For most people, 2039 doesn't bring much anticipation or hope for the upcoming new decade.

The main reason is that the wars launched in the past decade have truly affected everyone's lives, and people are still in the process of emerging from the shadow of war.

By 2049, almost everyone was looking forward to 2050.

With the situation stabilizing and technology experiencing explosive growth, everyone has extremely high expectations for the future.

Even after the war ended, the population of the entire planet Earth was still over eight billion.

Even if Earth has begun developing resources on the Moon and Mars, this population size would not be enough to provide a decent welfare system for everyone.

But on the eve of the 1950s, in any country, at least you wouldn't starve if you didn't work.

It can guarantee basic food and clothing.

In particular, the panacea launched by Sci-Tech Biotech in 2040 will be paid for by governments around the world and will cover most diseases.

"Universal drug" is the name given by the Blue Star people; the official name given by Kechuang Biotechnology is "Pathological Analysis Drug Design Instrument".

It's actually a device, not a panacea in the true sense.

This is actually a concept that has existed for a long time.

Even before the advent of the artificial intelligence wave, people hoped to improve the computer drug design process through deep learning tools.

Ideally, the doctor would write a few sentences describing the desired effect, then input the patient's medical examination data, and AI would automatically generate the exact structure of the required drug.

Before Blue Star, most experiments still focused only on molecules and their low-level properties, such as logp, octanol/water partition coefficient, etc.

Meanwhile, the drug design instruments of Kechuang Biotechnology can achieve a higher level of control over molecular design and can be easily controlled through natural language.

Its goal is achieved by generating descriptions for molecules and generating molecules from scratch under textual guidance.

The data is then transmitted to the backend, where local pharmaceutical companies produce the drug within a day.

Under Zheng Li's guidance, Kechuang Biotechnology took a one-step approach, not just modifying molecules, but designing them directly.

Some common molecular drugs can be directly sourced from local pharmacies or drugstores.

After this invention was invented, most innovative drug development companies in the biopharmaceutical field went bankrupt.

Everyone was living a very comfortable life. Thanks to the application of artificial intelligence in the field of biomedical research and development, the cost control of developing a new drug with just a few researchers has been basically achieved.

Now they've all been wiped out at once.

Of course, this invention greatly reduced costs in the medical field, resulting in the people of Earth having access to free medical care.

Taking China as an example, why is it so important to vigorously develop traditional Chinese medicine and herbal remedies? To put it bluntly, it's to prepare for the future when Western medicine will be unable to enter the Chinese market.

Traditional Chinese medicine and herbal remedies are not useless; rather, as an experience-based discipline, it is difficult to quantify them using a standard.

You cannot guarantee that the TCM doctors and herbal remedies you consult have seen and cured patients with similar symptoms to yours.

Furthermore, it is essential to ensure that the number of patients is sufficiently large.

Going to see a traditional Chinese medicine doctor is a complete black box, in other words, it's like opening a blind box; what you get depends entirely on luck.

Western medicine is like a product of an assembly line.

By 2049, there will be two main issues: a smaller population, with the baby boomers gradually dying out and fewer newborns.

Although China was once nominally the world's second largest economy, in reality, the combined strength of the second, third, and fourth largest economies couldn't surpass that of the United States.

Now, as the de facto second-largest economy in the world, they can compete with America on their own.

The journey from being overweight to having muscles is a long and arduous one.

Even with a strong nation and improved welfare benefits, China has tried various policies to stimulate childbirth. The more these policies are implemented, the less desire there is to have children.

People don't even get married; the virtual world is so much fun, and they seek pleasure in it.

In the virtual worlds built by other companies, you can even switch genders and enjoy different kinds of fun.

Nobody wants to get married, let alone have children.

China is relatively better off, after all, it has a tradition spanning thousands of years. Europe and America are already fully committed to developing artificial womb technology.

Even these countries are contacting researchers in science cities and offering them high prices to develop artificial womb technology.

Returning to the science city, the researchers' research results belong to the science city, but whether to sell them, and to which organization, is up to the researchers.

The resulting profits are split 50/50 between the science city and the researchers.

The Science City offers several advantages for research and development, including the ability for successful individuals to obtain "magic brains," and its safety during wartime.

Let this place become a sacred place in the hearts of researchers on Earth.

To become a sorcerer within this realm, one must have repeated successes and be recognized by Merlin, thus holding a status comparable to, or even higher than, that of a Nobel Prize winner.

Of course, the value of a single achievement may not be as high as that of a Nobel Prize-winning achievement.

However, their ability to continuously produce research results, coupled with the availability of life-extending drugs, allows them to have a longer research career than the average person.

Outsiders, those in the science city who haven't been officially hired are called intern researchers, and those who are hired but haven't achieved any results are called first-level researchers.

To be officially recognized as a researcher, one must achieve a certain level of accomplishment, which is called Level 2 Researcher, and so on.

Those who acquire the Demon Brain are called mages.

By 2049, the number of mages worldwide had exceeded five thousand.

So much so that in large countries, special laws are enacted to govern the practice of dharma.

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