"Did you hear that?"

"What?"

"The awakened robber was not caught by the police, but was tied up and thrown to the door of the self-cultivation gym by someone unknown. He was beaten badly."

"Looking at it this way, no one among the awakened people is so evil."

The next morning, when Lin Tuo went out for a walk, he heard the relevant discussion.

The robber was caught in less than a day. He was said to be an awakened person, but he turned out to be no better than an ordinary person.

Negative social events have just begun and are over before they are fully fermented. This has given many online media a sense of depression as if they were punched into the air.

For the government, it was of course a great relief. For ordinary people, this scene completely shattered their previous sense of people with special powers.

I suddenly realized...it seemed like that.

Moreover, another curious question is, who arrested him?

“There is no video left at the scene, no clues at all.

I heard that even the suspect who was beaten and turned into a humanoid could not speak out. One second he was still practicing, and then his vision went dark and he had a terrifying nightmare.

When you wake up again, it will already be like that."

On the Internet, someone said with a mysterious face.

Then there was a flurry of speculation.

At the end, someone said: "Do you think it could be the Taihe Mountain warrior who spread the practice in the first place?"

"...If you put it that way, it's really possible."

When Lin Tuo came back from the mountain, he opened the chat group and saw similar discussions, which made him look a little weird.

By the afternoon, I don’t know how this theory spread, but after thinking about it, this guess is quite logical.

Just as mysterious.

The same coming and going without leaving any traceable traces.

The key is that this suspect has sufficient strength.

In the past two months, with the widespread popularity of the practice, the "Taihe Mountain Warrior" not only has not faded from people's memory, but has become more mysterious.

Now, he takes action even more brazenly, as if he has become a sword hanging over the heads of all the awakened ones.

Anyone who wants to have evil thoughts should be careful.

The next few days were uneventful.

Maybe Lin Tuo's threat had an effect. Of course, the more important thing was that the number of awakened people began to decline sharply. By the third day, there were no new awakened people at all.

"That's probably it." Li Shan, Lin Tuo silently made a judgment.

By now, he probably figured it out.

After the prayer candle self-destructed, part of the spirituality escaped into the sandbox, leading to the birth of the snow monsters. A small part accidentally entered reality, giving birth to the hundred or so awakened ones.

But that’s about it.

After all, there is only so much spirituality. The hundred or so people reaped the dividends, but those who followed did not have such good luck.

If judged objectively, the abilities of these awakened ones are not very strong. In comparison, what is more valuable is the improvement of their talents.

Once awakened, your cultivation talent will rise to a higher level.

This is actually the most important thing.

According to the information obtained from Li Tai, this wave of time also helped the Slimming Hall gain about a hundred official members, and also built a reputation.

Got more resources tilted.

It severely pushed forward the progress bar of national cultivation.

Among the people, because of this round of hot spots, the momentum has greatly expanded. Visible to the naked eye, most of the provinces in the observation mode have significantly increased the diffuse etheric line.

This shows that the practice of breath-taking has begun to be known to more people through this wave of events.

"Looking now, this is actually a good thing?"

Squatting under the eaves, turning off his phone, Lin Tuo shook his head and smiled, then put these things aside, turned back to the study, and switched the sandbox to "creative mode" again.

After resting for several days, it’s time to do something serious.

…

…

"Whoosh..."

Invisible light and shadow changes, the bustling city blocks in the huge evolution sand table disappear, transformed into a huge translucent isolation cover.

Inside, there is a land completely covered by ice and snow.

In the past few days, due to the effect of time acceleration, the entire Sandbox 2 has finally entered the Great Ice Age.

More than 90% of the sea is frozen, and the northern and southern continents are also covered by thick glaciers.

There are plants, but they can't be seen from this height.

To the south, close to the equator simulated by the sandbox, there is a narrow sea area that is not completely frozen. It is the open sea and is also a gathering place for sea people.

The only special thing in the pure white world is the vents all over the southern continent.

At the beginning of the design, the problem of subsequent ice and snow coverage on the ground was taken into consideration, so almost all the vents were built on high mountains.

As far as the eye can see, the air vents are constantly spewing out air.

At the same time, Lin Tuo also saw some facilities used to collect ice and snow.

He knew that the ice and snow on the surface would be collected underground, converted into steam through a magic heating furnace, and filled with pipelines extending in all directions to the entire underground city, providing warmth, fresh water and power.

If you zoom in closer and look carefully, you can still find some scattered extraordinary humans walking in the ice and snow world in groups, hunting monsters in the snow.

The walking speed of those people was clearly discernible in Lin Tuo's eyes.

This reveals an important piece of information.

"The flow of time has slowed down again." Lin Tuo muttered.

Yes, he had discovered this phenomenon two days ago, but it was only becoming more and more obvious.

At first, with the arrival of the Great Ice Age, the sandbox ecology collapsed, and time flowed very quickly. However, after a few days, the speed slowed down again. According to the rules of the Evolution Sandbox, the flow rate of time is related to "complexity".

That is to say:

"The complexity of sandbox No. 2 has increased again?"

Until now, Lin Tuo had not understood what exactly "complexity" was.

In short, it seems to be a comprehensive judgment. The completeness of the ecological chain and the number of species will all affect this data.

What has the greatest impact on it is the level of civilization.

“During the Disaster of Strange Creatures, human civilization was close to that of the 19th century. By the time of the Great Ice Age, it was already close to the beginning of the 21st century in the earth’s reality. However, due to the Great Ice Age, it set back hard again.

So, after hundreds of years of development, has the level of civilization in the sanctuary been restored?

Not only is it recovering, it’s continuing to grow.”

This guess aroused great curiosity in Lin Tuo.

It is hard to imagine how human civilization evolved after losing control of the earth's surface and huddled in the limited space underground.

It’s already amazing if you don’t go backwards.

Call out the running log, pull the content forward, and look carefully, line after line of text flashes:

[In the year... of the evolution of the world, the Great Ice Age has arrived, the surviving humans have entered underground shelters, the period of division of the four major political powers has ended, and the era of unity has arrived]

[However, the new residence brought new problems...the original concept of country was blurred, the gathering of different ethnic groups, the destruction of the original class, the replacement of old and new jobs...mankind experienced countless hardships in the first ten years

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[At the same time, humans who went underground also developed a series of diseases. The food reserves were consumed rapidly, and the expansion of underground planting areas was slow, resulting in a long-term food crisis and a sharp decline in the population.]

…

[After the first ten years, the situation finally reached a turning point, the food supply reached a balance, a new social system was initially established, and the emergence of new occupations brought about a blowout of new technologies]

[...In order to solve the physical discomfort of the underground, under the leadership of the Joint Committee, the surviving humans began a transformation plan that would last for hundreds of years...

Simulating the blue sky, simulating the sun, simulating the four seasons... Under some huge vision, and with the efforts of generations, the shelter becomes more and more similar to reality]

[However, the limitation of space and the harsh environment have hindered the possibility of human beings to explore outwards.

As the simulation environment becomes more and more perfect, people, driven by simple desires, begin to explore in depth virtual technology, and the epoch-making brainwave connection technology provides support for this direction]

[In the 156th year of the Shelter Era, the first brainwave virtual game appeared, officially kicking off the virtual era]

…

"Virtual technology?" Lin Tuo was a little surprised, but after thinking about it carefully, it became clear.
To be continued...