Chapter 2424: Goodbye, Red Heart Alliance

————I'm back late today, I'll make up for this tomorrow~~

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In the following days, besides going out to deliver the local specialties brought back from the Wuweilun journey to Mentor Tuto, Gelinqi, and other friends, Xia Duo spent the rest of his time holed up in the North River Community "downloading" data from the Chixin Tribe Technical Committee Ziliaoku.

But after all, it was manual downloading, and the efficiency was far less convenient than a machine. Every piece of data had to be looked over with his own eyes. Just once was naturally not enough for him to memorize it completely, but he still had the incredibly useful Bloodline Ability, Trace Memory.

It lasted until the end of the holiday, but because the Negative Energy Encryption Project at the Negative Energy Research Institute had just concluded, they were applying for this year's Magic Advancement Award, and the psychological pressure that had accumulated over more than twenty years of the project could not be completely relieved in a short one-week holiday.

Therefore, although Xia Duo had returned to work, he actually just went over to show his face, and then continued to return to the North River Community to download data, or took advantage of the temporary lack of new projects to visit other project groups at the Negative Energy Research Institute.

Xia Duo had joined the Negative Energy Research Institute for over ten years, but he had not fully understood all the projects here. Now that he had reached the final stage of the Projection Plane journey, he also wanted to collect all the non-material wealth here as much as possible under the premise of seeing things through to the end.

This, of course, also included all the achievements of the Negative Energy Research Institute.

The danger of Negative Energy was truly too great; Xia Duo actually did not wish to conduct research in the Main Plane, or at least not without conducting it under relatively proper guidance.

The achievements and experience of the Red Heart Alliance's Negative Energy research could all be used by him; this could allow him to walk more smoothly when conducting Negative Energy research in the Main Plane.

Not researching was definitely not an option. This was not something he could decide based on whether he wanted to or not; this was the development of civilization, not an individual choice. The power of an individual is limited, while the power of a group is infinite. As a civilization, it is best not to have overly prominent shortcomings.

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After more than a month passed like this, Xia Duo's manual download progress was already more than halfway done, and the Negative Energy Research Institute had also been scoured clean. It was just that after more than a month, Mentor Lei Wen's team finally had a new project.

The new project involved the improvement of the Application of Negative Energy Encryption in multiple general scenarios, as well as the development of applications for specific individual scenarios.

Xia Duo quite favored this new project. Although he had already decided to leave, he could still stand his final post before leaving.

It was just that once the project at the Negative Energy Research Institute started, the time he personally allocated for manual downloading dropped by more than half. Dragging it out like this for three months, he finally scoured the Ziliaoku of the Chixin Tribe Technical Committee clean.

Next, there was still the Ziliaoku of the Yinerfalang Technical Committee. He did not have Advanced Permission Level for this part and could only apply using the identity of a Researcher from "Maruente".

But the act of applying for all the data was too suspicious, so he had to make choices. He chose to first record the Ziliaoku catalog and then only apply for data from the last three hundred years.

Past data could be referenced using the data from the Chixin Tribe side, so it was actually not that important. What was important was the latest part, and because the two countries had already begun to promote integration, a considerable portion of the latest data from both Technical Committees overlapped, which reduced his burden quite a bit.

Although it was a pity that he could not collect all the Ziliaoku data from the Technical Committee, generally speaking, it was already quite good; it had almost packaged all the achievements of the Red Heart Alliance's Magic development over the past 1,500 years.

However, the data stored in the Technical Committee had to be in the form of a thesis at the very least, and to form a thesis, one had to have at least certain phased results.

This meant that the Red Heart Alliance still had a large amount of frontier research that had not been included in the Technical Committee Ziliaoku, especially those frontier research ideas and trains of thought; even if they were eventually proven wrong, they still had extremely high reference and research value.

One could even exaggerate and say that this part of the frontier research was the essence of the Red Heart Alliance's Magic research, as it already involved the essence of this world and even this Universe.

For example, the Red Heart Alliance had a Branching direction in the field of 【Element-Matter Equation】 that studied the process of Element to Matter itself, and the Alliance Researchers had proposed many conjectures for this.

One of the more famous ones was "whether matter is infinitely divisible, and whether there exists a minimum quantity of elements."

The former conjecture had already been proven: matter has a minimum structure—namely the 【Elemental Embryo】. Any smaller and it would be unable to maintain its material form and would completely disintegrate into elements, and the Elemental Embryo was actually already a specific state of an element.

The proof of this conjecture revealed the elemental essence of this world.

And whether there exists a minimum quantity of elements also involved a part of the world's essence, but it was a pity that there were no results for this conjecture yet, neither positive nor negative.

Xia Duo was actually quite curious about these questions. From the moment he transmigrated, he began to ponder the way this world existed, but at that time he only knew how to rigidly apply the Principles from Earth, whereas the Red Heart Alliance had truly achieved localized exploration.

Although its essence was only a virtual existence within a Projection Plane, Xia Duo had never looked down on it because of that; on the contrary, he held it in special respect.

This world was too cruel. It clearly possessed true Wisdom yet was unfortunately born within a virtuality. Such regrets had actually been fantasized about in Xia Duo's hometown as well, such as intelligent life born in the network, life in low-dimensional worlds, and so on.

But those were all just fantasies and had no substantial connection to reality, while the Red Heart Alliance that Xia Duo was experiencing now was an out-and-out real experience.

Could one say that their existence was completely meaningless just because their essence was nothing more than a wisp of strange spirit in the Astral Plane?

Xia Duo could not be that heartless. He felt proud of the emergence of the Red Heart Alliance, but he also felt regret for the existence of the Red Heart Alliance.

Because of this, for the first time, he had the thought of whether it was reasonable to conduct social experiments in a Projection Plane. If all social experiments conducted in the Projection Plane in the future were like this one—pouring in heart and blood, paying with emotions, yet ultimately unable to change its fate of destruction—it would truly be somewhat cruel.

It was not only cruel to a civilization he favored, but also an unspeakable torture to his own heart.

In a sense, Xia Duo bringing the development achievements of the Red Heart Alliance back to the Main Plane was also another form of resurrection for the Red Heart Alliance.

It was just that for the Red Heart Alliance itself, which was born in virtuality and died in virtuality, this no longer had much meaning.

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As the day of departure drew closer, the various finishing tasks were completed smoothly, but Xia Duo's mood became somewhat irritable.

Since transmigrating, compared to the Main Plane, he had actually spent more time in the Red Heart Alliance, and it was even comparable to the time he lived in his hometown on Earth before transmigrating.

He could even extend the time spent here to exceed the time spent in his hometown whenever he wanted!

Such a long time living here would undoubtedly leave a deep mark in Xia Duo's heart; one could even say that his feelings for the Red Heart Alliance were stronger than those for Daxia Territory.

And all of this was something he had volunteered for.