"It's so beautiful."
Meng Chao could not help but want to reach out and touch the dazzling and elusive stars. "Where's our home, Earth?" he asked.
"I don't know."
Wu Haibo pointed at the blurry and incomplete edges of the star map. "We've only unlocked 10% of the secrets in this star map. Earth and the solar system are still hidden in the fog. We'll need to pour more resources, intelligence, and time into them before we can find them."
Meng Chao nodded. "Then, what about the Other World?"
"We've found the coordinates of the Other World. It's here." Wu Haibo pointed at the air.
Spirit energy threads spread out from his fingertips and crawled into the left side of the star map, causing the region to swiftly enlarge and shine.
Meng Chao saw that the planet the Earthlings called the Other World was located in the southwest of the entire star map.
Countless rays of light spread out from the Other World and connected the thousands of stars that led to the center of the galaxy together to form a brilliant galaxy.
At the end of the galaxy were more than one hundred balls of light. They were more than one hundred times brighter than the light spots that represented the Other World.
It was like a furiously burning journey to the center of the cosmos.
Meng Chao was engrossed in it, and suddenly, a bone-piercing pain shot through his mind.
It was as if he had just returned to the past. The floodgates to the information torrent opened once more, and countless fragmented pictures appeared before his eyes.
No, this time, it was not the memories of his previous life.
Instead, it was something that was even stranger and much grander than the memories of his previous life.
Meng Chao felt as if he could see billions of three-dimensional runic symbols levitating in the air. They shone in an octagonal manner and continued surging and clashing against each other.
Each runic symbol could be magnified endlessly, and the intersecting ravines contained endless information. It was like a library and museum that recorded the entire process of a civilization's rise, decline, and destruction.
They charged at him like shooting stars and turned into swift rays of light in an attempt to crawl into Meng Chao's brain and transfer all the information they contained into his brain.
Unfortunately, Meng Chao had just reached Heaven Realm, and he was still a carbon-based intelligent lifeform with a limited brain capacity. Even if his billions of brain cells swelled up to their maximum under the stimulation of spirit energy, he could not contain even one-billionth of their light.
In a trance, what he saw was still a fragment that flashed by.
Their bodies were translucent and translucent, with runes growing on their surfaces and spirit veins growing in their bodies. They rode stellar storms and galloped through the sea of stars.
Carbon-based intelligent life forms that were as enormous as mountains and as abnormal as fiends were worshipping the altars that were as magnificent as pyramids.
There were also bugs. Countless bugs that were more than ten thousand meters long and as large as Kun Pengs soared into the sky, forming a bug tide that was even larger than the beast tide. They pounced on the stars, and when they reached the periphery of the star's orbit, they ejected sticky materials that resembled spider silk from their backs, gluing all of their kind together and turning them into black crystal-like cocoons. Billions of cocoons wrapped the entire star, completely monopolizing the light and heat of the star …
Meng Chao shuddered.
He took half a step back, as though he had just woken up from a dream.
"Did you see it?" Wu Haibo supported him and asked in an affirmative tone.
"W-What is that?" Meng Chao asked in disbelief.
"That's the Ancient Era's Summoning. It's just that it's safer, controllable, and beneficial to Earthlings," Wu Haibo explained.
Wu Haibo explained, "You can think of it as a 'will' in another form, just like the metal drawing board of the crystal corpses. It's a message that the person who drew the star map wanted to tell his heirs who will reactivate the star map thousands of years later.
"Many researchers will see illusions in front of their eyes when they come into contact with star maps or other ancient items. They will also hear the ancient era's ravings. Some of the illusions and ravings will cause people to enter spirit energy deviation, have a mental breakdown, and even turn them into deformed and ugly monsters. But most of the illusions and ravings are very beneficial to humans when they analyze ancient technology and break through the limits of life. In truth, the Ancient Era's Summoning played a huge role in why we were able to build the three major technological systems of spirit energy cultivation, runic symbol machines, and biochemical modifications in just a short half a century.
"Of course, not everyone can hear the Primordial Summon, but generally speaking, the higher one's realm, the stronger one's combat strength, and the more experiences one has, the higher the probability of hearing the Primordial Summon, and the more details one can hear and see.
"From now on, there might be more illusions and auditory hallucinations in your brain. This is a normal phenomenon. It might even stimulate your brain and vitality magnetic field to become stronger. This can be considered a gift from all the researchers of Project 101 to you. Thank you for saving everyone's lives in Noble Descent Hotel!"
Meng Chao noticed that in just a few minutes, the originally dazzling star chart had become dim.
The crystals and crystalized neurospheres that served as energy sources levitated at the center of the star chart had shrunk by a large margin.
It changed from the size of a fist to the size of a finger.
Meng Chao made a rough estimate of the money he had burned in the past few minutes and how many weapons he could buy with the money.
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He couldn't help but secretly click his tongue. This "gift" was really too valuable. It was practically comparable to a fully-armed armored airship!
"Today has really been an eye-opener. Thank you all so much."
Meng Chao said sincerely.
"There's no need for that. We've thought about it before."
Wu Haibo grinned. "As long as you think that Project 101 has great potential and are willing to continue investing in it, it's not a problem even if you want to stay in the star chart every day."
"Of course Project 101 has great potential."
Meng Chao's expression was stern, and he said firmly, "Captain Wu, don't worry. Regardless of whether I can personally obtain benefits from Project 101, I will use all my connections and do my best to provide you with funds, resources, and everything you need.
"Please persevere as well. No matter how difficult the external conditions are and how great the challenges Dragon City faces, the importance of Project 101 cannot be shaken, because there's a high possibility that you'll become our only hope to win and even survive!"
Meng Chao's attitude affected Wu Haibo.
He also gradually became serious.
He observed Meng Chao repeatedly, and once he was certain that Meng Chao was serious, Wu Haibo sighed and shook his head with a bitter smile. "Meng Chao, you're really different from the important people who control the mega corporations."
"What do you mean?"
"The important people aren't willing to invest in Project 101," Wu Haibo said.
"They think that while the star chart is really beautiful, mysterious, and rich, and there might be treasures hidden in it that we can't imagine, it's still too far away from Earth's technology and Dragon City's civilization.
"To the current Dragon Citizens, this star chart is the same as teaching manned spaceflight to the captains of the great voyage era. It might be hundreds of years ahead of the current era, but it's just a technique to slay dragons. It's useless.
"After all, this star chart and the device that activates it are just some sort of navigation system.
"And if we want Dragon City to transmigrate again, we'll need to repair and activate the transmigration engine.
"Even if we've already found a few devices that are suspected to be transmigration engines, the funds for the subsequent development will still be astronomical.
"You saw it yourself. Activating the star chart once requires a lot of crystals and crystalized neurospheres.
"To the important people, instead of throwing so many crystals and crystalized neurospheres into Project 101, which is like a bottomless pit, it would be better for them to spend them on themselves and their family members so that they can increase their cultivation realms and fighting strength so that their families and businesses can become stronger.
"They can't do anything about it. The former is vague, and they might not be able to develop it successfully. Even if they succeed, they might only be able to see results after hundreds of years, and the ones who will benefit might not be the important people or the mega corporations." The latter can see results immediately, and the benefits are all on themselves. Everyone has their own selfish motives, so their choice is understandable. "
Meng Chao nodded with a contemplative expression.
This was why he did not want the mega corporations to control Dragon City like he did in his previous life.
His previous life's memories told him that the mega corporations and cultivation families only cared about their own interests. It was impossible for them to contribute all their strength to the entire civilization and the future hundreds of years later.
"What about the military?"
Meng Chao remembered the armored warriors stationed at the perimeter of the ancient ruins. "The Red Dragon Army must value Project 101 a lot, right?"
He remembered that on Earth, this sort of project that involved the exploration of the universe would naturally receive great support from the military. In fact, the military would even manage and lead the project.
"Of course the Red Dragon Army values it, but their main problem is that they don't have money. Even if they have money, they seem to be expanding their army and helping a group of young officers increase their fighting strength so that they can rush out of Monster Mountain Range." And in Project 101, they value the progress of the more practical sub-projects. For the time being, they don't have the right to be too interested in the vast universe. "
Wu Haibo smiled wanly. "It's still the same example. To a captain of a battleship from the age of navigation, the need to develop high-power rapid-fire cannons and high-performance incendiary bombs is far greater than the need to develop manned spaceflight technology."
"That's too …"
Meng Chao swallowed the words "short-sighted".
After all, not everyone could learn from the future like he did.
In his previous life, all the transmigration experts in Dragon City died in the hands of the monster civilization, and Project 101 came to a complete halt. They did not pour any resources into the development of controllable transmigration technology. Instead, they used all their resources to develop high-power rapid-fire cannons and high-performance incendiary bombs.
So what? Didn't he still lose miserably and die a graveless death?
Meng Chao might have returned from the apocalypse and his luck over the past few years was pretty good, but he could not guarantee that he would still be as lucky as he was today when he faced the extraordinary beings of the Other World.
Strategically, he looked down on the enemy, but tactically, he valued the enemy.
Before he considered victory, he should consider defeat first!
What if he still could not stop the destruction from descending?
As long as he developed controllable transmigration technology, he could bring the entire Dragon City to a new world one second before the apocalypse arrived. He could start over and be invincible!
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