Apocalypse: I Can See the HP Bar, Killing Monsters Drops Loot - Chapter 1640 - 690: The Operating Principles of the World

Chapter 1640: Chapter 690: The Operating Principles of the World

In that peculiar state just now, Wang Tao discovered a pattern in the operation of the world!

In a sense, this world is composed of various elements. The variety of elements far exceeds Wang Tao’s imagination, and many of these elements are even unfamiliar to him.

The greater the number of these elements, the better the environment of the entire world. The better the world environment, the higher the upper limit for all living things, making it easier to enhance strength!

And to increase the number of elements in the world, the average strength of humans must be enhanced—yes, the average strength of humans.

Although Wang Tao wasn’t sure why it was related to humans, the pattern he “saw” was just like this.

The stronger the average human strength, the more elements between heaven and earth, the better the entire world environment, the higher the upper limit for humans, the easier the ascension, and the overall strength of all creatures will continuously get stronger!

This is also the main reason why, during this time, the survivors at Changhe Base have become increasingly strong, the speed of ascension has become faster, and there are more and more Awakeners.

For example, the success rate of originally fusing a White Crystal Core was 20%, but now that the environment of the world has improved, this probability has increased to 40%, 60%… initially, the success rate of only a Golden Crystal Core was 100%, now possibly even a Purple, or even Blue Crystal Core success rate is also 100%!

Take awakening as an example, previously the success rate of the first awakening was 50%, and the more subsequent awakenings there were, the lower the success rate. But now, the success rate of the first awakening might have reached 70%, 80%, or even 90%!

The environment might become good enough that there’s no need for a Crystal Core at all to directly enhance strength!

In such a situation, isn’t the overall strength of the survivors getting stronger and stronger!

Looking at it this way, this “world operation pattern” seems to be a good thing, after all, the stronger humanity becomes, the better the world, and the better the world, the stronger humanity becomes! This is simply a perfect positive feedback loop!

But there was no joy on Wang Tao’s face…

Because as the overall world environment improved, not only did humans get stronger, but so did other creatures, including zombies, monsters, mutated creatures!

Wang Tao knew just how fast zombies were evolving, having personally witnessed a few Sixth-Rank Elite Zombies turn into Seventh-Order Lord Zombies right before his eyes.

This speed of evolution was beyond human reach. In the entire Changhe Base, or rather the entire Qian Country, Wang Tao was the only Seventh-Level Domain User. But as for the number of Seventh-Order Zombies, let’s not even mention it, but it’s definitely a lot.

Therefore, although this operation pattern seems good for humans, in reality, it is not, as the stronger humanity becomes, the more disadvantageous it is to itself!

For example, now there are even large numbers of Seventh-Order Lord Zombies appearing, let alone those Seventh-tier Calamity Level monsters, which are practically invincible, and there are many of them! The only ones that can kill them are themselves. And once they die, they create vast areas uninhabitable for humans… regardless of whether they die or not, it’s not easy for humans!

And if humans do not strive to become strong, the world won’t have as many elements, the overall environment won’t be as good, and the upper limit and strength of all living things won’t get stronger.

In that case, it seems like it’s better for humans not to actively become strong?

But the problem is, if humans don’t get stronger, they won’t be able to fight against zombies!

At the beginning of the zombie virus outbreak, humans weren’t strong, so most humans died, and those who didn’t died were struggling to survive, seeing no hope. To survive, humans could only actively hunt zombies to become stronger.

So that is to say—

Humans actively get stronger, the world environment gets better, humans become stronger, but so do zombies and monsters, humans can’t defeat them, humans die.

Humans don’t actively become stronger, the world environment is bad, humans are weak, still can’t defeat zombie monsters, humans die.

This is a freaking death loop!

Whether humans become stronger or not, they will eventually die! It’s just a matter of “not getting strong and dying sooner, getting strong and dying later!”

Although Wang Tao is now considered strong, he still can’t defeat the Seventh-Rank Destruction Monsters, and even if he could, he wouldn’t dare hunt them randomly, otherwise, it would cause a volcanic eruption, raising the temperature again, making life even harder for humans…

Th𝙞ṡ 𝙘hⱥpτ𝓮r 𝙞𝙨 p𝐨𝗌𝖙𝑒Ԁ b𝕪 𝖪𝙞τ𝗲𝐧𝗼𝗏𝗲𝖑

“What’s wrong?”

Seeing Wang Tao’s face suddenly turn ugly, Lan Yulian asked with some concern, and the others looked over as well, worried that Wang Tao had encountered some problem while fusing the Seventh-Rank Crystal Core.

Seeing the worried expressions of everyone, Wang Tao hesitated for a moment, but still shared the situation he had just perceived.

After listening to Wang Tao, everyone was a bit dumbfounded.

“Humans get strong, humans die; humans don’t get strong, humans still die… What the hell is this game?!”

“No, this doesn’t make sense! How can it be like this? No room for human survival?”

“So, you’re saying we’ve been working so hard all this time, but it’s all been in vain, and we’ll ultimately still face death?”

“…”

Wang Tao said nothing, and everyone gradually fell into silence.

At this moment, He Jijun, who had been silent, spoke up:

“Wang Tao, it’s not that I don’t believe you, but is there really no mistake in your perception?”

Wang Tao originally wanted to say there’s no mistake, but after thinking about it, he cautiously said:

“It’s hard to say, after all, it’s something that can only be felt when fusing the Seventh-Rank Crystal Core, and I’ve only fused it once so far, without any other reference. And I’m not sure if this is an illusion…”