Tomorrow's Ark is too real

Chapter 26 The Distorted Technology Tree

"By the way, what is gunpowder?"

Indra asked him what gunpowder was, and Xia Feng was depressed.

Of course he knew what gunpowder was, but he couldn't explain it in a few words.

Gunpowder is just a general term. In fact, the main component of bullets is nitrocellulose, and the structure is quite complicated. After all, bullets are a high-end product that combines physics, chemistry, materials, aerodynamics, and technology.

After thinking about it, Xia Feng could only speak clumsily.

"Gunpowder! Don't you know? Didn't you let go of flowers during the Chinese New Year? The kind that sparks when you touch a match."

"Why do you do that?"

"Just entertain, have fun, play."

The crowd fell silent.

Wei Na stroked her chin as if thinking.

"Xia Feng, you are talking about gunpowder, is it Yayuan stone powder?"

"What is Yayuan stone powder?"

Wei Na blushed.

"Yayuan stone powder is... well, I don't read much, Kate, please explain to him."

Kate nodded immediately.

"Sub-origin stone powder is a substance extracted by crushing the remains of source stones that have exhausted their energy. It has a low ignition point and a high detonation velocity. Although it is not as precious as finished source stones, it is also a very rare flammable solid.

Xia Feng understood.

It turns out that this is called the generation gap. To be precise, it should be the world gap.

Compared with his original world, the world of Terra is not only different in race and natural environment, but also in the natural substances existing in the world.

No wonder he always felt something was weird.

Combined with the world view of Tomorrow's Ark, Xia Feng instantly understood.

If the development of civilization is compared to a technology tree, then the technology tree of the Terra world is undoubtedly very distorted.

If a civilization wants to enter the age of science and technology from primitive times, the most important thing is energy!
In his original world, coal was the first energy widely used by humans, and then textile machines, steam engines, wired communications, blast furnace steelmaking and other technologies were born.

With the development of civilization, human beings have developed the technology of using oil and electricity as new energy sources, and then engines, internal combustion engines, automobiles, airplanes, converter steelmaking and so on were born.

Later, various cutting-edge energy sources and technologies rose rapidly, such as atomic energy, microelectronics technology, information technology, biotechnology, space technology, marine technology, and later manned spaceflight technology. The development of human civilization is not limited to our own planet. .

This is a normal trajectory of civilization development, and this gradual development constitutes a normal-shaped technology tree.

However, the world of Terra is very different.

For thousands of years, due to the lack of natural resources, the world's technological development has been very slow, basically in a primitive state.

Until one day, a terrible natural disaster appeared.

This made the already powerless residents of the Terra world even worse, and the continuation of civilization was once on the verge of collapse.

Many years later, desperate people accidentally discovered it—the Origin Stone from the ruins after the natural disaster.

Since then, the world has changed dramatically.

This kind of stone, which contains powerful energy, fell into the technology tree of the Terra world like a golden carat, causing the development of civilization to skip all the steps in an instant, and directly jumped to the level of technological subversion.

The energy contained in a small source stone can even drive a giant like the Rhodes Island base to move in the desert. Using the source stone as a new energy source, the world quickly established a powerful technological system.

Heavy industry and manufacturing industry rose rapidly, various scarce materials and items began to be mass-produced, and efficient means of transportation were also born one after another. Until finally, people even used the energy in the origin stone to build a mobile city-state that could avoid natural disasters.

This explosive rapid development constitutes the distorted technology tree of the Terra world.

Affected by natural disasters, the exchange of information between countries in the world is very closed, which also leads to a characteristic, that is, the level of civilization in the world of Terra is very uneven.

Big countries at the T0 level, such as Colombia, Victoria, Ursas, Longmen Special Zone, etc., these economically developed countries have developed technology to a rather terrifying level. Stone human experiments, and actions related to artificial humans.

And some relatively closed and backward small countries, such as Kjerag, Rem Billiton, Rutland, Caprini, and Casimir, etc., have been thrown out of the technological level by an unknown number of streets.

Here, another problem arises.

As we all know, territory represents resources and strategy, but why didn't those countries with powerful technology annex these small countries by force?

The answer is simple.

That is, in the process of technological development in this world, military development is basically zero.

Except for source stones, there is no such thing as machine guns, cannons, tanks, and missiles in the world, and the number of source stones is very rare, and they can only be mined in dangerous areas after natural disasters, so these precious source stones are also Fundamentally invested in industrial development.

In addition, some people in this world can learn to use spells, which are commonly known as warlocks. This is an efficient and powerful attack method. Compared with spells, the value of ordinary firearms is reduced again.

So apart from the origin stone gun, there are almost no guns in this world.

Xia Feng has already witnessed it with his own eyes. Lin Dong can directly tear off the steel bars with physical strength, and the infected person who was overwhelmed by several tons of heavy steel bars did not die. In addition, Wei Na can also smash the big iron bars in the warehouse with a hammer The door flew.

This confirmed Xia Feng's speculation.

People in this world are far superior to ordinary people in his original world in terms of strength, speed, and physical endurance. In this world where everyone is a monster, the meaning of ordinary guns is even more obvious. Weak, not to mention, there are still infected people in the world who can activate Originium skills with their bodies.

The melee weapons in everyone's hands are basically mixed with the substances in the source stones, while the long-range weapons, such as the angel's blunderbuss, the Razer's pistol, the meteor's crossbow, the shooting star's bow and arrow, etc., the ammunition is made of source stones , and then the lethality can be exaggerated.

After figuring this out, Xia Feng suddenly felt enlightened.

Lao Tzu is really a little reasoning genius!
That's right, otherwise you threw two atomic bombs before you saw what the enemy looked like, so how can you play?Save Amiya?Then I will save the fart!

This is just right, don't use guns, don't use cannons, everyone, don't be an old bastard, if you are a male silver, come out and wrestle head-on!

(End of this chapter)