The Technology Gap

Yue Yuan's decades of study had not been in vain; he understood what Xu Zhenyi meant.

"Silver Mist" is not only a true product of Nanotechnology, but its most basic components must be at least at the Mipi level, and its energy transmission components are also a picometer-level superconducting material.

This requires incredibly advanced microscopic technology and extremely precise instruments! The industrial power it displays is enough to make Low-level Civilization feel despair, especially scientists. Ordinary people see only the overwhelming oppressive force of the "Silver Mist," but scientists see its inherent high-tech content.

Can humans actually create medical Nanobots? Ever since witnessing the "Silver Mist," humans have dropped the "human" from their names and started calling them medical nanomachines. Although both use "nano" in their names, humans mostly use it as a gimmick. Compared to the "Silver Mist," humanity's so-called nanomachines are no different from Stone Age axes.

"We see despair, but we must not be intimidated by it. We should turn despair into motivation. If aliens can do it, so can we. One day, our human technology will surely reach that level, or even surpass it." Yue Yuan stood tall and spoke with great conviction.

He was still waiting to become successful in the future so he could go back and avenge his fallen compatriots! "Don't worry, Chief of Staff, I'm not that fragile."

Xu Zhenyi understood Yue Yuan's words perfectly. After a smile spread across his face, he stood up and continued, "'Silver Mist' showed me a peak, a towering peak. This peak is the goal I will climb for the rest of my life. Even if I fall, there will be thousands upon thousands of successors to continue the journey and eventually reach the destination."

Yue Yuan also laughed and said, "Humanity will definitely reach the peak of true Nanotechnology, but Professor Xu, you can't fall down. You have to see the view from the top with your own eyes."

"Not counting hibernation time, I'm already fifty-three. Even if I could live to be a hundred, it's unlikely I'd see that day." Xu Zhenyi said this without much sadness, just a hint of regret. "Commander, to be honest, I really don't see any possibility of achieving true Nanotechnology like Silver Mist within the next fifty years. Not even a little bit. Yes, we've seen the direction, and we've seen the view from the summit, but there's no road leading there. We have to pave the road ourselves, build our own transportation, and then face the arduous and dangerous journey of 'looking at the mountain but running to death.'"

From not knowing a technology to knowing it, and from knowing it can be achieved to actually achieving it, which step doesn't require a long period of accumulation?

To put it simply, let's take Controlled Nuclear Fusion as an example.

After the 20th century, when humanity learned that Controlled Nuclear Fusion was achievable, research into it never ceased. They said it could be achieved in fifty years, and after countless years, they changed their mind from fifty to thirty years. Then, after nearly a century of talking about thirty years, it still hadn't been achieved.

It's foreseeable that even technologies that dare to announce timelines face such difficulties, let alone True Nanotechnology, for which even the timeline cannot be estimated.

Technological progress is never achieved overnight.

Just as everyone knows from the Warring States Period that "the strongest bows and crossbows in the world all came from Han," all the feudal states—Qi, Chu, Yan, Zhao, Wei, Qin, Zhongshan, Song, Wei, and Lu—knew that Han's bows and crossbows were the best in the world at that time. But who could have known that in a short period of time, another state would possess bows and crossbows as powerful as Han's? No one.

The Han crossbow had a range of 600 paces, equivalent to 500 meters, making it essentially an assault rifle. Historical records state that during the reign of King Wu of Qin, the strategist Gan Mao led an army of 100,000 out of Hangu Pass to attack Yiyang of Han. Relying on the superiority of Qin Sword and the bravery of Qin Elite Warrior, he attacked for five months without success, suffering heavy casualties.

What Han relied on was the most powerful crossbow in the world.

After this battle, Qin began to focus on crossbows. It wasn't until the reign of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, the "great villain" in history textbooks, that Qin, after years of recruiting craftsmen from Han and establishing Flowing Water, finally made Qin Crossbow the best in the world, replacing Han crossbows.

If crossbows, which are at the same technological level, are like this, it goes without saying that there is still an unknown gap between Human Civilization and the civilization that created the 'Silver Mist'.

"Zhuangzi once said: 'My life has a limit, but knowledge has no limit. To pursue the unlimited with the limited is perilous!'" Upon hearing Xu Zhenyi's reflections on lifespan, Yue Yuan first quoted the ancients before expressing his own viewpoint:

"To pursue the infinite with the finite is indeed 'perilous,' but if we can extend the 'finite' to eternity, we may not be unable to use our 'finite' life to seek the 'infinite' knowledge."

You will see, Professor Xu! Our human Biotechnology will not stagnate. A mere hundred years old will no longer be the limit of human lifespan; in the near future, a hundred will be nothing more than middle age.

"Oh? Doctor Yi Kai has made progress?" Over the years, Xu Zhenyi has been focused on superconductivity research and has not paid much attention to other fields, so he was unaware of the progress in Life Science research.

"Of course, if he doesn't come up with something soon, he'll die of old age," Yue Yuan joked to Yi Kai from afar.

"Haha, that's true. Doctor Yi Kai must be over eighty years old this year, right?" Hearing Yue Yuan say this, Xu Zhenyi suddenly became concerned about Yi Kai's age.

"Hmm, eighty-three, but it's not a big problem. You'll know once you have time to learn about his life."

Yi Kai is now truly living up to the poem 'An old man of eighty still has the strength to plow,' but Yue Yuan didn't say it outright, since it was Yi Kai's private life.

He changed the subject and said, "There are two live specimens here for him to study, especially the other one. If he doesn't produce something, how can he live up to his reputation?"

"That makes sense." Xu Zhenyi nodded. "The Production Department will be very busy now."

"Being busy is good!"

Yue Yuan smiled. He had originally planned to return after learning about superconductivity, but since Xu Zhenyi wasn't very familiar with the progress of life sciences, he casually spoke up:

"Life Science have made progress as early as six months ago. Last month, Yi Kai produced the first dose of the clinical trial drug. According to his estimation, the drug could increase human lifespan by about 1 to 1.2 times. So far, no adverse reactions have been found in the subjects."

"Oh, if we don't count fertility, then there isn't. As we already knew, humans who use the Life Elixir will temporarily lose their fertility until their bodies enter the aging cycle again."

Yue Yuan began to tell Xu Zhenyi about the recent achievements in Life Science.

In fact, Yi Kai's research progress has gone beyond this, but the loss of the rich gene pool of the Earth's biosphere has made his research very difficult, and many of his very interesting experiments could not be carried out.

So much so that it took so long to produce this watered-down version of the Life Elixir.

According to Yi Kai, the reason why a complete version cannot be created is entirely because humanity has lost the foundation of Earth's biosphere.

For this reason, Yi Kai has repeatedly asked Yue Yuan bring him a planetary biosphere.

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