Chapter 807
Chapter 807: Chapter 16: King Bomb (Extra Chapter for Monthly Tickets!)_3 Chapter 807: Chapter 16: King Bomb (Extra Chapter for Monthly Tickets!)_3 He truly never disappoints.
Lin Xian originally didn’t have much hope for the so-called research results of Academician Gao Wen.
He thought…
It was probably an invention similar to the hibernation pod filling liquid.
That way, he could copy that invention back to 2024 and have the Rhein Company develop and sell it, thus enlarging and strengthening the company to expand his power and influence.
Jask could become the richest man in the world.
Why couldn’t he?
Actually, whether or not he became the richest man didn’t matter; Lin Xian just wanted to have his own power, as well as a strong enough backing to safeguard his actions after joining the Genius Club.
But he never expected!
Academician Gao Wen gave him a royal flush right from the start!
A completely unexpected royal flush!
“Time Shuttle Machine”!
If this thing could really be built, Lin Xian couldn’t even begin to imagine what the world would turn into…
Without a doubt.
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The timeline where Huang Que existed, as well as the timelines where the fake Yu Xi and real Yu Xi existed, must definitely have the time shuttle machine.
The Fourth Dreamland also surely had the time shuttle machine, otherwise that mysterious old man who seemed to be Copernicus wouldn’t have sent Lin Yuxi to 2024 to arrest himself.
As for the Fifth Dreamland, whether there is a time shuttle machine, that’s unclear…
Wei Shengjin certainly never mentioned it.
Moreover, Mars’s level of technology is only equivalent to that of New Donghai City from the Second Dreamland; that level of technology couldn’t possibly produce a time shuttle machine.
So.
What’s the reason?
Why does the time shuttle machine appear in the Fourth Dreamland, but not in the Fifth Dreamland?
At first, Lin Xian thought it was due to the super disaster in 2400 that caused human technology to regress.
But now it seems…
He might have thought too simply.
It’s very likely that the reason why the Fifth Dreamland had no time shuttle machine was due to the unexpected killing of Academician Gao Wen, resulting in the space-time travel theories and technologies not being published in time.
Therefore…
human civilization also didn’t get to develop this branch of technology, and missed their chance with the time shuttle machine.
Lin Xian nodded to his reflection in the mirror:
“Where human technology will head, and what path of technological development it will take, indeed needs to be guided by those geniuses who transcend generations.”
“Who can say for sure, if Watt hadn’t existed, whether the steam engine would still have appeared, or if humanity would have skipped that phase and moved directly into the era of internal combustion engines?”
“Similarly, Tesla’s challenge of alternating current to Edison’s direct current; if Tesla had not appeared, although Edison’s direct current was destined to be obsolete, who can guarantee that the technology to replace direct current would definitely be alternating current?
What if it was a more advanced technology?”
Suddenly.
Lin Xian thought of a hypothesis…
The Earth’s total resources are limited.
Whether it’s raw materials, energy, or the number of talents, all are limited.
“These limited resources are not sufficient to support the development of human technology in multiple directions.
Under various resource contradictions and talent conflicts, perhaps humanity’s future…
can only choose to develop in one direction.”
Take Jask’s Mars immigration plan as an example.
This was the first thing Lin Xian thought of.
According to what Wei Shengjin initially said, before 2400, nobody on Earth supported Jask’s Mars immigration; Earthlings didn’t want to live on Mars, and naturally, Earth’s talents and scientists didn’t want to go either.
At this time, perhaps it was a crossroads for human civilization.
Either continue developing Earth, or immigrate to Mars and begin an interstellar civilization journey.
Clearly, these two directions were conflicting.
With limited resources and talents, they couldn’t work on both and had to choose between the two development directions.
Following the normal script, Jask’s Mars immigration plan was doomed to failure.
A planet.
If it doesn’t have enough population to support it, it can’t develop no matter what.
At that time, Mars had poor natural and living conditions to say nothing of, and the greatest difficulty was not having enough population support…
By 2024, many countries had already realized the importance of the population dividend; without people, there is nothing.
People were unwilling to leave Earth for Mars, and Jask couldn’t possibly kidnap people from Earth, could he?
So, following the normal development process, Jask’s Mars immigration plan might flop spectacularly in a few decades, declaring bankruptcy outright.
But then in 2400, a fortuitous event occurred.
A global super disaster swept across the planet, killing billions and turning Earth into an unlivable hell.
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At that point, the relatively backward Mars suddenly became the only choice for humans to proliferate and escape disaster.
Capitalizing on this opportunity, humanity abandoned Earth and headed to Mars.
Even more than a hundred years later, when Earth’s ecological environment had completely recovered, due to its excessive backwardness, low technology level, and cosmic transit between Earth and Mars being limited to once every two years…
Amidst all these obstacles, nobody wanted to return to Earth from Mars.
Jask’s Mars immigration plan succeeded in this manner.
Only…
At what cost?
Was the abandoned Earth the price for forcibly confining humanity on Mars?
Lin Xian couldn’t know.
But he believed.
Academician Gao Wen, in the future development of humanity, was definitely a deeply significant and crucial factor.
“Regardless, I’ll visit Liu Feng’s lab tomorrow and have a discussion.”