Urban Sims

Chapter 273 Cause and Effect
"呲~"

After one needle was inserted, the master who had lived for nearly 700 years, regret and despair flashed across his face, and after 2 minutes, he looked at Zhou Ming with obedience and obedience.

The proud head also lowered.

The number of slaves in Zhou Ming's hands has successfully increased by one.

Now we can communicate smoothly.

After brewing for a while, Zhou Ming asked the fresh slave a few questions he wanted to ask.

"Why create an empire of money?"

"In order to save resources, reduce waste and pollution, and for permanent stability and sustainability." The voice of the master machine said.

"Why not take another path, the path of interstellar colonization?"

"I can't go, the resources are insufficient, and I can't meet the minimum requirements for interstellar colonization." The ruler shook his head.

"Those resources are insufficient, how many are lacking?" Zhou Ming asked.

"A lot, precious metals, rare earth elements, nuclear fuel, lack of many, many."

"The resources of the entire planet are not enough? In addition to the moon star in your hand, the resources of the two planets are not enough?"

"Not enough, indeed not enough, the war destroyed the planet below, 80% of the resources were destroyed in the war, the remaining 10% was used for reconstruction, and the remaining 10% can only transfer 500 million people to the nearest moon There are only nine usable planets in this star system, including the moon and stars, two of which are too close to the sun, and four are too far away from the sun, and only three are actually usable , and remove the earth star and moon star below, there is only one left, and that planet is only half the size of the earth star, and there is no water on the surface. Although the resources on it can be mined and tens of millions of people have immigrated, but Very limited value and very expensive to retrofit."

"You mean, you need to find a planet with water in order to carry out large-scale colonization?" Zhou Ming asked.

"Yes, a planet without water is just a resource star that provides mineral resources, not a colony planet with colonial value. Water is the simplest substance and the most precious substance, especially for interstellar colonization, only water, That means everything."

"Then find a planet with water, but another star system."

"If you can find it, if you can go, you think I don't want to send someone?"

The master looked at him like an idiot, then lowered his head and muttered: "The huge technical bottleneck restricts the progress of interstellar colonization."

"What technical bottleneck?"

"If you can't develop a high-power material reactor and a high-thrust ion engine, even if you carry out interstellar colonization in this galaxy, you will lose more than you earn. The returns from interstellar colonization are not enough to make up for the loss on the road. supplies, this colonization, is pointless.”

Now Zhou Ming understood what the ruler meant. He meant that it was not impossible to carry out interstellar colonization, but the technical bottleneck that was difficult to break through would make the cost so high that it was unaffordable.

Large-scale colonization can only be carried out if technological breakthroughs are achieved to make interstellar colonization efficient, cheap, and profitable.

And before a technological breakthrough is achieved, it is not very meaningful to transfer the population to those resource stars impatiently, which will only increase the burden.

Take water, for example. How much would it cost to transport water necessary for life to millions of people across a space distance of hundreds of millions of kilometers to a planet without water?How many times a year do you ship?How many years does it take to keep transporting the millions of people on the resource star to achieve self-sufficiency?

Only planets with water are valuable for colonization.

"The material reactor should be an upgraded version of the nuclear fusion power plant, right? There is also an ion engine. This kind of engine has been around for a long time. The principle is not complicated, but now we need to break through the ion acceleration technology to increase the thrust of this engine?"

Zhou Ming, who still has a little understanding of the technological development route, asked the ruler.

The ruler glanced at him, nodded, and shook his head again.

"Is it difficult to achieve breakthroughs in these two technologies?" Zhou Ming asked the essence of the problem.

"It is necessary to build a particle accelerator with a length of 1 kilometers in space, conduct high-energy particle collision experiments, decipher the basic force formula of basic physics, and lay a theoretical foundation before developing a material reactor and an ion engine, but..."

The master shook his head and said: "Over 500 years have passed, and the resources I have accumulated can only build 10% of this particle accelerator."

It will take another 4500 years for the particle accelerator to be built. After the completion, we will start to do collision tests and explore the formula of the fundamental force. After achieving a theoretical breakthrough, we will accumulate resources for thousands of years to basically meet the conditions for interstellar colonization.

These times add up to almost exactly 1 years, and then enter the "adjustment period" called by the ruler.

But today, the Juggernaut's well-thought-out, energy-saving and environmental-friendly plans have been completely disrupted. Not only have his careful plans been adjusted by others, even himself has been adjusted as well.

And so far, Zhou Ming finally figured out all the causes and consequences, and also understood the character of the ruler:

An ultimate environmentalist, a long-term planner, and an opinionated smart guy.

The synthesis of these personalities is the "Empire of Money" under the feet that can be called perfect and also called hell.

But in the final analysis, he is just a senior programmer who is superior to everyone, thinks he is god, thinks he is bright and correct, and thinks he will succeed. Before the nuclear war, he used to develop games for a living.

He regards this world as a game, himself as a player, other people as NPCs, him as the supreme master, and others as ants who play around at will.

His ideals and goals were correct, but his methods were... stupid.

"Even if the human beings on this planet cannot leave this planet forever, and what they lose is only a trip to other colonial planets, but what you have done has made them lose love, family and friendship, Lost conscience and morality, lost all truth, goodness and beauty in human nature..."

"If you asked them for their opinions before founding this "Money Empire", more than 90% of them would rather give up the infinitely beautiful future than choose the hell in front of them."

"So, do you know why you failed? Because you will definitely fail. Even if I am not the one who defeats you, after a few years, someone will stand up and overthrow your empire."

"Because you don't know that once human beings awaken the power of love, no matter how powerful an empire is, it will be vulnerable."

These hammer-like words struck the ruler's heart again and again, cold sweat dripped from his forehead, his face was extremely confused, his heart ached, and he muttered to himself:

"Could it be... did I really do something wrong?"

……

The crisis of war is over.

From the moment the ruler was controlled by the slave potion, his power collapsed in an instant.

As a result, Zhou Ming became rich.

The space station belongs to him.

10 unmanned fighter jets are under his control.

The military production line at the Moonstar base, the sky film production line, the money production line that can produce countless amounts of money...all belong to him.

In addition, he also got a football-sized crystal item in the core control room of the Moon Star Base, with a crystal clear appearance and countless flashes of colored light inside—this crystal item, to Zhou Ming, is the copy The most valuable things are even more valuable than hundreds of billions of money.

The heart of civilization.

This is a civilized heart.

This heart of civilization stores 10EB of technological information (10EB=10240PB=10485760TB).

These scientific and technological information include the most comprehensive and advanced medical technology, material technology, computer technology, intelligent robot technology, various industrial technologies, agricultural technologies and so on.

Any scientific and technological information that Zhou Ming wants is included in the Heart of Civilization.

From this, we can know that the master is still a late-stage patient with collection addiction, and it turned out to be cheaper for Zhou Ming.

After draining all the value of the master, and copying his memory, the master who lost the use value was thrown into space by Zhou Ming after taking off the space suit, and his blood boiled immediately. Launch a nano missile and blow him into countless pieces of space junk.

"You killed me once, you didn't die innocently."

Five days later, Zhou Ming returned to the ground in an aerospace plane.

……

Seeing that small dot in the sky getting closer and closer, the ground boiled.

"It's back, it's back!"

"Hero, our hero is back!"

"Successful, he really succeeded!"

"Whoa~ The war is avoided, the world is at peace, and we are safe!"

"Long live Mr. Xiao Guang, long live our great hero!"

"..."

On this day, Zhou Ming, who returned in triumph, received a warm welcome like a hero.

On this day, the whole planet turned into a sea of ​​cheers and a grand celebration, where people sang and danced and got drunk.

This day will be recorded in the annals of history forever, and it will become a major festival that people of later generations will celebrate every year.

This day is called "Liberation Day".

……

a few days later.

Dragon Blue Castle, in a room.

"Why don't you bring the ruler down and accept the trial of the century? Why do you deceive everyone, saying that you have reached a peace agreement with the ruler? There are so many resources on the moon and stars, why are they not used by all mankind, but are held in In our own hands, if we do this, what is the difference between us and the master?"

Lan Mengxin frowned and said to Zhou Ming with a very puzzled face.

Zhou Ming shook his head and said:

"You don't understand human nature too much. Human nature is that the more you give, people will not only not be grateful, but will take it for granted. The more you do, the more they will ask for more, and they will never be satisfied. Even if you are not sure At that rate, those so-called rational, kind, conscientious, and virtuous people will become dissatisfied with desires and extremely greedy... The ruler sees this very clearly and does it extremely well. As a ruler, you absolutely You can't hold candy in both hands, but in at least one hand, you must hold a whip."

In addition, the people under the rule cannot be completely without a sense of crisis. Once they loosen all the reins on their bodies, they will have no scruples. Once they learn that the ruler is dead, they will be overjoyed, and If you don't take any new ruler seriously, you're going to have a catastrophe.

Therefore, the "existence" of the ruler has more advantages than disadvantages.

Moreover, Zhou Ming will quit the game soon. Lan Mengxin has a weak and kind personality, and is not very suitable to be a planetary ruler. Therefore, in order to prevent major disturbances after he leaves, the Moon Star Base is He left a way out for the Xiao Lan family (the two's last names).

After listening to the man's words, Lan Mengxin nodded. She also knew some bad habits of ordinary people, and the man had his reasons for thinking this way.

However, thinking that he was going to leave soon, Lan Mengxin had a look of reluctance, like a little girl, holding the man's hand, pleading in her tone: "Can't you stay a few more years and spend more time with me?"

(End of this chapter)