I Contracted All Ancient Divine Artifacts-Chapter 383 - 282: Appointment and Surprise

"Very well, then let Uncle-Master take on the role of the Dean of North County Academy, responsible for all matters related to talent selection and cultivation in North County."

Lin Jingxuan was straightforward, immediately appointing him.

Li Tugui did not decline and nodded.

"Then let’s continue discussing the second matter."

"The second matter is related to the overall development strategic direction of Great Xia North County."

Listening to Lin Jingxuan’s mention of the second core issue, Han Zhan suddenly felt a bit reflective.

Those who did not participate in the last major meeting might not feel this way.

Who could have thought that, just over half a year ago, they were still troubled by "subsistence issues," and now they’ve started laying out long-term plans for "strategic development."

"The current development of North County is divided into two parts, adhering to the cultivation path of the Spirit Contract Technique while integrating highly urbanized technology."

"Regarding the issue of the Spirit Contract Technique, Han Zhan has already helped us thoroughly resolve it last time, and we will no longer be constrained by other forces on the issue of the Awakening Stone."

"Therefore, today we need to discuss the development of city technology."

City technology, which refers to Civilization Level, has been rapidly advancing since Shang Siteng joined Great Xia.

Currently, it has even reached the height of Civilization Level 5.

However, further advancement has become extremely challenging.

To progress from Civilization 5 to Civilization 6, the first problem that must be solved is the issue of Energy Bricks.

Only by being able to mass-produce Energy Bricks can the civilization successfully iterate.

"I will address this issue." Shang Siteng then took over the conversation and spoke.

As the director of the Great Xia Research Institute, the chief scientist of Great Xia, and the main leader driving civilization iteration,

"The progress from Civilization Level 5 to Civilization Level 6 is very slow."

"The main crux of the problem is that we do not have something like the Intelligent Mechanical Life from Can Shang Company’s Celestial Net, and the generation method of Energy Bricks must be verified and exhausted through countless experiments."

"For this, we have already built ten Psychic Bridges, and five more are in the planning stage."

One Psychic Bridge can solve about one percent of the computational power issue. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

Ten would be ten percent.

To fully resolve the computational power issue, at least one hundred Psychic Bridges are needed.

For the current Great Xia, this is still too extravagant.

"Even if we exhaust all resources and national strength to build one hundred Psychic Bridges, it would only solve the computational power issue, and the time spent detecting psychic fluctuations and exhaustive data would still, by my conservative estimate, take ten years."

Shang Siteng cited a figure.

Ten years, for the long-term development of a power, might not seem like a long time and could pass in the blink of an eye.

But Great Xia is different.

The current Great Xia lacks foundational strength and has already fallen significantly behind other major powers.

If ten more years pass, the gap will only widen.

This is why, even knowing the situation in North County has stabilized and Lin Jingxuan has breached the Ninth Realm, suggests a favorable outlook for Great Xia, though the major forces remain relatively calm.

Foundational strength.

Wanting to take the short path in overtaking others is not that easy.

Shang Siteng’s words brought the attendees back to reality, grounding their formerly lofty sentiments.

The apparent prosperity of North County could just be a time-limited illusion, and once the illusion is pierced, there will be nothing left.

"This issue isn’t easy to solve. Let me first share my plan."

Shang Siteng knew this was a serious issue, so she tried to lift everyone’s spirits.

"The Can Shang Company can be ruled out; those profit-over-everything cold-hearted capitalists won’t cooperate on critical technology."

"But we have a second choice, which is—Shang Jianyue."

When Shang Siteng mentioned Shang Jianyue, everyone attending the meeting had a virtual screen projecting numerous pieces of information about Shang Jianyue in front of them.

Several people attending had no idea who Shang Jianyue was; these materials were prepared for them.

"Shang Jianyue has negotiated with us a few times, but unsuccessfully. The conditions proposed by the other side are too harsh and difficult to meet."

In truth, they aren’t too harsh.

But since Shang Siteng was primarily handling the negotiations, the conditions set by Shang Jianyue became "harsh."

Like: Han Zhan having to go to Titan City once a week to dine with his female housekeeper?

"If we cooperate with Shang Jianyue, we only need to build twenty Psychic Bridges; in five years, we should be able to conquer the technology for creating Energy Bricks and lay a solid foundation for civilization iteration!"

From the initial hundred bridges and ten years, it was drastically reduced to twenty bridges and five years.

An undeniable improvement.

At this point, Han Zhan suddenly spoke: "No need to be so complicated; we have another solution."

"You mentioned Intelligent Mechanical Life earlier, right? If we had that, how long would it take?"

Not understanding why Han Zhan asked, Shang Siteng still answered truthfully: "If we had the assistance of Intelligent Mechanical Life, we wouldn’t need to build any Psychic Bridges, and I am confident we could achieve a breakthrough in one year."

"But the difficulty in acquiring Intelligent Mechanical Life is no less than infiltrating Can Shang Technology Headquarters and hacking into its Celestial Net Core Database."

Due to the overwhelming difficulty, Shang Siteng never considered it.

After hearing Shang Siteng’s response, Han Zhan snapped his fingers with a smile.

Right after snapping his fingers, a small silver chip appeared on the meeting table.

For concealment and ease of transport, Han Zhan used the Nuwa Stone of Heavenly Origin power to keep it in the smallest particle form.

"Do you recognize this?" Han Zhan pointed to the chip.

Li Tugui, Zhan Ning, and Yu Lian, recognizing what the chip represented, all had knowing smiles.

Seeing their reactions, Shang Siteng was slightly puzzled.

"An external chip with a database inside, which I gave you when you decided to head to the City of Extreme Evil."

"Is there a problem?"

As soon as she finished speaking, a stream of data suddenly surged from the chip.

The next moment, the data stream burrowed into the conference table, integrating completely and disappearing.

In the blink of an eye, on the virtual screens before each attendee, a whimsical Little Dragon figure appeared, twerking and dancing.

"You descendants of the Shang Family, your firewall was pretty decent. It took me 0.3 seconds longer."

"Han Zhan, you kept your word; you didn’t break your promise!"

Seeing the whimsical Little Dragon appear on her screen, Shang Siteng gaped in astonishment.

"This is..."

Intelligent Mechanical Life.

A fragment of the Celestial Net Core.

Bob!