I became a god by treasure hunting after arriving 500 years early

As for the Rize people asking Lu Yuan for help... it could be considered a fallback option.

But they wouldn’t place all their hopes on Lu Yuan; a mature civilization should operate this way.

"That doesn’t sound too bad,"

Lu Yuan couldn’t help but feel worried about the progress on the human side.

The Rize Civilization truly had sufficient motivation to dismantle the Safe Zone and set forth toward the Pangu Continent!

Without moving forward, they might die!

Perhaps at times, some internal crises aren’t necessarily a bad thing...

A crisis can force reforms.

On the screen, a lizard man said, "Mr. Lu, would you be willing to come to our city for exploration? We have spaceship wreckage here too."

"We will prepare ample gifts... We..."

"We also have…"

They were anxious, yet they didn’t have much to offer in terms of trading chips.

Lu Yuan hesitated; he was someone who was more easily swayed by pleas than by force, and he felt a bit of pity when people begged.

These cities didn’t really have much of interest left, going there would be somewhat a waste of time.

However, the remains of the Anomalies seemed promising...

In the prison, starved Anomalies were bound to furiously devour each other.

But surely there would be at least one strongest Anomaly corpse left behind...

"As long as it’s not an endurance champion like the Undying Giant Turtle, it’s highly likely already starved to death."

"Four cities, at least four Anomaly corpses."

"Maybe these could cause the Tree of Life to evolve once more. Anomalies also have biological materials on them."

The Greedy Demon God was somewhat tempted; as he traveled far and wide, he had only managed to find some small fish and shrimp, and dig up some ordinary ores.

He had never randomly stumbled upon Anomaly-level trash before.

So, he quietly asked, "Your Excellency, do you have faster means of transportation here?"

Moses’ eyes lit up, and he patted his chest, "You’re willing to visit other cities? That’s wonderful."

"We have small helicopters here! With a speed of 200 kilometers per hour, although they consume quite a bit of fuel, needing refueling every two or three hours."

"All the wealth inside is yours, and if there are any records... please share a bit, haha."

This lizard man rubbed his hands together, not even mentioning a fifty-fifty split anymore – being able to go at all was good enough for him.

He took out a photo of a helicopter.

The speed of this helicopter was roughly 300 kilometers per hour.

The fuel consumption was about 1.5 liters per kilometer.

10,000 kilometers would consume 15,000 liters of fuel, that’s 15 cubic meters of fuel!

The total capacity of the Storage Space was 27 cubic meters, so fitting this fuel in would be easy.

And using the helicopter, a trip would take less than 2 days, which was a totally acceptable cost in terms of time.

As for the metal junk originally stored in the Storage Space... it could be temporarily entrusted to the Tree of Life, or simply sold to the Rize people – did they really think this junk was worth so much?

"I’ll fly it! I’ll fly it!" Old Cat was excited.

Lu Yuan nodded, "How long would it take to disassemble this helicopter into parts? As it is now, it can’t fit into my Storage Space."

"At least half a day," Moses said, "I’ll send people to disassemble the helicopter now."

Half a day, which would be 50 days in the outside world.

Lu Yuan did not want to waste time lingering here and asked, "Do you have any volcanoes here? The kind you can see the magma of?"

With an Eternal Body plus an Extraordinary Spark and Earth Fire, it could evolve into an Eternal Spark!

This piece of information, Lu Yuan remembered it well.

He may call it "junk ability," but despite his words, he was eager; if it’s free, why not take it? Nôv(el)B\\jnn

"Volcanoes... about a thousand kilometers away, there seems to be an active volcano?"

"We have observed earthquakes and a lot of smoke before, but we don’t know the specifics. Would you like to try going there?"

Just like that, the meeting was more or less over.

"Friends, let us work hard to develop ourselves! In 5-10 years, we will orderly dismantle the Safe Zone! Let us restore the glory of our ancestors!"

"Restore the glory of our ancestors!"

The city leaders all firmed up their resolution together.

This was an action of their entire civilization, a basic consensus.

At that moment, what they collectively exhaled was the breath of their ancestors from ten thousand years ago, the prelude to civilization; then the wind stirred, now hearts stirred...

Even Lu Yuan got somewhat intoxicated. When could humans ever unite like this?

He couldn’t imagine.

Suddenly, a discordant voice arose in the room.

"Don’t... don’t restore any glory."

The Undying Giant Turtle poked its head out from a corner and said.

What?! Lu Yuan felt embarrassed for it. What’s it got to do with you? Why are you butting in?

The turtle solemnly recalled, "I don’t remember your species at all."

"The ones who imprisoned me were not you guys."

"It was a race with blue skin and big heads."

"Otherwise, I would have gone to war with you long ago! Definitely a race with blue skin and big heads!"

The air suddenly fell silent.

Governor Moses looked at the giant turtle in disbelief, opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something but ultimately did not.

Your journey continues with empire

The Undying Giant Turtle continued on its own accord, "Oh, right! I think I’ve eaten your eggs. They were a delicious delicacy, one at a time, and I would eat about ten a day... You must have been a bred species, and your daily task was to lay eggs for us to eat."

"Though the Spirit in the eggs wasn’t much, they were still laid by intelligent beings."

"So don’t talk about restoring your ancestors’ glory... Your ancestors were just a bunch of little chicks to be eaten!"

"Going back to the past, wouldn’t it be even more tragic? A bunch of idiots, isn’t it good as it is now?"

Lu Yuan couldn’t help but massage his temples as he looked at the meeting room that plunged into a chilling silence.

The Rize people had their scales standing on end, almost petrified.

Why must this turtle always speak the blunt truth?

So tactless.

The history of Rize Civilization had been completely punctured...

It turned out their ancestors were just servants, not the original owners of the spacecraft.

"Let’s work together to restore the glory of our ancestors!" A lizard man stood up shouting again.

"Restore the glory of our ancestors!!"

Everyone’s belief was unshakeable, pretending they hadn’t heard the turtle’s nonsense.

The Undying Giant Turtle seemed a bit baffled, slowly retracting its neck. Are you all fools? Can’t you comprehend Mr. Turtle’s words?

Lu Yuan couldn’t help but laugh, covering his forehead.

Old Cat also "meowed" in amusement.

Well, the history the Undying Giant Turtle talked about could indeed be true.

But so what? Who would go and verify it?

As long as the Rize people, whether leaders or common folk, all need this piece of history to be true, then it is true.

And Lu Yuan also felt rather reflective. The true masters had disappeared into the river of history, not even ashes to be found, while it was the servants who had built an entirely new civilization.

Perhaps this is the caprice of fate.

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(Yesterday, reader friends gave many new book titles, indeed much better than the donkey who is terrible at naming things.)

(After research, I’ve decided the new book title is "We Agreed to Progress Together, But You Became a God?")

(What do you all think?)