Armor-piercing bullets don't believe in carbon-based monsters

Chapter 349 The Great Filter
On the other side, inside the "tomb".

Lin Yu quietly looked at the scene before him, which seemed to be floating in the void, and a playful smile appeared on his face.

The man next to him named Lin Xi remained expressionless, but Lin Yu could clearly sense that his so-called "algorithm" was already simulating "unpleasant" emotions.

Lin Yu couldn't help but find it a little funny.

"So, just like I told you from the beginning."

“You should absolutely not go against those Chinese soldiers.”

"They are professional soldiers, professional warriors, and in a sense, they were born to fight."

"How could such a team be defeated so easily?"

"Furthermore, your attack methods are rather rudimentary."

"Let alone the Chinese army, even the Cult of the Machine God, if they were to truly mobilize, could potentially defeat you, right?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Lin Xi slowly shook her head.

"Do not."

"Every defense measure, equipment, and weapon in this city has been meticulously calculated."

"In our predictions, no force in this wasteland world will be able to break through the defenses of those monsters on the periphery and enter the city."

"Even if they could get in through some special methods, they wouldn't pose a threat to us."

"Our attack methods are not rudimentary."

"It is restraint."

"We have never been a force that seeks external expansion."

"You don't create information, you just use it. Right?"

Lin Yu said in a teasing tone:
"You think you're not expanding, but you've used monsters to create a lot of killing and bloodshed in this world."

"If this is what you call the law of survival, then I will definitely choose the Chinese army."

"At least, they genuinely wanted everyone to survive."

After saying this, Lin Xi shook her head again.

"wrong."

"They can only keep you alive temporarily."

"As I told you, as long as the problem of that 'monster' is not solved, humanity will never be able to cross that boundary."

"That was a barrier."

"Or rather, it's a big filter."

What is a large filter?

Lin Yu asked curiously.

"It's a concept."

Lin Xi continued explaining without pausing:

"The world we live in is just a small village—just like you can see."

"But there should be many other similar small villages outside of this one."

"Logically speaking, each village should establish trade routes to exchange goods and support each other's continued development, right?"

"Correct."

Lin Yu nodded.

"and then?"

"Then."

Lin Xi sighed.

"Then we discovered that there wasn't a single village in the vicinity that was at the same stage as us—in fact, there wasn't a single village at all."

"Do you know what this means?"

"This means that either we are unique, or those once prosperous villages have been destroyed."

"Just like the 'mountain town' you see in the story."

"The more powerful a civilization is, the less likely it is to cross that barrier; only weaker civilizations have a chance to survive."

"This is the big filter."

"It's like a net that catches all the big fish but leaves the small ones out."

"understood."

Lin Yu lay back on the ground, the grass gently caressing his cheeks, bringing an incredibly realistic tactile experience.

"So, in order to squeeze through the loopholes in that net, you chose to castrate yourselves?"

Do you really think this strategy is the right one?

Why don't you try to tear that net apart?

Lin Xi smiled.

"If you were a fish, would you think about tearing the net apart?"

"I can."

Lin Yu answered without hesitation:

"And I'm pretty sure that those Chinese soldiers think the same way I do."

After saying this, Lin Xi fell into a long silence.

A gentle breeze blew by, and Lin Yu felt a sense of comfort that he hadn't experienced in a long time. But just then, Lin Xi suddenly waved her hand.

Immediately afterwards, the environment in which the two were located changed abruptly.

The two sat among a constellation of stars.

Lin Yu suddenly stood up, his eyes showing a hint of panic.

He looked down at his feet, bewildered, and there stood a huge, blue-green sphere.

"You've never seen the world you live in from this perspective before, have you?" Lin Xi gently patted his shoulder, comforting him.

"Don't be nervous, there's nothing to be afraid of."

"This is Earth."

"That is, the planet from which all of us were born."

"As you can see, it is a huge star."

"And the humans living on the surface of this star are as tiny as dust."

"Now, let me ask you a question."

"If we wanted to destroy this planet, what methods would we use?"

"Speak boldly, don't be shy."

Lin Yu remained silent for a moment, then tentatively pointed to a grayish-white sphere to the side.

"Is this the moon?"

"Use the moon to collide with the Earth?"

Lin Xi laughed when she heard his answer.

"That is indeed a very intuitive answer."

"That's right. If the moon were to collide with the Earth, our world would be destroyed instantly."

"But in fact, we don't need such a complicated and 'huge' operation."

As she spoke, Lin Xi waved her hand gently, then continued:

"Look, this Earth was generated and simulated by me using data."

"This also means that I can change its data at will, whenever I want."

"Suppose I now slightly adjust the parameters related to the force."

"Let's adjust the electromagnetic force to 0."

As soon as he finished speaking, the world before Lin Yu's eyes changed instantly.

Almost instantly, the "Earth" in front of him vanished into thin air.

It turned into a vast expanse of stardust.

"This"

Lin Yu was dumbfounded.

"This is just an exaggerated demonstration."

Lin Xi explained:
"If electromagnetic force really disappeared, the changes in this world would be even more complex."

"The reason I'm showing you this image is so that you can intuitively understand what I'm trying to say."

"Alright, let's start from the beginning."

As soon as he finished speaking, the Earth instantly returned to normal.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Xi spoke again:
"Now, we'll design the adjustment to be smaller."

"Let's say we slightly reduce the speed at which light travels on Earth, and see what happens."

"Okay, let's design the time scale to be 10 seconds."

The simulation began immediately.

To Lin Yu's surprise, a translucent and dazzling membrane had formed around the "Earth".

The membrane forms instantly and disappears just as quickly.

But when that membrane disappeared, the whole world was riddled with holes.

"why is that??"

Lin Yu asked incredulously.

"It's very simple."

Lin Xi replied:
"Light is like water, rushing towards the earth at extremely high speed."

"But what would happen if we designed a 'dam' on the periphery of the Earth?"

"The blocked water flow can unleash tremendous energy that is not blocked by the dam."

"It will pour onto the earth without reservation, pouring into the world we live in."

"Do you think anyone could survive under these circumstances?"

"No."

Lin Yu let out a long breath, then asked:

"So why did you make me see these things?"

Lin Xi was silent for a moment, then replied:

"What I want to tell you is that the so-called catastrophe that our world is experiencing is similar to what you just saw."

"However, we do not know who changed the 'data', nor do we know which piece of data was changed."

All we knew was that we were finished.

"So under these circumstances, do you still think we can break free from that fishing net?"

Lin Yu did not speak.

After a long time, he finally spoke:

"can."

"Because we are fish."

"A fish will always have a chance to escape the fishing net."

"because."

"That's just a fishing net, isn't it?"

(End of this chapter)