The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

The negative consequences of excessive emotional extraction began to appear several generations later.

Long-term emotional exhaustion has caused the faint light circulating in Bai Jing's body to become increasingly dim and sluggish.

"Emotional dullness" has become a common mental illness, in which patients find it difficult to experience strong emotional fluctuations such as joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness in response to things, and the light within them is like ashes about to be extinguished.

Even more serious is "emotional desolation," where the patient's inner light completely dies, and they can no longer generate any emotions. Their skin has a cold, stone-like luster, like a moving white crystal statue.

Emotional dullness and emotional desolation remain incurable to this day, and Norton Prism's warnings before his death are gradually becoming a reality.

To make matters worse, the White Crystal People discovered that in a state of emotional depletion, they could no longer allow the White Crystal Tree to naturally condense the fruit of life and give birth to their offspring.

Childbirth, once a natural way of perpetuating the race, has become a luxury that only the emotionally wealthy can afford.

The loss of fertility caused by mental illness is like the deadliest plague, causing the population of the White Crystal people to plummet and more and more White Crystal Tree farms to be abandoned.

This is followed by a sharp decline in the total output of emotional energy in the whole society.

The shadow of energy shortage loomed over the entire civilization. In order to maintain their emotional health and luxurious lifestyle, the Radiant Nobles at the top promulgated an increasingly harsh "Emotional Tax Law," forcibly extracting the last light and heat from the already depleted Dust-Light People.

The people of Dust and Light were levied a high emotional tax, which led to the rapid depletion of their emotions, exacerbated emotional diseases, further reduced the birth rate, continued population decline, and a new low in total energy production. In order to maintain the total output, the nobles raised the tax rate again... Society was completely trapped in an irreversible vicious cycle.

Today, in the gloomy city where the Dust-Light People live, despair has become their only stable emotional "output," used to exchange for the last bit of energy needed for survival.

However, when despair itself becomes fuel for trade, a wave of suicides sweeps through the entire lower class.

The end of this memory, like a microcosm of the White Crystal Civilization, sank into boundless darkness.

The owner of the memories, the white crystal person whose inner light flickered like a candle in the wind, left the city alone with the motivation to complete a solitary self-destruction.

In the city, its already meager emotions are forcibly levied every day, and even the last bit of private sadness and pain is quantified and extracted to maintain the insignificant operation of that cold city.

Its heart is a wasteland, incapable of being illuminated by any color that represents emotion.

In its final moments of consciousness, one thought remained crystal clear and unwavering: returning to being a white crystal tree might be far happier than continuing to be a "human".

As a tree, it can stand quietly, without thinking or feeling, simply absorbing light instinctively and growing freely.

No longer do we have to endure the pain of being deprived of our emotions, no longer do we have to bear the despair of the destruction of civilization.

That would be a complete and silent liberation.

After processing this memory, Moran began to consider feasible rescue plans.

The root of the crisis in the White Crystal civilization lies in the excessive extraction of emotional energy, which is the source of widespread mental illness, loss of fertility, and the spread of despair.

The most direct and effective way to break this deadlock is to introduce a stable and reliable alternative energy source that is completely unrelated to emotions. Ideally, the cost of acquiring this new energy source should be far lower than that of emotional energy, thus dismantling the entire system of emotional exploitation at its economic foundation.

However, iterating energy technologies is no easy task.

In worlds dominated by ordinary intelligent beings, such as Blue Star or the Dream World, energy depends on the world's own material resources. White Crystal Star has none of these, whether it's coal, oil, water, or tourmaline.

As for whether there are other usable energy sources, further exploration and research are needed.

In worlds like Valen World and Three Thousand Mirror Ruins, dominated by extraordinary intelligent beings, energy technology can only be mastered by spellcasters, and even the White Crystal People cannot meet the requirements.

Without any available information for reference, how the White Crystal People can master magical energy is a topic that requires in-depth research before any results can be achieved.

Moran is a card witch whose card magic can transform magical energy into various resource cards. She came to the Level Zero World and the Endangered World not only to obtain the Primal Magic Crystal, but also to promote her card magic.

The World Consciousness's grant of the Primal Magic Crystal is only temporary, while the magical energy provided by the Card Magic Contractor is continuous.

In comparison, instead of going to great lengths to find physical energy sources that may not even exist on White Crystal Star, it would be better to develop a unique magical training method for the White Crystal People, guide them to become spellcasters, and then sign a contract with them to become users of card magic.

At that time, they will be able to use one-time magical energy to directly purchase various energy cards from the card shop, thus solving the society's energy crisis once and for all.

In this way, the extinction crisis of the White Crystal People and the problem of world advancement can be solved at the same time, and her card magic can also take root in a White Crystal People civilization.

Of course, all of this is predicated on the development of a cultivation method suitable for the White Crystal People.

This certainly wouldn't have been possible without the cooperation of the White Crystal people themselves.

The owner of this memory might be a good choice.

Having made up her mind, Moran immediately activated her flying carpet and sped off in the direction the white crystal man had gone: "Hopefully, I'm not too late!"

The flying carpet swept past a patch of low, white crystal trees, and Moran finally saw the figure of the white crystal person again.

In a relatively open space, it was mechanically and slowly digging a narrow, shallow pit in the ground with its translucent hands. There was no hesitation in its movements, only a deathly stillness after all hope had been exhausted.

Seemingly feeling that the pit was dug enough, it slowly lay down in the pit that was just big enough to accommodate its body, and then began to use its cold hands to cover its body with handfuls of soil with fine crystals that had been dug out from the side.

Its eyes stared blankly at the cold, bright sky above, its enormous butterfly-wing collector drooping limply beside its face.

Just as the cold soil was about to cover its chest, everything went black, and it completely lost consciousness.

Seeing that the Sleeping Curse had taken effect, Moran breathed a slight sigh of relief.

She hadn't yet decided where to set up her research base, or how to face the white crystal being, so she simply let it slumber until she was ready, then lifted the curse and awakened it. (End of Chapter)