Chapter 21

"Hear the Dao in the morning..."

Dr. Ratio looked at the scene on the light screen and listened to Zhou Xuan's words, couldn't help but close his eyes gently.

The students below also couldn't help but start discussing.

"I feel Professor Ratio would understand the Disaster Empire's values."

"Yeah, he also always keeps truth and such on his lips."

"Perhaps this is the spirit of a higher level; we can't compare."

The students' whispers couldn't be hidden from Dr. Ratio.

His plaster head turned to the chattering students below.

"I can't do it."

Dr. Ratio said honestly to the students below:

"I cannot approve of the Disaster Empire's approach."

"I don't think the pursuit of truth can be greater than love, art, life, dignity... and everything else."

"I don't approve of burning the whole world to ashes for the sake of seeking truth. In my view, this kind of behavior of chasing truth is of no benefit to sentient beings."

He slowly took the plaster head off his neck and placed it on the table.

The students below couldn't help but have another commotion.

Dr. Ratio rarely took off his plaster head.

In his words, this was because "he can't stand fools, and fools don't want to see him."

But at this moment, he took off the headgear, revealing slightly tired eyes.

"Perhaps the Genius Society can understand these values."

When saying this, the figures of Herta, Ruan Mei, and several other geniuses appeared in Dr. Ratio's mind.

"But I am just a mediocre person. I call myself Dr. Ratio to treat 'stupidity,' but if..."

"If the manifest destiny in the mouth of the Disaster Empire is the only correct path to explore truth."

"Then at this moment, I am the same as you all, just a fool."

"Professor." A student couldn't help but stand up and ask: "Is it possible that the Disaster Empire is wrong?"

"Is the manifest destiny in their mouths perhaps just some kind of group hallucination? Won't all civilizations develop to the same values in the end?"

"Or, is the value of civilization not just endless ascension, endless going to higher levels?"

"..." Dr. Ratio closed his eyes, shook his head, and said: "I don't know."

There was another uproar below.

"The beauty of truth lies here. Even if no one can understand it, it will not change."

Dr. Ratio took a deep breath and said:

"I often say: chasing truth often requires huge effort and cost... This is also the reason why your course completion rate is only 3%."

Listening to Dr. Ratio's words, the students below couldn't help but give a bitter smile.

Professor Ratio's course completion rate was the lowest in the entire college, which all students knew.

"But if the cost of chasing truth is so huge, then I am just a poor person who hasn't completed the course."

Dr. Ratio said, his eyes couldn't help but fall on the light screen again. He was really curious, curious about what the Disaster Empire had gained in the process of chasing the path of ascension...

"Let me see, what kind of truth did they get after paying such a terrifying price?"

Not only Dr. Ratio, but the sentient beings in the universe were also curious.

Through such a massive computing system as the Synaptic Condenser, what kind of transcendent logic did the Disaster Empire obtain, and what kind of knowledge did they realize?

【"Gravity and space-time shaped the universe. Starting from gravity, we will master the tools for feathering and ascension."】

A voice came from the three scientific research arrays floating in the middle of the hall.

The engineering array, glowing with orange-yellow luster, made a sound:

【"We have discovered a new method of manipulating gravity. Just like a black hole affects the universe around it, gravity remains our best choice for penetrating current reality."】

The physics array, flashing with azure light, added:

【"We hypothesize: by penetrating reality and contacting objects on the other side of reality, we can change the laws of this side."】

Finally, the sociology array, which had a pale green luster, said:

【"This is a dangerous field, but caution must never hinder progress."】

The Emperor of the Disaster Empire looked at the experimental plans submitted by the three scientific research arrays.

They had made many different plans, using different methods to verify the new knowledge mastered by the Disaster Empire.

【Gravity Brush: Gravity is now just a brush we use to splash freely on the canvas of reality.】

"Splash freely on the canvas of reality? What does this mean?"

"Penetrate reality? Change the laws on the other side? How come I don't understand this."

"Did the Disaster Empire discover some way to manipulate gravity?"

Most sentient beings in the universe were lost in confusion; they still couldn't understand what kind of technology the Disaster Empire had mastered.

Herta crossed her arms, looking at the scene in the light screen with some fanaticism and curiosity:

"Editing the laws of reality, making the stars blink out—it really is you guys..."

The Disaster Empire Emperor in the light screen tapped a plan lightly.

【"Let's conduct a small-scale reality modification first."】

【"We often feel that the speed of light is too slow, and we often feel that time passes too quickly."】

【"Now, let us use our own hands to adjust the speed of light in the universe."】

31. 【Morality is but clay in the palm】

"Adjust the speed of light across the entire universe?"

Hearing the words Zhou Xuan said in the light screen, all sentient beings in the universe were shocked.

Any civilization that had experienced an industrial revolution and had a basic understanding of the universe knew:

The speed of light is a constant in the universe and one of the most basic rules of the universe.

There are not a few existences in the universe that can make objects move faster than the speed of light.

For example, the light arrows of the Hunt Aeon "Lan" can exceed the speed of light, crossing space and time to shoot and kill planets.

But modifying the speed of light itself in a vacuum is extremely difficult.

Because that is equivalent to challenging the most basic rules of the universe and wrestling with the structure of the entire universe.

Even if the speed of light could be modified on a small scale in a laboratory, it would soon be corrected by reality.

The Disaster Empire, however, claimed that it wanted to modify the speed of light across the entire universe.

This is equivalent to rewriting the most basic laws of the entire universe.

Anyone with a little wisdom in the universe vaguely felt what it meant to take reality as a canvas.

"Rewrite constants, reshape the laws of reality."

On the company's ecological ship, Topaz hugged Trotter tightly and couldn't help but sigh.

Is this kind of thing really something that humans in the world can do?

Even an Aeon would find it difficult to do, right? But the Disaster Empire claimed it could do it and had started trying.

This made Topaz feel a little dizzy. She realized in a trance that pointing out the morality of such an empire was meaningless.

Specific situations determine what morality is.

In different situations, the same behavior may cause different good and evil.

If one has the ability to define situations, one can also define morality.

The company hasn't done this kind of thing, but compared to the Disaster Empire...

When an empire can even reshape reality, morality is perhaps already clay in its hands, which can be shaped as it pleases.

Topaz rubbed her eyebrows.

"Forget it, don't think about these."

"The morality of the Disaster Empire can already be shaped by themselves, but I still have to follow my own morality."

Topaz took a document from the table and looked at the planet on the document...

"Jarilo-VI, invaded by the Antimatter Legion, then isolated by the Stellaron, falling into a world of cold waves."

"Recently, it broke free from isolation due to the actions of the train crew and re-established contact with the universe."

Topaz looked at the information in her hand, as if seeing a group of people struggling to survive in an isolated, cold world. ===== CHAPTER 22 =====