Chapter 2762: Midwinter Festival Celebration, Collecting Data

————Still about half an hour left~~

————It's hard to find free time even on holidays~~

At the end of September, the specific plan for the Second Generation Law Net from the researchers at the Law Net Research Center was finally released, handing in a satisfactory answer to the higher-ups.

In October, pilot tests for the Second Generation Law Net were conducted in major official Grotto-heavens. At the same time, components for the Second Generation Law Net were being produced and deployed in a flurry of activity. Compared to the first-generation product, this component only added an encryption function, but this represented a difference in generations.

One is open-source, where anyone could potentially interfere with it; the other is encrypted through complex rules, making it nearly unsolvable without the key. The key to the Second Generation Law Net's intelligence lies in the Interference Device that performs field editing on it. Combined with various Matrix Computers, these will become natural Law Net Control Nodes.

In short, loading an Identification Matrix into the Law Net constraint field is what is called Second Generation Law Net technology.

Loading the Identification Matrix into the entire constraint field is used to identify certified Second Generation ID Cards and to unlock the Dharma Power of spiritual mages with the required Permission Level. Any spiritual mage with spellcasting authorization who is within the range of the Law Net and carries their ID card can be "spared" by the Law Net, thereby allowing them to manifest their Dharma Power.

Currently, the Second Generation ID Cards are already being updated. From the end of July to October, it is unknown how many people have received their new ID cards, and the components for the Second Generation Law Net have already begun production and deployment; only the Interference Devices acting as Law Net Control Nodes are still under testing.

The full-scale application of the Second Generation intelligent Law Net is right around the corner.

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And that crisis also prompted the establishment of the Yuwei Kingdom cultural circle's Pan-Grotto Alliance, as well as the Loba Continent Alliance.

Speaking of that, Xia Chengyue also felt it was very incredible, but he had already found many murals and stone carvings describing the starry sky above Earth from that world; these things at least proved that people from that world had once been to Earth.

"These aliens moved there from Earth!"

And even modern humans could not possibly reach the Oort Cloud 5,000 astronomical units away, let alone enter into a Space-Time Bubble.

It's just that this kind of thing even shocked Xia Chengyue, so how could he explain it to Dahua?

As for what Xia Chengyue salvaged, at that time her heart was entirely focused on Xia Chengyue, so how could she still care about those things.

Thinking about it this way, Dahua became even more worried, "Did you discover aliens? Hurry up and say it!"

Dahua was annoyed; she had already understood that these so-called aliens were likely not any kind of threat, but Xia Chengyue's attitude was truly annoying.

However, Xia Chengyue would rather believe there was a more efficient method, such as space jumping or Teleportation.

"What else? You just said they were aliens, and then they weren't aliens, is it this?" Dahua's curiosity had already jumped up, her mind turning rapidly.

Xia Chengyue did not believe they had the ability to cross the Space-Time Bubble to voyage to Earth, and if Earthlings had voyaged to the Space-Time Bubble, it was also somewhat incredible—on what grounds could Earth have birthed technology capable of crossing the stars?

She knew that Xia Chengyue had long since achieved the Primordial Spirit; for him to be stunned, it must have been a huge shock. Even during the previous natural disaster crisis, Xia Chengyue had never been so abnormal.

"What!"

"……"

Further information still needed to be unearthed, but Xia Chengyue would rather believe that the people of that world had migrated from Earth.

Looking at Dahua's worried eyes, Xia Chengyue couldn't help but laugh or cry. He was indeed shocked, but it wasn't because he had encountered a difficult problem as Dahua thought; it was because the reminder he had set in the Original Realm had been triggered.

"Dahua, do you believe in aliens?"

For Dahua personally, Xia Chengyue risking great danger to go deep into the depths of space-time to "salvage" the "culprit" of the natural disaster made her experience a sense of life-and-death separation once again after Xia Chengyue was lost in space-time two years ago; how could she possibly forget that?

Early in the morning, Xia Chengyue was eating breakfast as usual while chatting with Dahua. As they talked, Xia Chengyue suddenly stopped the movements in his hands and stopped speaking. Seeing this, Dahua hurriedly asked: "Brother Yue, what's wrong?"

Although Dahua had not read Liu Cixin's *The Three-Body Problem*, Xia Chengyue liked reading it very much. Plus, with Liu's works being very popular over these years, she naturally knew about the Adventist, Red Coast, Luo Ji, and two-way foil through osmosis.

"Brother Yue, are you saying that there is an alien world inside the Original Realm right now? Can we go in?"

In Xia Chengyue's observation, that world was in a classical era similar to ancient Yuwei Kingdom, with a social hierarchy that was incredibly rigid. Although there were some transcendent powers, these powers had no effect on improving productivity.

Dahua was greatly shocked. The natural disaster crisis from the year before last was still vivid in her mind; all of humanity on Earth had been in a state of panic, sparing no cost to build various shelter measures. It was precisely during that natural disaster crisis that the Yuwei Kingdom unlocked the skill point for Controlled Nuclear Fusion technology.

But she knew even better that reality is different from novels. To truly count on Earthlings to deal with aliens capable of running over from several light-years away was truly unrealistic. Even though there was now Cultivation and the Original Realm to hide in, Earth or even the Sun might not necessarily be saved.

Either Earthlings were the descendants of the aliens, or the people of that world were former Earthlings.

If there wasn't a more efficient way, then Xia Chengyue would very likely discover traces of ancient people migrating within the Solar System; corpses, Psionic Creations, and the like were all possible.

"Hurry up and say it!"

It is aliens, yet it is not aliens? Why is that?

"We can go in, and that world is not just as simple as an alien world," Xia Chengyue said.

"Alright." Xia Chengyue stopped keeping her in suspense, "Remember the Gravity Source I 'salvaged' during the previous natural disaster crisis? I discovered back then that it was a world inside, but at that time that world was still under Time Acceleration. I was worried that artificial deceleration might have some bad effects on the creatures inside, so I left it there and didn't touch it. Just now, the Time Acceleration of that Gravity Source has stopped, and that world is now in the same space-time as the entire Original Realm."

"Aliens? Why are you suddenly talking about that? Did you discover aliens?" Dahua reacted very quickly. She knew that Xia Chengyue had a clone heading toward Proxima Centauri; could it be that he encountered aliens on the way? Could there really be Three-Body aliens?

"You could say yes, and you could also say no," Xia Chengyue said.

Xia Chengyue had laid so much groundwork, naturally not wanting Dahua to develop feelings of fear or worry about aliens; having curiosity was just right.

It wasn't that Xia Chengyue was belittling himself, but that Earth had yet to discover any traces of a super-civilization. Xia Chengyue had once explored inside the Pyramids, the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, and even the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, but he had found nothing at all.

Pingjiang City.

It seems there is only one explanation: crossing the star sea with individual power. The transcendent powers on Earth have long since disappeared, but the world inside that Space-Time Bubble still exists. So the question arises: how exactly did they cross such a long distance to migrate?