Chapter 117

Obviously, the White-Headed Eagle wasn't the only country on Blue Star interested in the suddenly "grown" island.

After the Sky Region Group made it clear that they refused to communicate, representatives from many countries approached Kyushu.

The two hundred spots in Kyushu's hands suddenly became highly sought after.

Although they weren't quite selling for the outrageous price of one hundred million dollars per spot, they did manage to secure a lot of benefits from other areas.

For example, the five spots sold to the White-Headed Eagle came at the cost of them canceling some policies and tariffs that were specifically targeting Kyushu's companies.

And the European Union, which had recently proposed imposing taxes on cars imported from Kyushu, quickly shelved the proposal after being given ten spots.

Simply visiting the island wasn't worth that price, of course.

They were willing to pay such a high price just to go up there mainly because this terrifying ability, which had changed the entire sea area almost overnight, was so outrageous that it shocked all the countries and forces in the world that were capable of discovering it.

But under Sky Pivot's absolute information suppression, they couldn't obtain any useful information and had no idea how the Sky Region Group had done it.

What kind of existence is the most terrifying?

The answer, of course, is the unknown.

"I once saw a very interesting question online, someone based on the concept of 'cultivation' in modern entertainment works, asked 'If technological civilization and cultivation civilization collide head-on, which side will win?'"

"Do you know what the best answer is?"

In Jiang Cheng's home, Su Yi looked at Yue Lingxiao and asked.

They had just been discussing this question, and Yue Ling was a little confused as to why these countries were willing to pay such a huge price to see the island.

"What?" Yue Ling asked curiously.

Xing Hen, who was learning Kyushu tea ceremony on the other side, also turned her head.

"For a technological civilization whose understanding of the world is based on 'science', if you think the other side is 'cultivating immortality,' then you've already lost."

Su Yi shrugged his shoulders:

"Many people have a big misunderstanding about science, thinking that science is just physics, chemistry, and biology, but this is only a part of natural science."

"Science is a system of knowledge that reflects the objective laws of nature, society, and thought. It's about investigating things to acquire knowledge, discovering phenomena, exploring principles, and summarizing laws."

"If cultivation really exists, from a scientific point of view, the first thing to do is to study why this phenomenon exists, and why individuals can become so powerful. Instead of drawing a line with the other party and thinking that this is unscientific and doesn't conform to the natural laws of 'metaphysics,' that's not science, that's religion."

"This is also why I publicly announced magic as life essence at the Water of Life press conference. I could have used this thing to make a lot of money, but I never mentioned it again."

Speaking of this, he looked at Yue Ling, and said seriously:

"Even though your world has hundreds of thousands, or even millions of years of history using magic, once Blue Star people discover the existence of magic, they can become more proficient in using magic than you, and develop more different forms of use, in a few hundred, or even a few decades. Your technological advantage in this area will cease to exist, do you believe it?"

The gap between systematic research and small-scale experience accumulation and dissemination is too great.

Kyushu had suffered from this before.

Many things are not necessarily better utilized just because you discovered them earlier. If the method is wrong, the previous accumulation will only be quickly caught up.

Su Yi had been getting along with Yue Ling and the others these days, and he roughly understood how the magic world used and inherited magic.

Whether it's a magician who plays magic, or a warrior who uses magic to temper his body.

Basically, they all follow the model of one-on-one teaching with apprentices.

Anything they research will only be passed on to their descendants or their closest disciples.

Any breakthrough discoveries usually take a long time to spread to the entire world.

Yue Ling thought carefully for a moment, and felt that Su Yi's statement seemed to make sense.

If according to Blue Star's model, after discovering the existence of magic, investing a lot of manpower and material resources to jointly research and share the research results, I am afraid that it can really quickly surpass their world's millions of years of accumulated technological advantages in magic...

"Wait, technological advantage?"

She suddenly froze for a moment, realizing what Su Yi was really trying to express.

She thought Su Yi was going off on a tangent.

"Smart!" Su Yi pinched her delicate face:

"Now do you understand why they want to come to the island so badly?"

"How we turned the island into what it is now is actually not important to them. Whether we used future technology from another world or magic from another world is also not important."

"Because whether it's future technology or magic that is obviously beyond the Blue Star technology tree, they must regard it as a technological advantage."

"Compared to 'metaphysics' and 'cultivation,' these completely unknown and incomprehensible concepts that don't follow science, even if they can't understand how we did it, as long as they classify it as a technological gap, it doesn't prevent them from thinking that this technological gap can be bridged. And the first step to bridge the gap is to figure out what technology we used."

"So, in order to set foot on the island and take a look, they are willing to pay a huge price."

"The unknown is always frightening, and they now want to break this unknown."

Yue Ling blinked:

"Then why did you agree to let them come up? The construction traces on the island are very obvious, and their people can easily guess that this is the result of some kind of mechanical construction, right?"

"Wouldn't it be better to keep them in this state of unknown and awe?"

"Because the unknown that can be seen and touched is more frightening than the unknown when it's pitch black and you can't see anything," Su Yi chuckled:

"Even if they come, they can't possibly know why we can have this power to change nature, which is more impactful than directly blindfolding them."

"When the technological gap is too large, no matter how scientific my things are, they are no different from completely unknown metaphysics to them. Even if they brainwash themselves and insist that this is just a technological gap, when they can't find a clue no matter how hard they study, they will naturally classify these things into unfathomable and frightening metaphysics."

"So sometimes, showing some things appropriately is more deterrent than hiding them."

"After this time, there should be peace for a while, of course, this peace should not last long."