633: Chapter 632 Astronomical figures, but worth it!

*Gulp.*

General Yun Feijie swallowed hard.

Everything that had happened today had dealt a more violent blow to the worldview he had built over decades than all the wars he had experienced in his entire life combined.

"Why set it at nine hundred and fifty meters?"

General Li Jingwu forced his nearly paralyzed brain to function as he asked a key question.

"Since the reference object is that five-hundred-kilometer-tall ancient mecha, isn't setting our goal at nine hundred-plus meters... too conservative?"

This question.

It pulled everyone slightly out of their pure shock over the dimensions.

That's right!

One is five hundred kilometers, the other is nine hundred and fifty meters—is that enough?

The gap was simply too vast!

"It's not conservative."

Lin Mo shook his head and turned to face the crowd, his eyes shining with the light of rationality.

"On the contrary, at the current stage, this is a very aggressive, even near-limit goal."

He extended his finger.

With a light stroke in the air, a complex three-dimensional structural diagram instantly emerged.

"The construction of giant mechanical bodies is not a simple matter of proportional scaling."

"Once height and mass break past a certain threshold, the internal energy supply, structural strength, material load limits, information transmission efficiency... the challenges faced in every link will grow exponentially."

"With our currently mastered technology, including the application of Vibranium materials, staying under 1,000 meters is the limit of what we can achieve and stably control."

Lin Mo's gaze swept over everyone as he continued to explain.

"More importantly, we know almost nothing about that five-hundred-kilometer-tall ancient mecha."

"We don't know what its power source is, we don't know what its core materials are, and we certainly don't know what terrifying level of technological advancement the civilization that drove it had reached."

"To us, the greatest significance of those remains is not a target that needs to be surpassed immediately, but a coordinate."

"A coordinate that proves the 'giant mecha' technological path is feasible and possesses power beyond our imagination."

"It tells us that our direction is correct."

Lin Mo paused, his tone becoming incredibly firm.

"One must eat one bite at a time and walk one step at a time."

"Our first step is to build a Mechanical Colossus that we can control, and then use it to pry open the door to higher-level technology."

"The design height of nine hundred and fifty meters is also meant to invoke the auspiciousness of the '9-5 Supreme' status; this will be our first step in exploring Giant Mechanical Structures."

His words were clear and logically sound.

They analyzed a seemingly crazy plan with utter transparency.

The last trace of doubt in everyone's hearts vanished along with them.

"I understand..."

Chief Designer Bai Yannian let out a long sigh of relief, feeling his nearly exploding head finally cool down a bit.

He looked at Lin Mo and said with a bitter smile, "Chief Designer Lin, this 'first step' of yours is quite a giant leap. With this one step, I'm afraid Huaxia Future's financial budget for the next fifty years will have to be completely replanned."

The resources required to build a nine-hundred-and-fifty-meter-tall super mecha were an absolute astronomical figure.

"But it's worth it."

Lin Mo smiled and replied with just those few words, but the weight they carried was as heavy as Mount Tai.

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