Chapter 746 Population and Technology

In the imperial command center, an officer walked up to Li Mingze and handed him a document, saying: "Your Majesty, our observers lurking in the Taotie Empire have sent back the latest news. The Taotie Empire seems to have noticed our existence!"

Li Mingze lowered his head and fell into deep thought. It seemed that it was time to make a decision whether to continue this experiment.

It has been so long, and the three experimental civilizations have not reported any news of technological bottlenecks. Obviously, this experiment is on the verge of failure.

It would not be good if these civilizations developed more advanced technology. They are very likely to pose a threat to the empire.

Li Mingze's fingers tapped lightly on the table, making a bang, and all the officers in the command center turned their eyes to Li Mingze.

After thinking for a moment, Li Mingze showed a firm look: "Order the Hive Mothership to prepare to go out and completely wipe out these three experimental civilizations."

"I hereby declare that the civilization experiment has completely failed!"

Hearing Li Mingze's affirmative words, the scientists and officers in the control center sighed with regret, but for some reason, there was a sense of relief mixed in these sighs.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Something is happening!" Suddenly, an officer looked at the holographic image in front of him and raised his hand to Li Mingze loudly.

Li Mingze raised his eyebrows: "Oh? What's the situation?"

"Your Majesty, the observers lurking in the second experimental civilization, Sida Empire, sent back the latest news. Several types of technology in Sida Empire have begun to slow down their research speed!"

"And this phenomenon is still expanding. Now half of the research in various disciplines in Sida Empire has stagnated!" The officer shouted in surprise.

Their four hundred years of waiting finally paid off! The civilization experiment did not fail!

This Sida Empire is the experimental civilization used to study whether the bottleneck is related to population.

If nothing unexpected happens, the technological bottleneck encountered by the Empire is likely due to the Empire's wanton expansion of population!

However, it is not safe for only one experimental civilization to encounter this situation. The other two experimental civilizations must also guide them to increase their population to determine that the bottleneck is indeed related to population.

A few days later, in the study of the Imperial Palace, Li Mingze, Tianyi and Eva stared at each other.

"What do you think about the population dragging down our scientific research?" Li Mingze was silent for a while and asked first.

It was too difficult for him to think about the whole thing alone. He had no choice but to call out the two major artificial intelligences of the Empire to study the whole thing together.

Eva was stunned for a moment, and soon recovered her original expression and slowly said: "Your Majesty, I think it is very suspicious. Why is population related to scientific research?"

"What caused the bottleneck of our technology? Why does the increase in population affect technology? Is there any advanced civilization playing a role that cannot be shown to others?"

Eva's eyes flashed with a trace of hesitation. She seemed to have expected this matter, but she did not intend to tell the truth.

"Your Majesty, I think this may be the rule of the universe." Tianyi slowly explained to Li Mingze.

"The rules of the universe?" Li Mingze frowned, he always felt that this thing was a bit metaphysical.

"Yes, just like the speed of light in this universe is always a constant number, nothing can exceed the speed of light in this universe, and all objects have gravity, these are the rules that maintain the operation of the entire universe."

"Since the rules of the universe can limit the speed of a certain substance, it is not surprising that it will limit the technology of a civilization." Tianyi drank a sip of tea on the table and continued to explain.

Li Mingze paused, as if he was thinking about the language.

"If the population of the empire really limits the development of the empire's technology, then what should we do?"

"What about the extra population in our empire? Do we have to kill them ourselves?" Li Mingze's tone was full of bitterness.

You know, once it is determined that the technological bottleneck is really related to the population, then the empire must clear the excess population if it wants to continue to develop.

At that time, he, Li Mingze, may raise the butcher knife against his own citizens and become a "devil"-like existence.

He admitted that if he wanted to destroy the enemy, he could be merciless and easily destroy an enemy star system without blinking an eye.

But he couldn't do it to his own citizens. He treated every citizen of the empire as a child. He couldn't imagine the scene of raising a butcher knife to his own children.

At this time, the study fell into silence. Tianyi and Eva lowered their heads silently.

They had no choice. If the empire was not ambitious and satisfied with the current level of technology, there would be no problem. But once an enemy with more advanced technology came one day, the only thing waiting for the empire was destruction.

However, if they were asked to kill their own people, even Tianyi and Eva, who were artificial intelligence, couldn't do it.

This is not something that can be solved by killing tens of thousands, millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of people!

According to their calculations, if they want to restore the empire's technology to an unaffected state, they must at least eliminate three-fifths of the empire's population!

How is this possible! According to the current population of 20 trillion in the Empire, the Empire needs to eliminate 12 trillion citizens of the Empire!

What does 12 trillion people mean? If the Empire can really do it, then the Empire will go down in history.

After all, this is the first civilization to do such a cruel thing to its own civilization!

"What should I do!" Li Mingze's facial features twisted together, and he didn't know how to go next.

"Your Majesty, there must be a way out when the car reaches the mountain. Let's wait quietly for the news of the other two experimental civilizations." Tianyi hesitated for a moment, and finally did not say what was in his heart, but comforted Li Mingze.

Soon, the other two experimental civilizations also began to increase their population crazily under the guidance of the Empire's observers.

Although the price of this is the loss of nearly 80% of the observers, now the Empire has also fought for all the observers for the test data.

As expected by Li Mingze, these civilizations began to show signs of slowing down scientific and technological research and development after the population continued to increase.

However, since the population increase was not large enough, this sign was not obvious. If the empire had not known about it long ago, it would not have discovered such a small delay.