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"Vice President, we have just extracted more data from the underground facilities on Planet Omega."

The voice of the head of the scientific research team came from the communication channel, which interrupted Chen Lin's thoughts.

Chen Lin nodded with a hoarse voice: "Be brief and speak."

"We found that the birth of rule-bending technology was not accidental. The Forerunners realized this problem in the later stages, but they could not stop modifying the rules because their entire social structure was built on this technology. Once they stopped modifying the rules, it would actually be equivalent to self-destruction of civilization."

Chen Lin frowned. He quickly pulled up the holographic map and pointed to the underground facilities of Omega Star. "Are there any records on how to deal with rule distortion?"

"Yes, but..."

The person in charge's voice was a little hesitant. "The solution of the Forerunner civilization is... to completely abandon the modification of the rules and return to the most basic laws of physics. However, this means that their technological level will regress significantly and their social structure will collapse."

Chen Lin was silent for a moment, then slowly said, "In other words, they chose self-destruction instead of retreating?"

"Yes."

The person in charge spoke in a low voice, "The Forerunner civilization eventually chose to self-destruct under the oppression of the Rule Twisters... They destroyed most of their technology, leaving only these relics and crystal cores as a warning to those who came later."

Chen Lin clenched his fists tightly, his knuckles turning white from the force.

He knew that the Red Dragon Association was now at a crossroads - if they continued along the path of the Forerunner civilization and relied on technologies that could modify the laws of physics, then the birth of the rule-bending class was only a matter of time.

"Vice President Chen seems a little anxious."

Zhang Shouren's voice came from behind, with a hint of smile in his tone.

Chen Lin turned around and looked at President Zhang, and said helplessly: "Technology has not yet developed, and someone has already made the consequences clear. The lesson of this pioneer civilization tells us that over-reliance on technology to modify the rules is unsustainable..."

Zhang Shouren nodded, his brows furrowed. "Does this mean that we need to give up some of the Forerunner technologies we have already mastered, especially those that can modify the laws of physics?"

"This is undoubtedly a huge blow to our development!"

Chen Lin took a deep breath and said slowly: "If we don't make changes, the birth of rule-distorting civilizations will be inevitable... By then, our civilization will face more severe challenges than the Forerunner civilization."

Over the next few days, the top brass of the Red Dragon Association held a series of emergency meetings.

Chen Lin and Zhang Shouren reported in detail the records of the Forerunner civilization and the threats of rule distortion to all senior leaders, resulting in an unusually heavy atmosphere in several meetings. Everyone realized that they were facing a decision that concerned the survival of civilization.

"We must not repeat the mistakes of the Forerunner civilization."

Chen Lin said firmly at the meeting, "But it is unlikely that we will completely abandon those technologies that can modify the laws of physics. You know, the Forerunner civilization finally returned to the more basic laws of physics and also self-destructed. We can even only develop on the basic laws. At that time, we only need to control this measurement and avoid the birth of rule distortion."

One of the senior officials could not help but retort: ​​"We have just obtained so much technology from the Forerunner civilization, and now we are going to give it up? This is simply cutting off our own arms!"

Chen Lin's eyes swept across everyone in the conference room, and his tone was very firm: "Yes, this may seem disadvantageous to us in various ways, but in the long run, this is the only way out."

"The lessons of the predecessor civilizations tell us that over-reliance on technology to modify the rules will ultimately lead to self-destruction, so we must choose a more sustainable path."

Chairman Zhang also added to Chen Lin's words: "We are not completely giving up technology, but choosing a more balanced way of development... We can continue to study technologies that will not cause damage to the laws of physics, such as energy, materials science, and space jump technology."

“Advances in these areas can still propel our civilization forward.”

There was a brief silence in the conference room as everyone weighed the pros and cons.

Finally, after intense discussions, the top leaders of the Red Dragon Association reached a consensus - abandon those technologies that can significantly modify the laws of physics, return to more basic physical laws, and learn from the technologies of the forerunners in energy, material science, and space jump technology, and take a unique path based on the current development of the Red Dragon Association...

This is a difficult but necessary choice. Only in this way can the future Red Dragon Association avoid repeating the mistakes of the Forerunner civilization and move towards a more long-term future.

……

"Vice President, emergency!"

The person in charge's voice suddenly sounded in the communication channel, with an unprecedented tension in his tone.

Chen Lin's heart sank suddenly, and he quickly called up the holographic screen: "What happened?"

"We have detected abnormal energy fluctuations deep within the ruins of Planet Omega!"

The person in charge's voice was urgent, "The energy readings are rising sharply, it seems...it seems that something is waking up!"

Chen Lin's pupils suddenly contracted, and the description of rule distortion in the records of the forerunner civilization flashed through his mind.

He immediately gave the order: "Immediately evacuate all personnel on Omega! Activate the highest level of alert!"

"It's too late!" There was a hint of despair in the voice of the person in charge. "The energy fluctuation has exceeded the critical point. Something... is pouring out of the ruins!"

On the holographic screen, the image of Omega began to shake violently.

The ice layer of the Ice Abyss Canyon collapsed under some invisible force, and the energy fluctuations deep in the ruins spread outward like a tide. Then a dark crack spread from the center of the ruins, as if tearing apart the space itself.

"Rule bending type..." Chen Lin's voice was low and cold, "They are coming."

In the sky above Planet Omega, countless distorted figures gradually emerged from the dark cracks.

They have no fixed form, as if made of pure chaos, every part of their body is constantly changing, sometimes flowing like liquid, sometimes solidifying like solid. At certain moments, their existence itself seems to violate the laws of physics.

"Are these the rule-bending ones?" President Zhang was standing next to Chen Lin at this time, his eyes fixed on the holographic screen, with a hint of disbelief in his voice.

Chen Lin nodded, his tone heavy: "That's right... The records of the Forerunner civilization mentioned that the rule distortion is the embodiment of the universe's self-repair mechanism. Their appearance means that our modification of the physical rules has triggered the universe's 'immune response'."

"But haven't we already given up on changing the rules?"

There was a hint of confusion in President Zhang's voice.

Chen Lin frowned. "Perhaps... our adjustments are not thorough enough? The residual influence of the Forerunner technology may still be subtly changing the laws of physics."

At this moment, the image on the holographic screen suddenly distorted, and the shape of the distorted rules began to spread rapidly.

Wherever they go, space seems to be torn apart, time becomes chaotic, and even the propagation of light becomes abnormal!
"Vice President, the defense system on Omega has completely failed!" The person in charge's voice was filled with despair, "The Rule Bending is devouring everything!"

Chen Lin's eyes became extremely solemn. He knew that if the rule distortion continued to spread, not only Omega Star, but the entire territory of the Red Dragon Association would be in disaster!
He spoke to President Zhang decisively and resolutely: "We must blockade Omega Planet and prevent the spread of the rule-distorting type!"

"I'm afraid we can't contend with these things. Do we have to use the technology of the pioneer civilization?"

Zhang Shouren and Chen Lin looked at each other, then looked at everyone else, only to see a group of people nodding cautiously.

"Well, start the final plan for the galaxy."

The order from Shangdu was sent directly to Origin Star, which then passed the order to the spacecraft of the intelligent fleet far away in the Omega galaxy. A few minutes later, the Red Dragon Association's fleet had assembled on the outskirts of Omega Star.

As the fleet commander gave the order, hundreds of warships simultaneously activated the black box protocol.

A huge energy barrier formed on the periphery of Omega, completely blocking the entire planet.

"Vice President, the black box protocol has been activated, but the energy fluctuations of the rule-distorting type are continuing to intensify!"

There was a hint of anxiety in the voice of the person in charge.

Chen Lin stared at the holographic screen and said in a steady tone: "Keep the protocol stable. No matter what, we can't let the rule-bending class break through the blockade!"

As the energy barrier formed a twelve-sided crystal matrix in the orbit of Omega, Chen Lin's pupils reflected the wildly jumping data stream on the holographic screen.

As the energy barrier's twelve-sided crystal matrix completely enveloped Omega, the glaciers in the Ice Abyss Canyon were evaporating in a way that violated the laws of thermodynamics.

There is no rising water vapor, no melting process, and the ice layers that have existed for millions of years disappear as if they were directly removed from the timeline.

Chen Lin's fingertips slid across the holographic screen, and the broken curve of the quantum entangled state in the monitoring data made his back feel cold - the regular distorted body was devouring the most basic correlation of matter, just like pulling away the load-bearing structure at the bottom of a building made of blocks.

However, despite such a large-scale operation, neither he nor the members of the entire fleet on the scene saw a single scene. The entire ice crack disappeared in an instant, as if it had never appeared here.

The rule-distorting entity is devouring the most basic correlation of matter, and this operation is completely invisible to humans...

"Barrier energy consumption has reached critical value!"

The operator's shout froze the air in the command module.

"They are not attacking randomly, these ghosts are hunting down the rule modifiers left over from the ancient civilization!"

Following the words of a researcher behind him, a group of signal towers seventy kilometers deep under the ice suddenly lit up with a faint blue light, as if a circuit board that had been dormant for ten thousand years was reactivated. The cluster of rule-distorted bodies immediately changed direction, and their translucent bodies dragged out Klein bottle-shaped space-time folds in space, accurately rushing towards each luminous node.

Chen Lin looked at the countdown jumping wildly on the fleet's main screen. When he was about to order an evacuation, a gravitational wave suddenly erupted from deep within the ruins, freezing everyone in place - the area swallowed by the rule-distortion body was being reborn!

The newly formed ice crystals present a strange dodecahedral structure, and the molecular arrangement is exactly the same as the superconducting material in the Red Dragon Association's superconducting laboratory.

"They are reconstructing the laws of physics..."

The materials scientist's whispers were cut off by a shrill alarm. At the edge of the regeneration area, some creature beyond three-dimensional form was seeping out from the cracks in space and time.

These newly formed rule-distorted entities carried fluorescent projections of human neural networks, and their attack trajectories perfectly matched the tactical formations that the Red Dragon fleet had practiced.

Chairman Zhang Shouren called up the encrypted signal from seven hours ago and noticed that a row of flashing Möbius strip symbols had appeared at the end of the warning message from the future.

When Chen Lin's finger touched the symbol on the holographic screen, the entire fleet's quantum communication system was suddenly flooded with massive data streams - construction logs of the Forerunner civilization hundreds of years ago, combat records of unknown fleets even earlier, and even images of space-time battles that had not yet taken place. These chaotic data streams were now flowing frantically among the various screens in the command cabin.

At one point, Chen Lin even saw his own figure in the torrent of data - it was him many years later, throwing some things into the portal in front of him in a circular space station.

"Officially launch the black box protocol!"

Chen Lin shouted directly into the communicator, and the twelve frigates on the periphery of the fleet disintegrated at the same time. The released nanoclouds weaved a huge nano-helix in the space. The newly formed regular distorted bodies suddenly stagnated, and the special neural networks in their bodies began to grow in reverse, eventually condensing into countless microscopic universe models in the center of the spiral.

When the last model was completed, the regeneration phenomenon of Omega suddenly stopped, and those dodecahedral ice crystals simultaneously refracted the star map coordinates of the origin star - these damn relic civilizations even wanted to drag them into the water, but unfortunately the black box protocol blocked this loophole, and these star map coordinates were completely blurred in an instant.

The Black Box Protocol is a defensive measure of the Pioneer civilization. Activating it is equivalent to a special kind of self-destruction. It will cause the activated fleet and the entire galaxy to be blocked in a specific area. Even powerful creatures like the Rule-Bending Kind will not be able to realize that they are blocked.

This method is extremely cost-effective for the Red Dragon Association, although it will sacrifice some fleet members - they may be awakened by other fleet members of the Red Dragon Association with great technological development many years later, and when they wake up from the hibernation chamber, perhaps only a short time has passed.

This sacrifice is actually completely acceptable to many people.

This is also the core reason why Chen Lin insisted on loading the agreement on the fleet at the beginning. (End of this chapter)