273: Chapter 273 Two Months in a Row Break Through Four Gates, the Punishment of Gender Overwriting Descends!

Su Che had just finished a meeting at Su Family Village and returned to Genesis by shuttle.

No sooner had he stepped off the bridge than Kayla followed closely behind.

"Chief, doors fifty-seven through sixty have all been unlocked over the past two and a half months."

"Understood." Su Che replied, without stopping his pace.

This result was within his expectations; if one hundred of Earth's top minds couldn't even manage this level of efficiency, that would be the strange part.

Kayla followed behind him and continued her report, "In addition, the third team led by Professor Friedman has just initiated the unlocking procedure for the sixty-first door."

She paused for a moment. "A penalty clause has appeared."

Su Che's pace finally slowed.

Rewind to two and a half months ago. After the short-range space jump system of the fifty-sixth door was successfully unlocked, the unlocking work on Genesis had been proceeding methodically.

Next to be conquered was the fifty-seventh door. The fourth team, led by Patrick, was responsible for the breakthrough. They spent over ten days solving a complex puzzle involving multi-dimensional spatial geometry.

After the door opened, a massive industrial zone presented itself to everyone. [Ship-borne Interstellar Resource Collection and Refining Processing Center]

Inside the huge cabin, hundreds of different models of mining robots, ore drilling equipment, and resource exploration devices were neatly arranged. Deeper inside was a complete atomic-level refining and purification system, shimmering with a cold metallic luster.

Su Che stood before the console at the time, looking at the functional description, while images of himself piloting the Second Generation Luan Bird and manually "picking up rocks" in deep space flashed through his mind.

The Second Generation Luan Bird's in-situ deep space resource resupply system was essentially a "small workshop"; it required the mother ship to get close to an asteroid and extend mechanical arms to dig bit by bit, which had limited efficiency.

But the processing center before him was a true "Interstellar Mining Mother Port." It could deploy robot swarms to conduct large-scale, automated exploration and mining of the entire asteroid belt, then transport the ore back to the mother ship for atomic-level refining and purification. It was a world of difference.

He immediately called over Materials Scientist Shi Changming, Bai Chunyang, Gary Nolan, Vaclav Kovac, and mechanical engineer Ralph Schultz, instructing them to familiarize themselves with the operational procedures here as soon as possible.

Shortly after, Academician Zhong's fifth team took over the fifty-eighth door. This door took them half a month. The space behind the door made all the Earth scientists gasp. [Ship-borne Advanced Interstellar Scientific Research Laboratory Cluster]

This was not a single laboratory, but a massive complex consisting of dozens of independent, high-specification laboratories. Advanced physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, cosmology... each laboratory was equipped with cutting-edge equipment unseen on Earth, as well as multi-level security protection systems.

Su Che called all the scientists over and announced that this area was completely open to them. Academician Zhong's beard was trembling with excitement. "Wonderful! This is wonderful!"

He pointed to one of the bio-electrical signal laboratories, "Chief Engineer Su, our team is working on a translation chip project that can be implanted into the brain. We were worried about not having a suitable experimental environment, but this solves a major problem!"

Su Che knew that the last time they unlocked a door, Academician Zhong's fifth team hadn't come because they were focusing on this project. With this laboratory cluster, the overall R&D capability of Earth's scientific community had essentially been forcefully elevated by one dimension.

The unlocking of the fifty-ninth door was done by Ye Zhiqiu's team. They spent nearly a month on this door. [Ship-borne Full-band Global Signal Concealment System]

When the functional description popped up, Su Che immediately pulled up the parameters of the Second Generation Luan Bird's Full-band Metamaterial Stealth Structure for comparison. The result left him quite moved.

The stealth of the Second Generation Luan Bird used liquid metal films to absorb and refract electromagnetic waves and light; essentially, it was "hiding." But this system on Genesis, on top of "hiding," added active signal hedging and gravitational field shielding functions.

It could completely mask all of the mother ship's signals, gravitational fluctuations, thermal radiation, and optical signatures, and could even simulate a "blank" cosmic background. One is a special forces soldier wearing a ghillie suit, the other is a chameleon that can blend into the background; the two are not even in the same concept.

Subsequently, Su Che assigned Xie Yunzheng to manage this system. Xie Yunzheng immediately signed a military pledge, guaranteeing that he would master every function of this system in the shortest possible time.

The sixtieth door was handled by Su Wanxing's second team, which took over twenty days. [Ship-borne Core Area Emergency Protection System]

This system was the mother ship's final trump card for survival. When the mother ship suffered heavy damage, it could automatically extend ultra-high-strength alloy armor from the interlayer of the ship's keel and critical cabins, and activate an independent force field shield, forming a fully enclosed emergency refuge core area.

This core area possessed independent life support, energy, communication, and defense systems; even if the exterior of the mother ship completely disintegrated, it could guarantee the absolute safety of the core personnel. Yu Bozhou was transferred to be in charge of this area.

He spent a long time examining those thick alloy walls and said only one sentence. "With this thing, even if you drive the ship into a star, the people in the core area can survive."

… Pulling his thoughts back, Su Che had already walked to the sixty-first door. Friedman and his third team members, along with the leaders of several other teams, were all gathered at the door, the atmosphere as heavy as if they were going to the execution ground.

Su Che squeezed into the crowd. There were no questions or complex symbols on the door panel. In the center of the door, a huge three-dimensional holographic model was floating. The model was a grid made of light, with forty-eight nodes distributed on it, each node flashing with light points of different colors.

Beneath the grid, a line of cold, universal text floated. [Activate all nodes one by one; each node must be activated by an individual independently.] [Activation method: After an individual enters the node force field, the system will randomly generate a test, which cannot be repeated.] [Test content includes but is not limited to: high-dimensional geometric conception, emergency decision-making, trans-limit sensory discrimination, neuro-dynamic synchronization, data flashback reconstruction...]

Seeing this, everyone felt it was still normal; it was nothing more than a comprehensive ability test. But when the last line of text appeared, there was a deathly silence in the corridor. [Penalty clause: For individuals who fail to activate, their life baseline paradigm will be forcibly overwritten, and the individual's form will undergo an irreversible deflection toward its biological dual polarity.]

The life baseline paradigm's... dual polarity? "Gender conversion?" Someone, trembling, spat out the three words. The corridor began to stir.

Friedman's old face was flushed red; he pointed at the door panel, his lips trembling, unable to say a complete sentence for a long time. "This... this is simply... a sick joke!" "Irreversible deflection?" Su Wanxing's face also turned pale, "If we fail once, we... we can never change back?"

The male scientists present subconsciously crossed their legs. The female scientists were full of horror and resistance. This penalty was not fatal, but it was harder to accept than death.

Su Che stared at the words "irreversible" and was silent for a few seconds. Ignoring everyone's panic, he directly opened his communicator. "Liu Nanshan, Chen Junhong, Lillian Brown, the three of you, come to door sixty-one immediately."

A few minutes later, the three experts in charge of the medical center came jogging over. "Su Che, what happened?" Liu Nanshan asked, panting.

Su Che pointed to the penalty clause on the door panel. The three medical experts leaned in to look, and their expressions instantly became just as dramatic as everyone else's.

"Life baseline paradigm overwrite..." Chen Junhong muttered to himself, "This belongs to a forced rewrite at the genetic level, and it is a polarity deflection that crosses gender characteristics."

Su Che got straight to the point, "I have just one question: can the ship-borne Life Origin Intervention Medical Center reverse it?"

Liu Nanshan and Lillian exchanged glances. Lillian Brown adjusted her glasses and replied, "Mr. Su, theoretically, it is possible."

She pulled up a data pad and swiped rapidly on it. "The 'irreversible deflection' the door system speaks of is based on the technical barriers of the early Level 3 Civilization, while the Life Origin Intervention Medical Center is a product of the late Level 3 Civilization, with a higher technical level."

"To use an analogy," Chen Junhong took over, "It's like using university knowledge to solve a high school problem; although the problem itself is marked as 'unsolvable,' that is only for high school students."

"The medical center can start from the deeper genetic encoding, rewrite it, and correct the deflected paradigm back." "This belongs to the basic functions of the medical center." Liu Nanshan added, "After these few months of exploration, we have basically mastered this function; it only requires consuming a large amount of biological energy and rare catalysts to accomplish it."

After hearing this, the atmosphere in the corridor visibly relaxed. Although the process was scary, at least there was a fallback plan. "Alright." Su Che clapped his hands, drawing everyone's attention. "Since there's a regret pill to take, there's nothing to be afraid of."

He looked at Friedman's third team. "Who's coming first?" The twenty team members looked at each other; no one dared to move first. Finally, a young astrophysicist named Mark Harper stepped out, relaxing his tense energy. "I'll do it."

He walked to the door and stepped into the aperture of the first node. The aperture lit up, and a virtual screen unfolded in front of him. [Please restore the missing parts of the following star map within thirty seconds.]

On the screen appeared a fragmentary star map, which was exactly a corner of the Andromeda Galaxy. Mark Harper was an expert in this field; for him, this question was a gimme. He dragged the star points on the screen without hesitation, and in less than twenty seconds, the star map was restored. [Activation successful.]

The first node lit up in green. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Then came the second, the third... The members of the third team took turns, and the content of the tests was varied. Some tested data flashback reconstruction, some tested causal chain ordering, and there was even one for trans-limit sensory discrimination.

The first nine people passed without incident. It was the tenth person's turn. A chemist from the Longguo Academy of Sciences, Zhao Zhaoyang. He stepped into the node. The screen lit up. [Please identify and separate all thirteen components in the following mixed gaseous sample within sixty seconds using trans-limit perception.]

A colorless and odorless airflow sprayed out from below the node. Zhao Zhaoyang's face changed instantly. He was a nuclear physics expert; his sensory ability was only at the level of an ordinary person. Time passed second by second, and beads of sweat rolled down his forehead.

Sixty seconds were up. He had only written down the three most common components. The light on the door panel instantly turned into a blinding red. Two lines of cold text appeared before everyone's eyes. [Activation failed.] [Paradigm overwrite, execution beginning.]