Chapter 422: Chapter 251: The Situation Has Completely Opened_2
To develop, even the strongest civilization requires endless resources.
Vast star systems like the Milky Way Galaxy are focal points for resources.
In barren lands, just transporting scattered stars and planets demands a tremendous cost.
Not to mention the sharing of technology.
A civilization staying long-term in barren areas will critically diminish its development potential, ultimately affecting its own culture over time and leading to self-destruction.
This is why Gus Land takes risks by traversing the edges of the Mude System.
Of course, the power of trade markets truly begins to shine at this time. Distance is no longer a hindrance but the safest barrier for human civilization’s development, provided humans sent to those resource-rich places can establish themselves.
For instance, currently, after facing the encirclement of most of the Mude System, human civilization is essentially left with just Gus Land, and even within Gus Land, it is subjected to "business" encirclement under certain rules, which continually reduces the benefits human civilization can extract there.
"Indeed, the situation of the third future timeline is far less straightforward than those of the previous two timelines." Shen Shi concluded.
This is to be expected.
As civilizations grow stronger, the challenges and crises they face become increasingly complex.
Yet overall, things are changing for the better.
After all, hiding in a barren land, human civilization no longer faces the risk of doomsday in the short term.
As for resource shortages and stalled development, it would take at least a millennium or two before truly affecting humanity itself.
Currently, human civilization hasn’t even stopped its full-scale reproduction efforts.
In fact, the accumulated strength and technological prowess has essentially marked the entry into B-level.
Though it’s the weakest kind, incapable of rivaling the old B-level civilizations within the Mude System.
But B-level is B-level.
The Mude System’s classification of civilizations is quite perfect; as a B-level civilization, its major characteristic is the breakthrough in numerous critical technological domains, exerting a crushing advantage over lower-tier civilizations, no matter how powerful a C9-level civilization may be.
Take, for example, Primordial Energy Materialization Technology.
When Shen Shi first encountered a civilization-level Primordial Energy Device, he was amazed by the technology that nearly altered his perception of Primordial Energy.
But now, human civilization is capable of realizing this technology.
Though still rudimentary and not mass-producible, when this technology is used as a Primordial Energy Weapon and installed on warships, its effects can be described as terrifying.
——A powerful Master of Primordial Energy can activate a Primordial Energy Attack not only on the enemy’s consciousness but also directly destroy ships and defend against various attacks.
It’s fair to say, before this technology was realized, regardless of how formidable Primordial Energy was, it was merely a force applied on the mental plane. But once its materialization technology is realized, it truly possesses the power to shake the heavens, akin to divine legends.
Indeed, Shen Shi has long achieved such power through purchased B-level Primordial Energy Devices, but this is vastly different from human civilization being able to produce such devices independently.
Unwittingly, human civilization has become immensely powerful.
A level unimaginable at the beginning.
This is the power of time!
"The crisis of human civilization in the third future timeline can be set aside for now." Having absorbed the historical context and current situation of this timeline, Shen Shi arrived at this conclusion.
Currently, the most crucial is the second future timeline, which has become an independent timeline.
Shen Shi does not intend to abandon the human civilization in the second future timeline.
Over the past hundreds of years, he’s spent more time in the second future timeline than in his own era, and after devouring the Sage Saint Shen Shi of the second future timeline, he felt an even greater sense of responsibility.
Similarly for the first future timeline.
Moreover, as time progresses, these independent timelines can serve significant roles.
For instance, at this moment, the first future timeline, despite facing the same "B-level civilization rebellion" impact, remains relatively unnoticed, as their strength is still weak, merely around C5, allowing them to continue resisting attacks from the Daike Civilization.
Yet even such C5 level strength is more potent than human civilization three thousand years ago, bringing certain benefits to its development.
Therefore, the second future timeline, whose human civilization is close to reaching B-level, cannot be abandoned.
After making his decision, Shen Shi withdrew from the third future timeline and returned to the second future timeline.
In this timeline, human civilization is still at the stage of trading market devices for Gus Land’s exchanges and protection, simultaneously attracting many B-level civilizations, drawing significant attention from much of the Mude System’s B-level civilizations.
Truly at the center stage.
But for them, lacking the needed strength, such prominence would only delay the inevitable demise.
One can imagine.
When these civilizations realize the market’s nature is difficult to alter and can’t be privately owned, they will choose to destroy this tremendously powerful relic along with human civilization, to prevent its use by other civilizations, especially Gus Land.
"Although the human civilization in the third future timeline has reached B-level, it still can’t contend with those veteran B-level civilizations." Shen Shi pondered in his mind, "However, B-level is a threshold. If human civilization can display B-level force, perhaps it might gain some say in the current balance. Also, the third future timeline is in its initial phase. By changing the timeline to bolster the third future timeline’s strength, it’s not impossible to rapidly accumulate its power..."
In any case.
The creation of new timelines has greatly improved human civilization’s circumstances compared to the beginning.
Things are opening up considerably.
Shen Shi quickly cleared his thoughts and began taking action.
In the contemporary timeline, the necessary task is to correctly install the Star System-level Teleportation System, preparing the entire civilization for a warp departure, while Shen Shi plans to hit the Daike Civilization hard before leaving, obliterating or even capturing them, to maximally erase traces of human civilization’s past existence in the Mude System, which, looking at the history of the third future timeline, will surely delay the Mude System’s targeting and enhance the third future timeline’s human civilization strength.
In the second future timeline, Shen Shi then recalls all dispatched sub-groups of human civilization, exploring under the lengthy clan system, consolidating human civilization’s strength within the increasingly complicated Solar System. On one hand, these external humans are proud of human civilization’s culture, barely impacted by Es’s cultural invasion, and on the other, this retraction concentrates human civilization’s forces, preparing for future actions.
Retracting a fist and then striking, it will be more powerful!
Meanwhile, these returned clans possess trade markets, containing infinite personal storage spaces!
The two thousand years of development outside, these clans may not have achieved significant breakthroughs technologically, but their stockpiling of basic resources is immense!
These are precisely what the third future timeline needs.
As for the third future timeline, Shen Shi does just one thing.
And that is concentration of devices! Concentration of power!