Age of Cataclysm: I can light up the technology tree

After the complex inspection process was completed, the antimatter reactor of the planetary fortress began to power it.

Still a light up.

A huge ball of light appeared in the high-purity vacuum laboratory inside the planetary fortress.

The computing power test began soon.

At the beginning of the test session, Lu Yongchang's face changed a bit as he paid close attention to the data changes.

Something is wrong.

The computing power has indeed improved a lot, but the improvement is still far from the level of the mastermind of the Imperial Fortress.

Zero quickly completed the test of the "new home" and presented the test results in front of Lu Yongchang.

Sure enough, just as Lu Yongchang inferred during the test.

Compared with the first experimental machine, the computing power of the second experimental machine can be said to have achieved a qualitative leap - its computing power even exceeds that of Zero Habitat's ultra-large optical quantum computer array.

But considering energy consumption and floor space...

This is a total loss-making business!

It can't even be moved onto a starship!

Not only that, after making a simple estimate, Lu Yongchang was surprised to find that the structure of the Fortress Master Brain even negatively improved the computer's computing power!

To put it simply, if the size of the first test machine is enlarged proportionally and more computing processing units are stacked inside...

Then its computing power will even exceed that of the second test machine!

Not to mention what other researchers were thinking, when Lu Yongchang saw the test results, his face suddenly turned ugly.

There must be something wrong!

There must be some key technology hidden in the fortress mastermind of the Tenth Empire!

…

Lu Yongchang locked himself into Mo Zeyang's office with a sullen face, and the atmosphere in the R\u0026D center seemed very stiff.

Mo Zeyang led a group of academicians, looking blankly at the experimental data and observation data, trying to find the hidden key technologies.

All data is normal and there is no error at all.

He even checked the structure of the fortress mastermind again several times.

It is indeed an equal-proportion restoration.

Even the angle of penetration of the materialized light is exactly the same.

Mo Zeyang, who was sitting on the chair, suddenly became confused.

What went wrong?

…

The office door slowly closed.

Sitting on the chair, Lu Yongchang looked at the small blue holographic projection above the desk and fell into the same confusion as Mo Zeyang.

What went wrong?

suddenly.

Lu Yongchang's confused eyes fluctuated a little, and an incredible guess appeared in his mind.

In order to verify his conjecture, he quickly closed his eyes and his consciousness entered the technology tree space.

The tech tree space is as calm as ever.

The mottled background is still like a riddle, trying to reveal some shocking secret to Lu Yongchang.

But at this time, Lu Yongchang's mind was not on the background of the Riddler.

His eyes quickly moved to the bottom area of ​​the technology tree, and quickly swept up along the main trunk.

As the height of the gaze increases, the bright cursors gradually become sparse.

More and more dim areas appeared in Lu Yongchang's sight.

Originally, he would have been attracted by these half-hidden cursors, but now, his attention was completely attracted by a cursor hanging in the middle area of ​​the technology tree.

The cursor is bright.

This means that human civilization has completely mastered this technology.

The writing on the cursor made Lu Yongchang take a deep breath subconsciously.

Although the conscious body does not have a so-called cold breath, it still made this action based on the habit of the human body.

The text on the cursor is very simple: [Optical Brain]

But it contains a huge amount of information.

Optical brain, it is easy to understand, is the optical computer that human civilization is currently researching.

But...why was he already lit? !

How could he be lit? !

Human civilization has mastered optical computer technology, which has been certified by the technology tree system. In other words, the two experimental machines with limited improvement in computing power are optical computers, or prototype machines of optical brains.

As Lu Yongchang focused his attention on the cursor, a faintly visible thin line extended from the cursor and stretched straight to the top of the sixth-level civilization.

There is a thick fog over there.

The thin thread penetrated directly into the mist without any hesitation.

The fortress mastermind of the [Tenth Empire]...

Obviously, that should be a technology that only level seven civilizations should master!

…

A few days later.

The office door slowly opened, revealing Lu Yongchang's face that was a little pale due to overuse of his brain.

"professor……"

Mo Zeyang, who was still trying to find the reason, saw this and hurriedly stood up to meet him. He stretched out his hand to support Lu Yongchang's swaying body, and then shouted to the scientific researchers on the side: "What are you standing there for?"

"Why don't you go find Dr. Wen quickly..."

"No, no need."

Lu Yongchang took a deep breath and broke away from Mo Zeyang's support: "The optical computer has succeeded."

"Wha...what?" Mo Zeyang was stunned, and then his eyes showed ecstasy, "Have you found the reason?!"

"No." Lu Yongchang's eyes dimmed slightly, he shook his head and said, "I mean, we have succeeded a long time ago."

"The mastermind of the Imperial Fortress, that is computer technology belonging to the seventh-level civilization."

Hearing this, the smile on Mo Zeyang's face quickly disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye, and his lips began to tremble slightly.

"How could this happen..."

For a pure scientific researcher, Lu Yongchang's words were tantamount to sentencing his past efforts to death.

Not only Mo Zeyang, but other researchers in the R\u0026D center were also overwhelmed by this bad news.

"Then, then..." Mo Zeyang was a little incoherent, "We...then should we give up?"

"Yes, yes, that is the technology of the seventh-level civilization..."

"We should..."

"Should what?" Lv Yongchang straightened his body with all his strength, and his originally pale face also showed a faint ruddy color, "Give up? Impossible!"

"All observation data can prove one thing."

"The basic technology used by the fortress main brain is not much different from the optical computer we developed."

"But its performance is hundreds or thousands of times higher than that of the optical computer of the sixth-level civilization!"

"This is an opportunity!"

"An opportunity to increase the foundation of human civilization!"

Lv Yongchang's eyes became brighter and brighter: "I believe that human civilization can overcome this difficulty."

"Can the barriers between civilizations really not be broken?!"