January 15th, early morning.
In the underground laboratory of the Hall of Halls, numerous researchers were busy working at multiple computers.
Since obtaining the first Coordinate Resonance Anchor item, over a hundred professionals, including Dr. Haisen, had been conducting research around the clock without rest.
Even though the civil war in Suroma had broken out and the outside world was in complete chaos, the laboratory remained completely unaffected.
At this moment, dense streams of computational data rapidly shifted across the large screen, and the researchers stared intently, anticipating the phased achievement that was about to emerge.
"Will the decryption succeed?"
Dr. Haisen stood at the very front, his eyes locked onto the data on the screen.
With heavy dark circles under his eyes and a face full of stubble, Haisen had not slept for three days. He had to witness the birth of the research results with his own eyes.
Finally, after the supercomputer integrated all the research data gathered by the researchers over these days and completed high-speed calculations, a result popped out.
Everyone held their breath. Looking at the line of data frozen on the screen, they were all somewhat stunned.
One researcher spoke uncertainly, "Decryption failed? Why does the result say 'asymmetric'?"
Indeed, the meaning of the computational result given by the supercomputer on the large screen was asymmetry.
Many researchers were momentarily baffled by the implication. Only Dr. Haisen, after a brief moment of absent-mindedness, suddenly slapped his forehead.
"Slap!"
The sound made all the other researchers look over.
They saw Dr. Haisen's eyes gleaming. He first murmured to himself, then burst into loud shouts.
"Asymmetric... asymmetric! Why is it asymmetric? Because there's only one! Two Coordinate Resonance Anchors, two anchors can form symmetry, can construct a complete and stable spatial fold!"
The researchers listened to Dr. Haisen's shouting and suddenly had a moment of realization.
One person spoke excitedly, their voice trembling, "So that's it! I understand now. One anchor item can only stabilize the fixed space behind one door, but two anchors can form a symmetric structure. If two anchors form a symmetric pair and are placed on two separate doors, they can achieve a stable fold across spatial distance between the two doors!"
Whoosh!
Everyone burst into fervent discussion.
This discovery was far too astonishing. What it represented was a super technology that humanity currently wouldn't even dare to imagine!
In other words, although humanity had not yet fully studied the technical principles of spatial folding and could not reproduce it, they could apply this technology in a state of "knowing it works without knowing why it works."
Dr. Haisen murmured, "If two anchors form a symmetric pair, and one is placed on Tianshui Star while the other is placed on Terra... then we could construct a stable spatial fold channel from Tianshui to Terra..."
This idea was far too tempting. He felt his body trembling uncontrollably.
Just imagine, once this stable spatial fold channel was successfully constructed, it could save enormous resources and time losses.
All they needed was to launch a single rocket to Terra, build the anchor door there, and then directly fold over from the symmetric anchor door on Tianshui Star.
Not just Bruce, anywhere else humans could reach could be set up this way, provided there were enough symmetric anchor pairs.
"...Prepare the anchor pair symmetry experiment immediately!" Dr. Haisen snapped back to reality and turned to give orders to the researchers. "I'll go contact His Majesty right away. We need more anchor items, the more the better!"
After speaking, Dr. Haisen hurried off to his workstation and contacted Bruce through video.
The latter had originally been staying in the laboratory as well, mainly to regularly check on the condition of his son Gaelid.
But in the past few days, after the civil war in Suroma broke out, Bruce had been forced to temporarily step away and move to the operations room on the upper floor of the Hall of Halls to personally take command, directing the internal suppression and guarding against external threats.
The moment the video connected, Dr. Haisen immediately reported the research findings.
After Bruce heard this, even his usually stern, expressionless face on the screen showed shock.
"Haisen, are you saying that two anchor items can form a symmetric anchor pair, and between them, they can construct a stable spatial fold channel that ignores distance?"
"Although it hasn't been experimentally verified yet and remains at the theoretical stage, I'm certain this is correct! This is the important information that the Fire Thief didn't mention in the rules but secretly buried within them!"
Dr. Haisen was extremely confident in his research findings.
"Your Majesty, please think about it. If we have enough anchor pairs and construct multiple stable fold channels, it won't just greatly benefit space exploration, it will also give us a tremendous advantage in war."
"Hmm, indeed."
Bruce nodded slightly. He understood very well how valuable a stable teleportation channel that ignored distance was.
If one anchor door was set up in his own country and another symmetric anchor door was secretly placed in another nation's territory, they could launch a surprise attack without any warning to the opponent.
The advantage of this type of spatial fold channel was something other teleportation items couldn't compare to.
Just the limitations on numbers and area alone completely crushed them.
Most other teleportation items could only teleport a few people or a few dozen people at a time, and the teleportation area was limited. Large war weapons couldn't be teleported at all.
But the anchor door... if Dr. Haisen's theory was correct, then as long as they built a "giant gate" dozens of meters tall and applied the symmetric anchors to it, they could continuously teleport large war weapons.
This was completely a strategic-level technology that could decide the outcome of a world war!
"Your Majesty, we currently have two Coordinate Resonance Anchors in total. I'll lead the team to complete the experiment as soon as possible to verify the feasibility... but it would be best if we could get more!"
Suroma's two anchors were both obtained through forcing the masses to undergo door-opening experiments. Only two had been obtained after half a month, showing just how low the "drop rate" was.
With only half a month left in the rules, if the experiment succeeded, the more anchor pairs the better. For that purpose, they needed to acquire more anchor items.
"Haisen, focus on your experiments. I'll bring you more anchors."
"Yes!"
After the communication ended, Bruce first notified the acquisition department to triple the global purchase price for anchors.
Then he notified the Commander in charge of suppression, ordering him to send the captured resisters from various regions to the "door-opening experiment site" as quickly as possible, without wasting time on imprisonment.
Finally, he contacted the foreign affairs department to get in touch with the official decision-makers of several small nations, with the goal of purchasing people from those countries through official channels.
That's right, since the ordinary people in his own country weren't enough, why not import some from other countries?
Bruce knew very well that Beixing and the Xisiya Empire would never agree to this, but small nations like Manchidon and Namelica would definitely be willing.
Because for the official decision-makers of these small nations, ordinary people were no longer assets but enormous burdens.
Those decision-makers would probably be more than happy to send their own ordinary people away to save resources.