The Collection of The End

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Spire of the Deep.

Not that surprising... Sherlock looked at those huge shadows and nodded slightly.

According to the description, the "Utes" are undoubtedly at the top of the food chain, and their short-sighted and unprogressive behavior is not much different from that of humans before encountering the "alien invasion".

But if we really want to make an analogy, it should be the "dinosaurs" that have become extinct in the ancient history of the earth. They are also huge and spread all over the planet. They also became extinct because they could not find food due to drastic changes in the environment. The archaeological community seems to have a different view. But that has nothing to do with the issue at hand.

Before Melina read "Settings", Sherlock had been thinking that if it were a natural disaster that directly destroyed a planet or even a galaxy like what happened to the Seven Kingdoms, Melina could solve it with just a flick of her finger. After all, the probability of that situation happening has countless zeros after the decimal point, but now it seems that what is to be prevented is actually the extinction of the biological group as the "master of the planet", but that cannot be solved by pure force.

Judging from the title of the "Pillar of the World" of the Utes and the information obtained from the "Ministry of Magic", what was destroyed was actually a "world line", that is, "the Utes survive as the overlord of the 'Dark Sea'" world line.

To use the analogy of dinosaurs again, it is a world line in which dinosaurs successfully survived some kind of disaster and continued to rule the earth, while human ancestors had to hide in trees.

It was so ruined...ahem.

Although I have seen many friendly races other than humans, when I encounter problems, I still unconditionally prefer the side of humans.

Relatively speaking, the Ministry of Magic has a relatively relaxed attitude towards "other world lines". As long as humans dominate the earth, even if they cause any disaster that may destroy them, they will send agents to rescue them.

Um? Why doesn't it seem to be much different from what I am about to do? And if you later master a certain formula for saving the world, and start saving the world in batches through "Sherlock's Unpredictability"... it's similar, very similar.

However, compared to that small organization that only focuses on the earth and the human world, Melina, who wants to save the world regardless of race, is obviously much more generous.

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"What was your original plan to save the world?" Sherlock retracted his wandering thoughts and turned to ask Melina, who was just looking out the window after reshaping the "sand world".

For now, just follow the plan she made, and when encountering an accident, immediately "backtrack" and make corrections to see if it can be implemented to the end.

"Hmm... I thought they looked like sardines, so I threw a catfish in," Melina replied.

"Lost...what?" Sherlock didn't react for a moment.

He knew the catfish effect, but if the "Ute", which was already large enough, was compared to a small sardine, what would a "catfish" look like?

"Over there." Melina raised her hand and pointed in the direction where the previous shadows had gone.

Boom——!

The next moment, where she was pointing, a huge red pillar rose into the sky - rising from the sea. With a low roar, everything on the seabed was shaking violently. Several Utes that had just swam leisurely past He also fled back in a hurry.

During this process, the "viewing pavilion" remained still, and only a low echo came in from the supposedly loud sound.

By causing natural disasters when resources were still abundant, the Ute people felt in danger and took the initiative to land? It seems feasible.

Sherlock was about to make a comment, but found that things had changed further.

The pillar of fire, which was probably the eruption of an undersea volcano, gradually cooled and disappeared, but the undersea rock formations began to crack in large areas and lifted up in all directions. Finally, a huge pillar almost completely blocked the "viewing window" on one side of the tower, with a A dark monster with huge thick lips crawled out of the crack in the ocean floor.

At the same time, two "beards" that were thicker than the escaped Utes themselves and were located on both sides of its mouth swept across the seafloor, crushing all the undersea mountains that could barely be seen into pieces.

What a catfish!

"[Now is the period of 'second energy development',]" Melina continued to read in a scripted tone while commanding the tower to climb higher: "[All the 'food' and 'minerals' on the seabed have been discovered. Later, Ute began to exploit the 'explosive particles', 'alien natural gas' and 'rare crystals' under the rock formations.]"

"Oh..." Sherlock tried to compare them to the earth's resources but failed.

"[In the process of mining these conventional resources, they discovered 'living metal', 'Zera' and 'dark matter'," Melina continued: "[These rare resources are important raw materials for space technology, but because of the discovery It has been misused and wasted on a massive scale prematurely.”

...Is it roughly equivalent to burning oil directly for heating?

At this time, the tower had climbed to a height close to the sea surface, and Sherlock could clearly see the giant "catfish" with six legs, four pairs of fins, and a pair of long beards that climbed out of the submarine volcano. It was angrily rushing towards a large mine not far from the volcano.

"[It comes from another world, called the 'Zera Collector'. It will actively search for and devour 'Zera', but will not consume it. Instead, it will accumulate it in its body. If it is successfully hunted, it can be reborn." Extract it,]" Melina looked at Sherlock: "I think it can not only make 'Utes' feel threatened and actively develop technology, but also prevent this rare resource from being wasted. "

"Sounds like a good plan," Sherlock nodded: "How did it fail?"

"To fight against the 'Zera Collectors', the Utes invented new weapons and then used up the 'living metal' and 'dark matter'."

"So……"

"I also tried the 'Living Metal Ooze Monster' and the 'Dark Matter Cocoon', but Ute couldn't defeat them and ended up being extinct early."

"Tsk."

In short, at least on the surface, there is no problem with this plan. Just add variables to prevent Ute from wasting rare resources. In any case, implement it to the end according to the original plan and wait and see what other problems will arise later before formulating it. New plan.

"Speaking of which, how did you do 'You in the Mirror'?" Sherlock asked.

"What she said," Melina tilted her head to think for a moment: "She picked up a ute from the sea, did something to it, and then put it back into the sea."

"Is it spiritual interference? Let the Ute lead the fish to develop technology in a non-wasteful way?" Sherlock asked: "Then what?"

"Then that ute started a world war."

"..."