The World Begins to Change

"Oh?"

Zhang Qi looked at the young man who had stepped out of the crowd before him.

He had not expected Zhang Beihai to be here, assisting him in this manner.

There was little expression on Zhang Beihai's face—or rather, he had concealed all expression beneath the standard visage of a soldier.

"Hello, Dr. Zhang Qi. I'm Zhang Beihai."

As he spoke, Zhang Beihai extended his hand toward Zhang Qi.

Zhang Qi took that hand.

"I'll be relying on you, Comrade Zhang Beihai."

Zhang Qi released his hand and smiled.

After settling the matter, Zhang Qi's pace of life suddenly accelerated.

And the world accelerated just as quickly.

Over the years, he had proposed many theories, but for various reasons, he had lacked the resources to put them into practice one by one.

But against the backdrop of the Three-Body Crisis, the world's resources began to be consolidated.

His theories began to become reality one after another, gradually spreading from military use into civilian life.

The first to take off were controlled nuclear fusion technology and the large-scale mass production of battery technology copied from the world of Gundam SEED.

For the first time, energy was crossed off the list of "crises," becoming something as taken for granted as air and water.

Cities at night no longer spoke of conserving electricity. Tokyo's neon, Shanghai's lights, and the massive screens of New York's Times Square burned without interruption twenty-four hours a day, dyeing the sky an unfading violet-gold.

Chips and semiconductors entered the fast lane of development. Bolstered by limitless energy, AI capabilities began improving exponentially.

Ironically, a crisis threatening humanity's very survival forcibly brought an end to the chaos that had persisted within Earth for centuries.

The direct result was that ordinary people's quality of life rose rather than fell.