Artificial intelligence was the cornerstone of a civilization entering the fast lane of technological development.
Or rather, advanced "computational power applications" were the technological expressway. Once the expressway had autonomous, unrestricted-speed artificial intelligence, technological development would enter a period of explosive growth.
By dismantling the Main Gun of the Energy Cannon, the scientists had roughly figured out what the thing looked like and guessed at how it operated.
Next, they had Aurora conduct simulated tests on all their conjectures.
This kind of simulation did not require actually manufacturing and operating it before observing the results. That would have been far too time-consuming and labor-intensive.
It possessed practically infinite computing power. Using that power to create a virtual experimental base that could imitate real physical conditions with ninety-nine percent accuracy was no difficult task.
In the virtual world, Aurora was the only true god. With a single thought—with a single change in the Chaos Code—one interstellar energy Main Gun after another appeared.
The scientists entered the Virtual World one after another. By now, nearly all of them had nasal Brain-Machine Interfaces implanted, allowing them to enter designated virtual worlds conveniently at any time and place.
Sometimes, the research process in the laboratory looked like the set of a horror movie. Scientists would be heatedly discussing something, then suddenly collapse as though they had died.
The robotic assistants played a crucial role at times like this. They helped the scientists lie down.
These people were not really dead. They had merely gone to the virtual laboratory.
In the virtual laboratory, the scientists had grown accustomed to this method. They skillfully found a spot and began watching Aurora's simulated experiment.
A large amount of data appeared beside the first energy Main Gun, including its material, the pressure it could withstand, and so on.