"I told you before: the humans of this world were sick."
"Their illness largely came from greed."
"Humans burned wood for fire, boiled water for steam, refined oil and mined coal, stored water and harnessed wind, collected sunlight and split atoms... all for energy. Human civilization could be said to have been built upon the constant pursuit of using resources efficiently. That was what humanity had always sought."
"The fire Prometheus stole had burned all the way to the present. What humans still thought about was how to keep that fire burning."
"Even when the Abyss invaded and brought Relics, it still followed the principle of equivalent exchange. Energy and matter were conserved. Every gain came with a price."
"Resources that expanded without limit would only make humanity stop thinking. Once they no longer considered the question of 'how to keep the flames burning,' the very foundation of civilization would completely change."
"Powerful individuals began to focus on their own interests, without considering the future. Flames that grew without limit would not burn forever; they would only reduce all of human civilization to ashes."
"Endless nourishment bred cancer cells that blossomed everywhere, beginning to destroy everything from within. The things humanity once cherished became useless beneath infinitely magnified desire. The bonds connecting individuals ceased to exist. Cells no longer carried out meaningless 'material exchanges,' instead moving toward isolation."
Listening to Wang Chuan's somewhat heavy words, Li Luo took a deep breath.
"Even with so many powerful Relics, there's still no way to reverse the fate of extinction?"
"What did strength matter? Humanity's enemy had long ceased to be anything else. It was itself... The Abyss could not destroy humanity. Only humanity could destroy itself. Before the Abyss invaded, humans were already the most powerful creatures on Earth. Unless aliens invaded