Chapter 7 (1/2)
Translator: Atlas Studios
Editor: Atlas Studios
While Li Ang was farting in the classroom, the system prompt that had not budged for a long time finally went back online.
[The source connection system has been debugged, and the system template has been officially launched. Players can inquire about basic information.]
It was finally there…
Li Ang took a deep breath and walked out of the classroom before talking to the system prompt in his mind.
“Who launched this game called Earth Killing Field? God? Ancient God? Or aliens?”
[Player has insufficient authority. Unable to inquire about related information.]
“What is the ultimate purpose of this game?”
[Player has insufficient authority. Unable to inquire about related information.]
“How many rounds of killing fields have been held in the history of Earth?”
[Six large-scale killing fields have been held in the history of Earth. The first was about 485 million years to 542 million years ago. The second was about 363 million years to 439 million years ago. The third was about 146 million to 208 million years ago. The fourth was about 65 million years to 66 million years ago. The fifth was about 2.5 million to 50 million years ago. The sixth was about 24,000 to 135,000 years ago.]
Li Ang narrowed his eyes. “That means the first one took place during the Cambrian explosion of arthropods, mollusks, and annelids.
The second one took place during the Silurian period and the Devonian period. During this period, green algae emerged on the mainland and evolved into ferns. They established a terrestrial system with the first insects, and vertebrates began to dominate the ocean. Fish and animals evolved into primitive amphibians and began to thrive on land.
The third one took place in the Jurassic period. The forests and vegetation on the Pangaea were lush, the climate was warm and humid, and the dinosaurs became the rulers.
The fourth one happened before the asteroid hit Earth and caused the fifth mass extinction. Since then, dinosaurs, who were the terrestrial rulers, have completely disappeared. The small terrestrial animals that survived grew well on the ruins of the dinosaur era.
During the fifth one, primates evolved quickly into apes, Propliopithecus, Aegyptopithecus, Dryopithecus, Australopithecus, and then humans.
The sixth one was a competition between Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals. Ultimately, the Homo Sapiens emerged victorious while the Neanderthals lost and went extinct.”
If what the system had said was true, then the killing fields covered almost more than half of the evolutionary history of species on Earth and might even go further. It was believed that these killing fields had played a great role in the history of the evolution of biological creatures on Earth.
“How was the sixth killing field carried out?”
[The system would randomly select native residents to be promoted to players, and players would complete various quests given by the system to obtain rewards. Non-players could only obtain qualifications by killing players. Player qualifications could not be inherited through one’s bloodline, nor could they be transferred.]
“How would the game end?”
[The system determined whether the progress of the game was up to standard. If the player community failed to complete the final quest within the specified time limit, the system would attack Earth’s ecosystem in an all-round manner and exterminate the species of the player community.]
[Similar to the Ordovician global temperature drop that exterminated invertebrates, the Devonian oceans receded and caused marine life, such as the Dunkleosteus and Materpiscis, to go extinct. The Permian continental drift caused the extinction of arthropods such as the Trilobites and Eurypterids. The Triassic oceans lacked oxygen and caused the Brachiopods and Gastropods to go extinct, while the Cretaceous meteorite struck and caused the dinosaurs to go extinct.]
“Hold on. The players of the fifth and sixth games must have been apemen, right? Have humans also experienced system extinction?”
[73,500 years ago, the system determined the body of the players of the sixth killing field. After humans failed to complete the process, ecosystem extinction was implemented.
Mount Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia erupted for seven consecutive days. The volcanic ashes covered half of Earth’s sky, causing it to enter a glacial period that caused 99% of humanity to go extinct.]
Li Ang was not surprised. The catastrophe caused by the eruption of Mount Toba 70,000 years ago had indeed caused the human population to go extinct to the point that only a few thousand individuals had been left. It would not be an exaggeration to consider that period the most dangerous moment in human history.
“After the sixth one, what other killing fields occurred?”
[After the sixth one, the system believed that large-scale killing fields could not select excellent players, so it changed the game format and periodically held small-scale killing fields.
These small-scale games were intermittent in civilizations around the world, ranging from a hundred years to a few years. Some gods, devils, demons, and heroes in human mythology and epic poems were all players of the killing fields.]
“I see.”