Chapter 904 - Energy Sources (1/2)

After feeling exhilarated, Ren Ruofeng barely regained his composure and continued to look at the report.

According to the report, the Venerable Dragon God changed the breeding rules of River of Blood so that it would no longer spawn monsters and be able to breed human babies in large numbers.

After a thorough analysis, one of the many wonders of this change in the rules was that the aptitude of the babies to cultivate was slightly higher compared to the babies who were born by natural birth.

Using the same sperm and ovum, one was born by natural birth, the other one was placed into the River of Blood, therefore the results varied.

Although it was not a major improvement, the latter could raise the low-level cultivation aptitude to a higher level.

For example, the ones who could not cultivate initially would become grade F, and the ones who were graded F could now become grade E.

If it was someone with an aptitude above grade D, the improvement would not be obvious.

As for how the comparison was made, the same sperm and ovum were used in both cases.

There were still many experiments in the report that were at the edge of the ethical guideline. If they were published, public opinion would definitely sour, and it would be difficult to quell.

However, such experiments were necessary under the current circumstances.

According to the report, breeding through the River of Blood would not require the combination of sperm and ovum, any living cell in a human body that carried genes would do.

That was one of the reasons why Ren Ruofeng was excited before. Sperms were easily attainable, anyone could contribute a few hundred million of them. However, the number of the ovum was limited. This was why the status of men and women had reversed…

It was always true that a thing would only be valued if it was rare.

He stayed up late reading the thick report, and then he fell into deep thought.

His hair had started to fall out without him being aware of it.

When the problem of the reproduction of the population was solved, a bigger problem would follow.

The way that a population of one billion people was managed was entirely different from the way that a population of ten billion people was.

A small country with only a system could be managed in good order, but it would collapse and become immobilized as soon as its population size became a hundred times larger.

Many of the problems were only exposed after the population had expanded.

The larger the ecosystem, the more redundant it would be, and the more difficult it was to manage.

Now he had to think about how to run a country with billions in the population.

It could only be achieved by fully implementing informatization. It was impossible to solely rely on the management of people, only an artificial intelligence could achieve that.

He thought of that and recalled several pieces of information.

Although the Underground Greater Rat Kingdom only had nearly hundreds of millions of Greater Rats and hundreds of thousands of Greater Rat Demons whose wisdom exceeded the humans, they had already fully implemented informatization management. They were relying on the computer management systems from the humans…

Apparently, his old rival was already aware that they had to follow the path of computer management to prepare for the overpopulation in the future. Otherwise, they would eventually reach a dead end.

If it was governed by the people, the conflicts of interests would only get more intense, and the costs of management would get higher and higher. In the end, the earth would be split into hundreds of countries, all of them fighting against one another.

Computer management coupled with a unified cultural base would be the guarantee of stability and solidarity. Ren Ruofeng began to work out a plan seriously, management problems could be solved through artificial intelligence. As for artificial intelligence, he had gotten some information about it, so he knew where to begin. Another problem would be survival supplies. On this topic, the people in China had the biggest say. For thousands of years, the history of civilization had always revolved around eating. When there was food in hand, there would be no trepidation at heart. As long the people were well fed, the population would keep growing. Food, food…

The same thoughts were cycling through his head.

If energy sources existed, there would be food.

Greater Rat Demons relied on the endless source of geothermal energy, and also other cheap energy sources to forcefully develop an underground granary. They had also already begun to export above ground.

After all, the ground was their territory. They were also monsters, so they were inattentive to all the bizarre occurrences. Ghosts and other supernatural beings could frighten ordinary people but not affect them in the slightest.

However, the biggest problem with geothermal energy was that it was not easy to scale up. Geothermal power plants could not be built just anywhere.

Greater Rat Demons lived deep in the rocks that were thousands of meters underground. They had the inherent advantage of using geothermal energy.

The most likely source of unlimited energy for mankind at present was nuclear fusion, which had been under development.

However, there were several obstacles that were difficult to overcome.