Chapter 83 The World is Punishing

The banshees stepped back to make room for her, and the banshee stood there timidly.

"My Lord, I am Una."

Xiu Si frowned and recalled, as if he had some impression of the first time cognitive interference occurred a few days ago.

This banshee seemed to have very bad luck. The pollution that appeared out of nowhere just happened to appear above her head and buried her completely. It was her teammates in the same group who dug her out.

What did she find? Under Hughes's encouraging gaze, Una spoke softly while recalling:

"When I was in the Abyss, I was attacked by a monster there. It took me a long time to get help from Lord Ash. I almost died. I have a deep impression of the pollution."

"Later, when Monica was eroded by pollution, I also remembered that pollution, which was exactly the same as the pollution in the deep sea."

“But later.”

She frowned.

"During the cognitive interference, I was hit by pollution. It took me a long time to get out. At that time, I felt that this kind of pollution felt weird."

"Strange?"

"Yes, it seems to be somewhat different from the pollution in the deep sea. It looks very similar, but it is actually not the same thing."

"Just like salt and sugar, they are both condiments, but they are completely different."

Hughes took a breath and said, "Why didn't you report this?"

Una shook her head. "I'm not really sure, because they look so similar, they are all black worms, and their reactions to the outside world are the same. I thought it was because they were in the sea before and now they are on land."

Xius understood what she meant. Una did have a big difference in her subjective perception of them, but there was no difference between the two types of pollution no matter how you observed them.

Just like salt and sugar, it is difficult to tell the difference with just your eyes, you have to taste them to know the difference.

"Uh, didn't you try touching it again?"

“It’s not a good feeling to be caught in the middle of pollution.”

Una's face darkened visibly, the corners of her mouth twitched, and she spoke in a low voice.

Hughes shuddered as he thought of the black pollution that kept wriggling like thousands of worms.

Fortunately, he purified quickly enough and the pollution was cleaned up as soon as it appeared, otherwise these things would keep appearing in his body. Zeus's face darkened.

"Okay, I know about this, has anyone else found anything?"

The banshees looked at each other and shook their heads.

"That is to say, we may have triggered the arrival of pollution for another reason. We don't know what the reason is yet. What we know now is that it is different from cognitive interference. It does not cause random pollution dumping. Instead, new pollution will continue to appear in the body. The amount is huge and lasts for a long time."

Although the amount of pollution caused by cognitive interference is also huge, there is basically only one wave. As long as you are not too unlucky and are buried alive like Una, there is still hope.

But the pollution that happened today was generated directly in his body. The amount was huge and lasted for several hours. If Zeus did not have the ability to purify himself, he would almost certainly die.

The candy that Nora had asked for before could restrain the pollution to a certain extent, but it was almost impossible to resist this kind of long-term and large-dose infusion of pollution.

Xius sighed, his expression somewhat solemn.

These days, he has envisioned several ways to deal with cognitive interference. He can indeed promote the progress of science and industry, but the development of the entire civilization certainly cannot rely on him alone.

In the future, ordinary people will definitely need to be involved in scientific research. He hopes to create a system that can have a healthy cycle.

Although cognitive interference is dangerous, it can be solved by taking proper precautions.

But how can we avoid this kind of pollution from the inside out?

Today he made a steam engine, and the pollution came and was directly purified. Tomorrow Gaia improved the steam engine, and the pollution came, and it was directly turned into a monster eroded by pollution, just like Monica in the past. How to deal with it?

Even if it could be dealt with, Gaia could not sign a symbiotic contract with him. The monster was killed, but the man was gone.

How can this continue to develop? Are scientists considered disposable?

How is that possible? Even if every scientist devotes themselves to the cause, such a system is difficult to maintain and will easily lead to a gap in research and development.

Zeus smiled bitterly. If this world was really so strange, it was understandable that all major forces would unanimously become extremely conservative.

"I always feel that this world is severely punishing the progress of civilization."

He couldn't help but mutter to himself.

It’s like the world of immortal cultivation in novels, where the protagonist comes out after seclusion for tens of thousands of years and the farmers are still using oxen to plow the fields.

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Or the elves in the fantasy world who live for thousands of years and learn knowledge for thousands of years have only become more capable of fighting.

It's like a forced self-consistent worldview that seems reasonable and normal, but if you think about it carefully, you will feel an inexplicable sense of fear.

Scientific research relies on archaeology. It would be too ironic if such a thing happened here as well.

This inference is not difficult, and the surrounding banshees also thought of this.

Their faces did not look very good either. When it comes to the pursuit of science, these banshees are absolutely firm, even a little fanatical.

Their first contact with science was Zeus's theory of water pressure - this indeed solved the problem that had troubled them for thousands of years. No one in the tribe had ever thought about the nature of the curse from this perspective before, and it is no exaggeration to say that it reshaped their worldview.

Later, Zeus proposed to sign a symbiotic contract with everyone to link everyone together, and they would also be the direct beneficiaries.

In the past, they had to worry about the contractors being too weak, or one party being seriously injured and causing harm to the other party. Now, the shared life pool gives them almost endless tolerance.

They are the group that has the most contact with various methods of using mind links, various industrial systems in the territory, and even the manufacture of steam engines.

The banshees themselves did not notice that they had gradually become accustomed to Zeus's logical approach of "observation - thinking - induction - summarizing the rules - experiment and apply".

Zeus just felt that communicating with these banshees was smoother, and even talking through the mind link felt a bit like chatting on WeChat, but he didn't think too much about it.

But this actually means that the three views of both sides are gradually converging, and they are gradually becoming more like Zeus. Therefore, the banshees can also empathize with Zeus' inner pain at this moment.

The atmosphere was a little heavy for a moment.

Monica pushed away the nearby banshee and squeezed in front of Zeus.

The banshees looked down at her.

Zeus also raised his head and looked at the small banshee in front of him with some surprise.

Monica was not very old, about the same height as Hughes, and she looked her lord straight in the eyes.

"Humans are afraid of pollution, but I am not. Humans like science, and so do I. If humans can't do it, why don't I do it?"

(End of this chapter)