Chapter 2410: 【Elements-Matter】Major Breakthrough

————This is a bit late, it's too late now, I'll make up for it tomorrow~~

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The next day.

Xia Duo arrived at the Negative Energy Research Institute early and met Gelinqi's current mentor here—Lei Wen, who was also the deputy manager of the Negative Energy Research Institute and one of the main persons in charge of the Negative Energy Encryption Project.

Of course, he would also be Xia Duo's mentor for quite some time to come.

"Mentor Lei Wen, I am very happy to join the project team. I will do my utmost to contribute to the project." Xia Duo humbly greeted all the project team members, including Mentor Lei Wen.

Afterwards, under Mentor Lei Wen's instructions, Xia Duo received a small, lightweight Crystal Ear Clip, but the faint blue light filaments that frequently lit up inside it indicated that it was not an ordinary ornament, but an independent Magic Artifact.

In reality, it was a Spirit Thought Network Connector, similar to the Inspiration Headband Xia Duo had invented previously, except that after the Red Heart Alliance obtained the relevant technology, they made various improved versions, and this style of ear clip was one of them.

More than ten years had passed since Xia Duo obtained the patent, and the relevant patents had long since expired. He curiously examined this small Crystal Ear Clip; it seemed to have added security restriction functions compared to his original Inspiration Headband.

"Maruente, one of the most important principles of the Laboratory is that you cannot take this Spirit Thought Network Connector outside the Laboratory; it is limited to use inside the Laboratory."

At this time, Mentor Lei Wen had already gone to the other side to get busy. Now, the one introducing things to Xia Duo was Lu Ai Tong, who was in charge of Spirit Thought Network management for the project team. He introduced various precautions of the project team to Xia Duo while guiding Xia Duo to connect to the Laboratory's Spirit Thought Network.

"Clip the connector onto your ear. Speaking of which, the earliest headband form was actually more suitable for collecting consciousness fluctuations, but later everyone felt that headbands were troublesome to wear, so it was changed to the current ear clip."

"The ear clip is indeed more convenient."

Xia Duo casually agreed, then clipped the Crystal Ear Clip onto his ear. Following a state similar to a mental hum flashing by, his consciousness suddenly gained an extended exit; that was a Mind Network that had developed to be very standardized by now.

"Maruente is here, everyone welcome him."

"Welcome Maruente to join the Negative Energy Encryption Project team. I am Lu Ai Tong. If you have any questions in the Laboratory in the future, you can contact me through the Spirit Thought Network at any time."

In reality, Lu Ai Tong also nodded at Xia Duo with a relaxed expression. Xia Duo responded with a nod as well, after which he received more welcomes.

The project team members seemed even more lively in the Spirit Thought Network than in reality, except for Gelinqi. In reality, Gelinqi would occasionally make eyes or gestures at Xia Duo, but in the Spirit Thought Network, he was very well-behaved.

Apart from greeting Xia Duo at the beginning, there was no other contact afterwards.

However, Xia Duo quickly understood why, because while in the Spirit Thought Network connection state, everyone's relatively intense Conscious Mind activities were fully exposed, even including parts of their Subconscious.

If Gelinqi were any more active, he would be exposed like a fire in the dark night to Mentor Lei Wen, who was also connected to the Spirit Thought Network.

From this perspective, although the Spirit Thought Network was a super weapon beneficial to research work, it inevitably infringed upon the mental freedom of all connected individuals.

Only an era like the Red Heart Alliance, which had unified ideal beliefs and eliminated most individual selfish desires, could apply it on such a large scale.

If placed in the Main Plane, I am afraid most Spellcasters would find it difficult to accept.

The reason why Xia Duo was able to popularize the Spirit Thought Network on a small scale in the Tower of Time was, on one hand, because those Apprentices accepted the progressive ideas of the Progress Society and their selfish desires were controlled; on the other hand, it was also due to the popularization of education, which made their thirst for knowledge overcome their pursuit of absolute mental freedom.

And in the Red Heart Alliance, most researchers considered the privacy issue, but after placing certain restrictions on the Spirit Thought Network, they still chose to apply it on a large scale.

Such a decision was something even Xia Duo admired very much.

As for the Negative Energy Research Institute side, as a research institution focused on studying Negative Energy, after Xia Duo connected to the project team's Laboratory Spirit Thought Network, he actually did not discover a single trace of negative emotion directed at him!

As an existence capable of parsing Subconscious Information, Xia Duo did not doubt his judgment at all. Although this was related to him just having joined the project team, one could still see the purity of these Negative Energy researchers to some extent.

This was not a workplace in the general sense at all, but a place of struggle where everyone worked together for the same goal, with everyone pulling in the same direction, without the internal friction found in the general sense.

To tell the truth, although it was only his first time coming here, Xia Duo was already looking forward to the days ahead.

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Besides the simple personal information of the project team members, what Lu Ai Tong mainly introduced to Xia Duo were the research ideas, progress, and current problems encountered by the Negative Energy Encryption Project, as well as the content of the work related to the Spirit Thought Network that he would mainly do in the future.

"Right now, Mentor Lei Wen and the others are reviewing the recent experiments. You can listen in too. In the process, I will teach you how to use this Spirit Thought Network customized for the Laboratory. Your Perception ability is strong, so I believe you will be able to get the hang of it soon."

"Mm, I will learn diligently." Xia Duo nodded seriously.

Mentor Lei Wen and the others' review was mainly conducted within the Spirit Thought Network, while the conversation between Xia Duo and Lu Ai Tong took place in reality.

Afterwards, under Lu Ai Tong's guidance, Xia Duo learned step by step how to operate the Spirit Thought Network; in fact, there was not much room for operation.

It was mainly about monitoring the "traffic" of each participant's consciousness information and harmonizing large flows. This process was the process of consciousness information colliding to spark inspiration. Finally, one had to distinguish the Subconscious Information that dissipated during this process and then clear it, so as to avoid the leakage of the participant's personal privacy or interference with their self Personality.

As a Researcher "specially recruited" for outstanding Perception ability, Xia Duo's future work would focus on the consciousness information harmonization process within the Spirit Thought Network.

For an average individual, the more excellent their Perception ability, the more they could perceive the information carried by the Subconscious. Although it was not very concrete, it was enough to generate a relatively vague concept.

So-called "harmonization" was guiding similar concepts or concepts that might have a connection to collide, and then feeding the results back to the original information generator.

It was a step further than purely passive Subconscious Information collision, but it was still a bit short of directly parsing Subconscious Information and then conducting more precise Guidance.

In other words, there was still quite a lot of room for improvement in Xia Duo's work in the Negative Energy Encryption Project team.

In addition, after personally experiencing the harmonization process once, Xia Duo also discovered that such work actually became more efficient the more harmonizers participated.

However, to harmonize the consciousness information collisions related to the Negative Energy Encryption Project, one had to have at least some understanding of Negative Energy Encryption.

At this point, Xia Duo finally confirmed that he was invited to join the Negative Energy Research Institute without an examination not just because of his outstanding Perception ability, but it should also be related to his proposing the concept of Negative Energy Encryption in his early years.

Thinking about it this way, he knew in which direction his future work should develop.