Proportional to the empire's growing territory is the size of the empire's fleet.

If you consider the 10 million Zeus-class warships and 50,000 white dwarf-class warships that the original empire had as one unit.

Each new river system captured by the Empire will then build a fleet of units.

As the territory of the empire expanded to the five rivers of the empire, the six rivers of the empire, and the seven rivers of the empire..... The size of the Imperial fleet is snowballing in the size of the Empire's 100th River System.

Correspondingly, the time it takes for the Imperial fleet to capture new river systems is getting shorter and shorter.

In the later stages, even the advance fleet of the Imperial fleet was able to directly capture the entire river system of the enemy as soon as it teleported over.

On the surface, the strength of the first seems to be constantly increasing, and the number of the empire's fleet is constantly doubling.

But Li Mingze knew that the empire was now in a very troublesome situation, that is, the empire's technology seemed to have developed to a ceiling!

Whether it's physics, chemistry, biology, etc., the empire seems to have touched the ceiling of these disciplines!

This is not a good thing, after all, Li Mingze knows that there is a more powerful civilization above the empire, but the empire is now trapped in the current level, and it seems that the narrow gap is like a chasm that cannot be crossed.

In the inner ring of the Shenzhou, a hemispherical building reflects a pale white light under the sunlight, and white droplet-shaped spacecraft on the sleek shell constantly separates from the shell and flies into the air.

The purpose of this building's existence is very simple, that is, to hold meetings.

In this super-large conference room building belonging to the Imperial Royal Academy, all the elite scientists of the Empire have gathered in this conference room.

These scientists include physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, and even psychology, all known subjects!

And standing in the center of the conference room was none other than Emperor Li Mingze, the supreme ruler of the empire.

With the Empire touching the ceiling of various subjects, all the research rooms and laboratories of the Empire have now come to a standstill, not because they don't want to do research, but because they have nothing left to study.

It seems that everything that can be discovered by them has been studied by the Empire, but the technology that has been discovered cannot piece together the technology necessary for the next level!

This situation has attracted Li Mingze's great attention, which is also the origin of this conference covering all subjects.

"Silence! Quiet! Li Mingze clapped his hands at the messy venue.

In an instant, the entire venue became silent, and all the scientists obediently sat up straight and looked at Li Mingze, who was standing in the southernmost part of the venue.

"You are all the pillars of the Empire's scientific community, and I think everyone knows and understands the situation that the Empire has encountered recently." Li Mingze looked around at the scientists in the venue.

These scientists are all carefully selected from the empire's nearly a trillion scientists, and they exist at the top of the empire in terms of knowledge and intelligence.

That's why he brought these people together to discuss, and he couldn't think of a solution on his own.

"Your Majesty, the materials science I am in charge of has reached a bottleneck, and no matter how many attempts we make, we will not be able to synthesize materials with better properties."

"Whether it is the materials used to conduct energy or the materials used to make armor, they have begun to stagnate, and they are still at the level of more than a hundred years ago!" A scientist raised his hand and stood up.

"We too, the supercomputing research I am responsible for has also fallen into a bottleneck because of materials science, and it is impossible to develop a supercomputer with stronger computing power without new materials."

"We too, now the power of the weapon can only be increased by expanding the volume of the weapon, and it cannot be qualitatively improved!"

"Our shield research is also the same, we can only expand the upper limit of the shield by stacking the number of shield launchers, and we can't qualitatively increase the strength of the shield ground."

"We, too..."In an instant, the venue fell into chaos again, and countless scientists began to pour bitter water, their research has been stagnant for hundreds of years, and now scientists and researchers are too lazy to work, after all, no matter how busy they are to research, what is still the original.

"When did research come to a standstill?" Li Mingze frowned and asked these scientists.

"Your Majesty, it should be from two hundred years ago, when we just captured the Spiral River System!" A scientist thought back and gave a reply.

"At that time, we started to feel that the research had become a little difficult, and the results of the experiment that had taken 10 days were starting to take longer."

"And as time goes on, we're getting slower and slower to develop new technologies, and the psychic network bonuses don't seem to be working anymore."

"A hundred years ago, our research came to a complete standstill, and we couldn't come up with new technology anyway." The scientist sighed.

The surrounding scientists nodded when they heard this, and they all agreed: "That's right, that's it, it stagnated a hundred years ago. ”

Li Mingze reached out and touched his chin and fell into deep thought, did there already be an aura two hundred years ago.

The changes that have taken place in the empire after the invasion of the Spiral Federation are nothing more than the beginning of research on space folding technology and the expansion of the empire's territory by nearly double.

At the same time, the empire's man-making system was fully activated, creating hundreds of billions of people for the colonization of new river systems.

If nothing else, is the question in these three areas?

Was it because the empire began to study spatial folding technology, or because of the expansion of territory, or because of the increase in population?

Headache! Li Mingze rubbed his temples and didn't know what to do.

Now there is simply no way to find out the specific cause, after all, the space folding technology has already been studied!

Moreover, these river empires have completed their occupation, and trillions of people have been scattered into various river systems, and no matter which of these three is already irreversible!

"Your Majesty, I think we may be able to get answers from other civilizations." Suddenly, a scientist stood up and said loudly.

"Oh? What do you mean? Li Mingze looked at the scientist curiously, and he had the impression that he seemed to be in charge of the "cemetery" of the empire, that is, the scientists who were stuffed into the virtual world civilization.

"Your Majesty, I think we can completely observe the development of a civilization to find out what factors are causing the bottleneck in our technology!" The scientist looked confident.