Antarctica, polar research area.

The working environment here is similar to that of the Pacific Division, one is at the bottom of the deep sea, the other is under the frozen soil, and everyone is the kind of cat who does not go out in the base all year round, but the working atmosphere of the two places is very different.

In the Pacific Sector, most containment objects are extremely dangerous, so there is no room for slackening even with the water pressure constraints, first, because the cost of remedial measures after a containment breach is too high, and secondly, until each containment is recovered from the deep ocean...... The contents are already dead.

Well...... You may not believe it, but for the Foundation, the death of these extremely dangerous anomalous creatures is a great loss. It's like suddenly finding a living dinosaur, although it is very brutal and dangerous, as long as it runs out for 20 minutes, it can kill people three or four streets, but even if it really swallows your second uncle alive, no matter how indignant you complain, it is impossible to let it give you your life, you can only watch it eat and drink in the cage every day, and be taken care of more comfortably than your own father. So the employees of the Pacific Division are a group of keepers who always have to ensure the health of the dinosaur and make sure that it does not run out to mess around.

Of course, the Foundation will not raise everything brainlessly, and dare to raise dinosaurs, that is because dinosaurs can be kept in cages, and for the kind of anomalous objects that cannot be closed, such as "dinosaurs that can penetrate walls", it is natural to directly implement the procedure of "destruction".

Then the polar research zone is a place to deal with something more difficult than "destroying".

That's something you can't shut down, and you can't kill it! For example, a "hanging dinosaur that can penetrate walls and avoid magic and eat all damage" or something like that.

So someone has to ask, since the invincible mode has been turned on, what else should I do?

In fact, the Foundation has mastered the technology of artificial wormholes for a long time...... However, they are not sure if this thing is a "wormhole", in short, the thing that was thrown into it never came back, and as for the other dimension, or another world, it is unknown. But it is precisely because of this uncertainty that the use of "artificial wormholes" still carries huge risks, if the opposite is another dimension, it is okay, as long as those things do not harm their own world, then they make other worlds what the Foundation does not care, I am afraid that in some joint reactions, such as whether the turmoil in other worlds will affect this side, or simply this wormhole leads to a point in time many years later, when those things that cannot be handled will all come out, then it will be really over.

So, about 110 years ago, this artificial wormhole was destroyed.

The reason for this is that the Foundation has found a safer and more worry-free solution to contain these "unmanageable" anomalous objects. Or rather, this method took the initiative to find the Foundation.

On that day, a scrawny monk arrived at some outlying Foundation residence, dressed in shabby robes that could not be seen, with bare feet and a beard that completely obscured his face, and if it weren't for the familiar monk gesture on his chest with his hands, everyone would have thought him to be a vagabond, or the most miserable of the kind, of course, even so, most people thought he was just pretending to be a believer in order to beg.

Since what he found was only a small branch of the Foundation, disguised by a "water conservancy project" building on the outskirts of the city, there were no people coming in and out at all, and people also ignored the monk from beginning to end in line with the principle that more is better than less, and he just stood on the river dam on the outskirts of the city, maintaining that one movement, motionless.

Finally, a week later, a staff member finally realized that the man had been standing without food or drink for nearly 200 hours...... At this point, this person was finally escorted into the Foundation by several guards.

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Asceticism. People who are not very religious can not try at all, and even cannot understand the behavior, and those monks deliberately torture themselves with unbearable suffering. According to legend, it is more extensive, similar to kneeling and bowing every few steps, from the bottom of the temple mountain to the temple hall, this practice is at most regarded as a ritual, and the real asceticism is much more cruel than this kind of cruelty. Even its difficulty lies not in 'suffering', but in 'doing'.

Because, the ultimate goal of an ascetic person is to go on, to abandon the obsessions in his heart for a long time, and to understand those problems that he does not know what they are. Long-term fasting and deprivation of water, lying on a bed full of nails, walking on fiery charcoal, enduring the heat and cold to exercise endurance and detachment, these seemingly horrific sounds are superficial physical stimuli, and with the passage of time, such things will eventually become pale and powerless, and the ultimate problem faced by the true ascetic is often ...... How to continue to live and keep going.

As an ordinary person, the thoughts or beliefs in this cannot and are not qualified to describe, but we should be able to imagine that during this period there will be enlightenment and sublimation, and that monk seems to be the one who has really realized something for thousands of years.

So he found the Foundation...... Yes, he was the first person to take the initiative to find the Foundation, although he didn't know the existence of the "Order Foundation" at the time, but in the dark, he knew that there would be an end to his walk, because he had already found a starting point.

In his second year in the Foundation's sights, he became a member of the High Council!

Although it sounds a little ridiculous, if there is really such a person in this world who thinks about other human beings, it can only be him. And he also has the ability to say the phrase "protect humanity". Oh, by the way, he's the one who did away with the "artificial wormhole".

Ascetic, that's what he called himself, he had long forgotten his name during his long journeys, and he had learned a power over the centuries...... He called it "nothing".

The things that are imprisoned by him will enter a state of "nothingness", they will be fixed at one point, not eating, not drinking, not moving, not breathing, not thinking, they will become a state of complete nothingness that is completely detached from this world, and that time will not even pass.

And because time is also "nothing", this state ...... It will last forever.