Chapter 183: The Technical Expert You Need
Gu Hang couldn't let Wu Jiarong give up her job.
Without her, we can't expect the remaining people, who are at best junior technicians, to solve those scientific research problems.
Now that Wu Jiarong has gone to teach students, all scientific research work will have to be slowed down to half its efficiency.
But if he doesn't teach students and run a school, the difficulties Gu Hang faces will always be there.
If it were someone else, there might really be no solution.
But Gu Hang still has it.
"You hold on for a while longer." Gu Hang said, "The school construction will start soon. You can sacrifice half of your time, but I believe that you will make up for it soon."
Wu Jiarong said: "It is very difficult to train a qualified technical specialist or even a mechanic. It takes many years of study."
"I know, but maybe there is a genius among us, the Wrathful Owl?"
"I hope so."
Gu Hang's solution was to first build a technical college, and then use the [Architecture] interface to assign the [Architecture College I] template to it, which was consistent with the operating plan of Zhongsi College.
The exchange value of [Technical Institute I] is only 500 points of grace.
This building actually has two functions:
1. Improve students' learning efficiency.
2. Increase the probability of emergence of activatable technical talents.
The former is certainly useful, but it is the latter that can quickly solve Gu Hang’s current dilemma.
Once there is a technical talent that can be activated, the gift points will be activated. Even if it is an N card, the attribute points will be immediately granted when it is activated, which will allow his technical level to improve rapidly.
It is definitely impossible to reach Wu Jiarong's current level, but at least she can become a qualified assistant, or independently do some research work with a determined direction and even a plan.
It would be good if it could relieve Wu Jiarong of some work pressure.
Gu Hang planned to build this academy in Weixing City.
After all, compared to Fuxing City, which has more administrative, commercial, and light industrial attributes, Weixing City is the production center that needs more technical talents. Wu Jiarong doesn't need to travel dozens of kilometers to Fuxing City to work when she comes to class.
Reducing the time this valuable technical talent spends on the road means saving time needed for the development of the planet.
The entire league is developing at a high speed, but there are still too many basic things that need to be supplemented if it wants to become healthier.
Sometimes, Gu Hang still thinks that it would be great if he could pick up another expert in technology for free.
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Sometimes, Hu Ke would still think that it would be great if he could have a stable life and let his two children grow up healthy and happy.
At this moment, he was among a group of refugees, holding a pot of porridge in his hand.
This is the food ration their family of four received.
A bowl of porridge can sustain you for the whole day.
Back to the residence - this is a simple and shabby tent, built with rags and construction waste, which is at most three or four square meters. He and his wife, his six-year-old son and four-year-old daughter are temporarily living here.
The conditions are undoubtedly terrible. Not only are the living conditions poor, but the sanitary environment is also terrible.
But in fact, Hu Ke was still relieved.
At least, it's better than when we fled before.
The experience of fleeing all the way north from the southern end of the Qinggu area reminded him of the experience when he fled from his hometown to the Angry Owl Star more than two hundred years ago.
Of course, the so-called more than two hundred years ago was the real time, but in reality he did not feel that long.
He came from the 'Forge World of Heavy Forge', and when he left there, he was already an 'Engine Prophet' - a 'title' within the Mechanicum that was higher than the Mechanical Priest.
He is a technical expert.
As for why he left Heavyforge...
Because of the war.
Today, Heavy Forge should have been dragged into hell and no longer exist in the real universe.
During that war, he fled for his life, and at the last moment, still in shock, he escaped into a spaceship and left his hometown.
After boarding the spaceship, he drifted in the starry sky for a few years and spent a few years in the Star Army. He really could no longer accept the war.
He knew that in this restless universe, wars always existed. But as long as it didn't happen in front of him, it would be fine.
He admitted that he was a coward, but he never wanted to go to the battlefield again and see fighting in person.
As for those wars that are still happening, let them happen. Speaking of it, the status of an engine prophet is not low, but if it is magnified to the vast universe, what can he decide?
Tired of everything, Hu Ke just wants to find a stable, peaceful and beautiful planet to spend the rest of his life.
Indeed, the entire universe is always at war. But that is when we look at the entire empire. If we zoom out and focus on individual planets, the picture will be different.
Among many choices, he chose Angry Owl Star.
The scenery here is beautiful, the productivity is relatively developed, and the energy industry relies on the spiritual gas field. It is not particularly crowded, and the social atmosphere is stable. More importantly, there has been no war for thousands of years. Whether it is invaders or planetary civil unrest, there are very few, or at least the impact is very small.
This was a place that suited his needs.
So he came.
With his own abilities, he applied to join a genetic research institute on the Angry Owl Star.
This was not difficult, as he was an Engine Prophet from the Mechanicus and had made outstanding achievements in genetic engineering. He was also knowledgeable in other areas, he was just slightly weak.
After he got the job, he started to live a comfortable life. He felt that this place was simply a paradise. The climate and environment were much better than his hometown, which was actually a wasteland and the entire planet was a huge factory.
Moreover, the working status has greatly improved compared to the past. He is almost the best genetic engineer here. Some projects are normal and not difficult. He just needs to do his own thing step by step. Unlike in the past, he had to fight for resources and engage in political struggles within the Mechanicus.
He lived peacefully on the Angry Owl Star, found a woman who could soothe his soul, and they had a pair of children together.
At this point, he experienced something he had never experienced in his past life, and he felt that this might be what happiness looked like.
However, the good times did not last long, and "happiness" might be the most luxurious thing in the entire universe.
The Angry Star War broke out when his daughter was only three years old and his son was only two years old.
The war did not affect him at the first time, but he was still keenly aware of the danger.
He is quite experienced in this regard.
Hu Ke immediately accompanied the evacuation team and took his wife and children to the place he thought was safest.
That was a shelter, built to the highest standards. Logically, it was easy to defend, well-hidden, and could be evacuated from the planet as soon as possible. In fact, as far as he knew, the spacecraft to evacuate these high-value talents should already be on the way.
However, there is no limit to how bad luck can get for people.
First, the evacuating spacecraft was shot down midway, and then the shelter where he was was discovered by the enemy, and a large number of demons rushed here.
At the critical moment, before the shelter was breached and before the commander of the shelter desperately issued a self-destruction order, he used the facilities at the bottom of the shelter to freeze his wife and children. Then he collected and stored as much backup electricity as possible, and when he rushed to self-destruct, he froze himself into a hibernation chamber.
He didn't know if he could escape the disaster in this way, but as a husband and father, this was the last thing he could do.
And it turned out that he succeeded.
When he was dug out by his former colleague and student, a native of the Angry Owl Star named Gawajia, he saw his wife and children again, and the whole family was still alive.
He cried with joy and couldn't help praying to the Emperor, thanking him for leaving his most precious things in the world.
At the same time, he also learned that it was almost two hundred years after the war ended. His former student, Gowaga, was still alive today through life extension surgery. Now, he has established an organization called the "Natural Salvation Society", striving to build a paradise on the already ruined Angry Owl Star, and then expand outward from here, and ultimately restore the natural ecology of the Angry Owl Star and save the entire world.
To be honest, Hu Ke had no interest in this matter. He was already past the age of wanting to save the world.
There are too many worlds in the empire to save them all, so it doesn't matter if we destroy a few.
He just wanted to live his life.
However, they do have common interests in this regard.
Gewajia needed his teacher's technical ability, while Hu Ke needed the stable order that his students had established in the southern end of the Qinggu area.
This is a beautiful seaside town with plenty of food and drink, and it is suitable for his family to settle down for the time being. He is also willing to use his knowledge and labor to exchange for the right to live for his family.
But he gradually discovered some problems in his work.
His students...seem to be a little off.
In other words, there was something wrong with the town where he lived, called 'The Singer'.
His technical level is good enough, and through some of the content in the projects he participated in, he saw that Gowaga was doing something very new.
It's not just about ecological restoration, but involves a lot of genetic and human research.
He saw some of the achievements made by the Natural Salvation Society, which were called biological weapons and natural weapons.
If that was all, then forget it. He tried to convince himself to turn a blind eye. What was so great about biological weapons? In this post-apocalyptic world, there had to be something to protect oneself.
Even if they broke the bottom line of skull purity, he could turn a blind eye.
The so-called "skull purity" refers to an iron rule that the Empire and the Mechanical Order follow when conducting human body modification and genetic technology: no matter what the person is transformed into, the skull must not be moved.
The culture of the Empire is diverse and varied, and each world is different. However, some things remain consistent.
Among them, the empire itself has three major symbols: the skull, the eagle, and the gear.
The skull symbolizes sacrifice, but also the purity of humanity. The bodies of traitors, heretics, and aliens are often far from pure humans, and one of the most obvious changes is their skull. For this reason, the normal skull is used as a symbol of human purity and the sacrifices made to defend this purity.
All over the Imperium, from the Wall of Martyrs to the skull emblem, from the Space Marines' battle armor decorations to the Mark of Purity... the image of the skull is everywhere.
Moreover, whether it is the research of the Adeptus Mechanicus or the theological research of the Imperial Church, there is solid evidence that ensuring the purity of the skull is an important means and factor in maintaining the human soul from being eroded. Changes in the skull are a sign of depravity, mutation, and betrayal.
The Mechanicus manufactures servoskulls, creates mechanical servants, modifies the brain, and performs large-scale human modifications... These are all very common, but they will not destroy the shape of the skull. They usually only tamper with the eye sockets, mouth, auricles and other parts of the skull.
Many of the research conducted by Gowaga have already broken this bottom line.
Even so, Hu Ke can ignore it.
Yet, in the end he could not deceive himself.
There is a problem with the source of Gawaja's technology.
First of all, the life extension surgery his student claimed was wrong. This was a very advanced biotechnology, and living for 200 years was not easy. Even he himself did not have the ability to perform such surgery, let alone his student?
Then, he discovered traces of certain supernatural powers in many studies.
This is not uncommon in itself, and the research of the Adeptus Mechanicus certainly involves psychic power and belief in the Emperor's other identity as the God of All Machines. Both the former and the latter will bring extraordinary power.
However, he did not think that the transcendent part of the Natural Salvation Society's technical route came from orthodox beliefs or normal psychic research.
As for where this technology came from, he had a guess but didn't dare to say.
But at this point, he still didn't say a word.
Although he made a lot of preparations in secret, he never mentioned these things for the sake of appearance.
He was very hesitant.
He knows that the world has become completely unsuitable for survival, and he is not alone. After leaving the town of the Song Singer, can he and his family survive in the harsh wasteland environment?
What's more, escaping itself is dangerous enough.
As the night shift was struggling, a final straw helped him make a decision: Gowaga wanted him to use the technology of the Natural Salvation Society to genetically modify his family, in order to better survive in this wasteland.
Many residents of the town have undergone relevant transformations, and Hu Ke even did it himself.
But when this technology was applied to his family, his bottom line was finally broken.
He agreed on the surface, but secretly started all the preparations he had made over the past six months.
A large number of biological weapons rioted, and the accumulated modified alien monsters protected him and his family and escaped from the place that seemed like a paradise but was actually a hell.
After arriving in the outside world and making sure it was safe, he ordered all the monsters to self-destruct.
He didn't dare run away with these things because he knew that the technological sources of these deformed monsters were abnormal and could get out of control at any time.
Then, he and his family went through a hellish escape, all the way north, until they were taken in by the Alliance.
(End of this chapter)
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