บท 229: Chapter 229: What Life Fears
"What is the face of the city?"
Bolton asked his father.
His father was a journalist, writing the headlines for the newspaper.
"The face of the city is desolate and dark, and within the darkness lurk monsters that devour humans. Even with powerful sequences, humans are still treated as their prey."
"You can call them monsters, but most people in the world refer to them as gods."
"However, these gods are not worthy of our faith. They are dark gods, evil gods."
"Bolton, don't be curious, don't approach them, and don't imagine them. They are a group of devils."
Bolton listened to his father when he was young, but as he grew up, he began to develop a sense of self. After giving birth to this self, he became curious. When he realized that others around him didn't know about these things, he thought it was cool.
He used this as a topic of conversation and formed a secret society.
Because talking about the dark gods was taboo in the city.
In this world, everyone believes they are special, especially during their teens, and then they admit to their mediocrity after the age of 30 and accept their fate as they wait for death at 50.
Bolton, of course, was no exception. He was young, special, and like a protagonist in a novel, with the real world as his stage.
Or so he thought.
He believed it would be so smooth.
Until he saw his partner floating in the darkness, his body bent, twisted, and flattened. Blood spurted, bones shattered, and then a huge mouth in the darkness opened, devouring and chewing.
Bolton hid in his home, and the sound of chewing echoed repeatedly in his mind.
It was clearly the same sound as when he ate meat, but the thought of that terrified him.
At this moment, he remembered the question he had asked his father.
"Bolton, don't be curious, don't approach them, and don't imagine them. They are a group of devils."
Only then did he realize that they were truly devils.
Curiosity is the nature of life.
And fear is also the nature of life.
"Knock, knock, knock!"
"Knock, knock, knock!"
He heard the sound of knocking, and his whole body trembled.
"Bolton, open the door!"
It was his father's voice, and he immediately felt a sense of relief. He crawled out from under his bed and went to the door.
He looked through the peephole into the darkness, and it was pitch black.
"Bolton!"
Another urging call.
Bolton opened the door, and almost instantly, the darkness rushed in through the door crack, filling the entire room. In the darkness, Bolton became a skeleton.
Starting from this room, the darkness devoured the entire city, turning a million-population city into a desolate place in an instant.
In the eyes of a higher civilization, this power is so insignificant that it's laughable.
However, in a lower civilization, this power is strong enough to instill fear.
It is worth noting that humans and other intelligent races actually possess nuclear weapons capable of destroying the dark gods. The dark gods are not that formidable.
If you study carefully, you will find that the combat power of the various races in this world is as follows: humans 10, sea creatures 9, underground beings 6, elves 3, and dark gods 5.
Except for the extremely rare elves, all other races can defeat the dark gods.
However, the rulers of this world are still the dark gods.
This is what requires deep thought.
Why is that?
Because of their mystery.
Humans have classified the dark gods in the field of mysticism. Every individual who encounters the dark gods will be devested. When you stare and imagine the dark gods, they will see you, approach you, and kill you.
Humans are like this, and other intelligent races are even more so.
They fear the dark gods because they don't understand them.
What does life fear?
Knowledge!
Scenes like Bolton's are repeated over and over in this world. Humans maintain a certain stability through their strength, and the sea creatures do the same.
The elves, due to their rarity, enforce rules on every living being, making their combat power weaker while also avoiding the spiritual pollution of the dark gods.
The underground race is only slightly stronger than the dark gods, and they were the first to be invaded. In the war between the dark gods and the underground race, they were initially slaughtered by the dark gods, but then they began to worship the dark gods and became their followers.
The dark gods became powerful at this moment.
Their combat power rose to 7.5, almost on par with the sea creatures. At this point, they controlled the underground race and invaded from both sides, becoming enemies of humans and sea creatures.
Facing two races stronger than themselves, the dark gods even managed to push them back.
This kind of war has been ongoing on the planet, with the dark gods as the protagonists.
After 100 years, the dark gods gradually invaded the two intelligent races, and some humans and sea creatures were polluted. They began to worship the dark gods, leading to the disintegration of the two races.
This was the time when the two races reached their peak.
Some sequences were even able to achieve the same mighty power as the dark gods.
Humans and sea creatures sent these sequences to the battlefield to fight the dark gods, and they did achieve some success. However, fighting always results in death, and humans and sea creatures are not inherently powerful. Their top sequences have limits.
The sequences soon weakened.
But by this time, the technology of humans and sea creatures had reached its peak, and their overall and individual strengths were still superior to the dark gods.
If analyzed, the dark gods were ultimately not capable of winning.
However, the ending was not like this.
In the years that followed, the living space of humans and sea creatures was constantly suppressed and restricted. The area they occupied on the planet's surface was reduced to less than one-tenth, while the weaker dark gods occupied nine-tenths.
Even so, humans and sea creatures still did not use their ultimate combat power, nuclear weapons.
Why?
At this point, the higher civilization became puzzled.
The entire area was the territory of the dark gods, and they could clearly use nuclear weapons at will, but they did not.
They only witnessed death repeatedly and feared the dark gods.
The answer is actually very simple—because of knowledge.
The name 'dark gods' itself comes from knowledge.
What is a god?
Omnipotent and omniscient!
If they are gods, can nuclear bombs solve the problem of deities?
In the subconscious of life, it is not possible.
Since it is not possible, there is no need to try, which leads to the decline of other races and the dominance of the dark gods.
This is not a game but an experiment.
The difference is that a game establishes rules and direction, while an experiment establishes prerequisites, and the result is knowledge.
Even if this world was created by the Machine God, the Machine God's influence on this world is not that great. Yan Xia does not need some data, and only the truly real, without any falsehood, can achieve true perfection.
Yan Xia wants that perfection.
Does this world end here?
Of course not, it's just the beginning.
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