In Li Lin's previous world, the application of various drones and engineering machinery had actually reached a level that could be called science fiction.
Drone formations, engineering drones, military drones, high-precision drones, even drones that could print themselves on the battlefield and continuously evolve—technical templates and corresponding prototypes already existed for these things. But in the original world, this immense and vigorous war capability was overshadowed by even more terrifying destruction.
Facing the brilliance of fusion, these things looked like just large toys. After possessing the ultimate destructive power, other exquisite things were just useless toys. So these drone-like things only functioned in daily life, disaster relief, and small battlefields. And as technology continued to advance, these things also increasingly tended towards miniaturization, classification, and specialization.
Among the most outstanding were the strange models of disaster relief drones seen before, and those enhanced model drones. When Li Lin was bragging online back then, he even specifically looked up information from related companies, which detailed the design concepts, uses, and various indices of these drones. Although it was different from the Ark world, which had even developed artificial intelligence AI, Li Lin believed there was one characteristic of humanity that the Ark world lacked. That was the imagination and contingency plans for the extreme limits of various drones. Clearly living in a world full of Catastrophes, yet being powerless against the Catastrophes themselves, this was simply too ridiculous.
Mastering a ultimate weapon like artificial intelligence, yet only being able to struggle for survival on the ground. A single person could create a learning mechanical dog, but couldn't gaze up at the starry river; in Li Lin's eyes, this was undoubtedly a huge waste. The people here clearly lived in such a violent world, yet were blankly ignorant about the assumptions and applications of destructive power. Things like Catastrophes, if adjusted properly, could even be a large-scale energy concentration point.
Even in his previous life, someone had already begun utilizing the Catastrophe of lightning storms, converting it into energy and transporting it everywhere. There were also ideas about nuclear fusion and the rational utilization of various natural disasters like explosions, earthquakes, tsunamis—all were astounding designs that left Li Lin dumbfounded.
He had even seen a concept for an extremely simple, large, and crude uncontrollable nuclear fusion power plant. That was to hollow out a mountain by the sea, configure diversion channels and generators around it, then pour seawater into the hollowed-out mountain, and then detonate a hydrogen bomb in the seawater, generating electricity using the high temperature, high pressure, and energy of the nuclear bomb. One hydrogen bomb could provide electricity for a city for a month. If not for the design concept being too Ork-like ( - Warhammer Ork reference, implying crude/brute force), and various governments finding it unreliable, this device might have actually been built. Even in the Soviet Union, similar devices and applications already existed; these were all rational utilizations of destructive power.
How come arriving in Terra, the thinking of people in this world seemed castrated?
"Expand your thinking, Mayer."
Looking at the workshop head frozen in place, Li Lin said with some emotion:
"I believe this kind of small machinery has great potential. If it were even smaller, able to manufacture itself, reproduce itself, I believe that would be a complete system. It might even become the main force against Catastrophes. I always feel this world's view of Catastrophes is too negative."
"A-Against Catastrophes?"
"Yes, against Catastrophes. Look, let's make an assumption."
A very simple assumption will do.
Although unsure what Wei Yenwu was really thinking, it didn't stop Li Lin from bragging to the people of this world about the magical concepts from his world.
Mayer squatted with him in the corner of the table, took two glasses of wine, then Li Lin compared the wine glass before Mayer's eyes. Pouring a drop of red wine into it. That tiny bit of subtle dark red reflected in the glass seemed to show Mayer a world she hadn't dared to imagine before.
"Raythean Industries has already developed a complete AI; they have learning capabilities, can distinguish multiple situations, and everyone can modify the internal core instructions for other functions. You just need to get such a core, figure out its algorithm, then connect all your mechanical units, and then let them process and replicate using the small universal factory you mentioned yourself in this world. How fast do you think its reproduction speed can be?"
"I believe this is a kind of geometric progression reproduction method. Just like this glass of wine. I pour in one drop, that's the first day. And the second day? I pour in a second drop, representing their first generation of reproduction. And the third day, I will pour in two drops, the fourth day, I will pour in four drops. Then eight drops, sixteen drops, thirty-two drops, sixty-four drops, one hundred twenty-eight drops. See, how long do you think it takes before this glass of wine is full? Before the glass is full, just one day, it can go from half a glass to full. And I believe, Catastrophes can be completely controlled relying on such reproductive machinery."
"Look, like a honeycomb, constantly reproducing and replicating, collecting and correcting those ores, raw materials, Originium; I believe this is completely feasible in this world. Why? We have magical Originium technology, which can forcefully twist some originally unusable things into useful ones."
"In other words, we can completely eliminate geological disasters in a short period of time. And the subsequent applications are even simpler."
Looking at the thoughtful Mayer, Li Lin, who hadn't bragged to anyone for a long time, excitedly handed the wine, red like blood, to Mayer.
And the workshop head from Rhine Lab looked at the wine glass in her hand with a subtle expression, listening to the almost demonic whispers beside her ear, feeling the surrounding world seemed to become somewhat abnormal. Yes, how could she not have thought of it?
Clearly, the door of change was right within reach, just turning the doorknob slightly could reveal the scene behind the door, yet they felt like they were just circling outside the gate of truth. And following this man's casual words, Mayer felt like some valve in her mind seemed to have been opened; endless various ideas began to rotate and pile up in her mind, pulling some terrifying applications into reality.
The most terrifying thing was, Mayer carefully thought about her own situation, and it seemed that if she just researched it a bit, she really could achieve all this.