One bomb could easily destroy a city and kill millions of people. Many people could even easily make a lot of explosives at home.
However, with the arrival of the Catastrophe and the Star of God, all the rules in the world changed. As a result, humans lost the ability to make explosives for hundreds of years after the Catastrophe. It was not until the second holy war that humans regained this ability through excavating underground relics and being enlightened by the far-ancient civilization. It was said that this ability was related to crystals. However, compared to before the Catastrophe, people who could make explosives were even rarer than dinosaurs in the human society before the Catastrophe.
Why did things that could explode in the past not explode after the Catastrophe? Until now, many people have tried to discover the mystery of it and have proposed many explanations. Among these explanations, there are two most famous ones. One is the string theory based on the universe of string theory, and the other is the god particle theory based on the star of god.
The argument of the String Change Theory was that the Cataclysm and the Star of God had changed the basic composition of the planet's matter, which led to the change of many of the planet's basic rules. There were many people who supported this view, but the String Theory of the Universe was still controversial before the Cataclysm. Using the String Change Theory to explain everything that happened after the Cataclysm seemed to make sense, but it was meaningless because it was not something that humans could grasp.
Besides the String Change Theory, there was also the Mysterious Particle Theory brought by the Star of God. This theory had a very broad foundation and was supported by many people. It was said that some mysterious particle brought by the Star of God had changed all the rules on this planet after being illuminated by it. People who supported the mysterious particle theory liked to mention the success of human research on the microscopic world before the Cataclysm. One of their favorite metaphors was the "missing seat theory". In a classroom with 50 chairs, if there were only 49 people sitting in it, as long as there was an empty chair, then all 49 people in the classroom could freely change their positions because there would always be an empty chair. This was the scientific rule advocated by the world before the Cataclysm. The basis of this rule was the empty chair in the classroom. That chair allowed all the people in the classroom to maintain mobility and possibility.
After the Cataclysm, the Star of God sat on the empty chair in the classroom. The fluidity and possibility that could be maintained in the classroom disappeared in an instant. Because there was no vacant chair. However, the light brought by the Star of God also allowed the people in the classroom to see the outside world and the limitation of their living space. They saw the colorful space outside the classroom that everyone thought was only darkness.
This was the most popular view. Zhang Tie's history teacher at school supported this view. According to the current research and understanding about the human world before the Catastrophe, humans before the Catastrophe had already fallen into a so-called "scientific trap" under the guidance of demons and the arrogance of human self-consciousness. At that time, humans blindly believed that the science that they had mastered was the only and ultimate truth in this universe. However, the fact proved that the crazy worship of science was just a game played by a few people and the majority of the people. That image was the whole picture and truth of the universe. In front of the whole picture and truth of the universe, science was not even a hand; it could only be a finger. When this finger touched the elephant, everyone believed that the universe was actually a rough and elastic wall which confined people. Their living space depended on the size of that wall.
The biggest fallacy of science was rooted in the limitation of people's five senses and consciousness. What people see with their eyes, hear with their ears, smell with their noses, and feel with their tactile senses are actually the existence of a certain substance within a very narrow frequency range of visible light. The frequency that people could perceive in the visible range was just a bowl of water in a water tank or a single key on a piano keyboard to the entire universe. The Hand of Science pressed that key, and people heard the sound, so they treated that key as the entire piano.
The so-called science was just an extension of people's five senses and consciousness to explore the universe. The limitation of people's five senses and consciousness led to the limitation of science. In the early period, the science mastered by humans indeed played a positive role in human progress. However, later on, especially in the hundreds of years before the Catastrophe, the so-called science became the shackle of people's self-confinement and the tool that demons used to destroy humans.
At that time, the "spokesman of science" told people that humans were the only intelligent life on this planet, even the only intelligent life in the entire universe...
At that time, the "spokesman of science" told people that the planet under their feet was solid and there was nothing except magma and stones under the ground...
At that time, the "spokesman of science" told people that the so-called full potential of human was to run faster, jump higher and be smarter...
At that time, the "spokesman of science" told people that the original ancestor of human beings was a carbon-based protein produced by lightning striking water. After many years of evolution, this carbon-based protein became a single-celled organism. After many years of evolution, it became something else... Finally, apes evolved into humans. Humans didn't have a history or a past. You could see the history and past of humans in zoos and geological fossil museums.
Oh, at that time, the "science" also told people that more than 98% of genes in your body were rubbish.
People believed it. Therefore, demons hiding among humans were very happy.
At that time, humans were actually like lambs whose eyes were covered by black cloth and waiting to be slaughtered. Humans were killed by demons in great batches in various ways. However, nobody knew why or who did it. In the human world, while science was making unprecedented progress, the biggest role of science was to weld the cages that imprisoned human beings more tightly, to tighten the ropes that bound human beings, and to make the methods of killing human beings more terrifying and innovative, making it impossible for people to guard against them.
Before the Catastrophe, many people had been implanted with chips controlled by demons the moment they were born. After that, they would be under the strict supervision of demons. After that, they would be forced to inject some viruses into their bodies in the name of vaccine injection, which would completely destroy their immune system. Those viruses would even restrict the further improvement and liberation of their potential and DNA. After that, all the people would be thrown into the terrifying world which was designed by demons which was full of terror, revenge and violence.
In that world, wars were killing people; chaos was killing people; the environment being destroyed and polluted by humans was killing people; the food being modified by demons was killing people; hatred was killing people; fear was killing people; the inequality between the rich and the poor was killing people; the oppressive system was killing people; everything and everyone was serving a terrifying order that would eventually exterminate everyone consciously or unconsciously.
Because many people in this era believed that it was the Star of God who saved mankind from the terrible trap of killing each other, most people blamed the Star of God for all the changes that happened in the world. They wanted to find the answer to everything from the Star of God.
The arrival of the Star of God marked the end of the scientific age and the beginning of the Age of Black Iron. Therefore, the latter theory was more influential.
Besides the above two explanations, Zhang Tie also heard another explanation from Donder, which was that this planet had entered another space-time density since the Catastrophe and the arrival of the Star of God. In different space-time densities, all the materials had different properties and performances. This space-time density theory had existed before the Catastrophe and was first popular among some secret human societies. It was the oldest theory.
Zhang Tie's knowledge and wisdom couldn't distinguish whether these theories were true or false. He could only pay attention to the facts that happened around him. These theories and hypotheses only stated one fact — — in this age where science had already come to an end, exploding things and those who could make them were all treasures. Commoners might not even see an explosion in their whole lives. Even in wars, explosives were rarely used. It didn't mean that they were useless; instead, they were too useful to be used. Using explosives in wars was like using gold bricks to smash people. Without ten times the return, who would be willing to use gold bricks to smash people?
The features of the explosion were thunder-like booms and flames. Donder had told Zhang Tie to identify the two important features of the explosion. As Zhang Tie had never seen an explosion before, he was not completely sure whether what he saw through the window was a legendary explosion or not. He just felt that the flames in the sky outside the window were very amazing at night.
After that booms, the entire Blapei didn't become tranquil anymore.
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On the second day, when Zhang Tie put on the first lieutenant's military uniform and went out, he found that the entire streets of Blapei were filled with soldiers in dark red military uniforms who were checking passers-by. The atmosphere in the entire Blapei was ten times more intense than that of yesterday.
As for Blapei which was only a bit more than 100 km away from the frontline, it was only one hour's drive away from the frontline. After two weeks since Zhang Tie came to the Logistics Department, the smoke and destruction of the war between the two countries had unavoidably spread to this place from the frontline...
The tranquility of Blapei was broken.
In the chaotic world, where was the pure land?
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