Chapter 1484: 8

Why did we kill him!? Because he deserved to die！)

(If he doesn't die, we will all die! He killed all the monsters！)

While waiting for the second follower to contribute food, Lin An confidently chewed the hard bread, and the quickly secreted saliva rapidly softened the bread, filling his stomach.

Sitting cross-legged on the ground, his mind swiftly flashed back to his original conversation with the Annihilator.

"The death of Long An is a violation of the already 'stabilized' interests of the native humans."

"The prolonged apocalypse has caused the native humans who have mastered power to emerge as a completely new civilizational class."

"Unlike the pre-apocalypse era, people's lifespans are longer and individual martial strength higher, which also caused the native humans with great power to essentially become an unbreakable steel plate."

"Power has become the 'resource' that everyone is accustomed to obtaining."

"Therefore, Long An's action of clearing global mutants has instead become the ultimate consumer that plunders all capital."

"Power is resource."

For the first time, I contemplated the social form after the apocalypse, as well as the transformation this apocalypse brings to civilization's structure.

In a vague sense, Lin An actually felt that behind these things lay the key to the fifth stage.

"Alien Species Emperor... transforming power... massive sacrifice of its own kind... failure to ascend to the fifth stage... compensation.."

"Class solidification, civilization structure..."

One clue after another seems to outline the truth behind all the actions of the Alien Species Emperor.

"Still feel like something is missing."

For a long time.

Lin An shook his head; lacking mental power support, his thinking speed was really too slow.

Clearly, he suddenly thought of why the Alien Species Emperor couldn't become fifth stage, and why there was still hope to find another path. But, the crux of it, he still felt he was missing some information.

He suppressed his thoughts.

After alleviating the hunger sensation and short-term crisis, Lin An lightly exhaled and subconsciously looked toward Anduyin, who simply couldn't bear to eat anything.

It's hard to imagine that from entering the Black Gold gathering place to Anduyin, and then to the scavenger just now, he actually discovered a problem he had overlooked.

That is..

Surpassing the class solidification of all periods in human history.

Why was that man just now so agitated?

Because he no longer has a channel to obtain power.

In just over a year, every survivor once had the chance to become an Awakened One, but now, unless they are survivors of a major force, it's almost impossible to become an Awakened One.

Becoming an Awakened One requires extreme attributes and requires spiritual energy nodes.

But the former must complete system tasks, killing zombies. Or alternatively obtain spiritual energy fruit.

But where are there still zombies? Where are there still 'wild' spiritual energy fruits?

The scattered zombie hordes have long been wiped out by batch after batch of supply search teams; the easy-to-kill ones, even areas without mutants, have also been dealt with by the military.

What remains is either in the cities, or a massive zombie tide coupled with powerful mutants.

Ordinary people wanting to kill a zombie either must go to a blank area with no faction influence, or they can only gamble their lives!

No, gambling their lives is useless either; the difficulty is already too high!

And spiritual energy nodes are even more monopolized by powerful Awakened Ones.

This leads to the fact that for most survivors, if they didn't become Awakened Ones during the initial period of greatest chaos and lowest difficulty, then they will never be able to in this lifetime.

"Actually, just like in my past life... in my past life, when I died, I also couldn't become an Awakened One."

"But at this stage, the global apocalypse progression and Awakened Ones... have become more difficult because of my existence..."

In his past life, he always hid in Linjiang, hiding in territories without strong safe zones; Lin An actually really didn't know much about the internal situation of human gathering places.

Or rather, he wasn't qualified to enter.

But in this life, because of his appearance, because of various factors, resources have become even more concentrated!

"With such reverse inference, what will ultimately happen to human civilization?"

"If... I do not intervene."

In contemplation, Lin An gave a bitter smile, realizing that since his rebirth he had actually never placed himself in the position he ought to be to think about problems.

He only cared about making himself stronger, developing his forces according to inertial thinking.

To be honest, he never seriously considered what, as humanity's strongest, he should do.

"If I do not intervene..."

"Within at most two years, large numbers of ordinary people will still die at an extremely rapid speed."

"Not dying at the hands of monsters, but at the hands of their own kind, or even simply 'committing suicide' in chaos and madness."

"Because, there is no hope. Ordinary people are doomed to die."

"Awakened Ones will only become stronger, the gap will only widen, and ordinary people will have no chance to grow stronger."

Thinking back to his experience, he had set the 'equality' rule when Long An was first established.

Lin An knew that was an immature intervention method of his.

He had seen what ordinary people, whose hopes were blocked and who were oppressed to the extreme, would do.

He chose in Long An to let every ordinary person have hope of becoming an Awakened One, essentially to avoid a huge trap.

That is the key from zero to one.

If we say that for an ordinary person to become a zeroth-stage Awakened One, the required resource is 1, and his strength goes from 0 to 1.

Then for an Awakened One, the same resource might perhaps be enough to go from 9 to 10, an increase of also 1.

But the former is a qualitative change, a doubling! The latter is merely an increase of less than 10%.

In numerous system tasks and apocalypse events, you at least need the most basic, most basic power to complete the task, and then have hope to grow stronger!

If not, then this one-point gap means certain death!

"So... actually, Past Life humanity nearly went extinct. Essentially, it's still two kinds of crisis."

"One comes from outside, the other from inside."

"Without ordinary people, without fresh blood replenishment, if not a single top-tier Awakened One has the power to oppose the Apocalypse, they will ultimately be drained to death."

"Even if a top-tier powerhouse appears, able to hold off the Apocalypse for a time, it's impossible for one person to oppose it forever."

"So the ending is still destruction, or a person, a group of people fail and flee, becoming fugitives."

"After careful reverse deduction, Lin An suddenly realized that this point is fundamentally the biggest trap within the Apocalypse."

"It's a deadly trap!"

"Those fugitive civilizations, including the Alien Species, essentially fell into this trap, resulting in no matter how they struggle, no matter how many Sovereigns appear later, they can only lose this Apocalypse!"

"And he has already stepped onto the edge of this trap!"

"No!"

"If I intervene... if I intervene..."

"That essentially is the same as the Alien Species civilization..."

"Original humans naturally possess strong mental power; each of them is equivalent to an Awakened One. Precisely because of this, their lower-level numbers have always remained at a standard, continuously providing fresh blood."

"In comparison, this is equivalent to me forcibly intervening in all humanity, making everyone an Awakened One, giving hope to grow stronger!"

"But they still failed, even..."

"Wait..."

"He suddenly froze."

"After a moment, Lin An couldn't help but curse loudly in his heart."

"He thought of it."

"Threefold trap!"

"Behind this Apocalypse, essentially there are three layers, even four layers of traps!"

"One wrong step, and the future is destined for destruction!"

"If there are many Awakened Ones sustaining survival but no top-tier powerhouse to end everything, then new enemies—the Alien Species—will still be born in the process of consumption!"

"If there are many Awakened Ones and also top-tier powerhouses appear—that is, the Perfected Ones—but because they die slowly, the Perfected Ones appear late! Once the Perfected Ones appear, if they try to break through their limits, they will inevitably face a backlash from the original Awakened Ones!"

"If there are not many Awakened Ones, then the lower strata die quickly; by the time the Perfected Ones appear, it's already too late to make up for all of this."

"So..."

"A civilization truly capable of survival must meet extremely harsh conditions, and the Perfected Ones born among them must immediately realize what they must do!"

"Perfected Ones who appear quickly must stop all of this before the lower strata die off!"

"Perfected Ones who appear later must prioritize resolving internal conflicts!"

"Just like a balancing board, if one does not quickly realize what they should do, the balance will instantly break and they will fall into Shen Yuan!"