Chapter 762: Changes in Times
Seeing the long queue, Lu Yuan felt relieved: "It seems that everyone is still very enterprising."
I found a chair and sat down, and ordered the latest popular "Golden Braised Pork Rice". The meat was "Tuntun Pig" with ancient blood. It was cooked to the perfect temperature, the meat was soft and chewy, and the soup was thick and mellow. Every drop contained the essence of the ingredients and seasonings.
After being busy for a whole year, I suddenly relaxed and had a strange feeling that "not working is a bit of a waste of time."
Lu Yuan thought about it for a while and found that the work progress in recent years was very good. Green City was already a leader among the fifth-level civilizations, and the number of acquired myths was unique in the Buzhou Alliance!
The development in the north is also going quite smoothly. The Human Alliance has already developed to the fourth level of civilization, but it will take time to climb to the fifth level.
As for the "Northern Defense Plan", the initial site selection process has also begun.
This is a huge project that will require hundreds of years of joint efforts from all the major civilizations in the North to complete. The planetary engine is just one part of it.
This industry chain involves hundreds of billions of people and three thousand civilizations.
Its industrial requirements and industry standards all exceed those of the Buzhou Alliance.
"The Buzhou Alliance is too loose, with little binding force on its members. Each major civilization has its own industrial standards, and this problem remains unresolved."
"But the Northern Alliance has greater cohesion and political ties, and its industry adopts human industrial standards, so it has greater potential."
It’s not that human industrial standards are particularly excellent, but rather that it involves issues of efficiency and compatibility.
The goods produced by various civilizations in the North are commonly used throughout the territory. The parts produced by the dwarf civilization can be used in the machines of the Macro Elephant Clan and the Snow Sheep Clan. This is something that the Buzhou Alliance finds difficult to achieve.
With a huge market of hundreds of billions of people, combined with the booming "field industrialization" and "myth industrialization", the Northern Alliance is catching up.
We are currently working on technologies related to space tunnels. As long as we can independently produce "space tunnel boring machine" parts and fully master the relevant technologies, the North will be promoted to a level five alliance!
"In this way, there are four level five alliances in Pangu Continent, and the number of level five civilizations exceeds double digits..." Lu Yuan couldn't help but smile.
He thought for a moment: "The innate plants in the Qiankun world have basically developed and can provide a large amount of immortal and epic materials every year."
"We can give some out as an incentive, but the quantity shouldn't be too large. Scarcity makes things valuable. If I give out a large amount, the incentive effect will disappear immediately...and it's hard to explain the source of the problem."
"The cultivation of Qiankun World has not been neglected over the years. With so much blood injected into it, there may be thousands of species of exotic beasts within..."
With the vigorous development of the mythology industrialization, there is no need to say much about acquired mythology, and various strange beasts with "bloodline power" have also appeared.
These can all feed back to the "Qiankun World".
In addition, in recent years, Lu Yuan has invested a large amount of civilization points, so his income is actually quite good. By selling divine skills and raw materials, he has probably earned tens of thousands of civilization points in the past few hundred years.
Lu Yuan has devoted all his energy to the world of Qiankun. It is definitely enough for [Greedy Demon] to retain 30,000 points.
Under such circumstances, the Qiankun World has grown to the size of the Northern Territory, its ecosystem is fully mature, and its annual output is truly countless - of course, most of the output is eaten by the animals in the Qiankun World. Self-production and self-sales are the natural cycle.
"When those innate spiritual treasures mature, I'll see if there's anything I can improve on with the Greedy Demon God..."
Lu Yuan sat on the chair, lost in thought, and then smiled silently - I agreed not to think about work, but I couldn't help but think about it. Is it true that I, Old Lu, am destined to be a slave?
He stood up, put on a mask, and wandered casually on the street.
Hai Luo is accompanying the children on campus. His parents and sister are having the New Year's Eve dinner, but he plans to go home later. It would be nice to have some time alone.
The downtown area was bustling with activity. In addition to the "Almighty Cultivation" lectures, there were also various New Year programs and inventions and innovations of the new year by student representatives.
Lu Yuan saw a kid demonstrating a "Tetris" game he had written himself. The game was not difficult to write, and it was just about some applications of two-dimensional arrays.
However, seeing that the author looked very young, I couldn't help but ask, "Little boy, how old are you?"
"Seven years old!" the child said in a muffled voice.
"So amazing, he can program Tetris at the age of seven?" Lu Yuan deliberately expressed surprise.
"No, uncle, are you mocking me?" The child sat crookedly on the chair and pursed his lips in a condescending manner. "The smartest students in our class have already participated in the robot fighting competition. I'm just a junior high school tycoon at best, just so-so."
Lu Yuan chuckled and said, "You have really high standards for yourself. A poor student like me can only look up to you top students."
"It's okay to be a poor student," the little friend consoled him. "When intelligent technology emerges, you too will experience what it's like to be a top student... but the prerequisite is to become an omnipotent person and not give up on yourself."
"Are you interested in the Almighty?"
"That's my new goal!"
"What's the old target?"
"Surpass the academic god and create brilliance, but now I have no interest in being an academic god. I just want to be an almighty person."
"I see. That really requires hard work. You have to try many things and learn a lot of knowledge. It's very tiring."
"It's okay. I can learn and play at the same time. I won't be tired."
A seven-year-old child is indeed a bit precocious. You know, in the Earth era, a seven-year-old is just in the first grade of elementary school, and is still learning addition and subtraction of single digits!
But in today's era, it is indeed very common. Due to the vigorous development of bloodline technology, most children are born with "low-level bloodline abilities", and their innate intelligence is much higher than in the past.
After walking a few steps forward, Lu Yuan saw the unique "Robot Fighting Competition". These robots were designed independently by the children, and they were allowed to use various idealistic materials.
Therefore, all kinds of fancy fields and light curtains illuminated the entire venue, and the air was filled with a burnt smell.
"There's so much money these days..." Lu Yuan watched for a while and felt a little sad. His sensibility would not allow idealistic materials to be wasted like this, but his rationality told him that it was worth it. Spending a little money could cultivate talents that adapt to the times. It was a cost-effective choice.
"Maybe we can produce a few acquired myths in the future?"
Further ahead is the "Robot Hundred Regiments War" controlled by auxiliary chips. It is a 500VS500 war. Whoever destroys the enemy's headquarters first will win the final victory. Various thermal weapons, lasers, and electromagnetic guns are used for great fun.
Because the area of the "Dongtian in the Pot" is large enough, this small-scale war exercise attracted at least 200,000 spectators. Everyone can easily see the entire picture of the war through the auxiliary chip, and can even directly project their bodies into it to observe the battlefield.
Lu Yuan was a person who liked to try new things. He observed with great interest for a while. However, when he saw that the thousand robots were damaged and parts were flying all over the place, he felt nothing but pain. After watching for a while, he could only leave in shame. He also bought a bag of pink beans.
Beefy, a bit salty.
"I'm only suited to video games. They're cheap and fun."
"Ouch?"
Lu Yuan happened to meet his pet old wolf and spotted it from several thousand meters away.
At this moment, the old wolf also has ancient blood. Even the one-eye that has been blind for a long time has recovered. Its hair is shiny, its teeth are sharp, and its tail is fluffy. It is really majestic.
However, after seeing several female dogs around it, Lu Yuan speechlessly avoided this guy.
Next, he saw the video game arcade. After entering, he experienced some electronic games from ancient times. These electronic games were even connected to the Northern Alliance and had many players.
But he was soon defeated.
In the past, he could bully others with his own operations.
Whether it is the clicking speed of the keyboard and mouse or the speed of nerve reaction, Lu Yuan is faster than others.
But now, everyone's strength has improved, and "people with high-level bloodline abilities" are everywhere.
Even if Lu Yuan still has some operational advantages, it cannot make up for his tactical disadvantages. After all, he does not have much time to play games and is not familiar with some of the latest routines.
"Damn it, come again, come again!"
Lao Lu bought a bottle of beer and a bowl of braised pork, and his money went crazy in the Internet cafe.
Time quickly came to twelve o'clock in the night, "Dangdangdang", the New Year's bell rang, and he suddenly came to his senses and realized that he had been fighting for four hours.
I rubbed my eyes and heard shouts of "Happy New Year" in Yingyu Square again. Even in the video game arcade, shouts of "Happy New Year" were heard, so I quickly followed the crowd and shouted.
Happy New Year!!
The first day of the eight hundredth year of the Ninth Era began.
Maybe this is what life is like. Time passes day by day, and the so-called "important day" is actually just an insignificant symbol.
Life itself has no purpose, it is human subjective initiative that gives it purpose.
Lu Yuan suddenly had a sense of enlightenment: "Our current progress is real, but there are also many civilizations whose progress is not real..."
Because starting from the fifth level of civilization, extraordinary resources have begun to become increasingly abundant. As long as they are not wasted, everyone can live a pretty good life.
But the so-called "good life" is actually very dangerous, which means that there is no need to try one's best anymore. What's more, the fifth-level civilization can already escape from Pangu Continent through space jump.
So gradually, development stopped.
Of course, stagnation of development will bring about a series of sequelae, the first of which is the weakening of the spirit.
There is a spiritual gap between a civilization that is full of vigor and vitality and a civilization that is content with small gains. The weakening of the spirit will be reflected in all aspects. You can secretly slack off at work, you can do less homework, there is no need to oppress yourself, just live your own life well, why bother about others?
The citizens of the fifth-level civilization are generally arrogant, and there are many progressive people among them who are incompatible with the spirit of "small happiness". They think about reform all day long and put civilization back on the right track.
Therefore, in order to ease internal conflicts, many civilizations will create an atmosphere of "we are making progress", which is manifested in the increasing number of various insignificant inventions and creations, but very few truly key inventions; the breadth of new technologies is getting wider and the depth is getting shallower.
Under this false bubble, it was difficult for progressives to initiate deep-seated reforms, and their edges were gradually smoothed out. As a result, this type of people became increasingly rare.
As a result, the prosperity bubble grew bigger and bigger, and the money was invested, but what was gained was only some technology that was not very useful. Of course, it is not easy to tell whether technology is useful or not. Maybe it is useless now, but it may be useful as a technology reserve ten years later.
Everyone is a stakeholder, so who is willing to be a whistleblower and burst this bubble?
"Prosperity bubbles have certainly existed throughout the eighteen civilizations of humanity, it's just a matter of varying degrees... Even I find it difficult to distinguish between bubbles and real progress."
"So, let's go out and let everyone experience a self-sufficient life and cultivate 'all-rounders'."
"Even if the pace of development slows down a bit after the population is dispersed, it's worth it."
Lu Yuan shook his head, got up from the arcade, and came to a space shuttle station. There were crowds of people here. It was getting late, and the city residents had all returned home.
With a light "whoosh" sound, he returned to the green mountain, crossing hundreds of kilometers in less than a second.
This is Princess Green's private territory. Over the years, not much has changed except that the vegetation has grown more lush.
A full moon hangs in the sky, and crickets are chirping - in the Earth era, the moon cannot be seen during the Spring Festival, but in the Pangaea continent, the appearance of the moon is not fixed, and it may appear randomly every day.
At twelve o'clock in the evening, the family had already fallen asleep. Even the old wolf had returned home after a stroll. When he heard the noise, he wagged his big tail to welcome his master: "Ao!"
"Shh... go to sleep!" Lu Yuan returned home and saw steaming dumplings in the fresh-keeping jar on the table. This should be the New Year's Eve dinner?
Handmade dumplings with pork and celery filling. I tried a few and they still had that familiar taste of my mother's. However, they are not considered top-notch delicacies in today's era.
In this era, even traditional pigs, cattle, and sheep have become less common. People in Green City generally eat meat with ancient bloodlines, and this ordinary pork is imported from other civilizations.
Lu Yuan ate a few dumplings and inexplicably felt nostalgic.
"Everything is different now."
(End of this chapter)
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