Boom!

Bolt after bolt of lightning, mixed with deafening roars, kept falling from the sky.

It took barely a minute. Whether a murloc was out in the open, had scrambled in a panic into a building, or had run out past the boundary of the Academy of Sciences, it made no difference. The lightning seemed to have eyes. In an instant it tracked each of them down and vaporized them where they stood.

The war had broken out with astonishing speed, and it ended just as quickly.

In a daze, by the time every human came back to their senses, there was no trace of the enemy left around them. Only the fires and the smoke that had not yet cleared bore witness to the fierce battle that had been raging here only moments ago!

Swish!

The white vapor the murlocs had turned into drifted slowly upward. When it touched the dark clouds, it became fine, drizzling raindrops and began to fall toward the ground.

At first the rain was not heavy. It only dampened the scorched lawn and washed away the smoke that hung in the air. Only when more and more white vapor joined in did it gradually grow stronger, moistening the dry air and leaving a trace of the fragrance of earth. Under its nourishment, the fires that had been burning all over the Academy of Sciences were finally put out, leaving only a faint acrid smell of burning in the corners.

Stretched across the sky, Ji Yang looked down at the gardens below, half of which had already turned to ruins. Without anyone noticing, his enormous head, over a hundred meters across, had shrunk to less than thirty. With a gentle sigh, he let the dark clouds slowly hide his figure from view.

At the same time, the transparent barrier that had been stretched around the outside of the Academy finally vanished as well, and everything that had been holding people back disappeared with it.

“Dean Ji, he has already...”

Watching the flames inside the building be slowly doused by raindrops that had come from who knew where, Su Mo leaned against the railing and stared for a while, somewhat entranced.

He did not know what kind of method had been used, but in a single instant, both Yu Yangyu, who had turned into a monster, and the murloc corpses below had all become this strange white gas. They had not even managed to shout a last word before disappearing completely from the world.

A method like this was entirely beyond the realm of science, beyond the limits of the technology humanity currently possessed. If it had to be explained at all, perhaps only authority could do it. Only by mastering some kind of underlying operating rule of this world could such a thing be possible.

“Not yet. But judging from past experience, there isn’t much time left. The human body simply can’t bear such an enormous flow of information for long. Depending on how much each person can endure, Dean Ji will spend his remaining time over the next six hours helping us with some problems on the technology monument towers, as well as some verification calculations on design thinking.”

“If all goes well, there should still be about twenty minutes left for us to hold a briefing.”

“Don’t be sad. To be able to use overclocked vibration waves, within a human’s limited life, to accelerate your thoughts into a collision in a higher dimension, and to peek at fundamental rules that were never meant to belong to this world, is already a blessing stolen from heaven.”

Leaning on the railing beside him, Ning Yushu reached out and caught a drop of rain. The grief from before seemed to have faded from his heart.

To be fair...

A chance to touch a higher-level world, even at the price of dying before long, would still attract vast numbers of people who could see no hope. But in the past, most people were simply unable to control the evil thoughts and desires that rose in their hearts after touching that higher world. If not for that, this research would never have been forced to stop. It would have kept running in secret and gradually become a trump card.

“Six hours... it can only last that short a time?”

“That’s still short? Do you have any idea how terrifying the computing efficiency of a human brain is after overclocking? It can even go toe to toe with a standard 5-nanometer chipset!”

Hearing Su Mo’s question, Ning Yushu was so exasperated that he almost laughed. But since Su Mo had not yet fully joined the Academy, he did not explain further and simply changed the subject.

“By the way, Youzong, I forgot to introduce our Architecture Institute.”

“I’m the vice dean of the Architecture Institute, mainly responsible for fluid construction and rigid mechanics construction. Dean Ai is our head dean, mainly responsible for architectural planning and design, as well as the research and development of building materials.”

He pointed to Ai Jianqiang, who was sitting on the ground nearby, still lost in some faraway thought.

Ning Yushu exhaled softly. “This time we owe it all to you. If you hadn’t been here, I don’t know how many of us helpless researchers in the Architecture Institute would have been killed or wounded before the Dean activated his trump card.”

“Rest assured. Under the regulations of our Academy of Sciences, anyone who makes a contribution of Grade A or above can enter the Academy unconditionally and choose any position they like. And with your abilities, you would be sought after in whichever institute you went to.”

“Of course, I still recommend our Architecture Institute. Finding someone with real fighting skill on our side is truly difficult. If you’re willing, and you like anything related to architecture, I’ll even set aside two lessons every day to tutor you!”

As he spoke, Ning Yushu even reached out, quite seriously, and squeezed the rock-hard muscles on Su Mo’s arm, unable to hide his smile.

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