Wenren Sheng quickly stopped dwelling on those troubling matters and said to the Female City Lord, "Thank you. I'll make you a reading list in a moment. I also want to ask something: why is there no Nuclear Fusion technology among your ancient technologies?"
The Female City Lord thought carefully for a while, as if trying to recall the term. After quite some time, she answered, "Oh, oh, I remember now. It seemed to have existed back then, but later, all the materials were apparently destroyed."
Wenren Sheng immediately became interested. That was more like it. Under normal circumstances, a civilization capable of creating an Intelligent Computer could not possibly have failed to develop Fusion Technology.
An Intelligent Computer should have been able to solve problems such as containment materials on its own. If that truly failed, they could have built a Dyson Sphere and harnessed the sun's limitless energy.
The main difficulty of a Dyson Sphere was its enormous construction and maintenance costs. But with an Intelligent Computer, labor costs would be zero, and the remaining material costs would no longer matter.
It was simple. The value of an object was determined by the average socially necessary labor time consumed to produce it. If the labor cost of materials was zero, then as long as there was enough of them, humans could use them freely.
"The records were destroyed. Who destroyed them?" Wenren Sheng pressed.
"Well, those who know, know. It's the one thing that can't be said aloud. The moment you say it, your account gets banned," the Female City Lord said helplessly.
Wenren Sheng nodded and did not ask further. The only one capable of doing that was the mages' master—the Flame God.
All it had to do was add one condition during their rituals, such as