My Swap Life Game

Chapter 17: Carbon-based organisms cannot support more advanced civilizations
Lu Xing's expression almost couldn't help but change.

For such a major event, will historians in the future world not conduct archaeological excavations to restore the cause, process, and outcome of the nuclear war?

Nuclear war would destroy the world, but historians have no interest at all?

Lu Xing took a look at this concise world history, which totaled more than 21 pages. The history before and after the st century AD was written in only three paragraphs.

He calmed himself down and continued to read on with an expressionless face.

“After the nuclear war, most of the unstable genes of ancient organisms mutated, and those who were affected by nuclear radiation and developed diseases were called mutants at the time.

Mutants possess greater strength, higher intelligence, and better memory...

The war soon began.”

Perhaps because he was using Jiang Xuannu's body, Lu Xing browsed very quickly. In just twenty thin pages, he read about the wars, fusions, absorptions, and disappearances between humans and mutants, orcs, genetically modified humans, robots, and aliens.

In just tens of thousands of words, it contains countless unimaginable histories of the 21st century:
Nuclear bombs are used as conventional weapons; nuclear radiation is used as a means to give birth to mutants; humans absorb genes from other organisms to create war weapons such as tiger men, lion men, and cat men; humans transform their own bodies, abandon flesh and blood, and ascend mechanically; humans abandon conventional forms and try to shrink their heads.

Etc., etc.

Things that people in the 21st century find unbearable are commonplace in the post-nuclear war era.

As for organ farms, cloning factories, orc brothels and other things that destroy people's worldviews, they are also mentioned in history books. When genetically modified humans appeared, the moral values of the 21st century had been abandoned.

In the end, this protracted biological war was ended by a virus called Death. It was born in a biological arsenal. Once leaked, it spread all over the world within a month, killing most of the human race. Even the wealthy who fled to space were infected by the virus carried by the supplies transmitted from the ground, and died in large numbers in the space station.

"In the face of the death virus, nuclear weapons appear very merciful."

The historian is making a humorous comment here.

Lu Xingdu laughed at what he saw.

"The remaining humans returned to the caves, and the First Era ended."

Lu Xing was speechless for a moment.

From this perspective, nuclear war is indeed not that important. Humans have created viruses that violate biological laws and are far more lethal than nuclear bombs.

Lu Xing continued to look down, and no alien civilization appeared.

The Second Age begins with this sentence:

The only lesson mankind has learned from history is that it has learned no lesson from history.

This is what Hegel said, but it is not noted in history books.

"A few hundred years later, the death virus degenerated, and the human population slowly increased. They recreated civilization from the myths passed down from ancient times. They created a new language, new writing, and new beliefs. In archaeology, science developed rapidly."

That’s right, the technology of the Second Age depends on archaeology.

“But humanity soon encountered an unsolvable problem: there was no oil or coal underground.

By the end of the First Age, humans had already exhausted these two important resources, and the remaining oil and coal were buried deep underground, which was beyond the reach of their technology at the time.”

Lu Xing gradually realized that the Second Era was an era of resource shortages. Human beings did not carry out the First Industrial Revolution, but relied on archaeology to develop technology to the stage of using clean energy such as solar energy and wind energy.

Iron ore, plastic, etc. are dug out from the ruins and reprocessed for use.

After an unknown amount of time, the catalyst for change came when humanity received an electromagnetic signal from within our own galaxy. Linguistics experts analyzed it and confirmed it to be a sequence of words. Humanity was thrilled, and even Lu Xing couldn't help but smile at the sight. Human civilization was finally no longer alone!

Delighted humans invested a lot of resources in interstellar exploration, established a base on the moon for the first time, retrieved Martian soil, and built several space stations.

But nothing more.

Human technology did not develop as a result, and the high cost of rocket launches made it unaffordable for society. Ultimately, after a war, the lunar base was abandoned for the first time.

Lu Xing was getting a little impatient, and as he didn't have much time, he skipped the middle part and only looked at the aliens and some key events.

Five thousand years later, humans once again received alien information.

After another five thousand years, after three exchanges, the two civilizations finally confirmed each other's position in the galaxy and affectionately called each other "friends of mankind". The other side also called the humans on Earth "friends of the Eland people on the distant Earth."

As exchanges increased, both sides gradually learned each other's language and writing, and started an exchange activity that spanned five eras.

Every question that you want the other party to answer requires five thousand years of waiting.

Therefore, both parties send large, repeated electromagnetic waves at once to ensure that the information is not lost among distant galaxies.

All that each side knows about the other's history and technology occurred five thousand years ago.

For example, the information sent by humans in the Second Age said that humans were building a base on the satellite of their home planet, but by the time the Elando civilization learned about this, the human lunar base had already been destroyed.

It took the people on Earth tens of thousands of years to roughly understand the Elando civilization.

They are also carbon-based organisms, have experienced technological explosions, have experienced nuclear wars and biological wars, and have also encountered problems such as resource scarcity.

The history of the planet Elando is longer than that of humans on Earth. Archaeological discoveries have shown that Elando already had traces of civilization during the dinosaur era on Earth.

Even they themselves don't know how many times they have experienced the rise and fall of civilizations.

"Charcoal-based organisms cannot support a more advanced civilization."

Suddenly, a sentence that did not belong to humans popped up in the history book. At least that's what Lu Xing thought. Artificial intelligence, the winner, is writing history.

"The official of the Elando civilization did not say it explicitly, but civilian communicators have been sending such pessimistic information to Earth. After the two civilizations were able to communicate smoothly, the Elando civilization sent a complete set of artificial intelligence technology to Earth, and repeated it three times."

"A vast amount of information traveled across the vast interstellar space and was received by humans. Professor Li Zhe compiled it and published it in a book titled 'Revisiting Artificial Intelligence Lifeforms.'"

The end of ancient history.

President Lu breathed a sigh of relief, although he didn't know how much of the content had been tampered with by artificial intelligence. For example, history books said that the Earth had not received any information from the Elando civilization for three thousand years. He guessed that they had experienced another civilization destruction, and it was unknown when they would communicate again.

But Maria had already appeared three thousand years ago, and the details in the story are vague, so it is hard not to be suspicious.

At least after reading history, Lu Xing understood why the names of people like Jiang Xuannu, Chu Caifeng, and Wang Bagua were so strange.

Chinese characters, English, French, Russian, etc. were all forgotten by humans after the First Era, religions were also new, and scientific theorems were rediscovered and named.

The reason why Chinese characters are used now is that in the Fourth Age, the language of mankind was too bloated. After screening, Chinese characters were re-selected as the official language from the texts excavated by archaeology.

As a two-dimensional ideographic language, Chinese characters stand out among all the languages invented by humans.

(End of this chapter)