System: My Doomsday Train-Chapter 806 - 329: "Reach the Summit, or Die.

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Chen Mang withdrew his gaze from the distant scenery and looked at the Starfire Civilization leader calmly, saying softly, "Only with great strength can one truly appreciate this spectacle; otherwise, it is nothing more than a fleeting firework, vanishing in an instant."

"In the course of a civilization’s development, it might encounter peril and perish."

"But if it doesn’t develop, it is destined to perish."

"The peace you speak of is merely a resolution through evasion, but can you evade temporarily and forever?"

"When one day you encounter a threat you cannot evade, how will you respond?"

The leader of the Starfire Civilization shook his head without intending to persuade Chen Mang, merely gesturing for him to sit down, as he also sat down: "No way to respond, waiting for death, which civilization in the Cosmos can last forever?"

"Everyone will die."

"It’s only a matter of dying sooner or later."

"Even those Divine-level civilizations, can they dare claim they’ll last forever?"

This old man, although just a leader of a Third-level Civilization, had encountered many and interacted with numerous Advanced Civilizations, thus knowing much more than ordinary Third-level Civilization leaders.

This was also why Chen Mang came here this time.

"Two things."

Chen Mang gestured, and Ai beside him held up a tablet to play a video clip, showing a 2.5-light-year-long Stellar Giant Beast rushing through the Cosmos on a Doppler Radar screen, its terrifying gravity tearing apart surrounding fixed stars and planets and pulling them beside itself, forming a horrifying ring of rocks.

"I encountered this fellow."

"Its power is terrifying."

"What I want to know is, is it a naturally-formed Stellar Giant Beast, or... artificially modified?"

The Stellar Giant Beast left a deep impression on him.

Especially as it shared a 70% similarity with Xiaolv, both being Star-devouring Beasts, it kept making him think that there should be some connection between them, especially after seeing Xiaolv dazed on the train room a few days ago.

The originally calm leader of the Starfire Civilization gradually turned somber and unpleasant after watching the video several times, his voice slightly hoarse as he said, "This is why I love peace."

"Even if I don’t want to love it, there’s no choice."

"Did that Stellar Giant Beast chase you?"

"It did."

"Was it when you detected it that it started chasing you?"

"It truly was."

The leader of the Starfire Civilization sighed, a hint of fear flashing in his cloudy eyes: "This is a ’Cosmic Landmine’ from an Advanced Civilization. If this thing appears in your galaxy, my advice to you is to run, run as far as you can."

"Perhaps it is still tens of thousands of light-years away, and you think it will take a year or two to reach you and are not very anxious."

"But once it reaches you, it will be the day your civilization perishes."

"Being locked on by such a ’Cosmic Landmine’, your civilization can already be declared extinct."

"Unless..."

The old man hesitated for a moment before hoarsely saying, "You can, within this year, through the refrigerator, relocate everyone in your civilization to us, but we cannot let you stay long, as our space is not so large."

"I can help you find a low-resource area, a region without any strong civilization, allowing your civilization to continue surviving there."

"When we signed the civilization mutual aid agreement, I was actually hoping in my heart, even though I didn’t agree with your methods of expansion, that your civilization had great potential. If you could truly become a Divine-level Civilization, perhaps I could find a place under your protection to develop rather than continue being a fugitive."

"Looking at it now."

"You’re not very lucky, encountering a ’Cosmic Landmine’ just as you began to expand."

"Cosmic Landmine?" Chen Mang pondered the implication of those four words before saying, "Don’t worry, this Stellar Giant Beast has not appeared in our galaxy, but in another galaxy, which I encountered while roaming around in other galaxies."

"There was originally a Third-level Civilization in that galaxy."

"Upon arriving, I discovered that the Third-level Civilization had already been destroyed by this Stellar Giant Beast."

"Roaming for fun? Roaming into other galaxies, wasn’t it to start a war?"

"Roaming to start a war for fun."

"So you don’t have this threat now, do you?"

"No."

"No need to migrate, right?"

"No need."

"Everything’s fine?"

"Couldn’t be better."

"Good."

The leader of the civilization nodded, retrieving a leaf and some tobacco-like substance from his bosom, wrapping them together, sticking it deep between his upper teeth and lips, and then exhaling a long breath, he slowly began to speak.

"The story is long, so I need to tell it slowly."

Chen Mang also sat on a nearby chair, gesturing for Old Pig and others to find seats as well, lighting a cigarette and bringing it to his lips, looking at the elder through the swirling smoke and saying quietly, "You tell it slowly."

Moments later.

The elder’s somewhat hoarse voice resonated in the fields, mixed with the sound of insects chirping, carrying a hint of time.

"No one knows when it began, nor did anyone deliberately promote it, but the Train Civilization gradually became the mainstream form of civilization in the entire Cosmos."

"There are many advantages."

"But the greatest advantage is just one."

"And that is, speed!"

"As long as there are enough resources, a Level 1 Civilization could explosively grow to a Fourth or Fifth-level Civilization, possibly in less than a hundred years, a terrifying number almost impossible in other civilization forms."