Did the world end today?

Chapter 353 War of Conquest
For safety reasons, the emergency plan for Lin Xu was immediately activated.

He left his office and returned to the more heavily guarded and completely isolated safe house.

During the period when everyone in the hospital was under quarantine and investigation, his external communication was strictly controlled.

He must remain completely silent until the results are in.

Theoretically speaking, there's nothing he can do at this point; the only thing he can do is...
rest.

Fortunately, he still had the bracelet.

He can also enter another world to continue the explorations that were not completed in the real world.

After settling down, Lin Xu immediately went into his bedroom.

He then went to his desk and checked the information again to ensure its completeness.

Immediately afterwards, he opened his notebook and wrote down the tasks he needed to complete this time entering the bracelet world.

[First, directly present Qin Shizhong's information, demanding that the four-dimensional civilization to which Jiang Xingye belongs investigate this person, and try to determine his connection with Ayana's "new personality," and determine the way he exerts influence on the real world.]

Second, retrieve the results of the previous spell and assess its effectiveness.

Third, issue a new spell.

[Fourth, obtain the "elite program" from the previous round of "upgrading" and conduct a comparative analysis with the changes that occurred in Yu Shiliang.]

After finishing writing all the tasks, Lin Xu closed the notebook.

Then, he lay down on his bed and gently touched the bracelet.

Consciousness was quickly drained, and then it plummeted again.
"Lin Xu".

Jiang Xingye's voice rang out before Lin Xu even opened his eyes.

When his vision finally returned, he saw a scene completely different from the previous times he had entered.

It is no longer a grassland, no longer a three-dimensional world with obvious traces of human construction, but a world suspended in the universe.
City of Stars.

Perhaps calling it a city under the stars wouldn't be accurate.

What he saw were clusters of light, twinkling like stars.

But these stars are not like ordinary stars, which are hundreds of thousands of miles away from him.

When his gaze focuses on a certain star, that star will quickly zoom in and instantly appear before his eyes.

A thought flashed through Lin Xu's mind.

Higher-dimensional civilizations are evolving.

It's not that humans have adapted to higher dimensions, but rather that this higher-dimensional world is actively adapting to lower-dimensional humans!
He turned to look at Jiang Xingye, and as the information flowed, the image of a "character" appeared out of thin air before his eyes.

Can you adapt?

Jiang Xingye spoke again, and Lin Xu subconsciously wanted to nod.

However, his "nodding" gesture was merely a way of disseminating information outwards.

"I can."

"That proves that our plan is correct."

Jiang Xingye breathed a sigh of relief.

"Based on the information we obtained last time, we have adjusted the architecture of our civilization. Now, individuals with high dimensional adaptability can integrate into higher-dimensional worlds very smoothly."

"very nice."

Lin Xu nodded in approval, then asked:

"How effective was the spell last time?"

After he finished speaking, Jiang Xingye fell into a brief silence.

"To be honest, it's not good."

"Not good?"

Lin Xu was stunned for a moment.

He still believed that the changes in the world came from the last spell.

But that doesn't seem to be the case?
Jiang Xingye waved his hand gently, and a point of light was quickly brought closer.

Immediately afterwards, a vast panorama of war unfolded before Lin Xu's eyes.

On the plain, the two armies charged into battle.

Knights clad in heavy armor, line infantry wielding arquebuses, and lightly armed infantry clutching some kind of unidentified explosive device appeared on the same battlefield.

As the knights began their charge, the line infantry immediately opened fire.

The spherical bullets from the musket flew through the air before piercing the knight's armor. Iron filings shattered and flew out, followed by a gush of blood.

The knight and his lost warhorse fell together, their heavy bodies crashing to the ground, kicking up a huge cloud of dust.

However, even greater plumes of smoke were generated by the explosion.

The light infantry, who could barely be called "grenadiers," rushed forward after the knights broke through the line infantry's formation, hurling their explosives into the enemy ranks with slingshots.

Explosions rang out one after another, and screams of agony filled the ranks of line infantry.

The situation on the battlefield was instantly reversed, with a second reserve cavalry force following closely behind.

From the start of the battle to the annihilation of one side, it took less than 10 minutes.

"This is the first time that high-energy explosives have appeared on the battlefield."

Jiang Xingye, standing to the side, spoke up to explain:

"Because of that spell, human warfare strategies have taken a completely different turn."

"They began to pursue more powerful explosives and firmly believed that 'explosion' was the key to solving all problems."

"This battle is a milestone."

"From the start of this battle, humanity embarked on a path of no return."

A road of no return.
Lin Xu's gaze sharpened slightly, and he continued reading.

After the battle ended, the scene before his eyes changed rapidly.

From gunpowder to RDX, it took humanity several times longer in its own time.

But in this world, humanity only spent 60 years.

And this is not the limit.

They have never found a substance that can glow and, after purification, destroy a city.

Until one day, uranium ore was discovered.

Forty years after this mineral was discovered, humans created the first "dirty bomb".

Twenty years later, humanity created a nuclear bomb in its true sense.

The development of theory could not keep up with the development of practice. In a world riddled with problems due to war and crazy experiments, humanity finally realized the importance of "theory".

They began to try to explore the fundamental principles of how explosions occur, and from this point on, human research into the "microscopic world" finally got on the right track.

But it seems that everything has changed.

War and expansion became the absolute dominant forces, a historical inertia.

In a very short period of time, human technology has developed explosively, and its footprints have begun to cover most of the Milky Way.

Discover a world, build a world, destroy a world.
The wheels of war rolled ever onward, with division, rebellion, and death following closely behind.

The entire Milky Way galaxy was engulfed in war.

Such wars do indeed drive the continuous development of technology.

Finally, one day, humanity obtained the key to enter a higher dimension.

But before they truly achieved dimensional ascension, they experienced an extremely brutal war of conquest that swept across the entire three-dimensional universe.

Only a very few civilizations survived this war of conquest; the vast majority of others were destroyed by their own actions.
After reading about the evolution brought about by this incantation, Lin Xu let out a heavy sigh.

He looked at Jiang Xingye again and asked:
"How much has the level of civilizational integrity improved this time with the dimensional ascension?"

"4%."

Jiang Xingye replied:

"However, this data cannot be translated into reliable and meaningful capabilities."

"Because, after the wars of conquest, the worlds inhabited by those civilizations were basically completely destroyed."

"A large amount of information was annihilated in the time storm that was made into weapons. In the end, only a part of the 'remains' with extremely low information entropy was upgraded."

"understood."

Lin Xu nodded slowly.

It seems that the idea of ​​using war to promote the development of civilization is not feasible.

It was too violent, too extreme.
Lin Xu wanted to ask more questions, but at that moment, Jiang Xingye suddenly spoke up:
"But we didn't come away empty-handed."

"We have discovered a safe zone in the midst of war."

"boundary."

(End of this chapter)