Cataclysmic Era: I can unlock the tech tree

The awakening ceremony has come to a close.

Lü Yongchang also returned to the Earth-class ship—for safety reasons and to ensure the accuracy of the experiments, most of the laboratories were still located on the Earth-class ship.

He sat by the porthole in his office, turning his head to look out.

One after another, the homeships docked in geosynchronous orbit above Kepler-452b, while small shuttles and space elevators operated at full power, transporting batches of personnel awakened from hibernation to the ground.

Zero meticulously plans everything.

According to the awakening plan provided by the School of Sociology, the awakening procedure for hibernating personnel will still follow the usual practice, with the awakening order determined by their contribution value.

Considering that most hibernating people have been asleep for hundreds of years, and some have even been asleep for thousands of years.

Their knowledge system is vastly different from current human civilization; some hibernating individuals even have knowledge systems that are stuck in the era of Level 2 or even Level 1 civilization, which is unavoidable.

To this end, the Sociology Department, in conjunction with the Parliament, launched a nationwide basic education campaign on Kepler 452b—the first thing every hibernating person had to do after waking up was to receive basic education for a period of one to ten years.

Similar to the social welfare system, both the content and time of education are tailored to each individual's choices.

This seems to have become an inevitable trend in the development of civilization.

Not everyone is like Lü Yongchang. Given the vast and complex technological system of human civilization today, almost no one can fully grasp it.

99.99% of people know what these novel high-tech gadgets are, but don't know why they are.

But it would be enough if even 0.01% of people could stand out from the crowd.

When the public pension system is fully operational and the population expands rapidly, even if the probability of a genius emerging is only 0.0001%, it will still be a number not to be underestimated.

With Zero's help, everything seemed to be in perfect order, and even the vast resources needed to sustain billions of people were provided without any problems.

Although most of the basic work is done by a large number of weak AI tasks, the additional aggregation and processing tasks still consume a significant amount of computing power.

Normally, this amount of computing power would be nothing to Zero.

But we are currently in a phase of rapid expansion of human civilization. Not to mention the Academy of Sciences, even the parliament wants to split one unit of computing power into two for use!

Countless interstellar probes are expanding outwards like locusts, exploring one galaxy after another around the Kepler 452 galaxy.

Today, the scope of human civilization's exploration, or rather, the territory of civilization, has reached a radius of 24 light-years.

Numerous mining and construction tasks have already filled the construction schedule for the next few hundred years.

There are only two solutions to alleviate this awkward situation.

one.

By further pushing the limits of optical quantum computers, the computing power of zero can be significantly increased.

It is quite difficult; at least, the optical quantum computing laboratory led by Mo Zeyang has not yet come up with a feasible solution.

Naturally, it absorbed a large number of subordinate civilizations.

Even a Level 2 civilization, after training and education, can accomplish many tasks that weak AI cannot, which can greatly reduce the computational burden on AI.

But this is quite difficult.

At least within a radius of 24 light-years, the detectors have yet to find any civilizations with advanced intelligence.

Of course, relying on the population of human civilization itself can alleviate this problem to some extent.

But this will take a considerable amount of time.

Modern human civilization, in terms of both population size and average level of education, resembles a crippled civilization with an extremely developed mind but extremely uncoordinated limbs.

……

"drop!"

A crisp reminder sounded in the office, interrupting Lü Yongchang's work on refining the theory of the matter disintegration field.

"Professor, Academician Mao Zhengzhi is waiting for you at the door."

Zero's electronic synthesized voice reminded him softly.

"Mao Zhengzhi?" Lü Yongchang frowned. "Why is he looking for me?"

"Is it related to the Nus civilization...?"

He murmured softly, raising his hand to gently rub his temples, which ached from overthinking: "Let him in."

Swish!

As soon as he finished speaking, the tightly closed office door suddenly opened.

"Professor! A groundbreaking discovery!! A truly groundbreaking discovery!!!"

As the door opened, Mao Zhengzhi's loud, excited voice came from outside, startling Lü Yongchang.

"What major discovery?"

Seeing Mao Zhengzhi rushing to his desk, Lü Yongchang frowned again, looking at him with a somewhat unfriendly gaze: "Although the [Star Core Reaction Interference Device] has been completed, controlling the nuclear reaction inside the star requires a large amount of computing power."

"Currently, Zero's computing power is too strained, so the matter of the [Nus Civilization] will probably have to be put on hold."

"No, no, no!" Mao Zhengzhi gasped for breath, waving his hands repeatedly. "Professor, we can't let go! We absolutely can't let go!!"

"The network of ideas from the Nus civilization might be able to help us solve our current major problem!"

Lu Yongchang was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously propped himself up from the chair and raised his voice to ask, "What did you say?"

Mao Zhengzhi took a few deep breaths to calm himself down.

"Professor, as you also know, individuals in the Nus Civilization can transfer memories and knowledge through the Internet of Things."

"Yes." Lü Yongchang frowned slightly, a vague thought rising in his mind, "You mean..."

"right!"

Mao Zhengzhi's eyes were filled with excitement. He placed his hands on Lü Yongchang's desk and said loudly, "That kid Lu Siyuan accidentally discovered the corresponding signals of bioelectricity and quantum consciousness related to memory transmission while studying the previous batch of data!"

"I knew that kid was cut out for biology! Hahaha! I was right!"

A hint of excitement also appeared in Lü Yongchang's eyes.

"If we could master memory transfer technology..."

"Then human civilization can quickly make up for its current shortcomings!"

"The harms caused by long-term hibernation will also completely disappear!"

"Most importantly... zero can free up a huge amount of idle computing power!"

"Yes!" Mao Zhengzhi slapped his thigh hard. "Professor, tell me about the Nus civilization..."

"Tomorrow... no, tell the Megastructure Engineering Department to have [Xihe] depart immediately for the HIP22580 Heng System!"

"Professor, the megastructure engineering department is currently conducting its second power-on test." Zero's synthesized electronic voice came from the side, interrupting Lü Yongchang's words.

"A second power-on test?" Lü Yongchang's eyebrows shot up. "Test my ass!!"

"With their petty experimental methods, what problems could they possibly uncover?"

"Tell them to try it out with Hengxing!"

"Send a fleet to escort them, depart immediately!"