From Abyssal Invasion to Bursting Stars with a Single Sword-Chapter 916 - 530: Civilization Restart (Part 2)
The Zero Civilization will split a portion of its consciousness and energy to ponder ways to counter the Abyss.
However, every time it develops to about sixty years, the Abyssal erosion reaches its peak, and the civilization must reboot; otherwise, it will be devoured by the Abyss.
Thus, they initiate the Reincarnation Source Material, returning the entire Zero World to sixty years ago, back to the early stages of civilization, and start developing anew.
It’s just that the development process of the Zero Civilization is too fast.
In sixty years, this civilization has developed from its birth into a Demigod Civilization.
In such a short time, placed on humans, it wouldn’t even be enough to complete an Industrial Revolution.
Uncertain if the speed of development was too fast or for other reasons, each cycle of the Zero Civilization’s development progressed strikingly similarly, each time reaching the sixtieth year when the Abyssal contamination reached its limit.
The Zero Civilization repeats the same experiences time and again, yet there is no other way to change, nor can it ever escape this cycle.
The Zero Civilization retrieved the Reincarnation Source Material and, after checking the remaining energy inside it, sighed:
"This time entering the cycle, we might not have the chance for another reboot. Because you’ve consumed too much of the Reincarnation Source Material’s energy."
Under any world rules, changing the form of substance requires energy consumption.
The reversal of time by the Reincarnation Source Material also requires energy consumption, and a massive amount of it at that.
Azik used the Reincarnation Source Material to reverse time and saved his clansmen, consuming a lot of the Reincarnation Source Material’s energy.
Even now, with the Zero Civilization reclaiming the Reincarnation Source Material, there still isn’t enough energy inside it.
This means that this time the Zero Civilization enters the cycle, it might not be able to return to the early stages of civilization but would instead get stuck midway.
Lu Heng shook his head slowly and said: "What’s the difference? Your 267 cycles are almost identical each time, the timing for technological breakthroughs and civilization level leaps has very small deviations.
"In such completely identical cycles, what difference does it make whether you regress sixty years or fifty years?"
White Light: "At least we’ve held on for a sufficiently long time, hoping that during the next cycle, you humans will still exist."
This phrase carried a strong provocation.
It was already restrained enough that both sides hadn’t evolved into a hostile relationship.
Lu Heng didn’t know where human civilization would head, but he would surely strive to attempt finding ways to confront the Abyss.
As for the next cycle of the Zero Civilization, it should be fifty or sixty years later, whether humans could hold on till then, indeed no one knows the answer.
Before the White Light was retrieved by the Zero Civilization, Lu Heng asked: "How do you maintain the luminescent properties of the Fluorescent Plants? Can you give me the technical plan?"
Before the Abyss Demon Nest incident, Lu Heng had brought the Fluorescent Plants into the Zero World for experiments.
At that time, the Fluorescent Plants cultivated by the Zero Civilization, after many generations of reproduction, never lost their luminescent properties.
This means that the Zero Civilization likely had mastered the method for maintaining the luminescent properties of the Fluorescent Plants.
However, the answer provided by White Light extinguished the hope for the revival of the Star Realm Merchant Civilization.
"The method to maintain the luminescent properties, the Star Realm Merchants themselves already grasp it, their ecological ball’s Fluorescent Plants can inherently maintain these traits, issues only arise when they expand the planting scale in other worlds."
The Star Realm Merchants can wander for thousands of years in the gaps of the Star Realm, and the Fluorescent Plants still grow in the ecological balls they constructed, which indeed proves they possess such technology.
However, this technology cannot be implemented in other worlds, this is the crux of the problem.
Now, the Zero Civilization has adopted a similar ecological ball technology, conducting a false experiment.
White Light added: "You don’t have to mock me, aren’t the Star Realm Merchants just another form of struggling to survive?"
"In front of the Abyss, every civilization is equal, equally waiting for extinction; it just depends on who can persist longer.
"If one day, your world is entirely contaminated, perhaps you’ll only find ways to make your civilization struggle to survive too."
Lu Heng did not refute him because what he said was indeed factual.
In the face of the Abyss, every civilization is just striving to survive through confrontation.
After a moment of silence, White Light spoke again: "Perhaps, accepting the Abyss is the correct choice, just like the Bloodline Clan, becoming an Abyss Race, the civilization can then continue.
"If one day, you can’t hold on anymore, you can also try this path.
"At that time, when I enter the next cycle, perhaps I will see you among the Abyss Summoners."
Lu Heng’s expression darkened: "You want to influence my thoughts."
White Light: "No, I just want to see you succumb to the Abyss. Seeing you transform from a Low Rank individual to someone capable of conversing equally with me really irks me."
Lu Heng was a bit curious: "Do you have such emotions too? I thought your mind was as cold as a machine."
White Light: "Alright, communication ends here, see you in fifty years."
After saying this, White Light slowly disappeared.
Lu Heng wanted to see how the Zero Civilization enters the next cycle, so he opened the Star Gate and entered the Zero World.
High above that moon-sized planet, Lu Heng watched the rays of photons circling the planet below, and the increasingly dense Abyss Energy below the photons.
The Reincarnation Source Material fell into the planet’s center and began initiating the energy.
Subsequently, beams of light shot over, driving Lu Heng away from the Zero World.
In the next instant, the entire Zero World shut down, time began to rewind, ultimately reversing to the early stages of civilization, reverting into a completely enclosed state.
Even the Space Beacons vanished along with the time reversal, and Lu Heng could no longer open a Star Gate connecting to the Zero World.
The entire Zero World became completely isolated from other worlds, as if it utterly disappeared within the Star Realm, severing all connections with the outside.
Lu Heng returned to the Blue Star, the process of the Zero Civilization’s reboot replaying in his mind.
A Demigod Civilization vanished from existence like this.
Perhaps fifty years later, this Demigod Civilization will appear once more, but who can say for certain, that the next Zero Civilization is inherently linked to the previous one?
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