The text of the Sword of Dawn Chapter 1139 of the final critical point is mostly extinguished.

Enya's words were like the cold wind, which made Gao Wen, who was about to be excited, calm down from the inside out in an instant. His face became calm, and he carefully savored the information behind the "extinguishing", and it took a long time to break the silence: "It's extinguishing... how it's extinguishing? Do you mean they are all extinct for various reasons?"

"Those signals are like lights in the night flashing in the distance, perhaps due to technology limitations, and the flashing lights can only reveal extremely limited information. Sometimes the information is even so simple that it can only convey the meaning of "I am here". Then at a certain moment, some signals will suddenly disappear, and no new news comes. The overly vast universe has buried too many secrets and truths. In the darkness, I can't see anything."

Enya said slowly, as if she was picking up the yellowed pages in her vague memories of the past.

"I don't know what they encountered specifically. Just like other minds trapped on this planet, I can only guess the end of those civilizations by speculating on known phenomena, but some of them... I have successfully deciphered the messages they sent, and basically confirmed that they were either destroyed by natural disasters or died by gods."

Gao Wen subconsciously repeated the last few words of the other party: "Does the gods?"

Enya whispered: "The gods who died in the gods themselves. Among the few signals that have been successfully deciphered, I did hear them sending the last cry in the wrath of the gods. Even though the sound crossed the distant stars, it was still so shrill that it was unbearable to hear it."

"So as we had previously guessed, if there were intelligent creatures on other planets, and if their world also followed the laws of nature we understood, then they would also face everything we face..." Gao Wen took a light breath, "After they developed to a certain level, they also triggered the ritual of 'final disobedience', which led to the loss of control and destruction of the gods..."

Enya didn't speak, and Gao Wen asked after pausing, "What's the situation of being destroyed by a natural disaster? What kind of natural disaster is it?"

"The signals that were lucky enough to cross the galaxy are mostly blurred and rarely transmit clear and detailed information, especially when the "natural disaster" breaks out, the civilizations that send messages are often in chaos. This chaos is more serious than the gods coming to the world, causing them to no longer organize human forces to launch an orderly "death cry" into outer space," Enya said quietly, as if she was analyzing a corpse in a calm tone and telling Gao Wen about the cruel clues she had come into contact with over a million years. "So, the description of "natural disaster" is very messy, but it is this messy and broken state that makes me almost sure that they are suffering from the "demon tide."

Demon Tide.

At this moment, Gao Wen's expression did not change at all. Although strong ripples had already aroused in his heart, these strong ripples only confirmed the speculation he had already had a long time ago.

In his expectation, Enya's conclusion was not limited to this planet, but a common phenomenon in this universe. They will sweep across the entire starry sky fairly and periodically, and smooth out the records left by civilization among the stars again and again.

The golden dome in the room remained quiet. Enya seemed to be observing Gao Wen's expression carefully. After a moment of silence, she spoke again: "All this is just the conclusion I inferred based on the observed phenomena. I cannot guarantee that they are all accurate, but one thing is certain that this universe is more prosperous than we imagined, but it is also more deadly. The dark and deep starry sky is filled with countless flashing candles of civilization, but under those candles, there are more and the cool tombs that have long been extinguished."

"Does the dragon clan know these things?" Gao Wen suddenly asked curiously.

"They only know a small part, but no dragon dares to go deeper," said Enya calmly. "In the long time of 1.87 million years, there have been dragons paying attention to the movements in the starry sky at dangerous critical points, but I blocked all signals from the outside world and interfered with their perception of the starry sky. Just like you know, in the past Tallongde, looking up at the starry sky was a taboo thing."

"But their gods have been paying attention to the voices among the stars, and have even done so much research," Gao Wen looked at the golden dome in front of him with a strange expression. "If no dragon clan can look up at the starry sky, then how are you..."

"Close your eyes and listen carefully," Enya said, with a smile in his tone, "Do you still remember? At the top of the Grand Temple of Tallond, there is the highest observatory. I often stand there and listen to the sounds coming from the universe and actively move towards the stars. But if those signals have already reached this planet, passive listening will not be so easy to lose control.

"But even so, it's not easy to do this... Every time I stand on the observatory, I have to fight against two forces at the same time. One is my own resistance and fear of the unknown deep space, and the other is my impulse to destroy the mortal world as a god, so I will very cautiously control the frequency of my trip to the observatory and keep myself at the critical point of being out of control."

Gao Wen couldn't help but ask curiously as Enya told these secrets that no one knew from another: "Why did you do this? Since doing so will put such a lot of pressure on you..."

"Curious," said Enya, "are you not curious?"

"...Nature and instinct are not consistent, right?" Gao Wen smiled bitterly after a brief moment of surprise, "Do you know, what you are talking about reminds me of a theory... that spread in 'My hometown'."

"Your hometown...the hometown of wanderers outside the territory?" Enya's tone changed, "What kind of theory is it?"

"Big filter," Gao Wen sighed softly and explained patiently, "a filtering mechanism that lies in front of all civilizations and determines whether they can be lucky enough to step out of the starry sky. We believe that the process of life from nothing to something and gradually developing into higher interstellar civilizations can be divided into several stages, and at least one of them is extremely dangerous and has a slim chance of survival. A certain crisis causes almost all species to disappear at this stage, thus making them unable to step out of their planet in the end. This harsh screening and elimination mechanism is the "Big filter".

"We cannot determine when and what form the large filter will appear. Before we truly step into the starry sky, we cannot determine whether a civilization has passed the test of the large filter by chance, or the test is still tomorrow... But in this world, this problem that plagues scholars seems to have answers."

"Are the demon tide and the divine disaster the 'big filter' we are facing?" A gentle and calm voice came from the golden dome, "Ah, this is really a novel and interesting theory... Outside the domain wanderers, it seems that in your world, there are also many scholars with outstanding eyes paying attention to the mystery deep in the world... I really hope to know and understand them."

This question has involved complex areas that are difficult to answer. Gao Wen stopped cautiously before the topic continues to deepen. In fact, he has already said a lot of things that he would never say to others on weekdays, but he never thought that he could talk to people in this world about these topics involving the starry sky, the future, and extraterrestrial civilizations. A feeling of being hard to find a confidant made him unable to help but want to continue to discuss more with the Dragon God.

"You mentioned just now that you've 'heard' the sound of passing through the universe at least hundreds of times," he thought of a new question. "And the senders of those signals did not encounter divine disasters at least when they made the call. Does this mean that the act of building interstellar communication itself does not cause the gods to lose control?"

This is very critical, because "whether the ultimate critical point of the gods' loss of control is always the most concerned issue for the Theocracy Council and past disobedients.

At present, scholars have independent of the "collective out-of-control phenomenon of all gods in the world" from the "divine disaster" corresponding to the loss of control of a single god, and named it "ultimate divine disaster". Therefore, it can be said that before completely solving all the crisis of out-of-control of gods, the "ultimate divine disaster critical point" means that the limit of the development of mortal civilization in this world is. The more accurately you can master this critical point and all the technical limits related to it, the more you can make as much preparation as possible before the ultimate divine disaster truly arrives, so that mortal civilizations can obtain a greater chance of survival in the future.

So far, the "ultimate divine disaster critical point" prescribed by the Theocratic Council is based on the "final disobedience" determined by Tallond's coming-of-age ritual, that is, "mortal civilization can essentially and physically leave the parent star and enter a space environment that civilization has never explored before." Scholars can already confirm that this behavior will lead to symbolic "final disobedience". If it is survived, it will be free for humans and gods. If it cannot survive, it will be a civilized death.

But there are still many uncertainties in this critical point. The biggest question is whether the "ultimate divine disaster" really does not break out until the "final disobedience" stage? Is the conclusion practiced by the Dragon Clan the "standard answer" of the law of the operation of gods? At a certain stage before the final disobedience, is the possibility of the ultimate divine disaster also breaking out?

If the explorer physically physically leaves the parent star, it will lead to the ultimate disaster, then what about the preparation stage before the spacecraft launch? What about the observation stage of the starry sky on a large scale around the world? What if mortals launch an unmanned probe? If... other interstellar civilizations send greetings to the planet and mortals on the surface respond to this sound, what will happen?

Every problem is not an unfair worry. Every problem is to identify the critical point of the end of the world and to mark the survival range of the entire mortal civilization.

Eunya obviously knew what Gao Wen was worried about, so she seemed very cautious when answering this question. After thinking for a long time, the former god broke the silence: "I think that it is not entirely a symbolic 'final disobedience' ceremony that really determines whether the gods will completely lose control. You should consider the meaning behind this ceremony."

Gao Wen frowned: "What is the meaning behind the ultimate disobedience ceremony?"

"Mortals are exposed to the truth outside the cognitive realm, and this 'truth' is irrefutable and unshakable," said Enya. "As a god, I don't know how to look at the meaning of this process from the perspective of a mortal, but you can imagine that if there is a man who firmly believes that we live in a flat world rather than a planet, and he firmly believes that the sun is a ball of light that rises and falls from the edge of the earth, rather than the planet under our feet moving around the sun, how can he break this cognition?

"External voices are not good, because those voices may be lies; knowledge recognized by the world cannot do, because people may be deceived; even images from space cannot do, because those images can be fake...

"No matter how bizarre these explanations are, as long as they can make sense, the person who believes in the flat earth can continue to put himself in a closed-loop and 'self-consistent' model. He does not need to pay attention to the true form of the world, he can as long as his logical barriers are not broken.

"Unless, let him see it with his own eyes."

Gao Wen listened carefully to Enya and frowned: "I understand what you mean, but this is exactly what we have never understood. Even if there are so many observers among the mortals who have gone through hardships to go into space and personally prove the appearance outside the known world with their own eyes and experiences. This is just a change of their 'personal cognition'. How did this individual behavior produce a ritual effect and affect the changes in the entire trend of thought? Why did the gods, as a product of the trend of thought, lose control just because a few humans suddenly saw the scene outside the world?"

"...This means you are still in a misunderstanding," Enya suddenly chuckled softly, "The stubborn and pitiful guy I just mentioned who needs to 'see with his own eyes' is not any mortal who launched into the air, but the god himself."

Gao Wen: "You mean..."

"Your understanding of thoughts is a bit one-sided," said Enya. "God clearly was born from the thoughts of a large number of mortals. This is a macro process, but this does not mean that the only way to make the gods lose control is to make the thoughts undergo macro changes, sometimes a tributary on the microscopic creates ripples, which is enough to destroy the entire system.

"If the gods are regarded as a huge 'entangle', then this entangle includes all the perceptions of a certain specific thinking tendency by sentient beings in the world. Take me as an example. I am the gods of the dragon clan. Then my essence includes all the cognitive logic of the dragon clan's world in the mythological era. These logics are tightly entangled like a thread. Even if there are thousands of threads, all thread heads are included inside the thread. In other words, it is closed-loop, extremely exclusive, and rejects the intervention of external information.

"Then you only need a thread head to break the order of the thread ball, and the probe jumps out of this closed-loop system, which is equivalent to breaking the basic rules for the thread ball to be established.

"Under normal circumstances, it is almost impossible to have such a 'bounced thread head' inside this closed-loop system, because the trajectory of all thread heads has been determined, and the thread ball itself is also preventing the occurrence of cross-border behavior. The closed-loop system itself cannot produce a 'window' that allows one of its members to leave the system. Therefore, in most stages of civilization development, the only way to make the thread ball collapse is to gradually overload and confusion of the entire system. If you already understand the theory, it is that the 'radical changes in the group's thoughts in the macroscopic situation have led to the loss of control of the gods', that is, the change of thoughts generated by a large number of mortals in this closed-loop system causes qualitative changes, and ultimately destroys the entire system.

"The closest example to you is the God of War.

"In another case, information outside the closed-loop system intervenes in this system. This information completely exceeds the control of the "line ball". It only takes a little bit to make a certain thread jump out of the closed-loop. This will make the system that could explain itself suddenly become unconsistent. It means that a "factor" that violates the rules appears in the original perfect operation logic of the gods. Even if the scale of this factor is small, it will pollute the entire system.
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