"Doggie, create a new database. Name: General Crew Study Manual..."
Inside Guo Yi's room.
A husky appeared before Guo Yi.
It sat upright on a chair, with a desk, paper, and pen in front of it.
Following Guo Yi's words, Doggie leaned over and started writing and sketching on the paper.
That's right, Guo Yi was writing teaching materials for the crew.
He dictated, and Doggie recorded.
This was the ultimate move Guo Yi came up with to solve the problem of giving large lectures!
After all, the main reason Guo Yi had to give large lectures in the first place was the lack of teaching materials; they couldn't even self-study if they wanted to.
And now? Elder Zhou was away, Old He was away, and the others had matters to busy themselves with. Why wouldn't he take the opportunity to write teaching materials?
Research?
He didn't mind dragging it out for a few days!
Right as Guo Yi began typing with his words.
Elder Zhou had already set off and left.
Beneath the emperor's feet.
After taking a private helicopter and a private transport plane, Elder Zhou traveled all the way through the wind and dust to arrive at the Weiyang Palace.
Subsequently, Elder Zhou stepped through the gates of Epang Palace with a high-spirited, confident, and invincible aura.
The battle belonging to him had begun!
Inside Weiyang Palace, Elder Zhou's opponents had long since gathered and were raring to go.
Gao Linlin had taken the initiative to help Elder Zhou summon his opponents and delivered Elder Zhou's battle challenge to them.
Therefore, when Elder Zhou stood face-to-face with his opponents in this battle, a clash broke out the moment they met!
From the moment Elder Zhou took the initiative to launch his attack, the two sides entered the most ferocious battle right from the start.
A hail of bullets, a sky full of artillery fire, saliva and sweat intertwining, they fought fiercely for three days and three nights.
According to a certain cab driver beneath the emperor's feet later: as told by the husband of the older female cousin of the nephew of the uncle of the paternal cousin of the younger sister-in-law of the older brother of the brother of the son of the distant cousin of the neighbor of his eighth aunt:
This battle could be described as heaven-shaking and earth-shattering.
Both sides advanced into each other's territory, not yielding a single step.
You executed tactical infiltrations, and I unleashed carpet-bombing.
You traversed the heavens and earth, and I destroyed the heavens and annihilated the earth.
You roamed and lobbied widely, and I moved them with the power of profit.
You held the universe in your hands, and I stepped upon the clouds with my feet.
Fighting to the death without cease, locked in a desperate battle with no retreat...
Aside from resting and taking care of physiological needs, they never stepped outside the doors of the battlefield.
In the end, everyone who left the battlefield had flushed faces, excited spirits, a rainbow-like aura, and eyes as bright as searchlights.
It was hailed that this battle had drawn back the curtain on a new era!
However, these were all rumors, rumors whose truth could not be known.
As soon as the battle ended, Elder Zhou and Gao Linlin immediately boarded the plane heading home.
In the blink of an eye.
At the factory.
Four days after Gao Linlin and Elder Zhou left, they returned once more.
Yet the scene that met their eyes caught them completely off guard.
Elder Zhou and Gao Linlin had originally assumed that once they left, Old He and Old Huang would have locked themselves away in self-isolation, while the other national treasures devoted themselves entirely to research, turning a blind eye to the world outside their windows.
Under such circumstances, it was highly likely that Guo Yi would have let loose and run wild.
The people at the factory should still have been lazy and listless, wandering in a state of not knowing what to do.
Yet everyone they saw along the way was wearing a new uniform, had a new style of earpiece hanging from their ear, and held a tablet in their hands.
Almost every single person spent every waking moment staring at the content on their tablet, either scratching their heads and ears in solitude or walking in twos and threes while discussing content they couldn't possibly understand.
A rushed, proactive, and upward-striving atmosphere rushed out to greet them.
It felt as though they had returned to a school campus.
Rather than being inside a special munitions factory.
If Gao Linlin hadn't memorized the appearance of everyone in the factory, Elder Zhou and she would have thought they had walked into the wrong place.
Consequently, the excitement of returning home was gradually crammed full of question marks.
And so, Elder Zhou and the others first went and let Old He and Old Huang out of confinement, and then the four of them joined hands, bringing a head full of question marks into Guo Yi's studio.
At this moment, a simulated diagram of a DNA double helix structure was projected right in front of Guo Yi.
As he made his adjustments, the DNA molecules on the projection continuously detached or replenished.
"Oh, Elder Zhou, you're back?"
The sound of the door opening startled Guo Yi out of his focus. He looked up, saw the group of four entering, and hurriedly stood up to welcome them.
"Mm."
Elder Zhou nodded, first glancing at the DNA simulation diagram.
Well, he couldn't understand it; he was a physicist, not a life geneticist...
Following that, he and the other three moved chairs over and sat down face-to-face with Guo Yi.
Solemnly, he handed several stacks of documents to Guo Yi, Old He, and Old Huang. "Take a look at these together first.
After you finish reading, we'll talk."
After Guo Yi and the others took the documents and saw the title on the cover, they immediately raised their heads in surprise: "A Certain Academy's Twenty-Year Plan?"
"Mm. This time when I went home, I laid a lot of things out on the table to discuss, and everything was successfully negotiated.
So, this plan is the result after those negotiations."
"Mm." X3
Guo Yi and the others nodded and began to carefully peruse the documents in their hands.
Meanwhile, Elder Zhou watched Guo Yi reading through the papers and couldn't help asking, "How come everyone in the factory seems to be studying?
What happened these past few days?"
"Just small matters."
Guo Yi flipped through the documents, casually chatting with them about the changes over the past few days as he read.
Three days ago, Guo Yi had finally finished writing the teaching materials.
However, Elder Zhou and the others hadn't returned yet, and Old He hadn't even been released from confinement.
As for the other national treasures, they were wholeheartedly devoted to research, with their doors bolted shut, ignoring all worldly affairs.
Therefore, not a single person capable of keeping Guo Yi in check remained anywhere in the factory.
Then, an inspiration suddenly struck him: having teaching materials might still not be enough; the risk of having to give large lectures remained just as high.
To eliminate this risk—and seeing as everyone already had a personal terminal and a new training suit in hand—
Guo Yi made a decision: everyone would work in three shifts!
Seven hours of work, six hours of rest, and eleven hours of study.
He arranged a full 24 hours for them, running nonstop without a single moment of rest!
There was no need to mention work and rest: producing materials for production, dismantling semi-finished mechs for dismantling, and preparing for the preliminary work of space battleships for preparation.
The main focus was studying...
Ten hours of reading, one hour of testing.
Failing the test meant an additional thirty minutes of high-intensity physical training.
Once they were hit with extra training, the ending was basically turning into charcoal briquettes and getting hauled away in a coffin...
Therefore, in order to save themselves, the crowd was unwilling to waste even a sliver of spare time. Aside from working, every ounce of their remaining mental energy was poured into studying...
After hearing Guo Yi finish, Elder Zhou helplessly shook his head and exchanged glances with the others: the starting point was laziness.
Yet the process had been exceptionally correct.
Everyone had tasks, everyone had clear goals, and everyone was striving toward them.
The process was marvelous!
It was just a little painful for those people.
After all, corporate slaves working a 996 schedule could at least take paid bathroom breaks, while these fellows probably brought their personal terminals along to study even while evacuating their bowels...
After all, the height of their test scores determined how well-done their flesh would be roasted.
If it was cooked all the way through...
Just thinking about it made it smell delicious...
"Slap~"
After a long while, Guo Yi and the others finally finished reading the documents. "So, you're saying the higher-ups have decided to give us their full support?
Using several twenty-year blocks of time to prepare and take action, completing three major projects: the space force, the moon city, and the space colony!"
"Mm." Elder Zhou nodded, then looked at Guo Yi with serious earnestness and asked, "So, can your technology tree support this plan?
If it can, you need to give us a detailed schedule.
If it can't, what are we missing in the middle?"
"..."
Guo Yi pondered for a moment. Instead of answering Elder Zhou's question, he looked earnestly at the group and asked a question of his own: "What are you people trying to do?
Wield the Sword of Damocles?"
The Sword of Damocles meant that the ultimate goal of this plan was conquest.
Conquering the world.
After all, once they had a space colony, achieving peace within the planet through nuclear deterrence would have nothing to do with them anymore.
At worst, only the bunnies would remain inside the planet, and all other animals could be slaughtered.
Therefore, Guo Yi was terrified.
In the various databases he had browsed through, he had already witnessed far too much of the pain and sorrow brought by war.
He was afraid of becoming a sinner against humanity; he was afraid of becoming the very last human being...
With only countless ruins and wreckage keeping him company...
As for the others, after listening to Guo Yi's question, they all nodded with satisfaction: this kid truly was a cub of the rabbit family.
A lover of peace, minding his own business, and advancing hand in hand.
It was just a pity that his consideration of human nature was not yet thorough or deep enough.
He should have thought of this question before displaying his technology to everyone.
And based on this question, he should have showcased non-lethal technological products step by step.
Unfortunately, whether it was mechs or space battleships, they were actually born for the sake of war.
Yet Guo Yi had treated them as tools for exploring and probing the universe.
One wrong step led to every subsequent step being wrong.
Thus, Elder Zhou and the others nodded at Guo Yi, wearing inexplicable smiles as they said, "You guessed some of the points, but you also missed a few."