135: Chapter 135 Constitution

Listening to the chatter of the players outside the window, Lin Li suppressed the urge to laugh.

He took a deep breath, adjusted the Power Armor on his body, and stood up from the seat beside him.

"Everyone."

Lin Li looked around, his voice steady and powerful.

"Today, it is a rare occasion that representatives of humanity from various regions and social strata on this planet are sitting together. Furthermore, everyone has sworn to join the banner of our Spark Alliance."

"Since we have become one family, then in the future, we must take the restoration of humanity as our common supreme goal!"

As Lin Li's voice fell, a burst of applause rang out in the meeting room.

"But!"

Lin Li suddenly raised his volume.

"To achieve this goal, we cannot resort to unscrupulous means like those barbaric warlords. We must bring true civilization and prosperity to all human settlements. We must completely eliminate the suffering brought to humanity by xenos and Chaos!"

"So, what defines civilization?"

Lin Li walked to the main seat and pointed his finger at the thin book on the table.

"In my view, the foundation of civilization is law!"

"It is equality for all before the law! It is people being under the law, rather than power being above the law!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions of the former noble vassals and merchants from Coastal City, who were accustomed to privilege, changed slightly.

"I know that among the various allies within our alliance, there exist huge cultural differences and class barriers."

Lin Li continued,

"Therefore, I have gathered everyone here today not to strip you of your respective administrative rights. I am only responsible for establishing a [supreme constitution] applicable to the entire planet."

"As for the specific public security laws of your respective regions, you will formulate and resolve them yourselves. I don't care if you call yourselves Emperor, President, or Great Patriarch on your own turf in the future. I have only one bottom line—"

"Any local regulations must unconditionally comply with this supreme constitution!"

After finishing speaking.

Lin Li walked to the main seat and reached out to open the "Supreme Constitution of the Kindling Alliance."

Governor Jia Mei, the new leader of Shahe Town, reacted the fastest.

He was the first to stand up, solemnly taking off the sand-proof hat on his head to show respect for the law.

Seeing this, the Nomads leader and the mayor of Tieling Town also stood up one after another.

Soon, the more than one hundred representatives in the entire meeting room, whether sincere or just following the crowd, all stood up straight respectfully.

Lin Li nodded with satisfaction and began to read this constitution, which he had rushed to transcribe overnight, article by article.

To be honest, this constitution was very crude.

It did not explicitly explain complex legislative procedures and enforcement details; it only contained a few core fundamental principles.

First was the definition of [Human Rights].

Regarding this article, Lin Li basically just took most of the content from the European Declaration of Human Rights from the Earth era, gave it a new skin, and copied it over intact.

Secondly, and also the most eye-catching article.

It was the broad definition of [What is Human].

In the magical universe of Warhammer.

Human history was far too ancient, and human groups scattered throughout the galaxy had undergone various genetic modifications or adaptive mutations due to environmental factors.

Pureblood humans had instead become a minority or even non-existent.

Therefore, this definition displayed an astonishing inclusiveness.

"All Ancient Humans, Pureblood Humans, and various derived Abhumans, such as Beastmen, Ogryns, and Dwarves... including Stone Men with human minds, and even those Men of Iron with self-awareness who are willing to abide by human morality."

"As long as they are willing to swear to join the Spark Alliance and do not worship the Chaos Gods, they will automatically enjoy all the rights to life and liberty stipulated in the first article of human rights!"

Hearing this broad definition.

Stone Man Hong and Iron Man 73 looked at each other.

In their eyes, a flash of disbelief flickered.

The following content.

Was a collection of classic regulations that Lin Li had pieced together from the constitutions of various countries on Earth.

Things like the right to equality before the law, political rights to be free from illegal exploitation, the right to education, the right to personal freedom, and so on.

After reading this thin constitution in one breath.

Lin Li felt like his throat was about to smoke.

He closed the book and sat back in his seat.

The other representatives also sat down one after another.

Everyone's expressions varied.

The eyes of those low-level leaders flickered with light;

While the wealthy merchants of Coastal City were quickly calculating in their hearts how to find loopholes in these legal provisions.

But Lin Li didn't care about their little schemes.

Under the absolute military deterrence of the Fire Seed Shelter, even if these natives were ten thousand times unwilling in their hearts, they had to accept this set of rules one hundred percent.

Moreover, Lin Li looked very far ahead.

When this constitution, which protected private property and personal freedom, fully took effect and replaced that kind of short-sighted slavery.

It would inevitably trigger an explosion of productivity in various industries.

These power holders who now held resources, as long as they adapted slightly, would only earn much more money in the future than they did now.

Coupled with [CO2 Starch Synthesis] and [Jinkela No. 1] wheat, the food baseline for everyone was completely guaranteed.

When the vast majority of people benefited from this new system and their living standards steadily improved.

They would spontaneously take up weapons to maintain the operation of this system!

This was an open scheme, and also the most labor-saving method of political governance.

The first All-Planet United Conference came to a successful conclusion.

The representatives dispersed in twos and threes, each with their own thoughts and calculations.

Lin Li ignored the subsequent pleasantries and bickering and walked directly toward the underground entrance of the Shelter.

Returning to the main control room on the first underground floor, Lin Li had just poured himself a glass of water and hadn't had time to drink it yet.

The pv terminal on his wrist suddenly made a crisp "ding" sound.

[System Prompt: The current main quest "Prairie Fire" (unify or subdue all major factions on the current planetary surface) has been achieved!]

[Quest rewards have been issued: All permissions for the sixth underground floor (B6) have been fully opened! The Sea Breeze No. 9 Holiday Yacht is now open.]

"Finally settled." Lin Li let out a long sigh of relief.

Immediately afterward, the holographic screen flashed with light, refreshing a brand-new main quest panel.

[New Main Quest Updated: Roaming the Sea of Stars!]

[Quest Description: The goal is not just the present squalor, but also the stars overhead! Please have you or the players under your command leave footsteps of exploration on every planet within the Yuanwang Star System.]

[Quest Reward: All permissions for the seventh underground floor (B7) opened; 50,000 Core Points!]

Lin Li stared at the words on the screen and rubbed his chin.

"Yuanwang Star System? So this broken place of ours is called by that name. It sounds like something."

He quickly analyzed the difficulty of this new quest in his mind.

Literally speaking, this quest was not that difficult.

Just going to a few other planets to check in; even if he only sent a few high-level players to step on them in a spaceship, the exploration should be judged as successful.

But the real difficulty lay in the fact that the Warp of the entire star system was now completely blocked for unknown reasons.

In the Warhammer universe, without Warp jumps, if interstellar travel relied solely on conventional physical sub-light engines, a trip to a neighboring planet would be calculated in months or even years.

Wouldn't that wear people out?

"However..." Lin Li pondered, "the Golden Age yacht provided... hopefully that thing's conventional engine can be a bit more powerful, otherwise these fifty thousand points will have to be ground out with time."

It was still too early to think about these things.

For Lin Li, the new slots on the B6 floor were the real highlight.

He couldn't wait to put down his water glass, strode out of the main control room, and came to the elevator at the end of the corridor.

He pressed the elevator panel.

Sure enough, below the floor buttons that originally only lit up to B5, a "B6" button emitting a faint blue light had appeared.

Lin Li pressed it decisively.

The elevator car gave a slight sensation of weightlessness and sped all the way down.

"Ding—"

The elevator doors slid open smoothly to both sides.

As Lin Li stepped out.

Inside the vast space of the B6 floor, which seemed to have no boundaries, rows of cold light source induction lamps instantly lit up in sequence, extending like dominoes to the end of his vision.

This was a completely open, ultra-large matrix space.

The entire space was neatly divided into over a hundred independent, huge compartments.

Lin Li walked toward the first compartment and scanned it with his gaze.

He saw that inside were rows of brand-new incubation pods, densely packed and neatly arranged like a honeycomb.

All the compartments were incubation pods!

He quickly did a mental calculation.

"One compartment is a thousand incubation pods. There are a hundred compartments here..."

"A full hundred thousand new slots!"

Lin Li rubbed his hands excitedly, the corners of his mouth unable to stop curling upward.

One hundred thousand players!

If all of them were released...

In the past, he would definitely have worried about how to feed these hundred thousand mouths.

But it was different now.

Not only was there no shortage of food, but there was even surplus grain that could be allocated for lifestyle players to brew alcohol.

Coupled with the massive amount of industrial metal recovered from the ruins of Coastal City and the incorporated arsenal assembly lines.

The current material reserves of the Shelter were more than enough to support an army of over a hundred thousand players!

Lin Li suppressed his excitement.

Following the usual practice of opening new floors, he began to wander around this vast space, trying to find any "Easter eggs" or extra rewards the system might have hidden.

He passed through rows of hibernation pods and walked all the way to the end of the space directly opposite the elevator door.

In the absolute center of this place.

A faint glowing, floating metal cylinder stood quietly in place.

The metal column did not touch the ground, floating in mid-air entirely by an anti-gravity field at the bottom.

And on the flat top of the cylinder, two white-as-jade metal plates, about the size of a tablet computer, were placed quietly.

"What kind of good stuff is this?" Lin Li leaned in to take a look.

The surface of the metal plates had no screen, nor any conventional electronic button interfaces.

There were only some fine etched patterns, almost indistinguishable to the naked eye, with a faint light flowing under the illumination of the cold light source.

Lin Li did not rashly touch it.

He directly clicked on the terminal and called the most professional appraisal master in the Shelter.

"73, if you don't have anything urgent on hand, come down to the B6 floor immediately."

In less than two minutes.

The elevator doors opened.

Iron Man 73 walked to Lin Li's side with heavy metal steps, neither fast nor slow.

"Creator. Have you discovered some unknown item?"

73 turned its head, and the optical lenses in its eyes emitted two scanning beams, directly covering those two white metal plates.

"Beep—Data analysis in progress..."

A few seconds later, the red light in its eyes faded, and its smooth electronic voice actually carried a hint of rare emotional fluctuation:

"Creator, these are etched plates of STC Standard Template Construct fragments. Furthermore, they are very well-preserved relics from the Golden Age."

"STC?!"

Lin Li's eyes lit up.

In the Warhammer universe, STC was the ultimate answer, second only to Necron technology.

Even if it were just a fragmented blueprint for building an agricultural tractor, it could make the Sages of the Adeptus Mechanicus so excited they'd kowtow to acknowledge their ancestors!

73 extended its metal finger, hovering it gently above the first metal plate, projecting a pale blue holographic data stream.

"Recorded in the first etched plate is the complete manufacturing blueprint for the [Ranger Power Armor]."

73's steady electronic voice began to report item by item,

"This is a type of high-mobility assault individual Power Armor. It not only contains the processing technology and the optimal ratio of adamantium composite materials, but it even thoughtfully provides solutions for using local industrial materials as downgraded alternatives on resource-poor planets."

Immediately after, 73's finger moved to the second metal plate.

The blue holographic projection changed instantly, constructing the outline of a five-meter-tall bipedal mecha with a design full of mechanical violent aesthetics.

"The second one. It records the STC fragment core of the [Gladiator Mech]."

73 looked at the mecha in the holographic projection, which was equipped with thermal claws and multi-barrel heavy bolters, and continued to introduce it:

"It is a single-pilot tactical mecha. The etched plate similarly contains the complete technical chain from frame casting, neural link transmission, micro-nuclear fusion, and so on."

73 turned its head, its red electronic eyes looking at Lin Li:

"As long as these two metal plates are connected to the Matter Constructor on the B5 floor, the system can convert them into directly executable instructions. Mass production can begin at any time."

"Additionally, due to the addition of the etched plate programs, the underlying components related to these two types of equipment can also be directly manufactured, such as armor, weapons, nuclear power cores, and so on."