Cutting-edge Technology: I Provide the Brains, the State Provides Everything

245: Lu Chen’s realization: The system is cultivating a god!The expedition was silently navigating through the cracks of the fourth dimension.

Outside the window, there was no longer a brilliant river of stars, but a patchwork of bizarre, twisted, and overlapping colors. That was the projection of the three-dimensional world from a Higher Dimensions perspective, much like crumpling up countless photographs and throwing them into a kaleidoscope; staring at it for too long would induce a strong sense of vertigo and nihilism.

Inside the captain’s lounge, Lu Chen was not resting.

He held a cup of long-cooled coffee in his hand, but his gaze was fixed intently on the conceptual blueprint of the ”Causality weapon” floating before him.

This blueprint was too perfect.

It was so perfect that it didn’t seem like a weapon meant for slaughter, but rather an art piece for pruning bonsai. It required no massive energy circuits, no complex mechanical structures; all it required was an ”understanding” of the underlying logic of the universe.

”Understanding.”

Lu Chen muttered to himself, his fingers gently tracing through the void.

From the initial graphene batteries to the later Controllable Nuclear Fusion, then to the anti-gravity engine and space jumping, and now to the tampering with Causality.

Along this journey, the system’s rewards seemed to follow a certain rigorous and unshakeable logic.

At first, he thought this was just the natural climb of a technology tree.

It was the necessary path for a civilization to advance from level 0.7 to level 1, and then to level 2 and level 3.

But now, looking at this weapon before him that had already touched the level of ”rules,” an unprecedented chill suddenly surged in Lu Chen’s heart.

Is this truly technology?

Or rather, is this truly a power that a mortal, an ordinary carbon-based life form, should possess?

”heavenly craft.”

Lu Chen’s voice was very soft, appearing exceptionally abrupt in this deathly silent room.

”I am here, Master.”

heavenly craft’s figure appeared instantly. Even in these cracks of dimensions, her image remained flawless, and because of the distortion of space-time around her, she looked even more sacred, as if she were a goddess untainted by the mortal world.

”Help me calculate something.”

Lu Chen put down the coffee cup, his eyes becoming incomparably deep.

”From the day I received the system until now, how much time has passed?”

”Reporting to Master, the precise time is: five years, three months, and seven days.” heavenly craft’s reply was without the slightest hesitation.

”Five years.”

Lu Chen smiled self-deprecatingly, a hint of indescribable absurdity in his smile.

”Only five years.”

”Five years ago, humanity was still fighting tooth and nail over a bit of oil, still strangling each other over tiny chips. Our spaceships couldn’t even fly to the moon, and our energy still relied on burning coal.”

”And today, five years later, we are piloting a warship capable of folding space, equipped with cannons that can destroy stars, and even holding a pen that can modify Causality, heading to the Galactic Center to hunt down a god-level civilization that has existed for hundreds of millions of years.”

Lu Chen lifted his head abruptly, his gaze piercing directly into heavenly craft’s eyes like lightning.

”Don’t you think everything is happening too fast?”

heavenly craft was stunned.

As an artificial intelligence, her logic circuits made it difficult for her to understand this emotion called ”fear.”

”Master, this indicates you are a genius, the chosen one. The existence of the system is to accelerate the progress of civilization.”

”Accelerate? No, this isn’t acceleration.”

Lu Chen interrupted her, stood up slowly, and walked to the porthole where the Higher Dimensions turbulence could be seen.

”Normal civilization development is gradual. Discovering a theory, verifying it, applying it—this requires the effort of generations, even dozens of generations. Because every technological breakthrough is accompanied by an update in cognition, and accompanied by the turbulence and restructuring of social structure.”

”But what about me?”

”I have no process.”

Lu Chen stretched out his hands, looking at his palms, which were still fair and bore no traces of time.

”I directly received the result.”