Chapter 195

Just then, the girl with Xuan Xuan Deer antlers on her head moved slowly.

Bronya's pupils expanded instantly.

Just because in the direction she was moving, steel buildings stood crookedly, reaching into the clouds.

Nearly a thousand years have passed since the arrival of the "Stellaron" and the outbreak of the "Eternal Freeze."

A millennium, to the universe, is but an insignificant instant.

This incomparably magnificent, incomparably cold, and incomparably compassionate great existence evolves in units of billions of years, gestating galaxies.

But for a civilization, a millennium means much.

It is long enough to witness the rise, fall, and evolution of a civilization.

It can allow a civilization to develop from its initial stages into a prosperous empire, and it is also enough to lead a powerful civilization toward decline and extinction.

For example, Jarilo-VI.

At the end of the road, the incredibly shattered pavement is occupied by wildly growing weeds.

Xuan Xuan Deer hooves step on the road fragments, their claws slightly splayed.

The young girl "Gaia" has never been this close to a city, eager to see the side of urban life after the apocalypse, even if the masters of this city will never return.

Rustle...

In a corner she didn't notice, asphalt liquefies, concrete disintegrates, and bricks scatter like powder...

A long and thorough breath; the brain begins to excite.

The humidity of the air, the fragrance of the soil, and a faint lingering taste of cold wind...

"It's truly hard to imagine that a civilization that had already entered the stars could actually regress to the industrial age..."

A millennium later, only human ruins remain here:

At the street corners, abandoned cars, flying vehicles, and small shuttles are piled up;

The former high-rises have long had their outer walls shattered, and under the erosion of time, even the steel bars and frames are severely corroded;

Trees are everywhere—on rooftops, in blocks, amidst broken walls...

Sunlight is chopped into pieces by the branches and leaves, falling finely onto the horns and clothes of the young girl "Gaia."

At this moment, Dr. Bright also walks out from the grass.

He casually plucks an unknown white flower and decorates the "Immortality" pendant with it.

An unknown bee tries to protest, but he waves it away, leaving it dizzy in the air.

"Although it's a buzzkill, I personally don't suggest you continue walking forward..."

"What..."

The young girl "Gaia" is just about to ask a question when she suddenly feels her feet go soft.

She looks down.

She sees that the ground, which was hard just a moment ago, has turned into a pile of sand and a patch of gravel.

The vehicles not far away are constantly disintegrating, their components rolling onto the ground with a "clatter."

In this process, they are also gradually changing form; their shapes are shifting toward stone, and their colors are gradually deepening.

Before long, they become a pile of ore.

As for the plastic parts, they have already turned into a puddle of oil.

If the young girl "Gaia's" abilities were known to America, they would at least send an aircraft carrier strike group to invite her back.

And where that car once sat, a touch of fresh green pushes through the road surface, slowly sprouting.

Seeing this scene.

The smile on the young girl "Gaia's" face comes to an abrupt end.

Herta Space Station.

"Reality benders... none of them are absolutely safe."

Looking at the road gradually collapsing in the image, Asta raises her hand and presses her eyebrows.

She is now incredibly glad that the reality bender who came to the space station is the "not good enough" Zhao Zhao Zhao Zena, rather than the young girl "Gaia."

If it were the latter, she might inadvertently destroy the space station, turning this place into a pile of space junk.

As for the staff working and living here, they would not be spared either.

Although more powerful divinity and supreme divinity can also twist reality with their will and cause it to collapse, that is always conscious.

It cannot be like the young girl "Gaia," who inadvertently reverts scientific creations.

Or perhaps...

Actively performs a ritual, causing the technological level of an entire civilization to regress back to the Neolithic Age.

"Looking at it this way, the more advanced the civilization, the stronger the deterrent power of the young girl 'Gaia'..."

"For an interstellar civilization, she is an existence as terrifying as a planet-killing weapon, the 'Antimatter Legion,' or a swarm."

With the improvement of civilization levels, every leap in the form of civilization becomes increasingly difficult.

Once it truly regresses to a primitive society, wanting to climb back from the primitive state to the original civilized society is...

Incredibly difficult.

This is true for civilizations in the information age.

It is even more so for civilizations in the interstellar age.

The industry and specialization that humans rely on for survival no longer exist, and they need to relearn and adapt to various survival skills:

Farming, hunting, pottery making...

And the interstellar transport unique to interstellar civilizations will also be forced to stop.

Those planets that have long since de-agriculturalized and de-industrialized will face the greatest disaster in history.

Asta looks at the beautiful young girl, her heart filled with mixed feelings.

Such a reality bender's deterrent power is actually no less than that of a divine existence.

Jarilo-VI, Underworld.

Bronya looks at the young girl in the image, thinking about other things.

The young girl "Gaia" certainly has dangerous abilities, and could even completely destroy the little technology Belobog has left.

But Belobog.

This city, which has been regressing for a millennium, has nothing left except for those glories of the past.

In other words.

There is nothing left to be afraid of.

The worst-case scenario is just that all man-made objects are destroyed, and the entire civilization regresses to the Neolithic Age.

And when the population of the upper and lower levels of Belobog begins to recover.

It will inevitably need to start expanding again, establishing settlements, and planning land.

Those old cities are undoubtedly a major obstacle on Belobog's path to revival.

While they certainly contain valuable materials that can be utilized.

The cost of recovery is also not small.

If they can get the help of the young girl "Gaia" to clear the surface in a planned way, it will make the path to the civilization's revival much smoother.

Jarilo-VI, Goethe Hotel.

"Is this Jarilo-VI a thousand years ago? It was once a quite glorious civilization, too."

March 7th lies on Bai Bai Xuan's waist, looking at the phone screen together with "Stelle."

As for "Stelle," this gray-haired, golden-eyed girl is pressing on Bai Bai Xuan's back, lying side-by-side with March 7th.

Now, the extinction crisis on Jarilo-VI has been resolved, and the "Stellaron" blocking the shipping lanes has been properly handled.

This means.

During the few days the "Astral Express" stays in orbit, the "Trailblazer" team has ushered in a short vacation.

"Stelle" nods and says softly:

"Yeah, at least an interstellar civilization."

As she speaks, she raises her index finger and points to the corner of the screen.