Seizing the High Ground

At this moment, it would not have been an exaggeration to say that all advanced civilizations stood ready for battle.

No one knew who their enemy was, but in such a solemn atmosphere, anyone could tell that all it would take was a single trigger to set off enormous turmoil.

It would not have been an exaggeration to call it a state where every rustle seemed like an enemy and every gust carried an alarm. Under the laws of the dark forest, whoever became the fuse that ignited the atmosphere would inevitably become the target of all.

Compared with the tightly bound alliance formed by the Calamity Kin, the alliances of other advanced civilizations were far looser. They sought self-preservation, and the vast majority openly stated that no matter what happened, as long as they were not affected, they would remain absolutely neutral. Naturally, they could not be bound together so firmly.

Under such circumstances, several sudden and unusual incidents naturally drew the attention of countless people, all seeking to uncover the reason behind this disruption of the peace.

It was because several bouts of inexplicable misfortune had seemingly coincidentally descended upon certain unrelated civilizations, causing them to suffer losses for no reason.

Yet no matter how they calculated, they could not detect whether some hidden hand was pushing everything forward—and if there was one, who it might be.

To be honest, for advanced civilizations, the odds of sudden coincidences that caused them losses were close to zero.

Of course, across the infinitely long Timeline of the Main Universe, even the smallest probability could occur. Advanced civilizations were not without such precedents in their histories.

But for several advanced civilizations to suffer such incidents due to all manner of coincidences within the same period of time was highly unusual.

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