If Dream Seeds were stored in light and shadow stone, they would show signs of distortion as time passed. Wouldn't Zhang Ming exhaust himself weaving Dream Seeds every day?
But with these crystal balls, the rate of distortion would slow dramatically. They could even be read an unlimited number of times!
These crystal balls looked only two meters across, but each actually had a mass of several hundred tons. They were quite heavy.
Zhang Ming asked Little Gourd to help swallow a few crystal balls, then rubbed his chin and said with some concern, "Will anyone realize these are a Demon God's eyeballs? Though even if they do, it doesn't seem like a big deal. The Demon God Rules on them are already gone."
Little Gourd immediately declared its loyalty: [Captain, if you're worried, I can process them for you and coat them in a layer of silver irregular matter, making them look like two purely technological products.]
[I can also help you build an operating system based on dream mechanics inside these two stones, so using them will feel like using a real computer.]
Zhang Ming nodded, deeply impressed by how useful his "personal secretary" was in every respect except fighting. "Yes, sorry for the trouble. There's no rush, though. We have plenty of time."
With his return to Earth, the issue of their underlying resources had more or less been resolved!
The last issue was choosing a location. After much consideration, Zhang Ming decided to place the Great Academy of Sciences and the Great Knowledge Institute on the Western Continent, between a port city and a vast forest.
For one thing, pursuing scholarship in a big city was not actually such a good idea.
Big cities had too many tangled interests, a little too much of the stink