Chapter 500: Pure Data
When the pure experimental data—cleansed of all anomalous interference—from Night City's "Genesis Valley" was transmitted via the dimensional communicator to the main body far away on Necromunda, Ryo's (Main Body) processing core simultaneously verified the data's validity and elevated the risk alert level.
As a transmigrator who understood the deep secrets of this world, Ryo possessed a clear cognition, far exceeding the vast majority of people in this universe, of the true nature of those four—or perhaps five—unspeakable entities entrenched within the Warp.
He clearly knew that although in the current era following the end of the Great Heresy, the direct tentacles of these entities were hindered because the Emperor sat alone upon the Golden Throne maintaining the Webway and the Astronomican, and the barrier between reality and the Immaterium had not yet worn as thin as it would in the late ten-millennium era. This made it difficult for them to project demon legions directly and on a large scale into Imperial space, and even the fallen Traitors were temporarily unable to launch massive incursions. However, this absolutely did not mean the threat had vanished.
The very existence of the Chaos Gods was a continuous, pervasive force of reality distortion.
Their influence did not always manifest in direct forms like burning skulls, roaring demons, or putrid Nurglings.
More often, it was an insidious corrosion, a systematic pollution and subversion of rationality, logic, and pure knowledge.
Deep within Ryo's (Main Body) databases were stored his experiences from excavating countless relics from the Dark Age of Technology as a former archaeology expert.
Why had those glorious technological legacies, surpassing contemporary understanding, mostly been annihilated in the long river of history, leaving behind only fragmented STC templates?
The civil wars of the Age of Strife and the Old Night were certainly among the reasons, but the deeper disaster was the Warp Storms that swept across the galaxy.
They not only physically isolated human colonies but also polluted knowledge itself on a conceptual level.
Many precious databases or technological creations were soaked in formless whispers and distortions over long ages, becoming logically chaotic, self-contradictory, or even hiding fatal traps that induced madness or directly led to the manifestation of Warp entities.
This was precisely the fundamental reason why the contemporary Adeptus Mechanicus had grown increasingly conservative and rigid, evolving into a religious order that relied heavily on rituals and litanies, and held an almost paranoid caution toward any "innovation."
In this universe, "Gods" were variables that truly existed, and they genuinely possessed the ability to interfere with reality.
The Adeptus Mechanicus spending centuries or even millennia verifying the "purity" of a technology was not simply a matter of low efficiency; it was a rigorous quarantine process necessary for survival, designed to filter out Warp contamination.
This was by no means alarmist. In future historical records, there was a tragic lesson where a contaminated STC paint template caused all Imperial war machines utilizing that paint to collectively rebel.
In the past, facing this kind of conceptual pollution from a higher dimension, Ryo, like other researchers in the Imperium, had almost no fundamental means of resistance other than relying on the Emperor's protection (whether in the form of the Astronomican's guidance or the Ecclesiarchy's barrier of faith) and near-paranoid caution.
Every step forward in technology was like feeling one's way through a minefield; any unpurified "innovation" could invite a cataclysm.
But now, the situation was entirely different.
The dimensional barrier between the Night City dimension and the prime Warhammer universe formed a natural, powerful isolation shield.
Preliminary experiments had definitively proven that those interference signals, haunting the data like ghosts and pointing to specific Chaos entities during the Death World experiment, were completely blocked in the Night City dimension.
What did this mean?
It meant that Ryo had inadvertently—or rather, the seeds he planted back then to cure David's mother and secure a stable rear base—now borne fruit far exceeding expectations: he possessed an "absolutely pure" research environment that could completely shield against Warp contamination.
Here, he could break free from the seemingly omnipresent, suffocating whispers and distortions. He could boldly deduce, experiment, and innovate without worrying about his research results being branded by Chaos the moment they were born.
For a researcher dedicated to unearthing ancient technology, exploring the essence of life, and even attempting to optimize human gene-seed, the value of such a "safe house" was immeasurable.
The strategic significance of Night City—this cyberpunk world he once viewed as a resource-gathering site and temporary base—had undergone a fundamental leap.
It was no longer merely a material production base or a source of troops; it was the "clean room" for all his future high-risk, high-value core technological research, and his ultimate bastion against Warp contamination, ensuring the purity of knowledge.
Ryo's (Main Body) gaze swept over the newly cultivated novel gene-seeds in the Necromunda laboratory.
With Night City serving as a "pure bastion" guaranteeing final verification and deep research, he possessed unprecedented confidence and a much broader space for exploration regarding the optimization and future application of these seeds.
After confirming the "purity" of the Night City dimension's research environment and the absolute reliability of the data, Ryo (Avatar) submitted an application to the main body via the dimensional communicator to expand the scale of the experiment.
The core of the application was to expand the application of Genesis Particles from a controlled laboratory environment to the entire selected Badlands valley, conducting a small-scale yet profoundly significant practice in environmental reshaping.
The application was quickly approved by the main body.
For Ryo, this was not only a necessary step to verify the macroscopic efficacy of the Genesis Particles, but also a crucial link in testing the feasibility of regional ecological terraforming under relatively limited resource conditions (compared to the Warhammer world).
Following the directive, the operation rapidly unfolded.
Directly coordinated by the "Administrator," an engineering corps primarily composed of automated units was dispatched to the valley.
They established more robust permanent defensive fortifications and checkpoints at the valley's sole entrance and exit. Along the surrounding ridgelines, they deployed dense motion sensors and concealed surveillance probes, ensuring the entire experimental zone was thoroughly isolated from the outside world, forming an absolute restricted area.
Simultaneously, inside the valley, engineers began erecting higher-power Genesis Particle diffusion devices.
These devices were no longer precision laboratory instruments, but industrial-grade equipment prioritizing output power and coverage range.
They were positioned at several key nodes within the valley, connected to each other via underground optical cables, forming an energy field network covering the entire valley.
Energy supply was drawn directly from Night City's plasma reactors through a reinforced, deeply buried dedicated line, ensuring the power input was surging and stable.
Once preparations were complete, the experiment formally commenced.
(End of Chapter)