The middle-aged man smoking a cigar obviously violated the decision made by the raising hands at the meeting yesterday. He originally dealt with 300 noble points, which made him rise to 1,000.
The middle-aged man was not crazy. He believed that once this restored ancient musical instrument was released, let alone 1,000 aristocratic points, even 2,000, those attendees would never vote against it.
A brand new cigar was ignited again. The middle-aged man looked quietly at the holographic screen in front of him, as if he could already see Wuchang's shocked eyes through the invisible signal.
"Why give me so much?" Wuchang spoke after four or five minutes of silence. "I know the value of noble points. Hunting an adult flame lizard is just a point. The fighting skills compiled by Lord Thiduo can be stolen with about one hundred noble points, and today you actually gave me a thousand noble points..."
"Who are you? What kind of class are you in the aristocratic alliance? You must not be low. Those who can take thousands of aristocratic points at any time are also top figures in the pyramid of the aristocratic alliance..."
Wuchang did not wait for the other party to respond. He just talked to himself as if he wanted to relieve the confused emotions in his heart. Unfortunately, his subconscious words made the other party find another flaw.
"In human proverbs, the phrase pyramids appears very frequently. People often use pyramids to describe the organizational structure of society. From a country to a small organization, the spire and foundation of the tower can be used to describe different positions in which people are located. However... people now know that this was once a building. What kind of building was it?"
"Stop and stop...you start to doubt again. Do you think I know the secret of this phrase too? Tell you, I am not an omnipotent God, I am just a mortal..." Wuchang didn't dare to continue. He was really afraid that this fox would be completely drained.
"Oh, my dear friend, you made me curious again... There is no title of God in the current universe. God only exists in ancient scriptures. It is a god worshipped by humans in ancient times. Now the universe knows very little..."
"Goodbye!" Wuchang didn't wait for the mysterious man to finish asking, and then opened his mouth and said goodbye. He wanted to escape.
"No, no, no, don't be afraid, I won't force you. Although I can take out more noble points, I will still respect the other party's wishes. Don't you want to know why I gave you so many points? You were very curious just now..."
Wuchang hesitated for a long time and began to typify on the screen, "Don't mess with my words. I don't know much about the knowledge of the ancient times as you imagined. My master only has only a few understandings..."
The mysterious cigar man took a hard sip, causing the light green smoke to rotate back and forth in his lungs. Then his fingers began to quickly tap on the holographic screen, which was so fast that it turned his fingers into a afterimage.
"Of course, nobility points are very valuable. If you use the price of the flame lizard to make an analogy, you actually underestimate the value of the nobility points. You must know that the preciousness of the nobility points is actually reflected in all members of these noble alliances who are qualified to enter the mission hall..."
"In the noble alliance, there are magicians, peak warriors, and of course secular royals, and elites from all walks of life. It can be said that those who can enter the mission hall to stroll around are already recognized as successful people in the secular world. If these people get together and want to do something, how much energy do you think they can burst out?"
"The larger the aristocratic alliance, the better the talents it attracts, the more valuable the corresponding aristocratic points will be. The reason is very simple, because the task can be completed in the mission hall will become more and more difficult, and there will even be super difficult tasks like assassinating an emperor of a country... Haha, just three days ago, there was a mission that offered a reward of 500 aristocratic points, and the goal of the mission was only one, which was to cause civil strife to occur on the Gaochang planet in the border area of the Huahan Empire..."
"You can think about it. Someone offered a reward of 500 points to buy a planet riot, and someone accepted this task and succeeded... You can imagine how precious the noble points are. How can this be reflected in one or two stinky lizards?"
Speaking of this, the middle-aged man was silent for a while, threw away the precious cigar left in his mouth, and lit another one again.
"You should have a general understanding of how many things can you do with 1,000 noble points. Of course, you can't afford to buy frigate-level warships, but you can still buy one of the fast assault warships or missile cruisers at one level. If you want to buy a merchant ship or transport ship, please buy whatever you want. The most advanced goods are not a problem... This is the actual value of 1,000 noble points..."
"I know you have a question. Maybe those old sayings in your heart are worthless, but you are wrong. For the noble alliance, knowledge is always the most precious, and that is the priceless treasure of the human world. No matter how much money you have, how much effort you have, or even how many planets you have, in the eyes of the noble alliance, all this is false, and only culture is the most precious..."
"Do you know how many Earth-like planets have been developed and are being developed since humans started exploring the universe and are now at this scale? There must be at least 108,000, and how many human populations are there in the universe? Unfortunately, even the noble alliance cannot calculate it. Not only that, the progress of human development in the universe has never stopped, and the human world is still expanding..."
"This is the best era and the worst era. The over-sized human society has made all management methods lagging behind and inefficient. If it weren't for the last chain of identity codes, human society would have collapsed long ago. We have created endless wealth, expanded endless territory, reproduced endless population, and created endless technology and civilization..."
"Everything looks so beautiful, but how much of the things we throw away? Let me tell you the truth, there are countless..."
"The simplest example is how many years have passed since the space folding engine was invented until now? Who can answer this simple question? Hahaha, let me tell you the truth. Human technology is so developed, but I don't know how long the lifespan of our history is. We don't even know how many years have this history of universe development gone through..."
Wuchang looked at the beating words on the screen, and his heart was already waving. No one had ever told him anything he had heard today. This was a completely strange world that was presented to him.
"Since humans were able to fold space, human civilization has experienced three major rifts, known in history as the three major rifts of human civilization. They were three human civil wars that affected the entire universe. In the end, the war even defeated human society to the level of civilization of slash-and-burn farming. It is because of these three major cultural rifts that humans lost 90% of their civilization memory..."
"Can you imagine that scene? Maybe yesterday you planned a trip across hundreds of light-years, but today because of the war, you have to go to the wasteland to grow potatoes in person, and use cold weapons to protect this pitiful food... The seemingly brilliant high-tech world is so fragile in the face of war. The life of eating raw meat and drinking blood is actually not far from humans..."
At this time, the mysterious cigar man was already a little excited, and this excitement also made Wuchang feel it.
"Who has prevented human society from completely sinking from the Great Rift? Who has protected those scientific, technological and cultural knowledge? Who has been searching for the surviving planets again and again without hesitation and then imparting this knowledge for free?"
"It's us, our aristocratic alliance. It is precisely because we have protected so many fragile cultures that the war has not destroyed them. Human beings can stand up again from slash-and-burn farming, eating raw and drinking blood, and our human warships can continue to exist in this universe and bring human civilization to eternity..."
"The end of the universe is a journey, and the journey is endless, and human civilization will not have an end... Maybe one day, when we see the end of the universe with our own eyes, the edge of darkness, maybe that is the moment when our human civilization will eventually die. But before that, the noble alliance will continue to protect human society, especially our fragile civilization. We will copy countless copies of each specimen and treasure it in the corner of the universe forever..."
"Maybe one day, when the fourth Great Rift Valley of civilization appears, our noble alliance will still be able to make up for this collapsed universe..."
The topic has become extremely heavy now. Wuchang sat blankly at the table and looked at the light on the holographic screen, his mouth half open and could not speak. He never expected that a few ancient poems and words would allow him to know such a big secret in the aristocratic alliance.
No wonder the organizational structure of the aristocratic alliance is so loose, no wonder they do not have such strong territories and money. It turns out that what they are considering is the existence of this human civilization, and they are the group of people who are truly standing on the top of the pyramid.
The man who smoked a cigar did not continue this topic. He knew that some things were incompetent by haste. Even if Wuchang was a smart person, it would take time to digest some new information. He silently turned off the terminal and did not say goodbye, so he ended the conversation, leaving Wuchang alone in the bedroom.
The middle-aged man snuffed out the cigar in his hand and turned around and left the hall. There was a long corridor behind him. I don’t know where it led. In this corridor, there was only one middle-aged man alone.
The hundreds of meters long corridor walked for more than ten minutes. After an air-tight door at the end opened, a small hall of more than 30 square meters appeared in front of him. In the middle of the hall, a tall stone slab was floating in the air, countless lights were projected on it, and a beautiful mural appeared in front of him.
"Baby, my baby, I finally know your name...Bumping Pipa Roche... It turns out that those two words are called Pipa, and the instrument behind you is really from the ancient times..."
If Wuchang were here, he would probably recognize it at a glance. This floating mural is the most famous mural in Cave 112 of Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang in his previous life. It is called "Rebound Pipa Ji Yue Tian"