Li Yao couldn't help but exclaim in amazement after hearing that. He seemed to understand why the primeval people, who lived on Earth in the primeval age without spiritual energy but only with technology, were finally able to control spiritual energy and dominate the universe.
"Marching toward the source of the meteoroid shower sounds crazy, and the odds of success are close to zero, but the odds of success of all the other plans are not much higher than zero, either. After all, it is a wild gamble. Why don't you set the stakes and the profits to the maximum?"
The voice said, "Crystals boast the ability to nurture everything. The spiritual energy contained in a few tiny meteoroids is enough to revive the dying wasteland. If there is a planet made of crystals at the source of the meteoroid shower, what a prosperous world it will be. Even if only a few survivors can reach it, it is very likely that our civilization will be revived.
"After an entire year of discussions and disputes, all the seemingly reliable plans have been proven to be absolutely impossible. Our civilization has finally abandoned all the disagreements and united. Burning all our wisdom and courage, we have worked toward the goal with the greatest sacrifice. In only a hundred years, we have developed advanced technologies for space navigation and human hibernation, and we have built starships that can accommodate billions of people. We have begun the magnificent plan to escape — no, march into the grand universe!
"Alright. Now that you've heard this, I believe that you have a basic understanding of what happened. Now, continue the test. You will command the forces of the entire Earth as the 'chairman' of the Council of Earth, complete the goal of developing specific technologies in only a hundred years, and build super-enormous starships that can accommodate the minimum functions of a civilization for a long voyage.
"Remember, your every choice may decide the fate of the entire civilization and even change the appearance of our universe for billions of years to come. So, don't let the so-called 'justice, kindness, and mercy' interfere with your judgment and make a choice that is truly in the best interest of our civilization!"
"Huh?"
Li Yao was caught off-guard for a moment. Thinking quickly, he exclaimed, "This — this is too absurd. I'm just an adventurer. I'm not a qualified politician or … scientist at all. How can I be better than the billions of politicians and scientists on Earth and make every correct choice in such a short time? Isn't this too much of a challenge?"
"This is just a test. All the options have been highly abstracted and simplified. Of course, you are not required to know everything, nor are you required to know all the details of technology."
The voice said, "We just want to make sure that your brand-new race has keen technological insight and future perception, and won't waste our inheritance. Besides, you have three chances to make mistakes. As long as you listen to our advice, the test can continue."
"This …"
Li Yao still found it absurd. "Could it be that the adventurers of hundreds of civilizations in the past were tested like this? No wonder they couldn't pass. This is simply child's play. It's all based on intuition and luck! "
"As I said just now, perhaps' luck 'and' providence 'are the most critical factors for the birth and rise of a civilization."
The voice said, "If you insist on treating this test as a test of your luck, then it's not wrong."
"But …"
Li Yao still wanted to argue, but astronomical information streams had already flooded into his mind overwhelmingly like the terrifying volcanic eruption and the avalanche not long ago.
The brand-new "level" was almost the same as when he manipulated an ancient bacterium and a spore to evolve all the way to the peak of carbon-based intelligent life, except that countless "technologies" and "policies" had replaced the original direction of mutation. Every technology and policy checked and balanced each other, and they could accelerate, unlock, or block the implementation of new technologies and policies. The overall complexity was more than a hundred times higher than before.
Within Li Yao's vision, there was a glittering blood-red countdown in the upper left corner. It was counting down quickly from a hundred years. Every day seemed to be as short as a second.
In the upper right corner, there was a progress chart, which showed that his current progress was 1%. He still lacked at least hundreds of critical technologies to successfully send mankind out of the solar system and sail in the sea of stars for tens of thousands of years.
All kinds of technologies, including the parameters of the test version of Earth, such as population, energy status, environmental pollution index, the latest trends of the major forces, the reaction of the people to the 'end of the world', and so on, were all presented in the most chaotic and violent form of data.
As the infinite options poured in like a waterfall, Li Yao did not even have the time to curse.
"Hydraulic Crushing Mining Method", "Strengthened Exoskeleton", "Nanocomposite Armor", "Ion Thruster", "Outer Space Ecological Circulation System" …
Li Yao had to set a series of resources such as funds, personnel, facilities, and so on for the research and development of the technologies. He even had to completely reject some of the unnecessary technologies to determine the completion time of the technologies.
"Geocentric Mining", "Autonomous Robot", "Super Logic Computer" …
He had to choose the most critical few of the advanced technologies to make breakthroughs.
"Armored Torpedo", "Nuclear Fusion Missile", "Pulse Gun" …
The development of the cutting-edge weapons seemed unnecessary, but who knew whether or not he would run into ancient alien species during his wanderings in the sea of stars for tens of thousands of years? It was impossible for him to completely abandon the technological progress in the field of weapon development.
Even though Li Yao was one of the most distinguished masters of refining in the age of Cultivators, it did not mean that he could grasp the correct direction of technological advancement in a world without spiritual energy. The crystals brought by the few pieces of meteoroids were too few, and they were barely enough for the escape of the entire civilization. Most of the starships and the hibernation facilities of the escape fleet had to be settled by conventional approaches. Li Yao was not an expert in that regard at all. Just like the voice said, he could only rely on 'intuition' and 'luck' in many cases.
On the other hand, unlike the spore evolution just now, although he was commanding the forces of the entire Earth as the leader of the civilization, it did not mean that everybody would obey his orders.
As the tests went deeper, more and more of the secret parameters of Earth at that time were learned by Li Yao, which gave him a deeper understanding of the complexity and unpredictability of the situation on Earth before the apocalypse.
Although the Council of Earth became the nominal governing body of the entire civilization, the remaining forces of the old countries and peoples did not disappear immediately. They went underground and were still active like a virus in the form of fundamentalists and extremists.
"Those who are not of our race are bound to have different intentions. Only the 'so-and-so' race is the representative of the entire civilization. Only we are qualified to survive in the grand universe!"
Such arguments could be found everywhere on Earth at that time.
Furthermore, the starship production and the human body hibernation technology had only just begun, and the ambitious schemers from different races were already arguing about the proportion of the population that could board the starships in the end, which even led to new conflicts.
Other than that, although the Battle of the Overspirits was over, the radiation and the cyborgs who had been living on the surface of the planet did not all go extinct. Those guys who were strong and boasted a lot of 'superpowers' were the best workers and warriors. They could provide a lot of help for the entire civilization's plan to march into the grand universe. But at the same time, they were also full of resentment and hatred for the underground people or the authorities. They regarded the Council of Earth as their greatest enemy and even tried to sabotage the starship manufacturing plan of the Council of Earth even at the cost of dying together with the underground people.
"You bastards, you've turned the Earth into a mess and are beyond redemption. Now, you want to just leave and leave us here to wait for death? If we are going to die, let's die together! "
That was the cry of many of the radiation and cyborgs at that time.
How to deal with the ultranationalists, as well as the radiators and cyborgs lurking in the darkness was a problem that troubled the highest authorities of the Earth Council. It was especially true for the latter — a hundred Ultra-powered individuals would easily be crushed by a hundred heavy-duty tanks in a head-on battle, but when a hundred Ultra-powered individuals split up, disguising themselves and infiltrating various shelters and military bases, the damage they could cause was something that ten thousand tanks could not stop or compensate for.
Although the Battle of the Psychics was over, the superpower users who were lucky enough to escape found the right way to use their superpowers.
They were like a deadly virus, eroding the precarious escape plan.
In politics, Li Yao had always advocated the open democratic republican system. He believed that power should not be concentrated in one person but should be supervised by the people.
He had also used his own blade countless times to thwart the schemes of the ambitious schemers who claimed to 'save the civilization'.
However, faced with the crisis of Earth's doom in the post-apocalyptic era, his belief was also covered in a haze without him knowing it. He had to admit that the democratic system could not save such a broken and abnormal Earth. Only an iron-blooded strongman could bring a new life to the entire civilization.
Maybe Boss Bai, Li Jialing, Long Yangjun, and even Ding Ling Dong are more suitable for such a test than I am.
Li Yao thought in self-mockery.
There was one other person who was perhaps more suitable for such a test than anybody else — Jin Tuyi who had long passed away.
If Jin Tuyi had been the leader of Earth at that time, how would he have handled such a chaotic situation?
Li Yao recalled everything about Jin Tuyi in his head and retrieved every piece about Jin Tuyi from his mind, before he gathered them with his remarkable computational ability.
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