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Jiang Chen noticed that the monuments had collapsed over the years, and the walls guarding the monuments had been destroyed in the war, but the only thing that remained unchanged was that the flame of prosperity was still growing tenaciously and germinating in the bloody and barbaric dark ages.

At this moment, the ball of light, which had been silent for a long time, shook slightly, and then spoke.

"I note that in your memory, the matriarchal society of your civilization existed for a short time, but in our civilization the matriarchal society did not loosen until the late Renaissance. However, it took us 20,000 years to move from the bloody and barbaric Dark Ages to the Renaissance. ”

20,000 years!

The corners of Jiang Chen's mouth twitched.

It took 20,000 years to transition from the Dark Ages to the Renaissance in 20,000 years...... That's almost longer than human civilization itself.

"You may be surprised that 20,000 years is too long for any living being, but it has to do with our habits, so there's nothing to talk about. There's nothing left to see up there, it's time to take you underground to see it. The ball of light said.

The picture gradually changed.

Jiang Chen watched the soil on the soles of his feet dissolve and the gravel collapsed downward, watching himself sink to the ground, passing a distance of tens of thousands of meters, and standing in an underground lair in the blink of an eye.

To his surprise, he thought that this place must be full of chaotic holes that could suffocate dense phobias, but he didn't expect to appear in front of him, it was actually a large hall paved with neat stone bricks. Nefit, solemn and sacred, every brick and tile is full of civilized atmosphere and special aesthetics.

The bazaar, the residence, the barracks, and all the other functional facilities are connected to the central hall by a tunnel, and the stars and the moon unfold around the mother nest, forming a three-dimensional city.

He didn't know where each tunnel leads, or what each Gaia is doing, but judging by their busy steps, it is not difficult to feel the breath of prosperity.

"Workers, miners, breeders, soldiers, and civilians were given the same power after the Revolution, and were fairly entitled to everything from private property to mating. The matriarchal society came to an end, and the feudal system that revolved around the mother worm finally collapsed in the flames of the industrial revolution. ”

"We have created a siege beast with steel and oil, it is able to rampage underground, all fortifications have become futile, even the devil worm is like an earthworm in front of it, and the cavalry has completely withdrawn from the stage of history. War is back to the age of savagery, and we are beginning to learn to arm ourselves with machines, to replace the weaker parts of our body that have evolved to do so, and to destroy our enemies in the most efficient way possible. ”

"Although barbarism has not changed, in this era, any Gaia has the same power, and the idea of equality is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. We have written it all in our writing...... If you had come to me a billion years earlier, you might still have seen the stele, but now, there's nothing left......"

And when it all ends, prosperity begins. ”

The mechanical centipedes that churned the earth vanished, the walls of the hall crumbled backwards, and thousands of spiral-shaped buildings like works of art sprung up, winding their way up in the darkness and spreading their branches and leaves kilometers deep underground, like the tall buildings of human civilization......

At this moment, Jiang Chen finally understood what he had found in the 071 mine.

All of this stale collapsed with the centralized society at the heart of the brood, and was replaced by a much larger and greater empire. They completed the unification, connecting all the cities into one with railways and tunnels.

After tens of thousands of years of ignorance, Gaia civilization ushered in a golden age of prosperity and strength.

"It's incredible......" Through the gravel and gravel, Jiang Chen stared blankly at the black "crowd" on the spiral-shaped high-rise building.

"I understand your surprise, probably as much as I saw you in front of me. Guangqiu said softly, "If the Great Revolution shattered the old ideas, then the great unification after the Industrial Revolution completely ushered in a golden age of prosperity for our civilization." But that's not the best, the really best times are a thousand years later, after we invented the nerve amplification device. ”

"Neurological devices make the antennae on our heads stronger, and our 'voices' can be transmitted to farther places. If it finds it difficult to understand, you can compare what it means to us to your internet. ”

Jiang Chen nodded.

He understands that.

After all, he didn't have such a thing as antennae, and he didn't know how to turn his thoughts into electromagnetic waves and send them out. And the golden age that Gaia is talking about is probably equivalent to the Internet age that the earth's civilization entered at the end of the twentieth century.

The Neural Amplification Device is to Gaia what the Phantom Helmet is to humans.

All needs can be met virtually, and all individuals are happier than ever.

"If I were to sum up the differences between our two civilizations, which had been dead for 3.7 billion years, I think it would probably be the understanding of the word happiness. When we enter the 'Age of Neuro Amplification', our spiritual needs have been satisfied like never before, and the only thing left unmet is probably the obsession with metal itself. ”

"I remember saying that we are unusually sensitive to the smell of minerals. This sensitivity has not changed in tens of thousands of years, and we indulge in the bliss of being surrounded by metal. The pursuit of iron ore and all other metals, or greed, is probably the driving force behind the development of our civilization. ”

And this greed turned into a deadly poisonous wine in the end. ”

Speaking of this, the voice of the ball of light carried a bit of emotion.

"Poisoned wine?" Jiang Chen asked.

"That's right," the ball of light shook slightly, "I'll show you around, and you'll understand." ”

Spanning thousands of years, the picture has changed again.

There were ripples in the air, and following the footsteps of the ball of light, Jiang Chen stepped over a transparent film and came to a spherical space made entirely of metal. In this spherical space, three-dimensional distribution of strangely shaped machines, connected by alloy skeletons.

"You can't feel it just by looking at it," the ball of light whispered, "and we're standing in the core of Mars, and this planetary furnace is the greatest crystallization of our civilization. ”

"Planetary ...... The Furnace?"

Jiang Chen swallowed hard and spat at the mouth.

He could never have imagined that these species, known as Gaia, had dug through the entire planet 3.7 billion years ago, and even transformed the entire core of Mars into a furnace for smelting iron or other alloys, turning the entire planet into their factory.

Planetary Furnace.

The word crazy is no longer enough to describe their behavior......

Looking at the shock on Jiang Chen's face calmly, the ball of light continued.

"Our industry is exceptionally developed. When the crust could not satisfy our appetite, we dug the hole into the mantle circle, and the mantle was not enough to meet our needs, so we set our sights on the core. The Earth's core is rich in minerals, and iron is like an ocean here, and even a small amount of it is enough to take our civilization a big step forward......"

At this, the ball of light paused and sighed softly.

"But you also know that once you take the first step, you can never stop. ”

"Time has weathered everything, blowing all the steel we forged over hundreds of centuries into iron filings. Do you see the sand outside? Every rusty piece of grit is Gaia's tears......