In the Imperial Command Center, an officer walked up to Li Mingze and handed over a document and said, "Your Majesty, our observers lurking in the Gluttonous Empire have sent back the latest news, and the Gluttonous Empire seems to have begun to detect our existence!" ”

Li Mingze lowered his head and fell into deep thought, he couldn't make a judgment on whether this experiment was going to continue.

It's been so long, and there has been no news of any technological bottlenecks from the three experimental civilizations, and it is obvious that this experiment is on the verge of failure.

It would be a bad idea for these civilizations to develop more advanced technology, and they would most likely pose a threat to the Empire.

Li Mingze's fingers lightly tapped on the table with a thumping sound, and all the officers in the command center set their eyes on Li Mingze.

After thinking for a moment, Li Mingze showed a firm gaze: "Order the hive mothership to prepare to dispatch and completely wipe out these three experimental civilizations." ”

"I hereby declare that the civilization experiment has completely failed!"

Hearing Li Mingze's affirmative words, the scientists and officers in the control center let out regretful sighs, but for some reason, these sighs were mixed with a sense of relief.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! There is a case! Suddenly, an officer looked at the hologram in front of him and raised his hand and shouted at Li Mingze.

Li Mingze raised his eyebrows: "Oh? What's the situation? ”

"Your Majesty, the observers lurking in the Star Empire, the second experimental civilization, have sent back the latest news, and several types of technology in the Star Empire have begun to slow down their research speed!"

"And this phenomenon is still expanding, and now half of the research in various disciplines of the Star Empire has come to a standstill!" The officer shouted in surprise.

Their 400-year wait has finally come to fruition! The civilization experiment did not fail!

This Star Empire is used to study whether the bottleneck is related to the population of the experimental subject civilization.

If nothing else, the technological bottleneck encountered by the empire is likely to be due to the empire's wanton expansion of population!

However, it is not safe for only one experimental civilization to have this situation, and the other two experimental civilizations must also guide them to increase their population to determine that the bottleneck is indeed related to population.

A few days later, in the study room of the Imperial Palace, Li Mingze, Tianyi and Eva stared at each other with wide eyes.

"What do you think about the fact that the population will drag down our scientific research?" Li Mingze was silent for a while and then took the lead in asking.

It was too difficult for him to think about the context of the whole thing alone, so he had no choice but to call out the two major artificial intelligence of the empire and study the whole story together.

Eva was stunned for a moment, then quickly regained her original expression and slowly spoke: "Your Majesty, I think it's very suspicious, why is the population related to scientific and technological research?" ”

"What is the reason for the bottleneck of our technology, why will it affect science and technology after the population increases, and is there any advanced civilization playing an unassumable role?"

There was a hint of hesitation in Eva's eyes, she seemed to have expected this, but she didn't intend to tell the truth.

"Your Majesty, I think this may be the rule of this universe." Tianyi slowly opened his mouth and explained to Li Mingze.

"The rules of the universe?" Li Mingze frowned, he always felt that this thing was a bit metaphysical.

"That's right, just as the speed of light in this universe is always that constant number, nothing can exceed the speed of light in this universe, and all objects have gravitational pull, these are the rules that keep the universe running."

"Since the rules of the universe can limit the speed of a certain substance, it is not surprising that the technology of a civilization will be limited." Tianyi took a sip of the tea on the table and continued to explain.

Li Mingze paused, as if contemplating language.

"If the population of the empire really limits the technological development of the empire, then what should we do?"

"What about these extra populations in our empire? Could it be that we still have to kill them with our own hands? Li Mingze's tone was full of bitterness.

You know, once it's determined that the tech bottleneck is really related to population, then the empire must clean up the excess population if it wants to continue to grow.

At that time, it was possible that he, Li Mingze, would raise a butcher's knife against his citizens and become a "demonic" existence.

He admits that if he destroys his enemies without mercy, he can easily destroy one of his enemy's star systems without even blinking an eye.

But he couldn't do anything to his own people, every citizen of the empire was treated like a child by him, and he couldn't imagine the scene of raising a butcher's knife to his own child.

At this time, there was silence in the study, and both Tianyi and Eva lowered their heads silently.

They can't help it, if the empire is not enterprising, of course, there is no problem to be satisfied with the current level of technology, but once one day an enemy with more advanced technology arrives, then the only thing that awaits the empire is destruction.

However, if they are asked to kill their own people, even the artificial intelligence Tianyi and Eva will not be able to do it.

This is not something that can be done by killing millions, millions, and billions of people!

According to their calculations, if they want to restore the Empire's technology to an unaffected state, they will need to wipe out at least three-fifths of the Empire's population!

How is this possible! Based on the Empire's current population of 2 trillion, the Empire needs to wipe out 12 trillion Empire citizens!

What is the concept of 12 trillion people, if the empire really does it, then the empire will go down in history.

After all, this is the first civilization to be so ruthless to its own civilization!

"What should I do!" Li Mingze's facial features were twisted together, and he didn't know how to go next.

"Your Majesty, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, let's wait quietly for the news of the other two experimental civilizations." Tianyi hesitated for a moment, and finally did not say the words in his heart, but comforted Li Mingze.

Soon, the other two experimental civilizations also began to increase their populations wildly under the guidance of the Empire's observers

Although the cost of this is the loss of eighty percent of the observers, but now in order to test the data empire, all the observers are also spelled.

Sure enough, as Li Mingze expected, these civilizations also began to show signs of slowing down in scientific and technological research and development after their populations continued to increase.

But since the population had not increased enough, the signs of this were very insignificant, and such a small delay would not have been found had it not been for the Empire's early affection.