[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-star-rail-i-established-the-foundation-at-the-st":3,"chapter-star-rail-i-established-the-foundation-at-the-st-star-rail-i-established-the-foundation-at-the-st-chapter-615":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Honkai: Star Rail: Starting Off by Building the Foundation",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1928644,2626,"Chapter 615","star-rail-i-established-the-foundation-at-the-st-chapter-615",615,"\u003Cp>\"Oh my, it seems the previous foreshadowing was all in vain. Who told you? Did you read the relevant entry?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, actually, I have never seen this place. I just guessed it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You look a bit embarrassed now,\" Ma Ma Liang said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is it because you guessed the answer thirty minutes ahead of schedule, feeling like you are showing off to me, right? Moreno, look at me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreno did as she was told.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ma Ma Liang: \"Continue to maintain this level, don't slow down because of me or anyone else, this is crucial.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Getting praise from her superior, the nervousness in Moreno's heart disappeared, and she took a step forward:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then can you tell me why we came here?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, a logical reasoning concerning life and death quietly started in a corner of her heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"……Can you tell me why we came here?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Listening to Ma Ma Liang's question, Bai Bai Xuan remained silent for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She stood atop this black tombstone, gazing out at the vast forest. The sea of trees, lush and green under the sunlight, now displayed colors reminiscent of Prussian military uniforms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amidst the increasingly dense sound of rain, an indescribable silence was rendered, along with a formless, heavy pressure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The despair and struggle of the long-extinct, never spoken aloud, found an outlet in the rain, tightly surrounding the two of them, silently observing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the driving rain, Bai Bai Xuan spoke:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The problem is that everyone in this world who can reliably access high-level memory-reinforcement medical treatment is here, yet the human resources of the Anti-Memetics Division remain stretched thin.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We have forty colleagues in total, including you and me, but these forty pairs of eyes can hardly cover every corner of the world.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There are too many parts of this world that have never been correctly understood by humanity, which is undoubtedly a heavy shackle for all anti-memetic research.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Anti-memetic biology, anti-memetic paleontology, anti-memetic cosmology, anti-memetic archaeology... these disciplines remain blank slates to this day.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fortunately, we have discovered one or two city ruins of this civilization.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"These cities have become ruins on a physical level, and are wrapped in heavy anti-memetic effects, making them almost impossible to study, even for us.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Those massive and simple existences, like this boulder, although relatively well-preserved, we speculate that this may be one of the last creations they made before heading toward extinction.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Huge, simple things, like this stone, are better preserved, but even so... we believe this stone is among the last things they built before extinction.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They were once human, perhaps possessing advanced technology surpassing our own, living tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of years ago; we do not know the exact time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They were once human. They may have possessed more advanced technology than we do. They existed tens of thousands of years ago; perhaps hundreds of thousands of years ago, we cannot be sure.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It is particularly difficult to accurately judge what kind of disaster they encountered, because their entire cultural memetic spectrum suffered devastating irradiation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Their core cultural concepts, the things they created, their symbolic meanings, and the values they held dear can never be known or proclaimed again.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We speculate that some kind of concept invaded their civilization, and they were powerless to resist—a complex ideological composite, a memetic-composite world-ending scenario.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Bai Xuan paused, letting the rain continue to beat against the earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the brief stillness, one could almost hear the whispers of that ancient civilization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So, we just forgot like that?\" Ma Ma Liang asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The rest of us, who survived that catastrophe, evolved into modern humans—you, me, and every individual living in the present...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We just shift our gaze, just like that, and 'move on' with such understatement?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That's right.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Bai Xuan's answer was as sharp as a knife.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is a war, an endless war between humanity and the anomalous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In every individual battle, there will always be some who die early, and some who manage to survive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the living are by no means cowardly; together with all those who have perished, they strive to protect their civilization, to protect 'normality.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ma Ma Liang's figure swayed slightly; a sudden wave of dizziness, conversely, brought a moment of relief to her heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After recovering slightly, she also walked to the edge of the tombstone, looking at the stern-faced forest below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So... we can easily forget those who died? Is this what you wanted to show me? You want me to remember all of this?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Bai Xuan: \"That's right, remember it all. This is the first lesson you need to learn today—humans can forget anything.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Forgetting some things is nothing, because we will all die one day; humans are always limited in the face of the universe.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But some things must be remembered. Our memory is crucial. You must record some things so that you can remember them yourself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ma Ma Liang nodded solemnly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The torrential rain forced her to take shelter under a canopy, using the tabletop as a temporary workstation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite this, a few raindrops leaped over the barrier, dampening her notes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wrote furiously, her handwriting messy and complex, with no shortage of large-scale erasures and deletions. She was pondering how she would react if she were reading these words for the first time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A moment later, Bai Bai Xuan also came under the canopy to escape the rain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ma Ma Liang's eyes were fixed on her notes, her heart seemingly not yet ready to accept the answer, and she asked Bai Bai Xuan a follow-up question:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then, what about the second thing?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Bai Xuan said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Perhaps, in their civilization, there existed an organization similar to our Foundation, perhaps even possessing a branch like the Anti-Memetics Division.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If that were true, their Foundation and their Anti-Memetics Division failed to successfully protect their world.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is a massive reality. This is a massive Foundation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There are countless Keter-class projects here waiting to be solved, and various Keter-class scenarios appear frequently. Therefore, doomsday crises might be even more troublesome for other departments.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Most of the work we hire you to do will be basic research, including safe laboratory work... and, indeed, this state has persisted for thousands of years, perhaps even longer.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But the future may not necessarily be so stable. This crisis might eventually become our challenge.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Returning to the initial question, we know that anti-memetic wars have occurred, and perhaps there are more we are not yet aware of.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And now, undoubtedly, a new anti-memetic war is brewing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Facing Bai Bai Xuan's words, Ma Ma Liang was speechless for a moment, her face showing shock and collapse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To this, Bai Bai Xuan did not feel surprised, because every new member of the Anti-Memetics Division experiences a similar emotional impact when learning the truth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This heavy responsibility is often difficult for newcomers to bear, but it should be so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Welcome to the Anti-Memetics Division,\" Bai Bai Xuan said calmly. \"This is your first day here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ma Ma Liang buried her head in writing for a long time, while Bai Bai Xuan waited in silence nearby. The rain was heavy, showing no signs of stopping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ma Ma Liang finally broke the silence and asked: \"But what is that? What is that concept?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"9429-A,\" Bai Bai Xuan said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As early as the seventies, we isolated this memetic composite and placed it on a stone slab in a room on the second basement level in Vegas.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nowadays, it has basically become harmless because its heterogeneity in contemporary human culture is too strong to produce significant influence. You can imagine it like ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'll show it to you another day.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ma Ma Liang frowned: \"You mean, it's impossible for it to regain its original influence?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In that primitive form, the possibility is minimal.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, Ma Ma Liang seemed to see something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She raised her hand and pointed to a spot in the distant sky. Bai Bai Xuan followed her finger, but there was only a gloomy sky and continuous rain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What do you see? It is said that under high doses of memory reinforcement, some people claim to see ghosts.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But I personally reserve judgment on the veracity of these statements...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ma Ma Liang said in a tense tone:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, that's not what a ghost looks like.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It looks more like... a gaunt, large beast, a monster, or a huge pillar made of spiders, at least twice the height of this stone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's coming toward us. Is this normal?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No.\" Bai Bai Xuan quickly opened the checklist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What is that thing?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's not clear yet.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is this just a means to scare new employees?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, I assure you, I am absolutely not lying to you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When an anti-memetic shielding entity has the hideous appearance Ma Ma Liang described, the possibility of it harboring goodwill toward humans is almost zero.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They need support!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Bai Bai Xuan discovered that her phone had lost signal, and the only way to communicate seemed to be through written messages.\u003C\u002Fp>",1508,"2026-06-14T04:01:53.953Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","99d26f4bd2c89c8e339391136af9a5dcc6a87f32d8131e64748c9167cc3f0bb3","star-rail-i-established-the-foundation-at-the-st-chapter-616","star-rail-i-established-the-foundation-at-the-st-chapter-614",641,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstar-rail-i-established-the-foundation-at-the-st-cover.jpg"]