Urban Sims

"呲~"

One needle pricked him, and he revealed the master who had lived for nearly 700 years. A flash of regret and despair flashed across his face. Two minutes later, he looked at Zhou Ming with a look of obedience and obedience.

The proud head also lowered.

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

Now we can communicate smoothly.

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

“Why create a money empire?”

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

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

"We can't leave. We don't have enough resources to meet the minimum requirements for interstellar colonization." The Master shook his head.

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

"There are a lot of precious metals, rare earth elements, and nuclear fuels. There are a lot of shortages."

"The resources of an entire planet are not enough? Plus the moon star in your hand, the resources of the two planets combined are not enough?"

"It's not enough. It's really not enough. The war has destroyed the planet below. 80% of the resources were destroyed in the war. The remaining 10% is used for reconstruction. The remaining 10% can only move 5 million people to the nearby moon. Star, but what's the use? This star system, including the moon and stars, has only nine usable planets in total. Two of them are too close to the sun and four are too far from the sun. Only three are actually usable. , after excluding the Earth Star and Moon Star below, there is still one planet 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 exploited and tens of millions of people can be immigrated, The value is very limited and the renovation costs are very high.”

"You mean, you need to find a planet with water 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 colonial star with colonial value. Water is the simplest substance and the most precious substance, especially for interstellar colonization. Only water, That means everything."

"Then look for a planet with water, but not another star system."

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

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

"What technical bottleneck?"

"High-power material reactors and high-thrust ion engines. If these two things cannot be developed, even interstellar colonization in this galaxy will be more costly than profitable. The rewards obtained from interstellar colonization will not be enough to make up for the losses on the road. supplies, this kind of colonization is meaningless.”

Zhou Ming now understood what the Overlord meant. What he meant was that it was not impossible to carry out interstellar colonization, but the technical bottleneck that was difficult to break through would make the cost unaffordable.

Only by achieving technological breakthroughs that make interstellar colonization efficient, cheap, and profitable can large-scale colonization be carried out.

And before a technological breakthrough is achieved, eagerly transferring the population to those resource stars will only increase the burden and is of little significance.

For example, if we want to transport water to a planet without water, over a distance of hundreds of millions of kilometers, to deliver water necessary for millions of people to live, how much will it cost? How many times a year will it be shipped? How many years of continuous transportation will it take for the millions of people on the resource star to become self-sufficient?

Only planets with water are valuable for colonization.

"The material reactor should be an upgraded version of the nuclear fusion power station, 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 knew a little bit about the technological development route, asked the master.

The Master glanced at him, nodded, and then shook his head.

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

"We need to build a particle accelerator with a length of 10,000 kilometers in space, conduct high-energy particle collision experiments, crack the basic force formulas of basic physics, and lay a theoretical foundation before we can develop a material reactor and an ion engine, but..."

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

It will take another 4,500 years to complete the particle accelerator. After it is completed, we will start to conduct collision tests, explore the basic force formula, and achieve theoretical breakthroughs. After accumulating resources for thousands of years, we will basically meet the conditions for interstellar colonization.

These times add up to almost exactly 10,000 years before entering what the masters call the "adjustment period."

But today, the master's carefully planned, energy-saving and environmentally friendly plan was completely disrupted. Not only was his careful plan adjusted, but he himself was also adjusted.

So far, Zhou Ming finally understood all the causes and consequences, and also understood the personality of the master:

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

The combination of these characters is the perfect and hellish "Empire of Money" under your feet.

But in the final analysis, he is just a senior programmer who is above everyone else, thinks he is a 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 the world as a game, himself as a player, others as NPCs, him as the supreme master, and others as ants who can be manipulated at will.

His ideals and goals were correct, but the methods used were... stupid.

"Even if the humans on this planet can never leave this planet and all they lose is a trip to other colonial planets, your actions have caused them to lose love, family affection, friendship, and... Lost conscience and morality, lost all truth, goodness and beauty in human nature..."

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

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

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

These words, like hammers, struck hard in the heart of the master again and again. Cold sweat streamed from his forehead, his face was extremely confused, his heart felt stinging, and he murmured to himself:

"Did...did I really do something wrong?"

…

The war crisis has been lifted.

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

As a result, Zhou Ming became rich.

He owns the space station.

He controls 100,000 drones.

The military production line at Yuexing Base, the sky film production line, the money production line that can make countless amounts of money... they all belong to him.

In addition, he also obtained a football-sized crystal object in the core control room of Yuexing Base, with a crystal clear appearance and countless flashes of colored light inside - this crystal object, to Zhou Ming, is this copy The most valuable thing is even worth more than hundreds of billions of dollars.

Civilized heart.

This is a civilized heart.

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

This scientific and technological information includes the most comprehensive and advanced medical technology, materials technology, computer technology, intelligent robot technology, various industrial technologies, agricultural technologies, etc.

Any scientific and technological information Zhou Ming wants is included in the Civilized Heart.

From this, we can know that the master is still a late-stage patient with a collecting habit, and he ended up taking advantage of Zhou Ming.

After draining all the value of the Overlord and making a copy of his memory, the Overlord who had lost his use value was thrown into space by Zhou Ming after taking off his space suit. His blood immediately boiled, and he was thrown into space again. Launch a nano-missile and blast him into countless pieces of space junk.

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

Five days later, Zhou Ming drove the aerospace plane and returned to the ground.

…

Seeing the small dot in the sky getting closer and closer, the ground was boiling.

"Back, back!"

"Hero, our hero is back!"

"It worked, he really succeeded!"

"Oh oh oh~ War has been 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 entire planet turned into a sea of ​​cheers and a grand celebration, with people singing, dancing, and getting drunk.

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

This day is called "Liberation Day".

…

A few days later.

Longlan Castle, in a room.

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

Lan Mengxin frowned and said to Zhou Ming, with a look of confusion on her face.

Zhou Ming shook his head and said:

"You don't understand human nature so 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 higher their demands will be and they will never be satisfied. Even if you are not sure At that level, those so-called rational, kind, conscientious, and virtuous people will become dissatisfied and extremely greedy... The ruler has seen this very clearly and done it extremely well. As the ruler, you will definitely You can’t hold candy in both hands, at least one hand must hold a whip.”

In addition, the ruled people cannot be completely without a sense of crisis. Once all the reins on their bodies are untied, they will have no scruples. Once they learn that the master is dead, they will be extremely happy, and If you don't take any new ruler seriously, you will cause trouble.

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

Moreover, Zhou Ming will quit the game soon. Lan Mengxin has a weak and kind-hearted character, which is not very suitable for being a planet ruler. Therefore, in order to prevent bigger chaos after he leaves, the Moon Star Base is He left a way out for the Xiao Lan family (their surnames).

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

However, thinking that he was leaving soon, Lan Mengxin looked reluctant and like a little girl, holding the man's hand and pleading in her tone: "Can't you stay a few more years and stay with me longer?"