Chapter 723 Progress Itself, Inheritance of Civilization (8K Chapter)

Li Qi began his journey.

This is somewhat similar to... everything he did in Xiantian.

However, in Xiantian, he was silently manipulating behind the scenes, just like the original will of heaven.

But at this moment, Li Qi did it himself.

Seventy-five years.

Li Qi began his work on the wasteland with the idea of ​​Suetaki.

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 describe it in detail, this will be a magnificent adventure, because Li Qi cannot unlock his seal, and he is actually not ready to unlock the seal.

He just experienced all this from the perspective of a mortal.

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

In addition to sealing his own cultivation, he did not deliberately limit his behavior.

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

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

Among them, some are former technology companies that still retain enough technology and even maintain some production lines and technology research and development capabilities. The one that Li Qi remembers most is an underground research institute. They have an underground laboratory before the collapse of civilization, which is three hundred floors. This also allowed the institute to survive. They were able to become the absolute king of that area later and have been committed to the revival of civilization.

Some are gathering places for refugees, and some are only bravery honed in the wasteland. They often become thugs and cannon fodder for technology companies, but they can also obtain some technology and materials.

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

Some are lone teams, which are varied and everywhere.

In such a wasteland, Li Qi has witnessed the degradation of civilization in just over a decade.

The world heritage of the fifth rank of the Forward Alliance was buried, brilliant ideas were forgotten, splendid buildings became ruins, and various books and manuscripts were burned to ashes for various reasons.

Many works were lost, technical means gradually became "technical myths", and a large number of basic disciplines were lost due to the death of scholars. Even if there were electronic files recorded in storage devices, no one could understand them.

Yes, no one could understand them. Only a few surviving scholars were mostly inside those technology companies.

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

It's only been more than ten years, and history has become a legend, and civilization has completely broken down.

This is also the disadvantage of the Forward Alliance. They don't have the kind of top-level strongmen who "I exist, civilization exists", so once the number of deaths is too large, the entire civilization is like amnesia, and it completely loses its former glory.

Under the ruins are exquisite broken walls and ruins, which may be buried with past treasures.

But there are still magnificent things in it.

Li Qi participated in many events that will affect the course of world history in the future, and even have epoch-making significance, in various places.

He had witnessed the pure flame in the wasteland, and the large-scale weapons promoted were thrown by people in the wasteland to a biotechnology company and destroyed it, because this former biotechnology company began to conduct a large number of human experiments, and the morality in the wasteland could no longer restrain them, and they still had a large number of test subjects, and the survivors on the wasteland were all.

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

After a series of adventures, this team even made a big fuss in the settlement run by Li Qi, and finally they found the last nuclear arsenal.

In a bang, the only remaining weapons of mass destruction of the Forward Alliance were destroyed together with a technology company that stored a large amount of biological data.

Such things are also extremely rare on the wasteland, but it is not the only one.

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

For example, he witnessed the only hope for the world to recover. The network library built by the Forward Alliance was discovered, which caused a worldwide competition. In the end, the technology company that discovered it found that it could not protect it, so it simply destroyed it, and the data backup of the entire Forward Alliance was completely destroyed.

Or, the last aftermath of the Flesh and Blood Eggs broke out, and a large number of parasites swept all forces, and everyone had to face a huge impact of parasites.

The disappearance of the previous civilization, various major events.

What role Li Qi played in it, no one recorded it. After all, no one sorted out and recorded what happened during Li Qi's walk in their world, not even a small part.

Only Shen Shuibi has been with him all the time, and Rabbit has been by his side, experiencing all kinds of stories with him.

But...

The settlement he led has preserved a lot of knowledge.

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

With a large number of manpower, he was able to start growing high-yield crops. Li Qi didn't know how to do it at first, but with the help of the lone wolf team mentioned earlier, he got some information from the biotechnology company and was able to breed local species, which took him a lot of time.

But more than a decade later, Li Qi finally cultivated some local geniuses.

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

A canned food production line involves too many things behind it, metal smelting, processing, and personnel mobilization, and there are too many places that need automation. Unlike drying food, most of the links can be replaced by intensive labor.

He can make a lot of canned food, but it is too difficult to build a production line with local strength. Making canned food and making canned production lines are two different things.

However, with dried food, his territory was expanded.

Many things happened in the middle.

Some people wanted to rebuild civilization, so they wanted to cooperate with Li Qi, but they were eventually assassinated.

Some wanted to dominate the wasteland, but they died of ambition.

Some technology companies just want to live in a corner, but they were besieged because of the technology and equipment they still retained.

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

Because they heard that Li Qi can accept everyone here and is the only remaining light of civilization in the wasteland, so they gambled everything, went through many adventures, were hunted by a technology company, and wanted to be used as an experimental product, and so on.

After all this, they finally arrived at Li Qi's territory, but the middle-aged man died on the last leg of the journey, and he didn't even see Li Qi.

Li Qi finally accepted the parasite, and then found out 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 the ninth rank, and did not need additional supplies, just like normal people.

The wasteland entered a new era, and a large number of people were actively or passively infected with the flesh and blood eggs, became parasites, and then recovered their minds.

Ten years later, everyone began to have more or less the characteristics of parasites. They moved faster, had greater strength, and had stronger recovery ability.

The native species of the Forward Alliance seemed to begin to coexist with the remains of the original flesh and blood eggs.

At this time, everyone started to look for the remaining flesh and blood eggs from competing for food, technology, and ancient heritage.

Originally, the Flesh and Blood Egg was the node where the Zerg were preparing to brainwash the whole world. At the beginning, it was almost destroyed by the angry survivors of the end of the world. Only a small part remained. Now this small part has become a hot commodity. Everyone is scrambling for it, and a war broke out for it.

At this time, there are very few people of the old generation left, and now there are new generations of wastelanders.

They have not seen the glory of the Forward Alliance. Perhaps they have only heard about it from their parents' generation and regarded it as a fairy tale. The whole civilization is gradually forgetting the past.

It's just one generation, and they have begun to lose the pursuit of the past. Technology companies have gradually transformed into kingdoms, ascended the throne and coronated, and settlements have followed suit, gradually forming a new generation of political structure.

It really is a new generation of political structure.

Some are slave states, some are feudal states, some are theocracy, and some are democratic parliaments formed by technology companies. It is very chaotic.

A large number of thoughts are mixed together, some are extremely xenophobic and do not trust friendship on the wasteland.

Some are willing to accept newcomers because they are the land where many ethnic groups live together.

Technology companies look down on the outside world, thinking that they are all barbarians. However, the wealthy class of these big forces with their own production lines can almost live as well as before the war, with sufficient equipment, medical care, and entertainment, but their self-sustaining ability is relatively low, the output is not high, and the number of people they can support is relatively small.

Li Qi is 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 "wasteland holy land" because many people covet it, but they all find that they can't defeat the dean's broken patrol officer mecha.

It is obviously an ordinary patrol officer mecha that has been in disrepair for a long time, but it just stabilizes this school.

People who go out here are all like "people in the past".

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

They know exactly what this world should be like and what this world has encountered.

Legends lost in other places are no longer legends here, as many relics of the Forward Alliance are displayed 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 becoming more and more 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 long 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 to speak and said: "As you can see, they have established a new civilization with their own strength, although it has nothing to do with your previous one."

"But don't be sad, this is something worth being happy about, because your descendants, what they continue is not just your habits and blood, but progress itself." Li Qi said so.

This made the already emotional Jedi stunned.

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

In the past, Li Qi would never say such words. In the past, Li Qi would watch everything in silence, and then fall into deep thought. He would not pay attention to anything these people did, and would only take this matter as his own "insight" and as firewood for his own thinking, and would not pay attention to them themselves.

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

However, with just this sentence, Li Qi did not continue.

After hearing this, the commander code-named Jedi seemed to gradually calm down.

Then, he turned on his watch and input a string of passwords.

Soon, a projection was unfolded in front of him.

Li Qi took a look and found that this should be the scanning ability of the fifth-grade spacecraft, which imaged the things outside.

So, Li Qi followed and watched.

This commander was watching what was happening outside.

In the feudal country, he saw some simple, low-level mechas that were self-assembled using some waste materials. They were probably not at the level of quality, and they were at the level of children's toys in the Forward Alliance.

But it was these low-level mechas that were made by themselves that were oppressing the farmers in the end of the world.

The farmers were also very funny. They used various groceries from the old times, such as hangers, robot shells, railings and other things, to do farm work, and from time to time they looked at the "knight masters" wearing mechas with fear and admiration.

The knight masters supervised the farmers.

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

An artist dressed funny and dressed in the exaggerated costumes of the old world was being worshipped by countless people.

This seemed to be a primitive sacrifice. Many people carried a huge warship. It was a handmade toy made of wood and metal pieces. It was the warship of the Forward Alliance. It seemed to be their "god statue".

The rich and powerful religious leaders sat in this wooden-framed warship and accepted the worship of thousands of people.

And their worship was also very funny. They were imitating the art parade of the Forward Alliance and turned the art parade convoy into a religious ceremony. The "god objects" built with wood, grass and iron sheets were actually various pre-civilization sundries, including washing machines, flying cars, beverage cups, etc. Of course, the most eye-catching one was the warship.

They were chanting scriptures. In their religious legends, the past era was the golden age favored by the gods. As long as everyone was pious enough, they could return to that era.

Just keep worshipping and praising, and give everything to the priests, and you can wait for that day, wait until you return to the ancient golden age, the elderly can return to their youth, no longer have illnesses, and there will be endless food without farming, and countless ancient relics will come to the world to meet everyone's needs.

Everyone believed all this devoutly.

He turned his perspective again, and this time the scan came to a technology company. Technology companies are the places where the most pre-war technologies are preserved, but most of them are only fragments. After all, the industrial system and basic science of the entire world have been completely lost. The technology they retain now, even for themselves, is just "knowing it but not knowing why it is so."

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 equipment, and the ability to recognize and analyze these equipment. All they can do is to repair and barely maintain the operation of these ancient machines, using their own crooked theories as guidance, and using them in various ways.

Even including applying holy oil, beating with different rhythms, or chanting in different languages.

The original technology companies can still recognize these creations, but now their descendants basically only know how to use them, and they use them in extremely awkward ways, just like using a juicer to blend machine oil.

It's not that they can't use them this way, but the way they use them is obviously problematic, but they think it's all normal, because when they contacted their parents, their parents used them this way.

These technology companies carefully maintain their only equipment, treating it as a family heirloom and maintaining it in the best way they think.

Then, look at their outside, a large number of human experiments, the technicians of these technology companies regard themselves as "superior" and regard the outsiders as "barbarians", which leads to their general contempt for the outside world and often capture them for experiments.

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

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

This time, he saw a most ordinary refugee settlement.

This is where the refugees from the wilderness gather and no one wants to take them in.

And this place is still in the Stone Age.

They beat stone tools, or pick up some metal pieces and tie them to wood, and rely on their bodies to hunt. They are completely illiterate, and some of them even have degenerated language skills and can only speak simple words.

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

They have no writing at all, and are basically no different from wild people. These people have become like this in two generations.

However, they are generally strong, and the parasites are well integrated in them.

It’s not that there is any power in the wild that can make the body stronger, but because those who are not strong enough have died, and natural selection is like this.

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

Obviously, seventy years ago, everyone was no different.

This is only three or four generations.

Seventy years, this is only seventy years.

The whole world has become like this.

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

The view was pulled to the sky, and he could overlook the whole world.

The whole world, not only did not become desolate, but was 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 were doing, whether it was good or bad, they were doing it anyway.

The entire civilization, after being broken by the invading warships, was still wriggling 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 rank, it ignited its own world, migrated in the void with difficulty for hundreds of thousands of years, and finally arrived at the fantasy domain, and finally achieved today's achievements in the fantasy domain.

Yes, these new generations of the Forward Alliance did not inherit the technology of the previous civilization. They did not look like descendants at all. The technological gap brought not only complete regression, but also complete amnesia.

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

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

Jedi looked at all this and seemed to be relieved. He said: "Yes, I am actually very pleased... Look at them, look at these children. After all the civilization was destroyed, they actually developed independently into the feudal era and even formed new customs! And-"

He was speechless for a moment when he said this, and there was nothing else to say, just silence.

After all, it all happened too fast.

Only more than 70 years, too fast.

At the beginning, Li Qi said that the Forward Alliance was very fast, maybe it could help him see the perspective of mortals. (See Chapter 704 for details)

You know, 70 years is actually just enough for Li Qi to close the door. He took a nap before.

Looking back now, the Forward Alliance is indeed a very "fast" civilization. Li Qi has only been here for such a short time, but he has witnessed the peak, decline, and current status of a fifth-grade civilization. In the past seventy years, a fifth-grade world has experienced many things quickly, so fast that it 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 be like, where your glory is, and tell them what kind of world you have built."

"Thank you..." The commander thanked him and seemed to want to say something.

But Li Qi waved his hand, indicating that he didn't need to say anything more.

Li Qi has already got what he wanted.

In recent years, Li Qi's work intensity has been very high. Although he seems to have a respected 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 rest, but he only saw more and not less.

When he goes out, he is always fighting and rescuing people. The development of the entire camp has to be handed over to him. These things are not difficult to do with his wisdom, but they are very troublesome.

The reason for the trouble is that Li Qi cannot be leisurely and use his life to think slowly. Everything is extremely urgent and everything concerns a large number of people, so he is always rushing and working while sleeping. For this precarious end of the world, he basically has no life to speak of.

These people were ignored by Li Qi in the past.

For example, when he was in the immortal world, hundreds of years passed easily. How many people's rise and fall turned into yellow earth?

At that time, Li Qi never paid attention to such things, because he felt that it was unnecessary. As long as the "change of heaven and earth" was finally completed, then these were all valuable, and he didn't need to intervene too much.

He is God's will. What he wants to control is the ultimate goal. Silently turning the whole world around is in line with his power.

But in the past seventy years, he has learned to stop paying attention to those huge and grand goals and deal with these trivial matters instead.

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

Li Qi used to think he understood and knew that he had to take it slow.

But now, he truly understood.

What is a ‘tiny component’? He touched those real tiny components.

If the tiny components are invisible, then the grand components are also empty.

These seventy years or so are the first step for Li Qi to practice this.