Compared with what the ancient civilization had already predicted before, those various bases and factories with large industrial production capacity, what surprised the ancient civilization even more were some small cutting-edge science and technology research institutes hidden in these core star fields!

In a general sense, research institutes are used to research and develop some top-notch, cutting-edge technologies and technologies, and explore some unknown mysteries of the universe.

Of course, there is no shortage of research institutes of this type within the three cosmic-level civilizations, but research institutes that have the ability to study the frontier fields of top scientific and technological exploration, even within the three cosmic-level civilizations, only a small proportion of the top scientific research and research bases undertake this task.

These top-notch research institutes like this can be said to be almost unmissed, and they are all set up in the core core star fields within the three cosmic-level civilizations, each of which has a very high level of secrecy and extremely strict security measures.

Even the top research institutes that conduct research on some special phenomena and special environments must study the situation and data of some special regions on the spot, and it is impossible to blindly conduct research within the research institute behind closed doors.

Therefore, similar top-notch research institutes, even among the many core star fields of the three cosmic-level civilizations, are not found in every core star field.

The core star fields of the three cosmic-level civilizations are also divided into three, six, nine and so on, and the general core star fields do not have similar resources at all, so it is very good to have a branch of a top scientific research institution.

Unless one day the Ancient Civilization completely defeats one of the three major cosmic-level civilizations and is about to encroach on its entire territory, then a top-notch scientific research institution of this type will definitely not be able to get involved in the Ancient Civilization in a short period of time.

As for the ancient civilization, it itself does not have the will to obtain any top research institutes in a short period of time, and even if the ancient civilizations of similar research institutes are now in their hands, I am afraid that most of them will not be able to afford it, and it will not be of much use.

After all, a truly top-notch research institute, no matter what field or discipline it studied, after exploring the no-man's land at the forefront of civilization, often means an almost bottomless consumption of various resources and a huge demand for all kinds of top talents.

Without an extremely complete industrial system and an incomparably deep net worth to rely on, these various needs will not be able to burn this research fund at all.

What's even more terrifying is that research like this, usually after consuming a lot of resources, it is difficult to produce any valuable scientific research results, it can be said that this kind of top scientific research institutions are mature, has fallen into the bottleneck period of the cosmic-level civilization to play the game, now the ancient civilization belongs to the forces have a certain level of combat effectiveness, can compete with the three cosmic-level civilizations, but in this kind of peak scientific and technological research and development competition, at least for a long time, the ancient civilization is obviously still unable to get involved。

After all, relatively speaking, the current scientific and technological system of the ancient civilization has not been completed at all, and there is no strength or resources to carry out research and exploration in such top fields, at least for a long time, the ancient civilization attaches more importance to the kind of ready-made technology and research materials that can be used at hand, can complete the scientific and technological system of the ancient civilization, and improve the branches of the scientific and technological system of the ancient civilization.

This kind of top-notch research institute is now useless even in the hands of ancient civilizations.

Relatively speaking, these research institutes found in these core star fields this time are very much in line with the needs of ancient civilizations!

The ancient civilizations didn't know that among these core star fields that they had listed as targets, there were such a large number of relatively small and beautiful cutting-edge science and technology research institutes!

It would not be surprising to say that there are a large number of ordinary research institutes in these core star fields.

Although there are a very small number of top research institutes that specialize in the most cutting-edge uncharted fields, there are still more obscure research institutes that study common problems and technologies.

Take the most common case, the Coal Research Institute.

Coal had a lot of applications in the early industrial revolution of the planetary age, when there were coal research institutes, and after the rapid development of various research fields such as nuclear energy, research institutes such as coal research institutes still existed, but their research was more in-depth and more obscure.

However, what ordinary people don't know is that even at the stage of cosmic civilization, similar coal research institutes are still built, because as an ordinary chemical substance, even in the era of cosmic civilization with extremely developed science and technology, coal still has its own value and application space.

Although coal is no longer used as an energy material, it is still being studied as additives, catalysts, and raw material formulations for synthetic materials, and various deep mysteries are discovered.

Of course, although the Coal Research Institute still survives, this field is obviously too far away from the frontier of scientific research, it is just as the most ordinary and basic research project, providing necessary services for some enterprises and advanced research institutes, which is the most ordinary and ordinary basic research institution in the era of cosmic civilization.

And similar research institutes of all kinds are naturally common in various regions of these core star fields, which is not at all unexpected by the ancient civilizations, and will not give the ancient civilizations any surprises.

Even in the outer star fields that were divided before the ancient civilizations, there were a lot of similar ordinary research institutes.

However, although these cutting-edge scientific and technological research institutes discovered in these core star fields this time are not as tall as the top scientific research institutions, they are also very different from ordinary basic research institutes!

In fact, these cutting-edge scientific and technological research institutes are also a kind of scientific and technological backup reserved by the three major cosmic-level civilizations in these core star fields!

Just like the systematic industrial production bases discovered by the ancient civilizations in those peripheral star fields, these cutting-edge scientific and technological research institutes are also the scientific and technological treasures deliberately left behind by the three cosmic-level civilizations in order to avoid the consequences of technological decline in their own civilizations in order to cope with various civilization disasters and some devastating crises in the civilization center.

It is not an exaggeration to say that these institutes are cutting-edge science and technology research institutes, because there are a large number of mature cutting-edge science and technology materials stored in these research institutes, and the scientists in the research institutes are constantly making various improvements and adjustments to these ready-made mature technologies according to the problems that exist in various realities.

Although the improvement of these technical details is often very small at the beginning, after years of research and improvement, some of the already mature technologies will gradually become more mature, more adaptable to various environments, lower costs or higher production capacity.

The research institutes that undertake such scientific research tasks should not have been placed in these core star fields in the first place, because they have no direct connection with other bases and factories in the star field, and their existence is often unknown to outsiders, and they only serve some more important star fields, and only in order to play a more important scientific and technological backup value after this civilization has encountered some special changes, these research institutes are placed in these star fields.

Generally speaking, there will not be any hidden dangers for these cutting-edge scientific research institutions to lay out in these core star fields, and there are similar layouts in multiple core star fields, so as to jointly ensure that after some accidents, the scientific and technological system of this civilization will not be broken.

In the past tens of millions of years, the core star fields of the three major cosmic-level civilizations have some experience of being occupied by the enemy and invaded by foreign civilizations and forces, but even after ordinary forces control these core star fields, because their control over these star fields often has great problems, these research institutes that are stored in a large number of cutting-edge scientific and technological materials are often not exposed, and the security can be said to be fully guaranteed.

Often without waiting for those foreign civilizations and forces to discover the existence and secrets of these cutting-edge research institutes, most of them have already retreated under the counterattack of cosmic-level civilizations, so the three cosmic-level civilizations have always retained a similar system of scientific and technological backup, and at the same time, they do not think that this will lead to any serious consequences.

However, this time, after the ancient civilization took over these core star fields, the situation became very different, which ultimately led to a completely different fate of these cutting-edge scientific and technological research institutes.

On the one hand, the forces of the ancient civilization are completely different from other forces, other forces occupy a star field, and after being defeated, the relevant star fields will naturally return to the hands of the mother civilization, and the people inside these star fields will not be greatly affected.

But once the ancient civilization invaded some star fields, under the wanton spread of the soul virus, these star fields can be said to be immediately polluted, and the longer the ancient civilization is entrenched, the more irreversible the situation becomes, so if the people of the relevant star fields do not want to be wiped out and do not want to be swept away, their only choice is to embrace the ancient civilization and attach themselves to the ancient civilization.

Only when the ancient civilization has gained a firm foothold, and even achieved successive victories, is it in the interests of the people of the various star fields occupied by the ancient civilization. Once the ancient civilization is defeated, the people of each star field to which it belongs must be completely liquidated, and if it is not good, the whole family will be cremated.

Therefore, even for their own vital interests, after discovering that the situation of the ancient civilization occupying these core star fields was basically unchangeable, a large number of insiders of the Hidden Science and Technology Research Institute took the initiative to move closer to the ancient civilization and exposed the existence of their own research institute.

For them, it is completely in their own interests that the ancient civilization has obtained all kinds of scientific and technological information from the institute and become more powerful, but one day the ancient civilization is defeated, and the members of these research institutes are really miserable, and there will be no good fruit to eat.

On the other hand, although these institutes are secretive, there are still organizations and institutions in the surrounding area that are aware of their existence.

After all, if the institute wants to maintain, it must occupy a certain space, and for the continuous operation of the institute, the supply of various materials and the exchange of personnel cannot be hidden from the locals, and there must be organizations and units responsible for contacting these institutes.

Under the circumstance that the ancient civilization vigorously excavated all the potential resources of these core star fields, whether it was internal or external personnel, whether it was to obtain the rewards of the ancient civilization or not to be punished by the ancient civilization, there were inevitably some people who were scrambling to expose the old background of these research institutes.

Therefore, in these core star fields, a large number of hidden cutting-edge scientific and technological research institutes are inevitably exposed one after another, and the ancient civilization can already determine that the gains are unimaginable just by taking the first step to know the list of scientific and technological technologies preserved in these research institutes.

Although these small-scale cutting-edge science and technology research institutes only preserve some cutting-edge technology technical data, in order to reproduce these technologies, a large number of scientific and technological personnel are still needed, the research and development and production of related production equipment, and even the production and preparation of upstream raw materials, etc., there is still a considerable gap from mass industrial production.

However, the ancient civilization obtained these materials, and it is already a sure thing to make up for these shortcomings, and all that is needed is some time consumption, resource and human consumption.

However, once these shortcomings in the scientific and technological system are filled, the improvement of the entire technological system of the ancient civilization is definitely different from the past, and even to a certain extent, with the supplement of the technical data of different technical research institutes in each core star field, the ancient civilization is no longer too far behind the three cosmic-level civilizations in terms of science and technology.

Combined with the well-established technical data left by the ancient civilizations, the current scientific and technological system of the ancient civilizations is still a certain gap compared with the three cosmic-level civilizations, but this gap is already quite limited.