Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1486: Chapter 560: Dominion

Seeing his demeanor, Ren Zhong sighed, "I was too harsh with my words, sorry. I didn’t consider the objective situation. After all, human technology has developed to such an extent that seeking further theoretical advancement is indeed quite difficult. But all paths in the universe eventually converge. Although I currently can’t join the Royal Academy of Sciences due to personal reasons, that doesn’t mean I’ll abandon my scientific ideals. You should have heard of my Red Blade Science Academy. Its level is evident. I will still strive to find a way using my methods, and perhaps one day we can work together in collaboration. After all, we’re all serving the Emperor."

The senior commissioner nodded slightly as his mood eased, "That’s true. But I still feel somewhat ashamed. The fundamental theoretical issues in the optical principles you mentioned aren’t completely unresearched. But it’s extremely difficult, and what we’re pondering is too abstract. With our instruments and our thinking, it’s all a blur. Relying purely on mental deduction and calculation never hits the mark, not even at the ’clouded flower’ level. At least the ’clouded flower’ has an outline, but our academic staff look up and only see a chaotic void, with no start point. It’s tough. Perhaps this is the limitation of human, carbon-based life thinking, isn’t it?"

As he spoke, the senior commissioner looked eagerly at Ren Zhong, seemingly wanting a definite answer from him.

At that moment, in a small conference room, several high-level members of the Far Border Branch were quietly watching the scene.

Ren Zhong gazed at the other’s eyes.

In his mind, he recalled that terrifying electron cloud icosahedron.

He already had the answer.

Just as he had once told Sun Miao, the icosahedron not only squeezes human brainpower, shortening human lifespan, but also, invisibly, outside the storm of quantum entanglement rules of human brain thinking, constructs an invisible wall, trapping human thought.

When thinking is locked and theoretical realms closed, aside from exhausting methods, like Sisyphus climbing high mountains day after day, year after year, tiresomely pushing the rock, what else can be done in exploring science?

Ren Zhong nodded, "Perhaps. But the current issue is if we don’t break these limits, we seem to be gradually heading towards ruin under the threats of the Ascenders, Pilgrims, and Spirit Demon Race. This isn’t a sudden process, but history and reality tell us the situation is increasingly unfavorable to the Empire, and conditions keep leaning toward this possibility. We can’t sit idly waiting for death, so we must try to find new paths, as it can’t get any worse, right?"

Having said this, Ren Zhong turned and left without a trace of nostalgia.

Qi Qi immediately followed, assuming the standard posture of a small follower.

Leaving the design institute’s archives room, the commissioner was alone, chaotic in the wind, silent for a long time, unable to speak.

He had failed to woo.

Worse yet, he not only failed to recruit but even became unsettled himself.

He was strangely curious about Ren Zhong’s Red Blade Science Academy to the extent of fleetingly wanting to visit and investigate.

He also thought if there were suitable projects at Red Blade Science Academy, perhaps he could be seconded there to work on them, cooperating with researchers under Earl Red Blade, to more personally experience what Earl Red Blade described as the quest for fundamental science.

While the senior commissioner was thinking whimsically, he heard communication from the Far Border Branch’s high-level officials, asking him to go to the conference room immediately.

Even though Ren Zhong had contradicted him, it was merely an academic viewpoint issue, and the collaboration between the Far Border Branch and Ren Zhong was still pleasant, without any irreconcilable conflict.

Thus, the high-level officials of the Far Border Branch didn’t give up. Instead, they aimed to follow Ren Zhong’s scientific ideals, particularly in the realm of pure theoretical research, seeking evidence to prove that the Royal Academy of Sciences doesn’t solely rely on exhaustive methods, and has invested in theoretical research with hopeful outcomes.

Though the threshold for theoretical research has risen with the advancement of time, the speed of producing results has slowed, and the input-output ratio has become increasingly unbalanced, causing theoretical research to gradually decline and vanish.