The Omniscient

Chapter 4: Humanity’s Cosmic-Level Advantage

The more you know, the less happy you become.

Even with his intelligence being suppressed by the starry sky, Huang Ji didn’t see it as a major predicament.

Enhancing one’s physique can block unknown information.

Learning knowledge and understanding new concepts can unlock and decipher unknown information, making it known. Once it’s understood, the information can then be subjectively ignored.

With a method in place, problems can be solved—it’s just a matter of effort, and there’s nothing much to worry about.

For Huang Ji, the real trouble wasn’t the suppression of intelligence by the starry sky but something far more terrifying—a celestial body that warrants the utmost fear.

The Moon.

On the Moon resides a non-human species!

These beings are monitoring Earth. It’s quite straightforward. The Moon holds information that Huang Ji interpreted as: "Earth surveillance duration: 12,831 years, 4 months, and 19 days..."

As for this species, he couldn’t directly observe any information about them because he hadn’t directly seen them.

However, by merely analyzing the Moon itself, Huang Ji was able to deduce quite a bit!

The Moon isn’t a natural satellite—it’s a weapon of war! And its creators belong to yet another species.

Huang Ji could sense that the Moon’s interior contains numerous powerful mechanisms, most of which he couldn’t comprehend.

If he couldn’t understand it, the information wouldn’t translate into a form he could grasp and would remain chaotic.

Of the few things he could discern, he identified nuclear fusion weapons and cannons.

This was because he was aware of the existence of hydrogen bombs and cannons, and he had a basic understanding of such weapons. With these concepts, the information translated into forms he could understand.

But without a doubt, the cannons on the Moon are nothing like the ones on Earth.

Their cannons can fire projectiles weighing 300,000 tons! These projectiles, made entirely of high-purity tungsten, are kinetic energy weapons. A single shot to Earth, regardless of where it hits, would be equivalent to a high-speed asteroid impact. 𝐑Á₦ŏΒĚS

As for the nuclear fusion weapons, they aren’t as crude as Earth’s hydrogen bombs. Huang Ji lacked the relevant knowledge to decode their detailed parameters, but he knew these weapons could precisely control the scope of their nuclear explosions.

Beyond these, the most natural weapon might just be the Moon itself.

The Moon can move and manipulate Earth’s tides. Normally, the Moon-facing side of the ocean bulges upward due to its gravitational pull. If the Moon were to suddenly leave, this bulge would collapse, causing global sea levels to rise significantly, especially in higher latitude regions, submerging many coastal cities.

Moreover, the Earth and Moon revolve around a common center of mass. If the Moon were to leave, the Earth's rotation center would shift back to its geometric center, causing a sudden increase in rotation speed. This would destabilize Earth's structure, triggering massive earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis.

Conversely, if the Moon were to approach Earth, the effects would be even more catastrophic.

The Moon’s gravitational pull has a massive impact on everything on Earth’s surface.

This Moon, which humanity has gazed upon for countless years, doesn’t even need to fire a shot. Just by moving slightly, it could bring humanity to its knees. It’s a natural weapon.

For now, everything remains perfectly balanced...

To glimpse a part of the truth through a narrow lens, one can only imagine how advanced the technology of the watchers on the Moon must be. In their eyes, humanity is perhaps nothing more than a curiosity.

Even now, humans struggle with lunar exploration. Huang Ji recalled seeing the news on March 1st about the nation’s Chang'e-1 lunar satellite crashing into the Moon to conclude Phase 1 of the lunar exploration project.

Why crash it into the Moon? Simply because the technology isn’t advanced enough to retrieve it.

But for the extraterrestrial civilization that uses the Moon merely as an observation outpost, this level of technology must be laughable.

The most unsettling part is that this brutal truth was only revealed to him because of his supernatural abilities.

People live their busy lives, focused on their daily struggles, entirely oblivious to the precarious situation Earth is in.

To have been monitored for over 12,000 years without knowing it, while looking to the stars and asking, “Where are the aliens?”

Well, they’re right overhead!

When Huang Ji first discovered this, his heart was filled with despair.

Knowing this is worse than ignorance—the crushing sense of helplessness was overwhelming.

Why was he made aware of this? He was just a farmer, someone diagnosed with intellectual disability as a child, someone who had given up on middle school entrance exams, and who, at just sixteen years old, was barely more than a boy.

Huang Ji tried to console himself, telling himself that perhaps this civilization was benevolent. After all, they hadn’t destroyed humanity, and they had been watching for so long.

But one deeply unsettling piece of information kept gnawing at him: the Moon’s weapon system had a "Destroyer Mode" with full permissions—and it had been activated once.

It had annihilated two intelligent species.

If that wasn’t disturbing enough, humanity itself held a piece of information that made it impossible for Huang Ji to convince himself that the Moon’s watchers were friendly.

Yes, humanity’s own information.

When Huang Ji gained a profound understanding of Earth’s surveillance by extraterrestrial beings through observing the Moon, he simultaneously acquired an additional insight.

This insight tied into humanity’s information, allowing him to see a data point labeled: “Humanity’s Advantages as Rated by the [XX Species].”

The XX Species referred to the beings on the Moon. Their name couldn’t be expressed in human language or symbols, though Huang Ji vaguely sensed it carried a connotation of “eyes.”

Phonetically, it could be rendered as “Zeta,” but Huang Ji preferred to call them the “Watchers.”

Once Huang Ji assigned the name “Watchers” to the Moon's aliens, the information appeared under that label: “Humanity’s Advantages as Rated by the Watcher Species.”

The content of this evaluation was chillingly simple—so simple it made Huang Ji’s scalp tingle.

Delicious.

Last week, he had found himself inexplicably trembling in front of his grandfather, and this was the reason.

His grandfather, himself, and everyone around them all shared a common trait—a species-level “advantage” on an interstellar scale: deliciousness.

This was considered an advantage? Then what was the disadvantage?

The disadvantage, which Huang Ji could also see, was humanity’s reputation among the Watcher species for being… cruel.

The irony was unbearable.

A species that evaluated humans as delicious found them cruel?

He hadn’t told anyone about these revelations. As a child, he had tried to share his ability to see strange things, but not even his grandfather, the closest person to him, believed him. He was told to stop talking nonsense.

After deciphering the Moon’s information last week, he casually mentioned to Dr. Liang:

“I can see the age of trees, the history of stones, and that the Moon is an alien observation station.”

In response to Huang Ji’s remarks, even someone as kind as Dr. Liang said behind his grandfather’s back: “This child has a mental illness...”

Yes, she said it secretly, but Huang Ji knew.

Because no one could whisper behind Huang Ji’s back.

With his Information Sense, his five senses were interconnected. What he saw was equivalent to hearing, and what he heard was equivalent to smelling.

Huang Ji could hear the taste of food, see the texture of a person’s touch, and smell someone’s scent to discern what they were saying.

By touching someone, he could retrieve all the information about them that was accessible.

Huang Ji resolved never to try to explain his abilities to anyone again. Even though he had ways to directly prove his information was accurate, letting others know would only invite danger.

The entire Earth was under surveillance, and anything that wasn’t kept secret couldn’t succeed.

As possibly the only human on Earth aware of this truth, he realized he would have to find a way to resolve the predicament on his own.

The more he knew, the more he could do. If there was even one human capable of lifting this despair hanging over their heads, perhaps it had to be him.

This wasn’t arrogance—it was simply that there was no other choice.

He had to find a way to solve this crisis!

Knowing what he did, how could he sit idly by, living in a fog, pretending he didn’t know anything?

That was impossible. Unless he were truly a naive fool, he couldn’t live an ordinary life like the rest of humanity anymore.

But what could a sixteen-year-old boy, without any power or resources, achieve with only his Information Sense?

The answer seemed boundless...

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