CHAPTER 1118: CHAPTER 660: MEETING AN OLD FRIEND IN A FOREIGN LAND

"Didn’t they say that crossing the ocean would lead back to Pangu Continent?" Lu Yuan asked.

"Ha, how big is the ocean?" the fish-headed creature scoffed. "There was once a civilization that tried to cross the sea, but they disappeared halfway, never to be heard from again."

"Maybe they really left?" said a nearby ape-like creature.

"That civilization left behind long-distance communication methods." The fish-headed creature’s voice dropped. "That was a Fourth-level Civilization that suddenly lost contact. What do you think happened?"

Immediately, everyone fell silent, some shrinking away and scattering.

Lu Yuan felt vaguely uneasy, frowning slightly. Rumors like this, could be either false or true.

"Friend, what was the name of that disappearing Fourth-level Civilization, and how powerful were they?"

"Don’t ask me, I only heard it through the grapevine."

Continuing to cruise around in the spaceship, he unexpectedly saw several lizard men setting up stalls by the roadside.

One of the lizard men had many eyes on its body.

Lu Yuan couldn’t help but blink rapidly, thinking he had seen wrong, and hesitantly called out: "Tado?"

The lizard man turned its head and hesitantly looked at Lu Yuan on the spaceship. Realizing he hadn’t seen wrong, it began to tremble with excitement: "Lu Yuan... Mr. Lu!!"

These were indeed the lizard men from the Rize Civilization, and meeting them here was beyond everyone’s expectations!

The Rize Civilization was the first civilization Lu Yuan encountered on Pangu Continent, and this "Tado" had shared a camaraderie with Lu Yuan, fighting monsters together in caverns!

Even the human diplomats were startled: "It’s really them!"

Both the first and second generation Green Grass Citizens had interacted with the Rize Civilization. Without the basic resources provided by the Rize Civilization, it would have been incredibly challenging for humans to achieve industrialization from scratch.

"How did you end up here? Were your cities also transported here?" Lu Yuan was overjoyed, feeling a sense of familiarity as if meeting old friends in a foreign land.

He quickly had the spaceship land on the ground.

And the lizard men were equally excited to welcome them into the house.

"Our city isn’t here." Tado personally brewed them a cup of tea made from ants, "Ten years ago, our civilization encountered a group of Strange Ancient People."

"They came soaring from the sky on a giant Flying Dragon."

"They announced that the ’Buzhou Grand Festival’ was to be held."

"So our civilization decided to send a diplomatic team here, and we were transported through a spatial tunnel... In the blink of an eye, ten years have passed, and we still don’t know when we can return to our civilization."

Tado kept it brief, his expression a bit sorrowful.

The Rize Civilization had accomplished several Civilization Milestones during the Early Epoch, making them a civilization with some luck.

In addition, Lu Yuan had long ago given them "Field Industrialization," and they now possessed the strength of a Third-level Civilization.

"But compared to the Ancient Races, we’re still far behind... There’s a strongest aura, only slightly weaker than ’Mother Earth,’ an incomparably terrifying existence... Even if we have doubts, we can’t help but acknowledge it." Tado spoke with lingering fear. Mother Earth was a Ghost-level anomaly, and he couldn’t imagine that intelligent creatures could reach the level of an anomaly.

Lu Yuan frowned slightly: "What do you think of these Ancient Races, are they trustworthy? What are they scheming?"

"They’re... not very friendly," Tado lowered his voice, "That condescending attitude is hard to hide. Sometimes it’s obvious they view us like ants..."

"Fortunately, ten years ago, a super strong civilization emerged and fiercely contested with them, proving the power of technology, which made these Ancient Races act a bit more mild..."

"Where is that super-strong civilization now?" Lu Yuan eagerly asked.

Tado, as a telepath, directly used his telepathy ability: "They’re not here."

"That confrontation involved the use of massive destructive weapons. The civilization didn’t trust these Ancient Races and crossed the sea to leave... Of course, some civilizations believe they’re already dead."

Everyone heard this and felt a "thud" in their hearts. Wasn’t this place akin to a giant prison, allowing entry but not exit?

"Great Commander, can we return to Different Space?" Professor Lu Tiantian whispered through the earpiece.

"No." Lu Yuan squinted his eyes, "The Lanpeng Civilization influenced the Monster’s mind, making it hostile to our Green Grass City, which is why we were thrown out of Different Space."

"We can only re-enter once the Monster has forgotten about us... Do you think entry and exit are so easy?"

"It would take at least several decades."

"And the Buzhou Grand Festival is set to happen in a year."

Returning to the Northern Territory through the temple is also unfeasible. On one hand, the cost of teleportation is very high, sending ten million people back would be astronomical.

On the other hand, should we abandon all the large machinery and opium poppy trees? Clearly, that’s not feasible either.

For a moment, the humans were all a bit stunned.

Tado took a sip of tea and continued: "It is said that civilization was approaching the threshold of a Fourth-level Civilization and still had significant combat power; suddenly disappearing like that caused all civilizations to fall silent with fear. But those Ancient Races didn’t explain anything. Surrounded by seawater on all sides, we can come and go as we please. They simply don’t care."

Lu Yuan smiled bitterly: "You must be suffering staying here too, as if tricked into coming."