Age of Cataclysm: I can light up the technology tree

Uh-huh.

The closed door of the office suddenly opened, revealing the bizarre world inside - azure holographic projections filled with various data filled the entire office.

In the center of the huge holographic projections, a small figure sat on his chair with his head buried.

It can be seen from the figure's movements that he seems to be performing some important calculation work.

"Academician Wang, take a seat."

A familiar voice came from the front.

"Hey!" Wang Man responded quickly and carefully squeezed into this world full of formulas and data.

Even though he was extremely careful, he still inevitably came into contact with the light of the holographic projection, causing ripples to appear on its surface.

"Wait for me for a while and let me finish the work at hand." Lu Yongchang said softly.

Wang Man felt the long-lost gravity and nodded silently.

A robotic arm robot fetched a cup of hot tea with ease and gently placed it on the coffee table in front of him.

Looking at the mist rising above the tea, and then turning to look at the endless starry sky outside the porthole, Wang Man subconsciously sighed deeply.

"What? Are you discouraged now?"

As a familiar joking voice sounded, a figure blocked the light of the holographic projection and stood in front of him.

"Lu, Professor Lu...I..."

Wang Man stood up with an awkward look on his face, rubbed his hands, and whispered with embarrassment: "Professor, I have failed to live up to your expectations."

The corners of Lu Yongchang's mouth raised slightly, with a faint smile, and he waved his hand nonchalantly.

"What are you talking about?"

"This is not your fault."

"The megastructure project and the starship replacement project are being carried out at the same time, which really tests the fleet's material reserves."

Wang Man looked slightly moved when he heard this: "Professor, what do you mean..."

"Stop one of the projects first?"

Lu Yongchang glanced at Wang Man with a half-smile: "Pause? Why pause?"

“Since mining technology can no longer keep up with the rate of resource consumption, let’s develop new mining technology!”

While speaking, Lu Yongchang raised his hand and made a gesture.

The dense holographic projections in the office are like spring snow under the sun, instantly turning into light particles and dissolving in the air.

Only a blank holographic projection was left floating quietly beside the two of them.

"Professor?" Wang Man looked at Lu Yongchang in front of him with some confusion, "New mining technology?"

"Planetary exploration and mining have developed to this point, and it can be said that it has reached its extreme."

"With nanorobots paired with large-scale mining machinery, the efficiency of mineral mining has been extremely exaggerated."

"I really can't imagine any other way to greatly improve the efficiency of mining." As he said this, Wang Man frowned and shook his head.

"Open your mind a little more." Lu Yongchang smiled and raised his hand to operate the holographic projection.

A familiar planetary image appeared in front of the two of them.

"This is... Kepler 452c?" Wang Man, who is engaged in planetary resource mining, recognized the planet immediately.

"right."

Lu Yongchang's eyes flashed with a faint light, and he said in a deep voice: "According to exploration, this is an iron planet."

"It contains a huge amount of basic metals and rare metals inside."

"If it can be mined completely in a short period of time, the fleet's resource shortage problem will be greatly alleviated."

"Professor, I understand everything you said." Wang Man responded in a low voice, "Currently, the focus of mining work is on this planet, but..."

"Too slow!" Lu Yongchang directly interrupted Wang Man's words.

"Open your mind!"

Lu Yongchang emphasized again.

Wang Man frowned and thought carefully.

After a few minutes, he smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Professor, you'd better say it clearly."

"I... really don't understand what you mean."

Lu Yongchang glared at Wang Man angrily: "You...you should be smarter!"

"Mining, why do we need to dig and mine little by little on the planet?"

“Why does your next excavator need to be an excavator?”

Wang Man: "???"

Is this... human language?

"This... is not mined on the planet, where else can it be mined?"

"In space?" Wang Man asked half-jokingly.

Unexpectedly, Lu Yongchang actually nodded in agreement: "Academician Wang, you have finally figured it out!"

Wang Man:? ? ?

Who am I, where am I, what have I done?

At this time, Wang Man's main focus was to be confused.

"Think about it, how tiring it is to mine on a planet, digging, mining, transporting..."

Lu Yongchang's voice was like a devil's whisper, slowly lingering in his ears.

"Even with nanorobots and giant mining machinery, these steps are very time-consuming and laborious."

"I came up with a simple and crude plan."

"Why don't we just blow up the planet and skip the tedious steps of excavation, mining and transportation!"

Wang Man: "...???"

He couldn't believe his ears for a moment.

What is this?

If the difficulty cannot be solved, then solve the source of the difficulty? !

"What do you think of my plan?" Lv Yongchang's devilish whisper continued, "Just think about it, the entire iron planet is broken into large or small pieces, and we can even use ship-borne laser cannons to carry out smelting steps in space directly. How efficient is this!"

Wang Man swallowed hard, his emotions were a little incoherent: "Teach, professor..."

"Hmm?" Lv Yongchang glanced at Wang Man.

"I think... your plan is very feasible, I think so too!" Wang Man said excitedly with a strong desire in his eyes!

He simply imagined the scene described by Lv Yongchang, and was so excited that he wanted to raise his arms and shout on the spot!

Sir, the times have changed!

Who uses mining equipment to mine?

...

Lv Yongchang was very satisfied with Wang Man's reply.

So, he briefly introduced this extremely explosive mining plan to Wang Man.

First, with the help of high-energy laser weapons and antimatter bombs, the iron planet was completely detonated.

Then, in order to prevent the planetary debris from flying around and disrupting the movement of other celestial bodies in the star system, a large number of gravitational shield generation devices are used to generate a reverse gravitational shield to "trap" these fragments within a fixed range.

After simple sorting, the reverse gravitational shield and high-energy laser beam are directly used to place the smelting and smelting work in space.

In this way, not only the mining efficiency is greatly increased, but also the smelting efficiency is greatly improved.

However...

The most difficult point at present is how to make a weapon powerful enough to detonate a not-small iron planet!