Resurrection Empire
Chapter 343 - 144: A History Full of Suspicions and Distortions_2

Chapter 343: Chapter 144: A History Full of Suspicions and Distortions_2

Subsequently, electricity entered the history of the humans on Source Star.

The civilization of Source Star humanity embarked on its first industrial revolution centered on electrical energy.

The level of technology began to advance rapidly.

Then, one after another, nations both large and small were established and then vanished.

After another five hundred years of evolution, thirteen hundred years ago, a groundbreaking technology appeared, which was the "Wrist watch".

The "Wrist watch" ushered in a brand-new human strength system, parameters became clarified, and various occupational systems began to sprout.

However, the "Wrist watch" of that time was not in the form it is today; it was a Ruins Beast Crystal Chip implanted at the junction of the human brainstem and spine.

The implantation process was accompanied by immense pain, and there was a certain mortality rate.

But regardless, the people of Source Star took another step forward.

After that, humans completely gained the upper hand in the contest with the Ruined Beasts, and development proceeded at a high speed.

When the threat of external enemies declined, internal conflicts of excessive intensity erupted.

The war between humans and Ruined Beasts was replaced by internal human warfare.

After several hundred years of both prosperous and brutal internal wars, nine massive corporations sprang into existence, demolished all nations, and completely ended the wars, establishing a unified global society 682 years ago centered around the Business Association and the Nine Major Groups as its core. The employees, their families, and senior management within these nine corporations were listed as Citizens, while all humans outside the industrial sphere of these nine groups were categorized as Wildlings.

Afterwards, Contribution Points began to serve as the unified currency.

The New Origin Calendar commenced.

It was also in the same year that Hunters appeared.

Early Hunters did not hunt Wildlings, they only handled the remains.

It wasn’t until 264 years ago, when the Deep Communication Group and Alson Group jointly introduced the true wrist watch, that Hunters began to use the presence of wrist watches as a criterion for whether Wildlings should be hunted.

It was also in the same year that the wrist watches appeared, when a new tax system and a basic system of Contribution Points distributed during sleep were established.

years ago, Alson Group’s first interstellar exploration ship set sail, commencing interstellar trade with external non-human advanced civilizations.

After more than two and a half centuries of development, the history of Source Star has reached today.

Ren Zhong personally holds a severe skeptical attitude towards this "history".

In his view, there are many doubts, it’s full of flaws.

Even ignoring the true human lifespan and genuine sleep, there are still loopholes everywhere.

Humans evolved from Ruined Beasts?

It’s utterly absurd and laughable!

Moreover, with the inherent strength of humans, without the aid of tools, Ren Zhong fundamentally does not understand how ancient humans managed to proliferate under the terrifying pursuit of Ruined Beasts.

If you can’t find the trick, even a First Level Crystal Winged Dragonfly can wipe out a village.

No matter how much they reproduce, it’s all for naught.

Humanity should have long gone extinct!

And then there’s the notion of Yu inventing writing seven to eight thousand years ago, which is even more ridiculous.

It’s clearly the simplified Chinese characters from China!

We also speak authentic standard Mandarin, at most interspersed with a comprehensive collection of national swear words from Brother Sun!

Moreover, since the humans of Source Star have been active on this planet for so many years, why is it that the frozen storages for himself and numerous other deceased individuals can lie openly in a small grove without being discovered?

This is highly illogical.

Since you have a history spanning thousands of years, then what do "ancient people" like me, lying in frozen storage from Earth, count as?

Furthermore, the naming method of the Screw Rock Excavator hardly resembles the naming style of non-human civilizations.

Are those we engage in celestial trade with truly non-human advanced civilizations?

Moreover, analyzing from Ren Zhong’s limited knowledge of human sociology, under the premise of highly advanced technological and informational levels, regardless of the political system, what humanity should and most wants to pursue is to continue exploring outward.

Whether it’s the storm of the seas or lurking crises in the universe, nothing can halt humanity’s boundless curiosity and ambition.

This is an indomitable biological instinct.

Otherwise, ancient humans could never have traversed the globe with just their legs during the Ice Age.

But what does this amount to now?

This planet controlled by the Nine Major Groups isn’t even like a capitalist society; it’s plainly a feudal society disguised as a corporate system, or even a semi-primitive society.

Citizens are hereditary nobility, Wildlings are essentially lifelong generational slaves.

The Nine Major Groups are clearly nine enormous slave owners, only these slave masters’ territorial maps aren’t divided by region but by industrial landscape, and are interspersed with one another.

Moreover, the Nine Major Groups aren’t at all pursuing higher productivity, they firmly control all real knowledge, enforce the most thorough ignorance-indoctrination, and blatantly regard people as commodities.

This is primitively crude, and is the least efficient mechanism for productivity distribution.

Ren Zhong also saw the real technology route in the realm of Citizen privileges.

Yes, there are indeed real scientists on Source Star.

But the Business Association divides science bluntly into two parts: one is science, the other is technology.

Wildlings as well as Citizens below the Fifth Level can only access the "technology" part, which is all applied knowledge.

As for the science part, it’s even more distorted and abnormal.

Most scientists on Source Star likewise never pursue fundamental principles, only seeking to use the exhaustive method to repeatedly try new uses for existing materials.

The only facet with perhaps a sense of innovation is the continuously updated and upgraded new style advanced wrist watch, as well as the method to reduce the production cost of advanced wrist watches.

In historical records, the original First Level formal wrist watch of the past could only produce 0.01 Contribution Points when worn.

There was not even any mention of renting wrist watches back then, and now this figure has increased a hundredfold.

Of course, prices at that time were also much cheaper compared to now.

0.01 Contribution Points was enough to buy food for an adult to satiate hunger for a day.

As a 21st-century scientific researcher, Ren Zhong finds these circumstances utterly incomprehensible.

What is most important in advancing human civilization?

Not the nobility!

It is science!

Where does science originate?

From wisdom!

Whose wisdom?

The wisdom of every individual!

Who says that a genius brain cannot emerge from a poor family?

To deprive the poor of the right to education closes not just the channel for the poor to achieve class mobility, but also the ladder for the advancement of civilization!

This will only lead society into stagnation, completely stifling the ability to innovate.

There’s not a spark of social wisdom on the entire planet.

This is a man-made shackle.

If Source Star were a completely isolated star system with visibly limited resources, then that’s that.

But now, interstellar trade takes place every day, evidently a portion of humanity has ventured out.

The universe is so vast, with so many resources, and there is human freezing technology, so why can’t we spread like stars across the sky?

These various circumstances do not conform to Ren Zhong’s understanding of human instincts.

However, that said, Ren Zhong also knows that the flaws he perceives are merely his own individual "biased" interpretation.

In the eyes of regular people on Source Star, the world is supposed to be this way, humanity is supposed to be this way.

All seemingly illogical aspects have already been patched with explanations by the numerous Citizen Scholars from the long river of time.

Rome wasn’t built in a day, before his awakening, Source Star had indeed been operating in this manner steadily for at least a few hundred years.

Fortunately, up to now, Ren Zhong has already become a mature individual of Source Star.

He no longer becomes inexplicably angry at the sight of illogicalities.

He just buries the obsession for change deep in his heart, silently marking himself.

He did not attract Hunters by reviewing history.

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