The prince's visit to the Royal Academy of Sciences is something that cannot be hidden.

He obviously didn't tell anyone, but when he arrived, the leaders of the Academy of Sciences were already waiting at the door with half of the scientific researchers.

In fact, it is not surprising that Azir is not surprised about this, as an emperor in his previous life, he has experienced too many such things, as a superior person, when facing the people below, he is actually facing a network, and their information is interconnected.

Even if they are not in the same political camp, they are still on the same side when it comes to being checked by the leadership.

When Azir arrived at the Academy of Sciences, he found that from the brick joints at the gate to the floor tiles inside the Academy of Sciences building, they had been wiped all over and shiny, and it was estimated that those places he would not go to had also been ordered by the leaders of the Academy of Sciences to be cleaned many times.

He didn't care about any of this, anyone could do it on the surface, and Azir only cared about Shurima's level of technology and whether it had grown in the twenty years since he left.

"The other day, when I was looking through the materials of the Academy of Sciences, I saw that someone had proposed to plant a large number of trees on the surface of Shurima?"

Azir just wanted to inspect the many projects in the academy, but from the moment he entered, he was surrounded by almost a hundred people, and almost every step he took, a flash appeared in front of him.

I don't know which old ghost invited the reporter!

He scolded in his heart, but it was not good to show it in his face, if people knew that His Royal Highness the prince was not close to people when he came back, then his reputation would deteriorate, and the first step to succeed to the throne would be hindered.

The gray-haired dean walked beside Azir with a smile on his face: "Yes, there used to be, but we are really not suitable for growing with that kind of vegetation here, so we will veto it, the Shurima civilization itself was born from the desert, and there is no need to change into something else." ”

Azir nodded, noncommittal.

"What about transportation?"

"Ten years ago, we were already digging a network of transportation throughout Shurima at the suggestion of a scholar from Nasus, from the air network, to the desert rails, and underground tunnels that run around the world."

"When I came back, I was locked in by our nuclear weapons, and that amount was almost a hundred times that before I left, and it seems that our military strength has developed well over the years."

"Uh...... This...... The fact that His Highness was locked up by nuclear weapons was actually a self-made initiative of the military, and it had nothing to do with the scholars. The dean said in a cold sweat.

Azir said he was joking, but he could tell from the dean of the academy that the respected old scientist was from Nasus's side.

From time to time, he would say a few nice words for Nasus, and he was accompanied by old men with almost gray hair, most of whom had been on the cover of Shurima's highest-tech magazine, and who had contributed to Shurima to a greater or lesser extent, and Azir certainly respected them.

And in the course of Azir's tour of the entire Academy of Sciences, he also met those scientists who were not so old and young compared to them, most of them were immersed in their own research, even if Azir was already very close, if it weren't for those who accompanied him, these younger scientists wouldn't have looked at Azir at all.

"Temple...... Your Highness! It's my pleasure to meet you! The young scientist quickly stood up and saluted.

Azir kindly motioned for him not to be so nervous, and then looked at the table where he was experimenting.

The whole room was illuminated by ultraviolet light, and the white lab table reflected a lilac dim light, and there was only a simple device in the shape of a track, on which the dark silver iron block lay peacefully.

The dean next to him saw that Azir was interested in this device, and his face suddenly changed, and he hurriedly stepped forward and said to Azir: "Your Highness, long-term exposure to ultraviolet rays will cause harm to the human body, and nothing can happen to your body, do you think we will go and inspect other projects first?" ”

"What are you doing here?" Azir waved his hand and asked the young scientist.

Although he is young, he is also old enough to be Azir's grandfather, but he looks young compared to the group of people who are obviously much older than the dean.

"I'm here, this is an anti-gravity experiment!" The young scientist said with some nervousness.

"Anti-gravity experiments?" Azir asked.

"Yes, I'll show you that." The young scientist activated the device, despite the dean's vain cold face.

With an engine-like sound, Azir saw the silver nugget float in orbit and finally settle in the air.

Azir looked at him with a smile: "What are you going to do with this project?" ”

"Yes......"

"Your Highness, there are many other projects that I haven't seen over there, your time is precious, I think we are still ......"

The dean directly interrupted the young scientist's words, and even pulled out between the two, and his movements even tried to forcibly pull Azir away.

But in the next second, the hair on the dean's whole body stood up, and Azir on the opposite side just cast a faint look, and the old dean was so frightened that he leaned down and stepped aside, not daring to say a word more.

In fact, it was not only him, but Azir noticed that since entering the laboratory, the veteran scientists who accompanied him on the inspection at the beginning behaved very unnaturally, as if they were afraid of something.

"You can go on."

Azir's tone was still very kind, but everyone could tell that he was in a bad mood right now, and on the other hand, they were even more shocked that the oppression emanating from the prince who had not yet held the coming-of-age ceremony was terrifying to an outrageous degree.

can actually suppress a group of old ghosts who have lived for almost two hundred years.

"This is for the space age!" The young scientist glanced at the old dean next to him and said.

"Space age?" Azir wondered.

"Yes, we believe that with the development of civilization, Shurima will surely enter the universe, and not just cower on the home planet! Even if ......"

"Even what?" Azir asked.

The young scientist looked directly into Azir's eyes at this time, and Azir could also see an emotion in his trembling pupils, which was fear, but this emotion was not to himself.

"Even in the universe...... We will be greeted by destruction......"

Azir agrees with his idea, this is also the purpose of his return to Shurima, and he doesn't want his civilization to retreat to a small corner of the barren planet, but in the days he has returned, he can clearly feel the fear of the entire Shurima for the universe.

The reason couldn't be more obvious, that is, the disaster twenty years ago, the destruction brought about by the war of superior civilizations, like a spike, mercilessly inserted into the hearts of the still growing Shurima civilization, becoming an indelible shadow of this era.

After Azir returned to the palace, he was always surprised by the abnormal behavior of the president of the Academy of Sciences today.

And during the dinner in the evening, Queen Vichyna happened to mention it to him again.

"Did you know that after you left, the two factions fought?" Vishina said.

"What?" Azir wondered, "Two factions? Which two factions? ”

"Old and small." "Conservative and radical," Vishina said. ”

"How?"

"What did you see in the eyes of the people at the welcome meeting held for you a few days ago?" Instead of answering his question directly, Vicina asked.

Both of them had now stopped eating, as if they were discussing something very important, and even though the table was now full of delicious food, it did not catch their eye.

"You don't have to go to work, everyone is happy." Azir said.

"What else?" Vichyna smiled and asked.

"And ...... Fear, when the people look at me, I see fear in their eyes. Azir thought about it for a moment.

"That's not for you."

"Of course, I'm handsome."

"Shurima has a big problem right now, Azir, we're afraid of the universe." Vichyna doesn't look like a mother now, she's talking to Azir as the Empress.

"There are two factions in the Academy of Sciences, one is Nasus, they are more conservative, they don't dare to participate in all the plans for space flight, and we haven't made any progress in space for a long time since you left."

"Until Asitaya came to power, Nasus's son, he promoted many young and good scientists, who were also afraid of the universe, but stubbornly wanted to see Shurima go into space in their lifetime."