Advanced civilizations observe or even domesticate lower civilizations, just like humans watching ants.

This is a concept that has a significant following locally.

After spreading through forums, literary works, film and television, and some games, this idea has gained substantial prominence.

For instance, the famous "Three Body Problem" describes matters related to extraterrestrial civilizations.

Because of this, it's not surprising that Academician Pan would consider the possibility of domestication.

Academician Pan paused for a moment, then continued:

"Ultimately, we currently have limited information.

Whether it's observation or domestication.

These are just our speculations, and we presently have no evidence to corroborate this.

We can't even rule out the possibility that the pioneering civilization merely passed by as a traveler, leaving behind some traces.

Like a passenger accidentally drops a candy while riding a green train.

This incident is inconsequential to the passenger, but for the ants by the roadside, it's a major event that could alert the entire colony.

Therefore, the only simple judgment we can make is that the pioneering civilization's Kardashev scale is at least above 1.8."

The Kardashev scale.

As the name suggests, it's an index proposed by someone named Kardashev.

This person comes from the neighboring fur bearers, who proposed this theory on May 15, 1964.

Yes, it was so coincidental – on the 42nd anniversary of Yuewen Group.

Ahem...

Back to the topic.

According to Kardashev's classification, civilizations in the universe can be divided into three levels:

I, II, III.

Type I civilizations can use all the energy on their home planet, including satellites.

For Earth, that's the moon above us.

Type II civilizations can collect the energy of the entire star system, meaning complete control over the sun's output for us.

Type III civilizations can utilize the energy of the entire galaxy, namely the Milky Way we reside in.

According to the power standard of Kardashev scale Type I civilizations.

Earth's input energy calculation needs to reach 1.74E17 watts, or 174,000,000,000,000,000 watt-hours, to qualify as a Type I civilization.

Later Carl Sagan set this standard at 1E16 watts and established a formula to calculate civilization levels that don't meet the standard:

K = log(10×P-6/10).

Where K is the civilization level index, and P is the civilization's total power.

Earth's current power is 2E13 watts, substituting it into the formula yields a number:

0.7301.

This is the origin of the mention of us being a 0.7 or 0.73 level civilization in some popular science or science fiction novels.

Later.

Carl Sagan redefined Type II and Type III civilizations using this formula and also expanded it.

For example, the standard for Type IV civilizations is a total power of 1E46 watts, Type V civilization's standard is a total power of 1E56 watts, and so on....

However, generally speaking, serious people won't discuss Type IV civilizations in journals, just like serious people don't write diaries.

By the way.

The civilization whose output each second is at the power level of a big bang has a Kardashev scale index of 6.35.

Yes, every second.

Generally speaking.

For a civilization controlling 100 million stars, the Kardashev scale index is about 2.8.

For a civilization controlling 1 billion stars, the Kardashev scale index is about 2.9.

Only by controlling 10 billion stars can the Kardashev scale index reach almost 3.

Famous Land of Light civilization index is about 3.7, belonging to a civilization close to multi-dimensional (calculation method in author's note).

Of course.

This refers to the situation before the Bei Empire,

after Bei Empire appeared, the Land of Light has already somewhat collapsed like the power levels in Dragon Pearl.

Additionally.

According to Kardashev's theory.

When the civilization index exceeds 1.5, it's quite likely to utilize or produce some unconventional special energy.

The concept of this type of energy is broad.

In some sense, Spirit Stones and Spiritual Energy also count as one type of this energy.

Therefore, Academician Pan Jianwei determines that the pioneering civilization of Damo Realm's index is close to 1.8 or higher.

Please note.

The 1.8 refers to the civilization's developmental level around 2 million years ago or even earlier.

"1.8, huh...."

Lin Li thoughtfully touched his chin and continued to Academician Pan:

"Academician Pan, let's make an assumption.

Assuming this civilization hasn't gone extinct, what level might they be at now?"

Academician Pan was silent for a while, then said:

"That's hard to determine, as there's a theory called the technological singularity.

For instance, many people here believe that 2045 will be the period of the technological singularity arrival.

If humans aren't extinct due to super AI, then all aspects will achieve a significant breakthrough.

The pioneering civilization theoretically might also encounter a technological singularity, but without considering this sudden change...

Two million years should be enough for them to surpass to an index of 2.9 or even 3.0."

Upon hearing this, Lin Li suddenly held his breath.

We must know.

The Kardashev civilization index 2.9 controls a star count starting at 1 billion!

If such a civilization is still around...

The rabbits might as well take yarn to play against the opponent!

Even a thousand Yanshuangying and Iron Man won't have a chance against them!

Academician Pan then switched gears and continued:

"But this is just theoretical speculation, the difficulty for a civilization to maintain itself for 2 million years theoretically approaches zero.

Based on Teacher Mingmou's observations and the intelligence on Damo Realm we possess, personally I incline toward....

This pioneering civilization should have encountered some issues.

Perhaps they migrated, perhaps there's a discontinuity, or perhaps they went extinct.

In any case, they have certainly left Damo Realm, otherwise there's no way to explain current circumstances in Damo Realm.

Of course.

If that civilization indeed has some strange hobby in observation, it's no different than flipping the table.

Better yet, consider us as characters in a novel."

Academician Pan's view is quite objective and isn't a matter of self-consolation or hiding from the truth.

If that pioneering civilization hasn't ceased over the past 2 million years, then they would now be at least a K2.9-level civilization.

Meaning the number of stars they control wouldn't be lower than 1 billion.

In this situation.

They wouldn't focus solely on one planet, observing for over 30 thousand years while causing more chaos, creating many bugs, nearly bringing about an era without laws.

Thus, if there's no accident.

The current Damo Realm should not have much direct interaction with this pioneering civilization.

However, speaking of which, the rabbits shouldn't relax too much either.

After all, the pioneering civilization indeed had enemies.

If that enemy perished with the pioneering civilization or also faded away in the river of time, then everything is fine.

But if the opposing civilization hasn't ceased or left traces similar to those in Damo Realm...

This becomes somewhat nerve-racking.

Lin Li thought for a moment and said:

"Academician Pan, I will report this issue to the authorities at home.

If nothing unexpected occurs.

Our camp's forthcoming research direction and team will certainly partially shift toward exploring the pioneering civilization.

A civilization capable of altering catastrophes cannot fail to leave other information behind."

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Note:

Land of Light's calculation method is in the author's note.

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