Humanity's Cosmic-Level Advantage

Humanity's Cosmic-Level Advantage

The more he knew, the less happy he became.

Even if his intelligence was suppressed by the stars, Huang Ji did not consider it too great a predicament.

Strengthening his body could block unknown information.

By learning knowledge and understanding new concepts, he could unlock and decipher unknown information, making it known. Once information became known, he could subjectively block it.

As long as there was a solution, it could be dealt with. It was only a matter of effort. That was nothing.

To Huang Ji, the real trouble was not his intelligence being suppressed by the stars, but the most terrifying celestial body in the sky.

The moon.

There was a non-human race on the moon!

There were very few of them. When he had checked last week, there had only been two. Now, there were two more, making four.

They were monitoring Earth... It was very simple. The moon held a piece of information that Huang Ji understood, based on his own knowledge, as: total time spent monitoring Earth—12,831 years, 4 months, and 19 days...

As for that race, he could not observe any information about them, because he had not directly seen them.

But merely analyzing the moon itself was already enough for Huang Ji to infer some things!

The moon was not a natural satellite at all. It was a weapon of war, created by another race.

Huang Ji could sense that the moon's interior contained all kinds of powerful machinery, most of which he could not understand at all.

If he could not understand something, the information would not automatically translate into a form he could comprehend. It would remain in a chaotic state.

Only a few things gave him a vague idea: nuclear fusion weapons and cannons.

That was because he knew of Hydrogen Bombs and cannons, and had a basic understanding of such weapons, allowing the information to translate.

Only with the corresponding concepts could information take a form he could understand.

But without a doubt, their cannons were absolutely not the same as the cannons of human society.

Their cannons could fire shells weighing three hundred thousand tons! Such massive shells were made of high-purity tungsten and were purely kinetic weapons. One shot hitting Earth, no matter where it landed, would be equivalent to a small asteroid striking at high speed...

As for their nuclear fusion weapons, they were not crude like humanity's Hydrogen Bombs. Huang Ji lacked the relevant knowledge to decipher more parameters. He only knew that those weapons could strictly control the range of a nuclear explosion.

Beyond that, the most natural weapon was probably the moon itself.

The moon could move and control Earth's tides. Under normal circumstances, the seawater on the side facing the moon formed a bulge. If the moon suddenly left, that portion of seawater would fall, raising global sea levels. Severe rises would occur especially in high-latitude regions, flooding certain coastal cities.

More than that, Earth and the moon revolved around a common center of mass. If the moon left, Earth's rotational center would return to its geometric center. Its rotation would suddenly accelerate, inevitably destabilizing Earth's structure and triggering large-scale disasters such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis.

Likewise, if the moon moved closer to Earth, the result would be the same—only even more severe.

The moon's gravity had an immense effect on everything on Earth's surface.

The moon hanging above humanity's heads, gazed upon by humans for countless years, did not need to fire a single shot. It only needed to move its body to bring humanity a catastrophic disaster. It was a natural weapon.

Its current state was just right...

From this glimpse through a tube, just how powerful must the technology of the Monitors hidden on the moon be? In their eyes, humanity might merely be something to observe.

Humanity still found it extremely difficult to land on the moon. Huang Ji had watched the news on March 1: the nation's Chang'e 1 lunar probe had crashed into the moon, successfully completing the first phase of the lunar exploration project.

Why crash it into the moon? Was it not because the technology was insufficient to recover it?

Yet to an extraterrestrial civilization for whom the moon was merely an observation station, that level of technology was probably a joke.

More importantly, he had only discovered this cruel truth because he possessed a superpower.

People lived in this world, busy with their own lives, spending their little days as they pleased. Who knew Earth's current situation?

They had been monitored for twelve thousand years without knowing it, gazing up at the stars and asking where the aliens were.

Good lord, they were right overhead!

The first time Huang Ji learned of this, his heart had been filled with despair.

Knowing this, he would rather not have known. A crushing sense of helplessness filled him.

Why did he have to know these things? He was only a farmer, a boy who had been deemed intellectually disabled since childhood, who had even given up on the Junior High School Entrance Examination, and was still only sixteen.

Huang Ji desperately wanted to comfort himself by believing that this civilization was friendly. At the very least, they had not destroyed humanity, and had monitored them for so long.

But one piece of information, terrifying upon deeper thought, deeply concerned him.

That was the fact that Destroyer Mode, which unlocked all lunar weapon permissions, had been activated once.

It had destroyed two intelligent races!

If that was not terrifying enough upon reflection, then humanity itself had a piece of information that made it impossible for Huang Ji to convince himself that they were friendly...

Yes, a piece of information about humanity itself.

After Huang Ji came to deeply understand, through observing the moon, that Earth Civilization was being monitored by extraterrestrial beings, he gained a corresponding new understanding.

When that understanding was applied to humanity's information, he could examine "Humanity's advantages in the evaluation of the XX race."

That race referred to the one on the moon. Their name could not be expressed through human words or language. Huang Ji could only vaguely sense that the name carried the meaning of eyes.

If forcibly transliterated, it could be "Zeta," but Huang Ji preferred to call them the Monitors.

After Huang Ji named the moon's aliens, XX race appeared in the information as "Monitor Race."

"Humanity's advantages in the Monitor Race's evaluation" could roughly be understood as the Monitor Race's assessment of what they considered good about humanity.

The evaluation was extremely simple, so simple that Huang Ji's scalp went numb.

Delicious.

Last week, the reason he had always trembled for no reason in front of Grandpa was this.

Grandpa, himself, and everyone around him all shared an interstellar-level "racial advantage" called delicious!

Was that an advantage? Then what was the disadvantage?

There was a disadvantage too. Huang Ji could see that humanity's disadvantage in the eyes of the Monitor Race was... cruelty.

The irony could not have been greater.

A race that evaluated humans as delicious actually considered humanity cruel?

He had never told anyone these things. When he was little, he said he could see many strange things. Even Grandpa, the person closest to him, had not believed him at all and told him not to talk nonsense.

After understanding the moon's information last week, he had told Doctor Liang a few things: "I can see the age of trees, the history of stones, and the moon is an alien observation station."

In response, even gentle Doctor Liang had said to Grandpa behind his back, "This child has a mental illness..."

Yes, she had said it secretly behind his back, but Huang Ji knew anyway.

Because no one could whisper in front of Huang Ji.

Under his information perception, the five senses were interconnected. Seeing something was the same as hearing it. Hearing it was the same as smelling it.

Huang Ji could hear the flavor of food, see how a person's hands would feel to the touch, and smell someone's scent with his nose, thereby knowing what they were saying...

Upon touching someone, he could search through all the information that could be examined about them.

Huang Ji decided that he would never again try to make anyone understand his ability. Even if he had ways to directly prove that his information was correct, letting others know about such things would instead bring danger.

The entire Earth was under surveillance. If a matter was not kept secret, it would surely fail.

As perhaps the only informed human on Earth, for the time being, he could only find a way to break this deadlock by himself.

The more he knew, the more he could do. If there was one human capable of lifting the despair hanging overhead, then perhaps it was him.

This was not arrogance. He simply had no choice.

He had to find a way to resolve this predicament!

Now that Huang Ji knew, how could he possibly stand by and do nothing, muddling through life while pretending he knew nothing?

That was impossible, unless he truly was an innocent fool.

Otherwise, he could never again live an ordinary life like an ordinary human.

How much could a sixteen-year-old boy with no power or authority accomplish, relying only on information perception?

The possibilities seemed limitless...

P.S. Sorry. After ruling out three possible openings, I chose the most understated one, so I would not dump too much of the setting at the very beginning.