After the complex inspection procedures were completed, the planetary fortress's antimatter reactor began supplying it with power.
Once again, it lit up on the first attempt.
An enormous sphere of light appeared inside the planetary fortress's high-purity vacuum laboratory.
The computing power tests soon began.
Almost as soon as testing started, Lü Yongchang's expression changed as he closely monitored the data.
Something's wrong.
Its computing power had indeed improved considerably, but the increase still fell far short of the Imperial Fortress's central brain.
Zero quickly finished testing its "new home" and displayed the results before Lü Yongchang.
Sure enough, they confirmed what Lü Yongchang had deduced during the tests.
Compared with the first prototype, the second had undergone a qualitative leap in computing power-it even surpassed the enormous optical quantum computer array that housed Zero.
But considering its energy consumption and footprint...
This was a losing proposition!
It couldn't even be brought aboard a starship!
Worse still, after some simple calculations, Lü Yongchang discovered to his astonishment that the fortress central brain's architecture actually reduced the computer's computing power!
Simply put, if they scaled up the first prototype proportionally and packed more processing units inside...
Its computing power would actually exceed that of the second prototype!
Whatever the other researchers might have thought, Lü Yongchang's expression turned grim the moment he saw the results.
There had to be a problem!
Some crucial technology had to be hidden within the Tenth Empire's fortress central brain!
With a dark expression, Lü Yongchang locked himself inside Mo Zeyang's office, and the atmosphere in the research and development center grew tense.
Mo Zeyang led the academicians in bewilderedly poring over the experimental and observational data, trying to uncover that hidden, crucial technology.
All the data was normal, without the slightest error.
He even