Chapter 83 Research Plan_1

Tanis Planet surface.

"Captain, what do you think they are doing?" Two patrol officers dressed in armed suits watched a group of players holding ancient equipment in the distance; one of them asked with confusion.

The slightly older one was equally puzzled by the behavior of the players.

"Those people with odd behaviors, according to Captain Eric, are Minister Walker's people."

"Minister Walker's people." The slightly younger one repeated, then frowned and said, "Captain, aren't we Minister Walker's people too?"

"Idiot, what I mean is, those people were brought in by Minister Walker; according to the explanation from above, these people were cultivated through clone pods."

"Captain, are you saying they are from the batch of fertilized eggs brought over from Earth?"

"That's what they say up top, but does it seem likely to you?" The older captain shook his head as he looked at the group of people about two hundred meters away from the base.

"I always feel that there's more to it than it seems."

"It looks like these people have their own agenda; what they are doing doesn't quite align with the base's objectives."

"Captain, what do you mean, are they not under control?"

"I didn't say that." The older guard glanced at his own team member, then mused.

"Just keep patrolling; whatever their purpose is, it has nothing to do with us. Do our own job well; we shouldn't meddle in the affairs of those above." The older captain patted his team member on the shoulder and then, holding his gun, headed off in the other direction, leaving those people be.

The dozen or so people acting oddly were none other than government officials led by Shen Yufei.

They were collecting samples from this world and conducting research.

By now, it had been exactly two months since the space migration game had launched.

The number of players in this world had reached eight hundred, with government personnel from various countries accounting for ten percent, an astonishing eighty people.

Over these two months, humanity on Three-Body World had paid unprecedented attention to this game developed under the leadership of Cao Ge.

Cao Ge's Wallfacer status had been acknowledged by people all over the world.

The public's perception of Cao Ge was no longer just a lucky individual chosen by the United Nations.

This game called space migration represented something so astonishing.

More and more people believed that Cao Ge was indeed the one who could lead them to defeat the Trisolarans.

Although Cao Ge's Wallfacer plan had just begun, it had already achieved tremendous success.

He had successfully deceived three worlds, none of which knew what Cao Ge was planning to do.

The Earth-based humanity in Three-Body World didn't know, the Deep Space Amnesia-afflicted humanity of Tanis didn't know, and the Trisolarans didn't know either.

But precisely because it was inscrutable, it meant that Cao Ge's Wallfacer strategy was successful.

No one could guess what Cao Ge wanted to do, but even fools could recognize the importance of this game.

Because of the traits revealed by various aspects of this game, people believed that it was definitely a critical part of Cao Ge's plan.

What the game was for, they did not know.

They also didn't want to know what Cao Ge was planning to do; after all, the Wallfacer plan was intended to deceive everyone.

Right now, what governments around the world wanted to know was the actual situation of this game.

Because according to the technology Cao Ge initially requested, it was impossible to create a game this realistic.

So they had reason to believe that Cao Ge had added some of his own secret technology to it.

But that technology wasn't their main concern; their main concern was whether this game was truly what they suspected it to be—a completely real world, a farm world created by Cao Ge.

Those who had played the Three-Body game knew that even a space as small as a proton could contain a universe, a civilization.

If even a proton-sized space can be a universe with life and civilization,

They speculated, could a Virtual World also contain a civilization?

Is a civilization within a Virtual World real?

If a civilization exists within a Virtual World, where exactly does it exist?

According to their understanding of the Virtual World,

A Virtual World is an independent world formed by employing computer technology, internet technology, satellite technology, and the potential of human consciousness, connected with the real world, where people enter in the form of consciousness through virtual helmets and nutrient pods, resembling Earth or a universe.

So where exactly is such a real world located? Is it inside a hard drive, or somewhere else?

Where is the carrier of the Virtual World, a completely real Virtual World?

That is what the Planetary Defense Council really wanted to clear up; they were not here to break through Cao Ge's wall.

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"Professor Shen, do you think this will do?"

Within a small base located two hundred meters from the research base, a muscular young man holding a plant specimen walked in from outside the pod and asked Shen Yufei.

Shen Yufei looked up at him and then took the sample from his hand.

Without waiting for the young man to reply, she immediately opened the test tube.

She then placed the sliced sample under the microscope and began her study.

Over the past two-plus months, Shen Yufei had studied thousands of samples and discovered that everything in this game world was one hundred percent real.

What it's like in the real world, it's the same here.

Matter is composed of molecules; molecules are composed of atoms.

She had already examined over five thousand samples herself.

Without exception, all five thousand were one hundred percent real.

The more Shen Yufei researched, the more astonished she became.

For the game to be this real, what kind of computing power and how large a server would be needed?

The samples were not taken from one place but from various locations across the planet, yet not a single one experienced any lag.

Shen Yufei actually had an answer in her heart, but the sample size was not yet large enough to support the judgment she had in mind.

She needed to increase the sample size.

In the following months, Shen Yufei began to constantly test the materials on the planet.

Several months passed during her research.

During these months, the number of players skyrocketed.

Some had perfectly integrated into this world, cooperating with the humans of Elysium Space to occupy it.

Begin large-scale infrastructure construction on the planet's surface.

The dormant personnel of Elysium Space were massively awakened under Cao Ge's guidance, and the reconstruction of civilization was officially on the agenda.

Human civilization in this world was embarking on its new journey.