Today is a special day. Tonight at 8 PM, there will be the research base's major report, which takes place every two weeks.

At this important meeting, all the project leaders will give a brief report on the progress of their projects. Those with breakthroughs will be discussed in depth or a special meeting will be scheduled at another time.

You can also propose new creative projects at the meeting, as long as you can provide sufficient reasons.

Kromir's passionate remarks at the dinner table earned him the approval of that group of scientists. As long as his explanation of his admiration that night wasn't too far-fetched, he figured they would support him.

After a brief and successful campaign at the dining table, Kromir quickly finished his omelet rice and then dashed to his lounge suite.

Each scientist has an assigned apartment or villa outside, but almost none of these people, who fall into workaholic mode as soon as they arrive at the research base, "go home" often.

Most of them slept in the base's rest room when they were tired. Fortunately, although the rest room is called a room, it is actually a suite with everything, including a kitchen that they don't even need.

Researchers with families will occasionally return to their homes outside, but single young people like Kromir and Lovett practically never leave their homes for anything else.

As a researcher who usually has a job, Kromil's plan was to draft a document and related materials himself in the lounge.

Since the decision was made to submit the application at the meeting, he needed to perfect the prepared PowerPoint slides and organize the relevant materials as quickly as possible for use in the meeting.

Of course, he had to submit the materials half an hour before the meeting, which made the time even tighter.

It felt just like the intense review before an exam – both nerve-wracking and exciting.

At 8 p.m., the large conference center in one corner of the base was filled with hundreds of researchers in its semi-circular conference hall.

Everyone was equipped with a wireless headset with a microphone, making it easy to listen to information from the stage and express their opinions.

At times like these, every researcher present can feel a thriving and proud atmosphere.

There was no sycophancy, no deceit, no entanglement of interests; everyone was fighting solely for humanity.

What's remarkable is that all of this is done autonomously by the researchers. The Dark Sanctuary basically does not interfere with their research freedom, except occasionally proposing a few special research tasks for the scientists to allocate personnel themselves.

On the huge screen in the center of the conference room, scientific progress reports were continuously presented as the presenters on the podium below changed.

Even in brief reports, when there is encouraging progress, we can't help but discuss it a bit more, so by the time we got to the project application topic, it was already close to 11 p.m.

A beautiful Templar warrior, who was hosting the event, raised the microphone.

"The agenda for the progress and results of existing projects is now complete. We will now proceed to the project application agenda, starting with Dr. Kromiel Benjamin."

Kromir slowly walked onto the stage, took a deep breath, and then picked up the light pen on the stage. The title of his presentation had already appeared on the huge screen behind him.

The words "Project Giant Warrior" appeared on the screen.

"Gentlemen and ladies, distinguished colleagues, and esteemed staff of the Dark Sanctuary, greetings."

"Starting tonight, the widely circulated gossip has surely been thoroughly disseminated to you, esteemed observer."

This remark elicited a chorus of good-natured chuckles from the audience.

"So, regarding the speculations about me at the restaurant, there are a few people who don't know yet. Please press the statistics button."

The numbers on the screen immediately popped up, showing 139 people, less than half the total. It seemed that his remarks had already spread. If the meeting hadn't been held so close together, everyone would have known by tomorrow.

Kromir continued speaking.

"Then it seems I can't slack off anymore."

Another burst of laughter followed.

"To get back to the point, what I'm saying is based on an assumption, specifically..."

Kromir reiterated his remarks from the restaurant, adding more detailed explanations to key points. Meanwhile, the slideshow on the screen displayed a series of documents about disasters and unsolved mysteries around the world, as well as projects under development, such as the Source Suit.

"That concludes our hypothesis about other planets and worlds. Now, how many people agree that this hypothesis is more likely to be true? Please press the confirm button."

As a result, over 90% of the researchers voted in favor, and most of the rest opted out of choosing this option; almost no one voted against it.

"Very good, it seems that everyone thinks about the same thing as me."

"As part of Earth, human technology is increasingly influencing us, and even the guardian forces are no exception, as they have also started using mobile phones and developed laboratories."

"However, compared to the traditional strength of the guardian forces, the achievements of technology have not yet played a decisive role, but can only provide some assistance. Although the destructive power of firearms is great, it is still inadequate against some extremely agile individuals. As for large missiles and nuclear weapons, not to mention their pollution, they are obviously not suitable, at least their carriers are unqualified."

"Project Colossus was originally a childhood dream of mine. It wasn't feasible, and the actual results might not have been satisfactory. But the existence of Source Power Cells and Holy Silver made me see the possibility. In addition, with the help of the currently popular virtual reality game technology, well, of course I have to talk to that game company."

"In short, the likelihood of the Colossus project will be greatly increased."

On the screen, a concept image of a large, highly technological humanoid combat weapon was displayed.

As soon as this picture appeared, everyone knew what the Colossus in the Colossus Project referred to.

Dissent immediately arose.

As the objection indicator light came on, the host gestured for the scientists in the audience to speak.

"Dr. Benjamin, if I may be so bold, such a large combat mech concept is more like a target due to aerodynamic and gravity reasons."

This is also what many people in the audience were thinking. After all, such a large machine would inevitably be slow and cumbersome to move. Armor-piercing and anti-tank missiles could easily destroy it. Using it to deal with aliens might be a bit unreliable.

"Yes, if the Colossus is a large machine, or simply a large machine, then that is indeed the case. However, the Colossus is not a pure machine. The appearance of the Source Cell and the Holy Silver is definitely the finishing touch. Please look at the data."

A series of experimental data from the Source Suit and stimulation data from Source Power cells began to emerge, with a focus on the nerve reflex speed of Source cells and the characteristic that the more cells they accumulate, the stronger their power and energy response.

With the increasing number of projects and researchers, many scientists are unable to fully understand the information about other projects.

There is also a video.

A man clad in a Source Armor used a holy silver weapon to effortlessly deflect a barrage of bullets aimed at him from all directions.

"Gentlemen, since the Source Suit can block bullets at short distances under these circumstances, can missiles with a longer reaction time be cut down by the Colossus made of Source Cells and Holy Silver Bones?"

"And the ability to generate new life cells is probably not simple. Although it has not been put into practice yet, we can already see that its power is not just theoretical."

"Moreover, once applied to space warfare, it may have even more unexpected effects. Speaking of which, I would also like to suggest that the Starship program should be carried out simultaneously with controlled nuclear fusion."

...

While the meeting was in the midst of heated discussions, Wu You watched the live broadcast somewhere in this research base.

These scientists have quite a vivid imagination and reasoning ability. Their Giant Warrior project actually coincides with the pseudo-Evangelion project they originally wanted to create, except that the other one is obviously many times more professional.

The plan outlines a comprehensive overview of the power system, fire control system, neural network integration, reconnaissance and response capabilities, multi-space environment cross-operation performance, internal driver protection measures, and weapon configuration.

Even virtual reality technology has been applied to key areas of information processing.

The extended starship plan surprised Wu You even more. Although they didn't go into detail, a few words made Wu You realize that with the technology and power he currently had, combined with some biological abilities, he could actually begin to build interstellar warships.

Since the strength of key materials is not a problem at all, the energy supply is being resolved, and the physical strength of personnel can be guaranteed by the Yuanquan combat suit, the only problem may be the flight speed.

Of course, there also needs to be personnel with modern knowledge. After all, each interstellar warship theoretically needs at least several hundred people. The "illiterate" people in the Eastern Realm are unreliable, and the crew will still need to be Earth humans in the future.