The Kochas asteroid belt at the edge of the star system.
Inside a dimensional spaceship, Bi Yufei, from the civilization of extraordinary individuals, majoring in Cosmic Civilization Diversity at the Empire's Supreme Academy, casually asked his classmate as he emerged from the cultivation chamber at the ship's center:
"Kasim, what's the situation with the civilization on that A3 Sapphire life planet? Did they perish or what? They were truly quite mad.
We merely seeded some extraordinary energy factors, intending to see if they could evolve from a primitive technological civilization into a basic extraordinary civilization within the next five hundred years. We didn't expect them to be so hasty.
They rashly altered the extraordinary factors we seeded.
This resulted in a group of failed evolutions.
Now, even if they haven't perished, there probably aren't many survivors left. Can I borrow your observation logs from recent years? I've been busy cultivating and haven't recorded much."
"Uh, it's not that you haven't recorded much, it's that you haven't recorded anything at all. If you had been recording, you wouldn't be asking me about the situation on the Sapphire life planet.
Come see for yourself. The situation is very complicated.
It can't be explained in a few words.
I'm afraid our graduation thesis for this civilization observation group might be in jeopardy, as I've never seen a situation like this before. We might not pass."
Kasim rolled his eyes in exasperation and then moved aside from the observation room, gesturing for Bi Yufei to see for himself.
"Honestly, if there's something, just say it.
You have to tease me like this and make me see it myself."
Although Bi Yufei grumbled, it was related to his ability to complete his graduation thesis, so he stepped forward, logged into his account, clicked, and began to view the situation on the Sapphire life planet.
Then, he couldn't help but let out a scream:
"How is this possible? How is this possible? They actually advanced! They actually advanced to a basic extraordinary civilization, and even reached the late stage of basic extraordinary civilization."
"This is unscientific…"
Bi Yufei clearly remembered that their civilization's history books explicitly stated that it took them a full three hundred and eighty years to evolve from a technological civilization to a basic extraordinary civilization, and it took over eighteen hundred years for the entire civilization to transition from having only a few extraordinary individuals to everyone becoming an extraordinary individual.
But how long had he been in seclusion?
He had only been in seclusion for ten years.
How did the planet that was previously filled with failed evolutions suddenly become a planet full of espers?
"Yufei, I know it's hard for you to believe.
But this is the reality. Beings from other civilizations intervened in the civilization's progress on that planet. A civilization whose development has been forcefully interfered with and reversed like this probably cannot be written into a thesis and pass.
Should we find another planet to observe?"
Kasim continued to speak at a measured pace.
"Since you know that someone intervened in the planet's civilization's progress, why didn't you stop them? Why didn't you kill that person? If you had just killed that person from another civilization, wouldn't everything be fine?"
Having just learned this news after ten years of seclusion, Bi Yufei, unable to control his emotions, roared at Kasim.
Compared to slowly observing the development and progress of a planet's civilization over five hundred years, it was clearly simpler and saved more time to observe a planet that had accidentally fallen into an apocalypse.
The most crucial point was that the previous accident was entirely the bitter fruit of the planet's own greed, and no matter how it was investigated, it had nothing to do with them.
So, if there had been no accident, they could have completed their observation and thesis within a decade or so. Although the final score might not be very high.
But passing would definitely be fine.
However, with external interference forcefully reversing the final outcome, this undoubtedly had nothing to do with the content of their thesis, which required the natural development and evolution of a primitive technological civilization after the seeding of extraordinary factors.
This meant all their previous efforts were in vain.
They had to find another civilization to observe.
"According to the Cosmic Civilization Code, if a civilization is in danger of destruction, any other civilization can provide assistance. Witnessing without intervening incurs no guilt, but obstructing the rescue, if discovered, will result in exile."
"Therefore, I cannot prevent that person from saving the civilization."
Kasim responded calmly.
"Ah, I'm going crazy! Do you have to be so law-abiding? You said you'd only be exiled if you were discovered. Can't you do it discreetly? Also, didn't I tell you before to wake me up if anything urgent happened? Why didn't you wake me up?"
"Oh God, I'm truly going mad!
I thought teaming up with you, given your good grades, might be a good choice. If I had known, I might as well have picked anyone at random to form an observation group.
Do you know how much effort and how many star coins I spent to buy a one-time negative emotion and greed-increasing energy wave that could bypass the inspection facilities, just to save some time and get my graduation certificate sooner!
Now it's all ruined by you! All ruined!
Where else can I buy another one!
A five-hundred-year observation period, won't that bore me to death? It's all your fault, it's all your fault..."
Without Bi Yufei even realizing it, his emotions ran wild, not only revealing things that should have been kept secret but also directly attacking Kasim.
It seemed as if he wanted to beat him up to vent his anger.
The next second, Kasim couldn't help but clap and smile. With a flick of his hand, he sent out an energy wave that knocked Bi Yufei to the ground. He then looked up at the void and said:
"Inspector, you've seen the situation, haven't you?
Under the influence of the permitted true emotional energy field, Bi Yufei has truthfully revealed all his cheating behavior. According to regulations, I, as the informant, am entitled to academic credits. Can you provide me with the relevant certification?"
"The relevant certification has been sent to your identity information panel. The academy's academic affairs department will arrive here in three cosmic hours. Please keep the cheater under watch.
The specific increase in academic credits will be assessed and finalized by the academic affairs department. If you were unaware of his cheating behavior before it occurred.
Then you will receive a maximum of ten academic credits.
If you were aware of it and allowed it to happen, your report will at most exempt you from punishment. Please note this and do not touch anything else within the spaceship.
Also, thank you for your support. Goodbye!"
As the communication ended, the disciplinary inspector, who had been hidden in the void, quickly departed. Kasim happily awaited the academic credits he was about to receive, while Bi Yufei, with a pained expression, lay on the ground awaiting punishment.
As for the people who died on that life planet.
Who cared?