Abnormal crossing

Chapter 211 The Evaporated Eighth-Order Civilization (Part 2)
Watching the people and objects in the scene turn into nothingness.

Gu Wei suddenly looked up and turned to look at Jin.

Jin waved her left hand, putting the image back: "See? The entire Tilanos civilization was like water in a boiling pot, just boiled dry and evaporated like that."

"Except for a very few lucky ones who survived for various reasons, the entire population of the Tilanos Empire, which was measured in units of 10^22, was wiped out in one minute."

“Besides the life-bearing planets, all the stars within the territory of the Tilanos Empire also stopped burning in an instant—there were no supernova explosions, no spatial collapses, just a simple ‘extinguishing,’ like a blown-out candle, affecting more than 27 star systems.”

Gu Wei was so shocked he was almost speechless: "."

Although there was no mirror, he knew that his expression must be quite exaggerated.

Good heavens.
All life within an entire territory of an eighth-order civilization was 'evaporated' in a minute?!

"So now you understand why the fall of the Tilanos Empire is a 404 error in Starsea, right?" Looking at Gu Wei, whose mouth was agape as if he could swallow an egg, Jin sighed slowly: "This is not an ordinary civilization's demise—if it were a civil war, a celestial crisis, or even an attack by alien life forms, it would be better, but this kind of mass evaporation would really cause trouble if public opinion wasn't controlled."

"Even in the current Star Sea, one must at least reach the level of [Sage of Truth] to be qualified to access some detailed files."

Gu Wei's eyes flickered twice.

The wise man of truth.

This is the sixth level of the nine-level academic system in Xinghai. If we consider the tenth level of Civilization Monument outside the regular system as the Nobel Prize that was not politically interfered with before Gu Wei's transmigration, then the Sage of Truth is roughly equivalent to the Outstanding Young Scientist or the Yangtze River Scholar in China.

For most people, this is already a height that is quite difficult to reach.

Even among the top six Star Seas, there aren't many who can be recognized as Sages of Truth.

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Then Gu Wei took a deep breath, barely managing to compose himself, and asked Jin again:

"And what about the Alliance? What role did they play in the fall of the Tilanos Empire?"

"Let's make an alliance."

Hearing Gu Wei's question.

Jin exchanged a glance with Milo, and only after receiving Milo's instruction did Jin continue speaking:

"To put it simply, what they were responsible for in that incident was the development of the Imaginary Number Virus and the initiation of the 'evaporation' ritual; to put it even more simply, they were in charge of setting up the pot and boiling the water."

"After all, the arrival of the beings is just an individual special case. If they want to overthrow such a super civilization in an instant, they will definitely need to find some help. In fact, the earlier arrivals were similar, and they all had some helpers around them to varying degrees."

Gu Wei blinked rapidly a few times.

I think I understand now.
Jin once said that the essence of the Descendants is actually closely related to the higher-level beings of the Ancient Tower:
There are two timelines, T1 and T2, in the upper space of the ancient tower. One of them, T2, sank into this universe in a way that Gu Wei cannot yet understand, as the ceiling of the first civilization, like ants, was gnawed down.

Therefore, when the beings at the upper levels of the tower reach the time intersection, they have two different paths of development—either they evolve into a form called 'Dominator' at the higher levels along T1, or they come to this universe along T2 and become so-called alien life forms. This occurred before the Zhou civilization appeared.

The rulers who remained at the top could interfere with or even destroy civilizations in this universe through a means called "overlooking," but the Zhou civilization later developed a special defense system that rendered the rulers' overlooking ineffective.

So the rulers took a different approach, attempting to overthrow the civilization of this universe through the arrival of beings.

The Winton that Gu Wei saw in his dream was the first recorded descendant in history.

In the history of all civilizations in this universe, there have been a total of thirteen descent events. Including Winton's Void Light Civilization, a total of ten top civilizations from different periods have been destroyed.

Apart from the Void Light Civilization, which is on par with the Star Sea Civilization.

The remaining destroyed civilizations started at least at the sixth rank, with two reaching the seventh rank. One of them was even just one step away from the eighth rank, even closer to that barrier than the Aurora Federation and the Kingdom of Bichuli.

But on the other hand.

The Descendants are, after all, individuals with abilities far exceeding those of ordinary people. Apart from their innate ability to communicate with alien life forms and tides, they mostly rise to the core of decision-making or scientific research through their extraordinary talents, guiding a civilization astray or causing it to decline.

In a sense.

Before Gu Wei's time travel, Ge Tudi was a character very close to the definition of an incarnation.

Therefore, under normal circumstances.

If an adventurous entity wants to overthrow civilization, it must cultivate or gather a group of allies—such as ambitious individuals, disillusioned scholars, or even anti-China elements.
Then, the Descendants used their authority, which allowed them to intervene in the course of civilization, to successfully disseminate and materialize these helpful achievements.

And the alliance was clearly the helper found by the conqueror who overthrew the Tiranos Empire:
They helped the Adventors develop the so-called Imaginary Number Virus, and the Adventors, using their authority, implanted the virus into every citizen and device under the pretext of changing ID cards.

Once everything was in place, the entire civilization was instantly vaporized.
Of course.

The above is only a relatively rough summary. When it comes to specific events, there are certainly countless secrets that are difficult for ordinary people to access.

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Thinking of this, Gu Wei couldn't help but look at Jin again: "So the Alliance is an organization supported by the Adventists? And it has survived since the overthrow of the Tilanos Empire?"

“That’s not necessarily true,” Jin quickly shook her head, denying Gu Wei’s guess: “The Starsea leadership initially believed that the Alliance was a puppet created by the Adventists, and even once regarded the Adventists as the leader of the Alliance, until the Alliance discovered some files left behind by the Adventists.”

Gu Wei was stunned: "Files?"

“Yes, you heard right, it’s the archives,” Jin raised an eyebrow and explained, “The mission of the Adventists is completed after they overthrow the corresponding civilizations, and they will return to the upper space in some way. Therefore, they don’t pay much attention to the destruction of such data or documents. Afterwards, some data can be found to some extent. This is one of the reasons why Xinghai knows that other Advent events occurred billions or even tens of billions of years ago.”

"Of course, from another perspective, this is also a blatant scheme by the Descendants—if someone told you that they had been spying on your house since your great-great-grandfather's generation, would you be able to sleep soundly?"

Gu Wei: "."

(End of this chapter)