Although he didn’t understand what Chu Guang said earlier, Zhao Yuan guessed that the administrator should be asking about the identity of the dead man, so he continued. "He is the leader of the bandits here, and he has the blood of so many people’s blood on his hands. He has committed a heinous crime and deserves to die! Please don’t blame your soldiers."

Chu Guang said with a smile. "I naturally won’t blame them. In the New Alliance, we have always had zero tolerance for marauders."

The shoulders of the old man named Sun Zewen trembled as soon as he heard what Chu Guang said. "Sir, I…"

Chu Guang looked at him. "I believe what you said. The laws of the New Alliance will not be retroactive. I don’t care what you have done before. From the moment I stand here, I hope you can do something useful to our society and civilization."

They were currently in the Wasteland Era. It was a time more chaotic than the troubled times. Human beings had fallen off the top of the food chain, so it was meaningless to have retroactive laws.

Besides, there were no truly good people in the wasteland.

That also included Zhao Yuan.

Chu Guang didn’t think those Torch members were good people, but he also didn’t want to pursue what happened in other shelters.

Sun Zewen lowered his head which was trembling slightly and said, "Thank you for your kindness."

There was still a trace of resentment on Zhao Yuan’s face, but he didn’t say anything.

Those people saved his life.

He had already explained what Sun Zewen had done. He couldn’t demand that they had to understand and sympathize with the suffering he had gone through, or do more for him.

The next moment, footsteps sounded from outside.

Yin Fang, who returned from Shelter 401, held a tablet in his hand, pushed open the door like a gust of wind and walked in. "This is incredible! You’d never guess what I found!"

Before Chu Guang asked what he had found, Yin Fang shouted in excitement, "Resonance Field!"

"I’ve been looking for it for half a year, but I didn’t expect it to be here!"

Taking a deep breath, he looked at Chu Guang and said excitedly. "We found the treasure!"

...

It all started more than 200 years ago.

It was around 2111, 2 years before the scandal that nearly shut the zoo broke out, a letter from a distant colony and the samples carried in the letter caused a sensation in the biological and sociological circles.

The original letter was no longer found, but as a professional archaeologist, Yin Fang still managed to restore the general meaning of the letter based on limited clues.

In short, the colony was infested by alien creatures, and their frequent organic activities seriously threatened the safety of the colonists.

At first, the colonists used the Infrasonic Fence prepared for them by the mother planet to drive away alien creatures. However, in long-term practice, they discovered that the seemingly harmless Infrasonic Fence would seriously affect the health of the colonists.

Due to the limited scientific research conditions of the colony, the colonists hoped that the academic community of the home planet could lend a helping hand to help them develop a harmless shielding field to prevent alien creatures from harassing the colony.

After obtaining the consent of the relevant departments of the Federation of People, the colonists sent several samples of extraterrestrial organisms. That was the first time that the mother planet of the Federation of People accepted biological samples from the colony.

Prior to that, if biologists from the Federation wanted to study creatures in extraterrestrial systems, they had to go there in person on a space flight that only left once a month.

Since the Federation just stepped into the sea of stars, its mastery of the gravitational channel was not yet proficient, and the development level of the colonies outside the system was low. The flights to the colonies were basically one-way tickets, and it was difficult to go there and come back.

Therefore, one could imagine how precious these samples were.

The samples and help-seeking information from the colonies soon received widespread attention from all walks of life in the Federation, and the research on the replacement of the Infrasonic Fence thus became a popular topic at the time, attracting the participation of countless scholars.

"Wait... An extraterrestrial system colony?"

Listening to Yin Fang’s narration, Chu Guang rubbed his nose bridge with his index finger, and said with a slight headache, "I always thought that the territory of the Federation only reached the Kuiper Belt."

Hyrja also had a blank look on her face.

𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

She grew up in a shelter. Let alone an extraterrestrial system colony, it was only a few months ago that she saw the sky.

Yin Fang said patiently, "There’s nothing wrong with what you said. After all, going to outer system colonies is completely different from going to Mars and the moon... But this has nothing to do with us. No matter where it is, it is too far away from us, and what I understand is not much more than you."

Yin Fang coughed lightly and returned to the original topic, "Continuing the topic just now... The dissection of alien life forms opened the eyes of the academic community. Reliable evidence showed that these alien lifeforms had evolved a unique set of hive society forms over tens of thousands or even tens of millions of years of evolution. They divided labor and cooperated like ants, performed their own duties, selectively expressed their genes according to the needs of the group, and even modified their genes."

"Aren’t you surprised? A group of mutants who didn’t even invent the internal combustion engine actually mastered the mysteries of evolution. If only I were born in that era..."

There was a hint of envy in Yin Fang’s eyes as he looked at the tablet in his hand and continued.

"In short, based on these research results, the research team of the South Heaven Gate University’s Institute of Biology came up with the Resonance Theory, and boldly made a guess that those alien life forms were dominated by a unified consciousness."

"In order to prove this conclusion, the person in charge of the research team found a medical enterprise called Silver Hope, and used their resources to connect with Clearspring City Third Ecological Protection Park, hoping to use the site and animals here to study the Resonance Field.”

Chu Guang frowned. "... So they succeeded?"

"It was more than successful. It was simply too successful," Yin Fang said in admiration, "They got inspiration from those alien biological specimens, proposed a similar idea based on the Resonance Theory, and designed a set of mind interfering equipment, which could output specific information and amplify it onto the individual.”

"This kind of information can be as specific as a sentence, or even a complex picture, or it can be a vague dream, or just a pure emotion. The more intelligent the mind, the more specific the information can be received, but relatively less affected. The less intelligent the mind, the less information can be received, and relatively more affected."

Chu Guang stroked his chin. "I see."

The mind of an ape was probably somewhere between that of a man and a hyena?

It had a certain intelligence and could understand simple commands, but its intelligence was not high, so it would be affected by mind interfering equipment.

The mind interfering equipment designed by Shelter 401 was quite similar to the one used by the Torch Church.

It was just that the latter probably improved it to a certain extent, turning AOE skills into a point-to-point single-target skill.

"... This kind of device is much more reliable than the Infrasonic Fence. It not only consumes less energy, has more application scenarios, and has fewer side effects, but also only works on specific living organisms, and the frequency is adjustable."

"As long as the emotion of fear is continuously transmitted to the surrounding alien creatures, they will consciously stay away from the colony. And when used in the field of agriculture and animal husbandry, it can also make animals reproduce faster."

"However, the enterprise that sponsored them was obviously not satisfied with the results. They quickly turned their attention to the customers, so the experiment continued, but the subjects changed from animals in the zoo to tourists."

"Everything shows that they still succeeded. Although it is difficult for people with more intelligent minds to be directly affected by this device, under the constant stimulation, the sales of souvenirs in the ecological protection park hit a record high, and many tourists even paid for a product worth less than a bottle of mineral water at the price that was worth for a set of smart wearable devices... This almost subverted the advertising industry."

Chu Guang stared at Yin Fang dumbfounded. "They could do that?"

"People in the Prosperity Era were all monsters… Whether they were researchers or merchants," Yin Fang expressed his heartfelt emotion, "Of course, it is true that the enterprise was fined to bankruptcy in the end, and people who treat others as fools usually don’t have a good ending. All those involved were prosecuted, and it is said that the one who received the heaviest sentence has not yet expired.”

Listening from the side all the time, Sun Zewen had a look of shame on his red-faced face. "That’s enough…"

These materials were stored in the deepest part of the Shelter 401. He had never told anyone about it, so he didn’t know how the dude dug those things out.

Chu Guang looked at the guy in front of him in surprise.

"You were convicted too?"

Oh damn. So he was one of those talented criminals.

It was the first time he had seen someone from the era of the Federation of People.

Responding to Chu Guang’s surprised look, Sun Zewen said with a wry smile, "I was just a small researcher... The main person responsible was indeed given a heavy sentence, but what we did wasn’t not enough to give us the same sentence."

Yin Fang looked at him with interest and said, "You guys even got tickets to enter Shelter 401."

Sun Zewen was silent for a moment, then nodded. "Yes, I don’t deny that the reason why I can live until now is somewhat related to the research I am engaged in. After all, technology itself is innocent, and it can free the colonists from the infestation of alien creatures. It’s just a pity that... It’s a pity this new invention was used by the wrong people in the wrong place.”

"I agree with you. There is no right or wrong in technology itself. It is the people who use it that need to be supervised." Chu Guang nodded approvingly, and continued after a short pause, "Now it’s not just the distant world, but the land under our feet is also infested by mutants. The New Alliance needs your technology, and I hope you can use your technology to do something more meaningful."

With this gadget, the prevention and control of mutants would not have to rely on walls, and the farmland, pastures and villages near the settlement would not have to worry about the harassment of mutants.

But this technology was not without risks.

Once the frequency was tuned to the range of the human brain, it would be equivalent to opening Pandora’s Box.

Although spiritual resonance had limited effects on higher intelligent beings, continuous emotional input would still be tantamount to brainwashing.

The effect was also indiscriminate.

Thinking that the Torch Church also mastered similar technologies, Chu Guang couldn’t help but feel secretly vigilant.

He was a man with a bottom line, but it was hard to say if anyone else had it.

He had to take over the legacy of Shelter 401, not only to deal with mutants and the Tide, but also to study countermeasures.

"Of course, honourable administrator..." Sun Zewen lowered his eyebrows and bowed, "It is my honor to work for the great New Alliance."

To be honest, he didn’t care about any of it.

The world had already become like this, so he was willing to share his knowledge with anyone. At least the man in front of him looked much better than those marauders.

Zhao Yuan, who was standing by the side, did not speak the whole time.

He looked at Sun Zewen, who had resolutely turned to his new master, and at Chu Guang, who was wearing the former administrator’s equipment, and suddenly sighed, "You said the same thing as that person."

Seeing that he was talking to himself, Chu Guang glanced at him curiously. "Which person?"

"Wang Yi... The boy we rescued from the wasteland. We raised him, and because of him, we split twice. Maybe we shouldn’t have opened the gate that day." Regret flashed in his muddy pupils, and the old man lowered his head.

Chu Guang remembered the name.

That person was the beginning of the destruction of Shelter 117, who was also the leader of the Church of Torch more than a decade later, known to his followers as the Holy Child.

Since contacting the Pioneer, Chu Guang had been trying his best to collect information on the major forces in the wasteland and identify useful clues.

"I was wondering just now that after you came out of Shelter 117, did you stay here for a while?"

"Shelter 401 offered an olive branch to us at that time. Their mind interfering equipment could drive away mutants within 3 kilometers. We originally planned to establish a stronghold here, and then show off our new home to the old stubborn people of Shelter 117… But that Wang Yi… He believed that we should keep going south to find the specimen of that alien life form."

Zhao Yuan gulped, and he continued with a heavy tone. "We parted ways again... Except for me, there were only 3 people left, and the rest of the people all followed Wang Yi to the south. I even suspected that they were all brainwashed by the Resonance Field and mind-interfering equipment."

"That’s outright slander! The Resonance Field doesn’t have that function." Sun Zewen, who had taken refuge in his new employer, was much more confident than before, watching the old man and sneering, "Have you never thought that you guys were the reason behind the split? Maybe you were too gullible?"

Zhao Yuan snapped again, "Are you saying that I’m a fool?!"

Seeing that the two were about to quarrel again, Chu Guang had a headache and planned to stop it.

However, at this moment, Hyrja suddenly said in a low voice. "Is… Is my master, Caren, still alive?"

The anger in Sun Zewen’s pupils was gradually replaced by shame, the old man slowly lowered his head and said after a long silence, "I have no idea……"

"But she, like you, can live a long time under normal circumstances."

"If there is no accident, she should still be alive."