For over a decade, humanity's various plans proceeded as scheduled.
The "Jingwei Project" was also completed swiftly.
With the help of underwater robots remotely controlled via brain-computer interfaces, humanity's exploitation of the oceans became even more thorough than before the apocalypse.
As natural resources were mined and utilized, humanity's living space expanded.
Everyone who did their part could live without worry about food or clothing.
In fact, they lived better than before the apocalypse.
The current life could no longer be called an apocalypse.
Perhaps, the apocalypse had already ended on the moment the official lifting of martial law was announced in year 348.
Concurrently, as children conceived in artificial wombs grew up, humanity's population experienced an explosion.
These children, conceived in artificial wombs, had healthy genes, undamaged by delta particles, and all could provide healthy sperm and eggs.
Therefore, starting from year 362, the number of newborns each year would exceed the previous year by tens of millions, with new population growth exhibiting exponential increase.
By year 375, the annual birthrate had surpassed 150 million, and the total population had reached the level of pre-apocalypse China.
Thus, the "Nuwa Project" was also successfully completed.
The government rescinded its birth incentives.
However, those willing to provide sperm and eggs could still have their offspring cultivated for free, with the government covering all expenses for the child until adulthood.
Only then did the growth rate of Earth's human population begin to slow.
And over these past ten years, the "Tiangong Project" had also progressed smoothly.
Especially with quantum communication technology and brain-computer interface technology, exploring the universe became more convenient than before the apocalypse.
On the moon, humanity had successfully established a space city.
Tang Chenxi had also been to space and visited the lunar space city long ago.
Humanity's probes had already spread throughout the entire solar system.
Space cities were being constructed on Mars, and mining activities were underway in the asteroid belt.
Space elevators had still not been designed, making travel between Earth and space extremely inconvenient.
Consequently, most of the machinery and equipment in space were currently manufactured by the lunar space city.
The materials for manufacturing these machines were also mined from space and did not utilize Earth's mineral resources.
The construction of space cities on Mars also relied on local resources for materials, with no external input, especially no mining from Earth for construction. All materials had to be sourced on-site.
At most, mining equipment and the machines to build the space city construction equipment were sent over after the lunar space city was completed.
This approach not only avoided wasting Earth's mineral resources but also eliminated the need for energy expenditure in transportation.
Fortunately, Mars was covered with hematite, making on-site sourcing feasible, albeit requiring more effort.
Mars was one of the two planets closest to Earth in the solar system.
On the other side, Venus had an even more severe climate and environment than Earth,