Extraordinary Puppet Master

During the discussion, he keenly felt that Carlin not only had a deep research on the knowledge of the Skrei clan in the Fourth Age, but also dabbled in many schools of the Second Age.

Karin smiled and complimented: "As expected of a teacher, you can tell right away. Yes, I once explored a large-scale ruins of the Second Era and obtained the complete inheritance and taboo historical information of many schools."

"You should also have heard that a few months ago I summoned three legendary powerful men through historical rituals on the Emerald Island. They were all harvested from that ruins exploration."

Birmingham was immediately attracted by the history of the Second Era, and Hou urged: "Tell me the history of the Second Era quickly. The historical records in the current academic world are in a mess, and you have no clue if you want to study them in depth."

Sally on the side also quietly pricked up his ears, and he was also very curious about the history of the Second Era.

Carlin looked at the expressions of the two and did not show off, and began to speak: "The Second Era is actually a very cruel era."

"The creation of the steam core triggered the automation revolution, increased productivity tenfold and hundreds of times, and the world suddenly entered a kind of abnormal prosperity."

“The onset of the automation revolution seems to have made everything more convenient. Many industries such as industrial production, transportation, catering, cleaning, postal service and even security have begun to use machinery to replace labor, and the cost is only less than one-third of labor. arrive."

"But correspondingly, countless lower-class workers and service industry personnel with low educational levels have lost their jobs. Even those street women who rely on their bodies to make money have been replaced by anthropomorphic constructs with a more comfortable experience and have become unemployed."

"This is undoubtedly a devastating disaster for these people at the bottom who are in urgent need of work to support their families."

Carlin's tone of description was very calm, but both Birmingham and Sally felt their hearts skip a beat.

Birmingham said with a shocked look on his face: "How could this happen? Aren't these people at the bottom of society completely without a way to survive? If a large-scale population death occurs, how many evil things will be spawned!"

Carlin smiled sarcastically, and then continued: "It seems that you, teacher, have also seen this, but to the people in power at the time, they were just some low-level evil things and could not attract their attention."

"The rich are still singing and dancing and enjoying the dividends of the times, while the poor who have lost their jobs can only starve to death, freeze to death and finally turn into resentful souls full of resentment."

"The birth of too many resentful souls directly affected the balance of the world's rules, which led to the death of two Si Chens and triggered a catastrophic disaster."

"In just a few months, the mortal population began to die on a large scale. No matter you are a demigod, a legendary strongman, or a homeless vagrant at the bottom of society, you can't escape this disaster."

"It's not convenient for me to relay many details to you because they involve too much taboo information, but I can tell you the final result."

"This steam automation revolution directly or indirectly led to the death of two Si Chens, all blood gods, demigods, and legendary strong men. More than 99.99% of all life in the world also died in the disaster.

Just after the disaster, the combined surviving population of the mortal and spiritual world did not exceed 100,000! "

Birmingham and Sally were in a trance for a while. The history of the Second Age told by Carlin had a great impact on them.

Although Carlin was worried about the reason why they were contaminated by taboo information and did not go into too many details, the general history still made their hair stand on end, and their backs were wet with cold sweat.

What is the concept of more than 99.99% of life in the entire world dying? From this number, you can feel the horror of that disaster.

It took a while for Birmingham to come back to his senses. He seemed to have thought of something and shouted with panic: "Could it be that there was a machine-soul disaster in the last era?"

After hearing this, Carlin said with a solemn face: "Although I don't know much about the history of the early and middle stages of the Fifth Era, the Machine Soul Disaster was indeed born shortly after the rise of the automation revolution!"

In his view, this is actually a sociological issue. Although the automation revolution has increased the productivity index and improved the average quality of life in society, it is obvious that the social system is directly out of touch with productivity.

The upper class continued its previous attitude towards the lower class people - ignoring it, no matter how many mud-legged people died, it would not affect them.

If we put it in a world like Carlin's hometown where there are no extraordinary elements, it would really be a cruel world without any hope at the bottom.

But this world is different. If too many people die, something big will happen. If the balance of rules is broken, a huge disaster will occur.

In the second era, the death of two Si Chens triggered a devastating cold.

Although Carlin didn't know much about the history of the Fifth Era, he could guess that Si Chen, who caused the machine soul disaster, was equivalent to the anti-virus system, intending to let the terrifying mechanical army directly wipe out all those who caused social problems.

I don’t know if it was the situation in the Second Era that made Si Chen in the Fifth Era learn from it, and no longer treated it passively but took the initiative.

His ideas are simple and crude and cannot solve the problem, so then solve the person who created the problem!

I have to admit that this approach is indeed very effective, although the machine soul disaster finally subsided, not as serious as in the Second Era.

However, the world's technology has directly degraded to the level of the Middle Ages. At least it did not cause an extinction disaster as tragic as in the Second Age.

For a long time after that, extraordinary people did not dare to study steam alchemy technology in depth.

It was not until the passage of time gradually healed the pain of the war that everyone began to develop steam technology again.

‘So, it’s the world that’s wrong! ’ Karin thought silently in his heart.

There is nothing wrong with the steam automation revolution, it is just a simple technology and has no preferences of its own.

There is nothing wrong with the poor people at the bottom who have no clothes and no food to eat. They have never asked for too many things, they just want to live a stable life.

Si Chen is not wrong. All their actions are to maintain the balance of the world's rules. Otherwise, an imbalance in the rules will cause huge disasters.

There is nothing wrong with small forces and wild extraordinary beings. They are in a state of ignorance about the general trend of the world and can only follow the trend.

The only ones who are wrong are the major extraordinary organizations that represent the mainstream of this world.

Birmingham was limited by the times and did not think as deeply as Carlin did. He never realized the source of the contradiction. He believed that this was an avoidable tragedy.

If various extraordinary organizations can pay attention before the disaster occurs and take the initiative to take measures to relieve and resettle those poor people who can no longer survive, they may be able to prevent the disaster from happening.

Carlin just smiled after hearing his evaluation and didn't say much.

As the alchemist master of the Ranger Association, Birmingham is a member of the upper class of society. When thinking about problems, his position will inevitably be subconsciously biased towards his own class. This is human nature and there is no need to criticize him too much.

But then the other party's words made Karin's heart suddenly lift.

Birmingham's expression suddenly became confused, and he murmured to Carlin in a sleepy voice.

“Karin, listening to you tell the history after the automation revolution in the second era makes me feel a little scared.

You don’t know that many countries and forces are working hard to develop automation technology. According to some things I know, a new generation of automation wave will be launched in the mortal world in at least ten years! "