The Speaker is right.

After sending 3.8 billion people away, the burden on his shoulders not only did not lessen, but even became heavier!

Sending 3.8 billion people into hibernation to escape to the Kuiper Belt may seem like preserving the flame of human civilization, but in reality, it only postpones the crisis by fifty years.

If humanity fails to develop sufficient technology for interstellar travel within fifty years, it will still face the same bleak outcome.

At that time, a total of 3.8 billion people will die in their sleep.

In Lü Yongchang's view, this outcome was even more unacceptable than in his previous life.

...

After the councilor left, Lu Yongchang sat behind his desk with a solemn expression.

He silently pondered his next course of action.

According to the original plan, he should have announced the launch of the Mars City project at this very moment.

With the Mars city design blueprints having been verified multiple times, he only needs to wait a certain amount of time for a giant city cluster capable of supporting 500 million people to appear on Mars.

only……

This waiting time may be a bit long.

According to Zero's calculations, if the construction of the Lunar Palace is carried out by one or more weak artificial intelligences in accordance with the project plan, the construction period will be extended to about three years.

This is clearly unrealistic.

In about a year, the Sun will begin its transition into a red giant.

At that time, the Earth's surface will become a hellish place, and at the very least, ordinary life will be unable to live on the surface.

There are two solutions, but both have drawbacks to varying degrees.

The first thing is to continue the practices of the previous life.

They built underground cities and hid underground, waiting silently.

Once the Mars city is completed, we will travel to Mars via a space elevator and the Luan Niao I starship.

This plan seems good, but it hides countless drawbacks.

Firstly, although large-scale construction projects such as the space elevator and the escape plan have been completed, Zero's computing power has a lot of idle resources.

But at this very moment, there are many other projects weighing on its shoulders.

In addition to various scientific research tasks, there are also tasks such as collecting Earth's mineral resources, building robots to expand production capacity, and continuing to build the Luan Bird series of starships...

Even with zero resources, it would be impossible to build an underground city capable of housing hundreds of millions of people in just a few months while simultaneously managing all other projects.

Secondly, once people choose to enter the underground city, their activity range will be greatly restricted, and a series of future plans will be affected to varying degrees.

Under such intense pressure, Lü Yongchang naturally could not choose a solution that might slow down future development.

As for the second option... it's naturally to go directly to the spaceport to live.

Even as the sun enters its red giant phase, the spaceport, constructed with high-strength alloys, can still withstand the intense heat from the sun for a short period.

At least for the next three to five years, the spaceport will not be rendered unusable due to temperature issues.

The drawbacks of this plan are even more obvious.

The current spaceport does not have a structure that can generate artificial gravity.

Even artificial gravity generated by spin is absent.

This led to a rather serious consequence.

Many scientific research projects cannot be carried out on spaceports.

In conclusion, from the very beginning, Lü Yongchang had already ruled out these two short-sighted solutions from his mind.

He let out a long sigh, leaned back in his office chair, and closed his eyes.

Consciousness once again entered that familiar technology tree space.

After unlocking starship manufacturing technology, although there were still many dim areas around the technology tree, at least the main trunk of a Tier 1 civilization's technology tree had been revealed to him.

Looking at the dim quantum long-distance communication technology at the top, a hint of struggle flashed in Lü Yongchang's eyes.

Although he had thoroughly mastered all the quantum communication technologies that humanity currently possessed in the past year, a hint of lingering fear still lingered in his eyes when he looked at the quantum communication technology that symbolized the pinnacle of a first-level civilization.

The mind-bending scene from last time is still vivid in my mind.

However, human civilization has reached this point, and the demand for quantum long-distance communication technology has reached its peak.

It is no exaggeration to say that without long-range communication, the speed of human civilization's development would be several levels slower!

After a brief moment of hesitation, a resolute glint flashed in his eyes.

We'll give it our all.

He didn't believe that the outcome would be the same as last time.

At worst, I can just stay in bed for a few days and it'll all be fine!

After thinking it through, he quickly focused his attention on the extremely dim icon at the very top of the technology tree.

After a brief wait, the familiar dizziness and burning sensation rushed into my brain.

The dizziness is getting stronger.

That familiar scene of everything going black before my eyes returned once again.

Blanching...

Lu Yongchang couldn't help but smile bitterly to himself.

I'm going to faint again.

Is this deadly quantum long-distance communication really that difficult?

Thinking of Su Yutong in the office, Lü Yongchang sighed silently in his heart.

I guess this will scare her again...

In that brief moment, countless thoughts flashed through Lü Yongchang's mind.

But just as the dizziness reached its peak, a surge of ecstasy rose in his heart!

Finally, a long-awaited reminder appeared in his subconscious!

【Light Quantum】

Feeling the countless inspirations bursting forth in his mind, Lü Yongchang, with a satisfied smile on his lips, completely fell into a coma.

...

"Beep! Beep! Beep!"

The familiar buzzer sound and the familiar smell of disinfectant.

Lü Yongchang struggled to open his eyes.

Looking at the surroundings, a bitter smile appeared on his lips again.

The sound of the door opening came from inside.

"Professor Lü, this is the second time you have fallen into a coma."

Looking at the somewhat familiar face, Lü Yongchang frowned slightly: "You are... Dr. Wen?"

Dr. Wen, wearing a white coat, paused for a moment, then smiled and nodded: "Yes, it's me."

"I didn't expect Professor Lü to have such a good memory. It seems that this coma did not cause much damage to your brain."

Lu Yongchang's lips twitched.

What does that mean?

He took a deep breath and gently shook his somewhat sluggish head: "Dr. Wen, how long was I unconscious this time?"

Dr. Wen smiled and handed a test report to Lü Yongchang: "Not much, just 24 hours. Compared to last time, there has been a great improvement."

Lü Yongchang: "..."

He had a feeling that Dr. Wen was targeting him, but he couldn't find enough evidence.

"Take a look, this is your medical report."

Lu Yongchang's eyes flickered, and he looked down at the documents in front of him.

"According to the examination, your brain activity is higher than last time," Dr. Wen said calmly. "Although I don't know how you did it, it is undoubtedly a good thing for you and for humanity."