Chapter Twelve Second Century Civilization
The sun shadow slanted west, the breeze moon rose in the east, and the reflection on the book in Li Zhe's hand turned into crimson, and he realized that he had been reading the book for another day.
He threw the thick books on the coffee table, got up from the sofa, walked to the window on the soft and thick carpet, and stared at Hongyancheng, who was vivid in the distance.
Hongyan City, one of the important cities in the blood tribe territory on Crimson Star, has an area of 80 miles and a power radiating range of tens of thousands of square kilometers. It is a regional commercial, cultural, industrial and political center.
The outer edge of the city is densely packed with residential areas, and further into the industrial area, commercial area, political and cultural area, with distinct strata around it.
The outermost residential and industrial areas are designated as outer city areas, accounting for only one-quarter of Hongyan City, but they accommodate millions of permanent population all year round, and countless migrant populations are numerous.
Of course, most of these people are not blood clans, but humans bought, stolen, or voluntarily migrated.
In a crowded environment, darkness, filth, sin... all kinds of ugly things in the world happen every day.
But that's it. All people in the outer city are like the most tragic worker ant in the ant nest, living numb and strong every day.
Because here is not much different from life in the Federation, and they all have a life of not going to be tomorrow. If you are lucky, you are chosen as a slave by the blood clan in the inner city. You may be able to eat enough and live for a few years.
A circular city wall separates the inner city and the outer city. Compared with the chaos in the outer city, the inner city world is comfortable, tidy, orderly, and has a complete configuration of public facilities such as greening, street lights, libraries, and luxury shopping malls, high-end residences, and various specialty stores.
The streets full of artistic atmosphere are spotless on the buildings. The humans and blood tribes living here are well-dressed and enjoy the fun of life leisurely and proudly.
These people are vested interests of Hongyan City, controlling all aspects of Hongyan City's business, culture, economy, etc., and are at ease absorbing the blood and sweat of millions of people outside the city.
But they are not the most blood-sucking ones. In the center of Hongyan City, the area of nearly 100 square kilometers is actually a lake and mountain.
Who could imagine that in a crowded city with tall buildings, there was a grassland, green trees, lakes, and hills that could not be seen at all, retaining a comfortable living environment like a manor and castle.
The three castles divide the green lake of nearly 100 square kilometers and the power and interests of Hongyan City.
Li Zhe lives in one of these three castles, the "Red Fort" manor that is extremely luxurious.
He has been in Hongyan City for almost a month and spent most of his time reading books. Mu Yu was assigned by Li Zhe and searched for many precious classics that ordinary people cannot access, which made Li Zhe more shocked and fascinated the more he read.
Only now did he realize that this world that has mastered high-end technologies such as interstellar navigation has a development history of less than two thousand years, which is not as long as Lanxing (defense and harmony).
The reason is that this world is a secondary civilization built on the ruins.
The high-tech knowledge in this world was left behind from the last civilization, and the main way it left was genetic memory.
Of course, the term "gene memory" is a description in federal classics, and the blood clan classics will be explained by "blood inheritance".
When the last civilization was about to be destroyed, a great wise man created advanced embryonic gene technology, so humans, blood clans, demons and other human side forces have saved the genetic fire in the shelter and have been through the cold era of destruction.
It was not until more than a thousand years ago that the dilapidated refuges opened one after another, released these sparks of life, and began the reconstruction of the second civilization.
Whether it is the Interstellar Federation, the blood clan of the Twilight Continent, the demon clan of the Abyss Galaxy, and other human side branches, they are constantly awakening their genetic memory.
Various advanced technologies and knowledge left in the genes of our ancestors were constantly unlocked into the minds of the fire seed, and then combined with the excavation of civilization relics and reversed the development speed of technology far exceeds that of the Lanxing people.
However, the awakening process is uncontrollable and disorderly. The fire cannot choose which knowledge to awaken, so that there are obvious faults in the development of secondary civilization.
For example, the current Star Federation, Blood Clan, Demon Clan and other forces have mastered interstellar navigation technology, but they do not know why.
The entire federation has technological crystals that surpass Lanxing, but some technologies from the steam era are still rampant in the corners of the starry sky.
The social system is extremely backward, with primitive society, feudal society and capitalism coexisting, and the development of the science and technology tree is obviously tilted towards the military direction.
Because the investment in people's lives is far from enough, a large number of human beings are still on the verge of survival and death due to hunger and cold.
If the development of Lanxing's civilization is pyramid-like, laying a solid foundation layer by layer, and accumulating the crystallization of wisdom from the upper layer.
Then the civilizations in this world are piled up in an out-of-order manner, with rough and empty bottoms and extremely imperfect middle-level structures, because top-level technology is conducive to the rule of the top social levels, but it has obtained a large amount of social resources and produced a large number of abnormally brilliant achievements.
Of course, if it were just these, Li Zhe would not be shocked. After all, he does not have a strong sense of belonging to this world. No matter how punk or collapses in society, he doesn't care.
What shocked him was that he was constantly awakening his memory and gaining more and more incredible skills and knowledge.
After Li Zhe met Mu Yu, three inscriptions, "bloodline", "killing" and "hidden" appeared in his mind, which were exactly the same as the awakening of gene memory described in ancient classics.
In the past month in Hongbao, Li Zhe awakened another inscription - "Art".
Moreover, his understanding of this "art" inscription is getting deeper and deeper, even surpassing the other three inscriptions.
He can now play extremely beautiful piano music and possess magical painting skills. He can't even tell the true or false of the blood clan "master works" he copied. He also knows several ancient languages and characters that are only mastered by a few people.
Now Li Zhe has no doubt that there are countless treasures in his mind and is in need of golden keys to unlock one treasure chest after another.
And these suitable keys are hidden in life. He doesn't know when he will pick them up, but he can foresee that they are related to his life experience.
"So, what am I? What are the Lanxing people?"
Li Zhe asked himself countless times in his heart, what was going on with himself and what was going on with the Lanxing people?
The appearance and body structure of the Lanxing people are extremely similar to those of the Federation and the Blood Clan people. Although the writing language is very different from that of the Lanxing people, it is strange that the pronunciation of the surnames of many people is very similar to that of the Lanxing people.
Li Zhe once imagined that the Lanxing people were also a "fire seed" that came out of a "sanctuary", but Lanxing never found any super-tech ruins.
And there is no theory of genetic memory. All scientific and technological knowledge is exchanged for the working people's sweat and wisdom in their lives.
Whether it is art or academic, we have to use years of study to pave the way to ascend. It is impossible to wake up and get to the level 10 piano and understand the profound secrets of gravity.
Moreover, the Lanxing people have no superpowers. They can hardly escape even if they see hundreds of kilograms of tigers, let alone tear them up and eat meat. Not to mention the magical spiritual superpowers.
But Li Zhe can now crack the solid stone wall with one punch, jump higher than a pole vault, taking human life is like killing a chicken with a kitchen knife, and touching the violin can have a tacit string duet with Mu Yu.
Then why is this?
Mu Yu lived for hundreds of years, and her knowledge and experience were rich, but she was extremely sure that Li Zhe was a "noble elder" of their clan. What she accepted was blood correction rather than blood transformation.
Bloodline correction will only occur between blood clans with blood-borne genes of the same lineage, and the effect is far greater than the domineering transformation of paraline blood-borne genes that completely cover the source genes.
In other words, Li Zhe and Mu Yu are really bloodlines of the same genealogy.
"If Lanxing was the starting point of civilization in the last century, it was destroyed when civilization developed to its extreme, and then emitted countless 'fire seeds', I might be Mu Yu's ancestor, but my current knowledge awakening cannot be explained..."
Li Zhe was extremely sure that his body was still the one before traveling through time, but how could he have the ability to awaken genetically?
Li Zhe asked Mu Yu to find all the information about the previous civilization and the blood clan shelter, but there was no record of Lan Xing in the information that could be collected.
There are more comprehensive historical facts in the Bloody Parliament of Twilight Continent, but you have to wait until Mu Yu becomes a member of the Bloody Parliament before you can copy it to Li Zhe.
"If Lanxing is also one of the refuges, then is it a different space-time plane from the Starry Sky Federation? Or is it a galaxy that is far away from countless distances?"
Li Zhe looked up at the starry sky that was completely different from Lan Xing, and felt a complicated mood.
He originally thought that he would never go back to Lanxing and would never see Xiaowan again, but now he has a glimmer of hope.
As long as the two worlds are not parallel planes, no matter whether Lanxing is one of the refuges or the birthplace of the civilization of the last century, I may not be able to go back.
Chapter completed!