Deep Space Wandering Fleet
Chapter 569 - 566: New Research Direction

Chapter 569: Chapter 566: New Research Direction

On this side of Kunlun Mountain, due to the poor industrial strength and the military not yet emerging, humans chose to silently develop themselves. At least for the past few years, they had been quietly developing.

However, in the recent years, owing to the substantial development of industry, they had grown bolder. Especially last year, the shining nuclear fusion lights had also been ignited; hanging tens of thousands of kilometers high in the sky, they were essentially a flying artificial satellite. Its brightness was like that of a small Sun, and theoretically, it was impossible to go unnoticed.

Yet, the reality was that there was nothing, no scout teams, not even a reconnaissance drone...

"That shouldn’t be right," Li Zhendong said, shaking his head. "They arrived here a hundred years ahead of us and even brought a large Mother Ship. In theory, they should have developed quite well."

"So, after a while, the government plans to develop for a few more years and then send some soldiers over to visit them. There is no need for us to be hostile to each other..."

"This is too strange."

Zhang Yuan nodded, concerning the human branch of the Radiant Galaxy, public sentiment was filled with hostility and distrust. Therefore, if they truly sought to re-establish communication, both sides’ military strengths must be evenly matched. Currently, the military was developing some small warships suitable for combat, capable of launching nuclear bombs, lasers, and electromagnetic guns.

On the other hand, if the other side had encountered some imagined enemies, like aliens or Alien creatures, humans would still have some capacity to resist, given their military strength.

...

On the afternoon of the third day, following a brief work meeting, Zhang Yuan arrived at the Unreal Laboratory, one of its leaders, specifically in charge of the Superdimensional Perception Research Institute’s work.

The Unreal Laboratory had four major important divisions: The first was the Pangu Brain, which is the research and development of the Virtual World. This was a large area of focus.

The second involved the research of assisting brains and human chips, including related human-computer interaction, which was about translating thoughts from the mind into machine language to communicate with intelligent machines;

The third was the research of Brain in a Vat technology. As humans possessed Virtual World Technology, it was akin to a dimensional reduction strike, and progress in this area was swift.

The fourth was the research into Extra Perception. Initially just a very small laboratory, under the leadership of Zhang Yuan, this small lab had become an important division of the Unreal Laboratory.

After meeting with the leaders of the various departments and establishing goals, Zhang Yuan was also exhilarated. These were all excellent scientists, with one being a Transcendent, and two born as regular humans, with whom he would work for an extended period.

Everyone lamented the long period of scientific stagnation, which led to a gap in talent cultivation, making it difficult to maintain the status quo, let alone forge ahead into the future.

Even the Unreal Laboratory faced a talent dilemma, let alone other laboratories.

Fortunately, the New Human Civilization’s spirit was still there, and its cultural heritage was decent. A thousand years of technological stagnation was for a better breakthrough in the future. As long as the academic atmosphere was maintained, with the birth of a large population, new geniuses would soon emerge, reinvigorating and progressing forward.

After the meeting, Zhang Yuan returned to his own lab, greeted the existing researchers, and then held a brief internal meeting.

These researchers were young people, and they naturally didn’t have many complaints about this renowned Transcendent.

Because the content of their research was mostly left by this expert, and they were merely fixing flaws; however, to further advance was extremely difficult.

Ability determined status. Since they couldn’t produce much work, what was there to complain about? Staying here and wasting time was pointless.

Zhang Yuan looked at the men and women sitting around the table and lightly coughed, "Everyone, we are colleagues now."

"First of all, I must say, this is a very difficult job. It’s quite normal not to achieve anything for decades or even centuries, as it requires profound knowledge of Mathematics... Since you have embarked on this path, you all need to be prepared mentally."

This was also his old forte. There were many areas worth improving upon in his academic achievements from his past life.

However, there was a severe lack of usable talent now, and he wondered how his past colleagues were faring in the Virtual World and whether there was a chance for them to return to the real world...

The lack of a talent reserve was indeed a headache. Other than the original few big cats and kittens under him, there were the students he had mentored. But these students lacked ample work experience, so how could they take on such highly complex problems?

"Professor Zhang, what’s our next topic of research?" one of the researchers couldn’t help but ask.

Zhang Yuan pondered for a while and said, "First is to continue perfecting our current magnetic field perception. Magnetic field perception significantly impacts human spatial cognition, but at present, it can only be used briefly during infancy. We need to find a way to fix some of the unknown bugs to make it more perfect."

Everyone nodded slightly in agreement.

"Second is a new topic, expanding the human visible light spectrum. Take a simple example, trying to see infrared and ultraviolet light with our eyes, and then writing two new colors into the human brain!"

The moment these words were said, everyone visibly paused, adding two new colors? How could that be achieved?

Then they quickly regained their composure, right, what else could ’Extra Perception’ be if not these unimaginable things to the brain?

But compared to magnetic field perception, what special significance is there in adding two new colors?

This was actually something that Zhang Yuan had contemplated for a long time, and he explained with a smile, "Although infrared equipment can easily enable us to see infrared light, it is still seen as red, not a new color. Using ultraviolet equipment can see ultraviolet, but these are all interpreted with existing colors..."

"What we need to do is add new color concepts to the mind, let’s call one color A, and the other B. They will be different from the usual red, yellow, blue, green."

"Moreover, it’s evident that this work won’t appreciably increase human intelligence."

The existence or absence of vision obviously changes the way humans perceive things. The mode of cognition of a blind person is different from that of a sighted person. There’s a lot of literature on this—congenitally blind people perceive objects differently because their minds do not form what we call ’images’, as they lack the concept of the image.

However, various colors do not affect intelligence; people with colorblindness have roughly the same IQ as those who are not affected.

People born with color weakness have a hard time distinguishing between orange and green, which means they are innately missing several colors in their perception, yet their intelligence is also more or less the same as the average person.

"So, having a few extra colors doesn’t really make a big difference to people’s intelligence."

Zhang Yuan continued, "The significance of this work to humans is to treat those born blind, to let them experience more colors. Although our civilization almost doesn’t have such genetic diseases..."

"On the other hand, it’s also specifically prepared for the trade with the Tos Civilization. The Tos People have no vision and to install eyes for them, we need to write the concept of colors into their minds..."

"We also want to earn some foreign currency, 6,000 AmiBa Points is not a small number! Without the Tos People for experiments, we can only first apply it to ourselves."

"If we accomplish this plan, we will have a bigger bargaining chip in our dealings with the Tos People!"

"Placed in other trade markets, this technology would also be quite remarkable, and I believe it could fetch a good price."

After this explanation, everyone understood that this project was just practice for them and could potentially bring a series of revenues to the entire civilization. Indeed, this was a very nice outcome, 6,000 AmiBa Points were quite attractive for the whole Human Civilization.

"But getting our hands on it is really not going to be easy..." A female student thought of the future difficulties and sighed deeply.

This was actually the simplest research topic, and she couldn’t help but touch her hair.

She found that she had lost several hairs and sighed deeply again...

Another male student couldn’t help but scratch the back of his head.

"Shouldn’t we prioritize research on the vexing problem of hair loss due to too much thinking? This issue has troubled Humanity for far too long!"

Zhang Yuan joked, "This should not be researched because the hairline is directly proportional to combat power! The position of the hairline helps quickly judge combat power, adding speed to communication!"

Everyone burst into laughter.