"Raising fish... should be quite difficult, the gravity is different, it’s hard for fish to survive, our oceans can’t possibly be inside a centrifuge, as that would make the centrifuge too massive..."
"We could grow so marine plants that thrive in low-gravity environnts, as well as a small number of fish. It’d be best to get so hydrogen bombs to simulate tides."
The two were chattering away, fantasizing about the future as if they were the authoritative designers.
In that era, Zhang Xiangyi was still in university and had encountered a sudden incident, so he had no choice but to leave with the Departure Spaceship.
Once they parted, it was decades before they t again. Describing the joy in their hearts upon reunion was difficult to put into words.
Such reunions were common in their civilization; forr battle comrades would suddenly log in to play gas together joyfully, and old classmates t again, with all sorts of n and won rekindling old flas...
The so-called "joy of rain after a long drought, eting an old friend in a foreign place, wedding night, passing the imperial examination" were indeed the "four greatest joys in life" summarized by ancient people.
"Of course, there’s also suddenly finding out that one has been cuckolded... ahem, according to the law, disrupting a military marriage is a criminal offense, but nowadays not many people register marriages anyway, they’re just girlfriends and boyfriends."
"This matter really gives those who make the laws a headache, huh?"
"Is that really a thing?"
"Of course! Love is the most unstable relationship of all; in comparison, familial relationships last much longer, and friendships can also endure for a very long ti..."
A group of tourists were chattering as they reached Antarctica and visited several massive heavy industry factories in succession. Such giant industrial plants would never be possible inside a spaceship, not even a Titan-level one, due to a spaceship’s cooling capacity and tonnage, which absolutely cannot compare to that of a planet.
Seeing the busy production lines churning out batch after batch of materials, with maintenance robots purchased from the Dyson Sphere already being used, everyone felt imnsely satisfied.
This was truly... reassuring!
Sun Chen suddenly suggested, "Let’s all go have a al together!"
Soone imdiately responded, "Yes, it has been such a long ti since we last gathered. But what good restaurants are here?"
"The Big Food Barrel Restaurant, of course!"
The history of the Big Food Barrel Restaurant was slightly older than that of the New Human Civilization. As a well-known catering chain from the Earth Era, it had once funded the developnt of the Earth Era Spaceship.
Thus, there was one of these restaurants on the Earth Era Spaceship, and it had persisted till now.
As a result, while the chain on Earth had gone bankrupt, the Big Food Barrel Restaurant still existed in another civilization, showing just how unpredictable the world could be.
The gravity on this planet was too low, much lower than that of the Moon. If humans were to live in such a low-gravity environnt for a long period, it would be easy to develop a series of physiological diseases such as osteoporosis and high blood pressure.
On the Mountain and Sea Planet, which was far from being fully developed, engineers previously constructed several large centrifuge wheels with diaters of 5-10 kiloters on the surface as temporary living areas.
These centrifuge wheels resembled large tires lying on their sides; when rotating, they could effectively simulate gravity, and many tasks could be carried out within these gigantic wheels.
"You have to tell us what really happened on the battlefield!"
As governnt archives were gradually declassified, the public was able to understand what had really happened on the battlefield.
Except for the last trade between the New Human Side and the Apollo Civilization on Al Planet Six, which wasn’t disclosed, nearly all the information had been made public.
All of this was thrilling and enjoyable enough!
Many enthusiasts incorporated this historical event into so strategy-based gas, earning high praise from the public.
"...so it was through faking warships and attracting enemy fire that you ultimately won the victory?"
"Yes, we used so hot air balloons as spaceships, and they really blew the enemy to smithereens; it absolutely delighted us—they even deployed their largest antimatter weapons..."
"Is it really that simple? I feel like sothing’s... odd."
Zhang Xiangyi listened to her older brother’s narration, her eyebrows slightly furrowed. She always felt that so details had an indescribable subtlety.
As a doctoral student in interstellar history, she sensed that if an interstellar civilization could be so easily deceived, interstellar wars would be too simple... Everyone might as well disguise themselves, as this tactic was not impossible to imitate.
The real truth was likely not so simple, not so easily achieved.
"Yes," Sun Chen agreed. Though he had participated in the battle, he was just an ordinary soldier, confusedly carrying out orders and unclear about the real situation.
He scratched his head helplessly and said, "However, the fact outweighs the eloquence, they really did blow up those hot air balloons, then we counter-attacked, and finally, they retreated."
Regarding the trade with "Al Planet Six," the New Human Governnt was not ready to disclose it yet, at least not in the short term.
This matter was quite baffling... The current logic was satisfactory, "New humans won the battle through a disguised war" was a more pleasing explanation to the public; there was no need to reveal all the secrets!
But the experts among the civilians, discussing it over and over, felt sothing was a bit odd.
"By the way, I did hear a general’s opinion on this matter!" Sun Chen suddenly seed to rember sothing, teasingly keeping everyone in suspense.
"What?"
"Cough cough... General Dai said that the philosophy of cunning might generally exist in the cosmos, especially in civilizations without strong institutional restrictions, where the internal conditions might be even worse than those of humans."
"So we can commonly use so thods from the philosophy of cunning to deal with them. There’s no need to think of aliens as too wonderful. They are selfish and self-interested too, traditionally evolved from primitive environnts, unable to shake off the influence of selfish genes."
"Ah?!"
This statent really was sowhat baffling, but coming from a general, it probably wasn’t baseless.
Zhang Xiangyi quickly beca intensely curious, muttering to herself, "So, the true history is definitely not as it appears on the surface..."
But with the secrets closely guarded by the governnt, she dared not probe further, else she’d be no different from a spy... Even though in this era, it would be unlikely for the likes of a "traitor" to appear, secrets were still secrets, and recklessly probing into them could lead to prison ti!
It seed like she had thought of sothing, ponderously saying, "That is, in alien societies, there might also be so sches and deceptions, and internally they might not be harmonious after all, right? Could the reason aliens withdrew be due to internal factors within their civilization?"
Sun Chen said, "Whether it’s internal factors I do not know, but in any case, there’s no need to imagine aliens as too subli. We all ca from competitive primitive eras, sharing many similarities."
"And in those primitive tis, the survival competition was so fierce; only the selfish could survive. Such traits would be passed down; how could the entire society possibly be devoid of darkness?"
"Unless they are so civilizations that are naturally divine-like..."
"Naturally divine?"
"Those are the races with extrely high racial values! We can’t rule out so inherently superior civilizations. The universe is so vast; 96 billion light-years of observable universe, at least 23 trillion light-years of unobservable universe. Just one natural god appearing would change the entire universe."
"The ancient Hepheto civilization? Or the Gaia Civilization? We have only had contact with Gaia; we haven’t contacted the others."
"Alright, alright, let’s eat. Speaking of these, it’s as if you all have beco experts in astronomy and geography, omnipotent."
The group, laughing and chatting, discussed these god-like civilizations with endless interest, much like discussing celebrity news.
They were simultaneously hopeful that humanity could one day evolve into such a divine-like civilization.
This was everyone’s shared wish...
"Ladies and gentlen, hello, the third developnt seminar on the Mountain and Sea Planet has just concluded. During the eting, we received a total of 1,230,000 valid suggestions from the internet..."
In the middle of the restaurant, a beautiful and dignified news anchor announced the news.
This news broadcast caused the folks enjoying their al to all look up.
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