166: Chapter 166 Earth's Past

Raw materials must continue to be supplied!

After the robots were ready, Gao Yuan saw that everything here was going smoothly, with no atmosphere of a major battle at all.

After moving here, people's lives seemed even better than before in Longjing; the power supply was sufficient, and they could obtain some natural foods from the forest that were previously reserved for the top tier, in addition to the Nutritional Paste provided by the authorities.

Before leaving, Gao Yuan inquired about the state of the war.

"Officer Lin, how is the situation over at the Development General Administration?"

"The situation is a bit better than expected. After they left Earth for Mars, the lies they had previously concocted were exposed, causing them to lose public support. However, the Mars base is their stronghold; it houses humanity's most complete industrial system and is close to Jupiter and the Asteroid Belt, making mining and smelting very convenient!"

"Is the fighting intense?"

This was what Gao Yuan was most worried about.

"Not really. Only a few rebels have attacked the Earth-Moon system. The Development General Administration hasn't issued any statements or launched any large-scale attacks so far! I'm not sure of the specific reason! Perhaps Officer Gao is negotiating with them!"

They haven't actually started fighting?

Gao Yuan was a bit surprised.

Just what is the Development General Administration thinking?

Gao Yuan thought of Su Dai. After hesitating for a moment, he tried to send Su Dai a message via Brain-Link.

"Young Master Su, are you there?"

A few seconds later, Su Dai's communication request came through. Gao Yuan found a quiet room, and upon connecting, he saw a decadent-looking Su Dai.

"Haven't seen you in a few days, Young Master Su; you've certainly grown weathered!"

Su Dai gave a bitter smile. "Gao Yuan, you've certainly caused quite a stir!"

"Wasn't I forced into it by you guys?"

"You've ruined humanity's great cause!"

Su Dai took a sip of wine.

"Where are you now?" Gao Yuan asked.

"Where else could I be? Mars!"

"We haven't seen each other in a long time. Shall we sit down and chat some other day?"

Su Dai shook his head. "I'm afraid there won't be a chance. Your grandfather and my father are like fire and water; it'll be hard to end this without someone getting taken down! Your grandfather hid himself quite well, for over twenty years! Now, many people within the Heavenly Army are his..."

What could Gao Yuan say? He could only think that the old man was indeed devious.

"It's all because your father and the others wanted to keep humanity in captivity. If they had been a bit more honest, things wouldn't have come to this!"

Su Dai burst into laughter.

"Gao Yuan, you're still so naive. Keeping humanity in captivity? That was an agreement unanimously reached by the top human leaders back then. Without it, humanity would likely have perished long ago! Yet, just after the crisis passed, your grandfather wanted to seize power! He's the one who wants to drag humanity down with him! Not us!"

Hearing this, Gao Yuan felt that Su Dai probably knew some inside information.

"Young Master Su, we can be considered friends. Tell me, what exactly happened back then?"

Su Dai smiled bitterly.

"You don't know?"

Gao Yuan shook his head.

"Ha, is there really something a member of the Gao Family doesn't know? Did you know that the Solar System is actually a testing ground?"

Gao Yuan nodded.

Gao Qiu had mentioned a bit before, only saying that they were sealed within the Solar System.

But he hadn't gone into detail.

"Since you know that, you should know that five hundred years ago, humanity once obtained a Four-Dimensional Fragment. According to records, the top scientists of that time researched Curvature Engines and Space Jumps from that fragment. Simply put, it utilized the properties of four-dimensional space, using Antimatter as energy propulsion and Dark Matter as a stabilizer for the channel. If all had gone well, we could have built crafts capable of Space Jumps to leave the Solar System..."

Gao Yuan was shocked; so that was it.

"Then how did it fail?"

"We didn't fail! It was precisely because we were too successful!"

Su Dai laughed.

"How is that possible?"

"It really was too successful. Humanity conducted a Space Jump experiment, successfully jumping from Earth to the Kuiper Belt. But it was that very jump that ruined humanity's future!"

Gao Yuan didn't quite understand.

"Why?"

"Because the Solar System itself is a testing ground, don't you see? A Spatial Oscillation occurred within the testing ground, and soon, a Stellar Storm appeared around the Solar System. After the storm subsided, the Four-Dimensional Fragment mysteriously vanished, and an ultra-high-temperature Cosmic Ray Radiation Zone was propped up around the periphery of the Solar System. At the same time, humanity's basic science was locked down!"

Gao Yuan pondered.

"Young Master Su, what you're saying are just conjectures, and they have nothing to do with the issue we're discussing!"

"It is related; listen to me. At that time, there was indeed no way to prove any of this; everyone thought there had been a flaw in the experiment and that the Stellar Storm was just a coincidence. None of the scientists were discouraged; instead, they continued their research. The Four-Dimensional Fragment was gone, but we had already touched the threshold of the Four-Dimensional Space Law. After fifty years of research, human scientists, relying on their own abilities, once again created a space wormhole to carry out Space Jumps! Just as the wormhole experiment succeeded, a cataclysmic change occurred in the universe..."

Su Dai was like a teacher giving a lecture now.

"Do you know, Gao Yuan? It was an apocalyptic scene. The sun expanded rapidly, cosmic rays became abnormal, and Earth's temperature rose to the extreme. The top human leadership received a 'divine oracle,' strictly forbidding humanity from continuing research into space technology!"

Gao Yuan was dumbfounded.

"A divine oracle?"

"Isn't this a world of technology? How could a divine oracle appear?"

"Su Dai, you haven't hallucinated from drinking, have you? How could there be a divine oracle?"

"Of course it was a divine oracle. A civilization with a level of advancement so far beyond humanity's that it treats the entire Solar System as a testing ground—isn't that a god? During that catastrophe, humanity's top scientists cracked many key pieces of information, but... the more they knew, the more despairing they became!"

"Su Dai, how do you know so much?"

"Haha, I'm Su Muyan's son; even if I'm a waste, I still have to learn history! Did you know? Oxygen is actually a poisonous gas. All intelligent life outside the Solar System are anaerobic beings. The higher civilization created this testing ground just to see if intelligent creatures could truly be produced in an oxygen-filled environment, and where the end point of their evolution would be!"

This news shocked Gao Yuan!

The oxygen that Earth's creatures depend on is a poisonous gas?

"Don't doubt it; it really is a poisonous gas. Although human scientists only cracked a small portion of the data, it shows that the intelligent life outside has lifespans starting from several thousand years, but reproduction is extremely difficult. On an oxygen-filled Earth, the first Oxygen-Loving Intelligent Life appeared—humanity! Without long lives, yet possessing an unparalleled reproduction rate! Do you know why there are over fifty billion humans now?"

Gao Yuan also found it a bit strange. According to normal reproduction rates, there were only a few billion people a thousand years ago. Even with advanced technology, a two or three-fold increase after a thousand years would be the limit. After all, facts have proven that the more developed a society is, the lower the birth rate!