Only I Walk Alone

However, this is just Wu Ge’s speculation. The super spiritual BUFF brought about by shared progress is something Wu Ge only understood after reaching the Spirit Condensation realm. This kind of societal BUFF is similar to movements like the May 4th Movement and youth movements, which, once they arise, can change the entire face of a country, uniting everyone towards a common goal.

This shows how terrifying it is if a leader is a super orator, and the pen in the hands of a scholar is even mightier than guns and cannons.

In the end, everyone realizes that the most powerful tools humanity has invented are language and writing, the earliest tools. Tools like money, invented later, are also powerful but still slightly inferior to language and writing.

The situation for the martians has stabilized. They have started living in City No. 1, taking space shuttles to Earth and the Moon to broaden their horizons, while other Earth races have also come here for development.

Although Earth’s civilization has not fully entered the stage of shared progress, the work enthusiasm is still very high.

Since Mars is an undeveloped area, a large number of Earth’s residents have flocked to Mars to develop it, gradually changing the face of Mars.

The existence of particle shields ensures the safety of development. The martians first built one city after another on the surface of Mars, protected by particle shields, and then gradually changed the soil around Mars.

To change Mars’s atmosphere, Xiao Luo led scientists to invent an atmospheric modification device. Countless large atmospheric modification factories were built, generating clouds and mist automatically. Thirty years after the martians joined Earth’s civilization, the first rain fell on Mars.

Fifty years later, hardy weeds began to grow on Mars’s soil. Although the environment on the surface of Mars was worse than Earth’s harshest deserts, this condition was gradually improving.

Seventy years later, thanks to the rapid development of technology, the modified atmospheric modification factories successfully changed the climate on Mars. Soil modification robots worked day and night for seventy years, transforming many desert-like areas into fertile land.

Meanwhile, Mars’s underground water sources were pumped to the surface. With water, soil, and atmosphere, Mars had hope for revival!

This hands-on transformation of a barren planet is very meaningful. It not only provides data for scientific research but also gains experience in planet transformation. In the future, when they leave the solar system for exploration, they will surely visit many lifeless planets. At that time, they will need to transform planets to obtain suitable living environments.

However, despite the rapid progress in planet transformation, the advancement of the Grand Unification Theory remains incredibly slow. The secret of faster-than-light travel remains unsolved.

Scientific research, like creative work, yields no results without inspiration. But once inspiration strikes, numerous scientific problems can be solved easily.

By the hundredth year of Mars’s development, which is also the 500th year since humans were taken by aliens, Mars was completely transformed and now looks similar to Earth.

Although the rotation, revolution, and gravity are different, Earth’s population can live here without any problems. Wu Ge appointed Chong Feng, the leader of the Mechanical Insect Race, as the administrative chief of the planet, also instructing him to vigorously develop military forces.

Hu Kong, the leader of the Demon Race, stayed on Earth, also ordered by Wu Ge to develop military power. Currently, the Mechanical Insect Race, Demon Race, and Mechanical Race are Wu Ge’s only three fleets.

Future extraterrestrial explorations, interstellar wars, and inner system defenses all require these three fleets.

The Wolf Race’s religious sect continues to endow the Creation Particles with divinity. All battleships are made from divinely endowed Creation Particles, giving them extremely strong defense capabilities, ensuring they won’t be penetrated by spiritual attacks even when facing the Deities.

The Wolf Race’s scientific faction continues its research. Over the last hundred years, they have successively developed technologies such as plasma alchemy, rare earth foam, atmospheric filtration, baryon shielding, eukaryotic tree sap, mechanical bacteria, evaporation suppression, folding cities, and dual-route fusion.

These technologies have played an immeasurable role in Earth’s production, planet transformation, and battleship enhancement.

Besides these technologies, the core exploration project has also made significant progress. With the invention of the four-dimensional planet scanner, they began to explore deep underground. Over the years, they have discovered many interesting things.

For example, Xiao Chao discovered dinosaur fossils in a geological layer more than 30,000 meters deep under the sea surface. The postures of these dinosaurs before their death were very strange. According to Xiao Chao’s restoration drawings, it seemed that all these dinosaurs raised their heads and looked up at the sky before dying.

In addition to dinosaurs, Xiao Chao also found many ancient high-tech artifacts hidden deep within the Earth, dating back millions of years, as well as some damaged spaceships and the fossilized remains of some unknown creatures.

These underground relics seem to prove that aliens visited Earth in ancient times.

However, over the years, despite significant gains, the Earth clan has also experienced losses, such as the disappearance of the famous werewolf adventurer, the resignation of the centennial president of the merchants’ guild, Kachi, and many elderly scientists deciding to leave this world in search of peace in the realm of the dead.

Wu Ge still remembers that when he first met Xiao Chao, Xiao Chao had said, “Death is a responsibility!”

Death is a responsibility to the world, to one’s own race, to the younger generation, and to oneself.

Although Xiao Chao only allowed those with outstanding contributions to the Earth clan to achieve longevity, many people obviously do not like the noisy world of the living. Recently, an elderly scientist who could no longer invent new technologies chose to leave this world. He had already earned himself eight hundred years of life, but he still chose to leave.

There was no choice. Many young people wanted to live a little longer and enjoy a few more carefree years, but when they actually lived to several hundred years old, they suddenly felt tired, especially when they could no longer create anything new.

Their minds were empty, unable to think of anything. Seeing the younger generation full of energy and continuously innovating, they suddenly felt old.

Without any goals, having lived over a hundred years, enjoyed what there was to enjoy, seen what there was to see, life lost its desire, and thus, living lost its meaning.

So, they chose to leave.

Wu Ge, of course, respected their choices, but overly respecting these choices could also lead to the older generation’s pessimistic mood spreading to the new generation. After all, the Earth clan is not some happy paradise. There are pressures here, and survival is never a trivial matter. No one can live comfortably at home, doing nothing.

Therefore, to relieve stress for the Earth civilization, there are holidays throughout the year to allow them to relax, including the Divine Birth Festival and the Spring Festival, which, like 500 years ago, gives people time off to reunite with their families.

And whenever it comes to this time of the year, the youngest, Xiao Chao, would receive New Year’s money from the Fox Immortal, Xiao Luo, Sister Ya Yi, and Wu Ge.

After stuffing the money into the hands of a lifelike maid, they would pat the maid’s head and say, “Xiao Chao, you’ve worked hard this year!”