Chapter 274: Special Weapon of the 1000 Alliance
Of course, this function is somewhat redundant for Shen Shi because he can directly travel to other world lines.
This long journey is not something arduous for him.
As time progresses, other core members also arrive one after another.
This time, the dispatched team is quite unfamiliar to Shen Shi; they are not the veterans he knows, and even the few council members with personal terminals involved are not ones Shen Shi is very familiar with.
However, their capabilities are outstanding.
This is normal. Human civilization has now grown vast, and among these tens or even hundreds of billions of people, many elites naturally emerge.
It's just that Shen Shi is somewhat nostalgic, so he mostly interacts with some of the veterans.
However, he takes this rare opportunity to experience his own status up close. When these personnel board the Iwen, they even have a feeling of pilgrimage-like excitement.
"I learned from history books that Lady Iwen was the first alien transformed into human culture, and at the critical point of dealing with the Daike Civilization, she made an indelible contribution to all of you." A council member stands straight, speaking with utmost respect, even though they know Iwen is not constantly watching them, but being here at this moment still feels divine.
This feeling doesn't come from belief, but from the history of one's culture.
"In my view, neither the Mude System nor the Thousand Alliance's system is reasonable," another council member speaks, a scholar of systematic research, "Even our Pirate Alliance is the same. These systems are established merely for the advantage of a few civilizations, unable to ensure the long-term interests of the entire system. However, this isn't due to the lack of capability of these Interstellar Social Systems, but rather their limitations of distance and time — but we, who possess the Holy Land, do not have such limitations."
"You're right." The discussion seems to have suddenly unfolded, "This point has long been argued. Councilor Yulan once proposed this in the year 4882. He believed that the issues faced by the Mude System and other interstellar social systems are essentially the same problems faced by the ruling class during the agrarian era before the information age in our Earth Star Period. The fear of potential risks in remote areas due to distant and inconvenient access led to class oppression as the best method, at least not unleashing the potential of the lower classes. The interstellar era is the same; if there were truly a highly active, very relaxed system, it might gradually spiral out of control. However, we are different. With the Holy Land, we can establish a special system based on the security guarantee of the Holy Land, not only maintaining supervision over the entire region of rights but also possessing direct threats…"
During the long voyage, engaging in some academic research and discussion seems to be a good way to deal with the time.
So the discussion among these people is, in fact, the norm during this period.
But what they don't know is that, although Shen Shi doesn't directly participate and hasn't even appeared in front of them, he is actually gradually maintaining awareness.
"I didn't expect that human civilization has almost reached the point of beginning discussions on the specifics of interstellar social systems," Shen Shi murmured to himself.
The Pirate Alliance can be considered a prototype of an interstellar social system, but it is only a prototype, suitable only for the current special situation, obviously unable to establish a real "Pirate System" as its foundation.
However, as the top authority of human civilization, Shen Shi has not seriously contemplated this issue.
It was too early.
But now, he is going to the second interstellar social system he knows, a system with significant differences from the Mude System, which naturally leads the topic to this point.
Shen Shi also realizes it might be time to start thinking about this issue.
Unlike these council members engaged in discussion, Shen Shi has certain concerns about the Holy Land, the Time Crystal, the Relic Civilization, the Relic Device, and even the connections between different future lines.
He does not want to establish the entire interstellar social system that human civilization is about to build solely on these things.
Because he doesn't know where they come from.
Moreover, all of this is entirely on his shoulders.
Once this is done, it means his safety will directly determine the future of human civilization. If one day he tires of this life, he cannot leave human civilization. Once he leaves, the entire interstellar social system and its institutions established by human civilization would instantly collapse completely.
Shen Shi does not want this.
So he must seriously think about how to deal with the governance of other civilizations and what kind of interstellar social system should be established.
He hopes to gain something after arriving at the front line of the battlefield.
Time passes bit by bit during the long course of the journey.
As human civilization becomes stronger and stronger, time seems to stretch endlessly. At least at this moment, whether for any world line's human civilization, doing anything requires a long time.