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Chapter 289 - 289 275 Silver Chip Record for Me!

289: Chapter 275 Silver Chip, Record for Me!

(1/3) 289: Chapter 275 Silver Chip, Record for Me!

(1/3) “…indeed.”

Ian opened his eyes and quietly stared at the celestial sphere screen in front of him, which had already dimmed considerably, “The Silver Chip…

it’s not just the three of us—the Teacher, Inega II, and myself who are the holders.”

“The Starfall Calendar, the holders before the Teacher and Inega II, I do not know of.

And there were people in the former era civilization who also possessed this chip?”

Initially, Ian only planned to connect to the internal network of Redwood Base to see if there was any accessible data—based on his understanding of research facilities, although tourist access wouldn’t allow for many actions, getting to know the introduction to Redwood Base itself should be no problem.

But unexpectedly, after many years of automated operation and a crisis without maintenance personnel, Redwood Base became so desperate that upon seeing a person, it directly granted maintenance personnel access…

Was this about dragging someone in to take the blame for repairs?

He found it quite nostalgic.

On the other hand, the anomaly with the Silver Chip was within Ian’s expectations.

Even now, Ian had not figured out whether the Silver Chip was a creation of the previous era civilization or possibly an ‘extraterrestrial object’…

However, according to Teacher Hiliad’s last words, its true function was actually the key to the ‘Eternal Labyrinth’.

What exactly the Eternal Labyrinth was, Ian still did not know, but based on the labyrinthian transformation of Redwood Base and the intricate connections with the extraterrestrial heterogenous ecosystem park, he could completely imagine and speculate that the so-called Eternal Labyrinth should also be a research laboratory similar to Redwood Base, but larger and more important.

Even if not, it should be something not far different.

Therefore, could there also be other relic access within the Silver Chip?

Harboring such speculations and hopes, the Silver Chip provided him with an unexpected yet logical outcome.

“Director of the Federal Institute of Exotic Species Research, codename ‘Pioneer’…”

Ian fell into deep thought, “If this person was the holder of the Silver Chip from the former era…

then perhaps the ‘growth’ of the Silver Chip is supposed to completely reset whenever it switches hosts.”

If there had only been three generations of holders of the Silver Chip—Inega II, Hiliad, and Ian—then it made sense that the Silver Chip didn’t have much growth to inherit.

But if it had actually been a key that was discovered and held by people periodically throughout history, then regardless of how slow the progress, the chip itself must have accumulated a significant amount of growth over the centuries.

Just as in the six years Ian had held it, he had already expanded the chip throughout his body capable of sustaining the Second, even Third Energy Level Source Quality structures, with increasingly multifarious functions.

Besides, the identity of the person who held the Silver Chip in the era before was also highly intriguing.

“It seems that the Silver Chip might indeed be an extraterrestrial creation—at least it is manufactured using extraterrestrial technology.

Otherwise, the director of the Exotic Species Research Institute, which is the extraterrestrial biology research institute, wouldn’t match up well with the chip’s technology and its functions.”

With this in mind, Ian settled down and began browsing the information in the Redwood Base data library with the highest level of access.

And sure enough.

Redwood Base was indeed an ecological park for research on extraterrestrial ecosystems—hence, in addition to the energy furnace that supported the orbital space elevator and the orbital accelerator, it was additionally equipped with many energy furnaces used for maintaining subterranean ecosystems.

Of course, it might also be the other way around, that it started as just a regular orbital control center, but due to its advantageous location, it gradually transformed into an extraterrestrial ecology research center over time.

It was precisely because the civilization of the former era discovered an extraterrestrial ‘seed’ spaceship on the Moon, and learned about the Obera civilization’s ecosystem within the seed, that the then ordinarily space-researching Terra civilization made the decisive move to increase investment in research on interstellar engineering and long-distance voyages.

And the internal heterogenous ecosystem of the base has now been entirely destroyed, with most of the various research equipment also significantly damaged.

The Spark that Ian was most concerned about…

Its original form was actually a spaceship.

[In the year 3432, fifteen fairy team members of the Alliance Lunar Exploration Team found a spaceship at Mount Erebonal of the Gazing Moon that seemed to have crash-landed in the recent century…

According to subsequent assessments, the spaceship named ‘Obera Seed’ actually crash-landed in 3319 during the mid-phase of the Third Inter-faction War (Unification War).

Certainly, stargazing sorcerers had suggested that there were anomalies on the Moon, but most were briefly attributed to meteorite impacts.]

[The structural integrity of the ‘Seed’ spaceship was largely intact, and the hull was relatively ‘clean,’ without the various impact markings and interstellar material accumulation typical of long space voyages.

Instead, it had a significant amount of lunar material adhering to it, leading to the preliminary conjecture that it did not utilize sub-light speed propulsion technology.]

[Through research from various sources, it was proven that the ‘Obera Seed’ utilized an engine only theoretical to that point—the ‘Warp Engine.’ The energy furnace ‘Core Seed’ used unknown technology and substances that Terra Federation technology struggles to replicate.]

[The Federal Central Research Institute named the unknown substance ‘Aether’ and the energy furnace as ‘Aether Furnace’]

[But to everyone’s surprise, through the study of the ‘Obera Seed’ and the ‘Obera Ecosystem,’ The Alliance’s progressively advanced biotechnology revealed that ‘Aether’ was not a substance unique to extraterrestrial planets—Terra contained a considerable amount of Aether, and Terra’s ‘Sublimation Skills’ were, in fact, a primitive method of self-elevation using Aether]

[In Sublimation Skills, Aether was referred to as Origin Quality, a shorthand for ‘Origin of Life’ and ‘Fundamental Substance.’ Whether by coincidence or actual connection, researchers discovered that Aether, or ‘Origin Quality,’ originated from light]

[To be precise, it originated from the sun]

[Aether is a natural product that the sun emits, eventually converging within the ecosystem]

“Ah?”

At this point, Ian looked perplexed: “The sun?”

He had known for some time that Origin Quality and Aether were the same thing.

The fact that the Aether Furnace Core required Elemental Crystals, that is, high-concentration Source Quality Crystals, as fuel to operate, made the relationship between the two clear.

It was normal for one thing to have several different names; the question was…

Origin Quality comes from the sun?

“No, it’s not strange; this is quite normal.”

Although it was somewhat unexpected at first, upon careful consideration, it made sense that Origin Quality, an essence that existed between all things and could only be gathered by high-level ecological species, was fundamentally no different from how life forms utilize and collect solar energy.

The only thing that surprised Ian was that this macroscopic energy structure called Origin Quality, which seemed so obvious…

was naturally occurring?

He had thought it was some sort of energy micro-robot created by an ancient civilization or an extraterrestrial civilization!

But it turned out to be a natural phenomenon…

It was as though a quantum supercomputer core had grown all over the apple tree at his old home.

“No wonder, with something like Origin Quality that is universal, it’s no wonder that extraterrestrial ecology and Terra’s ecology could integrate so seamlessly…

The old Terra myth that Teacher Hiliad told me about might actually hold some truth.”

“All beings are children of the sun…

all brothers and sisters, huh?”

Now that he thought about it, Native Fae and Native Magical Beasts indeed existed on Terra…

it’s just that Terra People were probably not too sensitive to this aspect, as technology had already developed considerably before the utilization and development of Sublimation Skills using Origin Quality.

“The Spark has lost contact…

Well, that’s not surprising.”

Ian looked at the information in Redwood Base and nodded slightly, not feeling much regret—after more than a thousand years, it would be truly strange if things were still in the same place.

What he was more concerned about were the ‘Warp Engine’ and ‘Seed Design Blueprints’ mentioned in the data archives.

Fortunately, the database did indeed contain these two highest-level technological achievements that ancient Terra civilization had obtained by deconstructing extraterrestrial spacecraft.

But regrettably, Ian couldn’t understand them.

After all, Ian was not an all-knowing prodigy; while his professional knowledge was more than sufficient, allowing him to repair a fusion assembly without batting an eye, this kind of otherworldly extraterrestrial technology would probably require all of civilization’s researchers to work overtime and collaborate for years on Earth to understand even a part of its principles.

Even Redwood Base already contained most of the research process and data, but understanding it was going to be a matter of self-study over time, even for someone as wise as Ian.

“Silver Chip, record.”

So he said, and even though he couldn’t understand, Ian didn’t stop.

——What does it matter if I can’t understand!

I can still copy!