Chapter 1706: Chapter 670: Advancing Within the Star

Someone immediately added.

"Red Blade Marquis Ren is the Chosen One; he can get hints from the universe. He must know about these things! His goal is to acquire the advanced technology left by higher civilizations. With this, the Empire can reverse defeat!"

"I see."

"It turns out we are the hope of the Empire."

"Back then, my ancestor once dealt with Red Blade Marquis when he was still an Earl. Ancestor left a legacy, saying Ren Zhong would sooner or later become an important figure in the Empire. Now it seems, Red Blade Marquis is indeed about to turn the tide."

"Admirable, admirable! Your ancestor truly had foresight and insight. However, in this action of the Red Blade Marquis, I played the biggest role. I brought the most transport ships, hahaha!" That young Commander also vaguely believed this judgment, even feeling a bit smug.

Someone beside him quickly came to congratulate him.

An absurd fallacy like this unexpectedly gained a lot of followers in a very short time.

If Ren Zhong were not busy, he would have laughed out loud.

You are truly naive.

Even though Ren Zhong has not interacted with the higher civilization that secretly controls everything, he can boldly judge that the relationship between civilizations is actually the same as the relationship between ordinary individuals.

No one will do good to others without a reason. Even he himself, the fundamental motivation for all his actions is not purely kindness and empathy, but because he was born in an era when humanity called the shots, without external enemies or exploiters from higher civilizations overhead. In Ren Zhong’s era, although human society was rife with contradictions and social injustices, even these unjust distributions of resources were limited within the human society itself.

But in this Ancient Disk Galaxy, Ren Zhong found things abnormal at a glance.

He internally resonates with the era he once lived in, and the thing he most wishes to do is "return to the past," hence he takes various actions and persistently sticks to them.

His behavior may appear "saintly," but isn’t it actually pursuing pure self-satisfaction.

Thus, he is not unconditionally good to humanity.

His "goodness" still rests on the foundation of excessively demanding and almost perverse "self-pursuit."

The relationship between higher and lower civilizations is even more so. Back when humans began enacting animal protection laws in the 20th century, the apparent reason was to maintain biodiversity, but the underlying cause was humans hoping not to discover one day that certain special materials that can only be synthesized from biological sources were already extinct. Frankly, the motivation behind every action is still self-interest.

Even if it’s as that person said, that humans were not captured and enslaved during their development but were created anew by higher civilizations from nothing.

Then this higher civilization couldn’t be devoid of desires; it definitely has some purpose and will never allow humans’ technological explosion to get out of control.

The tool attributes of human civilization are inevitable.

Perhaps a civilization exists in the universe so benevolent it aids others’ development unreservedly, then that civilization would have long since perished and could never become a higher civilization that uses an entire Constant Star System as a prison.

Ren Zhong might secretly lament, "Humans are truly a species adept at finding misery’s silver lining and self-persuasion, truly perfect tools and slaves."

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If one disregards the inherent instability brought by humans being life forms made of highly active carbon-based compounds, they are naturally perfect tools.

Even if not them, another civilization, upon encountering Earth humans during a time of greater strength, would likely also make them tools.

This is almost a cosmic inevitability guided by universal laws.

Because, as long as history can be fictitiously rewritten, enslaving Earth humans is incredibly easy and simple.

Just like in Earth’s ancient history when Europeans who pioneered the industrial revolution and entered the steam age arrived in the Americas, they did not spread the blessings of civilization but cold-blooded enslavement and brutal extermination.

But Ren Zhong is truly too busy to bother with these minutiae right now.

He is very busy.

His solo spacecraft is heading unstoppably towards Source Sun.

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