A picture popped up in Li Yao's head.
The bizarre-shaped, magnificent starships were transporting the warriors, intellectuals, researchers, and academic authorities of the Pangu civilization as well as their families to the entrance of the primeval relic one after another.
Before they left the starships and entered the primeval relic, they all signed a contract and made solemn vows. From that day on, they would be cut off from the world and explore the mysteries of the primeval era with all their lives and souls until the day they completely cracked the riddles of the primeval era and overthrew the 'black wall' that restrained the entire civilization. Then, they would be allowed to return home.
In fact, the first batch of specialists and scholars was very clear that, with the profundity, mysteriousness, and complexity of the primeval relic, it was impossible for them to achieve their goal even if they spent their entire lives.
The best they could do was to build new stairs with their bodies so that their descendants could step on their shoulders and climb up step by step until they reached their final destination.
Even so, they had no regrets. They abandoned everything they had in the mortal world and escaped into the quarantine area known as the Divine Palace.
"The so-called 'deities' in the Divine Palace naturally referred to the 'ancestors', or in other words, the creator of the black wall. But as time went by, the people in the outside world had a misunderstanding and thought that it was a name that we gave ourselves."
The Moon Gazer sighed slightly. With grief that did not match his young face, he went on. "But it was not until a long time later that I learned that the life in the Divine Palace was so different from the life in the central area of the Pangu civilization. After thousands of years of fermenting, the civilizations of the two sides developed in two completely different directions, almost turning into two races and two civilizations that were extremely different and estranged.
"Inside the Divine Palace, although the environment is ever-changing and full of dangers and unpredictable fatal traps, most of the residents here are specialists, scholars, and their descendants. Everybody's mind is relatively pure, and they are marching forward with the same mission on their shoulders. There is not much intrigue. The social order is very simple. It is like a paradise.
"However, outside of the Divine Palace, in the central area of the Pangu civilization, due to the impact of the failure of the Great Expedition and the existence of the Flood and the ancestors, all kinds of rumors and alarmist theories have been fermented. The society is very turbulent, and the people are extremely anxious. Almost everyone is worried about the arrival of the apocalypse all day long. Also, because of the limited resources, most of which have to be delivered to the Divine Palace for us to analyze the secrets of the ancient civilization and the ancestors. Therefore, the development of the society has almost come to a standstill, and civil strife and strife rise and fall all year round.
"In order to suppress the uneasy situation and free all the people from the fear of the apocalypse, a lot of people in the highest authorities have come up with methods of 'emotional sealing and mental control'. However, as I said just now, their emotional sealing and mental control are misguided and will only further neuter the will and creativity of the people. Naturally, they will raise even greater resistance.
"However, the Pangu civilization has developed for almost a million years after all. It is the well-deserved dominator of the Pangu universe and is deeply rooted to the core. It will take a long time for the disease to spread to the bone. In the thousand years before that, the relationship between the Divine Palace and the outside world was more or less stable. The outside world provided the Divine Palace with incessant resources, including tremendous crystals and Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, as well as the most excellent talents of the outside world. The Divine Palace, on the other hand, excavated and analyzed the secret treasures inside the primeval relics. After figuring out the mechanisms, they received tremendous new technologies and magical equipment replicas and exported them to the outside world, maintaining the last vitality of the Pangu civilization.
"Although we haven't figured out the purpose of the ancestors and the technology they adopted, the hundred primeval civilizations that perished in this place one after another have evolved at a similar level to ours. After countless scholars and adventurers burned their souls and sacrificed their lives to work day and night, we have made great achievements.
"The first thousand years after the Divine Palace was established passed peacefully just like that. It was both the golden years of the Divine Palace and the last glory of the Pangu civilization outside.
"That was the era of my parents and ancestors, and I was born in the second thousand years after the Pangu civilization discovered the primeval relics.
"After the second thousand years, the conflicts between the Divine Palace and the outside world grew more and more intense. The situation became more and more unpredictable, like a dark haze that loomed over the heads of both parties.
"First of all, during the great excavations in the past thousand years, we have found all the technologies and magical equipment that are easy to be analyzed and replicated in the Divine Palace. What we are faced with next is a tough bone that is very difficult to chew.
"Since you are a refiner, you should have a certain understanding of materials science, the studies of spiritual energy, aerodynamics, and other fields. You should know that the problems in the cutting-edge academic fields are not things that can be achieved by following the prescribed order or by investing as many resources as possible. In many cases, the proof of a formula or the discovery of a rule requires not only the flash of inspiration of a certain genius but also the most mysterious luck.
"We have already used up all our luck in the first millennium. In the second millennium, the technical difficulties placed in front of us are like towering mountains that reach into the clouds one after another. It is not something that can be overcome in a day or night. It requires the efforts of several generations and hundreds of years.
"However, our people outside cannot wait for so long.
"In the last thousand years, they have been used to the pattern of 'cash for cash'. They have been investing tremendous resources into the Divine Palace incessantly, and the Divine Palace, in return, will deliver a lot of advanced, mature, and very practical technologies and magical equipment to them every once in a while so that they can temporarily pacify the anxious and restless people with those items.
"But right now, for a hundred years, we have not delivered too many valuable technologies and magical equipment to the outside world, and the outside world has to maintain the input of tremendous resources. It is inevitable that the leaders of the outside world, the highest authorities of the Pangu civilization, are dissatisfied and have a lot of doubts.
"Sigh. Now that I think about it, we made a very serious mistake when we were building the Divine Palace and recruiting researchers and explorers. We recruited the most cutting-edge specialists and researchers in the cutting-edge fields of the entire civilization into the Divine Palace. Those who stayed outside were all the most cutting-edge politicians and soldiers. Of course, there was an 'academic committee' that served as a bridge of communication between the two parties, but the scholars in the committee were all second-rate.
"The mindset of specialists and politicians and soldiers is completely different. No matter how we explained the difficulties of research to them and the importance of continuous input of resources, they simply turned a deaf ear to us and demanded that we present the research results as soon as possible. Otherwise, they would reduce the input to the Divine Palace and even send an inspection team to clean up the work of the Divine Palace in the past thousand years."
At this point, the Moon Gazer's face clearly showed a trace of disappointment and annoyance.
Li Yao, however, did not think much of it.
The Moon Gazers grew up in the primeval relics. One might say that they were pure scholars who grew up in laboratories. Naturally, they did not know the complexity of the world and the evilness of people's hearts.
Li Yao, on the other hand, used to deal with the Federation, the Imperium, and the Holy League. His wife had even been the Speaker of the Federation. He was very clear that managing a civilization was not as simple as playing a game named 'Civilization'. There were too many things, and the interests of different parties were intertwined. It was even more difficult to sort out than a mess.
The Moongazer Watchers thought that "continuous supply of resources" was a very simple sentence, but in the outside world, it might cause an uproar or even a fight between the imperial court and the Jianghu. It would make thousands of people tighten their belts and even starve to death.
In particular, Li Yao knew that the great expedition to cross the black wall and march into the multiverse had consumed most of the resources and potential of the Pangu civilization. It could be considered the turning point of the Pangu civilization's decline from prosperity. In the thousands of years to come, the resources of the Pangu civilization would certainly be more and more scarce. Also, the rumors of the approaching Flood and the arrival of doomsday would corrode the social order, and the resentment of the people would be boiling. The control of the highest authorities on all aspects would certainly be significantly reduced.
Under such circumstances, the highest authorities of the Pangu civilization would certainly have a headache because they had to maintain the social order and force the people to tighten their belts and deliver tremendous resources to the Divine Palace incessantly.
If the Heavenly Palace could continuously produce research results, the highest authorities could still barely maintain such a "deal". But if the Heavenly Palace failed to produce any valuable research results for a hundred years, how could the highest authorities convince all the people to tighten their belts that had already been tightened to the limit?
The specialists and scholars of the Federation and the Imperium had studied the regime of the Pangu civilization to some extent. For most of the time, the Pangu civilization did not have an autocratic ruler. It was still a republican system where the tribes negotiated with each other. Therefore, there was no autocrat who could make the decision to provide resources to the Divine Palace without any conditions or principles. Any supply of resources would certainly be questioned and censored by institutions such as the parliament.
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