Chapter 847: The Virus Fades
It can be said that because of the unscrupulous killing in the short period of time before, the ancient civilization has created a lot of trouble for itself.
Millions of prosperous planets have been completely destroyed, and tens of thousands of interstellar civilizations that can generate a steady stream of people have been uprooted, which will bring huge losses for a long time in the future.
The vast resources of the ancient civilization that were originally at their fingertips have disappeared.
What's more serious is that under this kind of unscrupulous slaughter, more civilizations have been completely frightened like frightened birds, they either abandon their homes and property to flee, or shrink the scope of action of the entire civilization in the meteorite star sea to the greatest extent, and all aspects of the action have been interrupted to a large extent, and the progress of the immigration and development of the entire meteorite star sea has been greatly delayed, which is a long-term loss in a larger scope and longer time, and it may take a long time to recover.
The entire ancient civilization is not only a few members of the upper echelons, but even some of the lower personnel who retain the knowledge and memories of the past are very clear, because of the ravages of the previous period, the interests of the entire ancient civilization have been greatly traumatized.
It's not that the ancient civilizations didn't know the importance of herding civilizations, living in harmony with other civilizations, and harvesting soul and flesh resources little by little.
It's just that even if they know that the previous killing spree is not appropriate, all the ancient remnants have no way to control their actions at all.
I was really hungry in the other dimensional world, and in the face of the endless resources of the material world, no one could control my emotions at all.
In the face of the intelligent creatures everywhere that can be slaughtered at will, these powerful soul bodies are completely unable to control themselves, and they have to kill and devour to recover their due sanity, and their actions cannot be stopped until they have eaten and drunk enough.
This is true not only of the remnants of ancient civilizations, but also of other powerful souls who have escaped from other dimensional worlds, and if they are not allowed to completely satisfy their pent-up desires for countless years, they should not be allowed to regain their rationality and control.
If the ancient civilizations tried to limit their movements too soon, they might have been swallowed up by these powerful souls.
Therefore, due to the combination of various factors, the ancient civilization did not have the ability to truly control the actions of all soul bodies.
It was only after more than a year had passed, and all the soul bodies had been wantonly indulged, had received unprecedented satisfaction, and even had some of them, that they began to control the actions of these soul bodies little by little, and even if they wanted to harvest resources, they often began to become measured.
The ancient civilization is seeking remedy, so as not to cause complete irreparable damage to the future development of its own civilization caused by the ruthless means of many souls in the past.
After all, if the fertile soil of the meteorite star sea is considered by many interstellar civilizations to be too dangerous and not a good place for development, so they flee one after another, then the ancient civilization is really holding a golden rice bowl and asking for food, and the future development prospects are seriously frustrated.
That's not a fun thing, even if the ancient civilization thinks that it has a killer weapon, even if it is against a cosmic-level civilization, it can take advantage of the opponent's weaknesses to a certain extent, but to be honest, this kind of thing can still be avoided after all, and it is better to be later than earlier.
Universe-level civilizations are stronger than the other, and each has its own hole cards, which is not so easy to provoke, even if it is an ancient civilization, if it is not to the point of last resort, it is not willing to collide and friction with the universe-level civilization in vain, because in that case, a careless person may have to suffer serious losses.
Fortunately, although the ancient civilization killed a lot during this time, it had a very bad impact among the many interstellar civilizations that migrated to the meteorite star sea, so that many civilizations were frightened and fled in panic.
But in the end, it hasn't come to the worst yet.
The development of foreign civilizations for more than 100,000 years has opened up a prosperous and habitable zone with a total scale of tens of thousands of light-years in the meteorite star sea, and during this time, although the ancient civilizations have killed extremely much, they have caused the destruction of a large number of civilizations.
But in the end, the star field that the ancient civilization set foot in is only a narrow habitable zone with a radius of thousands of light years, and among all the habitable zones that have been redeveloped by the meteorite star sea, it is not even one-tenth of the range.
Although there are a large number of civilizations that have been overwhelmed by the actions of the ancient civilizations and have chosen to flee to other places, there are still a large number of interstellar civilizations whose homeland is difficult to move and are unwilling to abandon the industry and choose to flee, so now they have begun to slowly stop before the matter is completely irreversible, and the herding civilization of the ancient civilization still has a lot of room to play.
Although some of the alien civilizations that migrated to the Meteorite Star Sea were destroyed and some escaped, even the remaining part could fully meet the resource needs of all the souls of the ancient civilizations for the time being.
Even if it is somewhat restrained, even if it is controlled, but after the powerful soul bodies of the ancient civilization are scattered everywhere and parasitic on various planets and civilizations, the soul resources and flesh and blood resources harvested by this controlled harvesting behavior are still enough for every soul body to enjoy.
After all, the population in each interstellar civilization is quite large, with hundreds of billions of people at every turn, even if it is a normal population metabolism, the number of people who need to die every year is hundreds of millions, and such a large-scale soul resource is just to meet the food needs of the remnants of several ancient civilizations, which is naturally a simple matter.
The ancient civilization did not need to go out of their way to fish for those who were alive, and it was more than enough to just eat the flesh and soul of some of the dead.
It is also very simple to do this, the soul bodies of the ancient civilization only need to control some of those soul virus infected bodies, so that they can get out of the shell, no longer parasitize in the human body, and no longer bite and infect the living, they only need to pounce on those dead when they are just dead to infect and devour them, and naturally collect the soul essence contained in these soul bodies.
Often, even if it is just the soul body of an ancient civilization resident on a planet, it will not be long before the planet will be full of soul infections, and the souls of the dead on the entire planet will be infected by the soul virus before they have time to dissipate, and become the food for the remnants of the ancient civilization.
There are also some powerful soul bodies, just devouring some souls and not feeling enjoyable, you have to devour the flesh and blood of some living people to feel satisfied, this situation is not impossible, but according to the general requirements of ancient civilizations, it is necessary to control the feed intake of living people below a certain amount, so as not to make those interstellar civilizations panic and choose to flee unacceptably, this is a good thing.
And this is manifested in the overall situation, in the eyes of many alien interstellar civilizations, the intensity of the zombie infection incident suddenly became lower, and it is no longer as easy to destroy an entire planet and an entire civilization as before.
The wave of "infection" in the entire meteorite star sea is like a sudden immunity, and it has gradually disappeared from the vast majority of planets that have been infected with the "zombie virus" before.
But all kinds of signs are showing that it seems that the "zombie virus" has never left the large galaxy of meteorite star sea, and many planets that have not been infected with zombie viruses on a large scale before often have some individual zombie attacks from time to time, but these zombies seem to be no longer infectious, and often bite and kill a very small number of people, and then naturally disappear again.
Many interstellar civilizations have deeply studied these zombie attacks again, but there are still no results, these civilizations have not even found the source of the so-called zombie infection incident, and they have not even found out the shadow of the so-called zombie virus, so it is naturally even more impossible to find out why the zombie disease is so powerful, completely extinct on many planets, but repeated attacks on some planets, and each time it will implicate the cause of killing as little as three or five or dozens of hundreds of people.
However, although it is not clear why the famous zombie disease has suddenly become so harmless, some civilizations have put forward some conjectures.
They believe that this so-called zombie disease may be some kind of very rare and fatal disease that is not yet clear about the pathogenic mechanism, and this large-scale outbreak in the meteorite star sea is because many foreign civilizations do not adapt to the environment of the meteorite star sea, and in the process of living in the meteorite star sea, some pathogenic factors have slowly accumulated, and the large-scale outbreak of the zombie virus in the meteorite star sea may be a concentrated outbreak of this disease.
This conjecture explains to a certain extent why zombie diseases can spread across interstellar and cross-ethnic groups, not that there is really a certain virus infecting people and producing patients, but that those planets that are infected with diseases have accumulated considerable healing elements, and after meeting certain conditions, they have concentrated outbreaks.
The reason why the zombie disease suddenly disappeared after a large-scale outbreak, and only recurred on certain planets, suggests that after killing a large number of people, this mysterious disease may have mutated or produced antibodies in certain races, and then more people have become immune to the disease.
Although the conjectures of these civilizations are full of possibilities, all kinds of possibilities, it is impossible to say what this so-called zombie disease is all about, but the reality is obvious, too many civilizations have seen the general trend of the meteorite star sea returning to normal, although there are still some remnants of zombie disease on some planets, and some people are killed from time to time, but this does not affect the choice of various civilizations.
For many interstellar civilizations, there are simply too many security threats they need to face.
Large-scale migration to other non-native planets to live, facing a completely different environment and ecology from their origin planet, even if the planet has been modified and the basic environment has adapted to their needs as much as possible, but the death of the population caused by various viruses, microorganisms, native animals and plants of the planet will not be less than hundreds or thousands of people one day.
In addition to the common space high-energy rays, space material collisions, accidental damage to spacecraft, etc., there are also all kinds of unconventional threats, and even sometimes it is very common for a large number of people to die unexplained.
But these dangers and casualties never stop the expansion of an interstellar civilization.
As long as it is a profitable act, as long as the population casualties are within the tolerable range, then every interstellar civilization has the determination to bear a certain number of casualties, and it is simply impossible to seek development despite death.
Although the zombie virus has recurred occasionally or died at every turn after inexplicably subsided, there has not been a single case of surviving infection so far, and it is still an extremely terrible disease for individuals, but after losing the terrible attribute that can easily lead to the total extinction of the planet's population and the extinction of the civilization population, in the eyes of many civilizations, the threat of this disease has immediately become minimal.
There are countless dangerous things in the universe that can easily kill people, and as long as they do not threaten the survival of civilization, then they can only be regarded as a small threat to an interstellar civilization, and it is not an incomparably terrible thing.
Now for many interstellar civilizations, they don't care about how many people will be killed or injured once the zombie disease attacks, they care about how much advantage they can take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
You must know that in this zombie disease infection crisis, there are millions of planets with extinct populations, tens of thousands of destroyed civilizations, and planets several times this number have been abandoned.
Originally, when the zombie disease continued to spread wantonly and people were panicking, although many civilizations saw this huge benefit, there was no civilization that could eat it.
It is not uncommon for civilizations to take advantage of the opportunity, but the vast majority of them have also been exterminated along with it.
As a result, many valuable star fields in the Meteorite Star Sea have become ownerless and can be occupied at will.
Originally, the wealth of these days could only be seen but not touched, but now with the sudden reduction of zombie disease and the fact that they no longer continue to exterminate civilizations at every turn, many interstellar civilizations have suddenly seen the opportunity.