The fisherman druid is in another world

Chapter 737

120 hours after the outbreak of the plague.

It has been basically confirmed that there is no antidote for the Black Robb plague.

Although he was strong, he was far from being omniscient and omnipotent. Therefore, there is a proverb that is somewhat applicable: Even the wisest person can make a mistake, and even the most foolish person can have a stroke of luck.

Perhaps he cannot break the plague, but there are others in this world who can.

This also aligns with the principle that all things in the world are interconnected and mutually restraining, and there are no absolutes.

Unfortunately, even if an antidote were developed today, it would be too late.

Even with his extraordinary production base waiting in the wings, once he obtains the antidote formula, he can gather resources, assemble production lines, and produce day and night. It would still take 3-5 days for the antidote to be fully rolled out.

Within approximately 115 hours of the outbreak of the plague, all major cities worldwide with a population of over 300,000 had fallen.

In addition, the data collection on the evil and bizarre has been initially completed. According to the data, after 10 hours of mutation, the degree of distortion and evil of the body has already lost the meaning of reversal.

Even with the enormous cost, the revived body still suffers from severe aftereffects. This is because, during the process of corruption, the 'evil bloodline' in the human body, which is similar to dormant genes, is awakened.

Under normal circumstances, if a malevolent bloodline is awakened, the body will either be deformed or suffer from a terminal illness. However, it complements malevolent energy, becoming an essential element for malevolent transformation.

From a human aesthetic perspective, a perfectly healthy human body becomes deformed and ugly, which can be described as degeneration; but from the perspective of negative supernatural power, it is a manifest expression that fits the evil energy and its own characteristics.

Therefore, although the intelligence of the evil creature has been reduced to the level of a beast, its bare combat power due to its deformed body is far superior to that of ordinary humans, and it has considerable room for improvement, making it very suitable for the current environment.

Speaking of the current environment, which leans towards the dark side, this is a well-worn topic and needs no further explanation.

It is worth mentioning that the negative emotions brought about by the plague have surged.

The devastation and tragedies caused by the disaster led to a massive outpouring of negative emotions.

It can be said that every human who died from the plague, and even more than half of the survivors, were generators of negative emotions.

Such a massive amount of negative emotions has stimulated the dark forces of this world. Although it has not swept across the world like the black tide created by Terence, the former King of Destruction five thousand years ago, the situation is more troublesome and terrifying from another perspective.

According to Blackrobbo's analysis, there are three main reasons.

Firstly, in this era, technological advancements that benefited more ordinary people, along with the fact that alchemy, as an expression of extraordinary arts, while becoming less sophisticated, became more down-to-earth, enabled human civilization to support a larger number of its own kind.

While both are global catastrophes, this plague has killed more than ten times the number of humans as the one five thousand years ago.

Secondly, the Black Tide, under Terence's guidance, erupted in a manner more akin to banditry and civil unrest.

Bandits captured the county seat, coerced displaced people, and stormed the main city, their momentum growing...

This pattern, besides having a sequential order that gives people more time to react, also has a considerable degree of cathartic effect.

The plague broke out suddenly and comprehensively, catching humanity off guard. Moreover, it lacked guidance afterward, turning cities into swamps and creating disaster zones like breeding grounds for venomous insects, thus constantly brewing even more difficult-to-handle calamities.

Thirdly, there is a lack of a dark hell.

The most important functional area of ​​the Dark Hell is the Extraordinary Prison, which is for evil spirits.

If evil spirits are not given a suitable resting place in time, they will cause havoc on the world.

Whether it becomes a malevolent spirit or a parasitic possession, it is creating tragedy, and such tragedy often breeds a lot of negative emotions.

From a macro perspective, the abundance of evil spirits roaming the world is like an overabundance of cars with substandard carbon dioxide emissions, polluting the environment and perpetuating or even worsening the world's extraordinary dark nature.

After the collapse of Dark Hell, not only did it lose the super equipment that accelerated the processing and transformation of dark supernatural power, but it also lost the hellish officers who captured evil spirits and monsters. When encountering major events like the plague, which easily generate a large number of souls that died due to negative emotions such as obsession or resentment, it also lost the power to channel out the flood. Naturally, the disaster became more and more serious.

To be more specific, since it is a breeding environment for Gu, it is naturally easy for elite Gu worms, and even Gu kings, to be born.

For example, someone may be inherently vicious and perverted, but possess extraordinary physical attributes and bloodline. However, lacking the right opportunity, even if they commit evil deeds, the impact will be minimal.

But for them, the plague was just as the saying goes, "When the time is right, heaven and earth will lend their strength."

The plague has caused social chaos, a time when the winds of change are in place and an evil dragon is hatching.

As for whether or not they can retain their original selves, from the perspective of Black Robo's order, it is not important at all. All that is needed is to know that a monstrous being with the potential to grow into a great demon has been born.

From a global perspective, this kind of birth is a matter of probability. Given the enormous number of victims, numbering in the nine figures, the birth of an evil king is only a matter of time, and it won't be long.

That is why the Chaotic Staircase needs to be equipped with specialized harvesting tools.

After all, the benefits promised to them by the Demon Emperor were essentially to fatten humans into extraordinary beasts, like monsters, and then slaughter them for their own use.

But if a domestic pig accidentally develops a hobby of weightlifting and reverts to a wild boar, not to mention the dramatic possibility of the hunter and prey switching roles, even if the harvesting (hunting) costs are a few cents higher, that's equivalent to a significant reduction in profits!
In particular, the instinct to make comparisons is inherent in intelligent life. Compared to the past when humanity was nurtured and sustained by various extraordinary forces, the current practice of fattening up and then harvesting only makes one feel increasingly cheated and resentful...

Black Rob's interests lie in the activity and development of human civilization and its role in promoting the evolution of the world.

The more a civilization's development aligns with the global trend of decreasing or even eliminating demonic influence, the more it can contribute to this trend.

The clearer the evolutionary trend that follows the general trend, the more obvious the inertial characteristics, and the more likely it is to be favored by the laws of nature, thus possessing various characteristics of the main spacetime, including resource allocation.

As other timelines gradually dry up and disappear, the main timeline remains ever-flowing, shaping the evolutionary history of this world until its end.

Black Rob needs to ensure that the spacetime he protects is the main spacetime, only then can the world guardians truly demonstrate their value.

Otherwise, the covenant with the God of Nature back then would have been a failure.

Therefore, he maintains the inherent tone and order of world evolution, while his enemies use chaos as a ladder to progress.

Compared to civilization, ignorance and barbarism undoubtedly represent chaos.

Now, the light of civilization has been extinguished in large swaths, turning the land into a dark and malevolent lair, and the human survivors are the sparks that will reignite the flame of civilized order.

This brings us to another major aspect of the context of the plague: disease prevention.

Black Rob knew from the start that someone would definitely make a name for themselves in this field, and there would be more than one. He had also prepared early on to copy their methods.

After all, he was well aware of his shortcomings.

Great power originates from oneself; one person can form an army, one person can form a nation, one person can be civilization itself.

It sounds impressive, but in reality, it's easy to become pretentious and empty due to greed and a desire for more.

Although he had been actively planning to build an extraordinary production system for a month or so after returning from the River of Time, and possessed formidable technology, he still faced many insurmountable obstacles. For example, time!

It has already achieved leapfrog development, handcrafting top-tier components, assembling industrial mother machines, and creating extraordinary AI-powered humanoid puppets, operating at full capacity, self-replicating, and self-adding value.

However, it will still be subject to various constraints and numerous issues that need to be addressed one by one.

Based on practical needs, he focused on creating a versatile production system that could be quickly adjusted to produce different categories of goods, such as military equipment, tools, and food processing. To showcase the entirety of a civilization, even a small but complete system, is not an easy task.

Against this backdrop, while ensuring the phased production targets, even if there was still some spare capacity, it was used to streamline the systems such as raw material procurement and product sales channels, leaving no energy to set up various research institutions.

This research institution isn't just focused on developing new things. More importantly, it aims to integrate its existing technologies with the current natural and social environment, transforming them into greater practical capabilities.

To give a simple example, the superb pharmaceutical technology on Black Robb's head is quite impressive, enabling the mass production of highly effective cold medicine.

But is this kind of cold medicine really suitable for people in this era?
I don't know. We haven't produced any, nor have we conducted any related clinical trials. This is just a rough estimate, but it shouldn't be a big problem.

From a detailed perspective, this means a lack of thorough understanding, or being too sophisticated and out of touch with reality.

Since the universality of even a simple cold medicine cannot be truly determined, there is naturally no higher-level drug development and testing plan based on universality.

Therefore, while it would be unfair to say that Black Robb's concept of "one man equals civilization" remains entirely theoretical, it is certainly accurate to say that it is a castle in the air with a grain of sand.

A deeper analysis reveals that for a technology system to remain relevant and grounded in reality, it must be constantly updated and iterated. Once it is packaged, this orderly process of updating and iterating is disrupted.

In other words, unless one carries a nation with them or maintains real-time, technologically advanced communication with a civilization, the idea that one person is a civilization is essentially a myth.

The problem is that even if there were a civilization that could freely acquire technology, it would still have to overcome the issues of cultural incompatibility and unique national circumstances.

What is honey to one is poison to another. A small error can lead to a huge mistake. If we blindly follow rules without collecting actual data, all sorts of problems, big and small, will arise.

This is why the Black Robb lineage attaches great importance to various information parameters of the current world and is willing to use them as important bargaining chips to trade with the God of Nature.

Similarly, it was precisely because the God of Nature had paid a portion of this information as a deposit, and Black Robb had later tirelessly collected various parameters through means such as the Dark Hell, and handed them over to the extraordinary AI to organize and integrate, that his extraordinary production system appeared so miraculous.

Conversely, it is precisely because of the failure to inherit and innovate in a practical way in terms of technology that, in many fields, while the technology may be advanced, it may not be truly effective. On the other hand, the simple methods used by people in the wilderness may not be particularly ingenious, but because they have been used and modified over time, they have mastered the practical application aspect.

This led to Black Robo, who always considered himself superior, actually copying homework from the barbarians, who were considered backward and uncivilized even among the natives.

Of course, it's not a complete copy.

Those who learn from me will live, those who imitate me will die. Black Rob added his own interpretation.

He was very confident in the entire technical system he had mastered and was not worried that the magic hemp would replace the ice hemp, the ointment would replace the lime, or that measurable faith would replace the rope skipping. He was afraid that he would not be able to handle it and would disregard human life.

In fact, measurable faith has been applied quite well, especially by refuge groups that have laid the groundwork for nightmare death cult activities beforehand.

Its members can be said to have skipped the most crucial question of whether this strange belief system is actually effective, and directly entered into a competition, or rather, a mode of comparison.

Because the output of faith becomes quantifiable and intuitive, just like how much milk each cow can produce each day, the amount of willpower produced can be counted and compared, naturally distinguishing between high and low, and who contributes more and who contributes less.

A new type of hierarchy of contempt was thus born, and it quickly became more complex.

For example, someone who used to be good at nothing but eating was always looked down upon by others.

But as it turns out, she was a high-quality "wish-granting cow," finally finding her own strengths, which also elevated her status within the group.

Moreover, due to the recent surge in the popularity of "wish power," they are considered more upscale than laborers and are now seen as blue-collar workers in a special industry.

Black Robb naturally encouraged this kind of competition that carried cultural dross, and did not attempt to correct it.

He felt that the little bit of prestige he had earned through hard-won achievements should not be wasted on such trivial matters, but rather that he should focus on the important things and let go of the trivial.

This is like disciplining a group of hooligans; initially, you shouldn't spend a lot of effort banning swear words and catchphrases.

Of course, not all refugee groups are functioning well.

Within 120 hours of the outbreak, double-digit numbers of refugee groups had already effectively disbanded or were on the verge of disbanding.

These seemingly naive and foolish locals, who had taken advantage of the rich and gullible outsiders, did not suffer the dramatic retribution of being told "good advice is hard to persuade and the devil is cunning." At least, not all members of the disbanded refugee group died of the plague shortly after returning home.

However, it must be said that, in general, the plague has successfully completed the first phase of destruction, severely damaging human civilization and completing the devastating transformation of all major cities and more than 60% of secondary cities. It has begun to spread to rural towns and other suburban areas.

From this point on, the true test of the 120-hour epidemic prevention results began.

All of that was just giving you time to prepare. As long as you were well-informed, had good eyesight, and were lucky, you were already making firm preparations for epidemic prevention.

The specific movements of snakes and rabbits vary, so whether the devil is one foot taller or the righteous are ten feet taller will gradually be revealed in the next few days.

Only those who can withstand this round of confrontation are qualified to talk about a protracted war.

At this stage, Black Robo became less busy.

Actually, after the golden 48 hours, Black Robo isn't so busy anymore.

The same applies to the Chaotic Staircase.

The Chaotic Ladder also aims to eliminate known potential seeds of disease prevention at the very beginning of a major catastrophe, to prevent them from gaining momentum later on.

For example, displaced refugees may hear that a certain place is a land of hope, offering shelter, clean and safe water and food, where they can live for a long time...

Whenever such rumors circulate widely, it means that a certain force has successfully established its position after the disaster.

Conversely, if such forces are fewer, then most human survivors will eventually be swallowed up by the wilderness.

After all, the Chaotic Ladder is an organization with a very powerful information database. The gods have observed and conducted various experiments on human civilization for thousands of years, and they are very clear about its strengths and weaknesses.

Therefore, they formulated the core strategy of 'attacking when they gather together,' while eliminating potential seed forces was the last wave of utilization of known information.

This known information naturally comes from the accumulation of daily interactions between various extraordinary forces and the mortal world. They know who has good things, such as the Cup of Life of the Heavenly Grace Mutual Aid Association and the farming artifact of the Golden Oak Royal Family. They are also very suitable to take advantage of the chaos to kill them.

Once these promising seed forces gain momentum, victory will only be achieved through a bloody battle.

After all, these forces basically represent the last resistance of a race.

(End of this chapter)