Human Nature

"Master! When did you arrive?" Looking at Musk standing some distance from the gravity platform Liu Zhen was slightly excited. Wang had raised her and even paid for her education from when she could remember and thus she looked at him as a guardian. After close to two decades, she can be said to have some understanding of why Wang still looked so young. Based on her understanding he should at least be more than fifty. But she herself being middle-aged, still looked like she had just reached her twenties.

Martial arts was responsible for it, and more so, the fact that she was at the second stage she was more or less in a better physical condition than even teenagers. "Well, it seems like she has completed using the gravity platform. It's best to have her get to work, and help me with keeping up with the exploration in space."

He could perceive a lot but not enough to know the entire situation in the space station on the moon. But that was not in a hurry as he could still wait for a few months before he checked on the data. For the moment, he was not in a rush to do anything.

Looking at the little girl that has grown up there were no waves in his heart at all. It can be said that over the millenniums, he had a change in mentality and came to accept some facts. His pursuit of immortality was not easy and sometimes he did some stupid things when he thought of it rationally with the passage of Eras, he understood some truths.

Sometimes he was lonely and thought of spreading his Tortoise Longevity art, and in that period he also understood that human hearts were sinister. His obsession at the time was to try and spread the art to have others like him but in the end, it did not work, but he became a good experimental sample wanted by others. In the ongoing Eras, he learned numerous lessons and came to an understanding that humans were of the same nature.

Being naive with them would be no different from seeking death, and thus managed to start keeping out of human sight since technology owned by humans in almost all Eras could make it easier to raise doubts if his face was in the public all the time and his lifespan is longer. Some knowledge he grasped, in the beginning, was not done out of willingness but rather desire to survive longer. With the passage of time, he ended up acquiring immense knowledge and as is, currently standing at the peak of humanity in knowledge alone.

This has also allowed him to view most things in a calm way, without being bothered, and at the moment he looked at the little girl before him and sighed before saying, "Liu Zhen! You have yet to reach the gravity of the Earth 15x? Well, try to set it as the current goal. Ooh and it is also the time to check the news about the exploration of space for me and if anything interesting pops up inform me. Im going to spend the rest of the time repairing the shuttle I came with."

He was indeed going to focus on the space shuttle and at the same time decided to not waste his time on the gravity platform as it would not help increase his strength in a short term.

When Liu Zhen left, only Musk was left sitting on the gravity platform and his thoughts were drifting as he seemed to have been reminded of a lot. Observing the world rather than meddling allowed him to gain some insights into human nature and it was not that attractive.

"Where humans exist, there will be interests and from them, a society develops. In the end, the interests become more and more until it reaches a point of greed, lust, and pursuit of power. Because of these reasons, humans will go to war, scheme against each other, and even surrender to others. The strong will have the best resources and for men with the ability, numerous wives and countless concubines become a norm.

The poor men have nothing to eat, so women are not even their priority, survival is. The more society advances the more pronounced this becomes but not many people realize it. One group of those at the top occupy resources and females while the other group has to become subservient to the top group of the minority to survive."

This was something that Musk had realized over the years and society would change slightly from time to time in every Era but this observation would always remain and those that managed to go further were not some democratic systems as everyone might think rather where the minority make decisions. In such societies, human activity was thus limited to production, and other privileges were withheld from them until some breakthrough had been made.

When such societies reached their peak, the pursuit of those in power changed to longevity, after all when one was used to their power then it would be better to live longer. With this mentality, most of societies would invest in this and he has seen it in all those civilizations that had reached this stage. Democratic civilizations on the other hand did not manage to reach this level at all as they ended up collapsing due to humans having too much power and freedom of choice that everything eventually becomes an issue of personal feelings over responsibility.

In some cases, changes were made with some leaders coming forward and suppressing everyone but most did not have this luck. In this way looking through the passage of Eras he was sure that a world needs there to be some strict system that puts everyone in their place otherwise everyone would start to think the world revolved around them.

In the end, however, he did not care much since the change in Eras seemed like something that nature would slowly guide humans into.

All the events he had experienced, started with things that everyone deemed foolish but before they knew it they were in a situation that could not be remedied.

Though most of the Eras ended due to situations beyond human control such as Asteroids, and nature some were caused by humans themselves exercising their "rights". In such times only a few managed to survive but the collapse of the majority resulted in the minority paying for it. The world supports a certain number of people and when the population drops to a certain level, then it becomes even more dangerous for the rest.

The rumor from his previous life about the planet having many people seemed to have been witnessed by him not solving anything and in fact when the human population dropped by two-thirds in one time, the world become unstable. Immense resources present started to accumulate without anyone to exploit them changing the nature of the planet for the worst.

At that time he did not understand the situation but he was certain that not exploiting the resources in the world in itself was no different from pointing a middle finger at mother nature and it retaliated really badly. Since the resources were present, provided by nature humans had to exploit them and allow the cycle of nature to go on, but trying to finesse nature on a large scale and disrupting its plans in itself is no different from courting death.

With this thought in mind, he also tried to keep his presence very low during the period and at this moment even willing to go out and explore space because for some reason he was very worried. He is not sure whether the world would accommodate him anymore and stay away is the best way. He was sure that the moment he broke through the sixth level on the planet even his life would be endangered.

This is because, in the fourth and fifth level breakthroughs, he did it when the world was devastated. The unique force that was fed into his body seemed to come from the world and it might not just be willing to give more in the future. Observing the sun and feeling fear, also allowed him to understand that these celestial bodies were dangerous, and thus even his cultivation would be done on the moon. In the same way, the further from the earth the better his chances of a breakthrough but before that he needed to get some resources in space.

But this was all not under his control and he could only let the development of things happen naturally at this point, and instead of wasting time, spend some making some changes to his space shuttle to improve its efficiency.

The bio environment in the space shuttle was enough to support him as it had taken the same technology used to imitate the ecology of the earth. With it, the shuttles and even small residences on the moon can create micro ecologies resembling earth. The resources were not enough to convert the entire moon but this also made Musk very appreciative of human intelligence. His system was slightly back on this because he did not prioritize it in the manufacturing of the shuttle.

But at this point, he has intentions to make some changes to this direction, "This stone has some camouflage capabilities.."