I Really Didn't Mean To Be The Saviour Of The World

Chapter 834: Chapter 499: Chess Match_1

The interrogation work came to a temporary end, and Harrison Clark officially handed over the Prism Ship to the Science Institute.

A large number of researchers and research equipment entered the Prism Ship, while Harrison Clark himself quietly arrived at the military command space station located on the sunlit side of Venus.

He masked histrue intentions to outsiders as a work inspection.

Behind the entrance hatch of the space station, Nora Camp, dressed in a Marshal’s ceremonial uniform reserved for important meetings, led her entire staff as they waited in formation.

Such a display startled Harrison Clark.

There were too many people outside, so he didn’t dare to take out the strawberry cheesecake he had just prepared. Instead, he had to act like a real VIP and inspect the place.

Unexpectedly, this inspection turned out to be quite fruitful, deepening Harrison Clark’s understanding of the current operation mode of the human command sequence.

There were a total of more than 4,800 personnel in the headquarters, with nearly half responsible for network maintenance, while the other half were divided into several divisions, responsible for gathering information, providing decision-making reference, quickly reviewing Nora Camp’s decisions, and refining her implementation plans.

In addition to the nearly 5,000 people in this space station, there were millions more spread across dozens of large and small space stations who served the headquarters.

Through long-term training, the staff department and secondary command auxiliary agencies were well acquainted with Nora Camp’s combat command style, and could accurately grasp the connotation of her orders.

With the help of this vast organization, Nora Camp’s every order could be accurately interpreted, broken down, and ultimately conveyed to every captain and even every soldier involved in the war within 5 seconds.

“This is indeed a good way to avoid mistakes, but the efficiency of information transmission is low. A 5-second ‘delay’ can cause a lot of trouble.”

In the office, Harrison Clark commented.

Nora Camp smiled and shook her head, “I have to look at the big picture, and my vision must be placed on the entire galaxy. My command is actually the result of multiple optimization and management modes when transmitted from here to individuals within five seconds.”

“Hmm,” Harrison Clark nodded, “That’s true.”

As the conversation reached this point, the atmosphere in the room suddenly became a bit silent.

In the past, Harrison Clark’s conversations with Nora Camp had always been relaxed.

After all, he was mostly a foot soldier, and she was his superior as a General – her word was law.

Whatever she wanted to do, it had to be done.

Mr. Clark didn’t need to bother thinking; he just had to cooperate at the right time, accompany her to play chess, and that was it.

But now the situation has changed, with him being a Sage, he is considered to have a high status. Nora Camp has become the commander-in-chief. Harrison Clark doesn’t know how to start a proper romantic relationship without taking advantage of his position as a Sage.

Furthermore, even if Nora Camp herself had this idea, given Harrison Clark’s current status, she was unlikely to make a direct request like before.

High-profile people’s emotional lives tend to have a wide range of considerations, but they lose their ease and have many concerns.

At least for now, Harrison Clark was troubled by this, but he soon realized he was overthinking it.

“By the way, Harri … Harrison.”

Five seconds later, Nora Camp suddenly spoke up.

“What’s up?”

Harrison Clark pretended to be aloof.

“About General Brown’s previous situation… ”

Continuing in his aloof tone, Harrison Clark interrupted: “Hasn’t that matter already been settled? It was just a scheme devised by the Sage Institute and General Brown, kept from others.”

Nora Camp shook her head, “No, that’s not what I meant.”

“Hmm?”

“The conversation I had with General Brown wasn’t just a spur of the moment.”

“Oh?”

“I was serious.”

“Huh?”

“I have already submitted a pairing request to you through the personal system. Please approve it. My feelings for you are genuine.”

Harrison Clark: “Emmm …”

His pretended aloofness instantly crumbled.

There it was, that familiar feeling.

She was no longer “young” and held a significant position.

Many people even criticized her for being too old-fashioned because she had been refusing General Brown for a century.

But she really hadn’t changed; she just hadn’t found the right person yet.

Deep down, she was still as straightforward as ever!

Harrison Clark looked down slightly.

Time hadn’t left any traces on her; she was still perfect and flawless.

Seeing that he didn’t speak, Nora Camp mistakenly thought she was being rejected. However, she was not embarrassed but simply apologized gracefully, “I’m sorry, I was too presumptuous. With my humble appearance of Nora Camp…”

Harrison Clark stood up abruptly, “What nonsense are you talking about! Have you seen your Sage code?”Nora Camp shook her head, “No.”

“But with your intelligence, you should have noticed something, right?”

Nora Camp nodded, “Yes. It’s just that I was preoccupied with the war before and didn’t have time to worry about anything else. It was also inconvenient to use public resources for personal matters, so I didn’t ask further. This attempt and verification are the only reasons I brought it up. It’s just a pity…”

“There’s nothing to pity. You were right in thinking that our relationship was special.”

Nora Camp was overjoyed, “Really?”

“Absolutely!”

She suddenly stood up, “Enough talk. We must focus on the war. Let’s play chess.”

“Alright!”

…

Ten minutes later, Harrison Clark, with black pieces in hand, eagerly sat in front of the chessboard.

His mind was a bit dizzy.

He almost took off his pants, only to find out they were actually playing chess.

Nora Camp was delighted to know that as long as Harrison Clark didn’t mind, she could “selfishly” occupy Lord Sage’s precious private time and have him play chess with her personally.

From the previous months of chess games, Nora Camp could definitely sense her own progress, and it was incredibly enjoyable.

She tried playing chess against artificial intelligence during her spare time or even participated in small-scale chess competitions at the Staff Department.

When competing against the exhaustively algorithmic artificial intelligence, losing wasn’t that satisfying, and the benefits were limited.

Winning against others didn’t feel as effective as winning against Harrison Clark.

“These chess pieces are made of ivory synthesized by the superstring mass-energy converter. The board is authentic Han white jade, also artificially synthesized by the converter.”

In the chess room, a pleasant fragrance lingered, and the atmosphere was peaceful.

Nora Camp introduced it all with relish, making it quite a ceremonial occasion.

Harrison Clark tried to remain energetic, nodding repeatedly.

“Oh, I see.”

…

Two hours later, Mr. Clark was eager to leave, his spirit battered.

Nora Camp stretched lazily, satisfied.

“Lord Sage, where are you going?”

With a dazed expression from losing consecutively, Harrison Clark said, “I’m a bit tired. I’m going to the pavilion at the Science Institute to stroll around and read some books to relax my mind.”

Nora Camp looked disappointed, “Is that so? But I remember in the Compound Eye Crisis movie, it was shown that Nico Ross and the female general had to engage in mating behavior after their chess game to consolidate their memories.”

Harrison Clark rolled his eyes, “You remembered wrong. It was the warm-up before the game.”

“Sometimes before, sometimes after?”

“Then why did you want to play chess first?”

“I’m a little shy?”

…

In the blink of an eye, several months passed, and during that time, Harrison Clark felt it went by both quickly and slowly.

It was fast because he finally had time to get to know Nora Camp, and slow because the number of Prism Ships outside the Dome was ever increasing.

Almost every hour, scouts and drones from the asteroid belt would send back new intelligence, and the number of Prism Ships was rapidly increasing.

One hundred thousand, two hundred thousand, three hundred thousand…

At the same time, more and more Carrier Ships returned to battle.

The atmosphere in the Shadow Galaxy became increasingly strange, filled with both the temporary calm of respite and the pressure of an impending storm.

Internal technological progress in the galaxy did not stagnate due to the Dome blockade and continued to advance non-stop.

By reading the memories of the Compound Eye People, researchers gradually restored more and more Prism Ship equipment, and one after another, large-scale experiments that absorbed the enemy’s technological path began.

Humans did not know what raw materials the biogenic technology of the Compound Eye People was based on, but they found their own primordial “germs”: Z Bacteria and S Bacteria.

Freddy had already completed the reconstruction of the Z Bacteria’s genes before.

In these few months, the Biology Institute and Material Institute affiliated with the Science Academy teamed up with Freddy once again. They absorbed the S Bacteria protein structure provided by Harrison Clark himself, incorporated it with the biogenic principles of 86 Trait Galaxies within the Orion Arm, started with the first-generation primordial cells, promoted rapid evolution and completed the reconstruction of the S Bacteria.

Getting these two kinds of bacteria was just the beginning, next was to combine the opponent’s technological concepts with massive calculations of Quantum Intelligence to deduce human-applicable results.

Through the combination of different concentration ratios of the two bacteria, supplemented with different interfering factors, the humans found a new kind of beneficial symbiotic bacteria.

It appeared to be somewhat similar to the ZS Bacteria that caused destruction in this timeline, but there was a fundamental difference in essence.