145: Chapter 145: Gems

Ma Li is a PhD student in Psionic Theory at the Imperial Academy of Sciences; a year ago, he was still a student anxious about graduating.

Actually, not graduating is nothing. Now the Human Federation has abundant resources and developed psionic industries; as long as one does not have a masochistic tendency, every resident of the Federation can enjoy a very high material standard of living.

But humans are just like that; once their material needs are met, they start looking for trouble.

Ma Li is exactly like that. To satisfy his own spiritual needs, he came to the Imperial Capital Academy of Sciences to study psionic theory.

Although not graduating is nothing, it just makes people feel uncomfortable, and now that has become the most important thing for Federation residents.

However, a year ago, Ma Li could never have imagined that today he would actually be able to meet the greatest leader of the Federation, the Premier of the Federal Government, His Highness Lin Heng.

As the spacecraft slowly descended from the sky, the professors of the entire Academy of Sciences became excited, and Ma Li could not suppress the excitement in his heart either.

The door of the spacecraft slowly opened.

"Greetings, Your Highness!" Ma Li shouted, looking at you.

He had seen you many times on psionic video feeds and thought you were imposing and inviolable, but when he truly saw you, he felt how kind you were.

Ma Li felt his hand being gently held by yours.

"You must be Mr. Ma Li."

Your voice was very soft, like a gentle breeze, yet it carried an incredible power of persuasion.

One year ago.

"Ma Li, why are you sitting here looking at the stars again?"

"Jon, stop talking. It's daytime now, where would there be stars?" Ma Li said, looking at the azure sky.

"Oh, so it's daytime," Jon said.

Looking at the other person's dazed appearance, Ma Li sighed helplessly, "You must have been playing with some girl until dawn again yesterday, right?"

"Can't help it. If I don't learn from girls, what meaning does my life have!" Jon said, "I'm not like you; those psionic theories just give me a headache when I look at them."

"Enough talk. I'm going back to rest. You go ahead and keep looking at the stars."

As Jon was about to leave, he threw over a gemstone, "Right, this is a gift from the girl today—oh wait, yesterday. I didn't really like her, so I'm giving it to you now!"

Ma Li took the gemstone, "It's still someone's kind gesture, at least."

Jon waved his hand.

Ma Li did not know that this gemstone would actually change the entire trajectory of his research.

Originally, Ma Li just thought this was nothing more than a somewhat pretty stone, so he kept it on him.

It wasn't until he returned to the Imperial Capital laboratory and used the psionic detector that he realized something was wrong.

The peak values on the psionic detector were appearing too frequently, which meant that a high-psionic life form had appeared in the vicinity.

At first, he thought it was large spacecraft landing and taking off, causing the surrounding psionic magnetic field to be chaotic.

But after checking, he discovered it was not external interference.

At first, he thought the detector was broken, but after changing three detectors in a row, the results were the same.

He then brought a junior from the same laboratory to use it, but the peak values shown by the detector were normal.

When he used it again, he found something was wrong.

Ma Li immediately realized the problem lay with him.

Cultivation, psionic power, clothes, psionic Formation?

No, none of these were right; it was this gemstone!

The problem lay with the gemstone Jon had given him yesterday.

The stone was not large, cool to the touch in his palm, with no luster on the surface, and without the visible energy flow found in ordinary psionic Ore; it was just simply somewhat pretty.

Ma Li immediately activated the detector to scan it, and countless peak values began to jump on the screen.

This was different from the peak values of ordinary Ore veins; it meant that there were countless psionic Formations operating on this stone. To put it in layman's terms, it meant there were countless life forms on it Cultivating!

Ma Li, trembling, transferred the gemstone to a more precise deep-layer psionic analyzer.

The instrument slowly operated, penetrating the surface layer of the gemstone layer by layer, delving deep into its internal structure.

The image on the screen became clear bit by bit.

It was an extremely dense, extremely stable core, like a miniature star.

Countless small points of light were lighting up inside, which represented countless small collapses forming on it.

Ma Li suddenly felt a chill down his spine. This meant that the space on this small gemstone would be twisted by a strange time, and what was even more terrifying was that according to time theory, the time on it would interact with the outside world.

That is to say, although only one second had passed in the outside world, several years had already passed in the world on this gemstone.

If there were truly life on it, then at this moment, they were developing at a geometric multiple of time compared to the outside world!