Chapter 723 Progress itself, inheritance of civilization (8K big chapter)

Chapter 723 Progress itself, inheritance of civilization (8K big chapter)

Li Qi started his journey.

This is somewhat similar to... everything I did when I was in Immortal Heaven.

However, when he was in the immortal world, he was silently controlling things from behind, just like God's original will.

But at this moment, Li Qi did it himself.

Seventy-five years.

Li Qi started his work in the wasteland based on Mo Taki's idea.

He built shelters, assisted survivors, resolved food disputes, developed new technologies, and used various methods to build this civilization.

This is actually very difficult.

If you want to tell it carefully, this will be a magnificent adventure, because Li Qi cannot break his seal, and he is actually not prepared to break the seal.

He experienced all this from a mortal perspective.

He did not deliberately limit his knowledge or intelligence. In fact, he made full use of these and accomplished many things that could not be done in this world.

Apart from sealing his own cultivation, he did not deliberately restrict his actions.

In the process, he also met many native residents of this world.

One after another in the wasteland, forces were born, prospered, split, and died.

Some of them were former technology companies that still retained sufficient technology and even maintained some production lines and technology research and development capabilities. The one that impressed Li Qi most deeply was an underground research institute. They had an underground building that was built before the collapse of civilization. The laboratory has a total of three hundred floors, which also allowed the institute to survive. They were able to become the absolute king of that area and have been committed to the revival of civilization.

Some are gathering places for refugees, and some are just brave men honed in the wasteland. They often become thugs and cannon fodder for technology companies, but they can also use this to obtain some technology and materials.

Some are military organizations. Most of them are patrol officers before the wasteland, or simply the army. They have mastered violence, but they lack the ability to replenish and maintain equipment, so... most can only plunder and rob, and a few choose to Cooperating with technology companies, because they are also excellent pilots themselves, they are still very popular.

There are also lone teams, which are all kinds and can be found everywhere.

In such a wasteland, Li Qi saw with his own eyes the degradation of civilization in just a dozen years.

The fifth-level world heritage of the Advance Alliance was buried, brilliant thoughts were forgotten, splendid buildings became ruins, and various books and manuscripts were burned to ashes for various reasons.

Many works have been lost, technical methods have gradually become "technical myths", and a large number of basic subjects have been lost due to the death of scholars. Even if there are electronic files recorded in storage devices, no one can understand them.

Yes, no one understands it. There are only a few surviving scholars, and most of them are within those technology companies.

The outside world has completely collapsed, and the survivors are running for a living. The most knowledge they have access to is only a few related popular science books, from which they can see the splendor of more than ten years ago.

It has only been a dozen years, but history has turned into legend and civilization has been completely eradicated.

This is also the disadvantage of the Forward Alliance. They do not have the kind of top powerhouse that says, "As long as I am alive, civilization will exist." Therefore, once too many people die, the entire civilization will seem to have lost its memory and completely lose its former glory.

Underneath the ruins are exquisite ruins, which may contain secret treasures from the past.

However, there are still ups and downs in it.

Li Qi participated in many events that will affect the entire world historical process in the future, even epoch-making events, in various places.

He once witnessed the Clean Flame in the wasteland, and the large-scale weapons promoted by the people in the wasteland were delivered to a biotechnology company and destroyed, because this former biotechnology company began to conduct a large number of human experiments , the morality in the wasteland can no longer restrain them, and they also have a large number of experimental subjects, all of whom are survivors in the wasteland.

They captured many people, which led to the dissatisfaction of a lone wolf team because they captured the family of one of the lone wolf team members.

After a series of adventures, this team even caused a lot of trouble in the settlement run by Li Qi, and finally they found the final nuclear arsenal.

With a loud bang, the Forward Alliance's remaining weapons of mass destruction were wiped out together with a technology company that stored a large amount of biological data.

Such things are extremely rare in the wasteland, but this is not the only one.

More things happened in the settlement run by Li Qi, such as being involved in the storm of war and being forced to fight with two other forces to compete for water sources.

Another example is that he witnessed with his own eyes the only hope for the recovery of the world. The online library once built by the Forward Alliance was unearthed, which caused a scramble for the world. In the end, the technology company that unearthed the thing found that it could not protect it, so it simply destroyed it. , completely destroying the data backup of the entire Forward Alliance.

Or, the final aftermath of the flesh-and-blood eggs erupts, and a large number of parasites sweep across all forces, and everyone has to face a huge impact of parasites.

The disappearance of previous civilizations and various major events.

No one has recorded what role Li Qi played in it. After all, no one has compiled and recorded even a small part of what happened while Li Qi was walking in their world.

Only Shen Shuibi has always been with him, and Rabbit has always been by his side, experiencing various stories with him.

But...

The settlement he led preserved a lot of knowledge.

His settlement received a large number of refugees because of the abolition of slavery.

With a lot of manpower, he was able to start planting high-yield crops. Li Qi didn't know how to do it at first, but with the help of the lone wolf team mentioned before, he got some information from the biotechnology company and was able to Selective breeding of native species took him a lot of time.

But more than ten years later, Li Qi finally cultivated some local talents.

With the help of some local geniuses, he built a production line from scratch that could produce dried food. He originally wanted to build a canning production line, but limited to the local level and his sealed cultivation, he was forced to give up.

There are too many things involved in a canning production line, such as metal smelting, processing, and personnel mobilization. There are too many places that require automation. Unlike drying food, most of the links can be replaced with labor-intensive manpower.

He can make many cans, but it is still too difficult to build a production line relying only on local strength. Making cans and making a canning production line are two different things.

But with dried food, his territory expanded.

A lot of things happened in the middle.

Someone wanted to rebuild civilization, so they wanted to cooperate with Li Qi, but eventually died in an assassination.

Some want to dominate the wasteland, but in the end they die from their ambition.

Some technology companies just want to be safe, but they are under siege because of the technology and equipment they still retain.

There are also some more bizarre ones, such as a middle-aged man with a little girl, who is a parasite that miraculously maintains self-awareness. The two struggle to survive in the wasteland, and finally come to Li Qi's Settlements.

Because they heard that Li Qi could accept everyone and was the only remaining light of civilization in the wasteland, so they risked everything. After many adventures, they were hunted down by a technology company and wanted to be Experimental subjects, blah blah blah.

After all this, they finally arrived at Li Qi's territory, but the middle-aged man died on the last journey and could not even see Li Qi.

Li Qi finally accepted the parasite and discovered from her the secret that allowed the parasite to maintain consciousness.

After that, Li Qi had an army of parasites. He awakened all the parasites he found. These parasites had the strength of about ninth grade and did not require additional supplies, just like normal people.

The wasteland has entered a new era. A large number of people are actively or passively infected with eggs of flesh and blood, becoming parasites, and then regaining their consciousness.

Ten years later, everyone began to possess the characteristics of parasites to a greater or lesser extent. They moved faster, had greater strength, and had greater recovery capabilities.

The native species of the Forward Alliance seem to have begun to coexist with the remains of the original flesh-and-blood eggs.

At this time, everyone started to compete for food, technology, and ancient heritage, and began to search for the eggs of flesh and blood left behind.

Originally, the eggs of flesh and blood were the node where the insect people were preparing to brainwash the world. They were almost destroyed by the angry apocalyptic remnants at the beginning, and only a few remained. Now these few have become meat and potatoes, and everyone is following them. Fighting for it, a war broke out.

At this time, there are not many people of the old generation left, and now they are all the new generation of wastelanders.

They have never seen the glory of the Forward Alliance. Perhaps they just heard what their parents said and regarded it as a fairy tale. The entire civilization is gradually forgetting the past.

In just one generation, the pursuit of the past has begun to be lost. Technology companies have gradually transformed into kingdoms, ascending to the throne and crowning themselves. The settlements have also followed suit, gradually forming a new generation of political structure.

Really, a new generation of political landscape.

Some are slave countries, some are feudal countries, some are theocratic countries, and some are democratic parliamentary systems formed by technology companies, which are very chaotic.

A large number of thoughts are mixed together, some of which are extremely xenophobic and distrustful of friendship in the wasteland.

Some are willing to accept newcomers because they are in an area where many ethnic groups live together.

Technology companies despise the outside world and think they are all barbarians. As for these large forces with their own production lines, the life of the wealthy class is almost as good as before the war. They have sufficient equipment, medical care, and entertainment, but their self-sustainability is relatively low. The output is not high and the number of people it can support is relatively small.

Li Qi was also one of them, but he did not establish the so-called 'feudal system'.

What he built was a school.

This school has a tendency to become a 'holy land in the wasteland' because there are many people who covet it, but they all find that they can't defeat the dean's broken patrol officer mecha.

It was obviously an ordinary patrol officer mecha that had been in disrepair, but it managed to stabilize the school.

The people who come out from here all look like ‘people from the past’.

They generally have knowledge of survival in the wasteland, but they are not so cold-blooded. They all know what the world was like before the wasteland, and they also know why they live in such a place.

They know exactly how this world should be and what has happened to it.

The legends left behind in other places are not legends here. Many relics of the Forward Alliance are placed in the academy.

Even if there are people from other places coming, they will only think that civilization has not been cut off, and there are still a group of people who are passing on the past of the Forward Alliance.

Even if they actually lost most of their technology and the underlying technology tree.

But at least they still remember that their parents and ancestors came from such a civilization called the 'Forward Alliance'.

This college does not support too many people to stay here, so many people will join other forces after their own studies. The skills in the school make them very popular with all parties.

However, they always feel that there is something different outside and in school.

Some people like this difference, and some people find it difficult to accept it, but... school is indeed different from the outside.

A school where hundreds of thousands of people join and then leave.

But Li Qi doesn't care about this. He still presides over this place. Even now, everyone is a parasite, and the pure natives of the Forward Alliance no longer exist.

In addition to education, he is also constantly digging for relics to find those relics of the Forward Alliance. These things are always useful.

Although he is still in a daze from time to time, he has gotten better. Playing different roles in the wasteland has brought him closer to mortals.

No one knew that this 'principal' had lived in the wasteland for more than seventy years. They all thought that he was just a middle-aged and elderly man in his thirties.

Yes, middle-aged people can live more than thirty years in the wasteland, which is considered a long life. The average life span in this place has been extremely reduced.

In seventy years, at the current rate of progress of the Advance Alliance, it has been several generations. If it had happened faster, it would have been five generations. However, in more than seventy years, Li Qi has experienced a thousand things more than he did in Xiantian. More years to come!

Li Qi is increasingly able to understand mortals. He has lived through the history of several generations, witnessed the rise and fall of several generations, and personally participated in it.

Finally, by chance, he found the hidden power of the Advance Alliance.

A base hidden deep underground!

Among them are thousands of sixth-grade mechas, thousands of frozen hibernating warriors, many experts, frozen fertilized eggs, and as the bottom of the pressure box, a fifth-grade battleship!

The most valuable thing is that there is also a database that stores a lot of information about the alliance.

All of these are things prepared by the Forward Alliance to rebuild civilization while it still exists.

After finding the ruins, Li mobilized all his forces and blocked the news.

Then, he walked into the ruins alone.

He awakened the base.

As the blue light comes on.

Li Qi stood in front of the base and saw the commander of this hidden base waking up from hibernation.

The middle-aged commander woke up and looked at Li Qi.

"Operation code name Jedi, hello to you. Is the war over? Has it reached the point where we are needed? How many years has it been?" The commander woke up and walked quickly towards Li Qi.

Li Qi replied with some emotion: "The war... is over. It has been seventy-five years. You are very much needed outside now."

"More than seventy years... Can you tell me about the situation outside? You don't look very good. Your equipment is seriously damaged." The commander frowned.

Li Qi breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Of course, we can talk about the situation outside first, and then...it's your turn."

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Underground.

Li Qi told the truth to the commander, including the fact that he was an alien, and that there were densely packed feudal kingdoms in the wasteland, and some places still maintained the tradition of blood sacrifice.

A large number of people believe in flesh-and-blood eggs and believe that they are the source of power, so they often use captives to 'feed' flesh-and-blood eggs.

But there are also some technology companies and many forces including Li Qi.

Li Qi talked word for word about what he had witnessed over the past seventy years.

The commander's expression kept changing as he listened to Li Qi's words.

The commander, codenamed "Jedi", remained silent after listening to Li Qi's words.

Finally, Li Qi said: "That's about it. What do you think of your current civilization?"

The Jedi pondered for a while, then stood up, saluted Li Qi solemnly, and said seriously: "Thank you, if it weren't for you, I'm afraid they would no longer be our descendants, right?"

"They are always your descendants, no matter whether they inherit your civilization or not, right?" Li Qi smiled.

Jedi looked at Li Qi. He seemed to want to say something, but he was holding back because he was about to face such a world just after waking up from hibernation.

Intense emotions were brewing in his chest, but he couldn't vent them. There were too many things he wanted to say, but he couldn't say a word.

He already knew what happened more than seventy years after he fell asleep.

In the past seventy years or so, civilization has been destroyed, and the outside world has become a primitive era, a feudal era, where a bunch of high-tech primitive people use the equipment of the past to play with cold weapons, abandoning the glory of civilization and acting like wild beasts. Live for a bite of food.

The past events seemed to appear in front of his eyes, and all the events were stagnant in his heart, leaving this man who could command a fifth-grade fleet at a loss what to say.

Finally, he covered his eyes and his emotions finally burst out, crying and laughing at the same time.

If Li Qi was like before, then at this time, he should wait for the other party quietly without saying a word.

But at this moment, Li Qi took the initiative and said, "As you can see, they have established a brand new civilization on their own, although it has nothing to do with your previous one."

"But there is no need to be sad, this is something to be happy about, because what your descendants will continue is not just your habits and blood, but the progress itself." Li Qi said.

These words stunned Jedi, who was already in a very intense mood.

Even Shen Shuibi, who was guarding the door outside, was stunned.

In the past, Li Qi would never have said such a thing. In the past, Li Qi would have watched everything in silence, and then fell into deep thought. He would not pay attention to anything about these people, and would only regard this matter as his own knowledge. ’, as fuel for their own thinking fire, without paying attention to themselves.

But at this moment, Li Qi took the initiative to say this. In fact, he did not fall into deep thought, but seriously communicated with the commander in front of him.

However, Li Qi did not continue speaking.

The commander, codenamed Jedi, seemed to gradually calm down after hearing these words.

Then, he turned on his watch and entered a password.

Soon, a projection unfolded in front of him.

Li Qi took a look. This should be the scanning ability of the fifth-grade spacecraft, which can image the things outside.

So Li Qi also watched.

The commander looked at what was happening outside.

In a feudal country, he saw some crude low-level mechas that were self-assembled using some waste products. They were probably not high-grade, and were considered children's toys in the Advance Alliance.

But it is these self-made low-level mechas that are oppressing the farmers in the last days with great power.

The farmers are also very funny. They carry various groceries from the old era, such as clothes hangers, robot shells, railings and other things transformed into farm tools to do farm work. From time to time, they look at those wearing mechas with fear and admiration. Sir Knight'.

The knight lords supervised the peasants.

Continuing to adjust his position, he saw a slave-theocracy.

A man who dresses funny and wears the ostentatious costumes of an old-world entertainer is being worshiped by countless people.

This seems to be a primitive sacrifice. Many people are carrying a huge battleship. This is a handmade toy made of wood and metal pieces. It is the battleship of the Forward Alliance. This seems to be their 'god'. .

Rich and powerful religious leaders sit in this wooden-framed battleship and receive worship from thousands of people.

And their worship is also very funny. They are imitating the art parade of the Forward Alliance and turning the art parade convoy into a religious ceremony. The "gods" made of wood, grass and iron are actually all kinds of The sundries of pre-civilization include washing machines, flying cars, drink cups, etc. Of course, the most eye-catching thing is the battleship.

They were reciting scriptures. According to their religious legends, the past era was a golden age of divine favor. As long as everyone was pious enough, they could return to that era.

As long as you continue to worship and praise, and dedicate everything you have to the priests, you can wait for that day, wait until you can return to the ancient golden age, and the old people can return to their youth, no longer have illness, and they will have more to eat without farming. food, and countless ancient relics will come to the world to meet everyone's needs.

Everyone believes this religiously.

He changed his perspective again. This time the scan came to a technology company. Technology companies are the place that preserves the most pre-war technology, but most of them only have fragments. After all, the entire world's industrial system and basic science have been completely lost. They now retain The technology, even they themselves, only 'know it but don't know why'.

They know how to use these devices, but they don’t know why these devices are useful, but they are still seriously learning how to use these ancient devices that should have been replaced long ago.

They have lost the ability to manufacture these large-scale equipment, and have also lost the ability to cognitively analyze these equipment. All they can do is to tinker, barely maintain the operation of these ancient machines, and use the crooked tricks they have made up. The principles of door evil serve as a guide and can be used in various ways.

It even includes anointing with holy oil, beating with different rhythms, or chanting incantations in different languages.

The first technology companies were still able to recognize these creations, but now their descendants basically only use them, and they still use them in an extremely awkward way, just like mixing oil with a juicer.

It's not that it can't be used in this way, but the way of using it is obviously problematic, but they think it's all normal, because when they came into contact with their parents, their parents used it this way.

These technology companies carefully maintain their only equipment, passing it on as family heirlooms, and maintaining these equipment in the best way they think.

Then, look at their outside world. A large number of human experiments are carried out. The technicians of these technology companies regard themselves as 'higher' and the outsiders as 'barbarians'. This has led to their general contempt for the outside world, and They were captured from time to time for experiments.

Although, to this day, this kind of experiment has essentially become a routine. They don't know what to experiment with, and they don't know what to record. It's just pure torture.

The commander couldn't stand it anymore, and then he changed the scanning angle again.

This time, he saw a most ordinary refugee settlement.

This is a place where wilderness refugees cluster with no one willing to take them in.

And this place was still in the Stone Age.

They hit stone tools, or picked up some metal pieces and tied them to wood, and relied on their bodies to hunt. They were completely illiterate, and some even had their language skills degraded and could only speak simple words.

This is not because they have become stupid, but because there is no one to teach them, they can only develop the language on their own, and now... the development process is still relatively difficult.

They have no writing at all and are basically no different from savages. These people became like this in just two generations.

However, their bodies are generally relatively strong, and the parasite integrates well with them.

It's not that there is any power in the wild that can make the body stronger, it's just that those who are not strong enough die. This is the natural selection.

They hunt, eat raw meat, live in simple nests, use simple tools, and are captured as test subjects by technology companies.

Obviously seventy years ago, everyone was the same.

This is only three or four generations.

More than seventy years, this is only more than seventy years.

The whole world has become like this.

However, the Jedi did not stop here, he continued to zoom out.

The angle of view stretched into the sky, and he could overlook the entire world.

The whole world, not only has not become desolate, but is full of vitality.

Each place built different things in its own city, some were farmland, some were statues of gods, some were roads, and some were palaces.

No matter what they are doing, whether it is good or bad, but nevertheless, they are doing something.

The entire civilization, after its legs and feet were broken by the incoming battleship, was still squirming in its own way, or... crawling, crawling forward with difficulty in an extremely ugly posture.

Forward Alliance, why is it called Forward Alliance?

At the beginning, when the entire alliance was less than the seventh level, it set its own world on fire, and migrated with difficulty in the void for hundreds of thousands of years, and finally arrived at the Fantasy Realm, and finally achieved its current achievements in the Fantasy Realm. .

Yes, these new generations of the Forward Alliance have not inherited the technology possessed by previous civilizations. They are not like descendants at all. The technological break brings not only complete regression, but also complete amnesia.

History is cut off here, and all records have been lost. If Li Qi had not found this battleship, the Forward Alliance might not be able to reappear in the world for a long, long time.

However, these descendants are still moving forward in the wasteland.

Jedi looked at all this and seemed a little relieved. He said: "Yeah, I'm actually very happy... Look at them, look at these children. After everything in civilization was destroyed, they actually developed independently into the feudal era. There’s even a new custom formed! And—”

When he said this, he was speechless for a moment. He said nothing more, just silence.

After all, it all happened too fast.

It’s only been more than seventy years, which is too fast.

At the beginning, Li Qi said that the Advance Alliance was very fast and might help him see from a mortal perspective. (See Chapter 704 for details)

You know, seventy years is actually only enough time for Li Qi to retreat. He had just taken a nap before.

Looking back now, the Advance Alliance is indeed a very 'fast' civilization. Li Qi has only been here for a short time, but he has witnessed the peak, decline, and current situation of a fifth-grade civilization. In seventy years, a fifth-grade civilization The world of goods is experiencing many things at a rapid pace, which is dizzying.

Li Qi stood up, patted the commander on the shoulder, and said: "Okay, now it's time to teach your descendants, tell them what your civilization should have been like, and what your glory is. place, tell them what kind of world you have built.”

"Thank you..." the commander thanked him, as if he wanted to say something.

But Li Qi waved his hand, indicating that there was no need for him to say anything more.

Li Qi already got what he wanted.

In recent years, Li Qi's work has been very intense. Although he seems to have a high status, his workload is more than that of a slave.

The documents piled up like a mountain, he reviewed and approved them 24 hours a day without a break, but he only saw more than less.

He is always involved in fighting and disaster relief when he goes out, and the development of the entire camp has to be left to him. It is not difficult for him to do these things with his wisdom, but it is very troublesome.

The trouble was that Li Qi couldn't use his own life to think slowly. Everything was urgent and related to a large number of people, so he hurried and took his time, even sleeping. Office, for this precarious end of the world, he basically has no life to speak of.

Li Qi once directly ignored these people.

For example, when he was in Immortal Heaven, hundreds of years passed, and how many people's lives and deaths turned into loess?

At that time, Li Qi never paid attention to such things, because he felt that it was unnecessary. As long as the "change of world" was finally completed, then these would be valuable, and he did not need to interfere too much.

He is the will of God, and what he wants to control is the ultimate goal, silently turning the entire world around. This is in line with his power.

But over the past seventy years, he has learned to stop focusing on those huge, ambitious goals and instead deal with these chores.

At the beginning, Mi Xin said to Li Qi: "No matter how grand a thing is, it must eventually be composed of smaller parts." (See Chapter 299)

Li Qi thought he understood before, and he had to take his time.

But now, he really understands.

What are "tiny components"? He touched those real tiny parts.

If the tiny parts cannot be seen, then the grand parts will also be in vain.

The past seventy years have been Li Qi's first step in practicing this.