He raised his hands with a serious expression as he said, "Everyone, this is something that can potentially open up a brand new set of possibilities for us and take us drastically closer to our end goal! Why shouldn't we do this?"

This was indeed a reasonable argument, yet all of the scientists couldn't help but feel strong resistance to Qin Ye's idea when they looked at the energy units that had been carried into the laboratory.

There were only two units left able to provide them with the new energy resource to experiment on!

If Qin Ye were to fail on this occasion, then they would only have one unit left, placing them into an even more dire situation!

If they couldn't develop the new energy resource before the energy in these five units ran out, the Cathayan Underworld's reputation would be doomed, and it most likely wouldn't be able to recover within the next few centuries!

Zu Chongzhi considered the situation for a moment before proposing, "Your Excellency, let's talk about this first. Can you tell us exactly what has led you to make this decision?"

Qin Ye nodded in response before giving everyone a recount of what had happened on Kongur Tagh, but the scientists were clearly all still unconvinced.

Lu Ban wore a grim expression as he said, "Your Excellency, if what you said really is correct, then why didn't Xu Fu discover this during his own research?"

Qin Ye had...