Chapter 22: Plundering Civilization
Inside the origin base, Lincheng looked at the several players lying on the base bed, silent and without words.
"What is the result today?" Tesla appeared behind Lincheng and asked.
“After finding the habitat of the bear, we plan to dig a trap on its must-pass path. However, the bear is second now.
I just saw something worth paying attention to outside."
Lincheng Road.
Tesla raised his eyebrows, "The base had a violent shock just now, and we thought it was an earthquake."
"It's what I want to say later."
Lincheng looked at the bodies of several players lying on the bed.
"These people have gone back, but we still have a lot of work. Mr. Tesla, call all three scientists to the movie viewing area of the living area. In order to study ether particles these days, you have not had much rest for some days.
Even if it’s not your body, you will feel tired mentally. I don’t want to be a street lamp ornament.”
Tesla smiled, "When you are addicted to the world of science, you are really easy to forget time."
When the Origin Laboratory was established, it was used as a laboratory for scientists around the world. At that time, both sides were evenly matched, and the human side had enough energy. In order to take care of the living conditions of these scientists, the living area on the second floor had many entertainment facilities.
This includes the viewing area, which is a small family cinema with virtual projection, with a full sofa and chair, and even an air-conditioning and constant temperature system.
However, after years of disrepair, it has been covered with dust. Lincheng has done a simple cleaning, but it is still terrible. In the future, it can be handed over to players to clean up and release some cleaning tasks. Anyway, novices' tasks are all made from trivial events.
Although it was said to be relaxing, everyone knew that Lincheng was planning to discuss what had just happened, so soon everyone came to this home theater, and everyone quietly looked at the moving castle played on the projection wall in front of them, and saw from Lincheng's perspective.
As the mobile city gradually faded away, the theater fell into a little calmness.
"What a stunning thing." Tesla's eyes were filled with surprise, "The perfect mechanical transmission structure, the pinnacle of bionics, the body movement is smooth and without any sense of blockage, like a living mechanical beast."
"It's indeed very visually impactful, but... what's the significance?" Einstein frowned. "There should be extremely large energy required for mobile cities with such a huge mechanical structure. It would be too wasteful to transfer a large amount of energy to mobile. If it is transferred to a factory, it can have a considerable production capacity.
It’s better to choose a fertile land to build a city and maximize the use of this huge energy.”
"Where did their resources come from?" Mendeleev asked.
"It's not difficult to guess."
Planck's eyes stared at the moving castle on the projection wall, observing the architectural structure revealed on it, and analyzed, "From the appearance, I saw no place to cultivate, but there was a clear difference between the rich villa area and the slum area, and there was also the remaining land to build a "chapel" to meet his spiritual needs.
Obviously, they are quite wealthy. Nomads do not need to farm and meet their food needs by grazing, but sometimes food shortages can also be caused by weather reasons.
Then, they would choose to invade the territories of the farming nation to plunder the resources they need.
So, obviously, that's a...
"The plundering city that survives in the form of a nomadic civilization." Lincheng Road.
"It's not a good thing to have such a neighbor nearby." Einstein murmured with a solemn expression.
Lincheng pondered for a moment and shouted, "Nuwa."
Then, Nuwa's virtual projection appeared beside Lincheng.
"Do you know this thing?" Lincheng asked.
Nuwa looked at the huge moving city on the screen. In her eyes, countless data flowed through it. Then, on the side of the virtual projection, a giant object with a similar mechanical structure appeared.
The same huge robotic arm structure with spider claws is the same, but the back is a dense forest, with a very strange shape, some of which are like spiders parasitized by countless green plants.
It moves forward on the endless white sand land, heading towards the unknown distance.
"According to the data of the database, the mechanical city in front of us is 45% similar to the largest mechanical body "Planet Resurrection" produced by the machinery factory, and it is suspected to be a secondary transformation based on this."
"Is it used to farm?" Lincheng Road,
"Ninety percent of the green plants on the earth are almost destroyed by destructive weapons. If you want to plant green plants all over the world in a short period of time, you need to use high-powered machinery." Nuwa said.
He looked at the moving fortress on the screen, and he could see that there were heavy armor like a city wall on the city above the metal claws. Although due to the age, there could be many rust and moss on it, Lincheng could feel its strength, so let alone the various weapons assumed on the city wall.
This industrial miracle, used to revive the world in the past, has now become a huge fortress of war.
"Fifty years ago the system also had a satellite that has been observing new humans to collect data.
After the new humans recovered from this land, due to the climate impacts caused by nuclear explosions and spore sea technology, natural disasters in the world were very frequent in the previous hundred years, such as tsunamis, earthquakes, glaciers moving south, and there were uncertain threats of "Apophis", so people often migrated.
This is how the lifestyle of nomadic people was born, but nomadic people of this scale are relatively rare. According to the design structure of this mechanical fortress, it can accommodate up to about 100,000 people.
However, by the last observation before the end of the satellite's lifespan, this city that requires a large amount of energy to be consumed on mobile has been abandoned by humans because it is difficult to survive and has gradually turned into farming. Only cities with huge structures like this can survive by plundering." Nuwa said.
"Where are they going now?" Lincheng asked.
"This direction is southeast," Mendelev said. "I guess it may be winter is coming soon, and they are going to go to the south to avoid the cold. In this way, the transitional consumption of energy can be avoided."
"Does the geese move south?" Pulangke joked.
Lincheng said at this moment, "It is in line with the habit of nomadic peoples going south in winter. They go to the south not only to avoid the cold, but should still cut leeks."
Several scientists raised their eyebrows.
"A delicious herb, which grows a bit like onions. When harvesting leeks, if a part is left behind, then after a while, the part left will grow again."
Several scientists were very smart and understood the meaning of Lincheng.
"It seems that they have finished cutting the leeks from the gathering place of new humans here and are ready to go to the south to cut them. When the next year, the leeks from the north will grow and come back again." Planck smiled.
“When winter passes, we have almost six months, enough for us to do a lot of things.
The mechanical factory that created this mobile castle in the Arctic, many "Prometheus" systems are scattered around the world, with many resources.
The world must be unified. Only by integrating the world's resources again can we fight against the unknown enemies of this world. This mobile city will become the front line after we embark on the expedition."
Lincheng looked at the city and said calmly, as if the city was already in his hands.
There is no doubt about this, because he is not just him, but behind him is a whole human civilization...
Einstein and others also smiled. They had never worried about whether this mechanical fortress would threaten them if it came back.
If even the threat in front of us cannot be resolved, how can we rebuild civilization in this era and how can we save the time and space of 2072?
"Speaking of this, I've been here for so long at the base. Is this a cinema?" Einstein leaned against the seat behind him, "This seat is quite comfortable."
"When building this base, humans should have already fought against "Apophis". Do you still have the intention to get these entertainment facilities?" Mendeleev said.
"There is nothing bad," Planck said. "No matter how difficult life is, it should be heard from. The more desperate it is, the more satisfying the human spiritual world."
Einstein nodded, then seemed to think of something, looked at Lincheng and smiled.
"I remember, you brought a computer from the past, saying that you loaded a lot of movies to pass the time, and virtual projection technology has come out. The movie special effects technology after our death should have improved rapidly. Is there any good science fiction movie that can be used for us old guys who have never seen the market?"
"Fantasy is the basis of all creation, invention and discovery." Tesla said, "I have worked in the library before, and a lot of my knowledge comes from there. The science fiction novels that exist in the library, I think I have provided many novel ideas and directions for my future research.
Even though I learned a lot of high-tech scientific knowledge from Dr. Linuo, my knowledge could not be inherited from her.
We are old people who are behind the times and should have been abandoned by the times. If we want to pursue the times, it is impossible to just rely on working behind closed doors. It belongs to the future. The fantasy works derived from human science may inspire and help us."
"Of course." Lincheng smiled and said, looking at Nuwa, "Let me copy me into the system and release it."
With this command, the lights around gradually dimmed, and then the beginning of a science fiction movie appeared on the projection screen in front of you...
"Iron Man 1"
Movies are the realization of human dreams and the extension of physical imagination. If you want to understand an era, watching movies from that era is the most convenient way.
Chapter completed!