Evolution of a Level-Two Civilization

Gao Gong took one last look at the meteor belt in the distance, then floated into the air and entered the U-shaped bridge of the Great Scimitar. The anti-gravity device on the bridge activated, and a warm force field wrapped around him. Then the sky spun and the walls before him continuously decomposed. Finally, Gao Gong stopped in front of an "attack unit."

Originally, this had been a laser-launching tower. However, after the Great Scimitar was remodeled, the laser-launching tower was replaced by a signal tower.

The tower looked somewhat like Arasaka Tower. Thick neon lights flashed outside, while personnel moved in and out within.

A second-level signal tower could transmit electronic and optical signals. A third-level signal tower went a step further, capable of transmitting pure spatial signals. These pure spatial signals traveled one hundred times faster than optical signals.

Above that were quantum signals. Through higher- and lower-dimensional signal transmission, they could even achieve instantaneous communication across star systems.

This was a third-level signal tower, and its blueprints had been retrieved from the Mother City database.

Gao Gong arrived before the signal tower's control console. A screen suddenly lit up, and the image of a bright-eyed, beautiful-toothed girl appeared on it. She gave him a shy smile. Their eyes met, and in an instant, Gao Gong felt as though he had broken free of the restraints of his physical body and entered an electronic life form. He drifted into the screen.

"Big brother, you haven't come to see me in so long."

Within the electronic world, light and neon flickered. However, the thirteenth-layer space had now been compressed to the size of a data node, and the distant void was visible to the naked eye.

"How are things on your end?" Gao Gong asked, patting her little head.