Steam Era: The Lord of 'Puluo' Chapter 1414: Balance (Volume 2 Finale)
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Chapter 1414: Chapter 639: Balance (Volume 2 Finale)
Professor Zhao Zhihong was explaining companion stars to Li Banfeng, and during this time, he blew more than a dozen balloons, each with a different shape.
His obsession with balloons made Li Banfeng somewhat difficult to understand, but he was indeed a person with true knowledge and skill.
However, when discussing some concepts, the professor would be somewhat evasive. Li Banfeng asked: “What exchanges have taken place between the companion star planets and Earth?”
Zhao Zhihong’s eyes flickered, and he shook his head slightly: “This has exceeded the scope of my research…”
Judging from his expression, Zhao Zhihong had researched such questions, but he didn’t want to tell Li Banfeng.
Li Banfeng straightforwardly asked a more direct question: “Do you know Puluo State?”
Zhao Zhihong was taken aback and asked: “Who are you?”
Li Banfeng replied: “I’m a student from the School of Science.”
“Do you have a student ID?”
Li Banfeng took out his student card, which he hadn’t handed in yet; he had just used his wife’s skills to change the name to Li Qi.
But his wife forgot to change the student ID number.
Zhao Zhihong inspected it carefully: “Your grade isn’t right. You graduated a long time ago!”
Li Banfeng motioned for Zhao Zhihong to calm down and showed Zhao Zhihong his Dark Star Bureau work ID.
This made Zhao Zhihong even less calm: “Let me tell you, I, I, I do legitimate research. I’m, I’m, I’m not like Yu Yaoming and them…”
Li Banfeng pressed his palm down, signaling Zhao Zhihong to calm down: “We’ve been talking for so long, you should be able to see that I’m a good person. I’m not here to harm you; I’m here to learn from you.”
Zhao Zhihong didn’t believe Li Banfeng: “I can’t even see what you look like. Your hat brim is so low.”
“But I’m wearing a suit, aren’t I? I’m dressed very formally. Someone dressed very formally is surely an upright person!”
Li Banfeng spent five minutes explaining to Zhao Zhihong the relationship between formal wear, formality, and uprightness.
Professor Zhao Zhihong blew up a balloon and calmed down a bit.
He thought Li Banfeng made a lot of sense; this was indeed an upright person.
“I know some rumors about Puluo State, but…” Professor Zhao looked around. He didn’t dare to say more.
Although there was temporarily no one else in this office, it wasn’t his private office. He didn’t even have a private office, and people might enter and leave freely here.
Professor Zhao Zhihong always suspected that his office had surveillance and listening devices, a suspicion confirmed by the projector.
“The Seventh Guide, they have already become my friends.”
The projector controlled the surveillance and listening devices, creating an audiovisual illusion so that anyone entering the office couldn’t see the professor and Li Banfeng, nor hear their voices.
Of course, this was the last line of defense. Li Banfeng still hoped that no one would enter the office.
Meng De transformed into a Month Plate, hung on the door, making anyone wishing to enter the office feel morally condemned.
The Music Box stood guard at the door, ready to make anyone who threatens to enter, driven by exhaustion, decide to abandon the idea and quickly find a place to sleep.
If someone wishes to sleep in the office, Meng De will use dreams to make them sleepwalk somewhere else after they fall asleep.
With everything prepared, Professor Zhao finally agreed to speak.
He hugged a balloon, first stating his stance: “We researchers do not love money.”
“Wait a moment!” Li Banfeng left the office, returned to his Portable Residence, took out ten thousand in cash, put it in his backpack, and gave it to Professor Zhao.
Was this much money worth it?
The following exchange allowed Li Banfeng to realize the value of this ten thousand.
This professor had never been to Puluo State, but in a sense, he knew more about it than Li Banfeng.
“Actually, companion star planets started exchanging with Earth many years ago. Because it was so long ago, a lot of evidence is relatively scattered, and I can’t determine specific dates,
The exchange between companion star planets and Earth used wormholes, and some environments in the wormholes met the conditions for life survival.”
Li Banfeng listened very attentively: “Could you elaborate on this further?”
Zhao Zhihong blew a long balloon: “The life forms on the companion star planets have advanced civilizations. They can control the wormholes to extend in certain directions, just like this long balloon, getting bigger and bigger, longer and longer, from their planet extending all the way to Earth,
I don’t know what technology they used to control the wormholes. In comparison, Yu Yaoming’s research in this area is much more in-depth.”
Li Banfeng had doubts: “If the companion star planets you speak of are Inner State, as far as I know, their civilization has always been stuck in the steam age. How could a steam civilization control wormholes?”
Zhao Zhihong hugged the balloon, solemnly addressing Li Banfeng: “Your understanding of civilization is problematic. You’ve considered steam civilization as a backward civilization.”
Li Banfeng was puzzled: “What’s the problem with that? Compared to electrical civilization, steam civilization is backward.”
Zhao Zhihong shook his head: “This is a typical cognitive fallacy. The type of civilization and the advancement of a civilization are two different concepts. Earth chose electrical civilization because it better suited Earth’s environment,
Whereas in the companion star system, their environment may be more suited for the development of steam civilization, so they’ve taken steam civilization to its extremes.”