Sky Curtain: The Darwin Incident at the outset, the Declaration of the People's League

If the return to the universe is successful, the universe will be reborn—rebooted.

So, in the end, did the universe reboot?

The final scene shows the space where Cheng Xin left.

The fish there are blowing bubbles rapidly.

The audience: "..."

Okay, it's obvious.

The restart failed.

Chapter 113 I've Turned Off Your Freedom Microphone

"This Cheng Xin... wait... no... what is she doing? She always makes the wrong choice at the crossroads."

"This is truly a talent, truly..."

"To be able to do this well... that really shows a lot of talent."

They were speechless at Cheng Xin's actions, and many even began to criticize her.

Her actions really made it hard not to be criticized.

The handover of the sword.

Luo Ji made great contributions and was a hero who directly saved humanity!

As a result, they were feared, and humans showed no gratitude. As things progressed, humans somehow forgot the pain once the wound healed.

We must never forget the well-digger when we drink water!

After a period of peace, they forget how this peace came about and even want to disarm themselves!

Choosing Cheng Xin as the Swordholder... Putting aside Cheng Xin's own issues, the very fact that she was selected in the first place raises serious questions.

There is no doubt that human political systems are flawed.

Judging from the fact that their human history seems quite complete, there has never been a case of lost historical records.

So...

What has already happened, will surely happen again in the future?

That's insane.

They don't look at history at all.

Do you really think history is useless?

The only lesson humanity learns from history is that humanity learns nothing from history.

The original text reads, "However, experience and history have taught us that peoples and governments have never truly learned from history, nor have they ever acted in accordance with the lessons that should have been learned from it."

Simply put, it's the intellectuals of a country that doesn't record history who are talking about their own government!

Because of historical records in the east, the west revised Alexander's records several times.

If it weren't for historical records from the east, Alexander would probably have already conquered China.

Direct experience is important, but indirect experience is also important!

Also, the light-speed spaceship incident.

When the Trisolaran world was destroyed by a more advanced civilization, humanity realized that the Dark Forest Strike could strike the solar system at any moment.

The only hope of escape is a spaceship traveling at the speed of light.

However, the light-speed spaceship has a fatal side effect—the track it leaves behind will reveal Earth's location, potentially accelerating the arrival of the Dark Forest Strike.

The internal divisions within humanity ensued.

What did Cheng Xin do?

She stood firmly on the side of the opponents, publicly opposing the light-speed spaceship project and pushing the coalition government to pass a ban!

In her view, the escape of a minority is unfair and a sign of moral decay.

She believes that facing death together is far more "equal" than having someone run away.

As a result, the development of the light-speed spaceship was halted, Star Ring City surrendered before her, and humanity's last escape route was welded shut by her own hands.

That's fine.

It's not impossible to sacrifice oneself for civilization and carry out one's own will.

Don't you see that certain mustachioed man died for his country, receiving polarized opinions, but recently, for some reason, he's become incredibly popular...

For example, Emperor Chongzhen's martyrdom gave the Ming Dynasty a final moment of dignity, and the eunuchs around him directly elevated the Ming Dynasty's reputation by several levels...

But what did she do?

She opposes others building spaceships, yet her friend Ai AA secretly preserves an experimental light-speed spaceship called "Star Ring".

When the ground attack struck, Cheng Xin was on this spaceship escaping the solar system.

She claimed that "we cannot abandon the majority of people," but she herself was never abandoned.

She refused to build an ark for humanity, but instead boarded it alone.

Even Luo Ji didn't leave, and neither did the entire solar system.

But she left!

Those she persuaded to abandon their spaceships, those who believed in "fairness above all else," were ultimately compressed into a thin, lifeless painting within the two-dimensional solar system.

And she, in space, looked back at the collapsing starry sky.

In addition, there is another detail that has been repeatedly pondered.

Cheng Xin survived two apocalypses. Deterrence failed, humanity was enslaved, but she lived.

Even if the solar system were to become two-dimensional and humanity were to become nearly extinct, she would still survive.

Almost everyone around her survived.

Is this considered lucky or unlucky?

Aside from Cheng Xin, most people are still focused on the two-dimensional foil that appeared at the end.

"Dimensional reduction attack... This method is quite interesting. Most methods usually involve destroying the target, but this... is folding, downgrading the opponent, compressing it from three dimensions into two dimensions, turning a solid into a plane, turning living people and planets into a picture without thickness..."

"Is this person, after being reduced to two dimensions, still alive?"

"It's hard to say. In the traditional sense, it's not because you still 'exist,' but just in another way."

"But if we have to say from our perspective... it should be dead. It seems that many people in the Sky are very secretive about that thing. It's highly likely that after being two-dimensionalized, it can't think anymore, it has no thoughts, it's like it's dead."

"This is far more terrifying than direct destruction. Destruction at least brings an end, but two-dimensionalization is an ellipsis—you're not finished yet, but you'll never be finished... It's truly suffocating."

"Moreover, it is said that it is irreversible. Once it goes down, it can't go up again. It's like a black hole; once you go in, you can't get out."

"The key point is that this thing wasn't specifically designed for humans. It was something that an advanced civilization just casually pulled out of its warehouse. Apparently, it was quite common in that century, practically everywhere."

The topic has sparked much discussion around the world.

Gradually, they began to calculate how many two-dimensional foils their civilization could withstand, or they started to think about how to make two-dimensional foils.

"Dimensional reduction attack... This method is interesting. A very interesting method. Directly reducing the enemy's dimension, I'd like to try it."

"How about... we take a look at it?"

"It involves dimensions...that's a bit difficult to study."

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The world of Super God Academy.

Keisha sat regally on her throne, her silver hair cascading down, her wings slightly folded.

Her gaze fell on the sky, staring at the two-dimensional solar system that was unfolding. She frowned slightly and tapped her fingers on the armrest, doing so absentmindedly.

He Xi stood at the foot of the steps, arms crossed, looked up for a while, and finally spoke: "This thing... is interesting."

"Ah."

Keisha didn't turn her head: "It is somewhat interesting."

How do you plan to defend against it?

Keisha did not respond immediately, but continued to gaze at the completely flattened solar system.

Three-dimensional stars, planets, and nebulae have all been transformed into flat lines with no thickness, eerie and deadly.

After a long silence, she slowly spoke, her voice calm yet each word clear: "This is not something that 'prevention' can solve; it fundamentally rewrites the rules of the universe, just like the previous cultural disaster."

"Forcibly collapsing three-dimensional space into two dimensions renders even the most powerful cosmic energy defenses, such as angelic energy shields and divine armor, utterly useless against this rule-based attack."

She narrowed her eyes slightly: "Think about it carefully. In a two-dimensional plane with only length and width, where does three-dimensional thickness come from? And how can it support a three-dimensional defensive shield?"

He Xi shrugged: "So, all physical defenses have failed, that's why I'm asking you how to defend against them."

Keisha sighed and leaned back.

"There's nothing we can do about it. It's not our world anyway, so it doesn't matter."

"This isn't like you at all. Have you been transported to another world by someone else? Come on, tell us the truth, where did you come from?"

He Xi propped her head up and joked.

Keisha glanced at He Xi speechlessly: "Do you think I'm that much of a busybody?"

"I really don't think you would ignore this kind of thing. At least you want me to study everything you see."

He Xi pointed to her eye sockets, wanting her to see her dark circles.

Unfortunately, my divine body level is too high, so I don't have that thing.

"I've come to terms with it. There are so many technologies, and you've tried to research them for so long, but in the end, very few of them actually work."

Keisha was also helpless.

The projector screen has been playing for a while now, and even though she and He Xi tried to figure out the technology together, they still couldn't understand it.

"So what do you plan to do? We can't just sit here and wait to die, can we? I think Kayle and Morgana will definitely study his Void Concepts..."