Soul of Burning Steel

The bodies of all evil gods contain the memory of all the lives and souls of the original world and civilization. In a sense, the existence of evil gods can even be regarded as the continuation of the destroyed world, because all information, All the history and past have been wrapped into his body by the evil god and become its power.

And now, the unknown evil god made a voice.

If there is any sound that makes people feel the most helpless, it must be the sighs and sobs of all the living people who are facing the inevitable destruction before the destruction of a civilization. They are powerless, they are powerless, because in Before the end comes, all the flags and heroes have been broken. When the world is destroyed and collapsed, no one can carry the sky on their backs.

So I can only sigh.

What can be more frustrating than this is the destruction of two civilizations.

Or three, four, ten, hundreds.

Or, countless.

At this moment, Joshua was listening to the sad sounds of almost countless worlds.

The voice of the evil god is inaudible to ordinary people, just like the existence of the steel python, if it has not reached the legendary level, it is not even qualified to peep at the other party's existence, even if it is a warrior, if there is no King of Burning Soul passed down by the sages If authority is just an ordinary soul burner or an ordinary person, then he will not be able to see the steel python until he advances to legend and develops the observation method of steel vision.

But now, this overly keen and powerful observation ability has become an incentive to suppress Joshua's ability to resist.

The warrior was surrounded by chaos, and in an instant, he heard the cries of thousands, almost countless worlds that had already passed away.

He felt that his will was slowly sinking into a vast chaos, and was interrupted by the unknown evil god who had destroyed the condensation core—or, the wreckage of countless worlds. He instinctively relied on this method, thinking To erode and assimilate this silver 'world'.

An endless flood of memories.

Joshua saw the memories of all living things and living beings living in countless worlds before they perished.

A dim flame blazed above the corpse, and the black shadow spread into the distance with despair.

...

The sun was obscured by the black smoke from the burning city, and the sky was extremely dark. Due to the bottomless use of the supreme alchemy of the 'taboo' level, the whole world was on the verge of destruction.

Cities and mountains were turned into fly ash by dissociation magic, and were thrown into the sky by flame beams that seemed to come from hell. In the war of the "Great Alchemists" for world domination, the material distribution of the world was changed. It can be seen that cracks are opening in the earth, and the flames from the core of the earth are extracted by a huge magic machine, attacking the floating city floating in the smog and acid rain, and the titan statues standing like mountains throw the earth's crust and mountains at each other, causing earthquakes , to destroy the enemy's positions.

Life is just a number, the population is a resource, the great alchemists who think they have the truth, never treat ordinary people as the same kind of war, never cared about the life and death of any ordinary people from the beginning, nor did they care about any damage to the world— —They think that the victors of the war can naturally restore all the destroyed environments to their original state, and even if ordinary people and creatures are extinct, they with cloning technology can recreate a brand new and beautiful world.

Because they think they have the power to restore all things, the wars of the great alchemists have completely lost the bottom line. They create poisonous gas, spread plagues, smash the moon, create meteors, and some crazy people plan to detonate the core of the earth, and hide themselves. In the vacuum outside the sky, and then eliminate all opponents.

But they underestimated their own madness and overestimated what the world could take.

On the eve of the destruction of the world, the flames in the center of the earth were gradually extinguished, the reincarnation of all things was cut off, and the barriers of the world began to crumble slowly. The great alchemists who realized this finally woke up from their madness, but it was too late. Even with the power and technology to repair the world, they have no time.

In this dark age, in a world that is about to usher in the end, in the ruins of a remote city hidden near the polar regions, there is a pair of little boy and a girl who lost a piece of his right leg sitting on a bonfire that is about to go out They were not brothers and sisters, not related by blood, just a street child who lost his parents and another orphan who was left alone because of the war.

They don't know that the world is about to be destroyed, and they don't know what kind of final struggle the great alchemists are doing. They only know that winter is coming, and there is a serious shortage of food. Even the bonfire in front of them cannot be lit again due to lack of firewood—— —The boy has made a decision, he will leave the rest of the food to the girl, and he will go to the dangerous war zone to find the supplies that may be left by both sides of the war.

This behavior is extremely dangerous, and it can even be said that death is certain. The battlefield of alchemists is not accessible to mortals, but other than that, they have no choice at all. It is only the difference between early death and late death.

Both of them knew that the next farewell would be a farewell forever.

so. On their last night before parting, they embraced and wept—not out of desperation, not out of fear of death. They cry, just because of sadness, just because the world is so cold, it doesn't even allow two lonely souls to live together.

Perhaps, the only good news is that before the boy and the girl bid farewell, the barrier of the world was completely broken.

All things return to darkness.

...

In a world without extraordinary power, a huge world government rules the entire world. The unification war three hundred years ago was the last war of this civilization. Since then, it has been an era of eternal peace.

In this world, technology is not very developed, but it has been able to transform the world and obtain almost infinite resources for civilization. Whether it is the sky, the sea, the earth, whether it is economy or entertainment, information or work, everything is controlled by the central government. The government governs a person from birth to death, growth, education, friendship, marriage, childbirth, work, death, everything is under the jurisdiction of the central government.

Even, the whole world has been transformed into several areas - the agricultural area for food production, the mineral area for collecting resources, the resettlement of the population, the city for living and production, and the industrial area. The four major blocks operate separately, and the residents of any block I may never go to other blocks in my life.

And because the education received from childhood is like this, no one will think there is anything wrong with this. After all, no matter which area they live in, individuals can still enjoy friendship, family, entertainment and entertainment. The opportunity to relax. If it is not necessary, the central government will not forcibly interfere in the life of any individual. They even have the right to go to other areas for vacation and life—it’s just not necessary. They don’t understand, so they don’t yearn for it, and they are not curious .

This is just an overly strict order system, and there is nothing wrong with it in essence.

Until one day, through the calculations of the general think tank, the central government discovered that even with the ultimate means, their too small world can only survive 55 billion individuals at the same time, and this number is at their exponential level. In front of the growing population, it is only a matter that can be done in more than ten years.

In order to prolong, or avoid the moment when the world will explode, the central government has launched a large-scale population control operation. Some over-populated areas have been implemented a policy of prohibiting births, while other areas have also launched light Quantitative birth control.

Through drugs, artificial sterilization, publicizing the disadvantages of excessive birth, and dividing the area where male and female individuals live together, so that there are only individuals of the same sex in a certain area, the central government has successfully controlled its own population growth trend, making the original nearly seventy-degree increase China's population growth rate finally ushered in a decline. With the central government's control over the grassroots, the year when they were able to **** the first year, there was not even a single newborn in the world.

Control was successful, even too successful.

They can't control their own success.

Nearly ten years later, when the population gradually declined to a point close to the safety threshold, the central government decided to temporarily withdraw population control and revive the birth plan. However, even a perfect plan will have loopholes because of the executors. Even the central government has calculated that the fertility rate of the elderly population will decline, and it has been calculated that because they have never seen individuals of the opposite sex, they cannot mate normally. Even the central government The government has long guessed various problems in all aspects, but they did not expect that because of the overly successful population control propaganda, almost all individuals have an instinctive avoidance and aversion to childbirth.

Procreation is not a happy thing in itself. Whether it is taking care of larvae, cultivating larvae, or giving birth to a female individual, it is a very hard work that requires a lot of effort, but may not even have any rewards. If it wasn't because of the habit, and getting used to having a blind date with another individual of the opposite sex under the arrangement of the central government after adulthood, I am afraid that many individuals would choose not to have offspring even if there is no publicity.

When the trend of society changes, and the central government, which thinks it can control everything, realizes that population control is out of control, and the newborn population is far below the critical danger line, it is too late.

Even if it spreads aphrodisiac hormones, develops various drugs that can enhance pleasure and reduce the pain of childbirth, and the government distributes bonuses and subsidizes money to encourage childbirth, it is impossible to increase the growth rate of the population. With the large number of deaths of the older generation , The number of newborns who are only a fraction of the previous generation have just reached adulthood-even if they have realized that they must reproduce as much as possible, but before the new generation grows up, civilization has collapsed.

It can be seen that with the withering of the older generation of individuals, the whole world has gradually fallen into silence.

Taller than a mountain, the giant factory like a beehive has been shut down due to no one's operation. The super enterprise that needs 30,000 employees to operate is unable to maintain it. It takes tens of thousands of people to transport raw materials from the mine block every day. The commodity production lines carried by transportation workers in three shifts day and night, even made mistakes because they have not been running at full power for too long, but at this time, even the skilled maintenance workers no longer exist.

The vast planting plains are full of crops that grow wildly. In the past, at least hundreds of households were required to join the battle. The fields that were harvested by large harvesters for more than ten days were empty. The food was unharvested and could only rot in the ground. ——but what if the harvest is done? Both the food roughing and finishing factories have ceased operation, because the highly differentiated duties, farmers who only need to farm and then transport the crops have no ability to process food.

In the past, the hive of the crowded city has long been turned into a ghost town. Walking seven or eight streets, you can't even see a living person. Even if you do, you have to be careful whether the other party is malicious. It is limited, there is no blood transfusion from the agricultural area and the industrial area, and there are not many daily-use materials in the super-giant city. In this era, not to mention eating enough, even survival is a huge problem.

Population is the foundation of civilization and the most basic production unit. Without population, everything would cease to exist.

Decades later, due to unmanned maintenance of large energy bases in industrial areas, internal raw materials leaked, resulting in violent explosions affecting the atmosphere, followed by more energy bases due to unmanned maintenance. Various problems, or Leaks, or explosions, and radiation contamination begins to spread across the globe.

Decades later, a violent volcanic change destroyed the ruins of a super-large city, the sun's rotation happened to be on the right track, and the Little Ice Age came.

Decades later.

Perhaps the last civilized individual in this world is about to die.

This lonely growth, lonely life, lonely old man watching the world sits in his cabin, staring blankly at the portraits of his parents. Because of radiation pollution, they have only one child in their life, and they warn their offspring that they must Find another individual of the opposite sex so that they can reproduce. But the old man spent his whole life, but he couldn't find any other individuals besides his parents.

Before death came, it began to cry—not because of the doomed aging and death, but because of sadness, because it could not feel any warmth, and the loneliness that could not be expressed in words.

In absolute silence, the lifeless world is gradually being destroyed.

...

Destroyed because of war, destroyed because of the system.

Destroyed because of technological development, and destroyed because of being stuck in a bottleneck.

Destroyed by natural disasters, destroyed by climate change.

Joshua's spirit sank into chaos, he could see one world after another and the scene of the destruction of civilization, he could hear, weeping sadly again and again.

The tears of civilization are not shed because of fear and destruction. Their sorrow is that all these are not absolute.

They obviously have more and better possibilities and a beautiful and bright future, but at the most important node, they embarked on this seemingly narrow, but actually inevitable end for them.

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