Chapter 64: The Foundation of Civilization

Lin Lei stood beside the old man, saying nothing, just watching his every move. Yan Siyu, thoughtfully, asked the accompanying Leite Leader about the old man’s situation.

“This Earthling has been like this for three years, always holding a wooden stick, scribbling on walls, on the ground, on any place that can leave a mark. Perhaps he is tinkering with Earth’s pitiful scientific theories, who knows.”

There was no lack of mockery in Leite Leader’s tone.

Only then did the old man notice the strangeness around him. He raised his head and looked at the people surrounding him: a mysterious person wearing a cloak, a stunningly beautiful young girl, two young Earthlings, plus a Double-Pupiled Person, a blue-eyed and blue-haired person, and so on, all watching him.

His gaze circled the crowd and finally fixed on Lin Lei, who was wearing a cloak, and a slight confusion appeared on his face.

Lin Lei looked into the old man’s eyes and felt an immense shock!

What kind of eyes these were! There was no despair, no numbness, no pain.

Innocent as a child’s, deep as the starry sky, the light in them made people think of only one word: Wisdom!

The System’s information stream also displayed the other party’s information:

Xiao Boru (Perfect Earth Scholar)

Height: 170CM

Weight: 55KG

Body Energy Level: 0.9 Standard Energy Level

Wisdom Level: 12

Wisdom Level 12… completely surpassing the human race, even surpassing Yan Siyu, who was an Aostarian! This old man was undoubtedly a treasure for the future revival of humanity; he must be taken away!

“Are you an Earthling?” the old man spoke. His voice was low and very plain, just like a casual greeting.

Lin Lei, whose blood was boiling, directly pulled down the hood of his cloak and answered with an extremely certain tone: “Yes, we are both Earthlings!”

Then, Lin Lei tore off his cape, jumped onto the roof of a low house, and shouted loudly to those numb, already despairing Earthlings: “Compatriots, do not despair! I, Lin Lei! Am also an Earthling!”

He shouted at the top of his lungs, his voice spreading far away. All the Earthlings who heard his voice stood up one after another, looking at him strangely at first.

But afterwards, the natural connection between the same race made them believe that this man with a body as strong as steel came from the same planet as them.

“Yes, we have not yet left the Solar System, but we equally possess a brilliant Life Planet. Our failure is only because of our youth! Our destruction is only because of our hot blood! I take pride in Earth, what about you? My compatriots? Have you given up?!”

Lin Lei’s eyes were filled with an inspiring light, and his voice had a power that made people’s blood boil!

But three years of oppression had taken away too many people’s spirit. Even if they agreed with Lin Lei’s words in their hearts, they could not support him with actions, nor respond to him with shouts, but those pairs of dead eyes regained their vitality!

“Today, I cannot take you away, but one day, I will come back and take you back in a way that no one can refute!”

“Do not give up hope! My compatriots!”

“Live on bravely! My compatriots!”

Lin Lei did not have the ability to take everyone away right now, but after seeing the situation in the Ecological Sphere, he suddenly realized that his time was running out. If he let these fellow clansmen remain depressed, let alone thirty years, in ten years, few Earthlings would be left alive.

So he could only risk revealing his identity in this Leite People’s prisoner zone to give these surviving compatriots tangible hope, instead of letting them live in gray days without a future.

“Who is that person?” an Earthling who had gathered around asked.

“Our Hope!” a person who had been standing near Lin Lei from the beginning answered him, his eyes already radiating excited light.

…

The crowd was in an uproar. The Aliens present were surprised, Li Yi and Li Dasong were completely shocked, and Yan Siyu sighed helplessly. Now there was going to be trouble.

Leite Leader already felt something was wrong. He looked at the Aostarian Yan Siyu, seeking an explanation. As far as he knew, there were no Earthlings outside the Ecological Sphere. After visiting, people from various civilizations never asked to take the Earthlings inside away, because it was useless.

And this Earthling who appeared out of nowhere was actually giving a speech in public, inciting the emotions of these prisoners. This exceeded Leite Leader’s limit of tolerance!

“You need not ask more, this is our Aostarian’s business. Do you want to defy the authority of Ao Star!?” Yan Siyu looked at Leite Leader and said in an unfriendly tone.

At this moment, she could only invoke the majesty of Ao Star to suppress him.

Sure enough, as soon as Leite Leader heard the words Ao Star, the little momentum he had just built up softened, at least on the surface. He stammered an agreement, lowering his head in near terror, but his double pupils flashed with an inexplicable light.

Lin Lei ignored all this. He pulled up the old man who looked weak and said gently: “Come with me!”

Xiao Boru nodded and said: “Okay.”

The situation here had become somewhat wrong. Lin Lei simply carried the old man on his back, turned his head and said to Yan Siyu: “Let’s go.”

“Okay, let’s go.” Yan Siyu said this on the surface, but complained on a mental level: “Lei, you were impulsive just now!”

“I know, but I had to do this!”

The five people safely returned to the Tiansuo spaceship. Throughout the process, Leite Leader did not stop them, just watching them from afar with an expression that was hard to guess.

Lin Lei could not care less. He had a premonition that if he did not leave Mote Planet quickly, he would definitely encounter big trouble. His premonitions were always accurate, a sensitivity gained from walking the line between life and death for a long time.

But until the Tiansuo spaceship rushed out of Mote Planet, nothing unusual happened, and Lin Lei’s heart relaxed a little.

Li Yi still could not believe he had left that damned Ecological Sphere. He followed Lin Lei, holding his questions in his heart until now, when he finally poured them out.

“Are you Leizi? Is it you?” Although Lin Lei had changed a lot, as a friend who had been in the same class for three years, how could he not recognize him?

“Yes, it’s me. Glad to see you, my old friend!” Lin Lei laughed and stepped forward to pat his shoulder lightly.

Li Yi’s face glowed with excitement, sweeping away the decadence he had on Mote Planet: “Do you know? Three years ago, you and Yan Siyu suddenly disappeared. Some said you were in a car accident. I even saw Yan Siyu’s bicycle, all twisted from the crash. But later, a mysterious person issued a gag order at our school, and your matter was left unsettled. And then, the Leite People came…”

By the end, his voice gradually lowered, clearly touching a sad subject.

Li Dasong was also excited. He muttered: “I said something would happen today, and I was right!”

“Go die, you say that every day.” Li Yi slapped Li Dasong on the back: “But this time you really were right!”

Xiao Boru, the old man Lin Lei brought onto the spaceship, had light shooting out of his eyes as soon as he saw the advanced spaceship inside. He paid no attention to Lin Lei and the others, just looking left and right, wanting to touch everything on the spaceship, but afraid of breaking anything.

After a long while, he turned his head and asked Lin Lei: “Is this spaceship yours? What functions does it have? How is its performance?”

A string of questions popped out like machine gun bullets. Lin Lei answered them one by one: “The spaceship is mine. As for functions, I only know a few. It can do Warp Flight and Space Jump. The performance is okay.”

The light in Xiao Boru’s eyes grew brighter and brighter, but without any focus, as if his spirit had sunk into the Void. In this state, he really looked like a person with mental problems. After a long while, he came back to his senses and said to Lin Lei: “Are there paper and pen on the spaceship?”

Lin Lei spread his hands, his expression a bit unnatural. Other things were negotiable, but there really was no paper or pen on the spaceship: “There are personal computers with intelligent voice input on the spaceship, perhaps they can help you.”

For some reason, although he was not very familiar with Xiao Boru, he felt a respect from the bottom of his heart. Perhaps this was related to his Wisdom Level that surpassed humanity and his abnormal focus on certain things.

Xiao Boru said “Oh”, thought for a moment, and asked: “Can this computer understand Chinese?”

“Of course. I have already set all the computers on the spaceship. The personal computers on the spaceship are connected to the Master Control Brain. The intelligence level is quite high, so communication is no problem at all.”

This made Xiao Boru’s eyes shine even brighter. “I might need to perform some large-scale calculations. Can the alien technology computer handle that?”

“Of course. The calculation speed of the personal computer has reached a certain extreme, comparable to the fastest giant computer on Earth. If it’s the spaceship’s Master Control Brain, it can calculate the trajectory of every grain of sand in a massive dust storm on Mars within one second. I think it should meet your needs.”

Lin Lei did not ask what he needed it for. In fact, after seeing those eyes, Lin Lei basically dropped his guard against Xiao Boru. Just as the System evaluated, this was a perfect scholar, living simply and purely!

“Good, take me there. It would be best if you can give me a quiet environment.” Xiao Boru was simply impatient. He rubbed his hands together, his gray eyebrows and beard twitching, his eyes staring straight at Lin Lei, the longing in them about to overflow.

But Lin Lei would not satisfy them immediately. Li Yi, Li Dasong, and Xiao Boru had survived in the Ecological Sphere for three years. In that harsh survival environment, their physical foundation had long been hollowed out. They needed to rest and recuperate for a while, especially Xiao Boru, who was at least sixty years old, unlike the other two young men.

Lin Lei sat in the captain’s seat and said with a smile: “I will satisfy all your conditions, but not now. Shouldn’t you three go take a bath, eat something, and then have a good sleep? Li Yi, your face wasn’t this bad three years ago. And Li Dasong, your muscles are gone, you’re skin and bones now. As for Old Xiao, you are the one who needs recuperation the most. Don’t ruin your body for a moment’s pleasure.”

Although Li Yi had many questions to ask, hearing Lin Lei say this, his relaxed mood indeed felt a deep exhaustion. As for Li Dasong, this guy with slightly thick nerves naturally had no objection.

Only Old Xiao was anxious and his face turned red. He did not feel tired at all; instead, he was full of energy. Seeing Lin Lei’s resolute expression which left no room for negotiation, he turned to Yan Siyu for help: “Little girl, you are the girlfriend of this young man named Lin Lei, right? Talk to him. I feel there are many thoughts in my brain waiting to be realized one by one. I can’t wait.”

Hearing Old Xiao describe her relationship with Lin Lei like this, Yan Siyu’s jade-like face was dyed with a blush. However, she also knew Lin Lei was not wrong, so she persuaded him instead: “Old Sir, you are overdrawing your life. Only when your body is good can you better realize the various ideas in your brain.”

At this time, Lin Lei had already ordered the spaceship’s Master Control Brain to build new guest rooms on the spaceship. This was a function of the Tiansuo spaceship: it could freely design the internal space of the spaceship. As long as you explained the space design you needed to the Master Control Brain, it would reorganize the space inside the spaceship within five minutes. It was very convenient and personalized.

Taking advantage of the Master Control Brain’s working time, Lin Lei began to ask about Xiao Boru’s past.

“Before? I did many things before. I was a library administrator, a physics lab administrator, a school teacher. Later, they said I was whimsical and idle all day, so they fired me. Then I sold newspapers, swept the streets, picked up scrap, and finally, somehow, I ended up in the Ecological Sphere.”

“Do you have no family?”

“I do, but they all call me a lunatic and don’t pay much attention to me. I’m actually not crazy at all, I just… just…” As he spoke, Xiao Boru’s eyes fell into confusion again. His soul left this body, wandering in a wonderful world. In this world, he was the king. Wonderful symbols and wonderful thoughts all obeyed his command. It was simply marvelous.

After a long while, he came back to his senses, saw that the people on the spaceship were looking at him with surprise, and smiled unnaturally: “Old habit. Since high school, one day I woke up, and a wonderful idea broke into my head. So many years have passed, and I haven’t gotten rid of it. Instead, I’ve sunk deeper and deeper into it. Please don’t take offense.”

The one most interested in these words was Yan Siyu. She asked curiously: “Old Sir, can you tell us about that wonderful idea?”

“Of course, of course. Many people asked me before, and I told them, but they said I was whimsical. That year I was eighteen. I remember clearly every detail of waking up that morning. It came out of nowhere, yes, a very wonderful thing. Then in the following forty years, I kept perfecting it. I re-created a mathematical system of my own to explain this Universe.”

“And then?” Even Lin Lei pricked up his ears.

“This is a brand-new system. It’s hard to explain it all at once. I kept calculating, kept perfecting. Ten years later, everything condensed into a harmonious and simple formula. In this formula, I introduced five constants. Four were very certain, but one had a subtle uncertainty. No, not uncertain, but it could be divided finer, more accurately. Re-subdividing this constant took thirty years. Yes, thirty years. This constant has seven variables, seven states. Substituting each one into that harmonious formula yields a perfect result. A magical thing, isn’t it?”

Xiao Boru’s eyes showed a tendency to turn confused again, but he quickly stopped himself. He looked forward to everyone’s approval of his thoughts.

Lin Lei did not understand, but a light appeared in Yan Siyu’s eyes. She was just about to speak when a voice cut in.

It was Li Yi. He frowned and said: “Do you mean to say that our Universe is five-dimensional, and under subdivision, can even expand to eleven dimensions?”

Xiao Boru’s eyes lit up: “Yes, yes, that can be described that way!”

“But can your theory withstand the test of facts? Or can it accurately predict physical phenomena? If not, there isn’t much difference from fantasy.” Li Yi continued to ask.

“It can! Of course it can! I substituted existing physical phenomena into my system, and the calculated results matched the experimental results very well. But much more convincing evidence, like string theory, requires observation under ultra-high energy conditions. The four fundamental forces in the Universe: gravitation, electromagnetic force, strong interaction force, and weak interaction force can all be unified into my system. I once thought I had found the Grand Unified Theory that Einstein spoke of.” Xiao Boru said excitedly.

“But why does no one acknowledge your results?” This time it was Yan Siyu asking.

“I don’t know. I published my conclusions, and it brought a wave of abuse. They didn’t discuss my theory or my thoughts at all! They just accused me of arrogance. Then I was fired, and no university would take me anymore.”

Xiao Boru looked blank. Possessing such high wisdom, he could not see through the ways of the world!

The atmosphere in the spaceship was a bit silent.

At this time, the spaceship’s Master Control Brain had prepared the rooms. Lin Lei came back to his senses and said to the three with a smile: “Then you go rest first. In the rooms, I have prepared everything you need. Now, stand where you are, and the Master Control Brain will send you over.”

Then, the floor beneath the three people’s feet began to move slowly, carrying the three to their respective rooms.

Watching the backs of the three disappear, Yan Siyu turned her head and smiled at Lin Lei: “Lei, it seems you found an incredible old man. What he said is right. This Universe is indeed eleven-dimensional. Four-dimensional spacetime, plus seven-dimensional energy strings, constitute everything we see.”

Lin Lei smiled and said: “I don’t understand these things. I only know that they will be the foundation of the reborn Earth Civilization!”