Urban Sims

The mystery of the plummeting trade volume in the City of Thousand Planets cannot be explained by the existence of commercial competition from other free trade stars.

Most of the trade exchanges in the interstellar era were straight line to straight line, going in a big circle, and going to other trading stars specifically to trade. The time wasted is not a day or two, but more than ten years or decades - for a low-speed spacecraft.

Moreover, civilization is developing, the population will expand, demand will increase, and the economy will only become more and more prosperous. However, for such an important trade transit place as the City of Thousand Planets, the trade volume has dropped. It is really hard to understand and very abnormal.

So in the next few years, Yun Xinghe and the others were nervously building a new spacecraft while investigating the core cause of this problem.

In addition, Zhinao Xiaokong has broken into more government databases and analyzed and screened countless clues. Yun Xinghe and the others are gradually getting closer to a chilling truth.

A thousand years ago, this truth was discovered and announced by a very curious Babi. After it was discovered and announced, it immediately caused an uproar, causing countless interstellar businessmen to flee, not wanting to stay another moment, and never coming back again.

Even though a thousand years have passed, even though the surrounding civilizations of Jia Lai, Babi, Green Fairy, and Alcoron tried their best to block this news, arrested the "Babi man" who spread the rumors, and sentenced him to death, they tried their best to explain it to the outside world. , and still cannot restore its reputation.

What news has seriously affected the trade and reputation of the City of Thousand Planets?

This is related to the fact that the City of Thousand Stars claims that there are more than 1,000 intelligent creatures here.

However, in the fifth paragraph, there are only more than 300 civilizations in total, and there are only more than 700 intelligent species registered in the "Civilization Convention".

How did the City of Thousand Stars collect so many intelligent species?

Moreover, the City of Thousand Stars is located in a remote place, surrounded by mostly second- and third-level civilizations. The interstellar businessman who founded the City of Thousand Stars is from the third-level Babi civilization. How did he have such a vast ability to collect the entire fifth section? What about the thousands of intelligent species that don’t even exist in the world?

You must know that the fifth segment spans more than 10,000 light-years. If a businessman from a third-level civilization wants to travel across the fifth segment, it will take at least hundreds of thousands of years.

Including other civilizations passing by?

There are definitely some, but definitely not many.

After all, this place is indeed too backward and remote.

After eliminating all hypotheses, in the end, there is only one explanation left for why the City of Thousand Planets has so many intelligent creatures.

Artificial.

Or clone.

Most intelligent creatures are man-made, and some may be cloned in culture tanks after extracting genes from other intelligent creatures.

The so-called "City of a Thousand Stars" is a false, disgusting place of lies that tramples on countless bottom lines of civilization.

Excluding the false elements, there can be 100 types of real intelligent creatures, which is pretty good.

But the creator of this city still succeeded in creating an atmosphere where there are 1,000 intelligent races, which brought a lot of economic benefits.

Moreover, it also attracted some fools who took the bait.

For example, those interstellar travelers from distant civilizations who came to die on their own initiative after hearing the legend about the City of Thousand Stars.

These travelers spent hundreds of years arriving here, and then sadly disappeared into the starry sky somewhere.

Soon after, another intelligent race was added to the City of Thousand Stars.

And obtained some of the technologies created by this intelligent race, improving the technological reserves of the City of Thousand Planets.

"Isn't this just a trap? No wonder no one dares to come here. This place is so terrifying." Yun Qiaoqiao's face turned pale, she covered her mouth, feeling nauseated.

"It is impossible for an interstellar businessman to be so bold as to do such a shocking thing. And after the truth was exposed, no one came to punish this businessman. Instead, they tried every means to get the four surrounding countries to cooperate and put this businessman Now that the matter is under wraps, there must be a force behind this interstellar businessman." Sugaru analyzed.

"Babi civilization, it is said that this civilization has reached the edge of breaking through the fourth-level civilization. The speed of technological development is the fastest among the four civilizations. However, the Babi people are not very smart. Their biggest characteristic is what other civilizations have described. : Proficient in strategy, cunning and cunning, and using every possible means. It even triggered four third-level civilizations to jointly launch a full-scale war against them. Although the Babi civilization lost dozens of leading stars, in the end it still relied on A shrewd strategy prevented this disaster."

Lan Xiulong said.

"It is probably the Babi civilization that is leading all this behind the scenes." Luo Xin nodded.

"Captain, just now the city lord brought more than a dozen businessmen into a secret meeting room. Director Shanbalu of Basba Shipyard is also among these people. They are discussing a conspiracy against us again!" Du Xiaopang, who was sitting in front of the surveillance screen, suddenly shouted.

"The new spaceship will be built in a few months. The peaches are almost ripe, hum! It's strange that they are not impatient."

Yun Xinghe said coldly, with a sarcastic smile on his lips.

…

town Hall.

Inside the mysterious conference room.

A very urgent, extremely excited voice with trembling words said:

"The advanced level of their spacecraft shocked me and made me feel inferior."

"More than 90% of this spaceship, even the hull, is made of a strong-force material that they claim comes from the interior of stars. The hardness, smoothness and density of this material cannot be found in the entire universe. Come up with several materials that can be comparable to it.”

"After calculation, it is even so hard that it can penetrate a planet with a diameter of more than 2,000 kilometers at 0.6 times the speed of light, and the spacecraft will remain unscathed."

"No level four civilization can produce this kind of material."

"Also, the advanced level of the instruments and equipment they installed inside the spacecraft also makes me feel frustrated and desperate."

"That's a technological generation gap that is impossible to catch up with."

"In many of their equipment, no messy circuits can be seen inside. Only tens of millions of precision parts can be seen under a million-fold microscope."

"There is a very ordinary conductive plate, less than the size of a palm. Under the microscope, we saw 5 billion parts. Our engineers said this was impossible, but in actual testing, the current conduction ability of this conductive plate was found , which is 3,000 times that of the best conductive plate we produce.”

"Recently they are debugging a new material reactor and ion engine. I don't know how advanced these two pieces of equipment are, but what is certain is that once they work, whether it is power or thermal efficiency, there will be no one in the City of Thousand Planets. The spaceship is comparable.”

"In short, their industrial manufacturing capabilities have reached the level of gods."

"I even suggest not to provoke them. Once the civilization behind them knows about this, we may encounter catastrophe...even if it is hundreds of years later."

"Because I have absolutely no confidence that we will be able to compete with them in the industrial field within a few hundred years."

At the end of the sentence, Shanbalu looked serious, his voice was heavy, and his body was trembling slightly.

"What if we do it?"

The president of the Unicorn Chamber of Commerce, a creature with a horn on its head, stood up and said with bright eyes: "Hundreds of years are a long time. With our wisdom, why is it not possible to do it?"

He stood up and took two steps: "Even if we can't do it, a few hundred years will be enough for us to prepare ourselves and repel that civilization!"

"We have to do this for more than five hundred years! We have achieved nothing in the past five hundred years. This time, we have to fill our bellies!"

The president of the Unicorn Chamber of Commerce waved his fist and said.

"I also agree with Noent's point of view. This civilized visitor is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the City of Thousand Stars. If we miss it, we will sink forever!"

"We are all interstellar businessmen, and we all understand one truth: the greater the risk, the greater the reward."

"Visitors from this civilization also said that they come from another spiral arm, and that spiral arm is far away from us. Even if their civilization's spaceship travels at close to the speed of light, it will take five to six hundred years to get here."

"What is there to hesitate about? Five to six hundred years is enough for us to turn the City of Thousand Stars into the Kingdom of Thousand Stars."

"Get ready to work. Perhaps, this is the last time we will do this kind of work. From now on, no one can despise, underestimate or slander us!"

"We are the new kings!"

Dong Kelang, the Lord of Star City, slapped the table hard, his face turned blue with excitement (the skin and blood of Babi people are blue).

"Yes, the new king!"

"We've had enough of being merchants, now we want to be masters!"

"Go ahead and take all our wealth!"

There was a chorus of agreement and carnival in the conference room.

At this scene, Shanbalu shook his head slightly.

Will things definitely go smoothly?

Why do I feel like my eyelids are always twitching and my mind is always uneasy.

But seeing that everyone was in complete agreement, he had no choice but to ask in a deep voice: "Lord Crown City, when will we take action?"

"Of course it was the day that spacecraft was built... We don't have the technology to build this kind of spacecraft."

Dong Kelang smiled and said that he planned to use that spaceship as his city lord's special ship - no, the emperor's special ship.

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