I have a wizarding world

"60, 59, 58, 57"

Yun Meng recited the numbers aloud as the final minute countdown began.

Hearing Yun Meng's countdown, Fang Cheng felt as if his heart was being clenched tightly.

Fang Cheng couldn't remember the last time he had felt this nervous. At this moment, it wasn't just him; all the researchers in the Hive Laboratory had become tense and solemn.

".10, 9, 8,"

Xia Yuxuan, who was beside him, squeezed Fang Cheng's large hand, but noticed that his palms were also sweating, so she turned to look at him.

".3, 2, 1. Activate the reactor!"

"Reactor number one activated!"

Buzz--!

A barely audible rumble echoed within the small circular space.

Immediately afterward.

The giant nuclear reactor lit up like a sun. Under ultra-high temperatures, deuterium and hydrogen nuclei underwent fusion, releasing terrifying energy.

The giant reactor became even more dazzling under the deuterium fusion reaction.

However, all of this was isolated by the reactor's external materials.

Ordinary people, even if they stood next to the nuclear reactor, would only hear a slight rumble when it was activated, and then everything would be silent, and they wouldn't hear anything else.

"Reactor number one successfully activated! Reactor number two activated!"

Subsequently.

One reactor after another was activated within the small circular space.

Fang Cheng couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief after seeing the eighth reactor being activated.

According to Yun Meng's calculations, the entire space fortress only needed eight nuclear reactors to maintain operation, and the remaining eight were all backup power sources, which could be temporarily left unactivated.

"Success!!!"

"We succeeded!!!!!!!!"

"Haha, we succeeded!!!"

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Inside the command center, some people threw their white coats into the air, others ran around excitedly, unable to control themselves, and everyone cheered.

At this moment, Fang Cheng couldn't help but happily hug the chief engineer's shoulders.

"Your contribution to the successful completion of this space fortress is indispensable!"

Fang Cheng pointed at him and said with a smile, "Tell me, what reward do you want?"

Fang Cheng waved his hand grandly.

"Boss," the chief engineer said with a smile, "The completion of this space fortress is the result of everyone's efforts at the Aerospace Center. If we're talking about dedication, Chu Xuan has contributed even more than I have."

"That's not how it works. I know about his contributions, but I also see yours," Fang Cheng said with a smile, "Tell me, what reward do you want?"

Hearing Fang Cheng's second question, the chief engineer hesitated for a moment, "Actually, some of our researchers at the center have made significant contributions this time. I would like to ask you for twenty special-grade researcher slots."

"Twenty?"

The smile on Fang Cheng's face gradually faded as he looked at the balding clone in front of him, remaining silent.

To date, the entire Hive Laboratory has fewer than twenty researchers with special-grade qualifications.

Chu Xuan, K, and others are among these fewer than twenty people.

Although the entire Aerospace Research Center currently has nearly ten thousand clone researchers, there are only three at the special-grade researcher level.

The balding chief engineer in front of him is one of the three.

Now, he suddenly requested an increase of twenty slots, so Fang Cheng naturally had to consider it carefully. This was not only a matter of compensation, but also concerned the allocation of authority within the entire Hive Laboratory.

As for the role of authority, it was too great.

Aside from personal material benefits, this authority was more related to the allocation of research resources.

For example, Yun Meng's computing resources, experimental funding, the provision of special materials, the cooperation of intelligent unmanned factories and all other forces under Fang Cheng's command, and so on.

Most importantly, the deduction resources of Fang Cheng's intelligent learning machine.

This was what Wu Hang really wanted to fight for.

Although Fang Cheng was now an advanced apprentice, and the deduction function of the intelligent learning machine had greatly improved compared to before, its deduction ability was still limited after all.

And how vast was the current Hive Laboratory?

The entire Hive Laboratory was divided into a physics laboratory, a biology laboratory, a chemistry laboratory, and so on.

The physics laboratory could be further subdivided into a physical materials research institute, an aerospace research center, an energy research center, a consciousness transmitter research center, and so on.

The biology laboratory and other laboratories were the same.

In other words, with so many laboratories, even if Yun Meng was a strong artificial intelligence and her body was a quantum computer, capable of meeting the data computation needs of all the laboratories, Fang Cheng's intelligent learning machine's deduction function could not meet the needs of so many laboratory projects.

Moreover, he still had to deduce some things for himself, such as the deduction for repairing the Moonwell this time.

These occupied a large amount of his deduction resources.

Now, Wu Hang proposed to have twenty special-grade researcher slots, which meant that the Aerospace Center would take nearly half of the intelligent learning machine's deduction resources.

This price made it impossible for Fang Cheng not to consider it carefully.

"Boss," Wu Hang lowered his head and explained, "Although the space fortress has been built, the internal ecological cycle system of the fortress has not yet been perfected. Although the artificial ecosystem has been theoretically resolved, many problems will inevitably be encountered in the actual construction process. In addition, there's the Mars colonization plan..."

Hearing about the Mars colonization plan, Fang Cheng immediately made a decision.

"Okay, I promise you!" Fang Cheng looked at him seriously.

"Thank you, Boss. Boss is wise!" Wu Hang grinned and flattered him.

"Alright, stop flattering me," Fang Cheng found his appearance a little amusing, "However, your Aerospace Center must ensure the safe implementation of this Mars colonization plan. Its importance to us is no less than this space fortress, and its significance will be even greater in the future."

"I know, Boss."

"Mm." Fang Cheng nodded. The successful completion of this space fortress greatly increased his confidence in the upcoming Mars colonization plan.

After hearing the two finish talking, Xia Yuxuan whispered from the side, "Fang Cheng, have you named this space fortress yet?"

"Uh, not yet," Fang Cheng was a little surprised. He looked at Wu Hang, "Did your Aerospace Center name it?"

"Boss, we're all waiting for you to name it."

Sure enough, hearing this flattery made Fang Cheng feel extremely comfortable.

He looked at the ring-shaped celestial body in the holographic projection constantly rotating around the Earth, and pondered for a moment, "How about calling it Star Ring City!"

"Star Ring City?!"

Xia Yuxuan exclaimed.

"Mm," Fang Cheng smiled, "Don't you think it looks a lot like the Star Ring City in 'The Three-Body Problem'?"

Xia Yuxuan carefully looked at this epic artificial celestial body and nodded, "It does look very similar!"

"Then it's called Star Ring City!" Fang Cheng directly decided.

Wu Hang, on the other hand, stared blankly at Fang Cheng, looking like he wanted to say something but stopped.