In 3161, several small things happened during this year, the first was that the cataclysm fleet on the Ring of Monoceratus suffered heavy losses due to an ambush by the unknown legion, and had to retreat to the vicinity of Lamp Mars, which was replaced by the Second Day Walker fleet, and the second thing was that Alpha of Southern Fish, the unknown prisoner Darakep held in the planet's cage escaped.

Although both events caused quite a stir, from the perspective of historians, these events are just one of countless fragments of the historical process, not a turning point worth remembering.

For Cao Chuan, he will still subconsciously connect these things with the possible crisis, trying to find the real source of the crisis hidden behind it.

His way of observing the world has become quite advanced, relying on the virtual world constructed by thousands of digital planets to observe the operation of such an abstract thing as the human world, from its economic, cultural, military, political, technological, educational, etc., and then through Alice's tens of thousands of doppelgangers and the super observatories that stand in the frontier world to observe the real universe, the operation of many planets, the rise and fall of cosmic disasters, the evolution of galaxies, and the reproduction of alien life.

With so much information coming in, he monitors and manages the development of human civilization almost like a god, and not only that, but he is able to find any clues down to the details.

Slowly, he sensed that he was getting closer and closer to the unseen and untouchable dangerous existence, the nightmare that originated in the tiny and swept through the silver galaxy like a butterfly storm for 100,000 light-years.

In July 3161, Cao Chuan listened to the news report as usual, "The moon has welcomed another 1 million immigrants to leave this year, and with 1,000 years of continuous development, all the mineral deposits in this rising place of the Eastern Galaxy Company will be completely depleted." “

"Resources are the basic guarantee for the development of the planet, the moon has industrial advantages, and the location of the planet and the size of the satellite make its development potential limited after all, so in recent years, the development of the lunar star government has either stood still or is constantly regressing."

"The Lunar Star Governor claims that he will propose that the Moon be opened to all mankind as a permanent museum, as its best home, rather than stubbornly refusing to give up and wasting government funds."

After listening to the news, Cao Chuan didn't expect that the moon was now fully explored, indeed, satellites like the moon are too easy to be consumed by crazy human beings, and today, the moon has little competitiveness except for historical reasons, and its fate is predictable.

The news story is open to the world, and as a fairly big piece of news, it ends up affecting more than 1 trillion viewers who are watching it.

Cao Chuan sensed something, the data running in the dark fluctuated with the subtle changes in the real world, he raised his head and hurriedly searched, "The number of immigrants is increasing... The influence of the Nexus is still expanding... Humanity finds the old world less attractive..."

Something in his mind that had been unconnected was finally connected, and slowly more information crept on: "The decline in interest in the pursuit of planetary exploration... Looking for a comfortable life... Wealth is difficult to flow... Quest for the legacy of planetary control... The solidification of social classes... The quest for a different culture... The restoration of the old culture... Confusion about the existence of human beings themselves... The efficiency of information dissemination has slowed down..."

…

……

……

In the next few days and nights, like a flash flood, the events that were originally independent of each other were correlated and converged into a complex causal tree, and at the apex of the tree, there was a huge consciousness manipulating the whole event, pushing humanity into the bottomless abyss.

"Therefore, it is impossible for everything to develop in a bad direction all at once, and there is indeed something manipulating, but maybe this is not one person, not one force, but more likely the universe itself."

Cao Chuan sensed that the human world was undergoing unprecedented challenges, and the minions of the enemy lurking in the fog were gradually revealed, and the originally calm world as a lake finally set off a wave.

"In this way, the crisis of humanity mentioned by Ursa should be this, what should it be called? Since it will continue to encroach on human civilization, let's call it the dry tide of civilization. ”

Cao Chuan captured the existence of nothingness, and the dry tide of civilization is not so easy to catch, so all kinds of events are still fermenting and heating up.

More and more immigrants are migrating to the central area, and the number has exceeded 100 billion in an unprecedented way, and more than 30 originally prosperous planets in the old world have been abandoned.

For example, for the first time this year, the Fair Balance Trade Fleet found that their income was declining, and the profits of the bulk trade between the stars were almost unable to cover their daily consumption due to the weak supply and demand in the market.

Midway on the Deep Space Route, one of the largest robot manufacturing factories on the planet, suddenly laid off 20,000 employees due to poor management, which led to protests that spread around the world.

Chaksuren, the head of the Citadel government, looked at a series of headaches and pondered for several days, only to find that there was no real solution.

The effects of the withering tide of civilization are becoming more and more obvious, and although the various anomalies that appear to be independent are normal, given the probabilities and their correlation with each other, the problem is very large.

In 3163, several bigwigs of the East Galaxy Company gathered and sat together, and everyone may still not understand what is going on, but if you want to describe it in popular words, it is that human beings are cursed by the unknown, and the various bad luck that occurs one after another is not caused by individuals, but comes from the deliberate suppression of human beings by the universe.

Hearing Cao Chuan's explanation, everyone was still a little puzzled, "In other words, this is the price of our development of the central area?" ”

"It can be understood in this way, but please believe that there is no retribution in the world, the gods in the underworld have never existed, this is just an unknown trick, and we can only solve these problems with our own hands."

"How do you solve the problem?"

Qiao Hehe, who has not seen him for a long time, shared: "My Arcturus is quite calm, the whole planet maintains the technological level of the 25th century, and thanks to the use of the eternal society model, whether it is food supply, energy consumption, daily necessities, and luxury goods, it can be self-sufficient without too many changes." ”

"Of course, I've also noticed that the number of ships visiting us has been decreasing recently, which means that there may be fewer and fewer popular goods from the outside world, and the last Arcturus will be completely stuck in the 25th century, and the way it develops determines that it has no possibility of climbing technology."

"So, Vice Minister Old Qiao, do you think that the more independent the planet, the less affected it will be?"

"I think there will be such a pattern."

"In addition, the human world is too big and bloated now, to be honest, I don't know how it works now, maybe as you said, it is precisely because the human world is so complex that changes in one place may affect the overall situation."

"Isn't it the market, shouldn't society have the ability to repair itself and maintain balance?"

"But you also know that what is really causing all this is the withering tide of civilization, and its means are beyond cognition, for example, it deprives the market, the ability of society to repair itself?" (To be continued.) )