Six Years Later

Six years passed in the midst of laughter and cheer.

They had been peaceful and ordinary, yet filled with accomplishments.

The children raised in Green Field Paradise gradually grew up. Every year, three to five thousand students stepped out of the school gates and plunged into the tide of the great construction era.

Human resources truly were the most precious wealth. The pace of development over these six years had been several times faster than in the previous twenty-four!

The first major institution established during these six years was the Great Academy of Sciences!

It was a comprehensive research center with more than three thousand researchers, covering every aspect of science and technology. Most of them were young people.

There was also the Great Academy of Engineering, with more than five thousand members.

Their research directions overlapped to a certain extent, creating a competitive relationship.

The president of the Great Academy of Sciences was a Super-Thinker, the newly risen Professor Lu Tiantian.

The leader of the Great Academy of Engineering was also a Super-Thinker—the veteran sage, Shamo. The current power grid and fully automated farms had all been his responsibility.

Internal competition was not a bad thing in any civilization.

Especially in technological development, competition was necessary for talent to circulate and ideas to collide.

If there were only one research institute, with no alternatives for talented people, it would easily become stagnant.

Now, people could go wherever conditions were better. That was a good thing for both individuals and civilization.

In addition, a mechanism for evaluating research achievements had officially been established with the emergence of peer review.

Those who sought fame and reputation while trying to monopolize resources became fewer and fewer.

With the support of the two research institutes, Human 18 Civilization flourished at a visible pace.