Eagle Sauce: The 055 destroyer was launched into the sea just after the founding of the country?

Chapter 840 The Sunset of Civilization

"..."

The whole room fell into an extremely strange silence.

The captain froze in place, the expression on his face was extremely interesting.

He opened his mouth wide, looked at the tablet in his hand, then looked at the expressionless commander in front of him, and a layer of fine beads of sweat instantly appeared on his forehead.

"Report...Sir..."

He stammered, his voice thick with tears.

"I... I can't write... The last time I came across calculus was during the West Point entrance exam, and... I failed..."

The Eagle Commander ignored him and didn't even look at him again.

He turned his head again and cast his gaze on the middle-aged scientist in the Russian delegation who had remained silent before and looked like a materials expert.

"Professor," he asked, "what if I gave you a state-of-the-art, sterile surgical operating room right now, with all the tools you need?"

"Can you perform an appendectomy independently?"

The Russian scientist was also stunned, then pushed his glasses awkwardly and shook his head.

"I'm sorry, Mr. T.P.M. My field is polymers, not clinical medicine. I don't even know how to hold a scalpel."

The Eagle Commander nodded slowly.

He looked around at everyone again, and then, in a tone that was almost a sigh, gave the final answer.

"Now, do you understand?"

"You see, this is why... the Anunnaki were unable to rise again after the disaster."

"Industry specializing in surgery."

"Even in our current era, in what we humans call 'modern technology,' the categories of knowledge have become so finely divided."

"A top weapons engineer may not even be able to solder the most basic circuit board properly. A physicist who can design a nuclear reactor may not understand how to treat the simplest cold."

"Each of us is just a tiny screw in this immense and sophisticated machine called 'modern civilization'... a screw that can only function in its own position."

"We are still like this."

His gaze once again turned to the sleeping, godlike being.

"What's more, the Anunnaki's technological system is countless times more extensive, profound, and complex than ours."

"After the great flood, there were indeed many Anunnaki survivors, including some who we consider 'scientists' who managed to survive."

"You are right to question this point."

"But..." His voice became low and filled with sorrow. "Among those who survived, I'm afraid there isn't even a single one who is a 'generalist' who can master all of their technologies!"

"How could a god responsible for researching 'weather weapons' possibly know how to smelt the superconducting alloy needed to build the 'Ark' from the most primitive ore?"

"How could a god in charge of 'gene editing' possibly understand how to design and build an 'energy core' capable of supporting interstellar travel?"

"So, many of the technologies that were most common in their time were as simple as how we use lights and cars."

"For those who survived the catastrophe, I'm afraid that even if the finished equipment was placed in front of them, they probably wouldn't know how to start it, let alone how to repair it!"

"They are like a modern person exiled to a desert island. Although he knows that the earth is round, that electricity exists, and that cars work."

"But you ask him to build an engine from scratch using the stones and wood on the island? He can't do it!"

"The only thing he could do was use his remaining, pitiful knowledge to forge a stone spear sharper than the locals'. Then, in despair, he waited for his pitiful knowledge to be completely forgotten by time along with his death."

"so……"

The face of the Eagle Sauce leader showed a bleak smile full of philosophical thinking that was extremely inconsistent with his current status.

"The decline of a civilization, the twilight of the gods... I'm afraid it's not as difficult as you imagine."

“Sometimes, you don’t even need external enemies.”

“All it takes is a well-timed disaster and a civilization that has become so sophisticated and complex that it has lost any ability to correct its own mistakes.”

"Will suffice."

These words completely shattered the last bit of doubt in the hearts of everyone present.

It is like a key that perfectly connects all the previous doubts - the birth of myths, the disappearance of gods, and the discontinuity of technology - to form a complete, tragic and chilling closed loop.

The old scientist fell to the ground in a daze, muttering to himself.

"I see... I see... Over-refinement... is itself a structural vulnerability... We... We keep repeating the same mistakes..."

But after hearing these words, Joseph's cold eyes flashed with a completely different light.

So that's how it is. Even a god will fall because of the overly complex system.

This is a lesson...but, more importantly, it is an opportunity!

He ignored the scientists who were lost in philosophical thinking, nor did he sympathize with the American leader who had completely surrendered.

He just looked at the other party coldly, like a shark that smelled blood, and made the most cruel demand.

"I sat through your history lesson, Mr. President. It was fascinating, and tragic."

"But I don't want to hear these stories about dead people anymore."

"What I want to know now is, over the past few decades, how many things have you dug out from the ruins of these gods that we can use now?"