Deep Space Wandering Fleet
Chapter 557 - 554 The Era of the Transcendent

Chapter 557: Chapter 554 The Era of the Transcendent

Time passed swiftly...

It had been exactly thirty years since Zhang Yuan had returned to this world for the third time.

The hardest times had long passed; he was born in an era filled with hope, and although everyone was still very busy, their busyness was mixed with a vitality akin to the morning sun.

It was as if a sun was slowly rising in people’s hearts.

That day, at six in the morning, he woke from his sleep.

Zhang Yuan stretched lazily, glanced at his wife next to him, freshened up, and started his day’s normal work.

The endless work was nearing its end; through the efforts of generations, the grand plan of the neutron star collision was finally coming to an end.

Times of turmoil always brimmed with heroes, not just those who led humanity out of darkness, but also countless ordinary heroes like Wang Haifeng...

"What an... extraordinary era indeed!"

Zhang Yuan got onto an elevator and arrived at the surface of the Big Ice Ball, then took an express train to the Teaching City located 100 kilometers away.

Looking up, one could see colossal arc fortresses, each with a diameter of 10 kilometers, standing on the surface of this Big Ice Ball.

These devices, somewhat resembling oversized radars, were fondly termed "Super Eyes" by the people and were used as observational devices to collect astronomical data. Then, through right-handed neutrino communication methods, they sent signals to planets over one light year away.

There were 600 such large astronomical observational devices spread across this planet!

Zhang Yuan was not a professional engineer, so during the most difficult era, he had not been immediately conscripted.

For a scientist like him, being called out early was of little use, so he only caught the tail end of the whole grand plan, which was about to conclude just after he was born.

Truly... lucky!

He was sure that people who struggled in the real world all their lives would see a significant increase in their chances of passing the Extraordinary Test. Where is the so-called beauty, and where is the so-called eternal constancy?

Thinking of this, Zhang Yuan sighed.

Throughout his life, he still chose to engage in research in the broad area of "Extra Perception," but currently, with the Radiant Galaxy having left with a large amount of equipment, the conditions in the laboratory were poor, and it was difficult to produce any particularly good work.

So, for the time being, he taught at the university, nurturing more scientists for the future scientific explosion.

Yes, the entire civilization had been stagnant for such a long period, inevitably leading to a comprehensive technological explosion, particularly in the areas of engineering, spaceship studies, and Curvature.

"The whole civilization’s focus is gradually shifting from engineers towards scientists. Eventually, when we reach new planets and establish shelters, there will be sufficient resources to start experiments."

Looking at the friend list on social media, it was a long string packed tight!

Including his former good friends Li Zhendong, Ye Kaifu, and others, seeing all these old acquaintances appearing in the real world again made Zhang Yuan very happy.

This was because there were simply too many "Transcendents" in this era.

Most of these people were engineers, drafted into service like tools, with a total number of six hundred thousand!

In comparison to the current population of forty million, the proportion of Transcendents was as high as 1.5%!

That’s why there were so many old acquaintances gathered together in such a grand scene.

When Zhang Yuan initially designed this plan, he had anticipated this point. The disproportionately high number of Transcendents would have an unpredictable impact on the entire civilization... This impact would bring both benefits and drawbacks.

Ordinary people competing with Transcendents had no chance at a fair competition because Transcendents were naturally endowed with vast knowledge; how could one compete with that?

Moreover, Transcendents were comparable to species with longer lifespans. Mixing a large number of long-lived species with short-lived species was a complex problem that might create irreparable rifts.

He had always disliked unknown things.

However, looking at the current results...

Was it fairly acceptable?

After eating his breakfast, Zhang Yuan walked into the university classroom, and pairs of curious eyes stared at him. They were the top students of this era, and they had heard about this extraordinary teacher who was going to teach them.

In this era, both men and women were generally very intelligent, not only because of the role of the auxiliary brain but also because of Magnetic Field Perception, which Zhang Yuan had developed over a lifetime. Now, he needed to continue fighting for this goal.

"Stand up!" the class monitor shouted.

"Hello, teacher!" The students showed due respect to the impressive Transcendent.

Although Zhang Yuan had taught many classes before, he was still somewhat uncomfortable and quickly said, "Please sit down."

He got straight to the point, "Students, I will now explain the basic working principles of Magnetic Field Perception, as well as its fundamental impact on human intelligence..."

"As you all know, it’s difficult to intuitively imagine things that surpass the human brain. Therefore, we need to use Mathematics to describe such indescribable things. I call it Tool T or Function T."

"The main idea is to abstract humans’ perceptions into a mathematical system and then constantly derive and expand this into new systems."

"Like four-dimensional space, five-dimensional space, six-dimensional space—it’s hard to imagine them just from thought, but they can be easily depicted using a function system."

The atmosphere in the classroom was quite good, and Zhang Yuan displayed several images on the screen, "...according to current scientific technology, Magnetic Field Perception only exists in infants between 1-1.5 years old, as it can effectively help infants develop spatial structure cognition. Simply put, it makes them smarter, enabling them to learn more complex mathematics and engineering."

"It has not been applied to adults because this technology is not yet fully mature. Yes, it has been in use for nearly a thousand years, but it still hasn’t matured..."

Zhang Yuan sighed. The main reason was a break in the talent pipeline.

Under the heavy industrial activities of the New Human Civilization, the absorption capacity for new scientific research was simply insufficient... Thus, people had to make do with the technology available.

They were also responsible for the important task of retraining talent. Although retraining talent wasn’t difficult, it required a considerable amount of time.

A student suddenly asked, "Teacher, what would happen with long-term use of Magnetic Field Perception?"

Zhang Yuan explained, "...if adults use it for the long term, a series of spatial perception disorders might occur, making them prone to mental illnesses such as depression."

"We still don’t understand why this strange phenomenon occurs, possibly due to a series of conflicts between the human brain’s own ’software system’ and the auxiliary brain. A system that was once relatively perfect, upon adding new content, requires a lot of patches!"

"If you all wish, we can go into the Virtual World to experience what this semi-developed Magnetic Field Perception is really like... A brief experience won’t cause any harm."

Before he could finish, all the students cheered aloud.

Technology from the Virtual World was strictly controlled.

With over thirty students, they followed behind Zhang Yuan, excitedly discussing non-stop.

Zhang Yuan also wondered why the world had become so strange. After all, these students were only a few years younger than him.

Naturally, the status of a Transcendent was higher than that of ordinary humans, as if it had become a matter of course...

This was likely due to the fundamental evolution that occurred after a massive emergence of "Transcendents" during the "Great Escape" event.

At that time, if the status of Transcendents hadn’t been elevated above ordinary people, then it would have been impossible to reverse the restless social atmosphere. After all, the entire plan was nearly failing, and the New Civilization School had to seize more influence and couldn’t manage everything.

Over the centuries, it had become what it is today.