Meat at Last
In just six months, a host of legends about humanity, such as exams, Credits, the God of Light's Kingdom, and divine creations, spread rapidly throughout the Volcano Kingdom.
Such legends were confirmed as human goods flowed into the Volcano Kingdom. Countless Dog-Headed People who heard the news began to consider enrolling in the school. In the days that followed, the Dog-Headed People of the Volcano Kingdom tried to gather biological resources so that they would have the opportunity to enter the school the following year.
This news gradually spread to neighboring countries as merchants traveled around. It is believed that within a few years, the story of the God of Light School will have spread throughout the entire Volcano Kingdom region.
However, what these Dog-Headed People didn't know was that their so-called journey to live in the God of Light's Kingdom was actually a one-way street. Once there, they would be selected step by step by humans and eventually frozen in the name of being taken to the future world.
Time flies, and thirty years have passed in the blink of an eye.
Over the past thirty years, with the support of powerful industrial forces, humanity has built towering mining plants all over the planet, and various mineral resources have been continuously sent into space.
Humanity is putting in its best efforts to extract mineral resources from this planet.
Everything is proceeding according to human plans.
Today, two reports from different departments arrived in Yue Yuan's hands almost simultaneously.
Humans have long been paperless in their offices, and those who live on spaceships are also required to use paperless offices. After all, spaceships should minimize their payload, so the so-called report is just three electronic copies.
Judging by the current time, it's already time to get off work, and tomorrow is the annual Lunar New Year's Eve. However, as a leader, Yue Yuan doesn't have a concept of getting off work. Because of his position, his time is only divided into "having something to do" and "not having something to do," not "working hours."
Of course, this only applies to him personally; other departments still have strict get off work hours rules, unless humanity enters a state of war.
Under a normal get off work schedule, it is absolutely impossible for something like not having a holiday during the Chinese New Year to happen.
Since there was nothing else to do, Yue Yuan wasn't in a hurry to leave the office. Instead, he leaned back on the sofa, opened his Personal Terminal, and slowly began to read the report.
Global Mineral Resources Distribution and Reserves Report
After glancing at the file name, Yue Yuan muttered to himself, "Judging from the name, it must be a report written by the exploration department."
In fact, given the level of human technology, more than ten years would have been enough time for them to explore all the mineral resources on the entire planet. The fact that they are only now releasing a detailed report is probably related to their search for traces of Flying Saucer Civilization.
Sure enough, when I looked at the content, it was about Flying Saucer Civilization.
However, the news was not about Flying Saucer Civilization creations, but rather the discovery of more than a dozen deep pits that may have been used for mining by Flying Saucer Civilization. According to the document, these pits are about eight to ten kilometers deep.
Based on the thickness of this planet's crust, this depth is almost enough to penetrate through it. Analysis of samples collected by geologists suggests these pits are likely Heavy Metal mines.
That's all. The exploration team had explored these pits but found no traces of Flying Saucer Civilization creations.
In other words, after thirty years, humanity's exploration of Flying Saucer Civilization has stopped at the ancient Dog-Headed People stone carvings.
Of course, it wasn't all without progress. At least humans have gained some information from the carvings on the rock walls and these deep pits. According to relevant experts, the Flying Saucer Civilization visited this planet between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago.
Back then, Dog-Headed People belonged to the Stone Age.
Based on the murals discovered during subsequent explorations and the surface of the deep pit, it seems that the Flying Saucer Civilization did not make any obvious interventions in the Dog-Headed People at that time; they simply mined there and then left.
It was indeed simple mining, so simple that they licked every planet in the entire Orange Dwarf Star System clean. However, as Yue Yuan continued reading, he discovered that this simple mining was not limited to that.
In the report, human experts speculated, based on global mineral resource exploration results, that the remaining mineral resources on the planet may very well have been deliberately left behind by Flying Saucer Civilization.
They discovered a helium-3 deposit that was completely out of place with its surroundings. Its geological composition differed significantly from the surrounding geology, as if someone had dug a pit and deliberately placed the helium-3 deposit inside.
Human geologists speculate that these mineral deposits were likely deliberately left by Flying Saucer Civilization for the Dog-Headed People to use when they eventually ventured into space. Through rough calculations, scholars estimate that these mineral deposits, along with the Protium Deuterium Tritium found in the ocean, could supply a civilization Controlled Nuclear Fusion for approximately three thousand years.
Then, Yue Yuan continued reading.
The content includes a summary of reserves of various non-ferrous and rare metals, as well as geologists' views on the relationship between exploration results and Flying Saucer Civilization.
They believe that the various non-ferrous metal deposits remaining on the planet are most likely deliberately left unexploited by Flying Saucer Civilization.
"It seems this Flying Saucer Civilization isn't entirely evil. Although they swept away planets in space, they still left some resources, giving the Dog-Headed People a chance to set foot in space." Yue Yuan put down the exploration report and sighed softly. "It's a pity that now that we've dug so much, the Dog-Headed People' chances of reaching space will be greatly reduced. They might even lack certain key metals, making it impossible to build Fusion Thruster. These Dog-Headed People are truly pitiful. In that case, when humanity leaves, we should try to take as many Dog-Headed People as possible with us!"
Yue Yuan muttered to himself, then swiped the screen again to bring up the second report for reading.
"Oh, that's great news!" Some people beamed with joy as soon as they saw the header of the document.
This is the result of a joint research project between the Food Department and Biology Research Institute. After thirty years of research, breeding, improvement, and cultivation, humans have finally obtained animals suitable for consumption.
The immune reagents for this ecosystem have now been successfully developed. Once the national immunization test system is upgraded, humans will be able to eat real meat in the future.
The successful experiment involved an oviparous terrestrial animal, resembling a badger but as large as an elephant, walking on four legs, and rich in meat; humans named it the Great Badger.
The original Great Badger was also in the Dog-Headed People's diet, but the meat of the original Great Badger was extremely difficult for humans to digest, and its texture did not suit human taste.
The report only mentioned the successful breeding of the Great Badger, but since a species has already been successfully bred, it means that human scientists have found the right key to unlock this biosphere.
It's safe to say that in the near future, more delicious meats will appear on human tables. And not just meat; now that we've found the key to unlocking this biosphere, it's not impossible that some alien fruits will appear on our tables in the future.
After losing Earth for over a thousand years, humanity is finally about to taste real meat again.