Chapter 129: Recreating Mythologies

The sightseeing spaceship landed on the floating continent.

There were no modern buildings in sight, and the landing spot was a vast grassland.

The entire floating continent was 72,000 kilometers long and 83,300 kilometers wide, approximately ten times the size of Earth's surface area.

However, in the entire ring world, this was merely a speck in the vast ocean.

"Although there are no powerful life forms here, I still advise everyone to be cautious. The air in the realm of the gods contains a large number of microscopic robots, and connecting to these robots can provide rescue in case of danger."

The tour guide on the spaceship briefed the tourists on safety measures and distributed a sightseeing handbook.

"Alright, everyone is now free to explore for three years."

According to Ella, the sightseeing spaceship's journey usually takes 60 to 140 years. Excluding travel time, the spaceship guarantees a minimum of five years for sightseeing.

In general, it's like aging a few years after each trip, which is quite absurd.

After all, due to Yan Xia's policies, the lifespan of individuals in the Civilized Federation is not that long.

However, the thought of being able to travel in space seems somewhat worthwhile.

Yan Xia also received a copy of the sightseeing handbook.

It introduced several regions, one of which was the floating continent. The handbook described it as an ancient land that detached from the ground due to the war of the gods and was influenced by the gods to float in the air. Later, it was controlled by a great archmage who built a platinum castle on the continent and established a magical kingdom. This kingdom existed for a thousand years before being destroyed by a terrible beast uprising.

What a story!

"There should be more than just these few regions, right?"

There were a total of eight regions, each with a similar size, and their combined area was still less than one-millionth of the entire ring world.

Ella nodded and gave Yan Xia a new map.

This map was complete.

In fact, the other regions didn't have much to offer, mostly natural ecosystems, but they did contain some taboos.

"Intelligent species?"

Previously, most of the life forms Yan Xia had asked Ella to create were mythical beasts and monsters, and these taboos referred to species with intelligence.

The ring world consisted of two overlapping rings in a cross shape. One ring represented the Western fantasy world, which included elves, dwarves, gnomes, orcs, halflings, giants, treants, fairies, and humans. This ring was divided into northern and southern halves, with the north being the normal world and the south being the abyssal world, inhabited by demons and devils. They were currently in the northern half-ring.

The other ring, which ran from east to west, represented the Eastern world. The eastern ring was the Kyushu continent, and the western ring was the Honghuang continent.

Kyushu was inhabited by humans, resembling an ancient society, while Honghuang was home to various exotic beasts and humans, including the Yu people, Bai people, Xuan Yuan, San Shen, Jie Xiong, and other kingdoms. There were also mythical beasts like the Tao Tie, Pi Xiu, Bai Ze, and Luan birds. It could be said that this was a world resembling the 'Classic of Mountains and Seas'.

This was a recreation of mythologies.

"A fantasy world may be more likely to evolve supernatural powers. Even if it doesn't, it can still provide us with a different perspective on the study of life." Ella explained.

This was still part of the biological research.

Ordinary life forms would evolve according to scientific principles, no matter how peculiar they were. Careful deduction could always reveal their evolutionary paths.

On the other hand, non-ordinary life forms could provide an alternative path. These life forms were not the result of billions of years of microbial competition and combination but were created in laboratories. These lives would have a different worldview from ordinary life.

Ella was researching these life forms.

Since everything in the ring world was created, she could also control these creations to wage wars and observe the differences between reality and computer simulations, thereby improving the computer.

Furthermore, Ella was studying the reactions of bringing the life forms from this world to the Civilized Federation. The collision of technology and mythology might also give birth to wonderful things.

"A crazy plan."

"But I like it!"

A second-level civilization like the Civilized Federation, which had already gone through the process of accumulating resources from lower-level civilizations, could realize more possibilities through the control of the four great forces.

"Possibilities" would be something that a second-level civilization must research.

A second-level civilization creates everything and makes everything possible!

"Has the ring world produced anything useful?" Yan Xia was more concerned about this, as if this investment couldn't be used for sightseeing, it would be meaningless.

"A toy of alchemy."

Ella showed Yan Xia a video.

In the video, there was a barren land covered with corpses. On top of these corpses was a layer of dark green, moss-like substance, wriggling, and looking extremely disgusting.

"Luo Bugs, a creation of an elven alchemist. They can pollute genes."

"The polluted genes will exhibit atavism, a phenomenon that is extremely difficult to achieve in our laboratories. This is beneficial for exploring the origin of life."

A peculiar property.

Most biological genes contain some primitive structures, which can also lead to atavistic phenomena in some life forms. However, this change is hidden deep within the genes and is formed by some fine gene fragments.

The conditions for activating these gene fragments are extremely harsh, almost impossible to utilize through probability, whether it's one in a million or one in ten thousand. In experiments, this is unacceptable. However, these Luo Bugs can cause genes to exhibit atavism with an extremely high probability of one in 4,800, which is undoubtedly good news for biologists.

The technology behind the Luo Bugs itself is not that advanced, but what they bring can lead to revolutionary progress in a technology.

This is the possibility.

"This reminds me of a saying: the end of science is theology."

Isn't Ella researching mythologies now?

Of course, these mythologies are actually products of science. Strictly speaking, they should be considered derivatives of science, a branch of the vast tree of technology, not the end of science.

Yan Xia felt that just watching the video and reading the introduction wasn't intuitive enough.

"Ella, let's go for a walk."

He walked towards the giant castle, wondering what secrets it might hold, perhaps some "treasures".

This place was more like a theme park.

Ella followed behind Yan Xia, half a step behind. The place was covered with forest-shrouded ruins, and suddenly, a black and gold spider the size of a basin dropped from the sky, baring its black fangs and lunging at Yan Xia.

Yan Xia was startled and punched the spider, sending it flying. The spider smashed into the wall and shattered, then reassembled itself, revealing that it was a mechanical spider made of liquid metal.

Ella, standing beside him, covered her mouth and laughed softly, as if she had expected this outcome.

"As an adventure-themed sightseeing spot, there are some scary mechanisms set up here."

Yan Xia's face turned dark.

Why didn't she mention this earlier?

He, who had faced the 800 billion lives of the Olive Branch Civilization without changing his expression, was actually startled by a simple mechanism. This was truly unreasonable.

Ella had become a bit more playful after not seeing her for so many years.

However, she still had her original charm, which made him feel incredibly close to her.

"Am I a masochist?" Yan Xia wondered, immediately denying such a ridiculous guess in his mind. No, it must be because he hadn't seen her in a long time. Yes, it must be that.