The end of the second chapter did not mean that humans and the sea race had defeated the Outer Gods with nuclear weapons.
Instead, humans and the sea race created a new faith, awakening the corrupted followers of the Outer Gods with new imaginary deities.
One could even say that the end of the second chapter was a divine war, a battle for faith.
The Federation did not pay attention to this, but through the analysis of the Outer Gods, Yan Xia knew the state of that world at this time.
"Ella, do you think they will intervene?"
Yan Xia asked Ella to make a prediction, which was of great importance to the entire Genesis Project.
"If we look at it from the perspective of order, I would maintain absolute rationality and not touch the unknown. After all, the Cthulhu world has already told them that the unknown is the most terrifying."
"However, a civilized world cannot be a completely orderly civilization, or rather, a civilization of our level cannot exist in absolute order. Even within order, individual chaos occupies more."
"So, a civilized world will still explore."
This was also Yan Xia's answer.
The Cthulhu worldview is not limited to a single planet; in fact, the Cthulhu worldview encompasses the entire universe.
The Great Old Ones or other Outer Gods are themselves embodiments of the rules of the universe, or one could say that Cthulhu itself is a fourth-level civilization that has reached the extreme of the universe.
All that happens and appears on planets are merely projections of these Outer Gods.
Therefore, Cthulhu possesses the qualities of a high-level fantasy civilization.
This is why Yan Xia chose Cthulhu as the core of the Genesis Project.
"What about the universe?"
"Is it ruled by order or chaos?"
"It seems that all things other than civilization are actually chaotic and disorderly. At the same time, we have even understood that God throws dice, which further proves that the universe is not orderly."
"All things may not have any rules, and the rules we observe at this time are only because of our ignorance."
"We treat 1% of things as the whole universe, but in the eyes of a higher-level civilization, we are laughable and pitiful."
These are the thoughts inspired by the Cthulhu worldview.
Cthulhu itself is not about theology but is closer to philosophy.
After a civilization that has followed order for tens of thousands of years sees the superiority of chaos, can it bear not to explore?
It can't!
So the Machine God sensed the feedback from that world.
If 123 equals abc, changing one side means changing the other, and the same is true in reverse. The changes on the other side also feedback to this side, allowing the Machine God to know what the civilized world is doing over there.
They intervened, entering the Genesis sandbox, or chessboard.
As expected, the civilized world stood on the side of order, not to help order, but to see the strength of the Outer Gods.
With the help of the civilized world, humans and the sea race recovered their peak in just 200 years and became even stronger.
At this time, the Outer Gods gained new abilities.
They understood projection.
Humans and the sea race were already wary of them, and they could no longer rely on influencing the consciousness of humans and the sea race to rise again. Now, they needed to find what they had in the first chapter, which was quantity.
The third chapter began 341 years after the end of the second chapter.
Whether it was the Outer Gods, humans, or the sea race, they had all reached a sufficient peak state, which the civilized world could not understand. But soon, they discovered that order had been constantly nourishing chaos, and the Outer Gods became stronger through this.
The stronger the order, the stronger the chaos, and the two complemented each other.
The civilized world tried to make changes but found no results because they could not fully control the thoughts of humans and the sea race. If they did, the outcome would be meaningless.
When the incarnation of the Outer Gods reached the ground again, it once again instilled fear in humans and the sea gods.
Because they could not die; those were just incarnations.
The seeds of fear were sown, and the Outer Gods invaded the societies of humans and the sea race, and order was disturbed again.
If it were like before, facing such chaos, the two races would have faced collapse again.
However, this time was different because the civilized world provided support. They constantly publicized the weaknesses of the Outer Gods, saying that they were not to be feared and could be defeated.
So, humans and the sea race never lost their faith. They constantly used weapons to attack, suppress, and control the Outer Gods, while the sequences from the first chapter reappeared as their killing tools.
Furthermore, with the help of the civilized world, the sequences were portrayed as true deities, becoming an unbreakable backing for humans and the sea race.
After the divine war of the second chapter ended, it was time for the "gods" to truly appear.
The civilized world extremely maintained the order of the two races, and under this order, the Outer Gods were suppressed and dared not emerge from the ground.
At this time, the civilized world may have been dissatisfied.
They chose humans and the sea race not because they believed that order could defeat chaos, but because they represented order themselves and did not need to prove anything. What they really wanted to see was the potential of chaos.
If chaos was only like this, then what they gained from this world would be meaningless.
However, the Outer Gods would not let them down.
Even with the strongest sequences, they were not true deities. The owners of the sequences would always have moments of mental distraction, thinking about the meaning of their existence and the purpose of their actions...
When they think about these things, their minds have already entered chaos.
The Outer Gods were able to invade.
"Ah, even the strongest life is ultimately just life, and life cannot be absolutely orderly unless it is a machine."
The civilized world instantly came to this conclusion.
Civilization is guided by life, and civilization has strong weapons, but life cannot have an absolutely defensive consciousness.
Even the strongest life consciousness will have moments of relaxation, and relaxation itself is a departure from order and a form of chaos.
"What if we are chaos ourselves?"
The civilized world would think so, unable to suppress this thought.
At this time, they would hesitate, not because they had not realized the ultimate nature of the universe, which is called chaos or chaos in the Cthulhu world and is also known as "the way of nature" in other mythologies.
What is the essence of life?
The civilized world asked this question again.
Does the essence of civilization really require order?
The civilized world thought of a new question.
If they could answer these two questions, they believed they would be able to achieve a higher level of life.
In the third chapter, despite the full assistance of the civilized world, humans and the sea race eventually faced defeat. As civilization advanced, chaos also grew stronger. They had become so powerful that they could capture even 0.1 seconds of chaos and invade the consciousness of humans or the sea race.
How to resist?
Unless they could directly use a star-destroying cannon to annihilate the Outer Gods.
However, this did not allow the civilized world to draw a conclusion. In the fourth chapter, they will stand on the side of the Outer Gods.