"Unencrypted?"
To be frank, from Snake Tongue to Cat's Eye to Yin Le, it was difficult for them to truly grasp what form an unencrypted piece of information would take in the vast expanse of the starfield, above the illusory Extreme Domain—and what consequences it might bring.
They could only draw comparisons—unencrypted telegrams on Earth always seemed to be associated with bad things.
Ronan did not give them much time to process or speculate. His hand had already moved to the other side of the ring, covering the mid-to-late "Sanctuary" versions.
"One interesting phenomenon is that at this stage, the 'Sanctuary' versions changed increasingly quickly, yet the primary function of the most important early Life Support Pod did not undergo any obvious changes. The communications module, on the other hand... changed with every passing day."
Ronan selected the relevant details and displayed them outside the ring, enlarging them into a new fan-shaped area for successive comparisons. The changing details were accompanied by color and text annotations.
The three spectators might not have understood the details, but they had a strong impression of this intuitive presentation method—no wonder he had been given the title of "Professor." Teaching so many classes really could hone one's speaking and presentation skills.
Cat's Eye naturally assumed, "The later communications modules became more advanced? The signals got stronger and stronger?"
"They didn't."
Ronan dismissed her with a single sentence.
"All right, I used the wrong phrase. 'Changing with every passing day' was inaccurate. What I meant was that compared to the mature versions from the high-frequency communications period, the mid-to-late communications modules were practically unrecognizable!"
Ronan's finger bounced back and forth across the specially marked communications modules. "The transmission and reception structure was heavily distorted, and the ideas behind successive versions were also highly contradictory.
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