Chapter 453: Population of 10 Billion
Zhang Hao naturally accepted everyone who came and gave introductions to those aliens who wanted to know about the solar system.
The focus is of course on the resources on the earth, including bioenergy resources.
Soon, this news was like a stone thrown into a pond, causing a huge uproar.
Everyone knows that there is a planet in the solar system called Earth, which has an astonishing population resource and can produce huge amounts of bioenergy.
Especially the aliens who participated in the auction, they witnessed with their own eyes that Ace took out so many bio-energy bars at the auction venue.
Although the purity of these bioenergy bars has not yet reached its ultimate level, according to Zhang Hao, this is just because they were in a hurry to leave the City of Light and the produced bioenergy was not further purified.
Even so, people from other planets have shown great interest in the bioenergy reserves on Earth. In their view, with such resources, Earth can surely become a wealthy man in the cosmic society.
There are even many developing civilizations that want to establish a cooperative relationship with the Earth and sign a cooperation agreement on energy supply.
The next day, the supermarket sent people to where Zhang Hao and his friends were staying and invited them to discuss some matters.
If Irene had not been rescued yet, Zhang Hao didn't want to waste time on this, but now that Irene was safe, Ace also suggested that he go and see what the attitude of the supermarket was.
Zhang Hao arrived at the supermarket and was greeted by the same artificial intelligence from last time, with a more polite attitude.
"Mr. Zhang, please follow me." The artificial intelligence led the way and soon arrived at another building in the central square.
The AI pushed open the room.
The people in the room also surprised Zhang Hao.
There is a round table in the room, and around it sit three guys who look like energy bodies, like transparent people.
In addition to their bodies existing in the form of energy bodies, their eyes especially emit a strong light that makes it impossible to look directly at them.
"Mr. Zhang, please take a seat. I'm here to discuss something with you." A man sitting in the middle chairman's seat spoke up.
Zhang Hao sat down casually, the artificial intelligence retreated and closed the door.
"Mr. Zhang, thank you for coming here. Let me introduce myself first. These two are Ripley from the Bayer Galaxy, the one next to you is Yusuf from the Sol Galaxy, and I am from Planet Z, my name is Bonnie."
Zhang Hao didn't know what the other party wanted to discuss with him, but he remained polite and smiled and nodded in greeting the three of them.
“We are also the co-managers of the City of Light Super Mall and the founders of the City of Light Cosmic Court.”
Zhang Hao felt a little uneasy after hearing this. These three people are all big bosses!
I don’t know why he is looking for me this time?
Seeing Zhang Hao's puzzled expression, the leader Bonnie stopped beating around the bush and went straight to the point.
"Mr. Zhang, actually we came here to talk to you about the issue of bioenergy."
"As we all know, in the City of Light and even in the entire universe, in addition to cosmic currency, bioenergy is the real hard currency. It can be said that every civilization capable of interstellar travel has a sustainable and uninterrupted demand for bioenergy. The importance of bioenergy is self-evident."
"We also learned that the Earth in your solar system actually has a population of over 10 billion people and can produce a huge amount of bioenergy every day!"
Zhang Hao was shocked when he heard this. Could it be that these advanced civilizations also wanted to rob the earth of its resources? ?
Zhang Hao remained calm and showed no signs of abnormality.
The other party also continued : "Mr. Zhang, there is no need to doubt our purpose. Since we created the City of Light and established the rules here, our attitude is very clear."
Zhang Hao breathed a sigh of relief. From what the other party said, he knew that they had guessed the doubts in his heart, so they said those words just now to make him feel at ease.
But what were their thoughts? Zhang Hao showed an attitude of listening.
"Haha, Mr. Zhang, actually we are looking for you mainly to make a deal with the Earth. To be precise, we want to reach an agreement related to bioenergy." The guy named Bonnie said.
"Yesterday at the auction venue, you showed the Earth's heritage to the people from other planets and offered so much bioenergy. I think this was also to pave the way for you to gain a place in the universe society in the future. "
Zhang Hao smiled and said nothing. This was his original intention, and these big guys could see it at a glance.
Seeing that Zhang Hao did not respond, Bonnie said with a smile: "But you still underestimate the bioenergy capacity that your Earth can produce!"
"You only know that the Earth can produce a huge amount of bioenergy with such a large population, but you haven't made a careful estimate yet!"
Zhang Hao nodded. This was indeed as the other party said. With a population of more than 10 billion on Earth, excluding the elderly, the weak and the disabled, how many people could actually participate in the production of bioenergy? How much bioenergy could be produced in a day, a month or even a year? The Global Alliance had not yet made a careful estimate.
Seeing this, Bonnie said seriously: "Mr. Zhang, you are still wrong!"
Zhang Hao was confused, not knowing what the other party meant.
"If only one-tenth of your planet's population can participate in the production of bioenergy, and if only half of the produced bioenergy flows into the cosmic society, it will have incalculable and serious consequences!"
Zhang Hao roughly knew what the other party meant.
The guy named Bonnie continued, "In the universe, civilizations that can reach a scale of tens of billions are basically very low-level civilizations, and they are all low-level organisms without complex cells. Earth is like this, which can be said to be unique!"
Ace also talked about this, but Zhang Hao couldn't figure it out.
So he asked, "You mean that none of the civilizations in the City of Light can reach the scale of population resources on Earth? Not even one person?"
Ripley next to him explained, "If the Earth had continued to develop normally, by the time Earth was able to conduct interstellar travel, you wouldn't have such a large population."
"What's the meaning?"
"Almost all civilizations capable of interstellar travel have experienced a transition from nothing to something, from the Stone Age to the Technological Age. One very important phenomenon among these is that they have all experienced war."
"According to Earth's development, you will eventually end up in a planet-wide war due to technological advancement and resource shortages. This war will have a devastating impact on the population. If you survive that stage and enter the cosmic society, your population size will be similar to that of other civilizations in the City of Light now."
Zhang Hao finally understood.
This means that the Earth's entry into interstellar travel was an accident.
It was this accident that prevented the Earth from undergoing its own development process.
This has resulted in the current Earth population, which still has a population of tens of billions.
