Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1502: Chapter 565: Yang Misi—the Last Great Academic Master

On this day, Ren Zhong rarely paused his work and appeared at the dock of the large space station at the Far Border Branch.

It had been two years and three months since his farewell with Qiqi.

Originally, Ren Zhong had completed his "studies" at the Far Border Branch a week ago and was satisfied, planning to leave with a clean break.

Ren Zhong had previously told Qiqi that his study period at the Far Border Branch could be as short as two years or as long as three or four years.

Now he had completed all his studies in two and a half years, which was exactly within the timeframe he had given.

But just as he was heading to the office of the director of the Far Border Branch to say his goodbyes, he was stopped by an unexpected piece of news.

The director informed him that a grandmaster-level individual in fundamental theoretical research, whose aspirations aligned with his, was crossing the Star Gate and heading straight for Wangjiang Star, intending to have a face-to-face academic discussion with him.

This academic grandmaster would arrive within a week.

The director earnestly requested Ren Zhong to stay for a week no matter what.

Ren Zhong understood the director’s intention upon hearing this.

Nevertheless, he didn’t expose the director, instead following the suggestion and staying.

It wasn’t out of social courtesy, thinking it impolite to leave without a greeting after someone had traveled a long way just to see him. At Ren Zhong’s level, as a Sequence Chosen One Earl and a leader of a new and emerging civilization, such trivial social niceties held no value and did not need to be deliberately observed.

He was intrigued after reading the personal profile of the guest from the Empire Core named Yang Misi, and really wanted to meet this person to see if he could reverse the situation, making the Far Border Branch suffer a loss instead.

The information stated that Yang Misi held the specific position of a high-energy physicist at the Royal Academy of Sciences.

Interestingly enough, this was the first time Ren Zhong had encountered a familiar job title within the scientific research system of this vast Mechanical Empire, and it felt rather distinctive.

Yang Misi became famous a million years ago, even earlier than the Marquis Zhenjiang.

In the beginning, he focused on the field of dark matter. Although he couldn’t navigate this path, he managed to improve and innovate extensive ship technology for the Mechanical Empire, slowly extracting dark matter particles scattered in the cosmic vacuum to supplement energy, making super long-distance navigation in the true cosmic vacuum without Fold Jump Subspace Channels and Star Gates possible for ships.

Later on, Yang Misi seemed to grow tired of dealing with various practical instruments and tired of the constant experimental trials of different materials’ absorption and energy conversion rates for dark matter using an exhaustive method.

Yang Misi had enough of the days where he couldn’t even understand what that substance was, working mechanically like a basic-level worker. He started to covet the essence of dark matter, wanting to understand what it really was, why it existed, in what specific form it existed, the exact density, its distribution pattern in the universe—whether it was evenly distributed or had regional density variations, and if so, how it flowed, where its energy came from, and how it released energy externally...

Subsequently, he disregarded the opposition from the high echelons of the Royal Academy of Sciences and decisively threw himself into fundamental theoretical research.

Amidst one unresolved perplexity after another, Yang Misi stepped beyond the confines of the dark matter realm, beginning to venture into more and intangible fields of fundamental theory.

He attempted to deeply integrate physics with life sciences, studied quantum rules in the human brain, and also tried to unify gravity, weak force, and strong force, aiming to summarize all the rules with a perfect mathematical formula.

Unfortunately, this path proved unfeasible; with human imagination and the pursuit of the beauty of the universe, it was impossible to envisage what this formula should look like, even the probabilistic qualitative settings of variables and constants couldn’t be established.

In the end, like the other three races, the Mechanical Empire placed all their hopes on computation related to quasars.

Yang Misi didn’t fare well; he hit his head against the wall. After wasting a plethora of resources, he ended up with nothing. The Royal Academy of Sciences, which once trusted him greatly due to his achievements in the field of dark matter, found this trust being slowly eroded.

The Royal Academy of Sciences began to interfere with his work, cut back on his budget, and sent professional psychological counselors to try and persuade him to turn back.

Unfortunately, his nature was also stubborn, very determined in his ideas, akin to ten oxen that couldn’t pull him back. Perhaps it was the series of setbacks that formed an unshakeable inherent obsession, causing him to get stuck in a dead end from which he couldn’t extricate himself.