Chapter 2354: Forgotten world (1/2)

Li Yao and Li Jialing walked under a ”towering giant tree”.

This big tree is hundreds of meters high and is located between dozens of high and low stalagmites and stalactites. There are countless ”branches” protruding from the surrounding branches, and there are ridge-like roots. It spreads radially around, all the way to the bottom of the earth.

Li Yao gently tore off a few vines, wiped off a piece of moss, and could vaguely identify the interface of a row of crystal cards.

This seemingly giant tree is a very sophisticated and huge central control system - he has only seen similar systems on the bridges of some super-large starships in the past.

But now, all the crystal brains and computing chips embedded in the central control system are all rusty. The surface is covered with moss, vines, and various ant-like bugs, and there are even tumor-like spore-like life dots. Between the vines and moss, a mist of mist is continuously sprayed outwards.

Dim, like breathing, making it like a monster that combines life and precision machinery.

This is the largest ”playground” in the town. Many playful children climbed onto the branches of the ”giant tree”, which is the crystal line transmission pipeline, to catch the small insects that breed from the crystal brain, and go to the head and spine of their companions. Putting them up, teasing each other, one after another laughed like silver bells.

Li Yao noticed that these children with crystal clear skin and slightly red eyes are among the few people in the entire town who can laugh.

Li Yao looked at the children and thought thoughtfully: ”The underground towns numbered after 10000 are the limit of the empire's statistics. So, the residents here are the oldest exiles?”

”No.”

Li Jialing shook his head and said, ”Forty thousand years ago in the ancient cultivating era, and the underground exiles during the rise and decline of the monster race, after all, they are too far away from now, and most of them are decayed in the darkness of the earth under the erosion of time. , Or'fusion' with latecomers.

”Even if a very small number of people are alive occasionally, they have long forgotten their identity, the meaning of civilization and even the most basic wisdom, and they have become savages and blood-drinking savages, and even degenerate into ignorant, ignorant, instinctive humanoid beasts.

”These savages and humanoid beasts were all driven to deeper than five-digit towns, not to mention the names, even the dark death areas without numbers-Sister Long went down to the tribe of these savages to mediate the disputes between them.”

Li Yao frowned slightly and said, ”Then when did the people here escape into the ground?”

”It should be 10,000 years ago when the Star Sea Empire collapsed and fled to the ground.”

Li Jialing said, ”This was originally an underground refuge in the Xinghai Empire era. The ancestors of most of the residents should have escaped at that time, thinking of temporary refuge. Who knows that it takes ten thousand years to hide here. Struggling and prospering, there will never be a chance to return to a sunny world.”

Li Yao sighed, still a little puzzled: ”Since it is an underground refuge built by the Xinghai Empire, it should have all kinds of facilities and education systems. The people who escaped at first, even if they are civilians, should You all master the basic survival skills and the flames of civilization? Why do I see that this place is lingering, lifeless, and everyone is degraded to the appearance of the medieval world?”

Li Jialing thought for a while, seeming to recall Long Yangjun’s words, and finally said: “Sister Long said that the way of cultivation is like sailing against the current, or retreating if you don’t advance. The same is true for the continuation and development of civilization. The faster you evolve and surpass one peak after another, can you maintain the existence of civilization.

”If you want to stop and take a breath, you are very likely to be overwhelmed by your own weight and embark on an unstoppable recession and even perish.

”However, the more advanced the civilization, the more sophisticated the social structure, the more complicated the conditions for maintaining the same social form, and the weaker the ability to withstand the pressure of the environment. Sister Long said, you are a craftsman, and you must understand that the more components Less, the lower the failure rate; and as more and more components make up a magic weapon, no matter how carefully it is refined and how carefully it is used, it will always fail over time.”

Li Yao nodded. In the magic weapon refining circle, there is a saying that ”adding one component will double the failure rate”. Although it is a bit exaggerated, the truth is correct.

With the increase of magic weapon components, the difficulty of refining, assembling and repairing will increase exponentially. A large magic weapon composed of millions of components is simply an unpredictable chaotic system. No one can guarantee that it will not There will be weird problems during use, even Li Yao can't guarantee.

Perhaps, as components and talisman arrays break through their limits, magic weapons have a certain sense of life, and life forms are the most uncontrollable and unpredictable existence in the universe, right?