Trading Cosmic Battleship From The Start-Chapter 63: Just a Child’s Toy

"We have a list." Tao De really came prepared, taking out a printed document once again and handing it over.

Shen Shi took it and looked.

Sure enough, it contained thousands of items.

From energy-related technology to industry, medicine, biology, chips, programs...

It almost covered all existing scientific directions, and listed all the specific technologies needed.

Obviously, they wanted a wave of comprehensive rapid development.

That was quite normal.

After all, Shen Shi didn’t hide his identity and start a company, releasing technologies bit by bit from small projects. He directly showcased his interstellar identity, along with one setup after another to indicate that interstellar technology far surpassed Blue Star’s.

"Mr. Shen." Tao De closely watched Shen Shi’s expression, seeing no reaction upon viewing the list, continued to say, "We don’t want all the technology on this list. We understand high-tech products and specific technologies are completely different concepts. Some profound and advanced technologies are surely extremely valuable even in interstellar space. Even if given to us, we might not be able to absorb them. So, the main purpose of this list is to let you roughly know the technological level we’ve reached in various aspects and see if you could offer some help."

Tao De spoke slowly, trying to make his tone and logic clearer.

His intent and attitude were quite apparent.

We don’t expect a leap overnight but plan to advance our technology tree step by step under your propulsion and see which technologies you could provide access to.

Shen Shi didn’t reply.

Instead, he flipped through the pages. Though his speed wasn’t slow, he paused at each page.

This made Tao De feel a bit anxious.

Yesterday, while gathering information for this list, he also gained deeper insights into technological development.

This is impossible to achieve overnight. Even if all technology from beginning to peak is laid out before us, it can’t be realized in the short term.

The higher you climb on the technology tree, the more complex and intertwined it becomes, requiring every step to be digested, understood, applied, before moving to the next stage.

The whole process hardly has any shortcuts.

Therefore, even if Shen Shi provides technical support, it can’t propel them to leap forward. It can only accelerate the process from a jog to boarding a race car.

But even acceleration is something every scientist and humanity as a whole would dream of!

A related scientist spoke to Tao De last night, saying if all listed technologies could be met, human civilization would enter an unprecedented tech explosion period! If research costs could ensure investment additionally, they’re confident of advancing the technology level to what would have been a hundred years later, within ten years!

That’s a ten-fold speedup!

Even Tao De, who is not a scientist, gets involuntarily excited imagining that scenario.

So, of course, he couldn’t help but feel tense.

Even Wen Hezhi and Song Yao gradually realized the significance of the list, becoming tense as they watched Shen Shi flipping through it.

The atmosphere on site became incredibly quiet!

It wasn’t until Shen Shi finished the last page and closed it, raising his gaze to look at them.

"Sigh."

A faint sigh caused everyone’s hearts to sink deeply.

No one dared to speak.

"The gap is indeed enormous." Shen Shi finally spoke.

"But, no matter how big the gap, there’s only the path of pursuit." Tao De said solemnly.

"..." Shen Shi paused for a moment, nodded, and said, "The technologies listed... saying they’re hard to acquire wouldn’t be accurate, but they might differ from your original expectations."

"Please explain, sir." Tao De immediately focused his attention.

Actually, they also felt most of those technologies wouldn’t be difficult to obtain interstellarly.

For instance, certain biological technologies.

Even humanoid replicas can be created so making prosthetics or organs should be a breeze.

Unless it’s concerning crucial fields like controllable or miniaturized nuclear fusion technology.

This kind of energy technology, capable of easily propelling a civilization into interstellar space, might possibly face some restrictions and not be easily accessible.

As for spaceships and cosmic battleship engines or weapons, those were somewhat beyond their digestion capacity, so they weren’t included in the list.

"You want controlled nuclear fusion technology?" Shen Shi began addressing one of the most important technologies on the list.

"Yes." Tao De’s expression brightened.

Even Wen Hezhi and others suddenly filled with anticipation.

In this information age, anyone randomly picked online could likely discuss controlled nuclear fusion extensively.

It is an infinite, clean, and safe new energy source.

Even called the "artificial sun"!

Once achieved, it signifies a complete reshuffling within the energy industry, and human progress may take a significant step toward the Starry Era!

Originally, most people were unlikely to witness this day in their lifetime.

But now, this possibility was before them.

Seemingly within reach!

Just needing Shen Shi to slightly nod and say "no problem"!

However, Shen Shi didn’t say those words.

He gently asked, "Do you know, in interstellar society, roughly what status controlled nuclear fusion holds?"

"As expected....is it very precious?" Tao De’s mood sank again.

Could it be they guessed correctly? This technology that would greatly advance civilization’s development undergoes stringent control?

"Precious?" Shen Shi retorted, shaking his head, saying, "It’s merely a child’s toy."

"..."

All four of their expressions froze on the spot.

Full of astonishment!

Child’s toy?

This was controlled nuclear fusion! It’s infinite energy! It’s the artificial sun! It’s technology capable of propelling a civilization into the cosmos!

Indeed, not to mention them.

Shen Shi was equally shocked.

Upon opening the list, he used a personal terminal interface that only he could see, connected to the information library on the spaceship, searching for the related technology.

The result... most of the technology was not only found but found to be evidently more advanced than what’s written here!

Understand.

He only has the most fundamental, even basic free public information library backup from human civilization three thousand years later!