CHAPTER 526: CHAPTER 389: FATAL DISASTER FORECAST, ENTERING A NEW TECHNOLOGICAL PHASE!

Disasters come in many types.

They can be divided into man-made disasters and natural disasters.

It can be said that disasters caused by weather, biological, environmental, and other factors have played an extremely important role throughout human history, causing loss of life and property.

Disasters have accompanied the entire course of human development and have also witnessed the history of humans continuously growing stronger.

Snow disasters, earthquakes, acid rain, floods, hurricanes, thunderstorms, extreme heat, fire tornadoes, giant hail.

These disasters, experienced countless times in human history, continue to unfold in the Otherworld.

However, up until now, humanity has never experienced a certain type of disaster.

Or rather, this type of disaster disappeared long ago, before humans were born.

"An oxygen-rich era, a time when the concentration of oxygen was far higher than the proportion of oxygen in the air on modern Earth..."

Lin Yue murmured to himself; he was quite familiar with this period.

During his time working at the weather station, he had the chance to leisurely browse through various meteorological-related books on the large bookshelf over at the office.

This oxygen-rich era was introduced in a book about ancient climate and meteorology.

Earth’s oxygen-rich era occurred between the Devonian and Permian periods, where the oxygen concentration reached as high as 30%, significantly higher than the current 21% or so.

In that era, vegetation flourished immensely, and countless species emerged.

The reason he remembers so clearly is that the book contained many illustrations of gigantic insects from that time, which fascinated Lin Yue greatly.

However, when he later went to the library to read anything about the Devonian or Permian periods, he found out that the gigantic insects didn’t actually arise due to the increased oxygen concentration.

The abundance of vegetation plunged the Earth into a sea of green, and the waters were also teeming with vast amounts of algae.

Plants released a large amount of oxygen, extracting carbon dioxide—a greenhouse gas—from the atmosphere, which led to global cooling, not only completely reversing the greenhouse effect caused by super volcanic eruptions but also plunging the Earth into the Ice Age.

The excessive temperature differences caused many species to be unable to adapt and die in massive numbers, leading to the late Devonian extinction event!

Previously, he never considered that plants could create some sort of disaster, had he not accidentally seen that giant bug jumping out, he might have really forgotten about this.

"There may not be any gigantic bugs anymore, but the ultimate result of the oxygen-rich era—the drastic cooling—probably isn’t too far off!"

Although on Earth, this is an extremely lengthy period, in this Otherworld where anything can happen, such events might just occur abruptly.

Just like the last extreme heat disaster, who would have thought that the previously comfortable, pleasant weather of around twenty to thirty degrees would suddenly spike to sixty degrees?

Such events would definitely not happen on Earth, yet they occur quite easily in this Otherworld.

Lin Yue felt that this impending disaster would definitely not be simple.

The rampant growth of plants brought with it not just the issue of cooling. The increasingly tall and dense vegetation also allowed those unknown bugs to hide, and made those various mutated creatures that can provide food extremely difficult to deal with!

Survivors had barely managed to alter their stance using sharp weapons against those fierce mutated creatures, but with the rampant plant growth, they might revert back to the former condition!

Meanwhile, as the primary source of food, mutated creatures becoming harder to capture might cause famine to arrive unexpectedly!

Not only that, but the overly tall wild grass would become the perfect hiding place for Lizardmen and beggars, letting them ambush and attack survivors.

The more Lin Yue thought about it, the more he felt the upcoming developments would indeed be too terrifying.

In just one day, the wild grass had grown to knee height, what about the future?

If it really develops the way he thought, then indeed, the ensuing triple disaster might plunge the entire world of survivors into a situation of horror!

"Too fatal..."

Lin Yue shook his head.

The triple disaster; if this can be considered a disaster, there are still two more waiting for the survivors to overcome.

This is definitely not an easy matter.

This time, if no proper methods are devised, perhaps it would be great if half of the remaining twenty billion population could be saved.

"Gah wo." At this moment, Bai didn’t understand what its master was thinking. Its knowledge of this was completely blank, yet, it did indeed feel that the air in the Desert was much more pleasant than before.

The little bugs in the grass couldn’t even catch its eye; a light sweep of its tail would easily wipe out a large area.

"Well, Bai, let’s head out, we can’t continue to waste time."

No matter what happens afterward, he still has very important tasks to accomplish before him.

The Oil River must not be exploited by others, especially not given to the likes of Lizardmen!

Although he doesn’t know exactly how much the reserves are, every chemical product derived from it would be the most crucial support when he advances to a higher stage in the future!