Deep Space Wandering Fleet
Chapter 373 - 372 The Change of Riley Star

Chapter 373: Chapter 372 The Change of Riley Star

Confronted with Wang Junpeng’s questioning, all the diplomats fell into deep thought.

The Kunlun Mountain Government had already set forth all the diplomatic protocols from the beginning, including those for engaging with such ancient civilizations. The actions of humanity were just like what the Gliese Civilization had encountered with the first interstellar civilization they met, providing only limited help rather than unrestricted assistance.

At the time, some people didn’t fully grasp what "limited help" truly meant, but now, everyone understood.

As interstellar diplomats, they naturally maintained their own professional integrity, prioritizing their civilization’s interests first without taking on any semblance of moral sanctity. They simply observed the fanatical Riley people with a detached eye, quietly alert within, wary of becoming a similar civilization...

A monumental social upheaval occurred in the native nations of Riley Star!

All the Kings issued orders with great urgency to buy cultural tomes from the population at high prices, and they also conscripted large numbers of people to collect biological specimens.

The Nobles, too, hurriedly mobilized their own power, eager to get a share of the pie. The competition was fierce: there were many things that humans would only take once, not twice!

The territory of a planet is inevitably vast, and this civilization in its primitive state had quite inconvenient information exchange. Therefore, to better spread information, Riley people could only travel around in human spaceships, experiencing the thrill of swift and electrifying flight.

There’s no need to delve into their shock and amazement.

Within a month, almost every nation knew of this news, and without exception, it caused tremendous sensation.

Due to the arrival of humans, this ancient civilization experienced a major economic boom and development!

The Stone Age had persisted until the present day, lasting for a million years; the productivity of the Riley Civilization had long ceased to develop, and their social classes were rigidly fixed. Previously, to redistribute wealth, only the brutal means of war was an option. But now, a huge pie had fallen from the sky, so tempting and sweet, that the officials and Nobles began to frantically scramble for a piece, seemingly regardless of their own lives.

The Nobles who got the biggest share inevitably spilled some "soup" for those below them.

In order to stimulate work motivation, even the lower-ranked slaves received numerous pardons.

For the time being, there were no capricious abuses of slaves, as these "Divine Messengers" seemed quite compassionate and didn’t appear to take pleasure in cruelty. Moreover, slaves could be sold to humans, representing a valuable asset.

In short, all work was going very smoothly, except that sometimes the Riley people would fall into a frenzy out of sheer zealotry upon seeing humans, but no special accidents occurred.

Especially on the 39th day, when the Riley people saw an immense transport aircraft descend from the sky and lift a World Tree livingly off the ground, disappearing into the horizon, their adoration reached a peak.

They prostrated on the ground, one by one chanting "Axi ba," "Axi ba." These Riley people truly realized the immense quality of these World Trees... to be able to take them beyond the unseen skies, what an incredible power that must be!

"Divine Messenger, taking the World Tree to the Divine’s side, what a majestic existence."

"The distant horizon, the hall of the Divine!" Their own wings could only glide, not truly fly, they couldn’t comprehend what lay beyond the sky, so they resorted to this belief.

"Kind Divine, merciful Divine, bless us to harvest more... Axi ba!"

In some suburban area, a collector of herbs watched the departing spaceship, praying devoutly. For them, life had suddenly improved, their income multiplied several times, and they were no longer as strapped for cash as before.

"Divine, bless us!" In the wilderness of the forest, a group of slaves was also praying fanatically.

They were attempting to capture the juvenile of a large carnivorous animal. This planet’s most powerful beast could easily kill a Riley person, and normally, no one would dare to provoke it.

But a successful capture meant they could free themselves from slavery, and even receive a hefty reward!

After finishing their prayers, all the Riley people raised their weapons, for the sake of their future destiny, they could only...

I’ll give it my all!

At the same time, but in different places, numerous Riley people were praying...

The appearance of humans had brought opportunities, bringing changes to the entire world—changes that were truly earth-shattering for them. This was something that humans had not anticipated at the beginning. The arrival of humans turned out to have such a profound impact.

Many sociologists were also calculating whether this transformation would bring benefits or harm.

"...the envoy descended upon the world, bringing us a better life. It is precisely because of our devout faith that the divine were moved."

"Axi be praised!" a religious scholar wrote emphatically in his own work, solemnly recording the occurrence of this event.

Though he added his own jumbled thoughts, it was, nevertheless, a form of written record.

Should another interstellar civilization come by chance to this planet and conduct a very rigorous scientific investigation, they might discover the vestiges of human presence from these texts.

Of course, that might never happen...

This segment of history was merely a tiny splash in the vast universe. Besides humans themselves, who else would care?

Meanwhile, the human staff on the surface were also exceptionally busy. The manpower had been urgently increased to five-thousand person-times, but when compared to a whole planet, this number was still too scant. Pilots had to fly their spaceships to twenty or thirty different collection points in a single day, which was truly a test of energy and strength.

The related historical texts and cultural records, after being electronically scanned, would be uploaded to the Kunlun Mountain Mother Ship...

Various animals and plants were also transported there by cargo ships.

What a great harvest!

...

On this very day, many staff members were in the office, organizing all sorts of data.

"Are you saying that much of their historical material is incomplete and, coupled with the excessive fictional content...this makes these historical samples of little use to the perfection of New Civilization History?" Zhang Yuan frowned. He had been calculating in this area and had identified similar trends.

All things were somehow linked to mysterious divine entities, making it impossible for humans to separate the real from the faux.

A mathematician nodded, "Yes, Captain, the history of this civilization has been in a cycle of repetition."

"Some events are embellished to such an extent that they are utterly false, vastly exaggerated. We can’t distinguish which heroic tales are true and which are fabricated. Naturally, they cannot be used to improve New Civilization History."

"Just like our visit this time has been recorded by them, described in such a florid manner. We merely provided some metal materials, which brought significant changes to this civilization. Yet all the credit has been attributed to us...but it is not actually the case."

These texts recorded the history of this civilization’s development, a history that likely spanned a million years!

For a million years, they had not developed technology and had lost a significant amount of historical data, making it disjointed and sporadic.

It was particularly noteworthy that, according to Artificial Intelligence analysis, the Riley Civilization might have been in contact with one or two interstellar civilizations that visited this planet.

But these interstellar civilizations, just like the Badeit Civilization, were not very interested in the Riley Civilization. They took some people and left. Yet in their texts, this was recorded as "the divine selected the suffering to ascend to Heaven."

"Moreover, this civilization is too feeble. What could possibly be preserved for a million years?"