Chapter 37 The Only Way
Zhou Cheng was still explaining his guess.
“Instead of regarding it as a so-called bad nature, we might as well raise the bar a little bit.
A more likely guess is that it was a struggle for survival.”
Zhou Cheng looked at the decision-makers and senior officials present, as well as the scientists who served as scientific advisors and think tanks for the world government, and said slowly, "Based on the intelligence we have so far, and reasonable speculation, we have reason to believe that the so-called Moon God is actually near us.
They may be in a galaxy not far from our solar system. They may think that when our human civilization technology is more advanced in the future and we can conduct interstellar navigation and obtain supplies from different star systems, we will come into contact with them and compete for survival.
In order to eliminate this hidden danger, they are taking action against us now in advance, in an attempt to eliminate future hidden dangers."
After a pause, Zhou Cheng continued, "I can't guarantee that my guess is the truth. In fact, I myself have great doubts about this guess.
However, based on the current intelligence, this conjecture is the most reasonable."
The white-haired old people were either thinking silently or communicating in low voices.
After a moment, an old man asked, "Among the ancient tribes of the same period, did the Yangjiagou tribe show greater potential for development?"
If the Moon God's reason for action was indeed as Zhou Cheng suspected, then the Yangjiagou tribe should have greater development potential than other tribes of the same period. Otherwise, why did the Moon God only destroy the Yangjiagou tribe and not the other tribes?
Zhou Cheng nodded silently: "At least from our current perspective, yes.
The Yangjiagou tribe was more warlike, and excavations of their ruins have revealed numerous war relics. War is the best catalyst for technological advancement.
This can also be proven by the bronze artifacts unearthed from the Yangjiagou tribe, which are more advanced and exquisite than those of the same period.
If the Yangjiagou tribe had not been destroyed, they might have really established the first slave state in human history and evolved from the tribal era to the national era.
The humans who exist today... may no longer be us, but descendants of the Yangjiagou tribe, whose technology may be even more advanced than ours."
This is solid archaeological evidence, backed by physical objects, and it also supports Zhou Cheng's previous conjecture.
There was a general silence in the meeting hall, and no one stood up to refute.
Obviously, they also agreed with Zhou Cheng's guess.
"So, based on this speculation, I believe that the inherent characteristics of our human civilization that led the Moon God to attack us... are not inherent human weaknesses, but rather the instinct of every species and every civilization to advance its own technological capabilities and pursue greater strength and a more stable environment."
The expressions of the participants became more solemn.
The problems facing human civilization are becoming increasingly clear.
The instinct of development may lead to a survival competition with the Moon God in the future. In order to eliminate the hidden danger of survival competition, the Moon God takes action in advance and intends to destroy humans.
Then, it seems that there is only one way left for human civilization to survive.
The only one.
Actively lock the possibility of one's own development, actively give up future development, and actively eliminate possible threats to the Moon Goddess in the future, in order to seek the Moon Goddess to lift the current fertility restrictions on human civilization and seek the continuation of civilization.
To develop means extinction. To survive means no development.
These are two options that can only be chosen one or the other and absolutely cannot coexist.
Besides these two options, there are no other options.
Even human civilization at its peak was unable to find out the truth about the disaster, and was unable to know what means the Moon Goddess used to prevent the sperm and egg from combining. At this moment, humans are already in their twilight years, and it is even more impossible to do so.
Even if it can be done, then, as the Moon Goddess who can use such a method, doesn't she have other more intense, more effective and faster methods?
At this moment, Zhou Cheng couldn't help but start thinking about the same question as all the participants at the moment.
If all these speculations are true, and this multiple-choice question with only two options is also true, then which path will you choose?
Is it that human civilization gradually withers away, and everyone eventually dies of old age under the erosion of time, or... is it that new life is born, but human civilization forever loses hope of continued development?
After thinking for a long time, Zhou Cheng finally sighed inwardly.
He didn't know how to choose, and he also knew that it wasn't his place to make the choice.
The voice of the first decision maker sounded again.
"This multiple-choice question...is not easy to answer."
He smiled bitterly and said, "I think, not only me, but even if all of us are put together, we are not qualified to make this choice.
Who is qualified to do this is not the question for now. Before we tackle this question, perhaps we can do something else first.
He paused, then looked at the World Government's scientific advisors. "First, I want to know: with our current technological prowess and engineering capabilities, can we effectively 'lock down our own development and prevent technological advancement'?"
The white-haired scientists discussed in low voices for a long time before an old man gave the answer.
"It may exist. However, whether it is feasible in real-world environments and whether it can achieve the desired effect requires further investigation and research."
"Then let's research and confirm it first. We have to first confirm whether we have the ability, so that this multiple-choice question will make sense.
If we work hard for a long time and decide to choose one or the other, only to find that we cannot theoretically eliminate the possibility of our own development, then it would be a waste of effort and there would be no need to make this choice at all.
After a pause, the first decision maker continued: "Next, we will proceed according to the following steps:
The first step is to determine whether we have the ability to truly eliminate our own development potential.
If there is no solution, then forget about it. If you do find a solution and confirm that it exists, then proceed to the second step.
The second step is to unify internal opinions. First, we should assume that "if the Moon Goddess's own development potential is eliminated, she will restore human fertility" is true, and based on this premise, confirm what choice our civilization will make in this situation.
If you choose at that time that even if this is true, you will never accept the elimination of your own potential, then it will end there and there will be no follow-up.
If we choose to assume this is true, then we will actually eliminate our own development potential in exchange for restoring fertility, and then proceed to the third step.
In the third step, we will try to communicate with the Moon Goddess.
If the Moon Goddess does not respond, the matter ends here.
If the Moon Goddess replies but disagrees, the matter also ends there.
If the Moon Goddess responds and agrees to our plan, then we will actually implement the plan that will eliminate our own development potential.
From then on, mankind will be able to continue.
I propose that we establish a 'scientific investigation project team' to be fully responsible for finding and investigating these potential solutions. Do you agree?"
The participants were silent and raised their hands.
The meeting concluded, and the attendees left the venue with mixed feelings. Zhou Cheng also slowly walked out, stopping at the foot of the World Government Building.
It was already night when this long and important meeting ended.
The sparse lights in Dajing City illuminated the almost deserted streets.
Looking up, the vast Milky Way is still clearly visible.
Zhou Cheng knew that every star he could see, except for those planets, was very far away from him.
At this moment after the meeting, Zhou Cheng felt that they were even further away from him, so far that even in fantasy, even in dreams, they were out of reach and unreachable.
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