Learn one small skill every day

When Bai Miao saw the fisherman, he suddenly remembered the words he had spoken to him the first time.

Emma mentions the fisherman almost every time the loop starts because he only has one sentence, but the loop restarts shortly after he finishes speaking.

Emma couldn't determine whether it was key information, so she could only mention it each time.

When Bai Miao recalled the reaction of the mermaids to the luminous pearl in his hand, the two clues instantly connected.

"Huh? How did you know? Oh, this isn't your first time here?"

Clearly, this fisherman knew something.

"Your wife isn't some mermaid from that underwater civilization, is she?"

Bai Miao thought to himself, "This must be really heavy-handed."

After all, those mermaids weren't exactly beautiful.

It's hard to say whether it can be categorized as a human being.

"Yes, after we invented the air membrane, at least there's no problem with communication. It's just a pity that she can't come up; the environment up there isn't quite right for her. Sometimes I bring her some little glowing gadgets down. Sometimes she brings me some local specialties from down there."

Bai Miao was truly amazed to discover that land-based and underwater civilizations had even formed an alliance through marriage.

This guy is somewhat like Xu Xian (a legendary immortal in Chinese mythology).

"Could you give me an air-supported membrane structure? I'd like to go down there to conduct research and investigation."

"Then you have to promise not to go and cause trouble for them. They're actually not doing very well down there. If it weren't for the priests warning them in advance, they probably wouldn't have survived until we found them."

"I also intend to have a friendly exchange with them."

The fisherman thought for a moment and nodded: "I have extra on me, I'll sell them to you, just give me some shiny little things."

Bai Miao finally gave him a few fluorescent light bulbs from the Endless Energy ship, which made him grin from ear to ear.

With the air membrane in place, Bai Miao successfully entered the mermaid civilization.

Of course, before going in, Bai Miao disconnected the tubes connected to the back of his diving suit, and it took him a lot of effort to persuade Irina and Emma to do so.

There is air here, and the mermaids can speak. Their language is the same as that of the land above, but their way of walking is very strange.

With its hands on the ground and its tail as a third point of support, it crawls like this.

The ground was covered with smooth stone slabs, and there was water flowing from who-knows-where.

During their conversation, Bai Miao learned that this civilization was called "Yara".

“I want to see your priests. To be honest, we know this is a recurring problem here, and we are distressed about it and want to find a solution.”

Upon hearing this, the old fish was astonished to find that there were outsiders who were unaffected.

He didn't dare delay and immediately went to inform the priest.

"You mean you can also sense regression?"

The priest seemed much smarter, and he dared not be negligent in front of Bai Miao.

"Yes, and this isn't the first time; it's the sixth! I want to solve the problem more than you do, but I need to know why it's backtracking!"

Bai Miao cut to the chase: "I've already met with your leader. I've come to you to see for myself the machine that can give you advice!"

“This…that is the essence of Yara…I refuse.”

"You have no room to refuse. I know you feel it doesn't matter because you can start over, but are you sure you want to endure unimaginable pain within this current cycle? Think it through. Breaking the cycle sooner will benefit both of us!"

Overwhelmed by Bai Miao's imposing aura, the priest, mouth agape, hesitated before finally saying, "I... I'll take you there."

The cigarettes were stored deeper underground.

The Yara civilization specially excavated a space and filled it with glowing stones.

On a stone platform, a heavy white sundial is placed in the very center.

After knocking the priest unconscious, Bai Miao said to the sundial, "Shi Yan, I've come to take you back. Tell me what the conditions are for breaking the cycle."

Seeing that the sundial did not respond, Bai Miao called out again, "Shi Yan? This is Noah, here to take you back to the Ark. Holk and Kaguya have already returned."

The sundial's originally smooth surface suddenly became rough, the shadow of the central pointer slowly rotated, and a mechanical female voice echoed in the underground space.

"A meteorite fell, and Yala perished. We overcame the crisis together, without relying on external forces."

"Have you considered whether the Yara civilization has the capability? Do you know what they're doing right now? They're trying to use a metal shield to stop meteorites from falling into the seabed. At this rate, when will they ever solve the problem?"

After a while, the sundial chimed again: "Constant dripping wears away a stone."

"I'll wear your..."

Bai Miao suppressed his urge to curse and instead tried to reason with him and appeal to his emotions: "Then wouldn't you have to keep having to start over for such a long time?"

"The duty lies."

"..."

When Bai Miao discovered Yan, he seemed to be completely different from the other ministers.

Her emotions seemed to be suppressed to an extremely low level.

Perhaps only in this way can one adapt to countless repetitive cycles.

You could say that Shiyan is a pure machine.

Why did you become like this? You can change your shape.

"no need."

Damn it, this guy is completely inflexible.

Chapter 141 The Root of the Problem

"You need to tell me what conditions will trigger a reboot, and then I will crack the reboot without triggering those conditions."

Bai Miao thought that since Shi Yan was so inflexible, he might as well let her list out the conditions and avoid any possible restart conditions.

"External intervention, or a chain reaction."

Could you be more specific?

Shi Yan spoke again after a long pause: "The problem has been solved by technology beyond the current development of Yala civilization, or the meteorite impact has already caused disorder in the surrounding seabed ecosystem."

"But the last cycle was just the Yara people being eaten, and the predators that ate them went berserk and restarted. The location was more than 100 nautical miles from here. Is that already considered an ecosystem disorder?"

"If the virus survives at the top of the food chain, it will multiply indefinitely and spread with ocean currents."

Shi Yan didn't ask why Bai Miao knew about the previous cycle, nor did she have any intention of continuing the conversation.

This is simply an answer to Bai Miao's question.

"If we take out all those predators beforehand, that would be helping, right?"

"Correct."

"The meteorite carries a virus that could wipe out the Yala people? Does that mean it was already beyond saving when it hit the sea? Is it feasible for the entire Yala people to migrate? And what are your criteria for achieving this?"

Bai Miao simply treated Shi Yan as a question-and-answer machine, trying to learn as much relevant information as possible in order to make preparations for the future.

"Before the virus reaches the area of ​​the Yala civilization and infects marine species on a large scale, we need to solve the problem of the virus's spread, or how to inhibit its proliferation."

Shi Yan did not completely prohibit outside help, but required that it not exceed the current development level of the Yala civilization.

However, if the technology is improved little by little in each cycle, smoking should not be banned.

Shi Yan originally planned that it would likely be a series of cycles, accumulating bit by bit, until the Yara civilization grew to the point where it could solve the biohazard crisis caused by the meteorite impact.

The impact of the meteorite falling into the sea did not cause much damage to the Yara civilization. The problem lay in the virus that subsequently traveled to the sea area where the Yara civilization was located via ocean currents.

There are quite a few solutions, but unfortunately they all require technical support from the Endless Energy.

"Alright, I got it. After this cycle ends, you can come back to the Endless Energy with me, right?"

"no problem."

Shi Yan is somewhat easygoing.

This made Bai Miao wonder why he hadn't found Shi Yan sooner and taken her away directly; then there wouldn't have been so much trouble.

Shi Yan seemed to have no attachment to the Yala civilization at all; she just happened to be in charge of its development.

With a few days left before the meteorite fell, Bai Miao asked Shi Yan again why the Yara civilization had developed in the deep sea.

Logically, when Noah's Ark took Shi Yan off the ship, it should have been to have her assist in the development of civilization on land.

How did development lead to the sea?

Moreover, it seems that the races have undergone considerable changes.

"It's their choice."

Shi Yan gave an ambiguous answer.

Bai Miao didn't press the matter further.

Once the conditions for restarting Time Smoke are met, it cannot be returned. Perhaps a crisis forced the Yara civilization to abandon the land and descend to the seabed.

This may not be the optimal solution, but the Yara civilization had no other choice.

More than 30,000 years is enough time for too many things to happen; even the civilization that Holk originally belonged to has been destroyed.

Kaguya's civilization existed in a distorted way.

Thinking about the different situations of the three civilizations, Bai Miao couldn't help but feel a little sad.

Can metropolitan areas really be developed?

Back on the Endless Energy, Bai Miao saw Irina and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Captain, have you found Shi Yan?"

“Found her. She has turned into a sundial, and she is unwilling to meet me in human form. She is also dealing with problems in a very mechanical way.”

Bai Miao asked Kaguya, "Is this what you meant by her being a little cold?"

“She wasn’t this rigid before… It’s possible that the Yara civilization has had to restart too many times before every major problem, so Shiyan has to minimize her rationality as much as possible.”

Emma was more concerned with whether the Yara civilization had developed some kind of belief in the Time Smoke.

“The Yara civilization decides what to do each time. For them, Shiyan is just a machine to judge where this action will lead in the previous cycle.”