Chapter 370: Concept of the Dimensional Stabilizer

Qian Yin's pupils contracted as she stared at the blood‑red line of text.

"Meme collection."

She chewed over those four words repeatedly, and a chill surged from her spine to the top of her head.

It was far more terrifying than facing a concrete, powerful, tangible enemy.

She finally understood the heavy pressure that lay beneath Qin Hao's calm eyes.

Qian Yin closed the file, her chest rising and falling as she forced herself to calm down.

The phrase "Thank you" echoed in her ears again.

It wasn't a courtesy; it was a person standing at the edge of a ten‑thousand‑foot cliff who, when looking back, realized that finally someone had followed and saw the view he saw.

Even if it was only a glimpse of the cliff's edge.

"Not enough," Qian Yin said to herself. "This is still far from enough."

She turned and left the lounge, striding toward the optimization project team of the Dimensional Fortress Cannon.

On a massive holographic display, the attack simulation animation of the Dimensional Fortress Cannon looped continuously.

An invisible ripple flashed, and stars within ten light‑years instantly turned to nothingness.

Its destructive power was virtually perfect.

"Retrieve the spatial‑structure recovery data for the target area after firing," Qian Yin's voice rang through the entire laboratory.

A researcher responsible for data monitoring immediately began operating.

"Academician Qian Yin, the spatial structure will begin self‑repair after 3.7 seconds and is expected to return to its baseline stability in 16 minutes; this is already the fastest speed theoretically possible,"

Qian Yin's gaze, however, remained fixed on the simulation screen, where the edge of the void region showed a few barely perceptible lines, like minute cracks after glass shatters.

Qin Hao's words rumbled in her mind.

"High‑dimensional structural instability is a fatal flaw,"

"Magnify those spatial cracks; I want to see its dimensional decay model!" Qian Yin ordered.

"Yes!"

The data model was magnified to its limit.

Everyone saw it.

It wasn't a simple spatial tear, but a "dimensional scar."

The "fabric" of the three‑dimensional universe was forcibly ripped open; although it healed, it left a permanent, structurally weaker scar.

"We... are leaving wounds in the universe,"

A young scientist muttered to themselves, their face turning pale.

Qian Yin's heart leapt suddenly.

Wound... unstable... information plague...

A mad thought sliced through the fog in her mind like lightning.

What if the Overlord's attack is an information plague that exploits and amplifies this "instability"?

It wouldn't even need to act directly; it would only need to locate the wound we left, or one that already exists,

and then inject its "will," causing the entire area to rot and collapse from within!

She spun around abruptly and rushed to the massive holographic tactical board at the center of the laboratory.

"Academician Qian?"

The project leader looked at her puzzledly, "Did you find a way to optimize the attack path?"

"No."

Qian Yin's hands fluttered rapidly over the tactical board, pulling up countless data streams, "We've been wrong from the start!"

The laboratory's clamor vanished instantly, and everyone halted their work, turning to look at her.

"All our efforts have been about trying to

sharpen this spear of the Dimensional Fortress Cannon, make it strike farther, and increase its power!"

Qian Yin's voice echoed in the silent laboratory.

"But what if the enemy doesn't use a spear? What if the enemy simply alters the very fabric of the dimension itself?"

"Even if our spear is razor‑sharp, if there is nothing left to pierce, what meaning does it have!"

She pointed at the void in the simulation animation.

"Look at this! This is our proud masterpiece; it has left an incurable scar in cosmic space!

We ripped the dimension apart with force, creating instability!"

"And the Overlord, that meme collection, is probably best at exploiting this instability!"

"So!"

Qian Yin flicked her hand sharply, clearing all attack models from the tactical board, "What we need now isn't a sharper arrow!"

"But a shield!"

All the scientists in the laboratory were stunned.

Shield?

How can we defend against such rule‑level strikes?

What to use for defense? Isn't the Dimensional Shield enough?

"Our thinking must change!"

A dazzling brilliance erupted in Qian Yin's eyes as her hands projected entirely different energy‑structure models onto the screen.

"We cannot confront it head‑on, we cannot block it! Like my black‑hole engine theory, we must guide and deceive!"

She referenced the gravitational potential‑well theory of the black‑hole engine and the string‑resonance effect of the Dimensional Fortress Cannon,

And the information-definition concepts explained by Qin Hao were forcibly combined together in an unprecedented way.

「We will create a——Dimensional Stabilizer! 」

She announced loudly, her voice trembling slightly from excitement.

「It is not for defending against attacks! Instead, it actively emits a specific string vibration wave that is highly resonant with the fundamental frequency of our universe, like an iron, smoothing out all spatial wrinkles and dimensional scars around us! 」

「We will actively create an absolutely smooth and absolutely stable spacetime region! 」

「In this region, any attack that attempts to forcibly alter the dimensional structure and inject high-dimensional information,

will fail on its own because it cannot find any cracks to attach to and amplify! 」

Just like a seed falling onto a smooth iron plate, it simply cannot take root and sprout!

All the researchers stared wide-eyed at the tactical board, watching the forming, complex yet harmonious vortex structure.

It is no longer the violent aesthetics of pursuing ultimate destruction.

But rather a higher wisdom similar to the Taiji diagram.

It produces no destructive force.

Its existence is solely for 'stability'.

At this moment, Qian Yin is no longer the follower who trailed behind Qin Hao, gazing up at his back.

She stood on the ruins torn open by Qin Hao and saw another path leading to the future.

Under everyone's gaze, the preliminary theoretical model of the dimensional stabilizer on the screen was finally sketched out.

It resembles a massive sphere formed by countless nested energy rings, emitting a soft and steady light,

forming a stark contrast with the model of the dimensional fortress cannon beside it, which represents destruction.

Spear and shield.

Destruction and protection.

The laboratory erupted with thunderous applause.

It was heartfelt admiration for a true pioneer.

At that moment, an elderly academician several hundred years old walked up to Qian Jun's side, pointing at the model's most core point.

「Academician Qian……this theory……is so creative. 」

The old academician's voice carried excitement and a hint of helplessness.

「But, to realize it, we need a core.

a singularity capable of real-time reading, parsing, and rewriting the spatial dimensional information of our space.

「Such a thing……it has already surpassed the realm of matter and energy; we……we simply cannot create it. 」

The thunderous applause came to an abrupt halt.

Everyone's gaze focused on that core which was theoretically perfect but practically impossible to achieve.

Qian Yin looked at the model and slowly straightened up.

「If we can't make it, we'll find a way to make it. 」

「Now, redirect all usable computing power from the Science Academy. 」

「Let's start with simulation. 」