Civilization's progress will not cease because of insignificant individuals. The torrent of time drags the entire universe forward.
Year 19 of the Cretaceous Era, the first year of Tai Hao's hibernation. Led by the Minister of Justice, judicial elites and representatives from all walks of life jointly completed the revision of the Empire's laws, adjusting numerous legal regulations that had failed to keep pace with the times.
Meanwhile, Zhizi collected data in secret, providing support for the revision of the laws.
After this revision, the rights of the Empire's citizens were further strengthened, the aristocratic class faced numerous restrictions, and the capitalist class was severely suppressed.
In the same year, terrorism arose in the Southern Continent against the Empire's rule, with numerous extremist organizations springing up.
These extremist organizations destroyed the Empire's mines, kidnapped and assassinated imperial travelers, and escalated to organized attacks on the Empire's garrisons.
Their weaponry had also abandoned swords, spears, bows, and arrows, switching to homemade gunpowder weapons.
For a time, the vast Southern Continent fell into chaos.
The Empire had not only brought war to other nations but also brought advanced civilization.
While these extremist organizations were technologically inferior, their members were fearless, even children were potentially strapped with homemade explosive devices made from gunpowder, launching suicide attacks.
As a result, the Empire accelerated its plan to eliminate the population of the Southern Continent.
The specially established 'Civilization Purification Department' had begun conducting massacres in the Southern Continent, without any pretense or disguise.
Crossfire from machine guns, barbed wire fences, various types of biochemical poison gases, napalm bombs, flamethrowers.
The 'Skeleton Squad' assembled by the Civilization Purification Department was composed of extreme racial supremacists, merciless and cold-blooded towards outsiders.
They were men and women, old and young, wielding weapons and wielding brutal killings to defend the purity of the Empire.
They considered themselves the dark guardians of the Empire!
For a time, the Southern Continent was awash in blood, with cries of misery echoing everywhere.
Skeletons piled high, bones like a forest. Hair matted into felt, flesh rotting into mud. Sinews tangled in trees, dry and gleaming like silver. A true mountain of corpses and sea of blood, truly a putrid stench.
The scene recorded in the 'Journey to the West' at Lion-Camel Ridge was perfectly replicated in the Southern Continent, even more horrifying.
Even some Imperial soldiers couldn't bear the tragic fate of the natives of the Southern Continent.
Many international humanitarian individuals emerged within the Empire.
These individuals, unable to accept the inner condemnation and their moral values, chose to help the natives.
At first, these people with a saintly spirit merely sympathized with the plight of the natives, then gradually evolved to providing intelligence, then began supplying materials, imparting knowledge, and even providing some weapons and manufacturing techniques!
The invaders and beneficiaries transformed into resisters of oppression and protectors of civilization.
How ironic!
The complexity and contradictions of human nature, the brilliance and savagery of civilization, are displayed vividly in this backward land of the Southern Continent.
"This is a shameful betrayal of the Empire! Internal traitors must be purged!"
Upon learning of the truth, the Civilization Purification Department roared in fury.
These so-called humanitarians were simply shameless traitors to the Empire!
There will be no mercy for traitors!
It's fine to sympathize with the natives; this is the kindness of human nature, a beautiful thing. But to provide assistance to the natives, even weapons, is blatant betrayal.
Upon receiving the news, the Empire's upper echelons immediately issued an order to purge the traitors!
With the intelligence support of Zhizi, a grand purge erupted in the Southern Continent, numerous active soldiers were investigated and imprisoned. Travelers were arrested, eventually even affecting the Empire's interior.
Many capitalists, even nobles, renowned scholars, and students, for various reasons, including profit, ambition, ideology, sympathy, and so forth, participated in this.
Confiscation of property, extermination of families, exile and banishment.
With Zhizi's intelligence support, not a single traitor could escape judgment.
The Empire will not show mercy to traitors!
The new streetlights installed in front of the White Cretaceous Wall have found a new purpose.
Countless capitalists convicted of treason were hung like dried meat.
Year 19 of the Cretaceous Era, this year was undeniably a year of blood.
Due to this catastrophe, the saintly spirit and rampant sympathy of the Empire's people were effectively suppressed.
The upper echelons also utilized the entertainment industry to mold public opinion, using stories, novels, comics, and various other channels to subtly promote the benefits of racial uniqueness and civilizational uniqueness, aiming to subtly alter the minds of the Empire's citizens.
As the Stellar Empire underwent a slight tremor, 3.7 light-years away, the Azure Civilization also plunged into its deepest fear.
Physics doesn't exist!
A large number of Azure Civilization's high-energy physicists began to commit suicide en masse two months after Zhizi Two arrived in the Azure Civilization.
Their steadfastness, their faith, their pursuit, their values, were all shattered by Zhizi Two.
Blocking high-energy particle collision experiments, creating miracles with dimensional expansion, selecting civilization traitors to spread ideas.
Zhizi Two used a variety of methods, throwing the Azure Civilization's physics community into utter chaos.
Azure Civilization.
Capital of the Middle States Republic.
In a secret conference room, a group of people were holding a meeting, each participant with a serious expression, their hearts heavy.
One high official projected a document onto the large screen.
"The scientists listed on this document have committed suicide one after another within two months. Most of the scientists have expressed doubts in their suicide notes, questioning whether our physics even exists!"
As he spoke, the official took a small note from a folder and circulated it among all the participants.
(Everything everything led to this outcome. Physics never existed, and never will.)
"This is a suicide note left behind by a scholar engaged in high-energy physics research."
The Azure Civilization had begun investigating and had made some progress.
A strange scientific organization, Chu Jian, surfaced.
Much of the intelligence pointed towards this organization called 'Origin Science', likely connected to the suicide of numerous scientists.
Origin Science.
This organization was officially founded by Adam, the leader of the rebels selected by Zhizi Two.
Adam, a wealthy tycoon with an anti-human, anti-social, anti-civilization personality.
Due to unfortunate experiences in his childhood and cognitive biases during his growth, Adam harbored extreme hatred for the species of humanity itself.
Of course, the humans he referred to were the Azure people.
When Zhizi Two displayed miracles, Adam readily agreed to join the Tai Hao Civilization.