Chu Muyun was not surprised at the arrival of Chen Ling.
He smiled slightly and dragged a chair out of the convenience store, gesturing for Chen Ling to sit down.
"It seems that you finally have the patience to listen to me finish our 'justice'." "I'm all ears." Although Chen Ling was eager to know everything about the USB drive, he believed that since Chu Muyun had given it to him, he would definitely explain, so he patiently waited for Chu Muyun to start from the beginning.
"How much do you know about the Great Cataclysm?" Chen Ling recalled what Dr.
Lin had said before, "It was said that a red meteor streaked across the sky, the gray world intersected with this world, affecting this world...
and disasters would emerge, and that's it." At this point, Chen Ling suddenly remembered that he had also seen the news about the red meteor in the USB drive...
He seemed to have realized something, his eyes widened in shock.
"Wait...
the one in the USB drive, is it the world before the Great Cataclysm?!" "That's right." Chu Muyun looked at him in surprise, as if he hadn't expected Chen Ling to figure it out so quickly, "What you just said is what most people in the Nine Realms know as the 'Great Cataclysm,' but the actual 'Great Cataclysm' is far more than that..." "What do you mean?" "It is rumored that the world before the Great Cataclysm was prosperous and thriving, people could do many things with the power of science...
such as flying into the sky, resurrecting the dead, cities lit up like daylight all night, constructing virtual worlds in reality, 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 showed no emotional fluctuations, couldn't help but ask, "Aren't you surprised?" "Huh?" "Aren't those things I said surprising to you?" Chu Muyun, like everyone else in this world...
no, in this era, grew up here since childhood and naturally had never seen the technological level before the Great Cataclysm.
For them, everything described in the legends was nothingness, just like modern people hearing myths.
"...Oh, it's quite amazing." Chen Ling nodded expressionlessly.
Isn't it just airplanes, medical care, light bulbs, games, and spaceships...
These things were already commonplace for Chen Ling, who lived in a modern city.
But if his so-called "past life" was actually the world before the Great Cataclysm, wouldn't that mean that he wasn't traveling between worlds...
but through time? "In any case, 379 years ago, a red meteor streaked across the sky, and since then, human material civilization began to regress." Chu Muyun recited as if he were reciting a set script, "The most proud technological achievements of humanity collapsed first, lithography machines, spaceships, and super weapons capable of destroying the world..." "You mean...
human civilization is regressing?" "That's right, people before the Great Cataclysm found that they could no longer create new things like these, as if the most basic scientific principles inside them had all failed, even if they were perfectly assembled with no difference from before, they just couldn't operate...
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As time passed, more and more things lost their function, phones, computers, high-speed trains, and large-scale power plants...
Panic spread in human society, they didn't know to which step 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 a dilemma faced by the entire human race.
Why didn't they unite and cooperate to overcome the difficulties, but instead resorted to killing each other?" "They did unite, but it was of no use."Chu Moyun paused for a moment, "And I also said that they possess some kind of super weapon that can destroy the world, but not every country has this kind of weapon...
Once these weapons all fail, everyone's technological civilization will regress to the same level, and the original balance of power will be broken...
Strong countries are no longer strong, weak countries are no longer weak.
In order to protect their status, resources, and wealth, they will choose..." "To launch all super weapons and destroy the weak countries that do not have these weapons?" Chen Ling seemed to realize something, "World War?!" Chen Ling of course knew the importance of nuclear weapons to strong countries.
If a strong country knows that all countries' technological levels will regress to the same starting line, it will inevitably launch a war first, because losing weapons means losing deterrence, and other countries will definitely target their oil, wealth, and other things...
"What you said is basically correct, but strong countries do not only attack weak countries...
they also attack each other, because if technological levels really regress severely, human resources are the real thing that determines the life and death of a country.
They want to balance the strength of each country, so they must weaken the populations of countries with different positions as much as possible.
The culmination of human civilization accumulated over hundreds of years, under the tide of regression, ultimately degenerates into pure killing machines..." Chen Ling remained silent for a long time, and slowly said, "The convergence of the Ashen Realm is not the root cause of the great catastrophe...
it is the self-inflicted slaughter of humanity." "After that great catastrophe, the world was devastated, and the survivors thought that the world had a new order, but after a few days, the Ashen Realm began to intersect with reality...
Pollution from the unknown world eroded the land, and brutal disasters slaughtered living beings.
The already exhausted human society suffered a devastating blow.
After that, the world no longer had national boundaries, and the survivors gathered together and established nine bases.
Later, they mastered the methods to resist the convergence of the Ashen Realm, and the nine bases gradually expanded, becoming the nine major realms we have today." "I see." Chen Ling sighed deeply.
Wait...
If what Chu Moyun said is true, does that mean that his parents will also perish in the great catastrophe? Not only his parents, but all relatives, friends, and colleagues he knows will be swept into this disaster...
and how many will survive? Those people who were watching the news on the street at that time would never have thought that the world would soon undergo a huge change.
Chen Ling's eyes trembled slightly.
He now knew everything that happened in that era, he knew that almost everyone he cared about would perish, but he was powerless...
that era, nearly four hundred years ago, what could he do now that he knew? "...You told me all this, and then?" "And then, it is the sole purpose of our Twilight Society, and also the 'justice' we believe in." Chu Moyun pointed outside, "What do you think of the Aurora Realm?" In Chen Ling's mind, the figure of Wu Youdong limping, the disdain of the man pulling the yellow carriage towards the enforcers, the sinister and arrogant people of Bingquan Street, and the enforcers colluding with them for profit all flashed before him...
"...It's chaotic." In the end, he could only squeeze out these two words.
"What if I told you that, actually, compared to other realms, the Aurora Realm is already quite good?" Chen Ling was stunned.
"The Twilight Society gathers a group of wretches who are not accepted by society.
In the eyes of the world, we may be madmen, failures, executioners...
Our only common point is complete despair for this era..." "So, we gather together." "Gather together, and then what?" Chen Ling asked.
The dim yellow sun gradually sank into the earth, half of Chu Muyun's face sinking into the shadows.
He took a deep breath and spoke slowly, "Reverse the era, restart the world."”