Li Yao was silent and nodded repeatedly in his mind.
In fact, the truth that the voice said has many manifestations in the history of human civilization development in the Pangu universe, that is, the chaos of the ancient cultivation era, including the tragedy of the "living fossil" ancient holy world.
No power can be obtained without paying any price.
Destiny has already marked a price for every power.
Those powers that seem to be obtained easily may require something more precious - organization, society Exchange for order, exploration and curiosity.
Fortunately, the human civilization in the Pangu universe, including the Pangu civilization before human civilization, and the one hundred ancient civilizations before Pangu civilization, are not the first generation of native civilizations in the strict sense, but the descendants of the original civilization.
On the one hand, they can find the relics of the previous generation's civilization from deep underground and in the vast sea of stars, learn valuable lessons and avoid making the same mistakes again; on the other hand, deep in their genes, they originally contain ancient memories from the Yuanshi Clan.
Even though most of the time, these ancient memories are mottled and unclear fragments, they are enough to stimulate the instinct of intelligent life and naturally form a complex society and a high degree of organization.
Therefore, these "secondary civilizations" can develop quite powerful civilizations in an environment rich in aura, but they will inevitably have to take many detours - such as the "collapse of ancient civilization" and the "Thirty Thousand Years of Darkness" of mankind.
"Era", and even to this day, all the evil deeds of the Covenant Alliance and the True Human Empire have to be said to be influenced by "too many individual differences, the strong are too strong and the weak are too weak."
Those native civilizations that had no relics of previous civilizations to excavate, and no "organizational instinct" contained deep in their genes, suddenly gained inexhaustible spiritual energy, just like seven or eight-year-old children.
With a huge inheritance and lack of adult discipline, they will only squander it unscrupulously, and there are almost no people who will not learn bad things.
"Spiritual energy is of course one of the most precious resources in the universe, but only a highly mature civilization with its own 'Tao Heart' is qualified enough to drive it instead of being enslaved by it."
The voice continued, "It is precisely because we do not have the help of spiritual energy that we can inspire all our enthusiasm, wisdom and courage, and use our hands, sweat and blood to transform our planet and understand the universe beyond the planet.
“We had the first industrial revolution, the second industrial revolution, the third industrial revolution.
“We have discovered the laws of motion of celestial bodies, and we have also discovered molecules, atoms and structures smaller than atoms.
"We have discovered electromagnetic waves and know how to use radio; we have conquered mountains and seas, countless species of bacteria, and even know how to use mold to treat fatal diseases; we believe in technology, more religiously than in gods, and we firmly believe that the power of technology The roads are endless, and unlimited technology will eventually make us gods of ourselves and even the entire starry sea.
"Of course, the rapid advancement of technology and the sudden expansion of civilization also brought crazy ambitions and bloody killings.
In the first fifty years of the twentieth century, we launched two world wars one after another.
If we talk about the First World War, The main battlefield was only limited to one continent, so the death storm of World War II really swept the entire mother planet.
"Those were two extremely glorious and cruel wars.
People who lacked spiritual power and had no strength to bind chickens were able to release more terrifying destructive power than practitioners.
Countless tons of steel and explosives fell like torrential rain. , can instantly destroy a large city with a population of hundreds of thousands.
"Especially at the end of World War II, we used a weapon called the 'atomic bomb', which involves the mystery of material annihilation and energy explosion.
On the surface of a planet with an atmosphere, it is more powerful than the main gun of a starship.
The existence of terror.
“However, on the one hand, war is a demon that destroys civilization; on the other hand, it is also a catalyst for the rapid development of civilization.
New technologies and new ideas born in the two world wars, including new systems born on countless destroyed old systems, All of them have contributed to the explosive development of our civilization in the last fifty years of the twentieth century, and it has surged forward at a lightning speed.
"After the end of World War II, just over twenty years ago, on July 21, 1969, our primitive and crude starship boarded the only satellite of our mother planet for the first time and embarked on a journey of conquest.
The first step in the sea of stars.”
Along with the sound, a new picture appeared in Li Yao's mind.
Three bloated and clumsy astronauts wearing white spacesuits and stars and stripes were jumping around on the surface of the moon.
In the slightly low and noisy background, the voice of one of the astronauts could be heard: “…That’s one small step for me, one giant leap for mankind.”
Of course, the astronaut said this in English, which is what Li Yao understood as the "magic language".
“The cruel destruction of the Second World War and the ensuing Cold War confrontation between the two powers not only gave birth to aerospace technology and research on the universe that far exceed the limits of our civilization, but also awakened the largest population in our civilization.
The ancient nation has made this ancient civilization standing in the East regain its vitality and its most powerful enterprising spirit and creativity after being dormant for hundreds of years.”
The voice said, "The last fifty years of the 20th century to the first two decades of the 21st century were almost the golden age in which our civilization developed the fastest.
Brand-new technologies and research results were released almost every year, and almost Every ten years, the entire face of civilization takes on a new look. 1950 Electronic computers, which were still a fantasy for most people in 1960s, can now be worn on people's wrists sixty or seventy years later and have become an indispensable production tool and life companion for everyone.
People have even begun to imagine Within a hundred years, artificial intelligence was born.
"However, the beautiful dream suddenly shattered like a golden soap bubble.
Our technological explosion hit the physical limit and was forced to slam on the brakes and enter the third decade of the 21st century. , we have encountered stagnation and setbacks in various fields, and almost no valuable discoveries have been made.
“As technology stagnates, a series of ills and fatal flaws erupt from deep within the fabric of our civilization.
“The super Matthew effect brought about by global networking has made the gap between the rich and the poor even wider and society more fragmented.
“Advanced medical technology has brought about a huge population explosion, but the lack of a good education system and enough jobs has turned the vast majority of the population into an ‘ineffective population’ or even a ‘ineffective population’, and has become a burden to civilization.
“Environmental destruction and resource scarcity have made the living environment of the vast majority of people worse and worse.
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The advent of cutting-edge weapons and even unmanned weapons has made the weak countries that are latecomers even more unable to resist the countries that have the advantage.
This has also This has led to the prevalence of extremist ideas and a series of terrorist activities.
"If these problems are all 'chronic diseases' that can be slowly solved in the process of civilization development, then when the two extremely powerful forces representing two completely different thinking logics and economic systems in our civilization collide, it will It means that the entire civilization is in catastrophe.
“Everyone wants peace and not war.
"However, you should be very clear that when a civilization's external expansion encounters setbacks, the known world is 100% explored, all resources will be exhausted, and the road to technological upgrading is also blocked.
In addition to falling into 'inner In this desperate situation, there is no other way except killing each other and dying together.
“First there was trade friction, then there was a proxy war, and then there was a small-scale, low-intensity shootout…a series of warm-ups, tests, threats and intimidation that lasted for a full decade, when both sides were very clear about each other’s strength and determination. , the Third World War finally started in the year 2028.
"In our civilization, a wise scholar once said, 'I don't know how World War III will be fought.
I only know that World War IV will be fought with stones and sticks,'" said That's absolutely right.
"The intensity of World War III was far more than a hundred times that of World War II a hundred years ago, and even exceeded everyone's imagination at the time.
Before the war, everyone was very optimistic that with the advancement of technology, especially supercomputers and With the popularity of armed drones, this will be a 'clearance war' A clean war, a bloodless war, or even just another low-intensity bluff and routine friction between the two sides, until one after another bared their teeth and claws, and a strange mushroom cloud rose above their heads, swallowing them up instantly and turning them into raging bears.
Burning skeletons, they regretted it.
"The Third World War lasted for a full thirty years.
It was the longest and most brutal war in the history of our civilization, and it also profoundly changed our civilization.
"Especially in the later stages of the war, as the home planet was completely devastated, various plagues of extremism and terrorism appeared again, and various extremely immature biochemical weapons, viral weapons and even genetic weapons were released unscrupulously.
For the first time, we felt the fear of 'civilization extinction'.
"Perhaps, this is the case for the growth of every civilization.
If you don't encounter a 'catastrophe' that may wipe out the entire civilization, you will not know the value of peace and unity.
“Even if some survivors know the importance of peace and unity, thirty years of blood feud and the white and black tombstones piled with hundreds of millions of bones have still turned into chasms and high walls that separate the two sides.
"——If there were no accidents, our civilization might have died in its infancy in such a shameful and sad manner.
“But since you can hear our voices, and even your existence itself, it represents the arrival of some kind of ‘miracle’.
"In the year 2058 of the Era, the 'miracle' - the first meteorite in the meteorite shower that was about to completely destroy the earth within a hundred years, traveled through the solar system, tore apart the atmosphere, and hit our desolate homeland hard."