Apocalypse: I Have One More Keyword Than Others-Chapter 81 - 0 A civilization that cant see the future_1
Chapter 81: 081 A civilization that can’t see the future_1
Chapter 81: 081 A civilization that can’t see the future_1
Duge and Gao Ming left their dormitory and headed towards their teacher’s office.
After stepping outside,
Duge looked up at the sky; other than the blue skies and white clouds, he couldn’t see anything.
However, having just read the “History of Qiyuan Star Civilization,” Duge knew that outside the atmosphere, in the vastness of space, there was a starship from an Alien Civilization.
To be precise,
It was a starship belonging to an entertainment company from some advanced civilization.
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This was a planet called Qiyuan Star.
Two hundred years ago,
Qiyuan Star had been developing its civilization in its own rhythm, with its various nations clashing over interests.
Dynasties changed, and landscapes transformed.
After tens of thousands of years of lengthy evolution, technology had gradually developed to a level comparable to Earth’s mid-to-late 20th century. If nothing unexpected occurred, this civilization would have continued its orderly progression, step by step exploring the stars, the cosmos.
But sadly, a turning point arrived.
The invasion by the Pan-Universe Entertainment Company completely changed the planet’s future, ending the civilizational process of Qiyuan Star.
Yes,
A planet invaded by an entertainment company might sound laughable, but that was the reality.
Once a civilization extends into dimensions, even an entertainment company can easily alter the destiny of an intelligent race.
Facing the invasion of Pan-Universe Entertainment, the Qiyuan Star civilization didn’t have the slightest resistance, just like a child urinating on an anthill; no matter how numerous, the ants would be powerless to prevent the disaster.
The Pan-Cosmic Entertainment Company was far more terrifying than a child.
The scientists of Qiyuan Star didn’t even know the principles behind the weapons used by the invaders.
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In just three short months,
Weather patterns changed, animals and plants mutated, and the basic theories on which human technology had developed collapsed overnight…
A series of inconceivable disasters struck one after the other; the Pan-Universe Entertainment demonstrated its might to the people of Qiyuan Star, and human resistance was as futile as moths to a flame.
With just a single starship, Pan-Universe Entertainment easily severed the lifeline of Qiyuan Star’s civilizational development, pulling the entire civilization into the abyss.
The stagnation of the civilization came second.
The technology of Qiyuan Star had, after all, not yet developed to explore the universe beyond their planet; they wouldn’t yearn for something they never experienced, nor would they feel restricted.
The greatest challenge people faced was the toxins produced by the mutated flora and fauna, which led to a complete cut-off of the human food supply.
The crisis came extremely suddenly, and at the time, the world’s emergency food stores wouldn’t last a year.
Food is the paramount necessity of the people.
Without food, the tragedy of a race’s extinction played out in an instant.
Of course, Pan-Universe Entertainment also offered a solution.
Qiyuan Star merely needed to send representatives to participate in the annual Alien Battlefield game held by the Pan-Cosmic Entertainment Company, compete with other worlds within the game, achieve good rankings, and they would receive resource rewards.
These resources included non-toxic food, meat, and so forth.
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To accept these terms meant the entire world would become the plaything of a higher civilization, turning into slaves for others’ amusement in the arena.
To refuse meant the entire civilization would perish in hunger.
It was a choice between two options!
And yet, there seemed to be no choice.
Faced with the high civilization’s humiliating oppression, Qiyuan Star couldn’t even muster up the strength to resist.
The most powerful weapons on the planet couldn’t damage the protective shield of the Pan-Universe Entertainment’s starship hovering outside the atmosphere.
Even if, hypothetically, they managed to win, it would be pointless. It wouldn’t solve the food problem; once the food on the planet ran out, the end of their civilization awaited them regardless.
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The gap between civilizations was too vast; the strange incidents where an old, battered starship overcomes an Alien Civilization Invasion, depicted in Earth movies, would never happen.
In the end, Qiyuan Star chose to submit.
Once they submitted, it lasted two hundred years.
To better control Qiyuan Star, the seeds provided by the Pan-Universe civilization could only grow for one season; after that, the second-generation seeds produced food with toxins…
By controlling the food supply, they had Qiyuan Star civilization by the throat.
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If the simulation field simply virtualized a world, then the Alien Battlefield was the real world—precisely speaking, it was not a game, but an invasion.
The game field was another truly real world.
Facing the invasion, the people from the world of the game field would exert all their strength to fight against the warriors participating in the Alien Battlefield game for survival.
In this real and brutal game, only two or three out of ten warriors who entered the Alien Battlefield managed to survive.
Over two hundred years, the History of Qiyuan Star Civilization involved in the games had wins and losses.
More losses than wins.
Overall, the resources harvested fell far short of the consumption needs of the vast population of Qiyuan Star.
To survive, the governments of the various nations on Qiyuan Star had to set aside their differences to form a new alliance, centrally managing the scarce resources to ensure the continuation of civilization.
Limited resources meant the majority of the lower-class citizens suffered from hunger.
Hunger inevitably leads to war.
In the span of two hundred years, Qiyuan Star experienced dozens of rebellions.
From a peak population of over ten billion, the numbers had dwindled to just over a billion.
Yes.
That was the population Duge estimated based on the ten million test-takers, not the population of a single country but that of the entire planet.
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No matter how dire the situation.
For the continuity of their race, the game of the Alien Battlefield had to go on…
In the meantime.
The scientists of Qiyuan Star tried to address the food problem by synthetic means.
But the technological blockade from higher civilizations, together with the agents that Pan-Universe Entertainment had planted among humanity, resulted in their ultimate failure.
The power of habit is terrifying. When the people of Qiyuan Star realized that resistance was futile and resources gradually balanced out, the public eventually chose to give up and let things rot, gradually adapting to the way of life that involved obtaining resources through the game.
Now.
The entire world focused its efforts on training warriors to fight in the Alien Battlefield.
Warriors, critical for the survival of civilization, had become the pinnacle of the social pyramid.
Everyone served the warriors.
The warriors enjoyed all the benefits, while other occupations were relegated to inferior status, creating a distorted social model.
The most critical skill for warriors taking part in the Alien Battlefield was not combat techniques, not Magic, not leadership…
But the key phrases that Duge had used in the simulation field.
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In a world without a future, the warriors participating in the Alien Battlefield were the hope for the civilization’s continuation.
Therefore, Duge was certain, even if the secret of his two key phrases were discovered, it wouldn’t cause much trouble. It might even turn out to be a significant advantage, and he could be trained as a special force, fighting for the entire nation.
But at the moment, Duge felt conflicted.
Because the Alien Battlefield was different from the simulation field. In the simulation field, the worst outcome was elimination, but in the Alien Battlefield, people could truly die.
Failing to take over a body led to death, being killed led to death, and the only chance of survival was to win the victory on the Alien Battlefield or somehow survive to the end.
However.
No one would survive till the very end because that would mean a whole year’s resources for the planet were cut off, which really could lead to deaths.
If you somehow made it back alive, the military court of Qiyuan Star would still sentence you to death.
If the fate of the privileged warrior class was so cruel, one could only imagine the fate of the civilians…
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Time was limited.
That was all Duge had come to learn, but it was enough to cause him a great deal of distress.
This damn world was nothing close to wonderful!
Why did he have to be transmigrated into such a world?
If he could choose, how comfortable it would be to travel to that Pan-Universe Entertainment above his head, aboard a spaceship, living as a high and mighty ruler…
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Lost in his wild thoughts, Duge and Gao Ming arrived at the teacher’s office.
At the office door, two or three people were standing guard.
The moment Duge and Gao Ming appeared, one of the middle-aged men wearing glasses immediately came up to greet them, seized Duge’s arm, and said with a beaming smile, “Duge, you’re finally here. Come, quickly, the principal has been waiting for you for ages.”
