Wandering Meteor
Chapter 95: Specializing in a Single Field of Technology

Chapter 95: Chapter 95: Specializing in a Single Field of Technology

The Sea Spirit Civilization, being marine life, has a layer of fine scales on the surface of their skin.

Therefore, Sea Spirit People do not wear clothes, and there is no need for them to wear clothes in the sea. However, when the Sea Spirit People came to Earth, this caused some Earth People to talk behind their backs, considering the Sea Spirit Civilization to be a civilization with primitive thinking. Despite their highly advanced technology, their mentality was still considered backward and barbaric, not even knowing to wear clothes, lacking a sense of shame.

Of course, this wasn’t a big issue.

Complaints aside, Earth Civilization would still tolerate and endure some of the biological habits of the Sea Spirit Civilization.

However, Earth Civilization never anticipated how vastly different the Sea Spirit Civilization’s biological habits were from their own. It was one thing not to wear clothes, but the Sea Spirits could engage in reproduction at any time and place.

It turns out that as marine creatures, the Sea Spirit Civilization’s brains did not evolve a region rich with emotional functionalities like the "amygdala" in humans. Hence, each Sea Spirit individual almost has no need for romantic love from the opposite sex, feeling a distinction only during reproduction.

Since all marine creatures reproduce at any time during their breeding seasons, the Sea Spirit Civilization naturally does the same. When a Sea Spirit accumulates a certain level of hormones, they seek out the opposite sex to reproduce, and afterwards, the two would separate without entangling emotions like humans.

Because they don’t spend excess time and energy on relationships, every Sea Spirit can be extremely focused on their tasks.

Thus, their technological level advanced so quickly, becoming a second-level civilization in just under five thousand years.

The time a civilization invests in scientific research is of course directly proportional to their technological level.

Let’s put this topic aside for now and continue with the conflicting contradictions between Earth Civilization and Sea Spirit Civilization.

Once, during a joint repair of a Planet Engine, two Sea Spirits began reproducing right beneath the Planet Engine.

This was something that many human scientists could not tolerate and found unbearable, leading them to instruct the Earth’s security team to capture and detain the pair of Sea Spirits.

The reason given was - indecency and corrupting civilization.

In fact, similar incidents had occurred many times in the past three years, but not under a Planet Engine, so Earth Civilization had endured it.

But now, it was unbearable.

As a result, the Sea Spirit Civilization came demanding forcefully the very same day, requiring Earth Civilization to release that pair of Sea Spirits and to formally apologize.

Earth Civilization believed it had done nothing wrong and definitely would not back down easily.

Consequently, the two civilizations began a heated debate over racial habits and modern civilization standards.

The Sea Spirit Civilization strongly condemned Earth Civilization, demanding that Earth Civilization respect all the biological habits of the Sea Spirit Civilization and also strongly insisting on an apology from Earth Civilization.

But Earth Civilization, not to be outdone, argued with full justification that the Sea Spirit Civilization should also respect the cultural customs and social moral standards of Earth Civilization. It was okay not to wear clothes, but they could not reproduce anywhere, anytime like beasts. Therefore, Earth Civilization refused to apologize to the Sea Spirit Civilization.

Finally, the matter escalated further.

It even turned into a fierce debate between the humans of the entire Earth Civilization and the Sea Spirit People of the entire Sea Spirit Civilization, with the two sides arguing incessantly.

However, the points of contention in the debate felt somewhat like talking at cross-purposes.

One side spoke of biological habits, while the other talked about civilization customs and social morals.

As one can imagine, the debate turned into criticism and abuse, and ultimately it got out of hand.

...

In such a situation.

Within Earth Civilization, the few high-level representatives who had initially negotiated and decided to surrender and seek peace once again gathered together.

"Gentlemen, the current times are conducive to tearing up the truce agreement. How are the preparations going in secret?"

"Biochemical weapons have been preliminarily researched and just yesterday, they underwent testing. The results look tremendously effective; we’re adequately prepared in that regard!"

" What about the other side? How’s the progress with the particle weapons?"

"We’ve produced nearly a million of them in the underground military factory, and we’ve also made some improvements to the Particle Energy Weapons technology. The preparations are fully in place!"

"Alright, we’ve been gritting our teeth and biding our time for so long, now is the time to take back what was lost!"

"..."

It turns out that all of this was part of Earth Civilization’s strategy, which started the moment they decided to surrender and seek peace.

Using the safety period gained from seeking peace, Earth Civilization secretly conducted intense research on particle weapons and biological weapons in the Underground City, awaiting the moment to strike back.

Because they discovered that these two types of weapons had a greater impact on the Sea Spirit Civilization than nuclear bombs, which had previously destroyed more than sixty Water Balls, relying on Pulse Cannons and laser guns.

Although there was a considerable loss of life, this result, at least, offered a glimmer of hope.

And when it comes to biochemical weapons, it’s necessary to mention one point.

Earth Civilization’s current biotech can be said to be on par with, or even surpassing, that of the Sea Spirit Civilization. This is something Earth Civilization never revealed to the Sea Spirit Civilization, as their initial research into biotech was not intended to develop into weaponry.

Back then, during the wandering era.

The population of Earth Civilization decreased sharply, but the demand for talent actually increased.

Moreover, with a food shortage on Earth, artificial processed food became a trend, which also called for greater support from biotechnology.

Thus, to meet the food processing demand and to find a more suitable method for the continuity of Earth Civilization under the current conditions, Earth Civilization began to focus on biology.

During this period, nuclear fusion and biotechnology remained the two major research focuses of Earth Civilization.

After a long period of research, biotechnology progressed by leaps and bounds, achieving greater advancements than nuclear fusion technology.

Earth Civilization sequentially solved various technical problems related to food processing, as well as water palace infants, gene tuning, and the most important, Life Extension Technology.

Life Extension Technology, now also called Semi-Eternal Life Technology, is a type of biotechnology that can extend human lifespan to the greatest extent and was one of the significant goals of Earth Civilization’s focus on biology.

Because the wandering was lengthy, often spanning centuries, a sufficiently long lifespan was needed to prevent the loss of talent.

Gene tuning was not as powerful as imagined, at least not like mutations portrayed in novels where one could transform. The gene tuning researched by Earth Civilization was mainly to cope with humans living underground for prolonged periods and to prevent potential gene mutations and degradation due to changes in habits.

Humans used gene vaccines to prevent significant genetic mutations.

Water palace infant technology differed from previous in vitro fertilization, as in vitro fertilized embryos still need to be transferred to a mother’s body to develop. However, as Earth Civilization entered the wandering era and adopted an elitist policy, to alleviate the burden on families and women during pregnancy and childbirth and to allow everyone to dedicate themselves fully to work, Earth Civilization needed population growth to be independent of women, as a separate process.

Hence, water palace infant technology was born.

This was a technique where the entire process, from conception to development to birth, was independent and external to the mother’s body.

Technology specialization, or rather, skewed technological development, is common in biological civilizations, and the more rudimentary the civilization, restricted by its perspective and environment, the more likely it is to exhibit skewed development.

For example, under the wandering era, Earth Civilization had an urgent need for nuclear technology and Eternal Life Technology, causing them to specialize in these areas;

For example, the Sea Spirit Civilization, being aquatic lifeforms, went further and further in the utilization of water energy;

For example, the Double Star Civilization, having already become a symbiotic life entity, remained dedicated to uncovering the secrets of Intention and the consciousness field, hoping to unlock the ultimate mystery of the Celestial Civilization.

All these are, in fact, examples of skewed development.

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