Chapter 52

Gu Liangyou stood on the windy rooftop and it took him a long time to react.

"He just left like that?" he repeated in disbelief. "Just left like that?"

Gu Liangyi: "Maybe this joke is a bit too much in his opinion? Why don't you go and apologize?"

"I won't do that." Gu Liangyou immediately frowned, "I didn't do anything wrong, why do you want me to apologize?"

He also became angry and followed Yi Yan's footsteps, going downstairs angrily.

At this moment, the exercise outside was not over yet. The bone dragon had a constant supply of mana, and its huge skeleton was constantly disintegrating and reorganizing under the attack of artillery fire. It was lying in the pit and wagging its tail impatiently. When it saw its master coming, its eyes suddenly lit up, but soon it became angry because of a "firework" that exploded on its head.

"Gu Liang! How long can you hold on?"

Jin Xuan, wearing noise-canceling earplugs, shouted at him at the top of her voice.

"It will be no problem to use up this batch of ammunition." Gu Liangyou put his hands in his pockets and said coldly.

Jin Xuan looked at him in confusion as he stood on the side close to them with a cold expression, eight feet away from Yi Yan who had just walked down the stairs.

How come in just a few minutes, the relationship between these two has returned to the state it was a while ago?

Gong Ming laughed: "Fighting again?"

The word "again" was used very aptly, but Gu Liangyou didn't want to hear anything related to Yi Yan right now.

In his heart and with his personality, he cursed Fu Jingyan, this bastard, for not changing his bad ways. He glanced at Gong Ming indifferently, said nothing, and then turned his gaze away in a haughty manner.

"roar--!!!"

Because of the sudden commotion, the bone dragon was hit on the head by artillery fire one after another. In anger, it forgot Gu Liangyou's previous orders, and directly grabbed a desert tank parked at the edge of the pit with one claw, trying to fly into the sky and smash it to pieces!

"stop!"

Gu Liangyou's expression changed immediately. Yi Yan, who was far away, shouted angrily into the communicator: "Everyone stop firing! Now!"

"Come down!"

Gu Liangyou raised his head and shouted at Gu Long, "Please take care of the tank. Don't play with it. Do you hear me?"

The bone dragon whined in grievance, but finally obeyed its master's order, slowly descending from mid-air, stirring up a cloud of dust in the giant pit, and slowly put the tank back on the ground - although it was placed at an angle.

The gripping power of the bone dragon's claws is quite terrifying. Even though the desert tank has hard metal armor, it was still dented and deformed over a large area after being suddenly grabbed by it. Fortunately, judging from the damage, the people inside should be fine for the time being.

Yi Yan and others trotted all the way to the bottom of the pit and were about to carry out rescue operations when the "lid" on top of the tank, which had been squeezed and deformed, was opened from the inside.

"Fuck," Yan Beichen came out of the cabin in a cold sweat, "I was scared to death, I thought I was almost going to die gloriously."

"Are you not injured?" Yi Yan asked with a frown. When Yan Beichen jumped off the tank, he also lent a hand because Yan Beichen's legs were still a little weak. "Let's go over there for a checkup later."

"No, nothing."

Yan Beichen waved his hand and turned to look at the bone dragon whose shadow alone could cover them. This huge beast was now lying on the ground, being scolded by Gu Liangyou like a teddy bear, and it didn't even have the energy to swing its tail.

"The bone dragon summoned by the mummy before was not strong enough to withstand a beating. I thought the undead in this world were all weaklings," he said sympathetically, wiping the sweat from his forehead. "I didn't expect it to be so ruthless under the hands of the fourth brother. Even after the bones were shattered into slag, it could still gather itself together. It's more useful than a liquid metal robot."

"Maybe it's some kind of more advanced liquid metal robot," Jin Xuan speculated, "If human technology develops for a few thousand more years, and AI is combined with the progress of material science, it's not impossible to create this kind of 'Undead Race', don't you think so, Captain Yi?"

After she finished speaking, there was no response for a long time.

"...Captain Yi?"

Yi Yan kept looking in the direction of the black-haired young man until Jin Xuan called him again and again, and then he reluctantly came back to his senses: "What's the matter?"

"Really?" Jin Xuan looked at him helplessly, "What happened to you two?"

"nothing."

Jin Xuan pointed to her eyes and said, "Captain, I'm not blind. Do you think I believe it?"

Yi Yan didn't want to talk about this topic, so he asked, "I remember Instructor Jiao said that no one except the observer was allowed to approach the sniper site. How did Gu Liang get up there?"

“Ah, this…”

Jin Xuan's eyes drifted away instantly. Under Yi Yan's sharp gaze, she put her hands behind her back, whistled shamelessly and strolled away.

Although the exercise was forced to be suspended due to this accident, fortunately, the technical team had basically collected all the data that the command wanted.

In the evening, the sunset dyed half the sky red. In the cold evening breeze of the desert, an off-road vehicle carrying several leaders of the University of Desert drove into Morton City.

Zong Qinyuan and Academician Tang Jingming, who came to the city-state in another world for the first time, were quite excited, especially Academician Tang Jingming, who shouldered an important responsibility in this trip. He was over seventy years old and had gray hair, but when he got off the car and entered the tower, his hurried pace almost made several young people unable to catch up.

"It's so spectacular," he looked up at the reliefs and carvings in the tower. Although he had seen them in the 3D scans sent back to Mo Da by the special operations team, it was not as intuitive as being there in person. "This is definitely an extraterrestrial civilization that is completely different from humans. You see, they not only have the technology to travel in space, but they can also extract the energy needed for spacecraft from certain substances."

He pointed to one of the reliefs, which depicted a group of mayfly-like alien life forms gathered inside a tower, as if they were performing some kind of "turning stone into gold" ritual.

"But the efficiency of this energy conversion should not be too high," Gu Liangyi, who also saw the painting, thought, "Although this technology is out of reach for humans, it is far from enough if we want to travel thousands or even tens of thousands of light years into space."

Academician Tang Jingming nodded: "That's right, so what the previous student said makes sense. Perhaps for alien civilizations, this tower is just a garbage recycling station."

"But for humans who are still stuck in surface civilization, this is an enormous treasure trove that can at least promote the rapid development of science and technology for one or two hundred years."

Inside the command center, after hearing what Academician Tang Jingming said, Lu Lang paused with his fingertips and subconsciously pulled out a document from the desk.

The full name of this document is——

Summary of the Impact of Alien Civilization on Human Technology

This is actually just a quarterly report, but in the few months of traveling through the desert, through the study of various products of alien civilizations sent back from the campus, human science and technology have made major breakthroughs in hundreds of fields:

Just as the experts had envisioned when the command was first established, the combination of an imminent crisis + sufficient scientific research funding + strong support from the country + the full commitment of scientists, has resulted in explosive growth in all industries in just a few months!

Solid state materials science, quantum mechanics, molecular biology, quantum optics, geotechnical mechanics... Ordinary people cannot perceive the changes in daily life brought about by the progress of these basic sciences. They can only feel that there are different major discoveries reported in the news almost every day:

Something like a certain oligarchic oil company in Bald Eagle Country has discovered some kind of efficient and clean energy, a medical institute in Tulip Country has made another amazing breakthrough in the field of micromolecules, the Linguistics Association of Kimchi Country has announced that it will apply for the newly discovered alien world characters to be listed as a world heritage site, and so on.

Among them, China's news reports are the most refreshing.

As we all know, China has always liked to keep a low profile and focus on big things due to historical traditions, but sometimes it is difficult to keep the iteration of technology secret from the outside world, so the following strange scene appeared:

"Our station reports: The spring ploughing season is approaching, and a certain university research institute has cooperated with the local agricultural bureau to provide hundreds of new university pesticide spraying aircraft for free, promoting the development of science and technology to help agriculture..."

It seemed like normal news, but when military fans saw the configuration of the agricultural drone, they were so scared that their eyes almost popped out.

It has a payload of 100kg and is equipped with a phased array radar. The automated AI controls the nozzle to spray wherever it points, and can also directionally control the range of pesticide spraying. And now you tell me, this is called an agricultural drone?

Military fans rushed to the news with grief and anguish, saying, "We've told private enterprises not to make weapons. Even if they do, at least give some information to the Strategic Research Institute first." "You even deceived the comrades in the Strategic Research Institute too much." At the same time, they tried to control the twisted smiles on their faces, and their fingers flew as they typed on the keyboard to kindly explain to netizens from other countries:

This is definitely a misunderstanding blah blah... Farming is a racial talent that every Chinese person is born with blah blah... In short, in a nutshell, we attach as much importance to spring ploughing as hamburgers to the bald eagle and kimchi to the Korean country, so it is very normal to develop this kind of large-load agricultural drone to improve efficiency. Don't make a fuss, just stay calm.

Other countries: Ugh!

But since many neighboring countries bought a batch of agricultural drones from China, the turmoil on the global Internet has calmed down a lot.

After all, everyone has the need for spring plowing now, so just use it for agricultural purposes. As long as it works, it's fine. You have to accept it even if you have to hold your nose.

Mr. Wu Junlang, the founder of the Demonic Savior Church, although he is now abroad, he has not forgotten to speak for his motherland.

While preaching to the local people in a square in a Nordic country, he said passionately:

"Everyone, let me ask you a question. Don't you want to drink the milk that aliens drink and eat the vegetables that elves eat one day? There is an old saying in our country that the local climate and soil nurture the local people. Look at their appearance. They are simply the darlings of God!"

The bustling crowd below suddenly revealed eager eyes. Becoming beautiful and healthy is always the first pursuit of mankind, and even wealth has to take a back seat.

"think!!!"

Hearing the roar of the mountains and the sea, Wu Junlang nodded with satisfaction, continued to hold the microphone, raised his arms and shouted:

"So, supporting the leader is supporting Mo Da, and supporting Mo Da is supporting us humans! This is a belief that will never go wrong, and it is also the only cause we can dedicate to the leader!"

"Long live the leader! Long live the Devil God Savior Church!!!"

Wave after wave of fanatical shouts rang out in the square, and people raised their hands high with fanatical and pious expressions. This scene was enough to make the leader unable to sleep for three days and three nights after hearing it, and he would feel so ashamed that he would explode if he closed his eyes.

"By the way, where are the people you invited? Why haven't they come yet?"

Inside the headquarters, Lu Lang closed the document and turned to ask his subordinates.

"Right away... Oh, they're already downstairs." The subordinate answered the phone and reported to Lu Lang, "Minister Lu, do you want to bring them up?"

"Forget it, I'll go down."

Considering that there were too many people and it might affect the work of other people in the monitoring hall, Lu Lang finally decided to go there in person.

When we arrived at the lobby on the first floor of the headquarters building, we saw a few plain-looking people sitting on the sofa in the reception area. There were both men and women, with different races and nationalities.

Noticing Lu Lang's arrival, several people stood up and shook hands with him enthusiastically in different languages. One of them even came up and gave him a hug.

"Nice to meet you, Minister Lu." "Nice to meet you!"

These people have one thing in common...

They are all directors who have made well-known science fiction blockbusters.

Lu Lang also smiled at them: "I think everyone knows why I invited you here this time, right?"

It is estimated that it will take two and a half days for the Magic Guild's team to arrive in Morton City.

Next, they will stage an immersive real-life science fiction blockbuster for the Demon God in Morton City.

The Temptation of Going Home