Resurrection Empire-Chapter 1087 - 423: Layers of Deception, Empire in the Shadows (Part 3)

After completing the initial preparations, nine staff members simultaneously pressed the start button.

The "Net" began full-powered operation, simultaneously writing pre-completed memories into the minds of a billion people in cryogenic sleep, completely blank in thought, instilling the first and second layers of false history and each person's unique identity.

That morning at six o'clock, almost everyone woke up at the same time.

Some woke up as engineers, others as wasteland dwellers, some as Professionals, some as core employees of the Nine Major Groups about to head to headquarters to report to the chairman, some as playthings for the nine staff members, and others...

The fate of all people and possibly born families was already fixed at that moment.

Simultaneously, a certain quantity of pre-stocked low to mid-level Ruined Beasts began to move from their static state, consuming, evolving, and then being captured and controlled.

The grand wheel of history began to turn.

The originally frozen timeline on Source Star started pushing forward along a virtual line, stepping out to form a real line.

That year marked the first year of the New Origin Calendar.

Nine Frozen Elders, after selecting their "playthings," mated to leave their lineage; they then retrieved a more perfect woven false history from the "Net," handed the plans for controlling social evolution to their trusted subordinates and direct descendants who were "born knowledgeable," and then quickly returned to cryogenic sleep, cherishing their lives.

The subsequent evolution over hundreds of years was precisely the modern history that Ren Zhong had already seen.

The modern history was genuine, but unfortunately, it was all built on a foundation of falsehoods.

The so-called magnificent millennial history formed by refugees from ten thousand years ago was essentially a thousand-year production base.

Ren Zhong had long suspected certain things, such as deducing from the green plants in Upper Origin Capital that the top of the power Pyramid of Source Star must come from elsewhere, knowing that green is the color of plants most suitable for humans.

Ren Zhong's previous dual-breeding theory was also mostly correct; he just didn't know the purpose of Ruined Beasts before.

Now he understood. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

For the mechanical life form of Ruined Beasts, the so-called Ninth Rank is still just the beginning. Ninth Rank Ruined Beasts are still only juvenile entities. When Ninth Rank Ruined Beasts return to the Empire's territory and are sent into Star Zones filled with alien energy, they will continue to mature. The mature form of Ruined Beasts has another name—gigantic biological mechanical Starships.

According to descriptions from some ancient ice sticks, the strongest mechanical Starships can not only devour planets but also absorb stars to recharge.

Additionally, Ren Zhong had long known concepts like human brains, Contribution Points, and cosmic hash values, which were just further refined now.

The "Net" is not only the computing center of Source Star but also the communication hub, continuously transmitting collected information to the Empire at all times.

The information transmitted by the "Net" is not just as simple as the amount of Contribution Points; it is precisely the cosmic hash values Ma Xiaocheng talked about.

These hash values are calculated using the brainpower expended by humans on Source Star while they sleep.

More miraculously, Ren Zhong found that even the nine ancient ice sticks couldn't escape the brainpower's exploitation, only barely avoiding it through human cryogenic freezing. Upon awakening from the frozen state, they too were relentlessly exploited every moment.

While the "Net" submits the cosmic hash values to the Empire, the Empire simultaneously issues Contribution Points to Source Star as currency for interstellar trade.

This, along with human brains and other commodities, serves as the main source of interstellar trade funding for the Association.

Ren Zhong believes that scientists on the Empire's side must clearly understand what values they are calculating, possibly dreaming of completing the calculation and achieving the Grand Unification Formula one day.

But Ren Zhong arrogantly thinks they cannot succeed.

This is assuredly a deeper level of deception.

Information provided by the Ma Family ancestors indicates that many, many years ago, including the Mechanical Empire and three other forces, all began calculating these cosmic hash values using their own methods.

Initially, the calculation progressed very quickly; in just tens of thousands of years, the calculation reached 90%.

However, subsequently, the formula became increasingly complex, with more digits after the hash value's decimal point extending at regular intervals.

Over the next hundreds of thousands of years, the calculation barely reached 99%.

Then, after a few million years, the calculation progressed to 99.999%.

No one knows where the end of cosmic hash values lies.

It is like an untouchable mirage that continuously entices humans to approach it, yet remains elusive.

Ren Zhong thinks they are all being foolish.

His bold judgment is extremely simple and has never changed.

Because humanity's origin is not Source Star but Earth.

There must be some unforeseen circumstances that caused the Frozen Storage containing him and other humans to move far from the Milky Way and the Laniakea Supercluster to the Sloan Great Wall. This must be external power!

Above human civilization, there must be higher-level Managers and Inspectors secretly controlling everything.

Including the Empire and the other three forces, they're all just miserably advanced "broilers."