"So that was why you chose to stand by and do nothing about the current state of the universe?"
After hearing the Zeroers' story, Zhang Qi sighed and asked.
He had wondered before: the Zeroers had both the desire and the ability to change the state of the universe, so why had they taken no action?
For example, why not intervene in the war between Singer and the fringe civilization, preventing those two civilizations from using weapons like the Dual-Vector Foil?
Or take the lead in forming an alliance, bringing in relatively peace-loving civilizations like Earth's, and thereby changing the state of the Dark Forest.
To his surprise, the Zeroers had already done so—and more than once.
It was also because of those repeated failures that they had concluded everything was meaningless.
To the Zeroers, whether it was the war between Three-Body and Earth or the war between Singer and the fringe civilization, it was like a group of children building castles on a beach. No matter how exquisite the castles were, the next wave would flatten them to the ground.
Stopping one wave could not change the tides of an entire ocean.
As long as civilizations existed, wars between civilizations would be inevitable—
"Yes. We are powerless to stop wars between civilizations.
In the end, we could only reach this conclusion—
As long as the embers of civilization remain, the wildfire of war will sweep across the universe again and again.
It is a closed, unsolvable cycle."
The Zeroers answered. They had no way to extinguish the embers of civilization.
And as long as those embers remained, they would one day set the universe ablaze—
"No, you are wrong.
You did not reach a conclusion. Faced with cruel reality, you simply gave up thinking.
You gave up searching for