Chapter 465: Battle Against the Tide

Frankly speaking, hearing about the "black trap" phenomenon from Tyre made Gao Wen suddenly feel indescribable pressure in his heart.

In addition to the magic tide...there may be other threats in this world, big enough to cause the threat of civilization extinction, and what is even more terrifying than the magic tide is the invisible and intangible threat of this kind of threat-even if it has experienced more than a dozen The next wave of magic has changed, and the Krakens who have observed this world for countless years have not been able to figure out the essence of this threat.

This is undoubtedly a deeply disturbing fact.

Gawain's face was serious and gloomy. He pinched his chin without saying a word and fell into contemplation. Tyre waited quietly by the side, until Gawain exhaled suddenly, and the siren didn't calm down. Said: "Is it suddenly a little desperate?"

Gawain's answer was only one short word: "No."

"You don't have to hold on, it's normal to have a lot of pressure in this situation," Tyre seemed to understand, and he flicked his tail, making a pattering sound on the rocks on the shore, "After all, you guys have always been The biggest crisis imaginable is the magic tide, and now I suddenly know that the crisis is not only the magic tide, who can be at peace..."

"You're right, I do feel the pressure, but my mentality has not collapsed, let alone despair," Gao Wen sighed, his expression softened slightly, "The 'black trap' phenomenon you mentioned... Maybe it does exist, but for me, the magic tide is still in the first place. If you can't even resist the magic tide, it will only be a waste of time to think about the 'black trap' that is not clear at all. Don't lose your fighting spirit for this ethereal disaster."

Tyre watched Gawain silently for a moment, and suddenly laughed exaggeratedly: "You...you are really interesting...haha...why didn't I find out before...No wonder you and our Kraken can be so good Speaking of which...you must be a very popular guy in our Kraken society."

Gawain looked at Tyre's laugh that almost pushed him into the river, and his expression was a little embarrassed: "As for such an exaggeration?"

"You're in a good state of mind—" Tyre reluctantly stopped laughing, stomped his tail vigorously to get close to Gawain, and looked at the expression on the latter's face, "Are you really not afraid? Even if you really are You have found a way to survive in the magic tide, and you may also have to face the challenges in the future, are you really not afraid?"

"Humans are creatures that are afraid of death, but few people give up their lives because they are afraid of death. People only try to survive because they are afraid of death," Gawain said calmly. The traps' are similar things - equally unknown, equally deadly, and equally seemingly inexplicable, but we have made up our minds to survive the coming of the magic tide, and then we can only go dark on this road. "

Speaking of which,

Gawain raised his head and stared at the starry night sky with some trance.

"After calming down and thinking about it, I realized that even if the 'black trap' exists, for us, the problem that needs to be solved has changed from one to two. What's so scary?"

Tyre listened to Gawain's words, and suddenly sighed again: "...If you live in the Kraken society, you will definitely be a very popular person."

"Why do you say that?"

"The Kraken is also a very self-comfortable race. We are optimistic and persistent. You are very similar to us," Tyre said seriously, "To be honest, most Krakens don't like land people very much— In our eyes, land people are very fast-moving creatures that always kill themselves very quickly. You lack vision, are short-term gainers, and don't value commitments, but I must admit...you are so passionate And the Society of Hope is also fascinating."

Gawain didn't know what to answer for a while, so he had to keep smiling, accepting Tyre's compliment.

After being quiet for a while, Tyre continued: "Actually, about the black trap... we are not without research. Although we have never understood how it happened, and we have not observed its specific manifestations, But we have a guess about it..."

Gawain blinked: "Guess?"

"The civilization that encountered the black trap has one thing in common, that is, they have all developed to a high degree, at least they can survive the magic tide - even the civilization that was suddenly destroyed before the arrival of the magic tide, they already have enough The ability to protect oneself in the next wave of magic has been confirmed by our observers," Tyre explained seriously, "We think... the black trap may be a kind of filter, as long as the development of civilization reaches a certain level Threshold, something destructive will be activated to destroy this season of civilization... You should be able to understand what I said, right?"

Till seemed to have opened up the topic, and he couldn't help but talk more and more. At the end, he suddenly remembered that Gawain was a "backward lander", so he couldn't help adding the last sentence.

"Of course I can understand, the level of civilization in Gondor was not low," Gawain said, frowning deeply, "But the filter you mentioned... If this is true, then the situation will be terrible. now..."

As long as civilization develops to a certain extent, will it be destroyed by some external factor?

Does such a thing really exist in this world?

"We are just guessing, because according to our observations, all civilizations that have developed to a certain height have been destroyed, there is an invisible threshold stuck there, and none of the destroyed civilizations exceeds it, so we can only judge the 'black trap' ' is a filter."

"Have you figured out this 'threshold'?" Gawain suddenly stared into Tyre's eyes and asked with a very serious tone, "Is it any iconic 'point'? Set foot in a key area?"

"Unfortunately, I can't sum it up. On the one hand, we miss the black trap every time, and we can only see the remnants after the destruction. It is impossible to infer what the land civilization was doing before the black trap broke out. On the other hand, every time the magic tide is there Resetting the magic environment, the technical routes of civilizations are very different each season, and there is no comparison between them at all," Tyre shook his head, "We can only give a rough standard now, that is, at least in the magic tide. Only the civilization that survives in this place is 'qualified' to be destroyed by the black trap."

Gawain frowned and pondered, and suddenly thought of a key question: "...Are those destroyed civilizations surpassing you?"

"...No," Tyre knew what Gawain wanted to say, and she answered calmly, "Our siren is a civilization that has almost been destroyed once, but our remaining technological capabilities still surpass those of those land-based civilizations, and we... ...and did not encounter a black trap."

The technical strength is higher than that of land-based civilization, and the duration of existence is longer than that of land-based civilization. They have survived in the magic tide for more than one season, and the sea monsters who are sunbathing and dancing... have not encountered black traps.

All of this was expected by Gawain, and this fact was the reason why Gawain had doubts about the "black trap filter" hypothesis mentioned by Thiel.

What triggers the black trap is not necessarily the progress in the field of technology, perhaps the land civilization has mistakenly touched it in other ways - of course, it may also be other reasons, such as the special life forms of the sea monsters that save them from the black trap , or... black traps only happen on land?

Gawain said his thoughts, but Tyre immediately denied: "Not only on land, there is a civilization that has developed strong ocean navigation technology, and their maritime self-discipline platform and seawater extraction factory even opened to ours. On the territorial sea, and built a semi-permanent residential dome in the sea - but they all died suddenly, obviously a month ago they were still talking to us about the development of the submarine heat source, a month later we sent a representative there, but found that The entire dome has been abandoned, and it is full of corpses..."

Gao Wen frowned: "The reason was not found out at that time?"

"No. When the delegation found out, their dome had been abandoned for half a month, and a lot of evidence had disappeared. However, we found that their dome shield was closed from the inside. They should have turned off the protection themselves, and then were drowned."

Gawain was stunned for a while with his mouth open, but in the end he could only say one word: "weird..."

"Yeah...it's very weird," Tyre said slowly, and then suddenly seemed to remember something, "by the way, speaking...the destruction of one season of civilization seems to be different from the others...their destruction is the same as that of an ancient race."

"Ancient race?"

"Dragon," Tyr said a word that surprised Gawain, "that civilization was destroyed in a war involving giant dragons. That was a long, long time ago, when a land empire suddenly rose- They developed extremely fast and quickly ruled the land, and had some contact with us, but before we had time to understand, the war broke out suddenly.

"One side of the war is the land empire, and the other side is the giant dragon - now the giant dragon has rarely appeared on the mainland, and you all treat them as legendary creatures, but in the ancient war, the giant dragon almost They flew from the north overwhelmingly. At that time, they were not like a hidden race at all, but actually participated in that war...

"We still don't know which side started the war first, but the reason for the outbreak of the war seems to be related to belief, because the giant dragon destroyed a large number of temple-like facilities in the land empire at the beginning of the war, which is targeted. attack.

"The battle was very fierce, the strength of the two sides was almost equal, the dragons died a lot, and our observers couldn't even get too close to the war zone-because they had already killed red eyes, as long as they were not their own, they would all attack .

"That battle was fought for ten years - such a long duration is also different from the usual 'black trap' phenomenon, other civilizations that perished due to the black trap disappeared quickly - at the end, the giant The dragon was victorious, and the once prosperous land empire was wiped out.

"According to the sporadic information brought back by our observers, the land empire at that time called the year the war broke out the 'year against the tide', so they also called the war the 'war against the tide'."

"The battle against the tide..." Gawain listened to this magnificent story from ancient times, but he always had a sense of unreality. This story is too far away from today's era, but now it was told by Tyr. It is inevitable that there will be serious violations, but he believes that Tyre will not make up such a story for fun. "Indeed, it is different from the 'black trap' you described earlier."

"Yes, it lasted for a long time, the reason is clear, and it was observed by us, so we have never determined whether the 'war against the tide' was a 'black trap phenomenon', but one thing is certain- —If the Battle Against the Tide has something to do with the Black Trap, then the dragon must know something."

Gao Wen couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Are you asking me to ask Julong for information?"

"What if there is a chance?" Tyr flicked his tail, "And I just gave you an idea, I didn't think of a way anyway."

Gao Wen: "..."

At this moment, he really wanted to shoot this fish to death on the shore...