Chapter 156 Interstellar Martial Arts Competition
"Hey, look over there!"
Suddenly, Esther seemed to have discovered something serious. She started yelling in the live broadcast room and pulled the arms of her friends hard to divert everyone's attention.
Everyone turned around as they were told, and were all shocked.
"...What's going on?" Toynbee rubbed his eyes silently, unable to believe that one day he would witness such a scene with his own eyes. "That's Percy Palmer Owen from Kil'jaeden, right?! Is it really not a substitution?"
"Although it's hard to believe, I don't think Kil'jaeden's people will do this for the time being." So there was no doubt that the person in front of everyone was that adult, but it was even more shocking because it was true. "...What is Percy planning to do?"
"I'm afraid he wants to do that...Chu, Chu Yi? Right, the lady Percy is greeting with a smile now. Kil'jaeden probably wants to arrange a marriage."
Don’t think that there is no such thing as marriage in the interstellar age. On the contrary, there are more marriages in the interstellar age than in the feudal period of Blue Star.
Everyone says that modern society is the fast-food age. Whether it is life or work, the pace is very fast. If compared in this way, the interstellar society may be the rocket age. From the top to the bottom, there are many marriages without any emotion.
For people in the interstellar age, the most important thing in life is not feelings, but social status and future achievements.
Advanced technology has indeed brought a lot of convenience to people, but not everyone can enjoy this convenience for free. Moreover, convenience does not mean good. Above the convenient facilities, there are more advanced levels.
The inhabitants of the interstellar age generally have long lives, and the shortest-lived species live for more than 100 years. In this long time, it would be a mistake to waste time on useless feelings.
There are no strange settings in this universe. No life will be loyal to only one partner for its entire life. A longer lifespan means an increased chance of boredom. For a long time, the birth rate of newborns in every civilization dropped to a terrifying level.
People are unwilling to waste their time on meaningless relationships, and are even unwilling to form a stable family.
The mainstream idea at that time was that if you wanted a relationship, you should find a partner with similar interests. The two of you would spend the honeymoon period sweetly, and when the passion was over and the interest was gone, you could just part ways amicably. Only when people want to give birth to the next generation will they take the search seriously.
Once the cubs are conceived, the parents will basically return to their original lives, except that raising offspring will be one more item in their life plans.
Rather than being a couple, they are more like partners who have reached an agreement. The investment of both parties is their own excellent genes, and the offspring are the result of the cooperation. Partners naturally don’t care about feelings, and a perfect family is one where they can live in peace with each other.
When it comes to collaboration, everyone naturally wants better collaborators. Just like flower growers hope their sons will become successful, aliens will also place all their hopes on the next generation. As long as their offspring can have more perfect genes, they can reach a higher level.
In fact, the current mainstream thinking is similar.
People pursue too many things, and emotions are just a kind of adjustment. No one will waste time on adjustment.
Under the influence of these ideas, the inhabitants of the universe will instinctively pursue life forms with more perfect genes. When the gene sequences are extremely similar and have the possibility of combination, the scene before our eyes will appear.
"Do you think this is Percy's own idea, or is it Kil'jaeden's intention?" Esther walked around the two people who were talking happily. "I think this is probably Percy's own impromptu idea."
"Of course it can't be Kil'jaeden's idea. They are not a centralized system."
Kil'jaeden is a federal system with 13 controllers in the entire regime. Excluding those with weak power like Rupert, any random order from the others can determine the future of a small civilization. How could such a powerful superior leave such an opportunity to a certain consul?
I'm afraid Percy himself didn't have such thoughts until he officially met the people of the Galactic Civilization.
Even though he wanted to increase his own strength, Percy had his own pride and he would not just throw himself at someone.
However, all these concerns would probably disappear when I got the information from the beautiful conference host.
One of the pillars of the top forces, a super genius unparalleled in history, a bridge connecting saints and mortals, a peerless beauty with natural beauty... This monk Chu Yi has countless dazzling halos on his body.
Although according to the information, this monk Chu Yi is still in the growth stage and his future is still shrouded in mystery. But being admired by the entire civilization and carrying so many halos, how could the achievements be bad?
It was only natural that Percy would be moved.
Not to mention Percy, who in the entire universe wouldn't be tempted? Even they were moved after seeing so many beautiful creatures of the galactic civilization.
Unfortunately, they can only fantasize, while people like Percy have the capital to take action. And in the interstellar age, considering reproductive isolation, Kil'jaeden are probably the only people in the universe who have the opportunity to pursue humans of galactic civilization.
If other civilizations want to seek marriage alliances, they may have to try other races. I heard that within the galactic civilization, there is reproductive isolation between humans and other races. Only practitioners who are strong enough to a certain level can ignore this law of the universe.
"But I think Percy's chances of success are slim. The two civilizations almost became mortal enemies. The general of the Border Star garrison who was killed by the Galactic Civilization was one of his men. No matter how you look at it, there is no hope."
Esther stopped walking and stopped circling around the two people who were still talking.
Although Percy Palmer Owen's appearance was very much in line with human aesthetics and his identity also matched the requirements, he just felt that Percy had no hope at all. From what I just observed, there wasn't any fluctuation in the eyes of the monk Chu Yi who was chatted up by Percy.
If Esther didn't know that humans have emotions, she would have thought Chu Yi was talking to a dead object.
"Even if Chu Yi is willing, the civilizations and forces behind her will not agree. There are countless civilizations in the universe that are coveting their genes." Kaili and Esther hold the same view. "On the surface, it is a marriage, but everyone knows what happens behind the scenes."
It is nothing more than becoming a controlled puppet, providing research samples for the forces behind the 'partner'.
If you are luckier, you may be able to appear intact in front of people. If you are unlucky, you may disappear into the depths of the universe, leaving only a seemingly living shell to deceive the world.
"If Percy had chosen someone else to attack, it would have been possible. Anyone who could come to the Universal Union Conference is extremely smart. But with Percy's vision, he would not be interested in just anyone."
Just as the topic of discussion among the few people was gradually becoming off-topic, the banquet entered its final stage.
Today's banquet was not originally planned to last long. It would officially end after everyone had eaten and drunk well and toasted to celebrate. The people of the galactic civilization must go back and prepare to deal with the next challenges, and the alien forces must also go back to prepare the plans discussed at the meeting.
When a civilization joins the Universal Federation, the first thing it does is not to establish its authority, but to establish a trading port as quickly as possible. The so-called economy drives development. The galactic civilization has many things that alien civilizations covet, and aliens also have resources that the galactic civilization urgently needs.
After hundreds of years of Chu Yi's efforts, the cultivation system of the galactic civilization has entered a period of stable development. As time goes by, it will naturally restore its former glory.
Only in the field of science and technology has it always been relatively weak.
From the very beginning, the rapid development was achieved by relying on Chu Yi's plug-in. The suits in her system were all ordinary technological suits, and there was no setting for the background of spiritual energy + technology. In the early stages, it can still be directly applied, but in the later stages, it still has to rely more on local scientists' own research.
Myths have a really big influence on the rules of the world.
Countless scientific arguments that have long been proven will have to be overturned and started over again, not to mention the future technologies that will be developed based on them.
After Chu Yi exchanged for the Saint vest, the information provided by her two technological vests - Julia and Anasta - could only serve as a reference. It can be used as an inspiration when scientists are out of ideas, but scientists still have to find ways to make breakthroughs in specific research themselves.
In fact, with this rate of development, the technology of this universe cannot bring any progress to the galactic civilization, but more reference materials are always good.
There is another hypothesis about this matter.
According to the saint's calculations, the two universes have now completely merged together, and even if the saint tries his best, he will not be able to separate them. The rules of both sides will naturally blend together. As time goes by, perhaps alien civilizations will also be affected by spiritual energy.
Just like Blue Planet, technology is at risk of collapse.
This matter concerns the future of all civilizations, so of course they must be informed in advance. Chu Yi does not want his plan to cause the development of countless civilizations to regress or even be destroyed.
In the end, the galactic civilization made a lot of concessions at the meeting, otherwise it would not be able to appease the alien civilizations whose interests were directly harmed.
Initially, some people suggested that this matter be kept secret to prevent aliens from discovering the truth. But it was rejected as soon as it was proposed. In this technological age, how can there be any secrets that can be kept? This virtual world is so vast that it seems like a real universe, and even the scientists who created it cannot fully control it.
0 and 1 are simple, but when they form the world, they contain infinite secrets.
If they don't want to cause more serious consequences, they should just work together honestly.
Concessions are necessary. After all, they are the main culprit of this crisis, but this does not mean that the galactic civilization will continue to regress. Long before the first shot was fired, the various forces had already reached a tacit understanding.
What each party should give up, how much they should give up, and what the bottom line is have already been agreed upon internally. Even the speeches at the conference were compiled over a long period of time by a large number of language and social experts.
So it seems that the alien civilization has gotten a huge advantage, but in fact it is the compensation that the galactic civilization has prepared long ago, just waiting for today to come and then give it out as a matter of course.
But no matter what the inside story is, on the surface, everyone got a satisfactory result. As long as the predetermined goal is achieved, any calculations behind it can be ignored.
Alien civilizations are not fools either. The galactic civilization has the backing of saints and gods. It is already a great thing for them to make concessions and provide certain compensations. If they don't want to make concessions, with the protection of the saints and the main gods, other civilizations will not dare to do anything.
Now, all the satisfied alien forces are quietly waiting for Chu Yi to speak, to see what else the Galactic Civilization will do.
"...In order to deepen our mutual understanding and for the sake of future common development, we propose to hold an interstellar martial arts competition. Of course, it is only a friendly match, with friendship first and competition second."
After a long round of polite conversation, Chu Yi took a breath and then asked, "What do you think?"
"......"
Unexpectedly, the Galactic Civilization actually wanted to hold a competition. The representatives of the major civilizations were a little at a loss for a moment.
They definitely want to find out the details of the galactic civilization. Just looking at the information provided by the other party, they are unable to analyze any specific intelligence. Originally they had a similar proposal, wanting to collect intelligence, and nothing was more useful than a battle.
But the plan did not allow this to be brought up now. The two parties have just reached a friendly agreement, so this matter, which obviously has other intentions, will naturally be put on hold for a while.
I didn’t expect that the Galactic Civilization would bring it up themselves.
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