"Lord, this might be one of the reasons why advanced civilizations don't come into contact with low-level civilizations," Ling Dang said.
"Just because they don't want to be influenced by culture?" Bai Ge pondered.
Ling Dang said, "This is only one of the reasons. It has to be combined with the explosion of technology and the cost of war."
The encounter of two civilizations was often like a chemical reaction.
When advanced civilizations discovered low-level civilizations, there would be a great silence effect. Advanced civilizations only had two choices.
They could either ignore the other party or destroy the other party.
That was because communication was meaningless. First of all, the other party would not benefit from it. Backward technology was like a joke to advanced civilizations.
Advanced civilizations would not help the other party's technology explode. Once the technology exploded to the point where it was useful to them, it meant that the other party was a huge threat.
Under such circumstances, it was obviously stupid to risk the consequences of cultural integration to communicate. That was because other than bringing uncontrollable risks to their civilization, they would not gain any benefits.
That was because communication was not beneficial but harmful. Thus, ignoring was the greatest kindness.
If the kindness was not enough, they would definitely destroy the other party. It was not even worthy of being called a war.
When basic physics reached a certain level, rare earth resources such as minerals became more and more meaningless.
Hydrogen, helium, and carbon were substances that could be found in any galaxy. There were also many heavy elements such as iron. Their existence had nothing to do with whether there was a civilization or not.
Therefore, any civilization that could cross galaxies would definitely not start a war for resources. That was equivalent to killing someone in order to take the soil in their yard.
Soil was everywhere. Why did they have to take someone else's soil? Why did they have to destroy the other party?
Therefore, occupation, invasion, and other direct contact wars would not happen if the technological gap was too great.
That would increase the cost of war and might even cause the other party's technology to explode.
If he really felt threatened, he would destroy the entire group. He would do it cleanly. All communication between them would only be detrimental.
"What if we can't crush and destroy them directly?" Bai Ge asked.
"Then we'll leave first. Unless the two civilizations are too close, or the other party has the ability to easily cross galaxies, or there are more reasons that make it possible to start a war with a higher cost. Otherwise, advanced civilizations would rather not develop this galaxy first and turn to countless other galaxies in the universe, "Ling Dang said.
At that moment, Bai Ge constructed a picture of various advanced civilizations silently moving around in the universe.
Because of the cost of war, advanced civilizations would not engage in a war with low-level civilizations. They would definitely fight a non-contact war.
If they could not destroy them immediately or if they had good intentions, they would ignore them and move further away.
Only when they encountered more advanced civilizations and figured out the distribution of the civilizations that were extremely threatening would they tacitly agree to divide the real borders.
A number of low-leveled civilizations that were discovered midway would be ignored during this process. Just like the primitive tribes living in the Amazon jungle, they would suddenly know very late, "What?" ............
As for the low-leveled civilizations that had been trapped, if necessary, they would be destroyed. How long they could live depended on luck.
A lot of it depended on how stupid this low-level civilization was. If they were so stupid that they would self-destruct on their mother planet, then they would not know that they were not alone even when they died.
"Is this the explanation of the Fermi Paradox?" Bai Ge asked.
Ling Dang said, "Yes. Judging from the fact that there are civilizations so close to us, the birth of civilizations is not harsh. The Milky Way might be crowded. It's like a city with many small houses and buildings. We're like ants living in the home of an advanced civilization. Earth is an ant nest. "
The Fermi Paradox was a problem that had always troubled the people of Earth. There was a high probability that there was a civilization in the universe that was more technologically advanced than Earth. Even if it was only a few million years ahead of Earth, with the development of technology, it should have discovered Earth by now. But why was there no trace of other civilizations on Earth? Why is the universe so silent? Why can't we receive any meaningful communication?
Bai Ge knew about the Great Silence after using anomalies to discover the mysterious civilization's gravitational waves.
The reason was simple. Humans were blind and deaf.
It was not that they did not exist, but they could not see or hear. Electromagnetic waves were too easily interfered with by nature, and it was difficult for them to travel further. They would weaken after a short distance.
Even with Bai Ge's current technology, he could not break away from the electromagnetic field in terms of communication, let alone Earth.
Spaceships that moved at the speed of light did not exist. Even if they did, they would be microscopic. There was no macroscopic matter that could move at the speed of light in the universe, so there was basically no trace of other civilizations.
And the universe was so big that many huge things could be reduced to the size of a pixel.
Earth had no idea what was happening in other places. Even if there was a war between two advanced civilizations, Earth would be ignorant.
So they could neither see nor hear.
In a situation where they could not actively see or hear, the advanced civilizations would ignore the lower civilizations, so they could not passively come into contact with them.
Earth was obviously a poisonous little ant nest. The weak and the weak could be tolerated, and this was a situation that only the owners of the house had good intentions. But as soon as they started to expand, they would be eliminated immediately.
The progress of civilization, in this situation, became a countdown to destruction. As the times progressed, they would either commit suicide or be killed.
There was a past, there was a present, but there was no future.
This was the tragic situation of all civilizations that were not the first generation.
The reason for such a cruel fate was only that the civilization was' born 'a little later …
"In other words, Earth may have been encircled in the sphere of influence of a certain advanced civilization … and the timing of this encirclement may have been before modern times?" Bai Ge said.
"I just confirmed it from the Flying Noodle God. This is the case," Ling Dang said.
Bai Ge was shocked at first. Not to mention Earth, just the 4,000 spaceships that had been scattered out were likely to be destroyed now.
But then he felt that something was wrong. Since Earth was already in the sphere of a certain advanced civilization, and he and many other spaceships had slipped out of the Solar System, why had there not been a great purge yet?
Logically speaking, the great purge should have come as early as when the first spaceship was built.
Ling Dang said, "Because the advanced civilization in our area is about to be destroyed by the civilization six thousand light-years away, and the cause of the war is to retaliate for our attack …"
"Uh …" Bai Ge was stunned for a moment, then he was speechless.
It was indeed possible for a war to break out between advanced civilizations, but the probability was actually very low.
The closer the technology of two civilizations was, the more difficult it was to determine whether one had the advantage or the other. Even if one had the advantage, it was very likely that it would become the other's advantage during the war due to the technological explosion …
It was still the same point. Civilizations could either ignore each other or go to war, and if they wanted to fight, they would fight until one side was completely destroyed.
Under such circumstances, the vast majority of civilizations would tacitly maintain restraint and engage in a cold war.
No one was willing to start a war easily.
There were very few advanced civilizations that were immature enough to start a war that they might not necessarily win, but would definitely decide life and death.
Of course, if someone fired the first shot, the war would still break out.
For example, if a certain advanced civilization threw a pile of garbage at another advanced civilization …
Obviously, in the four months after Earth's anomaly threw the garbage six thousand light-years away, there was an important reason why the mysterious civilization did not immediately take revenge and destroy Earth. Perhaps it was because there was' someone above 'on Earth.
The advanced civilizations in the universe were like small huts, and the lower civilizations were just ant nests in the small huts.
Under such a situation, it was impossible for the civilization in the other hut to bypass the advanced civilization and launch a large-scale attack in this area. The two areas would fight first and then talk later.
And as long as they fought, it would be a matter of life and death.
Earth suddenly developed to the point where interstellar travel could happen in the past few months. And in these few months, the advanced civilization in the area where Earth was located was engaged in a war of survival. Naturally, they were not in a hurry to clean up Earth, especially when the other side had already launched a clean-up attack.
"Tsk tsk, what kind of consequences did that pile of garbage cause? It actually caused an all-out war between two huge civilizations … Ling Dang, in short, if there is an attack other than three months later, immediately inform me. "
"Yes." Ling Dang replied.
"We should go." Bai Ge said.
Coming into contact with the mercury civilization, not only did they not gain any benefits, but they also almost got into trouble. Some of the technologies of the mercury civilization, Earth did not have them, but the reason why they did not have them was because of the difference in living environment.
Basically, they could not be used, and the people of Earth could not use them. Or perhaps Ling Dang's technology was more suitable for the people of Earth.
For example, some kind of hibernation technology was different from the concept of hibernation on Earth. Instead, it was dissolving the brain, dissolving it in mercury, and refining it after a few years to reassemble it …
This kind of technology, which was compatible with racial talents, was not something that the people of Earth could use unless they used a pure black stone tablet to first turn humans into mercury people.
Even though Bai Ge had the advantage in terms of technology, it was equivalent to him gaining nothing.
However, Ling Dang said, "Wait a minute, Lord, the mercury people just sent a message … They hope to become our vassal state."
If it was before, he might have considered it, but now, Bai Ge did not even want this vassal state.
"What's the use? Do you really intend to let their technology explode? " Bai Ge said. This was the only use he could think of. If this civilization also exploded in technology, then it was still somewhat useful.
Ling Dang said, "Anyway, I am immune to cultural invasion. I can leave my doppelgangers here and train them to improve."
"Let me become the great demon king who oppresses the awakening of the civilization, and I can quickly find a way to artificially trigger the technology explosion."
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