Two Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty-Five, Inheritance of the Underground World (5)

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After thirteen "time backtrackings", thanks to the persistent efforts of the Ute people, the "Catfish Project" finally failed.

In Sherlock's view, it is theoretically okay to stir up these unenterprising salted fish through the "catfish effect", but those Utes will always become extinct on their own inexplicably.

After preventing them from inventing weapons using "living metal" and "dark matter", the Utes turned to inventing special metal waterproof walls made of extremely compressed ordinary minerals to block the "Zera Collector", and this technology in turn The excessive consumption of minerals that were not scarce in the first place has successfully triggered a resource crisis in the opposite direction.

After tracing back and blocking this bad technology, they invented biotechnology that allowed ordinary fish to grow to the same size as the "Zera Collector" to fight against it. Not surprisingly, this large-scale waste of It's food.

Considering that these technologies are always invented in a hurry for quick success and no expense is spared, perhaps because the threat of the "Zera Collector" is too great, Melina added a dormant function to it so that the Utes would have enough room to turn their sights to the sky and The universe, as a result, they built a mobile city under the sea to ensure that the Zela collectors can run smoothly every time from waking up to sleeping. Since this mobile city cannot fly, this time it is a complete waste.

In order to ensure that they have no way to escape, Melina added the "Proliferation" ability to the "Zera Collector". If left alone, it will proliferate and occupy all the underwater space. This time the Utes were finally driven to land. , and then - built the "Sea in the Clouds" based on land, and set up a rapid resource collection team to collect seabed resources without disturbing the "Zera Collectors" when they were dormant.

Until Melina finally decided to give up the "Catfish Effect" plan, these Utes did not even glance at the universe and the starry sky. The appearance and existence of the "Zera Collector" made them extremely determined to protect and finally take back their The ocean, during this period, many excellent literary and artistic works with this theme were produced - if we ignore the problem that they would make ordinary people disappointed.

If you think about it, this does make sense: the threat of catfish can only make sardines move to avoid suffocation, but it is impossible for them to evolve wings and fly away.

However, in Sherlock's view, there is another reason why he cannot achieve his goal, and that is - the inability to communicate.

The tower where he and Melina are located can appear anywhere on the planet where the "Dark Sea" is located. They can also roughly understand the details of related things and make adjustments through "introduction", but the Utes cannot see Melina. Anna and Sherlock, any interference she has in this world will be realized in a way that is consistent with the laws of nature, such as "accident", "coincidence", "I suddenly want to do this", etc.

Because of this, Melina cannot directly convey messages to them, such as "You guys find a way for me to fly to the moon."

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"It seems that we have to go back to before you launched the 'Zera Collector' and choose other rescue methods." Sherlock looked at the "ocean" in the sky, sighed slightly, and turned back: "You...what are you looking at?"

The little girl with one eye closed was standing on the edge of the tower floating on the sea, looking down into the deep sea.

"A 'resource gathering team' was destroyed by the 'Zera Collectors'," Melina looked up: "I'm writing them down."

"Write it down... for what?" Sherlock's reasoning almost immediately emerged in his mind, but he didn't dare to believe it.

Due to the ferocious nature of the "Zera Collector", in the process of constantly adjusting the development plan of the Ute group, many Utes related to it died unexpectedly or even lost their bones. Although Melina would look at them a few more times eyes, but said nothing.

He originally thought that they were regarded as "necessary sacrifices" by Melina, and because the plan would "go back" if there was a problem, even if the world was really destroyed, it would just turn back into sand, so he didn't pay much attention to it, but now he sees Come on, that doesn't seem to be the case.

"Write it down, and when the world is born again, arrange the life it wants for it." Melina replied.

"...Have you written down everyone?" Sherlock recalled the entire desert outside the tower before, replacing "Ute" with "people".

"No, I only remember those who were deviated from their original life trajectory because of my interference," Melina shook her head: "After all, I didn't ask for their consent when I saved their world."

It's like who would say no?

No, maybe someone does.

"What if the world is saved successfully?" Sherlock looked out at the dark sea.

"Then they will be remembered by me." Melina replied.

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Sherlock thought for two seconds before he realized that this was probably equivalent to "leaving his name in history" to a certain extent. Although it was meaningless, it was very meaningful.

It’s bad, even the way of thinking has been led astray by Melina.

"Do you want to start over?" Melina looked at him: "How to save it this time?"

"Try the 'you in the mirror' method. After all, war can indeed promote the development of science and technology," Sherlock asked without any hope: "Can you find the fished-out Ute?"

"Can't find it," Melina shook her head as expected: "We can only determine an approximate time based on the level of technology used in that undersea battle, but..."

"but?"

"But that was a time point that was very close to the extinction of resource-exhausted ethnic groups," Melina said with a bit of confusion on her face: "I tried to provoke a fight, but the world was destroyed during the preparation stage."

Sure enough, just like Bao's time, are there actually deeper elements at play in seemingly simple actions?

Then we can only...wait.

Although little Melina is very powerful, she is limited to the known information. She determines that the only condition for a world to be destroyed is for the other party to turn into sand, and then deduces based on its state before "dust returns to dust returns to earth", and it is concluded that Resource depletion leads to the conclusion of ethnic extinction and extends to every failure of salvation.

But what she just said was completely unreasonable. Judging from Sherlock's experience of commanding an army on the "Ocean Planet", "before the troops move, food and grass go first" is a rule that spans many worlds. An ethnic group is about to become extinct due to resource depletion. , how is it possible to prepare for an ocean war? In other words, since they are preparing for war, they will never become extinct due to resource depletion.

"First go back to the beginning. You trigger the ocean war in your normal way, and then 'fast forward' to the moment before its destruction. The remaining time should be as short as possible." Sherlock said while activating the time stone.

"okay."

The next moment, the "Sea in the Sky" disappeared, replaced by long and narrow battleships and submarines all over the seabed and the sea. A large group of Utes wearing individual combat equipment looked majestic. How could they look like they were about to become extinct?

"This way, no, that way, right here, the command module of this flagship!"

Sherlock, who could not control the movement of the tower, stood on the edge and commanded, and Melina followed suit and moved the tower in the direction he pointed.

Finally, in the flagship of the Ute fleet that had stopped in time, Sherlock found the target of his trip, which was a group of strange creatures that were all light yellow and had eight horns, like starfish.

Most of them are performing communication and analysis tasks step by step, but a small number of them have gathered together and are watching with excitement as their leader reaches for a huge button with one horn.

Before Sherlock could ask, Melina revealed the instructions that came with the button:

[A super powerful button that turns the entire stupid Utes into fools to be driven by the great Chitauri]