System: My Doomsday Train-Chapter 880 - 341: Xiaolv Can Only Stomach Hard Dishes, Not Soft Ones

Chapter 880: Chapter 341: Xiaolv Can Only Stomach Hard Dishes, Not Soft Ones

"In the cosmos."

"The strength of civilizations can roughly be divided into three tiers."

"1st, 2nd, and 3rd-level civilizations are considered weak civilizations, at a developmental stage. At this time, even if you are fighting intensely within your own territory, no one will bother with you."

"Of course."

"Reaching the 3rd-level civilization is a critical point."

"When your civilization reaches a 3rd-level civilization, it means you have officially made a stand in the cosmos. In other words, you also qualify to be eliminated."

"The general criterion for this is a detection range of 100,000 light-years."

"Many 4th and 5th-level civilizations deploy quite a few ’Stellar Giant Beast’ cosmic landmines to destroy emerging 3rd-level civilizations within or near their territories."

"And 4th, 5th, and 6th-level civilizations are commonly referred to as advanced civilizations."

"Civilizations in this range are already very strong."

"Further up."

"7th, 8th, and 9th-level civilizations are the top-tier civilizations, with the strongest among the 9th-level civilizations being the divine-level civilization."

"I don’t know what form the cosmic landmines of advanced and top-tier civilizations take, as I haven’t paid attention."

"I can tell you about the form of cosmic landmines used by divine-level civilizations."

"Let’s take ’Human Civilization’ as an example."

"The divine-level ’Human Civilization’ has laid various cosmic landmines, one of which is called the ’Emotion Detector,’ deploying numerous nano-level robots into the cosmos."

"Once it detects a significant increase in the happiness index of people in a certain area and a significant decrease in negative emotions, it will activate the ’Cleaning Device.’

"It’s generally believed that when a civilization enters the Level 7 Civilization, its citizens’ lifespan and entertainment lives, among other social aspects, will enter a quasi-utopian era, and the happiness index will increase significantly."

"Wait a minute."

Chen Mang frowned and asked, "You mean, divine-level civilizations deploy ’cosmic landmines’ to destroy Level 7 Civilizations?"

"If they are to prevent a sudden civilization explosion from a lesser civilization, shouldn’t they be destroying 9th-level civilizations?"

"Well, theoretically, yes."

Qiuya nodded, "But in reality, the number of 9th-level civilizations is not many and can be completely detected easily, without needing such means as cosmic landmines. Moreover, even destroying a 9th-level civilization is somewhat strenuous for a divine-level civilization."

"At times, it’s really hard to prevent a 9th-level civilization from successfully breaking through to become a divine-level civilization."

"They can only do their best to prevent it, and if unsuccessful and the other party successfully advances, then they begin negotiations."

"But—"

"The number of ’divine-level civilizations’ in the cosmos is increasing, which also means resources are becoming scarcer, the pie divided among more people, but it’s extremely difficult to eliminate a divine-level civilization, and a divine-level civilization is also hard to perish on its own."

"In this situation, the divine-level civilization targets Level 7 Civilizations for cleanup."

"It’s the least costly."

"A simple and easy strike can destroy a Level 7 Civilization, securing their dominance as a divine-level civilization by reducing the seeds of 9th-level civilizations and preventing more civilizations from breaking through to become divine-level civilizations."

"Most of the landmines laid by civilizations are like this, and they are not absolutely targeting their subordinate civilizations; that would be too costly. They usually target lower-level civilizations or even lower, to get the maximum profit with the minimum cost."

"As for Level 8 Civilizations."

"The 9th-level civilizations watch over them, and those 9th-level civilizations won’t allow a Level 8 Civilization to ascend to a 9th-level civilization."

"Then what do Level 7 Civilizations do?"

"Level 7 Civilizations prevent 4th and 5th-level civilizations from ascending."

"And what about 4th and 5th-level civilizations?"

"4th and 5th-level civilizations prevent 3rd-level civilizations from ascending."

"What about 3rd-level civilizations?"

"3rd-level civilizations are just there to get beaten." 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

"What about the 1st and 2nd-level?"

"They haven’t even qualified to get beaten yet, and often civilizations perish due to some unknown AOE."

"Sounds like the 6th-level doesn’t get involved."

"Just like the 4th and 5th levels, they beat the 3rd-level civilizations while preventing the 7th and 8th-level civilizations from beating them."

"Do the 4th, 5th, and 6th-level civilizations all beat the 3rd-level civilizations?"

"That’s right, it’s the lowest cost and the best effect."

"..."

Chen Mang didn’t speak further, silently contemplating. His ’Human Civilization’ is a 3rd-level civilization. Not long ago, he was quite happy because the Mechanical Civilization and Kasha Civilization took years to reach their heights, which he achieved in just a few years.

But the result...

He merely reached the stage of having the qualification to get beaten.

The pure kind that only gets beaten.

No qualification to beat anyone.

But it’s still better than before, when they didn’t even have the qualification to get beaten.

"The way you say it makes the 3rd-level civilization sound very pitiful."

"It is very pitiful, hence the 3rd-level civilization has the highest extinction rate in the cosmos, even far exceeding that of the 2nd-level civilizations, despite the latter having more numbers."

"Breaking through to a 4th-level civilization means you can start beating others?"

"When you’re a 4th-level civilization, you probably don’t have the foundation to lay cosmic landmines yet, so beating others is a bit reluctant, but you can already resist some advanced civilizations’ ’cosmic landmines,’ and by this time, usually, no one will beat you."

"Those 5th and 6th-level civilizations won’t come to beat you; it’s often not worth it."

"A defining event is—"

"When you destroy a cosmic landmine of a civilization, that civilization will not come to this region anymore."

"Hmm?"

Chen Mang raised an eyebrow, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes: "Won’t they come for revenge?"

He just destroyed a cosmic landmine set by an unknown civilization and was ready to take the spectacle and run away, never expecting the other side wouldn’t come after him?

"99% of the time, they won’t come, but there’s always the rare hothead."

Qiuya explained: "’Cosmic Landmines’ primarily exist as a means of achieving the long-term stable development of a civilization with minimal resource consumption, and when another civilization can destroy your cosmic landmine, it indicates that its strength is not weak."