Cataclysmic Era: I can unlock the tech tree

"What?!"

Hope's eyes widened, and she exclaimed in surprise.

Hansent's words had an extremely strong impact on him!

Should the plan to build a surface city on Dawn Star be suspended?

No, that's impossible!

To date, including the surface cities under construction, there are only six large, enclosed cities on Dawn Star.

This is far from enough to accommodate 60 billion people who are still in hibernation!

Could it be that... human civilization is facing another crisis?

For a moment, Hope's face turned pale, a buzzing sound came from his mind, and his vision became blurry.

As for Hansent, he was clearly taken aback by Hope's incredibly intense reaction.

His expression changed slightly, and he quickly looked to his left and right.

When he saw some staff members casting questioning glances at them from a distance, he quickly reached out and grabbed Hope's arm.

"Hey bro! Calm down!"

Hope turned her dazed gaze toward Hansent.

Looking at his companion who had not yet regained consciousness, Hansent slapped his own smooth forehead: "Good heavens..."

"At least listen to what I have to say!"

"Smack."

The crisp sound of his palm hitting his forehead brought Hope back to his senses.

"What...what do you mean by that?"

Hope frowned, a bad thought flashing through her mind.

He suspected he had been scammed, and he had ample evidence to support his claim.

Hansent chuckled awkwardly and scratched his head sheepishly. "Believe me, I'm definitely not lying to you."

"Recently, the Academy of Sciences has indeed significantly slowed down the construction of surface cities, and may even suspend the construction of surface cities in the future."

Hope shook her head repeatedly: "No, no, no, absolutely impossible!"

"If you only build six closed-off cities, where will the 60 billion people in hibernation live when they wake up?"

"Are you suggesting we let them live in tents in the open air?"

Hansent's lips gradually curled up, revealing a meaningful and mysterious smile.

"Wait, wait, what do you mean?!" Hope's eyes widened and his breathing became heavy.

"As you expected."

Hansent lowered his voice: "The Academy of Sciences is researching planetary terraforming technology."

"Professor Lü plans to develop Dawn Star into Earth 2.0."

……

boom!

Hope felt a loud bang coming from the depths of his mind.

crazy!

That was the first thought that popped into his mind after hearing the news!

Planetary terraforming?

Transforming Dawn into a second Earth?!

When did humans acquire such technology?

But the next moment, he remembered the scene he had seen when he first came to Dawn Star more than half a year ago—a dense network of planetary climate control satellites.

"Don't forget, that's Professor Lü!"

Perhaps sensing the thought that had crossed his companion's mind, Hansent spoke up quietly.

Hope suddenly realized.

Yes, that's Professor Lü Yongchang!

perhaps……

Is all of this really possible?

The moment this idea appeared, it took root and sprouted wildly in his mind, and quickly grew into a towering tree!

"We..." Hope swallowed hard, the muscles in his cheeks trembling slightly. "You mean, it's possible for us to leave this greenhouse and live under real blue skies and white clouds?"

Hansent pulled Hope out of the Mineral Resources Management Office and shrugged.

"I've only heard about it."

Hope took a deep breath.

The flame in his heart did not diminish in the slightest because of these words; on the contrary, it burned even brighter!

As the saying goes.

I could have endured the darkness if I had never seen the light.

……

Dawn Star No. 1 City.

Headquarters of the All-China Federation of Liberation Sciences.

Several Chinese characters were clearly displayed on the giant holographic projection screen in the conference room.

Earth-like planet terraforming technology

Lü Yongchang's voice was clearly heard by everyone through the loudspeaker.

"Since entering the third level of civilization, we have achieved considerable success in weapons technology."

"Don't bite off more than you can chew. For the stable development of the human fleet, I suggest that we prioritize planetary terraforming technology as a key area for development."

"On the one hand, it can significantly improve the quality of life."

"On the other hand, it can reduce the computing power burden to zero."

"Since the start of the era of large-scale construction, Zero has been operating at full capacity."

"The numerous surface city construction tasks made it difficult for Zero to keep track of the production schedule of starships and weapons."

"..."

Around the conference table, researchers nodded in agreement.

Indeed, as Lü Yongchang said, during this period, Zero focused its main efforts on building surface cities.

All of this is to reduce the population pressure that human civilization may face in the future as much as possible.

A suitable living environment is a necessary condition for sustained population growth.

However, that's where the problem lies.

Building a surface city cluster capable of accommodating six billion or even tens of billions of people is impossible even from scratch in a short period of time!

Therefore, it is foreseeable that if we choose to build a large number of surface cities, human civilization will face a predicament of insufficient productivity for a long time.

Without sufficient weapons and starships, human civilization will once again fall into the abyss in the event of a crisis.

"Does anyone have any further objections?"

After deciding on his future research direction, Lü Yongchang glanced around and asked in a low voice.

Obviously.

No one within the Academy of Sciences would raise any objections to this.

"very good."

Lu Yongchang nodded in satisfaction: "Fang Xu, the design and verification of the new starship will be handled by you and Cao Liangcai."

"Tao Yuda, continue to improve the weapon system."

"Mo Zeyang..."

Lü Yongchang methodically arranged each research task.

Finally, he focused his attention on two researchers not far away.

"Shen Siwen, Fan Yi."

"You all come with me."

"Preparing to conquer the technology of terraforming Earth-like planets."

……

After the meeting, Lü Yongchang, controlling his mechanical exoskeleton armor, hurried towards the Dawn Star No. 1 Laboratory.

Memories from the past few days resurfaced in his mind.

Planetary Mastery: Earth-like Planet Terraforming Technology

As an advanced technology of "Preliminary Planetary Control: Macroscopic Regulation of Planetary Climate", it belongs to the more difficult technologies among the third-level civilizations.

In order to get human civilization back on track as soon as possible, Lü Yongchang had to take a small risk—to forcibly analyze this technology.

Perhaps because of the long-term enhancement of his brain by the technology tree system, or perhaps because he had mastered the prerequisite technologies sufficiently, he did not fall into a long coma this time.

After paying the price of several hours of dizziness, he successfully gained a lot of "inspiration".