Chapter 1720 - 437: The Truth of Reality? (2)

Chapter 1720: Chapter 437: The Truth of Reality? (2)

"Back then, we speculated on many possibilities, such as the issue of maintaining stability in reality, or technical risks, but as you mentioned, many technologies already seem quite mature and don’t appear to pose any risks. It seems illogical to lock these technologies in a game."

"Especially the environmental modification technologies you mentioned, you’re familiar with Earth’s environment. Because of the residual effects of multiple Descent Wars in history, large areas of land have been polluted by otherworldly Energy radiation, with some regions so ecologically harsh that city-level protective barriers are needed for isolation. Logically, the environmental purification technologies recorded in the library are exactly what we need, yet the Star Network has never utilized them."

"But the problem is, the Star Network invests considerable resources annually into purifying Earth’s pollution."

"This logic seems unreasonable. We even speculated at the time that perhaps the Star Network doesn’t truly want Earth’s pollution problem to be entirely solved, and the resource investment is more of a superficial effort, so the Moon Eclipse Clan, independent of Earth, can continue to play a crucial role in the Earth Alliance, maintaining its leadership status."

Upon hearing this, Xie Yu shook his head:

"That doesn’t make sense; even if the Moon Eclipse Clan completed Earth’s environmental purification, their leadership status would not waver. Modern networks are all established based on the Star Network. Without the Star Network, the Earth Alliance would be in name only, and the alliance relationships among the various clans were initiated by the Moon Eclipse Clan, unrelated to whether the environment is purified or not."

Duan Hong’s projection nodded approvingly:

"You’re right, this is more inclined towards conspiracy theory speculation and doesn’t fit with reality."

"What I want to tell you is that the truth behind this issue is that we’ve actually found the answer."

"In fact, many technologies that you and I thought were sealed up have already been applied in reality; we just haven’t understood this process, and the Star Network hasn’t disclosed this to the various clans of the Earth Alliance."

As he spoke, a new light screen unfolded beside Duan Hong’s projection.

"This is satellite imagery of a region in the Western Pacific from three years ago."

Xie Yu looked on curiously.

In the image, the vast sea region displayed a morbidly muddy dark green, and visible pollutants floated like scars on the ocean surface.

The entire region, from a birds-eye view, appeared lifeless and was marked as a "pollution prohibited zone" on the image.

"The priority for addressing pollution issues is on land. There are vast sea regions without enough resources for treatment, so they can only be temporarily isolated... but look at the current state." Duan Hong spoke as he switched the image.

It was still the same sea region, but the scene had drastically changed.

The muddy dark green was replaced by a profound azure, the once-floating pollutants vanished without a trace, and the ocean surface shimmered under sunlight.

What shocked Xie Yu even more was that the satellite image had captured shadows of fish shoals swimming.

"How... was this achieved?" Xie Yu felt incredulous; the purification of such a massive range of pollution, given the publicized technological level, was impossible to complete within a few short years, with no external noise.

"We’re also unclear on how it was done, but the only ones capable of silently achieving this are the Star Network and the Moon Eclipse Clan under its management."

After speaking, Duan Hong brought up a set of graphical data displaying various marine life detection reports.

Several deep-sea fish species’ anatomical analysis images were clearly shown on the light screen.

The graph depicting heavy pollutants accumulated inside these fish showed a rapid declining trend.

Even the radioactive concentrations in muscle tissues had dropped to their lowest point in recent years.

Duan Hong pointed to a fish on the screen:

"This is the Black Scale Sword brought by the Gills Fish Clan during their descent, which also serves as a reference indicator species for ocean pollution. The pollutant concentration inside it has been over a hundred times the standard for years, but now its life structure is as pure as if it had never been polluted."

Duan Hong switched the image to show a shimmering Moonlight Trout:

"And this fish, whose egg cell hatching rate due to accumulated pollutants was less than one in a thousand in the past, has now recovered to above ninety-five percent, nearing the best recorded levels."

Duan Hong closed the light screen, his tone infused with complex emotions:

"This is clearly not the speed and effect of natural purification. The only explanation is that the Star Network not only purified the seawater but conducted some kind of deep clean on the biological tissue level that we can’t understand, even... reversed the genetic damage caused by pollution."

"Besides these two species of deep-sea fish, the latest deep-sea fish caught in Fish Harbor City have had their heavy metal and radioactive isotope content fall below safety thresholds."

Upon hearing Duan Hong’s explanation, Xie Yu nodded in realization.

It turned out things weren’t as simple as he had thought.

In fact, many technologies have already been applied in reality, it’s just those ordinary citizens like them haven’t been involved or informed.

But what Duan Hong said next left Xie Yu utterly astounded.

He saw Duan Hong wave to bring up another data stream, with the title showing: Atmospheric Composition Monitoring Data.

"This is the global Spiritual Energy concentration curve index, produced by instruments at various monitoring sites on Earth capturing the concentration of Spiritual Energy. Over the past three hundred years, it has remained at a nearly deathly silence baseline level, with minor declines every ten years. But in recent years, especially after the second year of Monster World’s launch, this continuously declining curve has risen, showing a stable upward trend."