Lox could freely access the Cogitator backend of the High Technology Community. In his view, communications and transactions between individual accounts had almost reached a small peak in a very short time.
Even many Tech-priests who lacked sufficient contribution points were frantically searching the Cogitator system for theoretical research related to their own fields.
More often than not, what research needed most was guidance in the right direction. If someone could glimpse even a hint of inspiration from a database title, it might directly enlighten the researcher.
Conversely, if the direction they were researching did not even exist in the database, it could basically be assumed to be a dead end. After all, if even humanity's Dark Age of Technology had produced no scientific results in that field, did that not mean the direction was wrong?
Lox tacitly permitted this sort of loophole exploitation. In any case, he was not losing anything.
"Sure enough, driven by profit, the innovative power of the human mind is limitless," Lox remarked after seeing a message.
Researchers in the same field, upon realizing their contribution points were insufficient, swiftly negotiated collaborations. They pooled their points to redeem research information from the database, then shared it among themselves.
This was also a form of loophole exploitation, but Lox had achieved his goal. What he needed was not for this knowledge to sit idle in his database like a "dragon's hoard." He needed these Tech-priests to become as active as possible and for knowledge itself to circulate.
Knowledge was wealth, and wealth only had value when it circulated. Otherwise, it was merely a string of numerical data on a ledger.
"People have already begun exchanging the STCs and other technological relics they discovered for contribution points. After comparison by the Cogitator, nineteen of them fill gaps