The bird had waited a full two years before attacking again. What would happen if the strange bird attacked on a periodic basis in the future? It would become difficult to even cultivate.
It was simply impossible for Lu Yin to continue building the wall of his mental state, as he could be interrupted at any time.
Reluctantly, all of humanity's Immortals were paired up so that, even if they were ambushed, they would not suffer a complete disaster.
A year later, the strange bird reappeared and attacked Greater Sancte Awe Gate, precisely locating the pair of Immortals.
However, the ambush proved futile. Awe Gate even had a gate in place to capture all who approached, and she worked with Ku Deng to try to capture the bird. Unfortunately, its ability to teleport made that simply impossible. The strange bird only appeared for a moment before vanishing again, leaving Awe Gate furious.
Another year passed, and Awe Gate was ambushed yet again, which no one had expected.
In fact, none of the Immortals had left their initial area when the strange bird had first attacked, out of fear that leaving would prompt the bird into launching indiscriminate attacks. While the Immortals could deal with such powerful attacks, they were the only ones.
But despite the presence of multiple Immortals, the bird did not attack Awe Gate personally, but rather struck her Frightened Sparrow Terrace, almost flipping it over with a flap of its wings.
After another year passed, the strange bird attacked the mountain behind the Heavens Sect. While no one was harmed, the tremor shocked many of the cultivators in Heavens Sect.
Helpless, Lu Yin went through the Gate of Laws and traveled to the region occupied by the technological fishing civilization. He had no choice but to destroy the Seal-Eater Civilization. If he completed his mission, he would be able to learn more about the Plume Immortals Civilization, and then he could act accordingly.
He did not have any idea just how many times the strange bird might attack them. With different amounts of time passing between the attacks, no one could guard against it.
Also, had the bird truly reached their human civilization by pure chance? Could it have been lured to them by the Immortal Lord? Or could it have a connection to Obscura?
Lu Yin needed to know more in order to analyze the situation. Their human civilization could not afford to suffer such a massive loss.
He manifested a gate some distance away, teleported over next to two other gates, and then placed the third one down before disappearing.
This was the correct way to use teleportation.
When he looked back, there were now three gates in place.
At that moment, from far past the gates, a giant elliptical light appeared, and an alarm rang out within it. "Beep! Foreign matter detected. Beep! Foreign matter detected"
"Stop reminding us. There’s a third gate. There’s probably another civilization on the other side. They’re constantly using us."
"Submit a report to the empire?"
"Of course! Send it now."
Lu Yin left, leaving the gate in place.
What technological civilizations lacked the most was resources. While other civilizations destroyed those they encountered because of the ubiquitous uncertainty of intentions in the cosmos, technological civilizations would destroy others even without those suspicions. It was simply because they required endless resources and could not stop searching for more.
Stopping would mean declining, and in the Aevum Inch, declining meant destruction.
What Lu Yin did not know was how long it would take for the technological civilization to launch a strike against the Seal-Eater Civilization.
He had considered the advantages and disadvantages that the technological civilization possessed, and he had realized that they would certainly move against the Seal-Eater Civilization. They would also never simply destroy the gates.
However, he had underestimated the technological civilization.
The only message that the civilization’s empire sent back was one word: wait.
While it was true that the technological civilization aimed to destroy other civilizations in order to seize resources, it was essentially waging war in order to fuel further war. Still, they could wait.
After analyzing the previous two times that Lu Yin had used a gate against them, the empire had deduced that the civilization using them was in a hurry. Each time, when they had gone through, they had found two civilizations at war with each other. They decided not to rush, as they were certain that there was a civilizational war waiting on the other side. Even if that was not true, the civilization past the gate would need to be urgently dealt with as soon as they arrived.
For that reason, they intended to wait a while before acting.
It might be 100 years, or maybe 1,000. But as long as the gate remained, they would be able to pass through the gate and take the resources there.
It was also possible that the civilization or creature that was trying to use them might not be able to wait that long.
Lu Yin was unaware of this development. He had no idea that the technological civilization had decided to wait.
No one was perfect, and it was impossible to consider every possible scenario, especially when dealing with an entire civilization.
Only when several more years had passed did Lu Yin even consider such a possibility.
When he saw that the technological civilization had no intention of going through the gate to attack the Seal-Eater Civilization, Lu Yin realized that they would not take action anytime soon.
In the Sea of Karma, Green Lotus let out a sigh. "After all, it’s a fishing civilization. They can’t be used forever."
"The technological civilization hasn’t destroyed the gate, so they clearly want to go through it. Technology can’t endure without more resources, yet they haven’t rushed through. They’re undoubtedly trying to outlast us. They can afford to wait, which means that they don’t lack the resources that a megaverse can offer. However, we can’t afford to keep waiting," Awe Gate solemnly stated.
Lu Yin had a growing headache. Everyone was simply too clever, and it made doing anything at all exhausting.
"Can we provoke them?" Old First asked. Given that the strange bird had also attacked the Consciousness Megaverse, the Seven-Treasure Anuras could not stay out of the matter.
After speaking, Old First stared at Lu Yin. He clearly remembered how Lu Yin had been the one to instigate the war between the Blacklight Civilization and the technological civilization. The young human was quite skilled at such ploys.
Lu Yin felt helpless. It was not easy to stir up trouble like that. Could he trick the Seal-Eater Civilization into attacking the technological civilization? It was not impossible, but since the Seal-Eater Civilization’s destruction had been listed as a three-star mission by Obscura, they were likely aware of Obscura and had even had previous encounters.
If one of Obscura’s gates appeared, they would likely destroy it immediately instead of attacking whatever lay on the other side.
It was the same with human civilization.
They needed to either prevent Obscura from activating the gate, with the Gate of Laws being one example, or destroy it outright. These were the only two options for civilizations that knew about Obscura, unless they were confident that they could face Obscura head-on, and the Seal-Eater Civilization clearly did not have that ability.
Mister Mu said, "We cannot control the choices of the technological civilization, which means that we can only consider how we respond.
"Wei Rong visited recently and offered a solution."
Lu Yin looked over at Mister Mu. He had not met with Wei Rong recently, and Mister Mu had taken over the location at the mountain behind the Heavens Sect.
The man continued, "Every living creature’s action has a purpose. Since this bird targets Immortals to kill, allow it to do so. Allow it to fulfill its purpose."
Lu Yin was surprised. "Master, what do you mean?"