Today's second update: Chapter 3542! 2/4!
"Here, other people were hell—an eternal threat. Any life-form that revealed its existence first or showed even the slightest weakness would often be ended in a very short time by the cold gun barrels lurking in the dark."
Someone could not help asking, "But... Lord, are all races enemies? Are there no allies? Shouldn't we at least try to distinguish them?"
Xu Kun shook his head slightly. "The prerequisite for distinguishing friend from foe is having the foundation and environment for safe communication and building trust. Even between races that had forged firm alliances on Blue Star, once they were cast into this 'Dark Forest' isolated from the outside world, cut off from communication, and filled with the temptation of supreme benefits, the Suspicion Chain deeply rooted in the depths of civilization and individual souls would immediately emerge and amplify without limit."
"Suspicion Chain?" Xu Caiyi repeated softly. The term filled her with a cold unease.
Suppose the Huang Race encountered the human race at this moment. Would both sides truly attack each other without hesitation?
The answer was yes!
"Correct." Xu Kun nodded. "Imagine that when two races unexpectedly discovered each other in this forest, the distance between them was too great and they lacked immediate, effective means of communication. They simply could not determine whether the other party harbored goodwill or malice; furthermore, they could not determine whether the other party believed their own side was benevolent; and further still, they could not even determine whether the other party knew that they believed the other party was benevolent... This cycle continued, layer upon layer of suspicion accumulating into a despairing chain of logic that could almost never be broken through one-sided sincerity."
He concluded, "Before this unbreakable Suspicion Chain, any attempt