39: Little Sakura, I’m in a hurry (please read more)

One must know that currently, no country on the entire Blue Star has the means to carry out resource extraction from nearby planets.

Moon landing is already the limit, and it is very difficult to bring back even a small amount of soil from the Moon, making stable resource extraction impossible.

To achieve stable extraction, one must at least possess spaceships capable of traveling between planets, as well as tools or personnel for ground mining operations!

Not to mention the latter, being able to freely transport personnel between planets would be no different from interstellar travel in sci-fi blockbusters, and the difficulty is immense.

As for the former, tools capable of ground mining must be Robots.

They cannot be mere Robots; they must at least possess a certain level of intelligence.

This then involves the aspect of artificial intelligence technology.

Therefore, a seemingly simple sentence, a single promotion standard, actually makes it far from easy to advance from a Level 1 Civilization to a Level 2 Civilization.

Simply having spaceships capable of stable travel between planets is something no country can achieve right now.

Because there is simply not enough energy to support it.

The prerequisite for achieving this step is to solve the energy problem, and to solve the energy problem, it comes back to Controllable Nuclear Fusion Technology.

Therefore, it can be seen that the foundation for advancing from a Level 1 Technological Civilization to a Level 2 Technological Civilization must at least be the complete mastery of Controllable Nuclear Fusion Technology.

"No wonder the system's suggested exchange list, besides the photolithography machine, the second item is Controllable Nuclear Fusion Technology; it really is building a foundation step by step," Lin Yang muttered.

Before, he was a little puzzled as to why such advanced technology was given so directly.

Now he somewhat understands; this is paving the way for promotion to a Level 2 Civilization.

Without the system's exchange, based on the current technological development capabilities on Blue Star, it would be impossible to master Controllable Nuclear Fusion Technology even after another hundred years.

The advancement of technological civilization is indeed not that simple!

Immediately, Lin Yang stopped thinking about this matter.

The advancement of technological civilization is still a bit too distant.

Planetary resource extraction is also a matter for later.

The primary task now is to first deal with military deterrence and apply Controllable Nuclear Fusion Technology.

He found the exchange for Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles.

Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles in the system mall were divided into three tiers.

The first tier was at the level of current Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles on Blue Star, with a range of about 8,000 kilometers and a terminal speed of Mach 25.

The second tier was impressive, with the range directly doubled and the speed also doubled, with a terminal speed reaching around Mach 100!

As for the third tier.

Lin Yang felt that it would be more appropriate to call it an Interstellar Missile rather than an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile.

It had a range of a full 100,000 kilometers and a speed of Mach 1,000!

What is the concept of Mach 1,000?

Faster than lightning!

Lin Yang found it hard to imagine what it would be like for an object to fly at Mach 1,000!

Let alone Mach 1,000, even Mach 100 of the second tier was already difficult to concretely imagine!

Because this means that it would only take a little over five minutes to launch a second-tier Intercontinental Ballistic Missile from the homeland to the United States!

As for closer countries like Sakura...

Well, it's probably like, by the time they realize such an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile is being launched at them, they'll be melting almost the next second.

They'd only have time to glance up at the sky before it explodes.

"Five minutes to reach almost anywhere worldwide is enough!"

Lin Yang locked onto the exchange for the second-tier Intercontinental Ballistic Missile.

Of course, it wasn't impossible to exchange for the third tier, but the third tier required too much national treasure value for Blue Star's current technological level, needing 2,000 national treasure value.

Exchanging for the second tier only required 200 points!

The cost-effectiveness was clear at a glance!

"However, even if it only costs 200 points, I can't afford it now. It seems I'll have to make a trip through Sakura to collect some cultural relics."

After confirming the exchange for the second-tier Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, Lin Yang glanced at his pitiful ten national treasure value, letting out a helpless sigh.

It was unknown how long it would take for the Great Science Academy to successfully manufacture the 0.1 nanometer lithography machine, and waiting indefinitely was not a good idea.

national treasure value was too scarce!

Instead of passively waiting, it was better to take the initiative!

Sakura had committed many atrocities on the land of Shang Xia in the past, and they must have plundered many cultural relics, certainly more than just those in Dong Du City!

Now, it was time to bring all cultural relics belonging to Shang Xia back home!

No sooner said than done!

After a quick breakfast, Lin Yang bought a ticket and set off.

He now had a fake identity disguised by the system, so he didn't have to worry about being discovered at all.

As Lin Yang acted, cultural relic collectors in Sakura, however, ushered in a terrible nightmare!

Wherever Lin Yang went, he could precisely and thoroughly remove all cultural relics originally belonging to Shang Xia.

Whether in museums or hidden in private homes.

They simply couldn't escape the system's detection!

Of course, this process was not entirely smooth.

The security in some super-rich homes was astonishingly tight.

In such situations, he had to pay extra for the system to help with secondary disguise.

And twice, in broad daylight, he encountered some unseemly scenes.

Lin Yang could only lament that the guys of Sakura really knew how to have fun!

They truly deserved their reputation as a country famous for its sensuality!

In particular, he once encountered an affair. Upholding the principle of criticism, Lin Yang took some evidence and posted it on a local forum, which helped the cuckolded male owner gain the moral high ground.

This could be considered a good deed for the day.

As for what kind of trouble this would cause in the family later, or if it would lead to big problems, what did that have to do with him?

And as Lin Yang gradually appeared in various parts of Sakura, news of cultural relic thefts in the local area also began to dominate Sakura's social media!

Initially, no one paid much attention.

However, in just two days, over fifty wealthy cultural relic collectors and museums had been stolen from, and the number of stolen original Shang Xia ancient cultural relics reached over a thousand!

Such dense thefts could not be concealed and immediately rushed to international news headlines!

This made the people of Sakura a little restless.

The continuous theft of Shang Xia cultural relics in multiple locations, and the fact that only Shang Xia cultural relics were mysteriously stolen, with methods identical to those used in the disappearance of cultural relics in Dong Du City, directly caused the guys of Sakura to become anxious.

Meanwhile, within Shang Xia, Netizens were overjoyed!

This method was too familiar!

"That immortal big shot has acted again! He's going to bring back every single cultural relic that originally belonged to us from within Sakura!"

"God! Truly a God!"

Netizens discussed animatedly, filled with adoration.

Even more exciting was that, as cultural relics disappeared from Sakura, the Shang Xia National Cultural Heritage Administration successively issued announcements, declaring that they had received overseas cultural relic donations from anonymous individuals!

And the number of donated cultural relics was almost identical to the number of cultural relics that disappeared within Sakura!

This directly made the official people of Sakura unable to remain calm!

They immediately held a press conference, demanding that Shang Xia must provide an explanation!

"This is clearly a premeditated, organized action, and we demand that the Shang Xia official give a reasonable explanation!"

The people of Sakura were anxious!

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