Ten thousand I am across the heavens

Chapter 1769: The Survival of Civilization

Elizabeth and the demons with the strongest physical fitness and combat power formed a ground exploration team. This part selected members with relatively stronger combat power. Even those who were not demons were all experts from various races. There were traces of civilization in the environment on the ground, and there might even be living creatures. There might be more unknown dangers. The group that went to explore the artificial sun was more technical.

This group of people does not need a high level of military strength, because if there is any problem with the artificial sun, it cannot be solved by force. If a nuclear bomb explodes in their face, even if Iraqis himself comes in person, it will be useless.

After Elizabeth landed on the ground through the rope, she immediately felt refreshed. The slowly rotating drum created a simulated gravity effect. Although this level of gravity was much lower than what she was used to, it was still much more comfortable than a zero-gravity environment.

After they came to the ground, they saw the details of this world. The area where they landed was actually a special terrain. The walls on both sides of the ecological drum were not straight up and down, but a strange concave shape, a bit like the curved base of a can, with a concave bottom. Without a rope, it would be almost impossible to climb up such a steep cliff with an angle of more than 90 degrees. What's more, the cliff was made of alloy, and it was extremely difficult to carve out a grippable area on the smooth surface.

After they landed, they discovered a strange phenomenon, that is, there was a deep abyss behind their landing point. When they took pictures just now, these areas were not within the shooting range of the camera, so they could not see them. They could only see the opposite side. The area symmetrical to this side had obvious shadows on the edge of the drum.

When they got closer, they found that the shadow here was actually a steep abyss. The demon beside Elizabeth took out a searchlight and shone it at the bottom of the steep abyss. Elizabeth and several other people took out telescopes and observed the abyss that was a thousand meters deep. Then they were shocked to see that below the abyss, there were crisscrossing spikes. These spikes were like sharp blades, and there were some bones pierced on them. They looked like the corpses of humanoid creatures.

"Why is there such a design?" Elizabeth was puzzled. The abyss was covered with blade-like spikes, and the walls were at an angle of more than 90 degrees. The designer's idea was easy to understand, which was to prevent the life living in this drum from leaving the drum.

Judging from some mechanical wreckage in the abyss below, there are probably not only spikes to prevent people from exploring and leaving, but there are also machines maintaining these traps to ensure that no one can escape from the drum.

"Could this be a prison? It's used to hold criminals. Otherwise there's no way to explain it. Why can someone who can build such an advanced spaceship only build such a backward civilization in this drum?" A succubus in the team put forward her own guess.

Succubus are one of the few demons who make a living with their brains. In the Demon King's Castle, they become high-level technicians. When Yzaks was conquering the world, the most powerful military advisor under his command was a succubus.

"Well, there is such a possibility, but let's continue to look at the city built by the people here. By the way, we should also take some time to look at the big hole over there. Didn't we take a picture of a bottomless hole in the previous photo? There are traces of intelligent life all around the hole. Maybe the hole can answer our questions."

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At the same time, Lan Nuo and the crew finally landed on the artificial sun after a long drift. Relying on suction cups and electromagnets, they lay on the artificial sun and searched for the entrance to this huge artificial structure.

Fortunately, although this thing is not small in size, it is still much smaller than the entire ecological drum. After circling around this artificial sun for a long time, they finally succeeded in finding the entrance. When they entered, they still saw a large number of incomprehensible advanced mechanical equipment like the outside. The space here is much narrower than the space below, but if you explore inside, you can still find a living area.

However, there was no life here. The only thing found was a dried corpse lying on the bed. The Elven Mage examined the corpse and said, "This corpse has been dead for many years. The exact year is hard to estimate. What we can tell is that this corpse must have been very old when it died. It is not clear how long this race's lifespan is, but judging from her condition when she died, her physiological state must have been close to exhaustion. She must have died of old age."

  Lan Nuo nodded, looked around, and soon found something unusual. In fact, it wasn't just him, everyone could easily see it. What things in this room were out of place?

In this room full of sci-fi devices, the most eye-catching desk in the center of the room is filled with thick books as big as dictionaries.

According to their level of technological development, knowledge no longer needs to be recorded using inefficient media such as paper and books. These books are the most bizarre things here.

Lan Nuo gently picked up the book floating in the air. Fortunately, there was no oxygen here, and the paper did not become brittle due to oxidation, so the text on it could still be read, but the content on it was a mess that no one could understand. Hammer flipped through the books. He felt a headache. Even if there were some illustrations on the books, he couldn't understand what they meant.

"What's the point of this guy leaving so many books behind when he died? No one can understand their writing, so who would read them?"

Lan Nuo took the books and looked at them carefully, then shook his head and said, "These books were originally left by him for us to read. The one in your hand should be the second volume of the self-decoding system.

Many civilizations have developed similar systems, the purpose of which is to allow civilizations with foreign names or who have no knowledge of their language to understand their language as quickly as possible through the comparison of these pictures and texts. "

Lan Nuo was quite familiar with this kind of thing, so he quickly found some patterns. After all, it only took him a short time to learn the existence of the demon language. With the help of these books, it was not difficult to decipher the text of this civilization.

  "You mean you can understand their writing?" Tiechui looked at Lan Nuo in disbelief. What he saw as scribbles were scribbles, but this guy understood them so quickly?

"I can't fully understand it yet. This volume of mine only introduces some simple characters and the grammar they use. For some more complex characters, I have to look up the next volume in your hand and their dictionary.

What she really wanted to leave for us to see should be this thinnest booklet, which should contain his message to future generations."

Lan Nuo picked up the booklet that looked much thinner than the other books and began to read.

at the same time……

Elizabeth and the members of the exploration team, one by one, rode on flying skateboards, quickly shuttled on the roads built by the ancient civilization of this world, and rushed towards the city they had observed before. Because there was no air obstruction here, their speed could reach an extremely exaggerated level, hundreds of kilometers per hour were no problem at all.

It didn't take long before they arrived at the nearest city ruins. The tall city walls had now become ruins. But under the city walls, one could still feel the former grandeur of the city. From the mottled marks on the city walls, it could be judged that this place must have experienced a very tragic war, but the two sides of the war looked a little confusing.

One of them is undoubtedly an intelligent creature from this world, which can be judged from the white bones that have not yet been retracted, but the other one is a little difficult to understand. It looks like some autonomous machines and some biochemically modified life structures.

"Strange, these autonomous machines don't look very advanced, and those biochemically modified creatures don't look very strong either. If these things were thrown in by outsiders who wanted to kill the residents inside, there would be no need to use such backward things. Apart from anything else, as long as the artificial sun in the sky is extinguished, it won't be long before everyone here will die."

Elizabeth was puzzled by her discovery. She could only cross the city wall and enter the city with everyone, and found that the city was more developed than she had imagined.

Although most of the buildings are made of wood, you can see the telegraph poles that have almost become fossils, and a few metal wires still remaining on the poles. The existence of electric lights on the streets proves that they have developed into the electric age.

"Let's go and see their power plant!" The little devil girl was a little excited. Finally, she saw some technology that she could understand. This was exactly what she needed. It would be best if she could find some black technology in electricity.

Following the pattern of the electric wires, everyone quickly found the power plant, but they were disappointed that there was no black technology here, only a huge socket. The power plant was not built by the race of this drum world themselves, but seemed to be directly borrowing electricity from the outside world.

However, from this point of view, in this world, as long as you can find this huge socket on the ground, there will basically be no shortage of electricity. Elizabeth has never seen such a strange worldview before.

In the artificial sun in the sky, Lan Nuo has begun reading the ancient book: "My life is about to come to an end. The gentle super life form can no longer help us maintain the high-consumption operation of the spacecraft, but civilization will not end. As the last watcher, I will record the history of civilization. I hope that future generations can understand the struggle we have made against fate."

Everyone immediately became interested when they heard this. It seemed that the mummy on the bed beside them had recorded the development process of the civilization below before his death. This might be able to solve many secrets and reveal many unknown truths.

Lan Nuo continued to read the book written in unfamiliar characters with difficulty: "Five thousand years ago, before the birth of the first Watcher, our spaceship had reached its limit. The super life form who called himself the eldest son told us that he could no longer sustain his own life, nor could he help us maintain the operation of the spaceship. From now on, we can only rely on the existing supplies in the spaceship to hold on.

But each of us knows that the remaining supplies will not allow us to develop the technology to break through the space bubble zone. If it were possible, we would have already escaped from this isolated island in space with our predecessors who left on the escape spacecraft.

So after a discussion at a national congress, we decided to implement the Nirvana Plan, at the cost of civilization regression, to extend the survival of civilization as long as possible. As an individual of a higher civilization, I hope to die proudly, but as a civilization as a whole, I think our biggest goal is undoubtedly to survive, at least that's what I thought at the time.

Five thousand years ago, we chose to divide civilization into two parts. One part consists of a small number of dozens of people. These are the smartest people in the entire civilization and their descendants. These people are responsible for inheriting the knowledge of civilization and maintaining the operation of the spacecraft. I am the descendant of that lucky part of people.

Another part of the civilized people gradually began to give up educating their descendants, and allowed civilization to regress generation after generation after their deaths, regressing to primitive times. They forgot their culture, their history, and their previous knowledge, just to allow civilization to continue.

Because we have found that we, who have received higher education and live in the information age and the interstellar age, cannot accept a life with low resource consumption. Even if a rationing system is implemented, our brains cannot accept a boring life at the information level. Various mental illnesses have become a crisis that almost leads to our genocide.

However, the resources needed to maintain our physical and mental health are too huge. The energy of the entire spacecraft may only last for a few years. Only by regressing to the life of primitive times can we maintain the survival of civilization for a long time and maintain the natural reproduction of our biological population. "

Hammer and the others were completely confused and couldn't understand how someone could lead to the extinction of their race just because they couldn't accept the simple living conditions. However, Lanno could understand this situation. It would be difficult for a modern person to accept the productivity of ancient or even primitive times. The material and energy consumption brought about by a modern person's life is at least three orders of magnitude lower than that of primitive people.

If the goal is simply to maintain the survival of the species, the consumption of materials would naturally be the lowest in primitive times.

"After discussion, our ancestors believed that the pinnacle technology of agricultural civilization is the balance point between maintaining the survival of civilization and resource consumption. The consumption of resources will increase exponentially with a higher level of civilization. Therefore, for a long time, the mission of the watchers has been to maintain the civilization in the drum world and keep it in the agricultural civilization era.

Our ancestors designed two sets of insurance to prevent the improvement of their civilization level..."

At the same time, after leaving the so-called power plant with regret, Elizabeth brought the exploration team to the most eye-catching cathedral in the city, hoping to obtain some useful clues here.

[To be continued]

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