Leaving the Dwarven Valley and on his way back to the Pioneer Station building, Juan searches for Dr. O with a brain chip.

He instinctively felt that the information Soma had left behind should have Dr. O's record in it.

Sure enough, he found an article written by Dr. O, "Plan O."

The secrecy level of the article is actually the highest level of "top secret".

Fortunately, Juan is the head of the planet and has reached the level of viewing such classified documents.

He clicked on the file and looked.

"Plan O

Prepared by: Dr. O

Introduction: Human development requires a large number of workers with certain technical strength, and humanoids in a completely wild state cannot assume this role, so it is necessary to improve their scientific and technological level.

But vigilance must be taken to prevent humanoid technology from eventually developing to the point of threatening human domination.

Therefore, steering them in the direction of technology that has proven to be wrong from the outset should be the best way to solve this problem.

In order to verify the feasibility of this method, the project uses the dwarves of the beautiful planet as experimental subjects, and uses 'steampunk' as the basis to mislead them into developing steam technology.

At the same time, in order to avoid accidents, at the beginning of the project, a large number of discarded crystals were directly provided to the dwarves, making them the core of dwarven steam technology.

This kind of crystal, with silicene as the main body, completely dependent on artificial manufacturing, is the basis of human nuclear energy technology, which does not exist in nature, and it is impossible to manufacture it even if the dwarven steam technology is developed to the limit.

In this way, by controlling the number of discarded crystals obtained by the dwarves, the scale of their steam technology can be controlled.

When necessary, it is also possible to stifle the possibility of its development by cutting off the supply of discarded crystals......"

What follows is a wealth of data, analysis, and argumentation, and Dr. O describes in detail what has changed in the dwarves under his misdirection.

The words are full of his pride.

At the end of the article, Dr. O even summed it up with a more literary sentence:

"With the help of humans, dwarves will climb steep mountains and spend their lives looking up at the stars."

Even though it was already noon, the sun generously sprinkled its heat on the float in the equatorial region.

But Juan, who was in the car, still felt a burst of cold.

Juan contrasted the coldness of Dr. O's treatment of the dwarves in this plan with the undisguised adoration and gratitude of the dwarves, especially Lolita, for Dr. O.

He couldn't help but complain: "This scholar's heart is vicious!" ”

Morgan, who was reading a book on the side, said, "What do you mean?" You told me to read more, and now you are saying such things again, are you cheating me? ”

"I didn't say you, I meant ......"

Juan stopped suddenly, he thought that Morgan was not good enough to know the contents of the "top secret" documents, so he couldn't talk to him about "Plan O".

He thought for a moment and said, "You know Dr. O, whom the dwarves worship, what if someone says that Dr. O is wrong?" ”

Morgan said in a positive tone, "The dwarves are going to chop the man." ”

"What if the dwarves discovered it themselves and had a problem developing in the direction that Dr. O directed?"

"You mean their steam technology, to be honest, I was confused when I first came into contact with it, and it seemed like something was wrong.

"But I didn't read much at the time, so I couldn't tell what the problem was.

"And now, the dwarves are doing well through the development of steam technology, so there should be no problem."

"Have you ever wondered what would happen if one day, the dwarves found that their technology had hit a ceiling and there was no way to develop it further?"

"I didn't think that I should have been gone a long time ago, so why should I think about it at that time?"

"Isn't it idle and nothing, I've seen the scenery along the way, what can I do if I don't chat?"

"I can read."

"What book are you reading, let me see."

Morgan sent a link via a brain chip.

Juan clicked on it and saw that it was a novel called "The Road of Medieval Kings".

"I said Morgan, what's so good about this kind of book, it's the age of the universe, and it's still the Middle Ages, is it interesting, let's chat."

"Okay, okay, I can't stand it anymore with you nagging on the side."

"That's right, Morgan, you say, what would happen if technology was to climb up, but when you climb to the top of the mountain and find that there is no way?"

"You say I don't understand technology, but I'm familiar with mountain climbing.

"When I used to climb the new Kilimanjaro, I always thought I was climbing the highest peak, but when I climbed up, I realized that there was a higher mountain ahead.

"Then there is no choice but to go down the mountain and then start from the bottom of the mountain and climb up.

"I guess when technology reaches the ceiling, you have to give up and start from scratch."

Juan nodded, "I think so too, maybe this is the only way to solve this dilemma."

"But it's not easy to start from scratch, it takes a lot of perseverance.

"One person may be able to do it, but one race, it's hard."

Morgan objected: "You just compared the development of science and technology to climbing a mountain, so I told you to climb a mountain."

"But in fact, your analogy is not correct, there is no need to go down the mountain and go up the mountain again to develop new technology.

"You can use ready-made technology as a foundation, and then research new technology, and then it will be like taking a helicopter, swooping from one mountain to another."

Juan shook his head: "No, I don't think so, I think the existing technology that has developed to the ceiling will not only not help, but will drag it down." ”

"How is that possible?"

"For example, if you read a medieval novel, what if you traveled back to the Middle Ages and brought the technology that reached the ceiling?"

Morgan showed a yearning expression on his face: "Needless to say, of course, it is to farm and explode soldiers, crush the world with technology, and then call the emperor to open a harem." ”

Juan smiled: "Morgan, you still open a harem at this age, okay?" ”

Morgan's face turned serious: "Man, you can't say no. ”

Juan gave Morgan a thumbs up: "Okay, you can."

"But that's not what I want to tell you, I ask you, and then?"

"Then I became the Emperor of the Ages."

"And later?"

"Then my children and grandchildren spread all over the world, and my reputation will live on forever."

"Good, awesome, and then what?"

"What more do you want then, I'm already immortal, what more do you want then?"

"But what about technology?"

"Technology? Technology is certainly evolving at a rapid pace.

"With the technology I bring, research will not take a detour.

"Or you don't need to study, just do what I tell you to do, and you can soon develop to the current level."

"And then? Don't forget that the premise of our discussion is that the technology you bring with you has reached the ceiling. ”

"In this case, then I will order my subordinates to study with all their might."

"It's already reached the ceiling, and I can't even improve it, so how can I study it?"

"Who said that it was improved, of course it was to research new technology!"

"You can't do it."

"Also, they copied according to my orders before, and these brick families who can only copy will definitely not work.

"But it doesn't matter, I can vigorously develop education and train new researchers."

"What are you going to do to educate new researchers?"

"Let them read more, of course."

"What books to read?"

"Well, novels definitely won't work, they have to read more science and technology books."

"What technology?"

"Of course, it's existing technology, and I don't have any other technology."

"Do you think researchers who are full of existing technologies can overturn existing technologies and develop new ones?"

"Yes, maybe, probably."

"Well, what if there were researchers who were educated in existing science and technology and made research that overturned existing technology?"

"What will happen?"

"Let's make an analogy, Morgan, what is 2+2?"

Morgan smiled cynically: "It's equal to 5." ”

"Well, assuming that's the technology you have, your students will think that 2+2=5.

Therefore, the technology built on this basis is the technology of 2+2=5.

"If a researcher says, 2+2=4 at this time, do you know what will happen?"

"What will happen? That's it, what's the problem? ”

"All your algorithms follow the logic of 2+2=5, and suddenly change to 2+2=4, then your original algorithm collapses, and the computer system, the financial system, and all the systems related to computing based on the original algorithm collapse."

"Damn, in that case, my empire will be over!"

"Yes, it's over."

"That's not good, I'm the First Emperor of the Ages, how can it be so over!"

"So what?"

"Drag the guy who proposed 2+2=4 out and kill him, and maintain the status quo of 2+2=5."

"But the status quo is that technology has reached the ceiling."

"Well, that's a problem, but compared to my empire, the ceiling is the ceiling, as long as it can be maintained, why do you have to change?"

"That's the question, how can people who enjoy the convenience of existing technology be willing to give up everything they have and start from scratch?

"So, existing technology can become an obstacle to new technology.

"It only allows involution with no way out, and does not accept innovation that is reversed."

"Juan, I don't know why you're talking about this, I don't think this kind of thing will happen at all."

"Yes, it will happen, if a scientific and technological foundation is wrong, and the direction of development is also wrong, then after it develops to the limit, it will encounter this problem.

"At that time, I was afraid that I could only 'spend my whole life looking up at the starry sky on the mountain peak'."