Trading Cosmic Battleship From The Start
Chapter 193 - 137: The Current State of the Future World

Chapter 193: Chapter 137: The Current State of the Future World

With the Jupiter production base, humanity gained experience in building bases, providing more advantages for the three-hundred-plus-year-long war with the Worren.

Thus, the time for humanity to defeat the Worren was advanced by more than a decade.

The timeline for the Star System Fortress project in the future world was also brought forward.

This realization made Shen Shi aware that not only changes related to the war, but also developments across other aspects could have a series of positive impacts on the future three thousand years hence.

Previously, I didn’t realize this, probably because the impact in this regard wasn’t significant.

But even if the impact isn’t as massive as the changes brought by the war, it accumulates over time, adding weight to changing humanity’s fate.

This led Shen Shi to start valuing these aspects.

Before this, he didn’t particularly care about humanity’s development speed; after all, there were only two or three short years before the war came, and in that time, no matter how much human civilization developed, it wouldn’t help the war.

The construction of Planet Fortresses, the training of Interstellar Forces, including the Deep Space Trap about to be set up, could offer little help from human civilization itself.

Even the Space City, intensively promoted and built recently, essentially offered no significant help to the war.

Though it was said that Space City was relatively safe, the strategic goal Shen Shi had always wanted to accomplish was to prevent the Worren Fleet from reaching Blue Star.

If that succeeded, then it wouldn’t matter if Space City could be completed in time.

All these factors combined made Shen Shi indifferent to the internal development of human civilization.

Keeping a laissez-faire attitude.

But now, he seemed to see a different significance.

Especially from the timing perspective, the crises in the future world would explode before he dealt with the Worren.

"The next ’tributary’ and the next investigation initiated by the Daike Civilization is only a year away, right?" Shen Shi asked Gong Chu about this matter after finishing interstellar warfare studies, "Is the audit for promotion to C-level Civilization completed before then?"

"Exactly, the timeline is extremely tight." Gong Chu’s consciousness residue was clearly closely monitoring relevant information, "Currently, auditors from the Es Civilization have already begun comprehensive audits within our civilization with high efficiency. If we succeed, then the investigation by the Daike Civilization a year later will be halted because we would both be C-level Civilizations, and they would no longer have the authority to investigate us."

If failed, Gong Chu didn’t say, but the emotions he transmitted conveyed that outcome.

Human civilization would be left with only the path of a decisive battle.

Don’t think that even if successful, battling with Daike Civilization is meaningless because it’s inevitable.

The difference between the two is still tremendous.

Most notably, success means it’s a war between two C-level civilizations. That will be conducted under the Mude System’s rules, even providing certain protection to both sides—since the Mude System profits from the wars.

This is considered the Mude System’s way of nurturing civilizations above the C-level.

Upon reaching C-level, it no longer requires periodic submission of fellow compatriots to the Mude System, nor does it need to withstand rigorous investigations and supervision, nominally possessing a degree of autonomy.

However, not having to submit compatriots doesn’t mean no need to offer tributes.

C-level Civilizations must still regularly submit large quantities of Primordial Energy Batteries to the whole Mude System.

But without submitting compatriots, where do these Primordial Energy Batteries come from?

The answer is from managing lower-level civilizations, and warfare with other C-level civilizations.

Yes, throughout the Mude System, warfare between civilizations is constant.

They rely on wars to plunder each other’s intelligent life, then make Primordial Energy Batteries and hand them to the Mude System. The stronger civilizations would sacrifice less, and they could also develop faster through plunder.

The Worren leader, according to historical records, perished in the war between the Daike and another C-level Civilization.

The Daike Civilization’s current high alertness against the nearly C-level human civilization in the future world is for the same reason.

Each C-level civilization has its domain.

But the proximity between human civilization and Daike Civilization is so close that if human civilization advances to C-level, it would almost immediately threaten the Daike Civilization.

However—

If human promotion fails and Daike Civilization discovers evidence of human universal black market terminals violating Mude rules, the war between human civilization and Daike Civilization won’t be a war between two C-level civilizations.

Instead, it’s Daike Civilization punishing human civilization according to regulations.

By then, human civilization couldn’t receive any war support from the Mude System, nor would the Mude rules "prohibit large-scale slaughter of intelligent life during war" provide any shelter, meaning Daike Civilization can freely use unrestricted warfare methods, including microbial weapons, weapons of mass destruction, and Primordial Energy destructive weapons, to implement annihilative strikes against the entire human race.

The level of war, and the difficulty of war, will be entirely different.

This is where this audit’s true significance lies.

"Is the possibility of audit approval high?" Shen Shi asked this crucial question.