Chapter 469 Another City?

Lu Yuan took a few deep breaths, suppressed the doubts in his heart, called the contact number, and held an emergency safety meeting.

Soon many experts, scholars, soldiers, and government officials came to the conference room.

"Comrades, our investigation team has discovered a snake-man palace, which may be the culprit of the ghosts breaking the wall."

"Perhaps our chance to escape this strange situation is here. Please take a look at the photos and videos."

Everyone looked serious, watching frame by frame, trying to analyze more information.

After a while, someone said: "This palace looks very old, but it can still fly in the sky... How powerful is its energy system?"

The speaker was Desert from the Engineering Department: "I think these snake people may be alive. Maybe they are just basking in the sun?"

"Without manual maintenance, no matter how powerful the power system is, it will be defeated by time."

He added: "Even quantum civilization has to arrange a great spiritual master in the flying saucer. It is impossible for this palace to be more powerful than quantum civilization."

"Maybe..." Lu Yuan smiled bitterly, "The so-called idealistic system cannot observe its strength from the surface."

Immediately afterwards, another botany expert, Ms. Lu Yueyue, pointed to the photo and said: "This red flower is a type that has never appeared before. It is called Datura flower, a name with a mythical flavor."

"Our investigators, the strange petals found on the grassland a few days ago should be this kind of flower."

The mysterious palace is suspended in the sky, floating in the wind.

Flowers throughout the city naturally have metabolism. After the petals wither, they fall on the grass and are picked up by humans.

It's just that humans have never figured out which tree these flowers fell from. Now they finally understand that its origin is in the sky.

After the datura flowers wither, they become as big as the palm of your hand, yellow and brown, like the color of dried blood.

The results of the appraisal were even more shocking.

[Datura flower is a mysterious plant with unknown origin. In some myths and legends, the datura flower is also called the flower of the underworld. 】

[The fruit has unique extraordinary properties. After use, it greatly accelerates the life cycle of intelligent creatures, and greatly increases the soul strength and mental resistance of the eater. (Inferior quality, natural wonders)]

"Inferior quality grade... Is this just inferior grade?!" Lu Yuan sweated on his forehead.

The increased soul strength is equivalent to improving the "god" attribute. Is this thing just inferior?

"Yes, it is indeed inferior grade because its side effects are too great."

Lu Yueyue explained: "Significantly accelerating the life cycle means that life span will be reduced at an unimaginable speed."

"To give a simple example, if a human baby eats the fruit of Datura flower for a long time, it will go through youth, middle age and old age in just a few years. During the whole process, the divine attributes will indeed rise rapidly. , but the lifespan has been condensed to just a few years, which is equivalent to exchanging lifespan for divine attributes."

"Normally, the natural improvement of divine attributes brought about by cultivation will lead to an increase in life span. However, the improvement after eating Datura fruit will lead to a significant decrease in life span."

"This is a unique mechanical problem, so there is no way to reduce the side effects... so the item's evaluation is only inferior."

"Wouldn't it be used to raise mutant animals and extraordinary animals? For example, laying hens?" An animal expert suddenly thought.

The fertility of extraordinary animals is not high, and the probability of inheritance is also very low. How to breed on a large scale has always been a troublesome topic. Maybe this thing can produce miraculous results?

"No, no, no!" Lu Yueyue said, "The accelerated life cycle does not mean that the growth and development cycles will also be accelerated. If humans eat it for a long time, most people will die within 5 years, and a few experts will die within 20 years. Then He was still a few years old at that time, equivalent to a one-meter-tall old man who was about to die of old age.”

"Animals used to breed also have this big problem. They die too quickly, and the meat has not even been produced."

"Look at it this way... the value of this mandala flower has been greatly reduced." Lu Yuan shook his head, and then his heart skipped a beat.

"No, it's not worthless!" the old cat said coldly, "It can even be said that its value is beyond imagination!"

The conference room fell silent.

The subtext of the old cat is very simple - feed and raise him!

Humans are viviparous, have late sexual maturity, and have low reproductive rates, so they are not suitable for raising Datura flowers. But what about those intelligent species that are oviparous, have early sexual maturity, and have high reproductive rates? It only takes a year or two for them to mature and lay eggs to reproduce the next generation.

Under normal circumstances, cultivating the divine attribute to 5 or more points already requires education, experience, and social cultivation, but now it does not need to... you only need to eat the fruit, which is equivalent to some form of quick success.

Thinking of this, when everyone looked at the snake men, they couldn't help but sweat all over their bodies. This purpose was too dark and even brought some inexplicable despair to people.

After a long time, everyone sighed, and the eyes looking at those photos became meaningful...

After a while, the old cat asked again: "Is there another possibility that this ancient city is not the culprit that trapped us here?"

"They are just like us. They have been trapped here for an entire era, and were finally completely wiped out by the era disaster."

"As for these Datura flowers and snake-man species, I don't need to go into details... [Monsters] have shallow intelligence, so it is not surprising that they support intelligent life."

When this statement was made, it was actually darker, and the temperature in the conference room dropped several degrees.

Will humans become like this?

It would be too tragic if the [weird] was so patient that it lasted for an era.

People have no way of finding the enemies hidden in the alien space. They can only be wiped out by the epochal disaster, and their descendants are raised and reduced to permanent captive animals.

"It's really impossible to rule that out."

Lu Yuan scratched his hair at the temples, his chest heaving.

No, it’s not impossible!

He thought in his heart that if this situation really happened, he could only place his hope on the space glyphs of the Immortal Palace...

He is currently researching it alone, and the progress is slow, but as long as he takes it out and all humans study it together, the research speed will be greatly improved - of course, doing so will just jump from one fire pit to another.

"Even if you use the Immortal Glyph, the risk is extremely high, so you must escape!"

At this moment, another urgent report came from the investigation department.

"Report! We...seem to have discovered another floating city!"

"What?"

Lu Yuan's scalp suddenly became numb. Even if he didn't notice it, why did he have a series of attacks all at once?

What the hell is this place?

The other experts' expressions also changed slightly, thinking of even worse possibilities.

Lieutenant Colonel Lu Ying of the Investigation Department said quickly: "No, no, no, this time it should be normal civilization..."

"The other party also disguised itself as a cloud and was located seven thousand kilometers away."

"It's just that they seemed to have been stuck here for a long time. The whole city needed maintenance, so they landed on the ground."

"The city covers an area of ​​about 150 square kilometers and is divided into 5 layers in total, which is more layered than our green city. The population is unknown, the level of civilization is unknown, and the species is... similar to a birdman, with feathered wings. Able to glide briefly in the air."

"The urban landscape is mainly materialistic. There are relatively few carvings, but there are some. We strongly suspect that before they came to Pangea, their technology was relatively advanced..."

Photos of this exotic civilized city were quickly sent to the big screen in the conference room.

Good guy, it’s really...future science fiction style!

All kinds of cars are as densely packed as ants, and the number is very large. There are rows of high-rise buildings, each with solar panels reflecting bright sunlight. You must know that solar panels are a typical high-energy-consuming industry, and only large-scale construction of photovoltaic power stations can recover this part of the cost.

The human population is small, and the solar panels they have are developed based on glyphs, while the solar panels in this city are purely materialistic.

There are also buildings in the shape of bird's nests, which seem to be gymnasiums? There is a group of birdmen playing in the gym.

Obviously, these were buildings built before coming to Pangea. Because after arriving in Pangea, the living conditions were worrying. How could there be so much time to build a large stadium?

Even the 18th civilization of mankind, which needs to cultivate a large number of children, is reluctant to build super large stadiums. It would be good to build some standard stadiums!

Lu Yuan relied on his own experience to understand at a glance that this was indeed a very normal civilization.

Because some details of life are difficult to forge - this suspended city similar to cyberpunk conforms to the pattern of population life and conforms to conventional logic.

Compared to the snake-man palace, which is so weird that it can make people feel chills at the first sight, this bird-man civilization is like a harmless baby.

The creature of this civilization is indeed a birdman, with a head like an eagle, sharp eyes, and a beak on its mouth, but its hair is blue.

With their hands, feet and wide wings, they can glide through the air.

It seems to be off-duty time now, and there are many birders jumping directly from the top of tall buildings - they seem to be very accustomed to this mode of transportation from high altitudes, which makes the buildings in the city generally very tall.

The lower the bird people are, the poorer they seem to be, because the wings of this species are only for gliding, not flying, and it seems impossible to take off directly from the ground.

Therefore, the distribution of the gap between rich and poor is also very simple. The richer individuals live at the higher levels; the poorer individuals live at the bottom.

"Is this civilization just like us, the unlucky ones trapped here..."

Lu Yuan thought in his mind: "I wonder how much they know about the Snake Man Palace after being trapped for several years..."

Others in the conference room also analyzed these videos and photos.

I don’t know why, but having an unlucky guy accompany me, and the tension of being “fostered” suddenly dissipated a lot.

Lu Yuan himself couldn't understand how this kind of mentality came about?

"What is this? Being locked up in a pig pen and finding out that another big fat pig is looking at you, does it further create schadenfreude?"

Everyone gathered firewood and soon found more clues.

"This is indeed a civilization with a large gap between rich and poor. Have you seen it? There are actually beggars here, and some poor people sleeping in parks and bridges."

"Their population density is very high, with a conservative estimate of eight to 10 million people. Most of the population has a small living space and lives at the bottom of the city."

"But the civilization should have some technological strength. There seems to be some social relief here, which shows that they still have a certain degree of social consensus and fault tolerance mechanism."

"There should be some knowledge of Pangu Continent... Otherwise, there would not be a floating city."

In some of the photos, people saw some suspicious missile silos and some soldiers standing guard.

"A civilization with relatively developed materialism, a large gap between the rich and the poor, but still retains a certain degree of social consensus..." Lu Yuan sketched a rough picture of the city in his mind, "I don't know what the political system is..."

Social consensus and fault tolerance mechanism are very important for a civilization.

Civilization hegemony is certainly the theme of the times, but personal life is closely related.

The fault tolerance mechanism can provide a minimum guarantee for life, which is a factual civilization progress. After all, there was no such mechanism in the feudal era and the slave era.

"So this civilization looks a bit loose, but it should still have some combat effectiveness..."

Everyone was a little excited. It was the first time they encountered a civilization with a relatively developed innate nature. They didn't know which one was stronger, Green City or the other? Especially in the field of idealism, humans are a genuine third-level civilization.

Everyone has a desire to win, but no one shows it on their faces.

"Commander-in-chief, do we need to fight with them?" Colonel Jin Dongliang asked eagerly.

Lu Yuan hesitated a little: "I think it's not appropriate under the current situation... peaceful communication is the best."

The purpose of the fight is to prevent the outbreak of war between the two sides. Now trapped in this prairie, the probability of war has been greatly reduced.

Even if you fight to the death and defeat the other side, what can you do? There is no way to escape!

What's more, this place may be the territory of the [monster]. If both sides are injured in the fight, the [monster] will take the opportunity to attack, and it will be a big trouble - by then, both sides will become pigs in the pigpen, and be raised together.

Professor Lu Tiantian raised his hand and said, "My idea is... this civilization seems to be a technological civilization with a good innate foundation, and its materialistic technology may be better than ours."

"But in the field of idealism, we don't need to belittle ourselves."

"If we want to establish friendly relations, we can test the other party's strength and understanding of Pangu Continent."

"How to test?"