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After the continuation of life, he began to fight while learning and growing. Through martial arts, extraordinary abilities, and technology, he gradually survived on the alien battlefield with his tenacious will and capabilities, even establishing his own faction.
After thoroughly investigating the distribution of interstellar powers, he began to take action. He consciously befriended influential interstellar forces and disguised himself using their advanced technology, gradually expanding his influence.
Finally, one day, with the help of a high-level civilization force, he stood on the stage of the Interstellar Alliance. Using the civilization protection laws of the Interstellar Alliance, he accused the alien forces of aggression and fought for Yunmeng Star's right to independent development.
It proved that even in a highly developed interstellar civilization, discrimination against the weak is inherent to intelligent races. Even with legal support, it was difficult for one person’s efforts to shake a massive interstellar power.
Ultimately, after three years of hard work and struggle, all he managed to achieve was forcing that alien force to withdraw from Yunmeng Star while remaining unscathed. Moreover, he was compelled by this alien force to establish a wager: granting Yunmeng Star three thousand years for independent development.
During this period, they could not rely on any organization, faction, or individual for assistance; they had to depend entirely on themselves to develop technology independently, complete individual evolution, and step out of Yunmeng Star into the Interstellar Alliance. If any rule was violated during these three thousand years, Yunmeng Star would once again fall under the control of that alien force.
What was even more disgusting was that while the alien force forbade Yunmeng Star from seeking external help for development, they secretly used their own power to impose a comprehensive blockade on Yunmeng Star regarding technology, information, raw materials, and more. This severely hindered Yunmeng Star's development.
As the three thousand years of the wager approached its end, they still could not produce technology capable of traversing stars for space travel. This left Academician Zheng, who was aware of everything, in a state of anxiety.
Thus, when he foresaw that Lin Yao was the one who could bring change to Yunmeng Star, he became so insistent. He pushed her to work hard, urged her to progress, and forced her to learn various things.
After listening to his account, Lin Yao felt momentarily dazed. Such a tragic history and such a cruel reality made her—who had experienced the destruction of her own star—furrow her brow in concern. She suddenly found it hard to distinguish which situation was more devastating: was it Mingguang Star being invaded by star beasts and its civilization destroyed completely?
Could it be that Yunmeng Star will never complete the wager, forever trapped under the cruel rule of others, unable to rise again? Since it is others who have imposed a blockade on us, why must we also engage in self-blockade from within?
We do not impose self-blockades; this is a remnant of the alien domination. Our star network was established by them from the beginning, and they have placed restrictions on it. Any discussions regarding history or the situation with aliens are automatically filtered out. Unless we are willing to endure a regression in technology or if our advancements surpass theirs, we currently lack the capability to break through these barriers.
But we can use physical printing to disseminate information.
That has been attempted before, but the alien forces have secretly hidden some of their power on Yunmeng Star. Once they discover our attempts to spread this information, they will take destructive action. Their capabilities and technology far exceed ours; even if we find them, we are powerless against them.
Lin Yao could sense the difficulty Yunmeng Star faced in completing this three-thousand-year wager. It was already challenging enough to catch up with their technological progress over tens of thousands of years, but there were also opponents working against them. Even knowing that someone was sabotaging their efforts left them feeling helpless.
Yunmeng Star truly had it tough.
Which neighboring stars were under the influence of that force?
Who knows? We are lagging too far behind compared to the surrounding stars; they are almost turning Yunmeng Star into a sieve. Initially, we mobilized our resources to identify them, conducting wave after wave of investigations, but eventually, we grew weary of it. As long as these forces do not infiltrate our core institutions and merely monitor us in secret, we can manage.
And yet, with their spies and infiltrators among us, we are not without vulnerabilities.
For example?
The recent ability-enhancing drug. If it weren't for their infiltrators helping to spread the word, we would have had to find a way to get that information out ourselves.
Lin Yao was momentarily at a loss for words.
So the invitation to this Turing Drug Summit is related to this ability-enhancing drug?
Yes. Because you developed the ability-enhancing drug. Such drugs are considered advanced in the lower civilizations surrounding Yunmeng Star; they can only purchase finished products from civilizations that are more advanced than theirs.
So does this mean that our trip carries certain risks? If we're not careful and get caught, could we be threatened into handing over the drug formula?
Academician Zheng smiled wryly. Not quite. This formal invitation should have been issued after an agreement among surrounding civilizations. Typically, during such times, they would offer some backward technology and half-coercively engage us in trade.
You seem to understand this very well; have you previously been invited to such events?
Otherwise, it wouldn't explain how Academician Zheng knows so much about these details and is ahead of the current top research institute in various aspects of technology.
Academician Zheng nodded and then spoke with a hint of nostalgia: At that time, we had researched an advanced technology that put us ahead of the neighboring stars. They invited me out and half-coercively exchanged knowledge with us. We were invited to Como Star. They allowed us to select one person and gave three months for learning—whatever you could grasp in that time was yours.
He paused for a moment, as if reminiscing or lamenting: I was chosen as the representative. Although it was all backward technology from their stars, it was still advanced for us. Unfortunately, the time was too short; I couldn't learn everything!
Seeing Academician Zheng grow more animated and frustrated as he spoke, Lin Yao gently patted his shoulder in comfort.
"Academician Zheng, please don't rush. We still have time."
"It's already been years, and there isn't much time left."
"The technological progress over the past two thousand years hasn't caught up. Now, with only over eighty years remaining, it's no wonder we haven't made breakthroughs. It's understandable that Academician Zheng is anxious."
"If within these eighty years, Yunmeng Star cannot break through the blockade of the surrounding stars, we will ultimately fall into that cruel and dark rule."
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