"Why are you being so mystifying?"
Lu Qingchen sneered. "I don't believe that they gritted their teeth and persisted in a fierce battle where ninety percent of their soldiers were lost. What could have made the iron warriors collapse instantly after returning with full trophies? What did they discover exactly?"
"A pivot," Fuxi said.
Fuxi said, "Or rather, a switch."
"A … switch?"
Lu Qingchen was greatly confused. "What pivot? What switch?"
"The pivot that controls the black wall," Fuxi said.
"The switch that can turn on and off the black wall instantly. In that case, it should not be called a 'black wall' but a 'black domain' or a 'black curtain'. It is a dark barrier that can be turned on and off at will."
His words froze Lu Qingchen's soul instantly like a ladle of liquid nitrogen being poured into his soul.
Li Yao's soul was the same. His every thought was frozen.
Both of them were dwelling in the greatest confusion and shock. It took them a long time to digest Fuxi's words.
"What — what did you just say?"
Lu Qingchen's soul ripples were extremely messy, with tiny swirls spreading out. "Are you suggesting that the dark vacuum outside of our universe whose scale is immeasurable is not natural but man-made?
"Somebody — somebody extinguished the brilliance of billions of stars on purpose, shattered all the planets and celestial bodies in the universe, and transformed the space spanning billions of lightyears into a dark mist?
"How is it possible? How is it possible? The scale of the 'black wall' was far greater than the diameter of the enormous universe where the three thousand Sectors were located. Nobody could estimate how vast it was. For thousands of years, countless civilizations, countless forces, and countless outstanding super experts had tried to cross the black wall and rush out of the universe, but all of them returned in failure or even suffered heavy losses!
"We used to think that the black wall was a natural moat that could never be crossed. If it were an astronomical phenomenon generated by the universe, it would be understandable. But you are suggesting that the black wall is man-made and a dark barrier under the control of a certain force? It's — it's impossible. It's absolutely impossible!
"Black wall, black curtain, or black domain — whatever you want to call this wretched thing. If it is really man-made, how did its creator extinguish billions of stars, cover infinite celestial bodies, and shatter billions of planets in order to create such a zone of death where there is nothing?"
The more Lu Qingchen spoke, the more he saw. In the end, he roared hysterically.
He used this kind of extremely deranged roar to hide his shock and panic.
Li Yao was just like him. He really wanted to look up to the sky and howl, to vent the indescribable feeling of insignificance in his heart.
"The specific details have been lost in the past hundreds of thousands of years like the sand in the wind. Perhaps, I can recover some of the data after I find more computation and storage units, right?"
Fuxi said as calmly as before. "I only know that the technology to create the dark barrier is not necessarily as complicated as you think. It does not really need to extinguish billions of stars or shatter planets that are hundreds of times more in number. All you need to do is to 'block' the light, heat, radiations, and high-energy particles that they transmit in a certain way so that all the information and data can be blocked.
"It means that the star system and other celestial bodies that should exist in a certain coordinate are still moving on their original orbit, except that their information is' blocked ', making it impossible for the observers of lower levels or farther away to find them.
"Of course, you're right. Even if it is not necessary to shatter billions of stars, to achieve such a large-scale 'dark barrier' still requires unimaginable technology. Not only is it unimaginable for human beings today, even the Pangu civilization at that time could not have imagined it.
"At that time, the Pangu civilization had already grasped the technology to make use of the energy of the stars efficiently. They could establish large-scale energy bases close to the stars and even enshroud part of a star into a 'Kuafu's Sphere'. They also boasted the ability to detonate the star and destroy the entire galaxy, which was' Hou Yi's Arrow '.
"However, compared to the technology of the 'Black Curtain Builders', such technology was even more inferior than 'drilling wood to make fire'. Both 'Kuafu's Sphere' and 'Hou Yi's Arrow' were as childish as the toys of three-year-old children.
"Even by the most optimistic estimation, the gap between the peak technology of the Pangu civilization and that of the black screen builders is at least five million years, if not infinite. It means that, even in the perfect state where the civilization has the best luck, the most abundant resources, and everybody works together, it will take at least another five million years of development to reach the level of the black screen builders.
"In many cases, the progress of a civilization cannot be achieved by the accumulation of time alone. The Pangu civilization is actually fixed and mature. They have missed the best period of growth and development. It is almost impossible for them to reach the level of the Black Curtain Builders.
"It's like how an expert only reaches the Building Foundation Stage when he is 120 years old. It proves that his talents are only second to that of the Building Foundation Stage. However many resources and fortuitous encounters are given to him, it is almost impossible for him to advance into the Divinity Transformation Stage in his entire life. Do you understand what I'm saying?"
"I … I get it now. The saplings have been crooked since they were little. No matter how much fertilizer and water are applied to them, they will never grow into a towering tree that stands straight up," Lu Qingchen said.
Lu Qingchen struggled to say, "Faced with such a terrifying gap between civilizations, no wonder the top experts of the Pangu civilization were at a loss. However, who are the builders of the black curtain exactly? Why are they blocking the starlight and the radiation and creating such a boundless black barrier?"
"It's a prehistoric civilization," Fuxi said.
Fuxi said, "The Pangu civilization was not the first intelligent life in our universe. In the primeval age, the primeval age, and the aeons before the primeval age, there were countless intelligent lives and powerful civilizations that rose and fell like tides. One of the most powerful prehistoric civilizations built a dark barrier that completely enshrouded our universe. That is the information recorded on the 'hub' and the 'switch'.
"It's truly incredible," Lu Qingchen said.
"Does the Pangu civilization have such a clear understanding of the prehistoric civilizations, too?"
"Of course," Fuxi said.
"If the history of our universe is compressed into one year, the Pangu civilization did not appear until the dawn of the last day of the 365 days, and the civilization of mankind did not appear until noon or dusk of the same day. However, in the previous 364 days, who can say for sure how many different kinds of lives emerged and how many splendid civilizations were created?
"The civilization of mankind absorbed nutrients from the relics of the Pangu civilization, and the Pangu civilization was enlightened by the remains of the prehistoric civilizations. That is the true meaning of the heritage of civilizations."
"So, it means that the Pangu civilization once excavated the relics of some prehistoric civilizations?"
Lu Qingchen asked keenly. "Then, you should've known the existence and formidability of the prehistoric civilizations a long time ago. Although you did not expect them to be so strong, which was indeed shocking, you should not have completely collapsed, right?"
"Yes. The existence of the dark barrier alone was not enough to completely collapse the experts of the Pangu civilization," Fuxi said.
Fuxi said. "But why don't you think about it, think carefully about the reason why the prehistoric civilization built the dark shroud — why did they do that?"
Lu Qingchen pondered for a moment, his soul shivering more and more obviously. "Hiding. They wanted to hide themselves. They were hiding from something, a certain extremely dangerous enemy that they absolutely could not resist. Therefore, they had to hide themselves deeply!"
"Exactly," Fuxi said.
"Then, why don't you take another guess about what they were scared of and what they were hiding from?"
"The Flood."
Lu Qingchen's soul was even colder than liquid nitrogen. "The prehistoric civilizations were so scared of the Flood that they would rather erase the radiation and information of all the stars around them at the cost of infinite resources so that they could seal themselves and their offspring in the dark barrier billions of years later. They did not have the courage to march out and fight the Flood because they knew that they had absolutely, absolutely, absolutely no odds of winning against the Flood!
"Wait, there is a problem here. In a place where there should be a large number of stars and celestial bodies in the universe, if you create a black fog to cover everything, won't a … strange black spot appear? Will it really not be discovered by the observers outside?"
"You can imagine the dark barrier as a thick eggshell, but the patterns inside and outside of the eggshell are entirely different," Fuxi said.
"Observed from the inside to the outside, the dark barrier is a space zone that has no resources at all. But observed from the outside to the inside, there will naturally be a different view. Perhaps it is a barren, boring, and worthless world without any exploration or hunting value, which will discourage the hunters from coming to this place.
"All in all, the dark barrier is not a simple black spot. Other than hiding, it also has blocking and filtering functions. On one hand, it can stop the ignorant newborn civilizations in our universe from rushing out to get themselves killed. On the other hand, it can block and filter the tremendous harmful information transmitted from the outside world, just like the atmosphere can block ultraviolet rays.
"It is not hard to infer how much effort the builders of the black curtain have put into the newborn civilizations billions of years later.
"However, that is not the reason for desperation.
"The reason for their desperation is that even the prehistoric civilization, which was so powerful, could not put up any resistance when faced with the Flood. They could only bury their heads in the sand. Then, how powerful would the real Flood be?
"Now, do you understand it?
"Only when the gap in strength between the two parties is reduced to a certain level will there be desperation and fear. Ants will never feel desperation and fear for dinosaurs because the two parties are not on the same level at all. Ants cannot understand the strength of dinosaurs at all. Even if they are stomped to death by dinosaurs, they will only die in confusion without fear.
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