Alien Hotel.

Chapter 511 "Extremist Academic Organizations"

Black Dot Group, Angel Cultists, The Order of Saints, and all sorts of other strange and bizarre convert organizations—the world is never short of energetic and dynamic grassroots groups that have gone mad and come out to take revenge on society. As the top evil forces among them, these organizations naturally have their own unique ideas and amazing skills, and cannot be compared with each other.

The defining characteristics of angel cultists are chaos and confusion. They emphasize that an angel connects to the brain, and pollution replaces thought. They claim that their brains have already been burned by angels, so don't give them any nonsense. They light a candle, sprinkle some incense, make a cut with a knife, lie down on the ground, and that's it. If the Lord doesn't come down from heaven, they'll ascend to heaven to find Him. They spray themselves with blood on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and others with blood on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. On Sundays, angels descend to give everyone a big shock—living in madness and dying spectacularly, very carefree.

The defining characteristic of the Secret Order of Saints is its highly organized, unified goals, and incredibly successful self-brainwashing. They're obsessed with what others say, believing themselves to be the saviors. Beyond that, they're consumed by hatred: hatred for the perishability of the flesh, hatred for human stupidity, hatred for the weakness of the soul, hatred for the finiteness of heaven and earth, hatred for the drying up of the sea and the decay of the rocks—basically, hatred for the world's imperfections. So, they decide to explode along with their own flesh and blood, their first step being to harness the power of the Dark Angels to create holes in the universe—you disagree? Then we'll explode together.

—What if the world isn't fixed after the explosion? That's not a big problem. They've already exploded anyway. At worst, their tombstones will say they're fully responsible…

As for the Black Dot Group, that's another astonishing path born from extraordinary wisdom.

They were a large company—in some ways, they had been operating legally for a long time, and were legally run by a group of academics.

They even have colonies on dozens of planets—well-ordered, with complete industries, prosperous societies, and numerous "businesses" spread throughout the world.

Their only minor flaw is a slight interest in "archaeology" and "scientific research"... or perhaps more than just a slight one.

“…The origin of the Black Dot Group is complicated. To trace its roots, it was originally just a special ‘project team’ jointly established by a group of Algred Star Nobles and Terra Academy,” Baili Qing explained to Yu Sheng over the phone about the origin of the “Black Dot Group.” Many of the details were previously unknown to Yu Sheng from the public database. “In fact, this project is still ongoing today, but all the personnel, project names, and other public information have changed—that is, the ‘Old World Origins’ project now led by the Terra Archaeological Association.”

"You can find detailed information about this origin tracing project on the public internet. It's nothing special in itself; it's just a project to excavate, organize, and protect Old World heritage. The entire project has been going on for hundreds of years, and similar archaeological activities can be found all over the universe..."

Eileen, who was idly waiting for her arm to heal at the table, couldn't help but ask, "Huh, it's just an archaeological activity? How did it turn into an extremist organization?"

"...Only those who experienced it firsthand can probably explain the details. But based on the information I have, the birth of the Black Dot Group seems to be related to an overly aggressive 'digging' by the founding team hundreds of years ago."

Some say they dug too 'deep,' crossing the threshold of the subspace; others say they dug through a boundary, touching a truth that mortals shouldn't know...

"Anyway, there are many similar speculations. What they have in common is that the team back then dug up something they shouldn't have dug up—'dug up' is an adjective because no one knows what methods they used to find the Old World heritage back then. Those overly radical technologies, and even the 'ideas' related to technology, have now been completely banned by Terra Academy."

"In short, after a radical exploration operation, the person in charge of the operation and almost all the team members who had been exposed to the operation experienced some... 'changes in mindset'. This change led to them gradually disagreeing with other members of the project team and even causing increasing conflicts with Terra Academy, which was responsible for overseeing the operation of the entire project at the time."

"The group at that time was almost entirely from Alglade—many of them were 'Star Nobles' themselves, with enormous influence in Alglade society. As a result, they easily mobilized and reorganized a vast amount of resources. Soon after, they announced their departure from the original project team and formed a new team called 'Black Spot'—which was the predecessor of the Black Spot Group."

The newly formed "Black Dot" team claimed to still be an academic organization and to continue focusing on the origins of the Old World. However, their focus quickly shifted from direct archaeological activities to various auxiliary technologies related to archaeology, and then rapidly expanded from these fields to other areas. Many of the "Star Nobles" in Alglade were themselves cross-disciplinary technical experts, and with the massive technical team they later built up through huge investments, the cutting-edge laboratory established by "Black Dot" quickly produced many... truly unbelievable things.

"From regional time-tracing technology to subspace probes, from entropy recombination fields to 'instantaneous omniscient mechanisms,' these are all their masterpieces."

"To be fair, these advanced technologies have indeed had a great impact, and many of them have been promoted to various civilizations. As a result, for a long time, the 'Black Dot' team and the 'Black Dot Group' that followed were well-known and popular technology giants among the stars. Even now, there are still quite a few people who do 'business' with them, but the relationship has become... much more 'delicate'."

"During this process, when the Black Dot team was on the right track and began to develop rapidly, they announced the famous 'Technical Black Dot' theory to the public—this was also the first time they explained the origin of their name."

Yu Sheng frowned, his tone filled with curiosity: "The theory of technical black spots?" Bai Liqing's voice came through the receiver: "In short, it means 'there is a problem in the universe that has a solution, but no solution on the observable side; if there is a solution, it's the end of the world.'"

Yu Sheng thought for a moment, looked down at Eileen who was already in a daze, then turned to look at Hu Li, who was holding an empty bowl and looking dejected, and hesitated for a moment: "...This might be a little too 'simple'..."

"The black dot theory posits that everything in the universe, including the universe itself, is scalable and analytical, and the entire world is a sophisticated mathematical model that can be calculated and generalized—this is the first half of the theory. This part is actually not problematic; many scholars in various civilizations have similar conjectures, and even if they haven't, the idea that 'everything can be investigated' is generally accepted. The key part is the second half."

The latter part of the "black dot theory" posits that as the "analysis" deepens, the truth of all things in the universe will gradually "return," and its solution will gradually approach the limit that "information" can express. The vast mathematical model of the "world" will collapse at a certain point into a unique "creator's equation" that transcends reason and calculation. The entire process is like the tip of a spindle shrinking into a single point, and this "creator's equation" is located at this "point." It is the sum of all information from the birth to the death of the universe.

"The equation has a solution, but the solution is the end of the observable universe. Since humans are located within the observable universe, they can never reach the end point of understanding the 'solution'. That is, the ultimate answer to the universe is an eternal 'black spot' for humans. Any civilization, any intelligent life, any form of intelligence, through any method to study the essence of the universe, will observe the existence of this black spot at some stage, but will never be able to understand the content of this black spot."

"The ultimate goal of the 'Black Dot Group' is to observe this 'technological black dot' and find any possible way to bypass it before the end of the observable universe—even if it is theoretically impossible."

Hu Li, who was licking the bowl, twitched his ears and suddenly looked up: "That sounds quite contradictory, believing that humans can conquer nature, yet also believing that human strength is finite."

Yu Sheng had the speakerphone on, so Baili Qing naturally heard his words. Her voice seemed to carry a hint of emotion: "Yes, there are contradictions—many things in this world are contradictory."

Eileen was still in a daze, and after a long while, she blurted out, "...I think the brief summary was pretty good too..."

Yu Sheng casually pressed down on the little doll's head, frowning as he muttered, "Then their goal sounds pretty... 'grand,' and their style is just that of a group of somewhat eccentric scholars, so they don't seem that 'crazy,' do they?"

After a moment of silence, Baili Qing on the other end of the phone said softly, "If you can't solve math problems for a long time, you'll get sick from it."

Yu Sheng: "..."

Two days ago, he wouldn't have felt much about those words, but at this moment, he remembered the one in the sanatorium whose head had exploded from the heat—a memory that left a deep impression on him.

"So... they became academic terrorists?" Even Eileen realized this, mainly because she had no trouble understanding the phrase "unable to solve math problems." "Did they go astray?"

Bai Liqing on the other end of the phone visibly sighed—

"Pretty much. When scientific research loses its moral constraints and is driven by grand goals, the harm it can cause far exceeds that of a few angel cultists stabbing their own throats with knives around a fire—the latter might not even attract an angel's attention even after stabbing their own throats hundreds of times, but the former's cutting-edge laboratories can blow up two every year at their peak, and each time something might escape from the laboratory."

"Therefore, as people realized that the Black Dot Group's actions were becoming increasingly extreme, that many of its technologies were becoming increasingly risky, and that many of its technologies were even beginning to carry spiritual pollution, more and more civilized circles listed them as 'high-risk groups,' or even directly classified them as terrorists or extremist sects."

"But in any case, today's Black Dot Group has developed into a behemoth that cannot be easily eradicated. It even brazenly occupies a lawless star sector and has a wide-ranging influence among the stars, practically a country."

(End of this chapter)