss.
"So, it is impossible for everything to develop in a bad direction at once.
Sure enough, there is something controlling it, but maybe it is not a person or a force, but more likely the universe itself."
Cao Chuan realized that the human world was undergoing unprecedented challenges.
The minions of the enemy lurking in the fog gradually emerged.
The originally calm world like a lake finally set off waves.
"It seems that this is the crisis of mankind that Ursa mentioned.
What should we call it?
Since it will continue to erode human civilization, let's call it the civilization dry tide."
Cao Chuan captured the existence of nothingness.
The decline of civilization is not so easy to catch, so various events are still fermenting and heating up.
More and more immigrants are immigrating to the central area, and the number has exceeded 100 billion unprecedentedly.
More than 30 originally prosperous planets in the old world have been abandoned.
For another example, the Just Balance Trade Fleet found for the first time this year that their income was declining.
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The profits from bulk trade between stars were almost unable to cover their daily consumption due to the weakness of market supply and demand.
On the planet Midway on the Deep Space Road, the largest robot manufacturing factory on the planet suddenly laid off 20,000 employees due to poor management, resulting in protests that spread around the world.
Chuck Sullen, the director-general of the Citadel Star government, looked at a series of troublesome problems and pondered for several days, but found that there was still no way to find a real solution.
The decline of civilization has begun, and its impact has become more and more obvious.
Although the various abnormalities appear to be normal independently, considering the probabilities and correlations between them, the problem is very big.
In 3163, several big bosses from the East Galaxy Company gathered together.
Maybe everyone still didn't understand what was going on, but if you want to describe it in layman's terms, it would be that mankind has been cursed by the unknown, and all kinds of misfortunes have happened one after another.
It is not caused by individuals, but by the deliberate suppression of human beings by the universe.
Everyone was a little confused after hearing Cao Chuan's explanation, "In other words, this is the price we pay for developing the central area."
"It can be understood this way, but please believe that there is no such thing as retribution in the world.
The gods in the dark have never existed.
These are just unknown tricks.
All we have to do is solve these problems with our own hands. " "How to solve the problem" Qiao Yunhe, whom I haven't seen for a long time, shared: "My Arcturus is quite calm.
The entire planet maintains the technological level of the 25th century.
Due to the use of the eternal society model, it can be self-sufficient in terms of food supply, energy consumption, daily necessities, and luxury goods.
Self-contained, not much movement.”
"Of course, I have also noticed that the number of spacecraft visiting us has been decreasing recently, which means that there may be fewer and fewer popular goods from the outside world.
The last Arcturus will completely stay in the 25th century.
The way it develops depends on It has no technological possibilities.”
"So, Deputy Minister Lao Qiao, do you think that the more independent a planet is, the less impact it will suffer?"
"I think there will be a pattern."
"In addition, the human world is now too huge and bloated.
To be honest, I don't know how it works now.
Perhaps as you said, it is precisely because the human world is too complex that changes in one place may cause affects the overall situation.”
“Whether it’s the market or society, shouldn’t it have the ability to repair itself and maintain balance?”
"But you also know that the real cause of all this is the decline of civilization.
Its methods are beyond cognition.
For example, it deprives the market of the self-repair ability of society
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