Cataclysmic Era: I can unlock the tech tree

As Lü Yongchang frowned and became agitated, Lin Yongnian, who was sitting not far away, seemed to have noticed something and suddenly widened his eyes.

He rubbed his eyes, and a look of incredible surprise suddenly appeared on his previously numb face.

It's a sense of relief, like seeing the light after the clouds have parted; it's a delightful surprise, like turning around to find that person unexpectedly in the dim light.

He raised his hand and vigorously wiped it on the white coat he was wearing. Perhaps because of his excitement, the muscles on both sides of his cheeks trembled slightly.

He glanced in the direction of Lü Yongchang.

He clearly saw the somewhat unpleasant expression on Lü Yongchang's face.

He hesitated for less than half a second before resolutely turning around and leaving his seat, heading towards Lü Yongchang.

Gradually, people noticed this young academician whose face was full of youthful innocence.

Their gazes toward him were full of goodwill.

In this research center, the words "young" and "naive" are not derogatory; on the contrary, they symbolize potential and, to some extent, even a bright future.

Therefore, because of his age, Lin Yongnian has always been able to receive some care.

"Lin boy, what have you discovered?"

An academician jokingly asked Lin Yongnian, "Why are you in such a hurry? Could it be that you've found...?"

Lin Yongnian ignored the academician who was speaking next to him and hurriedly passed by him.

To be precise, Lin Yongnian's attention was entirely focused on Lü Yongchang at that moment, and he didn't notice the questioning voice coming from beside him at all.

His hurried footsteps grew louder and louder, attracting the attention of more and more academicians.

"Hey... this kid..." The academician who had spoken earlier stiffened, but wasn't angry. He just cast a curious glance at Lin Yongnian. "What has he discovered?"

Like this academician, the surrounding academicians all cast puzzled glances at Lin Yongnian.

Until Lin Yongnian's figure stopped beside Lü Yongchang.

Under the watchful eyes of the academicians, Lin Yongnian took a deep breath.

"Chief Lu, I've discovered a phenomenon that might be related to what we're currently researching..."

Lu Yongchang frowned slightly and shifted his attention from the holographic projection in front of him to Lin Yongnian.

This so-called discovery has occurred countless times over the past two years.

Regardless of which discovery it is, the final result is always similar.

They don't play a significant role in research and development.

Of course, despite saying that, Lü Yongchang still frowned slightly and tapped on the holographic projection beside him.

Under Zero's control, the content that Lin Yongnian was studying was quickly displayed in the holographic projection beside him.

"Chief Lü..."

Lin Yongnian explained in a low voice: "We have always believed that the strong gravitational source inside the fortress's optical brain only serves to bend light."

"What if its function is more than that?"

Lu Yongchang's eyes lit up slightly, and he immediately became interested.

This is a completely new argument.

According to current spacetime theories, spacetime will exhibit different behaviors under the perturbation of strong gravitational sources.

Black holes, spacetime resonance, spatial rifts, spatial annihilation...

What if a Level 7 civilization possessed other spacetime characteristics?

When he realized that spacetime theory was the core technology that ran through a Level 6 civilization, Lü Yongchang's expression immediately became serious.

It seems that this discovery and conjecture are much more reliable than before.

As Lü Yongchang's expression grew increasingly serious, the surrounding academicians began to grow restless.

Could there really be some incredible discovery?!

So they all got up and walked towards Lü Yongchang's direction.

……

With a slight twitch of his fingers, Lü Yongchang skillfully brought up the 3D holographic model of the Tenth Imperial Fortress's mainframe.

In the model, complex, materialized light rays intertwine intricately, creating a chaotic yet aesthetically pleasing scene.

"Zero, mark the locations of all strong gravitational sources."

Lü Yongchang gave the order in a low voice.

As soon as he finished speaking, red dots were quickly marked on the 3D model of the fortress's mainframe.

The scene became increasingly cluttered.

"Eliminate all optical path structures, including optical components."

This time, the complex model quickly became simple.

Looking at the red dots, some near and some far, seemingly without any pattern, Lü Yongchang immediately frowned.

As the founder of spacetime theory, Lü Yongchang's understanding of spacetime theory is beyond doubt.

He carefully examined the location of these red dots and tried to fit them into the spacetime theories mastered by human civilization.

"hiss……"

He took a soft breath.

Something's not right!

These strong gravitational sources will not form so-called spatial rifts or black holes.

Furthermore... if spatial rifts truly existed, they should have been discovered long ago when the research robots were initially conducting their observations.

As for spacetime resonance and spatial annihilation, those are even more absurd.

Both technologies require stimulating key nodes in a spacetime region.

Once a spatial location changes, the location of a spatiotemporal node will also change accordingly.

Therefore, these two technologies cannot be used in the fortress's optical computer!

"Rebuild the proportional model."

After a moment's hesitation, Lü Yongchang gave the order in a deep voice.

When theory fails to provide guidance, only practice yields true knowledge!

Who cares what secrets it might hold? Just try it and you'll find out!

"This time, we need to take into account not only the distance between gravitational sources."

Lü Yongchang seemed to have thought of something.

In previous research, the second-generation optical computing experimental machine was modeled proportionally based on the architecture of the fortress's main brain.

However, due to technological limitations, the second-generation experimental machine was enormous, and the distance between the gravity sources was relatively far.

Moreover, the intensity of the gravitational source did not meet the standards within the fortress's main brain.

So he added, "We also need to take the strength of the gravitational source into account!"

"No need to manufacture any optical paths or components; you only need to generate these gravitational sources in the target area!"

……

Although some mystery is hidden in these irregularly distributed gravitational sources.

But a glimmer of hope still stirred in Lü Yongchang's heart.

He had a premonition that this time, human civilization might achieve an unprecedented technological breakthrough!

It wasn't just Lü Yongchang who had this idea.

The academicians present also saw hope for success in the gravitational source model!

then.

Under Lü Yongchang's orders, the once quiet central research institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences suddenly became noisy!

While waiting for the reconstruction of the proportional model, each academician tried to propose their own hypothesis.

And spacetime theory researchers, who were previously relatively unknown, have now become highly sought-after.

Especially Lin Yongnian, who raised this possibility.

His status in the eyes of many senior academicians has risen sharply!