Epoch of Twilight

The huge size of the space behemoth is not a small project even for today's humans.

In order to manufacture these mining equipment and various detection instruments, the entire factory area was deliberately started for days, and various machines were produced in large quantities like flowing water.

Don't look at the fact that there are only five or six million human beings left. In terms of productivity, it is no less than that of the Republic before the end of the world. As for the level of technology, it is even more incomparable.

A giant engineering robot that is more than ten meters high and looks like a Gundam can produce dozens of robots every day as long as the spare parts production chain is modified and debugged. times the outbreak.

In just half a month, more than a thousand engineering robots of various types have joined this project.

However, after completing this mission, most of these machines will eventually be returned to the furnace and broken down into basic elements. The spaceship is already a bit narrow and cramped for today's humans, and there is no extra space for these machines.

Standing in the central control room, Luo Yuan looked at the locust-like construction machinery hundreds of thousands of kilometers away, and couldn't help feeling a little emotional in his heart.

With the absorption and development of the past few years, the technological level of human beings has basically stood at the same level as that of the Boxing people sixty years ago. Although some places are still weak, there are also some aspects that have been surpassed.

In recent years, human beings have not only simply absorbed Boxing technology. With the mutual reference of the two systems, many technologies have been introduced, and the blue is blue. However, at least it has shown that human beings have formally broken through the stereotype of Boxing people's technology and gradually leaped forward.

It's a pity that this is only the scientific and technological level of the Boxing people for sixty years, and even in terms of the real technological level, it is still a little behind.

As the first interstellar spacecraft of the Boxing people, its advanced nature is beyond doubt, but it is by no means the top technology of this civilization. After all, this kind of interstellar voyage exploration spacecraft is only second to advanced, and the most important thing is safety and stability. Well, spacecraft generally use the most mature technologies, and some immature technological achievements that are still in the laboratory are simply impossible to use here.

The time gap of 60 or 70 or 80 years is enough to make the development of technology span a generation, and even a technological revolution can occur, causing a huge gap in technology.

In fact, even with such a big gap, Luo Yuan estimated that with the astonishing development speed of human beings today, it would be enough to catch up to or even surpass human beings in another 30 to 40 years. As the second energy core began to cultivate the tree of wisdom, wisdom The output of pharmaceuticals has reached more than 4,000 tubes per year, and the output has increased by four times.

Every year, there are 3,000 more super scientists whose intelligence is between 16 and 18 points, which is more than a thousand times the number of ordinary scientists, and this number is the same every year, as long as the Boxing people do not have the same brain development technology , the technological gap between Bossians and humans will only get closer.

The only question is when the Bossians will come, it may take fifty years like last time, but this possibility is very small, the most likely is three to four years, or even shorter.

This is a gamble, if it's just him, Luo Yuan would rather gamble than run away like a bereaved dog, but humans can't afford to gamble.

Once defeated, what awaits human beings will surely be extinction. The Boxing people will never look at a race that poses a great threat and has caused life-and-death hatred, and stay near them.

This price is too great!

Survival is the first priority of civilization. In order to survive, everything will be detoured, and it is nothing to temporarily avoid powerful enemies.

He looked at the starlight in the distance, this direction is where the Boxing people are, and he didn't move for a long time, until the voice of the brain woke him up!

"Warning, the stock of iron element has only 31% left, approaching the warning line!"

Luo Yuan glanced at it, and didn't pay much attention to it. During this period of time, due to the production of a large number of engineering robots, the consumption of metal elements was extremely high, but most of these consumption can be recycled through the element separation furnace to supplement the inventory.

"List all element inventories!"

"Yes, Your Excellency Captain!"

Luo Yuan glanced at the inventory chart on the screen. Among all the inventories, water is the least consumed, and the consumption is almost negligible. After all, the spaceship has a complete water circulation system, and domestic sewage recycling technology is quite mature. They are all used for nuclear fusion fuel.

And the other elements are more or less, and they are already insufficient in stock. There are more than 80% left, and the few are already the same as the iron element, approaching 30%.

In addition to the newly manufactured various construction machinery, machine tools and space fighters, the daily necessities for food, clothing, housing and transportation of the five to six million people in the entire settlement are also the bulk of consumption. Although most of these elements can be recycled, there is still a large part of them. is permanently occupied.

"It seems that before leaving, we must make up the inventory once!" Luo Yuan thought to himself.

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A month later, at this time, the space behemoth had been cut open, and the huge internal organs were dragged by engineering robots and flew to the emergency spacecraft.

At this time, the entire emergency spacecraft has become a huge laboratory. A large number of researchers are wearing lead-plated airtight protective clothing, and they are busy shuttling in a sea of ​​corpses and blood. The whole scene is bloody, as if they have entered a slaughter scene.

The heart in the center was cut in half, still 30 meters high, and it was surrounded by people. A giant instrument specially developed nearby was waving various mechanical arms to perform various meticulous movements on it. Scanning mapping work.

"The tumor is not solid, but an eight-helix winding structure!" Meng Junhua said while carefully looking at the 3D screen of the scanning results, and several assistants beside him immediately recorded it.

He looks quite young, and his complexion is still immature. He is only 27 years old and has been engaged in research work for nearly four years. He is the first batch of graduate students who joined the scientific research team after the disaster, but although he has not worked for a short time, he has performed outstandingly. In the past few years, he has a good talent in the field of high-energy physics and mathematics, and has published many valuable papers during his internship.

If there is the biggest gap between humans and Bossians, it is in the field of theory.

In this regard, human beings have obtained very little information, and can only rely on human beings to make up for it. It can be said that human beings' current technological level and theoretical level are completely out of proportion. Humans know how to make many technologies, and they can also produce products that are almost the same as those of the Boxing people. But there is no corresponding theoretical support at all.

It's like a student doing a question, applying formulas, and rote, but completely unable to understand why it is done that way.

Although the impact is not too great now, if this lesson is not taught, it will seriously affect the development of science and technology.

It's a pity that most of the theoretical research talents were in Xinjing before the disaster. After all, the equipment there is more advanced. Only three or two cats and cats stayed in Hope City and the other three cities.

It was in this way that Meng Junhua stood out and was classified as a key talent. He was assigned to Smart Potion a year ago, and now he has become a senior researcher.

"There are no cells in the microscopic structure, but a fibrous cotton-wool-like substance. The structure is quite tough, six times that of body muscle, and two and a half times that of epidermis. The specific function is yet to be studied!"

"The connection with the heart... the structure is a bit special!" Meng Junhua looked at it for a while, and quickly operated a few times on the screen. Atoms and molecules, this is estimated to be its energy channel."

He thought in his heart that the energy should flow from the energy core of the heart through the tumor body, pass through the eight-helix winding structure in the tumor body, excite the energy levels, and transform into gamma rays... Unfortunately, no energy transmission channel can be found, how does it emit this? A gamma ray burst.

Energy jumps...or conduits of other matter?

How do these hundreds of tumors work together?

And how to explode instantly in a short period of time?

...

Countless inspirations burst from Meng Junhua's mind, but instead deepened his confusion. Unfortunately, there is still too little data, and more in-depth and comprehensive research is necessary. He scratched his scalp. Since taking the wisdom potion, there have been very few When it made him puzzled, but it aroused his interest even more.

There must be some unknown excitation mode, perhaps an undiscovered physical and chemical phenomenon.

He has been busy for a whole day, but unfortunately the harvest is limited. After all, this is only a preliminary research, as a reference for screening useful parts, and further research can only be carried out after returning to the mother ship.

But he can be sure that this tumor is definitely related to the emission of gamma ray bursts.

During dinner, he discussed with the researchers at the same table for a while, and one of them was an expert in the field of biological neuroscience. Several of his ideas gave him a lot of inspiration.