Civilization was an inconceivable existence. No matter what happened, as long as the entire social structure was not destroyed in one go, this huge existence would always be able to repair itself. It could even turn everything, good or bad, left behind by the impact into a part of itself, as if nothing had ever happened.
In the past three thousand years, humans on Earth had experienced too many changes.
In the last three thousand years on Earth, most of the time, humans had been in a feudalistic era with low productivity and slow progress.
However, in these three thousand years, humans seemed to have turned on a cheat, going through the third industrial revolution, the fourth industrial revolution, and even the fifth, sixth, and seventh industrial revolution.
In the first thousand years, humans' technological level went from the nanometer level to the millimeter level, and then to the picometer level. They could directly operate on the atomic level, and even move protons.
To achieve such a high degree of precision, they no longer needed simple material science technology. More importantly, they needed to be able to control the force field.
Using the electromagnetic force field to replace the original industrial synthesis machinery, they could achieve a precision of ten to the minus twelve power, which was on the picometer level.
Since then, it meant that humans had completely walked the path of electrochemistry. Turning stone into gold had also entered the realm of reality. Rare metals and other elements could even be directly synthesized using carbon and silicon atoms that could be found anywhere in the universe.
In addition, humans' aerospace technology had also reached a new level with the control of the energy system and electromagnetic force.
Although the speed of light was still insurmountable, and the fascinating space warp and space-time flight were still science fiction stories, there was a revolutionary change in the medium that provided propulsion for spaceflight.
In the past, spaceships relied on their own fuel injection to form a reverse thrust force when they were launched on Earth. After leaving Earth, they could only rely on the initial speed to fly in the universe.
However, when a new spaceship took off, it no longer relied on combustion. Instead, it relied on the anti-gravity system to rise vertically. When it was within the range of a solar system, it relied on remote control of gravity to move forward.
For example, when leaving Earth, the gravitational engine was first aimed at Pluto. In the universe where there was no air resistance, it continuously increased the gravitational pull of the Earth and the Sun. Naturally, the spaceship would continue to accelerate.
Relying on this gravitational system, the spaceship could easily accelerate to more than seven thousand kilometers per second in the solar system.
When the spacecraft left the farthest planet around the Solar System, the spacecraft directly activated the Interstellar Navigation System.
It sounded complicated, but it was actually very simple. The interstellar traction system could attract the cosmic dust in front of the spaceship and eject it through the thrusters at the rear of the spaceship.
Regardless of whether it was the traction in front or the ejection at the back, it could provide the spacecraft with continuous forward flight propulsion, allowing the spacecraft to reach a speed of more than ten thousand kilometers per second.
Although space seemed to be a vacuum, it was not actually a void. There were usually large amounts of dust and even isotope particles floating in the vacuum.
Protons, neutrons, and electrons could be extracted from these isotope particles to provide energy.
Nuclear fusion had already broken away from the control of low-level nuclei such as hydrogen and deuterium. Instead, it directly jumped to the more subtle nuclear level, and the precision of the operation was directly implemented at the proton level.
With the support of such a level of technology, human spaceships could practically move forever in the universe, unless they crashed into the true nothingness.
But even so, relying on the propulsion medium and energy stored in the spaceship, the spaceship could cross a distance of more than three solar systems.
The detection equipment that monitored the background of cosmic radiation could also guide people in advance to avoid the pure void.
Unless they were unlucky enough to crash into a gravitational vortex or a cosmic storm, general space travel was very safe.
Of course, the cracking of gravitational vortexes or cosmic storms was still beyond the level of human technology. This was not surprising. In the past, humans did not even understand the cause of lightning. During the sailing era, they were also helpless against the buoyancy vortex in Bermuda.
With this level of technological advancement, humans had traveled to more than 3,000 galaxies near the solar system in the first millennium, developed more than 1,000 colonized planets, and conquered three primary civilizations that were either in the feudal era or in the primitive society.
The total population of Earth's civilization had also reached the level of trillions.
In the second millennium, the technological level of humans on Earth had directly reached the level of Fermi.
For example, from 3000 to 4000 AD, humans could even carve on protons.
In addition, through a deep understanding of the power of the universe and in-depth exploration of black holes, humans could finally locate through cosmic radiation.
After sacrificing hundreds of thousands of pioneers, humans successfully solved the mystery of black holes.
After more than two hundred years of research, using the analysis of black holes as a foundation, humans could finally temporarily create a weakened version of artificial black holes through the control of force fields, which was a wormhole.
In the beginning, the duration of artificial black holes from birth to destruction did not exceed one ten-thousandth of a second. Moreover, the aperture was extremely small, and it was difficult to locate the direction of the exit.
However, after 100 years of exploration, the diameter of the wormhole had been enlarged to hundreds of kilometers, and the duration had also reached one-hundredth of a second. The direction of the exit could also be controlled within a certain range.
Since then, humans had successfully mastered the technology of space travel, entered the next era, and became a true level-two civilization.
After that, when humans truly swept through the Milky Way, they broke into the territory of another mature level-two civilization. It was the level-two civilization that had known of the existence of humans a long time ago.
The sudden intrusion of Earth's civilization was beyond the expectations of this level-two civilization.
They did not expect that in just over a thousand years, this low-level civilization, which was extremely primitive in their eyes, had developed to this stage.
The last time their intelligence personnel arrived on Earth was in 1786. They planned to send out their intelligence personnel again in 3786. There were still 179 years before they would send their intelligence personnel to Earth again.
After all, the distance was very far. Even a level-two civilization would have to pay a huge price for such a long voyage.
They did not think that a civilization that still used sailboats to sail on the sea would develop to a level that even they had to look at directly in just 2,000 years.
The sudden appearance of Earth's humans caught them off guard. No one had expected that Earth's civilization would experience one technological explosion after another in such a short period of time.
After a short test between the two sides, a war inevitably broke out.
The veteran level-two civilizations were ahead of humans in all aspects of basic science. In the early stages of the war, humans were repeatedly defeated, and even their mother planet, Earth, was almost conquered.
In order to preserve the continuation of the race's tinder, Earth's civilization even sent a total of more than three billion escape teams from various colonized planets. This was called the Tinder Project.
Four years after the Tinder Project was implemented, a scientist on the Tinder Spaceship 79 finally developed a new combat mode that combined the Awakened's abilities with wormhole technology.
Using the so-called mysterious energy in the Awakened's bodies, they could suppress the rules of the universe to a certain extent and create individual combat mechs that could travel short distances through wormholes.
Following that, the Tinder Spaceship 79 carried the hope of humanity's counterattack and killed its way back to the humans' last stronghold.
In the next 100 years, Earth's civilization first used the interstellar mechs to stabilize their stronghold. At the same time, they further developed wormhole technology and crazily improved their weapons. In the end, they turned defeat into victory and completely conquered the veteran level-two civilizations. It took them 300 years to finally digest the technological achievements of the veteran level-two civilizations in the year 4000 AD.
At the same time, another symbolic event happened. The last non-player, a baby, awakened as a player less than three days after it was born.
Since then, Earth's civilization had a population of 10 trillion people and 10 trillion players.
Human evolution once again entered a new chapter. Intelligence, physical strength, lifespan, and other characteristics were developed to the next stage.
During the period from 4000 AD to 5000 AD, wormhole technology was developed to the extreme, including folding wormholes, morphing wormholes, space tearing devices, and other technologies from scratch. The precision of human control had even reached the level of ten to the minus eighteenth power, which was an amigo level.
Through equipment, humans could even directly capture heat to synthesize quarks, electrons, and even protons and neutrons.
Being able to convert energy into matter meant that humans had entered the next stage.
If Earth's civilization was given enough time, with the creativity and productivity that humans were currently displaying, Earth's civilization could completely conquer the Milky Way.
However, in the year 4987 AD, just as humans had completely mastered antimatter technology, a level-three spiritual civilization that had ruled the Milky Way for more than 500 million years suddenly descended.
A terrifying spiritual attack swept across the Orion Arm, Perseus Arm, and Sagittarius Arm with an irresistible force. These were the three Milky Way Cantilever Arms that had the footprints of Earth's civilization.
This level-three spiritual civilization clearly wanted to strangle the potential threat in the cradle in an instant.
When low-level civilizations were not enough to pose a threat to them, the spiritual civilization was willing to observe the other party's progress as an observer. Through the analysis of low-level civilizations, the spiritual civilization could gain a lot of insights.
After possessing absolute calmness and a sufficiently long lifespan, the best way to increase their knowledge was to observe the lives of others.
Of course, if the conditions allowed, the spiritual civilization also wanted to leave the Milky Way and go to the nearby Andromeda Galaxy or other galaxies in the local galaxy cluster.
However, the Andromeda Galaxy was too far away from the Milky Way. It was 2.5 million light years away.
The spiritual civilization could only drift at a speed of 3,000 kilometers per second, which was one percent of the speed of light. If they wanted to drift to the Andromeda Galaxy, they would need at least 250 million years.
However, the oldest existence in this civilization was less than five million years old. They really did not have the courage to take such a step into the void.
As for the other galaxy clusters in the even larger Virgo Supercluster, it was even more impossible for them to explore it.
The fear of the Void was ingrained in the genes of the spiritual civilization.
The existence of the spiritual civilization had brought them a long lifespan and extremely high intelligence, but it also made their bodies unable to ride spaceships like Earth's civilization, which was faster.
In addition, although they had mastered wormhole technology, they could not let their bodies pass through the wormhole.
They would be completely torn apart.
Of course, the way they transmitted information and thought was also derived from their natural instincts that they had evolved. Even if two individuals were on opposite sides of the Milky Way and were separated by 100,000 light years, they could communicate at any time like Earthlings chatting on QQ.
Therefore, when they decided to launch an extermination operation against Earth's civilization, this spiritual civilization mobilized more than 100,000 individuals. They first quietly came to the vicinity of a planet inhabited by humans or a space station and suddenly launched an attack, exactly like what they had done many times in the past.
The Earth's civilization had been born for less than two million years, and it had only been less than 20,000 years since it had truly become a civilization. It was not even as long as the individual lifespan of a level-3 spiritual civilization.
To the spiritual civilization, wiping out a civilization with such a short lifespan was about as easy as picking off a rice-grain-sized scar on a person's body.
However, this spiritual civilization failed. Their mental attacks did not cause the slightest bit of harm to the humans on Earth.
The reason was simple. The humans on Earth, who were all gamers, had a mental defense system that they could not understand at all.
The depth of information in this defense system even exceeded the understanding of a level-3 civilization. It was higher than dark matter, higher than the basic forces of the universe, and even higher than the level of the existence of the universe itself.
As soon as the mental attacks came into contact with this defense system, they were automatically counterattacked by the defense system. Then, these spiritual civilization individuals, whose bodies were at least 100 times the size of the Sun, suffered a devastating impact.
The bodies of the level-3 civilization individuals that did not have physical bodies completely collapsed in an instant, turning into dark matter and heat that drifted in the universe. Their memories were even devoured by the players' Esper abilities.
This was not the end. The 'game' system counterattacked for the awakened Esper abilities of the humans. After killing 100,000 spiritual civilization individuals, it continued to sweep through the natural mental link between the individuals of this civilization. Like a virus, it wiped out the ordinary members of the level-3 civilization, ranging from monarchs to kingdoms, in an extremely short period of time.
The humans on Earth regained their clarity after a short period of confusion. Many memories that they did not have before appeared in their minds.
All the knowledge that the spiritual civilization had accumulated for more than 800 million years had been completely accepted by the Earth civilization just like that.
The advancement of Earth's civilization from level-2 and a half to level-3 was supposed to be a very long process. However, it had been skipped by someone in the form of a huge gift.
The knowledge provided by level-3 civilizations not only included their own research on the spiritual level but also all the scientific and technological achievements of thousands of level-2 civilizations in the entire Milky Way Galaxy over a total of 800 million years.
The spiritual civilization lasted 800 million years from its birth to its destruction, ruling the Milky Way Galaxy for 500 million years.
However, be it the first three hundred million years or the next five hundred million years, this spiritual civilization never stopped plundering and spying on the knowledge of low-level civilizations.
The great level-3 civilization had only made one mistake, which was to treat the awakening of the players on Earth as an ordinary evolution of the universe and not pay much attention to it.
Of course, when they wanted to take this seriously, they immediately launched a thunderous attack. However, they never expected that they would be killed by the recoil. They did not even manage to kill a single Earthling.
However, if they had done this in the early days, the humans of Earth would definitely have experienced pain. All non-player ordinary people would have died, but those who survived would have been able to obtain the knowledge of the Level 3 spiritual civilization much earlier.
As for which result was better, there was no answer.
In short, everything they had accumulated benefited the humans of Earth.
In the next fifty years or so, the Earth civilization digested the knowledge system of the entire Milky Way Galaxy while fighting and contending with the Protoss in the game system.
In the year 5041, humans were defeated by the Protoss in the Sea of Time, which had become even larger. The Core of the Dimension, which was hidden at the bottom of the Sea of Time, was obtained by the Protoss.
In the year 5045, billions of human players benefited from the assistance of two "indigenous" Martial Emperors in the Realm of True Force. They defeated the Protoss and obtained the true inheritance of the Martial Saint of True Force. They also controlled the highest peak of the mountain spirit.
In the year 5050, humans and the Protoss finally entered the last game space. It was an unprecedentedly high-level and complex world.
This place was called the World of Creation.
At the same time, the super civilization that ruled the Virgo Galaxy, one of the true overlords of the Earth Universe, arrived in the Milky Way. This was because the experimental sample that this super civilization had released 63 years ago had been erased.
The experimental sample of the super civilization was the level-3 spiritual civilization that had once ruled the Milky Way.
At this time, Chen Guang had returned.
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