You've become the warden, and you're telling me I'm an undercover agent?

Chapter 429 Civilization Experiment, an “Unknowable” Situation!

Chi Ping is a very agile person.

His punch arrived swiftly, and vanished just as quickly. Before the other eighteen participants in the succession battle could react, the newly revealed sea beast was pulverized by Chi Ping's punch.

His original intention was to kill all the sea beasts directly, and then have Le Bai rescue one, so that Aimu could pass directly.

In this way, there will be no subsequent opponents, and the trouble of the second and third levels will be saved.

But who would have thought that after this punch, a huge black cavity would instantly form in the center of the vortex!

It was like a black hole, with a huge force trying to suck everyone on the island into the black cavity.

Along with the huge suction force came a series of meaningless growls.

"It's grandma's voice." Aimu's face turned pale, and he grabbed Chi Ping's sleeve tightly and said.

She was an unpopular person, and was naturally inferior and timid when facing Yetana.

After a while, Aimu's sisters were sucked into the black cavity.

Wei San and Aimu were not sucked away thanks to Chi Ping's support.

As for Le Bai, when the suction force came upon her, she actually jumped high, took the initiative to hold Chi Ping's forehead, and dangled on Chi Ping's back.

"Le Bai!" Chi Ping frowned.

"Don't be so stingy!"

"Do you want to go in?" Chi Ping asked Aimu again.

"No, don't do that anymore?" Aimu was a little scared, and she couldn't help but tighten her hand that was holding Chi Ping's sleeve.

"Okay." Chi Ping said, and threw Aimu into the black cavity. He jumped in with Wei San and Le Bai.

When the vision is completely engulfed by darkness, there is a period of three to five minutes of continuous falling.

Ikehira could feel Aimu shivering, the wind causing her face to deform and ripple like waves.

"Don't be afraid." Chi Ping comforted her.

"Don't be afraid, because Chi Ping is here." Le Bai also comforted.

"Yeah." Wei San nodded in agreement.

"Oh, you've been like this since you were a kid."

The fourth person who spoke was not Chi Ping, Wei San, or Le Bai, and naturally not Aimu.

The sudden appearance startled Le Bai, but she quickly realized that this must be a successor who had fallen with her.

In the pitch-black space, I couldn't see her face clearly, I could only barely sense her general outline.

"That's why I look down on you." The successor continued to chatter: "You've fallen to the point where you need a man to comfort you. You're so manly, not a woman at all!"

The novelty of this rhetoric made Chi Ping unable to determine whether he was offended at first.

"Sister Agudo." Aimu's voice was weak and pleading: "Don't talk about me anymore."

Seeing her begging, Aguduo suddenly became even more angry: "You beg me? You, an old woman, actually beg me? You won't hit me——"

Before she could finish her words, she was kicked by Le Bai, which accelerated her fall.

"She's so noisy." Le Bai said.

The fall continued for another half a minute before Chi Ping saw a glimmer of light from the bottom. Then, the group finally landed.

They were all users with abilities above B level, and except for Aimu who was a little embarrassed, everyone else was stable.

There is a huge space at the bottom of the black cavity. Everyone is standing on a piece of soft land. Not far away there is a human-shaped pit created by Agudo.

"Where is this?" Chi Ping looked around, his gaze passing Agudo who was climbing the pit, and looking at the outline of the building in the distance.

what is this?
Black cavity, under the sea, there is a small town?

Can you still breathe?

We can't be in Bikini Bottom, right?

Ikehira looked strange.

Meanwhile, Aguduo had already rushed to Aimu's side. The former was arrogant, while the latter was submissive.

Chi Ping listened, hearing comments like, "Finally, you're acting like a woman." It seemed Agudo thought Aimu had kicked Le Bai, and he was very impressed.

Chi Ping asked what to do next, and the answer he got was to wait for news from the Mother Goddess Yetana.

Because Chi Ping killed all the sea monsters at once and then a black cavity appeared, the current scene was something his successor had never experienced before.

I might as well wait in a building far away. I think it won’t take too long.

When we walked in, we found thick smoke rising from the town. A group of people dressed as soldiers were arresting people.

The weapons they held were very strange, a long pole with a sharp spike on top. Judging from their appearance, they were probably using it as a cold weapon.

Chi Ping and his group were dressed in strange clothes even here, but the soldiers just glanced at them and passed them by.

"All you outsiders, get out of here!"

The captain of the soldiers shouted in a hoarse voice, and he spoke the same Federal language as Aimu and others.

"Oh, oh." Aimu quickly dodged and was met with the unfriendly gaze of her sister Aguduo.

Aimu immediately mustered up his courage and shouted to the soldiers:
"Go away!"

Aguduo was so angry that his teeth were itching, and the soldiers were confused by his scolding.

Chi Ping saw an old man and a child in the building, trembling under the encirclement of the soldiers. He pointed at the soldiers and said behind him, "Wei San."

Wei San stepped forward;

Wei San took action;
Wei San is back.

The soldiers fell to the ground, their conch spears broken, their bodies half buried in the nearby spherical houses, their legs dangling in the air in strange postures.

Just as Wei San was about to pull one out for questioning, he found that the bodies of these soldiers were disintegrating.

Little by little, it turned into a ball of black liquid, merged into the soil and disappeared.

In a flash, all that remained on the field were broken weapons and scattered clothing. Soldiers, vanished into black water?
What ability is this?
Just as Chi Ping was feeling strange, the old man who had been hiding in the building and peeping came out, followed by a little boy of five or six years old.

The old man trembled with fear. His cloudy eyes swept over everyone and then fell on Wei San.

"Thank you, sir, for helping us deal with these tax soldiers," said the old man.

Tax soldier?
A question mark popped up in Chi Ping's head. What is all this?

Sea monsters are the right style here, so why did a tax collector suddenly appear? Is there even a government here?

After a brief conversation, the old man, realizing Chi Ping had no ill intentions, invited them into his room. On the way, he explained that due to their unique body structure, they could draw energy from seawater. This, combined with the simplicity of the buildings, made it easy for the people to live a self-sufficient life.

But one day, a group of bandits occupied this place, declared themselves the rulers, and demanded that the residents pay them money to support them.

So, the sea water that was originally free began to be taxed; the soil underfoot used to build houses was also taxed.

As tax rates get higher and higher and more things are taxed, they start to evade taxes.

Chi Ping saw what happened next.

It is obvious that someone wants to make some attempts at social systems here, even if they are elementary.

In the room, the old man and the child presented Chi Ping and others with some food, a large bucket of sea water, and some seaweed and other plants.

Le Bai won't eat this thing.

"This is the best sea water we have." said the old man. The child behind him licked his lips and just stared at it without saying a word.

Ike Ping pushed the bucket in front of the little boy and asked, "Isn't sea water available for you to take as you please?"

"Originally, seawater was freely available," the old man said, his cloudy eyes shimmering with long memories. "Later, the chief polluted a large amount of seawater to facilitate control, leaving only one place for water collection.

"He said that our food and housing came too easily and too quickly, and that necessities came too easily. There was a lack of restraint on us, and we were detrimental to social stability, so he began—"

The old man said a lot, but generally speaking, it comes down to two points:

Tired and distressed people.

Once people have a lot of free time, they may become a factor of instability. In order to maintain social stability, we need to tie a rope around people.

The ropes of the underwater people are their homes and their food.

When the rope is too tight, reduce taxes to loosen it a little; otherwise, tighten it a little.

As expected, whether in the Federation or undersea, life is difficult for the lower classes. Often it's not that there aren't enough resources, but that the rulers don't want them to be enough.

That's why Chi Ping has to become the executioner.

Inside the room, the little boy was taking small sips of the sea water to get energy, and secretly looking at Chi Ping and Wei San.

For a child of this age, the force displayed by Wei San in defeating those soldiers was something he dreamed of.

The old man stroked the boy's head and whispered something.

They were actually afraid of Ikehira and his group, but thanks to the attitude Ikehira had just shown, they relaxed a lot.

Aimu was always timid and cautious in front of her sister. The more cautious she was, the more she was scolded, and the more she was scolded, the more timid she became, and the more timid she was, the more likely she was to be scolded.

No matter what, she is always the one who gets punched.

But the bullied girl's wrinkled face suddenly paused, and then she tilted her ear to listen. Aguduo also did the same thing.

It seemed like Yetana had sent a new command, probably a low-frequency sound wave. Chi Ping could vaguely hear some of it, but he didn't understand its meaning. It was more like a meaningless growl.

Le Bai reached out and poked the dazed Aimu, but didn't notice that her face was getting worse and worse. When Le Bai tried to poke Aguduo again, he found two heads flying into the sky in the room!

It belongs to the old man and the little boy.

It was Agudo who did it!
The bodies of the old man and child fell to the ground under the force of gravity. Then, like the soldiers before them, they turned into a pool of black water and merged into the ground.

This action startled Le Bai. She looked at Ayimu, then at Chi Ping. Finally, she even tried to save the two puddles of black water on the ground, but failed after trying.

Once a person turns into black water, they instantly lose all vitality. Even milk of Le Bai's level is useless.

"Dead, dead?" Le Bai looked at the black marks on his fair hands, feeling a little confused.

When she looked at Aimu again, the latter's face was pale and he was speaking with difficulty:
"Grandma's order is to eliminate the 'failed civilization'."

She was frightened by her sister Agudo's sudden action, but she still told the news to Chi Ping and others.

The "failed civilization" refers very clearly to the villages, towns and primary societies before us.

At the moment Agudo attacked, Chi Ping could have stopped him. The reason he didn't stop him was because these people were not really human.

They are more like a group of consciousness, stuffed into a black water bag.

Once the skin is broken, the consciousness will return to the place where it was born and wait for the next reincarnation.

These consciousnesses are undoubtedly the best props for conducting civilization experiments.

But, Chi Ping still doesn't know who did this?
Is it Yetana? Or is it unknown?
If Yetana could even give birth to a young Origin, then it shouldn't be difficult for her to create the prototype of one or more civilizations.

But, why do they do this?
It can't be that he just wants to observe the suffering of the lower class, right?
If Ikehira were to make a bold guess based on the current clues—

The embryonic form of civilization here is more of an experiment. And the experiment has only two possible outcomes:
Success or failure, the result can't be just "or", right?

Failed civilizations will naturally be destroyed, just like today. So, what about successful civilizations?

Is it launched in the mainland?

So, after each catastrophe, humanity withered but did not become extinct. Instead, within a short period of time, a relatively advanced new civilization would emerge.

Suddenly, a chill spread through every pore of Chi Ping.

Every hair, every cell, and every nerve of his was shocked by his own guess at this moment.

That is--

All civilizations are planned and arranged.

At specific times in civilization, specific things happen.

After thinking about it carefully, a haze gradually enveloped Chi Ping's heart.

Past events flashed through Chi Ping's mind like a revolving lantern, and gradually became clear. He vaguely guessed a terrible truth:

First, Chi Ping saw today that civilization can be born through experiments;
In other words, from the very beginning of civilization, there have been people controlling it.

Then, through the egg case, Chi Ping learned that after the death of the Overseer, it can be re-hatched. In other words, the cornerstone of the stable world - the Overseer - has always been there!
Next, Siwon is able to create S-level, he has already created Tianwan!
Finally, the destruction of civilization is driven by the Unknown, and the Origin, the Overseer, is responsible for its execution.

So, are all things in this world part of an unknown plan?

He can experiment, plan, and give birth to the civilization he wants;
And once the civilization grows stronger, He will be able to arrange for the birth of the first S-class;
After the birth of S-class, there will be a thousand-year catastrophe, and then everything will return to the beginning of civilization?

but!

At this moment, all Chi Ping knew were his guesses based on known clues. He understood that the unknown's control over civilization was based on the macroscopic view.

So, at the microscopic level, can the unknowable be controlled?

For example, let the mentor be born from the body of the Origin?
For example, let yourself pass through the gate and learn the truth about the catastrophe?
For example, bringing yourself here and reasoning based on everything you know?
For a moment, Chi Ping's head was a little confused.

He couldn't even tell which ones the Unknowable wanted him to know and which ones he knew himself.

(End of this chapter)