Resurrection Empire

Chapter 657 - 247: The Green Plants in Upper Origin Capital, Twenty Years a Slave [Monthly Ticket]

Yuanjing City, the headquarters of the Source Star Business Association.

A city with a ground population scale of only ten million, but occupying an area of more than one hundred thousand square kilometers.

This city holds over 90% of the power and wealth of the Source Star System.

The city is located on the equator of the Eastern Hemisphere of Source Star.

In the center of the city, eight ropes made of special material with a diameter of 3.14 meters rise skyward.

The ropes gently sway; it’s unclear whether they are swaying because of the wind or being pulled by something at their top.

On the ropes, one vehicle after another, reminiscent of insect cocoons, intersects either ascending or descending.

The vehicles have a vertical length of about four hundred meters and a diameter of about ninety meters, filled with people or goods inside.

These eight long ropes and vehicles are exactly the Space Elevator of Source Star.

The end of the ropes is Upper Origin Capital, located below the small lunar orbit, while the ground station is Lower Origin Capital City.

The Space Elevator is not a technology of Source Star.

The most core rope and the perpetual propulsion engine, attitude correction engine, and core structural parts of the disk-like Upper Origin Capital were all acquired through interstellar trade.

Upper Origin Capital has a permanent population of over twenty million.

This massive Upper Origin Capital is comprised of seven layers of giant rotating wheels, with a vertical height of nearly 400 kilometers, and the radii of the seven giant wheels range from 30 to 60 kilometers.

The width of each giant wheel ranges from 5 to 8 kilometers.

The inner circle of the giant wheels is covered with a light blue radiation shield, making them look like doughnuts.

Underneath the light blue dome are spacious streets and distinctive buildings.

The buildings vary in size.

The architectural styles in each giant wheel differ, reflecting their various functional zones.

The only commonality among all the giant wheels is the greenery under the dome.

Green trees, green lawns dotted with red, white, pink, blue, and purple flowers.

The branches and stems of the flowers are also green.

A biologist active several centuries ago dedicated his entire life to this matter.

While young, the biologist accidentally discovered a mutated plant with emerald green leaves.

At the time, this plant grew in the shade of a giant tree.

The giant tree collapsed due to the impact of a Ruined Beast, directly exposing it to the sunlight of the blue sun, and it became wilting and was rapidly dying.

The biologist initially didn’t care, but out of curiosity, he moved the dying plant back to the laboratory and tested for the light wavelength that best suited its growth. Then using artificial light sources, he revived it.

Afterward, the biologist would check on this green plant every day.

Days passed, then suddenly one day, a colleague curiously asked the biologist if he had recently acquired some unparalleled beauty among the wilderness people, for his complexion was improving.

The biologist was startled awake.

He had no unparalleled beauty, but he did have one green plant.

A doubt arose in his mind.

Could it be that the most natural plant color in human perception isn’t blue, but green?

Next, he conducted comparison experiments for a few more months.

He enlisted all his colleagues to help carefully tend to this green plant.

Half a year later, the comparison experiments concluded, and he and his colleagues reached a unanimous conclusion.

Despite the mysteries of the human body remaining a bottomless pit, despite finding no reasons or theoretical support, humans feel more comfortable looking at green plants than blue plants.

Looking at the lush green jungle, the hormone ratios secreted within the human brain change.

It is an indescribable but objectively existing joy from the heart.

After that, the biologist and his colleagues decisively jumped out from their original project and focused entirely on green plants, forming a new project team.

They cultivated various green plants using methods like altering external light wavelengths and artificially guiding mutations, and began popularizing them among the Citizens.

The biologist and his colleagues had good intentions, but the project was nearly halted by the Business Association’s upper echelon due to ethical considerations.

However, a vast green wheat field ultimately succeeded in convincing the nine supreme Elders who were specially thawed from cryosleep to visit the site for inspection.

For some unknown reason, when the nine Elders, originally planning to halt the project, stood next to the wheat field, watching the artificial wind ripple through it and listening to the rustling sounds, they were stunned.

After a long time, the nine of them turned away with slightly reddened eyes, approving the project’s continuation, only demanding that green plants be planted in areas forever out of sight of the wilderness people.