Star Lord: Rob the alien race and you will get a hundred times the reward

Chapter 125 Solutions to the Resource Dilemma

While they were chatting, the spacecraft had already arrived at the control center, and a group of leaders from the Bonucci Industrial Zone were already standing quietly on the tarmac waiting.

Angela Crist, the general manager of the Bonucci Industrial Zone, looked at the gradually growing black dot in the sky and said to Duan Rudong, the director of the Bonucci Research Institute, "It seems that our Lord has come once since the establishment of the industrial zone, and has never come to inspect since then. If it weren't for this emergency evacuation, it would probably take a long time before we can see him again."

Duan Rudong, director of the Bonucci Research Institute, crossed his arms and sighed with a constipated expression, "I actually hope he doesn't come. Before he came, he kept urging us to speed up the research, making it seem like our tens of millions of researchers are just playing around. Now he's waiting here, and I don't know how much he'll urge us to do!"

Angela almost laughed out loud when she heard the other party's complaint. If you were to ask which department in the territory had the most people, the military would naturally be the first. However, the second largest department was not the administrative department that managed tens of billions of people, nor the logistics support department, but the scientific research institute. The entire Xinghai Territory's scientific research institute had more than 100 million scientific researchers alone. This was the final statistics before the war.

The number of logistical support personnel serving these scientific researchers is as high as 215 million. The Serra Industrial Zone and the Bonucci Industrial Zone, the two subspaces, are completely arranged around scientific research institutes and production industries. There are actually not many staff members in the Industrial Department, and they are basically technical talents who are responsible for handling things that machines cannot handle and arranging production processes to optimize products.

Therefore, the number of people in the Ministry of Industry is slightly larger than that of the territory's administrative personnel. The rest of the population are scientific researchers and their families, as well as families of logistics support personnel, etc. Even the previous vassal races were driven by Liu Wen to settle in the Nix subspace. It can be said that the industrial system only occupies a large area, but in terms of population size, it is mainly occupied by personnel related to scientific research.

Such a large number of scientific researchers are the foundation for driving the continuous advancement of the technology tree of the Star Sea Territory. After Liu Wen’s perfect technology tree reached the seventh level of technology, these hundreds of millions of scientific researchers are now switching back and forth between learning and application.

Today's scientific research departments pay more attention to vertical research and development of science and technology, but are not very good at application expansion.

The specific reason is that the technology tree is too perfect, and these scientific researchers do not have enough time to learn and master the scientific and technological knowledge. The research and development of related technical equipment is basically to modify the existing ones to meet the design requirements, and they have never really settled down to develop and apply technology.

In the past, they could use various excuses such as too much scientific and technological knowledge and lack of manpower. Anyway, they had met the equipment requirements of the design department. Therefore, Liu Wen did not say much, but urged them to speed up, understand the technology tree thoroughly, and build a level 7 rule-class battleship production line belonging to the territory.

But it is indeed not the fault of the scientific researchers that they are not doing their best. It is really because the time is too short. It has only been a few years. Even the time spent in school to learn these new knowledge is longer than this. This is why the current situation has occurred.

But now, due to the war, the subspace destroyed the space nodes and lost the fixed coordinates with the second world's cosmic membrane. The lord hid in the subspace. According to the current external situation, the stay time will be very long. Angela can fully imagine what will happen in the next period of time.

The increase in personnel will only increase the pressure on logistics support. It is enough to provide sufficient basic supplies, there is no more.

The lord is here, it is impossible for him to not take care of everything. There is no problem with the administrative staff, but it is difficult for scientific researchers such as Duan Rudong. After ordering to stop the production of medium and low-level warships, Angela can't think of what else the lord will do except promoting scientific research.

"Old Duan, you are already very lucky. I heard that all the scientific knowledge you are learning now was given to you by the Lord. You have been just studying from beginning to end and have not encountered any serious scientific research problems. Your scientific research efficiency is increasing linearly. The Lord has not asked too much of you. He just wants you to complete the upgrade of the industrial system to level seven technology as soon as possible. Work for a few years, and take this opportunity to lose some hair." Angela smiled.

Duan Rudong glared at him unhappily. "It's easy to say, but is it so easy to climb up the scientific and technological theories? Behind each theory, there are countless threads that need to be sorted out and summarized, and there are also verification experiments that need to be carried out. The consumption of resources makes me feel very distressed, let alone our lord. Moreover, in the current situation, we don't know how long it will be closed. With limited resources, every verification experiment must be more cautious, otherwise we may not be able to get out after the resources are used up! What should we do then?"

Angela nodded: "You are right, but the industrial chain of level 7 rule-level equipment is a symbol of advanced civilization, which means that our territory has officially entered the level 7 technological civilization. Even if we become independent now, we can still have a seat in the Interstellar Alliance and have voting rights."

Duan Rudong's eyes were also blurry, as if he saw the moment when he was put in the history book. But when he thought of the predicament he was facing now, all his dreams were shattered and couldn't be swept away.

The small spacecraft stayed in the planet's low-Earth orbit. Liu Wen and the other two transferred to a shuttle and landed on the ground. Hundreds of managers bowed in greeting.

"Welcome, Lord!"

"Okay, when did this kind of formalism emerge in our territory? Angela and Duan Rudong stay, and the rest of you can do what you should do." Liu Wen waved his hand to drive the others away. The territory was established only about ten years ago, and it is still in its prime. Although the internal hierarchy is clear, the way people get along with each other is still relatively casual.

Angela motioned Liu Wen and the other two to follow him into the car. Several hovercrafts rose up and headed towards the administrative building of the control center.

In the car, Liu Wen asked Angela: "Angela, my Bonucci manager, can you tell me how long the supplies stored in the Bonucci Industrial Zone can last?"

Angela waved her hand and summoned a projection ball and handed it over: "My Lord, this is the current material data in the Bonucci Industrial Zone, as well as material conversion data, subspace conversion data, industrial zone resource consumption data, and resource consumption data of the two external army groups."

Liu Wen just pointed casually, and the data entered the brain through the mental connection, and then was processed by the biological assisted computing center and integrated into the brain. In just a few seconds, he knew all the resource data in the Bonucci Industrial Zone.

"According to the current resource consumption rate, psychic materials can only last less than 30 years. The subspace devours the energy of outer space at a too low rate, and even normal consumption cannot be maintained. No wonder Xu Zemin reminded me so!" After reading the information, Liu Wen felt as if his head was hit hard. "Lord, you don't have to worry too much." Angra said to Liu Wen with confidence: "It is true that subspace resources are limited, and the technology is not up to standard, but it is not completely impossible to expand the channels for obtaining resources."

His words left Duan Rudong, who was well aware of the current level of technology, completely confused. He couldn't figure out where he got the confidence to solve the problem of lack of spiritual energy resources.

Facing the gazes of Liu Wen and the others, Angela explained: "Bonuccia Space is now located in the space layer and has not completely separated from the cosmic membrane. In other words, we can completely obtain energy from the space layer by breaking through the space membrane of the subspace to convert the corresponding substances for use."

Duan Rudong immediately denied it: "We don't have the technology to contain the space storm now, let alone absorb energy and convert matter in the space storm. Once the space membrane of the subspace is opened in the space layer, the space storm will sweep across the subspace and destroy the interior of the subspace. When the space membrane is restored, we may all have become elementary particles floating in space and converting matter. Shouldn't you go to the medical department for a diagnosis?"

Angra had obviously anticipated this result. The distrust of several people did not shake his confidence. Instead, he explained seriously: "I have checked the information. We do not have this technology, but the people brought in by the Lord have the ability to suppress and block the space storm."

Liu Wen immediately understood the other party's idea. High-level psychic warships do have the ability to stabilize space storms in local areas, but not through technical means. Instead, they use psychic energy to activate the rules of space for forced suppression. However, doing so is also very costly. If the reward is not proportional to the effort, then wouldn't it be a definite loss-making business?

"Have you done any verification?" Liu Wen asked.

Angela explained, "No, my strength doesn't allow me to do that. But after the Lord brought people in, I thought about the resource dilemma that I would face next, so I specifically checked the database and found this method. In fact, this was recommended by Laura, the intelligence center. After calculation, she concluded that the existing more than 3,000 psychic warships can completely create a space energy collector, and its energy collection efficiency is not lower than that of the dozen stars in our subspace."

Liu Wen pondered in silence and mentally connected with Laura to ask if the matter was true.

"That's true. I don't want to be demolished due to lack of resources, so I specifically reminded him." The intelligent life Laura put her hands on her hips, with a very dissatisfied expression.

Liu Wen nodded and looked at the data after the simulation calculation. The input and output will reach a ratio of 1 to 350, but there is also a prerequisite, that is, they can create equipment to constrain and convert space energy. This is not difficult. There are ready-made related energy technologies on the technology tree that can realize this plan, but the existing industrial system is not enough to produce it. It is also difficult to prepare the core equipment in the laboratory, mainly because the speed is too slow. It will take several years to complete the construction work. It is normal for problems to be delayed for ten years.

"Dean Duan, to what extent has your Bonucci Research Institute verified the seventh-level technology? How long will it take to complete the industrial upgrade?"

After understanding the specific situation, Liu Wen directed his attack at Duan Rudong. The energy absorption and conversion equipment was too large. It was the size of a planet with a diameter of tens of thousands of kilometers. It also had to integrate many regular technologies to meet the requirements. If it only relied on laboratory preparation, it would have to be stopped if there was a slight problem. Then it could not be used after it was built. Therefore, industrial upgrades were still necessary to meet production needs. The prerequisite for completing industrial upgrades was that scientific researchers completed the learning and technical integration of level seven technology and reshaped their own level seven technology tree.

Hearing Liu Wen's question, Duan Rudong stared at Angra speechlessly. This guy hadn't told him anything before, so he was not prepared at all. Now the problem came to him, but what could he do? He was just a researcher who had just stepped into the technological leader, not a technological pioneer. He didn't have the ability to digest things quickly and understand them at once.

"My lord, we have only completed the very basic parts so far, and have barely stepped into the door of level seven technology. However, if we want to complete the upgrade of the industrial system, it will take at least ten years of hard work." Duan Rudong asked for time as soon as he opened his mouth. He knew the situation in the territory, but he did need time to learn and verify. Technology cannot be achieved overnight.

Liu Wen didn't say anything more, but just pondered to himself in silence, which made Duan Rudong feel uneasy as he looked at him, wondering what the lord was thinking and whether he would remove him.

The hovercraft parked in the parking lot of the administrative building, and Liu Wen took the elevator alone to the control center underground.

"Laura, have you completed all technology sharing before disconnecting from the main body?" Liu Wen asked directly as soon as he came in.

Laura's data figure appeared in front of Liu Wen and said with a look of disdain: "Do you even need to ask this? I'm not the stupid AI you guys are using. I have my own subjective judgment ability and I know exactly what will happen after you start the war. How could you not prepare the reserves?"

"It's good that the sharing is completed. Then according to your design, can you produce it using laboratory equipment? I don't require it to be problem-free for more than ten years, as long as the core components are not damaged within a few years." Liu Wen continued to inquire.

Laura spread her hands with a look of regret: "I'm sorry, my lord, I can't do it. I have reminded you many times that I am only a management-type intelligent life, not a scientific research-type one. I don't have the design ability. The rough design I provided only looks feasible, but the specific details need to be verified and modified by scientific researchers with relevant capabilities before it can be manufactured. If you really want to follow the design I provided, you can only blow up this subspace."

Rubbing his eyebrows, Liu Wenxin said, "I'm very tired. Why do you need to use it to seduce me?"
"Is there no other way?" he asked without giving up.

"I'm sorry, Lord, at least I don't, but you can ask those psychic warships later if they can do it. Maybe they have better solutions and technologies." Laura reminded.

(End of this chapter)