At this time, Li Chen's sharp eyes swept across the faces of everyone in the audience.

Li Chen's words shocked the hearts of all the commanders.

Megatron, Mo Yue, Mo Li and the others also looked at each other in blank dismay at this moment.

It is obvious that no one knows exactly who is hindering the development of the scientific research department.

Anyway, they are very clear that this matter is definitely not their doing.

"No, no, Mr. Commander, it's not that anyone is deliberately embarrassing us. The materials, energy, etc. provided to us are sufficient, very sufficient!"

"It's just... I'm sorry that I didn't express it very clearly just now, Mr. Commander."

"What I want to say is that our current material refining technology can't keep up with the demand."

"We must find a way as soon as possible to improve the technology of material refining, otherwise our technology may fall into the bottleneck of growth..."

Hearing the person in charge's explanation, the commanders around immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

All of them looked at the person in charge with strange and depressed expressions.

Then he looked at Li Chen with a serious expression.

Now everyone has more confidence, and they don't have the expression of a child who seems to have made a mistake and is worried about being criticized by the teacher and parents just now.

"I see…"

Li Chen also suddenly realized.

He knew that no one would dare to disobey his orders.

Even Noah, who has the authority second only to Li Chen in the star refuge.

He didn't dare to say no to Li Chen's order.

"Noah, has our current material technology refining technology reached the bottleneck?"

Li Chen turned his head to look at Noah and asked curiously.

Materials are the focus of technological growth.

Without qualified materials, it means that you cannot manufacture many high-tech products.

Even if she has rich and perfect theoretical research knowledge, she can only be a clever woman, and the material is the "rice".

If there is no rice, then it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice.

[Answer to the host, the upper limit of the current material extraction technology of the star refuge is at the level of the twentieth-order energy crystal nucleus, and it has indeed fallen into a bottleneck period. 】

Hearing Li Chen's inquiry, Noah replied immediately.

What they call "materials" at this moment actually refers to various evolution fluids, highly concentrated evolution energy, and energy crystal nuclei of various levels, etc.

Li Chen clearly remembered that Noah had explained these things to himself before.

What you have seen, heard, used any kind of evolution fluid, any level of energy crystal nucleus and so on.

Their essence is actually, besides being energy, an omnipotent material.

Take the energy crystal nucleus as an example.

Each energy crystal nucleus actually contains many, many trace elements.

Even, it contains the elements of the entire periodic table!

The difference is that the lower the energy crystal nucleus, the lower the content of these trace elements.

Scales are usually tens or even hundreds of decimal places.

Of course, not all the content of each element is so low.

The content of some elements will be relatively high.

As for high-grade energy crystal nuclei, the content of the contained elements will also be higher.

Then they are usually used in the creation of various weapons and equipment, core combat platforms, and so on.

Because the element content is sufficient, these elements can be transformed into special materials that meet the conditions under certain conditions.

Generally speaking, the higher the level, the rarer the energy crystal nuclei, the greater the energy contained, and the richer the types and contents of the elements contained.

But the same kind of high-level energy crystal nuclei also requires the process of refining and condensing.

If the technological level does not meet the requirements, then the energy and elements cannot be compressed into energy crystal nuclei that meet the storage conditions.

Conversely, no higher-level energy nuclei were condensed.

Then it means that there is no more advanced technical equipment that can be produced because the materials are not up to standard.

It's an interactive thing.

Many low-level civilizations have developed to a certain extent.

Because of the lack of access to corresponding, perhaps higher-grade materials.

Usually because of the monopoly of high-level civilizations, sanctions, and so on.

Therefore, for those low-level civilizations, there is a high probability that they will eventually stagnate above a civilization level for many years.

Their technology cannot develop, and their civilization level cannot continue to improve.

It can only fall into a state of excessive consumption of energy resources, but has been doing useless work.

At this time, if you can't find a breakthrough.

Such a low-level civilization will eventually be annexed by other high-level civilizations.

Or go to your own final destruction...

Thinking of this, Li Chen felt a thrill in his heart.

Aware of the seriousness of the material problem.

"What is the level of material we can condense at present?"

Li Chen looked at Noah and asked.

[Answer to the host, the energy crystal nucleus of the current star refuge has a maximum level of twentieth rank. 】

[A higher level cannot be condensed with the technology we currently have...]

Noah replied respectfully.

At this time, the engineer and head of the power system design department also followed suit.

"Mr. Commander, according to our rigorous calculation and analysis, we believe that if we want to develop the next-generation curvature engine, we need at least a twenty-second-order energy crystal nucleus."

As soon as he said that, Li Chen already understood it.

"I know this question."

"King Prieter, the energy crystal nucleus refining process on your side..."

Li Chen looked at King Preet who had not spoken much.

As he spoke, he hooked his fingers at the other party.

King Preet also immediately understood, and immediately stood up.

"We have plenty of energy crystal nuclei of the 22nd order!"

"Not to mention the twenty-second level, our highest level energy crystal nucleus is the twenty-fifth level, you can have as many as you want!"

King Preet said loudly to the person in charge of the scientific research department.

Hearing this, the other party really looked overjoyed.

"If this is the case, then we can start working on the fourth-generation curvature engine immediately!"

"In addition, some other related technologies can also be started again!"

"By the way, the most important thing is that the technology of condensing materials must be improved as soon as possible!"

"Otherwise we will still fall into technical bottlenecks later, Mr. Commander!"

It could be seen that the person in charge couldn't hide his excitement at this moment.

It was as happy to hear that the lover of his dreams agreed to marry him.

Li Chen only cares about one thing now, that is, how well the third-generation curvature engine performs.

The second-generation curvature engine can provide a maximum speed of 500,000 times the speed of light.

If you want to come to the third-generation curvature engine, doubling the speed is not too much, right?