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The original world established the first human civilization.

It was a stable and peaceful era, with neither capability nor erosion phenomena. People struggled to crawl under a few basic physical laws, barely managing to establish a base on the Moon and eventually landing on Mars.

However, this seemed to be the limit for humanity.

The Oort Nebula at the edge of the solar system was like an abyss, making it difficult for people to cross, and it’s only a light-year from Earth. In comparison to the Milky Way where the Sun resides, it’s a mere drop in the ocean.

At that time, someone predicted that humanity might never be able to leave the solar system.

After all, it was only 56 years from the invention of the airplane to entering space, but it took 150 years to go from entering space to landing on Mars. Human technology didn’t grow exponentially as expected but was instead constrained by endless problems... wealth gaps, geopolitical issues, ethnic conflicts, hedonism, etc. Compared to technologies that could actually improve living standards and yield excessive profits, space expeditions didn’t receive much attention.

Chen Xuan initially thought the other person was criticizing this history and was about to hear a story of a civilization’s self-indulgence; however, Zhao Qian suddenly changed her tone, "In retrospect, this was almost the happiest time for humanity. If it could have been maintained, it would actually have been quite good."

He almost choked.

Is this something a researcher would say?

Perhaps noticing his thoughts, Zhao Qian said nonchalantly, "Existence is the premise for everything, the highest need, whether for civilization or life. Since you have witnessed ascension, you can naturally understand these principles. In short, during a high-energy physics experiment, people accidentally opened the world’s barrier, known as the intrusion point."

From that moment, the original world no longer existed.

Humanity then entered a new era.

Dangerous Erosion Zones followed one after another, various disasters erupted globally, such as rapidly spreading deadly viruses, mutated giant insects, extreme climate changes, and almost within just five years, the civilized society completely collapsed, leading to the extinction of humanity on Earth.

"Ex...tinction?" Chen Xuan was greatly surprised, "Then you guys—"

"We do not belong to Earth’s humanity," she said, "We are the children of space. As long as we are a little farther from Earth, even operating on a space station in low Earth orbit, it is not so easy to encounter an Erosion Zone."

Is the Erosion Zone that destructive?

He had also witnessed erosion and even traversed through intrusion points multiple times but didn’t find it to be that terrifying.

"Is climate change also brought by Erosion Zones?"

"Dark clouds intercepting airliners in the sky, torrential rain concentrated within five square meters, cold waves covering an area for up to a year, do I need to give more examples?" Zhao Qian shrugged, "Thought Power can be controlled individually and can reflect the group’s thoughts too. Simply put, it’s like creating gods. Could there be a weather god? When people think that way, it has already been born."

This theory was the first time Chen Xuan had heard of it.

"Of course... newly born gods are not so dreadful, sometimes a single missile can destroy them, but as long as the thought doesn’t perish, such anomalies won’t end." She shook her head with regret, "I know you have doubts, an Erosion Zone shouldn’t be causing such massive destruction. But please don’t forget that the world of evolution has had Thought Power from the start. People living long-term in such an environment have adaptability far stronger than the original world. Importantly, at your time node, the number of intrusion points had already significantly reduced."

She pointed a finger, and the picture-in-picture immediately switched to an aerial view of a modern metropolis.

All kinds of Erosion Zones intertwined with each other, almost filling every street—they appeared foggy, web-like, as pits and puddles, with different colors. At a first glance, Chen Xuan thought it was a graffiti painting by a child, with a heap of red, green, blue, and purple color blocks stacked together, rather vivid.

Even one skyscraper had three different forms of erosion on it, each occupying a small section of the floor, giving him a sense of vitality and the flourishing of all things.

Chen Xuan couldn’t help but understand why she described the Erosion Zones as extremely dangerous.

Because no one knows what kind of world these "passages" connect to.

To survive in such an environment, strength alone is not enough, luck is also crucial.

"So how did you eliminate these intrusion points?" Chen Xuan asked, perplexed. Normally, non-artificially created intrusion points would shrink, but it’s hard to eliminate them completely.

"We haven’t eliminated them, Earth remains a terrifying restricted zone to this day."

"Do you live on the Moon?" He couldn’t see any abnormality in gravity.

Zhao Qian looked at the old man and only responded after he nodded, "To be precise, it’s on a starship. As I mentioned before, the farther away from Earth, the safer."

Are they navigating within the solar system?

No wonder there were no windows in this room.

"But our Earth is normal," Chen Xuan said.

"Because world lines aren’t parallel, there could be tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of years separating you and us... For civilization, this is already a very long period, but in geological terms, it’s just a fleeting moment in Earth’s history."

"You mean... civilization rebooted!?"

"Yes, we’ve observed many world lines, and these intrusion points decrease over units of ten thousand years. If you remember the geological survey results taught in your classes, you should roughly deduce how much time separates us." The other party replied.

"Is that so..." Chen Xuan found it unfathomable, but on second thought, it’s not an impossible situation. As she said, as long as time stretches long enough, many things can indeed be erased completely, compounded by the special factor of Thought Power.

"Not quite right." He suddenly thought of a doubt, "I’ve been to another world, its future looks completely different from ours, but the past is highly similar, with countries sharing the same names, even the historical trajectories are basically consistent. If these are evolution worlds, why are they so similar?"

Zhao Qian raised her lips in a smile, "Amazing, right? I can also tell you a more astonishing phenomenon: perhaps those historical stories you know are similarly close to the original world — one part of the world after reboot has completely repeated the path before destruction. We have discovered over a hundred such examples."

"How is that possible?" Chen Xuan frowned, knowing about the butterfly effect where one person’s decision could radically change history, let alone choices spanning thousands of years and billions of people? Setting aside time before human existence, letting Homo sapiens reenact the history of civilization development without guidance — the odds are so low they’re not even worth mentioning, right?

"It’s not unguided, you forgot that Thought Power has always been there." She smiled softly, "Perhaps nostalgia is human nature, always leaning towards constructing familiar scenes. Although Earth became a restricted zone, we were not extinct. Some humans continued to survive on space stations, the Moon, and many spaceships. These people constantly missed their homeland, always fantasizing about one day returning to Earth, this thought could also influence Earth’s revival, maybe even nurturing a god of history."