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Chapter 202 This race is too resilient

The Rata people's millennia-long war in the "other world" is just an insignificant ripple in the long years they spent in the microcosm-level breeding farm.

After the war ended, the Ratas achieved their goal of domination, and they ruled the entire universe.

They began trying to expand beyond the universe through wormholes, just like the civilizations in the previous civilization farms.

However, it was all in vain. The wormholes they opened outside the universe connected to places that were absolutely pitch black and nothingness; there was nothing on the other side of the wormhole.

Whether it was a probe or a living creature that passed through the wormhole, there was no news of them.

Therefore, the Rata people believe that the alien world they have traveled to is located in a very special environment in the cosmic sea, which is why they cannot explore the cosmic sea.

Then I lost interest in exploring further.

This was mainly because the war was over, and the Rata people unified the entire universe, thus relieving the sense of crisis that had been suppressed for tens of thousands of years.

Every member of the Reta people is eager to enjoy the fruits of their civilization's victory in the war.

The millennia-long war left a profound impact on the Rata civilization, an impact that was not physical, but rather spiritual and ideological.

For example, their ethical values, which are so corrupt, allow the Rata people to fully accept any form of life as their mating partner, including microorganisms, highly intelligent AI, and so on.

This has created a wide variety of "Rata people", most of whom have very low intelligence, so low that they can't even do simple addition and subtraction like 1+1.

Rather than calling these people "Rata people," it would be more accurate to describe them as a group of animals bearing the name "Rata people."

The key point is that the Rata people did not see anything wrong with this, and they reproduced in this way for more than a thousand years. The number of mentally challenged people in the entire civilization far exceeded that of the Rata people with normal intelligence. Instead, the people with normal intelligence became the rare "wise men" within the civilization.

Over the course of a thousand years, the social structure has undergone a dramatic transformation. The wise men have come to power in the entire Rata civilization, while the less intelligent Rata people have become the lowest class, performing simple tasks.

Gradually, some wise men felt that the lowly Rita people at the bottom of society were a burden and should be abandoned.

Because these low-IQ Rita people are doing incredibly simple jobs, the wise men could easily create a simple AI to do them.

The so-called jobs performed by these low-IQ Rata people are really just to make them do some work and use their brains, so that their brains don't become even dumber. They are of no use to the development of civilization.

However, a group of wise people opposed this approach, arguing that even if these individuals had low IQs, they were still Rita people, extensions of their shared culture and bloodline.

Thus, after fundamentally eliminating external threats, the Rata civilization shifted its focus of struggle from the outside to the inside, with two different factions of wise men clashing.

The ultimate result of this internal struggle was the disintegration of the entire Rata civilization.

In the years that followed, the Rata people gradually forgot their original mother civilization, and each planet developed a social structure similar to the original native psionic civilization.

The Rata civilization, which dominated the entire universe, thus became a mythical and legendary existence.

The Rata people call their era the Second Era, while the previous era that ruled the entire universe is called the First Era.

What followed was the ongoing struggle for interests among these Rata people's psionic civilization.

The result of the struggle was the decline of various Rata people's psionic civilizations. Those races that were defeated by the Rata people's civilizations but were not wiped out, as well as those that later developed intelligence, gradually took to the stage of the universe.

The Second Era ended, and the Third Era, with its myriad races, began.

Because of the power of the Rata people in the First and Second Ages, they were suppressed by almost all psionic races in the Third Age. The area occupied by the race shrank from the entire universe to a galaxy cluster, then from a galaxy cluster to a galaxy, and then from a galaxy to a small area covered by a nebula cluster with a diameter of eight light-years.

This gradual shrinking process lasted forty million years. The time was so long that each generation of Rata people could hardly perceive this oppression from other races, and the other races themselves were also unaware of it. Their oppressive behavior was based on a tacit understanding that had never been negotiated.

After the Rata people withdrew from the cosmic stage, various native psionic races, due to various conflicts, eventually broke out into a massive war between psionic civilizations.

As the Third Era ended and the Civilization Farm entered the Fourth Era, the Rata people, who had retreated to a small nebula territory, stepped out of the nebula and onto the cosmic stage again during the lull after the various races had been engaged in cosmic wars and were severely weakened.

This era marks the rise of the Rata civilization...

"My head hurts..."

Lu Shang, looking somewhat tired, covered his forehead. After the end of the Fourth Era, the Civilization Farm was hit by crises such as the AI ​​crisis, the artificial race crisis, the virus crisis, the resurgence crisis of the Old Rata Civilization, and the vacuum decay crisis.

He didn't want to read such a long epic of civilization, but in order to verify his initial conjecture, Lu Shang had no choice but to read all of this information.

After reading all this information, Lu Shang could only say that these Rata people are really good at surviving!

The entire history of civilization's development is very much like a stock market chart, rising and falling horizontally like a wave, sometimes soaring and sometimes plummeting.

When prices rise, it makes people feel—ah, this civilization is full of future potential.

When things fall, it can make people feel that this civilization is doomed and not far from extinction.

"I have fully appreciated the resilience of the Rata people, but I still want to say... why bother with this civilizational division? They're really out of their minds."

"If there hadn't been a split, even if the truth about the civilization farm hadn't been discovered in such a long time, our technological level wouldn't necessarily have been much lower than that of civilizations capable of exploring other universes."

Lu Shang, speaking from an outsider's perspective, also harbored some resentment, since he had initially hoped that the Rata people could develop some new technologies that the bee swarm had not yet mastered.

As a result, during its development, it veered towards the direction of psionic energy...

With that in mind, Lu Shang contacted the mainframe, Nunnally, through the swarm network, "Nunally, increase the ravaging of the ravages by another order of magnitude."

"Ah, why?"

Within the swarm network, Rabbi was momentarily stunned. It was being whipped, yet it hadn't done anything at all...

Lu Shang replied with a forced smile, "Thanks to your ingenious idea, you've added so much work for me. My head is still throbbing. Any objections?"

No objections.

Thus, with both parties consenting, the number of times the main brain whipped someone doubled.

After learning about the many things the Rata people had encountered over the long years within the Civilized Breeding Farm, Lu Shang had a general idea of ​​how to incorporate the civilization that studies physics into the Civilized Breeding Farm.

However, Lu Shang thought of something else and decided to temporarily put aside the matter of incorporating satellite civilizations into the civilization breeding farm.

"Gather all psionic units; the swarm needs your strength."

All individuals in the Babel Bee Swarm possessing spiritual power, following the will of Lu Shang, gather their immense spiritual energy into a small universe.

This microcosm is a frozen cycle imprisoning a high-tech civilization from a gigantic universe!

"The interrogation begins."

(End of this chapter)