Deep Sea Civilization
When he heard the electronic notification in his mind,
Ye Jin nearly jumped for joy.
A blueprint for a level-three civilization's star-cruising warship.
All of it was real.
And the reason behind it all was the book in his hand. It had actually made the system react and even established a connection with a level-three civilization.
Its completion had reached 70 percent.
That meant it was more than halfway similar to the original theory.
Just what kind of genius could have such a bizarre, kaleidoscopic imagination?
This was a level-three civilization. A civilization capable of producing a legendary star-cruising battlecruiser had to be incomparably powerful.
It might be more than one level above Blue Water Planet.
He looked at the author's name on the book.
"Li Hu."
It was an unfamiliar name. Although he wasn't very familiar with the big names in the world of science and technology,
he didn't think he had ever heard it before.
He wondered what sort of person Li Hu was.
He really wanted to meet him.
If this book fell into someone else's hands, they would only call its author delusional and say it was a fantasy that could never be realized.
But in his hands, it was a genuine key to opening a door to science and technology.
In a certain corner of Shu, in the Nine Domains Nation on Blue Water Planet,
a young man who had just graduated from university watched excitedly as Ye Jin held his work of fantasy.
His idol, Ye Jin.
At this very moment, Ye Jin was actually holding one of his old books and reading it attentively. How could he not be excited? He felt as though he had found a kindred spirit.
He remembered that he had written the book after dreaming one day of a strange, bizarre world.
When the book came out, countless people had called him sick in the head, saying that instead of doing a proper graduation project, he had insisted on coming up with a mad vision of future technology.
He had nearly failed to graduate, but his adviser had let him off the hook and allowed him to submit another graduation project, after which he had only just managed to graduate.
His hands trembled slightly with excitement.
He could definitely write something even better.
He opened his computer and began writing his second online work, "I, a Battle Qi Genius, Start by Having My Engagement Broken Off!"
After that notification sounded in Ye Jin's mind,
a blueprint appeared there.
It was a simple yellow page.
But he could sense that the yellow paper contained an endless amount of text and information.
He could understand almost none of the formulas or text inside. It contained all kinds of information, and even the slightest contact with it was enough to make a person's head explode.
This was top-tier technology from the legendary sci-fi world of the future. As far as Blue Water Planet was concerned, it was a level of technology that might only be attainable hundreds of years from now.
After all, on Blue Water Planet,
even an ordinary aircraft carrier generated an immense amount of documentation.
If printed on paper, it would more than fill a room several hundred square meters in size.
Yet all this information had been collapsed onto a single sheet of paper.
One could imagine just how explosive the amount of information on that sheet was.
He took a deep breath.
Thanks to his previous extraordinary experiences, he was already quite capable of accepting the bizarre things he was experiencing now.
Was this the technological might of a level-three civilization?
It could actually collapse all that knowledge and technology onto a single sheet of paper.
He had never encountered a level-three civilization before, so he instinctively attributed this technology to one.
What he didn't know was that if a real level-three civilization came along, they would tell him, too:
They could miniaturize information, but they simply couldn't do anything like this.
They wouldn't be able to do it even if they developed for several hundred or a thousand more years.
That was because this already involved space folding at an advanced level.
It was not a field a level-three civilization could touch.
Naturally, Ye Jin knew none of this.
He immersed himself in the blueprint.
The information from the blueprint echoed in his mind.
"Star-cruising warship, Shanhai, small-sized, belonging to the level-three Deep Sea Civilization, capacity no greater than one hundred people, firepower grade A..."
Deep Sea Civilization?
Ye Jin's eyes lit up.
So Blue Water Planet really wasn't the only planet in the universe with life. Other civilizations did exist.
Although the universe-invading Ant Race also counted as living beings,
they weren't people, after all.
But he suddenly thought of The Three-Body Problem.
The Three-Body Problem contained many descriptions of the hidden dangers surrounding civilizations.
Humanity both hoped other civilizations would appear for them to communicate with and feared the appearance of hostile ones.
When a technological gap emerged, those extremely low-level civilizations could easily be wiped out with a wave of the hand.
Just as we might casually wipe out an ant nest on the road, weren't we wiping out a civilization, too?
Blue Water Planet appeared technologically advanced and could even continue exploring the universe, but in the eyes of those advanced civilizations, it was just like an ant nest.
There was no telling when it might casually be erased.
Only by growing stronger himself could he protect Blue Water Planet.
"System notification: begin construction of the star-cruising warship Shanhai?"
Ye Jin was delighted.
No way. It was that simple?
He had only spent a thousand Talent Points, and he could build an interstellar warship from a sci-fi world of the future.
A thousand Talent Points sounded like a lot, but in reality, it was only what he would gain from exercising a few more times.
A low-intensity activity like walking could burn calories, but it couldn't generate Talent Points.
That was also something he had only realized later.
But once his calories reached a certain density, they would naturally generate Talent Points.
So it was still very easy.
A thousand Talent Points was only a day's worth of exercise.
Was there anything in the world more cost-effective than this?
It was ridiculously cost-effective!
If it could be this satisfying, then if he exercised every day and saved up his Talent Points, couldn't he build an invincible fleet outright?
Forget the Ant Race.
Even sweeping across the entire starry sky would be no problem.
His eyes shone with excitement.
"Begin construction!"
"Ding. Blueprint identified: level-three civilization warship Shanhai. Beginning 3D simulation. This simulation requires ten thousand Talent Points."
"3D simulation failed. Insufficient Talent Points. As this is the host's first advance purchase, a credit limit of ten thousand has been granted. Please repay the ten thousand within 30 days. Do not miss the deadline. You will bear the consequences of any overdue payment."
"Ding. Beginning Talent Point expenditure. Beginning 3D simulation. 3D simulation successful. Simulation of the Shanhai complete."
As Ye Jin listened to the notification, he nearly cursed aloud.
I haven't even agreed yet, so how did it just grant me credit and start upgrading?
And why was this just like Jack Ma's "Huanbei"?
Still, if spending ten thousand Talent Points could get him a warship, that wasn't unacceptable.
But another notification sounded in his mind.
"Further construction of the warship requires foundational knowledge skills. These foundational knowledge skills can be acquired through reading."
"The warship is divided into seven parts. Once the foundational skill points for each part have been maxed out, new technology will be obtained. The warship can absorb new technology for construction."
Immediately afterward, an endless stream of information flooded into his mind.
Ye Jin: ...
He looked at the line in red.
Negative ten thousand.
And it seemed there were endless pits behind it, waiting for him to fill them.
He raised his head, tears glistening at the corners of his eyes.
He lamented inwardly.
Life... was way too hard!