CHAPTER 1276: CHAPTER 714: LU YUAN’S GIFT

But the Human Mother Civilization is not so particular, with cars speeding and electric scooters running red lights—a middle-aged aunt, not caring about diplomatic visits, focused on picking up her children from school.

The young lady in charge of reception felt a bit awkward, trying to save face for herself: "Yunhai City is not too bad, other cities still have pickpocketing, occasionally even zero-cost purchases..."

"Ahem." Lu Yuan tried to regain some dignity for his hometown, "You don’t understand, running red lights is about pursuing ultimate efficiency!"

Then he bought each diplomat a mobile phone.

The tone of speaking on the internet is also different, with many trolls on the forums, and words like "beast" have already sunk to being mere joking terms.

"Damn, this guy really is a birth!"

This doesn’t seem to be too serious a term of criticism.

All in all, everything gives off a wild and unrestrained feeling, as if leaping from an orderly world to a disordered one.

Strangely chaotic.

However, if you accept it from the heart and feel it, you will find this is actually the norm of civilization: gradually forming an organic whole amid personal freedom, collective will, cultural conflict, and external pressure.

Perhaps, the slight cohesion born in an atomized society is what is called civilization...

This wonderful feeling is hard to appreciate in Green Grass City.

"Because children in Green Grass City are well-controlled from a young age, the overall social atmosphere is quite ivory tower, actually many people’s personalities are a bit babyish."

"Being a bit babyish is not necessarily bad, there’s no social unwritten rules, not much dirty business, having a simple life every day is quite nice."

"But for craftsmen, lacking many life insights is not a very good thing."

"Alas, be it suffering or happiness, how few people like the usual bittersweet of life?" Lu Yuan thought of the "Supreme Craftsman Competition" to be held in three years and couldn’t help sighing.

Returning to his hometown did indeed bring him some inspiration, but it was still not enough... far from enough!

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In order to build Sky City, the architectural landscape of Yunhai City has indeed changed a lot, but some museums and landmarks have been preserved.

Everyone visited them one by one, and it was quite enjoyable.

"All kinds of history are exactly the same as described in our textbooks." Lu Tiantian and others opened their eyes wide, marveling.

"Nonsense..." Lu Yuan was somewhat speechless, the former textbooks were directly copied from Yunhai City’s, later slowly changed because of their own history.

At the exit of the museum, they also saw the Haji Civilization, the Human Alliance’s ally, the Cat People!

These Cat People looked just like oversized cats.

The small ones were over a meter long, about the size of a dog, with a full body of orange-yellow, fluffy fur.

The larger ones were like tigers, three meters long, tall and powerful, with a tuft of white fur on their heads forming a "King" character.

"These guys... look so much like Old Cat!"

"Mr. Lu Yuan, hello, long admired your name, I am Tiger, the leader of the Haji Civilization." The leading Cat Person extended a furry paw, speaking in surprise fluent Chinese.

"Hello, Lord Taige." Lu Yuan shook hands with this Cat Person, finding the fur quite comfortable, like a big orange cat, and couldn’t help but make a little joke, "We humans only have two genders, male and female, how should I address you, Lord Taige?"

The Cat Person’s ears moved twice, uttering a string: "You can call me, Tiger the Might·Advanced Council Member·Craftsman Master·Niaofeng Enthusiast·Tiger."

Lu Yuan almost lost his composure, took a deep breath to regain calm.

Supposedly "Niaofeng Enthusiast" should be some gender of the Haji Civilization?

He thought to himself, should he study these Cat People to truly "resurrect" Old Cat?

However, the current Old Cat, obsessed with power, probably doesn’t want to be "resurrected" anymore.

When robots can work 24 hours a day, becoming a carbon-based lifeform, needing to eat and sleep, is simply a waste of life!

The relationship between the Haji Civilization and the Human Alliance is very close, the reason is simple, on one hand, they have fought side by side against strong foes, on the other hand, they find each other agreeable. For humans, they can’t resist these furry creatures, and the Haji Civilization is slightly weaker than humans.

And for these Cat People, the appearance of human girls seems to touch some special fetishes of theirs—even though this civilization doesn’t have the say of "Holy King."

So each city in the Human Alliance has specialized cat petting venues, and these Cat People are even willing to pay to be petted by girls.

Every year, yes, every year, humans can earn quite a bit of Spirit Essence by petting cats like this.

Lu Yuan felt puzzled by this situation, but on the vast Pangu Continent, anything is possible, and he could only silently accept it.

Next came the free activity time, the team from Green Grass City began visiting universities and fully exchanging ideas with both the Human Alliance and the Haji Civilization, with witty remarks and a storm of thoughts for a time.

Lu Yuan listened for a while and found that these new Cat People actually had a bit of a fawning attitude towards Green Grass City, even though they deliberately concealed their behavioral actions, occasional details still revealed it—this is normal, who wouldn’t want to please a stronger civilization?

"Bringing one more civilization to the Northern Territory isn’t much of an issue."

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