Chapter 482: Detailed Discussion on the Lost Alchemy Civilization

"... The Alchemy civilization was originally a purely technological civilization."

Alchemist Victor sat in front of Wu Wu Pifu. He carried some metallic structures on his body, but generally, he was human-shaped, and there were no twisted or mutated organs. This was the best candidate selected by the Alchemy civilization, and also the one with the least phenomenon of being lost.

Compared to other forces, the Alchemy civilization really didn't have anything to show.

The True Martial lineage could provide cultivation arts that were completely compatible with Wu Wu Pifu's path, and it was the most important Nature Cultivation that completed his missing system. Of course, intelligence was also indispensable.

The demon race lineage had already obtained a confirmed quota, and it seemed that the demon race was also very generous, unsealing Su Huangyin's cultivation seal. As long as they went to the outside world, they could be extracted and given to Wu Wu Pifu according to the "real world" obtained.

Then there were Samara, the God of Nature and Purity, and Vesperion Star-Fall, not to mention these, they had already obtained quotas.

After that were the Red Priest and the Mist Walker. Both were remnants of completely lost civilizations. But even as remnants of lost civilizations, the civilizations, extraordinary paths, and strength represented by these two were far beyond the Alchemy civilization.

The Potion Civilization represented by the Red Priest, its extraordinary path focused on spirituality. By adjusting substances with spirituality, it completed rituals that conformed to spirituality, achieving a complete transformation from body, to spirit, to soul. It was an extremely rare comprehensive extraordinary path that adapted to the body, spirit, and soul sides. From Tier 1 to Tier 9, there were 28 extraordinary paths. It was extremely powerful before being lost. It was said that there were three lost Roots of this civilization, but because it was lost, no one knew whether it was true or false.

However, in terms of strength, lost information, and the extraordinary paths that could be given to Wu Wu Pifu, the Potion Civilization represented by the Red Priest far exceeded the Alchemy civilization by more than many times.

Besides the Red Priest, the Mist Walker came from the Mist Civilization.

The Mist Civilization is also a Lost Civilization, and a very, very ancient one at that. It is said that during the true era when its civilization existed, the Heavenly Court was not only still active, but it was one of the few roots that maintained sentience, and it even presided over everything as the leader in resisting the source of pollution.

At the same time, the Mist Civilization involved many lost civilizations and Root derivations. For example, the Ancient God lineage, and even the Outer God lineage that had been completely lost, and even the dramatic changes of the demon race, the dramatic changes of the Old Testament angels and New Testament angels, and the other two or three lost Roots might all have relationships with the Mist Civilization.

In contrast, the Alchemy civilization being able to obtain a quota was truly beyond the expectations of many forbidden zone forces. The Alchemy civilization was also extremely grateful, so unlike other civilizations that needed to leave this place and obtain the "real world" before telling the extraordinary paths and intelligence information, the Alchemy civilization decided to tell Wu Wu Pifu everything now.

Wu Wu Pifu was naturally interested in the Alchemy civilization, so he invited Victor to set up tea in the room and have a good chat.

Victor said, "Because the Alchemy civilization has been lost, any information recorded on carriers will disappear, so it can only be remembered and passed down by word of mouth through intelligent life. And as the loss continues, it will also cause a lot of forgetting. And because my resistance to being lost is relatively high, my memory is still comprehensive... But it is still impossible to show the full picture. Please forgive me, my lord."

Wu Wu Pifu shook his head and said, "No need to be so cautious. Let's continue."

Victor nodded and said, "The Alchemy civilization was once a purely technological civilization. In the past I remember, the Alchemy civilization was born on a planet with earth, oceans, and stars in the sky. The initial history has been lost too much. The source of all alchemy appeared in the double-slit interference experiment."

"... Double-slit interference experiment? Quantum?" Wu

Victor nodded and said: "Yes, at that time, the Alchemy Civilization was not yet called 'Alchemy'; the specific name of the civilization is unclear. In short, it was a standard, growing technological civilization, but all this normalcy changed after the double-slit interference experiment... Within the entire population, about one in one hundred thousand people could achieve a secondary observer effect through their intent."

Wu Wu Pifu naturally knew about quantum theory; although he was not an expert, he generally understood it. Precisely because of this, he understood the terrifying significance of Victor's statement even more.

According to the scientific foundation of quantum theory, at the microscopic level of matter, all causality and phenomena at the quantum level are uncertain, existing in a so-called superposition of wave functions. Only with an observer does the wave function collapse, forming a definite fact. Whether or not there is an observer is very likely to lead to changes in the result.

If extrapolated, the observer might very well determine causality, or even ignore the reversal of time-based causality, because at the quantum level, time is irrelevant. For example, the double-slit interference delayed-choice experiment illustrates this point.

If there really were people who could achieve a secondary observer effect through intent, it would mean that this group of people could determine the probability of causality, and even manifest various miracle-like abilities that violate the laws of physics, such as... resurrecting the dead or reversing space-time!

Victor seemed to understand what Wu Wu Pifu was thinking, and he shook his head: "It is not as magical as you imagine. The magnitude of this secondary observer effect is very weak, basically only involving changes at the level of a few electrons. For example, relying on intent, they could only cause interference patterns in the double-slit experiment when an observer was present; it was only to that degree."

The so-called double-slit interference experiment is a very important experiment in quantum theory. In this experiment, when an observer is present, the projected particles show particle-like patterns, while when there is no observer, the projected particles show interference fringes, as if the fundamental particles possessed intelligence.

Victor continued: "This was just the beginning. Scientists were very surprised by this and conducted countless studies on it, but they still could not find an answer. Finally, with the progress of science, scientists manufactured many instruments applied to the secondary observer effect. It wasn't until hundreds of years later that finally... a certain instrument that amplified this effect was created. And the special humans who obtained this instrument could rely on their intent to guide the quantum ordering of fundamental particles between matter and the wave function collapse effect. Thus, the Alchemy Civilization ushered in a super-great development!"

Wu Wu Pifu asked, somewhat confused: "Uh, sorry, I only have a superficial understanding of science. With this kind of amplification instrument, what kind of super-great development could it trigger?"

Beelzebub, standing by, couldn't help but say: "Are you an idiot? You could artificially create all kinds of incredible basic materials! For example, hand-crafting room-temperature superconductors. Let me ask you, with room-temperature superconductors, is stable nuclear fusion still far off? And you could control wave function collapse; quantum mechanics would simply advance explosively. You wouldn't even need super particle accelerators!"

Victor also nodded: "Yes, that is exactly it. That period was called the Mythical Era of the Alchemy Civilization, from which various miracle creations were derived. The Alchemy Civilization also colonized the entire star system within a few short decades, and the status of these special humans became higher and higher. However, their high status was commensurate with their contributions. At that time, the ambitious Alchemy Civilization had already planned to enter interstellar colonization. The initial faster-than-light technology was also created due to the explosion of basic materials and basic scientific theories, but..."

"The source of pollution appeared..."

Wu Wu Pifu was silent for a moment and said: "The Big Eyeball?"

Victor nodded and continued: "With the appearance of the source of pollution, the first things to emerge were periodic non-logical space-time effects. Every once in a while, it would pull all life in the Alchemy Civilization into it, and each time it would randomly kill a large number of personnel. Therefore, it also led to the cessation of the Great Cosmic Development Plan. At the same time, because of this periodic death and the government's inability to solve it, not long after, the government collapsed, and the entire Alchemy Civilization fell into a war."

"This was a war that lasted for thousands of years, stopping and starting. All colonial planets were involved, and the special humans, as a super strategic resource, were monopolized by various factions. As time went on, these special humans began to hold power."

"In this process, the Alchemy Civilization began to fall, falling toward the illusory. During the fall, the secondary observer effect of the special humans began to gradually strengthen. For the first time, extraordinary power appeared in our civilization... That was the original Alchemist, Azariel. He was the first to use the secondary observer effect to directly control fundamental particles. Through the control of fundamental particles, he achieved the ability to change the properties and forms of matter. This is the origin of my civilization; the word 'Alchemy' is also the extraordinary path, the original origin of alchemy."

Wu Wu Pifu memorized all of this. He roughly understood the origin of the Alchemy Civilization and the process of how it went from a technological civilization to an extraordinary civilization.

Among them, the appearance of that Big Eyeball, the source of pollution, was the beginning, and the fall from reality to illusion was the process and the core.

Victor continued: "As they fell further into the illusory, the extraordinary power of the alchemists became stronger. In reality, various extraordinary organizations and factions led by alchemists began to appear, and their strength became increasingly powerful. Eventually, the strength of the alchemists broke through the critical point, and finally, the alchemists began to explore deeper into the Dream World, and they explored deeper and deeper until they broke through the critical point and reached the Root Layer... The disaster happened."

"The Root possesses the pollution characteristics belonging to its domain, and this pollution spread into the real world. This is actually the way the Root plunders reality. At that time, in order to resist the Root, the alchemists made a decision... to activate Forbidden Alchemy."

"They intended to create the legendary Philosopher's Stone, and at the same time, use countless Philosopher's Stones to create an artificial god!!"

"And so... the Lost Catastrophe appeared!"

(End of chapter)