Chapter 228

The dean of academic affairs paused for a moment and then said, "Well... I can't see the data here either. I can only tell you that there is a true highest score. If you can surpass that record, you will naturally get an S-level rating."

After hanging up the call, Shen Lan stared unwillingly at the top of the challenge record screen, feeling as if an invisible barrier had appeared above it.

Just how high is the first record? And who is the real number one?

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The news reached the Federation half a month after the Radiance Banquet.

In the following two weeks, Wen Jing was not idle.

After the banquet, the Imperial Marshal personally intervened, and the Military Department Trial Camp directly upgraded the class she hadn't had time to take the exam to the elite class.

While traveling between various training camps, she also directly passed the second-level speed reaction trial of the Void Realm Trial Camp.

With a compatibility rate exceeding 20%, one can unleash their special abilities, allowing them to showcase their advantage in gravity manipulation during this trial.

"Congratulations, student Weiluo, on passing the second-tier trial on your first attempt!"

The head instructor of the Void Realm Trial Camp came to award Wen Jing the Medal. Taking this opportunity, she saw the historical crystal wall of this trial camp again. However, the highest level of Awakened recorded here was A-level, and there was no S-level.

After receiving the medal, Wen Jing had just arrived at the Virtual Realm Training Camp when he heard a series of gasps.

A handsome man in white robes, with a mysterious air about him, appeared in the hall.

This tendency towards being low-key and reserved is quite rare among the Alaya Race, but it is precisely because of this rarity that it attracts so much attention.

Large training camps are basically only open to trainees. The only exceptions are the bloodline nobles who appear here, and they are all from families that support them behind the scenes.

The man standing here must be a member of the Shadow Blade Family.

The man walked to the information desk, seemingly radiating an aura that set him apart from others. "Hello, I'm here to see..."

"Cadet Weiluo has gone to collect her medal." The staff member, feeling a bit nervous in front of a bloodline, instinctively replied.

After all, the bloodline nobles who have recently appeared at the training camp have all been chasing after one person, so it's quite rare to see only one today.

It was at this very moment that Wen Jing appeared.

The man shook his head, not even glancing in their direction. "No, I'm here to see Chief Instructor Rong Yun."

"Oh, Luo Lan, you came to see me?" The head instructor, who had just finished awarding the medal, spoke up as he walked behind Wen Jing.

"Yes." Upon hearing the voice, the man looked up and smiled at Rong Yun.

His smile contrasted sharply with his demeanor, appearing only briefly like a fleeting glimpse of a flower.

At the same time, it also fell into the eyes of Wen Jing, who was coming towards him.

This Luo Lan was the first Alaya Race she encountered who had no interest in her and didn't care about her.

Wen Jing remained expressionless and continued walking, passing by the other person and leaving the training camp.

"Luo Lan, didn't you say you could do it? And you told the rest of us not to show up and cooperate with you! If I had known this would happen..."

"Of course I can do it!" Luo Lan interrupted his faction colleagues' complaints via the planetary consciousness link, "Otherwise, why would the faction leader have me suspend my original research to deal with this experimental subject?"

A faction member retorted, "But she didn't react at all!"

"What do you know? That kind of simple, straightforward seduction won't work. What I'm doing is called playing hard to get."

With a track record of successfully poaching multiple test subjects in the past, Luo Lan spoke with the confidence of a master strategist, declaring, "Just wait, I've successfully caught her attention this time!"

Don't they realize it themselves?

"That Luo Lan just now, he's really influenced by human culture..."

Inside the Mind Palace, Wen Jing silently grumbled.

Luo Lan did indeed catch her attention, but the reason for her attention was that this dignified Level 3 civilization was putting on a romantic drama in front of her.

The Creation Personality, who had just emerged from the black hole's secluded chamber, said, "Most of the researchers of the Alaya Race are actually deeply influenced by human culture; this was true during their time as 'gods'."

After upgrading my research level in the Xu Yuan, I unlocked a lot of information about the Alaya Race.

The amount of knowledge and information of a Level 3 civilization is far greater than that of a Level 2 civilization. Wen Jing naturally used the time difference of the black hole to allow the Analysis Personality and the Creation Personality to enter it again for learning.

The Creation Personality that have emerged from this system can now be considered half -Alaya Race sociologists. "Those who have been immersed in a social ideology for a long time, no matter how detached they consider themselves, will inevitably be influenced."

"Especially when dealing with humans, they naturally stand on a higher class and are easily corrupted by this class gap—because of their scarcity, many moral flaws of blood-born nobles can be easily forgiven; as long as they reach the level of ordinary people, they can become saints in the eyes of ordinary people."

"It can be said that this widespread arrogance and conceit among most Alaya Race is a result of being 'reverse-domesticated' by humans."

The more you gaze into the abyss, the closer you get to it.

Wen Jing has deeply felt this point in the relics of the information age.

"Therefore, the leaders of the Alaya Race don't participate in direct research, and the prophets only want the research results. This is a self-correcting mechanism set up by their civilization." The Analysis Personality beside them also spoke up, "However, the Mastermind must have a low-level protocol similar to our ' Constant Self '..."

"The Alaya Race will not possess any of the weaknesses that have been exposed to us."

Chapter 228

"Mastermind..."

The information about the Alaya Race that was unlocked through the Xu Yuan allowed Wen Jing to gain a deeper understanding of Level 3 technology.

The generational gap between Level 2 and Level 3 technology is as vast as the difference between Awakened below Level S and Level S.

Both forces ultimately manifest themselves in the material universe, and thus arrive at the same destination through different paths.

Just as Wen Jing can use his special properties to Turn Stone into Gold, the same can be done when technology reaches a certain level.

The difference is that the extraordinary power of the Awakened is the 'strange' power that is forged from the Ancient Wilderness and unconventional, while technology is the 'complete' power built upon the fundamental rules of the universe.

The current social structure of the Alaya Race still allows Wen Jing to take advantage of the situation, but as a Gestalt Consciousness Mastermind... she wouldn't underestimate him.

In fact, she could now use the same method as Weiluo to create another inconspicuous Clone within the Empire, and find an opportunity to infiltrate the Federation as an Imperial spy.

However, such an identity would inevitably be subject to dual scrutiny from both the Mastermind and the Alaya Race, making it difficult to act in ways that contradict one's established persona.

Therefore, once she enters the Federation, she must at least be prepared to directly wage war against the Mastermind.

"Transforming the mechanical swarm into a biological swarm still lacks key technologies; we need to continue unlocking the technology of the Alaya Race," the Analysis Personality reported. "Meanwhile, during this period, I also discovered three noteworthy 'cosmic anomalies.'"

Learning without thinking is futile.

When learning Level 3 civilization technology, the two personality nodes themselves will also generate additional thoughts.

Some of these ideas came from divergent thinking, and some even from sudden inspirations during breaks in studying.

Some details that Wen Jing used to habitually overlook, such as the Door Handle's significance in defining the boundaries of civilization and the steel stamp of her belief that she doesn't eat people, might become apparent when we switch to a different way of thinking.

"First, the first cosmic anomaly is the unrecordability of the Ancient Wilderness," the Analysis Personality stated.

Xie Ming had mentioned this point when Wen Jing first taught the course on the Introduction to the Ancient Wilderness, and it was a problem that human researchers had all realized.

"This has always been an unsolved mystery. Some studies attribute it to the inherent attributes of the Ancient Wilderness, but after learning the truth that humanity was actually being domesticated by a Level 3 civilization, this could also be seen as a form of targeting."

"In Ancient Wilderness, humans could see information on the remains of civilizations, but they couldn't understand it. However, once this information was brought into the material universe, it became impossible to display."

"Perhaps this change can be understood as... the object 'seeing' it has changed."

"It is precisely because the number of Awakened is small compared to the total human population that the chances of encountering ruins in the Ancient Wilderness are also small. Otherwise, if two Level 3 civilizations could see the Ancient Wilderness information, with their technological level, even obtaining just a fragment of the text would be enough to decipher it."

The Dominant Will in the void nodded. If it weren't for the unrecordable nature, the two great civilizations would probably be even further ahead in their research on the Ancient Wilderness.

She couldn't unlock these unusual answers through the information in the Xu Yuan, because they were patterns she summarized from phenomena, not specific directional information itself.

The Analysis Personality continued, "The second anomaly is the timing of awakening; why is it so precisely after the age of eighteen?"

"The brain, a vital physiological organ in humans, begins to take shape between the ages of 12 and 13. The prefrontal cortex, responsible for rational decision-making, fully develops around the age of 25. Sexual maturity occurs between the ages of 10 and 16, and the reproductive system stabilizes between the ages of 17 and 20."

"Not to mention, these timeframes can be influenced by genetic changes."

"But eighteen years old is not a physical milestone for any human being, but rather a social 'adulthood' milestone defined by humans."

"Speaking of which, it's also related to the fact that only human genes can give birth to Awakened." The Analysis Personality adjusted his monocle. "Even humans conceived through biotechnology induced by a Level 3 civilization to ovulate in large numbers in a short period cannot awaken. Only those with normal physiological cycles meet the 'pure human' condition for awakening."

"However, the fertilization and development of an embryo does not require natural conception, hence the existence of 'population factories'."

"So it really feels like I've been 'programmed'..." the Creation Personality remarked from the side.

A thought flashed through the Dominant Will, recalling the numerous advertisements for buying and selling eggs that he had seen in Xinpu City on the Red Earth Star.

Without the awakening at eighteen and the conditions for the birth of 'pure humans,' how corrupt and dark would the two current human societies be?