Chapter 1864

! One minute later.

Inside the core meeting room, only Gao Tian, Wen Ya, and Zhang Tie remained.

Staring at each other, the three saw Lin An's expression suddenly turn grave, and their tension grew even stronger.

"Lin Dui!? What's going on!? How... how even Zhang Yong that kid doesn't have the qualifications to stay here anymore. No way! You... you want to look for a traitor...!?"

Unable to hold back, Zhang Tie stammered, rubbed his head, and suddenly recalled that there was a traitor within Long An.

Like him, Gao Tian's eyes flickered, and he immediately asked:

"Lin Dui, is there also going to be a big purge within Long An!? The traitor's rank must be high! During the time you were away, everything Long An did went wrong; I felt something was off back then!"

"I suspect the traitor is among those few people!"

Things outsiders couldn't hear were probably only about the traitor. Just as the two blurted out their questions, they suddenly understood Tai Er's feeling.

The traitor is very likely not a single person, but an entire group! Under Zhuanxu's allocation, Gao Tian often wonders to himself that the strategic arrangements he knows are merely the tip of the iceberg of Faction: Long An.

If Lin Dui wants to investigate this matter, then those who die are likely a large batch of Faction: Long An members who have followed them since early years.

The three simultaneously thought of this, and their expressions couldn't help but slightly change.

However, beyond the three's expectations, seeing Lin An instantly raise his hand to add a layer of mental power shield, he then looked at them with utmost solemnity:

"No, the traitor's matter is irrelevant, incomparable to what I need to say now."

"Zhang Tie, Gao Tian, Wen Ya, I need to tell you some truths about the Apocalypse."

After the words fell, the three were startled. They had never seen Lin Dui so solemn before.

Apocalypse... truth!?

Without any nonsense, Lin An quickly organized his thoughts, then with a single hand conjured a virtual psychic Earth image.

"This is our Earth, located in the Solar System, the Oort Cloud, the Virgo Cluster. Further up, it is the Laniakea Supercluster."

Zoom in, zoom in, zoom again; in Zhang Tie's dazed gaze, the Earth originally the size of a basketball in his eyes instantly, under Lin An's control, becomes an inconspicuous white dot among billions of nebulae.

And when zoomed to the limit, that nebula also becomes a point among a cluster of bright points.

Not well educated, although he had crammed a few books, but seeing the display Lin An showed, Zhang Tie still felt a bit dizzy.

"Lin Dui, what do you mean, are you saying the universe is huge, and there are fucking aliens coming to fight us!?"

"No."

Ignoring Zhang Tie's nonsense, Lin An hesitated a bit, but still decided to tell Zhang Tie and the others the true horror of the Apocalypse.

Living in peace and comfort, humans on Earth actually find it hard to realize how vast the universe is, how terrifying and boundless the starry sky is.

He can feel that the ideas proposed by Gao Tian, Wen Ya, and others are largely because they think Lin An is invincible on Earth and has plenty of time to slowly solve problems.

It's as if, subconsciously feeling that after his return, the Apocalypse will end soon! At this point, why add needless slaughter?

This is good, but extremely deadly!

"Gao Tian, you should know that each galaxy cluster contains a vast number of galaxies, and above the galaxy cluster are galaxy groups and superclusters. Larger than that, we don't calculate."

"Calculating from the large coordinates where Earth is located, how many civilizations do you think exist in this region we occupy?"

After the words fell, facing Lin An's question, Gao Tian blinked slightly, then hurriedly began calculating.

"Roughly... a few hundred? No, if calculated by galaxy cluster, there would be a few thousand."

Gao Tian showed a bitter smile, not daring to be certain of the number he just said.

"Lin Dui, according to the models predicted by astronomers before the Apocalypse, roughly one in ten million planets could have conditions for life; of course, now, with supernatural powers, any planet could potentially give birth to civilization."

"I think, maybe... ten thousand?"

The number is too huge; when viewing Earth from a macroscopic perspective, Gao Tian simply cannot truly feel how large this number is.

But deep down, he seemed to know what Lin Dui was going to say.

One galaxy cluster would have tens of thousands of civilizations; even if just one percent of them were comparable to Earth, that would already be a terrifying power.

(We focus our thoughts on this tiny Earth, worrying about this and that; perhaps we are being overly shortsighted?)

However, faced with the number he gave, Lin An merely shook his head slightly:

"Gao Tian, the star region we are in has a problem; I can't explain it. But I can tell you, the amount of life in our star region is extremely sparse."

"But even under these circumstances, the number of civilizations within our galaxy cluster reaches nearly a million!"

"Don't think this number is large; compared to other star regions, it's pitifully small!"

"In other star regions, a solar-system-sized star system with eight planets would have eight civilizations! A Milky Way-sized region would have tens of billions of civilizations gathered together!"

"And these civilizations, at their worst, possess more than ten to a hundred times the Fourth Stage beings that Earth has!"

After the words fell, the three were all stunned on the spot by the numbers Lin An reported; the numbers were too huge, huge to the point that they could hardly comprehend them.

One galaxy has ten billion!? Then what about superclusters and supercluster groups!? We would have to calculate in hundred millions of hundred millions!?

One cannot imagine how terrifying that scene is, and even more impossible to imagine how many wars would erupt among those countless civilizations under the threat of the Apocalypse! For a moment, Gao Tian and Wen Ya, who could barely grasp this concept, turned deathly pale.

It's just like the shock Lin An felt when he first saw the system mission, where every second destroys trillions of civilizations!

Many! Too many!

Seeing Gao Tian and the others' stunned expressions, Lin An gave a wry smile in his heart.

He was not exaggerating in the slightest.

In the information provided by 77, when he was taken to the spiral galaxy and saw that starry sky, Lin An realized the civilization density of other star regions, which could only be described as abnormal!

According to 77, the Earth region counts as an experimental field; therefore, their chance of colliding with other civilizations is not large, which gives a feeling of emptiness and safety.

But once civilizations as a whole advance to Fifth Stage or even Sixth Stage, even if this star region is as empty as can be, what awaits them will be over a million civilizational wars! A civilization's resource demand for survival is extremely huge! It's you or me!

Therefore, in Lin An's view, the so-called conflicts, divisions, and nations on Earth are utterly absurd, ridiculous pretend play.

Are ten billion people many!?

A battle between two Death Star–level beings could, like stepping on an ant, destroy over a hundred times ten billion!

"So... Lin Dui!? Are we about to engage these civilizations in combat!? Did you receive a mission!? That's why you're so urgent!?"

His face turned deathly pale, sweat pouring down.

Gao Tian swallowed with difficulty, feeling this pressure already making him unable to stand steadily.

"Millions of civilizations, my god... how many Fourth Stage would there be!? Shouldn't we rush to become Fifth Stage!? Right, Lin Dui, you just came back from a Five-Star Mission, didn't you!?"

"Lin Dui! Are you trying to tell us we have no time? We need to quickly gather resources, go all out to reach Fifth Stage, and help you together!?"

"And Andre! Lin Dui! Andre supposedly has other civilizations behind him, even claiming that is Fifth Stage! Are the people behind Andre perhaps other civilizations within our star field!?"

"Our true enemy is the unknown civilization behind Andre! So Lin Dui, you had Tai Er and them leave first, just to avoid leaking this, right!?"

"No, that's not right! If that's the case, shouldn't we be killing fewer people!? The Fourth Stage of all factions are the seeds of the future!"

Incoherent.

Under continuous bombardment of huge amounts of unbelievable information, Gao Tian's face turned deathly pale, constantly denying his previous thoughts.