Chapter 208 The Unknown Continent
The reason why Jack chose Yimen Tower was naturally for the unknown continent of Sothoryos.
Some say that Sothoryos is a huge island, while others suspect that Sothoryos is an unknown continent that is even larger than Essos.
However, due to the limitations of navigation technology and the fact that Sothoryos was covered by vast tropical rainforests, people from known continents were discouraged and explorations of Sothoryos were rare.
The Yimen Tower was once an outpost of the Ghis Empire, so Jack could take it directly. The Yilin ruins to the south of the Yimen Tower also made Jack very curious.
Among the many creatures discovered in Sothoryos so far, there is only one kind of humanoid creature, the Striped Ghoul, or the Striped Man.
In the eyes of many scholars, although the striped people have the word "people" in their name, they are not considered people in the strict sense.
Because spotted women can only give birth to spotted men, any fetuses born to them with Westeros men or Essos men will be stillborn.
Jack believes that the spotted people may be a primitive civilization in the hunting and gathering period.
Because the spotted people were able to make tools, although they were all stone tools, this alone could distinguish them from the apes.
Moreover, Sothoryos has not only indigenous inhabitants like the Striped People, but also many powerful and ferocious wild beasts.
For example, there is a kind of gorilla in the "Green Hell" of Sothoryos, which is said to be able to kill an elephant with one punch, and giants are dwarfs in front of them.
According to this estimate, this gorilla would be at least 15 meters tall when standing upright.
In addition, there are giant crocodiles that can overturn ships, vampire bats that can suck human blood in minutes, snakes that are twice the size of lions, and pterosaurs that cannot breathe fire but are more ferocious than dragons.
But neither the striped people nor the various creatures could build a majestic city like Yilin.
Yilin has been abandoned for thousands of years, but it still stands.
Moreover, Yilin City is built of huge black bricks. The bricks are so huge that they require at least 12 adult elephants to pull them.
This kind of brick is not easy to make, let alone use for building walls.
This technology, or even some kind of magic, is far beyond the technological level of Westeros and Essos.
If it is some kind of scientific technology, it is definitely bad news for Jack. Even Atlantis today cannot achieve this level of technology.
Jack also didn't know where the natives of the Yilin Ruins had gone. Did they encounter some unsolvable natural disaster or plague? Or did they flee from a more powerful civilization?
Either way, it's not good news.
If it is a magical civilization, then it is not good news either. After all, the development of magical civilization in the known continent is very slow.
Especially under the influence of the magic tide, the development of magic civilization, which had finally started to improve, suddenly regressed at the speed of light.
Whenever he thought of this, Jack became curious.
If possible, he would like to know how Westeros and Essos have managed to achieve "no technology and no magic" in these ten thousand years.
This kind of thing might be known only by the King of Light, but unfortunately, the King of Light and a group of false gods were absorbed as nutrients by the system when Jack first crossed over.
If the development of magic can be explained by magic tides, then there is no reasonable excuse for technology.
After all, the technological civilization in Jack's previous life ushered in a "technological explosion" in just a few hundred years.
Of course, both magical civilization and technological civilization may stagnate for various reasons.
For example, the Celestial Empire where Jack lived in his previous life. If its doors had not been opened by artillery in modern times, it is unknown how long it would have remained in the feudal period.
This is also one of the reasons why Jack spared no effort to promote the development of science and technology. That tragic historical experience told Jack all the time that if you fall behind, you will be beaten.
Of course, Jack would not take the technological and magical civilizations of Westeros and Essos seriously.
Whether it is the nobles of Westeros or the free trade city-states of Essos, in Jack's eyes, they are just chickens and dogs on the road of progress.
But who can guarantee that the unknown continents of Sothoryos and Urtes will not have very advanced civilizations in technology or magic?
If one day, an unknown civilization on the two unknown continents suddenly experienced a technological explosion or magical progress, would Atlantis have to use medieval technology to fight against the magician army or the steel torrent in the future?
The gunpowder that the research department is currently developing was not something that Newgate had not advised him about, and even Asidov had advised him not to do this.
Asidorf even wanted Jack to suppress Atlantis's educational and weapons development, because only in this way could the dragon's advantage be guaranteed.
After all, in Jack's book "Minecraft", it is clearly stated that an armed helicopter can easily tear a hundred-meter dragon into pieces.
What's even more terrifying is that this is a weapon that anyone can learn to use.
Asidorf couldn't even imagine how terrible it would be if such a weapon fell into the hands of the enemy.
In his opinion, Jack's behavior was the same as the Valyrians researching a ballista that could kill dragons.
Even the weapons developed are much more terrifying than the crossbow that can kill dragons.
So Asidolf tried his best to persuade Jack not to bring the invincibility of God's kingdom to the mortal world, as such weapons would only bring endless wars.
Originally, Asidolf explained the dangers to Jack, and even hinted to Jack that this thing would bring unpredictable shakes to the rule of the Poseidon family.
But Jack's reaction was beyond Asidorf's expectations. Instead of agreeing with Asidorf's point of view, he believed that the development of science and technology should be vigorously promoted.
We should take advantage of the initial stage of technological development to quickly seize absolute advantages and become a leader.
The real thing is to always think about how to run faster, instead of always thinking about tripping others up.
And Jack knew very well that in order for Atlantis to gain a foothold in the early days, he had already fired the first shot in the race for the development of scientific and technological civilization.
It was impossible to stop at this point.
Besides, Jack is not the kind of person who would suppress the development of civilization for the sake of his family's long-term rule.
Although he likes young women and has a narrow mind, his vision is not that narrow, especially when there are still two unknown continents that have not been explored.
Jack didn't want to be like the Qing Dynasty, which restricted people's thoughts for the sake of ruling, and then one day someone would come to his door and beat him up so that he had to run away in fear.
In his previous life, he often heard a saying that the butt determines the head, and this saying makes sense.
If you don't have enough strength, then it's true that the butt determines the head.
Take Joffrey for example. If he suddenly wanted to centralize power or popular sovereignty, he would definitely be sent to the gallows.
However, if they are strong enough, they will choose to suppress the development of civilization because they are worried that the development of civilization will shake the rule of their family in the future.
Jack couldn't do this kind of thing. He came from the 21st century and was not trapped by the limitations of this era.
He is very clear about what the development of science and technology will bring. For him, the development of science and technology, at least in the information age, is not unknown.
If the butt really decides the head and suppresses technological development, then Jack has seen the end of Atlantis.
And he has left too many advantages for the Poseidon family.
Industrial foundation, scientific and technological development ideas, appropriate systems, the killer dragon of the next few decades or even hundreds of years, the atomic dinosaur powerful enough to penetrate the earth's crust.
If Poseidon could still be overthrown under such circumstances, it would only mean that the fate of Poseidon's family had indeed come to an end.
If any force does not consider reform and opening up, its final outcome will be exhaustion, and even reforms may not last long.
Jack sometimes wondered what would happen if the rule of the Poseidon family was really ended one day.
Will the bloodline of Poseidon be ended by other separatist forces?
Or will it be ended by capitalists or some class that can spread the prairie fire?
But these are not what Jack cares about.
All he wanted now was to see Atlantis grow stronger and stronger during his few hundred years of life.
He hoped to see Atlantis' technological civilization and magical civilization advance hand in hand, and even set foot on the starry sky while Jack was still alive.
Of course, this is just a hope. It is probably impossible to set foot in the starry sky.
Unless Jack can gain immortality and the dragon slayer never turns into an evil dragon, he can continue to strongly support technological development without any internal friction.
Only in this way can we hope to set foot in the mysterious and vast universe in a short period of time.
But if you can achieve immortality, then time will be meaningless, and there will be no need to rush. You can just develop technology slowly.
But no one knows whether immortality is a curse.
Immortality can make the body eternal, but the soul may not be able to withstand the erosion of time.
If he really had eternal life, Jack couldn't guarantee that he wouldn't become the evil dragon in the eyes of the world.
It is precisely because of these thoughts that Jack is very curious about the civilizations on the two unknown continents of Sothoryos and Ultes.
And Yilin is Jack's first step in exploring Sothoryos.
Perhaps one day in the future, technology will be advanced enough and the true Age of Discovery will arrive.
It is possible that Atlantis will discover a human civilization that is good at magic from the continent of Sothoryos or Ultes.
I just wonder if the two civilizations will go to war or have friendly exchanges if they meet?
Do you think immortality is a curse or a blessing?
Yilin is a huge city ruin in the Yi River Basin in the north of Sothoryos. It is built of huge oily black stones. To the north is the Yimen Tower located on a huge delta. It is said that ferocious monkeys live in the jungle to the south of Yilin.
The origin of Yilin is one of the most perplexing puzzles for scholars and other people in the world. Similar to the Toad Stone on Toad Island, Yilin is built of huge oily black stones, with bricks so large that at least 12 elephants are needed to pull them. Yilin has been abandoned for thousands of years, and the jungle surrounds it but never grows into it.
Any attempt to rebuild or settle here ended in tragedy. [3] When Nymeria led the Rhoynar to migrate (the Voyage of the Ten Thousand Ships), she sent a group of people to establish a settlement here. During the year they lived in Sothoryos, the residents of Yilin were often attacked by the "brindled ghouls" in the forest. One day, for some reason, a ship from Yimentahang arrived at Yilin, but found that all the people in the area had disappeared overnight, so Nymeria decided to abandon Sothoryos.