[{"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-637":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},1928666,2626,"Chapter 637","star-rail-i-established-the-foundation-at-the-st-chapter-637",637,"\u003Cp>On the left stood giant automated production units up to six meters high, like semi-circular behemoths, with all kinds of trash scattered around:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>discarded furniture, rusted tools, empty food cans, broken hard foam bricks, broken circuit boards, and rags.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the right were hundreds of empty shipping containers, extending along the concave wall of the vault.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adam walked through them for about ten minutes before finding one that still contained raw materials.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In front, a three-meter-high steel barrier stood, its arc like open arms, almost embracing the entire underground space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Above the wall, a sleeping giant creature rose and fell slowly in the dim yellow light, looming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adam could only see the outline of its back at this moment, a smooth, wet black, dotted with emerald luster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was round like a ball, as if a scoop of liver ice cream had been carved from a two-thousand-meter-tall giant and poured into a huge petri dish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adam didn't notice the pipes over a meter thick extending from the automated factory, connecting to the edge of the petri dish, continuously transporting all kinds of necessary liquids.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He also didn't see the high towers arranged around the creature spraying transparent mist in all directions, shrouding its body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the ceiling, house-sized ventilation equipment hung on both sides, continuously making a deafening roar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only, there was no one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adam cleared his throat and shouted as loudly as he dared:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Excuse me... is Dr. Bartholomew Hughes here?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only response was the roar of the ventilators and the slow rising and falling of the creature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He raised his voice slightly and tried again:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm looking for a machine here, called—'Non-Reality Expander'?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The giant creature woke up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A large amount of liquid surged from the petri dish, turbulent, even splashing onto the walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It climbed the wall clumsily, and as its body was gradually revealed, its structure became clearer:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Except for the thick fins, it was a huge, almost spherical biological mass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although it seemed to have no eyes, Adam felt a gaze fall on him, making his hair stand on end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This situation made Adam feel that something was wrong, so he turned around, intending to leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, as he turned, he was shocked to find that the airtight door behind him had closed, as silently as when it opened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Uh...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adam was worried that too much noise would attract the monster's attention, so he could only walk toward the door as quickly as possible, taking out his access card again when he reached the card reader.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just at this moment, a thin red line suddenly appeared, wrapping around his wrist like a snake, preventing him from continuing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adam struggled to break free, only to find that this thread was both slimy and hard, as if it contained bones; it clearly didn't want to let him go.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked back, but couldn't see the creature's body clearly, nor did he know where the thread extended from.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this time, the unknown creature finally opened its eyes, and a single eye with a diameter of ten meters suddenly appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This eye had a bright pink iris and four rugged black pupils.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment, crazy noise poured directly into Adam's mind, like the buzzing of mosquitoes in stereo surround.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He heard the monster ask:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Do you have it?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Have what?\" Adam responded in confusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[No Doctor. No machine.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a somewhat inexplicable reply, a thicker thread shot out instantly, precisely sticking to the access card in Adam's hand, skillfully peeling it from his fingers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thread retracted quickly, holding the access card high, facing the creature's huge pupil.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Wheeler]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The creature's tone showed obvious fluctuations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Uh,\" Adam stammered, \"this is purely a coincidence—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thread suddenly tightened, lifting Adam's arm and hanging him in mid-air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He struggled desperately, but his vision was obscured by dazzling pink light and shadow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, he screamed and fell into the largest of Bartholomew Hughes's four pupils, as if swallowed into an endless abyss.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"It's broken, I actually think Dr. Hughes in this form is a bit cute; should I go see a doctor?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, dear, I suggest you go to the psychiatry department next door to register.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Uh... does Dr. Hughes have no sense of pain? Even if his eyes are hard, it wouldn't feel good to be stepped on like this by someone, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Maybe Dr. Hughes has some special hobbies? After all, it's normal for geniuses to have some points that are different from ordinary people.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I suspect you are implying the Genius Society, and I have evidence.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"However, Dr. Hughes's way of appearing is indeed quite oppressive; if you change to a solemn BGM, draw a blood bar, and write 'Bartholomew Hughes', you can throw it into the game as a BOSS.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time goes back to before 3125 fully arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After staying away from the death scene of Site-41, Dr. Hughes quickly found an exit to leave, found a drone, and manipulated it to move rapidly toward Site-167.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And before this, he had never experienced such special air traffic—being bumped in a petri dish, hanging under a launch rack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until entering the plain and arriving at Site-167, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then found a huge hole leading to the underground between two buildings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Site-167 was also destroyed...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dr. Hughes in the germ state was originally thinking about how to communicate with the employees of Site-167, so as not to let them treat him as an escaped containment object.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But looking at the building complex that had been destroyed in a large area, Dr. Hughes felt that he didn't need to worry about this point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pop... he spat a bubble, manipulated the drone to go deep, and finally was able to see what the bunker in the mouths of O5-8 and Marion Wheeler looked like.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This bunker was empty, with only an empty shell and a pile of uncleaned construction waste.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What does it mean? How much of what Michael Lee said is true?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dr. Hughes wanted to scratch his head, but only raised a few tentacles, and used too much force to hit his huge single eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"￥#@%￥#... This body is really hell.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having just experienced being shot and resurrected in an alien form, Dr. Hughes only felt exhausted in body and mind; he decisively treated everything Michael 633 Lee said before as fart, and planned to wait until the situation was better to study which ones were true.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, where am I?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dr. Hughes suddenly reacted; in the bunker, besides the research equipment that should have been full, there were his capable subordinates, and he didn't even see a white coat here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Various signs point to one conclusion:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Michael Lee had long been influenced by 3125, and might even have actively betrayed the Foundation, defected to that Apollyon-class containment object, and became a traitor to the Foundation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tsk, what a headache-inducing situation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He did promote the construction of the bunker, but it was to completely destroy the possibility of humanity resisting 3125.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He came forward as a department head, mobilized excellent agents of the Anti-Memetics Division, and secretly killed them; and due to the particularity of the Anti-Memetics Division, no one would question why they disappeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the research equipment that should have been here, it is the same reason.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is the first thing that makes Dr. Hughes sad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soaking in nutrient solution, Dr. Hughes looked at the empty and dead bunker, his heart gradually becoming irritable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before his mood could get a little better, Dr. Hughes suddenly remembered something again, and this made his mood instantly fall into the abyss, free fall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn... I didn't take body tissue.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without his own body cells, he couldn't clone his own body, and couldn't transfer his consciousness out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, he was probably going to stay in this body for a lifetime.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"@%￥#... This is really over.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is the biggest mistake he has ever made, and it may also be the mistake with the most far-reaching impact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At a secret meeting, Marion had warned him that in order to guard the Foundation and protect human civilization, he might have to pay an extremely tragic price, and even sacrifice himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dr. Hughes was no stranger to such remarks; if one day he needed to make a noble sacrifice, he would not resist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At least, he believed so before today.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Foundation awards a batch of Foundation Star medals every year to commend those brave soldiers who sacrificed themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But how many more agents and researchers does the Foundation (bffi) sacrifice every year than just that little bit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some people, involved in memetic or anti-memetic hazards, even their own existence is erased.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And there are more people, because of the secrecy of the tasks they perform and the confidentiality of the research they engage in, their real names must be hidden, and even their deaths must be concealed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, building psychological construction and the day actually coming are clearly two different feelings.\u003C\u002Fp>",1500,"2026-06-14T04:01:53.953Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","354e069ce18a7412124aefb12b468a41449e7b15b850766aefd7dbc32f0763f3","star-rail-i-established-the-foundation-at-the-st-chapter-638","star-rail-i-established-the-foundation-at-the-st-chapter-636",641,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstar-rail-i-established-the-foundation-at-the-st-cover.jpg"]