40,000 Years of Cultivation

Long Yunxin had heard of the Battle of Karan.

That was Wu Yingqi's most critical link on the road to the pinnacle of power. After that, all the grand plans and the changes of the situation have arisen.

In this battle, Wu Yingqi “sacrificed” 8 million civilians and wounded soldiers on the Karan Star, and wiped out the highest command of the invading army of the Holy League. He took advantage of the situation and received a large number of military supplies from the Holy League, and held them firmly. Control over a dozen border worlds.

Whether "sacrificing 8 million and saving tens of billions" is worth it, this rather tangled question is also a hot topic that often appears in the debate competitions of Feixing University.

Long Yunxin had also thought about it briefly.

But at that time, she sat comfortably on the sofa, enjoying the comfortable temperature and exquisite food, and being with three or five best friends, either from the perspective of the member of the Xinghai Republic or even the speaker, or from the black star emperor Wu Ying Qi's perspective, even from the perspective of the "post generations" who surpassed Wu Yingqi and the top level of Xinghai Republic, is purely talkative.

She had never tried to look at it from the perspective of an ordinary person who was living on Karan at the time.

No, I can't say "look", but "feel" the matter personally and become a witness of history.

Long Yunxin swallowed with difficulty, feeling that his throat was fishy and ice, his soul was like falling into an ice cave, and his internal organs were completely frozen.

But the whole body was extremely hot, and the skin was burning with intense pain, like an electric arc in the illusory world, and it still remained deep in the bone marrow until this moment.

She stretched out a trembling hand, and chose game characters of different identities.

these people……

Or the miners who have been living on the star of Karan, in the dark mines, dedicated their lives in obscurity, and unearthed the raw spar ore.

Or family members of miners and smelting experts, teachers, doctors, nurses, and waiters living in the living quarters.

Even the soldiers who were seriously injured in the previous stage of the battle and were too late to be transferred, combat heroes.

Although they are the most inconspicuous little cells in the entire civilization, there are countless wonderful and moving stories in them.

Ordinary young men who were originally just the lowest level miners, after the Holy League invaders occupied Karan Star, picked up the light energy pickaxe and the ore shredder, and became a guerrilla in the depths of the underground cobwebs and the vertical and horizontal mines.

The doctors, nurses, and waiters who were working in the living quarters concealed a large amount of materials and secretly supported them to the deepest part of the mine.

The severely wounded battle heroes, holding hands, shoulder to shoulder, leaning on crutches, supporting each other, rushed towards the overwhelming Holy Alliance starship.

The one who impressed Long Yunxin most was a young female teacher on Karan Star.

After the war invaded this small planet, she stepped forward and protected more than 20 pupils in the class.

She secretly hid a national flag of Xinghai Republic and taught the children to sing the national anthem of Xinghai Republic over and over again.

When the deafening roar of starships came from outside, these immature voices condensed into the final city wall.

Singing and singing, she would say in tears: "No matter where you drift to Xinghai, never forget your hometown. Remember, we are from Xinghai Republic, from Karan Star, and we are all Karan people! "

But all this--

Whether it is the stubborn resistance of the guerrillas, the bravery and unyielding of the disabled soldiers, the little persistence of the common people, the crisp singing of the teachers and children...none of them are of any use.

Because, no matter what the "victory condition" of each game character is, they cannot persist until dawn.

The ending for everyone is the same, completely swallowed by the thunderstorm from underground, and turned into powder with their homeland, Karan Star!

There are no miracles, no superheroes, no turns and Jedi counterattacks, destruction is their only future!

This is a game that will never win. It can't even be called a "game", but a kind of holographic realistic and penetrating "cutscenes".

However, there is an unclear attraction that attracts Long Yunxin to play over and over again, and experience the last happiness, anger, sorrow, emotions, longing and disillusionment, hope and disillusionment of the residents of Karan when the end of Karan Star is coming. despair!

The last cutscene focuses on the female teacher.

When Wu Yingqi's spar bomb buried in the depths of Karan star detonated all the purple thunder crystal resources of the entire planet and set off a monstrous wave of thunder on the horizon, the female teacher was the first to discover.

She immediately jumped up, opened her arms, and shouted loudly in the face of the huge thunder wave, protecting all the children behind her.

Just like in the "Eagle and Catch" game they used to often play, she played the role of an eagle, guarding every "chicken" behind the ass.

The female teacher used this attitude to contend with the Black Star Emperor who is about to establish a true human empire.

Even if the bright light made her blind for a moment, there were still waves of magnificent flames jumping deep in her eyes.

Facing the huge thunder wave, she remained motionless and did not give a hand, until she and her children were torn to pieces by the arc and turned into smoke, she still maintained such a posture, like a statue made of some mysterious substance. .

"Whirring whirring……"

Long Yun stubbornly covered his face, letting tears flow from his fingers, shuddering silently in the game cabin for a long time before he recovered slightly.

This is simply a poisonous game!

But she can't wait to try more game content.

Even a girl like her who does not like to play military strategy games, after experiencing everything on the Karan Star, can’t wait to play the entire game, and wants to choose to become a member of the Xinghai Republic and a general of the Central Army. , The Lord of the Border World, do everything you can to stop Wu Yingqi, stop Black Star Great, stop the real human empire!

With a long sigh of relief, he sensed the faint pain in the depths of his brain. Long Yunxin knew that this was a sequelae of being in the game cabin for a long time and his time perception was severely distorted.

Can't play anymore.

She glanced at the time, preparing to exit the game warehouse.

"Hey, it's been a whole day!"

Long Yun secretly smacked his tongue.

She is a person with strong self-control ability and has no habit of indulging in the game world.

But the game "Civilization" does have indescribable magic, which makes people want to stop, and can't stop it.

Leaving the game room dizzy, many students around have also completed the test, but they are not as chattering as when they came just now. They are very excited, all curled up in the corner, thinking silently, their expressions sometimes trance, sometimes Confused, sometimes epiphany, extremely wonderful.

There were even a few emotionally rich girls who shed tears like pearls like Long Yunxin.

Perhaps, they also played the expansion film "The Rise of the Empire", but what they saw was not the "Rise of the Empire", but the destruction of the rising people!

"Teacher Long!"

Seeing Long Yunxin coming, several girls seemed to grab a life-saving straw in the rapids, and all surrounded them.

"This game is too terrifying, the continuation of civilization, is it so difficult?"

"I, I really don't know how to choose! When I first played Wu Yingming, I thought that the Shaman was disgusting, and Wu Ying was too kind, it was too kind! But when I replaced the role, playing a role in the hot The sand barbarian women who were born, old, sick and died in the desert, seven or eight children were swallowed by monsters, and after being killed by disease, I felt that as long as my children can live like Wuying people, I would pay all the price. Anything can be done, and all gods and demons are willing to believe!"

"Kalan Star! Karan Star! Is the destruction of Karan Star really inevitable? I never knew what is the concept of "eight million people". Now I know, maybe..."

The girls couldn't cry.

Usually at this time, there are already enthusiastic boys who come to "heroes to save the beauty" and comfort the girls with a smile on their faces, and eat tofu by the way.

But today, some boys who have just completed the test are also sitting next to the game cabin, with sunken eye sockets, straight eyes, quietly thinking, wandering away from the sky, and unconscious.

Long Yunxin couldn't help it, and reluctantly made an excuse to say that he was going to find Li Yao. Under the guidance of the staff, he escaped from the game center.

Li Yao was in an elegant house behind the game center, chatting and laughing with an elder with kind eyebrows, good eyes, immortal wind, and flowing white hair.

Seeing Long Yunxin coming in, he immediately greeted him.

"How did you develop such a magical game?"

Long Yun didn't care about politeness, and went straight into it, "It's not a'game' at all, right? All civilizations in the game have existed for real, and they have all been destroyed, right?"

"Yes it is."

Li Yao admitted frankly, “After receiving the war base of the True Human Empire, we disassembled and studied each magic weapon unit, which is used to brainwash the cultivator and transform the cultivator into a secret room for the cultivator. It is our research. Focus!"

"We found that in this'brainwashing room', what is stored is not just as simple as the history of the decline and death of three civilizations, but as many as dozens of different cultivation civilizations."

"Perhaps, the immortal cultivator can choose the brainwashing material with the highest degree of fit according to the characteristics of the brainwashing object!"

"We used these brainwashing materials as the basis, coupled with those materials used by the immortals to boast of Black Star Great’s martial arts, and constantly improved and strengthened, and finally became "Civilization" and its first expansion film "The Rise of Empire". !"

"As for whether the content of the game is real, of course it is not completely real."

"On the one hand, in the original data of the real human empire, there must be a lot of added fuel and vinegar, subtle ingredients, and I can't completely believe it."

"In the process of adapting to the game, we also hope to add more diversified content, so that the reasons for the destruction of each world will be richer and more universal."

"So, it is not the kind of'real' that is 100% in line with history."

"But all the logic of calculation, as well as the various reactions made by the virtual characters, are infinitely close to'real', that is to say, in the depths of the vast sea of ​​stars, it is indeed'possible' to happen!"