Shen Bing immediately sank into thought.
He might not have known the Underground Base's other research projects particularly well, but he had followed every detail of the "Firmament" project.
Especially after he decided, in the later stages, to conduct research into human evolution within the game, it had become his highest priority.
This Server, custom-built specifically for "Firmament," was far more than a machine for processing data. It was also a piece of experimental equipment.
Its subject of study was the dark matter associated with consciousness.
If the Hope Spaceship embodied all of Phantom Immortal Technology's current cutting-edge technologies, then this Server was the key to its future technologies.
Phantom Immortal Technology had poured a fortune into building it.
Even counting only the raw materials, this Server was worth no less than a hundred billion. Many of those materials had taken more than ten Particle Accelerators working together for a long time to produce.
Had every technology he obtained not come with the corresponding manufacturing processes, even Shen Bing would have been at a complete loss.
What Shen Bing had said at yesterday's press conference had not been entirely made up.
Although the dark matter that formed the brain's consciousness could not, as he had claimed, catalyze the conversion of other dark energy into dark energy suitable for human evolution, it could serve as a source material for dark matter conversion.
That was right. Shen Bing had lied onstage.
Whenever someone connected to "Firmament" through a Game Pod, they were essentially using Consciousness Transmission Technology to transfer their entire consciousness into the virtual world hosted on the Server.
To use a vivid analogy, "Firmament's" Server was like a demon-refining furnace filled with countless souls.
However, Shen Bing's aim was not to refine those souls, but to use this process to