Blue Star, Celestial Pivot City, Academy of Sciences.
This scientific research hub, spanning thirty square kilometers, was the technological heart of all Great Xia.
Researchers in white uniforms moved between the buildings. From fundamental physics laboratories to the antimatter research center, from the bioengineering institute to the artificial intelligence algorithm hub, hundreds of cutting-edge projects advanced simultaneously.
Conference Room Seventeen.
Academicians with graying hair filled the seats around the twenty-meter-long oval conference table.
Qian Zhenhua sat at the head, his eyes behind old-fashioned black-rimmed glasses fixed on the holographic projection floating before him. It was densely packed with the latest data on cooperative projects with the Kona Civilization.
He raised a hand to rub his temples and said:
"Everyone, report your progress."
Academician Li, seated on the left, stood and swiped a finger through the air. The holographic projection switched to footage of energy shield testing.
"Energy shield miniaturization has passed a critical milestone. We can now compress a shield system that originally required ten tonnes of equipment into less than three hundred kilograms."
Academician Li paused, his voice brimming with irrepressible excitement:
"The army's combat vehicles, large robots, and mecha units have already begun deploying them on a limited scale."
As soon as he finished, quiet discussion rippled through the conference room.
Qian Zhenhua nodded and turned his gaze to the right.
"What about the robot project?"
Academician Zhang, who oversaw artificial intelligence, adjusted his glasses:
"We've also made considerable progress in the robots' combat capabilities. All mass-produced third-order robots can be upgraded to fourth-order combat strength, and the combat efficiency of fifth-order robots and the Pangu Mecha can also be increased by more than twenty percent."
"The antimatter production line's refining speed has increased by ten percent. It isn't much, but small gains add up. Over a year,