Frankly speaking, hearing about the "black trap" from Tyr suddenly increased the indescribable pressure in Gawain's heart.

Beyond the Tide...... There may be other threats in this world, threats that are big enough to cause the extinction of civilization, and what is even more terrifying than the Demon Tide is the formlessness of this threat - even the Krakens who have experienced more than a dozen changes of the Demon Tide and observed this world for countless years have not been able to understand the essence of this threat.

This is undoubtedly an extremely disturbing fact.

Gawain's face was serious and gloomy, and without saying a word, he pinched his chin and fell into deep thought, and Tyr waited quietly beside him, until Gawain suddenly exhaled, and the kraken said unhurriedly: "Is it suddenly a little desperate?" ”

Gawain's answer was just one short word: "No." ”

"You don't have to hold on, it's normal to have a lot of pressure in this situation," Tyr flicked his tail as he seemed to understand it, making a snapping sound on the rocks on the shore, "After all, the biggest crisis you can imagine all along is the Demon Tide, and now you suddenly know that there is more than one crisis of the Demon Tide, who can be calm......

"You're right, I do feel the pressure, but my mentality hasn't collapsed, let alone despaired," Gao Wen let out a long breath, the expression on his face softened slightly, "The 'black trap' phenomenon you mentioned...... Maybe it does exist, but for me, the Demon Tide is still in the first place, and if I can't even resist the Demon Tide, it would be a waste of effort to think about the 'black trap' that is not clear at all, and I don't have to lose my fighting spirit for this ethereal disaster. ”

Tyr looked at Gawain quietly for a moment, and suddenly laughed exaggeratedly: "You...... You're really interesting...... Ha ha...... How come I didn't find out before...... No wonder you can talk to us Kraken...... You must be a very popular guy in our Kraken society. ”

Gawain looked at Tyr's movement as he laughed and almost threw himself into the river, and the expression on his face was inevitably a little embarrassed: "As for such an exaggeration? ”

"You're in a good state of mind—" Tyr barely stopped laughing, bouncing his tail to Gawain's side, looking at the expression on the latter's face, "Are you really not afraid?" Even if you do find a way to survive the demon tide, you may have to face the challenges that follow, and you are really not afraid? ”

"Man is a creature that is afraid of death, but few people will give up their lives because they are afraid of death, and people will only try to survive because they are afraid of death," Gao Wen said calmly, "For us, whether it is a demon tide or a 'black trap', it is almost the same thing - the same unknown, the same deadly, the same seemingly inexplicable, but we have made up our minds to survive when the demon tide comes, then we can only go to the dark on this road." ”

With that, Gawain raised his head and looked at the starry night sky with some distraction.

"After calming down and thinking about it, I realized that even if the 'black trap' exists, for us, the problem that needs to be solved has changed from one to two, what's so scary?"

Tyr listened to Gawain's words, and suddenly sighed again: "...... If you live in the Kraken Society, you will definitely be a very popular person. ”

"Why do you say that?"

"The Krakens are also a very self-soothing race, we are optimistic and persistent, you are very similar to us," Tyr said seriously, "To be honest, most Krakens don't like land-landers very much - in our eyes, land-landers are very fast-growing creatures that will kill themselves very quickly, you lack vision, you are keen on short-term gain, and you don't value commitment, but I must admit it...... Your kind of passionate and hopeful society is also fascinating. ”

Gawain didn't know what to say for a moment, so he kept smiling and accepted Tyr's compliment.

After a moment of silence, Tyr continued, "Actually, it's about the Black Trap...... We're not without research. Although we have never been able to figure out how it happened and have not observed its specific manifestations, we have a conjecture about it......"

Gawain blinked: "Guess? ”

"One thing that the civilizations that have encountered the Black Trap is that they have all developed to a very high level, at least surviving the tide - even civilizations that are suddenly destroyed before the tide arrives have enough ability to defend themselves in the following tides, as our observers have confirmed," Tyr explained earnestly, "We feel ...... The Black Well may be a kind of filter, and as soon as the civilization reaches a certain threshold, something devastating will be activated to destroy the civilization of the season...... You should understand what I'm talking about, right? ”

Tyr seemed to open up the topic, and couldn't help but talk more and more, and at the end of the day, he suddenly remembered that Gawain was a "backward landman", so he couldn't help but add the last sentence.

"Of course you can understand, the level of civilization in the Gondor period was not low," Gawain said, his brow furrowed deeply, "but the filter you mentioned...... If that's true, it's terrible......"

As long as civilization develops to a certain extent, it will be destroyed by some external factor?

Is there really such a thing in this world?

"We're just guessing, because according to our observations, all civilizations that have developed to a certain height have been destroyed, there is an invisible threshold stuck there, and none of the destroyed civilizations have surpassed it, so we can only judge that the 'black trap' is a filter."

"Have you calculated this 'threshold'?" Gawain suddenly stared into Tyr's eyes and asked, in a very serious tone, "Does it have any iconic 'points'?" For example, a key technology has been broken through, or human beings have set foot in a key field? ”

"It's a pity that we can't sum it up, on the one hand, we miss the Black Trap every time, and we can only see the remnants after the destruction, and there is no way to infer what the terrestrial civilization was doing before the Black Trap broke out, on the other hand, every time the Demon Tide is resetting the magical environment, and the technological routes taken by the civilizations are very different from each other, and there is no comparison between them at all," Tyr shook his head, "We can only give a rough standard now, that is, the civilization that can at least survive in the Demon Tide has the 'qualifications' to be destroyed by the Black Trap." ”

Gawain frowned and pondered, and suddenly thought of a key question: "...... Are the destroyed civilizations more than you? ”

“…… No," Tyr knew what Gawain was trying to say, and she replied calmly, "We Krakens are civilizations that have almost been destroyed once, but our remaining technological power still surpasses those land civilizations, and we ...... I didn't encounter a black trap. ”

The Krakens whose technical strength is higher than that of the land civilization, which lasts longer than the land civilization, and who have survived in the Demon Tide for more than one season, and who are basking and jumping...... No black traps were encountered.

This was to be expected by Gawain, and this fact was why Gawain was skeptical of Till's hypothesis of the "black trap filter".

It's not necessarily the technological progress that triggers the Black Well, or maybe the terrestrial civilization has accidentally touched it in some other way—or maybe it's something else, such as the Krakens' special life forms that save them from the Black Well, or ...... Black traps only happen on land?

Gawain spoke his thoughts, and Tyr immediately denied it: "Not only on land, there is a civilization that has developed strong ocean-going technology, and their maritime self-discipline platforms and seawater extraction factories have even been opened on the edge of our territorial waters, and have built semi-permanent habitation domes in the sea - but they are all suddenly dead, obviously a month ago they were still talking to us about the development of submarine heat sources, and a month later we sent a representative, only to find that the entire dome was abandoned, and it was full of corpses......"

Gao Wen frowned: "The reason at that time was not found out?" ”

"Nope. When the delegation found out, their dome had been abandoned for half a month, and much of the evidence had disappeared. However, we found out that their dome shield was closed from the inside, and they must have turned off the protection themselves and drowned. ”

Gawain was stunned for a long time with his mouth open, but in the end he could only say one word: "weird ......"

"yes...... It's weird," Tyr said slowly, and then suddenly remembered something, "yes, speaking of which...... There was one season when civilization was destroyed and it seemed to be different...... Their destruction is linked to an ancient race. ”

"Ancient races?"

"Dragon," Tyr said in a word that surprised Gawain, "that civilization was destroyed in a war involving dragons. That was a long, long time ago, when a land empire suddenly rose to prominence - they grew extremely fast and quickly ruled the entire land, and they had some contact with us, but before we could get to know it better, war broke out out of nowhere.

"One side of the war is the land empire, and the other side is the dragons - dragons are rarely seen on the continent now, and you all treat them as legendary creatures, but in that war in ancient times, dragons flew almost overwhelmingly from the north, and they were not at all like a hidden race, but actually participated in that war......

"We still don't know which side started the war first, but the reason for the outbreak of the war seems to be related to faith, because the dragon destroyed a large number of temple-like facilities in that land empire at the beginning of the war, and it was a targeted attack.

"It was a very fierce battle, the two sides were almost evenly matched, the dragons died many, many times, and our observers couldn't even get too close to the war zone - because they were already red-eyed, and they would attack as long as they weren't their own.

"The battle lasted for ten years—and that long duration was unlike the usual 'black trap' phenomenon, where other civilizations that perished quickly disappeared—and in the end, the dragon was victorious, and the once-prosperous land empire was wiped out.

"According to the bits and pieces of information that our observers brought back, the year of the outbreak of war in that land empire at that time was called the 'year of the tide,' so they also called that war the 'war against the tide.'"

"The Battle Against the Tide ......" Gawain listened to this magnificent story from ancient times, but he always had a sense of unreality, this story was too far away from the current era, and now it was told by Tyr, which inevitably had a serious disobedience, but he believed that Tyr would not make up such a story to have fun, "Indeed, it is different from the 'black trap' you described before." ”

"That's right, it lasted for a long time, the reason was clear, and we observed it, so we haven't been sure whether the 'Battle Against the Tide' was a 'black trap phenomenon' back then, but one thing is for sure - if the battle against the tide has a certain connection with the black trap, then the dragon must know something."

Gawain couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Are you asking me to find the dragon to inquire about the information?" ”

"What if there's a chance?" Tyr flicked his tail, "And I'm just giving you an idea, and it's not for me to figure it out anyway." ”

Gawain: "......"

At this moment, he really wanted to shoot the fish to death on the shore......