Chapter 1 Talin Arrival

The appearance of the Talin people was not strange.

After all, as a rather friendly alien race, they not only provided great support to the Zheng Nation in terms of spaceship design, but also taught Earthlings related technical knowledge.

Moreover, a portion of the Talin people's souls signed a Netherworld Pact with Zheng, and they will serve as the crew of the research vessel, departing with Su Zhou and others to participate in the exploration.

And the veteran captain, Ko Talen, will also participate in this exploration as a mentor.

Of course, he signed the relevant confidentiality agreement, and the Zheng Nation doesn't mind letting these aliens without a mother civilization broaden their horizons.

Due to their home planet's environment, the Talin people, with their spirit of exploration and cooperation, actively cooperated with the human side after landing on Earth and losing their exploration ship. They taught various interstellar engineering technologies that humans did not understand. In return, the Earth side announced that the safety of the Talin people on Earth is protected by the entire United International (mainly the four permanent members of the Security Council).

After all, humans cannot intermarry with arthropods; the reproductive isolation is too great, so there are no other messy worries.

However, compared to the actively cooperating Talin people, the more arrogant, or rather, the more rigid Kro people are not like that.

Because the Kro people's spaceship was shot down, not a crash due to malfunction, 83% of the Kro crew members died in that ambush. All crew members harbored a confrontational mentality towards Earth, and K-Kor, as the captain, showed no intention of cooperation after waking up and remained silent.

Not only did he not teach Earthlings interstellar engineering technology like the Talin people, but K-Kor even angrily denounced Ko Talen after learning about the Talin people's actions, saying that their actions were aiding demons.

"In the future, not only the Kro people, but you Talin people will also become vassals and lackeys of these Earthlings!"

The soul fluctuations of this Kro, whose tentacles were half broken but still looked like some kind of strange octopus when enraged, were quite aggressive: "Don't you understand yet? The original Earthlings were willing to stay here, they didn't want to go out, so it was a Black Domain Restricted Area—but now, you have told them how to leave their home!"

"An Ω psionic civilization fully recovers and awakens, and then heads towards the starry sky... the entire arm will be shrouded in their will!"

"So what?"

In response, Ko Talen was dismissive. His mouthparts made a clicking sound, as if sneering: "You should have seen the mountain of spaceship wrecks behind their home planet's satellite."

"Teach? Without us, they would have figured it out themselves in a few years. We are just giving them something they are destined to obtain in advance, in exchange for the Earthlings' goodwill towards the Talin people."

Saying so, this alien captain stretched out his tentacles and pointed to the exploration ship in front of him: "Speaking of which, have you seen these Earthlings hand-crafting spaceships?"

"If you had, you wouldn't feel guilty about providing them with technology—think about it, they can hand-craft spaceships!"

"...Hand-craft spaceships?"

Finally, when K-Kor repeated this sentence in confusion and bewilderment, he was taken away by several Earth cultivators. Even so, he was still repeating blankly: "What is hand-crafting spaceships?"

"Could it be..."

As for why Su Zhou knew whether a dice-like alien creature was bewildered or confused, it was naturally because of the Wuxiang Heart (Heart of Non-Thinking).

"These aliens are really complicated... I wonder what it will be like when we actually meet and communicate with the mother civilizations behind them in the future."

Thinking in his heart, the young man shook his head slightly: "That's why we need to develop our strength now."

Dominating the arm or even the galaxy, Earthlings are not interested in. After all, if they really want to farm, they can farm in the solar system for hundreds of years.

The reason they want to head towards the starry sky is mainly to prevent Earth civilization from following the old path of immortals and gods, being bound by the living environment, and losing the possibility of development and progress.

It's just that if this is said, it is estimated that those aliens will not believe it.

Soon, the test was over, and the research vessel named 'Far Gaze' was determined to be normal and ready to depart at any time.

Next, all that was needed was to wait for other equipment and personnel to arrive.

For Su Zhou, working in the deep mountains and forests was no different from working in Tiandu Xijing. In any case, there were relevant staff members to relay information to him.

And at dawn on the 29th, Su Zhou, who was looking at the scenery on the top of the fortress, received an investigation report from the Security Bureau from Tang Yuan.

The report stated that now, throughout Zheng Nation, and even in various countries around the world, some peculiar organizations composed of ordinary people have emerged.

The names of these organizations are diverse and countless, but their purpose is only one, and that is to resist all 'new industries'.

The so-called new industries are the various industries that have emerged since the spiritual energy revival, based on the extraordinary and extraordinary technology, such as spirit beast breeding, spirit plant cultivation, personal magical artifact forging, intelligent AI, controlled nuclear fusion power plants, spirit energy engines, and other special industries and technologies.

Undoubtedly, just as the large-scale industrial production brought about by the Industrial Revolution directly eliminated almost all small handicraft workshops, the industrial transformation brought about by the spiritual energy revival has also eliminated a large number of 'old industries' that have been operating for a long time.

For example, traditional animal husbandry, traditional grain cultivation, gasoline engines, taxi drivers, traditional energy industries, etc... These are just examples. In fact, there are even more industries and workers being impacted.

Think about it, even for moving bricks, there are people who can lift a ton with their strength, and workers with industrial exoskeleton armor can guarantee processing accuracy that the human body can hardly guarantee with machinery.

In addition, the combination of intelligent AI and the traditional extraordinary system of 'enlightening and empowering souls' is enough to create artificial intelligence that is extremely similar to humans, or even indistinguishable from humans. Countless jobs have been changed, or even eliminated, by the completely renovated new era.

Therefore, many people have protested against this, demanding that the official slow down the pace of development and wait for the people's steps.

"...Temporarily suspend the development and practical application of spiritual energy technology, do not adopt certain special spiritual energy technologies, completely suspend the investment of intelligent AI, return jobs to natural persons... Heh, they even oppose cooperation with aliens? Where did this xenophobic conservative organization come from."

After reading the report in Tang Yuan's hand, Su Zhou's expression became very subtle: "Wait, I remember, isn't this the ideology of the 'Humanity First Society' in the Americas Federation? How come Zheng Nation has it too? Is it a branch or synchronicity?"

Su Zhou clicked his tongue a few times: "Last time I went to the Americas Federation on a business trip, I read their declaration in the toilet. It was very interesting, and even a good substitute for toilet paper."

In response, Tang Yuan blinked and asked strangely: "Uh, Captain, although it's a bit vulgar, do you really need to go to the toilet?"

"Oh, I swear, I'm going to kick your ass hard!"

Su Zhou unceremoniously kicked Tang Yuan's ass, with just the right amount of force to make him fly forward five meters, but without getting hurt. The young man said angrily: "You have to learn to understand the spirit of the leadership, understand? Besides, meetings are so boring, what's so strange about me going to the toilet to look at my phone."

Immediately afterwards, Su Zhou continued to look at the report in his hand, and then frowned.

"I originally thought it was a specialty of the Americas Federation, but I didn't expect it to start in Zheng Nation as well... A bit troublesome."

The transition between new and old industries is actually an unavoidable historical background.

Su Zhou knew that somewhere in Cangzhou and Qingzhou, Zheng Nation had already begun to build several mechanized cities completely powered by large-scale nuclear fusion facilities, as demonstration points for today's high-tech industry circle.

In the future, they will become the selected areas for Zheng Nation's 'space elevator', as the first step in Zheng Nation's space aviation industry, and a large number of related industries will be relocated there.

Obviously, the residents of this kind of city can only be people who have adapted to the new era, and as the popularization of nuclear fusion power generation gradually increases, more and more industries will be impacted, and even the structure of the world will be changed because of this—not to mention the elements related to the spiritual energy revival.

At least one nuclear fusion power plant can cultivate a Jinwu (Golden Crow) bloodline powerhouse without any problems.

Facing the inevitable problem of the transition between new and old industries, according to what Su Zhou knew, the Zheng Nation official intends to carry out a comprehensive industrial upgrade through intelligent AI and nuclear fusion, and then use the country's brain chip technology to allow the general public to learn new knowledge and forcibly carry out a national transformation—it sounds very science fiction, but it is indeed so.

If it really doesn't work, Zheng Nation, which has extremely developed productivity at that time, is also enough to support a group of low-income residents who contribute to the fertility rate.

After all, with controlled nuclear fusion, if a civilization has no ambition, this abundant energy is enough for most of them to live and die in a drunken stupor.

However, in Su Zhou's view, this kind of policy is actually a bit excessive... Those who have struggled in their own industries for decades or even longer will suddenly have to face the reality of having nothing, that their life's efforts are meaningless, and even have to be reduced to living on welfare.

This is a huge blow in terms of dignity.

"Therefore, we need to explore new worlds, explore new planets."

Standing on the top floor of the Two Worlds Fortress at midnight, Su Zhou didn't know whether he was talking to himself or to Tang Yuan beside him: "Opening up new worlds, whether it is the Beast God Realm, which originally has native inhabitants, or other realms that need to be developed from scratch, and then transferring the old productivity, on the one hand, freeing up space, and on the other hand, also providing a large number of positions for the old industries."

"After all, even Zheng Nation cannot build multiple planets and worlds with the highest technical standards at the same time. Industrial transfer can instead serve as a prelude to immigration."

Su Zhou is very clear about the meaning behind his identity as the 'Minister of the New World Exploration Department': "The Beast God Realm has a large number of spirit beast natives, making it difficult to carry out large-scale immigration—however, this trip to Qingqiu may become the first step for us to open up the future."

—The world is filled with a restless atmosphere, because everyone is eager to liberate themselves from their shackles.

Hopefully, our actions can become the key for everyone to unlock their shackles.

Thinking like this, Su Zhou raised his head and looked at the starry sky above.

Su Zhou can see the Order Array above the distant city, and the great seal cracks that are spreading throughout the universe.

But, he doesn't know why, and Su Zhou doesn't know if others can see clearly.

In short, he vaguely discovered that in the depths of the cracks in the great seal, there seemed to be something... shining?

"What is that?!"