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"The sages of Qingling Island have done a lot of research and come to an extremely dark conclusion, that is, under the condition of limited resources and mutual suspicion, war between completely independent islands is inevitable.

"That's why there was the Great Dark Age.

"And Qingling Island has been self-proclaimed for thousands of years, and the main purpose is to avoid being hunted by other isolated islands in the Great Dark Age.

However, one of the most important prerequisites for the Dark Forest Theory to be true is limited resources.

"It is conceivable that after the apocalyptic catastrophe of the Nine Heavens World such as the Shattering of Shenzhou, all the resources on the isolated islands will not be too much.

"You also said it just now, even the spirit stone was a thing that could be seen everywhere in the era of the Shenzhou Continent, but in the era of the Nine Heavens Island, it has become a scarce strategy."

"Therefore, the resources of the isolated island are limited, and in the case of complete isolation from the outside world, the consumption of resources on Qingling Island will be less, so sooner or later, you will exhaust all the resources on Qingling Island......"

"Then I want to ask the old question, with the resources on Qingling Island, how long can it last?"

The old man's face changed greatly: "This ...... It's a secret on the island, and I can't tell you. ”

Cheng Li also seemed to be expected of this reaction.

In fact, he dared to ask this question because he only dared to ask this question.

He believed that for a technologist like the old man, after realizing the infinite charm of his knowledge, he was definitely the most protective person on the island.

For the old man, arithmetic is his avenue.

For cultivators, their own avenue is even more important than life.

Therefore, Cheng Li showed a profound knowledge of arithmetic, which is simply a gift from the Great Dao to the old man. So if anyone is unfavorable to Cheng Li, it is simply killing the old road, and the old man will definitely go desperately.

That's why Cheng Li talked to the old man about so many topics related to mathematics before, just to add chips to himself, and wanted to draw the old man to his side as much as possible, so that the old man couldn't get off from him at all.

Therefore, Cheng Li didn't dare to ask the Great Elder for such a question, but he only dared to ask the Old Elder.

Because he knew that even if he didn't answer him, it wouldn't be against him.

Based on this judgment, Cheng Li can continue to speak with great confidence.

"Even if you don't say it, I can deduce a rough idea, and you can listen to whether I am wrong or not. ”

"Although, I don't know how long you'll last.

"But now a full thousand years have passed since the Great Dark Ages occurred. ”

"Your Qingling Island has experienced 9,000 years of development, and then experienced another 1,000 years of the Great Dark Age, even if there are still resources on the island, it must not be able to support you for too long. That's my first guess. ”

"Based on this speculation, there are three very strange phenomena that I have been puzzled by.

"1. You have made a large number of spirit armors, and you have even made it possible for cultivators on the island to have one spirit armor for two people, that is to say, you have made a full 50,000 spirit armors. This seems a bit too uncoincidental...... Some of them are too unrealistic, aren't they?

"As far as I know, the manufacture of spirit armor consumes a lot of resources, and it also requires a large number of spirit stones to drive.

"And you just said that spirit stones are scarce strategic resources, but you have spent so many scarce strategic resources and created so many spirit armors, what are you for?

"2. Qingling Island's self-styled Great Array, according to the information I consulted, it is a six-grade Great Array. One of its main functions is to completely cut off the connection between Qingling Island and the outside world, and cut off the existence of all misty shipping routes.

"Then the second question is, since the self-styled great array is so powerful, where did this Blood Demon Island come from?

"According to Senior Sister Ye Lin and some of the materials in the literature, it is said that this Blood Demon Island accidentally drifted to the vicinity of Qingling Island, and then had a traction force with Qingling Island, and finally temporarily fixed, and a fixed route was generated between the two from time to time.

"After that, every ten years, this fixed route will appear, and every time it appears, Blood Demon Island will raise troops to attack.

"I want to ask, is it really that coincidental?"

Cheng Li's question became more and more sharp, making beads of sweat appear on the old man's face.

"3. I was in the library before, and I checked the population data of Qingling Island over the years, and I found an interesting thing. That is the population of Qingling Island, which seems to have an invisible ceiling.

"Whenever the total population of Qingling Island reaches about 1 million, a war with Blood Demon Island will break out, and then the population will plummet to about 700,000, and then after more than ten years of recovery, when the population reaches about 1 million again, the war breaks out again. As a result, the population of Qingling Island has never exceeded 1.2 million in the last 100 years! You must know that 200 years ago, the population of Qingling Island once reached 2 million!

"And this year, the total population of Qingling Island is 1.1 million, and the war happened very coincidentally!

"Is all this a coincidence?!"

Even if he was struck by lightning, he took two steps back.

After Cheng Li saw the appearance of the old man, a big stone fell to the ground in his heart, and then continued.

"I don't really believe that there are so many coincidences in this world, so through these three phenomena, I deduced two guesses.

"1. Your self-styled plan for Qingling Island should be on the table. And secretly there is another plan, a continuation of the self-proclaimed plan.

"According to my reasoning, the phenomenon of limited resources on Qingling Island is not a special case of the Nine Heavens Island, but a universal phenomenon, which is why the Great Dark Age only happened thousands of years ago.

"So, your self-proclaimed plan is not just for survival, but for a long-term plan to have the last laugh......"

"All the resources of the Nine Heavens Island are limited, and they can't outlast you for too long. So as long as you appoint yon, avoid resources being plundered by other forces. Then in the Great Dark Age, other isolated islands will face frequent wars, and the loss of resources will definitely increase, so that Qingling Island will last longer than other isolated islands. ”

"So I speculate that the purpose of your secret plan is to trade time for space. Appoint yourself and control the population, improve your exercises to reduce consumption, and prolong the survival time of the island for nine days. By the time you run out of resources and have no choice but to lift your self-imposed lockdowns, the outside world will probably have changed dramatically, and perhaps the war has wiped out countless isolated island populations. At that time, there will be a lot of uninhabited islands waiting for you to develop. ”

If that's a guess, then everything makes sense. In the past thousand years, you have created so many spirit armors just so that you can have enough combat power to plunder when you release your self-sealance. ”

"Based on this first guess, combined with the phenomena 2 and 3 just mentioned, I have come up with an extremely dark guess......

"That is, in order to allow Qingling Island to survive in this cruel world for a longer period of time, you have begun to control the population. Later, I found out that I couldn't control it, so you simply attracted the Blood Demon Island. In this way, you can control the population and train your troops, which can be said to be the best of both worlds! However, every 10 years or so, 200,000 or 300,000 people die in war, and I wonder if they think the same thing in their hearts!"