Epoch of Twilight

"Mayor, the output of the Heart of Wisdom is nearly stable now. We have roughly tested the maturity period. It takes three months and ten days from a seedling to maturity. The latest batch of fifty-three is about ten days later. , it can be harvested." A person in charge of the Wisdom Tree production base stood beside Luo Yuan and said attentively.

"How many are planted now!" Luo Yuan asked.

"267, this is already the maximum value, and the maturity period will be extended when it is high."

Although 267 are few, these wisdom trees are all eighth-level plants. In addition to their own particularity, the demand for active energy is far more than that of ordinary eighth-level creatures. It can make 267 wisdom trees in about three months As the tree matures, the active energy it produces is already quite amazing.

Luo Yuan nodded noncommittally, and walked quickly to the heavily guarded building in front, and a group of people followed closely.

Since it was discovered that the active energy produced by the energy core is effective for the growth of the tree of wisdom.

Luo Yuan immediately expanded the scale of wisdom tree planting. For this reason, he deliberately used an empty building to have it remodeled and reinforced.

Compared with some mutated plants, the mature Wisdom Tree is naturally quite short, but it is also tens of meters high. With a floor height of about three meters, it cannot support its normal growth at all. Fortunately, the buildings are basically built in modules, which are simple to construct and equally easy to disassemble.

After refitting, the entire 70-story super building has only four floors left. Each floor has a height of 50 meters, and there are many metal columns inside. In addition, wisdom trees grow next to each other, with strong and thick trunks and lush green branches and leaves. Walking among them, it feels like entering a forest, which makes people feel refreshed.

Luo Yuan looked through the layers, and soon came to the top floor. Compared with the three floors below, there are not many wisdom trees here, only a few sporadic ones, and most of the space is extremely empty.

Not far away, a whole team of guards with live ammunition specially guarded a huge lead metal tank similar to a water storage tank, which was particularly eye-catching. It was ten meters high and nearly five meters in diameter. in every direction.

The energy core is placed inside, which is the most important core part of the entire Wisdom Tree production base. Without the energy core, this production base would lose its meaning.

"In order to save active energy, we specially designed the pipeline directly to the root of the plant, and carried out scientific management, which not only maximized the use of each active energy, but also greatly reduced the occurrence of accidents. As of At present, the accident-free safety record has reached 21 days."

"Well done!" Luo Yuan finally praised.

Hearing Luo Yuan's rare praise, the person in charge finally breathed a sigh of relief.

In order to establish this Wisdom Tree production base, it can be said that there is a lot of price paid, especially in the early stage, many staff members stimulated the Wisdom Tree because of ignorance, and lost their lives. As for the harvest, the number of accidents was even more.

In just over four months, thirty-two lives have been sacrificed here.

Fortunately, with the standardization of management, especially after the application of specially customized harvesting equipment, special laser cutting is used for harvesting, and the number of deaths has plummeted. Nowadays, accidents have rarely occurred.

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Before the inspection was over, Luo Yuan looked back again, and the tree of wisdom couldn't help but feel a surge of emotion. This wisdom tree production base has now become a powerful booster for the development of human science and technology!

The entire production base can provide about 1,000 hearts of wisdom each year, which can be made into medicines and can be taken by 2,000 people. Compared with the more than 100,000 scientific researchers in human beings today, such a number is naturally pitifully small, let alone popularized by the whole people. , even if all researchers get a share, it is still far away.

But even with such a small amount, its impetus to the development of human technology is beyond imagination.

Although the time is still short, it is only ten days before the first batch of wisdom potions are taken, but in these short ten days, human technology has shown an explosive breakthrough. The results that have emerged almost exceed the sum of the previous three months.

Just in the past few days, more than 30 Boxing factories have been reopened; the first generation of practical quantum computers has also been formally finalized, preparing for small-batch production...

This is due to the fact that the time is too short, and the number of people taking it in the first batch is only over a hundred people, and there is still a greater potential that is far from being released.

In many industries, individual efforts and diligence can make up for the lack of talent, but in the field of scientific research, it does not work at all. Most of the scientific research workers spend their whole lives doing nothing. The gap between an ordinary scientific research worker and a great scientist is even greater than the gap between a primary school student and a college student.

Moreover, with the advancement of human science and technology, especially after the twentieth century, human beings have acquired more and more knowledge, and its branches have become more and more detailed. Generalists are extinct, and many people spend their whole lives only in specific branches of fields, and there are very few scientific researchers who are interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary.

This is not to be more professional, but because there is not enough energy and too much knowledge to learn at all.

Especially in the process of humans cracking Boxing technology, the update of knowledge has become more frequent and intense. New achievements appear almost every few days, and new theories are supplemented or subverted every other month. The knowledge learned today will be obsolete after only one month and needs to be relearned. Even the speed of knowledge renewal is faster than the speed of learning.

Under this kind of rapid technological advancement, scientific research has become more and more demanding on IQ. Without the ability to learn quickly and understand new knowledge concepts, it is difficult to adapt to scientific research. In fact, most of the Scientific researchers are a bit unable to keep up with this rhythmic trend.

If this situation continues, the progress of human science and technology will inevitably gradually slow down. After all, the number of human researchers is really pitifully small, and such a number is even a bit reluctant to inherit civilization. The short-lived technological explosion of Boxing Technology will only become weak in the end.

The emergence of wisdom potion coincides with the fact that it allows human wisdom to be improved beyond the limit of human beings. With efficient learning speed and sharp thinking like lightning, even mediocre scientific researchers will become no longer ordinary. It can be said that , almost every one of them is a super scientist, or has the potential to become a super scientist.

It almost adds a strong booster to the development of human beings out of thin air!

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The cold wind howled across the ground, and the people from the engineering company dragged their tired bodies back to the spaceship one after another.

A day's work is finally over.

Cui Weichuan ordered his captain to count the team's tools and report the damage to the superior. Finally, he sat down on his seat. He unbuttoned his helmet, panting, and didn't even have the appetite to eat.

After working for a day, I am not physically tired. After all, it is not as good as before. Now the entire engineering company has thousands of engineering vehicles and various engineering equipment is even more difficult to count. It is no longer pure physical labor when mining ice.

It's just that after approaching the giant beast, the oppressive feeling of being out of breath made him extra mentally exhausted. This is still the effect of wearing protective clothing. faint.

"I really don't know, how does it feel to be working on the backs of giant beasts?" Thinking of this, Cui Weichuan immediately felt a lot more relaxed.

Their brigade got a good lottery. They were in charge of cutting the purple horn thorns on the giant beast's legs. They were said to be horn thorns. In fact, each one was six to seven meters long and four meters thick. It was densely covered with fine scales. And glowing with a faint purple light, looking at it gives people a sense of horror.

Moreover, this kind of corner thorns are incredibly hard. Ordinary mechanical cutting is not enough at all. In a few minutes, the gears have been smoothed out. Even high-power laser cutting is not easy to use. The best way is to Grind slowly with high pressure water.

Although the climate is severe and the water source required for high-pressure water cutting has become a problem, there is a mobile nuclear power plant on the construction site, which is extremely abundant in energy, and it only takes a little effort to obtain the water source.

It's a pity that for the whole day today, their squadron of 300 people and 80 sets of water cutting equipment only cut off the five thinnest horn thorns. Fortunately, many horn thorns have been cut in half. By tomorrow, there should be more Great improvement.

"Squadron leader, you haven't eaten yet. I just bought an extra portion." At this time, Lao Lin's voice came from beside his ear.

"Ah, thanks, old Hu!" Cui Weichuan was not a fledgling young man, so he didn't believe that this was too much. After taking it, he found that he was really hungry.

"Thank you, it's easy!" Lao Lin said with a smile.

The meal is quite rich, just like noon, there are three dishes in it, and the staple food is fine cactus steamed buns. He is from the south, and all he ate was rice before the end of the world, but after a few years of eating, he has already gotten used to it.

And this kind of meal can be enjoyed when you are in the engineering team, but you don't have this kind of treatment when you are unemployed.

While eating, Lao Lin said: "Squadron leader, I asked you about something!"

"En!" Cui Weichuan hummed while eating.

"How long do you think our engineering company will be able to do? It won't be the end of this project and it will be disbanded again?" Lao Lin said with some concern.

"It's useless for you to ask me about this matter! It depends on the decision of the higher-ups!" Cui Weichuan swallowed his food and said, after thinking about it, he continued: "However, I reckon that the higher-ups should not let such a high unemployment rate go. Continue, and now more and more spaceship factories are operating, even if they are disbanded, most of us will probably be absorbed into the factory!"

"Then can someone like me who is uneducated and unskilled be able to do it?" Lao Lin just breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked worriedly.

"I can't learn it. No one is born with it. You don't look old. You still have a long life!" Cui Weichuan comforted. He was very optimistic. Now there are only five or six million human beings left. Abundant human resources can be wasted. As long as the society returns to normal, there is no need to worry about not being able to find a job.

"I'm already fifty-eight." Lao Lin said speechlessly.

"I really can't see it. I thought you were only forty years old." Cui Weichuan is telling the truth. Nowadays, human beings generally don't look old. Although there is no official statistics on the average life expectancy, it is obviously far higher than before the end of the world. many.

At this time, a group of twelve or thirteen-year-old children passed by, and Lao Lin was stunned for a while before asking, "Does our company still recruit child labor?"

"Don't talk nonsense, this is from the guards." Cui Weichuan hurriedly stopped him, worried that the trouble would come out.

At the mobilization meeting before departure, as the middle-level leader of the company, he naturally also participated in this meeting. He had seen this group of children at that time, and they were brought by the secretary of the mayor himself.

...

There is no doubt that these children are Luo Yuan's cheap children.

Due to the fusion of their bodies, their bodies had developed into teenagers and girls in less than a year, and they emptied out all the stocks of the two tutors early, and began to study by themselves.

With their current level of knowledge, they are no worse than ordinary scientific researchers, and even far surpass them in breadth of knowledge, only inferior in depth.

However, considering their physical characteristics and their psychological maturity, Luo Yuan didn't want them to step into the society early, and sending them here this time was, on the one hand, an experience.

On the other hand, it is also to ensure the safety of workers.

For the collection of giant beast corpses this time, although only some surface parts such as scales, eyeballs, horn thorns, and nails are collected, at most some surface flesh and blood will be cut, so as not to go too deep into the giant beast's interior, but it is still quite dangerous After all, no one can guarantee that the internal parasites will not gush out of the body.

Before coming, Luo Yuan spared time to train them for a period of one month. It has to be said that his group of clones should be fighters by nature. In just one month, they learned his sword skills. There is no difficulty at all, even the will that is extremely difficult for ordinary people to condense, for them, everything will come naturally.

In the end, even Luo Yuan was a little jealous of their amazing talents.

It's a pity that their interest is not here.