[{"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-630":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},1928659,2626,"Chapter 630","star-rail-i-established-the-foundation-at-the-st-chapter-630",630,"\u003Cp>Hughes suddenly realized—he had been working for the Foundation for a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this was definitely not the first time they had discussed the response strategy for \"Containment-3125\"; he must have made such a request before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s already built!\" he blurted out, his eyes flashing with excitement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The laboratory is repaired! It was repaired twenty years ago!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And we secretly sent the top researchers, and now it’s a great success!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So, we are gathered here today to launch the anti-memetic plan!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Because we discovered how to deploy the anti-meme! This is great!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This will be a historic breakthrough! I guessed right, didn't I!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He turned to look at his companions, his gaze full of expectation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what greeted Hughes was not applause, nor the salute of victory declaring the war won, but the gravity well named reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hughes, on the first day you joined the Foundation, someone told you that one day, you might have to pay a huge or even total price without warning, just to protect those crucial existences.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ma Ma Liang said in a deep voice: \"You have spent thirty years here, always knowing that this moment would come sooner or later.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hughes’s heart sank, as if dark clouds were obscuring the sun; he looked at Director Michael Li, waiting for his response.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Michael Li spoke slowly: \"You are right, the laboratory has indeed been built.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In the past forty-eight hours, the construction team completed all the work, accepted memory erasure, and has been disbanded.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But, the real challenge has just begun, and this is exactly the topic we are discussing today.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hughes’s heart skipped a beat: \"My people went there.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s right, your people went there; they are already on standby in the bunker,\" Michael Li said calmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We have already woven a perfect fake death for you. Now, you need to change your name and go underground.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Now? No, I... I’m not quite...\" Hughes struggled a bit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your team participated voluntarily. I personally provided them with psychological counseling; they are all people worth trusting,\" Michael Li comforted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hell!\" Hughes said in a bad tone, \"Am I also a volunteer?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ma Ma Liang wanted to dissuade him: \"Hughes!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hughes took a deep breath and slapped the paper in his hand onto the table: \"Any version of me that agreed to this before was a goddamn idiot! I want to completely overturn his decision!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is simply imprisonment! I can't stand spending twenty years underground in the dark! I don't want to be buried alive by work! I have...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His voice stopped abruptly, his gaze crossing the table, focusing blankly into the distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hughes wanted to say: \"I have family.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s just... this reason couldn't be used.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His sister was still alive, fighting side-by-side with him in the Foundation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he couldn't talk to her, and she couldn't talk to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was naturally no need to say an excuse that didn't even need to be refuted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hughes knew well that the four Foundation high-level officials in front of him who wanted to send him to a place no one could find must have prepared various reasons in advance, blocking his retreat from all aspects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a real strangulation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was very familiar with this set, because he used it too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This... success probability is really too low, time is completely not on our side,\" Hughes tried to change strategies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You know, it’s 2008 now, and 'Containment-3125' is expected to descend at the end of the 2010s—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The success rate is very gratifying,\" Graves said with a firm tone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Can you specifically define this 'gratifying'?\" Hughes pressed on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Higher than fifty percent. For you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Graves said while pulling out a thick stack of reports, clearly to support his point of view.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hughes’s gaze swept over those documents, and the name Bartholomew Hughes was clearly printed on the cover.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damn it, a fifty percent chance of winning is rare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he were one of the others in the room, he would probably be unable to wait to grasp this glimmer of life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But damn it, he wasn't the one sitting at the table directing people; he was the one placed on the table to be ordered around!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damn it!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You were the one who urged us that we must take action,\" Graves seemed not to see Hughes’s expression, continuing to push the topic, stifling Dr. Hughes’s words in one move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You said you must be that core. You also said you were ready to sacrifice.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He opened the file, turned to the last page, and the embryo’s eyeball gaze accurately locked onto the target paragraph:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let me quote your own words:\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"'Containment-3125' represents a threat on a universal scale.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It threatens the reality adjacent to our reality. It threatens the micro-universe within our macro-universe. It threatens the universe embedded in our universe as fiction—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just consider this a form of imprisonment, as long as it works,\" O5-8 decided to open the skylight and speak clearly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since soft tactics wouldn't work, he had to use hard ones; if that didn't work, he would use force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you are willing, you can of course withdraw your consent. But regardless, the place you are going next is, and only is, the bunker.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hughes could never have imagined how the words spoken from O5-8’s 36.5°C mouth could be as cold and hard as iron and stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was he a ruminating iron-eating beast?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hughes looked around again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything fell into O5-8’s eyes, and what Hughes was thinking was clearly revealed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The door is locked, Dr. Hughes,\" O5-8 said, \"But you cannot go out of this pass.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fine, Hughes didn't think his door-opening command would be effective with an O5 present.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And, he knew the strength of the walls in this ghost place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hughes didn't think his old bones could punch a path out with his amateur martial arts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What is the cover-up accident?\" Hughes softened slightly, \"What are you planning to do?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A helium leak occurred in S167-B03-312,\" Graves answered concisely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The leak is real. A corpse that is difficult to distinguish from the real one has been prepared at the scene. We even modified your public itinerary for this, ensuring you were guided to that room, not here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As for...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He is stalling for time,\" O5-8 ignored Hughes’s full-faced resentment, signaling to Graves and other members, \"He doesn't need to know all the details.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hughes: \"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Can you old people not target me so much?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The previous me ≠ the current me!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Can this Foundation still be saved? Coming to cheat, coming to ambush an old comrade in his fifties.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Name other potential candidates,\" Michael Li said in a serious tone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Think carefully, in this world, besides you, who else has a greater chance of solving this problem? Besides you, who else can we send?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Being asked this by his superior, Hughes fell into silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this world, it seemed there really was no one who could surpass him in the field of anti-memetics.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, he was the absolute authority in this field; to defeat \"Containment-3125\" by deploying anti-memetics, he must participate in it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is there anyone else? Even if they are unwilling?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Who else has the technical capabilities we need? Besides you, who else is not in the bunker?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seemingly to force Hughes to recognize reality and accept this arduous, inhumane mission, Michael Li asked continuously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the midst of these continuous questions, the world seemed to undergo some subtle change, seeming to appear a slight tilt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Michael Li seemed a bit excited and stood up, but this undoubtedly aroused Ma Ma Liang’s vigilance; she scanned the surroundings and gripped the armrest of the chair tightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She held a fountain pen without a cap tightly in her hand, seeming to have suddenly recalled something important.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>O5-8 looked at Ma Ma Liang in confusion, puzzled by her unusual behavior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only Hughes, deep in the vortex and surrounded by the storm, was completely unaware of this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was silent, searching for possible names in his mind over and over again, some subordinate who might belong to him, someone who might come from the Anti-Memetics Alliance, someone who might come from a journal author’s signature...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But one name after another was rejected by him, and even Michael Li and Ma Ma Liang Wheeler and others were denied by him one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Only me,\" he recognized reality and sighed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Only you, that’s enough,\" Michael Li showed a satisfied smile, a weird smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wait a minute!\" Ma Ma Liang suddenly spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But her words were clearly useless.\u003C\u002Fp>",1427,"2026-06-14T04:01:53.953Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","fdd458362bc62fab90fc26e32d3e42ea7b8492fbe68a9574c032c90e2c89b2dc","star-rail-i-established-the-foundation-at-the-st-chapter-631","star-rail-i-established-the-foundation-at-the-st-chapter-629",641,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstar-rail-i-established-the-foundation-at-the-st-cover.jpg"]