Chapter 416: Chapter 248: 300 Years of Positive Matryoshka_2
His concepts, his decisions, were not for himself.
This fundamentally differs from some who are purely selfish and betray civilization.
This is also the reason why Shen Shi sought him out to discuss these matters.
"It’s too risky." Kennen finally sighed, "I still cannot accept it, nor will I promote it, but I won’t stop it either. When the time comes, there’s no point in stopping it anyway."
"That time will never come," Shen Shi said.
"You have always been confident." Kennen looked at Shen Shi, for the first time revealing complex emotions in front of Shen Shi, "Even when I was very young, I understood the truth of this world, which is information and probability. What we call miracles are merely events with a low probability of occurrence. However, in any single experiment, events with too low a probability are essentially considered to be zero. Therefore, I never believe in any miracles... Yet you always seem to have a way to turn miracles into a predetermined reality with a 100% probability."
"If you can’t believe in miracles, then believe in me." Shen Shi also smiled in front of Kennen for the first time.
Where does his confidence come from?
Naturally, it comes from the Time Crystal.
Three thousand years ago, he could gain confidence from the fate of future lines, and in the future lines three thousand years later, his information comes from the past because he knows that no matter how many times a bad end occurs, he has a chance to change everything.
The future lines have long been altered by him too many times.
"I will attempt to do so." Kennen finally nodded.
This statement means that this former staunch opponent of Sage Saints has now, unknowingly, become a supporter of the Sage Saint.
Of course, the premise is that he truly sees a "miracle."
And after this conversation, known only to the two of them, Shen Shi also shifted his focus.
He had "disappeared" in the future lines.
In fact, decades ago, Shen Shi had completed the devouring of the incarnation of Sage Saint Shen Shi, absorbing his power entirely, which significantly enhanced his strength. That’s why, when he returned to the pinnacle of power, he could easily control the Primordial Energy World—because at that time, he possessed power surpassing the sum of the entire highest council!
As a result, or perhaps inevitably, Sage Saint Shen Shi vanished.
In both the past and the second future line, there is only one Shen Shi.
Therefore, when Shen Shi left the future lines to return to the past, even the Es Civilization could not find this sage.
In some people’s eyes, only the "Star Sea" could achieve this.
Shen Shi once again obtained contact with the Star Sea, and once again it was proven that both Human Civilization and the Es Civilization had made some changes because of it.
This too was one of Shen Shi’s goals.
Next comes the continued process of "nesting dolls."
He also made a series of adjustments in modern society, mainly accelerating the self-reform of cultural content.
Thanks to the experience of the Future World, even though the technological level of Human Civilization now does not quite reach the level of "racial transformation," it can already undergo corresponding optimizations.
The current Shen Shi clearly understands that in the field of Primordial Energy Technology, culture indeed has advantages and disadvantages.
A good culture can not only help individuals quickly coalesce their own Primordial Energy World to become a Master of Primordial Energy, it can also be a powerful weapon in cultural warfare. Active offense may rely on military strength, but passive defense can only depend on the advantages and disadvantages of one’s culture.
Therefore, unifying standards and carrying out reforms have become tasks that every B-level Civilization must undertake.
Precisely because of this, their culture has such powerful aggression, allowing them to constantly swallow other civilizations to strengthen themselves.
But now, humans are the first to move in this direction.
"No need to separate East and West anymore; focus on the East because we don’t need a culture that prays to divine spirits; we need to defy the heavens and slay gods!" Shen Shi kept issuing his directives.
Such orders would have been nearly impossible to carry out in both past and future Human Civilization.
But in this period, it is not difficult.
Because Shen Shi’s authority has reached a peak in this period.
And according to Blue Star’s cultural customs, what Shen Shi is doing is merely another "suppressing Confucians and burning books," or another "heretical war."
With human civilization’s interests already highly bound together, this unification and adaptation to the era’s transformation are as they should be.
This change is also causing profound transformations in the Future World.
The most direct change is that the assimilation process of the Es Civilization has become particularly challenging.
Originally planned to be initially completed in four hundred years, but because of the resilience of human culture, this plan has been delayed by three hundred years, becoming seven hundred.
Shen Shi can clearly feel that the Es Civilization is losing patience in swallowing humanity. They merely used humans as a "model" to drive other civilizations’ integration, even sparing no B-level civilizations yet to reach their zenith, hinting at a certain desperation.
And it is not just the Es Civilization; most other B-level civilizations of the Mude System are subtly showing this attitude.
Undoubtedly, this benefits Shen Shi.
Because as long as Human Civilization is not fully integrated, they have to continuously receive "support" from the Es Civilization, and being a "model" comes with a level of protection. The Es Civilization cannot allow anything to happen to Human Civilization, or other civilizations will be wary of Shen Shi’s resistance, which also facilitates integration.
Seeing the development speed of Human Civilization increasing, while influenced by the timeline, the integration plan for the Future World is instead slowing down.
Shen Shi deeply understands.
This round of "benign nesting doll" comfortable growth period is nearing its limit.
A limit that some Es Civilization can no longer endure.
However, by the time the limit is near, more than three hundred years have passed.
Now, in the irreversible era belonging to Shen Shi, it is already the year 732 of the Starry Era.
After three hundred years of rapid development, Human Civilization has taken on a new form, not just technologically, but culturally as well!
And in these three hundred years, despite the Daike Civilization being unable to muster enough forces to confront Human Civilization after an "interstellar pirate" attack, their focus on Human Civilization has instead grown more intense.
Unfortunately, Human Civilization’s strength has now begun to exceed that of the Daike Civilization.
Due to deliberate restrictions, the information the Daike Civilization can gather is extremely limited.
Without concrete evidence, their concerns garner no attention from the Es Civilization.
This period of rapid development has also had tangible impacts on the Future World three thousand years later.
At this time, three thousand years later, Human Civilization already possesses over five thousand key B-level technologies, with over four thousand of those technologies stemming from the self-development of Human Civilization. This directly results in the Es Civilization employing harsher and less efficient methods when forcing Human Civilization’s integration.
Now, the time to sign the integration agreement has been pushed back by two hundred and seventy years compared to the initial signing time.
Becoming an agreement signed only thirty years ago.
And due to cultural resistance, the timeline for the planned initial integration according to the agreement spans as long as 1,600 years!
Shen Shi predicts that when the signing time is pushed to the present, a change might occur, such as the agreement being unsignable.
But this may not be good news.
Because if it cannot be signed, it means the Es Civilization will not be able to devour Human Civilization within this time, and it also means Human Civilization will lose its status as a "model."