The problem is in numbers, but not in terms of combat effectiveness.

As early as a few days ago, the final balance knew that the evolutionary would end up sooner or later by relying only on superpowers, and that if they want to develop in the long run, they must also rely on technology as the primary productive force.

So, the question is, what is the most necessary, or the most fundamental condition, for the development of science and technology? Knowledge? Resource? Or is it the accumulation of technology?

Neither.

The most important thing is to have people, or a sufficient population.

Because, scientific research is first of all a very resource-consuming work, astronomical resources are smashed into it, and it is commonplace that tens of thousands of experiments will not produce a single result, and these resources, such as raw materials, equipment, and the loss of experiments, where should they come from? The answer is that it needs to be provided by producers, such as farmers, workers, etc.

Moreover, scientific research workers, from scientists to assistant technicians, are themselves non-productive workers and need to be supported by people.

This is why science and technology cannot be carried out in the era of low productivity, because when a society cannot even feed people, where are the excess resources for scientific research to squander?

Moreover, scientists are a profession with very high literacy requirements, which not only requires people to achieve it after decades of systematic learning, but also must have their own scientific research fields of interest, and they must also be patient, otherwise it is impossible to persevere on the long road of boring and boring, and failure is commonplace.

This has led to the fact that this profession has always been at a very low rate in the population, and one in a thousand is considered high.

And what the evolutionaries lacked was the population - around the sixties of the last century, the purge of German-Japanese evolutionaries was the peak of its population, and there were only about 9,000 evolutionaries.

Substituting this number into the calculation, even if the evolutionary has superpowers imposed by his learning ability, the combined use of super-civilization relics makes the scientific research efficiency of one hundred human beings, and one scientist out of ten, how many people?

Less than 1000.

And what can 1,000 people engaged in scientific research do? Well, if nothing else, the research of modern military weapons can require hundreds of experts at or above the doctorate level, not counting the grassroots technicians who are matched with it, and how many fields of science there are.

In this way, the evolutionary race has no soil for scientific research in terms of population alone, not to mention two other factors that make this situation worse:

First, the question of interest. As mentioned before, scientific research is inherently boring and arduous, so how can you guarantee that every evolutionary is interested in it? After all, with superpowers, they are all capable of everything, and they have to spend time on the development of abilities, which is much more interesting than learning, and how many evolutionaries are still interested in going to the laboratory to do those experiments that are not necessarily effective day after day?

It's like "plaything is demoralized", that is, "the game is so fun, why should I still learn".

Second, the issue of practicality. The development of science and technology is a long process, and some achievements, especially the most basic theories, may be put into application for hundreds or even thousands of years after they come out, and Newtonian mechanics, which is widely used today, is something hundreds of years ago.

Don't talk about other products, let's talk about weapons, today's guns and hundreds of thousands of years ago the most primitive guns, artillery, in principle, is actually the same, this is the technology tree of gunpowder weapons, but even today's artillery, is there a threat to evolutionaries?

Basically, no.

Then it is easy to understand, since the evolutionary has already flown into the sky and is omnipotent, and the mountains and mountains are broken with a raised hand, and the nuclear bombs of the highest level cannot threaten, why bother to study aerodynamics and explosives, starting with the most primitive black powder little by little?

Anyway, even if you drum it up, it can't compare to ability, just like "why should I study when I'm so rich, anyway, reading is not for making money in the end, knowledge is only used for other people's work, I don't need to learn now, how good it is to enjoy life (the pleasure of using ability)".

In the context of superpowers, short-term, or even long-term technology is unlikely to bring practicality to evolutionaries, if any evolutionary delves into this and misses the opportunity to evolve and become stronger, they will only lose their right to speak in this society where the strong are respected, resulting in a reduction in their own resources and inability to engage in scientific research, forming a vicious circle.

That's why evolutionaries fear sub-evolutionaries - nothing else, their own population is the biggest threat.

This gives them the conditions for engaging in science and technology that evolutionaries lack, coupled with the same more powerful learning ability than humans, if scientists can be born among the sub-evolutionaries, they will definitely be able to develop the technology tree on a large scale, so that those weapons that can threaten the evolutionary can appear.

For example, the Matter Disintegration Cannon, the Space Battleship, etc. When the evolutionaries have mastered these technologies that can threaten the evolutionaries through their monopoly on scientific research, it means that the ruling authority of the evolutionaries will be shaken, or even ended!

Can they be willing?

Of course not.

Therefore, there was a conspiracy against the extermination of the sub-evolutionary at the beginning, and the same is true for the fourth-generation evolutionaries such as Zhongheng to fend for themselves.

Looking at Zhong Heng's stunned expression, the Insight Man smiled and said, "What, figured it out?"

Zhong Heng nodded, and then asked: But what does this have to do with what you said earlier about people stirring up infighting between the identity faction and the conqueror faction, as well as sowing discord?

Insight: It's simple, let me ask you the question I just asked you again, why were the sub-evolutionaries exterminated?

Final Balance: Because they have mastered science and technology to create super-technological weapons, they will also threaten your position, and many evolutionaries will not be dispersed for their own benefit, especially the power of world domination.

The society of the evolutionary is essentially another kind of theocratic society, except that this "god" is no longer ethereal, but these powerful superpowers, for their own interests not to be violated, will naturally suppress the development of science and technology like a theocratic society.

The Insight nodded: That's right, I'm telling you that this is why there are conquerors and identities, and the provocateurs behind them are trying to get the same thing as you say, power.

"Of course there may be traitors among them, but as I said, very little, very little, more for their own interests." The Insight said, "Some people want to win people's hearts and minds so that other evolutionaries can rely on themselves to expand their own power, and expanding their own power is actually a relative process, that is, the reduction of others, even if mine is expanded, so even if he is not a conqueror, he will call himself a conqueror, and if he is not an identity faction, he will provoke an identity faction, can you understand this, that is, the opposite is to reduce the power of others by provoking......"

"Of course, there are some who are not either, deliberately stirring up contradictions on both sides, watching the infighting between the two sides fish in troubled waters, or saying that they are not on either side but will support one of them, for the same reason, even if there is no benefit, it will be so simply for fun......" The Insight continued, "Everyone, for the same thing and very simple, is profit, and as this sentence says, people in the rivers and lakes, they can't help themselves, as long as the organization is there, no one can avoid these, including me." ”

"That's why I told you, it's a Rashomon, you can think of any reason, there's something in it, and that's what led to the killing of innocents, to the civil war of the 90s, and to our ......decay," he said, "Everybody participated, but if you think about it a little bit, you know that these things are actually very stupid, and you also know that it's wrong, and it won't even bring you any good, but ......"

"Everyone can figure it out when they are independent, but they can't figure it out when they get together, you should know the relationship behind it now, right?"

Final Balance nodded.

The meaning behind the insight is simple and very simple, and in layman's terms, it is the sentence "For every 10,000 people, the IQ drops by half", due to the expansion of their respective interests, the information between each other is not transparent, resulting in a kind of infighting similar to the prisoner's dilemma.

In the history books, there is a term for this phenomenon, called party strife, fighting each other to the death, but the reason is often a big thing.

And it's very difficult to say, because it's an inherent weakness of human nature, and it contains factors such as selfishness, jealousy, greed, anger, ...... It is forged by the seven deadly sins, and it is also unclear in a few words, as the insightful said, just as the phrase "can only be understood but not spoken".

Just as man's greatest enemy is actually himself, it is it that has led to the decline of the Balance Organization, and the reasons for it are all too clear:

"Although we are higher creatures than humans, you have to admit that every one of us evolutionaries, no matter how powerful we are, no matter how much we don't identify ourselves as humans, have to face a fact...... "The Insight said.

"That's how we were all human beings...... And since we were born from human beings, we will also have the weaknesses that human beings have, so from a certain point of view, we are still human beings, just human beings with more powerful human beings, and the relationship with those ordinary people is like this sentence, everyone is equal, but some people are more equal......"

"These are our original sins, and they are also the original sins of all human beings, belonging to human nature!"