Chapter 740 Technology Bottleneck

The size of the empire's fleet is proportional to the empire's growing territory.

If the 10 million Zeus-class battleships and 50,000 White Dwarf-class battleships originally owned by the empire are regarded as one unit.

Then the empire will build a unit of fleet every time it captures a new river system.

As the empire's territory expanded to the Empire's River System No. 5, the Empire's River System No. 6, the Empire's River System No. 7, and the Empire's River System No. 100, the size of the empire's fleet has also snowballed.

Correspondingly, the time required for the empire's fleet to capture a new river system is getting shorter and shorter.

In the later period, even the advance fleet of the empire's fleet can directly capture the enemy's entire river system as soon as it is teleported over.

On the surface, the empire's strength seems to be constantly increasing, and the number of the empire's fleets is constantly doubling.

But Li Mingze knows that the empire is now in a very troublesome situation, that is, the empire's technology seems to have reached a limit!

Whether it is physics, chemistry, biology, etc., the empire seems to have touched the ceiling of these disciplines!

This is not a good thing. After all, Li Mingze knows that there are more powerful civilizations above the empire, but the empire is now trapped at the current level. The seemingly narrow crack in the ground is like a chasm that cannot be crossed.

On the inner ring world of Shenzhou, a hemispherical building reflects a pale white light under the sunlight, and white drop-shaped spacecrafts are constantly separated from the sleek shell and fly into the air.

The meaning of the existence of this building is very simple, that is, it is used for meetings.

In this super-large conference room building belonging to the Imperial Royal Research Institute, all the elite scientists of the empire have gathered in this conference room.

These scientists include all known subjects such as physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy and even psychology!

And standing in the center of the conference room is the supreme ruler of the empire, Emperor Li Mingze.

As the empire has touched the ceiling of each subject, all the research rooms and laboratories of the empire have now come to a standstill. It is not that they do not want to conduct research, but that they have nothing to study.

It seems that everything that can be discovered by them has been studied by the empire, but these discovered technologies cannot piece together the technologies required for the next level!

This situation attracted Li Mingze's great attention, which was the origin of this conference covering all subjects.

"Silence! Silence!" Li Mingze clapped his hands at the messy venue.

Instantly, the entire venue became silent, and all the scientists sat up and looked at Li Mingze standing at the southernmost end of the venue.

"You are all the pillars of the imperial scientific community. I believe that everyone is clear and aware of the situation that the empire has encountered recently." Li Mingze looked around at the scientists in the venue.

These scientists are the best selected from the empire's nearly trillion scientists. They are at the top of the empire in terms of knowledge and IQ.

This is also the reason why he gathered these people together for discussion. He alone could not come up with a solution.

"Your Majesty, the materials science I am responsible for has reached a bottleneck. No matter how many times we try, we cannot synthesize materials with better performance."

"Whether it is the materials used to conduct energy or the materials used to make armor, they have begun to stagnate and are still at the level of more than a hundred years ago!" A scientist raised his hand and stood up.

"We are the same. The supercomputer research I am responsible for has also hit a bottleneck due to materials science. Without new materials, it is impossible to research a supercomputer with stronger computing power."

"We are the same. The power of weapons can only be increased by expanding the size of weapons, and there is no qualitative improvement at all!"

"Our shield research is the same. We can only increase the shield's bearing limit by piling up the number of shield launchers, and we can't improve the shield's strength qualitatively."

"We are the same." In an instant, the venue fell into chaos again. Countless scientists began to complain. Their research has been stagnant for hundreds of years. Now scientists and researchers are too lazy to work. After all, no matter how busy they are, the research results are still the same.

"Research, when did it start to stagnate?" Li Mingze frowned and asked these scientists.

"Your Majesty, roughly speaking, it should be two hundred years ago when we just captured the spiral river system!" A scientist thought about it and gave a reply.

"At that time, we began to feel that research had become somewhat difficult. The experimental results that originally took ten days to obtain began to take longer."

"And as time went on, our speed of developing new technologies became slower and slower, and the bonus of the mental network seemed to no longer work."

"A hundred years ago, our research was completely stagnant, and we could not develop new technologies no matter what." The scientist sighed.

The scientists around nodded and agreed: "Yes, that's it, it stagnated a hundred years ago."

Li Mingze reached out and touched his chin and fell into deep thought. Did the signs appear two hundred years ago?

The changes that occurred in the empire after invading the Spiral Federation were nothing more than the beginning of the research on space folding technology and the expansion of the empire's territory by nearly double.

At the same time, the empire's human creation system was fully activated, creating hundreds of billions of people for colonizing new river systems.

If nothing unexpected happens, will the problem appear in these three aspects?

Is it because the empire began to study space folding technology, or because of the expansion of territory or the increase in population?

Headache! Li Mingze rubbed his temples and didn't know what to do.

There is no way to find out the specific reason now, after all, the space folding technology has been studied!

Moreover, these river empires have completed the occupation, and trillions of people have been scattered in various river systems. No matter which of these three is irreversible!

"Your Majesty, I think we may be able to get answers from other civilizations." Suddenly, a scientist stood up and said loudly.

"Oh? What do you mean?" Li Mingze looked at the scientist curiously. He had some impression of this person. It seemed that he was responsible for the "graveyard" of the empire, that is, the scientists who were stuffed into the virtual world civilization.

"Your Majesty, I think we can completely observe the development of a civilization to explore what factors caused our technology to have a bottleneck!" The scientist showed a confident look.