Chapter 1,230 From Prosperity to Fall
The sun and moon continue to change. ≥ＣＯ
Jiang Chen noticed that the monuments collapsed under the years, and the city walls guarding the monuments were destroyed in the war. However, the only thing that remained unchanged was that the fire of prosperity still grew tenaciously, in the bloody and barbaric dark age. germination.
At this moment, the ball of light, which had been silent for a long time, shook slightly, and then spoke.
"I noticed that in your memory, the matriarchal society of your civilization existed for a very short time. However, in our civilization, the matriarchal society did not loosen up until the late Renaissance. However, from the bloody and barbaric Dark Ages to The Renaissance took us a full 20,000 years."
Twenty thousand years!
Jiang Chen's mouth twitched.
It took 20,000 years to transition from the Dark Ages to the Renaissance... This is almost longer than the existence of human civilization itself.
"You may be surprised that 20,000 years is too long for any living creature, but this is related to our living habits and there is nothing to elaborate on. There is nothing to see above. It's time to take you to Let’s go take a look underground.” Guangqiu said.
The scene gradually changed.
Jiang Chen watched the soil under his feet dissolve and the gravel collapse downwards. He watched himself sinking underground, passing through a distance of tens of thousands of meters, and in the blink of an eye he stood in an underground lair.
Surprisingly, he originally thought that this place must be full of messy holes that could stifle trypophobia, but he didn't expect that what appeared in front of him was a hall paved with neat stone bricks. Neat, solemn and sacred, every brick and tile is full of civilized atmosphere and special aesthetics.
Markets, residences, military camps, and all functional facilities are connected to the central hall by tunnels. They surround the mother nest like stars over the moon, forming a three-dimensional city.
He didn't know where each tunnel led, nor what each Gaia was doing, but judging from their busy footsteps, it was not difficult to feel the aura of prosperity.
"Whether they are workers, miners, breeders, soldiers, or civilians, they have obtained the same rights after the Revolution, and they can enjoy all rights from private assets to mating fairly. The matriarchal society has come to an end so far. The enfeoffment system that followed the mother worm finally collapsed in the flames of the industrial revolution."
"We used steel and oil to create a siege beast. It can run rampant underground, making all defenses useless. Even the devil bug is just like an earthworm in front of it.
The cavalry completely withdrew from the stage of history. War has returned to the savage three-dimensional era. We have begun to learn to arm ourselves with machines to replace the weak parts of our bodies that have been caused by evolution, and at the same time use the most efficient way to destroy our enemies. "
"Although barbarism has not changed, in this era, any Gaia has the same power, and the concept of equality is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. We have written all this into the code in our words... If you had come to me a billion years earlier, maybe you You can still see the stone tablet, but now, there is nothing left..."
“And the end of all this is the beginning of prosperity.”
The mechanical centipede that stirred the earth disappeared, and the walls of the hall collapsed backwards. Thousands of spiral buildings like works of art sprung up, winding upward in the darkness, spreading their branches and leaves several kilometers deep underground. , just like the tall buildings of human civilization...
At this moment, Jiang Chen finally understood what he had discovered at Mine Point 071.
All obsolescence collapsed together with the centralized society with the Brood as its core, and was replaced by a larger and greater empire. They completed the unification and connected all the cities into a whole with railways and tunnels.
Tens of thousands of years of ignorance have passed, and Gaia civilization has ushered in a prosperous and powerful golden age.
"It's incredible..." Through the gravel and gravel, Jiang Chen stared blankly at the dark "crowd" on the spiral high-rise building.
"I understand your surprise, it's probably the same as when I saw you appearing in front of me." Guangqiu said softly, "If the Great Revolution shattered the old ideas, then the great unification after the Industrial Revolution was completely Let our civilization enter a golden age of prosperity. But this is not the best yet. The truly best era will be a thousand years later, after we invented the neural amplifier device."
"The neural device makes the antennae on our heads stronger, and our 'voice' can be transmitted to farther places. If you find it difficult to understand, you can compare its meaning to us to your Internet .”
Jiang Chen nodded.
He can understand it this way.
After all, he has no such thing as tentacles, and he doesn't know how to turn his thoughts into electromagnetic waves and emit them. The golden age mentioned by Gaia is probably equivalent to the Internet era that earth civilization entered at the end of the twentieth century.
The neural amplification device is to Gaia, and its significance is probably equivalent to that of the Phantom Helmet to humans.
All needs can be met virtually, and all individuals are happier than ever before.
"If I, a person who has been dead for 3.7 billion years, were to sum up the difference between our two civilizations, I think it would probably be the understanding of the word happiness. When we enter the 'neural amplification era', we His spiritual needs have been satisfied like never before, and the only thing left unsatisfied is probably his obsession with metal itself."
"I remember I once said that we are extremely sensitive to the smell of minerals. This sensitivity has not changed in tens of thousands of years. We are intoxicated with the happiness of being surrounded by metals. The pursuit of all metals such as iron ore, or Greed is probably the driving force behind the development of our civilization."
"And this greed turned into a deadly poisonous drink in the end."
Speaking of this, Guangqiu's voice was filled with emotion.
"Poison wine?" Jiang Chen asked.
"Yes," the light ball shook slightly, "I will take you to take a look, and you will understand."
Across thousands of years, the picture changed again.
There were ripples in the air. Following the footsteps of the light ball, Jiang Chen crossed a layer of transparent film and came to a spherical space made entirely of metal. In this spherical space, strange-shaped machines are three-dimensionally distributed, connected together by alloy skeletons.
"I'm afraid you can't feel it just by looking at it," Light Ball said softly, "We are now standing in the core of Mars, and this planetary furnace is the greatest crystallization of our civilization."
"Planet...forge?"
Jiang Chen swallowed hard.
He could never imagine that these species called Gaia dug through the entire planet 3.7 billion years ago! They even transformed the entire core of Mars into a furnace for smelting iron or other alloys, turning the entire planet into their factory.
Planetary furnace.
The word crazy is no longer enough to describe their behavior...
Looking calmly at the shock on Jiang Chen's face, the ball of light continued.
"Our industry is extremely developed. When the crust cannot satisfy our appetite, we dig mines into the mantle. When the mantle is not enough to meet our needs, we set our sights on the core. The core is rich in mineral deposits, iron The elements here are like the ocean. Even if we only draw a little bit from it, it will be enough to make our civilization take a big step forward..."
Having said this, the ball of light paused and sighed softly.
"But you also know that once you take the first step with something, it can never stop."
"Time has weathered everything, blowing all the steel we forged over hundreds of centuries into iron filings. See the sand outside? Every rusty gravel is a tear shed by Gaia... "