Chapter 187
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Chapter 187: Changes on Earth
As Li Xiaojun flew into Earth’s atmosphere, he suddenly felt a sense of danger. Moreover, the closer he got to the surface, the stronger the feeling of danger became.
"What is happening?"
Li Xiaojun quickly retreated and returned to outer space.
In outer space, Li Xiaojun looked at the Earth’s atmosphere with a suspicious gaze, and he spread his divine sense to scan the entire planet.
Before long, Li Xiaojun had scanned the whole Earth several times.
However, in his divine sense, the people on Earth still appeared to be just ordinary people.
There wasn’t even a single cultivator among them.
"Has humanity developed weapons that could threaten me?" Li Xiaojun murmured.
At this moment, Earth was completely different from how it had been a hundred thousand years ago.
For example, the Asian continent had changed dramatically, as Bohai Bay had transformed into land due to the continuous sedimentation from the Yellow River.
Moreover, the mountains formed by the collision of the Indian subcontinent and the Asian continent had grown even taller, with the highest peak, Mount Everest, now exceeding nine thousand meters.
Additionally, a hundred thousand years later, humanity had almost abandoned the outdated housing model of high-rise buildings.
Many people now had their own independent yards!
Humans traveled using smart flying devices, which took them to work every day; after they arrived, the flying devices would return on their own.
As a result, traffic congestion in cities had almost disappeared.
People only gathered in the city when going to work, shopping, or getting haircuts, and for various services.
After work, most would return home or back to their villages.
Every household had its own flying device for transport, so even a commute of tens of kilometers would take only about ten minutes, and even for a trip of a hundred kilometers, the one-way journey would not exceed half an hour.
Of course, while high-rise housing had disappeared from the cities, office buildings were still plentiful.
In fact, many office buildings had been constructed to heights of several thousand meters!
Most of these office buildings served as workplaces for many people.
In Li Xiaojun’s divine sense, countless flying devices moved in and out around the office buildings, resembling bees flying in and out of a hive.
In addition to office buildings, there were also many factories where flying devices constantly came and went, creating a very busy atmosphere.
Aside from flying devices, there were some ground-based vehicles in the city.
These vehicles were mainly for convenience in areas that were not far away, where flying devices couldn’t easily land.
For example, if someone wanted to go to a nearby shopping center after leaving work, calling a flying device might be impractical due to a lack of landing spots, so ground-based vehicles would suffice.
Of course, on Earth a hundred thousand years later, online shopping dominated; once an order was placed, items could be delivered to one’s home in less than ten minutes.
In the city, some people used ground-based vehicles, but in the countryside, most still relied on flying devices.
A hundred thousand years later, Li Xiaojun saw that most of the tasks he used to do before his transport had been taken over by machines.
For instance, factories producing various industrial goods mostly rely on machines for manufacturing, requiring only a small number of humans to oversee operations.
Of course, just because many jobs are taken over by machines does not mean humans are free from work.
A hundred thousand years later, people from Earth have largely entered a service-oriented society.
In simple terms, it’s a system where you serve me and I serve you.
For example, if you need me to cut your hair, I might need you to treat my illness, do my nails, or give me a massage to meet different needs.
However, overall, Li Xiaojun believes that life for people from Earth a hundred thousand years later is quite good.
Most people only need to work three to four hours a day and still enjoy two days off a week, with their wages sufficient for their monthly expenses.
Li Xiaojun thinks this ability of people from Earth stems from their extensive mining of resources from other planets.
Humans are now scattered around the eight major planets of the solar system.
Especially on Mars, where ecological balance is not a concern, they are fervently extracting resources.
The asteroid belt in the solar system, filled with millions of large and small asteroids, is an endless source of resources for humanity.
All these resources eventually get transported back to Earth.
Thanks to such an abundance of resources, people from Earth can enjoy the impressive benefits they have today.
Of course, not every person from Earth can enjoy these benefits.
A hundred thousand years ago, there were many countries on Earth.
Now, only a handful of countries remain.
For example, the European continent has formed three superpowers.
North America has two major countries.
South America is now unified into two major countries.
Africa consists of two superpowers as well.
And there are countries in Central Asia, India, Australia, Southeast Asia, and more.
In Li Xiaojun’s memory, many of the countries that existed a hundred thousand years ago have vanished.
Now, only a few major nations remain, and none of them are the same as those from a hundred thousand years ago.
For instance, the United States no longer exists; it is now known as the Lighthouse Alliance.
The country that used to be Canada is now the Maple Leaf Federation.
There are also the EU and the Eurasian Federation in Europe, the Muslim Alliance in Central Asia, and the South African Union and North African Union in Africa, among others.
These major powers are formed by smaller nations uniting to compete for space resources.
A hundred thousand years ago, only a handful of countries could venture into outer space.
If those smaller nations did not come together, they could never hope to compete with major powers for resources in outer space.
At this time on Earth, Li Xiaojun saw at least ten thousand space elevators.
At every moment, countless outer space resources are continuously being transported to Earth.
What comforts Li Xiaojun the most is that the civilization of Huaxia still endures after a hundred thousand years of legacy.
Even after all this time, Huaxia still bears its name.
Although many governments have changed over the hundred thousand years, the people of Huaxia still remain the familiar faces that Li Xiaojun recognizes.
However, what frustrates Li Xiaojun is that he cannot get close to Earth; as soon as he approaches, the system will indicate danger.
At that moment, Li Xiaojun realized that the dangerous feeling he experienced when nearing Earth was a warning from the system.
He scanned Earth countless times with his divine sense, even probing its interior, but he could not find the source of the danger alert.
From what he had learned during this time about people from Earth, he knows they have not developed weapons capable of threatening his life!
Yet the system’s danger notification indeed exists, leaving him somewhat baffled.
