Deep Space Wandering Fleet
Chapter 248 - Chapter 248 Chapter 248 Everything Begins 50000 Years Ago

Chapter 248: Chapter 248: Everything Begins 50,000 Years Ago Chapter 248: Chapter 248: Everything Begins 50,000 Years Ago Zhang Yuan’s face was flushed, he held his breath, and glanced at the corpse. It couldn’t really be called a member of the Rebel army, at most, it was just a ragtag bunch.

These grassroots heroes thought their “choice” could save their entire civilization, but in reality, this was not the case…

Finding a way out of the thorns was easier said than done. For a civilization to undergo true change, strong guiding ideologies and a scientific trajectory for advancement were both essential; neither could be missing. Acting impulsively, trying to “break and then establish,” was just like angrily smashing a broken pot beyond repair, which had a greater chance of making reality even worse.

Numerous such stories had occurred on Earth, with so-called demonstrations and strikes being 99% meaningless…

Subsequently, Zhang Yuan was urgently taken to the biohazard isolation zone for a comprehensive microbial checkup. His left bionic mechanical hand had taken a bullet but suffered no significant malfunctions. However, Zhang Yuan himself had been exposed to the air of this planet and had definitely inhaled some microorganisms. Whether or not he would get sick was still up for debate.

But the Glizerians had specific drugs for treating microorganisms, and Humans themselves also possessed a certain level of non-specific immune capabilities. For such a small amount of microorganisms, theoretically, there shouldn’t be too much of a problem.

“You have a minor allergic reaction, nothing serious. The survival rate of these microorganisms in an aerobic environment is very low… As for further symptoms, we will have to observe,” Lin Xuanyuan was doing a comprehensive examination for him, her face puckered with concern. “Ah, you’ll just have to be quarantined for a while, then we’ll do a blood test. It should be fine if the numbers aren’t high.”

Zhang Yuan nodded; there was nothing else to be done. If he really contracted some contagious disease, which had a certain incubation period, he could perhaps infect everyone on the spaceship upon returning to the Earth Era Spacecraft, which would be disastrous.

At that moment, the door to the room made a sound, and a Glizerian wearing a space suit walked in, the leader of their civilization, who had come personally to apologize.

Zhang Yuan sat up and Lin Xuanxuan respectfully walked out of the room.

He gravely said, “Governor Ganyador, I believe you owe me an explanation. If our civilizations are to proceed with further cooperation, it seems your civilization has many dissenting opinions…”

Ganyador also let out a sigh and seemed to age further in that instant…

…

Fifty thousand Earth years ago, an alien interstellar fleet happened to pass by “Gliese 581” and while replenishing their routine material resources, they discovered a civilization that was still in the Stone Age in terms of productivity but had highly developed art and culture.

After some investigation, the interstellar civilization concluded that the most valuable aspects of the Gleize Civilization were their bizarre mathematical systems and… the art they created!

Especially the latter–the various art pieces were valued even more in their eyes.

Under these circumstances–whether out of pity or some other reason–the interstellar civilization did not plunder but instead conducted a series of trades with the Gleize Civilization, virtually buying up all the works of art that civilization had amassed over a hundred thousand years.

In exchange, the cost was… helping the Gleize Civilization to take its initial step toward electrification and placing a “fully automated universal factory” in each of the 13 major cities.

These “Universal Factories” were like the pinnacle of a Second-level Civilization’s creations, large in size and mass, and since a Second-level Civilization’s creation was of little use to the interstellar fleet, it made more sense to trade them away, leaving both parties satisfied.

However, the Gleize Civilization, being crucially blocked by the node of electricity, was as if it had received the “Divine Favour” exemplified in legends; it took off and underwent a true qualitative change!

Governor of Gor City at the time, Kasi Mowen, wrote ecstatically in his diary, “It is unimaginable, truly unimaginable… We have contacted an extremely friendly Alien Civilization! Despite the absolute gap in strength, they did not plunder us.”

“They informed us of more truths; on some Life Planets in the Universe, there is actually an abundance of oxygen in the natural environment!!!”

“…In other worlds, combustion occurs, chemical energy can be utilized with ease, and technological development is so simple, so effortless for them… This damned fact had held us back for a hundred thousand years… All our scientists have toiled and could not see a path forward in development, solely because of the absence of combustion.”

“Now, we no longer need the combustion phenomenon…”

“Electricity has finally arrived!”

“Thanks to this friendly interstellar civilization…”

“Thanks… heartfelt thanks!”

“And what we’ve given up is merely some insignificant artifacts.”

Kasi Mowen believed that selling off artifacts accumulated over a hundred thousand years in exchange for a bright future was an unbelievably good deal.

Any civilization would do the same.

“Are we supposed to cling to our art and live like primitive people? Of course not.”

“We will definitely seize this opportunity to become a towering presence, just like the Enlightener Civilization!”

The Gleize Civilization had waited far too long for this moment, and upon being presented with an abundance of ready knowledge, they unleashed nearly all of their potential.

Many mathematicians buried themselves in their work again, delving into long-discarded physics and chemistry, studying intently. Workers were willing to rest less and exhaust their bodies to complete these developments.

Electricity was just too precious for a civilization without the phenomenon of combustion, even a ten-thousand-fold increase in its importance would not be excessive!

Amidst this fervent construction, in just a year and a half, the preliminary electrification of 13 major cities was completed, nuclear power stations began generating electricity, smelting factories could produce various metals through electrolysis, and Universal Factories started production on a small scale…

After the trade was concluded, the interstellar civilization quickly left Gleize 581 to continue their extensive journey.

In the end, the Glizerians didn’t even know the specific name of the civilization… They just blindly worshipped this seemingly friendly civilization, and it still remained so.

A name was nothing but a title, for the wandering interstellar fleet, this trade was just a minor event in a long journey. Moreover, it was highly probable that they would never meet again, so what point was there in sharing names?

Their adoration? Unnecessary.

“In summary, in a year and a half’s time, our civilization underwent a dramatic transformation. Our science leapfrogged from the Stone Age to the Electric Era, the advent of steel, copper, aluminum, and other metals, whose performance surpassed stone and wood by manifold. Especially in the Universal Factory, all sorts of strange and curious data left everyone dumbfounded and ecstatic.”

So many strange and curious things existed in the world…

But such social change completely exceeded their cognitive limits, as well as the capacity of that era to cope.

With no constraints from alien civilizations, the Glizerians were quickly overwhelmed by the massive productivity, sparking the first wave of unrest within their civilization–internal conflict!

“Yes, internal conflict!”

When Zhang Yuan heard this, his body tensed up; it was completely contrary to what he had imagined, almost like a twist of intuition.

After acquiring the Universal Factory, shouldn’t they have been making great strides forward? How did it suddenly lead to an internal conflict?