Chapter 690

Fu Xuan flipped through this stack of documents back and forth several times, and soon reached a conclusion—

She still couldn't calculate it.

Analyzing the Foundation's true intentions from a pile of ancient information whose time of origin was unknown, and deducing the Foundation's future movements, had already exceeded the limits of her abilities.

Not to mention that she also had to break through the Foundation's mysterious protection that was immune to divination.

"It seems I can only comfort myself by saying that the Foundation in this universe is not the Foundation in the files."

Fu Xuan leaned over the desk, arranging the files in numerical order, attempting to separate which anomalies belonged to this universe, while using the descriptions within to speculate on what exactly the Foundation was trying to protect.

"But there's still that same problem... the numbering of these files cannot reflect the time they were contained, and the ways the Foundation treated anomalies in different periods were also clearly different..."

Qingque listened from the side, already lost in thought, recalling yesterday's divine move... that was a Great Bamboo Forest!

"Although O5-7 and O5-4 claimed they wanted to make anomalous technology public to defend the 'uncertainty' of humanity's future... this also means that humanity will face the terrifying threats within the 'anomalies' head-on."

Fu Xuan was still analyzing.

"Just the footage of the struggle between supreme divinities from a few days ago could cause large-scale mental shock across the galaxy... unless the entire human civilization becomes gods, no, becomes supreme divinities... and they would still have to be top-tier supreme divinities to truly explore the world outside of 'normality' freely."

Fu Xuan pondered for a while, and even began to feel that all of this was just another banner raised by some members of the Foundation who were dissatisfied with O5-1 using the cause to satisfy personal desires and were starting their own operation.

If one wants to rebel against the old order, one must put forward a new order.

Since the Foundation is the spokesperson for "normality," "The Insurgency" is the embodiment of "uncertainty."

But is all of this really okay?

Fu Xuan was somewhat doubtful about whether the "Deus ex Machina" of this world had ever been activated since its construction was completed.

Could they really not know what terrible consequences would be caused if an anomaly harmful to humans went out of control?

Files of one apocalypse after another were right at her fingertips; she didn't even need to look through them to recall those desperate scenes.

But without a doubt, the Foundation's pathological insistence on "normality" is also problematic... the Foundation in this universe is better after all...

Making anomaly files public, maintaining basic order...

Fu Xuan put down the documents, raised her hand to rub her forehead, and immediately saw Qingque, whose gaze was drifting.

This girl...

【File? -011】

【Laplace Project Agreement】

【Description: The target referred to by this agreement, "Anomaly-Laplace," has currently been identified as humanity's cognition of uncertainty itself.】

【It has currently been confirmed that this cognition is the source of all anomalies from a semantic and philosophical perspective.】

【Humanity's cognition of uncertainty will trigger a series of subsequent behaviors, and its development of this uncertainty often causes unpredictable consequences that deviate from normality, a considerable portion of which could be devastating to the continuation of normality.】

【Considering the huge risks caused by the above situation, the Foundation has resolved to bring humanity's cognition of uncertainty itself into containment.】

【The detailed content of this containment project is listed as follows. This project will be named "Project Laplace" in accordance with the Laplace's Demon theory.】

【I. Management of the project itself and authorized personnel】

【This project document will be the only project document that completely narrates Project Laplace.】

【Members participating in the project must have Foundation Level 5 clearance or higher. The project document itself must be read under the authorization of the Overseer Council, and copies should be destroyed after being read.】

【II. Management of the project】

【The Foundation takes protecting normality as its first principle. Any other considerations may give way to this principle.】

【Therefore, to achieve the corresponding goals, the following measures are considered valuable:】

【Closely monitor the progress of technology in non-anomalous research organizations, and slow down the speed of scientific development when necessary through means such as releasing interference information;】

【Release remarks favorable to the maintenance of normality to the public, and promote the dissemination of relevant information;】

【Execute clearing operations when necessary;】

【Other valuable possible measures.】

【Considering that this project is the primary target of the hostile organization "The Insurgency," and that the public disclosure of the project's content may trigger huge controversy, managing the project with a single number is currently considered unwise.】

【The project's description and specific containment measures will be listed separately in six documents from Foundation Headquarters, RU Branch, G Branch, F Branch, JP Branch, and C Branch.】

【The project numbers of the six documents will be changed irregularly, and at the same time, for ease of searching, the series of documents will be marked with a unified, randomly generated "mark code."】

【The "mark code" will be changed every 30 days, and all participants of "Project Laplace" will be informed of the code in a timely manner.】

【Among them:】

【The headquarters document will be designated as the first document in the sequence, detailing the project's characteristics, threat level, and the reasons for it being considered an anomaly;】

【The RU Branch, G Branch, F Branch, and JP Branch documents will each involve specific sub-projects of "Project Laplace."】

【The purpose of these projects is to eliminate the project's influence while avoiding the use of the final containment measure as much as possible.】

【The C Branch document will be designated as the last document in the sequence.】

【This document will not involve any description of the project, and its security level will be set to Level 6.】

【When this document is invalidated due to Overseer Council orders or attacks by hostile organizations, the final plan will begin execution.】

【This plan expects to launch a clearing operation led by the Foundation against non-Foundation members.】

【All currently known valuable anomalies will be released to assist in the execution of this plan.】

【The above steps will be the "final containment" measure for the project.】

【File? -012】

【Speech by the first Chief Engineer at the "Chaos Insurgency" founding meeting】

【To all colleagues gathered here:】

【I am honored, but also regretful, to be giving this speech here.】

【We once felt proud to be members of the Foundation. We fought in the shadows so that humanity outside the veil could enjoy a "normal" life in the light.】

【We firmly believed that our mission was to keep anomalies outside of normality.】

【However, I believe—not just me, but any member here, and even any worker in the Foundation, must have thought about such a question:】

【"What is an 'anomaly'?"】

【Yes, we have never thought about this question deeply.】

【We once thought that an "anomaly" was something outside of "normality" that violated common sense. However, is that really the case?】

【Was vernünftig ist, das ist wirklich; und was wirklich ist, das ist vernünftig.】

【What is rational is real; and what is real is rational.】

【This is the assertion Hegel gave in "Elements of the Philosophy of Right." Beyond anomalies there are more anomalies; outside of determined things there is always the uncertain.】

【We can say that we are resisting factors that threaten human existence, but let us ask ourselves, have we really only done this?】

【Fortunately, we have avoided the abyss over the past twenty-plus years and have accomplished great work.】

【These works have outlined for us the existence we once risked our lives to guard, the normality we speak of, and what kind of monster it actually is.】

【It is like a puppeteer behind the human world, pulling all the strings to control the movement of human society. This string is the Foundation.】

【It only hopes that human society develops within its known, deterministic connotations. Any uncertainty, any unknown, any possibility that exceeds what science has already explored, cannot be accommodated by "normality."】

【Think about this question: if we could give a definite answer to every single problem, and we could only walk toward a known demise according to a determined fate, what a terrible situation that would be?】

【If this world had no uncertainty, no "not necessarily," what difference would we have from machines manufactured according to designed blueprints?】

【Can we—still call ourselves human?】

【I have been studying quantum mechanics for decades, and I can say that my whole life has been spent fighting in this field.】

【One of the greatest changes quantum mechanics has brought to physics and the world is breaking Newton's mechanical determinism and introducing variables like randomness into the world.】

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【The basic units that make up this world carry randomness themselves; this is the law it follows.】

【Uncertainty—"not necessarily"—is itself the rule of this universe. Maintaining normality and mechanically keeping a steady fate is not an act of conforming to natural laws.】

【And for a system as complex as the universe, even the slightest change in initial conditions will cause its future development to undergo earth-shattering changes.】

【This also means that our fate, the fate of the universe, was not destined the moment the universe was born.】

【Humanity's mission should be to explore and master its own future.】

【Since normality is "normal," it must contain a kind of certainty, and this certainty is naturally defined by the word "normal."】

【However, what human development needs is not an unchanging greenhouse; humanity needs to explore the unknown.】

【Even if the uncertainty we call an anomaly is paved with thorns and may have storms, only when we see and explore it with our own eyes can we truly understand where humanity's future lies.】

【The only reason an anomaly is called an anomaly is that it is outside of normality, yet normality does not represent everything.】

【Since anomalies exist in the world, it means that the rules of the world accept anomalies themselves.】

【And if we want to truly control our fate in our own hands, we must understand, contact, and develop these concepts we once called anomalies, rather than locking them in dark, sunless containment rooms.】