The bodies of all evil gods contain the memories of all lives and souls in the original world and civilization. In a sense, the existence of evil gods can even be regarded as the continuation of the destroyed world, because all information, All history and the past were wrapped into his body by the evil god and became its power.
But now, the unknown evil god made a voice.
If there is any sound that makes people feel the most helpless, then it must be the sighs and sobs made by all living people before the destruction of a civilization when they face the inevitable destruction. They are powerless, they are powerless, because before the destruction of civilization, Before the end comes, all the flags and heroes have been broken. When the world is destroyed and collapsed, no one can carry the sky.
So I can only sigh.
What can be more helpless than this is the destruction of two civilizations.
Or three, four, ten, a hundred.
Or, countless.
At this moment, Joshua was listening to the tragic sounds of nearly countless worlds.
The voice of the evil god cannot be heard by ordinary people, just like the existence of the Steel Python. If you have not reached the legendary level, you are not even qualified to peek into the opponent's existence form. Even if you are a warrior, if you do not have the Soul-Burning King passed down by the sages. If Quan is just an ordinary Soul Burner or an ordinary person, then he will not be able to see the Steel Python until he advances to Legend and develops the observation method of Steel Vision.
However, now, this overly keen and powerful observation ability has become an inducement to suppress Joshua's ability to resist.
The warrior wrapped in chaos heard thousands, almost countless cries from the world that had passed away, at the same time.
He felt that his will was slowly sinking into a vast chaos, interrupted by the unknown evil god who had awakened and destroyed the condensation core - or in other words, the remains of countless worlds after their destruction. He instinctively relied on this method to Erode and assimilate this silver 'world'.
An endless flood of memories.
Joshua saw the memories of countless living beings who lived in them before they perished.
Dim flames burned blazingly on the corpses, and black shadows spread into the distance with despair.
…
The sun was obscured by the black smoke from the burning city, and the sky was extremely dark. Due to the bottomless use of the 'forbidden' level supreme alchemy, the entire world was on the verge of destruction.
Cities and mountain peaks were turned into ashes by dissociation magic, and were lifted into the sky by flame beams that seemed to come from hell. In the war between the 'Great Alchemists' for world domination, the material distribution of the world was changed. It can be seen that cracks are opening in the earth, the flames from the earth's core are extracted by huge magical machines, and they attack the floating city floating in the haze and acid rain. The titan statues that stand as tall as mountains throw the earth's crust and mountains at each other, causing earthquakes. , destroy the enemy's position.
Life is just a number, and population is a resource. The great alchemists who believe they have the truth and never treat ordinary people as the same kind of war have never cared about the life or death of any ordinary person from the beginning, nor have they cared about any damage to the world - They believe that the victors of the war can naturally restore all the destroyed environments to their original state, and even if ordinary people and living creatures become extinct, they can reshape a new and beautiful world with cloning technology.
Because they believe they have the power to restore all things, the great alchemists have completely lost their bottom line in their wars. They create poisonous gases and spread plagues. They smash the moon and create meteors. There are even crazy people who plan to detonate the core of the earth while hiding themselves. In the vacuum of space, destroy all opponents.
But they underestimated their own madness and overestimated the world's ability to bear it.
On the eve of the destruction of the world, the fire in the center of the earth gradually extinguished, the reincarnation of all things was cut off, and the world barrier began to slowly collapse. The great alchemists who noticed this finally woke up from their madness, but it was already too late. Even though they have the power and technology to repair the world, they have no time.
In this dark age, in a world that is about to come to an end, in the ruins of a remote city hidden near the pole, there is a little boy and a girl who has lost a right leg sitting in a bonfire that is about to go out. They were trembling and cuddling together in front of each other. They were not brothers and sisters, and had no blood relationship. They were just a street child who had lost his parents and another orphan who was alone due to the war.
They did not know that the world was about to be destroyed, nor did they know what kind of final struggle the great alchemists were making. They only knew that winter was coming, and there was a serious lack of food. Even the bonfire in front of them could not be rekindled due to lack of firewood - The boy has made a decision. He will leave the remaining food to the girl, and he will go to the dangerous war zone to find supplies that may be left by both sides of the war.
This behavior is extremely dangerous, and can even be said to be fatal. The alchemist's battlefield is not something that mortals can intervene in, but other than that, they have no choice at all, it is just the difference between dying early and dying late.
Both of them knew that the next farewell would be forever.
so. On the last night before they parted, they hugged each other and cried - not out of despair or fear of death. They cry, just because of sadness, just because the world is so cold that it does not even allow two lonely souls to live together.
Perhaps, the only good thing is that before the boy and the girl say goodbye, the barrier of the world is completely broken.
Everything returns to darkness.
…
In a world without extraordinary power, a huge world government governs the entire world. The Unification War three hundred years ago was the last war of this civilization. From then on, there was an eternal era of peace.
In this world, technology is not very developed, but it has been able to transform the world and obtain almost unlimited resources for civilization. Whether it is the sky, the sea, the earth, whether it is economy or entertainment, information or work, everything is centralized Under the control of the government, everything about a person from birth to death, growth, education, making friends, marriage, having children, work, and death, is within the jurisdiction of the central government.
In fact, the entire world has been transformed into several areas - agricultural areas for food production, mineral areas for collecting resources, resettlement of the population, cities for living and production, and industrial areas. The four major blocks operate separately, and the residents of any block live for a lifetime. Maybe they won't go to other blocks.
And because this has been the education they have received since childhood, no one will think there is anything wrong with this. After all, no matter what area they live in, individuals can still enjoy friendship, family, and entertainment. The central government will not forcefully interfere with any individual's life if it is not necessary. They even have the right to go to other areas for vacation - it is just not necessary. They don't understand it, so they are not yearning for it or curious.
This is just an overly strict order system, and there is nothing inherently wrong with it.
Until one day, through the calculations of the general think tank, the central government discovered that their too small world could only survive 55 billion individuals at the same time even if they used extreme means, and this number was exponentially higher than theirs. In the face of a growing population, it is only something that can be accomplished in more than ten years.
In order to prolong, or in other words, avoid the moment when the world will explode, the central government launched a large-scale population control operation. In some overly densely populated areas, birth control policies were implemented, while other areas also launched light measures to control the population. Magnitude of fertility control.
Through drugs, artificial sterilization, publicity about the disadvantages of excessive fertility, and dividing the areas where male and female individuals live together so that there are only individuals of the same gender in a certain area, the central government has successfully controlled its own population growth trend, causing the original almost seventy-degree angle to rise. The population growth rate has finally seen a decline. With the central government’s control over the grassroots, they can guarantee that there was not even a single newborn in the world in the year it started.
Control is successful, even too successful.
They are so successful that they themselves cannot control it.
Nearly ten years later, when the population gradually declined close to a safe critical point, the central government decided to temporarily revoke population control and revive the birth plan. However, even a perfect plan will have loopholes due to the executors. Even the central government has calculated that the fertility rate of the elderly population will decline. It has calculated that because they have never seen individuals of the opposite sex, they cannot mate and have children normally. Even the central government has calculated that the fertility rate of the elderly population will decline. The government has long suspected various problems in all aspects, but they did not expect that because of the overly successful population control propaganda, almost all individuals have developed an instinctive avoidance and aversion to childbearing.
Giving birth is not a happy thing in the first place. Whether it is caring for larvae, cultivating larvae, or giving birth to a female individual, it is a very hard work that requires a lot of effort, but may not even get any reward. If it weren't for the habit that comes naturally and the habit of dating another individual of the opposite sex under the arrangement of the central government after adulthood, I am afraid that many individuals would choose not to have offspring even without publicity.
When the direction of society changed and the central government, which thought it could control everything, realized that population control was out of control and the new population was far less than the critical danger line, it was already too late.
Even if aphrodisiac hormones are disseminated, various drugs that can enhance pleasure and reduce the pain of childbirth are developed, and the government distributes dividends and rebates money to encourage childbirth, it is impossible to increase the growth rate of the population. As the older generation of individuals die in large numbers , the number of newborns is only a fraction of the previous generation and they have just reached adulthood - even if they have realized that they must have as many children as possible, the civilization has collapsed before the new generation can grow up.
It can be seen that as the older generation of individuals dies, the whole world gradually falls into silence.
The giant factory that is taller than the mountain and like a honeycomb has been shut down because no one is operating. The super enterprise that requires 30,000 employees to operate cannot be maintained. Just transporting raw materials from the mining block every day requires tens of thousands of workers. The product production line, which was transported by transportation workers in three shifts day and night, even experienced errors because it had not been running at full power for too long. However, at this time, even the skilled workers for maintenance no longer existed.
The vast planting plains are full of crops that grow wildly. In the past, at least a hundred families would have to work together to harvest with large harvesters for more than ten days. The fields were deserted and no one was harvesting them. The food had no one to harvest and could only rot in the ground. —But what if it’s harvested? Both rough and finishing food processing plants have ceased operations because farmers, whose duties are highly differentiated and only need to farm and then transport crops away, simply do not have the ability to process food.
In the past, the crowded city hive has long been turned into a ghostland. Walking on seven or eight streets, you can't even see a living person. Even if you do, you have to be careful whether the other person has malicious intentions. In this huge urban area, resources are Limited, there is no blood transfusion in agricultural areas and industrial areas, and there are not many supplies for daily use in super megacities. In this era, even survival is a huge problem, let alone eating enough.
Population is the foundation of civilization and the most basic unit of production. Without population, everything ceases to exist.
Decades later, large-scale energy bases in industrial areas were left unmaintained, and internal raw materials leaked, causing violent explosions that affected the atmosphere. Following this, more energy bases developed various problems due to unmaintained operations, or even exploded. Leaks, or explosions, and radiation contamination began to spread all over the world.
Decades later, a violent volcanic upheaval destroyed the ruins of a very large city, and the sun's movement happened to be in the right orbit, and the Little Ice Age came.
Decades later again.
Perhaps the last civilized individual in this world is about to die.
This lonely old man who grew up, lived a lonely life, and watched the world sat in his cabin, staring blankly at the portraits of his parents. Because of radiation pollution, they had only one child in their lives. They warned their descendants that they must Find another individual of the opposite sex so that they can reproduce. But the old man spent his whole life and could not find any other individuals except his parents.
Before death comes, it begins to cry—not because of the aging and death that is destined to come, but because of sadness, because it cannot feel any warmth, and even the loneliness cannot be expressed in words.
In absolute silence, the lifeless world is heading towards destruction bit by bit.
…
It was destroyed because of the war, and it was destroyed because of the system.
It was destroyed because of technological development, and it was destroyed because it fell into a bottleneck.
Destroyed by natural disasters and destroyed by climate change.
Joshua's spirit sank into chaos. He could see the destruction of worlds and civilizations one after another. He could hear the sad cries again and again.
The tears of civilization are not shed because of fear and destruction. Their sadness lies in the fact that none of this is absolute.
They clearly have more and better possibilities and a bright and bright future, but at the most important node, they have embarked on this seemingly narrow, but actually inevitable end for them.
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