Chapter 024: Laborious Technology

In Wang Bo's view, technology like terraforming shouldn't be low-end.

Not many people would sell it in stores. Such technology is usually contraband; if you want to buy it, you have to do so on the black market.

Of course, this was just Wang Bo's own opinion.

But having just arrived on Xandar, without even a valid identity, he naturally couldn't trade in legitimate shops, so he had to trade on the black market.

As for whether Xandar had a black market, Wang Bo wasn't worried at all.

The black market, how to put it, is a necessity after civilization develops to a certain stage. In Wang Bo's view, Xandar would be no exception.

This planet must have a black market somewhere.

If it really didn't, Wang Bo could leave Xandar and go elsewhere.

Now, what Wang Bo had to consider was how to find the black market and blend in.

If he were an ordinary person, he would be completely at a loss, not knowing where to start, after all, an ordinary person arriving here would be unfamiliar with the place and the people.

He wouldn't even know where the streets were, let alone the black market.

But Wang Bo was different; he was a mage, proficient in magic, even skilled in mind control and hypnosis spells.

So, Wang Bo just needed to find a successful upper-class person on Xandar, sneak into their home, hypnotize them, and ask about the black market's location.

If one person didn't know, a few more would do.

After all, someone would know.

When leaving, he could cast the Obliviate spell from the Harry Potter world to erase that memory, confident that no one would know he had been there.

The above was very suitable for a mage.

But Wang Bo had an even simpler method.

Wang Bo took out the Decepticon Friday from his fourth-dimensional pocket, had her connect to Xandar's network, fabricate a legal identity for him, and search for the black market.

On a technologically advanced planet, a network was essential.

And Friday could definitely be of great use in this regard.

"Master, Xandar's network is heavily encrypted, far surpassing Earth in confidentiality and firewalls. I need more time to crack this planet's network."

After Friday connected to this world's network, she realized the strength of Xandar's network.

But she wasn't discouraged.

In network and electronic warfare, carbon-based lifeforms were far inferior to silicon-based ones like them, especially Decepticons, who were experts in this field.

Xandar's network was formidable, but it still couldn't stump Friday.

It took Friday about a full day to finally hack into the planet's network, gain access, and modify Wang Bo's identity.

After another hour or so, Wang Bo transformed from an illegal intruder into a legitimate foreign merchant.

But Friday could only do that much.

Higher-level operations required greater permissions and more time.

Maybe three to five days, maybe a week or more.

Wang Bo waved his hand, telling Friday to stop the intrusion, and asked, "Did you find any technology related to terraforming on the network?"

Friday replied, "Yes, Master, I found it. Xandar does have terraforming technology, and it's very advanced. But even so, terraforming a planet takes a long time."

"How long?"

"It depends on the planet's volume. The larger the planet, the more difficult and time-consuming the terraforming. It might even exhaust a planet's resources without completing the job. So on Xandar, and in the mainstream of the current universe, the focus is on finding new, habitable planets in space."

Wang Bo understood.

The universe is vast, with many planets. Instead of laboriously terraforming a planet, it's better to directly find a suitable one to live on.

After all, terraforming costs too much.

So, not much breakthrough had been made in terraforming technology.

As a result, even terraforming a planet the size of Mars would take decades, requiring huge investments of manpower and resources.

Frankly, with that much manpower and resources, they could actually build an artificial planet.

After hearing Friday's account, Wang Bo found it reasonable.

Finding a planet is much easier than terraforming one.

Even Earth, which hadn't yet left its planet, had observed the universe and even found a planet similar to Earth—Kepler-452b!

This planet is located in the constellation Cygnus, 1,400 light-years from Earth, with a diameter 1.6 times that of Earth. NASA announced its Earth Similarity Index as 0.83.

It was the first discovered planet close to Earth's size orbiting another 'sun,' possibly possessing an atmosphere and liquid water. By human standards, it seemed a 'habitable' planet, dubbed by some as Earth's 'cousin.'

Even Earth could find its cousin; Wang Bo believed that Xandar, with technology surpassing Earth's, must have found new planets suitable for their survival.

If another civilization also had its eye on the same planet, they could just fight a war over it.

Wasn't that how the Kree Empire expanded?

Only Titan, where Thanos was from—apparently called Saturn's moon Titan—was a tragedy.

There would be no shortage of such tragedies in the universe, but they wouldn't be the mainstream.

After learning how impractical terraforming technology was, Wang Bo gave up on terraforming Mars. He wanted to annoy the UN, but he wasn't crazy enough to spend decades terraforming a planet.

Frankly, it was too time-consuming.

But although Wang Bo gave up on terraforming technology, he was very interested in other technologies, like spaceship space jump technology, and for example, Xandar's Nova Corps fighter manufacturing technology.

For instance, the manufacturing technology of the mask Star-Lord wore.

Also, the manufacturing technology of spaceships.

Although Wang Bo had no use for these things now, they might come in handy in the future.

So Wang Bo planned to collect some and hand them over to the Decepticon Conqueror to upgrade its technology.

Thus, Wang Bo ordered Friday to do her utmost to collect these technologies.

Friday naturally wouldn't defy Wang Bo's wishes, collecting these super technologies bit by bit.