Limited yet enormous impact?
Zhang Tianyuan continued listening to the physicist's explanation:
Simply put, while higher-dimensional humans do have an impact on lower-dimensional Earth, they cannot precisely control the boundaries of that impact.
"Based on our current understanding, their impact on Earth will be celestial in scale, affecting the state of an entire universe."
"The global Blight and the black hole appearing near Saturn have corroborated our viewpoint, and it also aligns with our current theoretical predictions..."
As the physicist spoke, he picked up the report next to him and began to discuss it in more depth.
However, the information Zhang Tianyuan has gathered so far is sufficient for his judgment.
While the influence of higher-dimensional humans on lower-dimensional humans is enormous, the boundaries of that influence are beyond their control.
In other words, higher-dimensional humans cannot perform micromanagement.
That makes sense. If higher-dimensional beings were truly like gods on Earth, they could simply alter the will of all humans, turning their ancestors into space exploration enthusiasts, wouldn't that solve the problem?
Or, to put it another way, why not just stuff the solutions to the gravitational equations directly into the brains of humans on Earth?
Why go through all that trouble, moving a wormhole, creating a Blight, and then building a hypercube to house the protagonist and transmit quantum data to his daughter?
Physicists' views explain this.
The actions of higher-dimensional humans on Earth, or even on humans in general, would have enormous and difficult, even uncontrollable, impacts, often at the celestial level.
Previously, Zhang Tianyuan was worried that after the Mutual Aid Society members entered Interstellar Spacetime, higher-dimensional humans would act like the Grim Reaper, creating various accidents and chasing after them.
Now that we have theoretical deductions, such a situation should be impossible.
After Zhang Tianyuan and other physicists finished explaining the entire derivation process of the theory, they asked the next question:
"After our team goes there, is it possible that we will make contact with those higher-dimensional beings? From a causal point of view..."
The academic representative on the other end paused for a moment, then shook his head. "President, we can't be sure, and we can't even give a high-probability answer."
"As you know, according to our three-dimensional spacetime causality theory, if we rewrite the fate of that spacetime and our ancestors disappear, then the higher-dimensional humans that follow should naturally also disappear."
"Or rather, No. 7 Spacetime is currently in a state of causal loop, and future higher-dimensional humans are completing and perfecting this causal cycle. Our arrival will immediately break this special state."
"So, following this logic, regardless of whether we successfully rewrite our destiny, as long as we reach that place and interact with those beings, we will influence higher-dimensional humans and cause changes to them..."
Zhang Tianyuan blinked twice, meaning that once they got there, it would have an impact on higher-dimensional humans.
Either make these higher-dimensional humans disappear completely, or change them into another group of higher-dimensional humans.
For example, some humans, after cooperating with the Mutual Aid Society, successfully escaped the crisis, then focused on the stars, and finally, after endless years, successfully ascended to a higher dimension; others, without cooperating with the Mutual Aid Society, still successfully ascended to a higher dimension...
There are too many possibilities.
However, in any case, these altered higher-dimensional humans could not possibly be the same higher-dimensional humans from the current Interstellar Spacetime who are currently orchestrating dramatic changes on Earth and the fate of humanity.
Therefore, for the existing high-dimensional humans in Interstellar Spacetime, they have essentially disappeared.
While Zhang Tianyuan was still pondering, the physicist spoke again:
"But President, these are all based on the causal theories we can understand, and are inferences drawn from our society and our three-dimensional brains."
"At the quantum scale, causality begins to break down, and at higher dimensions it becomes even more difficult to predict..."
Zhang Tianyuan remained silent for a while, then decided to give up thinking about it; thinking about things that couldn't yield answers now was meaningless.
"Proving that higher-dimensional humans have limited influence on Earth is enough. Thank you for your hard work."
Zhang Tianyuan thanked the representative.
The other party also said, "This is simply our duty, and besides, it's quite a novel experience for us to have such a cross-time and space exchange once in a while."
Zhang Tianyuan smiled and then made an agreement with the representative that they would be sent there again once things went smoothly on the Interstellar Spacetime side.
They went over there to study wormholes.
The Precursors wormhole in the Pacific Rim Spacetime was once a paradise for physicists, but unfortunately, it was short-lived. Only a few months after Zhang Tianyuan arrived, the wormhole was destroyed by a nuclear bomb.
However, even now, the Pacific Rim Spacetime remains a research center for wormhole physics.
The scholar in front of him also came from the Pacific Rim Spacetime.
After seeing the scholars off, Zhang Tianyuan pondered for a moment and finally decided that the First Branch would be responsible for the vanguard affairs of No. 7 Spacetime.
He traveled through the Spacetime Tunnel to find Elder Zhou and told him about it.
Elder Zhou pondered for only a few seconds before accepting the task.
"So, who does the chairman think is best suited to handle this matter?"
Zhang Tianyuan directly stated his choice. " Instructor Yin, I know him best. I'll bring him back from the No. 5 Spacetime."
Elder Zhou nodded. "Then I will decide on the remaining advance team in the next couple of days."
The two were already old acquaintances, and many things didn't need to be said; they already had a tacit understanding.
Zhang Tianyuan didn't waste any time. He then contacted Instructor Yin and asked him to entrust the Finch Spacetime to someone else. He also emphasized the need to strengthen the management of the Mutual Aid Society Divine Church and asked him to return within two days. The task of exploring new timelines would be entrusted to him.
Taking advantage of the two-day break, Zhang Tianyuan also took the opportunity to handle other matters.
The first issue is the relocation of the base.
He hasn't been idle for over a month.
Besides keeping track of the situation in different timelines and handling various internal affairs of the Mutual Aid Society, he spends the rest of his time intensively surfing the newly opened chat panel in the game.
But he wasn't just chatting idly.
He didn't even say a word on the channel.
He was analyzing what other players said and indirectly deducing some of the game's rules from those words.
As for asking Liu Huo and the players on these servers?
In the context of the entire game world, they are still just beginners.
For example, there was one point that had been puzzling him for a long time.
That is, how exactly are the items in the system obtained?
For example, a " City Relocation Card " may not have that exact name, but there will definitely be similar items.
And there are also those lord-specific items mentioned in previous update announcements, such as the Clairvoyance, the Mind-Bewitching Stone, and the Truce Token...
How were these things obtained?
He hadn't found the answer on the system panel before, and since his focus wasn't on the game, he hadn't paid much attention to it.
I only learned the detailed way to obtain it from the players' chat now.
"Do I need 10 level 4 crystals, then unlock the game's crafting function, and then use specific materials and crystals, along with the base's energy points, to craft it?"
Zhang Tianyuan opened his system inventory and calculated his current assets.
He hasn't done anything about clearing out the game monsters since the last time, so the number of monster crystals hasn't changed.
10 level 3 crystals and 2 level 5 crystals.
This is the total number of crystals he possesses. He originally had two level-four crystals, which he then invested in the level-four hospital in the Legend Spacetime.
However, this is not a big problem.
Game monsters have always been within the scope of the Mutual Aid Society's research. Ke Jinjun has specifically marked the locations of these game monsters and even set up a protected area for them, just to observe and study these monsters from the side.
After all, these monsters disappear shortly after they die, while the living monsters in the game offer much more to explore.
So now all you have to do is walk around these protected areas, drag out ten level four monsters, and kill them.
To this end, Zhang Tianyuan returned to the game world, found out the locations of the various protected areas and the sizes of the monsters inside, then went directly through the tunnel to the nearby staff, and then performed a Spacetime Cutting.
In just half a day, ten level-four monsters fell to the ground.
Two level-four blueprints and ten level-four crystals were found.
[Architectural Drawings]: Hospital (Level 4)
[Attribute]: Significantly increases the stability of a patient's external injuries and slightly slows the deterioration of life-threatening injuries. This attribute applies to all personnel within the hospital.
[Construction Resources]: 2 Level 4 Crystal Stones, 110 Million Energy, 100 Tons of Glazed Wood, and other basic materials required for construction.
[Construction Time]: 3 months
This is the third hospital blueprint, and the second one with different attributes. The previous two hospital blueprints...
The drawing properties are all the same.
The remaining level 4 blueprint is for a level 4 shipyard. Its attribute is that when building ships under 10,000 tons, it will provide a slight boost to structural stability. If it is a wooden ship, it will be upgraded to a significant boost. Construction takes one year, costs 300 million energy, plus tons of Meteoric Iron, and two level 4 crystals.
It's not very useful for now.
Ten level-four crystals were easily obtained, along with three level-five crystals.
Zhang Tianyuan's original target didn't include them, but who allowed these level 5 monsters to live alongside level 4 monsters?
The moment he got the crystal, the system popped up a prompt for the synthesis function. Without hesitation, Zhang Tianyuan clicked "agree".
The four crystals in my backpack disappeared, and in their place, a new crafting/enhancing function appeared in the system.
The crafting function, as the name suggests, allows you to first select the desired crafting item, then use the crafting recipe to place the required game materials, monster crystals, and base energy in the panel to craft the corresponding item.
The enhancement feature was somewhat unexpected; it wasn't mentioned in the messages we received in the chat channel before.
Zhang Tianyuan clicked on the rules and took a closer look, only to find that the rules were essentially the equipment enhancement function in the game.
He can consume base energy to select a game creation to enhance, and the system will then randomly add specific attributes to the enhanced item.
The enhancement effect depends on the item's primary and secondary attributes.
For example, if a brick's primary attribute is "construction," then when it's upgraded, its primary attribute will definitely be beneficial for construction.
However, while bricks are used as building materials, they also have various other uses, such as for surprise attacks.
Therefore, if you enhance a secondary attribute, you might end up with an "assassination brick".
However, no matter what, a cement brick cannot enhance the attribute of "increasing the success rate of rocket launches".
Because the two sides have absolutely no connection.
In addition, the items selected for enhancement must be 100% game-created, meaning they are entirely produced by the system's factory or androids.
Item enhancements also have a repulsion function; a second enhancement will overwrite the attributes gained from the first enhancement, and so on...
Seeing this, Zhang Tianyuan finally understood what had happened with the mechs and ships he had captured earlier.
It now appears that it's not entirely due to the new materials.
That Howard actually does have some kind of "divine power"...
Thinking of this, Zhang Tianyuan couldn't help but look at the base energy points displayed on the panel, which had countless zeros.
After removing those who haven't yet joined the Mutual Aid Society in various timelines, he now earns over 24 billion base energy per day. After further removing the approximately 20 Spacetime Tunnel that are maintained year-round in various timelines, he still has about 8 billion base energy left each day.
Then how much energy is needed for one upgrade?
Zhang Tianyuan took a close look and counted the zeros several times:
So cheap!
It took Zhang Tianyuan a while to remember that he mainly came to synthesize the City Relocation Card.
Let's jump back to the crafting function for now. The above shows the items that currently have crafting permissions enabled.
There are a total of five types of items that have the function of relocation base, which appear in different forms such as card scrolls, stones, and books.
However, apart from the different materials required for crafting, these items are functionally identical.
Zhang Tianyuan immediately sensed something was wrong when he noticed this situation.
Why are there several items that function exactly the same except for their appearance and the materials they are made of?
Is it because the types and quantities of resources differ between servers?
Some servers have a shortage of certain resources, while others have an abundance of others. That's why these specific items are needed to ensure that players in all resource zones can exchange for the items they require.
Zhang Tianyuan pondered for a while, and it seemed that another layer of mystery surrounding the game had been lifted.
However, the focus now is still on the city relocation items.
He copied down the materials for the five types of city relocation tools and handed them to the staff at the Mutual Aid Society base, asking them to find them in the warehouse.
Soon, all the materials for a prop called " City Relocation Stone " were found, but the materials needed for the other four props were not available in the Mutual Aid Society's warehouse.
This situation further corroborates Zhang Tianyuan's earlier point.
"1 kg of Radiant Stone, 10 kg of Flowing Gold Sand, 100 kg of Meteoric Iron, plus one million units of base energy."
synthesis!