Chapter 1687: Chapter 662: I Have No Home Anymore, Time Has Buried Everything (Part 2)

"I suspect that these planets were completely shattered and destroyed before being reorganized. This is tantamount to rebuilding. The extent of the destruction reached the level of the third-level God’s Particle."

Although Ren Zhong’s views are entirely based on conjecture, they are actually gradually approaching the truth.

Yang Misi also endorses these conjectures.

The focus of the next scientific research naturally shifted to understanding what the periodic phenomena that Ren Zhong mentioned actually were.

This did not take much time; all the clues easily pointed to one thing, which was the most anomalous entity in the Ancient Disk Galaxy—the supermassive quasar near the central black hole of the Ancient Disk.

This involves perception bias.

To the four races in the Ancient Disk Galaxy, quasars have existed since ancient times. Their existence predates humanity by far.

No one thinks that quasars are unusual or "unnatural." The humans in the Ancient Disk Galaxy just conventionally consider them as a normal cosmic phenomenon, just as Earth humans believe the sun will always rise in the morning.

The Mechanical Empire and the other three races have, of course, also tried to study quasars throughout their long and enduring history, but were baffled by their supernatural characteristics, completely at a loss like a cow chewing a pumpkin.

It clearly exists, just sitting there. It has a collision volume and is indestructible. Yet, it has no weight and exhibits no gravitational reaction with other surrounding matter.

No matter what means humans try to use to penetrate it and study its internal structure, it’s all in vain.

Whether energy weapons, projectile weapons, or even laboratory-grade cutting tools are used, nothing can leave the slightest mark on its surface.

It only reacts to human actions under one circumstance.

That is, when humans emit Contribution Points codes in a specific frequency message stream towards it, it quickly responds with computational results.

The computation results are precisely the constant parameters in the Grand Unification Formula.

With each exchange of information, humanity gets one step closer to obtaining the "real" Grand Unification Formula.

Besides the Grand Unification Formula, quasars occasionally offer some foundational scientific theories. This can greatly enhance humanity’s level of scientific knowledge.

In the early years, the Mechanical Empire, Ascendants, Pilgrims, and the Spirit Demon Race all gained immense benefits from the quasars. Only in the last two to three million years have the quasars stopped providing other foundational knowledge, focusing solely on computations regarding the Grand Unification Formula.

But the various factions of humans are not concerned with this. Regardless of the side, they firmly believe that as long as they persist, they will eventually, with the help of this cosmic wonder, grasp the true mysteries of the universe.

Moreover, the quasars seem to sense the range of influence of the four empires. The more territory a faction controls, the more comprehensive the computing services it provides.

For instance, during the heyday of the Mechanical Empire, when the other three races hadn’t emerged, the Mechanical Empire could freely use it for years without any intervention.

But after the Ascendants, Pilgrims, and Spirit Demon Race broke away and rose, snatching a vast territory from the Mechanical Empire, the quasars, on average, only responded to the Mechanical Empire for less than three months within each Source Star Year cycle.

This time ratio is exactly proportional to the territory occupied by the Mechanical Empire.

Ren Zhong didn’t even need to carefully deliberate; he knew with a gut feeling that there was something off about the quasars.

But, simple as it sounds, other empire humans simply cannot break free from this mental shackle and question the very existence of quasars as being unscientific and abnormal.

Of course, within the Red Blade Clan, this shackle composed of common sense has long vanished like smoke.

When Ren Zhong says there is a problem, there is definitely a problem.

Ren Zhong’s authority even supersedes cosmic common sense because Ren Zhong’s very existence has always been contrary to common sense.

After properly arranging the subsequent scientific tasks and development directions, Ren Zhong dismissed the others and began to "travel" alone on Source Star.

He first disguised himself, then had Sun Ai conceal his whereabouts, returning to the dense forest where he first awoke.

Back when Ren Zhong led a team away from Source Star, Wen Lei and Yujin, who stayed behind, had already designated this area as an important protected natural landscape, fully preserving this side’s ecological environment.

When Xu Guangnian came here to collect samples, he had to possess a permit personally signed by Ren Zhong to avoid being stopped.

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