Chapter 47 Reversal of the Era
Chu Muyun was not surprised by Chen Ling's arrival.
He smiled slightly, dragged a chair out of the canteen, and motioned Chen Ling to sit down.
"It seems that you finally have the patience to listen to me finish talking about our 'justice'."
"I'm all ears."
Although Chen Ling was eager to know everything about the USB flash drive, he believed that since Chu Muyun gave it to him, he would definitely explain it, so he patiently waited for Chu Muyun to start from the beginning.
"How much do you know about the catastrophe?"
Chen Ling recalled what Dr. Lin had said before,
"It is said that there is a red meteor across the sky, and the gray world intersects with this world, affecting this world... and the disaster will crawl out, and that's it."
At this point, Chen Ling suddenly remembered that he had also seen the red meteor on the news in the USB flash drive...
He seemed to have thought of something, and his eyes widened in shock.
"Wait... the one on the USB flash drive is the world before the catastrophe?!"
"That's right." Chu Muyun looked at him in surprise, as if he didn't expect Chen Ling to guess it right away. "What you just said is the 'catastrophe' known to most people in the nine realms, but the actual 'catastrophe' is far more than that..."
"What do you mean?"
"According to rumors, the world before the catastrophe was prosperous and thriving. People could do many things with the help of science... such as flying into the sky, resurrecting the dead, making the city as bright as day all night, building a virtual world in reality, and even leaving this planet to explore the more mysterious and unknown 'universe'..."
As Chu Muyun spoke, he observed Chen Ling's expression and found that the latter had no expression fluctuations at all. He couldn't help asking:
"Aren't you surprised?"
"Ah?"
"Aren't those things I said enough to surprise you?"
Chu Muyun grew up here like everyone else in this world... no, this era, and naturally had never seen the level of technology before the catastrophe. To them, everything described in the legend was nothingness, just like modern people listening to myths.
"...Oh, it's amazing." Chen Ling nodded expressionlessly.
Aren't they just airplanes, medical treatment, electric lights, games, and spaceships... These are already commonplace for Chen Ling, who already lives in a modern city.
But if his so-called "previous life" is actually the world before the catastrophe, doesn't that mean that he didn't travel through the world at all... but traveled through time?
"In short, 379 years ago, a red meteor streaked across the sky, and since then, human material civilization has begun to regress." Chu Muyun was proficient as if he was reciting a set line, "The most proud technological crystallization of mankind collapsed first, lithography machines, spaceships, and super weapons that can destroy the world..."
"You mean... human civilization is regressing?"
"That's right, people before the catastrophe found that they could no longer make new things, as if the most basic scientific principles inside them were all invalid. Even if their parts were perfectly pieced together, no different from before, it just couldn't work...
As time passed, more and more things lost their function, mobile phones , computers, high-speed rail, and large-scale power plants...
Panic spread in human society. They didn't know how far material civilization would regress... In this fear, they began to kill each other. "
"Wait." Chen Ling interrupted Chu Muyun, "The regression of material civilization should be the dilemma faced by the entire human race. Why don't they unite and cooperate to overcome difficulties, but kill each other?"
"They united, but it didn't work." Chu Muyun paused for a moment, "And I also said that they have some kind of super weapon that can exterminate the world, but this weapon is not available in every country...
Once these weapons are all ineffective, everyone's technological civilization will regress to the same level, and the original balance of strength and weakness will be broken... Strong The strong countries are no longer strong, and the weak countries are no longer weak.
In order to protect their status, resources, and wealth, the strong countries will choose... "
"Launch all super weapons to destroy the weak countries that do not have these weapons? ? " Chen Ling seemed to have thought of something, "World War? !"
Chen Ling certainly knew the importance of nuclear weapons to the strong countries. If the strong countries first knew that the technological level of all countries would regress to the same starting line, they would inevitably start a war first, because losing weapons means losing deterrence, and other countries will inevitably target their oil, wealth, and other things...
"What you said is basically correct, but the strong countries do not only attack the weak countries... They also attack each other, because if the technological level really regresses seriously, then human resources will be lost. The source is what really determines the life and death of a country. If they want to balance the power of each country, they must weaken the population of countries with different positions as much as possible.
The crystallization of human civilization accumulated over hundreds of years, under the tide of regression, eventually became a pure killing machine..."
Chen Ling was silent for a long time, and slowly said:
"The intersection of the gray world is not the root cause of the catastrophe... the human killing is. "
"After that catastrophe, the world was devastated. The survivors thought that the world had a new order. Unexpectedly, after a few days, the gray world began to intersect with reality...
The pollution from the unknown world eroded the earth, and the brutal disaster slaughtered lives. The human society, which was already exhausted, suffered a devastating blow.
After that, the world was no longer divided into countries. The survivors gathered together and established nine bases. Later, they mastered methods to resist the intersection of gray realms. The nine bases gradually expanded and became today's nine realms. . "
"That's it." Chen Ling sighed.
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If what Chu Muyun said is true, doesn't it mean that his parents will also be buried in the catastrophe?
Not only his parents, but all the relatives, friends, and colleagues he knows will be involved in this catastrophe... And how many people can survive?
Those who were standing on the street watching the news at that time had no idea that the world would soon undergo great changes.
Chen Ling's eyes trembled slightly. He now knew everything that happened in that era. He knew that almost everyone he cared about would be killed, but there was nothing he could do... That era was nearly four hundred years ago. He knew that, and What can be done?
"...You tell me this, and then what?"
"Then, the only purpose of our Twilight Society is the 'justice' we believe in." Chu Muyun pointed to the door, "What do you think of the Aurora Realm?"
In Chen Ling's mind, Wu Youdong's limping figure suddenly appeared, the rickshaw puller's disdain for the law enforcers, the vicious and arrogant people in Bingquan Street, and the law enforcers who colluded with them to make profits...
"...It's very messy." In the end, he only choked out these two words.
"Then what if I tell you that compared to other realms, the Aurora Realm is already very good?"
Chen Ling was stunned.
"The Dusk Club is a group of poor people who are not tolerated by society. In the eyes of the world, we may be madmen, losers, and executioners... The only thing we have in common is that we are completely desperate for this era..."
"So, we got together."
"Get together, what next?" Chen Ling asked.
The dim sunset gradually sank into the earth, and half of Chu Muyun's face sank into the shadows.
He took a deep breath and spoke word by word,
"Reverse the times and restart the world."