Chapter 370 - City Spaceship (2/2)
Wu Haibo smiled faintly and gave the answer. “Yes, there is—a city. A city is the crystallization of a civilization. All productions, organizations, and wars in human civilization were born in cities. The word city and civilization is the same in many languages. And when an archaeological team discovers a capital of a civilization, only then we are certain that this particular civilization once existed.
“Many humans once lived in villages and mountains, then, as our civilization began to become highly organized, societal production and the lives of humans became centralized in highly developed cities.
“This can help you imagine that if a planetary civilization developed to its peak, 90% of its people, technology, and societal production would be gathered in a few metropolises.
“Based on the mass of the entire planet, the metropolises and civilizations would occupy less than one percent of the entire planet.
“The remaining mass of 99/100 would be occupied by a small handful of farms, breeding grounds, and mines. Aside from them, there would be mountains, rainforests, deserts, and oceans. Their significance to the civilization is practically zero.
“If a civilization wants to spread to the four corners of the universe, there is no need for it to push the entire planet forward, like what you saw in the movie. They would only need to turn the city, which is the most essential core of the civilization, into a super spaceship that could move for hundreds of millions of light years.”
This wild method of moving through the universe left everyone dumbfounded.
Meng Chao’s mind raced, and sparks of excitement shone in his eyes.
“Turning a city into a super spaceship has clear benefits,” Wu Haibo continued calmly. “First, a city is large enough. It has a civilization that has at least millions or tens of millions of people. It’s large enough to retain the morals, laws, and lifestyles of the civilization in its home planet and make sure that the spirit of the civilization would never change, or at the very least, would not change in just a few hundred years.
“Second, the city is already constructed. After we descended to another world, we wouldn’t need to start from zero and start building things from scratch. Instead, it would be very easy for us to expand in the foreign world. As long as we could discover enough resources, we could grow by several levels. Even if we discovered other intelligent lifeforms, we’d be large enough to communicate or suppress them. In the end, the flames of our civilization would burn through the entire planet.
“Third, the amount of ‘fuel’ required to make an entire city travel through the universe might be astronomical, but it’s still much lower than what would be required to push a planet forward. Besides, the mass of a city can’t cause the trajectory of an entire planet to change. It’s relatively easier to control, and it’s also safer.
“Based on what I’ve said, I believe that when a civilization has the ability to travel through the universe, especially when it has dimensional transportation technology that is faster than the speed of light, they would definitely turn their cities into super spaceships. It’s this, or they would turn super spaceships into cities. The distinction between the two would soon become blurry, and in the end, they would become one.”
When he said this, everyone aside Meng Chao finally registered what he meant.
The tactical analyzers from the Other World research center said in a contemplative manner, “Mr. Wu, are you saying that Dragon City is a spaceship from an ancient civilization?”
Wu Haibo smiled faintly. “The time is not right yet, so I won’t say anything. Today is a movie viewing session, and I’m just voicing my opinion after watching the movie. It’s just ramblings of this old man.
“But it’s also a hypothesis. If Dragon City was really a spaceship from the ancient civilization, it would explain why it could transmigrate to the Other World; transmigration would have always been its true mission. This so-called transmigration is just us going on a trip based on the route that has been set for us.”
“But…”
Wu Haibo’s words stirred up a lot of thoughts. Many of the core members in Blue Home became excited. They began talking to each other.
“How could this be possible? Using a planetary engine to move a planet forward is understandable, but isn’t transporting a city that is an innumerable number of light years away harmlessly into a foreign land way too inconceivable?”
Wu Haibo shrugged and said, “It might sound a little unbelievable, but Dragon City has indeed transmigrated. Perhaps in the eyes of a civilization that can travel through the universe, the boundaries of mass and energy aren’t that clear. They can turn the city into pure energy, then use the fluctuations in high dimensional space to transport the city into another location in a 3D space before turning the city into substance again. Who said that the ancient civilization couldn’t create this sort of miracle?
“The truth is right before our eyes. The surface genes of Earthlings aren’t that much different compared to the monsters of the Other World. We can breathe the air here and be infected by this world’s viruses. We can sense the warm light and cultivate the mysterious energy. This means that our transmigration wasn’t random. This is our ‘destination’.”
This question had puzzled all the Earthlings after their transmigration.
The core members of Blue Home discussed it quietly.
Meng Chao raised his hand and said, “Mr. Wu, Dragon City was built bit by bit by Earthlings. There’s no way we could have given Dragon City the ability to move through high dimensional space without knowing it!”