Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 253 Secondary Civilization
Look at the shining light in the distance.

Zhou Yi, however, was somewhat skeptical.

Is this really the sun?
If it is the sun, then this place should be located in the solar system. The dark environment is exactly the same as the universe, but there are no meteorites or other celestial bodies in all directions.

No other planets can be seen in the distance.

And the light it emits is red.

Zhou Yi summoned Xiaofu out.

"It's a star. We call it a light-making star."

The upstreamer made a judgment immediately.

"As for the lack of other floating objects around, this is probably because they have undergone some kind of technical treatment."

"This is the space where the celestial gem bodies move around. Just like a human's house, with their power, it's not difficult to block external floating objects from approaching."

"It appears that they live around stars, which is part of the realm of life that we can understand."

What Zhou Yi cares about a lot is.

The sun was a tranquil blue before, but now it has turned into a blazing red.

But from a human perspective, the sun should be white or golden.

Zhou Yi pondered, "I can understand that the sun observed by the gem body is different from that of humans. This is because the physiological structure and observation organs are very different... However, this color change also leads to changes in the gem body."

"The blue sun is more like a pure energy body. It has an effect on the sapphire, but now the sapphire has no reaction. The red sun reacts to the ruby in my body."

"The ruby is moving more actively than ever before, and the observation of consciousness is no longer compressed, but can extend further in all directions."

He asked Suneo: "This seems to represent two different cycles?"

"possible."

The upstreamer suggested: “You can give it a try.”

To be on the safe side, Zhou Yi first turned his observation angle away from the sun.

He looked into the distance.

The vision continues to move towards darkness.

With the help of the sun, the scope of this outward expansion was extremely large. After crossing a strange black edge, the outside suddenly became clear, and many stars were finally seen in the dark space.

In the universe indeed.

Zhou Yi noticed a larger gray star.

After observing for a while, he continued to look out and saw another pale yellow star.

Is this Mercury and Venus?
But not enough.

However, when the consciousness is projected here, the perspective has become a little blurry and it is difficult to move forward.

Zhou Yi gritted his teeth and chose to consume his own sapphires. As the energy of each gem was ignited and extracted, he gained strength and flew away again.

Then he came across a blue planet.

White clouds and island-like landmasses can be clearly seen on its surface. These scattered continents are brown, yellow and green, and most areas of the planet are shrouded in gray fog.

Zhou Yi was almost immediately certain.

This is the Earth.

It's just because the Dead Sea covers the land on the earth that it is obscured, making it look like the continent has been broken into pieces.

Xiaofu also said, "It should be. Each world is actually very different. It is difficult to find another world with such a similar environment, form, and internal structure."

After completing the external observation, Zhou Yi returned his focus.

The location of the celestial group has now been determined, which is between Mercury and the Sun, very close to the Sun.

Strangely, from the perspective of astrologers, the energy released by the sun itself is not high.

It can't even support the white gem to charge into sapphire.

Logically speaking, they are closer to the sun than the earth, and obtain circular energy through the stars, which should be much stronger here.

Zhou Yi remembers it clearly.

In the memory left in the ruby, there was a celestial being who once lowered part of his body into the Dead Sea and used the circular current to quickly recharge it.

Could it be possible that the distant Earth could absorb more energy?
To find this out, you have to look in the direction of the Sun.

After thinking about it, Zhou Yi decided to give it a try.

He first flew slowly towards the direction of the red sun, getting farther and farther away from his main body.

Along the way, Zhou Yi also observed other gemstone bodies.

They all had a dull luster and no fluctuations in consciousness. They were floating in the void and were already in the form of corpses.

Carefully avoiding them, Zhou Yi shuttled all the way.

He finally reached the finish line.

A crystal wall that spanned the starry sky blocked the way ahead, like a giant sign prohibiting progress. After reaching here, the view could no longer move forward, as if it was constrained by some kind of strong force and could not be crossed.

The wall was made entirely of gems, and the surface was sparkling with dazzling red light.

Zhou Yi discovered that there were also four colored gems on the light wall: white, blue, black and red.

Gems of various colors are moving slowly, and this high wall across the starry sky is like an electronic screen.

However, at this time, almost all the rubies gathered in the middle, releasing a high-brightness red flash that suppressed the same group, completely blocking out other colors. The ultra-long-range consciousness perspective can only move forward through the light formed by the rubies, and cannot jump out of this track.

"What's happening here?"

Zhou Yi asked Xiaofu: "Now it is the ruby cycle, so the field of consciousness can be extended over a large area. Before it was a blue light band composed of sapphires, so the energy transmission was active?"

The people following the current fell silent.

After a while.

It then said: "They are locking the sun."

"The Celestials use gems as their basic life units, and this wall surrounds the sun, maximizing the amount of energy it can extract from the source. This should be a unique technology of the Celestials..."

After Xiaofu's reminder, Zhou Yi remembered an idea from the old human era.

Dyson sphere.

It is about surrounding the sun with a huge spherical structure so that most of the sun's radiation energy can be intercepted and utilized.

However, this is only a theoretical assumption, and the peak of old human civilization is still far from this goal.

But the celestial civilization has already been able to do it.

It’s just that they use high walls made of jewels.

"Da Zhou, I understand!"

"This special gem structure is used to convert energy in different ways."

The stream tracer suddenly said: "The blue light band we saw before was absorbing the purest energy from the sun. Now it has switched to the red wall stage, which is collecting the consciousness information released by the sun."

"We, the upstreamers, entered the world where the circular current erupted in order to collect the local civilization sparks. In fact, we are collecting and storing consciousness information."

"Their method is to package the source, collect it on a large scale, and then select the required parts."

As Zhou Yi listened, an idea popped into his mind.

"You mean, the Celestial Being's goal is not the Earth, but to take away the Sun?"

"No, you can't take the sun away. Even if I had the ability, I wouldn't do such a meaningless thing."

Xiaofu corrected him, "They are building a device that can fully utilize the sun, which is this wall. Let's call it the Solar Wall for now."

"The energy that supplied the celestial beings previously should have come from here."

"We are now outside the wall. The area outside the wall is full of dead celestial beings. I guess there should be at least one inner wall inside. All the energy and information obtained are for the service of the inner wall."

"Technically, this is like the double pressing of peanut oil, minimizing energy spillover and maximizing utilization."

Zhou Yi was a little worried: "It seems that they will eventually completely envelop the entire sun and gather all the energy."

Xiaofu added: "From the behavior of the celestial beings, I don't think that would be the case. If their goal is only this sun, then there is no need for them to enter the earth and have any interaction with the local life. It would just be a waste of their time."

"But celestial beings have been projecting onto Earth one after another. From the initial direct landing attempts to the use of consciousness projection, they are now exploring using the bodies of local life forms."

"There must be something important on Earth that they need."

The images of those glass men emerged in Zhou Yi's mind.

In one of the corpses he had just captured, there was a celestial being nurturing a human baby, trying to transform it into a fiberglass structure.

"Could it be that they want to find a replacement for the Glass Man?"

"Probably."

Xiaofu thought for a while and said, "But there is too little information about that humanoid civilization, so I can't judge."

Zhou Yi thought.

Perhaps only by going to the open sea and seeing those Skywalkers can we get a glimpse of it.

"But we have obtained very important information this time."

The stream tracer said happily: "I don't have data on the Celestial Civilization. I was very nervous before, fearing that they were a truly advanced civilization, a leading group in terms of dimension. If they met us, they would have no way to resist."

"It now appears that the technology and life characteristics they display should be classified as a Level 2 civilization, using your language system."

"Second level civilization?"

Zhou Yi asked: "What level of civilization are the old humans at?"

"It's barely a level one. A level one civilization is one that can rule the world it lives in, transform the local environment, and monopolize and control all resources... But according to the information I've obtained, the old humans can't directly control the weather and the underground, so it's barely a level one. This stage is also called a low civilization."

Xiaofu said: "Second-level civilizations can efficiently utilize the energy of stars and can travel and move around on celestial bodies radiating from stars. Their societies have their own unique forms and are relatively developed. They are also called intermediate civilizations."

"If we reach the third level of civilization, we will be able to collect the energy of a large number of stars in the galaxy and use extreme celestial bodies for our own benefit... This is already in the realm of advanced civilization."

Zhou Yi couldn't help but ask: "What level of civilization do the tracers belong to?"

"Level 2."

Xiaofu said: "But the society of the upstreamers is very loose, so strictly speaking, it should not be considered a civilization. It is more appropriate to call it a profession."

“Although it will be difficult and dangerous for us to start from scratch, our ceiling is very high.”

"In fact, it is possible that every tracer can collect the fire seeds of various civilizations and eventually connect them into a fire civilization. It is not impossible that they can evolve into an advanced civilization."

Zhou Yi did not refute this.

This profession is a civilized trash man, a bit like a librarian, both have extremely high upper limits.

It’s just that it’s a bit difficult to reach the upper limit.

(End of this chapter)