Xyrin Empire

Chapter 516: Chapter 516: Anxious Lin Xue

Sharing idle computing resources into the communication network and utilizing massive computing power to tackle research projects or overall improvement in the understanding of the world beyond its current civilization level wasn’t alien to the Xyrin People. It could even be said that this type of sharing went hand-in-hand with the development and glory of the Xyrin Empire, bestowing an almost bug-like talent, allowing an otherwise unremarkable, even somewhat naturally foolish Race to develop at a breakneck pace, endowing them with powers comparable to those of gods.

There’s a universally accepted theorem across civilizations: the primary element of development is the transfer of knowledge and exchange of information, representing the maximum speed and degree of development a Race can achieve. Earthlings escaped primordial existence through hieroglyphics, welcomed the dawn of civilization with affordable paper and books, and entered an era of explosive growth through global information exchange, powerfully proving the importance of information interchange in the process of civilized development. On this point…

From the day they were born, Xyrin People had already entered the era of the Internet, eliciting envy, jealousy, and hatred from others!

During a casual chat, Sandora once told me a legend that circulated among them: the first Xyrin Person accidentally discovered that when electricity flowed through a suitable conductor, it generated a great deal of heat. The next day, the entire Xyrin Race was using electric heat cutting machines. Although this story might be exaggerated, it vividly illustrates the terrifying power of unrestricted information sharing.

However, this talent, enviable though it may be, is useless for other Races and could even be disastrous. Rapidly developing civilizations often veer off course. The common problem for most ordinary Races is that their ambition and destructiveness spiral out of control with the rapid increase in power, leading them to forget their limits and challenge the unchallengeable. Only the Xyrin People, a Race with a singular focus on conquering the Abyss and expanding their territory, managed to never stray off path, though this only holds for self-destruction among the Xyrin People; for those weaker Races extinguished during the Empire’s expansion, we can only express our sympathy.

The research model of the Xyrin People usually goes like this: one or a few Xyrin Apostles specializing in research serve as the core, outlining research objectives, current status, and challenges. These are then categorized; creative parts are handled by researchers, pure calculation and logical inference by the Xyrin Host, and parts needing massive trials and simulation calculations are uploaded to the information network completed by the idle computing resources of the Xyrin Apostles on the current link. The research process can require as few as a few hundred people or as many as hundreds of millions of Xyrin People across an entire planet synchronously finishing a challenge that requires the entire Race’s astounding computing power to break through—like challenging the barrier of laws.

According to the “Magic Cube Core” information that Taville extracted, the intelligence received was just like this: to chase the Void and directly harness the ultimate energy, the Empire initiated a project code-named X. Participants in the project encompassed ninety percent of the Empire’s Xyrin Apostles, nearly all of them.

Sandora had clearly also experienced that project, and she remembered the situation vividly, yet…

“No final product appeared; I can confirm that completely,” Sandora said firmly once more, “Our information was completely shared, and I even had the Emperor’s unrestricted access. If someone in the Empire really did create an advanced Energy Furnace like the Giant Moon based on the research results at that time, I would have definitely known.”

“But this thing seems to be…” looking at only a cubic block a few meters on a side that was left of the Giant Moon Core Components, I too was puzzled, “Wait, Sandora, about when did that project happen?”

“The timeline is completely jumbled now, who knows how many years ago,” Sandora said with a bitter smile shaking her head, “But… while I was trapped in that Nameless world, the project was still progressing… wait!”