The analysis and research on the prototype continued. Tawell had even postponed some less important R&D projects to reassign personnel to support this research team. From the looks of it, they intended to number every basic particle in that prototype corpse. In fact, they were practically already doing so. Every component inside the prototype remains had been added to the analysis schedule, and the next step was to dismantle him completely—naturally, strictly for research purposes. After identifying the missing data from the prototype's evolutionary process, they would restore the sample and preserve it properly. The enormous cube that had originally served as a hibernation facility had also been disassembled into parts all over the floor. I estimated that it, too, would soon end up in a museum.
Actually, we all knew that researching the prototype would not advance the Empire's current technology in any way. He was too ancient. The technology he used could be called "lost technology," but it held no value whatsoever to modern Shilin civilization. The components on the prototype were inefficient and crude. To Imperial scientists, they were like a twenty-first-century Earth scientist facing a medieval water mill. Therefore, research on the prototype had never been intended to obtain technology, but to fill in the many missing links in the historical records of the Shilin Apostles. The Shilin Apostles were a race that placed enormous importance on practical matters and rarely concerned themselves with so-called "cultural development," but that did not mean they were indifferent toward their own history or spiritual development. This could be seen from how the Old Empire had always attempted to trace back the history of the creators. The Shilin Apostles also cared greatly about their origins, even if that brought no military or overall national benefit to the Empire.
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