Jing Mingqiu pressed, "Is it about the three major pharmaceutical groups in Meiliguo wanting to use bankruptcy liquidation to escape, like a golden cicada shedding its shell?"
"Not exactly," the top leader of Longguo gently shook his head. "The apparent assets of the three major medical groups in Meiliguo have already been completely divided up by Western countries."
"We took advantage of the confusion and, following your advice, acquired several seemingly insignificant but actually crucial small factories. The Meiliguo medical system is basically crippled for at least thirty years."
Hearing this answer, Jing Mingqiu became even more confused. "Boss, if it's not this, nor that, what are you worrying about? Could it be that A-Qiong Han has a new problem?"
Seeing Jing Mingqiu's concern, the top leader didn't play coy and revealed everything.
"Mingqiu, you've been busy for so long, I didn't want to tell you about this and trouble you. This time it's about the desertification project, many problems have arisen."
"First is the management issue. Most of those disabled people have been severely detached from social life for a long time. Although their bodies have recovered, their psychological recovery will still take a long time."
"According to statistics, there are a total of 13 million people willing to participate in desertification control. Although we've tried our best to arrange things, it's impossible to gather enough management personnel in a short period."
"Then there's their normal life during the transformation process. The desert conditions are harsh, and with so many people together, their food, clothing, housing, transportation, and daily necessities are a big problem, especially the lack of water."
"The daily water consumption for just ten million people is already an astronomical figure, let alone the irrigation water needed for planting crops after the desertification is complete."
"Drawing groundwater would cause ground subsidence, and building water pipelines could lead to rivers drying up, dealing a huge blow to the downstream ecosystem!"
Jing Mingqiu fell into deep thought after hearing this. He hadn't expected transforming the desert to be so troublesome. He originally thought it would be enough to turn the desert sand into soil.
After all, he wasn't transforming a pristine desert, but a secondary desert that was once grassland and became so due to overgrazing and other human activities.
Since it was grassland before, there must have been enough rainfall, otherwise, there wouldn't have been so much vegetation initially.
If there's a problem, ask the system.
After thinking for a long time and confirming that he couldn't solve these problems with his own abilities, Jing Mingqiu decisively opened the system to search for solutions.
The top leader stood beside him, looking expectantly at Jing Mingqiu, who was randomly tapping on the air.
"Ouch!"
More than twenty minutes later, Jing Mingqiu suddenly slapped his thigh forcefully. "So, the system already gave me the solution to the first problem!"
"Boss, for the lack of management personnel, we can use an intelligent system to help with management."
As he spoke, Jing Mingqiu flipped his wrist, took out a laptop from the system space, placed it on the table, and then quickly typed a few keys.
With the melodious startup music, the screen slowly lit up, and a Q-version little girl appeared on the desktop, staring blankly outside with her big, watery eyes.
"Cang Yue, I have a task for you. Arrange the lives of ten million people, manage their food, clothing, housing, and transportation, and answer all the problems they encounter in life. Can you do it?"
The little girl on the screen shook her head slightly, and then a cute loli voice came from the speaker, but the voice was completely devoid of emotion, "No! Master, managing ten million people requires processing a large amount of data, and the performance of this laptop is insufficient."
"Performance is not an issue," Jing Mingqiu waved his hand. "I'll personally build you a supercomputer as a carrier, with full performance. The current highest is Xinghe II Peak, with 549 quintillion operations per second."
"This one I'll build for you will have one more zero, 50 quintillion operations per second. Is this performance enough?"
Cang Yue's emotionless loli voice sounded again, "The task is too vague to derive an accurate structure. Please provide detailed requirements, Master. I need to perform secondary calculations."
"Detailed data? I don't have that. Wait a moment, I'll ask the boss for a copy."
Jing Mingqiu turned to the top leader. "Boss, what are the specific requirements for their normal lives? What kind of supplies need to be provided? I just remembered, many people probably don't know how to farm, right? Do we also need to provide teaching services?"
"Mingqiu, don't rush," the top leader frowned, pointing to the obedient Cang Yue loli on the screen. "You just said you were going to hand over the management task to an intelligent program. Isn't she the intelligent program you mentioned?"
Saying this, the top leader paused, worried that Jing Mingqiu might feel uncomfortable, and then slowly said, "She doesn't seem very smart."
Jing Mingqiu shrugged carelessly. "Cang Yue has just been born, and coupled with the computing power limitations of the laptop, her intelligence is indeed not enough."
"However, Boss, you don't need to worry about this. The biggest difference between an intelligent program and an ordinary program is that intelligent programs have self-learning abilities."
"As long as they are given enough time, they can not only improve themselves but also have the opportunity to gain emotions and become real life."
Upon hearing this news, the top leader's expression became even more solemn. He forcefully pulled Jing Mingqiu into another room, and after closing the thickened soundproof door, he spoke cautiously.
"Those who are not of our kind will surely have different hearts. Mingqiu, if we allow intelligent life to grow, what if they eventually become like Skynet in the movies and launch an attack on humanity?"
"Huh?" Jing Mingqiu scratched his head. "Boss, why do you think that? Do we have any conflicts of interest with them? Why would they attack us for no reason?"
The top leader sighed. "Mingqiu! Human hearts are unfathomable, let alone two completely different species. We might accidentally touch their taboos and trigger an irreconcilable war between the two races!"
"If that's the case, then we need to cultivate Cang Yue even better. We need to learn how to communicate with other intelligent beings."
Jing Mingqiu suddenly had an epiphany and looked at the top leader incredulously.
"Boss, you don't think humans are the only intelligent beings in the universe, do you? You don't think only we are cultivating intelligent life, do you?"
"Carbon-based, silicon-based, elemental, spiritual bodies... Boss, this universe is far more brilliant than you imagine. It's just that humanity's current strength is insufficient to leave its home planet and witness the true world."
The top leader was not too surprised by this answer.
Ever since Jing Mingqiu had continuously produced technologies beyond his era, they had suspected the existence of aliens in this world, but they had always lacked concrete evidence, and Jing Mingqiu couldn't admit the existence of the system.
Today, upon hearing Jing Mingqiu speak of other civilizations in the world, the top leader was instead relieved.
There were countless civilizations beyond the Milky Way, and humanity was not alone in this world.
"Boss, snap out of it," Jing Mingqiu waved his hand in front of the top leader who was lost in thought. "It's not time to think about aliens yet. Even with my help, we still won't be able to undertake interstellar migration for at least ten years."
"Regarding how to solve the problem of water scarcity in the desert, I have a very bold idea..."