Chapter 13

Translated by boilpoil Edited by boilpoil

That things developed in such a way later, is inexplicable without knowing about the background of the world.

This is a spacefaring world where psychic strength is incredibly important. Normally, only couples both with high psychic strength marrying would give birth to offsprings with excellent psychic strength potential. While couple with low psychic strength marrying would usually give birth to offspring that inherited their psychic strength most of the time, or they might just have no psychic strength whatsoever. It is exceedingly rare for the psychic strength to actually be higher.

The realm of psychic strength is too mysterious. Up until now, people have only mastered a part of its usage, but they are still unable to artificially intervene in the production and grade of psychic strength.

Jian Yiguang is an exception. An exception that has never before appeared. Certainly, there have been cases where someone would break out of the limits of their parents’ psychic strength, and increased it from C to B grade, or B to A. It has never ever been the case that parents at C-grade would give birth to a child with SS-grade psychic strength.

That SS-grade is the known highest grade of psychic strength, and it actually appeared on a child.

It is a well-known fact that people’s psychic strength stabilises after adulthood. Before then, unless specialised equipment which is exorbitantly expensive is used, children’s psychic strength is practically unanalysable, and the result would be too jumbled to analyse. Most grade testings would take place after coming of age ceremonies. Psychic strength related courses are also only available in specialised form in tertiary institutes. Before that, people with psychic strength are not that different from normal people.

This meant that nobody can be sure that Jian Yiguang would have further development potential before he reaches adulthood. When the specialised equipment makes this startling conclusion, everybody goes mad. They seem to be picturing the only SSS-grade psychic strength being born before their eyes.

——Jian Yiguang’s uncle would never have guessed that the little nephew he took to be a nuisance would actually be talented enough to stand at the top of the empire at his young age.

He thought the child was probably A-rank or at most A+… Rare enough, and there have been cases where psychic strength would mutate into A-rank, but their parents all didn’t wish to give up on their child. Jian Yiguang was the first one contributed to science, so he can be sold for good money.

If he knew Jian Yiguang’s psychic strength would reach SS-grade, he would not have sold Jian Yiguang so easily… Either he’s going to put him up for auction, or brainwash Jian Yiguang with a fake caring front so that he’d work to the bone earning money for him.

In any case, after Jian Yiguang’s background information is thoroughly investigated, and he’s confirmed to be 100% unrelated to any higher-ups, and his excellent psychic strength is purely a mutation, Jian Yiguang has become an exceptional research material.

Since age 10 when he was sent into the institute, he has been forced to receive all sorts of experiment and suppression. To achieve the so-called Triple-S Scheme, he’s been forcefully made to train his psychic strength with practically extreme methods. Nobody cared how painful the process is, they would only care about how effective the method turned out to be.

Jian Yiguang spent days that felt as long as years in the institute. Unfortunately, with his powerful psychic strength, it’s impossible for him to even go mad and lose his sanity. He can only stay sane forever while experiencing this abject cruelty… This is the scariest part.

Then did the so-called Triple-S Scheme succeed?

——Of course it did.

Whether because of the potential of Jian Yiguang himself or the methods employed by the institute or both, Jian Yiguang did, as they wished, become the first person in the world with SSS-grade psychic strength.

This isn’t even his limit yet, and the data showed that it is possible for him to advance even further… Jian Yiguang is like the perfect ultimate psychic strength holder. Under constant pressure, he can potentially evolve without limit.

After celebration, an idea sparks in someone’s mind, and a new experiment scheme was born.

The development of the celestial Internet has been rapid. The main server is unable to keep up with the speed of development. Most importantly, it’s not the software, but the ability to handle the combined psychic strength that is falling behind. Many of the further development plans have already been cancelled due to the inability of the main server to handle the load.

Before Jian Yiguang advanced to SSS-grade, this was a problem without a solution but to wait until the development of technology can help solve the issue.

Since they’re unable to even manipulate the formation and grade of psychic strength in real life——Like raising all offsprings’ psychic strength by one grade, of course they didn’t have the ability to artificially create a mental projection with unprecedented psychic strength?

But now they have Jian Yiguang, and they see a quick way forward.

In the original world’s timeline, Jian Yiguang thus becomes the subject of an experiment, and his personality and memories are removed, and forcibly held in place in the middle of the virtual world as its main conscience, becoming a psychic projection with enough strength to support the operation of the whole virtual world. Because of his unlimited potential and the self-healing ability that an AI doesn’t have, he’s able to grow with the celestial Internet. His expected expiry is also not just simply dozens of years or even hundreds of years, but without further incidents, it might be forever.

The research institute also did have safeguards in place; their research on Jian Yiguang these years were serious.

An endless amount of intense psychic strength training without caring for the consequences perhaps did have unexpected effects on boosting psychic strength, but they would also carry a certain risk of rebelling. They thought they had secured his weakness, and the planned conversion would succeed with 99% confidence.

And even if the experiment did fail, then Jian Yiguang can always be directly terminated. As long as that brain of his is kept post-mortem for continued research. They would, however, be quite sad if they had to reach that stage, since a preserved specimen is definitely a worse research material than a live one, but ultimately a preserved specimen can’t make any trouble.

They still underestimated Jian Yiguang, however. They underestimated how strong the mental fortitude of an SSS-grade psychic would become after being forced to stay calm and rational in year after year of torture.

Jian Yiguang’s memory was certainly successfully erased at the beginning, and became the main conscience holding up the virtual world as the institute hoped. It was not long, however, before he recalls bits and pieces of his memories. With these bits as his basis, he managed to recover himself through unbearable pain.

Without alerting people outside, he stays silent. For 5 years, 10 years, 20 years. When everyone that knows the details of this all thought he was absolutely stable, he chose a time when his uncle’s family and the members of the institute are all inside the celestial Internet, he ‘spiralled out of control’ and took control of all the other auxiliary servers and crippled the whole virtual world before completely severing the virtual world with the real world.

Everything progressed so suddenly, and before Jian Yiguang, those auxiliary servers had no capability of defence. They were like parts of his own body and acted as he did.

So many people had their consciousness trapped inside the celestial Internet forever, then, to spend their eternity with Jian Yiguang. Overnight, endless people in the spacefaring world no longer woke up.

As for Jian Yiguang? He finally got the dozens of ‘new toys’ that he wanted to take revenge on, and thus his long and unending life is no longer boring.

The whole world is completely hampered, and the celestial Internet has become a taboo topic. The progress of technology also takes a u-turn and restarts from another direction.

There are very few people that are aware of the identity of Jian Yiguang. What they know is that Jian Yiguang is a broken artificial main server that has developed a strong self-identity and developed hostility towards humanity, that is, it is merely an enemy of all human race.

It can be said that Jian Yiguang completely deserves his antagonist label.

While Bai Lianhua feels Jian Yiguang’s indiscriminate revenge afterwards is of course extremist and wrong. Most people have had no part in his treatment but they were also made to suffer. Though, to be fair, his treatment was extremely tragic. There would probably have not been anyone that would have been able to stay psychologically healthy and positive under those circumstances… So in the system’s terms, now is the time for the debut of the white lotus to save the antagonist before he is broken completely, save him, and save the world.

#We’re the best white lotus!#

Bai Lianhua professionally adhered to this mission statement. Though because of an issue with the spacetime continuum, Jian Yiguang had long begun his life in the institute when Bai Lianhua arrived. Though now that he’s here, Jian Yiguang finally escaped his certain fate. The mistakes of the future were not made, and while his life was bumpy, it was possible to see light at the end of the tunnel.

This was the basic condition for the white lotus mission to succeed. Originally, Bai Lianhua was judged to have overachieved the system’s expectations in this world.

The reason was that besides soothing the antagonist, just before leaving the world, he even used his own psychic strength to completely fix the hidden damage to Jian Yiguang’s mental and physical body.

He said, “system, separate my psychic power and give it to Jian Yiguang. I’m leaving anyway, so I’ll never use it again.”

The system happily responds that sure, of course he can, he definitely can.

It was ecstatic, “congratulations host, you not only completed the white lotus mission to 100%, becoming a pure, flawless white lotus, successfully emanating your brilliance to soothe the antagonist, but you have also become accepting of your white lotus identity, developing a conscious effort to protect that image, therefore you can choose whether you want to draw a special surprise. Now the mission is complete and you can detach from the world.”

——Yep, the so-called surprise bonus is from here… Hmph, now that it’s mentioned, his current treatment stemmed from this god-damned surprise.

Bai Lianhua, whose thoughts have digressed so much now, feels he’s getting infuriated again.

Ugh, he feels wronged!

Those who took Bai Lianhua away, however, thought he was nervous instead, and therefore is trying to soothe him.

Perhaps his looks were an advantage? In any case, Bai Lianhua’s explosive rage in his mind is projected onto his physical body looking pitiful like he’s about to cry. It makes people empathetic and doesn’t want him to be so scared and sad.

At least this young staff here is unable to defend himself against the attack from the gentle white lotus beam. He’s debuffed with 100% IQ reduction and works hard to cheer Bai Lianhua up, “don’t worry… Look, your appearance was so strange and it was so widespread that this abnormality must be studied. The whole process, however, will guarantee respect towards you and no unlawful treatment will occur.”

“It’s the truth. This is the rule set by Mr. Jian from his own life experience.”

Eh? Mr. Jian? His own life experience?

Just the surname Jian is not particularly telling, but with the phrase ‘own life experience,’ it implied that this Mr. Jian had probably also had a bad time as the object of study…

Bai Lianhua blinks, wait, perhaps this might be the person he knew? Life sure is interesting, and you meet familiar people everywhere!

Author’s notes: So this is a futuristic world that is still developing, which is not particular developed in terms of technology , and the celestial Internet is already set up but still waiting to be perfected.

Hiiii, the world setting made my head hurt. If there’s logic problems or bugs, little angels please be tolerant, sob QAQ

PS: ( Whispering ) When I was writing this chapter, I was thinking of the server of ___ while thinking of the main server of the celestial Internet in this world… Just adding a tiny bit more features would result in it pushing to the edge of collapse 2333333 ~ [HEY!]

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