I Choose to Believe

(Xu Yu, my Xu Yu)

"Bai Ye, you knew too, didn't you? This was something that was almost impossible to achieve."

Neither Bai Ye nor Doctor Kal'tsit paid any attention to Closure, who was standing off to the side in a daze. They continued their previous discussion.

"Of course I knew... Even if we could produce a finished product, it would still be difficult to spread it across this land."

"Setting everything else aside, even the most basic processes—Originium mining and refinement—already had complete and complex industrial chains. The people benefiting from them involved countless individuals, most of them influential figures within Terra's various regimes."

"If we truly wanted to break free from Originium, we would inevitably be cutting into their cake. They would never agree to that."

"Their opinions would influence their regimes' decisions. That meant we would become enemies of the entire world—no individual or nation could withstand pressure from all of Terra."

Bai Ye spoke at length.

"That's right. At the very least, your plan cannot be carried out in the short term. It requires a meticulous plan and a long time to prepare. Rhodes Island cannot offer you much help either."

Doctor Kal'tsit nodded, then let out a sigh.

"From a personal standpoint, I admire your ambition, and I am glad that Terra still has young people like you... I understand very well what excessive dependence on Originium will ultimately bring about."

"But even so, I have to admit that this is already a foregone conclusion. There is nothing we can do about it."

"Even if you have provided us with an entirely different path, we still have no way to put it into practice."

Doctor Kal'tsit shook her head after she finished speaking.

She had already roughly reviewed what Bai Ye had uploaded. Just as