I became a god by treasure hunting after arriving 500 years early Chapter 16 - 14: Notice of Civilization’s Critical Condition

Lu Yuan raised his eyebrows and criticized, "So it seems even people from the Otherworld like to slack off at work."

"Indeed, vying for governnt positions is equally the end of the universe in the Otherworld."

Why?

This guy nad "Xin Qigou," spends three hours a day in the bathroom and still hasn't been fired, isn't that just the end of the universe?

Well, most of the archives actually have so aning...

Things like biological, physical, chemical, and economic papers take up the vast majority of the archive.

The true treasures of a civilization were laid before him, and Lu Yuan felt admiration yet completely understood nothing, feeling like an illiterate.

Right, there's also politics!

That, at least, he could barely understand.

[ida Civilization, Sixth Branch, City Mayor of Gou'er City, i Gandar, presided over the regular governnt executive eting and delivered an important speech.]

[The main content of this eting covered the maintenance and upkeep of industrial equipnt, exchange of consur goods, and the recycling of renewable items.]

[Research promotes large-scale equipnt renewal and recycling of old consur goods, the construction of a rule-of-law governnt, and other work.]

[...Focus on the current main issues, clarify goals and tasks, understand principles, set directions, learn thods, and increase wisdom... Especially by earnestly solving issues related to social stability and the people's urgent, difficult, and anticipated problems, can we reach our expected goals and achieve tangible results!]

A familiar feeling ca over him; political reports like this, you don't want to continue after reading the first line.

Lu Yuan always believed that those who write such docunts are the real talents!

Content that could be sumd up in a hundred words is extended to ten thousand words; why don't you write web novels instead?

He patiently read through the article carefully.

"The aning of this governnt work report is that the Sixth Branch of the ida Civilization, Gou'er City, at first arrived at the Pangu Continent with scarce resources and many supplies that were hard to replenish."

"Therefore, strict control was necessary, and they needed to figure out how to recycle so important items. Rubber, tals, coal, and oil are used up bit by bit."

Lu Yuan couldn't help but worry, would humans encounter the sa problem?

Clearly, they would!

Only 17 major cities had been transported to the Pangu Continent from Earth.

How much reserve resources could one city have?

It's already good if they could be self-sufficient in food!

Once coal and such are used up, that's it!

From this perspective, "God" is actually encouraging each civilization to leave the Safe Zone sooner rather than later.

"Will humans face the sa choice?"

"How long will humans hide in the Safe Zone?"

The next paper: [Does God exist? When can our city dissolve the Safe Zone — on the potential dangers of hiding in the Safe Zone for too long.]

[Author: Ke Regou.]

[...]

[Who exactly is it? It summoned 13 cities of my civilization to the Pangu Continent, with each city having approximately ten million people. We are called the Sixth Branch of the ida Civilization.]

[The culture of each city is slightly different, and a country only has one city.]

Lu Yuan was slightly startled; Earth seed to have 17 cities, while the ida Civilization had 13.

[Its voice appeared fifty years ago, and then it never appeared again.]

[It's more like an observer, aside from the initial setup, it rely quietly watched the changes in the Pangu Continent.]

[Our ida Civilization has stayed in the Safe Zone for a full fifty years, while the outside world has already been five thousand years...]

[We've tried several tis to dissolve the Safe Zone, but ultimately, it was still vetoed.]

[Will it give us more ti? What is the ultimate end waiting for us?]

The author of this paper "Kerba," wrote with a heavy heart and appealed to the populace not to covet comfort but to advance to the Pangu Continent as soon as possible.

"It's a very normal appeal, yet it may not necessarily be effective."

Next article.

[When can the ida Civilization dissolve the Safe Zone — on the opportunity cost of hiding in the Safe Zone for a long ti.]

"?" Lu Yuan felt a question mark rising in his mind.

He looked and indeed, they were two different articles, just published at different tis.

"Are you guys padding the word count with the sa article? Does your leadership know about this?"

After a brief look, there was not much change in the content; "fifty years" had turned into "sixty years."

Alright, ten years have passed, and the ida Civilization still has not left the Safe Zone.

That's normal.

The next article.

"When Will the ida Civilization be able to Dismantle the Safe Zone?"

"Our ida Civilization has been in the Safe Zone for a full seventy years—the outside world has already changed dramatically..."

The expert called for the Safe Zone to be dismantled as soon as possible to step into the Pangu Continent!

Only in the Pangu Continent are there more resources!

Holed up in the Safe Zone, with no resources, how can we develop?

"Do you experts think your job is too easy? This ti there's not even a subtitle," Lu Yuan scoffed.

The next article.

"When Will the Sixth Branch of the ida Civilization set off for the Pangu Continent?"

???

The next article.

"A Study on the Importance of the Pangu Continent to the ida Civilization."

Gradually, Lu Yuan's face lost its mocking smile, and instead, he felt a sense of alarm.

Each of these articles seed like a death notice, proclaiming the demise of a civilization.

What was dying was not an individual.

What was dying was a civilization.

Did anyone care? So did.

But the masses did not care.

The masses chose comfort.

Three hundred years!!

In the fiftieth year, experts were already calling for "the dismantling of the Safe Zone"!

Yet in the three hundredth year, the ida Civilization still had not set off for the Pangu Continent!

Three hundred years in the Safe Zone.

On the Pangu Continent, that would have been thirty thousand years!

The earliest civilizations to leave the Safe Zone and those that have not yet left, now have a gap of nearly thirty thousand years...

It's a chasm of ti that cannot be crossed.

No matter how clever you are, or how stunningly talented, how can you make up for a developnt gap of thirty thousand years?

What terrified the ida Civilization even more was that—as ti rapidly passed—the environnt of the Pangu Continent was getting progressively worse.

"Incomprehensible catastrophic disasters are occurring more frequently!"

"The observation frequency has increased from once in ten years to once a year."

"Do we still have ti?"

Lu Yuan held his breath and continued reading.

What does "incomprehensible disasters" refer to?

They denote so extrely large-scale malicious supernatural phenona.

For instance, a region shrouded in black fog where all living creatures undergo horrific mutations; red rain falls from the sky, turning all life into pus; a large number of corpses resurrect and indiscriminately attack the living, and so on.

These inexplicable disasters increased in frequency as ti went on.

Eventually, the Pangu Continent beca a land of desolate wilderness where no one existed.

"We even observed the fall of Sky City."

"Powerful civilizations from the outside have generally built mobile Sky Cities to avoid such disasters."

"But even these suprely advanced civilizations had their day of downfall."

"Do we still have ti to build a Sky City?"