"Too good to possess such a miraculous ability..."
the old man exclaimed.
Li Wenxi has just briefly introduced his abilities.
"I heard that your current metal ore reserves have been exhausted, is that true?" Xu Ying asked.
"...That's indeed the case." The old man nodded heavily.
"You were aware of the situation here over fifty years ago. Fifty years have passed, and the situation has not only not eased, but has intensified. And due to a shortage of minerals and other resources, we're already struggling both offensively and defensively."
"Is it getting worse..." Xu Ying frowned, "Didn't you guys take the initiative to attack back then?"
"Of course there are, but..." the old man sighed, "Their numbers are endless. Even if we clear an area, it will only remain stable for half a year. After half a year, it will become a dangerous area again. Their reproductive capacity is really too strong."
"We put a lot of effort into this, but ultimately it didn't work. On the contrary...it was an excessive drain on our resources. That decision of ours is probably largely responsible for the current situation."
As he spoke, the old man's cloudy but majestic eyes dimmed slightly.
"You can't say that, Grandpa." Wei Shishi retorted, "If it weren't for Grandpa's decision, perhaps the human base would have suffered greatly fifty years ago."
"What are you talking about?" Li Wenxi was a little confused. "Why don't I understand something?"
"Let me explain," Wei Shishi began to explain. "You're not from our human base, right?"
"...Yeah." Li Wenxi nodded, "No."
"If you live in our city for a few days, you'll understand what we just said. This is the biggest crisis facing all of humanity in the human base right now."
"If the fact that our resources are about to run out is known only to a few people, then this is a real crisis known to everyone."
"Our human base has been under attack by beasts for hundreds of years."
Li Wenxi's eyes widened slightly. "A herd of beasts... attack? And even underground... ah!"
She thought of the experience of exploring the underground world that Xu Xin had shared with her before.
Thanks to the cultivation of alien invaders, the underground world has indeed developed a relatively stable ecosystem.
"I don't know how you live, but our tribe has lived underground for thousands of years, always in peace and stability. The area of our base has gradually expanded, reaching its peak a hundred years ago."
"As for why we stopped expanding our base a hundred years ago, it's because... unusually large beasts appeared around our base, and they weren't friendly toward us."
"A huge beast?" Li Wenxi asked in surprise, "Is it a behemoth?"
Wei Shishi didn't answer, but continued, "Those enormous beasts have basically the same characteristics as the beasts above ground recorded in history books, but they are much larger and their numbers are also abnormally large. They always attack the outermost human bases in groups."
A...tide of giant beasts?
Li Wenxi was very surprised.
"Humans a hundred years ago lived in far too much comfort. During their rapid expansion, they didn't take any protective measures outside their base."
"So, when the beast disasters arrived simultaneously from multiple locations outside the human base, the humans who encountered them had absolutely no ability to resist. It was truly a devastating tragedy."
Li Wenxi looked at Xu Ying.
As someone who has lived through a thousand years, she should be very familiar with that era, right?
Xu Ying understood Li Wenxi's meaning and shook her head, saying, "I haven't been here a hundred years ago. The last time I was here was fifty-five years ago, when I met Wei Bai. The last time before that was two hundred years ago."
Wei Bai is the old man's name.
When the old man heard Xu Ying mention this name, a smile appeared on his face.
At the age of eighty, hearing his own name from an old friend whom he hadn't seen for over fifty years made him feel a little emotional.
Wei Shishi on the side frowned slightly.
Seeing a girl who looked similar to her calling her grandfather's name made her feel a little uncomfortable, but she couldn't say anything.
"Then... didn't you go back and take a look?" Li Wenxi asked, "Go back to that point in time a hundred years ago and take a look?"
A giant beast suddenly appeared and besieged the human base in the underground world. Doesn’t this seem a bit abnormal no matter how you look at it?
"No." Xu Ying shook her head. "In order to prevent the future from changing and affecting our plans, we usually don't time travel to the past."
"Otherwise, if we set up the future and then go back to the past, and somehow do something that triggers a butterfly effect and changes the future again... that would be too stupid."
"For example, if my brother and I traveled back fifty years and told Wei Bai a lot of things, and we were to go back a hundred years and unconsciously trigger some changes, causing changes fifty years later, such that Wei Bai would no longer be the head of the family, or perhaps there would simply be no Wei Bai anymore... wouldn't that be a waste of our efforts?"
Xu Ying's words made the three people present look a little strange.
Elder Wei Bai suddenly felt a chill on his back and said with a wry smile, "Should I thank you for not killing me?"
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