Star Iron, after using the mod to make the Big Black Tower dark, the game became real

"These nanobots can absorb life force energy and imaginary energy... They can devour all matter and multiply to produce more of their kind, growing exponentially in number."

"What's even more terrifying is that they will never face the problem of energy depletion, because the entire galaxy is filled with imaginary energy."

"In the process of continuously devouring, they are constantly evolving, just like a perpetual motion machine."

"If it had been dealt with immediately upon initial discovery, it might have been possible to eradicate it completely."

"But now... it's too late. Who can guarantee that the trillions of nanobots shown in the star map are all of them?"

"What if they adopt a split-force strategy, with one part responsible for frontline combat and the other hidden in the rear for resupply..."

"At this rate, we'll never be able to eliminate them all, we'll never be able to eliminate them all!"

The gold dust had no answer.

This battle was hopeless; they were facing a dubious "global locust plague."

They are not fighting insects, but nanorobots that are tougher, more versatile, and easier to maintain than insects.

Nanorobots are engineers, inventors, and modular machine assembly plants.

They can assemble a giant weapon the size of a planet in just a few seconds and blast an entire galaxy to pieces with a single shot.

The company cannot defeat this kind of enemy.

The ten men from Shixin were dejected.

Emerald gazed at this scene and sighed softly.

"Retreat."

"The Broad Knowledge Society is working hard on its research; we just need to stall for time until the new technology research is completed and enters the experimental stage..."

As Jade spoke, her voice grew weaker.

Even she herself didn't believe such a thing.

The Society for the Study of the Broad Knowledge is not a club for geniuses. Experiments that mediocre people cannot complete even after a lifetime of hard work may be solved by geniuses in a flash of inspiration.

It's good to expect the erudite students to research projects that will make them rich.

Develop technology to counter the empire? Wishful thinking.

……

The Interstellar Peace Corporation was engulfed in war and suffered heavy casualties, while the Empire remained peaceful and tranquil as always.

The war on the front lines had no impact on Sky Tower's intergalactic trade market.

It did have some impact when the war first broke out two weeks ago.

Members of the Starsea Community fear a violent conflict between the Empire and the Corporation, potentially plunging regions like the Onpharos system into war.

However, many civilizations were astonished to find that this conjecture was completely unfounded.

The empire remained unaffected, and the country was filled with singing, dancing, and lavish banquets.

Some small civilizations seized the opportunity and transformed into medium-sized civilizations, conquering several habitable planets in just a few days, increasing their development speed by thousands of times.

This discovery completely ignited public opinion.

After that, no matter how fiercely the Empire and the Corporation fought, trade in the Onpharos system remained completely undisturbed.

Normal civilizations, weak faster-than-light civilizations, and even pirates.

They traveled between star systems, using the Onpharos system as a transit point for trade, and under the protection of the imperial order, they established the beginnings of a prosperous golden age.

It can be described as an interstellar version of the "Silk Road".

……

Governor's Palace.

Jiang Wei checked the recent resource growth.

Collect resources from parallel universes to replenish the empire's treasury.

Currently, energy coins increase by 2320 per day.

Minerals increase by 405 per day.

Alloy increases by 6590 per day.

The minerals are so scarce because a piece of ore collected flies to the foundry before it even reaches the national treasury, where it is transformed into an alloy.

Then it flies along the assembly line to the shipyard and becomes a part of a giant warship.

Such efficient resource conversion was something the empire could never have achieved before. It was only thanks to Jiang Wei's opening of parallel universes that resources could increase several times over each day.

The only problem is... the workload has also increased several times over.

"With transport fleets coming and going, it's hard not to attract attention. The company probably already guessed that the Empire had gotten involved in parallel universes, otherwise, these massive amounts of resources from unknown sources simply cannot be explained."

There are too many resources; they can't fill an ocean or create a planet out of thin air.

It's galaxy-scale.

It can violently fill more than a dozen star systems with so many resources that they are impossible to breathe.

The Empire is a super-civilization capable of gathering resources in parallel universes.

The daily energy and resource consumption amounts to an incomprehensiblely huge sum.

For a normal civilization, a star that has been burning for tens of billions of years might be seen as an infinite source of energy.

In the eyes of the Empire, stars are no different from sand. There are plenty of them in the universe, which can be easily converted into liquid spiritual matter to assemble the Empire's unique Mind-class battleships.

A robin came along with some documents and some good news.

"Ms. Black Tower saw that we had too much work, so she invented some small technologies in her spare time."

"Really? That's just her personality; she's stubborn but soft-hearted."

Jiang Wei opened the log.

The Imperial Scientists' Great Black Tower has unlocked a research project: "Mysterious Substance Replicator".

He took the documents.

A robin brought him a teacup and stood by to serve him.

[Mysterious Matter Replicator: Empire resource production +50%, Physics research +130%; A mysterious technology that extracts resources from temporal entropy and distorts the laws of physics with mental energy, causing resources to increase out of thin air; Empire construction limit 0/1]

"It's a bit awesome."

Jiang Wei glanced at the cost.

It costs 5 Star Jade, 30 Dream Elements, and 12 Time Difference Materials. It is quite expensive, but worth the price.

"Time zone substances are really difficult to deal with."

Jiang Wei took a sip of tea; it had a fragrant aroma, so it seemed to be a specialty of Xianzhou.

I casually picked up the robin and held it in my arms to rest for a while.

"Currently, relying on the production from parallel universes, and taking into account the Empire's timeline, the daily natural increase is 12 time difference matter."

"Both the Dream World and the Time Nexus have the function of repairing timelines, and both consume time difference substances."

"The time difference material was almost used up before it could even be properly stored..."

"It's true that the wool comes from the sheep's back."

Jiang Wei rubbed his face against the robin's feathers; the touch was very comfortable and quite soft.

The robin's eyes were glazed over, unable to concentrate because of Jiang Wei's antics.

She came up with an idea.

"Open more timelines?"

"It's tricky. Time difference matter originates from 'timeline deviation,' and can also be used to repair abrupt changes in the timeline, making the history of parallel universes consistent with the main universe. Therefore, no matter how many timeline branches are opened, the output won't increase much."

Timeline branches are not a panacea.

It only solved the Empire's resource problem, but at the cost of consuming the Empire's daily production of time-varying materials.

“Creating a branch in the timeline would be less worthwhile than saving Bai Heng, unless we ignore parallel universes, arbitrarily mine resources, and then delete the timeline. But doing so would ultimately lead to bad things.”

The timeline of the main universe can be viewed as a straight line.

The timeline branches in parallel universes are wavy lines.

Since the two overlap, it is essential to ensure that the timeline branches always remain within the safe range of the main timeline.

Once the curvature exceeds the limit, the parallel universe will head towards an unpredictable future, which is likely to be a bad thing.

For example, if the "Four Ends Theory" is triggered prematurely, a certain force will suddenly rise to power, leading the Star God into the game, and the Empire will completely lose control of the parallel universe.

Jiang Wei had an idea.

The process of maintaining stability is like a game of strategy; the greater the cost the empire bears, the greater the benefits it gains.

Nowadays, to avoid costs, the Empire has adopted a conservative strategy, resulting in a relatively small production of time-difference materials.

From this moment forward, the empire will change history.

But what should we do?

Jiang Wei pondered, then unbuttoned the robin's dress, savoring all the beauty of this angelic girl.

……

"The Ideal City Project?"

The Great Black Tower received Jiang Wei's proposal.

"In order to acquire 'time difference matter' more efficiently and resolve the Empire's stagnant Titan production problem, the Ideal City Project will be initiated in the main universe."

"The first step is to artificially create the largest habitable planet, ensuring that a single planet can support hundreds of billions or even trillions of people."

"The second step is to transform the planet into a specialized planet, capable of engaging only in a single task..."

The Great Black Tower examined the words left by Jiang Wei in the plan.

"Integrating the world into one city, building a city for the world."

"Ideal City...that's a nice name."

The Black Tower has been busy with defense-related matters lately.

With the technologies of "Time Coating" and "Time End Strike", the fleet is extremely powerful.

The simplest form of national defense is to send a fleet to garrison key star nodes.

The moment the enemy leaps in, lie in wait and annihilate them all.

The "leap" technology has no flaws on ships like the Psychic-class battleships.

For other ordinary fleets, the shipboard systems required for warp jumps are silenced, the power consumption of weapons such as main guns is reduced, and warp jump deviations are avoided.

This resulted in the fleet undergoing readjustment and experiencing a decline in combat effectiveness several days after the jump.

Imperial warships utilized this characteristic to lie in wait for prey, achieving a fairly good level of defense efficiency.

But it's far from a good plan...

The Great Black Tower is considering a more advanced, sophisticated, and feasible plan to make things easier for Jiang Wei.

Chapter 110 The Extravagant and Abundant Illusory Realm

The robin looked exhausted when it left the governor’s mansion, its calves trembling slightly.

I brushed past her on March 7th and asked her a couple of questions.

Hearing that Jiang Wei planned to build an "ideal city," she looked up the concept using the book I wrote and quickly became curious.

……

Where should we build our first ideal city?

On March 7th, they circled around Jiang Wei.

While Jiang Wei was working, she playfully hugged his shoulders from behind and gently pressed herself against him.

"I have not decided yet."