hooklinebooks Chapter 503 - 281: This Is the Main Stage of Human Civilization!
Chapter 503 - 281: This Is the Main Stage of Human Civilization!
The night was deep, with the wind howling furiously.
In Fox Mountain Hall, the disciples gathered in circles, exchanging what they’d learned about new technology during the day.
Big Crescent Fox Claw pinched its cheeks, making "gugi gugi" sounds to mimic what it had heard from Ghost Eye One.
A circle of foxes listened intently, carefully evaluating.
Wuyun Xue recalled an issue and pinched its cheeks, mimicking the Black Ghost Eye that discovered the problem, "guchi guchi guchi."
A circle of foxes frowned, evaluating the boundary between normal and abnormal.
...
In another circle, Little Golden Cuff stood proudly, speaking fox language, gesturing, sharing the method it had just realized during the day!
"Ying ying awo awo awo..."
It held up a piece of bark, signaling to its fellow disciples that they could lick the gaps of this bark!
If the taste was sweet, it meant the pipeline was overall healthy.
If the taste wasn’t sweet, it indicated that section of the pipeline had cracks!
"Awo awo ying..."
As it was speaking, it suddenly noticed its fellow disciples’ expressions were not right, and its entire fox body felt lighter, only to be picked up by its master and held in the master’s arms.
"Ah? Who told you to lick the pipeline?
"What if the fertilizer is toxic, and the pipeline leaks, then what would you do?"
Little Golden Cuff was momentarily stunned, then felt suddenly fearful.
"Aow?"
Bai Mo held it and sat down in the middle of the circle, picking up the piece of bark to lecture the disciples.
"This method isn’t unusable, but absolutely do not use your tongue to lick!
"Everyone look, the pattern of the bark, you see how this pattern forks?
"Follow the fork upwards, this is the thinnest place, you can use your nose to gently smell the odor here."
Little Golden Cuff nestled in its master’s arms, closest, seeing the clearest and most carefully.
Other foxes also leaned their heads over, their eyes following the master’s fingers intently.
Every time the master lectured, they must listen carefully; technology comes little by little this way!
...
In the meeting room, dozens of experts were gathered around the long conference table.
Not only were there experts from the Immortal Committee, but also some seasoned experts and professors from the fields of sociology and economics, along with bigwigs from the business world, were present as well.
Bai Mo sat quietly on a chair, sipping tea, holding the disciple Wuyun Xue, listening to their arguments.
An old expert, with a white beard and hair, spoke passionately.
"The situation is already apparent, the Ancient Immortals have taken our worldly equipment to grow Immortal Grass on a large scale!
"In the future, more Ancient Immortals will take even more of our equipment to grow more Immortal Grass!
"This constant exchange will lead us to become increasingly passive!"
The bald old expert spoke in a heavy tone.
"It’s not just about Immortal Grass; we’ve discovered there are losses of modern mechanized farming equipment as well.
"Geographic surveying instruments, constant temperature breeding boxes, culture dishes, even ironmaking blast furnaces are being lost!
"Some of our worldly things are truly cheap and good for the Ancient Immortals!
"In the past, they used Immortal Techniques to make constant temperature boxes at great resource cost.
"Nowadays, they just need to get disciples to buy one on a shopping site!
"This is a phenomenon we must find ways to handle."
A middle-aged man with bushy eyebrows spoke firmly.
"Regulation!
"Regulation is a must!
"The Immortal Committee should brainstorm, list all possible things that could aid the enemy, and we implement strict regulation from industry upstream to downstream, absolutely not allowing the aiding of enemies to expand!"
Another expert proposed.
"On the other hand, perhaps we could appropriately... pause technology development a bit? Even take a small step back?
"For instance, there’s no need to produce such high-precision sensors for agricultural mechanization anymore.
"For example, some surveying instruments don’t need to have such strong performance at such high costs..."
Mo Lanyou sat in a chair, feeling uncomfortable all over.
This issue involves many entities; Immortal Committees from all over the country, various experts, and scholars are involved, holding meetings to discuss and make suggestions. They don’t have decision-making power, but every suggestion they make could influence the final decision.
Mo Lanyou had a bitter expression, frowned, feeling like trapped in a mire.
"If there were comprehensive regulation, how much would it add to the cost of social operation?
"Locking technology ourselves, wouldn’t that be counterproductive?
"Do we really need to..."
An expert interrupted him.
"Young man, that’s not how you should talk.
"Some costs must be paid!
"But regarding this regulation, this technology blockade, the scale of it, we can study it in detail and find a reasonable balance point!"
Around the conference table, Chairman Chen Shu, Professor Zhang, and others were silent.
In fact, the speeches were not lively.
The majority of people felt as if a stone was weighing on their hearts.
A secretary beside them recorded all statements made during the meeting, feeling the low pressure in the room, not daring to breathe too loudly.
Just then...
Bang!
A clear sound echoed.
Everyone looked up, following the sound.
It turned out to be from Expert Bai Mo, holding a small red plump fox, who had set down the teacup on the table.
Various experts frowned.
Everyone in the meeting room was speaking and arguing, but throwing a cup was indeed rare.
This Expert Bai Mo was excessively young and reckless.
Bai Mo saw many people frown, saw many people open their mouths, but he did not pay attention.
He just said.
"Is there a possibility.
"We actually...
"Don’t need regulation, don’t need self-locking.
"At least on this battlefield, we shouldn’t misjudge the enemy and ally situation.
"A technological product, from design to processing to usage, involves many steps.
"Inside, the production line, hardware, software, are all our things.