Chapter 469: Another city?

Lu Yuan took a few deep breaths, suppressed the doubts in his heart, dialed the contact number, and convened an emergency security meeting.

Soon many experts, scholars, military personnel, and government officials came to the conference room.

"Comrades, our reconnaissance team has discovered a snake-man palace, which may be the culprit for the ghost wall."

"This may be our chance to escape from this strange situation. Please take a look at the photos and videos."

Everyone looked serious as they watched frame by frame, trying to analyze more information.

After a while, someone said, "This palace looks very old, but it can still fly in the sky... How powerful is its energy system?"

The speaker is Sandy from the Engineering Department: "I think these snake people might be alive. Maybe they are just basking in the sun?"

"Without human maintenance, even the most powerful power system will be defeated by time."

He added: "Even the quantum civilization has to arrange a great spiritualist in the flying saucer. This palace can't be more powerful than the quantum civilization."

"Maybe..." Lu Yuan smiled bitterly, "The so-called idealistic system cannot be judged from the surface."

Then, another botanical expert, Ms. Lu Yueyue, pointed to the photo and said, "This red flower is a type that has never appeared before. It is called Datura, a name that carries a mythological connotation."

"The strange petals our scouts found on the grassland a few days ago should be this kind of flower."

The mysterious palace was suspended in the sky, floating in the wind.

Flowers throughout the city naturally have a metabolism. After the petals wither, they fall on the grass and are picked up by humans.

But humans have never figured out which tree these flowers fell from. Now we finally know where they originated from, and it’s actually in the sky.

After the Datura flower withers, it becomes the size of a palm, withered and brown, the color of dried blood.

The results after the identification were even more shocking.

[Datura is a mysterious plant whose origin is unknown. In some myths and legends, it is also called the flower that leads to the underworld.]

[The fruit has unique extraordinary properties. After use, it greatly accelerates the life cycle of intelligent creatures and greatly increases the soul strength and mental resistance of the eater. (Inferior grade, natural wonder)]

"Inferior quality... This is just inferior quality?!" Lu Yuan's forehead was sweating.

Increasing soul strength is equivalent to improving the "God" attribute, but this thing is only of inferior quality?

"Yes, it is indeed of inferior quality because its side effects are too great."

Lu Yueyue explained: "The meaning of greatly accelerating the life cycle... is that the life span will be reduced at an unimaginable speed."

"Let me give you a simple example. If a human baby eats the fruit of the Datura flower for a long time, he will go through youth, middle age, and old age in just a few years. During the whole process, his divine attributes will indeed increase rapidly, but his life span will be condensed into just a few years. It is equivalent to exchanging his life span for divine attributes."

"Normally, the natural improvement of divine attributes brought about by cultivation will increase lifespan. However, the improvement after consuming the mandragora fruit will lead to a significant decrease in lifespan."

"This is a unique mechanism problem, so there is no way to reduce the side effects... Therefore, the evaluation of the item is only poor quality."

"Couldn't it be used to raise mutant animals or extraordinary animals? For example, laying hens?" An animal expert suddenly had an idea.

The fertility of extraordinary animals is not high, and the probability of inheritance is also very low. How to breed them on a large scale has always been a headache. With this thing, maybe it can produce miraculous effects?

"No, no, no!" Lu Yueyue said, "The accelerated life cycle does not mean that the growth and development cycles will also be accelerated. If humans consume it for a long time, most people will die within 5 years, and a few masters will die within 20 years. At that time, they are still children of a few years old, which is equivalent to a one-meter-tall old man who is about to die of old age."

"There's also this big problem with using animals for breeding. They die too quickly before they can even produce meat."

"Looking at it this way... the value of this Datura flower has been greatly reduced." Lu Yuan shook his head, and then his heart skipped a beat.

"No, it's not worthless!" said the old cat coldly, "It can even be said that its value is beyond imagination!"

The conference room suddenly fell silent.

The old cat's subtext is very simple - to raise! Humans are viviparous, reach sexual maturity at a late age, and have a low reproduction rate, so they are not suitable for being raised by Datura flowers; but what about those intelligent species that lay eggs, reach sexual maturity at an early age, and have a high reproduction rate? They only need one or two years to mature, lay eggs, and reproduce the next generation.

Normally, to develop the divine attributes to above 5 points, one would need education, experience, and social training, but now they are not necessary...all one needs to do is eat the fruit, which is a form of quick success.

Thinking of this, everyone couldn't help but break out in a sweat when they looked at the snake people. This purpose was too dark and even brought people some inexplicable despair.

After a long while, everyone sighed deeply, and the look in their eyes when they looked at the photos became meaningful...

After a while, the old cat asked again: "Is there another possibility that this ancient city is not the culprit that trapped us here?"

"They were just like us, trapped here for an entire epoch, and were eventually wiped out by the epochal disaster."

"As for these mandrakes and snake-men, I don't need to elaborate on them... The [Monster] has a shallow intelligence, so it's not surprising that it raises intelligent life."

When this statement was made, it actually became darker and the temperature in the conference room dropped by several degrees.

Will humans become like this?

It would be tragic if the [monster] had enough patience to last an entire epoch.

People simply have no way of finding the enemy hidden in the alien space, and can only be wiped out by the disaster of the era. Their descendants are raised and become permanent captive animals.

“It’s really impossible to rule that out.”

Lu Yuan scratched the hair at his temples, his chest heaving.

No, it's not that there is no way!

He thought to himself that if he really encountered this situation, he could only pin his hopes on the spatial carvings of the Asgard...

He is currently researching it alone, and the progress is slow, but as long as all of humanity studies it together, the research speed will be greatly increased - of course, doing so is just jumping from one fire pit into another.

"Even if we use the Asgardian Glyph, the risk is extremely high, but we must escape!"

At this moment, the investigation department once again sent an urgent report.

"Report! We... seem to have discovered another floating city!"

"What?"

Lu Yuan's scalp suddenly went numb. It would have been fine if he hadn't noticed it, but why did it happen so suddenly and in such a series?

What the hell is this place? The other experts' faces also changed slightly, thinking of even worse possibilities.

Lieutenant Colonel Lu Ying of the Reconnaissance Department quickly said: "No, no, no, this time it should be a normal civilization..."

"The other party has also disguised themselves as a cloud and is located 7,000 kilometers away."

"It's just that they seem to have been stuck here for a long time, and the entire city needs maintenance, so they landed on the ground."

"The city's area is about 150 square kilometers, and it is divided into five layers, which is more layered than our Green City. The population is unknown, the level of civilization is unknown, and the species is... similar to birdmen, with feather wings on their bodies, and can glide in the air for a short time."

"The city landscape is mainly materialistic, with relatively few carvings, but there are still some. We strongly suspect that their technology was relatively advanced before coming to Pangaea..."

The photo of this exotic civilized city was quickly sent to the big screen in the conference room.

Wow, it really is… a futuristic sci-fi style! All kinds of small cars, densely packed like ants, are very large in number. High-rise buildings are lined up one after another, and those solar panels reflect the bright sunlight. You should know that solar panels are a typical high-energy consumption industry. Only by building photovoltaic power stations on a large scale can this part of the cost be recovered.

The human population is small, and the solar panels they have are developed based on glyphs, while the solar panels in this city are purely materialistic.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

There are also bird nest-shaped buildings, which look like gymnasiums? A group of bird people are playing in the gymnasium.

Obviously, these buildings were built before arriving at Pangu Continent. After arriving at Pangu Continent, the living conditions were worrying, so how could there be so much time to build a large stadium?

Even the 18th human civilization, which needs to educate a large number of children, is reluctant to build super-large stadiums, and it is good enough to have some standard stadiums!

Relying on his own experience, Lu Yuan knew at a glance that this was indeed a very normal civilization.

Because some details of life are difficult to fake - this cyberpunk-like suspended city conforms to the pattern of population life and also conforms to conventional logic.

Compared with the snake-man palace that is so weird that it makes people feel cold in their hearts at the first sight, this bird-man civilization is like a harmless baby.

The creatures of this civilization are indeed birdmen, with a head like an eagle, sharp eyes, and a beak on its mouth, but its hair is blue.

They have hands, feet and large wings, which allow them to glide through the air.

It seems to be the time after get off work, and there are many birdmen jumping directly down from the top of the tall buildings - they seem to be very accustomed to this mode of transportation of flying away from high altitudes, which leads to the fact that the buildings in this city are generally very tall.

The lower the level of birdman, the poorer it seems, because this species' wings are only for gliding, not flying, and it seems impossible to take off directly from the ground.

Therefore, the distribution of the gap between the rich and the poor is also very simple. The richer the individual, the higher the level he lives in; the poorer the individual, the lower the level he lives in.

"Is this civilization the same unlucky bunch trapped here as us?"

Lu Yuan pondered in his heart: "I wonder how much they know about the snake palace after being trapped for a few years..."

Other people in the conference room also began to analyze these videos and photos.

I don’t know why, but having a poor guy by my side, the tension of being pampered suddenly dissipated a lot.

Lu Yuan himself couldn't understand how this mentality came about. "What is this? Being locked in a pigpen and finding another big fat pig looking at me, I feel gloating?"

When everyone adds fuel, the fire burns stronger. Soon, everyone found more clues.

"This is indeed a civilization with a big gap between the rich and the poor. Did you see that? There are even beggars here, and some poor people sleeping in parks and under bridges."

"Their population density is very high, conservatively estimated at 8 to 10 million people. Most of the population has very little living space and lives at the bottom of the city."

"However, this civilization should have some technological strength. There seems to be some social relief here, which shows that they still have a certain degree of social consensus and fault tolerance mechanism."

"They should have some knowledge of Pangaea...otherwise they wouldn't have a floating city."

In some of the photos, people can see some suspected missile silos and some soldiers standing guard.

"A civilization with a relatively developed materialism, a large gap between the rich and the poor, but still retains a certain degree of social consensus..." Lu Yuan sketched a rough picture of the city in his mind, "I don't know what the political system is..."

Social consensus and fault-tolerance mechanisms are very important for a civilization.

The struggle among civilizations is certainly the theme of the times, but personal life is closely related.

The fault-tolerant mechanism can provide a minimum guarantee for life and is a factual progress in civilization. After all, there was no such mechanism in the feudal era and the slave era.

"So although this civilization may seem a bit scattered, it should still have some combat power..."

Everyone was a little excited. It was the first time they encountered a civilization that was innately more developed. They didn't know which was stronger, Green City or the other side? Especially in the idealistic realm, humans were a genuine third-level civilization.

Everyone has a competitive spirit, but no one shows it on their face.

"Commander-in-chief, do we need to gamble with them?" Colonel Jin Dongliang asked, rubbing his hands.

Lu Yuan hesitated a little: "I think the current situation is not very appropriate...peaceful communication is the best."

The purpose of the fight was to prevent a war from breaking out between the two sides. Now that they were trapped in this prairie, the probability of a war had been greatly reduced.

Even if you fight to the death and defeat the opponent, what will it matter? There is no way to escape!

What's more, this place might be the monster's territory. If both sides are defeated in the fight, and the monster takes the opportunity to attack, it will be a big trouble - by then both sides will become pigs in a pigsty, being fed together.

Professor Lu Tiantian raised his hand and said, "My idea is... this civilization seems to be a technological civilization with a good innate foundation. Its materialistic technology may be better than ours."

“But in the realm of idealism, we don’t need to belittle ourselves.”

"If we want to establish friendly relations, we can test each other's strength and understanding of Pangu Continent."

"How to test?"

(End of this chapter)