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The Reality Stabilization Project succeeded, and from now on, people no longer had to worry about the so-called corruption. The stable laws of physics became our shield, and the era of the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons ended in the Federation.

The silence in this psychic realm is probably enough to make many civilizations envious.

73, "First Work"

The success of the reality anchor is a great encouragement to the Federation's scientific exploration.

It also brings new inspiration, that is, since we can create normality by stabilizing the reality index, we can do the opposite and manipulate the reality index to create abnormalities.

The core concept of Reality Index Theory states that every physical phenomenon in the universe, every starry sky, every speck of dust, possesses a "Reality Index." This value determines the stability of existing entities, the inherent properties of matter, and the success or failure of events within them. Fluctuations in this value can distort reality itself, drastically altering its fundamental laws.

Based on this theory, we previously created a reality anchor system that passively intervened in reality. Now, by actively intervening in the same phenomenon, the Science Council has developed a technology that can specifically enhance the reality level of specific entities: local reality enhancement technology.

By artificially manipulating these "grains of sand," the basic units of reality, we can change the "reality index" of certain specific entities.

If the reality index of certain objects or life forms is raised to an extremely high level, they can override standard reality and produce a phenomenon that transcends the laws of physics. This is known as the "reality distortion effect."

In terms of manifestation, this distortion effect may be very similar to psychic power. Both appear to be magical supernatural phenomena, but their underlying principles are extremely different, and there is even a subtle repulsion.

Due to the great potential of this technology, Federation scientists immediately began related experiments. After repeated theoretical research and practical experiments, in the laboratories of the Helka Interstellar Federation, reality enhancement technology ushered in its first product: an entity codenamed "Original Work."

The anomalous properties it exhibits have enormous consequences.

The original work looked like a stone statue, its appearance was cold and lifeless, with a fine rock texture on the surface, and it seemed very ordinary.

But its position in reality is unique, and it has an incredible reality-distorting effect.

The original would remain motionless when being watched by researchers, but once someone looked away, it would suddenly move at an unimaginable speed, attempting to get behind any intelligent creature present and break its neck.

The situation during the first test was quite dangerous and almost resulted in the death of all personnel present.

Thanks to the fact that the Machine God was temporarily transferred to supervise the experiment, he burst out with psychic energy to protect most of the personnel, and then used psychic binding to lock up the Original Work.

The original seemed incapable of sensing Mecha and psychic phenomena, and was completely unable to break free from this constraint, which allowed us to move it to the Museum of Natural History and seal it away.

The experiment was repeated many times afterwards, but it only proved that the research and development of the fully practical application of this local reality enhancement technology was actually a failure.

Because researchers have found that the products of related technologies are extremely random, and it is impossible to summarize the specific laws of reality distortion effects.

Most random reality-bending effects are useless or even harmful, and if the entities created are intelligent and interactive, they will definitely be malicious towards us.

The second point feels too weird. We can't say that the reality that created all life actually hates intelligent creatures. There must be some reason that we haven't figured out yet.

.........

However, we did eventually make some important breakthroughs.

That's the experimental reality warp accelerator. It was developed from research into the original's anomalous movement patterns, using reality-warping effects to further increase our FTL speed.

We have used a certain degree of curvature acceleration technology before. Curvature acceleration can distort space-time, causing the space in front of the spacecraft to contract and the space behind it to expand. A spacecraft wrapped in this "curvature bubble" can travel faster than the speed of light without violating relativity.

But soon, the warp system was replaced by the quantum scintillator engine because there was a huge problem with the warp that made it almost worthless to upgrade further.

It consumes too much energy. The energy required to maintain this curvature exceeds the total energy of the universe. Even if energy consumption is reduced through various auxiliary technologies, the cost remains high. The inability to bear the energy consumption also leads to a low FTL speed of the curvature system.

But now, we can use a more economical and convenient method to solve this problem, thanks to a stone sculpture exhibit nicknamed Little Peanut.

This reality warping accelerator, by temporarily increasing the reality index of the relevant ships and creating a difference in the reality index, distorts the local space-time speed and physical rules, thereby achieving efficient superluminal flight at a very low cost.

Although this system has various problems, such as adjusting the reality index will cause a certain degree of reality instability, which may bring about various harmful physical phenomena, and starting this engine itself will consume our limited storage of transcendental logic, so that the current transcendental logic is actually in a negative growth state, and so on.

But its prospects are enormous. This new engine device has demonstrated satisfactory efficiency in current experiments, rivaling even the low-power subspace travel sometimes jokingly referred to as skipping stones. Furthermore, as research into the infinite applications of this technology deepens, this acceleration effect will inevitably be continuously escalated until stars billions of light years away are within our reach.

The transportation problems that once plagued us have been partially resolved. The Federation's territory will expand even further, and the number of galaxies under real-time control will double and double. A new era of travel and expansion may be about to begin.

Until the temporary closure of the relevant project, research on the theory of local reality enhancement, despite some problems, has also yielded tremendous results. The first step in the great cause of regulating the fundamental constants of the universe to serve the practical needs of sentient life has been successfully achieved.

However, it also brings some worries and philosophical thoughts. At present, in the field of reality distortion effect research, the various strange phenomena that have appeared are natural phenomena of this universe, or have pioneers already taken the lead?

Are the foundations of the world we see actually the ruins of the original edifice of cosmic rules left behind by the reckless squandering of ancient empires?

This question will trouble the scientists of the Federation for a long time, but even if it does, it does not matter. This universe may be full of fallen empires with great heritages trying to defend their superior status, but we will definitely dethrone them one by one.

"That natural disaster will always be you."

They will all bow down.

74. Mental Omega Event Chain: Breaking Through the Time Storm

The need for transcendental logic led the Federation to decide to focus its main work on scientific research progress.

Transcendental logic is so scarce and important that without it we cannot maintain a stable reality system and fly faster than the speed of light.

But it is extremely scarce. Now we can only extract fragments of extraordinary logic through two methods: calculating complex infinite propositions or cracking a large number of ordinary scientific and technological secrets.

Therefore, its production capacity always fails to keep up with consumption. It takes a long time to accumulate, but it will be consumed quickly in a very short time.

To this end, the Federation has proposed the next stage of overall civilization progress goal: to achieve large-scale production and application of transcendental logic.

This is not easy, and many researchers believe that this requirement requires giant-scale supporting facilities to be realized.

And there is currently no unified plan for how such facilities should be designed and operated.

Some scientists have suggested that it might be possible to build a super scientific research facility that could maximize the thinking abilities of researchers. The cost is that this facility might cause mental overload or even life exhaustion for the relevant personnel. The related project is called the Synaptic Condensation Project.

Other researchers believe that using the human brain to ponder the grand proposition of universe creation, even with psychic powers, is sheer folly. They believe it is possible to create a giant, celestial-scale automated computer, its computing power reaching unimaginable levels. Its virtual calculations could create new universes and provide a wealth of transcendental logical insights. This project has been named the Infinite Divine Machine Project.

Both construction plans seem to be highly feasible, but unfortunately the current objective conditions of the Federation do not allow them to vigorously promote related construction projects at all costs, so both concepts remain only in theory.

This led the Federation to decide to use a more common method to encourage scientific research among the entire population to further increase the production capacity of scientific research points. The Archon Team adopted a new agenda focusing on the traditional scientific research, and through publicity, welfare subsidies and policy guidance, allowed the people to devote their necessary labor capacity to scientific research.

All citizens of the Federation are very happy to follow the advice of the consul team, because everyone is the master of the Federation and has an obligation to work hard for his own career.

Countless civilian scientific research cooperatives and technical research salons have been established on various planets, and the newly built civilian space industry has scientific research as its main segment.

All of this has brought about a leap in technology, but knowledge gained on paper is ultimately shallow. The Federation needs to conduct more space exploration and archaeological research on pioneer civilizations.

The former has already begun. The Security Attack Force Ascension Plan has upgraded our scientific research ship. It has been transformed from a powerless civilian ship with only a stealth array to a fully armed scientific research warship.

At the same time, a group of frigates have been specially allocated to escort scientific research vessels, ensuring that scientific research and exploration outside the region will be foolproof.

Sometimes, however, simply scanning the ordinary landscape of existing space may not yield any valuable information. The Federation also attaches great importance to archaeological projects, striving to piece together and reconstruct the great insights of past eras through the remains of previous civilizations.

The journey to recover the treasures of the past began with the previously discovered planet with disordered space-time curvature.

The space-time curvature of the ordinary world, the so-called "destiny", is a macroscopic open system. Due to the influence of factors such as the quantum uncertainty principle, the fate of the universe is undecided.

However, certain advanced technologies can cause local spacetime curvature to loop and close, creating a "historical closed loop" phenomenon in certain areas. In such areas, the causal relationship between the past, present, and future is mechanically locked, making all developments inevitable.

No matter what, someone will die on a certain day, no matter what, a bullet from a gun will hit its target. The trajectory of fate is firmly fixed, no longer able to change. In this closed loop, the different possibilities of how things will develop also disappear, and everything becomes a predetermined choice at the door of fate.

This technology may seem impressive, but in reality, it has little practical application. Establishing large-scale closed-spacetime loops is too time-consuming, making it less feasible to attack head-on. Furthermore, technological interference from outsiders with greater insights into high-dimensional physics could easily break those loops that aren't complex enough for them and can't affect them.

All technological confrontations, in the final analysis, are struggles over the level of basic science. The seemingly remarkable power of historical revisionism is simply a matter of computing power confrontation.

However, everything on this planet is incomprehensible even with the Federation's technological level.

Its space-time curvature loop is not a single one, but nested. The space-time flows with different trends have created a chaotic vortex, howling on the planet like a storm, making it difficult for normal space-time curvature distortion methods to work.

If we enter rashly, our scientific researchers might find themselves suddenly traveling back tens of millions of years.

As for how to stop this "super-time and space storm", relevant researchers made many attempts and finally decided on a plan.

The Federation's current ships are all equipped with a time-different celestial sphere. This spherical mechanical structure combines the time-different flow technology of the "Silent Ascension Project" and stores transcendental logic.

It is a new type of accelerator used to initiate the space-time warping acceleration effect. In essence, it is a reality distortion device with active interference.

If the Federation scientists overloaded it, the resulting space-time warp could be enough to spread beyond the ship.

So they did it, all the ships of the scientific expedition fleet overloaded the celestial accelerators, and then directed the released energy into the super-time and space storm, eventually calming it.

Then, what appeared before our eyes was a normal land planet, on which was a world with distinct human species technology and cultural characteristics. This was once the home of a human civilization outside the empire - its simple, bright and materialistic normal architectural style was incompatible with the abstract aesthetic of the empire's churches built everywhere.

But now, there is no one here anymore, the scanner did not find any signs of life, and after the super-space storm ended, all that emerged was a complete but empty city and a large amount of ruins.

Considering that military facilities are everywhere on this planet, perhaps a world war once broke out here, or perhaps some residents are hiding in underground shelters.

The federal scientific expedition team decided to continue the investigation and search for any survivors as much as possible.

75. Mental Omega Event Chain: Beneath the Tower of Babel

"Honestly, what's the point of God's Judgment? It's supposed to work like a mod like the Mind Control Colossus. It only changes the ideology without changing the affiliation. The result is that after the Colossus is done, your enemies go from being hostile to you based on materialism to being hostile to you based on idealism. It's hilarious."

.........

This planet once belonged to a human civilization that predated the human empire, but they seemed to have no spaceflight capabilities. Perhaps they had experienced a technological loss and later became a complete pre-FTL civilization.

The remains of ancient battlefields scattered across the planet all indicate that this civilization experienced a brutal war that swept the world before its demise.

At the south pole of the planet stands a dilapidated tower, with violent psychic energy overflowing from the tower. It seems that this is a building built by an ancient empire to create psychic influence.

The tower's former grandeur can still be vaguely seen from its remains. It was a tower that reached to the sky. Surrounding this tower are dense weapon debris. Perhaps we can obtain some useful information from these weapon debris. The Federation began to conduct a more detailed exploration of this continent.

The scientific expedition team discovered the wreckage of a spacecraft among the ruins of countless military facilities on this polar ice field. The technology used by this spacecraft was extremely advanced, which gave it the ability to manipulate space and stop time.

Even from our perspective, these space-time technologies are excellent. The relevant information has been archived by federal staff. We hope to use it as a reference in the future to gain more technical insights.

The information found by the expedition team on the spacecraft shows that the spacecraft is called "Paradox Engine" and belongs to a force called "Allied Forces". We can't imagine how such an advanced spacecraft was built and how it was destroyed, but we can learn a lot from it.

This spacecraft uses a lot of advanced technologies: high-dimensional storage technology, advanced anti-gravity system, and space-time stillness technology. This is simply not something that a civilization with a technological level in the information age can do.

This ingenious conception is something that even civilizations that understand faster-than-light travel must admire. The space-time cessation generator, capable of stabilizing an entire battlefield for at least a minute, is a remarkable achievement in space-time theory. We should also show respect to those who are less advanced and humbly seek the advice of these technological advances.

In addition, they have many insightful research results, such as individual super-time and space devices, weather controllers, etc. The relevant content has been sorted and archived, and is ready to be handed over to the Federal Central Science Council for further investigation.

They may not be able to travel faster than the speed of light, but their scientific research achievements far surpass those of lower civilizations that can only beg for light-speed technology by praying to psychic entities and perform space navigation circuses in the universe.

Further exploration of the ancient battlefield revealed that the rebels set foot on this frozen world to fight against an enemy called "Epsilon", a secret cult organization dedicated to developing psychic powers, and the builders of the tower.

The Epsilon Corporation intends to control the minds of everyone in the world through the tower and establish a Gestalt society. This is unacceptable to intelligent creatures with free will and is essentially the same as death.

Therefore, allied soldiers from various forces set foot on this permafrost without hesitation to fight for the most important ideal of the free world in their propaganda.

However, it seems that they ultimately failed. The Paradox Engine, which symbolized their last hope, was shot down, and most of the personnel involved were killed (but we could not find their remains). These fighters for freedom fell at the southernmost tip of their planet.

Our scientific expedition team successfully shielded the mental storm emanating from the tower. They plan to enter this "Tower of Babel" for further research. Sometimes we wonder why the human species likes towers so much.

.........

The expedition team successfully entered the control room of the tower called "Psycho-Operator." The database records here use language similar to Low Gothic, so we can quickly decipher its secrets.

The Epsilon organization is formed by a group of people with psychic abilities, also known as psykers. They united under the call of a psyker with powerful abilities and advanced technological literacy. In order to unify the world caught in civil war and obtain higher-level psychic secrets, they created Epsilon.

Through complex tactical maneuvers, they acquired a large amount of military resources and almost annihilated their enemies, and seemed to be on the verge of achieving their goal.

But the vast white land in front of the federal scientists is definitely not the result they want. We are wondering what prevented these psychics from winning?

The Ipsilon organization has conducted in-depth research in both psychic and biotechnology. The scientific expedition team discovered some technical data in the tower, which showed Ipsilon's outstanding achievements in stimulating psychic power, stabilizing mental states, projecting mental influences, and even bio-transformation and cloning technologies.

Federal investigators believed that the relevant technological achievements were extremely valuable, although perhaps inhumane, so they kept detailed records of Ipsilon's scientific research data and backed it up multiple times to prevent loss.

By implanting the genetic sequence of a powerful psychic into other psychics, or cloning them based on this "leader", Ipsilon can keep their psychics stable and in a controlled state. The Federation must crack the relevant tricks.

The cloning vats developed by the Ipsilon Organization and discovered during scientific expeditions are slightly more economical than those manufactured by the Federation. Although they have many flaws, they are still of great reference value to us.

It's also clear that these forces dedicated to building a Gestalt society don't quite understand how to respect the basic rights of intelligent beings. They've created a troop recycling system where humans deemed worthless and those who have lost their combat capabilities are thrown into it, their entire biomass and psychic energy collected to replenish resources.

The excavation of scientific research data from the Ipsilon Cult in the tower eventually allowed the Federation to uncover Ipsilon's most important research achievement: a mind control device.

The mind control device is a complex consciousness-influencing device that can control the thoughts of intelligent beings within its range by emitting psychic energy and electronic signals, implanting a compliant mind stamp upon them, causing them to lose their self-awareness and become completely subservient to the device's owner. This mind stamp projection technology has yet to be cracked by Federation psychic science researchers, but it has now been discovered through archaeological research.

However, Ipsilon's achievements do not stop there. They have truly optimized this mind-controlled weapon to a level of extremely high tactical value. It can not only be used on the front battlefield, but also as a decisive weapon.

The giant tower in front of us is essentially a planet-level mind-control signal transmitter.

Theoretically, if we replicated this device and loaded it onto a massive spaceship, we could create a new Colossus weapon: a mind-control beam. A device capable of easily wiping out any intelligent resistance without firing a single shot.

This may violate the right of intelligent creatures to think freely, so the relevant technical information was archived and handed over to the Federal Central Conference to decide how to use it.

Inside the Mind Odyssey, the expedition team discovered a highlighted area on the map. Based on the legend, they inferred that it was a force that maintained independent thinking under the influence of a planetary-level mind controller.

Scientists believe it is necessary for a federal scientific expedition to travel to this Colonia region to obtain more information.

It is surrounded by hurricanes all year round, but the storms cannot stop us.