Chapter 8
At the beginning of his journey, A0 only told him some basic information, such as the relationship between Tianjia civilization and him, the fact that the civilization was on the verge of destruction and asked him to save it, etc. However, before he could finish thinking, A0 began to tirelessly try to persuade him to agree to save the world.
As an adult, Qi Heng certainly wouldn't agree to A0's incoherent words. In fact, not long after, he replaced the noisy A0 with A1.
To be honest, excluding the information I have collected, I am not very clear about the current situation of the Zerg.
Many thoughts flashed through his mind, but in reality, the time passed in a flash.
[The time I last logged into the game is nearly 13,000 years different from now. Why is there such a huge time difference?]
Qi Heng thought about the age of the master in the game. Wow, after the fusion, he went from being 27 years old to over 20,000 years old, directly from an older young man to a living fossil.
【The speed of time in the two universes is different.】
"I remember that the Tianjia civilization is a peak level six civilization. There shouldn't be any civilization in the Milky Way or in this galaxy that can bring down the Tianjia civilization." Qi Heng paused when talking about the Milky Way.
It doesn’t matter what the galaxy was originally called. After it was conquered by the Zerg, the name given to it by the Overmind became known to all interstellar civilizations, and so it is the Milky Way.
Qi Heng named it firstly because it was easy to pronounce, and secondly because he really didn't know how to name.
There are many similar things like this. For example, in the process of developing the Zerg civilization, many aspects are related to the Earth civilization.
Qi Heng continued to ask: [How did the Tianjia civilization fall?]
[Destroyed by war, destroyed by Tianjia civilization itself.] A0's simple sentence revealed a great deal of information.
This is really an unexpected yet reasonable answer. There are only two factors that can destroy a civilization: external factors and internal factors. Does Tianjia civilization have both?
[Please give more details.]
He wanted to know what kind of war could destroy a level six peak civilization.
How could a high-level civilization that dominated the Milky Way be destroyed so easily? Could it be that a level 7 civilization had emerged in the Milky Way after he left? The second this thought came to mind, Qi Heng strangled it himself.
It's nothing, it's just because the possibility is too small, so small that it can be ignored.
For example, the advancement of a civilization is very difficult, and it becomes more difficult as time goes by. The technological innovation and accumulation required will consume a lot of time for a civilization.
For example, Earth civilization: Level 0.7, not even a first-level planetary civilization.
A level six peak civilization can freely travel throughout the Milky Way. The next level is level seven, and subsequent activities will involve exploration and development between galaxies.
The purpose of civilization is to continuously develop and reach new heights, to advance to a higher level of civilization. In the game, this means embarking on the path to conquer the next galaxy, constantly repeating the previous game process, over and over again, without stopping.
As a player with decent patience, Qi Heng lost interest in such a game content that could be seen at a glance after conquering the entire galaxy.
So boring.
With this mentality, he gave up the game decisively.
[Due to the corruption of the Cross-Dimension system database, we are unable to fully answer your question until it is repaired.]
【Based on existing data...】
Qi Heng was thinking while listening to A0 talk about the changes that took place in the Tianjia civilization in the game after he "left" the game. However, he never expected that the reason for the destruction of the Zerg was actually because of himself.
After your disappearance, the Tianjia Civilization, with the support of the Imperial Chancellor and the Grand Marshal, to locate your whereabouts, took the lead in tearing up the Galactic Peace Agreement and launching a war that engulfed the entire galaxy.
The Zerg hope that the flames of war they have reignited across the starry sea will please the departed Overmind, causing it to descend again.
[…This war, fought as a whole civilization, mobilized over 85% of the Empire's Zerg. With the Empire's support, they expanded into neighboring starfield civilizations.]
[Shortly after the war began, the lesser civilizations within the Milky Way, led by the Mora civilization, formed the Star Alliance and proactively declared war on the Zerg, who were defined as a 'natural scourge'...]
[During this period, vassal civilizations rebelled, and the Tianjia Civilization Empire was attacked from all sides... The war lasted for a thousand years, and countless star systems and civilizations were destroyed. Ultimately, after all civilizations of the Star Alliance paid a heavy price, the Tianjia Civilization was defeated.]
[At the end of the war, in order to prevent the Zerg from resurfacing, the Star Alliance, which replaced the Star Council, issued a Star Sea Encirclement and Suppression Order...]
Listening to A0's blunt and unvarnished words, Qi Heng's mouth twitched. What was this? It sounded like he had become the malevolent scourge that brought disaster to the country and its people.
However, he still realized that what A0 said was a bit too one-sided. These words sounded reasonable, but in fact they were somewhat wrong.
If he remembered correctly, the Mora civilization was the second most powerful civilization in the Milky Way after the Tianjia civilization. After all, there were only a few level six civilizations, so he still had an impression of them.
Since there is a level six civilization taking the lead, it is natural for the vassal civilizations to rebel when the Tianjia civilization is regarded as an enemy by the whole world.
——The method that the Tianjia civilization used to make these civilizations surrender was just one word: fight.
In the eyes of the vassal civilizations, the Tianjia civilization is a dictatorship and tyranny, a mountain pressing down on their heads, and they hate it and want it to die.
[So the Tianjia civilization fell into this state because of me, that's what you mean, right?]
【Based on the information in the database, this is indeed the case.】
Qi Heng was speechless. So he was to blame for this? But how could he have known that quitting the game could trigger an interstellar war?
If he had known earlier, he would have made arrangements for his "aftermath" before quitting the game instead of logging off in a hurry.
He is not stupid.
After learning that the game wasn't a game, he didn't believe everything A0 said. He had single-handedly guided the Tianjia civilization. He might have been a great demon king and had the potential to destroy the world, but he absolutely wouldn't destroy other civilizations and star regions just to find him.
Even though he was the Zerg Overlord, was he really that important? He wanted to say no but couldn't.
After all, he knew very well how the Zerg were born, and the importance and irreplaceability of the Overmind to the Zerg. If he really went crazy and took extreme measures, it was not impossible for him to start a war and make himself appear again.
Qi Heng felt a little headache. This was definitely the feedback from the bad karma he got from playing games.
He really loves peace and hates war, not counting the games - the romance of expanding territory, conquering the world, unifying the starry sky and creating unprecedented achievements is something no one can resist.
Why am I so childish when playing games? If I had been more serious and honest back then, I wouldn’t be in this situation now.
——The question is who can be a serious person when playing games? Letting yourself go is the normal thing to do, okay?
Qi Heng couldn't help but feel a little autistic.
He calmed down for a moment and said, "According to this situation, the Zerg should be completely exterminated. Why are they still here?"
Qi Heng threw all the emotions that were interfering with his life into the trash. He couldn't just listen to A0's one-sided story, emotionally or logically. A0 himself had said that his database was damaged and the information was incomplete, so what he said was questionable.
What's more, his intuition told him that the Mora civilization, the Star Alliance that replaced the Star Council, and the vassal civilization that rebelled against the Zerg... all had problems.
[In the later stages of the war, the Tianjia civilization ruled the star field... star-destroying weapons, detonating planetary systems... their numbers plummeted... they were designated a slave species by the Star Alliance, kept in captivity to atone for their sins...]
A0's stuttering words made Qi Heng frown. None of these words sounded good.
He interrupted A0: [Is this part of the information missing?]
【yes. 】
[Pull out the information so I can see it myself.]
A message appeared on the interface. There were few complete sentences, and most of them were disjointed and jumping words and texts, which explained the end of the Zerg civilization ten thousand years ago.
Qi Heng's eyes swept across the file name of "The Judgment on the Zerg", then he looked down expressionlessly, removing the garbled characters and extracting the information contained in it line by line.
…
Ten thousand years ago, the Star Alliance put the Zerg on trial, which included but was not limited to destroying their civilization language, writing, and technological system, prohibiting the Zerg from cultivating mental power and star power, restricting the Zerg's breeding area, etc.
The Tianjia civilization that once spread across the galaxy has become a thing of the past, and the Zerg are confined to the star field where they originated.
This star field Qiheng was once named Tianjia. It is a very vast and beautiful star field. In addition to the Tianjia civilization, there are also a few lower-level civilizations belonging to Tianjia, but all of these no longer exist.
The battlefield of the last war ten thousand years ago was in the Tianjia star field. All kinds of banned giant star-level weapons were unleashed here, destroying the entire star field to pieces.
Not only were the habitable galaxies in the Tianjia star field destroyed, but even the Zerg's home galaxy was not spared. In the end, the Star Alliance issued a cleansing order for the remaining habitable planets that were not destroyed in the war.
A giant beam of light causes the core of the planet to explode from the inside out, directly annihilating all life on the planet. Only a small part of the life is left on the abandoned planet whose ecological environment has been destroyed by war, and many restrictions control their development.
This is the end of the information, there is no more.
But even if it was just this, it was enough for him to understand the current situation of the Zerg.
In the darkness, Qi Heng's hands hanging by his side tightened subconsciously, and he himself didn't even realize how cold his eyes were at the moment he opened them.
He could sense that something was amiss with his mood at the moment, and he knew it was caused by learning about the Zerg's dire fate... Such a result would make him, who was related to the Zerg, feel bad, and any normal person with empathy would also feel psychologically uncomfortable when seeing it.
...The abandoned planet and Tianyun Star, the areas divided in the slums and the civilization conditions that have fallen back to the Stone Age, as well as the identification cards and clothing manufactured with cross-era technology, all revealed to him that they contained extremely malicious messages.
Looking at this verdict, the conclusion Qi Heng inferred in his mind made him shudder.
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