Frankly speaking, hearing about the "black trap" phenomenon from Tire's mouth suddenly added indescribable pressure to Gao Wen's heart.
Outside of the demonic tide... there may be other threats in this world, threats that are big enough to cause the extinction of civilization, and what is more terrifying than the demonic tide is the intangibility and quality of this threat, even if you have experienced a dozen demonic tides The sea monsters who have observed this world for countless years have not been able to understand the nature of this threat.
This is undoubtedly an extremely disturbing fact.
Gawain's face was serious and gloomy, he pinched his chin without saying a word and fell into deep thought, Tire waited quietly by the side, until Gawain exhaled suddenly, the sea monster calmly Said: "Is it suddenly a little desperate?"
Gao Wen's answer was only one short word: "No."
"You don't have to hold on, it's normal to have a lot of pressure in this situation," Till flicked his tail and slapped the rocks on the shore, "After all, you have been The biggest crisis imaginable is the demon tide, and now I suddenly know that the crisis is not just the demon tide, who can be calm... "
"You're right, I do feel the pressure, but I haven't collapsed yet, let alone despair." Gao Wen let out a long breath, his expression softening slightly, "The 'black trap' phenomenon you mentioned... perhaps It does exist, but for me, the magic tide is still ranked first. If I can't even resist the magic tide, it will be a waste of effort to think about the "black trap" that is not clear at all. I don't have to Lost fighting spirit for this illusory disaster."
Tire looked at Gawain quietly for a moment, and suddenly laughed exaggeratedly: "You... you are really interesting... haha... why didn't I find out before... no wonder you can talk to us sea monsters …you must be a very popular fellow in our siren society."
Gawain looked at Tire's laugh that almost threw him into the river, and he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed: "As for such an exaggeration?"
"You're in a good mood." Tire barely stopped laughing, and hopped his tail to Gawain's side, looking at the expression on the latter's face, "Are you really not afraid? Even if you really find If you don’t know how to survive the demon tide, you may also have to face future challenges, are you really not afraid?”
"Man is a creature that is afraid of death, but few people will give up their lives because they are afraid of death. People will only strive to survive because of fear of death," Gao Wen said frankly, "For us, no matter whether it is the magic tide or the 'black Trap', they are all similar things are equally unknown, equally deadly, and equally seemingly unsolvable, but we have made up our minds to survive when the tide of evil comes, so we can only go to the dark on this road."
Speaking of this, Gawain raised his head, looking at the starry night sky with some ecstasy.
"Calm down and think about it, I realized that even if the 'black trap' exists, for us, the problem to be solved has changed from one to two. What's so scary?"
Hearing Gawain's words, Tire suddenly sighed again: "... If you live in the Siren society, you will definitely be a very popular person."
"Why do you say that?"
"The sea monster is also a very self-comforting race. We are optimistic and persistent. You are very similar to us in this regard," Till said seriously. "To be honest, most sea monsters don't like land people very much. In my eyes, people on the land are creatures that develop very quickly but always kill themselves quickly. You lack foresight, are keen on short-term interests, and do not value commitments, but I must admit... you are full of passion and hope. Society is also fascinating."
Gawain didn't know how to answer for a moment, so he could only keep smiling, accepting Tyre's compliment.
And Tyre continued after being quiet for a while: "Actually, we are not without research on black traps. Although we have never understood how it happened, and have not observed its specific manifestations, but We have a guess about it…”
Gawain blinked: "Guess?"
"The civilizations that encountered black traps have one thing in common, that is, they have all developed to a very high level, at least they can survive the magic tide. The ability to protect itself in the descending demon tide has been confirmed by our observers," Till explained earnestly, "We think... the black trap may be a kind of filter, as long as the development of civilization reaches a certain threshold, it will There will be a destructive thing activated to destroy this season of civilization... You should be able to understand what I said, right?"
Tire seemed to have opened up the topic, and couldn't help but talk more and more. At the end, he suddenly remembered that Gao Wen was a "backward lander", so he couldn't help but add the last sentence.
"Of course I can understand, the level of civilization in Gondor was not low," Gao Wen said, frowning deeply, "but the filter you mentioned... If it is true, then the situation will be terrible …”
As long as civilization develops to a certain extent, it will be destroyed by some external factors
Does such a thing really exist in this world
"We are just guessing, because according to our observations, all civilizations that have developed to a certain height have been destroyed, and there is an invisible threshold stuck there, and none of the destroyed civilizations has surpassed it, so we can only judge the 'black trap' ' is a filter."
"Have you calculated this 'threshold'?" Gawain suddenly stared into Tyre's eyes and asked, with a very serious tone, "Is there any iconic 'point' in it? For example, a certain key technology has been broken through, or human Set foot in a key area?"
"Unfortunately, I can't sum it up. On the one hand, we miss the black trap every time. We can only see the remnants after the destruction. It is impossible to infer what the land civilization was doing before the black trap erupted. On the other hand, every time the magic wave is To reset the magical environment, the technical routes taken by civilizations in each season are very different, and there is no comparison between them," Till shook his head. "We can only give a rough standard now, that is, at least in the magic tide. Only civilizations that survive in the world are 'qualified' to be destroyed by the black trap."
Gao Wen frowned and pondered, and suddenly thought of a key question: "... have those destroyed civilizations surpassed you?"
"...No," Tire knew what Gawain wanted to say, and she replied calmly, "Our sea monsters are a civilization that has almost been destroyed once, but our remaining technological power still surpasses those land civilizations, and we... and Did not encounter a black trap."
The technical strength is higher than that of the land civilization, and the duration is longer than that of the land civilization. It has survived for more than a season in the magic tide, and the sea monsters who are sunbathing and jumping... have not encountered a black trap.
All of this was expected by Gawain, and this fact is why Gawain doubted Thiel's "black trap filter" hypothesis.
What triggers the black trap is not necessarily the progress in the field of technology, maybe it is the land civilization that accidentally touched it in other ways, of course there may be other reasons, such as the special life form of the sea monsters that prevent them from the black trap, or … black traps only happen on land
Gawain said his thoughts, and Tyre immediately denied: "Not only on land, there is a civilization that has developed a strong ocean-going navigation technology, and their offshore self-discipline platform and seawater extraction factory even opened up to ours. On the territorial sea, a semi-permanent residential dome was built in the sea, but they all died suddenly. They were still talking to us about the development of submarine heat sources a month ago. A month later, we sent representatives to go there, but found the entire dome Abandoned, full of corpses…”
Gao Wen frowned: "The reason was not found out at that time?"
"No. When the delegation found out, their dome had been abandoned for half a month, and a lot of evidence had disappeared. However, we found that their dome shield was closed from the inside. They should have turned off the protection by themselves, and then were drowned."
Gao Wen was stunned for a long while with his mouth open, but in the end he could only utter one word: "Weird..."
"Yeah...it's very weird," Tyr said slowly, and then suddenly seemed to remember something, "By the way, speaking of it...the destruction of a season of civilization seems to be different from others...their destruction is related to an ancient race. "
"An ancient race?"
"Dragon," Tyre said a word that surprised Gawain, "that civilization was destroyed in a war involving dragons. It was a long time ago, when a land empire suddenly rose and they developed The speed is extremely fast, and quickly ruled the entire land, and has had some contact with us, but before we have a deep understanding, the war suddenly broke out.
"One side of the war is the land empire, and the other side is the giant dragon. Now the giant dragon rarely appears on the mainland. You all treat them as legendary creatures, but in the war in ancient times, the giant dragon was almost overwhelming. Flying from the north, they didn't look like a hermit race at all, but actually participated in that war...
"We still don't know which side started the war first, but the reason for the outbreak of the war seems to be related to belief, because the giant dragon destroyed a large number of temple facilities in the land empire in the early stage of the war, which was targeted attack.
"The battle was very fierce. The strength of the two warring parties was almost evenly matched. Many dragons died. Our observers couldn't even get too close to the battle zone because they were already red-eyed. As long as they were not our own, they would attack.
"That battle lasted for ten years is also different from the usual 'black trap' phenomenon. Other civilizations that perished due to black traps disappeared very quickly. In the end, the dragon won miserably. And that land empire that flourished for a while was wiped out.
"According to the scattered information brought back by our observers, the land empire at that time called the year when the war broke out the 'Year of the Against the Tide', so they also called that war the 'Battle of the Against the Tide'."
"The Battle against the Tide..." Gawain listened to this magnificent story from ancient times, but he always felt a sense of unreality. This story is too far away from this era, but now it is being told by Tyre, it is inevitable There is a serious violation, but he believes that Tyr will not make up such a story for fun, "Indeed, it is different from the 'black trap' you described before."
"That's right, it lasted for a long time, the reason is clear, and we have observed it, so we have never been sure whether the 'Battle Against the Tide' was a 'black trap phenomenon', but one thing is certain if The Battle Against the Tide has something to do with the Black Trap, so the dragon must know something."
Gao Wen couldn't help laughing bitterly: "Are you asking me to find the giant dragon to get information?"
"What if there is a chance?" Tyre flicked his tail, "And I'm just giving you an idea, it's not my idea anyway."
Gao Wen: "..."
At this moment, he really wanted to shoot this fish to death on the shore...