Game of Thrones: Overlord of the Deep Sea

Chapter 208 Unknown Continent

The reason why Jack chose Yimen Tower was naturally the unknown continent of Sothoros.

Some people say that the continent of Sothoros is a huge island, while others suspect that Sothoros is an unknown continent that is wider than the continent of Essos.

However, due to limitations of navigation technology, and the fact that the Sothoros continent is covered by vast tropical rainforests, people on the known continent have been discouraged, and there have been very few explorations of the Sothoros continent.

The Yimen Tower was an outpost of the Gith Empire, and Jack could take it directly. The Yilin ruins to the south of the Yimen Tower also made Jack very curious.

Among the many creatures that have been discovered from Sothrowth so far, only the striped ghoul, or the striped man, is a humanoid creature.

In the eyes of many bachelors, although striped people have a human character, they are not considered human in the strict sense.

Because striped women can only give birth to striped men, and any births with Westeros men or Essos men will be stillborn.

Jack believes that the striped people may be in the primitive civilization of the hunter-gatherer period.

Because striped people can make tools, although they are all stone tools, this alone can distinguish them from the apes.

Moreover, Sothoryos not only has indigenous residents such as striped people, but also many powerful and ferocious beasts.

For example, there is a kind of orangutan in the "Green Hell" of Sothoros, which is said to be able to kill an elephant with one punch. Giants are dwarfs in front of them.

According to this estimate, this orangutan stood at least 15 meters tall.

In addition, there are giant crocodiles that can overturn ships, vampire bats that suck human blood in a few minutes, snake lizards that are twice the size of lions, and long-winged dragons that cannot breathe fire but are more ferocious than giant dragons.

But neither the striped people nor the various creatures can build a majestic city like Yilin.

Yilin has been abandoned for thousands of years, but it still stands.

Moreover, Yilin City is made of huge black bricks. The bricks are so huge that it requires at least 12 adult elephants to pull them.

This kind of brick is not easy to use to build walls, even if it is simply manufactured.

This kind of technology, and even some kind of magic, is far beyond the level of technology in Westeros and Essos.

If it is some kind of science and technology, it is definitely bad news for Jack. This level of technology cannot be achieved even by Atlantis today.

And Jack didn’t know where the aboriginal people in Yilin Ruins were. Did they encounter some kind of natural disaster or plague that couldn’t be solved?Or is it to escape from a more powerful civilization?

Either way, it's not good news.

If it is a magical civilization, it is not good news. After all, it is now known that the development of magical civilization in the mainland is very slow.

Especially due to the influence of the magic tide, when the development of magic civilization finally improved, it regressed at the speed of light.

Jack was very curious every time he thought about this.

If possible, he would like to know how Westeros and Essos have managed to achieve "magic without technology" during these ten thousand years.

This kind of thing may only be known to the King of Light, but it is a pity that the King of Light and all the false gods were absorbed as nutrients by the system when Jack first traveled through time.

If the magic tide can be used as an excuse for the development of magic, then there is no reasonable excuse for technology.

After all, the technological civilization in Jack's previous life ushered in a "technological explosion" in just a few hundred years.

Of course, in fact, both magical civilization and technological civilization may stagnate due to various reasons.

For example, if the country where Jack lived in his previous life had not been opened with artillery in modern times, it is unknown how long it would have stayed in the feudal period.

This is one of the reasons why Jack spares no effort to promote the development of science and technology. The painful historical experience tells Jack every moment that if you fall behind, you will be beaten.

Of course, Jack would not take the technological and magical civilizations of Westeros and Essos to heart.

Whether it is the nobles of Westeros or the Free Trade City of Essos, in Jack's eyes, they are just local chickens and dogs on the road of progress of the times.

But who can guarantee that civilizations with very advanced technology or magic will not appear in the unknown continents of Sothoros and Ultes?
If one day, an unknown civilization on two unknown continents suddenly experiences a technological explosion or magical progress, will Atlantis have to use medieval technology to fight against the legions of magicians or the torrent of steel in the future?
It was not that Newgate had not advised him on the gunpowder currently being developed by the Scientific Research Department. Even Asidov had advised him not to engage in this stuff.

Even Asidol wanted Jack to suppress the educational development and weapons development of Atlantis, because only in this way can the dragon's advantage be guaranteed.

After all, in Jack's book "Minecraft", it is clearly shown that an armed helicopter can easily tear a hundred-meter dragon into pieces.

What's even more terrifying is that this is a weapon that anyone can learn to use.

Asidol couldn't even imagine how terrible this weapon would be if it fell into the hands of the enemy.

In his opinion, Jack's behavior was the same as the Valyrian people's research on ballistae that could kill dragons.

Even the weapons developed are much more terrifying than the ballistae used to kill dragons.

So Asidov tried his best to persuade Jack not to bring the invincibility of the Kingdom of God to the mortal world. This weapon will only bring endless war.

Originally, Asidol explained the dangers to Jack, and even hinted that Jack would bring unpredictable shakes to the rule of the Poseidon family.But Jack's reaction went beyond Asidov's expectations. Instead of agreeing with Asidov's point of view, Jack believed that the development of science and technology should be vigorously promoted.

We should take advantage of the initial stage of technological development to quickly gain absolute advantage and become the leader.

You must always think about how to run faster, instead of always thinking about stumbling on others.

And Jack knew very well that in order for Atlantis to gain a firm foothold in the early days, he had already fired the first shot on the track of the development of technological civilization.

It was impossible to stop at this time.

Besides, Jack is not the kind of person who suppresses the development of civilization for the sake of his family's long-term rule.

Although he likes young women and is small-minded, the situation is not that small, especially when there are still two unknown continents that have not been explored.

Jack didn't want to be like the Manchus, who imprisoned the thoughts of the people in the world for the sake of rule, and then one day he would be beaten and beaten.

In his previous life, he often heard a saying that the butt determines the head. This sentence makes sense.

If the strength is not enough, then it is true that the butt determines the head.

Just like Joffrey, if he suddenly wants to engage in centralization or popular sovereignty, then he will definitely be sent to the gallows.

But if the strength is sufficient, they will choose to suppress the development of civilization because they are worried that the development of civilization will shake their family's rule in the future.

Jack can't do this kind of thing. He comes from the 21st century, and he is not trapped by the limitations of this era.

He is very clear about what the development of science and technology will bring. To him, the development of science and technology is not unknown at least until the information age.

If the butt really determines the head and suppresses technological development, then Jack has seen the end of Atlantis.

And he has left too many advantages for the Poseidon family.

Industrial foundation, scientific and technological development ideas, appropriate systems, giant killer dragons in the next few decades or even centuries, and atomic dinosaurs powerful enough to penetrate the earth's crust.

If Poseidon can still be overthrown under such circumstances, it can only mean that the fate of the Poseidon family has indeed come to an end.

If any force does not think about reform and opening up, the final result will be that it will run out of energy, and even reforms may not be able to last long.

Jack sometimes wonders if one day the rule of the Poseidon family is really ended.

Will the Poseidon bloodline be ended by other separatist forces?

Or will it be ended by capitalists or some class that sparks a prairie fire?

But these are not things that Jack cares about.

He just wants to see Atlantis become stronger step by step in his hundreds of years of life.

He hopes to see the technological civilization and magical civilization of Atlantis advance hand in hand, and even be able to set foot in the stars while Jack is alive.

Of course, this is just an expectation, and it may be impossible to set foot in the starry sky.

Unless Jack can gain immortality, and the dragon slayer will never turn into a dragon, he can continue to vigorously support the development of science and technology without any internal friction.

Only in this way can we hope to set foot in the mysterious and vast universe in a short time.

But if you are immortal, then time is meaningless, so there is no need to worry, just develop technology slowly.

But no one knows whether immortality is a curse.

Eternal life can make the body eternal, but the soul may not be able to withstand the erosion of time.

If he really became immortal, Jack couldn't guarantee that he would become the evil dragon in the eyes of the world.

It is precisely because of these thoughts that Jack is very curious about the civilizations on the two unknown continents, Sothoros and Ultus.

And Yilin is Jack's first step in exploring Sothothros.

Perhaps one day in the future, technology will be advanced enough, and the real age of navigation will come.

It's possible that Atlantis will discover a human civilization that is good at magic from Sothoros or the continent of Ultes.

I just don’t know if two civilizations meet at that time, will they start a war or have friendly exchanges?
　Do you think eternal life is a curse or a blessing?

　　Yilin is a huge city ruins in the Yi River Basin in the north of Sothoros continent. It is built of huge oily black stones.To the north is the Yimen Tower located on a huge delta.It is said that ferocious apes live in the jungle to the south of Yilin.

　　The origin of Yilin is one of the most puzzling questions among scholars and other scholars in the world.Similar to the Toad Stone on Toad Island, Yilin is also built from huge oily black stones. The bricks are so huge that it would take at least 12 elephants to pull them.Yilin has been abandoned for thousands of years, surrounded by jungle but has never grown into Yilin.

　　Any attempt by people to rebuild or settle here ended in tragedy. [3] When Nymeria led the Rhoynar people to migrate (i.e., The Voyage of Ten Thousand Ships), she once sent some people to establish a residence here.During the year they lived in Sothoryos, the residents of Yilin were often attacked by "brindled ghouls" in the forest.One day, for some reason, a ship sailed from Yimen Tower to Yilin, but found that all the people here disappeared overnight, so Nymeria decided to abandon Sothothros.

　　
　
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