What would it look like if science and technology spiraled out of control?
Chu Fei had experienced it before—at least part of it—and at least twice.
Back on Cloud Dragon Star, he had witnessed some of the consequences of technological collapse. The strong grew stronger, while the weak had to pay taxes just to breathe. Powerful intelligent technology in particular could turn the strong and weak into two entirely different species, with an unbridgeable gulf between them.
Technology was immensely powerful. With it, ordinary people could reshape Heaven and Earth.
But precisely because of that, if technology ran out of control, society would be dragged into the abyss. "Reshaping Heaven and Earth" would become "destroying Heaven and Earth."
Still, no matter what had happened on Cloud Dragon Star, at least two factors had imposed some limits on technological development.
One was the innate moral standards of Yanhuang Civilization, something no one could deny. The other was that Cloud Dragon Star was simply too small—a planet just over ten thousand kilometers in diameter was truly insignificant in the universe.
Later, in the Tianjiang Star Cluster, technological collapse worsened even further. Chu Fei still remembered someone saying, "We don't use robots because slaves are cheaper." It was an answer as absurd as it was cold-blooded.
The technological collapse in the Tianjiang Star Cluster had nearly driven ordinary people into complete desperation. Yet it was still a planetary environment, so ordinary people had at least a little room to breathe.
Anyone who often played with missiles knew that a planet was too small. With global express delivery taking just a few hours, no one in the world dared act recklessly. After all, the whole world was only so big. If it was destroyed, everyone was finished. One careless move, and everyone would perish