Industry: Cthulhu

Chapter 52 The Third Project

Late at night, Fang Yan sat alone at his desk, browsing information about conflicts and disputes in the Milky Way in recent years.

The conversation with Rashid in the afternoon gave Fang Yan a bad feeling, so he tried to analyze the truth behind it through these data and information.

Just as Rashid described, although the four galactic powers maintained peace on the surface, conflicts between their affiliated forces never stopped.

Especially in the Lengyinshan Empire, as the only powerful country whose home planet is in the central ring of the galaxy, the contradiction between them and the three powers in the inner ring is very sharp.

The Lengyinshan Empire has always been ambitious and wants to enter the core area of the Milky Way for scientific research, but it has been obstructed by the other three major powers every time.

Major powers have publicly declared that the environment in the core region of the Milky Way is extremely harsh and unsuitable for any form of survival or exploration activities.

However, the Lengyinshan Empire sharply refuted this, believing it to be a complete excuse. They openly accused the three major powers, claiming that the purpose of blocking the core area was to cover up some shocking secret.

Scientists at Lengyin Mountain believe that the core area hides some technology or resources that are vital to the entire galaxy. It is this secret that has given the three inner ring powers their current dominant position over the entire galaxy.

However, what puzzled Fang Yan the most was not these public statements, but the disappearances near the core area.

He noticed a strange phenomenon in the public information.

Over the past few decades, civilian cargo ships, cruise ships, and even starships of the Alliance Defense Force have frequently disappeared whenever they approach the core area's waterways.

If you carefully connect the locations where these ships disappeared, they will form an almost perfect circle, tightly surrounding the core of the Milky Way.

Fang Yan was a little suspicious that these might not be accidental incidents, and there might be some unknown connection between the disappearance of the ships and the core area.

The sphere of influence of the three strongest powers in the inner ring should be prosperous and stable, so how come such inexplicable disappearances keep happening one after another?

Are they really covering up something? Or is there indeed an unknown danger hidden in the core of the galaxy?
Unfortunately, the secrets of the core area and the true intentions of the great powers are far beyond Fang Yan’s current capabilities. He is just a small figure living on the edge of the Milky Way.

The only thing Fang Yan can do now is to grow quickly and make himself stronger, strong enough to protect himself and those around him.

His mind was working rapidly, and Fang Yan began to re-examine where he lived and think about the potential of the fringe and dark star areas.

Although it is barren and desolate, lacking resources and protection from advanced civilizations, there are also many opportunities here.

After all, there are not so many uninhabited galaxies in the inner ring of the Milky Way, but they are everywhere on the edge and in the dark star areas.

If a galaxy is far from the main routes and is desolate and uninhabited, it means that many things can be done secretly there that the Alliance does not know about or that the Alliance does not allow...

Fang Yan pondered that utilizing those uninhabited galaxies far away from the control of the Galactic Alliance might be his chance to break through limitations and quickly accumulate strength.

Of course, these are things in the future and are still quite far away from me.

The most important thing right now is development.

After large-scale construction and capacity expansion, Blue Light Technology's second project, the quantum field fusion reactor, has gradually gotten on track in both production and sales. Fang Yan also gave it a nice name, Heart of the Ocean.

In the past two months, Fang Yan has been designing the company's third project. Perhaps it is time to showcase it on the big stage of the Milky Way.

Thinking of this, Fang Yan sent a text message to Li Muyun, asking him and the company's expert team to gather at the headquarters tomorrow. ...

The next morning, when Fang Yan arrived at the company's conference room, he found that Li Muyun and the company's expert group had already been waiting there.

The so-called expert group is the elite who came to Earth from the Milky Way in the past two months, plus some local experts on Earth, with a total number of about 130 people.

Fang Yan stood in the center of the conference room, facing these masters from the Milky Way, feeling both emotional and a little pressured.

After all, they are not ordinary employees, but come from all corners of the galaxy and have participated in the construction and development of countless major projects. Most of them are junior or mid-level engineers, and several have even passed the senior engineer assessment.

Fang Yan looked around and didn't see Brown, so he whispered to Li Muyun beside him, "Why didn't Brown come?"

Li Muyun's answer surprised him a little. "Brown has returned to the inner ring. He said he wants to take the senior engineer assessment. After all, if he misses this opportunity, he'll have to wait another two years."

Fang Yan was a little disappointed. He had been getting along very well with Brown during this period, and he was like his right-hand man.

At this moment, the door of the conference room was pushed open again, and two familiar figures entered the room. They were Jerry and Colt.

They were friends Fang Yan met through Ariadt when he was in the Rhine Galaxy. Unexpectedly, they also came to Earth now.

Their arrival surprised Fang Yan. After all, these two were famous senior engineers in the inner ring. They were at the top of the galactic society in terms of status and income.

"Jerry, Colt, why are you two here?" Fang Yan smiled and walked towards them.

Jerry laughed heartily, winking and saying, "I'm drawn to you. Compass, quantum field technology, God knows how many amazing secrets you've hidden. We can't miss this opportunity to witness the most cutting-edge technology in the galaxy."

Colt was a little calmer, nodding slightly and saying, "Although life in the Inner Ring is good, I always feel that it lacks a bit of adventure. Earth might be a good start for us."

Fang Yan understood that his company was still small, and although it had some cutting-edge technologies, it was not enough to attract these senior engineers. All of this was due to misunderstandings and Ariat's secret operations.

Silence returned to the conference room. Fang Yan walked to the center of the conference room and cleared his throat. At this moment, everyone's eyes were focused on him.

Fang Yan said in a simple yet firm tone, "The reason I've gathered everyone here today is because the company is preparing to launch its third project since its founding."

As soon as he finished speaking, the holographic projection system behind him started up immediately. The conference room was suddenly shrouded in soft blue light, and a set of peculiarly shaped devices appeared before everyone.

This is a complex and unprecedented structure, exuding an indescribable sense of power. It seems to be designed based on the Heart of the Ocean, the quantum field reactor, but its structure is completely different from the Heart of the Ocean.

In the holographic projection, the device presents a core structure similar to a ring, and the outer layer of the core is covered with crisscrossing energy conduits, like human arteries, flashing a faint blue light.

Surrounding the center are multiple controller modules with a geometric design. Their surface is covered with a crystal-like material, and they release weak particle streams from time to time.

The most confusing thing is the several energy emitters surrounding the core. They extend outward like leaves, with a clear nonlinear design and a complex hollow structure at the end, as if through this peculiar way, they emit energy into the surrounding space.

There were streams of light constantly passing through the center of the device. When the light approached the surface of the device, it suddenly accelerated, and then magically disappeared into the void.

(End of this chapter)