The Way Back to Civilization

Chapter 40: An Invitation from God

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

As soon as Professor Makadoo finished speaking, the originally lively atmosphere in the venue seemed to have frozen in an instant. Everyone, including the officials who were still stirring the atmosphere, looked at the worried old professor on the stage in disbelief.

“Wake up, children! This is a hopeless struggle! Our blind optimism and our arrogance will only bring destruction to our race.”

“Open your eyes and take a look! We’ve never been the masters of this starry sky. Breaking through the shackles of the planet and stepping into the universe is only the first step we’ve struggled to take.”

“This universe is even crueler than we imagined. Only by exploring and developing with a heart of reverence can our people truly have a place in this starry sky one day.”

Professor Makadoo’s majestic voice reverberated in the crowded venue. When his gaze swept across the crowd in front of him, there was surprise, anger, sorrow, and silence on their faces. Most of them were deeply puzzled.

At this moment, what was pressing down on Makadoo’s old body was the burden of a race. Even though the outcome was unknown, he still had to expose this cruel truth for his race.

“The technology of those guardians is far more advanced than ours by tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years. The battleships that we are so proud of are worthless targets in front of them. It’s not too late…”

“As long as we retreat from Planet Gaia immediately and return the relics stolen from the tomb, there might still be room for negotiation…”

However, not long after this imploring speech ended, a young general in a military uniform with accolades on his chest suddenly stood up.

“I will not allow anyone to insult my people in my presence! To insult the honorable and brave soldiers! Not even you!”

These words were like a stone that stirred up a whirlpool in the originally silent venue. Under the increasing dissatisfaction, Professor Makadoo, who was originally called a hero, instantly became the target of public criticism.

Gradually, the assembly became a trial ground for the professor. The senators who were trying to cover up the truth joined in and began to question Makadoo’s true motives at the top of their lungs.

“Hang this cowardly traitor!”

“Burn him! Burn him!”

“The dignity of the nation cannot be slandered!”

At this moment, listening to the vicious words coming from below the stage, Professor Makadoo finally understood what extreme authoritarianism, extreme nationalism, and extreme militarism could turn an originally intelligent and rational people into.

“No… that’s not what I meant…”

No matter how Makadoo defended himself, everything seemed so helpless in such an environment. Seeing that the situation was getting out of control, Makadoo’s students had no choice but to take the professor away from the venue before the crowd lost control.

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In the speeding car, Professor Makadoo looked at the crowd on the street and felt an indescribable complex emotion in his heart.

At this moment, warships carrying soldiers were sailing from the surface into the night sky. They were going to reinforce the newly colonized Planet Gaia in the name of protecting the hard-won fruits of victory.

Looking at the crazy citizens, Makadoo could not understand how such insignificant results could cause a nation to expand to its current state. It had clearly only eliminated some natives who were still using cold weapons in a few wars of celestial expansion and seized two barren and desolate planets.

Not far away, the young soldiers were building fortifications on the ground. As a people who had tasted the sweetness of war, the Normans had always regarded the development of armaments as their first priority for the past few decades.

Even the planet they lived on had been transformed into a fortress world filled with fortifications and artillery fortresses.

On the car radio, a few hosts were joking with each other, claiming that if those funny-looking guardians of the Holy Land dared to land on their planet, they would immediately be exhausted by their long fortress and hundreds of millions of soldiers.

Hearing this, Professor Makadoo muttered to himself in disappointment.

“These people don’t even know that they’re about to die…”

In fact, from the beginning, Makadoo had warned more than once that colonizing Gaia was definitely a mistake.

Before they understood the situation around them, they should continue to investigate or at least wait until the ambassador of the Galaxy Community arrived to consult the suggestions of these ancient civilizations.

However, in the end, those people did not have the patience to wait for Dr. Makadoo to contact those aliens. Just as he deciphered the other party’s language and understood what a holy land was and what a lost civilization was,

Their clansmen, who had long been impatient, had already occupied that place and arrogantly rejected the communication from the Guardians of the Holy Land. They did not even bother to listen.

By the time he could react, the declaration of war was already sent here.

“So what should we do next? Professor Makadoo—”

At the side, the student driving the car asked with a heavy heart.

“I don’t know about Yum … I don’t know …”

Not long after, as the car was about to reach the entrance of the research institute, intense flames suddenly burst out from the trash on the side of the road.

Immediately after, there was a violent explosion. The sudden explosion sent the car that Professor Makadoo was sitting in flying and overturned in an empty space not far away.

Everything happened so suddenly. When Professor Makadoo, who was dizzy from the shock, dragged his old body out of the shattered car window with difficulty.

Not far away, a few blurry figures were slowly approaching him with guns in their hands. The student driving by the side had his throat cut by the debris caused by the explosion. He struggled and fell into a pool of blood.

Obviously, those people were here to punish him…

Looking at the twitching corpse in front of him, Professor Makadoo, who was lying on the ground, had completely lost his last bit of obsession with this race.

He did not understand. He had clearly sacrificed so much. Be it him or the race he had contributed to, everything should not have ended like this.

However, just as Professor Makadoo was unwilling and was prepared to face death…

Scientific research ship No. 8, who had been observing the situation, understood that now was the best time to attack. A few laser beams easily pierced through the bodies of the attackers.

Under Professor Makadoo’s surprised gaze, a skull-like drone that he had never seen before gradually emerged from the night sky.

Then, under his gaze, the drone floating in the night sky slowly floated to the dead student’s side. After removing the debris inserted in his trachea, a warm light flashed.

Soon, the student, who should have been fatally injured, struggled to get up from the ground. The wound on his neck had already disappeared.

What kind of miracle was this…

In the next moment, the Skull drone arrived in front of the professor while he was still in shock. At the same time, a sacred and majestic electronic voice came from its communicator.

“Our great god has already noticed you. That supreme existence has now decided to give you a chance, a chance to come into contact with the infinite truth and the origin of the universe.”

“Now answer me if you’re willing to accept this hard-won favor.”

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“I’m willing…”