"Old Liu, I'm here." Jiang Yan Hai had no choice but to speak up at this point.
"You brat, you finally finished your work? We've got a whole mountain of things waiting for you here," Old Liu said quickly.
"Can't you and Professor Hu handle the research?" Jiang Yan Hai truly did not want to do research. It was not that he was being fussy; he simply still had countless matters to deal with.
The world would not stop turning without him, but he could at least help his countrymen make fewer sacrifices and gain more. He knew where his contributions were needed.
He could not reveal the Red Star Engine, but the efficiency it brought was beyond imagination. Leaving aside everything else, the Red Star Engine's ability to control that Octopus Machine alone was an enormous advantage.
The inside of that Octopus Machine was practically a small factory. China currently could not produce such microscopic robots—no, not just China; even the humans from the world of the Prophet could not do so. If they possessed such technology, it would mean humanity's technological advancement could rise by several levels at the very least.
Shutting down the Star Gate was not the optimal choice, because that would also strangle humanity's future and creativity. The Alpha 3 Type Invasive Star Gate expanded on its own, and no one even knew where the Alpha Civilization that had created it was.
But since the Alpha 3 Type Invasive Star Gate existed, there had to be normal Star Gates as well.
Jiang Yan Hai had never forgotten what the Red Star Engine had said when it scanned this thing: once humanity's technology advanced to the point where it could independently research Star Gate materials, the Alpha 3 Type Invasive Star Gate would no longer connect.