Chapter 17 The "Greeting Gift" of the Oracle Civilization

"Based on the algorithm of this 'triple helix' structure, construct a reverse topological parsing function! Quickly! All resources from the supercomputing centers, divert them all to me!"

At Academician Wang's command, the entire "miracle" laboratory, and even supercomputer centers across the country, began to operate frantically for the same goal.

The simple symbol drawn by Lin Yuan was like a skeleton key, instantly pointing the way for the scientists who had been stuck in a deadlock.

They were no longer blindly brute-forcing like headless flies; they now had a clear set of "grammatical rules."

Lin Yuan stood to the side, watching the scientists dancing with excitement over a pile of symbols and data he couldn't understand, feeling like he was from a completely different world than them.

"I just drew it casually, is it really that exaggerated?" he whispered to Li Na beside him.

Since the last mission, Zhang Wei and Li Na, the two field agents who had come into contact with him first, had been transferred to his side to serve as his dedicated liaisons and life assistants.

Li Na pushed up the glasses on the bridge of her nose; she had now changed into a researcher's white coat, but her gaze remained sharp and capable.

"Lin Yuan, you don't understand at all what the things you draw mean." Her tone carried a hint of awe, "That is not a simple pattern, that is the 'Dao' of a civilization!"

"Dao?" Lin Yuan was even more confused.

"You can understand it as the underlying logic and philosophy of a civilization. Just like the 'Yin-Yang Taiji' of our Huaxia civilization, or the 'Cross' of Western civilization. This 'triple helix' is the core worldview of that 'Oracle Civilization'. All their technology, culture, and language are built upon this foundation. We were previously trying to interpret English articles using Chinese grammar, so of course, we couldn't understand it. And you, you just gave us the English grammar book!"

Lin Yuan finally understood most of Li Na's explanation.

To put it plainly, he was a cheater, directly giving the standard answers to these top students who were still struggling to study the problem statements.

"Decoding progress 5% ... 12% ... 31% ..."

On the main screen, a progress bar was moving forward at a speed that was slow, but incomparably firm.

Every time it advanced by a percentage point, suppressed cheers would erupt in the Command Center.

Lin Yuan, Chen Weiguo, Academician Wang, and all the core members stayed in the laboratory, and no one left.

Everyone knew they were witnessing history.

Time passed second by second.

When the progress bar finally reached "99%," the entire laboratory was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

Everyone held their breath, staring fixedly at the progress bar that was about to complete.

"100%!"

【Decoding complete!】

【Basic data package successfully extracted!】

The moment these two sentences appeared on the screen, the entire laboratory, after a brief silence, erupted into thunderous applause and cheers!

Success!

They had succeeded!

They had pried open this treasure trove from the sea of stars!

Academician Wang and several white-haired old professors hugged each other, tears streaming down their faces.

Chen Weiguo's eternally icy face also revealed a trace of genuine, uncontrollable smile.

He walked to Lin Yuan's side and patted his shoulder hard; he didn't say anything, but Lin Yuan felt the heavy weight of that affirmation.

"Quick! Classify and organize the extracted data! I want to see the first briefing within ten minutes!" Academician Wang wiped away his tears and immediately threw himself back into work.

Countless data streams refreshed on the screen like a waterfall.

"Report! Star map data successfully extracted! Confirmed the star region belonging to the 'Oracle Civilization', approximately 1.2 million light-years away, located at the edge of the Andromeda Galaxy!"

"Report! Language and character library successfully extracted! We can now translate their text!"

"Report! The history database is severely damaged, only less than 3% of fragments have been recovered. Judging from the fragmented information, the 'Oracle Civilization'... was destroyed by a disaster they called the 'Void Whisper'. The description of this disaster highly matches the 'Void Devourer' we defined!"

Pieces of information were reported quickly, continuously impacting the cognition of everyone present.

But the most crucial thing was the data package named "Basic Technology Tree".

When Academician Wang personally clicked on that data package, everyone gasped.

It was not rows of code or design blueprints as they had imagined.

Instead, it was a three-dimensional structural diagram so vast it was unimaginable, dazzling like a nebula.

At the very bottom of this structure were a dozen basic discipline nodes emitting different lights, such as "High-dimensional Space Geometry", "Unified Field Theory", "Nature of Matter and Energy", "Entropy Increase Law of Soul and Information"...

The names of each discipline made the scientists present feel dizzy.

This was not a basic discipline; this was practically theology!

From these basic discipline nodes extending upwards, thousands of branches formed an incomparably complex and harmonious technological network.

"My god... Their materials science is built upon 'String Theory' and 'Matter Recombination' technology..." A materials scientist looked at one of the branches, murmuring in a trance, "They can arbitrarily combine any material they want from the most basic quark level, just like editing a program! That black slab of ours is just the most basic 'defense unit' to them!"

"Look here! Energy technology!" Another physicist pointed to another node, voice trembling, "Extraction and application of 'Vacuum Zero-Point Energy'! They... they have already achieved obtaining infinite energy out of thin air from the void! Controllable nuclear fusion in their eyes is probably as primitive as us boiling water with firewood now!"

"And this! Curvature Engine! They have mastered the technology of warping space for faster-than-light travel! Our chemical fuel rockets are just children's toys in front of them!"

Shock!

Unprecedented shock!

If the black armor plate before only allowed the scientists to glimpse a corner of the miracle.

Then now, this complete technology tree was exposing the entire divine kingdom nakedly before these mortals!

Everyone was silent.

It wasn't that they didn't want to speak, but they were stunned into silence by the huge, chasm-like gap between civilizations.

This was a crushing force originating from the level of life.

After a long while, Academician Wang finally found his voice. He looked at the dazzling "Divine Tree" on the screen, his eyes complex.

"We... we are like primitive people from the Stone Age who picked up a smartphone." He said bitterly, "We don't even know how to charge it."

Yes, although this technology tree was placed in front of them, given Earth's current level of technology, they might not understand even one ten-thousandth of it.

It was like giving a calculus textbook to a child who had just learned to count.

This was not a gift at all; this was an exam paper so heavy it made one despair.

"No."

Just as everyone was falling into a kind of inexplicable loss and confusion, Chen Weiguo slowly shook his head.

His gaze fell on a node at the very bottom of the technology tree, one that was inconspicuous but had been ignored by everyone.

"Although we cannot understand the whole book, at least, we can understand the 'table of contents' of this book."

He pointed to that node and read the text on it word by word.

" 'Oracle-level Civilization - Primary Energy Core - Design Principles and Manufacturing Process'."

Everyone's gaze instantly focused on that node.

"This is..."

"This is the technology with the lowest level and the most basic in the entire technology tree!" Academician Wang's eyes lit up suddenly, "It is also the only one that does not involve any high-dimensional physics or space theory!"

He operated frantically, clicking on that node.

A design blueprint and manufacturing process, detailed to an outrageous degree, appeared before everyone.

It was a spherical device, the size of a fist, composed of hundreds of precision parts.

"What is this?" Lin Yuan asked curiously.

Academician Wang stared fixedly at the blueprint, his lips trembling, and replied in a dream-like voice:

"This is... a battery."

"An energy density one million times that of our top-tier lithium battery... The output power is stable, absolutely safe, and... its raw materials only require sand, water, and the most common iron ore..."

"Although we cannot build a Curvature Engine, nor can we understand zero-point energy..."

Academician Wang turned his head suddenly, looking at everyone present, a light erupting in his eyes that had never been seen before, and roared word by word:

"But this thing! This 'Primary Energy Core'! We can build it! We can build it right now!"