Working as a consultant in the Ultra Universe

Chapter 2043 Conversation with the Eight-Tailed Demon

Yao Meifan had been observing Gu Chen and wanted to shock him by using the Atdis, which was secretly manufactured by TPC.

However, the reality disappointed Yawei Mingfan. When Gu Chen saw the Atedis, he did not show any shock. Instead, he looked quite interested and stood by the corridor looking at the huge Atedis in front of him.

Seeing Gu Chen's appearance, Yao Meifan finally realized what was happening.

Given Gu Chen's status and experience in the Showa era universe, such a giant warship wouldn't be anything surprising to him.

Thinking of this, Yao Meifan couldn't help but chuckle to himself for his little scheme.

Just then, Gu Chen suddenly spoke up, saying, "Dr. Yawei, I actually agree with your point of view."

Yao Meifan was taken aback and looked at Gu Chen with some surprise.

Then he heard Gu Chen continue, "I have always believed that technology should serve the well-being of mankind, not the strengthening of military power."

"Dr. Yao, I wonder if you know that in the Showa era, there was a global crisis caused by the overemphasis on military power?"

Upon hearing Gu Chen's words, Yawei Mingfan immediately became interested.

Although he knew Gu Chen's identity and background, he was completely unaware of the specific time when the Showa era occurred, since he didn't have that much time to specifically learn about such things.

Therefore, Yao Meiban immediately adopted a posture of listening attentively.

Seeing this, Gu Chen continued, "In the Showa universe, the Earth Defense Forces of various countries are constantly developing military weapons in order to cope with the increasing monster disasters and the threat of space invaders, in order to protect their own safety in the face of increasingly frequent crises."

"Based on this, a terrifying weapon was developed: the star-destroying missile."

Upon hearing this, Yawei Mingfan's eyes widened immediately, and he quickly interrupted Gu Chen, exclaiming, "Director Gu, did I hear that right? A star-destroyer weapon?! Is it the star-destroyer weapon I'm thinking of?"

Gu Chen nodded.

Seeing this, Yao Weimingfan felt even more incredulous, because for a scientist like him, the emergence of a star-destroying weapon contained a huge loophole in energy physics.

In his understanding, to destroy a planet, one would need to concentrate energy to a level sufficient to overcome its gravitational binding energy.

The energy required for this is equivalent to burning all the hydrogen in the Earth's oceans at the same time, or the total energy released by the sun in a few hours.

To compress such a massive amount of energy into a single missile, the technology must have reached a level where it is immune to monster attacks and alien invasions.

Besides, with such enormous energy, what kind of material could serve as a projectile without being annihilated by the energy capable of destroying a planet?

For a moment, the more Yao Meifan thought about it, the more questions he felt, to the point that his mind couldn't quite process it.

In fact, not only the Eight-Tailed Demon, but even Gu Chen himself didn't quite understand why the Showa universe could create such an unreasonable star-destroying weapon.

Even though there should be many prerequisite technology points that haven't been unlocked, they still managed to create the ultimate weapon at the end of the technology tree.

However, adhering to the principle of not dwelling on things he couldn't understand, Gu Chen temporarily ignored the problem and continued to recount the global crisis in the Showa universe caused by the Star Destroyer weapon.

The example he cited was the Moruroa incident during his time with the ZAT team.

Even now, Gu Chen still vividly remembers the desperate expressions on the faces of Earth Defense Force commanders around the world at that time.

Gu Chen's words made Yao Meifan even more wary of the dangers brought about by the excessive strengthening of military weapons.

However, Yao Meifan was also more curious about what kind of treatment the Showa universe had given to space-destroying weapons after experiencing the globalization crisis.

Gu Chen immediately satisfied Yawei Mingfan's curiosity and explained the measures taken by various countries around the world to deal with space-destroying weapons during the UGM era.

So when Yawei Mingfan learned that the right to use the Star Destroyer weapon was ultimately firmly in Gu Chen's hands, he immediately understood some things.

Weapons are neither good nor bad; the key lies in the person using them.

Soon, the image of Sawai Soichiro appeared in Yao Meiban's mind.

He believed that under Satoshi Sawai's leadership, even if the Max Propulsion System were weaponized, it would not violate his original intentions, nor would it lead to the misuse of the Max Propulsion System in military weapons.

Thinking of this, Yao Meifan looked at Gu Chen and said, "Director Gu, I think I know what to do now. I will express my thoughts when the time is right."

"Now, I need to do some preliminary preparations."

"Excuse me for a moment, Director Gu, please make yourself at home."

After saying that, Yao Meifan hurriedly left, displaying the demeanor of one of the three giants of the Showa Space Research Department, and was just as decisive and efficient.

Gu Chen watched the departing figure of Ya-o Mei-ban and couldn't help but sigh slightly.

Because he knew that when TPC developed to the Dyna era, the entire organization inevitably showed a trend towards militarization.

With all three giants of TPC now retired, Yao Meifan chose to leave the space battleship development team due to disagreements over TPC's reorganization and development philosophy, and instead went to a private research institution to continue his theoretical research.

This was undoubtedly a huge loss for TPC. However, at that time, TPC experienced a great sense of crisis after the Gatanothor incident. Under such circumstances, they had no choice but to seek some security through militarized development.

Perhaps, after some time, the people of this universe will correct this and steer human civilization back on the right track.

After all, this is a world that has witnessed the brilliance of humankind; we must have faith in the people here.

Thinking this, Gu Chen didn't stay there any longer. He turned around, took the elevator, and returned to the floor where the GUTS team usually played.

Horii Masami has gone to the warehouse base to conduct research on the metallic properties of the mountain of Goblin, while Munakata Seiichi and others continue to discuss in the operations command room how to deal with the machine island and the large number of robots that have appeared on it.

Sawai Soichiro and Nanbara Masayuki, like Yoshioka Tetsuji, left the operations command center to attend to other more important matters.