Chapter 312 Endless Caverns
Su Ming shook his head, thinking to himself, what on earth could he know?
Even the strategy of the four major alliances, he only learned about it from Liu Lingshan not long ago, so how could he know the deeper reasons.
Liu Lingshan continued:
“In fact, it is the contradiction and conflict of concepts that prevent the four major alliances from becoming a whole.
I guess no one would believe it if I told them this, but in fact, most of the top leaders of the four major alliances have thought about how to integrate all the alliances together. But as expected, all such ideas have failed, and there hasn't even been a decent discussion.
The first reason is the corruption among senior officials within the four major alliances.
Nepotism and the desire for power breed corruption within the alliance.
Corruption within a large group is actually very normal. From ancient times to the present, there has been no centralized organization that has not been corrupt. It is human instinct to make oneself live a better life, and it is also the selfish side of human nature. This is completely understandable.
But the problem is that this desire for dominance has made the top leaders of the league lose their ambition and stop thinking about what is the right thing to do. "
Liu Lingshan paused, glanced at Su Ming, and continued:
"I am not saying that the leaders have done a bad job. On the contrary, they have done a very good job. Compared with those in power in the past, they can even be considered clean. Many of them have dedicated their lives to this cause that concerns the survival of mankind.
But the truth of this world is cruel. Hard work does not necessarily mean rewards, and doing the right thing does not necessarily mean good results. In this era of collapse, only by doing the right thing can humans have a future, and what they are doing now is just a slow death that is not very painful. "
“What I just said was the human factor, and the second factor is the conflict of ideas. Although the four major alliances are all doing good things, it is not easy to combine these four things into one. The balance point is difficult to grasp, and the four major alliances will not compromise easily.
To give a few examples, the Seven Gods Alliance will do whatever it takes to defeat monsters, even criminals, while the Freedom Alliance focuses on capturing criminals with special powers. If the Freedom Alliance and the Seven Gods Alliance merge, how will this be balanced?
If it is possible to balance, to what extent should it be balanced? "
“For example, the focus of the Inhuman Alliance is to enable all of humanity to complete their evolution, and to do this they need to balance the abnormalities of all people. They also treasure resources like psychics, and most dangerous matters are outsourced to the Seven Gods Alliance to handle.
If the Seven Gods merge with the Inhumans, what will be their attitude towards the Inhumans? Should they be used as warriors or as precious reproductive resources?
The Luhe Alliance and the Alien Alliance have different strategies in the distribution and utilization of wealth. The former focuses on resource sharing between regions, while the latter focuses on education. When the two are combined, the balance becomes even more difficult to grasp.
There is no doubt that among these strategic directions, only one is correct and it is the one that requires the combined strength of all mankind to implement!
And this correct strategy will definitely not be recognized by other alliances.
So there is no other way to resolve this conflict except violence.
Speaking of which, before the Great Collapse, humans could start a war and use the victory or defeat to decide who obeys whom...but this is no longer possible now.
The existence of a large number of containment objects prevents large-scale conflicts between alliances. The power of the containment objects is extremely terrifying, and rashly starting a war may lead to the destruction of mankind. "
Su Ming listened patiently to Liu Lingshan's lecture. He roughly understood what he meant, so he raised his eyebrows: "Then?"
"And then? And then of course it can only be changed from within."
"How do we change this?"
Su Ming actually didn't want to know, but in order to give Liu Lingshan face, he asked anyway.
"Are you feeling bored?" Liu Lingshan keenly perceived Su Ming's emotional changes.
Su Ming nodded and admitted honestly: "I personally find it quite boring, but Master, if you find it interesting, you can continue."
“You may be bored now, but in due time, you won’t be bored anymore.”
Liu Lingshan reached out and patted Su Ming's shoulder vigorously, chuckling, "Xiao Ming, you are the same as Ye Xing, the kind of person who doesn't want to see people die in vain, but you have greater potential."
"Uh... I don't think so." Su Ming looked away and didn't meet the other person's gaze. Liu Lingshan's expectant eyes made him feel very pressured.
"Don't stress, this is your fate... Now let's have a good movie!"
Hearing this, Su Ming felt even more complicated.
He couldn't help but ask, "Master, are you always like this? The Minister is always busy and has no time to rest."
"Hahaha! Don't learn from her. Xiaoxi still has a long way to go. Even though I've told her several times, she always can't help herself.
In the future, the harder you work , the better the results will be. To accomplish something, you just need to finish it before the deadline. Working overtime to finish it ahead of schedule is meaningless... I hope she can understand this sooner."
There was a sense of pride in Liu Lingshan's words, and Su Ming felt that he had been instilled with some strange outlook on life by the other party.
…
The Endless Cave is a special geographical phenomenon that appeared on Earth at the beginning of the Great Collapse.
Its currently explored depth has reached 30,000 meters, and the unexplored but existing depth is 200,000 meters.
Before the Great Collapse, common sense said that the Earth was composed of the crust, upper mantle, lower mantle, outer core, and inner core. The deeper the depth, the higher the temperature and pressure.
Many humans once dug underground, but the deepest depth reached was only more than 10,000 meters. It took a full 20 years to dig to this depth. Later, the drill bit melted and the work had to be stopped.
Because of this incident, a rumor titled "The Gate of Hell" appeared at the time.
Rumor has it that during that excavation, when the drilling depth reached nearly 13,000 meters, a strange sound was heard from the well.
Curious about this strange phenomenon, the researchers placed a heat-resistant microphone into the well; they also placed other types of sensors and recorded a very strange sound that sounded like "a human roar."
But people at the scene swore that the sound they heard was like the cries of sinners in hell; then, suddenly there was a loud explosion, the like of which had never been heard in nature, and no sound was heard for several days after that.
Regardless of whether this rumor is true or false, in short, before the Great Collapse, the area ten thousand meters underground absolutely cannot support human survival.
But now it is different. In the Endless Cave, the depth that has been occupied by humans has reached five thousand meters, and the natural environment of these five thousand meters is very suitable for human survival.
Through scientific research, scientists have discovered that the natural environment of the Endless Cave changes with the region, presenting natural climates such as tropical rainforest, Arctic Circle, Antarctic Circle, etc., and the emergence of these climates does not follow the most basic scientific principles.
Everyone knows that the reason why the Arctic Circle is cold is because of solar radiation. Although the Endless Cave is not directly exposed to sunlight, it is also full of sunlight, because the air in the Endless Cave is different from ordinary air. It is mixed with very special tiny particles.
These particles take the shape of polyhedrons, spreading the light coming in from the cave entrance to every corner of the cave.
This is not the most incredible thing. The most incredible thing is that the shape and size of these tiny particles are very special and will change with human observation. Its maximum volume is the size of an atom, but as it continues to be enlarged, its volume will continue to shrink.
Atoms can be captured, but this particle cannot.
The properties of this substance are as counterintuitive as the previous theory of the constancy of the speed of light, but this one is even more counterintuitive.
Conventional scientists gave up studying this particle, but phenomenal scientists went into the Endless Cave with great fanfare and began to study this special supernatural phenomenon.
The so-called phenomenological science is the empirical science that naturally emerged after the great collapse. Its main point is: don’t worry about the principles, just know how to use it.
Phenomenological scientists have concluded that the endless cave can be inhabited by humans, and as the depth increases, the environment will be reset at regular intervals.
For example, within the distance from the surface to a depth of 500 meters in the cave, the oxygen composition and other components in the air will change with the depth, but after 500 meters, the composition of the air will suddenly return to the state of the surface, and then continue to change with increasing depth.
This change is irregular, and it is currently unknown why such an abnormal natural phenomenon occurs, but this is enough to prove that the entire cave is suitable for human habitation!
The most important thing is that the cave will only produce combat-type monsters, not rule-type monsters!
Although there are a large number of combat-type monsters, as long as there are no rule-type monsters, it means that this place can be conquered by violence and transformed into human territory.
The four major alliances have invested huge amounts of money in this cave, encouraging people with special abilities from all over the world to explore the cave and help kill those powerful and terrifying monsters in order to obtain an area where humans can live safely.
…
The airship that Su Ming was riding on stopped next to the cave.
A large group of people got off the airship.
Among the people who got off the airship, quite a few of them were obviously people with special abilities.
What appeared before Su Ming was a huge cave that spiraled downward. Standing in Su Ming's position and looking down, he could see very deep and far away. The deepest part of the cave was also very bright.
"Is our mission target here?" Su Ming asked.
"Yes, a dangerous person entered here, but I'm not sure if I can catch him, so I brought you here." Liu Lingshan said.
Su Ming was stunned and asked, "If I can't even catch you, how can I catch him?"
"Although I am very strong, I cannot go everywhere in this world. The stronger the power, the bigger the shackles. I feel that I have almost touched the limit of this dimension." Liu Lingshan said meaningfully.
