Mo Tang was never a peaceful person.
He knew he was different from others from a very young age.
After falling asleep, he found himself seeing strange things, as if he had suddenly entered another dimension, Alice's Wonderland, or Shrek's underground castle.
However, he remained an observer there, occasionally able to peek inside through the cracks in space-time, but unable to enter. To be precise, once, he almost broke into another world through those space-time cracks, for only a moment. The price he paid was a fourteen-day coma.
He remembered that time clearly.
After fourteen days, his mental energy was very weak, and when he woke up, he was as weak as a newborn baby.
The parents were worried, believing that their child was so weak because they were too old.
"He has a very strong spirit!" That's what the doctor said. The doctor had probably never seen a child like him before, who didn't cry or make a fuss when the needle went into his body, and whose eyes were unusually calm when receiving an IV drip.
Some people's extraordinary qualities can be seen from childhood, and that's what the doctor thought back then.
His teacher felt the same way, especially since his love for time and space was beyond that of ordinary children.
During his university years, Mo Tang studied astrophysics. He felt that it was the discipline closest to spacetime, and that it was the only one that could explain what had happened to him. He believed that if he could understand it, he might be able to find the answer to the mystery of his own life.
But he was disappointed.
He felt that with current technology, he might only have the opportunity to realize his dream of traversing the stars hundreds of years after his death, and that a solid foundation in physics was not enough to solve his problem.
He turned to metaphysics and mysticism, those fantastical things left behind by humankind that were most helpful to him, and he immersed himself in them day and night.
This process is rather lengthy.
After he had read through all the classics of metaphysics and mysticism he could find, some of the views in them were very enlightening to him, such as traveling 30,000 miles in spirit, seeing goddesses in dreams, and transforming into a Kunpeng after death. In the writings of those sages, human consciousness is separated from the body, which coincided with his own ideas.
He was quite certain that the time he had been transported to another world as a child was not an illusion, but a real event, a magnificent treasure waiting for him to discover.
The school once organized a movie screening. He had escaped the embrace of physics and jumped out of the pit of metaphysics. When he had nothing to do, he had such an opportunity to relax, so he went.
He was glad he went.
It was a science fiction movie about sending a person's consciousness into a virtual world through the internet.
This movie touched a nerve with him, and he knew that the opportunity he had been waiting for had finally arrived.
So he minored in programming and quickly distinguished himself in it. After gaining a deep understanding of programming and artificial intelligence, he knew he had found the right direction. He had a bigger plan in mind: to create something that would unleash his full potential. If successful, he might actually enter another world and begin his dream journey.
As an adult, he gained better control over his mental power. Many times, he allowed his consciousness to peer into the cracks of spacetime, but he never let himself get any closer. He knew that power was terrifying, and he would never take that step until he found a suitable method.
Creating a world of one's own is a tedious process in itself, until he met a like-minded person.
It was in a secluded corner of the waiting hall. A man with his back to everyone rubbed his fingers together, and a small flame silently lit a cigarette. Mo Tang was sure she could see it clearly; the flame appeared out of thin air with just a snap of his fingers.
At that moment, his heart stopped, and his expression turned cold and solemn.
Others might think it was magic, but he knew that before entering the waiting hall, everyone's flammable items had been confiscated, so he was a real person with superpowers.
He stepped forward without hesitation to greet her. "My name is Mo Tang!"
The man smiled and put away his cigarette. "I'm not smoking anymore!"
"Did you start a fire by rubbing against each other just now?"
The man laughed, glanced at the camera, and subtly rubbed his fingers together behind everyone's back. "Is that what you mean?"
Another flame appeared.
Mo Tang remained unfazed, silently releasing her spiritual power, instantly extinguishing the man's flames.
The man looked at Mo Tang thoughtfully, as if looking at one of his own. "My name is Tian Xiaowu."
Tian Xiaowu was one of the earliest members of the Mo Tang team.
With Tian Xiaowu's help, Mo Tang quickly gathered a group of superpowered individuals. However, their abilities varied in strength. The strong ones could summon hurricanes, while the weak ones could only be used for showing off, such as creating a small rainbow with water to please girls. Most of their superpowers were quite useless. For example, Tian Xiaowu's superpower could only be used as a lighter, and its durability was less than that of a piece of coal. It couldn't even cook a chicken wing properly.
After taking into account the abilities of these individuals, the first-generation system was born.
This was a rather crude experiment. Even Mo Tang himself couldn't say for sure how far the system could go or whether it could fulfill the dream of traveling to other dimensions. Among everyone, the only one born with the ability to travel through time and space was Mo Tang, and he didn't hesitate to use himself as the experimenter.
When he connected to that behemoth and entered a near-death state, he was nervous. He was determined to sacrifice himself, but he wanted to realize his ideas through his own strength.
When he stood at the spacetime rift, his enhanced mental strength finally allowed him to enter one of the rifts, where he successfully possessed a person named Mo Di.
Using his identity as Mo Di, he helped Mo Di eliminate his allies and rivals. Just as he was about to be granted a title and a kingdom, he was forced to return.
The moment I opened my eyes, I saw countless concerned faces.
How long did I sleep?
"Seven days!"
"Oh!" He seemed to understand. It was normal for the time flow to be different in the two worlds. However, he woke up much earlier than he had expected. Based on the results of this experiment, he restarted the process of modifying the system.
However, upon further investigation, it was discovered that the system had many flaws and required larger and more sophisticated computers to run those massive calculations. Individual efforts were insignificant in the face of such massive computations.
Money! Money! Money!
He needed a lot of money. He used his patents to make money where possible and sold them off where he could, but the money he got was still not enough to support the huge losses.
At this moment, nano appeared.
Nano is the largest research institution in the country that studies parallel worlds in outer space. They have been paying attention to the group of superpowered individuals for a long time and have recruited some of them. They are also trying their best to enhance the abilities of superpowered individuals, strengthen and amplify their abilities, and ultimately enable them to become true superpowered individuals who live up to their names.
Their research directions are different from Mo Tang's, but they are similar in purpose and this does not hinder their cooperation and tolerance.
"I will not become a vassal!"
This was a request made by Mo Tang.
“We provided the vast majority of the resources, which are very expensive.” The person who came to negotiate with Nano was Liu Mo. At that time, Liu Mo held great power and knew how to use his influence to pressure others.
Mo Tang smiled. "A weapon that no one knows how to use is just scrap metal. Only those who know how to use it can make it valuable. Before you say these things, you should see how amazing things we have accomplished with less than a tenth of your resources."
Liu Mo smiled as well. "Whatever you wish!"
Mo Tang invited Liu Mo to experience the equipment firsthand, and Liu Mo readily agreed. As a superhuman himself, he knew that only by experiencing it firsthand could he truly understand the system's value.
Mo Tang sneered and knocked Liu Mo unconscious without hesitation. The blow was ruthless and powerful. Liu Mo felt like he was about to die. His consciousness then scattered. Before it finally dissipated, he saw those magical worlds. A person seemed to stand at the top of the world, or crawl at its feet. He existed at the beginning of time and at the end of time. It was a bizarre and unpredictable world.
He only stayed in that time and space for less than three hours before waking up. His neck was in excruciating pain, and he couldn't move it. He glared angrily at Mo Tang: "You ambushed me!"
Mo Tang had long disliked Liu Mo's aggressive demeanor, and calmly said, "Only those in a near-death state can travel through time and space; otherwise, don't even think about entering."
Liu Mo angrily accepted the answer and went back to report today's results. This system is one that can turn dreams into reality. If it is connected to the nano system, this project will definitely succeed.
The collaboration between nano and Motang went very smoothly.
When the improved system was fully developed, more people participated in the experiment. Liu Mo thought that those people would also suffer like him, but unexpectedly, they were only sprayed with the "drug" and then they were in a state of suspended animation, which was much better than what he had experienced.
Liu Mo was very jealous. "Why did I have to get hit back then?"
"What do you mean 'take a hit'? We also had a fake death 'drug' back then, you could just spray it on and you'd be fake dead," Tian Xiaowu explained with a smile.
Liu Mo's eyes widened. "Then why won't you let me use it?"
Tian Xiaowu chuckled. "Back then, you weren't one of us, and we were so poor that we tried to save every penny we could. You're rich, you don't understand how pitiful we poor people were!"
Liu Mo roared, realizing that he had been ambushed by Mo Tang.
...
Mo Tang served as the chief engineer of the project, and he was in charge of everything. He was the most suitable person to take charge of the project, as well as the most fair and selfless person. Every time the system was upgraded or improved, he was the first to try it out, leaving the danger to himself and minimizing the harm.
In fact, the project was on the right track. Mo Tang's ability to travel through time was indeed amplified during one of his travels, and other superpowered individuals also received varying degrees of enhancement.
At this point, there is a clear shortage of people with superpowers; the existing sample size is too small, and the data support is insufficient, which greatly affects the judgment.
Thus, a new system that could actively capture people's superpowers was born. As the number of people bound to the system increased, related facilities were also established: institutions that specifically accept people with superpowers, hospitals that rescue people with superpowers, related security and defense systems, and so on.
The entire project has become a behemoth, and it has also nurtured more and more superpowered individuals. They hold the most important positions and play an increasingly important role, especially in some emergency missions, where they perform quite well.
The incident occurred one afternoon.
A superpowered individual who was bound to another body perished, his soul scattered across time and space, leaving only a physical shell behind.
Mo Tang always remembered his name: Ming Yang!
Later, more novice superpowered individuals perished. Their lives, which were already nearing their end in the real world, were ultimately not favored by fate, and they vanished silently.
“It’s not easy to cultivate a superpowered individual.” This was the consensus reached between Mo Tang and Liu Mo.
After a long period of collaboration, the two finally became good friends.
“They should all come back and see this world again.” Mo Tang remained silent. He now had a deeper understanding of the system, but he still had many worries in his heart.
The system still has flaws! He knew this perfectly well.
A pigeon flew across the sky, its white teeth contrasting beautifully against the blue sky, its free-flying posture was lovely.
"Did you know that pigeons have a strong ability to return to their homing nests? Even if they are more than a thousand kilometers away from home, they can still get back home. However, once they get home, they never want to go out again."
Mo Tang had once watched a pigeon race. In a race that covered a thousand miles, out of hundreds of pigeons, no more than ten would survive. No one knew what those pigeons encountered on the way; once they returned home, they were unwilling to spread their wings and fly again.
He hopes that all those superpowered individuals will return, will come back home.
The "Carrier Pigeon Project" was born.
All the superpowered individuals received the best care. Mo Tang tried his best to improve the system so that more people could benefit from it. He even accepted Liu Mo's suggestion to maximize the system's capabilities and added many things that superpowered individuals could use.
"Let's give it a try. Anyway, the rules of the world are different. What if it works?" Liu Mo said casually.
Mo Tang, however, felt that this was a direction. Since the soul could enter, why not bring in some personal items to see if they were really effective? This was a new attempt, and so, all sorts of strange and unusual talismans were born.
When Mo Tang saw the names of those things, she felt terrible. Leopard Embryo Tendon-Changing Pill, Mighty Vajra Pill…
"Did you come up with this name?" Mo Tang's forehead veins throbbed; she hadn't expected Liu Mo to be this kind of person.
Liu Mo nodded, not feeling embarrassed at all. "That's right! I've been reading martial arts novels lately. Jin Yong and Gu Long's are all very good. We can't let martial arts masterpieces be lost; we should take them into the universe."
Mo Tang looked at him with a strange expression, and finally agreed, saying it would be compensation for punching Liu Mo back then.
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