After overcoming countless hardships and dangers, traversing interstellar space, fiercely battling dark forces, and exploring numerous mysterious and unknown psychic realms, Li Yi and his group finally returned to Earth, exhausted but with a wealth of knowledge and experiences. The moment they stepped out of the interstellar spacecraft, the familiar yet slightly alien atmosphere of Earth washed over them, filling them with a complex mix of emotions.
Earth, the home they fought so hard to protect, has undergone a dramatic transformation under the tide of the psionic era. City skylines are adorned with psionic towers, shimmering with a soft light, constantly gathering and distributing psionic energy, like the psionic heart of the city, sustaining everything. On the streets, people's clothing incorporates psionic fibers, automatically regulating temperature and humidity, and changing color according to the wearer's mood and psionic fluctuations, like a flowing psionic painting. Transportation is also mostly psionic powered, leaving dazzling psionic contrails in the air, like a brushstroke freely across the azure sky.
However, for those who have just returned from the depths of space, reintegrating into this seemingly familiar life is no easy task. The first challenge is adjusting their physical and psionic states. Having spent so long in the high-intensity psionic environment of space, their psionic frequencies have become accustomed to that wild and unrestrained rhythm. Now, returning to Earth's relatively mild and orderly psionic field, their bodies involuntarily react with resistance, like a precision instrument accustomed to the roar of an interstellar engine suddenly placed in a quiet laboratory, its operation filled with lag and discomfort.
Li Yi returned home and tried to calm his chaotic psionic energy through meditation. But as soon as he closed his eyes, images of past battles in the universe uncontrollably flooded his mind: the狰狞 (zhengning - ferocious) faces of dark psionic creatures, the dazzling sparks flying when psionic weapons clashed, the frenzied devouring of energy by psionic vortexes at the edge of black holes… Fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead; his psionic energy surged wildly within him, nearly destroying the psionic defenses he had painstakingly built. The same thing happened to Zhang Feng. When he tried to mobilize his psionic energy for his daily training, he found that his strength was completely unresponsive. The psionic barbell that he could easily lift before now felt like a mountain pressing down on him, completely immovable. This made the usually carefree Zhang Feng pound the ground in frustration.
Sensing their plight, Liu Yue, drawing upon her deep understanding of psychic science, quickly assembled a top-tier research team on Earth to establish a psychic conditioning center specifically for returnees. The center simulates various common psychic environments in the universe, from raging psychic storm zones to tranquil psychic dormancy zones, gradually guiding the returnees' psychic frequencies back to Earth. Here, they undergo rigorous psychic rehabilitation training, immersing themselves daily in psychic light baths, allowing gentle psychic rays to penetrate every inch of their skin, soothing tense psychic pathways; they participate in psychic resonance rituals, resonating with stable psychic cores on Earth to regain a balanced psychic rhythm.
While struggling to adjust physically, they also faced a tremendous psychological adjustment. In the universe, they were heroes charging into battle, shouldering the heavy responsibility of saving the cosmic psionic civilization. Every decision and every battle concerned countless lives and the fate of the entire civilization. But back on Earth, life instantly became mundane and ordinary. Neighbors talked about whose psionic fruits and vegetables were the most lush and plump, and how their children were doing at the psionic academy. These everyday topics made them feel somewhat disoriented, as if they had fallen from a magnificent epic battlefield into the trivialities of everyday life in a bustling alley.
Li Yi often stared blankly out the window at the bustling yet somewhat unfamiliar city nightscape, his heart filled with confusion. Those days of battling wits and courage against the forces of darkness in the universe, though fraught with danger, had also ignited his passion and helped him find the true value of life. Now, faced with a life as calm as still water, he didn't know how to settle his heart, accustomed to adventure and challenge. Professor Wang noticed his thoughts, patted him on the shoulder, and said softly, "Child, we protect Earth so that everyone can live such ordinary and happy lives, right? But your mission is not over. The mysteries of psionic energy are endless, and the future of Earth still needs your guidance."
These words were like a beacon, illuminating Li Yi's chaotic thoughts. He began to actively integrate into the community, using his spare time to give lectures at the psychic academy, sharing his observations of the universe and his knowledge of psychic energy. The sparkling curiosity in the children's eyes and the passionate pursuit of psychic exploration by young people rekindled his motivation to strive. He realized that heroes should not only belong on the battlefield, but should also be rooted in life, using their experience and wisdom to cultivate seeds of hope for their community.
Meanwhile, although Earth's psionic technology has developed rapidly, after in-depth exchanges and integration with other civilizations in the universe, Li Yi and others discovered that there are still many shortcomings. For example, Earth's psionic weapons are far inferior to some advanced alien civilizations in terms of energy endurance and precision strikes against alien targets made of special materials; psionic medical technology is also inadequate in dealing with complex genetic diseases caused by cosmic radiation; and the efficiency of psionic energy collection is far behind that of mining resource-rich interstellar veins.
To bridge these gaps, the Alliance swiftly organized a global psionic technology research and development campaign. Top researchers from around the world gathered, with Li Yi, Liu Yue, and others leveraging their practical experience and insights in space to serve as technical advisors. They led their research teams in in-depth studies of extraterrestrial civilizations' psionic technology samples, disassembling and analyzing psionic devices far exceeding Earth's current capabilities. While researching a highly efficient psionic engine from an Andromeda Galaxy civilization, researchers discovered its unique psionic compression and circulation technology, which could increase psionic energy utilization by more than three times. Through repeated experimentation and improvements, combined with Earth's own material properties, they finally successfully developed a new type of psionic engine suitable for Earth's spacecraft, significantly improving travel speed and endurance.
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