Chapter 1511: Chapter 568: Farewell

Looking at Old Yang’s overwhelmed expression, Ren Zhong felt a deep sense of sadness.

This was clearly a theory established by Earth humans as early as the 20th century, considered profound at the time. Yet now, countless years later, humans have mastered advanced space technologies such as super long-distance star navigation, subspace compression technology, fold jump subspace channels, and Star Gate technology. Yang Misi is also recognized as a leading scholar within the Empire.

But it is precisely someone like him who would be so moved by a theoretical framework from the 20th century Earth Era.

This shouldn’t be the case, nor is it reasonable, yet it is the reality.

Ren Zhong thought, this should have been something Earth humans could and must have completed before even stepping out from the planet’s surface, yet it had been locked away until now by a mindless reliance on external ideas without understanding them deeply.

In the development history of humans in the Ancient Disk Galaxy, there must be an invisible force misleading humanity, causing them to veer off the path of correct scientific exploration and onto a misguided road focused only on application, neglecting foundational theory.

The more excited Yang Misi became, the more desolate it appeared.

At the same time, Ren Zhong also clearly recognized the latent danger in it.

If there was indeed an advanced civilization remotely guiding humanity’s development path, then their means could be distilled into three core types.

First, using covert influence over a portion of people’s thinking, bestowing upon humanity knowledge they shouldn’t have obtained. A typical example being the suddenly rising research-oriented Chosen Ones. Along the way, these achievements are used to guide technological paths away, preventing humans from touching upon forbidden fields.

Second, when the Mechanical Empire, which theoretically is the weakest but burdens the heaviest of native human manufacturing tasks, falls into jeopardy, covertly influencing some in the Empire to rapidly boost its military capacity, restoring the balance of power, represented by those comprehensive, administrative, and military Chosen Ones.

Third, when the most resilient native human in the Mechanical Empire, those who could break through thought blockades and gradually encroach upon forbidden science, various means are used to forcibly cut off the progress of such disciplines. A typical case being Yang Misi, who once underwent subtle ideological guidance, followed by a million-year freeze. In fact, Yang Misi was rather fortunate; at least he survived. Others may suffer accidents leading to physical destruction, or bizarrely see geniuses with high potential lose their minds. Or through some indirect interference methods, slowly sever this path, like directly infiltrating the Super Network System, secretly altering key data, and other familiar means.

Of course, because Ren Zhong realized these dangers, he played a seemingly clever, yet ultimately very effective trick.

He shifted the most dangerous final step—drawing conclusions—onto Yang Misi, who had a history.

If the advanced civilization above the four human tribes truly resorted to extreme measures to extinguish this technological route, the blame and consequences would fall on Yang Misi.

As for Ren Zhong’s own safety, even if he is an "accomplice," it’s actually still guaranteed.

In addition to being a researcher, he has another identity, that of the Sequence Chosen One.

The Empire is currently in a perilous situation, on the brink of collapse at any moment.

The Mechanical Empire urgently needs someone to step up and turn the tide during this critical time.

As long as the advanced civilization wants to maintain the balance of the four tribes, it cannot easily extinguish the spark of Sequence Chosen One No. 1001.

Ren Zhong has backers.

His backers are numerous, including his own abilities, the military strength, productivity, and applied scientific capability of the Red Blade Clan, and for now, even Marquis Zhenjiang can barely count as a backer.

However, Ren Zhong’s greatest backer is none other than the Empire’s currently unstable and dire situation.

If the Empire were flourishing, strong in army and resources, that would actually place Ren Zhong in danger.

The aforementioned realizations are insights Ren Zhong has gleaned through his foresight abilities.

That is why he dared to execute this entire scheme with Yang Misi today.

At the same time, he is inherently a kind-hearted person, and naturally feels guilty towards Yang Misi, feeling that he has wronged him by pushing him into the fire.

But with urgency comes the need for compromise; Ren Zhong has made up his mind that, since he chose to go against his conscience and push Yang Misi forward, he himself must become the latter’s support, temporarily protecting his life, and strive to allow him to accumulate as much knowledge as possible before his end.

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