Chapter 1371: Chapter 531: Signs of Annihilation
Chu Yan’s eyes changed slightly when she heard this, and she looked at Lin Xian with some surprise.
"I didn’t expect you to be a romantic."
"You’ve seen everything in my consciousness, didn’t you already know that?"
Chu Yan shook her head: "Seeing memories and understanding personality are two different things. Besides, under the apocalypse, people’s personalities change a lot. For example, haven’t your mindset changed significantly from a few days ago?"
Lin Xian smiled and said, "I just took off the labels of ’Sword Holder’ and ’Savior’, and with companions like these, except for the orbit issue, I don’t need to make all the decisions myself. I think this is the right way."
"Why? You have to know that you’re the highest executor appointed by Commander Ye," Chu Yan asked in confusion.
Lin Xian looked at her, his face calm: "I’m a firefighter, not a savior. To be honest, I’m just a college student who hasn’t even graduated, inexplicably riding a train to escape. God knows what I’ve experienced along the way. But I know my own limits. If the apocalypse depends solely on me for survival, then the destruction of this world isn’t unjustified."
"Why do you say that?" Chu Yan asked.
Lin Xian replied, "This world isn’t about heroism. The Tower People have a mycelium network, concentrating the wisdom of their entire species to achieve technology or civilization levels hundreds or even thousands of years ahead of us. Until now, we can’t even open the cover above us. After Apocalypse Day, nearly all humans were wiped out. The remaining people are just fleeing, and even the battle at Dawn City was merely a narrow escape, not a real victory."
"In such circumstances, under this kind of civilization framework, the strongest human force shouldn’t be the wisdom of one person, but everyone’s. Thinking like this gives me hope for humanity, and also stops me from dwelling on things, which is much more comforting."
Chu Yan was surprised: "How did you suddenly realize all this?"
Lin Xian looked at her: "Because of you, didn’t we communicate mentally?"
Chu Yan quickly turned her gaze away and said coldly, "I’m not of that nature, how could I influence you?"
"It’s not because of your personality," Lin Xian smiled, "but after experiencing two minds thinking together, I realized why the Tower People developed so quickly."
"In the Civilization Preview Ball, their social structure is theoretically stronger than ours. No barriers, no races, no classes, no communication obstacles, even no deceit; all consciousness unified. Based on this, civilization’s development aims at a singular breakthrough, naturally accelerating exponentially. Even if they still look like monsters, their technology is at a higher dimension."
Chu Yan fell silent upon hearing this. For a long time, she watched the swirling snow ahead and the swarm of drones flying all around before suddenly speaking.
"Such a society is indeed efficient, but does uniform consciousness necessarily mean it’s right?"
Lin Xian frowned: "What do you mean?"
Chu Yan shook her head: "I don’t know, I’m just speaking randomly. I just feel that world development is inherently chaotic. People from 100 years ago didn’t know how the world would develop 100 years later. Different thoughts resulted in different outcomes, affecting paths of civilization development. Perhaps because of this, the world became the way it is now."
"But if all consciousness is unified, following one direction, though fast, wouldn’t it lose the other 99 possible directions?" Chu Yan said slowly: "Because the premise is, we don’t know which direction is right, or rather, suitable..."
"Just like a master archer studies archery to perfection, yet is defeated by gunpowder; wood has buoyancy, but all ships on water are made of metal."
"Just like all our trains are connected, moving forward on a single track; is that right? What if this track doesn’t lead to Ushuaia?"
Lin Xian’s expression slowly froze upon hearing this, and he stared ahead, falling into silence.
[Radar has detected an increase in the density of biological cluster responses.]
Viola’s voice sounded at this time.
"Increased by how much?" Chu Yan asked.
Viola projected a holographic image. In the image, the previously sparse biological response points had increased slightly compared to a few days ago.
"We should be approaching the city."
Lin Xian took a deep breath: "Most of these things can’t move, unlike the Snow Demon we encountered on the Snowfield; even if they’re denser, they’re not charging at us."
[I need to remind you that aside from the radar detection wave limitations, our current detection equipment efficiency is decreasing, especially the magnetic signal.]
Viola looked at Lin Xian and said: [I hypothesize that environmental changes are occurring in the region, which is not a good omen; our current gravitational coefficients are showing slight changes upon testing.]
Lin Xian and Chu Yan met each other’s eyes, and Chu Yan immediately said: "It seems that the covered area is undergoing dimensional changes."
Lin Xian immediately contacted Grace: "Grace, what’s the situation in North America now?"
On the geostationary orbit, Grace quickly responded as she observed Blue Star, now a crimson planet: [The target area has developed an interstellar-level storm vortex, accompanied by strong energy reactions. It can be deduced that energy from other intercontinental regions and the solar radiation layer is currently converging in that direction.]
