Chapter 959 - Chapter 959: Chapter 593: Mental Training_1
Chapter 959: Chapter 593: Mental Training_1
After the deputy officer left, Quentin Cooper spent four hours creating a document.
The document contained a detailed plan for the simulation evaluation and customized requirements for the new evaluation system, as well as his personal speculation on the overall strategic direction.
Two hours later, the document was delivered to Harrison Clark.
Star teased, “This guy has guts, daring to give advice on strategy.”
Harrison Clark shook his head, “Actually, his ideas coincide with mine. I also think the Compound-Eyed Observer will change their strategy.”
He and Star briefly analyzed their own conjectures.
The confrontation between the two civilizations had reached a deadlock under the secret guidance of humanity.
Both parties had been entangled at the front for more than thirty years, showing some of their cards.
It seemed that humans were constantly retreating and at a disadvantage, but the overall situation was still under their control.
In these thirty years, humans’ understanding of actual energy, virtual energy, and intermediate values became increasingly in-depth and sophisticated, and the research and conversion of various conventional fields such as antimatter, dark matter (energy), triple space, basic physics, life sciences, mass-energy conversion, engineering, explosion physics, artificial intelligence, and the basic quantum rules of the universe also became more profound.
The progress made by the entire civilization in these thirty years exceeded the total of the previous two hundred years.
It was not just the efforts of humanity itself; the pressure brought by the war with the Compound-Eyed Observer and their endless tactics also provided a lot of inspiration and references for humanity.
Long before many timelines, humans had been subtly influenced by Harrison Clark, constantly absorbing elements from the Compound-Eyed Observer.
For example, the Observer’s Song of the Wilderness was transformed into Morning Wind, Sharp edges fully exposed, Never Walk Alone, Happiness to the Nth Power, which influenced thinking patterns.
More typical examples include curvature flight and space warp.
Successive generations of human individual armor also incorporated ideas from the Observer’s Dragonfly Fighters, Eight-legged Beetles, and Blade Mantises.
The inspiration for virtual and actual energy came from both the Methuselah Star and the Solar Dome.
The shattering bullets and star-shattering cannons are somewhat related.
Strictly speaking, not only did humans absorb elements from the Compound Eye Civilization, but they also absorbed the higher-order civilizations’ application of universal rules behind the scenes.
After accumulating through nine timelines, this absorption eventually reached its peak in these thirty years, showing explosive growth.
This was too obvious – even if the thinking of the Compound-Eyed Observers and their behind-the-scenes civilization was rigid, they would eventually see through humanity’s “conspiracy” one day.
Sooner or later, they would understand that when warfare occurs between civilizations of the same level, and the two parties’ levels are close, if one party cannot quickly destroy the other, the situation will become entrenched and the conflict intensified. In this case, the party with stronger learning ability and faster absorption of the opponent’s technology will achieve a technological leap and exhibit explosive growth in productivity in a short time.
This phenomenon becomes more evident as the levels of the two sides’ civilizations increase.
If the Earthlings are replaced by one of the parties – a civilization with a short life expectancy, rapid population iteration, huge leaps in thinking, and endless imagination – the situation will become even more extreme.
For the vast majority of civilizations in the universe, thirty years is just a blink of an eye.
But in human history, thirty or forty years can change the dynasties, while fifty or sixty years are enough for a nation of over a billion people to catch up and transform from a weak country that everyone can bully into a world-leading power with great influence.
In addition, compared to other sprawling Tier-3 civilizations, humans have many different characteristics.
If there’s only one main decision-maker in a large Tier-3 civilization, that decision-maker must have a long lifespan and lose sensitivity to short periods of decades. In this case, the decision-maker itself becomes the shackles of the civilization.
If it is an individual-based civilization, as its territory continuously expands, it becomes prone to disintegration and fragmentation, with different subdivided races conspiring against each other, hiding their own intentions, and having a rigid and corrupt system, slowing down the civilization’s evolution.
Earthlings’ unique characteristic is that they have maintained unity despite their population reaching trillions, and subdivided nations with different living habits and physiques still have strong communication among them.
This allows the Human Empire to maintain a very high level of technological iteration.
The rapid progress of human civilization is like pressing the fast-forward button on a videotape recording, colloquially known as “cheating.”
Therefore, the real strategy that the Compound-Eyed Observer should adopt is to remain motionless as much as possible, and once they act, they must destroy humanity instantly, just like they did before.
When the two parties’ vanguard fleets reach a stalemate, and the war cannot end quickly, the Observer should decisively withdraw, re-plan, and accomplish its mission in one fell swoop.
This seemingly simple truth is something human scholars and Harrison Clark can deduce through speculation, while the opponent needs to wait for it to actually happen before they can observe and summarize it bit by bit.
This is the biggest difference brought by chaotic quantum thinking and exhaustive thinking.
After listening to Harrison Clark, Star began to calculate rapidly and soon said, “You’re right, your conjecture is infinitely close to 100% probability. The total war will cease within at most fifty years.”
Harrison Clark nodded, “Yes, and before the war ceases, the opponent will make their last attempt. This will definitely be the biggest crisis we’ve ever faced. But I’m not sure what means they’ll use.”
Star asked, “Will they try to destroy the entire Milky Way, like last time?”
Harrison Clark shook his head, “No, because they still want to find a shortcut to actual energy through the analysis of Earth’s life. So they need the Milky Way. Only if the Milky Way remains intact can they possibly rebuild the quantum rules of the Solar System and Earth. Moreover, even if the behind-the-scenes civilization has stored all the data of the Milky Way and can even rebuild it, they won’t give the Compound-Eyed Observers the power to instantly destroy or rebuild a stellar system.”
As he said these words, there was a strange glimmer in Harrison Clark’s eyes.
He was confident and wise.
He spent hundreds of years thinking and finally came up with these seemingly ordinary but crucial conclusions.
With just a few simple words, he determined the direction of human civilization for the next hundreds of years.
In the end, Harrison Clark said, “Approve Quentin Cooper’s proposal, adjust the Empire’s strategy, prepare for the opponent’s big counterattack in advance, and enhance emergency response capabilities from all angles.”
Star nodded, and then said, “There is another problem. I still can’t realize the perfect battle simulation system that Quentin Cooper needs. I need your help.”
“How can I help you?”
Star: “Popularize the method you used to train Tiffany Bell, and build a new simulated battle training ground in your black hole quantum thinking. In simple terms, let everyone connect to your dreams.”
Harrison Clark hesitated for a moment and considered it.
“Alright. There are some risks, but I can bear them.”