In Ark Simulator, why do I always get a tough start?

Chapter 154 What does it mean that my code name is "Blue Dream"?
"Welcome to Terra, and officially join our ultimate salvation plan."

[After more than ten years of space travel, as your spaceship landed on the continent of Terra, you were greeted by scientists who had been conducting long-term experiments on Terra.]

[During this welcoming ceremony, you were deeply impressed by Precys, the representative in charge of Terra's ultimate salvation plan.]

This woman, who appears gentle and refined, exuding intellectual beauty, and at least a generation older than you, specifically sought you out after the welcoming ceremony, despite having no prior connection with you.

"Junior Qi, is it alright if I address you like this?"

She got straight to the point, explaining her purpose for coming.

"Before this, I reviewed your file on the spaceship and your employment preferences."

“I am very interested in the topic of ‘magnetic field rotation’ that you raised, which involves changing the magnetic field through artificial force.”

“I am deeply proud of the words ‘learning for the survival of civilization’ in your file.”

"Therefore, after discussions and research with my colleagues, we have decided to invite you to join our core team and become a new project in our 'ultimate salvation plan'."

[Priscilla held a champagne glass, smiling as he expressed his high hopes for you.]

However, despite spending most of your time on the spaceship and having little contact with the opposite sex, you didn't blush and readily accept Prestis's invitation like a naive young man.

[You actually asked Precyth a crucial question.]

Why did you choose me?

"Even if you've seen my file and know how I performed on the spaceship, it still doesn't change the fact that all my ideas remain in the theoretical stage."

"Tell me, Senior Precys, what makes you willing to forgo so many veteran researchers and choose a newcomer like me?"

In response to your question, Precys remained silent for a long while before downing his half-empty glass of champagne in one gulp.

[But as she set down the champagne glass, she took your hand and led you to another location.]

[You followed Precys to the underground section of the facility via elevator.]

In this underground area devoid of sunlight, illuminated only by lamps and displays, Priscilla released your hand and coldly addressed the artificial intelligence:

"PRTS, retrieve all information about our salvation plan."

PRTS: "Received. Root access command detected. Information being retrieved."

[Operated by a proxy terminal called PRTS, you, upon entering this area, are enveloped in a blue glow of virtual data.]

The next second, a miniature Terra made of virtual data completely envelops your body.

[And wherever your gaze falls, all the experiments being conducted across this planet are within your sight.]

[You encountered familiar projects such as "Originium," "Heaven's Pivot," "Stargate," and "Stasis Center," which, ten thousand years later, have become incomprehensible to the small beings of Terra, and even a major source of anxiety for them.]

However, none of these projects today were created with the intention of destruction.

They were born with only one mission: to perpetuate the previous civilization at all costs.

"The lumberjacks' angle remains aggressively close."

[Watching you so engrossed in the ocean of knowledge, Precys, skillfully manipulating virtual data, approached you.]

She gazed upon this land, the last hope and sanctuary of a pre-civilization, which they had painstakingly developed, and spoke to you:

"Sooner or later, they will find this small planet on the edge of the universe where we are."

"None of us want to sit idly by and wait to die, but we are powerless to resist the loggers."

“Among us, there are optimists who believe that we may be destined to perish, but the new civilization that will be born from our ruins will receive our blessings and help and become a new hope.”

“Among us, there are also pessimists who believe that if we cannot defeat the loggers, we can at least preserve the last spark of hope by hiding and concealing ourselves from their observation.”

"As for me, while I admire the dedication and awareness of optimists, I also understand the despair and mourning of pessimists."

"But unfortunately, I am neither of them."

As she spoke, Precys's smile faded, and she looked directly into your eyes, revealing her true innermost thoughts.

"I am a realist, and even more so, a woman who will stop at nothing to ensure the survival of civilization and the eternal existence of all good things."

"I don't want the prosperity and happiness that humanity has achieved over thousands of years to be destroyed in an instant. For this, I will do everything in my power to protect them."

"Even if it means we become devastated and can only exist as information... I'm willing."

“And in you, I see qualities similar to mine.”

Precys smiled faintly, turned her expectant gaze to you, and said, word by word:

"You and I are both prepared to face the loggers head-on."

"The only difference between us is that I never imagined stopping the loggers; I only wanted to continue our civilization."

"And you... Junior Brother Qi, you seem to be bolder and more spirited than any of us."

Precyth's smile deepened, but her slightly furrowed brow made her appear even more serious.

"Junior Brother Qi, please answer me."

"Your 'magnetic field rotation' isn't just a defensive project to keep the loggers' invasion off the planet by artificially controlling the magnetic field, is it?"

【She, Priscilla, stared directly at you; her eyes, shaped like diamonds by the "gray pins" used to ensure accurate perception, gave her a dangerous look.】

"This is a human modification project."

"A powerful entity modification project that creates a large number of individuals capable of controlling the 'magnetic field rotation' to completely crush the lumberjacks' offensive!"

"Am I right, Junior Qi?"

After a deathly silence, you finally responded to Priscilla's words.

You flashed a smile more radiant than ever before.

On the spaceship, although you always present yourself in a friendly manner and give researchers and your peers a good impression, everyone maintains a subtle sense of distance from you.

That sense of distance is called "the gap between genius and ordinary person."

Even on a spaceship where almost everyone was a genius, your extraordinary intelligence still set you far apart from the rest of the crew. Even the researchers who imparted their knowledge to you rarely spoke to you again afterward.

As academic researchers, they are well aware of how difficult it is to converse with people who are vastly different from themselves.

[It's like aerospace experts explaining to a child why spacecraft don't burn charcoal... They all know that, in your eyes, they are that child.]

Therefore, you have no other friends on the spaceship besides Lu.

Aside from Lu, you never show any tenderness or attention to anyone beyond the bounds of propriety.

But this time, you met a second person.

[The second person who can understand your plan, follow your train of thought, and keep the conversation going in a way that interests you... is a wise person.]

"—I have to admit, Senior Precys."

"Your talent has convinced me that you are truly geniuses who can perpetuate civilization."

When Priscilla asked you, you smiled and admitted her guess.

[The magnetic field rotation is indeed not, as you wrote in your report, simply a case of human interference with the magnetic field, disrupting the loggers' plans through magnetic field disturbances.] [You have a deeper understanding and greater hope regarding the power of magnetic fields.]

[Once you realized that magnetic fields might be the ultimate force against future logger invasions, you began researching how to utilize their power through human intervention.]

[Previous civilizations had already pushed the application of magnetic field-related technologies to their limits.]

[They can use technology to allow a person equipped with a magnetic field weapon to briefly manipulate everything around them, like a villain in a superhero movie from thousands of years ago.]

They can also use magnetic field weapons to propel a person against gravity, allowing them to move freely through the air and even into space.

[With enough magnetic field disruptors, they could even disrupt the magnetic field of an entire planet, simulating an effect similar to that before a star explodes.]

But all of this has its limits.

While these weapons can achieve similar effects to manipulating magnetic fields, they are very expensive to manufacture.

At the same price, equipping a single magnetic field weapon would be enough to equip a large army.

Furthermore, the use of these weapons places extremely high demands on the operator; the weapons and equipment cannot enhance the operator's skills, and if they malfunction, danger is still very difficult to avoid.

High production costs, high equipment maintenance costs, and insufficient conversion rates of magnetic field forces have created a bottleneck in the development of magnetic field weapons.

And all of this is precisely the direction you want to break through.

If the cost of manufacturing weapons is too high, and the maintenance of weapons is extremely difficult.

Is there a way to integrate the design concepts of these high-cost magnetic field weapons into the human body, giving the human body the power to control magnetic fields?

After all, the main criticisms of magnetic field weapons have always been their high cost and inability to be widely adopted.

[Yet, no one has ever questioned the power and effectiveness of these magnetic field weapons.]

[If it were possible to use technology to modify the human body into a powerful being capable of effectively utilizing and manipulating magnetic fields to achieve extreme destructive power.]

[So, if such powerful beings were mass-produced, the previous civilization might have possessed the strength to resist lumberjacks.]

[We can even imagine things more boldly!]

[If this magnetic field could alter the laws governing galaxies, allowing everyone to gain superhuman strength under the influence of a special magnetic field.]

So, what power do lumberjacks possess that allows them to contend against a star system where everyone is a powerful being?

At that time, the pre-civilization might finally escape its fate of merely surviving and establish itself firmly within a star system, allowing its light to continue to develop and spread.

This is your "magnetic field rotation" plan.

Or to be more precise, it's your "artificial martial god" project.

"...Junior Brother Qi, what are your chances of success with this?"

After you admitted it, Precys was unexpectedly silent for a long time before speaking softly with a solemn expression.

And your answer was very honest.

"I do not know."

You smiled and shook your head. You knew nothing about the path ahead, a path no one had ever trodden before.

[You might even find out it's a dead end only when you reach the end.]

But you are still willing to dedicate your life to the path you have chosen, the path you believe can save the pre-civilization.

Precys was well aware of this as well.

After all, everyone who comes to Terra with their last hope is just as stubborn as you, a peerless genius.

Everyone is resolutely walking down what they believe to be the right path, and no one can be persuaded to give up by a few words before seeing the results.

"...From my personal perspective, I admire your dedication and ideals, junior Qi."

"However, as one of the people in charge of this salvation plan, I cannot invest too much money and support in a project whose future is uncertain and whose future may be a complete waste."

Looking into your resolute eyes, Priscilla sighed softly, but still smiled and acknowledged your choice.

"Fortunately, every project here is facing an uncertain future."

"Therefore, I approve your project and appoint you as the top person in charge of the 'Magnetic Field Rotation' project research."

"—However, I have a small change to make."

Before you could even express your gratitude, Precys' expression turned slightly serious as he spoke, word by word:

"Since your experimental plan involves magnetic fields, you need to conduct your research in a laboratory close to the mantle in order to avoid interfering with the experimental results of other researchers as much as possible."

"And you will need to share this laboratory with a partner."

"And your project will be considered a viable option in our 'ultimate salvation plan' and will receive the highest level of support."

"—Who is my partner?"

[After hearing Precys's arrangements, you had no objections, but you asked the question that concerned you most.]

[To this, Precys smiled slightly, his lips barely moving, and uttered a name you knew all too well.]

“Your fellow traveler on the same spaceship, Junior Sister Lu.”

"And her proposed 'Deep Blue Tree' project is also one of the key solutions we are paying attention to."

"And now, I've decided to merge the projects you two submitted into one."

"I need you all to work together, using your knowledge and talents, to explore ways to ensure the continuation of our civilization."

"I have arranged everything for you."

As she spoke, Precys deftly manipulated the area with her slender fingers, and a section in southern Terra magnified before your eyes.

[Your and Lu's information is also displayed on the virtual screen.]

"I have approved the salvation plan that you two are in charge of, and it will be officially named the 'Blue Dream Salvation Plan,' or 'Blue Dream' for short."

"And 'Blue Dream' is your code name, Junior Qi."

[Prisus smiled and revealed your codename to you, completely oblivious to the subtle expression on your face.]

"By the way, Lu's code name is 'Orca'."

"Blue is the color of the ocean under the sun; it is hope, and it is the birthplace of all life."

"Junior Brother Qi, Junior Sister Lu."

"I hope you can live up to the name of this salvation plan and allow life belonging to civilization to remain vibrant."

However, as soon as Precys finished speaking, Chen Qi's facial expressions were almost out of control.

A groundbreaking wisdom? A blue dream? An orca?

Where did this come from for me?

Can you please not throw this dog-like, donkey-like nickname at me? It's so unlucky!

(End of this chapter)