The Head Councillor was right.
After sending away 3.8 billion people, the burden on his shoulders had not lightened. If anything, it had grown even heavier!
Putting 3.8 billion humans into hibernation and sending them fleeing to the Kuiper Belt seemed to preserve the seeds of human civilization, but in reality, it merely postponed the crisis by fifty years.
If humanity failed to develop technology capable of interstellar travel within those fifty years, it would still face the same utterly bleak outcome.
When that time came, all 3.8 billion people would drift toward death in their sleep.
To Lü Yongchang, that outcome was even harder to accept than what had happened in his previous life.
After the Head Councillor left, Lü Yongchang sat behind his desk with a grave expression.
He silently considered what to do next.
According to the original plan, he should have announced the launch of the Mars City Project by now.
With Mars City's blueprints verified multiple times, he only needed to wait a certain amount of time before a massive urban complex capable of housing five hundred million people appeared on Mars.
But...
That wait might be rather long.
According to Zero's calculations, if they followed the Moon Palace Project's construction approach and assigned one or several weak artificial intelligences to the task, construction would drag on for roughly three years.
That was clearly unrealistic.
In about a year, the Sun would begin its transition into a red giant.
By then, Earth's surface would become an inferno. At the very least, ordinary life would no longer be able to survive there.
There were two possible solutions, but at present, both had drawbacks of varying severity.
The first was to repeat what they had done in his previous life.
Build the Underground City and huddle