[{"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-629":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Star Rail: I Established the Foundation at the Start",{"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},1928658,2626,"Chapter 629","star-rail-i-established-the-foundation-at-the-st-chapter-629",629,"\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dr. Hughes stared at the ceiling, his gaze trying to penetrate the heavy fog lying before the fate of humanity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ironically, the most feasible way to do this is to develop an artificial meme.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We will weave its core, infuse it with the meaningless and harmful concepts of memetic research, supplement it with religious fanaticism or pseudoscience toxins, and spread it to the general public.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After it subtly takes hold for a year, we will naturally destroy all related laboratories ourselves.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Unless the Anti-Memetics Division’s intuitive immunity to internal threats is strong enough to withstand this pressure.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Interesting scenario... even if we don't go down this path, we should definitely consider practicing it in a simulation to see what the results would be—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Dr. Hughes,\" Ma Ma Liang interrupted Hughes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No. Evasion is useless. 3125 could be introduced from the outside, or it could arise spontaneously...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And as far as we know, 3125, just as we predicted, has already descended into reality.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Look at these precursor anomalies; we are in the so-called omen—He is close at hand.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What she was talking about was the prediction model Hughes himself had created in a previous meeting, the model even he himself had never studied in depth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, at this moment, Hughes understood it perfectly, even though he wished he never had to understand all of this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His fear stemmed from elsewhere, completely different from ordinary people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Faced with such a pure alien threat, most people might have already been crushed by fear and surrendered, but he would not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Roughly browsing the file of \"Containment-3125,\" Hughes only felt like he had fallen into a nightmare:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would mercilessly reshape human civilization into a form of existence he could not imagine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was familiar with most of the anomalous files in the Foundation’s database and could be called a top anomaly containment expert.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For those scientific fields where he did not yet possess the talent for insight, there were always trusted colleagues bearing the heavy responsibility.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For them, those anomalies were just mysteries that had been unlocked, Pandora’s boxes that had been sealed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only this time was different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had ideas, but he could not conduct research on 3125; as long as he tried to understand the whole problem, He would rip him open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He needed to design and build a cage without being able to study the problem itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had to be inside this cage under construction, and he had to include the entire universe within it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hughes looked around the walls of the room—they seemed to be able to hold up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This sturdy fortress built by the giant beast seemed to satisfy all his requirements for a cage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"… We could perhaps choose to spend the rest of our lives hiding in this narrow space,\" he whispered, \"And our entire species as well.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let 'Containment-3125' run rampant uncontrollably like a plague; I declare this to be the outside of the containment unit.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Done.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silence, no response.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even more genius idea! As long as I declare that I won, then I am always winning!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Instead of this, it would be better to be more thorough, declare a D-class personnel as 'Containment-3125,' and then execute him, so the Foundation has defeated 'Containment-3125,' and the human world has returned to peace.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, not direct enough; just declare 'Containment-3125' and its creations to be human, and the Foundation only needs to protect the newly defined humans.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sleeping when encountering difficulties, taking photos when the house is on fire? Barbecuing where you fall, and lying down by the way?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You might as well declare the 'Lord Ravager' as an Arbiter of 'Preservation,' and then declare that Nanook of 'Destruction' does not exist.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I declare that your declaration is valid!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I declare that your declaration of his declaration is validly invalid!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I declare... (Qian Zhao's)\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But I think we can't do it,\" he admitted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If 'Containment-3125' is already living in the consensus reality, the game is already over.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don't care if the Apollyon classification is dead or alive; according to my own view, this anomaly is actually uncontainable.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bartholomew Hughes said while shaking his head, lifting his free hand to tap his temple repeatedly, but hitting the embryo several times; the little guy’s eyes looking at his fist became less friendly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the embryo rolled its eyes several times, making Hughes feel a bit dizzy, he sighed long, as if his energy and faith had been drained:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My team and I might have said different things in previous times... I might have seen the answer in the wrong state of mind.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Each of us is constantly changing, and our ideas are constantly changing, aren't they...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No,\" O5-8 said, \"You are consistent.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In that case, is everything coming to an end here?\" Dr. Hughes’s voice became lower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>O5-8: \"The Foundation’s goal is protection.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In most cases, this requires controlling and containing anomalous entities, establishing special containment procedures that can monitor these entities, safely and permanently.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We are in principle opposed to active neutralization, trying to avoid acts of destruction; everyone here is aware of this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"However, senior Foundation staff like me also have the right to ignore this principle in a few specific circumstances, and I am exercising that power.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have determined that in our reality, 'Containment-3125' cannot coexist with human civilization—we must completely eliminate 'Containment-3125'.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Does this change your view?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Special neutralization measures...\" Hughes’s face was pale, his expression even uglier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I understand; in general concepts, neutralization might be easier than simple containment,\" O5-8 added.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>As O5-8’s voice fell, the entire conference room fell into a long silence; Ma Ma Liang began to drink coffee, and Graves and Michael Li sat quietly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hughes looked at this underground emperor with deep eyes, then looked up at the ceiling again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at this ceiling, it really is a ceiling, and this light really is a light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn't understand the meaning of the three directors and one O5 present; it was nothing more than throwing the responsibility of saving all of humanity onto him, asking him to give a final solution, or to execute a certain mission.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But such a responsibility was truly a bit too big.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His thoughts gradually drifted away, returning to the day he first joined the Foundation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When I first joined the Foundation, I asked my mentor, who had retired a few years ago, 'What is the largest anomaly we have ever contained?'\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He told me that he once heard an old rumor that the Christian religion was not always monotheistic.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"At first, there were three Gods with capitalized initials. And at some point in the last 150 years, the Foundation slew two of them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I believed him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The people present looked at him with interest, not knowing why this genius of the Anti-Memetics Division would bring up the distant past, and why he would start from the God of the Christian religion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Dr. Hughes had no desire or thought to explain; the embryo on his face was shaking its cyclops eye slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I was very young and inexperienced at that time, and very naive, revering the Foundation, revering my mentor, thinking the Foundation was omnipotent.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A few years later, when I looked back on these words, I realized he was just bullshitting me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Twenty years have passed now, and modern memetic composite technology is billions of times more advanced than it was back then, thirty percent of which came from my hands.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I check what the Anti-Memetics Alliance is dealing with every quarter; I know better than anyone what is possible and what is impossible on Earth, and...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dr. Hughes spoke quieter and quieter, with fewer and fewer ideas; tracing back from the beginning of his Foundation career didn't bring him enough ideas, and the ordinary days didn't have much content worth referencing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The four high-level officials held their breath, hoping to get a clue from his mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Hughes’s thoughts were as chaotic as hemp; he ultimately failed to squeeze out a single word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt he was framed in the wrong thinking; perhaps he was resisting a certain truth deep in his heart, or perhaps he was unwilling to face a certain response strategy that made him shrink back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At such times, just ask the past self for help.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What did I say? Tell me directly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your team believes that although 'Containment-3125' is the most powerful memetic composite threat we have encountered so far, it does not mean it is at the peak of the system,\" O5-8 said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Theoretically, it is possible to synthesize an anti-memetic concept that can surpass 'Containment-3125' by an order of magnitude, designed specifically to counteract its influence, and completely under our control.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using one meme to counteract another meme—this line of thinking is undoubtedly feasible; a concept can be killed by a better concept.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But humanity doesn't have much time left; can the Anti-Memetics Division, no, the Foundation, synthesize this anti-meme before the world-destroying 3125 descends?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This... is indeed... possible.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This move is extremely dangerous, will consume massive resources, and requires ten to twenty years of uninterrupted, dedicated research...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But this work will be extremely dangerous, consume unimaginable resources, and require ten to twenty years of actual time of uninterrupted work...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"To prevent being spied on by 3125, we must be completely isolated from the outside universe throughout the process... We also need a laboratory as big as a launch tower...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wait...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, a flash of inspiration, his thoughts were like the night sky illuminated by lightning, instantly becoming clear.\u003C\u002Fp>",1591,"2026-06-14T04:01:53.953Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","9e15f55f851b6e221cec05985e7816774d0e553b006821e0452cd6f83c0513e5","star-rail-i-established-the-foundation-at-the-st-chapter-630","star-rail-i-established-the-foundation-at-the-st-chapter-628",641,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstar-rail-i-established-the-foundation-at-the-st-cover.jpg"]