Yan Xia was shocked by the beauty of Xiaguangdi City after arriving there. He looked up and could see the huge semicircular dome of Xiaguangdi City, and outside the dome was the dark deep sea and countless glowing creatures, forming a moving starry sky. The colorful light projected down from the sky, shining on the low buildings in Xiaguangdi City. The highest building here is only about 100 meters. The whole city is not a flat surface laid on the seabed, but a huge bowl shape, as if countless buildings were densely built inside the bowl. In the center of the "bowl" is a huge central root column with a diameter of kilometers. Countless channels extend along the root column, making Xiaguangdi City look like a round flower bud, and its stamens grow directly out of the flower bud and spread out in all directions. "It feels like a bunch of grass stuck in the middle of a bun." When getting off the spaceship, Yan Xia heard a tourist say so. The corners of his mouth twitched, and it really looked like it. The streets of Xiaguangdi City are full of bright street lights. It is like a city that never sleeps. As a city, Xiaguangdi City is not only developed because of the wonders of the ocean itself, but also has a large number of entertainment industries. For example, gambling and pornography.
Everything here is legal and compliant. No gray industrial chain is allowed to form. All citizens who come here are protected by the Federation. Nothing has happened in nearly 1,800 years. The Civilized Federation needs such a place for many citizens to vent their desires. In fact, there are very few ordinary citizens in this city, and more are explorers. After Yan Xia got off the spaceship, Ella directly contacted a car. The car is silver-white with white light strips on the surface. The armor-like body is very sci-fi. The whole car is suspended about 30 centimeters above the ground. There is no shaking after sitting on it. It is very stable, but it also attracts the attention of the surrounding citizens because of its appearance. Yan Xia found that many people around him would look here. "Is this car very expensive?" he asked Ella. Ella blinked and denied, "It's not expensive, just about 30,000 energy coins." You call it not expensive? The purchasing power of 30,000 energy coins is enough to be equivalent to more than 100 billion RMB in the 21st century. The price of a general hover car is usually around 10~100 energy coins. "Is this car made of gold? So expensive?" "No, even 1 meter of gold is only about 10,000 energy coins." Ella seemed to be waiting for Yan Xia's doubts. "The shell of this car uses high-strength metal, which shows the peak of metal manufacturing in the Federation at this time. We make the distance between atoms closer, arrange the atoms very tightly, and maintain a stable state." "The stronger the metal, the more energy it consumes to manufacture, and the higher the price. At the same time, without mass production to share the cost, the price of a car is terribly high." "Like this car, its shell strength is enough to withstand a nuclear weapon explosion with a TNT equivalent of 2 million. If other defense measures are added, this number will be multiplied by 100 times." It is indeed expensive, and there is a reason for it. However, it is almost useless in the current civilized Federation, because 200 million TNT equivalent is too easy to reach, and this car can only defend against attacks by ordinary citizens using some inferior weapons. And a car of this level is as high as 30,000 energy coins. Yan Xia thinks that only a fool would buy it. The car drove through the city of Xiaguang, passing through the bustling streets and arriving at an inconspicuous shopping mall. Ella took him into an elevator. When the elevator door closed, the buttons inside the elevator suddenly changed. The buttons that were supposed to be 1 to 11 floors became -1 to -11 floors.
Ella pressed a series of more than a dozen buttons in succession, and the elevator started. "Safety first, to prevent mechanical failures, people see the negative floors, without the password, he can't start the elevator." The elevator went down, very fast, Yan Xia could feel a clear sense of falling, at first this feeling even exceeded 2g acceleration. After 15 minutes, the speed of the elevator slowed down, and it was already 3,100 kilometers underground. After walking out of the elevator, Yan Xia looked around. It was not quiet here. On the contrary, there were many creatures. They were not robots, but real life, researchers. "This is the Zero Research Institute, built for you, Yan Xia." "All the advanced biological devices in the Federation can be found here, and here are also many well-known top-ranked biologists in the Federation." The so-called ranking biologists is a scholar ranking system developed by Ella. In this system, all scholars in the Federation who have made contributions to a certain field will passively participate in the ranking. There are different ranking lists for dozens of fields such as biology, mathematics, philosophy, physics, chemistry, dynamics, architecture, etc., and even telekinesis lists. Each list has 1 million rankings, and even the scholars at the bottom will receive annual funding from the Federation. 500,000 to 1 million people will receive 500 energy coins per year, which is equivalent to tens of millions of purchasing power. 100,000 to 499,999 people will receive 2,000 energy coins per year. 50,000 to 99,999 people will receive 5,000 energy coins per year. 10,000 to 49,999 people will receive 15,000 energy coins per year. Ranks 1000 to 9999 are already considered the top scholars among the top scholars in the Federation, and the amount of money issued each year is 70,000 energy coins. Ranks 100 to 999 are issued 300,000 energy coins each year. The top 100 are no longer ranked in order, and are awarded 1 million energy coins. It is precisely because of this list that many scholars in the Civilization Federation are motivated to continue to fight. As long as they have the talent to be on the list, they will have countless wealth. 500 energy coins may seem small, but in fact, the average annual income of citizens in the Civilization Federation is around energy coins, which means that as long as they are on the list, they can get the money that ordinary citizens can only earn in 60 years every year. When hearing these rewards, Yan Xia thought of the car he had just taken, and you can imagine how expensive it is. The competition for rankings is still very fierce, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is bloody. Now the number of scholars registered in the Scholars Association in the Civilization Federation has exceeded billion, which means that those who can be on the list are one in a million. At the same time, Yan Xia also learned that the number of all citizens in the Civilization Federation has reached trillion, and most of these citizens are contributed by several races with super reproductive ability, among which the number of the Lelela tribe is trillion. Compared with these races that give birth to more than a dozen children per litter, the fertility of humans is simply blown away. And Yan Xia's own achievements in the field of biology cannot enter this ranking at all, which is actually normal, because he has not studied biological knowledge for more than 10,000 years, and the knowledge he has mastered is seriously backward. However, Yan Xia's foundation can still allow him to quickly master the current biological knowledge. Yan Xia thinks he should be able to rank in a few decades. Ella took Yan Xia all the way.
When passing a door, a huge space suddenly appeared on the side, separated from the inside and outside by high-strength plexiglass. When Yan Xia saw what was inside, he was shocked to the point of being unable to attach. It was a growing battleship. "Metal is too expensive, so Yan Xia, the main task of the Zero Research Institute is to study biological warships, which will bring us into the era of cheap warships." Biological warships only need to be fed with food to grow, and organic resources are easier to obtain than inorganic resources. The cost of a biological warship of the same size is at least 10 times lower than that of a metal warship. The arrival of the era of cheap warships means that the number of warships in the Civilization Federation will surge in the future. Millions, or even tens of millions of warships, even the Olive Branch Civilization can touch them. Yan Xia was fascinated by it.