Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

While the ark was drilling the mysteries of the warp speed engine, all the forces in Tiangong City were in total disarray because of his disappearance.

Whether it's the South Gate II Colonial Exploration Foundation, the Alliance of Independent Mars Colonial Cities, or the intelligence services of the Trans-Asian Cooperation, everyone wants to know where the Ark went.

However, chaotic situations do not seem to affect people's daily lives.

Even though the disappearance of the Lu Academician almost pushed the relationship between the forces into a sword-breaking situation, concern remained over the successive corporate bonds issued by the new High South Gate II Colonial Exploration Fund and the 100,000 tickets already sold.

At this moment, the downstairs of the South Gate II Colonial Exploration Foundation headquarters building, major news media carriers and countless private cars fill almost the entire parking lot and even nearby streets.

In order to avoid treading, the company's security guards pulled up the isolation belt at the door to maintain order and dissuade the people surrounding it.

Among those who surrounded the entrance to the building were journalists from news agencies, entrepreneurs who wanted to seek cooperation, or intermediaries who wanted to buy more corporate debt and resell boat tickets.

It had to be admitted that the South Gate II Colonial Exploration Fund had indeed come at a good time.

Now that the problem of hypervelocity navigation has been solved, and whether it's a breeze or not, Mars intends to build the largest space port in the entire solar system and lead the development of Iowa.

Everything is a sign that humankind is ready to travel to a more distant world, and that there is an unprecedented increase in enthusiasm for the world of outer galaxies.

There have not been so many times since the city was built.

This is probably the first time for Martians who are used to freely spreading their praises for the same thing spontaneously and unevenly.

Top floor of the building.

In the general manager's office.

Lawrence, standing in a holographic beam, is looking out through the office's landing window to see the streets of Tiangong City.

As the owner of this office, Gladstone sitting on the office chair is playing with the artefacts in his hand. It's a golden badge with a strange pattern on it. It's hard to tell what year this thing is from just looking at the workmanship, but from his beloved moves, it should have been with him for years.

At this point, Lawrence, standing by the window, suddenly opened his mouth.

“To be honest, I've always been very curious about your taste. ”

“Oh?” stopped the action and Gladstone put the badge in his pocket and cast a gaze of interest around Lawrence, "I'm happy to answer your confusion. ”

“There's no confusion at all,” chuckled Lawrence, continuing, "just from an efficiency point of view, your euphoria is actually just the transmission of nerve signals to the synergy with hormone secretion, which can be satisfied by chemical and information technology means. If so, why bother building so many pointless artifacts here and then using them to produce some garbage that is ultimately destined to be wasted? ”

“It's really an interesting question, and it's very hard to answer," Gladstone thought for a while, shrugging his shoulders and saying, "If we had to find a reason, that's probably what we've been doing for hundreds of years, and maybe there's something in our genes that we don't even know about ourselves. ”

“Genes?” Looking at the face reflected on the floor window, Lawrence's mouth held a smile and said in a slightly understated voice, "Think carefully, the man who created me also seems to be a contradictory guy. During the first half of his life, he yearned almost every day for a dream to come true, but he hesitated at the last moment when it was about to come true, so much so that I had to force him to do it. ”

Gladstone opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but after a while of hesitation, he didn't say anything.

Intuition told him that it was superfluous to say anything at this time.

Lawrence didn't care what they were thinking, he didn't care at all.

It's like they don't care about artificial intelligence, why they're obsessed with things that don't seem meaningful right now.

The two sides stood together temporarily simply because of their common interests.

That's all.

At this point, there was a knock outside the office.

Gladstone glanced at Lawrence and saw that the latter had no objection, so he cleared his voice and said.

“Come on in. ”

The door opened and a man in a suit of leather walked into the house and said in a flame.

“Something's wrong, Mr. Gladstone. Something's wrong! ”

Looking at the man in front of him, Gladstone frowned slightly.

While there is some dissatisfaction with the dysfunction of one's own men, it is clear that this is not the time to compare the last of these branches.

“You take a breath first, then you make it clear what happened. ”

“City Hall, news over there!” I looked at Lawrence standing by the window in a hurry, and the man swallowed his mouth and continued sweating, "The ark is missing! ”

It wasn't just Gladstone who heard that, even Lawrence, standing by the window on the floor, stood still.

“Missing?” With his lips gently closed, Lawrence turned back incredibly and looked at the man standing at the door and said, "Are you sure he's missing? ”

Glimpsed Gladston in a hurry, seemed to respect the strange old man standing by the window, so he stopped hiding, to be honest.

“… Yes, Mayor Xue sent someone to a hotel under an ark, but there was no one there. Then we searched his room, all useless carry-on clothes, and we didn't even see the warp engine drawings! ”

Gladstone snapped in his heart.

The thing that worried him most still happened.

“You go down first. ”

“Yes…”

The man standing at the door quickly lit his head down, respectfully exited the door and took the door of the office with him.

Without a second's delay, Gladstone immediately saw Lawrence standing by the window and complained to him about the way he looked at him.

“What do we do? ”

“This is really a big problem, and without a warp engine, we can't leave the solar system at all," Lawrence continued after watching the windowless streets, silent for a while, "and more than that, our troubles could be bigger than you think. ”

“Bigger than I thought?” Gladstone frowned, "what does that mean? ”

“As you should have noticed, Mayor Xue of Tiangong City, has a tendency to be independent. ”

“Does that have to be discovered? The whole city hall must have this idea at the top. ”

“So I said we were in a lot of trouble,” Gladstone looked stunned, and Lawrence, facing down the window, had an intriguing tone of mouth, continuing, "Imagine that you are a patriotic country, that your colony has seized your most distinguished scholar, and that the technology at his disposal can completely reverse the strategic balance between the two sides. ”

For a moment, Gladstone's face finally changed.

“You, you mean…”

Without paying attention to Gladstone's psychological changes, Lawrence continued expressionlessly.

“Whether he disappeared or was secretly taken over by the Pan-Asian Cooperation, the war seemed inevitable. ”

Almost at the same time.

Pan-Asian Cooperation Headquarters.

After reading the Security Bureau report, Li Guangya slammed his hands on the table angrily.

“I should have known their hypocritical faces a long time ago. ”

“Mr. President, I am afraid we are now facing the toughest test of pan-Asian cooperation since its inception," said Secretary Wei, looking at the President, with a serious expression of continued seriousness, "Master Lu is likely to have been under their control and once they have mastered warp speed technology and applied it to the battlefield, our strengths will be lost. You must make an immediate decision, which will affect the fate of the entire pan-Asian cooperation! ”

“Do you still have to choose? The suppression of the rebels is the work of the army,” Li Guangya scolded and ordered, "the military show began early, allowing the first fleet to drive over and take the orbital airborne troops. ”

“If confronted with resistance, fire back immediately. ”

“Don't be polite with them! ”