Olof swept his gaze over the group. "Everyone, you already know how to advance along the Path of Self-Verification. Having to come close to death each time just to improve a little consumes enormous resources, which means very few people can ever reach the peak. A group so much stronger than us would certainly be no ordinary figures in the Safe Zones outside, either."
"They possess strength far beyond ours, yet their Armor is no better than ours, and some of it is even worse. So we have reason to believe their equipment is far inferior to ours."
Fan Baoluo voiced his doubts. "But the people from the other Safe Zones arrived here a dozen or even several dozen years before us. Before the Apocalypse, that would have been enough time for two technological revolutions, let alone today, when development is even faster. Why would the technology of those people from the [Evolutionary Sequence Domains] still lag behind ours?"
"There are two reasons." This time, Qian Wendao spoke up to answer.
"The first is that the other Safe Zones have small populations."
"One major reason Sequence-related technological research has advanced so quickly in our Safe Zone is our large population. Talented people keep emerging in droves, and professors at all our universities produce a constant stream of inventions."
"But the other Safe Zones have only a little over a hundred thousand people, perhaps even fewer. And more than half of them live like slaves, with no opportunity to engage in normal research or production."
"The people left over are barely enough to keep a society functioning normally. How could they have any energy to spare for research?"
With Qian Wendao, who had come from an earlier [Evolutionary Sequence Domain], speaking from personal experience, no one else had any objections.
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