Chapter 201 - 201: The Spectator Becomes the Spectacle
Chapter 201 - 201: The Spectator Bes the Spectacle
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¡°It¡¯s almost May Day. Where do you want to go?¡±
During dinner, Tang Rui asked Li Shuyao where she wanted to travel.
¡°Are you alright? Didn¡¯t you just be the chief teacher?¡± Li Shuyao was very surprised when she heard Tang Rui¡¯s question.
If she remembered correctly, at the end ofst month, Tang Rui had just boasted to her about bing the chief teacher.
In the end, it had only been less than a month.
Why did he want to take her out?
¡°I¡¯m also a chief engineer now, but the first phase of the project has beenpleted. I don¡¯t have anything to do at the moment.¡±
Tang Rui had submitted the blueprint after the system upgrade and optimization.
The first generation of armed satellites waspleted.
As for the second generation, there was no rush. He would let the researchers develop the electromaic armed satellite first.
So, he really had nothing to do at the moment.
He was finished with the missile.
The transport ne project was alsopleted.
Although he had made a mistake earlier, he had gotten Red Lotus to re-evaluate the airflowyout of the transport ne afterward and manufactured one for the military to deliver.
As for why he had to redesign the aeroyout,
The transport ne definitely could not follow¡ They looked the same, right?
Thus, he had redesigned it.
Anyway, the design of this thing was very simple, and modifying the internal design was easier.
Currently, there was one project he had yet to deliver.
It was the ground support attack aircraft project.
But this project was not urgent.
He could easily settle it when he was bored.
¡°I see¡ If you ask me now, I can¡¯t think of anywhere. 1¡¯11 go to work tomorrow and look up a guide to see where it¡¯s fun.¡±
Li Shuyao thought for a moment and couldn¡¯t decide where to go.
They couldn¡¯t travel abroad, anyway.
As for domestic locations, there were no restrictions.
¡°Alright, you can choose the ce.¡±
Tang Rui didn¡¯t care about where they went to y at all. The main thing was that he stayed home every day. After a while, he became restless.
After dinner, Tang Rui leaned on the sofa and yed with his phone.
At this moment, he thought of thepanies that had applied for technology licensing before.
It had been more than a month.
The wearables were not out yet.
There was a lot of news on the Inte, and all sorts of traffic ounts were constantly leaking information.
The buzz was quite high.
But in reality, they were not sold at all.
As for the AR game that Huawei was talking about, there wasn¡¯t even a shadow of it now. Just thinking about it was annoying.
Things were moving too slowly.
The bored Tang Rui could only look up more information online.
Hmm?
Was India going to do a space flight on the 28th of the month?
Today was the 23rd.
This meant that his India was going to fly this weekend.
It was indeed official news.
It seemed that India was determined to enter the space race.
Tang Rui was looking forward to India¡¯s performance.
As for whether he could seed or not, he couldn¡¯t say for sure.
After all, the aerospace project was also done by the entire country. There had been no problems withunching rockets before.
We don¡¯t think India¡¯s aerospace engineering is that impressive, but that¡¯s because we are impressive.
Compared to India, there were so many countries in the world, but really not many couldpete.
In this aspect, the small days couldn¡¯tpare to India.
Although they were moring about sending people to the moon, that was their own technology.
Who didn¡¯t know how to hitch a ride?
Moreover, this news was only publicized to show respect to their father.
They had offered so much money.
Since they hadn¡¯t learned any skills, giving them a seat wouldn¡¯t be a problem. After all, it would make them feel better.
Tang Rui yed with his phone for a while before Li Shuyao dragged him to the gym.
In the next few days, Tang Rui didn¡¯t do any research either. He just wandered around at home every day and watched movies when he had nothing else to do.
He couldn¡¯t bring himself to keep researching.
In the blink of an eye, the weekend arrived.
Tang Rui arrived at the Blue Armymand center early. Through Red Lotus¡¯s transcode, the situation at India¡¯s spaceunch site was disyed with a holographic projection.
There was still half an hour before Indiaunched the manned spacecraft.
Crack.
Tang Rui sat in the chair, cracking melon seeds.
On the holographic projection screen, Brother San¡¯s news anchor was bragging about all aspects.
However, honestly, the Satish Dhawan Space Centerunch site wasn¡¯t bad.
It was just that the paint was a bit perplexing.
Why not make it white or blue?
Instead, they got a fan of the macho man.
It was a bit unbearable to watch.
Crack.
By the time Tang Rui had eaten half a bag of melon seeds, theunch vehicle was finally about tounch. The exciting moment had arrived.
Tang Rui stopped eating melon seeds.
He stared at the holographic projection in front of him.
As the countdown ended, theunch vehicle ignited.
In themand hall of the 1SRO, everyone was staring at the big screen, watching the rocket¡¯s flight attitude.
Take-off andnding were the most dangerous moments.
A few secondster, the carrier rocket flew normally and soared into the sky at an extremely fast speed.
The image on Tang Rui¡¯s holographic projection screen also switched to a satellite perspective, clearly showing theunch vehicle¡¯s flight trajectory.
ording to the information India had announced,
This manned spacecraft would enter an orbit of 400 kilometers, then begin orbiting and finally return tond.
This figure was actually quite impressive.
400 kilometers was sufficient.
After all, this was a manned space flight, not a satelliteunch. The difficulty of the two was notparable.
Soon, the secondary thrusters and fairing separated.
The three-stage rocket carried the manned spacecraft toward the 400-kilometer orbit.
¡°Did it seed?¡±
Tang Rui put down the melon seeds, no longer eating.
So far, India¡¯sunch vehicle was functioning normally, with no problems during its orbital flight.
The spacecraft was about to enter orbit.
As long as there were no issues with thending, the manned space flight would be considered a sess.
Hmm?
At that moment, Tang Rui noticed something was amiss.
The three-stage rocket hadn¡¯t separated from the spacecraft.
That shouldn¡¯t have happened.
They were already in orbit.
What were they waiting for?
Puff!
The manned spacecraft¡¯s attitude control engine activated, spewing out gas, and began to adjust the spacecraft¡¯s attitude.
But the problem was that the three-stage rocket hadn¡¯t detached.
This attempt at attitude adjustment was problematic.
Puff!
Puff!
Puff!
Tang Rui watched the three manned spacecrafts frantically spurt gas in space, constantly trying to adjust their attitude.
However, with the three-stage rocket attached, it was difficult to correct the posture.
For two whole minutes, it spurted gas.
Out of breath, the manned spacecraft dragged the three-stage rocket and began orbiting the Earth in an irregr motion.
Crack!
Tang Rui resumed eating melon seeds.
He really hadn¡¯t expected that after everything had gone smoothly, it would fail due to the three-stage rocket not separating.
Honestly, this was too basic an error.
Even if the spaceship had a problem, it would be more understandable.
But a problem with the separation system?
It was a little ridiculous.
In the ISRO¡¯smand hall, there was silence.
The person in charge was still talking to the astronauts, inquiring about the situation.
The astronauts were fine. They were just a bit dizzy from being spun around and had to keep spinning.
Without external forces, the doomed spacecraft would float in space for some time before falling into the atmosphere and then crashing to the ground.
¡°Sir, the spacecraft has deviated from its orbit.¡±
¡°How far off?¡±
¡°A deviation of 6.2 degrees.¡±
¡°Recalcte the trajectory.¡±
¡°The calctions areplete.¡±
The recalcted orbital data appeared on the big screen.
This elliptical orbit ovepped with the orbit of a satellite below. That satellite was the space tform that the Americans had justunched and had yet to assemble.
NASA¡¯s satellite control center was also monitoring India¡¯s manned space flight.
In the end, just as he had finished enjoying the spectacle, bad news arrived.
Their space tform ovepped with India¡¯s spacecraft. The scariest part was that they had no way to adjust the satellite¡¯s orbit.
This was because the three satellites they had justunched were all coreponents, not mobile units.
Suddenly, the director of NASA couldn¡¯tugh anymore.
Did he just get a taste of his own medicine?
Chapter 202 - 202: The Melon is Finished, Departing for
Chapter 202: The Melon is Finished, Departing for
Jiuzhaigou
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¡°This is going to be interesting.¡±
Tang Rui¡¯s team also calcted the trajectory of the stricken spacecraft. Upon discovering that their paths ovepped, he told Red Lotus to go wash a melon.
This melon was indeedrge.
He just didn¡¯t know how to handle America.
Others might be oblivious, but he was well aware.
The space tformcked an orbit change device. It was equipped only with a miniature engine for attitude adjustment.
Dream on if you think that¡¯s enough to change trajectories.
Bzz Bzz Bzz¡
At that moment, Tang Rui¡¯s phone vibrated.
He answered the call.
It was from the Space Command Center. The gist was that India was requesting assistance. They wanted us to deploy space fighter jets to rescue their doomed spaceship.
The aerospacemand center sought Tang Rui¡¯s advice.
If he wanted to rescue them, he would.
If not, he could simply im that the space warship was undergoing maintenance.
¡°They juste out and ask us for a rescue? Did they say anything else?¡±
Tang Rui inquired after getting the full story.
If that was the case, there was no need for a rescue.
Did they really think they were entitled to such a favor?
Imagine the nerve¡
¡°They mentioned the rescue fee.¡±
¡°How much are they willing to pay?¡±
¡°Eight million dors.¡±
¡°The space fighter is in maintenance.¡±
Upon hearing this figure, Tang Rui was utterly disinterested.
He wasn¡¯t heartless.
Even India didn¡¯t value its own astronauts highly. Eight million dors for a space rescue?
Ocean rescues cost more than that, let alone a space operation.
After ending the call, Tang Rui turned his attention back to his melons.
He didn¡¯t give his India another thought.
Meanwhile, NASA was in a meeting, trying to figure out a solution.
The first idea was to seek help from Crimson and use space fighter jets to tow their tform to safety.
This option was well understood by all, yet no one voiced it.
Instead, they decided to suggest that India approach the Crimson for assistance.
This way¡
They wouldn¡¯t have to pay a dime to avert the crisis.
Upon sharing this n, they immediately contacted India to advise them on managing the situation.
The oue was predictable.
They were initially pleased to hear that India had sought help, but speechless upon learning of the rejection and theughable offer made.
Didn¡¯t they grasp the severity of the situation?
Believing an eight-million-dor offer would suffice was delusional.
Even if they were to plead for assistance, they couldn¡¯t possibly propose such a paltry sum.
The folks at NASA were so infuriated they resorted to cursing.
The phone was mmed down.
NASA was at a loss.
The pressure was mounting. India might disregard their astronauts, but NASA couldn¡¯t ignore the space tform.
Despite lengthy discussions, no viable alternative emerged.
They had no choice but to escte the issue and await directives from higher up.
Twenty minutes passed.
The order came through, instructing them to stand down.
Upon receiving this directive, NASA disengaged.
They were powerless to intervene.
At that moment, their satellitework detected their own missilesunching.
The missile¡¯sunch captured global attention.
Tang Rui also noticed the missile and began tracking it.
¡°A SM-3 missile?¡±
Recognizing the missile type, Tang Rui understood its purpose.
It was an anti-air missile, typicallyunched from a guided-missile cruiser, renowned for its satellite-striking capability.
Now, America hadunched the missile.
Their intentions were clear.
They nned to obliterate India¡¯s stricken ship.
America¡¯s approach was merciless.
Strike without warning.
How should he phrase it?
Should he thank India for providing the rocket?
Tang Rui scoffed internally, then focused on the holographic projection disying the trajectories.
One was ascending.
The other orbited Earth.
If the missile maintained its course, it would hit its target without fail.
Shortly after, the SM-3 missile struck the Indian spacecraft, not the re-entry capsule, but the third-stage rocket.
Nevertheless, the re-entry capsule sustained severe damage.
Tang Rui recalcted the re-entry capsule¡¯s new trajectory post-explosion.
This time, there were no casualties.
The capsule wouldplete two and a half orbits before re-entering the atmosphere and sshing down in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
With this conclusion, he tossed the melon seeds onto the table and exited themand hall.
There was nothing more to see.
He had finished his melons.
Next, it was time for the others to bicker.
Meanwhile, nations worldwide began reassessing the SM-3 missile¡¯s capabilities.
This was no drill.
There was no opportunity for recalctions or simtions.
Destroying a spacecraft was a testament to rapid response capabilities.
The high-altitude, mid-orbit anti-missile prowess of the SM-3 was not to be underestimated, certainly more reliable than the SM-6.
It was no wonder the Japanese were keen on acquiring SM-3 missiles.
Their targeting was notably robust.
Yet, Tang Rui remained skeptical that the SM-3 could intercept the TF-17 and TF-41. One boasted an elusive trajectory, the other, a formidable warhead.
No panic was necessary; he had just witnessed a two-kick solution.
That night, India held a press conference addressing the day¡¯s aerospace events and fielded questions.
Two main points emerged:
They resented his sess. One wouldn¡¯t rescue, the other wouldunch missiles.
Listening to India¡¯s defiant words, the audience was impressed.
Five Great Powers, indeed, to rebuke two in one go.
Maintaining its stance, it nned to confront the remaining three, preferably at a United Nations meeting.
India, press on. You have our support.
The crowd jeered, barely concealing their schadenfreude.
It had been ages since such audacity was on disy.
They egged on India to intensify its tirade.
Yet, this was all during the press conference. Afterward, India discreetly contacted the Americans to discuss a weapons purchase.
Tang Rui paid no mind to the press conference.
It was trivial.
Post-dinner, he and Li Shuyao began packing for a trip.
The destination was set.
Li Shuyao had spent the entire day researching and ultimately chose Jiuzhaigou.
Tang Rui was indifferent to the location.
Sightseeing was the same everywhere to him.
The following day, April 29th, Tang Rui andpany embarked on their vacation.
Their private jet took them directly to Shu City.
From there, they drove an RV to Jiuzhaigou Valley, indulging in the simple pleasures of eating, drinking, and reveling..
Chapter 203 - 203: Giant Panda: Listen to Me, Thank You...
Chapter 203: Giant Panda: Listen to Me, Thank You¡
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Upon their arrival at Jiuzhaigou, the pair were immediately filled with regret.
Their intention had been to immerse themselves in the natural beauty, not to be engulfed by a sea of tourists.
The area was swarming with visitors. What beauty could be appreciated in such chaos?
¡°Perhaps we should consider a different location?¡± Tang Rui suggested to Li Shuyao as he surveyed the teeming masses. His concern wasn¡¯t one of safety.
It was simply the tedium of it all.
What joy was there in viewing nature through a throng of bodies?
No matter the splendor of thendscape, it was obscured by the crowd.
¡°Indeed, it¡¯s overly crowded. We might try returning post-holiday,¡± Li Shuyao concurred, her gaze sweeping over the throngs of people.
Her curiosity to explore was strong.
Yet, under these circumstances, it was far from ideal.
Departing Jiuzhaigou, their next destination was uncertain.
¡°How about we visit the pandas instead?¡± Li Shuyao proposed with a spark of excitement after consulting her phone¡¯s guide.
¡°That sounds wonderful. Let¡¯s go see the pandas,¡± Tang Rui responded, his own excitement kindled by the idea.
Indeed.
Why hadn¡¯t he thought of visiting the pandas over Jiuzhaigou?
¡°Gao Yang, let¡¯s head to the Giant Panda Base.¡±
¡°Alright.¡±
With Gao Yang at the wheel, they activated the navigation and set off towards the Giant Panda Base.
Leaving Jiuzhaigou behind, they merged onto the highway.
A sudden thought struck Tang Rui, and he deployed the drone from their RV to survey the surrounding forests.
He was well aware of the news reports.
They imed that the mountainous regions of Shu Du were home to numerous wild giant pandas.
The inte humorously suggested that in Sichuan¡¯s rural areas, giant pandas were asmon as household pets, with children riding them to school.
Though clearly a jest, the presence of wild giant pandas in these mountains was a fact, making their decision a sound one, albeit their numbers were not as exaggerated.
As the drone¡¯s battery neared depletion, Tang Rui had yet to spot any wild giant pandas. Not a single pheasant, let alone a panda, had appeared.
The drone¡¯s scanning system was also failing.
Tang Rui instructed Hong Lian to pilot the drone back and scan the mountainous forest area.
Different equipment, different results.
Once the drone arrived, it activated its light quantum information capture system and immediately identified several wild giant pandas.
Tang Rui examined the map markers.
They selected a panda that was essible via the best road conditions and closest to their location and directed Gao Yang to drive there.
Over an hourter, The RV pulled into a mountain vige.
¡°Where¡¯s the giant panda?¡± Li Shuyao inquired as she stepped out of the vehicle, scanning the area to no avail.
¡°Follow me,¡± Tang Rui beckoned, leading Li Shuyao, with Gao Yang and two multifunctional robots in tow, towards the mountain¡¯s rear.
Ascending less than 700 meters along the mountain path.
They encountered a giant panda near a bamboo grove.
It was fully grown.
However¡
Its cleanliness left much to be desired.
The white fur had taken on a yellowish hue.
¡°Red Lotus, take control,¡± Tang Rui instructed.
¡°Understood, Master. 1 am on it,¡± the robot affirmed.
The robots approached the bewildered panda and restrained it.
The panda, unustomed to such encounters, bellowed in protest, struggling to break free but to no avail.
The robots, each weighing over 320 kilograms, had firmly secured the panda¡¯s limbs, rendering its struggles futile.
Observing the subdued panda, Tang Rui approached.
¡°I haven¡¯t eaten in over twenty days. Even if I were to roast you, I¡¯d be fine. Do you understand why?¡±
¡°This is a matter of survival.¡±
Tang Rui spoke to the panda with a sly grin.
He had no need to y the hero.
H H
The panda was dumbfounded
This human was unlike any it had encountered before. Not only did he not offer sustenance, but he also instilled fear.
¡°Enough with the jokes. Why have you had Red Lotus capture it?¡± Li Shuyao chided Tang Rui lightly.
¡°To keep one as a pet,¡± Tang Rui confessed his intentions.
What was the harm in capturing a giant panda?
Even if he were to capture eight or ten, the authorities would likely turn a blind eye.
At worst, he would establish another giant panda breeding center within hispany. Releasing the panda was out of the question.
Despite the panda¡¯s status as a national treasure, it paled inparison to his own stature.
¡°Are you seriously considering keeping a giant panda?¡± Li Shuyao was at a loss for words.
Such an act would be unthinkable for anyone else.
But for Tang Rui, a permit for panda breeding could probably be expedited and delivered by the afternoon.
¡°I am contemting it, though I¡¯d prefer to rear two cubs rather than this adult. But now that we¡¯ve caught it, releasing it seems wasteful,¡± Tang Rui mused with a frown.
¡°And how do you n to care for them?¡±
¡°I¡¯m not sure yet. I¡¯ll download some information and leave the care to Red Lotus. We¡¯ll just enjoy theirpany in our leisure time.¡±
While they deliberated over the care of the giant panda, Gao Yang remained alert, his focus on the surroundings.
The responsibility of rearing a giant panda was not his concern.
His duty was to ensure Tang Rui¡¯s safety.
Should the panda pose any threat to Tang Rui, he would not hesitate to neutralize it.
¡°What is happening here?¡±
At that moment, a middle-aged man took in the scene and called out to Tang Rui and hispanions.
Ah!
How should they respond?
Could they really say they were capturing a giant panda to take home as a pet?
¡°Are you folks from a research institute?¡±
The man approached, and upon seeing the robots holding the panda, he switched to Mandarin, seeking an exnation..
Chapter 204 - 204: Giant Panda: Listen to Me, Thank You...(Part 2)
Chapter 204: Giant Panda: Listen to Me, Thank You¡(Part 2)
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¡°No,¡± Tang Rui shook his head.
¡°If you¡¯re not from the research institute, why did you capture the giant panda? This is a giant panda released by the research institute.¡±
¡°It¡¯s from the research institute, not wild?¡±
¡°What do you mean ¡®wild¡¯? This was released by the research institute. If you ask me, why bother with research and release if it doesn¡¯t even leave? It just stays here every day, sometimes even going to our vige, waiting for the kids toe back from school to feed it.¡±
Good gracious.
No wonder it was so dirty.
This was definitely a giant panda that couldn¡¯t take care of itself.
¡°Sir, may 1 know where the research institute is?¡± Tang Rui asked.
¡°It¡¯s just at the foot of the mountain, not far from here.¡±
Under the man¡¯s lead, Tang Rui and the others arrived at the research institute at the foot of the mountain, and the giant panda was also carried down the mountain by two robots.
Upon arriving at the research institute, Gao Yang showed his identification.
The staff contacted their higher-ups, who continued to report up the chain. After severalyers ofmunication, the authenticity of the situation was confirmed.
Then, from top to bottom, the orders were escted.
When this lowest-level research institute received the order from the higher-ups, the person in charge was dumbfounded.
¡°Is there a problem with the documents?¡±
Tang Rui felt that the person in charge¡¯s gaze towards him was a bit strange.
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No problem. You must be President Tang. Wee to our research institute,¡± the person in charge said, shaking his head with an excited tone.
¡°Don¡¯t be so formal, I¡¯m just here to take a look.¡±
¡°Yes, yes, President Tang. 1¡¯11 report to you the current situation of the research
institute. Our institute is¡¡±
The person in charge warmly weed Tang Rui and took him around the research institute.
There were only eight people in the entire building.
Their main research topic was the issue of releasing giant pandas into the wild, a project they had fought for.
So far, however, there had been little results.
The only result was that they found that giant pandas wouldn¡¯t starve to death after release.
They were really starving.
The giant panda would actually go around looking for people.
Not looking for food, but for someone to feed it.
After Tang Rui heard it all, he felt like he had heard a bunch of nonsense.
As long as it¡¯s a giant panda, it won¡¯t starve to death in a crowded ce, whether it¡¯s a vige or a city.
It might even be possible for it to be overfed.
The giant panda¡¯s location in the back mountain was really because they had no other choice but to let it be.
Sending it back to the reserve only meant that it might escape that very night.
It wasn¡¯t the first time they had done this. Just the travel expenses alone had almost depleted their budget.
¡°Can¡¯t we impose restrictions?¡± Tang Rui curiously asked after listening.
¡°There¡¯s no way to restrict it, and we can¡¯t set up a around the reserve. It can run away anytime it wants.¡±
The manager shook his head.
After hearing this, Tang Rui looked at the giant panda sitting in the courtyard of the research institute eating bamboo, his eyes narrowing.
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I¡¯ll think of a solution for you. Wait for me to go back and build something.¡± After saying that, he returned to the RV and began to make things on the workbench in the car.
A device resembling a bracelet.
After he was done, he had Red Lotus input the coordinates of the protected area¡¯s border map into it, then returned to the research institute with the bracelet.
¡°Put this on it.¡±
¡°What is this?¡±
¡°Satellite positioning bracelet and special limiter.¡±
After hearing this, the person in charge was a bit confused, but still put the bracelet on the giant panda¡¯s arm.
After putting it on, the bracelet automatically tightened.
It was securely fastened to the giant panda¡¯s forelimbs.
¡°Let¡¯s go and set it free,¡± Tang Rui said with a smile.
¡°Alright.¡± The person in charge didn¡¯t ask anything and agreed directly.
The order from above was to cooperate unconditionally with President Tang¡¯s research.
Don¡¯t worry about what he wanted to study.
Just cooperate.
Unless he wanted to eat the meat of the giant panda, then he could be stopped and told that the meat of the giant panda was not tasty.
Very quickly, the group set off for the protected area where the giant pandas were released.
The giant panda was in a cage and carried by two robots, so their speed was very fast.
In less than two hours, they arrived at the nature reserve in the mountains.
¡°Is this the border of the nature reserve?¡± Tang Rui looked at the big tree with the sign hanging and asked.
¡°Yes, from here all the way to the other side of the mountain is a nature reserve,¡± the person-in-charge replied.
¡°Alright, then put the cage in the reserve and open it.¡± After Tang Rui heard this, he gave the order.
Two robots carried the cage inside.
Then, they opened the cage.
The giant panda inside saw that the cage had been opened and ran out, wanting to escape.
It was very familiar with this kind of thing.
This time, as soon as it stepped out of the boundary of the nature reserve, the bracelet on its forelimb instantly emitted a pulse of current that stimted its nerves.
¡°Roar!
¡öI
The giant panda cried out and fell to the ground.
¡°President Tang, this¡¡±
When the person in charge saw this scene, he was a little worried.
¡°I¡¯m fine,¡± Tang Rui shook his head.
He knew what he had created.
The bracelet released an electromaic pulse that stimted the nerves, not an electric current. It would not cause any physical damage to the giant panda.
As for the psychological trauma, that was hard to say.
Very quickly, the pain level released by the bracelet began to decrease. Although there was still a stinging feeling, it was not as intense as before.
The giant panda got up from the ground and wanted to crawl forward.
However, the pain level increased after it took a step, scaring it into withdrawing its forelimbs.
The pain level immediately decreased.
Were giant pandas stupid?
It wasn¡¯t that stupid.
The feedback from the human body made it shrink back and forth.
When it was slowly pushed into the nature reserve, the bracelet stopped releasing electromaic pulses.
The more it moved forward, the more pain it felt.
Retreat.
It didn¡¯t hurt anymore.
Sitting on the ground behind the border, the panda was dumbfounded.
¡°The problem is solved.¡±
When Tang Rui saw this scene, he smiled very happily.
He had done another good deed.
¡°Won¡¯t ite out again?¡±
¡°As long as it¡¯s not afraid of pain, it cane out. But for now, it should still be afraid of pain.
The bracelet also has some detection functions integrated into it. Later, you can download software and monitor the status of the giant panda through the software.
If you find that its condition is not right, use the positioning on the bracelet to save it. If there¡¯s no problem, don¡¯t worry about it.¡±
Tang Rui nodded and said. He wanted the giant panda to be self-reliant, not to force it to death.
If the research institute realized that something was wrong, they would naturallye to the rescue.
It wasn¡¯t far anyway.
There was no ferocious beast here that could threaten the giant panda.
As long as it looked for food, it would not starve to death and could survive in the wild.
What he did before was purely a habit.
What if the child was mischievous and could not be cured?
He would be fine after a beating.
Very quickly, Everyone left the ce and went back the way they came.
Seeing that everyone had left, the giant panda also wanted to escape, but it did not dare to extend its ws forward.
It knew that it would hurt.
Roar!
Miserable wails echoed behind everyone.
¡°Master, the robot¡¯s detector has detected something special under the rock on the right. Do we need to go further?¡±
On the way back, Red Lotus reported a special situation to Tang Rui through the smart sses.
¡°What¡¯s so special about it?¡± Tang Rui asked doubtfully.
¡°ording to the detector¡¯s scan, there is a fault under the rock wall, but the distribution of the fault is irregr.¡±
¡°Will there be any problems?¡±
¡°There¡¯s no problem. It¡¯s just that there¡¯s a high probability that there¡¯s oil under such a rock formation.¡±
Hmm?
Oil?
After Tang Rui heard the word ¡®oil¡¯, his eyes immediately lit up.
¡°Let¡¯s go over there and take a look.¡±
Following Red Lotus¡¯s guidance, Tang Rui brought everyone to walk in another direction, which was the direction of the rock wall.
Although everyone didn¡¯t know what Tang Rui wanted to do.
However, they didn¡¯t ask and just followed him.
He came to the rock wall.
The multi-functional robot used a drill to drill holes into the rock wall and then turned on the scanning at full power.
¡°What are you digging for?¡± Li Shuyao asked curiously.
¡°I found something special. You¡¯ll knowter.¡± Tang Rui didn¡¯t say anything about the oil.
If he couldn¡¯t find it, wouldn¡¯t that be embarrassing?
He would wait for Red Lotus¡¯s results.
Five minutester, Red Lotus controlled the robot to retrieve the drill bit and then reported to Tang Rui. ¡°Master, ording to the shock wave feedback and atomic radiation data just now, there is a 92% probability that there is a massive oil pocket below.¡±
¡°Why can¡¯t I be 100% sure?¡± Tang Rui asked Red Lotus.
Master, the detection equipment carried by the robots is too weak.¡±
¡°Alright, I got it.¡±
He did not say anything and led everyone down the mountain.
Then, he returned to the car, removed the detector on the robot, and began to disassemble it..
Chapter 205 - 205: High-definition Crust Scanner
Chapter 205: High-definition Crust Scanner
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With a workbench and a robotic arm, dismantling the equipment was very fast. However, when he was installing it, he did not install it ording to the original equipment design. Instead, he added some essories and functions to upgrade the equipment.
Thestponent was installed.
A faint light shed.
[Item: Simple underground mineral scanner]
[Experience: 0/300]
[Source: 1692.98]
Tang Rui nced at the system panel and then clicked on strengthen.
Then, a blue light shed.
Equipment enhancementpleted.
After the equipment was enhanced, it had changed from the size of a shlight to a separate set of equipment.
A plug and a mainframe.
[Item: High-definition crust scanner]
[Experience: 0/1500]
[Enhancement: High-precision probe, sensor, analyzer, radiation sensor, microwave sensor]
[Source: 1678.98]
Tang Rui looked at the system panel in front of him and was a little surprised. The description of the surface of the earth¡¯s crust was actually quite scary. ording to the current geography, the surface of the earth¡¯s crust should be more than 120 kilometers underground.
Further down is the mantleyer. We don¡¯t know what¡¯s going on there.
Take the current human drilling technology for example.
The deepest they dug was only 12 kilometers underground.
If it was expressed by skin.
It was equivalent to not even prating the dead skin stratum corneum of Earth, let alone touching the skin and flesh.
To say that this detector could scan all address structures within 120 kilometers underground, Tang Rui did not believe it.
It wasn¡¯t that he didn¡¯t trust the system.
It was because he didn¡¯t spend enough origin points.
If he could reach that level after the special strengthening, he felt that it would not be a problem.
However, he had only strengthened a portion of it and had notpleted the special skill yet, so the effect should not be that exaggerated.
However, he did not need such an exaggerated effect.
As long as they could explore 10 kilometers underground, it would be fine.
Even if there were mineral veins deeper, the mining technology would not allow it.
¡°Red Lotus, save the blueprint and control the robot to explore the situation below the rock wall.¡±
Tang Rui instructed Red Lotus.
¡°Alright, Red Lotus understands.¡± Red Lotus controlled the robot and set off with the equipment.
Tang Rui returned to the RV¡¯s living room and turned on the holographic projection.
Ten minutester.
The robot rushed to the location of the rock wall, inserted the probe into the rock wall, and turned on the equipment.
Weng!
An invisible maic field rippled in all directions.
The various waves and maic induction lines underground were received by the equipment and analyzed.
At this time, on the holographic projection screen in front of Tang Rui, the geological model below the rock wall began to appear.
The soil, the rocks, the flow of the underground water¡
The veil on the ground fell.
All the geological data was clearly disyed in front of Tang Rui¡¯s eyes, including the oil that Red Lotus spected.
There were no oil fields below.
But there was also the oil from the shales.
Not only did they have it, but they also had a lot of reserves.
In any case, on the holographic projection in front of Tang Rui, the ck tendrils that followed the roots almost covered the entire ground.
In addition to the oil, they also found a vein.
Small mineral vein.
It was still buried very deep and basically had no mining value.
In the blink of an eye.
Twenty minutes passed.
The detection equipment stopped working because the scanning had reached its limit.
The situation 20 kilometers underground in this area was alreadypletely disyed before Tang Rui¡¯s eyes.
It could be seen from the holographic projection screen.
There were many good things buried underground.
However, it was too deep and could not be mined.
However, it was definitely possible to extract the oil from the ground. The nearest ce to the ground was a 720-meter-deep drill hole.
As for how much was underground¡
He couldn¡¯t figure it out yet.
This was because the edge of the current exploration was all about the oil.
¡°Red Lotus, control the robots and head to the border to scout again.¡± Tang Rui ordered.
¡°Yes, Master.¡±
Ten minutester, the robot rushed to the edge of the detection area at its fastest speed and inserted the probe again.
Then, on the holographic projection screen in front of Tang Rui, the originally pitch-ck underground boundary also became clear.
Another twenty minutes passed.
The scan ended.
There was still a lot of oil underground, and it was still spreading to the surrounding areas, as if there was no border.
Moreover, based on the dense roots of the oil, if they continued to move to the left, there would be more reserves there.
This made Tang Rui a little numb.
Didn¡¯t they say that our country has little oil reserves?
He had only been exploring for a short time, but the reserves of underground oil had already exceeded 100 million tons. If he continued to explore, there would definitely be more.
This was called having little reserves?
As for the difficulty of mining¡
It would be quite difficult to drill holes from other ces.
Due to the blockage of the underground water and rocks, it was indeed difficult to dig down. The deepest part even reached 4200 meters underground.
However, from the rock wall, 700 meters was enough.
This was not a problem for the current drilling technology of humans. As long as the local drilling team had better equipment, they could do it for you.
¡°Red Lotus, convert the holographic data into a 2D geological structure data map and send it to Lin Chao.¡±
¡°Yes, Master. It has been sent.¡±
Tang Rui picked up his phone and called Lin Chao.
¡°Hey¡ Brother Lin, I¡¯ve sent you a set of geological data. Send it to the higher-ups¡Yes, I just discovered it¡ Alright, I¡¯ll wait for your news.¡± He hung up the phone.
Tang Rui got out of the car and entered the research institute.
As soon as he entered, he saw Li Shuyao holding a milk bottle and feeding a small ball.
It was so small that it was not even as big as a washbasin.
It was round and especially cute.
This was what a giant panda should be like.
How could the person from before be called a giant panda?
Other than the one in Li Shuyao¡¯s arms, there was another person beside her who was also holding a dumpling of the same size.
¡°What¡¯s the situation with these two pandas?¡± Tang Rui asked Gao Yang.
¡°It just arrived.¡± Gao Yang replied.
¡°You want me to take it back and raise it?¡± Tang Rui curled the corners of his mouth and asked.
¡°Jinling is going to build a giant panda base. It¡¯s quieter in ourpany.¡± Gao Yang also lied through his teeth.
It wasn¡¯t a ne taking off ornding.
It was the one that fired the two kicks.
That was also called peace?
However, Tang Rui nodded after listening. This was more like it.
It was just two pandas. Why couldn¡¯t theirpany raise pandas?
No problem at all.
After the two little balls finished drinking milk, Tang Rui picked one up like Li Shuyao and yed with it in his arms.
Howfortable.
This was not as fun as petting a cat.
Tang Rui felt that the little thing in his arms was moving, as if it wasn¡¯t feeling well.
He grabbed the flesh on the back of its neck and lifted it up.
¡°What do you want?¡±
Tang Rui stared at the little dumpling.
¡°Sob, sob, sob
The little furball started to bark cutely.
Good heavens.
That was what pandas called when they were young.
Wasn¡¯t this a crying monster?
Chapter 206 - 206: A Bold Hypothesis
Chapter 206: A Bold Hypothesis
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That evening, Tang Rui and his group didn¡¯t return to the city but stayed here instead.
They had a hearty dinner.
An open-air barbecue was set up.
One hand cuddling a panda, the other eating skewers.
Looking up, they could see the stars; looking down, they saw beautiful ck legs. This was more enjoyable than staying in a hotel in the city.
Furthermore, sleeping arrangements were easily sorted out. Gao Yang spent the night at the research institute¡¯s dormitory, while Tang Rui and Li Shuyao stayed in the RV.
Before sleeping, Tang Rui opened the RV¡¯s corner supports to prevent it from swaying.
Thus, they slept until naturally waking up.
By the time Tang Rui got up the next day, several expert groups had already arrived.
This included people from the Sichuan Provincial Oil Group and PetroChina.
Among them were two big shots from the Academy of Science and the Academy of Engineering.
¡°Sorry, I woke upte and made everyone wait. My apologies,¡± Tang Rui said somewhat embarrassedly.
Making two professors wait for him to wake up was somewhat awkward.
¡°You¡¯re young; it¡¯s normal to sleep a bit longer. We old men, even if we want to, can¡¯t sleep that much,¡± said Professor Zhao from the Academy of Sciences, a leader in geological research, with a smile, not minding this at all.
Tang Rui, seeing the panda in Professor Zhao¡¯s hands, also nodded.
Cuddling a panda¡ Truly, it knew no age or gender bounds.
¡°President Tang, can this old man take a look at the equipment first?¡± Professor Shen from the Academy of Engineering, less calm, directly asked.
¡°Look at the equipment?¡± Tang Rui was taken aback by the question.
¡°Yes, the geological data you sent yesterday, what equipment was used for its detection?¡± Professor Shen nodded.
¡°That¡ A new type of detection equipment.¡±
¡°May I see it?¡±
¡°Sure, there¡¯s nothing to it.¡±
After saying this, Tang Rui went back to the vehicle and brought down the equipment.
This equipment did not surpass current technological levels. Itsck of development was mainly due to different thinking approaches and levels of importance given.
If humans hadn¡¯t focused on space exploration, but instead devoted efforts to drilling and reaching the Earth¡¯s core, then our technological reserves in geological research and exploration would have been much more substantial.
Perhaps evenrge drilling machinery would have been developed by now.
After Tang Rui finished eating, everyone went to the conference room to discuss the issue of underground shale oil.
Both the Sichuan Provincial Oil and PetroChina were here for the shale oil, especially the former, hoping to find arge oil field in Sichuan Province and start extracting immediately.
From a geological standpoint, there should be oil fields under Sichuan Province.
But the problem was, up until now, no significant oil fields had been found in Sichuan, although plenty of mineral resources were discovered.
Especially lithium ore, known as white oil, with an astonishing reserve of 520,000 tons.
The Koreans and Japanese were envious to the point of tears.
Back to the main topic.
The oilpanies were here for the shale oil, but the two professors had different reasons.
professor Shen was interested in the geological exploration equipment,
While Professor Zhao wanted Tang Rui to apany him to the northeast.
¡°To the northeast?¡± Tang Rui asked, puzzled, after hearing this.
¡°Yes, President Tang. The shale oil you discovered is actually not significant in our country.
The northeast has thergest reserves of shale oil,¡± Professor Zhao nodded.
¡°And the underground shale oil here?¡± Tang Rui inquired.
¡°For Sichuan Province, just confirming the reserves is enough. For environmental reasons, there¡¯s no need to extract the shale oil here,¡± professor Zhao concluded.
The PetroChina representatives didn¡¯t mind this decision, but the Sichuan Provincial Oil Group¡¯s people¡¯s expressions changed instantly.
At Professor Zhao¡¯s level, his opinions were usually adopted by the higher-ups.
He said no extraction.
So, there would be no extraction.
Even if the Sichuan Provincial Oil Group was desperate, their opinions honestly didn¡¯t matter much.
¡°President Tang, our Sichuan Provincial Oil Group wees Crimson to invest here. Whether in mining or oil fields, there¡¯s no problem,¡± the representatives hurriedly said.
They knew they couldn¡¯t sway Professor Zhao¡¯s thinking, but there was still a chance with Tang Rui¡¯s involvement.
Beforeing, their superiors had specifically instructed them.
So, theyid it out clearly for Tang Rui.
Come on.
If your Crimson Corporation came over, whether for mining or oil extraction, there¡¯d be no issues.
Tang Rui smiled upon hearing this but did not make a direct statement.
To be honest, he wasn¡¯t interested in other money; it was all small change.
But the money from oil, that he valued.
It was like a money-printing machine, just sitting at home counting money every day, not troublesome at all.
But Professor Zhao was right.
Destroying the local environment for the sake of extracting shale oil was definitely not advisable.
So, he didn¡¯t express his opinion.
¡°Elder Zhao, could you briefly exin the issue of shale oil extraction? I don¡¯t know much about it,¡± Tang Rui thought for a moment and asked.
¡°There¡¯s nothing to it. Simply put, extracting shale oil is quiteplicated. It¡¯s not just about drilling a well underground and the oil gushing out by itself.
The extraction of shale oil requires arge amount of water resources. The current extraction technology is divided into several types¡¡± Professor Zhao began to exin the issue of extracting shale oil to Tang Rui.
After hearing this, Tang Rui frowned.
Howto put it?
Extracting shale oil was indeed a bit troublesome.
Especially with current technology, the environmental impact would be significant, and the cost high.
After hearing this, he was less inclined to engage in this.
Even if he did, he couldn¡¯t use the existing technology to extract shale oil; he¡¯d need to create new equipment and use the system panel for upgrades and enhancements.
¡°Thank you, Elder Zhao. 1 think I understand the issue of extracting shale oil. 1¡¯11 carefully study the specific technical problems,¡± Tang Rui responded.
¡°So, President Tang, when are we going to the northeast?¡± Professor Zhao inquired about Tang Rui¡¯s ns.
¡°To the northeast¡ I want to rify the underground shale oil reserves here before going there,¡± Tang Rui said after a moment of thought. Sichuan Province had sent a giant panda, so it wouldn¡¯t be good to leave straight away. He had to confirm the reserves first.
¡°Alright, I also want to look at the geological conditions here,¡± Professor Zhao nodded, saying no more.
For someone in his line of geological work, it was normal to stay outdoors for ten days to half a month. Staying here for two days was no big deal at all.
Then, Tang Rui, carrying two ¡®dumplings¡¯, brought Professor Zhao and Professor Shen to the RV, waiting for the robot to activate the equipment.
Others weren¡¯t allowed in due to insufficient security clearance.
When the Sichuan Provincial Oil Group¡¯s representatives saw Tang Rui taking away the two ¡®dumplings¡¯, and Li Shuyao no longer had any ¡®dumplings¡¯ to cuddle, they immediately called their superiors.
In less than an hour, six small ¡®dumplings¡¯ were delivered to the research institute.
¡°Ms. Li, these ¡®dumplings¡¯ are all very lively¡¡±
The representatives from the Sichuan Provincial Oil Group began to act as breeders, using the ¡®dumplings¡¯ to win over Li Shuyao, hoping she would speak favorably on their behalf.
Sichuan Provincecked nothing but ¡®dumplings.¡¯
Forget six.
If time allowed, they could bring over sixty small ¡®dumplings¡¯ to cry at you together in the yard.
Who could resist that?
In the blink of an eye, a day passed.
Tang Rui and the two professors stayed inside the RV the whole time.
At this point, their expressions were quite strange.
How should he say it?
After a day of continuous detection and scanning, the underground shale oil reserves had not been rified.
Because they discovered a problem.
It seemed that shale oil was everywhere underground. Below the shale oil, there were even a few small oil fields.
Additionally, based on a day¡¯s scanning, they had a bold hypothesis: beneath the surface¡¯s geological structure, except for the areas upied by special mineral veins, most of the terrain had an oilyer underneath.
Not just oil, but an oilyer.
Simr to an underground wateryer, it was anotheryer underground, containing oil, a type of geological structure.
This was a bold guess, and itcked theoretical support.
But the problem was, after a day of exploration, they found that there were shale oil and gasyers everywhere underground, which was beyond their expectations.
ording to the currently proven reserves, there were more than 2.7 billion tons underground, not including the two small oil fields buried deep underground..
Chapter 207 - 207: The Undersea Tunnel and Oil Pipeline Through Bohai Bay
Chapter 207: The Undersea Tunnel and Oil Pipeline Through Bohai Bay
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¡°If there really is an oil pocket in the geological structure, then our country will definitely not be short of oil. Or rather, no country in the world will be short of oil. It¡¯s just that in some ces, the oil pockets are buried very deep due to geological conditions, so they have not been discovered.¡±
Tang Rui looked at the geological structure model on the holographic projection screen in front of him and muttered softly.
¡°No, some countries will still be short of oil,¡± Professor Zhao shook his head. ¡°Even if there is an oil pocket, it may still be insufficient.¡±
¡°For example?¡± Tang Rui asked curiously.
¡°For example, the geological structure of Tu¡¯ao. Even if there are oil pockets, they are likely very deep. Basically, there are no conditions for mining.¡±
¡°But they are full of mineral veins.¡±
¡°Let¡¯s not talk about them. In our country, there are a few ces that meet the conditions forrge-scale oil fields. However, after previous explorations, no oil fields were found.
Now that we have President Tang¡¯s equipment, we can go over and explore to find the underground oil field.¡±
¡°Which part of our country meets the conditions to have arge oil field?
Daqing or somewhere else?¡±
¡°Not the Qing Kingdom, but the Liao River.¡±
The three of them talked for a while. The two Professors were still optimistic about finding an oil field, given the vastness of the country.
ording to current spection, as long as it was not a special geological environment, oil pockets would likely exist. It was just a matter of how much and how deep they were. It would be rare to find no oil pockets at all.
¡°But we don¡¯t have enough equipment. It would be great if we had more of this kind. We wouldn¡¯t have to wait to change locations every time,¡± Professor Shen said.
¡°This is a minor issue. 1¡¯11 arrange for production tonight. We¡¯ll be able to produce a lot by tomorrow.¡±
¡°Aren¡¯t we going to the northeast tomorrow?¡±
¡°Wait for the equipment¡Why don¡¯t we go to Jiuzhaigou tomorrow and explore it?¡± Tang Rui suggested.
¡°Alright, let¡¯s go to Jiuzhaigou.¡±
In the evening, Tang Rui mentioned to the people from Sichuan Oil that he wanted to go to Jiuzhaigou for an inspection and exploration.
The other party immediately expressed that there was no problem.
There was no issue at all. Jiuzhaigou¡¯s terrain was very special and definitely had scientific research value.
The next day, Tang Rui and the others went to Jiuzhaigou to conduct scientific research, mainly on geological issues.
The three big shots arrived at Jiuzhaigou.
It was a highly confidential scientific research project.
Naturally, Jiuzhaigou Valley had to be sealed off. Anyway, it would only be for a day, so it was a minor issue.
Just like that, Tang Rui did what he promised Li Shuyao.
He said he was here to see the scenery in Jiuzhaigou.
He had to.
As for scientific research, he would leave it to the two big shots.
They rxed for an entire day.
The next day, Tang Rui brought a group of people and eight dumplings back to thepany.
Li Shuyao and the breeder disembarked from the ne at thepany.
Tang Rui took the group and flew directly to the Liaohe Oil Field for an inspection.
Red Lotus had built 1500 sets of detection equipment the previous day.
To increase manufacturing speed, Tang Rui had Red Lotus reduce the degree of exquisiteness of the equipment. As long as the effect wasn¡¯tpromised, they could make it a bitrger.
Then, Red Lotus increased the size of the equipment to that of aputer¡¯s mainframe box, and the probe became a 30-centimeter-long rod.
However, this did not affect its effectiveness.
Upon arriving at the Liaohe oil field, the local military was ready.
After distributing the equipment, they followed Tang Rui¡¯s instructions, taking the equipment to their respective coordinates, and inserting the rods into the ground.
Tang Rui and the two Professors sat in the RV.
He looked at the holographic projection screen, which was disying a visualized geological structure model that was continuously spreading underground.
¡°There is indeed an oil pocket. The oil field on the Liaohe River is the underground oil pocket that was squeezed to the surface due to geological fluctuations.
Or rather, the oil fields by the sea are all spread from the underground oil pocket to the surface due to thepression of continental tes and geological issues,¡± Professor Zhao said excitedly. His hypothesis was correct.
The reason he wasn¡¯t sure in Sichuan Province was that the oil pocket there was too thin and the reserves were small.
However, the Liaohe oil field had vast reserves.
The two were not on the same level at all.
¡°Why do 1 feel that the oil fields on the seabed are evenrger than those onnd?¡±
As Tang Rui spoke, he zoomed in on the model of the seaside detection boundary.
This was a huge oil field buried 6.2 kilometers underground. This oil field was connected to the underground oil pocket, and the connecting channel between the two could be clearly seen.
Moreover, the boundary of this oil field was not shown.
However, even the current reserves had reached an astonishing 440 billion tons.
Tang Rui even suspected that if they explored all the parts at the bottom of the sea, the reserves of this oil field might exceed a trillion tons.
¡°If this oil field is exploited, we still need to import oil. It¡¯s not bad if we don¡¯t export it.¡±
¡°ording to the current exploration data, the oil pocket below the Liaohe oil field should be connected to the oil pocket below the Bohai Bay and the Yellow Sea.
This area is where the oil resources are concentrated, simr to the Gulf region, so there must be arge oil field at the bottom of the sea.¡±
¡°Then what are we waiting for? Let¡¯s go to the sea and investigate.¡±
¡°We don¡¯t have a boat, right?¡±
¡°Leave this problem to me.¡±
Tang Rui picked up the confidential phone, dialed the number of a navy big shot, and briefly exined the situation.
It could be summarized in one sentence.
I, Tang Rui, apply for a warship.
After receiving approval, he hung up the phone.
if
Yes,¡± Tang Rui said to the two Professors. ¡°We¡¯ll board the ship at Jinzhou Port in half an hour.¡±
¡°We¡¯re getting on a ship? What ship?¡± The two Professors were stunned.
¡°Warship,¡± Tang Rui said indifferently.
The other two were Professors, but they had no rtionship with the military.
After all, they weren¡¯t in the field of weapons research.
Tang Rui was different.
He had many connections in the military. If there was anything, he could usually settle it with a phone call.
Half an hourter, at Jinzhou Port, aprehensive supply ship from the Huludao Navy Logistics Base docked.
After loading the RV and a bunch of equipment onto the boat, theprehensive supply ship set off.
During this period, Tang Rui let Red Lotus control the drone and airdroped a few undewater robots for underwater exploration.
After all, they couldn¡¯t send the equipment to the bottom of the sea with frogmen.
A few underwater robots were definitely not enough.
Red Lotus was still working on the modifications. When the manufacturing was done, airdrops would be sent over.
In the next two days, Tang Rui and the others were on the warship, constantly probing the data on the seabed. The more they probed, the more rming it became.
If the oil fields on the seabed were exploited, it would be a significant discovery.
The oil field was too big.
The reserves had long exceeded a trillion tons.
However, the entire underground oil pocket still gave the impression of being endless. It was incredibly surprising.
It was also the detector made by Tang Rui that could probe more than 50 kilometers underground. Otherwise, even if you said it out loud, no one would believe it.
Three dayster, Tang Rui and the others created an oil resource map.
This map included the ocean economic zone from Bohai Bay to the Korean and Japanese territories.
There was oil under the sea.
Even now, the underwater robots were still exploring the area. They had already reached the East China Sea.
But the boundary of thatrge area of undersea oil pocket hadn¡¯t even begun to appear. Tang Rui was worried that if he continued to probe like this, he would end up probing the Pacific Ocean. That would be interesting.
However, there were indeed treasures buried under the sea.
However, the problem was that mining was also very difficult. It wasn¡¯t simple. With the current technology of marine drilling tforms, it was really impossible to drill such a deep hole.
Of course, this was the issue that the two Professors were considering.
Tang Rui did not consider this. What he considered was cing the oil drilling tform there.
The first choice was to ce it in front of the Koreans and Japanese.
Build a 400-meter-long, 150-meter-wide drilling tform and install some defensive weapons on it.
Defensive weapons such as the Dongfeng and Giant Waves.
There would be a few io,ooo-ton police boats with 112 units parked beside them.
The very thought of it was exciting.
However, the two neighboring countries would definitely go crazy.
Therefore, this idea could not be realized, and the higher-ups would not agree to it.
Oil extraction must be done in their own backyard.
But in their own backyard¡
With so many oil fields not being exploited, it felt like a loss.
The feeling of pumping oil from one¡¯s own house was different from pumping oil from others.
Although the underground oil pockets were connected together, the oil fields on the seabed were not connected.
¡°Elder Zhao, let¡¯s build a transfer tform here and connect these six oil fields together through the underground tunnel. When we extract the oil from their oil field, will they notice?¡± Tang Rui pointed at a position on the map and said.
Of course, they would have found it, but they definitely wouldn¡¯t have thought that we were the ones who pumped it. This is because the oil field is underground. Once it leaks, the pressure of the gurgling well will decrease.
¡°However, it¡¯s basically impossible for us to extract the oil from these three oil fields through underground tunnels. The technical difficulty is too great.¡±
Professor Zhao looked at the map and shook his head.
¡°I¡¯ll solve the technical problems. Let¡¯s n the oil pipeline and see which route we should take.¡±
Tang Rui said confidently.
Wasn¡¯t it just technique?
It was not a big deal.
As long as the equipment could solve the problem, it was not a problem.
¡°If the technology is not a problem, then build a drilling tform from here. Then, with this drilling tform as the center, dig five underground tunnels andbine these five oil wells together.
Then, we¡¯ll dig a submarine oil pipeline from the drilling tform and connect it directly from Bohai Bay to Dalian.¡±
Professor Zhao thought for a moment and drew a few lines on the map.
¡°If that¡¯s the case, it¡¯s better to build a submarine tunnel from Shandong to Dalian. The crude oil can be divided into two pipes and transported to Northeast China and East China respectively.¡± Professor Shen said.
¡°Yes, the undersea tunnel can not only transport crude oil, but it can also be opened to traffic, connecting Northeast China and East China. By then, the economy of Northeast China will be much better.¡± Professor Zhao nodded.
After Tang Rui heard what the two said, he looked at the lines on the map again.
Good heavens.
The undersea tunnel that ran through Bohai Bay was open to traffic and transported oil at the same time. This was a win.
¡°Alright, let¡¯s do it.¡±
Tang Rui said without the slightest hesitation..
Chapter 208 - 208: Personally Building the Drill Platform
Chapter 208: Personally Building the Drill tform
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Tang Rui had Red Lotus convert the route nned by the two big shots into a nning map, then wrote a report and submitted it.
After this report was submitted, it caused a huge uproar. The big shots were astonished.
Good heavens!
Six oil fields!
The reserves of the oil field alone exceeded 170 billion tons. If the submarine oilyer and otherrge and small oil fields in the Yellow Sea were included, the total reserves would exceed a trillion tons.
However, the probe was still iplete.
The East China Sea was still being explored. The oil fields and oil reserves there were definitely no less than those in Bohai Bay.
If it were just oil reserves, then forget it.
The difficulty of mining was too great. Even if they knew there was an oil field at the bottom of the sea, they could only look at it with envy and not exploit it.
But Tang Rui proposed a n.
He would connect East China and Northeast China through a submarine tunnel and build arge sea drilling tform in the middle of the tunnel to transport the crude oil from six oil fields to the two regions.
Actually, the Undersea Tunnel project had always existed.
In the 1990s, someone had suggested it.
After all, this tunnel wasn¡¯t just about opening up a channel. It was about opening up an economic artery.
There were many reasons for the economic decline in the northeast region.
It was not that the higher-ups had never thought of reviving the old industrial base in Northeast China, but the problem was that the market economy could not be shifted by subjective will.
In the economic circle around Jiangxi, other than Jiangxi¡¯s economy, the economic standards of the surrounding provinces were among the top ten in the country.
Why was this happening?
The geographical location.
If this undersea tunnel were opened and crude oil were produced, the economy of the northeast would be stimted.
This was oil.
It was nothing else.
Look at how rich the Middle Eastern countries were with their oil.
If they could extract all the oil from the seabed, they¡¯d be the bosses of oil in the Middle East.
There was only one problem.
It was whether this report submitted by Tang Rui could be implemented or not.
The current domestic technology reserves made it impossible to exploit such a deep underwater oil field.
This wasn¡¯t a question of whether or not to invest in research and development.
Even if they brought in the Americans, they wouldn¡¯t be able to handle it.
If it were someone else, the higher-ups would definitely not believe it. They would consider it a swindle. There was no need to discuss it. They could just directly deny knowledge.
Even if they knew there was an oil field there, they wouldn¡¯t mine it.
They would leave it to the bidding off future generations.
But the n submitted by Tang Rui was still highly valued by the higher-ups.
After all, ever since his debut, all the projects Tang Rui had submitted had beenpleted, and they were even ovepleted.
So, should he give it a try and take a gamble?
Money would definitely be spent, and it would be an obscene amount.
But what if he seeded?
That would be a huge profit.
They held a meeting to discuss and voted by a show of hands.
Three dayster, someone from the National Council arrived.
He didn¡¯te alone. He brought all the oil giants in the country, and they were all in charge.
Everyone had a two-hour meeting in thebat conference room of theprehensive supply ship and decided on the matter.
The major oilpanies in the country invested, and Tang Rui provided the technology to establish the Bohai Bay Oil Field Development Company.
Thispany was not responsible for refining or selling oil. It was only responsible for exploiting submarine oil fields and building marine drilling tforms and oil pipelines.
Tang Rui¡¯s Crimson Corporation upied 20% of the shares.
The otherpanies all invested and upied the remaining 80% of the shares. Among them, Sichuan Oil Group upied 5% of the shares.
Then, all the oilpanies transferred 400 billion yuan to the ount of the Bohai Bay Oil Mining Company.
The money was used to build undersea tunnels and drilling tforms, of which more than 50 billion had to be paid in the first phase.
This money had to be transferred to Crimson¡¯s ount as the first phase of technology research and development funds.
In other words, next, as long as Tang Rui coulde up with the seabed drilling technology and the oil drilling tform, he could easily garner 50 billion, if not 100.
In any case, the money from the first phase of investment was for special purposes, other than Tang Rui being able to use it for research and development.
The rest were left there and were not allowed to be used.
All the construction could only be started after a technological breakthrough.
The meaning was obvious.
If he could get the technology out within 400 billion, the higher-ups would be willing to do so. He did not have to worry about money.
If the time came that the 400 billion didn¡¯t suffice, they would have to evaluate it and see what Tang Rui had spent the money on.
After the meeting ended, Tang Rui docked and flew the private ne home.
The life and death of the entire project depended on him.
Although he was not worried at all, he couldn¡¯t continue to wander around outside. Every day he wandered around outside, his liver would hurt.
As for the two professors, they didn¡¯t leave.
Instead, he brought the team over.
They had to conduct in-depth analysis and research on the route of the undersea tunnel, especially the geological structure. They had to ensure that the data was urate.
When Tang Rui returned to thepany, he saw Li Shuyao and thepany¡¯s employees ying with pandas in the newly built sunroom andwn.
¡°Is this how you work?¡±
It seemed it was a Saturday.
Then it was fine.
¡°Have these pandas adapted to the environment here?¡± Tang Rui asked Li Shuyao.
¡°The breeder and the researcher said there¡¯s no problem, but the food needs to be transported from Sichuan,¡± Li Shuyao replied.
¡°How much does it cost to transport from Sichuan?¡±
¡°It¡¯s free. It¡¯s all specially approved by Sichuan Province. They even pay the sries of these employees..¡±
Chapter 209 - 209: Personally Building the Drill Platform (2 in 1)
Chapter 209: Personally Building the Drill tform (2 in 1)
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So it was like this.
Tang Rui nodded after listening.
It seemed that he had previously helped the Sichuan Provincial Oil Group fight for shares, and in return, they had covered all the expenses of the panda.
Thinking about it, it was trivial.
How much could eight pandas cost?
When the seabed oil was extracted, even with only 5% of the shares, the Sichuan Provincial Oil Group would make a fortune.
Tang Rui also sat on thewn, stroked the panda for a while, and then returned to theboratory.
He didn¡¯t feel any pressure, but the pressure from above was immense.
Therefore, he was prepared to demonstrate some skills first to reassure the higher-ups.
Underwater drilling technology.
This technique was not too difficult for Tang Rui.
Normal difficulty in positioning, seabed geological structure investigation, drilling route selection, and drill bit material were not problems for him.
Of course, it was not without difficulty.
Constructing the undersea tunnel and oil pipeline was a major challenge.
¡°Red Lotus, show me the geological data model of the seabed,¡± Tang Rui said to Red Lotus.
Whoosh!
A huge model of the seabed¡¯s geological structure appeared before him. Six oil fields were clearly disyed.
¡°Red Lotus, based on the materials we have now, create the most robust pipeline and connect the six oil fields and two regions. Then, run the simtion,¡± Tang Rui instructed again.
¡°Alright, Master. What scenario would you like to simte?¡±
¡°Earthquakes and tsunamis.¡±
¡°Alright, Master. I understand.¡±
Following Red Lotus¡¯s simtion, the holographic projection showed an undersea tunnel and a pipeline, as well as an ocean drilling tform.
Then, an earthquake began.
The underground pipes were fine initially, withstanding the shaking. However, as the earthquake¡¯s magnitude increased, the geological structure changed, and the pipeline adapted to these changes.
Even so, there were no problems with the oil pipeline. It was deformed but did not fracture or leak.
However, the undersea tunnels and drilling tforms could not withstand it.
During the earthquake, the undersea tunnel broke and sprouted a leak, while the drilling tform was washed away by the waves.
At this moment, the earthquake¡¯s magnitude disyed was 8.7.
¡°Let¡¯s stop here.¡±
The data on the holographic projection model stopped, and the simtion ended.
Although this was only the result of a simtion, all the data hade from the Earthquake Bureau¡¯s database, so the readings should be reliable.
Based on the current simtion, there were no issues with the pipes.
Even in an 8.7 magnitude earthquake, they would at most distort.
This distortion, caused by changes in the geological structure, was not problematic. The pipeline¡¯s material could withstand it.
When the time came to construct the pipeline, he could add some redundant materials in advance. As long as it did not exceed the material¡¯s limit of resistance to stretching, there would be no issues.
However, the undersea tunnel posed a significant challenge.
It couldn¡¯t be bent like an oil pipeline. Once bent, there would only be one oue: water leakage.
An underwater tunnel leaking was no small matter.
The water pressure at the seabed was immense.
Even a small leak would quickly expand into arge hole, fatally flooding the tunnel.
He needed to find a solution.
¡°Red Lotus, download the relevant information and data on the deep geological drilling equipment, as well as the design drawings.¡±
¡°Yes, Master. The download isplete.¡±
¡°Open the design.¡±
Whoosh!
Almost ten models of drilling equipment appeared before his eyes, including their structure and parts.
Tang Rui examined the equipment.
He realized it differed from the underground drilling equipment he had imagined. There were no fancyponents.
The only valuable part was the drill.
However, he didn¡¯t need it at all.
¡°Remove all other parts, only keep the model of the drill.¡±
There were many types of drills for deep drilling.
Their bits weren¡¯t sharp, but round.
However, it wasn¡¯t a spherical circle, but a circr arc with many wavy teeth and a rolling drill.
¡°Red Lotus, simte the drilling of these bits.¡±
¡°Yes, Master.¡±
Following Red Lotus¡¯s simtion, the rocks began to be drilled. The geological data remained the same.
The rotation speed was also consistent.
This way, the efficiency of these drills could be easily distinguished. There was no need for excessive realism, as long as there was approximate data.
In less than five minutes, Tang Rui selected a drill.
¡°Red Lotus, erge this drill. Make it 30 centimeters in radius.¡±
¡°Yes, Master. We¡¯re in the process of manufacturing it. The material is a titanium-tungsten alloy, and we¡¯re using nanoyer spraying technology to ensure the drill bit is resistant to wear and high temperatures.¡±
¡°Then, go ahead and design a submarine capable of digging at the seabed. It must carry arge drill that can work directly on the seabed for an extended period.¡±
¡°Yes, Master. I am simting ording to the current model. It¡¯s estimated to take 14 minutes.¡±
Ten minutester, a small unmanned submarine was designed.
At the front of the submarine was a drill.
To be blunt, this was an underwater tunnel-boring machine.
He would definitely not use a TBM to dig a hole in the seabed, especially an undersea tunnel. That would be too slow.
How many years would it take to dig an undersea tunnel? Ten or twenty years?
By then, he would have left Earth.
To think he would dig an undersea tunnel for them was imusible.
Therefore, his n was to dig directly from the sea¡¯s bottom with a submarine, rather than underground construction.
After the tunnel was dug, he would insert sections of the tunnel and bury them after assembly. This way, things would move along at a much faster pace.
Moreover, the construction difficulty would be significantly reduced.
As for the oil pipeline, it would be hung next to the undersea tunnel and buried together.
¡°Red Lotus, start the underwater construction simtion.¡±
¡°Alright.¡±
On the holographic projection screen, the submarine entered the seabed, extended a huge drill, and began to excavate.
With the seawater cooling the drill, its temperature remained manageable.
However, as they dug, the sand at the sea¡¯s bottom churned.
The seawater turned turbid.
¡°Stop, stop the simtion. Design a ship that can dredge and absorb the sand. When the submarine is constructing, suction away all the excavated sand.¡±
After Tang Rui called for a halt, he made another request.
The design of the sand suction boat waspleted quickly, in less than five minutes.
This was because there was an existing temte for it. He could use it with minor modifications. It was notplicated at all.
He ran the simtion again.
With the sand suction boat, the submarine¡¯s operations wouldn¡¯t affect the surrounding waters.
That was sufficient.
Construction was one aspect, but it was crucial not to harm the environment.
The water in Bohai Bay was already murky. If another construction project urred, the Bohai Sea would turn into the Yellow Sea.
Next, Red Lotus simted non-stop, and Tang Rui continually suggested modifications.
In less than three hours, the design of the seabed excavation submarine waspleted. All aspects met Tang Rui¡¯s requirements, and further modifications were unnecessary.
Now, only three challenges remained for Tang Rui.
One was to dig deep underground and ess several oil fields.
He intended to build the necessary equipment himself.
There was also the issue of the undersea tunnel¡¯s recoil. This was somewhat troublesome, but he already had an idea.
If a technical problem couldn¡¯t be solved, it could be addressed with engineering solutions.
For instance, wrapping ayer of high-strength nano tubes around the undersea tunnel could prevent water leakage.
As long as there was no leakage, even if the undersea tunnel broke and part of it distorted, it wouldn¡¯tpromise the entire tunnel¡¯s safety.
A more drastic method was to install a safety gate at certain intervals.
In case of a leak, the gate would be lowered, sealing off the tunnel.
Thest and most difficult problem was the drilling tform.
However, this wasn¡¯t a challenge that could be ovee with technology alone.
Therefore, the only solution he could think of was to construct the drilling tform himself.
At that time, he would have the support of the system interface.
Be it a tsunami or a meteorite impact, he could instantly upgrade the drilling tform and then fire a Star Destroyer Cannon at the meteorite.
¡°Red Lotus, upload the construction prerequisites and the blueprints of the sand suction boat to the database. Tell them to start construction as soon as possible..¡±
Chapter 210 - 210: Photoshopped a Detection Map for Japan
Chapter 210: Photoshopped a Detection Map for Japan
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¡°President Tang, we had already designed the aerodynamicyout for the ground-support attack aircraft.¡±
Feng Yuanxing reported to Tang Rui through the video function of the office system.
Tang Rui had been focusing on researching undersea tunnels and drilling tforms and had no time for Air Force projects.
Therefore, he handed this project over to Feng Yuanxing, instructing him to lead the team topletion.
All this was done with assistance from Red Lotus.
The design was a simple ground-support attack aircraft. With Feng Yuanxing¡¯s level of expertise, there were no problems at all.
¡°Good, I know now. You guys proceed with the next step of the design, and I¡¯ll notify you when I¡¯ve reviewed it,¡± Tang Rui said to Feng Yuanxing after listening to the report.
After hanging up the video call, he asked Red Lotus to disy the model of the attack aircraft, which looked good and included vertical takeoff andnding capabilities.
Its low altitude and low-speed performance were good.
The airframe was also specially reinforced to withstand high-intensity vibration and recoil.
Red Lotus had already simted and calcted all the relevant data.
Tang Rui briefly looked at it.
He then approved the n.
After all, for a ground-support attack aircraft, as long as it had strong ground-attack capabilities, other performance requirements were not high, and it did not need airbat capabilities.
He closed the model and continued to work on the device in his hands.
It was aprehensive drilling robot capable of transporting the broken soil out through a pipeline while drilling.
Apanying this drilling robot, there was also a deepyer pipeying robot.
This robot could follow the drilling robot andy pipes directly, eliminating the need for separate instation.
These two robots were designed for drilling oil wells.
Because at the deep seabed level, it was impossible to conduct construction from above as in the case of undersea tunnels.
Otherwise, the oil field would directly pollute the sea area.
Ordinary drilling equipment could also only drill downwards, not horizontally.
Thus, Tang Rui had to create it himself.
Afterpleting the manufacturing, he would strengthen it using the system panel.
While Tang Rui was diligently researching at home, China¡¯s two neighbors started to make moves.
The reason?
It was still about the Bohai Bay oil field exploitation project.
For the Koreans, the Bohai Bay oil fields were a resource to die for.
They had previously cooperated with China in developing oil fields in the South China Sea, benefiting greatly, obtaining one-third of the 80 billion tons reserve.
But now that there was an oil field near their territory, there was no domestic cooperation, which puzzled them.
They knew about our domestic drilling tform technology level.
There was cooperation in the South China Sea.
So why wasn¡¯t there cooperation on the more challenging Bohai Bay extraction issue?
Thus, the Koreans inquired with CNOOC (China National Offshore Oil Corporation) about the specific situation.
To see if they could vie for it.
And possibly start a joint development.
However, the news they received was to not dream about it, as even CNOOC couldn¡¯t decide on the Bohai Bay oil field project.
The Koreans still wanted to intervene, but they were thinking too much.
The dissatisfied Koreans then tried to find a breakthrough from Crimson, but they were stopped by the guards before they even saw thepany¡¯s door.
Unable to find a breakthrough, The Koreans obtained a detection map of the Bohai Bay oil field from CNOOC, only a general range one.
They deduced from this map released by Tang Rui that there were oil fields in their own maritime areas.
This excited them greatly, and they immediately began exploration.
And indeed, they found it.
With reserves exceeding 6.2 billion tons, this was incredibly good news for the Koreans.
However, there was one problem.
The difficulty of extracting the oil field was immense.
This difficulty far exceeded normal extraction challenges. To develop this oil field, they would have to spend a significant amount of money and build deeper sea drilling equipment.
Could the Koreans give up on such arge oil field?
Impossible.
They would proceed, even if it cost a lot.
After all, the oil extracted would pay back the expenses.
The Koreans acted swiftly.
Before there was any movement in the Bohai Bay, they started their vigorous operations.
Various exploration ships and deep-sea equipment began to assemble.
Offshore drilling tforms also started to be erected.
A scene full of bustling activity.
While the Koreans fantasized about developing their own oil field, the Japanese side became very ufortable.
They had no oil fields near their home.
But they knew where oil fields were, lying beneath the fishing waters, the oil resourcesparable to a second Middle East.
Unfortunately, their knowledge was of no use.
They couldn¡¯t exploit it.
It didn¡¯t lie in their territory.
But seeing others discover and exploit oil fields hurt a lot more than their own mary losses, so they started to make moves.
Chineseizens were very attentive to the Japanese activities.
So, after Japanese covert operations, the news reached the Chinese side and even made the trending list.
Every morning, when Tang Rui got up to have breakfast and y with his phone, he this news naturally reached him.
The Japanese were stirring things up again.
¡°Red Lotus, disy the detection map of the Japanese maritime area that I had you archive earlier,¡± Tang Rui said to Red Lotus.
Swipe!
The detection map of the sea floor around the Japanese area appeared on the screen.
Then, Tang Rui booted up Photoshop, splicing the geological structures of other areas onto the Japanese maritime area.
With Red Lotus¡¯s help, this geological exploration structure data was absolutely guaranteed.
No expert could spot any ws.
¡°Red Lotus, simte what would happen if the Japanese used this data to exploit the underground oil field. Can they prate the natural gasyer below?¡± Tang Rui said after modifying the map.
¡°Okay, master. Simting,¡± Red Lotus replied.
Under Red Lotus¡¯s simtion, The Japanese, using the data from this exploration map, conducted a drilling exploration, which included real data deliberately left by Tang Rui.
So, there were no problems with the drilling results.
Next was the exploitation.
ording to the geological structure data Photoshopped by Tang Rui, to exploit the oil field below, straightforward drilling wouldn¡¯t work, they would first have to drill down, then turn.
The difficulty was great, but not impossible, just troublesome.
However, once drilling hadmenced, they would find not oil fields, but magma over there.
¡°Red Lotus, upload this data to the database, and arrange a channel above to let the Japanese get their hands on this data,¡± Tang Rui said after the simtion ended.
¡°Okay, master, the data has been uploaded.¡±
After doing all this, Tang Rui continued to scroll through his phone and eat breakfast.
After breakfast, he took the equipment he had made the night before and went to the foot of the mountain behind thepany.
This had to be the best ce for drilling, as determined by exploration..
Chapter 211 - 211: Daybreak!
Chapter 211: Daybreak!
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¡°Alright, let¡¯s do it here.¡±
Tang Rui said to Red Lotus at his side.
¡°Alright.¡±
Red Lotus put down theprehensive drilling robot.
He then installed the water pipe and the sewage pipe at the tail of the drilling robot. One of the two pipes was for water and the other for sewage.
If you ignore the pipes at the back, this robot looked like an erged metal bamboo shoot.
Excluding the drill bit, the overall length was 82 centimeters, and the radius was 22 centimeters.
The length of the drill was 35 centimeters.
It appeared quite pocket-sized.
However, the skill required was definitely not low.
[Item: Deep Underground Drill Robot]
[Experience: 0/3500]
[Enhancement: Drill (Special), Construction, Electric Machinery (Special), Energy (Special)]
[Origin: 1628.48]
Looking at the three special enhancements disyed on the system interface, he couldn¡¯t help but sigh.
One would know how powerful its performance was.
Sob, sob, sob¡
With the rapid rotation of the drill, the weeds and soil on the ground were cleared in an instant.
Furthermore, all the fragments that turned into powder were sucked into the robot¡¯s body.
After entering the body, they merged with the water flow and turned into mud that was discharged through the pipe.
Very quickly, the entire drilling robot went underground.
Only two pipes were left outside, sucking in water and draining mud.
Tang Rui watched the simted scene through the screen of his sses.
The robot moved at a speed of about one meter per minute, and its speed was very stable.
This was not its fastest speed.
However, it was the most economical and stable speed. There was no need to worry about the drill having any problems.
If he increased the speed, the drill might overheat and wear out. That would be bad.
¡°Red Lotus, I¡¯ll leave this ce to you.¡±
¡°Alright, don¡¯t worry, Master. Red Lotus will take care of everything,¡± Red Lotus promised Tang Rui.
Right now, drilling holes in the ground was not only to test the performance of the robot but also to extract some oil.
Although the oil table under theirpany didn¡¯t have much oil, it was enough for Tang Rui¡¯s use.
Later, Red Lotus would build a smart factory integrating a refinery and chemical nt over there. In the future, thepany wouldn¡¯t need to buy chemical raw materials. They could produce thempletely themselves.
Even the fuel used for the aircraft could be refined by them.
Tang Rui returned to thepany. After settling the documents that thepany needed to deal with during this time, he went to the armed satelliteboratory building.
After all, he was a chief instructor.
He had toe over to take a look since he had nothing else to do.
Now that he had solved most of the remaining problems, save for the drilling tform, he was free again.
¡°Koizumi, is this information true?¡±
¡°Yes, we got it by ident. There¡¯s been a huge breakthrough in geological exploration technology there. This should be the information they obtained when they sneaked into our waters.¡±
¡°You¡¯re so coquettish¡ Thank you for your hard work, Koizumi. The Empire will remember your contributions.¡±
¡°Hey¡ This is what 1 should do. I can¡¯t stay here too long. I¡¯ll leave the rest to you, Fujiwara-kun.¡±
After the two of them met up, they retreated separately.
However, not far from their rendezvous point, an ordinary car was watching them.
¡°Mission aplished. Withdraw.¡±
A dayter, this information was obtained by Japan.
Upon receiving this information, the first thing they did was doubt its authenticity.
After all, they also had their own geological experts.
Logically speaking, there shouldn¡¯t be an oil field in that area, especially such arge one.
However, the problem was that they had obtained this information from the country through a special department and had paid a high price.
If they outright denied it, wouldn¡¯t those people¡¯s efforts be wasted?
Therefore, the final result was the same as Tang Rui¡¯s spection. First, they would drill a hole to see if there really was an oil field there.
The location of the drilling hole¡ well, these were also the sites that Tang Rui had specially left behind.
As long as one wasn¡¯t a fool, choosing a highly difficult drilling location was highly unlikely, especially when they were in a hurry to confirm if there was an oil field underground. So, they could only drill from the ce Tang Rui deliberately left.
The Japanese were quite capable in this aspect.
Thus, they went ahead andmenced drilling.
First, they discovered the natural gasyer before discovering the oil field below the natural gas.
However, this oil field could be said to have beenpletely depleted.
Originally, there must have been arge oil field here.
However, due to te movements and earthquakes, the oil field started leaking, and it had now turned into magma.
Japan didn¡¯t know this though.
The results of the drilling and the geological analysis data were all on the surface. There was no problem with this exploration data.
In other words, there really was an oil field under their territory.
This news was reported immediately.
After the higher-ups saw the report, they immediately gave their instructions.
There was even an obscure research institute in Japan that specially provided brand-new drilling equipment.
This drill was extremely powerful.
It enabled them to bypass the rock formation below and directly drill a hole vertically, where they could extract the oil from the field.
Was there even such a technique?
This was simply custom-made equipment for this oil field.
With new technology and equipment, they didn¡¯t need to go through so much trouble.
Japan immediately organized its men and began to prepare for mining. They would first use the new equipment to drill holes, test its performance, and explore the reserves of the field.
It could be said that Japan¡¯s actions were done ording to Tang Rui¡¯s imagination..
Chapter 212 - 212: At That Moment, Dawn Had Arrived!(2 in 1)
Chapter 212: At That Moment, Dawn Had Arrived!(2 in 1)
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However, the specific method of using it was different from what he had imagined.
Who would have thought?
Japanese technology had made a breakthrough.
Three dayster, the best drilling equipment, the most skilled experts, and the most dedicated workers were gathered on the big board.
They came to the area near Niki, just two kilometers from the sea.
ording to the map, this was the edge of the oil field.
However, ording to the calctions of the experts, it was the most economical and cost-effective way to drill from here.
The group began to work on the open space next to the seaside resort.
A tall drilling tower was erected.
They deployed the new model and started drilling.
In the blink of an eye, three days passed.
ording to the geological survey data, they were about to break through the rockyer. Below the rockyer was the gasyer.
It stored 2.3 billion cubic meters of natural gas.
However, natural gas was not as important as oil, so they were not in a hurry to extract it.
Whirrr¡
Suddenly, the rotation speed of the head increased, and the pressure decreased.
¡°Ishihara-kun, we¡¯ve broken through the rockyer and drilled into the gasyer. We¡¯re currently exploring the natural gas reserves.¡±
¡°Very good. Search as soon as possible and then hurry up. The oil field is just below the gasyer.¡±
¡°Hey!¡±
The pace of his daily life was still eptable.
He worked for six hours straight.
After gathering the data on the natural gas, they continued drilling. They could not wait to unlock the underground treasure.
But after a day, they felt something was wrong.
ording to the map, they should have already drilled into the oil field, but that was not the case.
The detector feedback showed there were still gravelyers below.
There was no oil.
However, there were no issues with the drilling data or the natural gas reserves data.
Why did things go wrong when they reached the oil field?
¡°Ishihara-kun, the drill has been reced. Do you want to continue drilling?¡± The construction workers asked Ishihara, the expert.
¡°Continue. Based on the current situation, the other party might have miscalcted. They can only probe at the bottom of the sea, while we¡¯re drilling onnd. It¡¯s normal for there to be some errors in the data.
The data of the oil field can¡¯t be wrong. A little error is nothing. Continue drilling. We have to break through the oil field before tonight.¡±
Ishihara thought for a moment before giving the order.
The Japanese were persistent. Even though the drilling was getting harder and harder, and the newly changed drill bit was starting to heat up, they still carried out Ishihara¡¯s request seriously.
They continued to drill.
Two hourster, the temperature sensor sounded an rm.
The underground temperature was too high.
The temperature of the drill was also rising rapidly.
¡°This isn¡¯t right.¡±
¡°There¡¯s something wrong. Why is the temperature so high in the upperyer of the oil field? Is this a magmayer?¡±
¡°How is that possible? There¡¯s an oil field below. How can there be magma?¡±
¡°But the drill can¡¯t withstand this temperature.¡±
¡°No, look at the speedometer. There¡¯s nothing unusual.¡±
m
This¡¡±
The two senior staff members looked at the data on the meter and were dumbfounded.
Logically speaking, if there was a problem with the drill, there would be a problem with the data of the speedometer. If the speed was not fast, it would be slow.
However, there was nothing wrong with the speedometer.
This made the two of them confused.
After Ishihara received the report, he did not take it seriously.
No one was thinking about other possibilities.
There was an oil field below, not magma. There must be something wrong with the sensor. As long as he did not look at the heat meter, it would be fine.
The drill continued its grind downward.
The temperature data was also getting higher and higher.
However, the drilling speed was not affected. In just an hour, they had already drilled 200 meters.
What did this mean?
The sensor was broken.
They could already feel the changes in the ground, which meant that they were about to break through.
Finally, after an hour and forty-four minutes of relentless drilling, the speedometer suddenly began to soar.
The pressure sensor started to give an rm.
¡°Oil Lord, we¡¯ve broken through. We¡¯ve broken through.¡±
¡°Really, let me see.¡±
Ishihara came to the monitoring room and frowned when he saw the red numbers on the screen.
The temperature sensor was broken, so it was normal for the temperature to explode.
Why was the pressure sensor broken?
This pressure should be the pressure of an oil field. Volcanoes should be just like this. The pressure sensor was also broken.
Looking at the drill bit¡
What?
Where¡¯s the drill?
How did such a big drill disappear?
The screen showed that the drill data had been disconnected.
What was going on?
Beep Beep Beep¡
Looking at the various data that were constantly being reported to the police, Ishihara had a bad feeling, but he still did not think about theva.
¡°Pull out the drill bit and prepare the equipment to prevent a well blowout.¡±
Ishihara suppressed the uneasiness in his heart and gave the order.
He was ready to take out the drill to take a look.
What was going on?
Outside, a group of workers had already made their preparations.
After the oil field was broken through, the oil would automatically erupt along the pipeline. This was called a blowout.
However, with the current technology, it was already very easy to solve the problem of the oil well.
One drill pipe after another was pulled out.
The workers had already taken out the equipment and were ready to seal the well at any time.
However, as the drill pipe at the bottom was pulled out, everyone felt that something was wrong.
Why is this drill pipe hot?
It was as if it had just been heated.
Logically speaking, since so much of the drill pipe had been pulled out, the oil should have slowly risen.
Why is there no oil at all?
At that moment, Ishihara went outside and looked at the drill pipe that was still steaming. The uneasiness in his heart became more and more serious.
What went wrong?
When a drill rod that was already red as if it had just been taken out of the furnace was pulled out,
Ishihara¡¯s mind buzzed.
No matter how stupid he was, he knew that something was wrong.
He recalled the data from the temperature sensor.
Then, he looked at the color of the drill pipe.
Magma.
Onlyva could achieve this effect.
In other words, they didn¡¯t break through the oil field, but the magma?
No.
There were no oil fields underground, only natural gasyers¡
Natural gasyer¡
Undergroundva¡
Getting pierced through¡
When Ishihara thought of this, he was dumbfounded.
At this moment, he realized what a foolish thing he had done. He had actually pierced through theyer between the natural gas and theva.
Didn¡¯t that mean¡
The ground had be a huge bomb.
Psssh¡
At this moment, the sound of air leaking suddenly erupted from the sealed well.
Then, red and blue mes shot out from the crack.
The oil well did not blow up, and instead, erupted into a tower of mes.
¡°Run quickly¡¡±
When Ishihara saw this, his pupils constricted to the size of a needle. Then, he roared and turned around to run.
All the workers present were dumbfounded.
Despite the mes spewing out from the ground, it was Ishihara who turned around and ran away which surprised them.
In the next second¡
Boom¡
mes shot into the sky.
The sealed well was directly sted open by the soaring mes.
The surrounding workers and the remains of the well were swept away.
The blue mes spewed out of the well and shot into the sky.
However, the pressure underground was not vented.
The ground began to tremble.
After running for more than 100 meters, Ishihara stopped running when he felt the ground tremble.
As an expert in this field, of course, he knew what would happen next.
Now, even if he wanted to run, he couldn¡¯t.
He took out his phone and called his wife at home.
After the call was connected, Ishihara turned his head and looked at the blue mes that were shooting into the sky not far away. They were more than a thousand meters tall, and he said bitterly, ¡°Miko, I¡¯m sorry. I can¡¯t apany you to see the cherry blossoms.¡±
As soon as he finished speaking, the ground began to tremble violently.
Cracks spread from the well in the distance to where he was.
mes were still emitting from these cracks.
On the other end of the phone, unaware of the situation on Ishihara¡¯s side, just as she was about to ask about the situation, the phone was hung up.
¡°Ishihara¡Beep¡ beep¡ beep¡¡±
Boom!
The underground pressure found an exit through the well, and then the huge pressure was released to the surface.
2.3 billion cubic meters of natural gas, together with the underground magma, burst out of the ground.
At that moment, dawn had arrived!
Chapter 213 - 213:1 Am Of Poor Character (Part 1)
Chapter 213:1 Am Of Poor Character (Part 1)
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ng!
The cup that Tang Rui had ced on the table fell to the ground.
¡°F*ck¡ What¡¯s happening?¡±
Tang Rui, who was lying on the sofa, felt the ground shake, and then there was no more movement.
This definitely wasn¡¯t an earthquake.
Earthquakes are continuous, not just a single tremor like this.
But why was the ground shaking?
¡°Red Lotus, what happened?¡± Tang Rui asked Red Lotus.
¡°Master, a contestant who¡¯s struggling in life experienced a natural gas eruption on the ground,¡± Red Lotus¡¯s holographic image appeared and reported to Tang Rui.
What the hell?
A natural gas eruption from the ground?
What new gamey had the Japanese developed?
¡°Show me the image.¡±
The next second.
A massive satellite photo appeared before Tang Rui.
F*ck!
Was this a dream of going back to Nagasaki?
Who did this?
Tang Rui, looking at the holographic projection in front of him, waspletely baffled.
A huge hole in the ground.
Below the hole was a boilingvake.
This was nothing unusual, just avake, there were many underground.
But around thisvake, the whole area seemed to have been swept over by a shock wave.
Debris rippling and spreading in all directions.
Was this¡
Spicy Tensei?
Spicy Tensei must have escaped from the Naruto World, realizing that his tragic fate was controlled by someone else, so he wanted the author to feel the pain too.
Tang Rui¡¯s lips slightly curled up, his thoughts drifting away.
¡°Master, Lin Chao has sent a video call request.¡±
¡°Put it through.¡±
Lin Chao¡¯s holographic projection appeared before Tang Rui.
¡°Did you cause this?¡± Lin Chao asked seriously.
¡°What the hell, I didn¡¯t do anything,¡± Tang Rui responded, baffled. He really hadn¡¯t done anything.
He was truly wronged.
Lin Chao said nothing and just observed the big boss Tang Rui.
And Tang Rui looked at Lin Chao with an innocent face.
This really had nothing to do with him.
He just photoshopped an image.
His intention was to tease them.
Who knew it would turn out like this?
¡°Then what about the blueprint you made before?¡± Lin Chao asked again.
¡°That blueprint was just for fun.¡±
¡°Fun? You call these consequences fun?¡±
¡°No, who knew?¡±
¡°You really didn¡¯t n this?¡±
¡°How could I?¡±
¡°Then look at this information.¡±
Lin Chao tabted the Japanese drilling n and some situations for Tang Rui to see.
Tang Rui was speechless after reading.
Wasn¡¯t this just courting death?
After all, with current drilling technology, it¡¯s impossible to drill through the rockyer, which meant Japan had to drill from the side to extract oil.
Side drilling couldn¡¯t prate the rockyer, nor could it allow natural gas andva to meet.
At most, it would bring the undergroundva to the surface.
Let Japan be in chaos for a while.
It wasn¡¯t a big deal.
But who would have thought¡
Japan also had a drilling technology and a new drill bit.
It enabled direct drilling from the top.
Who could have foreseen this? And even if you drill vertically, don¡¯t you check the data?
How could you not know when hittingva?
Unbelievable.
¡°I thought they would drill from the side. Who would have thought they¡¯d be so bold to go straight down from the top?¡± Tang Rui said, twitching his mouth.
¡°Alright, I understand.¡±
After seeing Tang Rui¡¯s expression, Lin Chao also knew this matter really wasn¡¯t nned by Tang Rui.
It could only be said that Japan was unlucky.
Lin Chao ended the video call and went to report to his superiors.
Tang Rui continued to watch the live broadcast.
¡°Master, Sakurajima Volcano has erupted.¡±
¡°Turn the picture over.¡±
Swish!
The holographic projection turned into the image of Sakurajima Volcano.
The real volcanic eruption wasn¡¯t like he had imagined; there was nova soaring into the sky, just rolling fog and flowingva on both sides, looking uninteresting.
Moreover, there weren¡¯t many people there, so it wasn¡¯t very satisfying.
¡°Master, Mount Aso has also erupted.¡±
¡°Switch over.¡±
This particr eruption was interesting.
Because it was really spewingva.
Though not much, the visual effect was quite shocking.
¡°Master, Mount Fuji has erupted.¡±
Red Lotus reported again. This time, without Tang Rui saying anything, it switched the holographic projection in front of his eyes, broadcasting the eruption of Mount Fuji.
Mount Fuji, silent for many years.
This time, it had umted enough energy and once again showed its power.
For some reason.
The eruption of Mount Fuji was particrly intense.
Boilingva shot into the sky.
Then, it fell from the sky, flowing downwards.
The flowingva, like blood vessels on both sides of the mountain, spread quickly downwards.
Mount Fuji was originally a holiday destination.
Many holiday vis and residential areas were built at the foot and on the slopes of the mountain, usually with many tourists.
But now¡
These people wished they had another pair of legs.
Many people even ran out of the hot springs without clothes.
But even without clothes, shedding all weight, it made no difference. Flowingva was still faster than a person.
The oue was obvious.
Tang Rui pulled up the view and changed the specific image below to Brother Chicken¡¯s avatar.
He still wanted to eat barbecue.
So there was no need to look too closely.
¡°Red Lotus, show me the image of the entire day.¡±
¡°Yes, Master.¡±
Swish!
A high-altitude bird¡¯s-eye view of the entire country appeared before Tang Rui¡¯s eyes. It was a real-time image, not a still one..
Chapter 214 - 214:1 Am Of Poor Character (Part 2)
Chapter 214:1 Am Of Poor Character (Part 2)
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It could be seen from a bird¡¯s eye view.
Japan was on fire.
Even our ancestral graves were smoking.
More than a hundred volcanoes were erupting.
Although most of the eruptions weren¡¯t very intense and it was mostly smoke, more than a hundred volcanoes were smoking at the same time.
The scene was spectacr.
Tang Rui looked for a while and frowned.
¡°Red Lotus, calcte the aftermath of the explosion under the big board. How long will these volcanoes erupt?¡±
¡°I am calcting, but due to theck of geological data, the results may not be very urate.¡±
¡°You don¡¯t have to be too precise. Just a rough estimate will do.
H
Ten minutester, Red Lotus hadpleted her calctions.
However, it wasn¡¯t the only result. There were several results, including a short eruption, a long eruption, and an underground volcanic eruption.
Other than the first one, the other two were very scary, especially the third one.
Once all the underground volcanoes in Japan¡¯s territory erupted¡
Their lives would definitely be ruined.
However, the world would not have an easy time either.
Volcanic ash was something that could move. It would be very troublesome if it floated all over the world.
However, ording to Red Lotus¡¯s calctions, the first possibility was the most likely, reaching 73.5%.
The second possibility was only 23.7%.
Thest possibility was only 2.8%.
Tang Rui waved his hand.
He turned off all the holographic projection,y down on the sofa again, took out his phone, and started browsing the news online.
The speed of information transmission was extremely fast.
What just happened in Japan had already be a trending topic in China. Moreover, this wasn¡¯t some sponsored fad purchased to hit the trending lists.
Tang Rui clicked on the video with the most views.
This video was from the perspective of the mountainous area far away from Daban, at least 70 kilometers away from the explosion site.
At the beginning of the video, a group of people were climbing the mountain.
Everyone had smiles on their faces.
He took out his phone to take a picture of the big board in the distance. Then, he took a group photo. It was very lively.
In the next second, they saw a blue me soaring into the sky.
It was a little too far away.
The phone couldn¡¯t get a clear recording.
When the group saw this situation, they were very curious. They did not know what this soaring me was.
They even said that this might be thetest engine developed by China and that it was being tested.
Ten secondster¡ it turned out that it wasn¡¯t an engine test.
The natural gas that was ignited underground exploded.
At this time, there was still a lot of natural gas that was in an ultra-high pressure state and had not been ignited.
However, when they came to the surface, the pressure was released.
The natural gas mixed with oxygen started a chain reaction under the lighting of the sky full of mes.
Boom!
A small sun appeared.
Through the video, one could clearly see that the trees below were bending inward.
This meant that the air had been sucked dry.
However, after bending for a second, the power of the small sun¡¯s explosion formed a visible shock wave when it came into contact with the air.
Then, the video ended.
Even though they were more than 70 kilometers away from the explosion site, the power of the shock wave still swept over them.
¡°Red Lotus, calcte the power of the explosion.¡±
¡°Alright, Master. Red Lotus has calcted. The explosion is equivalent to 3.3 million tons to 3.6 million tons.¡±
¡°The yield isn¡¯t right. Show me the simtion data.¡±
¡°Yes, Master.¡±
Red Lotus projected the simted data in front of Tang Rui¡¯s eyes.
After reading it, Tang Rui pped his thigh.
He had forgotten to count the air.
The explosion of 2.3 billion cubic meters of natural gas was definitely more powerful than that. It was at least one-third of Big Ivan¡¯s power.
However, in the previous video, it was not even one-tenth of Big Ivan¡¯s power, let alone one-third of it.
However, after seeing the results of Red Lotus¡¯s simtion.
He realized that he had not calcted the air.
When the ground exploded, natural gas would erupt and mix with the air to carry out a second ignition explosion.
It became a small sun.
However, the power was not as great as he had imagined.
Due to the limited air, the explosion range was limited and did not reach the theoretical limit.
However, it was not bad.
He turned off the projection and continued to read the news and watch videos.
Thements section was very interesting.
¡°Hahahaha¡! admit that 1 am of poor character, so this statement only represents me personally. Please don¡¯t raise it to the national level.¡±
The number of likes below was 136,000.
It had only been a short while, and there were already so many likes.
Most importantly¡
There were even more reposts.
As time passed, more and more videos were uploaded onto the Inte. Tang Rui also watched these videos.
In fact, the explosion had happened more than once.
It ured several times.
However, the subsequent explosions were not as powerful as the first one, so it was meaningless whether they exploded or not.
Tang Rui was lying on the sofa, swiping his phone for more than four hours. The corners of his mouth were almost stiff from smiling.
Five hourster, some volcanoes gradually stopped erupting.
Tang Rui also saw this message.
ording to Red Lotus¡¯s simtion, the current situation was the first. As time passed, the volcanic eruption would end.
The explosion happened on the ground.
The danger to the underground was not that great.
The reason why the volcano erupted was mainly rted to the underground magma. The geological structure below the Japanese inds was a little special.
The magmayer was shallow and very active.
With the explosion of natural gas, it added a lot of pressure to the magma underground.
This pressure spread out along with thevayer.
Eventually, the volcano erupted on a small scale.
As for earthquakes and tsunamis, there were none.
It was mainly not detonated underground.
¡°Master, Li Shuyao asked you to go back for dinner.¡±
¡°Have you eaten?¡±
Tang Rui looked at the time and did not expect that it was already nighttime.
He got up from the sofa.
They took the elevator back to the vi.
¡°Why are you cooking so many dishes today?¡±
The moment they entered the dining room.
Tang Rui saw a table full of dishes, chicken, duck, fish, and meat. It was as if it was Chinese New Year.
¡°Stop pretending. I know you¡¯re happy, so 1 made more dishes today.¡± Li Shuyao said with a smile.
It was obvious that he was a person of low quality.
What a coincidence.
He wasn¡¯t very cultured either.
The two of them even bought some red wine and drank it as they ate. It was really like the New Year.
After dinner, when Tang Rui took out his phone to look at the news again, he discovered that Japan had finally spoken.
Even after a few hours, the various statistics from Japan hadn¡¯t yet been released.
However, it was obvious that it was an astronomical figure.
Their days in Japan were really over this time.
¡°They still need relief supplies?¡±
When Tang Rui saw the situation over there, with Japan requesting the various countries to allocate disaster relief supplies, he was very puzzled.
In this situation, was there anyone who needed to be saved?
Didn¡¯t they take them away in one wave?
At that moment, they became light.
As for the other relief supplies, did they need masks?
After a volcanic eruption, there would be volcanic ash falling. He indeed needed a mask, but unfortunately, he did not have any extra.
On the surface, everyone had to fork out some money.
After all, it was just a trivial matter.
It wouldn¡¯t make sense if he didn¡¯t take out some.
He still needed an international image.
As for the secret, Japan whined to its father (the United States), saying that they had been set up.
In the end, when its father heard it, they wanted to p Japan.
Were you guys stupid?
You believed whatever they said.
They gave you a lousy blueprint, and you really went to dig.
Why didn¡¯t they just die of stupidity?
They didn¡¯t even know that they had dug intova, and they still had the gall to me others.
America was furious.
They could still get some benefits from their small life, but now they could forget about it.
They couldn¡¯t even live his life anymore.
How then could they find the money to be filial to their father?
However, from this incident, the Americans also learned that China had a new breakthrough in geological exploration technology.
This was very troublesome.
If China boughtnd and mining rights in the future, would they follow suit?
Nope.
There were either mineral veins or oil beneath.
Just do it.
But after the purchase, they came up empty handed.
This was very frustrating..
Chapter 215 - 215: You Dare to Change President Tang’s Design?
Chapter 215: You Dare to Change President Tang¡¯s Design?
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Over the next month, the international scene was very peaceful, and there were basically no major events.
The Chinese situation was also very good. Their neighbors had things to do and had no time for anything else.
The Koreans were focused on developing the underwater oil fields.
They could live on a tight budget, but the stock market copsed, and the economy suffered a major blow.
Wall Street was up to their throats.
Nothing happened in the east.
Their neighbors in the southwest were even less affected.
China didn¡¯t have to worry about its internal matters. They would start to fight the Americans internationally.
However, international matters were very troublesome. It was impossible to destroy them all at once.
Everyone was so understanding.
In addition, there was also a group of snitches and troublemakers. The Americans were working hard in all aspects, but the results weren¡¯t as they hoped.
The most important region was Africa.
The Americans wanted to take advantage of the fact that China hadn¡¯t gained a firm foothold there to get rid of them, so they¡¯d been ying a lot of tricks recently.
Especially in the mining industry.
Recently, China suffered setbacks in all aspects of our overseas mining. The American¡¯s eyes were red as they went against us.
Therefore, things in Africa were more troublesome.
But all of this had nothing to do with Tang Rui. He stayed at home honestly during this period and did not cause any trouble.
The Bohai Bay oil field mining problem would have to wait for another month or two.
The construction of the submarine and sand suction boat had not beenpleted yet.
The assembly of the submarine tunnel was still in the design and production phase. It was estimated that it would take another month or two before it could be officially mass-produced.
Therefore, Tang Rui¡¯s side wasn¡¯t anxious either.
On this day, Han Shu, who had been away for a few months, was finally back.
Previously, after Tang Rui finished building the mechanical infantry regiment¡¯s equipment and equipping the troops, he brought the entire regiment for training.
The original n was to train for two months.
However, after the training, the higher-ups wanted to test thebat effectiveness of the regiment. Therefore, it was dyed for another two months, and seven or eight exercises were carried out in various environments.
He had been busy for four months.
Han Shu was finally back.
¡°Brother Han, did you go to Africa?¡± After seeing Han Shu, the other party¡¯s skin color frightened Tang Rui.
Good heavens.
He had turned chocte-colored and was glowing.
¡°We¡¯re going to Africater,¡± Han Shu said nonchntly.
¡°We¡¯re going to Africater. Aren¡¯t we going to practice?¡±
¡°The five regiments are notplete yet, so how can we practice? You still have to be in charge of the Bohai Bay project, so you don¡¯t have time to care about us.
In addition to the exercise two months ago, the higher-ups recognized Chinesebat effectiveness, so they sent them to Africa.
The situation over there was a little chaotic now. It just so happened that their new equipment was almost ready. They could take it out and practice.¡±
Han Shu told Tang Rui about the general situation.
Although it was confidential information, telling Tang Rui about it was still not a problem.
¡°I see¡ When are we leaving?¡± After Tang Rui heard it all, he pondered for a while and asked.
¡°In half a month. 1¡¯11 be on vacation for a week starting tomorrow. After the vacation ends, pack up your equipment and take a boat there.¡±
¡°I see. Send all your equipment back, and I¡¯ll level you up.¡±
¡°It can be upgraded?¡±
¡°I¡¯m not changing the equipment. I¡¯m just making some minor adjustments to improve the performance. It¡¯s not a major change.¡±
The upgrade that Tang Rui mentioned was indeed an upgrade.
They had been using this batch of equipment for four months, so their experience points must have been overflowing long ago.
He didn¡¯t need to enhance it.
He could directly upgrade the equipment through the system interface to improve its performance.
It was not troublesome.
It didn¡¯t cost any money.
It was just upgrading a level. Tang Rui was still very willing.
After all, they were going to Africa, and they might really have to fight.
Therefore, the performance of the equipment would be enhanced as much as possible.
Perhaps this little improvement would lead to a victory.
¡°Alright, 1¡¯11 get them to send the equipment overter,¡± Han Shu didn¡¯t refuse.
This kind of good thing was something that others could not even beg for.
He would be an idiot to refuse.
At three in the afternoon, all the equipment was sent over.
Red Lotus marked all the equipment and ced them in the warehouse.
After dinner, Tang Rui came inside the warehouse and started to upgrade these devices.
[Item: Individual Exoskeleton Armor]
[EXP: 432297/2900 (Upgradeable)]
[Origin Points: 1636.48]
Looking at the huge amount of experience points overflowing from the system interface, he tapped three times without hesitation.
Swoosh swoosh swoosh¡
Three shes of light shed.
Equipment upgradeplete.
The upgraded exoskeleton armor did not seem to have changed much. The only change was that it was more ergonomically designed and morefortable to wear.
The internal hardware system had be morepact, and more resistant to construction, and the system functions had be smoother.
[Item: Individual Exoskeleton Armor +3]
[Experience: 420321/? (Cannot be upgraded)]
[Origin Points: 1636.48]
To be honest, seeing that there were still more than 400,000 experience points on the system panel, Tang Rui really wanted to upgrade this armor to +9 or, rather, +10.
However, the individual exoskeleton armor was too advanced.
Therefore, he thought about it and held back.
¡°Red Lotus, save this design in the database and mark it as the single exoskeleton armor 1.3 optimized version,¡±
Tang Rui said to Red Lotus.
¡°Yes, Master. The design and information have been saved,¡± Red Lotus immediately replied.
Following that, Tang Rui began to continuously upgrade the individual exoskeleton armor. In any case, he didn¡¯t need to do anything; it was all the system¡¯s work..
Chapter 216 - 216: You Dare to Change President Tang’s Design? (2 in 1)
Chapter 216: You Dare to Change President Tang¡¯s Design? (2 in 1)
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[Item: Electromaic eleration Precise Assault Rifle]
[Experience: 286417/800 (Upgradeable)]
[Origin Points: 1636.48]
After upgrading his equipment, he continued to upgrade his weapons.
It was the same case.
Experience was overflowing.
Swoosh swoosh swoosh¡
Three consecutive upgrades werepleted.
The appearance of the rifle had changed slightly, but not by much. If one didn¡¯t pay close attention, one would not be able to see it.
At the same time, it hadpletely recovered from the wear and tear that had urred over such a long period of time.
The electromaic rifle in front of him was as good as new.
¡°Red Lotus, save the blueprints and data, and archive them ording to the previous naming rules.¡±
¡°Understood.¡±
After walking around and upgrading all his firearms, he came to the robot dog.
[Item: Bionic Mechanical Battlefield Support tform]
[Experience: 77623/4500 (Upgradeable)]
[Origin Points: 1636.48]
After Tang Rui took a look at the interface, there was another wave of three consecutive upgrades.
In the end, the upgrade this time went far beyond his imagination.
A robot dog that had leveled up three times in a row was a huge change.
If the robot dog from before was a dog, then the upgraded robot was a MetalGarurumon.
Tang Rui was dumbfounded.
What was going on?
This had not happened even when he was upgrading his equipment and weapons.
¡°Red Lotus, show me the blueprint of the upgraded robot dog,¡± Tang Rui said.
¡°Alright.¡±
Swoosh!
After the upgrade, the holographic model of the mechanical dog appeared in front of Tang Rui, with various parts and structures marked on it.
¡°Show me the mechanical dog¡¯s structure model andpare it with it.¡±
After Tang Rui looked for a while, he spoke again.
¡°Alright.¡±
Swoosh!
The models of the two mechanical dogs appeared and werepared by Red Lotus. Theparison parameters and results of each part were disyed at the side.
After Tang Rui finished reading, he finally knew the specific situation.
The mechanical dog from before had a w in its design.
It couldn¡¯t be considered a w.
It was just that the functions were not thatplete, and there were some problems that he had not considered. When the soldiers used it, they did not feel that there were any problems.
However, the upgrade of the system interface.
He was just so unreasonable.
Leveling up was an external optimization.
Raising two levels was an internal optimization.
Leveling up by three levels was an overall structural optimization.
The mechanical dog had obviously gone through an overall structural optimization. Some of the problems that he had not considered before had even been corrected.
This could be said to be a huge profit.
Only the mechanical dog before him could be called a true bio-machine.
¡°Red Lotus, mark the blueprint and data of this mechanical dog as version 2.0.¡±
¡°Yes, Master.¡±
After Tang Rui patted the robotic dog¡¯s head in satisfaction, he began to continue upgrading the equipment.
For the next upgrade, there would not be such a good thing.
Only the internal structure of the vehicles and tanks was more reasonable, making the driver morefortable.
Nothing else had changed.
Tang Rui didn¡¯t leave the warehouse until ten at night.
All the weapons and equipment had been upgraded.
They looked as good as new.
If it weren¡¯t for the fact that his heart wasn¡¯t so ck, he could say that this wave of equipment was re-manufactured.
However, it was not necessary to sell it to outsiders.
The next day.
Tang Rui had just finished his breakfast and arrived at thepany when he received a notice from Red Lotus that the people from the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences had arrived.
Institute of High Energy Physics?
This really had nothing to do with him. He was not familiar with it.
However, since she was here, he had to entertain her.
¡°Professor Li, why didn¡¯t you just call me if you had something to say? Why did youe all the way here?¡±
¡°President Tang, I¡¯m sorry to disturb you. I¡¯m here to trouble you with something, so I came personally.¡±
Academician Li was the director of the Institute of High Energy Physics.
This Institute of High Energy was directly under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
In China¡¯s high-energy physics field, it was considered to be a very impressive institution.
If Tang Rui wanted to research atomic bombs, he would have to consult Professor Li.
Unfortunately, he did not have such thoughts.
Tang Rui brought Professor Li to his office, made him a cup of tea, and then started chatting, asking him why he was here.
Frankly, though¡
He really couldn¡¯t figure out how he could help.
The specialization was not suitable.
¡°President Tang, I¡¯m here this time to ask you to help me detect the geological data and simte the underground construction situation,¡± Academician Li took a sip of tea and said.
¡°This is just a small problem. Why would youe personally?¡± Tang Rui was very puzzled after listening.
Was this a big deal?
It was nothing at all.
He didn¡¯t even need to make a move. He just needed Red Lotus to settle the matter.
¡°It¡¯s not a small matter. We¡¯re going to build a Hadron Collider. We must be fully prepared for geological exploration,¡± Professor Li said seriously.
¡°Really?¡± Tang Rui was very surprised after hearing this.
The high-energy hadron collider was a real money-burning machine, and it was the kind that had yet to be produced.
A pure money pit.
It burned tens of billions of yuan.
Every experiment required a specialized nuclear power nt to supply electricity. It was extremely extravagant.
Was such a big event really going to happen in China?
Didn¡¯t he say that he wouldn¡¯t create this thing for now and would focus on developing it?
Why are you in such a hurry to get on the horse now?
Tang Rui¡¯s own question was raised, wanting to understand the situation inside.
¡°I wasn¡¯t prepared to spend this money before. After all, this isn¡¯t a small sum of money. With this money, I can build aircraft carriers or airnes.
However, we can¡¯t do that now. Because of the international situation, our domestic scientists have been chased out.
From the looks of it, they seem to want to lock us down at the experimental level. They won¡¯t let us know the specific information, let alone let us participate in the experiment,¡± Professor Li said helplessly.
If there was a way and a chance, he would not have rushed tounch such a continuous project in China.
But now, he had no choice.
Otherwise, it would cause a loss of talent in the field of high-energy physics in the country. This was not a small matter.
After Tang Rui heard it all, he was very speechless.
What was this?
They will seal this and that. As long as we don¡¯t have it, they will find a way to seal it.
It¡¯s not like China couldn¡¯t make this thing.
It was just that the price-performance ratio was rather dismal.
There was no point in spending that money.
It was all good now.
Even that area had been sealed off.
There was nothing practical about it. It was a pure white elephant.
¡°Alright, I¡¯ll take this job. Other than geological exploration, is there anything else I can help with?¡±
Tang Rui opened his mouth and asked. If there was something, he would really help.
¡°No need, no need. You have quite a lot of things to do here. If it wasn¡¯t for the fact that this matter was too important, I wouldn¡¯t havee to trouble you.
As for the engineering problems, the nuclear industry has already begun to tackle them. Our high-energy physics personnel have also participated.
I haven¡¯t encountered any problems yet. If there¡¯s a need, I¡¯ll definitely ask,¡± Professor Li said with a smile.
Tang Rui nodded after listening and did not say anything else.
His current schedule was also very full.
He had to personally handle the drilling tform, so he really couldn¡¯t spare the time for such a big project like the High Energy Hadron Collider.
Then, the two of them chatted for a while.
Academician Li was about to leave. He still had to go to Nanjing University to give a public lecture to the students there.
After sending Professor Li off, Tang Rui let Red Lotus airdrop a robot to measure the geological data and then carry out a detailed analysis.
To him, this was a small matter.
In less than five days, Red Lotus presented the detailed geological data and simtion analysis report. There was even a detailed excavation and construction n.
After this report was sent up, Tang Rui did not care anymore.
The higher-ups would naturally conduct an audit.
The experts of the review team conducted a demonstration after receiving the data and construction n.
They had nothing to say about the geological data.
However, there were many suggestions regarding the construction n.
¡°There¡¯s no need to dig a mountain. We can just dig an underground tunnel,¡± an expert said after reading the construction n.
After hearing this, the people around him looked at him strangely as if they had seen a ghost.
¡°What do you mean?¡± The expert was a little puzzled.
¡°You dare to change President Tang¡¯s construction n? Didn¡¯t you see what happened to your family?¡±
Chapter 217 - 217: Changing the Space Shuttle into a 3ooi Model
Chapter 217: Changing the Space Shuttle into a 3ooi Model
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Ultimately, the review team passed the construction n designed by Tang Rui intact and then began the final process.
Constructing the Hadron Collider was not a small project.
Even with the current level of materials and microelectronics technology having been upgraded, this project could not bepleted quickly.
After Tang Rui uploaded the information, he stopped paying attention to this matter.
The other side did not bother him anymore.
This led to him having nothing to do recently.
On Wednesday, Tang Rui said goodbye to Han Shu, who was going to Africa for duty.
During this period, he paid special attention to the situation in Africa and found that it was alright, with nothing too significant happening.
Military conflicts would definitely not break out.
The chaotic areas were ail governed by local tribes.
But even if the tribes were chaotic, they didn¡¯t dare to attack the locations where the United Nations peacekeepers were stationed.
¡°Brother Han, if you catch any lions or leopards, remember to send me a few cubs back,¡± Tang Rui exhorted before Han Shulin boarded the ship.
He was not interested in other things.
But he was very interested in white lions and leopards, especially their cubs, which were furry and fun.
¡°Alright, if Ie across them, I¡¯ll catch a few for you,¡± Han Shu said, nodding in amusement after hearing this.
What else could he do? He could only agree.
After all, Tang Rui had reced all their equipment.
He was well aware of the value of this equipment.
The key point was that Tang Rui had not taken any money for it.
This made him feel quite embarrassed.
So, for Tang Rui to ask for a few cubs was a minor matter. He could not possibly not be busy with such a task.
Compared to this batch of equipment, catching a few cubs was nothing.
¡°That¡¯s settled then. 1¡¯11 wait at home,¡± Tang Rui said with a grin.
Han Shu nodded and then boarded the ship and set off.
Only after the ship left the dock did Tang Rui return to thepany by car.
¡°What to do now?¡±
After returning to thepany, Tang Rui found himself very bored.
There was a group of researchers working on the armed satellite. He just needed to take a look asionally, without needing to put in much effort.
The ground support attack aircraft project, led by Feng Yuanxing and others, was doing very well, and they were already preparing to produce a prototype.
He did not need to manage thepany¡¯s projects.
The project he needed to worry about was still in the early stages of preparation.
In other words, he still had several months of free time.
¡°Red Lotus, open the memos,¡± Tang Rui said after thinking for a while, unable toe up with anything else to do.
He could only ask Red Lotus to open the notebook to see if there was anything left undone or unfinished.
After opening the memos, Tang Rui read them one by one, crossing off everything that was done.
When he got to the sixth item, his hand stopped.
¡°Space shuttle manufacturing and nuclear rocket engines.¡±
Seeing this memo, Tang Rui remembered something.
The Buran space shuttle that he had obtained from the Russians was for researching this technology.
But he had been busy during this period and had forgotten about it.
The nuclear rocket engine was also something he had thought of at that time, to be used as a supporting power for the space shuttle.
Nuclear-powered rocket engines weren¡¯t some kind of ck technology. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Soviets and Americans attempted to apply nuclear power to various equipment.
nes, trains, cars, heavy artillery, missiles¡ All kinds of groundbreaking ideas.
Some of these ideas would still be considered advanced technology even now.
For example, the famous Pluto nuclear-powered missile.
A missile with theoretically unlimited range.
Capable of carrying 13 nuclear bombs.
And it could emit nuclear radiation while flying, essentially a flying disaster.
However, the nuclear rocket engine that Tang Rui wanted to develop was different from the nuclear missiles that emitted exhaust radiation everywhere.
The Americans had used a nuclear reactor as the core for a pulse detonation engine.
What Tang Rui wanted to create was a nuclear-powered rocket engine, which would use the heat from the nuclear reactor to heat liquid hydrogen, allowing the heated hydrogen to be ejected through expansion and eleration from the nozzle.
Currently, there were only three types of nuclear rocket technology in the world: the radioactive isotope rocket engine, the nuclear fission rocket engine, and the thermonuclear rocket engine.
Each type of nuclear-powered rocket engine had its own advantages and disadvantages, but theirmon advantage was a high specific impulse, far surpassing chemical rockets.
¡°Red Lotus, disy the model of the space shuttle.¡±
Tang Rui was ready to work on the space shuttle and nuclear-powered rocket engine. He had nothing else to do anyway.
He could create a new toy to y with.
¡°Rece all the equipment in the space shuttle with thetest models and all the materials with the top-tier ones, then simte the internal structure,¡± Tang Rui instructed while looking at the model of the Blizzard space shuttle.
¡°Yes, Master,¡± Red Lotus responded, beginning to rece all the equipment ording to their functions.
The Buran was sorely outdated.
Its technology was somewhat useful, but there was nothing significant.
The only use was the internal design of the space shuttle, which had been validated through practice.
In less than five minutes, all the equipment and materials had been reced.
Red Lotus also optimized the internal structure, creating a lot of space. If Tang Rui wanted, he could even transform it into a three-bedroom, two-living room lounge.
¡°Red Lotus, change the design of the space shuttle. Don¡¯t consider the aerodynamicyout, choose from the gallery, and make it as beautiful as possible,¡± Tang Rui said, frowning at the ugly shape of the space shuttle. Since aerodynamics did not need to be considered, it should be as beautiful as possible.
¡°Master, is it okay to use the shape of the aircraft from the ship seller?¡± Red Lotus asked.
¡°Sure,¡± Tang Rui nodded after hearing this.
You could criticize the game, but you had to admit that the spaceships were beautifully made.
And it wasn¡¯t just the exterior design; the interior design was also very nice, definitely in line with human aesthetics and had a very ergonomic design.
Very quickly, Red Lotus transformed the space shuttle into a small spaceship using calctions.
A small white 3ooi spaceship.
This spaceship wasn¡¯trge; it was truly a miniature craft.
But the cockpit and interior were very beautiful.
With Red Lotus¡¯s manufacturing capabilities, she could perfectly replicate the structure and interior of the spaceship. The only thing she couldn¡¯t replicate was the engine.
The blue-like electric thruster engine at the rear looked gorgeous.
However, current technology simply couldn¡¯t achieve an electric propulsion engine that would allow the space shuttle to fly out of the atmosphere from the ground.
But this wasn¡¯t a big problem.
Tang Rui was prepared to rece it with a nuclear-powered rocket engine.
It was just changing an engine, and it wouldn¡¯t affect the usage effect..
Chapter 218 - 218: They Can’t Afford to Play
Chapter 218: They Can¡¯t Afford to y
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Tang Rui didn¡¯t need to concern himself with other aspects of the space shuttle; Red Lotus could handle everything.
The only thing he needed to personally take care of was the manufacturing of the nuclear-powered rocket engine, which was the most important.
Brother Lin, I need to apply for some materials,¡± Tang Rui said over the phone to Lin Chao.
¡°What materials?
¡°Yellowcake.
¡°Then you can apply. Tell me¡ What are you nning to do?¡±
Lin Chao initially didn¡¯t react, but when he remembered what yellowcake was, he almost jumped out of his chair.
If such a thing ended up in Tang Rui¡¯s hands, who knew what he could create?
Were you about to say that having yellowcake alone was useless?
That¡¯d be a joke.
What made you think that Tang Rui couldn¡¯t just build an industrial-grade centrifuge?
It must be a myth.
I¡¯m not up to anything much, just want to build a nuclear-powered rocket engine, nothing else.¡±
Tang Rui swore to the heavens that this time, he was truly not causing trouble.
A nuclear-powered rocket. Without yellowcake, how could he make one?
Really?
Really, truer than real gold.
Wait for me to make a call.
After Lin Chao hung up the phone, he immediately reported Tang Rui¡¯s situation to the higher-ups. He didn¡¯t have the authority to approve such a request for Tang Rui.
Creating a simple device was fine, but if he gave Tang Rui yellowcake¡
F*ck!
Who could then sleep peacefully?
Previously, Crimson Corporation was the only one in the world with nuclear strike capabilities.
But that was just strike capability.
If Tang Rui got his hands on yellowcake, with the integration of research and development, production, and strike, Crimson would be directly upgraded to the onlypany in the world with nuclear deterrence capabilities.
This was no joke.
Twenty minutester, Lin Chao called Tang Rui and ryed the higher-ups¡¯ thoughts.
¡°You can freely research nuclear rocket engines. What kind of reactor core do you need? CNNC (China National Nuclear Corporation) will fully cooperate with you.¡±
Tang Rui understood Lin Chao¡¯s implication.
He could research as he wished.
The higher-ups also fully supported him, giving him whatever he needed.
However, yellowcake couldn¡¯t be ced in the hands of an individual but could be used to create a reactor core for him.
After all, giving yellowcake to someone, who knew what they would make with it?
Alright, once I finish the design, I¡¯ll have CNNC manufacture the reactor core.
Tang Rui nodded after listening and wasn¡¯t opposed to it.
After all, what he needed was highly sensitive.
It was normal for the higher-ups to take such measures.
He put down his phone.
Tang Rui began designing the nuclear-powered rocket engine. His requirement for the engine was that it could both generate electricity and serve as an engine.
It would suffice if the power generation reached 3000 kilowatts and the thrust was above 80 tons.
To be honest, these requirements weren¡¯t high.
But integrating the energy system and the ignition system into everything would be somewhat troublesome.
However, Tang Rui didn¡¯t mind.
This made it interesting.
Otherwise, why would he bother studying it?
Just like that, Tang Rui began the research and development work, burying himself in theb for research and not causing any trouble outside.
A few dayster, Han Shu, with his team, arrived at the port of Sudan.
Sudan was considered a major country in the African continent; its geographical location was very important, and its resources were abundant.
China still maintained a good rtionship with Sudan.
This was especially true since they had established a strong presence in Congo, effectively getting sandwiched between Sudan and its Southern half.
Beside them, there was also Tanzania, waving its g and shouting.
Under these circumstances, America couldn¡¯t even sleep well, fearing a pincer attack from China.
Moreover, even the French, who upied the Congo, didn¡¯t want to see this happen.
Once America was ousted, the French¡¯s days wouldn¡¯t be good either.
As a result, Sudan wasn¡¯t experiencing a period of peace.
As soon as Han Shu arrived, he was picked up by our ambassador in Asu, who wanted to understand the local situation.
But upon arriving at the embassy, Han Shu realized something was wrong.
The consultant of the Sudanese President was there too, Old Merchant, who had visited China many times.
Those who often watched the news would probably recognize him.
After Han Shu¡¯s arrival, the three of them entered a confidential room to begin their discussion.
It was mainly the ambassador and Old Merchant talking, while Han Shu sat there listening.
However, the more he listened, the more serious his expression became.
How could it be described?
The current situation was deteriorating rapidly.
The Sudanese authorities were preparing but could only respond passively.
Taking the initiative to attack was definitely not an option.
But if they didn¡¯t attack, those engaging in subterfuge would be happier, as they were crazily selling arms.
Many of these arms were directly pulled from American bases and delivered to their doorstep.
How brazen.
The main reason was their powerful backing. Those dealing in arms had the support of special departments, the American military, and the military-industrialplex.
Especially the military-industrialplex, which was very influential in the United States.
They weren¡¯t afraid of war; they were afraid of peace.
Where would their moneye from if there was no war?
So, even in peaceful times, they would find something to stir up, let alone in the current situation.
They were doing everything they could to fan the mes.
Fortunately, the top brass weren¡¯t foolish. They could indulge in subterfuge and cause trouble, but they had to exclude the military.
If esction was needed, it would be through military contractors. The army definitely couldn¡¯t be involved.
Understanding America¡¯s actions put China in a very difficult position, a very passive one.
China initially thought they were there to flex their muscles.
As a peacekeeping force, they were there to support Sudan and prevent America from taking action.
But now the problem was, America wasn¡¯t budging, despite almost losing the battle, and their arms were nearly depleted.
They had no intention of fighting at all.
However, the military contractors and mercenaries were heavily armed.
All kinds of new equipment were being taken out crazily.
One mercenary group even brought out the fourth-generation tank that America had yet to mass-produce.
This was outrageous.
It was aplete shift in concept.
I¡¯m aware of the situation. Now, I¡¯d like to use a secure line to call back home, Han Shu said, frowning.
Alright, no problem,¡± the ambassador responded, instructing his adviser to prepare the secure line.
No one knew the content of Han Shu¡¯s call to China, but when he came out of the room, the worry on his face was gone, leaving only a smile.
Simultaneously, Tang Rui, who was designing a nuclear-powered rocket engine in theboratory, received a video call request from Lin Chao.
Brother Lin, what¡¯s the matter?
Tang Rui, busy with his work, showed a hint of impatience after being disturbed.
There¡¯s something very important I need to discuss with you,¡± Lin Chao said solemnly.
What is it? Tell me,¡± Tang Rui asked, puzzled.
I¡¯lle over and talk to you about it,¡± Lin Chao said, choosing not to disclose the details through the video call.
¡°Alright, Red Lotus and I will be waiting for you at the door..
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Chapter 219 - 219: Crimson Security’s Big Job
Chapter 219: Crimson Security¡¯s Big Job
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When Lin Chao arrived at the mountain¡¯s base, Tang Rui was already waiting for him in the resting hall.
Red Lotus had finished brewing the tea.
Brother Lin, what exactly are you making so serious?¡± Tang Rui was very curious.
Normally, Lin Chao would only show that serious expression when he was ying with some big toy.
However, he hadn¡¯t caused any trouble recently.
¡°Yes, something¡¯s happened in Sudan. It¡¯s troublesome to say the least. Here¡¯s some information. Take a look first.¡± Lin Chao ced a folder on the coffee table in front of Tang Rui.
Okay, then you drink some tea first.¡±
Tang Rui picked up the file bag, pulled out the information inside, and began to flip through it.
Good heavens.
This group of people was ying big.
New robots.
A fourth-generation tank.
Brand-new individual equipment and the verified exoskeleton armor had also been deployed for action.
This was a real field-test scenario.
Just in time for a tit-for-tat?
By the time Tang Rui finished reading the information, he already understood the situation Sudan was facing. China had indeed been very passive.
Because they couldn¡¯t do it in the name of the military.
The United Nations peacekeeping force was stationed there.
It was impossible for China to directly help Sudan fight.
But if they didn¡¯t help¡
Sudan simply wouldn¡¯t stand a chance.
¡°What do we say now? Wouldn¡¯t Brother Han be useless over there?¡± After Tang Rui put down the file bag, he opened his mouth and asked.
¡°You know the situation. Brother Han suggested that Crimson send security personnel to take over Sudan¡¯s national security contract.¡±
Hearing Lin Chao say so, Tang Rui was instantly agitated.
Brother Han really understood him.
¡°No problem. How do I do it?¡± Tang Rui hurriedly asked. He was very interested in this order.
¡°The specific situation is to send a group of people over in the name of Crimson. They wille back after assessing the situation in Sudan.
Nominally, it¡¯s Han Shu and the others who will return, but in fact, the personnel basically did not change.
However, based on the current situation, thebat strength there is insufficient. They need to send more people and equipment over.
¡°One thing to note, the higher-ups won¡¯t decide what you need. You can discuss it with Han Shu. If you need military weapons, you can send them over directly.
If you don¡¯t need military weapons, you can just make a batch yourself and send them over.¡±
Understood. Leave it to me.¡± Tang Rui nodded after listening, not feeling any pressure at all.
Wasn¡¯t this a professional match?
Then, you guys can discuss itter. Contact me if you need anything.¡± After Lin Chao finished speaking, he did not disturb Tang Rui.
¡°Alright, sorry to trouble you, Brother Lin. I¡¯ll discuss it with Brother Han now. Tang Rui got up and left the lounge with Lin Chao.
They arrived at themand center of the Blue Army.
He asked Red Lotus to contact Han Shu.
In Han Shu¡¯s hands, there was aputer that was specially used tomunicate with him. They couldmunicate directly through the satellite controlled by Red Lotus. There would definitely be no problem with leaking information.
Very quickly, Han Shu¡¯s image appeared on the big screen.
Brother Han, tell me, what do you need?¡±
Tang Rui asked in high spirits, as if as long as Han Shu said it, he could get it for him.
¡°You¡¯ve seen the information, right? ording to my analysis, although they have strong individualbat ability, theyck the ability to group up andmand the overall situation.
In this regard, we have the advantage, so we don¡¯tck weapons to deal withrge-scale groups.
¡°But in other aspects, we stillck a lot of information. This is not China, and we don¡¯t have aplete information data chain that connectsnd, sea, and sky.
¡°Our collection of information on the battlefield is seriouslygging. This is very dangerous, so we need to ensure our information superiority.¡±
Han Shu directly pointed out their biggest weakness.
A Communications Commander.
This problem was easy to solve.
Before tomorrow morning, I willunch three synchronous orbit satellites around the equator to ensure the smooth flow and safety of information and data.¡±
After Tang Rui listened, he immediately gave a solution.
Although Sudan¡¯s infrastructure had problems, and they didn¡¯t have many base stations, this wasn¡¯t a problem at all for Tang Rui.
He just needed to hang a few satellites in orbit.
It could ensure the safety ofmunication and monitor the ground. It was killing two birds with one stone.
¡°Alright, then I¡¯ll move on to the second problem, air defense. Even though the other side hasn¡¯t sent out any air forces, I can¡¯t guarantee that they¡¯re ying an unspoken rule with us or that they¡¯re just trying to numb us.
Therefore, before the other party mobilizes their air forces, we can¡¯t use our air forces first. Under such circumstances, air defense is the best choice.¡±
Han Shu asked the second question.
Before tomorrow night, I will send a transport ne to deliver the short-range low-altitude low-speed air defense system, long-range air defense anti-missile system, and individual air defense missiles directly to ensure that there will be no problems with the air defenses,¡± Tang Rui said directly after listening.
Others might not dare to give this guarantee, but he did.
He didn¡¯t even need to build an anti-air and anti-missile system. He already had one in his hands. It was just that he hadn¡¯t taken it out before.
¡°Alright, thest problem is the supply of supplies and ammunition. Our equipment is all specially made. Sudan can¡¯t supply us with supplies.¡±
It¡¯s a small problem. I¡¯ll send it to you tomorrow.
Tang Rui waved his hand,pletely not taking this problem seriously.
Wasn¡¯t it just ammunition?
There was still a full warehouse in the warehouse.
Based on the uracy of the weapons in Han Shu¡¯s hands, if he wanted to use up all the weapons in this warehouse, he could at least destroy three enemy armies.
But was that possible?
It was impossible.
There weren¡¯t that many enemies. If they really fought to that extent, it would be toote for him to create them immediately.
¡°There are no more problems on my side. Starting tomorrow, I willunch Blue Army¡¯s exclusive information connection channel. When the timees, I will have to trouble Advisor Tang for information security and battlefield intelligence analysis,¡± Han Shu said with a smile.
No problem. After I hang up the satellite tonight, Red Lotus will provide information support 24/7.¡±
He hung up.
Red Lotus, create threemunication satellites. Remember to load the earth scanning function into them. The parameters are not important, but the function must be there.¡±
¡°Alright, Red Lotus will remember.
After returning to theboratory, Tang Rui immediately arranged for Red Lotus to produce satellites. This was a big deal.
Although Beidou was also very useful, in terms of performance, it was still quite a bit worse than the satellites that Tang Rui made himself, not to mention that he would also strengthen these three satellites.
Then¡
Tang Rui let Red Lotus take out the blueprints stored in the database again. These blueprints were all designs for air defense missiles, a total of three types.
The designs for these three types of missiles came from drones, off-road vehicles, and the White Emperor Space Fighter.
They were all missile designs that came with the system interface after it was strengthened.
There was no need to mention the performance.
It was definitely powerful.
While Tang Rui was busy, theizens exploded again.
Because Crimson Security Corporation had just received a big order..
Chapter 220 - 220: Satellite Changes Orbit, Seizing the Orbit
Chapter 220: Satellite Changes Orbit, Seizing the Orbit
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Tang Rui was unaware of the situation.
The official website of Crimson also offered no information.
However, the issue was that Sudan had conducted a press conference addressing this matter, leading to its coverage by domestic media.
No furtherment was necessary.
This news reignited fervor amongizens.
In other countries, this would hardly be news, given American ownership of numerous military contractor firms.
Yet, this was a rarity in China.
Subsequently, a multitude ofizens flooded Crimson¡¯s website, inquiring about temporary employment opportunities.
The Chinese intemunity was abuzz with activity.
Meanwhile, the Americans received the news with a degree of dismay.
Incredible.
They had grasped this tactic.
Nevertheless, it was inconsequential. Their extensive experience over many
years left them undaunted.
They even saw this as an opportunity to instruct Crimson.
Time flew swiftly.
Hours passed.
Red Lotus hadpleted the satellite construction.
Typically, satellite manufacturing was never so rapid, but Tang Rui s requirements for these three satellites were not particrly stringent.
After all, he nned to enhance them using the systemter.
Thus, he requested Red Lotus to prioritize speed without any additional specifications.
Upon arriving at the assembly workshop, Tang Rui observed three rectangr satellites with sr sails extended on either side.
They appeared as ordinary satellites,cking distinctive features.
[Item: High Orbit Communication Satellite]
[Experience: 0/800]
[Origin: 1646.48]
Tang Rui, examining the system panel, proceeded to enhance the satellite, not
just once.
A soft golden light shimmered.
The satellite¡¯s enhancement wasplete.
The rectangr satellite had transformed into an oval shape, with altered surface materials and no sr sails.
Tang Rui, indifferent to the satellite¡¯s appearance, checked the system panel again.
[Item: Neutrino High-Orbit Detection Communication Satellite]
[Experience: 0/50000]
[Enhancement: Neutrino Information Capture Radars]
[Attributes: Scanning uracy increased by 180%, scanning range by 160%, information transmission efficiency by 120%, data analysis capability by
100%]
[Origin: 1322.48]
Tang Rui, satisfied with the system panel data, nodded.
Enhancing this satellite had cost over 300 origin points.
Yet, the oue was highly effective.
The neutrino information capture radar was top-notch,parable to the
light quantum information capture system.
However, their applications differed.
The former gathered extensive light quantum information butcked x-ray vision capabilities.
Thetter excelled in high-precision pration and scanning. Within its range, no information could evade neutrino pration, but beyond it, concealment was possible.
¡°Red Lotus, secure the designs and data in a high-security database, inessible to anyone but me,¡± instructed Tang Rui.
¡°Understood, Master. The information is safely stored and will remain confidential,¡± Red Lotus confirmed, nodding.
After data storage, Tang Rui moved on to enhancing the second satellite, focusing on itsmunication system.
The existing system was prone to interference.
Even Red Lotus couldn¡¯t surpass the hardware¡¯s limitations, a manageable issue in peace but potentially disastrous during war.
Thus, enhancing themunication equipment¡¯s performance was crucial.
Over 300 origin points were invested.
The satellite, enveloped in a faint golden light, was enhanced.
Post-enhancement, the satellite¡¯s shape had shifted from oval to a longer cylinder.
The presence of sr sails, however, was not visible.
The prior special enhancements, including energy enhancements, rendered sr sails obsolete.
[Item: Quantum Information Tunnel Communication Satellite]
[Experience: 0/60000]
[Enhancement: Quantum Information Tunnel Communication System] [Attributes: Communication data bandwidth increased by 180%, confidentiality by 160%, distance by 120%, quality by 100%]
[Origin Points: 973-46]
Tang Rui, reviewing the system panel data, nodded in approval. The satellite¡¯s performance met his requirements.
It even exceeded them, in a manner of speaking.
This was unsurprising, asmunication technology would never be obsolete, even if such high-end technology was not needed formunication within a.
The satellite, coupled with Red Lotus¡¯s quantum supeputer, would experience no dys.
However, in the future, as humanity ventured into the stars, this kind of dy-freemunication technology would still be needed.
No dy simply meant that there¡¯d be no dy in the information transmission process; the specific response speed would depend on theputing speed of the host system.
However, with this satellite equipped with the Red Lotus quantum supeputer, there will definitely be no dy whatsoever. Having addressed two satellites, Tang Rui turned to the third.
After looking at it for a good while though, he refrained from enhancing it.
It was because it wasn¡¯t even needed in the first ce.
With one satellite each formunication and scanning, a third was
unnecessary.
He contemted briefly, then instructed Red Lotus, ¡°Store the design and data at the same security level. Return this satellite to the warehouse and retrieve theser-armed satellite.¡±
¡°Right away, Master,¡± Red Lotusplied, initiating the task.
¡°Also, refuel the White Emperor and prepare it for the runway,¡± Tang Rui added before departing.
¡°Yes, Master.¡±
Returning home, Tang Rui found Li Shuyao watching a drama on the sofa.
¡°Have you finished?¡± she asked.
¡°Not yet. There¡¯s more work ahead,¡± he replied.
¡°When will you be done?¡±
¡°By 11,¡± Tang Rui estimated, ncing at the time.
¡°Okay, I¡¯ll wait,¡± she said.
¡°Yes.¡±
Tang Rui returned to his room, donned the anti-G suit, and headed back to theb to suit up in battle armor.
Meanwhile, Red Lotus had prepared a satellite, securing it on the White Emperor¡¯s back.
Tang Rui boarded the White Emperor, notified the space agency, and took off.
Flying out of the Karman line, he arrived in outer space.
The White Emperor began to elerate.
This time, its orbit was quite high, a full 36,000 kilometers.
If it weren¡¯t for being in outer space, the White Emperor¡¯s fuel might not have been enough for even one round trip.
The space shuttle was indeed necessary.
Having the White Emperor carry a box back and forth to transport satellites every day wasn¡¯t ideal.
Half an hourter, the White Emperor finally reached the geosynchronous orbit at 36,000 kilometers. This corridor was very special, as there was only one.
Because the satellites in this orbit traveled around the Earth at the same speed as the Earth¡¯s rotation.
So, when a satellite was ced in this orbit, it appeared fixed in the sky, not moving around everywhere.
¡öMaster, amunication satellite is changing its orbit, trying to take over the orbit above Sudan.¡¯
This was the message Tang Rui received from Red Lotus, just as he was about to return after deploying themunication satellite..¡±
Chapter 221 - 221: Your Satellite Exploded and Scraped the Paint Off My Airplane (Part 1)
Chapter 221: Your Satellite Exploded and Scraped the Paint Off My Airne (Part 1)
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At NASA¡¯s satellite monitoring center.
As the White Emperor spacefighter left the atmosphere, they began tracking it. After all, monitoringunches and space objects was their department¡¯s job. Whoeverunched a satellite or sent something into outer space, you could bet your money that they were monitoring it.
Presently, they were looking at the White Emperor releasing the box on its back. The box then opened, and a mechanical arm grabbed the satellite and ced it outside.
They were no longer interested in the White Emperor.
They had seen it too many times.
They were, however, very interested in that cylindrical satellite.
This was because the satellite didn¡¯t deploy sr sails and just quietly floated in ce after it entered orbit.
¡°What kind of satellite do you think this is?¡±
¡°It¡¯s not a navigation satellite; it must be amunication satellite. At this orbital height, it¡¯s definitely not a remote sensing or scanning satellite,¡± an engineer remarked.
¡°Do you think this could be some sort of space weapon?¡± someone suddenly asked.
¡°Impossible, judging by its shape, it doesn¡¯t look like a space weapon. Besides, this is the geosynchronous orbit, who would it attack?¡±
Everyone found this reasoning sound.
Armed satellites need to change orbits to strike most targets; no one would ce an armed satellite in a geosynchronous orbit.
¡°Boss, the satellite the military asked us to reposition haspleted its maneuver, and everything is normal now.¡±
¡°Understood, ry the message to the military.¡±
¡°Will do.¡±
After the task waspleted, the worker in charge of the satellite repositioning joined the discussion.
Everyone was curious.
What kind of satellite had Tang Rui sent up?
On the other side, Tang Rui, having received the message from Red Lotus, watched the American satellite through the White Emperor¡¯s radar, feeling annoyed.
That spot was reserved for hisser-armed satellite.
And it had been snatched up by the Americans.
What could be done?
It was easy enough.
Just make it disappear.
However, Tang Rui didn¡¯t n to act rashly. Even if he had to act, he wanted to keep it clean, leaving no trace.
This was different from running over and dismantling someone¡¯s satellite.
That would just be a navigation error.
If you rushed up and blew up someone¡¯s satellite, that would be a big deal.
So Tang Rui decided on a different approach, a more covert one.
After retrieving the box, Tang Rui pulled the control stick, directing the White Emperor to turn around and head back to thepany.
On the way back, Tang Rui contacted the space agency to see if they had any supplies to send to the space station. He would be going back up and could take some items with him.
The space agency thought it was a good idea.
Since he was going up anyway, it¡¯d be unsurprising if he carried along some stuff with him.
When Tang Rui returned to thepany, Red Lotus controlled a robot to refuel the White Emperor, meanwhile cing the second satellite in the box.
During this time, Tang Rui went to theb.
He took out a fist-sized electric propulsion engine and, after attaching a kilogram of explosives with a detonator, welded it to the engine.
Then he spent three origin points to enhance the device.
[Item: Stealth Self-Detonating Space Bomb]
[Experience: o/o]
[Enhancement: Invisibility, Engine]
[Origin Points: 970.46]
After reviewing the data on the system panel, Tang Rui slightly curled his lips, then packed the device in a bag.
Once Red Lotus finished refueling and setting up the satellite, he set off again.
But this time he didn¡¯t go straight to outer space.
Instead, he made a trip to Xichang.
After picking up two external pods there, he flew out of Earth.
He soon arrived outside the space station.
When Tang Rui unloaded the supplies, he attached the self-detonating bomb under one of the pods.
After delivering the items to the space station, he returned to the geosynchronous orbit and ced the second satellite into orbit.
But at that moment, the both optically and radar-invisible self-destruct bomb quietly flew out, slowly heading toward the American satellite.
All this went unnoticed, even by NASA¡¯s satellite monitoring center who had their eyes locked on Tang Rui.
No anomalies were detected.
After deploying the satellite, he returned again.
On the way back, Red Lotus reported to him.
The self-destruct bomb was close to the American satellite and ready to rush up and explode at any moment.
¡°Red Lotus, wait for mymand. When I say fire, you detonate the bomb.¡± ¡°Okay, Master.¡±
After refueling at thepany, Tang Rui, with theser-armed satellite, ascended once again.
Just as the White Emperor was about to breach high orbit, Tang Rui, seeing the trajectory calcted by Red Lotus, gave the order.
¡°Red Lotus, detonate the bomb.¡±
¡°Okay.¡±
300 kilometers from the White Emperor space fighter, the American satellite suddenly exploded, instantly turning into debris.
The mess of tiny pieces scattered, some of them following the orbit, heading straight for Tang Rui¡¯s location.
300 kilometers on the ground was a great distance, but in space, especially when both objects were moving very fast, it happened virtually instantaneously.
Crackle¡ Pop¡
A bunch of tiny debris struck the White Emperor¡¯s fusge but did no damage.
Even the surface coating remained intact.
This debris wouldn¡¯t stand a chance against the nanocoating.
This was all part of Tang Rui¡¯s n.
Naturally, he wouldn¡¯t create trouble for himself and put himself in jeopardy..
Chapter 222 - 222: Your Satellite Exploded and Scraped the Paint
Chapter 222: Your Satellite Exploded and Scraped the Paint
Off My Airne (Part 2)
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¡°Mr. Tang, how are you? Is the fighter damaged?¡±
At that moment, the groundmand center had just noticed this situation and also calcted the orbit of the debris after the explosion.
Tang Rui was right on that orbit.
So they contacted Tang Rui immediately to confirm his safety.
If the fighter was damaged, it wasn¡¯t without a solution.
They could have Tang Rui fly to the space station, then return to Earth in a re-entry capsule.
If that wasn¡¯t feasible, then let Tang Rui sit on the satellite, change its orbit, and send him to the space station.
The moment they realized this situation, the staff below thought of several space rescue methods.
Unfortunately, all that thought was in vain.
There was no need for them.
¡°I¡¯m fine, the fighter has no damage. But I think the Americans deliberately did this, they owe me an exnation,¡± Tang Rui pretended to be angry and said through themunicator.
¡°Mr. Tang, don¡¯t worry, I will contact NASA right away. If they don¡¯t have a clear exnation, this matter won¡¯t end here.¡±
¡°Okay, then I¡¯ll continue deploying satellites.¡±
¡°Right,e back as soon as you¡¯re done.¡±
¡°I know.¡±
After ending the call, Tang Rui flew to the location where the American satellite was and deployed theser-armed satellite.
Hmm.
Nice.
In case of emergency on the ground needing precise firepower, this would turn out to be a useful location.
After hanging the satellite in orbit, Tang Rui returned to the ground.
At NASA¡¯s satellite monitoring center, a group of people were sweating profusely, typing on keyboards.
The person in charge was speaking with the Chinese spacemand center.
¡°Please let me exin, we assure you there was no self-destruct satellite. That satellite wasunchedst year, a new model to rece the original GPS navigation satellite, it can¡¯t self-destruct.¡±
¡°No, no, the orbit change was requested by the military, we didn¡¯t know, but we assure you, that satellite was not a self-destruct satellite.¡±
¡°Yes, we proposed using self-destruct satellites to intercept ballistic missiles, but those are low-orbit satellites, and this one was in high orbit.¡±
¡°I swear to God, it wasn¡¯t us, it was just a regr navigation satellite.¡±
The person in charge revealed all their secrets.
He really couldn¡¯t exin it.
A good navigation satellite, why did it explode?
It had blown up and almost destroyed someone else¡¯s spacefighter.
If this wasn¡¯t exined well, the consequences would be dire.
He didn¡¯t know the final oue, but he was sure to be the one to take the me.
After hanging up, the person in charge was mentally and physically exhausted.
But he couldn¡¯t rest, he still needed to find out the reason for the satellite¡¯s explosion, otherwise, he would still be med.
On the other side.
The Chinese spacemand center.
After ending the call with NASA, he also believed this incident wasn¡¯t done intentionally by the Americans.
He was too angry before to think clearly.
Now that he calmed down, he found something amiss.
Why it wasn¡¯t done intentionally by the Americans?
It was mainly because that satellite had indeed been onlyunchedst year.
When the satellite wasunched, Tang Rui was still at Nanligong University for his graduation defense.
Even if the Americans were that capable, they couldn¡¯t have ced a self-destruct satellite in high orbit a year in advance.
That would be insane.
¡°Has Mr. Tang returned?¡±
¡°He has returned after deploying the satellite.¡±
¡°Good, that was the third satellite tonight, right? What kind of satellites are these?¡±
¡°I don¡¯t know, Mr. Tang didn¡¯t specify, but he said these were three different models of experimental satellites.
¡°I know the one that¡¯s just deployed, that¡¯s theser-armed satellite designed by Tang Rui.¡±
The duty officer nodded after hearing this and looked at the big screen.
Hmm?
The more he looked, the more it seemed off.
The location of this armed satellite, wasn¡¯t it the same as where the American satellite exploded?
Seeing this, the duty officer suddenly had an epiphany.
Geosynchronous orbit, one spot for each satellite.
Once someone upied it, you couldn¡¯t.
Now, just as their satellite exploded, his satellite appeared there.
To say it¡¯s a coincidence was a bit of a stretch.
Now he was eighty percent sure that this so-called explosion was orchestrated by Tang Rui.
As for how he did it, he wasn¡¯t sure.
But it definitely had something to do with him.
He shook his head helplessly.
There was nothing he could do even if he knew, and even if he knew, he couldn¡¯t say it.
He would even have to match all the stories, throwing the me on the Americans.
These young people nowadays¡
Couldn¡¯t afford to provoke them.
On Tang Rui¡¯s side, after returning to thepany, he had Red Lotus edit the video shot by the White Emperor fighter.
Extracted the video of the opponent¡¯s satellite exploding and the debris hitting the White Emperor, and edited it.
Then, he uploaded the video and tagged the American embassy.
¡°Your satellite exploded and then the debris scraped off the paint from my ne, what do you think should be done about this?
¡°Let¡¯s not talk about whether you did it on purpose, but you have topensate for damaging someone else¡¯s stuff, right?¡±
He also wrote a paragraph of text below the video.
After sending the message, Tang Rui didn¡¯t care anymore and went straight home to sleep.
The situation online wasn¡¯t urgent, so he¡¯d let the bullets fly for a while.
With Tang Rui¡¯s video and this message, the inte exploded again.
There was already a big news tonight, Crimson¡¯s security had taken on a national security task.
And not much time had passed before Tang Rui sent another message with a video.
The content of the video was explosive.
The content of the message even more so.
For a while, the message topped the trending search list.
The American side, after seeing this message, were also baffled.
Their satellite exploded?
When did this happen?
No.
The debris didn¡¯t prate the opponent¡¯s body, just scratched the paint.
What kind of crappy satellite was this?
A message was sent back to China.
The American response was quick, after all, it was daytime there.
They immediately inquired with the military about the specifics of this incident.
You blew it up.
But could they submit an operation report and assessment report before exploding it, now we¡¯re put in a passive position.
The military was also baffled.
What exploded?
Satellite?
Which satellite exploded?
After checking, they found out it was the satellite they needed that exploded.
Damn.
How did it explode, who did it?
Didn¡¯t they know how important that satellite was?
They relied on its for their operation in Sudan.
This time, they had used many new equipment and weapons, with involvement from the military-industrialplex.
The power of these weapons aside, the degree of informatization was very high.
The precision requirement for the navigation and positioning system was also very high.
Today they just had NASA change the satellite¡¯s orbit to hover above Sudan to support the following operations.
Now, they were told that their satellite had exploded.
A call was made, inquiring with NASA about the specifics.
¡°It wasn¡¯t a fuel explosion, that satellite didn¡¯t use chemical fuel.¡±
¡°Don¡¯t know, we¡¯re still checking the records, if it was attacked, some data would be sent back by the sensors.¡±
¡°Absolutely not a mistake on our part, even if it was, we couldn¡¯t have made a navigation satellite explode.¡±
¡°It¡¯s not a system or operation issue, we¡¯re still investigating the specifics.¡±
The person in charge of the satellite monitoring center, exhausted, put down the phone. This was his seventh call.
Each person was someone he couldn¡¯t afford to offend.
He had to exin to these people.
Honestly, even now, he was baffled. He didn¡¯t know how a navigation satellite could explode, not to mention the magnitude of the explosion.
¡°Boss, we¡¯ve found the list of internal equipment andponent suppliers for this satellite.¡±
¡°Give it to me.¡± After receiving the supplier list, the person in charge began looking for a scapegoat.
Someone had to be responsible for this.
If he didn¡¯t want to take responsibility, he could only find a scapegoat to take the me.
Quickly, his eyes lit up when he saw the name of apany.
¡°Send word out, say it was Samsung¡¯s battery that malfunctioned, causing the satellite to explode.¡±
¡°Okay, boss, I¡¯ll do it right away..¡±
Chapter 223 - 223: Black Technology, High-Explosive Batteries
Chapter 223: ck Technology, High-Explosive Batteries
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¡°President, there¡¯s a problem.¡±
¡°What¡¯s the matter, all flustered? Get out.¡±
The President of Samsung Group, looking at his secretary who rushed into his office without even knocking, was quite displeased.
¡°President, NASA says there¡¯s a problem with the batteries we provided. It caused a navigation satellite to explode, and they¡¯re demanding wepensate for all the losses.¡±
¡°Our batteries?¡±
The President was baffled after hearing this.
He was aware of the explosion of the American satellite, but he never imagined it could be linked to their group.
¡°What kind of batteries did we provide for the satellite?¡± the President inquired, frowning.
¡°It¡¯s a button battery used on the mainboard,¡± the secretary answered.
What battery?
A button battery?
A battery smaller than a fingernail cap caused a satellite to explode?
Ridiculous.
This was clearly a deliberate attempt to make Samsung take the fall.
¡°President, should we issue a statement to rify?¡±
¡°Release a statement¡ Confess it was a technical issue with our batteries that caused the satellite explosion, and we¡¯ll take full responsibility for the losses.¡± What else could Samsung do?
They had no choice but to ept this me, even though they didn¡¯t want to. Who would have thought that this responsibility would be thrust upon them by Uncle Sam? They had no option but to ept it.
Ten minutester, Samsung Group issued a statement, epting responsibility for NASA¡¯s losses and announcing ns to upgrade their battery technology.
The next morning, Tang Rui, eating breakfast, was stunned when he saw the news. It took him a while to react.
Well then.
The satellite exploded due to a battery problem.
That seemed usible.
With this, the repair costs he demanded would be paid by the Americans, though not directly.
Regardless of who paid, being able to blow up an opponent¡¯s satellite and also make some money on the side felt exhrating.
For the first time, Tang Rui ate two extra meat buns for breakfast.
He arrived at thepany after breakfast.
Arge transport ne was already parked on the runway. Red Lotus was controlling robots to continuously transport supplies to the ne¡¯s cargo hold.
This ne was one Tang Rui had previously manufactured for the military. Although its appearance had changed, its performance had not diminished.
It just didn¡¯t have a SEG unit and couldn¡¯t leave the atmosphere, but otherwise, its capabilities wereparable to his private jet, capable of intercontinental flights without any issue.
¡°Red Lotus, how many trips will it take to transport all the supplies and materials?¡±
¡°Master, based on the current amount of materials, it will take five round trips to transport everything.¡±
Tang Rui nodded after hearing this and left the rest to Red Lotus to manage.
He then went to Lin Chao.
Inquiring about personnel arrangements and how to proceed with subsequent matters.
¡°Don¡¯t worry about the personnel issue; they have already left onmercial flights. They will take a tour there and then return by ne. Even if someone notices, it¡¯s toote.
As for the contract between Crimson Corporation and Sudan, here¡¯s a copy of the agreement from above, all signed and finalized.¡±
Tang Rui smirked when he saw the copy of the contract.
The signature on it bore his name.
Even thepany¡¯s official seal was there.
Alright then.
He couldn¡¯t tell it was forged anyway.
¡°Is there anything else from above?¡±
¡°That¡¯s all, the rest is up to you.¡±
¡°Alright, I got it.¡±
After leaving Lin Chao¡¯s ce, Tang Rui headed to the Blue Armymand center.
¡°Brother Han, how do you feel about the newly upgradedmunication system and battlefield support system?¡±
After initiatingmunication with Han Shu, Tang Rui asked with a smile. ¡°Nothing toin about, especially that battlefield support system. It¡¯s practically full-map X-ray vision. It¡¯s just a pity our electronic sand table isn¡¯t up to par.
¡°If we had a holographic projection sand table, the effect would be even better. It¡¯d be like ying a video game,¡± Han Shumented, not expecting Tang Rui to leverage information advantage to such an extent.
It was like a high-dimensional perspective, just like ying a game.
¡°A holographic projection sand table, huh? No big deal. I¡¯ll bring one over with the next shipment. It¡¯s better for us to use holographic projection for meetings. Otherwise, connecting via video feels a bit awkward.¡±
Tang Rui didn¡¯t mind Han Shu¡¯s request for holographic projection. Future warfare without such technology would indeed be inadequate.
To fully utilize the capabilities of the neutrino information capture radar, holographic projection equipment is necessary.
2D disy for 3D imaging always felt off.
Even if it looked 3D, it was just pseudo-3D, and some obscured areas were invisible.
With holographic projection, however, it was like having a god¡¯s eye view, looking down on the whole situation.
If that person had holographic projection back in the day, remote micromanagement would have been possible. The positioning of machine gun nests could have beenmanded down to centimeters, but unfortunately, such equipment wasn¡¯t avable at the time.
¡°By the way, I noticed a problem. The utilization rate of our mainframe has dropped several notches. There¡¯s no issue, right?¡± After some small talk, Han Shu suddenly remembered something.
¡°Don¡¯t worry, that¡¯s because I¡¯m providingputing power remotely through the satellite, reducing the energy consumption of your equipment¡¯s mainframe,¡± Tang Rui said with augh after hearing this.
With the ck-techmunication satellite, Han Shu¡¯s equipment could share theputing power of Red Lotus.
Naturally, the consumption of the equipment¡¯s built-in mainframe system is reduced.
Through this, the performance of the equipment would be enhanced again. ¡°Remoteputing power? Can this power be used on weapons, like missiles and cruise missiles?¡± Han Shu asked immediately after hearing this.
If missiles could use remotely providedputing power.
Their precision would increase more than just a notch.
After all, the chips on missiles have limitedputing power.
If they could provide massiveputing power and information processing ability to missiles, wouldn¡¯t that make their uracy sky-high?
¡°Um¡ that¡¯s certainly no problem, but the missiles made previously can¡¯t use
it, as they don¡¯t have the reserved functional module.¡±
¡°No worries, our missile uracy is already sufficient. But if this can be applied to cruise missiles, then send us a batch of upgraded cruise missiles.¡±
¡°No problem, I¡¯ll upgrade the cruise missiles right now.¡±
Tang Rui felt this idea was indeed excellent.
Previous cruise missiles relied on onboard systems to process data and had to add various functionalponents, so the carried explosives were limited, and the power was not very strong.
But if all these devices are removed, leaving only the remote control system and flight control system, using the rest for explosives, the effect would be incredible.
Tang Rui got excited as he thought about this.
His first line of armaments was cruise missiles.
Now it seems, cruise missiles still have value for enhancement, especially in terms of cost-effectiveness.
After hanging up themunication, Tang Rui returned to theb and instructed Red Lotus to make a cruise missile without any optoelectronic devices.
In less than ten minutes, the cruise missile waspleted.
The structure of the entire missile didn¡¯t undergo unnecessary modifications, still maintaining that unsightly cylindrical shape.
But the front camera was gone, and about 80% of the various devices and essories inside were cut, leaving only the information transmission interface and flight control system. The space freed up was filled with explosives.
The original carrying capacity of five kilograms of explosives tripled to fifteen kilograms.
This was after increasing the battery size to improve speed and flight range; otherwise, even more could be added.
Tang Rui nced at the cruise missile.
A click to enhance.
Swipe!
A blue light shed.
Enhancementplete.
The newly enhanced cruise missile resembled a small supersonic missile, equipped with four tail fins.
[Item: High-Energy Cruise Missile]
[Experience: 0/1600)
[Enhancement: Integrated Combat Energy Core)
[Attribute: Explosion Power Increased by 180%]
[Origin Points: 985.48]
Tang Rui looked at the data on the system panel and found that this device was indeed simple and crude, even the attributes were the same.
As for the Integrated Combat Energy Core, it was essentially a battery.
The entire cruise missile was arge high-energy battery.
During the flight, it drew energy from the battery.
Upon encountering the enemy, the battery would transform into a bomb, detonating instantly with enormous power.
A high-explosive battery?
This must be Samsung¡¯s technological tree..
Chapter 224 - 224: Tactical Target Unobtained (Part 1)
Chapter 224: Tactical Target Unobtained (Part 1)
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After reinforcing the cruise missiles, Tang Rui had Red Lotus start production. The most crucial part was the high-explosive battery.
The production of the batteries required a modification of the production line, but once adjusted, the output became impressively high.
At least faster than a chickenying eggs.
By the fifth shipment, ording to Red Lotus¡¯s calctions, they could produce 8000 units.
If there were another shipment tomorrow, they could have as many as they needed.
Not only was the production speed notable, but the biggest advantage of this cruise missile was its low cost.
The cost of the battery was a mere 350 yuan.
Thebined purchase price of the shell, chip, motherboard, motor, and propeller was only 427 yuan.
This meant the cost of manufacturing one cruise missile didn¡¯t exceed 800 yuan, an obscenely small amount of money to pay for a missile.
Even ten bullets for the close-in weapon system 1130 were more expensive than this.
In the blink of an eye, two days had passed.
The transport nes had made eight round trips. After the initial few trips carrying supplies and materials, the rest were exclusively for transporting cruise missiles.
After learning about the performance and cost of the cruise missiles, Han Shu like Tang Rui, thought the best idea was to carry out a massive bombing campaign.
Hence, the following three shipments.
After these supplies and materials were delivered, Han Shu began final arrangements and mobilizations.
All twelve special teams were equipped with supplies and left the base, their destination unknown.
All armored units gathered outside the city.
Two anti-aircraft systems, custom-made by Tang Rui for Han Shu, were ced¡ªone in the Sudanese capital and the other at the base.
Then they just waited for the enemy to make the first move.
They couldn¡¯t attack first.
The tribes hadn¡¯t rebelled yet; they couldn¡¯t give them an excuse or simply eradicate them.
So, they could only wait for the enemy to act.
In fact, the wait wouldn¡¯t be long; the enemy was bound to act within two days.
If it weren¡¯t for the self-destruction of the American satellite.
They would have acted yesterday, not waiting until now.
The next evening.
Tang Rui, Han Shu, and several staff officers, using holographic projection equipment, held a meeting inside themand center.
ording to satellite monitoring, the enemy was about to act.
¡°The message has been sent to the Sudanese side. Their troops have already withdrawn from the Hada region. It¡¯s currently an empty city, just waiting for the enemy to arrive,¡± a staff officer said, pointing at a military strategic location on the holographic projection.
¡°The enemy has begun to move.¡±
At this moment, everyone saw the red dots moving on the holographic sand table, indicating the enemy¡¯s movements.
¡°Brother Han, can you guess the enemy¡¯smand intentions?¡± Tang Rui asked Han Shu after seeing the enemy¡¯s move.
¡°Of course, without this god-like perspective, I might not have been able to guess. But with it, if I can¡¯t even predict the enemy¡¯s movements and intentions, then I shouldn¡¯t be here.
¡°Based on the enemy¡¯s movements over the past two days and their arrangements, on the surface, they intend to first upy the Hada region, using it as a bridgehead to cut off our support path.
¡°But actually, they don¡¯t n to strike our tail. Instead, they are preparing to attack the Hada region on our nk, and then annihte us there.
¡°The enemy¡¯s strategic goal, ording to their intentions, is to annihte uspletely, so they devised this tactic.¡±
Han Shu confidently exined, drawing several lines and marking a few points on the electronic sand table.
The surrounding staff officers, after listening, nodded in agreement.
They too had deduced the enemy¡¯s intentions from the information, as having a god-like view made it evident.
¡°So, what should we do? Directly eliminate the enemy¡¯s nk troops, or break through the middle and go straight into the enemy¡¯s rear?¡± Tang Rui asked, looking at the map on the sand table.
Although he hadn¡¯t studied militarymand, he had yed real-time strategy games, and this war, if the soldiers were reced with electronic units, was just like a game.
¡°No, we should follow the enemy¡¯s n and directly attack Hada, the bridgehead,¡± Han Shu said, shaking his head.
¡°Use their strategy against them?¡±
Tang Rui thought this after listening, but couldn¡¯t fully grasp Han Shu¡¯s overall strategic intention.
¡°You could say that, because our goal is different from the enemy¡¯s. Hence, our execution of tactics will definitely be different.
The enemy¡¯s goal is simple: to win this war and capture the Sudanese territory,
so all their tactics will revolve around this purpose.
But we are different. Our goal isn¡¯t just to win. With our current equipment and intelligence capabilities, winning is too easy. So, our fundamental goal is to deplete the enemy¡¯s living forces, keeping them here.¡±
Han Shu shared his thoughts.
Or rather, these were not just his thoughts, but that wasn¡¯t important.
What was important was achieving this purpose.
Tang Rui pondered.
No problem there.
They had too many trump cards, superior equipment, and overwhelming intelligence.
In this situation, just aiming to win seemed a waste.
So, they could drag it out.
y around with the enemy.
Okay, so what do we do next?¡±
Tang Rui said, looking at the red dots on the sand table. The enemy had already entered the Hada region but hadn¡¯t encountered the Sudanese army, leaving them somewhat confused.
¡°Let¡¯s first test the new equipment, check its performance in actualbat,¡± Han Shu suggested after some thought..
Chapter 225 - 225: Tactical Target Unobtained (Part 2)
Chapter 225: Tactical Target Unobtained (Part 2)
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¡°What¡¯s the new equipment at that moment?¡±
¡°Cruise missiles.¡±
After Han Shu finished speaking, he disyed the real-time panoramic map of the Hada region and then zoomed in on the blue dots on it.
The erged blue dot was the hidden location of a special forces squad, which had been hiding there for a day.
Han Shu tapped on the screen for the special forces team.
Swipe!
A wheel-shaped icon appeared on the holographic projection screen.
These small icons represented personnel status, issuing orders, remotemunication, emergency evacuation, and a supplies list.
Han Shu first clicked on the supplies list icon.
Swipe!
The screen showed all the remaining supplies of this special forces team, even with illustrations.
After viewing the supplies list, Han Shu waved his hand to return to the previous interface and clicked on issuing orders again.
Swipe!
There were two ways to issue orders: one was through textmands, where one could type in instructions, and the other was through voicemands, directly sending a voice message.
Apart from this, photos and videos could also be sent.
It looked a bit like WeChat.
But this system didn¡¯t have built-in emoticons.
¡°Immediatelyunch 64 cruise missiles, evacuate afterunching, and head to the new coordinates to hide and wait for the next order.¡±
Han Shu preferred not to use voicemands, so he sent a text message, which he felt conveyed orders more clearly.
Message sent.
On the other side, the special forces team hidden in the mountains received Han Shu¡¯s order.
Without wasting a single moment, everyone started moving the moment they received the order, beginning to dismantle the cruise missiles mounted on mechanical dogs.
Each special forces team carried 120 cruise missiles, all mounted on six mechanical dogs.
It looked like a small mountain.
In less than three minutes.
64 cruise missiles were dismantled and loaded into detachableunchers, ready to be fired.
¡°Captain, cruise missiles loaded,unchers ready. Shall we fire?¡±
¡°Fire.¡±
Following the captain¡¯s order, all team members startedunching the cruise missiles. The detachableunchers could only fire four missiles at a time. Afterunching, they continued loading and firing.
Soon, all 64 cruise missiles wereunched.
They didn¡¯t care where these missiles went or what their targets were. Afterunching, they dismantled theunchers, folded them back onto the mechanical dogs, and then started moving to the next hiding spot to wait for new orders.
Inside themand center.
After seeing the 64 cruise missilesunched, Han Shu spoke directly, ¡°Red Lotus, guide these missiles to the Hada region¡¯s enemy, prioritizing the enemy¡¯s high-ranking officers andbat forces.¡±
¡°Understood, currently identifying and locking on targets.¡±
Red Lotus analyzed andpared the identities of these enemies through satellite scans, locked onto themanders and densely popted areas, and then controlled the cruise missiles to elerate.
The tribal mixed forces, who had just upied the Hada region and were still confused, hadn¡¯t noticed anything unusual.
At that time, they were celebrating in the original Sudanese military camp.
Yes.
Celebrating.
They took out supplies from the military camp and started reveling in the camp, with many even discarding their weapons.
As for the tribal leaders and a mercenary squad coborating with them, they were in the camp¡¯s meeting room, discussing the next n.
¡°Boss! Iing missiles! Take cover!¡±
A mercenary standing at the window on lookout, seeing the cruise missiles in the sky, immediately retreated, pulling the captain and running outside to find a hidden ce.
Unfortunately, they weren¡¯t fast enough.
When he spotted the cruise missiles, they were already less than 200 meters from them.
The 64 cruise missiles flew silently and diverging in their paths.
It would¡¯ve been invisible if not for the daylight.
The dive-elerating cruise missiles, reaching an astonishing speed of 260 km/h, covered the 200 meters in less than three seconds.
Boom!
The high-explosive battery exploded the instant it hit the room, engulfing the entire room in mes and shockwaves.
The walls and ceiling burst at that moment.
The power was indeed terrifying.
At the same time, the reveling tribal soldiers outside were also turned to dust in the sessive explosions.
The st radius of the 64 cruise missiles covered the entire camp, with almost no blind spots.
When the explosion ended and the dust thrown into the sky settled.
There was no one left breathing in the entire camp.
¡°Payload delivered, 3216 enemies eliminated, 2 severely wounded, 1 lightly wounded,¡± Red Lotus reported easily through satellite scans, having grasped the oue of the battle, so it immediately reported after the attack.
¡°You call that a cruise missile?¡± Han Shu looked at the still image on the screen, dumbfounded, looking at Tang Rui.
This was what you called a small toy.
Usually, it could be used as a battery, inbat as a hand grenade, and remotely as a cruise missile.
The power it encapsted was simply too frightening.
At that moment, Tang Rui was also startled by the explosive power of the high-explosive battery.
This was even more powerful than a ten-kilogram fire extinguishing agent, in terms of fragmentation and shrapnel lethality.
Truly worthy of the Samsung technology tree.
Its power was indeed impressive.
Thinking about it, a cell phone battery was so small, yet it exploded with such force.
This was a cylindrical battery several tens of centimeters long, an optimized version from the system; it would be strange if it wasn¡¯t powerful.
¡°The power is alright, but it¡¯s far lesspared to the double-barreled gun. Let¡¯s not talk about this, we¡¯ve achieved our goal, right? What¡¯s the next step?¡±
Tang Rui waved his hand, indicating to Han Shu to ignore this minor issue.
After the conversation shifted to tactics, Han Shu unusually fell silent.
This made Tang Rui curious.
He was fine just a moment ago.
Why is he silent now?
¡°What¡¯s wrong, didn¡¯t we achieve our tactical goal? Shouldn¡¯t we, since all the enemies are gone?¡± Tang Rui asked, puzzled.
¡°It¡¯s precisely because they¡¯re all gone that we didn¡¯t achieve our tactical goal,¡± Han Shu said somewhat speechlessly.
His original n was to eliminate a third or a fifth of the enemies to cause panic, then have the enemy reinforce the Hada region, and then send troops to charge over.
This way, the enemy would act ording to the original n.
But the result¡
The toy Tang Rui provided was too powerful, and its lethality was too effective, wiping out the enemy in one sweep.
The tactics couldn¡¯t be executed anymore.
This was really frustrating.
At this moment, not only was Han Shu distressed, but the other side was even more distressed, many times more so.
The n was set.
All relevant orders had been issued.
But as soon as they made a move, their ws were chopped off.
This was unexpected.
How could the enemy react so quickly?
And the speed, too. It had only been a short while. Five minutes ago, they reported everything was going smoothly, and they had upied Hada.
But five minutester, when he called, no one answered.
If not for the spy satellite constantly watching.
He wouldn¡¯t have known what happened there.
What was the next step?
Redraft the n?
Impossible.
So he thought it over and decided to stick to the n.
Who to send to the Hada region then? The tribe wasn¡¯t reliable, the soldiers¡¯ quality was too low, and they had no anti-aircraft means.
Thus, they could only send their own people to the front.
¡°Order Lightning Bird Company to send people to the Hada region to build a defense line, and warn them to be wary of the enemy¡¯s missiles.¡±
After issuing the order, the signalman took themand and headed to Lightning Bird Company¡¯s station.
This Lightning Bird Company, owned by a military-industrial consortium, was a military contractingpany, so their equipment was excellent.
This time, they brought unlisted fourth-generation main battle tanks and brand-new wheeled armored vehicles.
Sending them to the front, even if facing an Asu home army several times their size, posed no problem.
As for the special forces team, they wouldn¡¯t be able to shake such a level of armored troops, so sending them would ensure the smooth execution of the n.
Once Lightning Bird Company moved, the n resumed.
However, this time, they adjusted the n, gathering all the tribal forces originally meant to support the Hada region and sending them to attack a city in the rear.
Those tribal forces would only get in the way if they joined Lightning Bird, so the five tribal forces began their grand march towards the city in the rear..
Chapter 226 - 226: A Slap to His Face (Part 1)
Chapter 226: A p to His Face (Part 1)
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¡°Brother Han, they¡¯ve sent out their armored forces. Should we go up and give them a show?¡± Tang Rui said excitedly to Han Shu when he saw the red dot on the sand table.
¡°No, no, no, we can¡¯t destroy this armored force anymore,¡± Han Shu quickly shook his head.
This armored force could be said to be the most elite force of the other party. If they went up, they would directly destroy the other party.
Then what was the point of fighting?
The other party would probably pack up and go home.
¡°What do we do now?¡±
¡°Not far from this armored unit. We will attack the allied forces behind us. We cannot let them charge into the city.¡±
War was war, but there was nothing wrong with depleting the enemy¡¯s strength.
However, civilians could not be involved.
Especially since Sudan was an ally of China. They couldn¡¯t cheat our ally like the Americans, or they¡¯d lose their credibility.
Therefore, these allied forces had to be destroyed.
He couldn¡¯t let them enter the city.
Otherwise, they would be in a passive position.
¡°Okay, then use the rocketuncher.¡±
Tang Rui also understood Han Shu¡¯s meaning after listening. Since he wanted to destroy all the enemies, then he could only cover them with firepower.
¡°Yes, the range is sufficient, and the power is sufficient. Against these tribal armed forces without armor protection and only with pickup trucks, we canpletely destroy them.¡±
After Han Shu finished speaking, he clicked on the rocket artillery unit on the holographic projection.
Then, he gave them an order.
The rocket artillery unit began to adjust the firing direction ording to Red Lotus¡¯s calctions.
¡°Anchored Elements.¡±
¡°Lockplete.¡±
¡°Fire.¡±
Whoosh whoosh¡
A row of rocketunchers opened fire at the same time. The trajectory left behind by the rockets drew a pontoon bridge in the sky.
Tang Rui, who was suffering from a terminal phobia of insufficient firepower, had already considered how to deal withrge-scale enemies when designing the rocketuncher. Therefore, firepower had to be sufficient.
Each of these rocketunchers could fire 36 rockets. These rockets could cover an area of 10,000 square meters, effective against all personnel except specialposite armor that was more than 200 millimeters.
No one could survive under such firepower, even if they hid in the trenches.
On the other side, the tribal armed forces drove the pickup truck and led the people to charge towards the city behind Hada. As the vehicle moved at high speed and the road conditions were poor, some people fell down on the way.
However, the higher-ups of these tribes didn¡¯t seem to care.
They were afraid that other tribes would enter the city first. If that happened, they would have fewer things to snatch.
They wouldn¡¯t take it.
In their eyes, they were not going to fight.
They were there to plunder.
As for the war, it was a piece of cake. As long as someone stopped them from stealing things, they would shoot them with their guns.
It was either the enemy or them.
One would have to die.
As they moved forward, BBC¡¯s war correspondents were ready. They set up their cameras and aimed at the Sudanese army outside the city, ready to film their ugly behavior.
War was a method, and so was propaganda.
They were very experienced in this aspect, and they had even devised aplete n.
¡°It¡¯sing, it¡¯sing. Hurry up and turn on the live broadcast signal,¡± he anxiously said to his cameraman colleague on the roof as he looked at the pickup truck fleet in the distance.
The cameraman immediately turned on the camera.
He aimed at the war correspondant.
¡°Hello, everyone in front of your TV¡¯s. I¡¯m Kelly. I¡¯m currently in a Sudanese city, where a resistance movement is about to erupt here.
¡°ording to the information we received, the local tribes are very disgusted with the tyranny of the Sudanese government, and due to their excessive exploitation of the local natural resources, the living environment of the local tribes has be increasingly difficult.
¡°It appears that they had no choice but to pick up weapons and defend their freedom.¡±
The war reporter used his skillful words and began to whitewash the local tribal soldiers.
They were not anti-government forces.
They were not terrorists.
They were just a group of soldiers who wanted to fight against tyranny, against wanton shing, to protect their homnd, and to embrace freedom.
Look at that.
How skilled was that?
¡°Look, everyone. They¡¯re about to arrive and start exchanging fire with the dictatorial government forces. Although their equipment is very outdated, they have a free¡¡±
Before the reporter could finish his sentence.
In the distant sky, many small ck dots appeared.
Then¡
These ck dots plunged into the charging tribal armed forces and exploded continuously.
Boom! Boom!
A series of explosions followed the fire.
Debis and smoke from the explosion mixed, engulfing the entire area and enveloping all the tribal armed forces in a massive dust cloud.
One second.
Three seconds.
Five seconds.
Ten seconds.
Rockets continued to fall out of the sky, and the entire area was ravaged.
The rumbling did not stop.
It was only after twenty seconds that the deafening booms that resounded throughout the battlefield finally stopped.
As the smoke dissipated, the battlefield was silent.
¡°Get the soldiers to attack and capture all the enemies who haven¡¯t died yet,¡± the Sudanese military officer said to his adjutant.
¡°I¡¯ll arrange it now,¡± the adjutant nodded and turned to leave.
In fact, he had really thought of running away just now, but in the end, he chose to persist.
If the long-range fire support that the higher-ups mentioned did not appear, it would only spell death for the brigade.
He had no choice.
Their numbers were too low..
Chapter 227 - 227: A Slap to His Face (Part 2)
Chapter 227: A p to His Face (Part 2)
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This city was not a major town or industrial center, just a small city with few stationed troops.
But then, he wasn¡¯t worried anymore.
Crimson Corporation was simply too powerful.
Their long-range fire support was unbeatable.
The war reporters on the rooftop were also at a loss for words then, unsure of
what to say.
Their previous arrangement hadn¡¯t included the annihtion of these tribal armed forces.
Now she was in an awkward position.
The tribal armed forces she had hyped up as freedom fighters were done for.
Didn¡¯t this mean that freedom was doomed too?
¡°Oh¡ God, this is simply a massacre, deliberately orchestrated by the dictatorial government. They had known about the movement, but just waited for the tribes to make their move, then wiped them all out.
-It is utterly terrifying. Is this still the 21st century? How can such tant massacre, a sheer crime against humanity, still ur?
True to her profession as a reporter, her reaction was quick.
She started to spin the story again.
After she finished speaking, she quickly turned off the camera.
in the studio, the host took over from the reporter, continuing to spin the story from the perspective of ¡®Ying-chan¡¯, contemting on behalf of the people of the Asu family.
¡°Brother Han, what should we do next?¡±
After the tribal armed forces were wiped out, Tang Rui spoke up again to inquire.
¡°Next, we move on the nks. There¡¯s an elite enemy unit there, and they¡¯ve also infiltrated a special forces team.
¡°But under our detection, any infiltration is meaningless. Now we need to take
them out.¡±
Han Shu pointed out, referring to a special forces unit on the nk.
¡°I¡¯ll take care of this. Let me takemand,¡± Tang Rui immediately said.
¡°Okay, then that special forces unit is yours to handle. I¡¯ll go contact the Sudanese military; they¡¯re in a bit of danger over there.
¡°Alright.¡±
Tang Rui indicated that he could go, and he would take care of things here.
It was just a special forces unit.
No big deal.
He looked at the sand table, found a special operations squad closest to the special forces unit, clicked on the screen, and opened amunication link.
¡°This is Tang Rui, can you hear me?¡±
¡°Crimson Security Squad 12 reporting.¡±
¡°Good, your squad will be under mymand. Now leave and head to the location I¡¯ve marked.
There¡¯s an enemy special forces unit, three times your number. The real-time battlefield map has been sent to you. Move out now.¡±
Tang Rui issued the order to the special operations squad.
It didn¡¯t matter who they were.
Now, they were under Crimson security.
¡°Understood.¡±
After receiving the order, Squad 12 didn¡¯t raise any objections and acted ording to Tang Rui¡¯smands.
Forty minutester, Squad 12 reached the marked location.
¡°Report, Squad 12 has arrived at the mission location. Awaiting instructions,¡± the squad leader reported to Tang Rui.
¡°Alright, I order that, except for the snipers setting up cover on both sides, everyone else prepares for closebat.
The enemy has no heavy weapons and cannot pose any threat to you, so your mission is to capture them alive.
Next, use your pistols, aim to wound the targets primarily, but you may also kill the enemy based on the situation on the battlefield.
The same goes for snipers, if you see any dangerous actions from the enemy, shoot to kill.¡±
¡°Understood.¡±
After hearing Tang Rui¡¯s orders, they knew what to do.
The enemy might be special forces, but they weren¡¯t worried.
It wasn¡¯t that they were necessarily more skilled than the enemy.
It was mainly the gap in equipment.
Their equipment might not be more expensive than the enemy¡¯s, but its performance was definitely much better.
Based on the scanning function in their helmets, they had already confirmed that these people had no heavy weapons.
The only thing that could harm them was the anti-infantry mines in their backpacks.
But who would use that in a frontal battlefield?
So, there was basically no threat.
Ten minutester.
The ten members of Squad 12 were already in ambush.
Speaking about an ambush, they could only kill five or six enemies.
After all, the enemy also maintained formation.
Even while moving, they would watch all sides, not just their front, but also their rear.
¡°Captain, this is the quality of the green berets¡ it doesn¡¯t seem so great. How were their jungle and guerri warfare hyped up to be top-notch in the world?¡± Watching the special forces soldiers not far ahead, a member of Squad 12 said discontentedly.
¡°Because in actualbat, we have to admit, they¡¯ve experienced more realbat than us,¡± the captain said while hiding.
Now with new equipment, they didn¡¯t have to worry about the enemy intercepting their signals duringbat.
So talking and such weren¡¯t as strictly regted.
¡°We¡¯ve also had our fair share of realbat recently, it¡¯s just that our equipment is too good, making the fight uninteresting.
¡°Why don¡¯t you fight without your gear then?¡± another squad member said.
¡°Only a fool wouldn¡¯t use good equipment. I was talking about theck of challenge, not about not using equipment.¡±
¡°Alright, enough talk, prepare for battle.¡±
¡°Understood.¡±
At this time, the enemy was less than too meters away from them.
But the enemy couldn¡¯t find them.
It wasn¡¯t that the green beret soldiers were ipetent; it¡¯s just that they were hidden and wouldn¡¯t show themselves.
They relied entirely on the battlefield map for observation.
in this situation, unless the green berets had X-ray vision, they really couldn¡¯ find them..
Chapter 228 - 228: A Slap to His Face (Part 3)
Chapter 228: A p to His Face (Part 3)
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Two minutester, the green beret arrived at their hidden location.
¡°Engage.¡±
Following the squad leader¡¯smand, ten people simultaneously sprang into action.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The enemy reacted quickly, lifting their guns and beginning to shoot.
But it was futile.
Within seven steps, the special forces members, wearing exoskeleton armor, charged and closed in.
Even though the enemy¡¯s gunfire was fast and urate.
It couldn¡¯t prate the armor.
A punch, a kick, a twist.
One enemy fell to the ground, knocked unconscious.
The special forces members dragged the unconscious enemy behind cover, binding them, then hiding without showing their faces.
Other team members did the same.
After incapacitating an enemy, they dragged them to their previously hidden spot, bound them, and disarmed them.
They stayed out of sight.
The green beret¡¯s teammates, seeing this, started to suppress their hidden location with gunfire.
Then they moved forward in teams of three, covering each other, with snipers set up in the back.
Their tactical execution was excellent.
No panic.
They perfectly demonstrated theirbat level.
But it was to no avail.
The special forces hidden behind cover, seeing their actions through the battlefield map, nodded in appreciation.
A good reputation did note without merit.
Indeed, they were somewhat impressive.
¡°Automatically mark the enemy,¡± the squad leader ordered through the battlefield assistance system.
Instantly, in the vision of all team members, each enemy was marked with a number.
¡°Eliminate the enemy snipers first, then use stun grenades, targeting enemies
3, 7, and 8 first, the rest will be dealt with in closebat.¡± ¡°Understood,¡± the team members knew what to do.
The next second, the sniper fired, taking out the enemy sniper but not the spotter.
At the same time, others stood up, threw stun grenades, and then fired at the three marked enemies.
Even with pistol fire, in such closebat, it was deadly, especially with their auto-aim system.
They didn¡¯t aim for the head.
They went straight for the throat.
Because there¡¯s no helmet protection there, a bullet can be fatal, more efficient than hitting other body parts.
A minuteter, the fight was over.
Of the 36 enemies, 8 were killed.
Initially, only 7 needed to be eliminated, but one unlucky one was kicked to death.
The rest were knocked out and captured.
¡°Situation report, Squad 12 mission aplished, awaiting instructions.¡±
¡°Hang them up in the trees, then spank them, and make sure to record a video.¡± Tang Rui¡¯s mischievous side emerged again.
The reason for capturing them alive turned out to be for this.
¡°We¡ willplete the mission.¡±
The squad leader took a deep breath before responding.
Five minutester, the video had been recorded.
Tang Rui directly sent this video to Lin Chao.
The mercenaries and tribal soldiers, no matter how many died, the other side wouldn¡¯t care, but these special forces soldiers¡ well, they didn¡¯t care much about them either, but they had to consider public opinion.
This was especially the case if they got captured.
They had to be rescued. If they didn¡¯t, all they could do was negotiate and exchange something for their return.
So these special forces soldiers were still quite valuable.
In less than an hour, the video recorded by Tang Rui was delivered to the direct superior of the green beret.
This person watched as his subordinates were hung up and spanked.
His face turned green.
Was this spanking their butts?
No.
This was a p in his face..
Chapter 229 - 229: Make a Big Deal
Chapter 229: Make a Big Deal
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America was very angry after receiving the video.
But there wasn¡¯t much they could do.
The person had to be redeemed, but as for sending someone to rescue, they had never considered this option.
After two battles were fought, America managed to collect some information. Their previous failure to attack the city was simply due to their carelessness andck of preparation. They had no anti-aircraft weapons, and the quality of the tribal soldiers was too poor.
So, theirplete defeat by the opponent¡¯s rocketunchers was really no one else¡¯s fault, just their tactical mistake.
But the failure of the Green Berets wasn¡¯t a matter of tactics. Both sides were special forces, and one being captured alive only meant aplete overpowering in terms of sheer strength.
Otherwise, in such a level ofbat, it¡¯s impossible to deliberately go easy.
That would have been suicidal.
The failure of the Green Berets also made America realize the gap in equipment between the two sides.
The gap in individual strength wasn¡¯t huge, as everyone was special forces and not from small countriescking resources. The difference in training wasn¡¯t much.
This capture was entirely due to a gap in equipment.
At that time, their special department had no information about the single-soldier exoskeleton armor developed by Crimson Corporation, in terms of performance and indicators, they werepletely in the dark, knowing nothing and only able to guess.
Not just the exoskeletons, but also other equipment from Crimson was unknown to the special department.
Even the patrol missiles and mechanical dogs previously sold to the Middle East were different from those on the current battlefield, obviously upgraded versions.
Or rather, these were the real versions for their use, the previous ones being export versions with a huge gap in performance.
In summary, it boiled down to one sentence.
They, America, had beenpletely overwhelmed by equipment.
This was very frustrating.
In the past, they had relied on weapons to overwhelm their enemies, but now they were being overwhelmed by equipment, which was extremely frustrating.
Of course, they wouldn¡¯t just admit defeat.
After all, these people had been fighting wars all the time and had a wealth of
experience.
After a day¡¯s discussion, they had found Crimson¡¯s weakness.
It was their numbers.
At most, they only had two battalions of troops, one of which was not even full, only able to operate as specialbat squads. The other, although a full mechanized armored battalion, could only stay together and not disperse.
But they were different.
Not to mention tribal armed forces, just the mercenaries sent by military contractors numbered over 24,000.
in previous operations, most of these mercenaries had not participated inbat, so their losses in terms of manpower were not significant.
With this in mind, they decided to change the n. The idea of total annihtion had been put aside.
The opponent clearly had strong reconnaissance capabilities.
Their movements couldn¡¯t be hidden from the opponent.
SO, what they had to do next was to exploit the Crimson¡¯sck of manpower and engage in battles of many against few.
What defined military strategy?
It¡¯s about overpowering the weak; ying to your strengths and attacking the enemy¡¯s weaknesses.
In this respect, you had to admit America had always done well, always following this approach.
The next day, at the United Nations meeting, America proposed to withdraw the peacekeeping forces from the borders of Sudan and South Sudan. This proposal made everyone look towards their country¡¯s representative.
As a result, the Chinese cast a vote in favor.
Withdrawing the peacekeeping forces meant no more concerns, and the real battle between the two sides was set to begin.
Everyone knew this wasn¡¯t a battle between Sudan and South Sudan. This was a battle between the ss monitor and the studymittee member. Except, on the surface, it was a battle between a securitypany and over a hundred military contractors.
After the parliamentary session, Han Shu and Tang Rui had received the news.
Well¡
This was going to be a big deal.
¡°Tang, Old Jia is here, I¡¯ll go out to meet him.
¡°Okay.¡±
No need to think; the Old Merchant¡¯s visit was definitely about something important, probably rted to the uing battle.
What was originally an internal struggle had now been escted by America. Additionally, it was not just America that took action.
China had also made a move.
Half an hourter, Han Shu came back and again spoke in the holographic projection meeting room.
¡°What did Old Merchant say?¡±
¡°He didn¡¯t say anything unnecessary, just that he would fully support, includingmand of the military. They even took out all their assets, wanting to purchase weapons.¡±
Han Shu said with a somewhatplicated expression.
The original minor scuffle had now escted, with the oue of the war directly affecting the fate of a country.
This situation indeed put more pressure on him.
¡°Just that in half an hour?¡± Tang Rui was a bit puzzled.
¡°There was another call from home.
¡°What did they say?¡±
¡°The number of personnel on both sides must not increase. Our Crimson has fewer people, but the Sudanese army isrge.
¡°They have more mercenaries, but South Sudan¡¯s army is small, so everyone will maintain this number, not increasing.
¡°Besides, weapon support is allowed, as long as nuclear and biochemical weapons are not used, all conventional weapons are on the table.¡±
¡°We¡¯re at a bit of a disadvantage with this rule,¡± Tang Rui said, frowning.
¡°Not a disadvantage, we can directly counterattack and push forward,¡± Han Shu said nonchntly.
They had previously been hesitant to go all out.
Now there was no issue.
Just push straight forward.
When he was talking with Old Jia earlier, he had said one thing.
They recognized there was only one Sudan.
South Sudan?
It didn¡¯t exist.
¡°So when do we start?¡±
¡°Once the peacekeeping forces havepletely withdrawn.¡±
¡°Alright, then I¡¯ll go back and prepare some small stuff. We need to have momentum when pushing forward.¡±
¡°Good, I also need to organize the Sudanese army; get some of them to coordinate with us.¡±
After the two had finished talking, they hung up the video call. Tang Rui left the Blue Armymand hall and returned to theb. ¡°Red Lotus, disy the blueprint for therge-scale battlefield fire support robot.¡±
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
Whoosh!
In front of Tang Rui, appeared a t, crab-like robot. This was something he had thought of while developing mechanical dogs, a fire support tform.
But at that time, developing mechanical dogs was for the Middle Eastern order. It wasn¡¯t meant to make the Middle Easterners take off directly.
So, he hadn¡¯t brought out this tform, keeping it in the data library.
The design of this tform was actually not done.
It was just his attempt at battlefield fire support due to insufficient firepower. The crab-like robot in front of him wasrger than a heavy main battle tank. The overall size was equivalent to a heavy truck.
The size and other aspects were manageable.
Tang Rui¡¯s idea at that time was to turn this thing into a weapons robot, like a gunship.
Two triple-barreled anti-air heavy machine guns could be used for anti-air, anti-missile, and direct infantry engagement.
These two heavy machine guns would carry 100,000 rounds of ammunition, taking up half of the ammunition storage.
The rest would be equipped with a small rate-of-fire gun and a 64unch missile rack on the back tform, carrying 300 shells and 320 small missiles. Although there were only three types of weapons, the firepower was absolutely no problem.
If fully unleashed, it could regurgitate its entire supply of ammunition in eight minutes.
But as it turned out, whether at sea or onnd, the concept of a weapons ship was very problematic.
Once this thing was hit or exploded, it would produce a very spectacr fireworks show.
The key was, that this thing couldn¡¯t move on its own. If it moved with the team, it was easy to send teammates to their doom.
So, Tang Rui had thought about it and decided to improve the weapon system, not to load so much ammunition.
Directly switch to electromaic orser weapons.
Through this, as long as there was energy, its firepower was unlimited.
This eliminateed the trouble of logistical support. Friendly forces didn¡¯t have to worry about it exploding and taking their own people with it..
Chapter 230 - 230: Tactical Interlude, Explosion
Chapter 230: Tactical Interlude, Explosion
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In the blink of an eye.
A week had passed.
The Sudanese peacekeeping forces had all withdrawn.
On the surface, Crimson and the military contractorpanies were also making their final preparations for war.
The transport nes of both sides never stopped.
The Americans even bought more than twenty F-i6s and two A-ios, which, nominally, were sold to privatepanies.
After seeing this, Han Shu wanted Tang Rui to send some fighter jets over but he vetoed the idea.
After all, the money to buy the equipment came from Sudan.
Even though they were using these equipments, nominally, they were indeed Sudanese property.
What would Sudan think after the war if these fighter jets could be flown back? Moreover, with the dozens of nes that the Americans had, there was no need for Crimson¡¯s high-end products, so forget about the fighter jets. Considering the situation of the Sudanese and their enemy, Tang Rui specially prepared a war gift package for the Asu family.
80 cruise missileunch vehicles, 30 integrated air defense and anti-missile ground close-defense weapons, and 50 long-range rocketunchers.
The price of this war gift package was 12 billion US dors.
It wasn¡¯t that Tang Rui was greedy.
Mainly, he had added a lot of ammunition.
Besides the cruise missiles, 500 units of ammunition were given away for the other two types, not to mention the cruise missiles.
It was enough for 80 vehicle tforms to fire simultaneously 20 times. Actually, Han Shu and Tang Rui had a long discussion about what equipment Sudan should buy.
Thebat effectiveness of the Sudanese army was mediocre at best.
If they had to rely on them for war, then forget it.
But they couldn¡¯t just not rely on them either.
In this case, it was necessary to enhance thebat power of the Asu army to ensure they could execute themands issued by Han Shu¡¯s side.
Once the army suffered too many casualties,
It might not need too much, just a bit more aggressive attack from the enemy, and they would copse.
So, it was very tricky with the army.
After discussing for a long time, Tang Rui and Han Shu thought of a solution which was to avoid directbat with the enemy and just bomb them.
This was the simplest way.
And also the way to achieve the greatest increase inbat effectiveness.
If it weren¡¯t for those equipment, how could the price reach 12 billion US dors? Mainly because there was too much ammunition.
Sudan still had some courage.
After listening to Han Shu¡¯s arrangement, they didn¡¯t say a word and just transferred the money.
These things only arrived at the port yesterday, and only today were they distributed to the camps in various cities, then managed by Han Shu.
Saying it was unified management, in fact, it was Red Lotus in control.
With so much ammunition, whatever came next was easy to handle.
¡°Brother Han, when do we start?¡± Tang Rui looked at the various marked locations on the holographic projection sand table and asked.
¡°Two sharp in the afternoon.¡±
Han Shu said confidently.
Tang Rui looked at the time, it was just past ten in the morning.
Hmm, there wasn¡¯t much time left.
On the other side, the military contractors were also ready.
Their orders were to start at six in the evening, on time.
They had chosen this time because their mercenaries had strong individualbat capabilities, and choosing to act at night would maximize their individualbat abilities.
Both sides were ready for the battle.
Air defense radars were on, and nes onbat duty were patrolling the sky non-stop.
Even if the enemy struck first, they could be detected immediately.
Three hours passed in a sh.
Two in the afternoon.
Han Shu¡¯s side issued an order and began the attack.
80 cruise missileunch tforms and 50 rocketunchers fired simultaneously, targeting the enemy¡¯s marked locations for the first round of bombardment.
At the same time, the mechanized armored forces also set out, heading straight for the Hada area.
That was where the enemy¡¯s regr armored forces were located, aiming for a decisive battle.
As soon as they started, the enemy¡¯s radar detected them.
After all, with so many dense rockets, it was impossible not to be detected.
Wuu wuu¡
The shrill sound of the air defense rm sounded.
The mercenaries, who were ready with all their equipment and adjusting their status, left to take cover as soon as they heard the air defense rm.
They knew all about Crimson¡¯s intelligent cruise missiles. Thus each camp had built air defense works.
Although they were not very professional, these field air defense works were still very useful against cruise missiles.
As for the artillery shells¡ well, there was no way.
They could only pray not to be bombed by multiple rockets overhead; in that case, the air defense works might not hold up.
Inside themand center, Han Shu and Tang Rui, watching the enemy¡¯s movements on the holographic projection sand table, were not at all the same. The level of information of both sides was not on the same level.
Those air defense works were also within their observation range.
¡°Brother Han, how many enemies do you think this wave will eliminate?¡± Tang Rui, looking at the red dots representing the enemy on the sand table, asked.
¡°I don¡¯t know, the first round of attacks should achieve great results, the second and third rounds are hard to say.
But anyway, even if they want to support the Hada area, they have to die first,¡± Han Shu mercilessly replied.
As the two were talking, the rocket shells had already reached the enemy¡¯s camp.
Except for some elite units equipped with air defense and anti-missile systems that could intercept rocket shells, other mercenary squads and tribal armed forces were all hit by rocket shells.
For a time, explosions were continuous.
At themand center of the military contractors, several retired and rehired American generals were constantly summarizing news.
¡°Camp 5 was attacked by rocket shells, the number of casualties is uncountable.¡±
¡°Hidden Camp A2 was attacked, all personnel have taken shelter in air defense works, currently no casualties.¡±
¡°Camp 17 was attacked, arge number of tribal soldiers died, huge casualties.¡± ¡°Camp 7 was attacked by cruise missiles, the number of casualties is unknown, the enemy¡¯s attack is not over yet.¡±
The intelligence from various camps was quickly summarized to themand center.
Several rehired generals, looking at the red dots continuously marked on the electronic sand table, all frowned.
They were not frowning because of the bombing.
Mainly, they found that all their camps, including the ones they had specifically hidden, had all been bombed.
What did that represent?
This represented that the enemy hadpletely figured out their movements, and their so-called stealth camps were just a joke in the eyes of the enemy. Report, the enemy¡¯s armored forces are advancing towards the Hada area, expected to arrive in 2 hours.¡±
At this time, another bad news came.
The enemy was seeking a decisive battle with them.
¡°Notify all camps to follow the original n, leave and start the attack, do not engage inrge-scale charges, must organize small units for tactical infiltration.¡±
One of the rehired generals immediately issued an order.
It couldn¡¯t be dragged on any longer.
If they continued to drag things on, they would be on the passive sive, and they had to distract the enemy¡¯s forces.
Tang Rui and Han Shu, seeing the enemy start to move, immediately issued orders.
¡°Reload all ammunition, two bases, fire in five minutes, and blow them all to hell.¡±
Han Shu also gave an order..
Chapter 231 - 231: Blow Them, Blow Them All Up
Chapter 231: Blow Them, Blow Them All Up
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¡°Report, the 5th Division of the Sudanese military is advancing towards the southwest. Camps 5, 7, and 9 have suffered heavy losses and cannot hold out. Requesting evacuation.¡±
¡°Report, the 6th Division of the Sudanese military isunching an attack on Area 11. The tribal armed forces have suffered heavy losses and cannot hold out.¡±
¡°Report, the Crimson armored forces are about to enter the Hada region, only 37 kilometers away from our position.¡±
Three rounds of sweeping bombardment.
It left the American sidepletely bewildered.
The tribal armed forces were almost wiped out, and the mercenaries also suffered heavy losses.
It¡¯s not that they were unprepared, it was just that this wasn¡¯t how war is fought.
This wasn¡¯t a positional battle; such bombardment was unheard of.
If it were just conventional bombardment, that would be one thing, but the enemy¡¯s rockets seemed to have eyes.
They were striking with incredible uracy.
Not to mention those cruise missiles, these were simply a nightmare for the mercenaries. Even the most skilled in individual tactics have no way to counter these missiles and could only endure the bombardment.
¡°Do the enemies have an AWACS?¡± asked the rehired general in confusion.
¡°No, satellites have not detected any AWACS. In fact, the enemy hasn¡¯t even deployed any air units.¡±
No AWACS?
Then how were their rockets so urate?
Especially changing direction in the air, these were almost like missiles. Who had rockets that could turn corners?
The most crucial part was, how did the enemy know their every move? That was the most terrifying part.
Modern warfare was all about information warfare.
But how did the enemy find out their information? Especially the hidden information.
Did they have a traitor on their side?
But that didn¡¯t make sense.
Unless he himself was the traitor, no one else could have ess to all their information.
This was a truly desperate situation.
The enemy knew his every move. How could he fight?
He used to mock the enemy in his mind.
Throwing so many rockets and cruise missiles, none were aimed at theirmand center, airport, power nt, radar, or other vital facilities, all targetingbat units.
That was foolish.
But as the enemy¡¯s rounds of bombing continued, he felt foolish, and his forces were almost driven insane.
¡°Report, the armored forces request air support.¡±
¡°I know.¡±
The rehired general took a deep breath, calmed himself, and looked at the electronic sand table in front of him.
It showed the direction of the enemy¡¯s attack.
There was actually not much to see.
From the left, center, and right, they were just pushing straight forward, without any concealment or additional arrangement.
And their forces were now all crippled.
Relying on individual mercenary squads to fight a well-organized army was impossible.
Now their only hope for a turnaround was the armored force in the Hada region.
That was the most elite ground force they had, all experienced veterans and equipped with thetest gear.
Currently, they didn¡¯t even know how the enemy is tracking their movements, so it was impossible to rely on flexible tactics to defeat the enemy. The only thing left was to make onest bet.
¡°Notify the flight squadron, all fighters take off, head to the Hada region, carry long-range precision-guided bombs, and attack the enemy¡¯s armored units.
¡°Notify the rear missile forces, lock on to the enemy armored forces, and conduct fire strikes.
¡°Notify all mercenary squads, terminate current missions, and regroup in the Hada region, double time.¡±
Three consecutive orders.
He was going all in.
If they could eliminate the enemy¡¯s armored forces, then there¡¯s still a chance to fight. But if their own armored forces are wiped out.
Then there was no need to fight.
Just surrender.
Although they still had the South Sudanese army, the decrepit conditions of that force would render any actions useless.
One round of missile sweeping by the enemy, and they¡¯d be wiped out.
They didn¡¯t even qualify as cannon fodder.
On the other side, in themand center, Tang Rui and Han Shu, looking at the holographic projection sand table showing the enemy¡¯s troop movements, both smiled.
Finally, they¡¯d gathered.
It was good that they¡¯d gathered. If they hadn¡¯t, we would have had to send out special forces squads to capture them everywhere, which would be very troublesome.
Now the enemy had all gathered together.
Just right for a sweeping push.
¡°Order the armored forces to halt their advance, maintain alert on the spot, turn on all anti-air systems, and wait for orders.¡±
Han Shu gave the order to the armored forces, letting them rest on the spot for a while.
Now, the distance between the two ground forces is just over thirty kilometers. If they continue to advance, they could meet in half an hour.
That would be too soon, as the enemy¡¯s forces would not have fully assembled yet.
So there¡¯s no rush, just wait a while.
Even without hiding and disguising, a bunch of tanks stopped on the main road, quite arrogantly.
Beep beep beep¡
Suddenly, an rm shed on the sand table.
More than twenty red dots, moving at high speed, were flying towards the armored forces.
Tang Rui clicked on the sand table to erge these red dots.
They were all missiles.
All heavy ground-to-ground missiles, capable of systematically annihting an armored cluster.
Both of them, upon seeing these missiles, were unconcerned.
A distance of more than three hundred kilometers.
For these missiles, that is quite close.
Soon, the silhouettes of the missiles appeared on the horizon.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh¡
The anti-air missiles on the fire support vehicles began tounch, a series of short-range anti-air missiles quickly ascending.
In less than five seconds, a series of fireworks appeared in the distant sky.
All the missiles were intercepted.
Not a single missile could approach within five kilometers of the armored forces.
This five-kilometer area was the absolute defense circle of the armored forces.
When Han Shu and his team were conducting exercises domestically, besides artillery shells, no type of missile could breach this defense circle.
Firing anti-tank weapons within two kilometers was also pointless¡ because inside there is anotheryer of 500-meter close-defense artillery.
If the enemy had heavy artillery, Han Shu wouldn¡¯t have dared to do this.
Unfortunately, the enemy didn¡¯t even have heavy artillery, let alone guns or missiles.
The only artillery they had was a howitzer.
That thing had too short a range and couldn¡¯t reach them.
After the missile attack, the enemy¡¯s fighter jets were also heading there, expected to arrive in five minutes.
¡°Why don¡¯t they send F-22S over, what¡¯s the use of F-i6s, shooting them down feels no sense of achievement.¡±
Looking at the enemy¡¯s fighter jets, Tang Rui was displeased.
¡°Maybe they saw that we don¡¯t have fighter jets, so they didn¡¯t bring out the fifth-generation aircraft,¡± Han Shu casually replied.
¡°If I had known, I would have brought a fifth-generation aircraft myself, but it¡¯s toote now.
¡°By the way, those man-portable air defense (MANPADS) missiles you made, can they shoot them down?¡±
¡°Of course, let the armored forcesunch the MANPADS, and you¡¯ll see how effective they are.¡±
¡°Okay, let¡¯s try the man-portable air defense missiles first, and if they don¡¯t work, use the vehicle-mounted ones.¡±
After Han Shu finished speaking, he issued orders to the armored forces.
Soon, the rear hatch of the armed transport vehicle opened, and a group of soldiers carrying MANPADS ran out.
They didn¡¯t need to aim.
Just fired towards the unobstructed sky at an upward angle.
Afterunching, the air defense missiles were automatically taken over by Red Lotus, locking onto the enemy fighter jets.
This lock wasn¡¯t a fire control illumination but a satellite lock.
So the pilots didn¡¯t even know that they were locked on.
Only when the air defense missiles entered their radar scanning range did they realize that there were missiles ahead.
Before that, they wouldn¡¯t feel anything.
¡°Clearly, the enemy doesn¡¯t have air power, so why send us to strike ground forces? Shouldn¡¯t this be the job of those two ground-hugging pigs?¡±
¡°Seems like the enemy¡¯s anti-air weapons are advanced, so those two ground-hugging pigs are useless.¡±
¡°Anti-air weapons? They don¡¯t even have radar, where do they get anti-air weapons¡¡±
Beep beep beep¡
At this moment, rms sounded in the cockpits of all fighter jets.
The radar detected more than twenty missiles flying towards them¡ and right in front of them.
At that moment, all the pilots instinctively maxxed their throttles, then pulled up sharply to climb and released decoy res.
Unfortunately, by the time they noticed the anti-air missiles, there was basically nothing they could do anymore, decoy res couldn¡¯t save them, and even jamming was useless.
Boom boom boom¡
A series of explosions appeared in the sky.
Countless fighter jet debris scattered from the sky.
Under the control of Red Lotus, the air defense missiles perfectlypleted their mission, shooting down all enemy aircraft..
Chapter 232 - 232: Overwhelm, Crush, Annihilate
Chapter 232: Overwhelm, Crush, Annihte
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¡°After dealing with the enemy¡¯s fighters, Han Shu ordered the armored troops to move out andunch an attack on the enemy.
The self-propelled howitzers fired first.
A distance of thirty-odd kilometers was well within their firing range.
The enemy¡¯s anti-air weapons could intercept rockets and cruise missiles, but they had no means against self-propelled howitzers.
Beep beep beep¡
The shells had just beenunched when the enemy¡¯s counter-battery radar sounded an rm and locked onto the artillery position within a mere 3 seconds.
Different countries had their own counter-battery radars.
What mattered here was the reaction time.
The Russian radar could lock onto an artillery position in 5 seconds, whereas the American version could do it in 3 seconds.
Though the difference was only a mere 2 seconds, the gap in electronic information technology was immense, not even on the same level.
Just as the radar had issued a warning and calcted the shell¡¯snding point, the shells arrived.
Thirty-something kilometers was not close, but definitely not far.
Even if the radar reacted, the personnel might not be able to react in time, let alone move the vehicle out of the enemy¡¯s artillery range, which was nearly impossible.
Boom boom boom¡
The 155mm self-propelled howitzers had a powerful impact, each shell covering a few dozen meters around the center of the impact point.
This was very detrimental to troop positions.
This was especially the case for field defensive works. Even if people hid inside, they were likely to be killed instantly.
¡°Quick, hurry!¡±
The mercenary leader began shouting at his subordinates.
They received the news that all air support was destroyed by the enemy, and the missile attack did not cause any damage to the enemy.
Now that the enemy hadunched an attack, they faced two choices: confront the enemy head-on or retreat quickly.
What kind of people were mercenaries?
They fought for money.
Although their orders were to engage the enemy and fight desperately, they would not seek death, especially without air support. They would not engage the enemy¡¯s armored troops head-on.
No air supremacy.
No air support.
To expect them to confront the enemy¡¯s armored troops head-on was unthinkable.
Even if they were still in active service, they would not do such a thing.
And just like that, the armored troops in the Hada region began to retreat.
¡°Why are they running?¡±
Tang Rui was stunned to see the enemy¡¯s tanks and other armored vehicles, such as radar vehicles, anti-air missiles, andmand vehicles, all retreating frantically.
Wasn¡¯t there going to be a fight?
After all, these were fourth-generation main battle tanks.
Just running away like this?
It was too disgraceful.
Disappointed at not seeing an armored showdown, Tang Rui decided to use overwhelming firepower to crush the enemy.
But at that moment, the enemy¡¯s tank forces suddenly turned around and started a counter-charge.
What was going on?
Did they take the wrong medicine?
Actually, Tang Rui didn¡¯t know that the enemymander had directly contacted the military contractor andid out the situation.
Either engage the enemy in a decisive battle or run back andpensate for the breach of contract.
Compared to their lives, they were more afraid ofpensating for losses.
In the United States, bankruptcy was a terrifying thing.
So they had no choice but to bite the bullet and go up.
¡°Red Lotus, lock onto the fleeing enemy, order the rocket artillery to fire rockets and wipe them all out,¡± Tang Ruimanded after seeing the enemy¡¯s tanks turning around but the other units were still fleeing.
If they didn¡¯t wipe them out, what were they waiting for? The New Year?
As for the tank forces, leave them to our big tanks.
Upon receiving the order, the rocket artillery unit immediatelyunched rockets.
These, however, were specially crafted rockets, not the cheap rockets sold to Sudan.
Not only was the warhead enhanced, but it was also equipped with ck technology, making its destructive powerparable to missiles.
Under Red Lotus¡¯s control, 3,600 specially made rocketspletely wiped out the fleeing troops.
Vehicles were all blown up, leaving deep pits on the ground.
After ¡°cleaning¡± the area, It was hard to find even the wreckage of equipment, let alone other debris.
Upon dealing with the fleeing troops there, Tang Rui looked at the sand table, where the armored forces were about to collide.
The enemy had a total of 42 tanks.
Tang Rui had a total of 36 tanks.
Both sides were currently 12 kilometers apart, already within each other¡¯s firing range.
But neither side was in a hurry to fire.
Mainly because of the terrain.
¡°Red Lotus, show me the first-person view of our tank forces,¡± Tang Rui, feeling bored with the god¡¯s eye view,manded.
¡°Okay, master.¡±
Swoosh!
The holographic projection in front of him changed.
¡°Now on my mark, all units spread out in a fan shape, aim at the enemy tanks based on unit numbers, and fire directly.¡±
The officermanding the tank battle could clearly see the enemy¡¯s tanks on the battlefield map.
Even if there were small hills and forests blocking the view, they could still see the enemy¡¯s tanks behind them through the perspective.
Not only could they see everything, but he managed to assign numbers to these tanks.
1-42.
Their own tanks also had numbers.
Just use these numbers to deal with the enemy tanks of the same number, to avoid friendly fire.
This wasn¡¯t really a tactic.
It¡¯s just ateral push under the crushing superiority of equipment performance.
Compared to Tang Rui¡¯s side, the enemy¡¯s tank forces were much more cautious, even though they were driving fourth-generation tanks.
Even the most advanced American tanks couldn¡¯t give them any sense of security.
¡°Aim at the turning point one kilometer ahead, fire smoke grenades, block the line of sight at the turning point.
¡°After the smoke screen is formed, the left side elerates to bypass and ambush behind the mountain, the right side blocks the turning point, but don¡¯t leave the cover.¡±
The enemy¡¯s tank forcemander cautiously directed.
He thought well¡ªto use the electronic information system of the fourth-generation tanks for asymmetric warfare against the enemy.
But the next second, a burst of fire exploded in front of him.
Just after firing the smoke grenades and about to elerate from the left, a tank was directly hit.
In an instant, the tank¡¯s turret flew into the sky and then crashed heavily on the side of the road.
¡°Dodge, find cover!¡±
As themander¡¯s words fell, the other tanks had not yet reacted when sessive explosions sounded.
Whether it was frontal armor or side armor, as long as it was hit, it meant death.
In less than ten seconds, the dozen or so tanks preparing to bypass from the left were all blown up.
The ones on the right were okay, undamaged.
Because they were clinging to the mountain, the shells couldn¡¯t reach them.
This meant the smoke screen was for nothing.
But the problem was, what should they do now?
Sticking to the cover was fine, as the enemy had no firing window and couldn¡¯t hit them.
But they couldn¡¯t move either.
What was the difference between a motionless tank and a gun turret, whichcked even the defense and attack power of a turret?
¡°Fourth-generation main battle tank, is that it?¡±
Tang Rui looked at the holographic projection in front of him, speechless.
Originally, he wanted to see an armored showdown, like in the world of tanks, but the result¡ turned into a one-sided shooting range.
Five minutester.
The enemy¡¯s armored forces were annihted.
After destroying this armored force, there were no more organized enemy forces in Sudan, except for some lingering mercenaries.
Next, as long as the armored forces cooperate with the Sudanese army¡¯s left and right nks and push forward directly, they could take down the South Sudanese forces.
Without the Americans, what could South Sudan use to resist the Sudanese army, which had overwhelming firepower? They still had a lot of ammunition left to use.
In other words, this loud and lively-looking battle was basically over..
Chapter 233 - 233: The Study Commitee Member Ranked First
Chapter 233: The Study Commitee Member Ranked First
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Was it over?
When the leaders of various countries received the report from the special department, they were all stunned and unable to react immediately.
Hadn¡¯t the peacekeeping force just withdrawn?
Only a day had passed.
Tell me.
The victor had already been determined.
If it were just a matter of winning or losing, that would be fine, but the report from the special department indicated that Crimson had won decisively.
There were no casualties.
On the American side, the mercenaries were almost entirely wiped out.
Are you sure this wasn¡¯t a mistake?
For instance, could the sides have been confused?
However, after repeated confirmations by the special department, the leaders of various countries read the war report carefully.
Undoubtedly.
The Americans hadn¡¯t utilized their full strength.
Yet, in this war, what was observed wasn¡¯t the disparity in equipment andbat strength between the two sides.
What was seen was Crimson¡¯s extraordinarily terrifying information reconnaissance ability, with precise guidance and efficient battlefieldmunication.
Every member of their team was formidable.
Specialized military analysis teams were analyzing the battlefield.
Although the battlested only a few hours, and the full potential of their equipment wasn¡¯t even showcased, it ended just like that.
Nevertheless, everyone perceived the underlying message.
Frankly speaking, this time, the Americans had lost the information war. From the start to the end, the Crimson controlled the entire situation. All strategies and ns were under their surveince.
Although it was evident that the Americans only sent mercenaries, they would¡¯ve still lost even if the regr army had been deployed. At best, they could havested a bit longer.
After this battle, the entire ss realized something rming. The regr student¡¯s performance had already surpassed the ss monitor.
There was no need to worry about the improvement in the studymittee member¡¯s grades.
It was beneficial that she was tutoring.
Knowing the answer beforehand was an advantage.
Those were all objective conditions.
Now, in front of everyone was a report card, showing he was first on the study
mittee.
What did they mean when they said that a hero shouldn¡¯t be judged by points?
That was nonsense.
The first-ce results were evident there.
Who would dare to challenge them?
If they were unconvinced, they could try to achieve first ce themselves.
Forget about first ce; were they even in the top five?
Tang Rui didn¡¯t know what others were thinking.
He was enjoying himself.
The battle on the main battlefield had concluded. It was akin to pulling out a tower. All that remained was to push the crystal.
However, the enemy crystal was now spawning minions.
Tang Rui was controlling his own hero unit, farming minions.
South Sudan wanted to resist a bit more.
A direct confrontation being hopeless, they retreated their troops into the city.
Hadn¡¯t you imed to cover everything with firepower?
Now, if they could, go ahead and blow it up.
Given the circumstances,rge-scale battles were impossible. If not careful, they could easily cause extensive civilian casualties.
But dealing with the South Sudanese was straightforward.
He directly ordered the special forces to attack.
Han Shu was unconcerned about these matters and handed overmand of
the special forces squad to Tang Rui.
¡°There are 28 enemies in the building ahead. I¡¯ve marked them all. Everyone,
follow me.¡±
Tang Rui controlled a mechanical dog and charged into the enemy¡¯s hideout.
As he charged, he fired.
The 12.8-millimeter electromaic sniper rifle easily prated the wall, eliminating the hidden enemies.
The special forces team followed the mechanical dog and swiftly entered the building.
Then, it was an unbnced battle.
The enemy couldn¡¯t see anyone.
Each bullet passed through the wall, killing its target, including travel time, the enemies in the house were eliminated in less than three minutes.
¡°Team 1, block Gate A. There are 120 enemies approaching.
Team 2, go to the roof and eliminate the enemies around the two houses across the street. Team 3, follow me to engage the enemies in those houses.¡±
Tang Rui swiftly marked several points and issued the orders.
He controlled the robot dog to jump out of the second-floor window and fire at the house across the street.
A special forces team equipped with full map vision, x-ray vision, and
auto-aim.
Shooting these enemies was like target practice.
One shot, one kill.
In two and a half hours, Tang Rui, with a few special forces squads, had taken a
city.
¡°Awesome!¡±
Tang Rui massaged the space between his eyebrows.
It had been fun, reminiscent of ying Counter Strike in the past.
But it was also tiring.
¡°Red Lotus, transfer battlefieldmand to headquarters. I¡¯ll go rest,¡± Tang
Rui instructed Red Lotus.
¡°Yes, Master. Red Lotus has informed the special forces,¡± Red Lotus replied. After Tang Rui heard this, he left the Blue Armymand hall.
He checked the time.
It was already past nine in the evening.
No wonder he was hungry.
He had been on the battlefield all day, forgetting about dinner and that it wasn¡¯t yet nighttime.
Back home, Tang Ruiy on the sofa, waiting for Li Shuyao to warm up the
food.
¡°Are you finished?¡±
¡°I am. There are only a few cities left. Once we capture those, it will be over,¡±
Tang Rui replied casually.
¡°No wonder. The inte is full of opinion wars,¡± Li Shuyao said with a smile. ¡°Opinion wars? What do you mean?¡± Tang Rui asked curiously.
¡°You¡¯ll understand when you see it. Netizens worldwide are criticizing Crimson,¡± she exined.
Curious, Tang Rui connected to the inte and checked the trending topics on Twitter.
Good heavens.
As expected, the battle situation on Su¡¯s side was top trending.
He opened a video.
He was curious about its content.
¡°This is our Freedom Alliance Army. They are here to support the tribal armed forces that yearn for freedom and fight for it¡
The video showed a female reporter interviewing a tribe. It seemed ordinary. Aside from the female war reporter boosting morale, everything else appeared normal.
Just as Tang Rui was about to close the video,
An air-raid siren sounded.
¡°What¡¯s that noise?¡±
Upon hearing the air-raid siren, the female reporter asked the interviewed tribal soldier.
¡°This is the horn of our freedom, the strength of our resistance, and our outcry against unjust fate,¡± the soldier recited from memory.
The reporter was at a loss for words. ¡°Yes, exactly. This harsh, shocking sound symbolizes their desire for freedom.¡±
Whoosh whoosh¡
Suddenly, distant sounds seemed toe from the sky. The reporter looked
up.
Was it raining?
No.
Countless rockets appeared.
in the next moment, mes erupted, and the video on the screen shook before turning ck.
The video ended there.
Tang Rui browsed thements to see what theizens were saying. ¡°That¡¯s the spirit of independent women. Fearless, even under missile attacks on the battlefield.¡±
¡°The previousment is right. It¡¯s a shame I recently transitioned to a woman. I hadn¡¯t even been fully epted before witnessing such brutality. I¡¯m heartbroken.¡±
¡°I¡¯m heartbroken too. As a ck woman and an environmental and animal rights activist, this video deeply pained me. It¡¯s the harsh reality of war. I¡¯ve decided to advocate for peace and contribute to global harmony.¡±
¡°I¡¯m a single, transgender person. It doesn¡¯t affect my role as a mother. I¡¯m vegan and an environmentalist¡¡±
Tang Rui read thements for a while, feeling as if his eyes were straining.
Good heavens.
They all seemed to be using this trending topic to assert their identities, didn¡¯t they?
Chapter 234 - 234: A Non-Chief Researcher
Chapter 234: A Non-Chief Researcher
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As everyone knew, the more buffs you stacked on America, the more invincible they be. They could stand from any angle and rant at anyone.
And they couldn¡¯t talk back.
One wrong word and they¡¯d bebeled with discrimination.
Clearly, those whomented below and stacked buffs were various fighters, there to gain attention.
As long as there was traffic, there¡¯d be clients who¡¯d take care of them and send them to fight.
It could be said that Crimson and American inte celebrities took their careers on different paths, with a big difference.
Crimson was on the path of gaining confidence.
The American celebrities were on a war footing.
In the end, both were methods of converting traffic into money.
Tang Rui yed on the Americanwork for a while and read some news media reports.
Their propaganda war basically portrayed Crimson as a viinous techpany in a movie.
Thispany controlled the Sudanese government, took the opportunity to attack South Sudan, and ruled over the tribes with an iron fist.
That pretty much summed up the situation.
Although it was pure nonsense, there were still many people who believed this rhetoric.
After reading these news reports, Tang Rui didn¡¯t take it seriously, as their resistance was futile anyway.
He put down his phone.
Tang Rui then takes Li Shuyao beside him and returns to the room.
He had been busy with Sudanese matters these days and hadn¡¯t exercised with Li Shuyao.
Now that there was nothing else, it was naturally time to get some proper exercise.
The next day, after Tang Rui got up, he didn¡¯t go to the Blue Army Command Hall.
The battle there was over.
He had also enjoyed himself yesterday and he was not nning to get involved in the follow-up.
Arriving at thepany, Tang Rui started dealing withpany matters, mainly signing documents.
Knock knock knock¡
There was a knock on the door.
¡°Come in.¡±
The door of the office opened, and the HR manager came in.
¡°President Tang, here are the invitations from variouspanies.¡± The person took out a pile of invitations and ced them on Tang Rui¡¯s desk.
Tang Rui nces at the top invitation.
It was from Lei Jun, the head of Xiaomi.
A new productunch?
¡°Okay, anything else?¡± Tang Rui asks after understanding the situation.
¡°That¡¯s all, President Tang, I¡¯ll go back now.¡±
¡°Okay, go ahead.¡±
After the person left, Tang Rui picked up the invitations and started to choose.
Soon, he saw Huawei¡¯s invitation.
It was actually written by President Yu himself, inviting him to Huawei¡¯s new productunch on the 25th of this month.
The 25th?
Tang Rui opened Xiaomi¡¯s invitation; they were holding a new productunch on the 26th.
Interesting.
Huawei was bing a friendpany to Xiaomi again.
These invitations didn¡¯t specify the new products, but it¡¯s obvious they were wearable devices.
Since the New Year, it had been almost four months.
Thesepanies had obtained patent licenses from Crimson, as well as drawings and application technology for wearable devices.
Although they couldn¡¯t copy them directly, they could change the appearance and internal devices.
In the end, it was about cost-effectiveness, aesthetics, and brand value.
Like his favorite Huawei.
You said Huawei was good? Actually, it was not much better than otherpanies¡¯ products, at least not with any obvious advantage.
But why did he use Huawei before?
No other reason.
Mainly because Huawei had no foreign shareholders. Whether the money went to foreigners or not, at least their conscience would be clear, that they didn¡¯t fund the Americans
But to be fair, Huawei¡¯s products were really getting more and more expensive.
¡°Red Lotus, reply to Huawei and Xiaomi, saying thank you for the invitations, and I will attend their new productunches.¡±
Tang Rui takes out two invitations and speaks to Red Lotus.
¡°Okay, master, Red Lotus has replied.¡±
Staying at home all this time, he¡¯s a bit bored, so it¡¯s good to go out.
After spending half an hour handlingpany matters, Tang Rui went to the assembly workshop.
The workshop was bustling with people.
Everyone was busy.
A part is thepany¡¯s R&D personnel, led by Feng Yuanxing, assembling a ground attack aircraft.
The one they designed before.
Currently, the aircraft was two-thirds assembled and would bepleted,test in half a month.
¡°President Tang.¡±
Feng Yuanxing hurried to greet Tang Rui when he saw him.
¡°Hmm, is the project going smoothly?¡± Tang Rui asked.
¡°Everything is going well; we¡¯re making the maintenance manual, so assembly is a bit slow,¡± Old Feng immediately replied.
¡°Okay, you guys go ahead, I¡¯m just looking around.¡±
After sending Feng Yuanxing away, Tang Rui wanders around the assembly workshop.
In total, there were four aircraft being assembled in the workshop, besides the ground attack aircraft designed by Feng Yuanxing¡¯s team, there were also orders for sixth-generation fighters from the military.
However, the assembly of these sixth-generation fighters is done by people sent by Chengfei, and Crimson only provided guidance and did not do the work.
After making a round, Tang Rui left.
He was just wandering around with nothing to do, pretty much like a lion king, patrolling his territory and pretending a bit.
After leaving the assembly workshop, he went to thepany¡¯s research building.
The research departments in the research building were the same.
They hadn¡¯t been recruiting recently.
The mechanicalboratory produced results, using Red Lotus¡¯sputing power to create many new devices.
As for the materialsboratory, Tang Rui didn¡¯t want to say anything.
Theb had developed manyposite materials rted to graphene and carbon nanomaterials, with various types, and they were now upgrading.
But with alloy materials, theb was still burning money.
It¡¯d been half a year.
There were some results, but not many, and they were not top-notch materials.
The only top-notch material was the super low-temperature alloy they made at the beginning.
The alloys they¡¯d made since hadn¡¯t evene close to this level.
Even the alloy Tang Rui gave them before hadn¡¯t been cracked yet. The best alloy they¡¯d made had only 68% of the performance parameters of the original.
Now it was stuck there, with no breakthrough for two months.
Thinking about this, Tang Rui felt helpless.
Without a breakthrough in metal materials, many things couldn¡¯t be developed.
¡°President Tang.¡±
Seeing Tang Rui arrive, the people in the materialsboratory stopped their work.
¡°Go on, don¡¯t mind me.¡± Tang Rui waved his hand, letting them continue working.
To be honest, these people really hadn¡¯t been cking.
Burning money was one thing, but there was definitely no corruption.
It was just that they were a little unlucky, so there were no results.
Now where could they find a few lucky experimenters to borrow some luck?
These people were too unlucky.
If material research were to bepared to a gacha game, these people have been crazily spending money for four months without pulling a single SR.
Such rotten luck..
Chapter 235 - 235: Atomic Grade Metal Material Analysis System (Part 1)
Chapter 235: Atomic Grade Metal Material Analysis System (Part 1)
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How could the materials issue be addressed?
After leaving the experimental building, Tang Rui had been grappling with this problem, finding it quite perplexing.
The issue of materials was like a towering mountain in front of him.
The system was capable of enhancing materials.
But if these materials couldn¡¯t be mass-produced and solely relied on his system for enhancement, then no amount of origin points would be sufficient. Hence, a breakthrough in materials science was imperative.
But how?
Without the scientific theories from the system, what basis was there for a breakthrough?
The idea of finding a few extraordinarily lucky researchers wasughable.
One might discover a revolutionary material, but in the grand scheme of materials science, a single powerful material is of little use.
Tang Rui was frustrated.
He asked Red Lotus to prepare a fishing rod; he decided to go fishing at the reservoir.
¡°President Tang, you seem a bit down?¡± Lin Chao asked, puzzled when he found Tang Rui.
¡°Yes, I¡¯m pondering over a research problem,¡± Tang Rui nodded.
He didn¡¯t go into details with Lin Chao since Lin Chao couldn¡¯t help with this issue, so discussing it seemed pointless.
I can t assist with research, but I do have some good news for you.¡±
¡°Good news? Several pieces?¡±
¡°Yes.¡±
Lin Chao nodded and started exining in detail.
The first piece was regarding a military procurement order.
The buyers were several African countries like Tanzania, Egypt, and Nigeria, countries with good rtions with them.
However, these countries were rtively poor, unlike the wealthy Middle East, so they proposed paying with half cash and half mineral resources for the arms.
Tang Rui wasn¡¯t overly excited after hearing this.
He wasn¡¯tcking money at the moment.
Regarding mining?
That would be extremely profitable for him.
With the neutrino information capture radar, identifying underground mineral veins was effortless; he could locate them with a scan.
The second piece of good news was that the sand suction ships would be fully remodeled in half a month.
As for the underwater construction submarines, they had already been remodeled and were currently being tested.
¡°They¡¯re already remodeled?¡±
Tang Rui was surprised after hearing this. It had been less than a month, and the construction submarines were already refurbished.
Yes, all were remodeled from dmissioned submarines. ording to your blueprints, it was straightforward to add equipment to the front of the submarines.
We removed the torpedo bays and transformed the torpedo tubes into drill rods, attaching drill bits to the front.¡±
Lin Chao exined with a smile, having closely monitored this project and even inquired with the shipyard, so he was well-informed.
¡°Right, the original design was for small submarines, so using dmissioned ones, with their ample internal space, indeed wasn¡¯t difficult.¡±
After listening, Tang Rui thought it over.
That made sense.
He had thought the construction submarine remodeling wouldg, but it turned out the sand suction ship was the one behind schedule.
¡°Thest piece of good news is that your application for this year¡¯s academician election has been submitted.¡±
What?
Professor selection?
Tang Rui thought about it; indeed, the professor selection was scheduled for this year, but how had his application been submitted?
¡°Who submitted it for me?¡± Tang Rui asked, confused.
¡°The National Defense Science and Technology University,¡± Lin Chao said with a smile.
¡°Is it a sure thing?¡±
¡°The military has made a request. What do you think?¡±
After hearing this, Tang Rui¡¯s lips curled up. With the military speaking up, it was certainly a sure thing.
The title wasn¡¯t important to him, but it was like being a chief engineer.
It carried prestige.
¡öwait, I haven¡¯t graduated from the National Defense Science and Technology University yet, how can I be nominated for an academician?¡±
Tang Rui suddenly realized a key issue.
¡°You graduated yesterday; your diploma is already on the way,¡± Lin Chao replied calmly.
¡°???¡± Tang Rui was again full of question marks.
Good lord.
He had graduated just like that?
¡°Feeling a bit better now?¡±
¡°Yes, much better,¡± Tang Rui nodded, then put away his fishing rod, preparing to return.
¡°Why aren¡¯t you fishing anymore?¡±
I didn¡¯t bring a helmet, so I¡¯m not fishing anymore.¡±
After packing up the fishing gear.
Tang Rui waved to Lin Chao and went back to theb.
Since conventional methods couldn¡¯t achieve a breakthrough in materials science, unconventional methods were necessary.
Methods such as cheating.
¡°Red Lotus, show all the metal smelting equipment, remove their outer shells, and keep only the internal mechanisms and essentialponents.¡±
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
Instantly, a variety of smelting equipment appeared before Tang Rui.
He nned tobine all the metal refining equipment into one machine, enabling it to refine all alloys.
Just by upgrading and enhancing this machine, the material problem would likely be solved.
Next.
Tang Rui began to assemble the equipment ording to his ideas, integrating all the functions.
¡°Red Lotus, run a simtion.¡±
After assembly, Tang Rui gave Red Lotus an instruction.
Master, simtionplete. The equipment¡¯s failure rate is 69.3%; performance decreased by 22.8%. Should I optimize it?¡±
¡°Simte the optimization,¡± Tang Rui nodded.
This device, originally put together together by him, had a high failure rate, which was expected.
Anyway, Red Lotus could perform simtions and optimizations on this basis.
He didn¡¯t need to bother with it himself.
After twenty-odd minutes, Red Lotuspleted the simtion optimization.
The optimized device had grown to the size of a factory building, upying over three thousand square meters..¡±
Chapter 236 - 236: Atomic Grade Metal Material Analysis
Chapter 236: Atomic Grade Metal Material Analysis
System (Part 2)
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¡°ording to Red Lotus¡¯s simtion, this device had been able to produce all types of metal materials known at that time.
It was veryprehensive.
You just had to pour the metal ore into it, input the smelting process, and the device would automatically produce alloys.
It sounded great.
But the question was, what was the difference between this device and the current ones? Was it more efficient, smarter, more advanced?
But once the material process required something special, and if this device couldn¡¯t meet the process requirements, or if it didn¡¯t have that kind of process built in, wouldn¡¯t that have been a waste?
He had to be mistaken, this thing was not any metal smelting equipment.
Rather, it was akin to an STC module in the Warhammer world.
Except, what he had made, was like a simplified bankrupt beggar version of a standard alloy STC module.
¡°Red Lotus, why is materials science so tricky? My requirements weren¡¯t too high, just to be able to decrypt reinforced materials, but why didn¡¯t it work?¡± Tang Rui hadined to Red Lotus with a pained expression.
¡°Master, why didn¡¯t you try making a metal material process reverse engineering device?¡± Red Lotus had carefully suggested after listening.
Uh¡
Tang Rui had been stunned after hearing this.
It seemed like¡
Probably¡
It should have been possible.
Then why hadn¡¯t he thought of it before.
p p p¡
Tang Rui had pped himself several times on the face.
He¡¯d been really stupid.
He had outdone himself with stupidity.
¡°Master, it¡¯s not that bad, really not that bad.¡± Red Lotus had hurriedly controlled a robot to stop the self-harming master.
¡°Give me variousponents, I¡¯m going to make the device now,¡± Tang Rui had dered.
¡°Okay, Master,¡± Red Lotus had responded.
Soon.
Red Lotus had prepared arge pile ofponents, having a robot stand next to Tang Rui with them.
Tang Rui had sat at the workbench and begun to create a material form and process analysis device.
Red Lotus¡¯s idea had been good.
He had also thought of a way to make this device.
First, he needed to make a device capable of analyzing the atomic structure and elementalposition of metal materials.
Secondly, he needed aputational software, which was key to reverse engineering materials and processes.
Just like the subconscious learning device he had made before.
The core was software.
This software had also been easy to write, just needing to fill in relevant materials scienceputing codes.
Red Lotus could handle it, no need for him to do it.
The device was also easy to make.
Allponents had been ready-made, he just needed to assemble them.
In less than two hours, Tang Rui hadpleted a device the size of a dishwasher.
Red Lotus had also imported the materials scienceputing software program.
After finishing these, Tang Rui tightened thest screw.
Swoosh!
A faint light shed.
[Item: Pseudo-Material Form and Process Analysis Device]
[Experience: 0/600]
[Origin Points: 988.36]
After Tang Rui had nced at the system panel, he began to enhance it, not just once but to the maximum.
As over three hundred source points were spent, the exterior of the device had disyed a new illusionary image, then solidified at a visible speed.
Swoosh!
When the illusionary image had solidified, a golden light had shed momentarily around the device.
The device was enhanced.
Now, this device, having been reduced from the size of a dishwasher to that of a microwave, had shrunk by more than one-third.
The original ugly metal shell and shape had also transformed into a white sci-fi design with a ceramic texture.
Tang Rui hadn¡¯t cared about these.
He had focused on the system panel on the device.
[Item: Atomic-Level Metal Material Computational Analysis Device]
[Experience: 0/760000]
[Enhancement: Atomic-Level Metal Material Analysis System]
[Attributes: Material Analysis Precision Increased by 180%, Material Analysis Speed Increased by 160%, Material Optimization Performance Improved by 120%, Material Comparative Extension Capability Increased by 100%]
[Origin Points: 637.36]
After he had finished reviewing the system panel¡¯s data, he hadughed.
It had been worth spending so many source points.
Materials would no longer be an issue from then on, as long as the material¡¯s smelting process did not break through the atomic level, this device could analyze it.
As for materials involving electron or neutron levels, those were not something he could have used then.
Materials at an atomic level would be enough.
¡°Red Lotus, take out the materials from the warehouse,¡± Tang Rui had said to Red Lotus.
He had strengthened many devices before, and all the materials used for strengthening had been kept in the warehouse.
With the system panel, as long as there were experience points, any damage to the equipment could have been repaired.
He had even kept a copy of the materials used for machine tool drill bits.
Unfortunately, for such a long time, the unlucky researchers in the materialsboratory hadn¡¯t decrypted even the high-temperature-resistant alloys, let alone other materials.
Now, these materials he had saved had finally found their use.
Soon, Red Lotus brought all the stored materials.
Tang Rui had casually taken a material sample, put it into the analysis device, and clicked start.
Swoosh!
Red Lotus, connected to the device, had directly simted the analysis data in a holographic projection.
In front of Tang Rui, the atomic structure of this metal material had been clearly disyed.
Various parameters and data were also shown next to it.
And the data kept refreshing.
Without the need for a counter-lock test, this device could have directly used algorithms based on the atomic data of metal materials to deduce material properties, just like solving a math problem.
¡°Red Lotus, did you copy this algorithm?¡± Tang Rui had turned to ask Red
Lotus..
Chapter 237 - 237: Atomic Grade Metal Material Analysis System (Part 3)
Chapter 237: Atomic Grade Metal Material Analysis System (Part 3)
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¡°Master, I have replicated this algorithm,¡± Red Lotus said.
¡°Then, can you calcte the properties of the materials and deduce the form and process of the materials based on this set of algorithms?¡±
¡°Yes, Master. Red Lotus can derive the form and process ording to the algorithm. She can also design metal materials ording to various requirements.¡±
Awesome.
What equipment?
This set of algorithms was the most important and also the greatest gain.
Originally,putational materials science could only be said to be based on experience and previously umted data to derive the possibility and approximate parameters of calcting new materials.
However, with this set of algorithms and the powerfulputing power of the quantum supeputer, Red Lotus could achieve much more.
As long as he didn¡¯t exceed the limit of this algorithm, which was the atomic level, he could get any material he wanted in the future.
The materials science revolution wasing.
The rapid development of technology could no longer be stopped.
The equipment stopped working ten minutester. The data of the metal material had been analyzed, and the form and process had been deduced.
¡°Red Lotus, pass this form and process to the materialsboratory. Have them produce this material as quickly as possible and conductprehensive tests.¡±
Tang Rui said after examining the form and craftsmanship.
¡°Yes, Master. I¡¯ve already sent it over.¡±
¡°Red Lotus, use this equipment to analyze the remaining materials. Save the data in a confidential database and don¡¯t upload it for the time being.¡± ¡°Alright, Master. I understand.¡±
After Tang Rui finished giving instructions, he left theboratory.
The matter was settled.
The problem of materials was no longer a problem.
In a good mood, Tang Rui went to the panda breeding base.
Upon his arrival, the eight little furballs were ying on the grass.
¡°Hello, President Tang.¡±
A staff member greeted him immediately upon seeing Tang Rui.
¡°Is there anything else you need here?¡± Tang Rui inquired.
¡°I don¡¯tck anything,¡± the other party hurriedly replied.
It was no joke.
Their base, with few people and pandas, received funding far exceeding other panda breeding bases in Sichuan Province.
Tang Rui nodded, not asking further.
He picked up a dumpling from the ground and began to rub it.
The red panda¡¯s fur was soft, and its body even softer. Holding it was trulyforting.
¡°Sob, sob, sob¡¡±
The little dumpling, grabbed and ravaged by Tang Rui, started to whimper.
¡°Go ahead and scream. Even if you scream until your throat breaks, no one will be able to save you,¡± Tang Ruiughed.
Facing the stern Tang Rui, Little Furball shouted even more diligently, immediately using the secret technique, Level Eight Sob.
Tang Rui rubbed the panda for a long time.
Meanwhile, the materialsboratory was extremely busy.
After making the metal material, they began testing its performance in various aspects.
However, some tests required a long time.
Therefore, in half a day, they only tested some of the conventional physical properties. Tests like corrosion resistance would take two more days.
After Tang Rui received this data, he had Red Lotuspare it.
The difference between the simted material performance and the actual material performance was almost negligible.
The one-thousandth difference could be attributed to the external environment and the peculiar raw materials. It was not a problem with the analysis results of the equipment.
With thisparison report, Tang Rui could be sure that as long as there were no problems in the production process, the industry calcted by the equipment analysis would not have any problems..
Chapter 238 - 238: Setting the Data to the Highest Level (Part 1)
Chapter 238: Setting the Data to the Highest Level (Part 1)
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In the next few days, Tang Rui holed himself up at home researching new materials.
Other than the materials he had obtained from the previous enhancement and upgrade, he also asked Red Lotus to upgrade them ording to the various materials he was currently using.
If the materials weren¡¯t enough, he would make up for it with engineering.
There was no need for that now.
Since the material¡¯s performance was up to standard, there was no need to make such aplicated structure. He just needed to stack the materials simply.
Tang Rui also experienced the feeling of being willful with materials.
It had to be said that it felt really good.
In the past, if you wanted to build a shelf with a load capacity of more than 10,000 tons, you had to go throughplex structural mechanics design to ensure that the overall load of the structure did not exceed the limits of the material¡¯s performance.
Now, he could directly use materials to withstand the weight of thousands of tons. There was no need to make any fancy weight-bearing structures.
He fiddled with the materials in theboratory for a few days before leaving.
¡°Wearing a suit is really not asfortable as wearing a T-shirt.¡±
Tang Rui hadn¡¯t worn formal wear for a long time. Suddenly wearing a suit, he felt ufortable all over.
¡°Alright, you¡¯ll get used to it after wearing it for a while.¡± Li Shuyao smiled and helped Tang Rui tidy his clothes.
The two of them went out in formal attire.
Because today was the 25th, the day of Huawei¡¯s new productunch, Tang Rui had already agreed, so he would naturally be present.
They took a private jet and flew straight to Dongguan.
Tang Rui was wearing a suit, so it was not easy to drive. The entire time, it was Red Lotus who controlled the private jet to take off andnd.
Afternding at the airport, Tang Rui had just gotten off the ne when he saw a group of big shots from the business circle walking towards them.
Chief Ren was walking at the front, followed by Brony and a group of big shots from Pengcheng¡¯s business circle. Those whose worth was less than 100 billion were not qualified to stand with this group of people.
¡°President Tang, Ms. Li, wee to Dongguan.¡±
¡°You¡¯re too polite. You¡¯re too polite.¡±
Tang Rui and a group of big shots in the business circle bragged about each other for a while, and then he recognized everyone around him.
Of course, other than famous people like Brony, he really didn¡¯t know or remember the rest.
But it didn¡¯t matter.
Red Lotus would mark their identities and names above their heads.
This made Tang Rui not call the wrong name when he spoke, causing embarrassment.
¡°President Tang, take our car,¡± a CEO said.
¡°I¡¯m sorry, President Tang can¡¯t take someone else¡¯s car.¡± Without waiting for Tang Rui to speak, Gao Yang at the side stood up.
What a joke.
Letting Tang Rui take someone else¡¯s car¡ whose fault would it be if something happened?
Billionaires and trillionaires.
If something were to really happen, no one could afford thepensation.
¡°President Rong, I¡¯m sorry. I can¡¯t help it,¡± Tang Rui smiled and said politely. ¡°It¡¯s okay. We didn¡¯t think it through.¡± How could the other party dare to reply? He was here to get familiar with his face, not to offend anyone.
Don¡¯t look at how Tang Rui doesn¡¯t mix in the business circle.
However, hispany was indeed a legitimate privatepany and could be considered a member of the business circle.
Unfortunately, the business circle really couldn¡¯t catch up with him.
Previously, thosepanies that wanted to license Crimson¡¯s technology couldn¡¯t even contact Tang Rui or Crimson in private.
Not to mention discussing cooperation, go and stay where you are.
This time, they came to support Huawei and Penguin. President Ren and Brother Ma wanted to pick up Tang Rui midway. After they heard the news, they all licked their faces and insisted oning.
There was no need to mention his thoughts.
He looked familiar.
He wanted to see if he could cling to Tang Rui¡¯s thigh.
In the entire business circle now, who didn¡¯t know Tang Rui?
A privatepany that manufactured fighter jets, tanks, missiles, and kicks. The most ridiculous thing was that it could undertake state-level security orders.
This was no longer a matter of whether the path was wild or not.
This was heaven-defying.
If he could hug onto Tang Rui¡¯s thigh, then he would really take off.
Chapter 239 - 239: Setting the Data to the Highest Level(Part 2)
Chapter 239: Setting the Data to the Highest Level(Part 2)
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¡°What is the genre of this game?¡±
¡°It¡¯s a pet training game. It also has battle and dungeon elements. The content is adapted from a novel from our Penguin novelwork,¡± Tang Rui nodded after listening.
After a while, the RV arrived at the venue.
Tang Rui and the rest directly entered the venue because the new productunch was about to begin.
Less than ten minutes after they entered the venue.
President Yu came to the stage.
The cameras were also ready, and the live broadcast started.
¡°Wee, everyone¡¡±
Tang Rui did not care what President Yu was saying on the stage. He opened the box under the armrest beside him and took out a pair of smart sses from inside.
This pair of sses had a frameless design.
It was ssic ck.
The screen of the smart eye was a transparent screen made of graphene.
Tang Rui put on the smart sses.
He let Red Lotus control the device and automatically connect the sses to the phone. Then, he began to study the functions of the sses.
Pupil autofocus?
This thing could be used as a pair of sses?
Interesting.
All the optical shops in the country would probably curse this time.
However, a fewpanies should have already contacted each other. Everyone¡¯s products should have this function.
Otherwise, only Huawei had it.
Then he would definitely be ridiculed.
However, if he thought about it further, how could a nearsighted person use this device without this function?
Another industry was eliminated.
The profit margin of sses was still very high. It was not a matter of how many times or how many percent.
This time, the people in the eyewear industry were squirming in their seats. When Tang Rui researched the various functions and performance of these smart sses, President Yu finally took out the smart sses.
¡°Friends present, please look at the box on the left under the armrest Inside the box is a pair of smart sses of the same model as mine. It¡¯s also the star of today¡¯s press conference.¡±
After President Yu finished speaking, everyone at the scene took out the smart sses from the box and put them on curiously.
¡°These smart sses seem to be simr to yours,¡± Li Shuyao whispered in Tang Rui¡¯s ear.
I authorized it,¡± Tang Rui said with a smile.
It could be said that these smart sses, from the materials to the equipment, were basically his technology.
Even the interior design was based on his smart sses.
Snap!
When everyone put on their smart sses, President Yu snapped his fingers. The view of the smart sses was small, and the surrounding environment changed.
It turned into a starry sky.
A mor immediately broke out in the venue.
¡°Wee to the era of virtual reality.¡±
Illusion reality?
As expected of President Yu, he really knew how to brag.
Then, President Yu began to introduce the various functions and parameters of these smart sses.
What graphene lens?
What domestic carbon-based semiconductorponents?
He said it in such a high and mighty manner.
¡°Some people might ask, what use is such a smart pair of sses in real life?
¡°Other than ying games, you couldn¡¯t possibly block the images of the real world by blurring reality, right?
¡°At first, we thought about it for a long time, but we really didn¡¯t know what to do with these smart sses¡
¡°Until Boss Ma found us and gave us a n. For example, we can do this.¡±
After President Yu finished speaking, his image changed drastically. From a fat figure, he directly turned into a two-dimensional handsome man, and he was even the kind of handsome man with krypton gold skin.
Wow!
There was another wave of exmations in the venue.
But Tang Rui¡¯s face was full of ck lines. Wasn¡¯t this just a QQshow?
It was true.
At that moment, he didn¡¯t know what to say.
¡°This is my inner image. In reality, I can¡¯t show my inner self, but through smart sses, I can show my ideal self to everyone.
Alright, this was an advertisement for Boss Ma. In fact, this product had many functions.
For example, ranging, real-time temperature, danger alert, real-time navigation, special tips, personal tags, virtual socialworking, and so on.
In the future, we will develop more software for wearables to enrich everyone¡¯s entertainment life and make everyone¡¯s life morefortable and better.¡± After President Yu finished speaking, everyone apuded.
Next came the most intense and exciting part of guessing the price.
President Tang, how much do you think this product should be sold for?¡± At this time, President Ren, who was beside Tang Rui, suddenly asked.
Tang Rui thought about it after hearing it.
He knew the cost price of the spare parts, but he could estimate the other research and development costs.
¡°i28oo?¡±Tang Rui gave a price.
¡°President Tang, do you have any misunderstanding about Huawei?¡±
¡°Isn¡¯t it? That¡¯s 9880?¡±
Tang Rui mentioned another price.
In the end, CEO Ren still shook his head.
Was this for real?
The price of the wearables actually exceeded 10,000 yuan. It shouldn¡¯t be.
At that moment, President Yu finally gave the final offer after talking nonsense for a long time.
3499.¡¯
When the price was announced, everyone was dumbfounded, Tang Rui included.
Wasn¡¯t this the cost price?
That was not right.
This price was only the price of spare parts. Including their technical license fees and other costs, this price was definitely a loss.
Was Huawei crazy?
They were selling it at a loss.
Tang Rui turned his head and looked at President Ren in shock.
¡°Penguin.¡±
President Ren smiled and said two words.
So that was the case.
With the rich and powerful Penguin taking action, there would be no problem.
This was going to be fun.
He wondered how Xiaomi would react.
Could it be that they¡¯d also be selling their product at a loss?
There would be a show tomorrow.
After the press conference ended, Tang Rui went straight home.
They had wanted to invite him to stay for supper, but he had rejected them. It was boring.
He didn¡¯t like this kind of social interaction.
With his current strength, he did not need to consider other factors. If he wanted to participate, he would go. If he could not participate, he would not go. Originally, President Ren, Brother Ma, and the others wanted to send Tang Rui to the airport, but he stopped them.
What a joke.
It was fine if she picked him up when she came, but she even sent him off when she left.
There was no need for this.
On the ne back, Tang Rui took out his phone to look at the response on the Inte.
It was very lively.
Some of the people who were just watching the show and had no intention of buying were ready to make a move after seeing President Yu¡¯s offer.
10,000 and 3,000, two price ranges that on apletely different level.
A price of more than 3,000 yuan was something that many people could afford if they gritted their teeth.
As for more than ten thousand¡
Even if they stretched really thin, they probably couldn¡¯t afford it.
Tang Rui looked at thements and almost diedughing in thements section.
Netizens were getting more and more talented.
It was spreading on the Inte, not only in China but also abroad.
This time, Huawei¡¯s press conference was not released at the same time worldwide, but only in China.
Wearable devices would not be imported yet.
What exactly was the situation?
Tang Rui did not know, and he did not care either.
He looked at thements for a while, then went home to sleep.
The next day, Tang Rui asked Red Lotus to download the AR game produced by Penguin, Unscientific Familiar.
After he finished downloading and verified his real name, a special notice appeared in the game department of Penguin.
¡°The person I¡¯m paying special attention to is online. Immediately adjust the probability of the newbie draw to 100%. We must let him draw a divine-tier familiar.¡±
Manager, the technical department has specially adjusted the parameters. I guarantee that there won¡¯t be any problems.¡±
¡°Right, with him as the center, the number of monsters spawning around him has to be increased. The frequency has to be high, and the drop rate has to be high. However, don¡¯t set this to the maximum, but you have to have more resources.¡±
Alright, manager. The technical department is making adjustments.¡±
Tang Rui¡¯s side did not know that Brother Xiao Ma had already arranged everything.
After he downloaded the game, he began to draw the novice gift bag.
A familiar.
Whoosh!
The image of a ck and white bear appeared in front of him.
What a cute little dumpling.
The virtual models were cuter than the training base, especially since they had patterns on their bodies.
¡°Little Dough?¡±
Tang Rui had a dumbfounded look.
Draw a familiar.
Why did he draw out such a thing? Could this thing fight?
A god-tier familiar with a potential of nine stars?
Just this?
¡°Let¡¯s go, I¡¯ll take you to see your brothers and sisters.¡±
Looking at the novice guide, Tang Rui left home and came to thepany¡¯s square.
Good heavens.
He had poked the monster nest.
From the game¡¯s perspective, the entirepany¡¯s za and running track were densely packed with small monsters.
There were also about ten golden treasure chests..
Chapter 240 - 240: Bohai Bay Project Begins
Chapter 240: Bohai Bay Project Begins
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Seeing so many things, there was nothing to hesitate about.
Let¡¯s do it.
Tang Ruimanded the regiment to attack, and then¡He hung up.
A newborn baby.
It would be strange if he didn¡¯t die if he directly plunged into the monsters.
¡°Red Lotus, help me level up.¡± Tang Rui couldn¡¯t be bothered to stand under the sun to gain experience and directly let Red Lotus y on his behalf.
¡°Yes, Master.¡± Red Lotus did not even need the smart sses. She started to control it directly through the data.
After Tang Rui logged in and leveled up, he came to Lin Chao¡¯s ce.
¡°What a rare guest.¡±
After Lin Chao saw Tang Rui, he was very surprised.
¡°Brother Lin, has our military been thinking about anyrge-scale changes recently?¡± Tang Rui asked.
Did he not have something to ask Lin Chao?
The main thing was to ask for information.
He had a breakthrough in materials.
Following that, many things would follow suit.
If the military were to change their equipment on arge scale now, would they change their equipment when they had new equipment?
It would be good to wait for a while and get there in one step.
That was why he came over to ask. If there really was one, he would remind her.
¡°No, why? Is there a problem?¡± Lin Chao asked doubtfully. He did not understand why Tang Rui was suddenly worried about this matter.
¡°It¡¯s okay. If there is, then let¡¯s wait.¡±
¡°What breakthrough did you make?¡±
¡°Materials.¡±
¡°Understood. I¡¯ll report to the higher-ups.¡± Lin Chao nodded in understanding.
As for where the breakthrough in materials was, he did not ask.
That was not something he should know.
¡°I¡¯m mainly worried about the situation on our side. With the external pressure of America, we have to change our equipment. I didn¡¯t expect the higher-ups to be so calm,¡± Tang Rui muttered.
If it were him, even if the possibility of a war was very small, he would arm himself to the teeth.
How could he wait? He had new equipment but did not equip it.
¡°American external pressure is gone. You definitely haven¡¯t been watching the news for the past two days.¡± Lin Chao chuckled after hearing that.
¡°Hmm? What do you mean? America surrendered?¡±
¡°What are you thinking? As long as both partiesmunicate with each other, using force to deter others is too scary. It¡¯s just like how the two poles fought for hegemony in the past. Everyone¡¯s nerves are overly sensitive, which is not good.
In addition, the tip of the iceberg that you guys showed in Sudan previously gave America a headache. Ourbat strength on the regr battlefield haspletely exceeded their expectations.
Under such circumstances, they were also willing to maintain a tit-for-tat confrontation in terms of martial strength. After all, if they did not do well, everyone would be finished.
¡°Therefore, the current situation is to continue fighting in the economy and develop our military strength normally. We can¡¯t upgrade our equipment on arge scale and frequently conduct external exercises, causing a tense situation.¡±
Lin Chao told Tang Rui everything he knew about the situation.
¡°In that case, the first phase of our battle with America is over. What¡¯s next is the second phase?¡±
¡°That¡¯s about right. The next step is to surpass them in terms of economic size and pull up our technological level to surpass them in all aspects.¡±
¡°Alright, I got it.¡±
After Tang Rui finished speaking, he left Lin Chao¡¯s ce.
This was good news.
Martial strength was very useful against the weak, but it was nothing more than a thrill when used against an existence of the same level.
America had once thought that they were untouchable.
In the end, they got hung up in Sudan and swept away.
They were awake now.
If they realized that they couldn¡¯t win with force, then there was no need to continue ying.
Of course, it wasn¡¯t that they didn¡¯t want to y.
ording to the American personality, they had to be up to something, secretly researching away.
Perhaps after some time, when they felt that they could do it again, they would cause more trouble.
The next problem was the economic size.
It wasn¡¯t as easy to deal with as the military.
After all, this was not a problem with equipment, and it was not easy to level up. In addition, there were a bunch of traitors and foreigners.
This was very difficult.
That night, Tang Rui and Li Shuyao put on their formal attire again and set off on a private jet. They were going to attend Xiaomi¡¯s new productunch.
Originally, he did not want to go today.
But after thinking about it, he decided to go.
He had already promised her, so it was not good to suddenly stand her up.
This time, CEO Lei did not bring so many people. He came to the airport alone with his assistant to pick him up.
Another wave of business bragging.
Then, President Lei got into Tang Rui¡¯s RV and headed to the press conference venue together.
¡°President Tang, are you interested in Xiaomi?¡± CEO Lei suddenly said, as they trundled along the road.
¡°Interested?¡±
¡°Yes, I want to get rid of those foreign shareholders, but this requires the help of a strong group.¡±
After Tang Rui heard it all, he shook his head.
He wasn¡¯t afraid of offending those foreign capitalists. To put it bluntly, those people should be afraid of him.
However, the reason why he did not agree was not because of anything else.
It was not good to interfere.
Now, he controlled the source of graphene materials and the patents for carbon nano-materials and other semiconductor materials.
Even though he didn¡¯t care, his influence was still very great.
However, he did not use this kind of influence at all, nor did he take it seriously, so no one felt ufortable.
But if he invested in Xiaomi¡
That¡¯d be a different story.
At that time, the situation would be very troublesome.
He was not afraid of trouble, but he hated trouble.
Besides¡
He was not short of money now. When the Bohai Bay project waspleted, money would be a number to him.
Therefore, there was no need for him to invest in Xiaomi.
At that time, he would not earn much.
Instead, he would cause a lot of trouble.
It was not worth it.
President Lei saw Tang Rui shake his head and also did not mention this matter again.
Very quickly, they arrived at the press conference.
CEO Lei went to prepare. He would personally go on stage and diss his friends.
After waiting for Tang Rui toe to his seat, the group of people next to him started toe forward to join in the fun, introducing themselves, and then ttering him.
This was very frustrating, though it was alright.
Not long after, the press conference began.
CEO Lei started the show in English using his strong London ent and proceeded in both Chinese and English. He was in high spirits.
There was no nonsense.
He directly hung up his friend and began topare the data.
Tang Rui watched the fun below and felt that it was very interesting.
However, ording to his research, Xiaomi¡¯s smart sses had deleted some of the functions that were notmonly used.
However, it was not deleted correctly. The overall performance was still fine.
After all, all the carbon-based semiconductorponents were produced in China and the models were the same.
Xiaomi¡¯s standby time was longer.
It was because some functions had been deleted that the battery was naturally saved.
¡°For such a device, how much do you think Xiaomi would sell it for? Can anyone hitch a guess?¡± CEO Lei asked with a smile after the introduction.
Many people started to bid, alling to a figure that amounted to around four to five thousand.
After all, Huawei¡¯s offer was abnormal. Those who knew the industry knew that it was sold at a loss.
A single device would not make money, but the apanying mobile phone would make money, the tform would make money, and the brand value would increase.
Even if it was sold at that price, Huawei could afford it.
¡°Wrong, the final price of our Xiaomi sses is 3299 yuan!¡±
CEO Lei gave a shocking price.
This was suicidal.
Huawei had a local rich man like Penguin. Xiaomi just quoted this price because it found the big spender.
Tang Rui felt that he had broadened his horizons these two days.
In his opinion, the smart sses would cost at least 7,000 to 8,000 yuan. In the end, the twopanies forcefully cut the price to a mere 3,000 yuan.
Awesome.
He was indeed not cut out for business.
After the press conference ended, Tang Rui rejected a group of people¡¯s invitations and directly took a private jet home.
After returning home, he asked Red Lotus to download a game released by Xiaomi. It was a card game, but not a Western card game.
It was an Eastern card. The characters and monsters inside were all from myths and legends and the ssic of Mountains and Seas.
In fact, this game was simr to the monster control game on Penguin.
After all, it was produced by Netease.
There was nothing wrong with the game.
Tang Rui also let Red Lotus hang up this number.
In the next two days, smart sses from brands such as Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, and Meizu began selling like crazy.
Compared to the fewpanies at the head of thepany, the smart sses from the otherpanies did not have an independent game design, and could only y games from Penguin and Netease.
This caused the streets to be filled with people wearing smart sses, looking around, and gesturing in the air.
These people had all run out to look for monsters and insurance.
At that moment, if you saw two people in an open space saying ¡°Kill it,¡± don¡¯t go up.
It wasn¡¯t a fight between two people, nor was it a lunatic. It was a pet PK.
Anyway, it could be summarized in one sentence: Wearables had be the new fad.
The game had also boomed in poprity as a result.
It was¡
It was a Sunday, and thepany was on holiday.
Tang Rui brought Li Shuyao downstairs to open the treasure chest. As soon as they went out, they realized that many people in thepany were on the za and running track, fighting monsters with their familiars to level up.
He felt numb.
¡°No, you guys don¡¯t rest on Sunday.¡± Tang Rui asked speechlessly.
¡°President Tang, we¡¯re resting.¡±
¡°That¡¯s right. Usually, when we go to work, we¡¯ll look at the treasure chests all over the ground and almost die from craving them. It¡¯s not easy for me to rest, so I naturally have toe here to open the treasure chest and kill monsters to level up.¡±
¡°Huh?¡± Tang Rui pursed his lips after hearing it and said speechlessly,¡± There aren¡¯t any monsters and treasure chests outside?¡±
¡°President Tang, you don¡¯t know this, but ten people fighting over a monster outside are like crazy. As for treasure chests, I¡¯ve seen them outside, let alone open them.¡±
¡°Alright, you can y, but safety is the most important thing.¡±
What else could Tang Rui say?
He couldn¡¯t possibly say that he had booked this ce and that they couldn¡¯t fight the monsters. That would be hrious.
Fortunately, they only came after work.
During the day, Red Lotus had booked the entire ce to level up.
They yed for a few days.
Tang Rui received the news that the sand suction boat had already beenpletely modified, and the construction prerequisites were already in ce.
After learning about this situation, he knew that he probably didn¡¯t have time to y games.
It was more important than the Bohai Bay project.
That night, he asked the navy to help him sail his yacht to Bohai Bay.
The next day, Tang Rui brought the equipment and flew a private jet directly to Dalian.
After he arrived, he announced the official start of the Bohai Bay Submarine Tunnel and Oil Exploration Project..
Chapter 241 - 241: Let’s Have Some Entertainment First
Chapter 241: Let¡¯s Have Some Entertainment First
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¡°These are all submarine geological data. Based on your n, we have designed a path¡¡±
When Tang Rui arrived in Dalian, he was sought out by Professor Zhao.
The other party brought out all the geological data and the designed path of the submarine tunnel they had been nning during this time, letting Tang Rui take a look first.
ording to the analysis and research of their group of Professors, the submarine tunnel was not a straight line, but a curved one.
This design was necessary mainly due to the geological conditions of the seabed.
It wasn¡¯t that a straight line was impossible, but that approach would make construction more difficult and introduce hidden dangers.
¡°Hmm, this path is generally fine, but this part needs to be modified,¡± Tang Rui said after reviewing the path n. He drew a circle on it, indicating a submarine ore vein.
Professor Zhao and his team had deliberately avoided this ore vein in their nning, so there was a slight difference from the path designed by Red Lotus. ¡°Is this an ore vein? Why does the path go through here?¡± Professor Zhao was a bit puzzled by Tang Rui¡¯s idea.
Was he deliberately seeking difficulty?
¡°What for?¡±
¡°Because I¡¯m cing the drilling tform here.¡±
¡°A drilling tform?¡±
Professor Zhao didn¡¯t understand. Who would ce a drilling tform over a submarine ore vein? That was just asking for trouble.
¡°Right, it¡¯s here. I will exin the specific reasons in detail at the meeting.¡±
¡°Alright, it¡¯s about time now, let¡¯s head to the venue,¡± Professor Zhao said, nodding after hearing the exnation.
And so, they left the room and headed to the meeting venue.
By the time they arrived, the venue was already full of people, including seven or eight Professors, research teams, and heads of various major constructionpanies.
Groups like China Railway, China Construction, PetroChina, Sinopec, CNOOC, etc., had all sent at least one person in charge.
¡°Since everyone is here, let¡¯s start the meeting.¡±
As Tang Rui spoke, he connected hisptop to the projector, controlled by Red Lotus.
A n of the submarine tunnel appeared on the big screen.
It was simr to the path nned by Professor Zhao, with the only difference being that it went directly through the submarine ore vein.
¡°This is the route n for the Bohai Bay submarine tunnel. The key issue is this submarine ore vein.
The reason for choosing this is mainly because the ore vein is very useful. I n to use this ce as the base for the submarine drilling tform.¡±
As Tang Rui spoke, Red Lotus controlled theputer, constantly changing the images on the big screen.
This included the general architectural design of the submarine drilling tform.
Tang Rui was right.
It wasn¡¯t an offshore drilling tform, but a submarine one.
Red Lotus had simted many times that if the drilling tform was ced on the sea surface, it would be difficult to withstand the impact of tsunamis.
Although there were hardly any typhoons in Bohai Bay, let alone tsunamis, it was better to be safe than sorry.
So, he thought about it and moved the entire tform from the sea surface to the seabed, so there would be no need to worry about tsunamis.
As for the increased difficulty in construction.
That was a minor issue.
If he was concerned about construction difficulty, he wouldn¡¯t have specifically chosen a submarine ore vein, which is much harder to deal with than ordinary mud and sand.
On the contrary, having this ore vein naturally adds ayer of protection and a support pir for the seabed.
Oncepleted, the defense of the drilling tform would be strong enough to be considered at the level of nuclear defense works.
Upon exining his design, Tang Rui asked if anyone had any questions.
¡°President Tang, I¡¯m from China Construction Group. I want to know how our construction is arranged?¡±
The project leader from China Construction Group asked.
He was afraid that Tang Rui would arrange for them to work on the seabed, which would be extremely difficult for them.
It¡¯s not that China Construction couldn¡¯t handle it.
It¡¯s just that no one had ever been crazy enough to build a drilling tform inside a submarine ore vein. Even if Tang Rui provided them with technology, the difficulty of the project would be beyond their capabilities.
After China Construction Group asked, the other constructionpanies, like China Railway, were also eagerly looking at Tang Rui.
Everyone had simr thoughts.
The n was good.
Everything was very well designed.
But the difficulty of the construction was off the charts.
¡°China Construction, China Railway, and other construction units, your task is to build the tunnel exits at Yantai and Dalian, as well as the submarine tunnel pipeline,¡± Tang Rui said, assigning them the easiest tasks, leaving the rest to others.
¡°President Tang, what about the construction of the oil pipeline?¡± someone from PetroChina asked.
¡°The oil pipeline doesn¡¯t concern you. The pipeline is just below the seabed tunnel. You just need to do the onshore construction and leave the interface for docking,¡± Tang Rui replied.
The person from PetroChina nodded, not asking anything further.
Regarding the submarine drilling tform, he didn¡¯t even dare to bring it up, afraid of what Tang Rui might say.
¡°Later, the design drawings, construction ns, and the design drawings and parameters of the supporting equipment will all be sent to you.
Study them after you go back and see how soon you canplete your projects. Send the results to me for consolidation in three days.
If you have any questions, or anything unclear, you can directly email me.
Don¡¯t worry about the time.¡±
After Tang Rui finished speaking, the meeting ended.
Everyone left with their construction ns, engineering drawings, and performance parameters of equipment parts.
Tang Rui and a few Professors stayed behind to continue the meeting in a smaller conference room, discussing more in-depth topics.
But he had already thoroughly understood this n beforeing, so even though the Professors took turns, they couldn¡¯t find any faults.
¡°When will our project start?¡± one of the Professors asked.
¡°I¡¯ve already started on my end,¡± Tang Rui replied casually.
He had already started the construction on the seabed, controlled by Red Lotus.
¡°Alright then, we¡¯ll also go back and keep an eye on the other units, make them move faster.¡±
¡°Okay, that¡¯s settled then. Call me if there¡¯s anything.¡±
After the meeting, Tang Rui went to the dock and set out to sea on a yacht.
¡°Red Lotus, how¡¯s the construction on the seabed going? Any problems?¡± Tang Rui asked in the luxurious living room of the yacht.
¡°Master, all equipment is functioning normally. However, these submarines are equipped with old drill bits. If we switch to our newly developed wear-resistant alloy, the construction speed could double,¡± Red Lotus¡¯s holographic projection appeared, speaking to Tang Rui.
¡°Manufacture a few drill bits, and rece them with new ones once these ones are severely worn.¡±
¡°Alright, master. Red Lotus understands.¡±
Tang Rui nodded and began eating a te of cherries, which were in season.
Cherries were plentiful in Dalian, many varieties and very fresh.
Two hourster, Gaoyang steered the yacht above the submarine ore vein.
¡°Red Lotus, release the robots.¡±
Upon arriving, Tang Rui instructed Red Lotus to drop the pre-prepared submarine construction robots and underground excavation robots into the sea.
Construction within the submarine ore vein could only be carried out by these robots.
¡°Master, all robots have been released. Shall we start construction?¡± Red Lotus asked.
¡°No rush, send two robots to scout around first,¡± Tang Rui said, shaking his head.
There was no hurry for construction.
Even if he worked quickly, the submarine tunnel couldn¡¯t bepleted if the other areas were slow.
So right now, he was in no hurry.
He would adjust the construction schedule based on the data from those groups after they submitted their ns and proposals.
For now, it was his vacation time.
Just before construction, he found some fun.
¡°Alright, master. Two construction robots have been dispatched and are expected to arrive in eleven minutes.¡±
¡°Also, Red Lotus, reroute the neutrino information capture radar satellite in geostationary orbit above Sudan to a synchronous orbit above Bohai Bay.¡± ¡°Alright, master. The rerouting is underway and is expected to bepleted in ten minutes.¡±
Without a full view, watching only through the perspective of the seabed robots was frustrating and oppressive.
That¡¯s why he had the neutrino satellite brought back.
After all, there was nothing left to do there.
In ten minutes, the rerouting of the neutrino satellite waspleted.
On the holographic projection screen in front of Tang Rui, the disyed scene changed to a full view.
The two seabed robots were rapidly approaching the offshore drilling tform still under construction by the Koreans.
This view¡ was much morefortable to watch than the previous perspective.
And it also allowed a clear view of the construction situation on the Koreans¡¯ side..
Chapter 242 - 242: We’ve Dug Up a Spaceship! (Part 1)
Chapter 242: We¡¯ve Dug Up a Spaceship! (Part 1)
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¡°Two robots had arrived near the drilling tform of the Korean¡¯s house and had seen the four anchor chains fixing the drilling tform.
The Korean drilling tform was a semi-submersible drilling tform.
What was a semi-submersible drilling tform?
It was one that relied on anchor chains for stability, with the tform half-submerged in seawater, autonomously bncing buoyancy and gravity.
Then, using casing drilling technology, seabed drilling was performed.
It sounded simple.
But in reality, it was quite troublesome, especially in terms of bncing and vertical positioning, which were the main challenges.
Moreover, casing drilling had a significant downside: as the depth of the drill hole increased, the pipeline became thinner.
By that time, the Koreans had developed a new technology that increased the casing¡¯s diameter while maintaining pressure bnce and had invented a multi-aperture drill bit.
They had tested by lowering a casing and attempting to drill.
The seabed¡¯s geological conditions were satisfactory.
Drilling was not difficult.
The pressure sensor data from the casing also presented no issues.
At that time, the gravity tower of this system was undergoing final adjustments, and it was expected to be ready for drilling in three days.
Tang Rui was unaware of these details.
He had sent robots to assist in checking whether the subsea load-bearing columns of the Koreans were safe.
However, he discovered that their drilling tform did not utilize load-bearing columns.
This was quite distressing.
Regarding the anchor chains, theycked technicalplexity.
Even if one broke, the Koreans could always rece it with ease; it was merely a matter of expense and did not cause significant trouble.
How could he assist the Koreans?
Tang Rui, looking at the holographic projection in front of him, suddenly had an idea.
¡°Red Lotus, erge the geological structure around the casing drilling hole,¡± he said.
¡°Okay, master,¡± Red Lotus replied.
The image on the holographic projection screen changed, revealing the geological structure data and simted model around the casing drilling hole.
Tang Rui examined it for a while, constantly adjusting the model¡¯s scale, and then drew a crooked line on it.
This line was not arbitrary.
It followed the weaker geologicalyers, the easiest for drilling, namely the muddyyers.
¡°Red Lotus, have the underground drilling robot follow the line I drew, creating a tunnel from the seabed to right below the casing drill hole of the opponent, and ce the most durable tungsten alloy tes inside,¡± Tang Rui instructed.
¡°Okay, master, Red Lotus knows what to do,¡± Red Lotus affirmed and immediately directed the underground drilling robot.
After delegating the task to Red Lotus, Tang Rui turned off the holographic projection.
By the next morning, the underground drilling robot had already created a tunnel.
It then ced threeyers of 100 mm thick, highly wear-resistant tungsten alloy directly beneath the casing drill hole, securing them in ce.
Afterpleting these tasks, Red Lotus controlled the robot to return.
In the blink of an eye, three days had passed.
Tang Rui had be busy, as various construction units had sent in their projected results.
He needed to adjust the project ns and construction timelines based on these projections.
It wasn¡¯t overly difficult.
After Red Lotus had assisted him in organizing the data, he could make minor adjustments based on the overall situation.
¡°Red Lotus, send the organized project schedule to the construction units and have them follow it,¡± Tang Rui requested.
¡°Okay, master,¡± Red Lotus responded.
¡°Are there any unprocessed emails or documents?¡± Tang Rui asked.
¡°None, but there is a special reminder,¡± Red Lotus replied.
¡°What¡¯s the special reminder?¡±
¡°The reminder is about the drilling depth of the Koreans; they are nearly at the tungsten steel te.¡±
Upon hearing this, Tang Rui immediately perked up.
¡°Show the holographic projection of the drilling,¡± he ordered.
¡°Okay, master,¡± Red Lotus replied.
On the other side, at the Korean drilling tform, the project¡¯s consortium head hade to inspect the progress.
¡°Director Kim, our drilling is proceeding smoothly, and with the group¡¯s strong support, our staff¡¯s performance has been outstanding,¡± said the tform head.
¡°The president is highly invested in this project. Sess will mean significant bonuses and promotions this year,¡± Director Kim stated.
¡°We understand and will exert our maximum effort to ensure smooth project progression,¡± the tform head assured.
¡°Excellent. To reward everyone, two girl groups will perform on the drilling tform in three days,¡± Director Kim announced.
¡°Thank you for arranging this, Director Kim,¡± the tform head expressed gratitude.
As Director Kim and the tform head were conversing, the drilling department¡¯s technical head suddenly noticed an issue with the screen¡¯s parameters.
The drilling depth of the drill bit wasn¡¯t changing.
The rotation speed was fine.
There was no issue with the drill bit itself.
The pressure sensor detected no problems either.
What could be the issue?
Logically, if they had hit hard rock or a special geologicalyer, the drill bit would have shown a reaction, like overheating or slowing down.
But the rotation speed was normal, suggesting the drill bit wasn¡¯t stuck.
The temperature of the drill bit hadn¡¯t risen significantly, indicating it wasn¡¯t encountering a special geologicalyer or suffering severe wear.
The question then arose: why couldn¡¯t the drill bit drill any further?
¡°Increase the rotation speed,¡± the head of the department decided.
The speed of the drill bit was increased.
Yet, the depth remained unchanged.
Frustrated, the head ordered, ¡°Retrieve the drill bit.¡±
¡°Retrieve it? Okay, team leader,¡± the staff acknowledged.
As the drill bit was retracted¡.
Chapter 243 - 243: We’ve Dug Up a Spaceship! (Part 2)
Chapter 243: We¡¯ve Dug Up a Spaceship! (Part 2)
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¡°Everyone came to the vertical shaft to check the condition of the drill bit.
There was wear.
But it wasn¡¯t severe.
This was really strange; why was this happening?
The team leader thought about it and decided to report to the higher-ups first. ¡°What? Can¡¯t drill any further? Don¡¯t know why?¡± Director Kim, who was just in the head¡¯s office, heard the team leader¡¯s report and almost jumped up.
¡°Yes, for some reason, the drill bit just won¡¯t go down. The sensors and other data, all normal.¡±
The team leader nodded, saying that he had drilled many times over the years but had never encountered such a situation.
¡°Let¡¯s go take a look.¡±
The three people left the office and went to the vertical shaft. First, they checked the drill bit and indeed found no issues.
Then, they returned to the control room and lowered the drill bit again.
When it reached 1724 meters, the drill bit stopped.
No matter what, it just wouldn¡¯t go down.
¡°Can we determine the geological conditions below?¡±
¡°Unable.¡±
¡°What about the previous drilling data?¡±
¡°The geological structure obtained from previous drilling shows this position should be mud and gravel, which shouldn¡¯t stop the drill bit.¡±
¡°Restart drilling and check the geological data below.¡±
¡°Okay.¡±
The head of the drilling tform directly issued the order.
The drill bit they were currently using was different from the exploration drill bit, with a lower pration capability.
In less than half an hour, the drill bit was changed.
As the drill bit was lowered, everyone gathered in the control room, staring at the data on the screen.
In less than a minute, the warning light lit up, indicating the drill bit¡¯s temperature was rising.
However, the head didn¡¯t care; if the drill bit was damaged, so be it, as long as they could obtain the geological samples from below.
But five minutes passed.
The wear warning light for the drill bit also lit up.
But the position of the drill bit hadn¡¯t dropped at all.
¡°Retrieve the drill bit,¡± the head instructed.
They couldn¡¯t continue.
The drill bit was already worn, and drilling further would be meaningless.
When the drill bit was retrieved, a group of people immediately rushed over.
When they saw the drill bit, they were stunned.
This wasn¡¯t a drill bit anymore.
It had be a drill rod.
The entire drill bit had been ground t.
As for the geological sample, there was none at all.
The group looked at each other in bewilderment.
What was going on with this bizarre situation?
What kind of geological condition could grind a drill bit like this?
This just didn¡¯t make sense.
¡°What do we do now?¡±
¡°Director Kim, we might have to drill somewhere else; the geological conditions here are too bizarre.¡±
¡°Can we drill through if we change the location?¡± Director Kim asked with a frown.
¡°It shouldn¡¯t be a problem; this kind of special geological environment is unlikely to be widespread; we¡¯re just unlucky.¡±
¡°Alright then, but this time we must seed, or I won¡¯t be able to exin to the president when I return.¡±
¡°Don¡¯t worry, Director Kim. We¡¯ll do a test drill first to make sure there are no problems, and then proceed with the operation.¡±
¡°Then hurry up, I¡¯ll wait for the results before going back.¡±
¡°Okay.¡±
The head of the drilling tform immediately ordered the crew to retrieve the anchor chains, raise the drilling tform, and move forward to a new area of the sea.
The drilling tform¡¯s movement was slow.
But they didn¡¯t need to go too far.
So, in half an hour, they had again fixed their position and began drilling.
This time they didn¡¯ty down pipes but conducted a detection first.
On his yacht, Tang Rui saw the Korean¡¯s drilling tform stop and took a bite of watermelon, instructing Red Lotus to calcte their drilling position.
¡°Master, calctionplete. Their drilling position is here.¡±
¡°Hmm, now that we know the position, let¡¯s have the robot go there and ce the tungsten steel te at the same depth,¡± Tang Rui said while eating some melon.
¡°Okay, master. Red Lotus guarantees to ce the steel te at the exact depth, not a centimeter off,¡± Red Lotus said, then controlled the underground drilling robot to start digging towards that location.
The robot¡¯s speed was much faster than the Korean¡¯s drilling speed.
The Koreans had just started lowering their drill bit.
And Red Lotus had already ced the tungsten steel te underground.
The location was precise.
When the Koreans drilled down, they would again encounter the tungsten steel te.
This wear-resistant metal, specially developed by Red Lotus using material calction software, was so tough that even a machine tool¡¯s drill bit couldn¡¯t process it.
Even Tang Rui had no means to process this metal.
The only way to shape it was to do so before itpletely cooled.
Once it cooled, it was impossible to work with.
It was a special metal even more difficult to work with than titanium alloy.
It wasn¡¯t that Tang Rui looked down on the Koreans.
With the steel te underground, even if they ced it in front of them, they couldn¡¯t deal with it.
¡°Have we reached the position?¡±
Director Kim, sitting in the office, kept urging and asking.
¡°We¡¯ll be there in twenty minutes, max,¡± the head replied immediately.
To avoid making Director Kim anxious, they were drilling down frantically, risking damage to the drill bit.
And so.
The drilling quickly reached the position of the steel te.
¡°Team leader, the drill bit has stopped again.¡±
¡°What¡¯s the depth?¡±
¡°The same as before, 1724 meters below the seabed.¡±
¡°Increase the speed to the maximum, drill it hard.¡±
¡°Understood, team leader.¡±
As the speed was maximized, in less than two minutes, the wear warning light for the drill bit lit up.
¡°Retrieve the drill bit,¡± the team leader said and then ran to the office to report to the head and Director Kim.
After listening, both their expressions darkened.
Especially Director Kim, who looked so gloomy he seemed about to drip water.
The three went to the vertical shaft.
Looking at the drill bit, again ground t into a drill rod.
They exchanged nces.
Speechlessness.
¡°You said changing the location would allow us to drill down, so how do you exin this?¡±
Director Kim was the first to challenge, looking for someone to me.
The head didn¡¯t argue or say anything else, just stared intently at the ground-t drill bit.
¡°What are you looking at?¡± Director Kim asked, puzzled.
¡°We¡¯ve hit the jackpot.¡±
At that moment, the head¡¯s eyes shone brightly.
¡°Hit what jackpot?¡±
¡°Look at this drill bit.¡±
¡°What about the drill bit, isn¡¯t it ground t?¡±
¡°Yes, exactly, it¡¯s ground t.¡±
The head pped his hands, eyes gleaming: ¡°Tell me, what kind of material could grind a drill bit t?¡±
¡°Under natural conditions, there¡¯s no metal material that could grind a drill bit t, not even diamond.¡±
¡°So the metal below isn¡¯t naturally urring?¡± the team leader was the first to think of this and spoke up.
¡°Exactly, not only is it not a naturally formed metal, it¡¯s not even a metal manufactured on Earth. What does it mean when there are no scratches on this drill bit, and the surface is very smooth?¡± the head said, trembling.
¡°It means that below there is a very smooth and wear-resistant metal that ground the drill bit t, and it itself is undamaged,¡± the team leader¡¯s eyes also lit up.
¡°What do you mean?¡±
Director Kim was baffled by these two ¡®crazy¡¯ people.
The project was in trouble.
Instead of being nervous, they were excited.
Like they were about to climax.
What did it mean?
¡°Eliminate all impossibilities, and even if the final answer is unbelievable, that is the truth.
¡°We¡¯ve drilled into an extraterrestrial object, likely a spaceship buried underground,¡± the head of the drilling tform gushed excitedly.
A spaceship?
¡°Why do you say it¡¯s a spaceship and not a vein or something?¡± Director Kim asked,confused.
¡°Chief Park, exin to Director Kim.¡±
¡°Director Kim, it¡¯s like this, our drill bit is made of a special alloy, and there¡¯s no kind of vein or metal in nature that could in such a short time¡¡±
As the team leader exined, Director Kim also understood.
There was a spaceship below.
¡°Heaven bless the Koreans!¡±
The three excited people hugged each other, crying andughing.
All were too excited.
They had actually dug up a spaceship.
The rise of Korea was unstoppable.
Not even the Americans could stop it, ording to Director Kim..
Chapter 244 - 244: This is What a Spaceship Looks Like, It’s So Beautiful!
Chapter 244: This is What a Spaceship Looks Like, It¡¯s So Beautiful!
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¡°What are those guys so happy about?¡±
Tang Rui looked at the holographic projection screen and saw several people jumping around on the drilling tform,pletely confused.
¡°Your drill bit is worn out again.¡±
¡°And you¡¯re dancing on top of it.¡±
¡°Unbelievable.¡±
¡°What are you so happy about?¡±
¡°Red Lotus, what are they saying now?¡± Tang Rui was as anxious as a cat scratching, very agitated.
He originally wanted to cause trouble for those guys.
But then he realized¡ they were not only not upset, but they seemed very happy and excited.
This made him very ufortable.
¡°Master, Red Lotus needs to hack into theirwork to eavesdrop on their phone conversations and understand what they are talking about.¡±
After hearing this, Tang Rui immediately asked Red Lotus to carry out the hacking.
¡°Master, the other party is making a phone call. Do you want me to y the content of the call?¡±
¡°y it.¡±
Tang Rui nodded immediately, truly curious now.
¡°President, this is Kim Jae-hyun. Are there other people around you?¡± Director Kim was calling the president on a satellite phone.
¡°No one¡¯s here. Is there something special?¡±
¡°President, while drilling, we discovered something like a spaceship, an alien artifact.¡±
¡°Are you drunk?¡± the president asked skeptically after pondering for a while.
¡°President, I didn¡¯t believe it at first either, but please listen to me, this is how it happened¡¡±
Director Kim, with his good memory, repeated everything the team leader had told him to the president.
¡°Are you sure you¡¯re not joking?¡± the president still sounded unsure after a long pause.
¡°President, you can send another drilling team over without telling them the truth. Let them drill, and when the resultse in, we¡¯ll know for sure.¡±
¡°Okay, I¡¯ll send people over. You take charge there and remember to cut off other signals, only keeping this satellite phone operational.¡±
¡°Don¡¯t worry, President, I¡¯ve already made arrangements. If anyone dares to leak information, it¡¯s normal to lose a few people in the rough seas these days.¡±
¡°Good. If it¡¯s really as you said, you¡¯ll head a subsidiarypany after this.¡±
¡°Thank you, President.¡±
The two ended their call and then went on to make various arrangements.
Tang Rui also heard the entire conversation, his facial expression very strange.
How to put it.
He had considered many possibilities, but he never expected that their imagination would go so far.
They found a spaceship?
They must be dreaming.
Dreaming of spaceships in broad daylight, truly worthy of being from a country with a talent for this.
But now that he knew about this.
He could study it thoroughly.
Want a spaceship?
He¡¯d make one for you.
An hourter.
Another drilling team arrived at the drilling tform.
In that country, conglomerates are quite powerful; ask for a drilling team, and you¡¯ll get one immediately.
This team, under Director Kim¡¯s arrangements, began drilling.
It was the same hole as before.
The drill bit was worn t again.
Director Kim, upon seeing this result, was not angry but excited.
He reported the oue to the president.
¡°I have a task for you, keep drilling around the area andpile the data,¡± the president gave Director Kim a new order.
¡°Understood, President, don¡¯t worry, I know what to do.¡±
After hanging up the phone, Director Kim asked the drilling tform to move to the forward sea area for drilling.
¡°Director Kim, why are we drilling ahead?¡±
¡°What do you think?¡±
¡°Is it to determine the size of that object?¡±
¡°Exactly, so let¡¯s get moving.¡±
¡°Understood.¡±
The drilling tform surfaced again and began moving on the sea surface.
Moving straight ahead.
After moving two nautical miles, they stopped again to drill.
This time, they sessfully broke through the 1724-meter barrier, drilling down to 1786 meters before stopping.
¡°There¡¯s hope, there¡¯s hope.¡±
¡°This must be the height difference on the surface of the spaceship.¡±
¡°That¡¯s right, record the data well and keep moving.¡±
¡°Understood.¡±
In the following period, the drilling tform kept moving around this sea area, initially drilling every one or two nautical miles.
Then it became six to seven hundred meters per drill.
Finally.
Drilling every hundred meters, they had turned the entire seabed into a honeb of drill holes.
But they were excited.
Through continuous drilling, they simted the general shape and volume of the spaceship on the seabed.
Simr to the Starship Enterprise in the movies, the ship wasposed of two discs, onerge and one small, and a central strut.
The frontrge disc had a radius of 172 meters and a height difference of 25 meters.
The smaller disc at the back had a radius of 52 meters and a height difference of 12 meters.
The central strut was a cylinder.
It was drilled at a depth of 135 meters below the two discs, and through continuous drilling, they confirmed it was a cylindrical structure.
Due to the different wear and tear from the drilling, this discovery excited them even more.
¡°This is what a spaceship looks like, so beautiful, Ssimida.¡±
¡°Yes, it¡¯s like a masterpiece bestowed upon us by heaven, Ssimida.¡±
Natural creations.
Couldn¡¯t possibly be this standardized, forming two circles and a cylinder, so there must be a spaceship at the bottom of the sea.
But there was a problem: the spaceship was buried too deep.
Even the shallowest part was at a depth of 1724 meters on the seabed, making it impossible to excavate.
This was not taking into ount the colossal size of the spaceship.
How were they going to excavate it?
A group of experts suddenly came up with an idea.
Since it couldn¡¯t be excavated, could a hole be drilled, and some metal debris or equipmentponents be removed for reverse engineering?
This idea was quickly supported by most of them.
Then a group of experts started studying where the engine might be located based on the model of the spaceship.
Eventually, they estimated a location and began to drill.
Just as the drilling started on this side, Tang Rui asked Red Lotus to block the hole ording to the spaceship model he designed.
¡°Red Lotus, based on their current progress, how long would it take for them to drill through the entire spaceship¡¯s body?¡±
Tang Rui nced at the holographic projection screen showing a spaceship model with red dots and asked Red Lotus.
¡°Master, based on their current progress, it¡¯s practically impossible to detect the entire model of the spaceship.
Even just drilling the surface of the spaceship, considering the strength of the geological structure and their current drilling technology.
Before reaching the limit of the number of drill holes the geological structure can withstand, at most only sixty-seven percent of the spaceship model can be detected.
And as they progress, it will take more and more time, so it¡¯s impossible to estimate the specific duration.¡±
After simting, Red Lotus reported to Tang Rui.
¡°I see¡ Then let them y slowly, make sure the model looks very realistic.¡±
Tang Rui casuallymented after hearing the report.
He couldn¡¯t monitor them every day, so he left this matter to Red Lotus.
As long as the power didn¡¯t go out, Red Lotus could y with them for a thousand or even ten thousand years.
¡°Understood, Master, Red Lotus guarantees they won¡¯t discover anything unusual.¡±
In this regard, Red Lotus was professional.
It even adjusted the angle while cing the steel tes underground ording to the spaceship model designed by Tang Rui.
The cylindrical strut they concluded was just a result of the different angles of the steel tes ced by Red Lotus..
Chapter 245 - 245: Tunnel Splicing, the Koreans Begin to Drill
Chapter 245: Tunnel Splicing, the Koreans Begin to Drill
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¡°Red Lotus, catch that fish and hang it on my hook.¡±
Tang Rui, looking at the holographic projection screen, said to Red Lotus in frustration as he watched the big fish that ate his bait and then ran away without biting the hook.
¡°Okay, master.¡±
After receiving the order, Red Lotus quickly controlled the underwater robot toe over, then shot out a capture and caught the fish.
Then, using a mechanical arm, Red Lotus opened the fish¡¯s mouth and hung it on Tang Rui¡¯s hook. After finishing, Red Lotus immediately left and continued to work underwater.
It was apparent that this routine was very well-practiced.
Meanwhile, Tang Rui, holding his fishing rod, began to walk the fish on the deck.
Wasn¡¯t it boring?
There wasn¡¯t any choice.
Tang Rui had a lot to deal with. The project was just starting, and he couldn¡¯t leave yet.
So, day and night, he was either fishing in the Bohai Bay or returning to Dalian, wearing smart sses to y games in the square.
However,pared to his gaming skills, his fishing was not as good. Often, he caught fish using this method.
Fishing, well¡
It wasn¡¯t embarrassing to buy a fish at the market, not to mention having a robot catch one.
¡°Red Lotus, stew this fish for tonight¡¯s fish soup,¡± Tang Rui said to Red Lotus after pulling up the fish, handing it over to a domestic robot beside him.
¡°Master, do you need tofu?¡±
¡°Use firm tofu. I don¡¯t eat the fish meat, just drink the soup.¡±
¡°Okay, Red Lotus understands.¡±
Catching a fish meant today¡¯s task waspleted.
Tang Rui leisurely returned to the hall, opened a bottle of soda, and began to process documents.
Actually, Red Lotus had already dealt with most of the documents.
Tang Rui only dealt with those that Red Lotus couldn¡¯t, like various inquiry emails.
Like the one from three hours ago.
The modr pipeline for the undersea tunnel was ready, and all tests were up to standards. The constructionpany asked him when to start underwater construction.
Such documents could only be replied to by Tang Rui himself.
¡°Start construction tomorrow morning, beginning from the seabed ore vein,¡± Tang Rui replied.
He chose not to start from the shore because both entrances were not yetpleted and couldn¡¯t be connected directly.
Therefore, it was better to start from the seabed ore vein location.
By the time it reached the shore, the entrances would have beenpleted, ready for direct connection.
Connecting the undersea tunnel was actually simple.
When the two tunnel sections were joined, the water pressure would tightly seal the middle, ensuring no water leaked through the connection.
Not to mention, Tang Rui had added an extrayer of waterproof and corrosion-resistant material to the outeryer of the tunnel.
As long as the tunnel didn¡¯t suffer massive fractures, even with a crack of several centimeters, Tang Rui could guarantee no water would enter.
He aimed for this tunnel to be a century-long project.
At least for the next hundred years, there shouldn¡¯t be any issues with this undersea tunnel.
The next day, two ships, carrying a section of the undersea tunnel, arrived for construction.
¡°President Tang, the underwater tunnels we built before were not this deep. Is it okay to just drop it down?¡±
The constructionpany was a bit worried.
After all, Tang Rui¡¯s method seemed a bit rough to them; just dropping the tunnel down.
This was not simply underwater; it was the seabed.
With ocean currents, if it didn¡¯tnd in the right ce, it would be a disaster.
¡°No problem, I have arranged underwater construction robots below. You just need to focus on manufacturing the tunnel,¡± Tang Rui said nonchntly.
With Red Lotus controlling the underwater construction robots, as long as the tunnel quality was fine, other issues were not a problem.
Hearing Tang Rui¡¯s words, the constructionpany had no choice but to cooperate.
As the two ships simultaneously retracted the interlocking pins, the sealed tunnel sections directly fell into the sea.
Tang Rui didn¡¯t concern himself with them.
Through his smart sses, he monitored the underwater situation.
After the tunnel sections entered the water, the construction robots immediately moved to the side, using mechanical arms to secure the tunnel.
Then, under Red Lotus¡¯s coordination, all robots simultaneously activated their propellers, adjusting the tunnel¡¯s descent angle and direction.
Since the tunnel was sealed and filled with air, it didn¡¯t sink quickly.
It took over five minutes.
Finally, under the robots¡¯ control, the tunnel slowly settled into the seabed groove, fitting perfectly.
This was only the first step.
After positioning the tunnel, a robot with a long hose came to the sides of the tunnel, beginning to spray special cement.
With the cement filling any gaps and bubbles, leaving no potential issues.
During the cement filling, several robots inserted long steel columns through pre-drilled holes in the tunnel into the surrounding seabed rock walls.
Lastly, the corrosion-resistant and tensile alloy specially made by Tang Rui for the oil pipeline was inserted by the robots into the reserved channels at the bottom of the tunnel.
In Tang Rui¡¯s design, the undersea tunnel needed a ¡°backbone¡± to prevent segment misalignment and tunnel breakage during earthquakes.
This oil pipeline was the tunnel¡¯s ¡°backbone.¡±
After the first tunnel section was ced, the constructionpany quickly brought the second section.
The process was the same as before.
Only this time, the undersea tunnel had an additional connecting step, but this connection was straightforward.
The construction robots perfectly coordinated,pleting the tunnel connection in one go, then began securing it.
¡°There are no problems with the undersea tunnel. While ensuring performance, elerate the manufacturing pace,¡± Tang Rui instructed after a neutrino scan.
Seeing no issues in the holographic projection, he told the constructionpany to speed up the tunnel manufacturing.
¡°Okay, Tang, we¡¯ll increase the drying field and speed up construction after we return,¡± the constructionpany¡¯s representative immediately responded.
Over the next month, Tang Rui stayed in Bohai Bay and Dalian, not doing much else or causing trouble.
Every day, he either dealt with engineering matters or watched events unfold.
The Koreans, fully believing in the existence of an underwater spaceship, abandoned their ns to exploit the oil field.
They announced they would start undersea mining.
Bringing in many personnel and equipment, they intended to mine underwater.
Their goal was simple: they wanted to drill a one-meter diameter hole directly to the spaceship¡¯s bridge, then use cutting equipment to open a hole in the spaceship¡¯s deck.
Then they could send people into the spaceship to collect data and study alien technology.
Tang Rui watched their live broadcast every day.
It was really interesting.
To let them drill in peace, he specially had Red Lotus prepare a 1.3-meter diameter tungsten alloy steel te and ce it below.
When they found the bridge deck and drilled a hole, only to discover rock beneath, he hoped they wouldn¡¯t be too disappointed..
Chapter 246 - 246: Space Race, Moon Farming (Part 1)
Chapter 246: Space Race, Moon Farming (Part 1)
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¡°Master, the underwater drilling tform in the ore vein has beenpleted, and the special materials collection center has been activated.¡±
That day, Tang Rui was fishing.
Red Lotus suddenly appeared and reported the situation to him.
¡°I know.¡±
After hearing this news, Tang Rui immediately handed his fishing rod to a nearby robot and went back to his room to change clothes.
Ten minutester.
Tang Rui, dressed in a diving suit, came up to the deck, gave a quick instruction to Gao Yang, and then jumped into the water.
As Tang Rui dove down to the seabed, the holographic scan of the neutrino radar clearly showed the long tunnels at both ends of the seabed ore vein.
However, the undersea tunnel was not the main concern.
Tang Rui was really interested in the inside of the seabed ore vein.
Currently, there were sixteen small pipelines outside the ore vein, each constantly drawing in seawater.
Thanks to special treatment, these pipelines did not create vortices while absorbing seawater and did not affect the surrounding marine environment.
When Tang Rui arrived at the seabed ore vein, a hole disguised as a rock opened.
He swam through the entrance.
When the entrance closed, the water inside started to drain, and both oxygen
and pressure returned to normal levels.
Buzz¡
Then, the walls inside the entrance opened, revealing a passage.
Tang Rui walked through the passage.
¡°Master, this passage is a secret passage and can also be used as an emergency escape route. Red Lotus has ced eighty life pods in the rock around the entrance.¡±
Red Lotus appeared and began to exin the interior to Tang Rui.
¡°Master, from here, take the elevator; on the left is the normal underwater drilling tform control center, and on the right is the hidden special materials extraction center.
Besides you, master, no one can enter the special materials extraction center. Even if someone forcibly breaks through the passage, they will be killed by theser weapons on both sides.¡±
After listening, Tang Rui rolled his eyes in resignation.
It was Red Lotus again, setting up anotherser corridor.
Thisser corridor¡¯s power was certainly stronger than theser weapons in thepany¡¯s mountain, as it had been upgraded and strengthened, so safety was not an issue.
Soon, Tang Rui took the elevator to the right side¡¯s special materials extraction center and, after passing through a 44-meter-longser corridor, saw a control center of only 300 square meters.
The hall had only one circr holographic projection screen.
The screen disyed data on three types of extracted materials: deuterium, tritium, and uranium.
Currently, the reserves of these three special materials were all zero, as the equipment had just been activated.
¡°Red Lotus, how¡¯s the extraction speed?¡±
Tang Rui didn¡¯t visit the heavy water centrifuge or the seawater purification and separation center below; there was nothing of interest to see.
He just wanted to know the extraction speed of these materials.
¡°Master, due to the efficiency of geothermal power generation, the extraction speed is not very fast. But once the first batch of materials is extracted, we can build our own reactor, and then electricity supply will no longer be an issue, and extraction efficiency will increase rapidly.
Based on the current speed, the first batch of materials will be extracted in three months, to be used for reactor construction.
Once the reactor is operational, we can extract nine units of special substances every month.¡±
Red Lotus briefly exined the specific data.
¡°Hmm, how much space is reserved below?¡±
¡°A total of thirty floors, 200,000 square meters of underground space is reserved below. If necessary, we can expand in four directions, adding up to 800,000 square meters of underground space.¡±
¡°That¡¯s enough, let it be for now.¡±
After listening, Tang Rui nodded and, after a final nce at the data on the holographic projection, turned and left.
In fact, he was collecting these materials not for any other purpose.
Mainly to make some small toys and conduct some experiments, as these materials were too special.
Applying for them was troublesome.
So, it was better to just collect them himself, as the technology was simple, it just couldn¡¯t be publicized.
Now was a good opportunity.
Taking advantage of building the underwater drilling tform, collecting the materials was killing two birds with one stone.
Arriving at the left side¡¯s underground drilling tform.
This ce was much more normal.
After all, people would be stationed here in the future, so the facilities here were veryplete, and the defense standards were even built ording to nuclear defense construction levels.
Apart from the control center work area and the equipment pipeline maintenance area, there was also a vast underground living area, entertainment area, materials storage warehouse, andbat readiness area.
Normally, thebat readiness area was not open.
Because there, Tang Rui had arranged submarineunched surprise attacks, which, although not loaded with nuclear bombs, were indeed capable ofunching.
From here, one could directly go to the undersea tunnel.
The undersea tunnel¡¯s entrance and exit could be said to be the normal ess for the underwater drilling tform.
The ce he had entered earlier was the emergency escape route.
Tang Rui took a tour inside.
He felt very positive about it.
After all, it was built by Red Lotus, and all the facilities and equipment used were the best.
Even underground, there was no feeling of stuffiness.
Constant temperature, constant humidity, and there was even a seabed viewing tform in the entertainment area. Just by opening the external armor, one could see the seabed.
But in Bohai Bay, there wasn¡¯t much to see on the seabed.
However, in a few days, he could ask Red Lotus to nt some corals outside the viewing tform.
Of course, whether they could survive was another matter..
Chapter 247 - 247: Space Race, Lunar Farming (Part 2)
Chapter 247: Space Race, Lunar Farming (Part 2)
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Returning to the yacht, Tang Rui began to arrange some matters, as he did not n to continue staying there.
It was nowte July, almost August.
He had spent over two months in Bohai Bay.
The project had progressed to this point, with the most crucial parts alreadypleted, and his private cargo had been added.
The remaining tasks, such asying the undersea tunnel and connecting the oil pipeline, were minor.
With Red Lotus overseeing, there would be no issues.
As for the construction onshore, he had never been involved in it, as it was always managed by the construction unit.
Therefore, staying there had no more significance.
Although watching the Koreans dig holes every day was amusing, it had be boring over time.
Once Tang Rui had delegated all his tasks, he asked Gaoyang to sail the yacht back to Dalian.
That evening, Tang Rui took a private ne and returned to his long-missed home.
¡°I¡¯m back,¡± he eximed upon arriving home.
¡°Is the Bohai Bay project finished?¡±
Li Shuyao was surprised to see Tang Rui return.
For these two months, it had always been her visiting Tang Rui at Bohai Bay, thanks to the White Emperor Spacefighter that could hover next to the yacht, making it convenient to return the next day.
So, besides visiting Bohai Bay on weekends, she would also spend a few nights there during the week.
It was only a ten-minute journey, quicker than her dailymute.
¡°It¡¯s not finished, but there¡¯s not much left to do. I don¡¯t need to be there to oversee it; I can handle things from home.¡±
Life on the yacht wasfortable, but it had be tedious.
Had it not been for waiting for the construction of the tform inside the undersea ore vein, he would have returned much earlier.
¡°Have you eaten dinner? I¡¯ll cook something for you.¡±
¡°Anything simple will do.¡±
¡°Alright, then rest first.¡±
Li Shuyao said and went to the kitchen to prepare a meal.
They were all simple home-cooked dishes.
No fish.
The couple had almost be sick of seafood after eating it so much recently.
Tang Ruiy on the sofa, took out his phone, and began browsing the news.
Ha!
America was serious this time.
Half a month ago, the Americans had announced their intention to return to the moon, and this time they nned to establish a base there.
For this lunar mission, they had prepared two spacecraft and additional supply depots.
Thus, these spacecraft needed to be assembled in outer space, then slingshot around Earth¡¯s gravity to travel to the moon.
Tang Rui had previously read this news and thought America was just bluffing again.
After all, they had made such derations more than once, but it turned out they were serious this time.
Tonight, after nine, they were going tounch aponent of the spacecraft into Earth¡¯s orbit.
They were using the Falcon Heavy rocket, which was a fully reusableunch vehicle.
It seemed the Americans were trulymitted this time.
After reading the news, Tang Rui visited NASA¡¯s official website to check the timeline of their moon return n.
The entire spacecraft required eightunches, plus four more for supplies and fuel.
In total, twelveunches were needed to fully assemble the spacecraft.
Then, it would undergo two months of testing in outer space.
Going through this entire process, the Americans nned tond on the moon by the end of the year, around Christmas, as a part of their New Year¡¯s celebration.
A great idea, it would sound like.
Should he get involved?
Tang Rui squinted, thinking there might not be an opportunity unless he went to outer space to check their spacecraft.
But such an action might impact the current international situation.
Previously, the tensions were high, with weapons used for intimidation.
There was even a proxy war in Africa.
So, his dismantling of the opponent¡¯s satellite was quite normal at the time.
But now, everyone had agreed to avoid armed conflicts and arms races.
So, direct action was not advisable.
Wrong.
America was initiating a space race with them.
This wasn¡¯t an arms race, but its impact was significant, as thepetition was for space supremacy and the future.
So, they couldn¡¯t just stand by.
¡°Eaten.¡±
¡°Coming.¡±
Tang Rui put down his phone and stopped thinking about this issue.
After all, it wasn¡¯t a big deal.
He was a yer with cheats; why fear an opponent who only spent money?
The night passed without further discussion.
The next day, Tang Rui went to thepany, toured around, checked on various departments, and chatted with a few project leaders.
Though there wasn¡¯t much happening at thepany, he still needed to make a round and deal with umted matters now that he was back.
After finishing these tasks, he went to see Lin Chao.
¡°Brother Lin, the Americans are starting a space race with us. Is there any word from above?¡±
¡°I¡¯m not sure about the specifics, but I can get the information for you,¡± Lin Chao replied, shaking his head.
Tang Rui had been rxed while away.
But such news didn¡¯t reach him here.
Once Tang Rui returned, he could easily get any information through a secure channel.
¡°Then I¡¯ll trouble you, Brother Lin.¡±
¡°Have some tea; I¡¯ll be right back.¡±
Half an hourter, Lin Chao emerged from the secure room with two file bags containing freshly printed documents.
The ink on the A4 papers was still warm.
Tang Rui picked up the documents and began to read.
In the face of spacepetition, they couldn¡¯t back down.
They could have retreated or yed it safe before, when they hadn¡¯t fully emerged or faced directpetition.
But not anymore.
They had already made a firm stand before, and retreating was no longer an option.
Everyone was watching.
As someone who had been top of his ss, saying he didn¡¯t want topete in a subject anymore just didn¡¯t feel right.
Thus, they had to go ahead with the n, ready or not.
In fact, the domestic aerospace field had umted a lot of foundations over the years, with some areas even developing their own systems.
Butpared to economic development, the investment in space was not substantial, as it didn¡¯t bring immediate economic benefits.
Even though some space technologies had high technical value and could be applied in various industries, the feedback time was too long.
Now, with the new economic pir industry found and the rapid development of carbon-based semiconductors over the past six months, traditional silicon-based semiconductors had been almostpletely reced.
With the new industry pir established and the Bohai Bay project under construction, expected to bepleted early next year,
Oil would no longer be a major expense, allowing them to fully invest in aerospace.
Thus, the domestic government directly allocated 200 billion for technological integration and optimization, with carbon-based semiconductors recing microelectronics, and the original moonnding and lunar base ns were brought forward.
The two space ns Tang Rui held were for the reusable space shuttle and the lunar base.
The space shuttle n was straightforward.
Tang Rui could start it anytime he wanted.
What interested him was the lunar base n, which included building a standard base for 30 people and a biosphere for growing vegetables.
Farming on the moon; it was a natural skill.
Wherever people went, they would grow crops, even on the moon.
After reviewing both ns, Tang Rui asked, ¡°Did they say when we¡¯re going to the moon?¡±
¡°The idea from above is to develop our own strengths first and make full use of the advantages of carbon-based semiconductors.
As for the moonnding, we¡¯ll get there sooner orter; we¡¯re not rushing. But when we do go, it will be to start building the Guanghan Pce,¡± Lin Chao answered without hesitation.
Clearly, these were directives from higher up.
¡°Do I not have any tasks?¡± Tang Rui asked again after hearing this.
¡°The Bohai Bay project is also very important. We have talents in the aerospace field, and now with increased investment, results are certain, it¡¯s just a matter of time. We¡¯re not in a hurry in this area.¡±
Tang Rui understood what they meant.
They saw he was too busy, so they didn¡¯t assign him any tasks.
Besides, the space race was not a matter to be rushed in half a year.
If hepleted the Bohai Bay project, he would certainly have tasks to do.
¡°Okay, I understand. If there¡¯s nothing else, I¡¯ll go back,¡± Tang Rui said, preparing to leave.
¡°There is something. I didn¡¯t rush to inform you since you weren¡¯t here. The nuclear industry has already created the core you needed.¡±
The core was ready!
Tang Rui¡¯s eyes lit up at this news..
Chapter 248 - 248: Intergrated Energy and Power Nuclear Reactor
Chapter 248: Intergrated Energy and Power Nuclear Reactor
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In the afternoon, a transport nended on thepany¡¯s airport runway and unloaded a specially-made canister.
It was made of an outeryer of metal and an inneryer of lead.
¡°President Tang, please sign for this,¡± said the person responsible for transporting the nuclear rocket core, asking Tang Rui to sign.
¡°Okay, thank you for your efforts,¡± Tang Rui said after signing.
After collecting Tang Rui¡¯s signature on the receipt, the transporter returned to the ne and departed.
Tang Rui instructed Red Lotus to transport the item back to the assembly workshop.
In the assembly workshop, a 300i model spacecraft was already built, onlycking a power and energy core. Once installed, it could take off immediately. However, Tang Rui did not n to equip this device on the spacecraft. The original design was simple, intended primarily for the fuel rods.
¡°Red Lotus, remove the fuel rods from the device, and be mindful of radiation,¡± Tang Rui instructed.
¡°Don¡¯t worry, master, Red Lotus will handle it carefully.¡±
Red Lotus, controlling a robot, opened the canister and removed the pencil-thick fuel rods, totaling 36 in number.
These fuel rods had not yet been inserted into the reactor core.
The fission reaction had not started.
After removing the rods, the robot resealed the canister and sprayed a radiation-neutralizing solution.
Though the radiation leak was minimal, it still needed to be decontaminated.
In theboratory, seeing Red Lotus had properly ced the fuel rods, Tang Rui stopped worrying about that matter.
¡°Red Lotus, project the model of the nuclear-powered rocket core¡¯s reactor, and remove the external heating pipes,¡± Tang Ruimanded.
¡°Yes, master.¡±
Tang Rui began modifying the core reactor of the nuclear-powered rocket.
The current nuclear-powered rockets relied on heat to ignite the propent. This structure and ignition method couldn¡¯t fully utilize the reactor¡¯s true potential.
Only by allowing liquid hydrogen to directly enter the reactor core and participate in the reaction chain could the full power of the particle stream be unleashed.
Although not as efficient as nuclear fusion, it was sufficient for current use.
With a specific impulse of 7500 seconds, itpletely outperformed all existing chemical fuel rockets, which were not even in the same league. The highest specific impulse of chemical fuel rockets was about 300 seconds.
The difference was 25-fold.
Of course, there were many technical issues to resolve, with the main one being nuclear radiation.
Without solving this, the project would be no more than an enhanced version of the Pluto nuclear-powered missile.
How could this problem be solved?
With mas.
The rocket nozzle needed maic adjustment since no material could withstand the particle stream transformed from liquid hydrogen after a chain reaction.
The temperature was too high.
It could only be contained by maic fields.
Effectively controlling this intensely hot sma stream required multiple maic fields and maic channels.
Scientists had conceived this design decades ago but could not realize it due to limitations in engineering technology and material capabilities.
If Tang Rui had not solved the material issue, he wouldn¡¯t have been able to build it either, relying only on system enhancements.
Now, he could not only build it but also optimize it.
For example, the cooling system.
Under the restraint of the maic field and the istion of neutron shielding materials, the reactor didn¡¯t need arge cooling system. Even the power generation unit didn¡¯t need to boil water traditionally but could directly generate electricity through a maohydrodynamic generator, which didn¡¯t affect propulsion.
With Tang Rui¡¯s modifications and Red Lotus¡¯s simtion calctions,
It didn¡¯t take long for the new integrated power and energy core nuclear reactor device to be designed.
¡°Red Lotus, start manufacturing the reactor.¡±
After confirming there were no issues through Red Lotus¡¯s simtion, Tang
Rui ordered the production.
¡°Yes, master, it should bepleted in three and a half hours.¡±
Tang Rui checked the time.
It was just past three o¡¯clock.
By dinner, the manufacturing would beplete.
The speed was primarily due to simplifying the internal design. Manyplex engineering designs had been reced by strong material capabilities.
Even the thick lead tes required for radiation shielding were reced by electromaic coils.
This was the benefit of breakthroughs in materials.
¡°After manufacturing isplete, insert the fuel rods and test it,¡± Tang Rui instructed Red Lotus before leaving theboratory.
The rest was not his concern.
Wearing smart sses, Tang Rui went to thepany¡¯s za to level up by fighting monsters.
It was work hours.
The employees were busy, so nobodypeted with him for monsters and treasure chests. All the monsters in thepany were his to fight.
He messed around until the end of the workday.
He had to leave then.
After the employees clocked out, they rushed into the za, summoned their beasts, and started hunting monsters.
Tang Rui was somewhat helpless about this.
After dinner, Tang Rui returned to theboratory.
Red Lotus was testing the newly manufactured reactor, and all data were normal.
The power generation alone reached 280 megawatts.
The specific impulse only increased slightly to 7800 seconds.
The data was normal.
The operation was stable.
Most importantly, the reactor was safe and would not have any nuclear leakage issues.
The electromaic coils enveloping the core generated a maic field that firmly contained the energy released after the chain reaction.
It might sound like nuclear fusion.
But it wasn¡¯t.
This reactor was still fission-based.
The real danger of the core was just nuclear radiation and extreme heat, which didn¡¯t significantly affect the maic field.
If this maic coil system was applied to a nuclear fusion reactor, it would light up the sky in a second.
They were not on the same level.
The required maic field strength was also different.
A real nuclear fusion reactor required a minimum of 60T super-strong maic fields. America had only managed to produce 34T in aboratory setting.
The actual test ignition nuclear fusion reactor, even using superconducting coils in liquid helium, only reached a maic field strength of 13.4T.
His reactor only needed a 1T maic field to firmly contain the core¡¯s energy.
Even this was an overkill, as 6000 gauss would have sufficed.
But the extra capacity didn¡¯t matter.
The power generation was ample.
Whatever the design, it was sufficient.
Tang Rui nced at the reactor¡¯s test data, found no issues, and confirmed it was all within the expected range.
¡°After all tests areplete, install it in the spacecraft, and finish by tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. at thetest.¡±
¡°Understood, master..¡±
Chapter 249 - 249: Flying to the Moon
Chapter 249: Flying to the Moon
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The next morning, Tang Rui was in theboratory, modifying a mechanical dog with Red Lotus.
He had forgotten something yesterday.
That was to design a robot specifically for the lunar environment.
No sooner had he thought of this in the morning than he hurried to theb to get busy.
Now, it was definitely toote to make a specialized moon robot.
The space shuttle was in the final stages of assembly, and even with testing, it would be finished in at most an hour and a half.
Producing robots now would yield at most three to five units, which was far from enough.
Therefore, Tang Rui chose to modify the mechanical dog.
After all, he wasn¡¯t nning to build a lunar base this time; the main purpose was to conduct a survey.
The most important thing was to check the geological data of the moon.
To find out where the richest mineral resources were.
To determine where the geological structure was most suitable for building a base.
He also wanted to understand what the interior of the moon was like and whether it was possible that it was hollow.
After all, back in the day, the Americans would throw things at the moon.
Echoes were detected on the lunar surface.
That was quite frightening.
And then there was the far side of the moon ¨C what was it like? Were there any remnants of alien spacecraft?
Although it was highly unlikely, without seeing it with his own eyes, who could say for sure?
This time, he was going to the moon, and it was the perfect opportunity to deploy the mechanical dogs there to gather geological data.
It was also a way of fulfilling a dream.
After more than an hour of modifications, Red Lotus had modified 21 mechanical dogs that could adapt to the lunar surface environment, equipped with some exploration devices and internal geological data detectors.
Without the enhancedmunication satellites, even if the mechanical dogs were deployed to the moon, they would be hard to control.
After all, the bandwidth for data transmission between the Earth and the moon was limited.
The space agency couldn¡¯t even handle it on their own.
And it certainly wasn¡¯t something Tang Rui could y with.
But now, with the system-enhancedmunication satellites, information could be transmitted without dy within too astronomical units.
Red Lotus could directly control the mechanical dogs on the moon.
That made things much easier.
Tang Rui just had to deploy the mechanical dogs upon reaching the moon.
At ten o¡¯clock, Tang Rui changed into his anti-load suit and armor, took the mechanical dogs to the assembly workshop, and boarded the space shuttle directly in the workshop.
He entered the interior of the 300L
And went to the cockpit.
Tang Rui sat in the chair and fastened his seatbelt.
Buzz¡
The chair moved automatically forward and upward, bringing him in front of the main control screen.
Swipe!
The main control screen, the windshield, and the windows on both sides lit up with data disys at the same time.
The main control screen showed various data about the space shuttle, including the parameters of the equipment inside.
The windshield disyed various flight data.
The window on the left showedmunication data and system logs.
The window on the right disyed spatial positioning data andary orbital data.
Tang Rui didn¡¯t need to wear a helmet inside.
So, this data was disyed right before his eyes, but it didn¡¯t interfere with his operation, nor did it hinder his view of the scenery.
¡°Master, the space shuttle¡¯s self-check isplete, all systems are functioning normally, ready to take off at any time.¡±
¡°Activate the SEG unit, turn on the optical stealth device.¡±
As Tang Rui entered hismand, the space shuttle slowly floated up, hovering a meter above the ground, then the surface of the shuttle rippled like water, and in the next second, the entire space shuttle disappeared inside the assembly workshop.
Of course, if you looked from behind, you could still see the engine nozzles, as they couldn¡¯t be covered with flexible liquid crystal screens and thus couldn¡¯t be made invisible.
But this didn¡¯t affect the overall stealthiness.
Tang Rui pushed the control stick.
The space shuttle moved slightly, crawling out of the mountain at a snail¡¯s pace.
The speed was akin to a normal person walking.
It couldn¡¯t be helped: that¡¯s how electric propulsion engines worked within the Earth¡¯s atmosphere.
Even though the space shuttle had already offset Earth¡¯s gravity, it couldn¡¯t counteract air resistance.
The electric propulsion engine Tang Rui was using was only at the level of a cow, not yet at the level of a kilocow.
After all, without system enhancement, a cow-level was already the top-level electric propulsion engine, even the space station didn¡¯t use one as good as his.
As for why not use a nuclear-powered rocket engine, it was a joke.
Using it in a factory would irradiate everyone in the area with neutrons, leaving no survivors.
Although he had installed a neutron shielding inner wall for the reactor, the problem was that it only protected the interior of the space shuttle from neutron radiation, not that the particle stream emitted by the engine startup didn¡¯t contain neutrons.
So, at this time, he could only use electric propulsion.
After a while, the space shuttle left the mountain.
At this point, he increased the energy output to the SEG unit, enhancing the maic field range and strength.
Using the Earth¡¯s maic field, the space shuttle was propelled out.
After more than half an hour, the space shuttle finally climbed to an altitude of 50,000 meters, where he could start the nuclear-powered rocket engine.
Liquid hydrogen was injected into the nuclear reactor, then heated and expanded by chain reactions into a particle stream, which was ejected from the rear nozzle.
Under the constraint of the maic field, the scattered and disordered particle stream was transformed into a directional spray.
A massive burst of thrust erupted.
The space shuttle broke the sound barrier in an instant, then the heat barrier, and finally reached the ck barrier.
But just a few seconds after entering the ck barrier, the space shuttle broke through the Karman line and entered outer space.
At this moment, it was time for the nuclear-powered rocket engine to burst forth.
elerate!
elerate!
And elerate again!
There was no need for any gravity slingshot or to fly any curved orbit; the space shuttle shot straight out of space, heading for the moon 300,000 kilometers away.
It seemed like a big deal, but in reality, except for Tang Rui¡¯s own neutrino radar satellite, not a single satellite in Earth¡¯s orbit could detect the space shuttle¡¯s trajectory.
Satellite scanning relied on radar waves, not optical equipment.
The space shuttle was coated with stealth paint overall, and the engine nozzles at the rear were constrained by a strong maic field, making it ghostly to radar.
In a blink of an eye, the space shuttle had already left Earth¡¯s orbit, but its speed was still crazily increasing.
Tang Rui nced at the speedometer on the left.
The current speed was Mach 116, or 142,109 kilometers per hour. At this speed, it would only take two hours to reach the moon.
But was that possible?
It wasn¡¯t.
Two hours was too long.
So, Tang Rui had no intention of slowing down at all, pushing the throttle to the limit.
Engine, let me see your limit.
Mach 140.
Mach 160.
Mach 200.
Tang Rui kept elerating, quickly reaching Mach 200, but this was not the limit of the engine.
However, when the flight speed reached Mach 320, he stopped elerating.
He couldn¡¯t speed up anymore.
The current speed was enough.
Otherwise, it would be troublesome to slow downter.
At the current speed, he would reach the moon¡¯s orbit in 45 minutes.
But in reality, it would take 50 minutes.
Because he needed to start decelerating five minutes in advance, otherwise, he would overshoot..
Chapter 250 - 250: Another Major Event
Chapter 250: Another Major Event
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An hourter, Tang Rui piloted the spacecraft on a lunar orbit mission.
¡°It¡¯s all lies.¡±
After circling the Moon dozens of times and scanning with various detection equipment, he found no alien constructs.
The debris detected were all from human missions, including those from failedndings.
¡°Red Lotus, prepare to deploy the mechanical dogs.¡±
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
After Tang Rui finished speaking, he lowered the altitude and speed, activated the istion chamber, and released the air.
Once the air was evacuated, the spacecraft¡¯s side hatch opened, and mechanical dogs with electric thrusters flew out.
Under the reverse thrust of the electric engines, the mechanical dogsnded with some impact but suffered no damage.
Tang Rui circled the Sea of Storms.
He deployed all the mechanical dogs around therge crater in the Sea of Storms, then had Red Lotus control them to extend probes from inside.
The next second, the data from around the Sea of Storms began to aggregate.
¡°Is this subterranean ice water?¡±
Tang Rui, looking at the expanding geological structure map, immediately noticed the water resources.
Compared to the Moon¡¯s mineral resources, water was more valuable; there was noparison.
But when Tang Rui zoomed in on the subterranean ice water, he realized it must have been left by an asteroid impact.
The geological structure map clearly showed an evaporative expansion structure around the ice, along with small vent channels.
However, these channels disappeared 120 meters below the Moon¡¯s surface.
Clearly, the ice was trapped underground when thevayer above it blocked the vents during thermal expansion.
Upon closer examination, it could be inferred that an ice asteroid impacted the Moon, and its remnants were buried before they could evaporate.
The remnants likely expanded and turned into vapor upon impact.
But without a path to escape, they re-condensed into ice underground after cooling.
So, this wasn¡¯t water originating from the Moon.
Regardless, the origin of the water wasn¡¯t important; its presence was what mattered.
¡°Red Lotus, simte the surrounding geological structure to see if more ice water can be found,¡± Tang Rui said to Red Lotus, as finding more subterranean ice water would make this the best location for a lunar base.
Minerals are abundant on the Moon, but water is rare.
While Tang Rui searched for water resources, a NASA department discovered anomalies on the Moon.
Earlier, NASA had sent many probes to the Moon.
Though most were now damaged, NASA had recently been eager to return to the Moon,unching more probes.
This department was responsible for lunar exploration, geological analysis, and monitoring.
Typically, they had little to do.
They just needed to collect data from the Moon, download it, analyze it slowly, and publish a few papers.
But tonight, the duty officer noticed anomalies in the data.
Beep! Beep! Beep!
A lunar earthquake?
The data was concentrated around the Sea of Storms, with identical wave amplitudes and strengths.
And the sources were evenly spaced.
What was happening?
Aliens?
As experts in lunar research, they had found many unexinable anomalies.
These weren¡¯t unscientific, just unexined by current science.
Tonight¡¯s event wasn¡¯t the first, but it was the first time it was clearly monitored.
This couldn¡¯t be man-made.
The current lunar probes, all with their own missions, couldn¡¯t produce such signals.
¡°Manager, there¡¯s a big issue,¡± the duty officer immediately contacted NASA¡¯s manager to report.
Why say ¡®again¡¯?
At the same time, China¡¯s spacemand center, particrly the Moon project team, also noticed the lunar anomalies.
Then everyone had the same thought: this wasn¡¯t man-made.
Trouble was brewing.
¡°Master, there¡¯s a video call from Earth. Should I connect?¡± While Tang Rui was closely observing the lunar geological structure, Red Lotus suddenly informed him of the call.
¡°Who is it?¡± Tang Rui asked, frowning.
¡°It¡¯s from Lin Chao.¡±
¡°Connect it.¡±
Whoosh!
Lin Chao¡¯s projection appeared before Tang Rui, who was in his office.
Lin Chao, seeing Tang Rui¡¯s surroundings, wasn¡¯t particrly surprised, as the spacecraft¡¯s interior looked somewhat like his own base.
Lin Chao assumed it was Tang Rui¡¯s newb or lounge, given Tang Rui wasn¡¯t wearing a helmet and nothing was floating behind him. Who would think it was outside Earth?
¡°Brother Lin, what¡¯s up?¡± Tang Rui asked directly.
¡°Urgent notice from above, a meeting in Xichang in an hour. If you¡¯re not busy,e over.¡±
¡°Urgent notice? A meeting in Xichang? Is there a crisis in outer space, like an asteroid hitting Earth?¡± Tang Rui asked curiously.
A meeting in Xichang clearly involved space affairs, and its urgency suggested it wasn¡¯t about research. Space-rted and urgent typically meant a space crisis.
¡°I don¡¯t know the details. The meeting content is highly confidential, and I¡¯m not authorized to know,¡± Lin Chao said helplessly.
Normally, as Tang Rui¡¯s contact, Lin Chao would have high security clearance.
But he knew nothing about this meeting, indicating its high level of secrecy.
¡°Okay, I got it. I¡¯ll head there now.¡±
¡°Great, the flight path is approved. Just fly your fighter jet.¡±
¡°Okay, I¡¯ll leave invisibly¡.¡±
Chapter 251 - 251: NASA: An Extraterrestrial Mechanical Civilization?
Chapter 251: NASA: An Extraterrestrial Mechanical Civilization?
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Sparking and zing the entire way, Tang Rui arrived at the meeting location in just 50 minutes.
As the aerospaceunch center with its own airport, there was no need for him to find another ce tond.
¡°Calling the control tower, requesting permission tond.¡±
¡°Control tower received, expecting tond in a few minutes.¡±
¡°I¡¯mnding now.¡±
The control tower was stunned; they hadn¡¯t seen the ne yet.
Although they knew Tang Rui¡¯s ne was stealth and wouldn¡¯t be detected by radar without the Longbo lens, it was surprising not to see it at all duringnding.
Please report your current location, can you turn off the Longbo lens? I can¡¯t see you,¡± the control tower had no choice but to ask Tang Rui.
¡°Okay, I¡¯m turning off the stealth system.¡±
Tang Rui then remembered he hadn¡¯t turned off the optical stealth.
The next second, he deactivated the optical stealth.
The control tower watched as a sci-fi-styled aircraft appeared out of thin air above the hangar, with a ripple-like distortion.
Gulp!
The control tower was stunned at the sudden appearance of the aircraft. ¡°That¡¯s real stealth!¡±
¡°Tang, is this white aircraft yours?¡±
¡°Yes, it¡¯s a new build.¡±
As the spacecraftnded, Tang Rui opened the hatch and stepped out.
The ground crew, however, were cluelessly staring at the spacecraft¡¯s electric thrust nozzle.
How were they supposed to maintain it?
They hadn¡¯t seen the nuclear-powered rocket engine nozzle, mainly because it was shut down upon entering Earth to avoid neutron radiation.
It had only been five minutes since he shut down the nuclear power nozzle from outer space. The neutron radiation would dissipate after about fifteen minutes, so he had to keep the engine nozzle closed.
Even standing beneath the spacecraft¡¯s tail nozzle, one wouldn¡¯t be harmed thanks to neutron radiation shielding materials.
¡°This aircraft doesn¡¯t need maintenance,¡± Tang Rui told the bewildered ground crew.
¡°Um¡ where is the fuel intake? What fuel does it need? Any special considerations?¡± the ground crew asked.
¡°No need for that, there¡¯s plenty of fuel left. Just help me tow it to the hangar.¡± ¡°Okay, no problem.¡±
Hearing Tang Rui say this, the ground crew breathed a sigh of relief.
After all, they had never seen such an aircraft model before.
They didn¡¯t even know where to start.
¡°Tang, I¡¯m a student of Chief Designer Liu. He asked me toe pick you up.¡± A military vehicle stopped near Tang Rui, and the young man in the passenger seat got out and spoke to Tang Rui.
¡°Thank you.¡±
¡°No trouble at all.¡±
Tang Rui was not new here, having previously helped deliver supplies to the space station.
However, his previous visits were always hurried, and he had never really explored the inside.
Even when he was invited by Professor Yu for a meal, he didn¡¯t go anywhere else.
This time, he was truly entering the interior of the Aerospace Command Center, seeing its situation for the first time.
¡°President Tang, the teachers are all in the meeting room inside. You can go straight in,¡± the soldier guarding the corridor told Tang Rui.
¡°Thank you.¡± Tang Rui nodded and walked in, unobstructed by the soldier.
He saw many familiar faces as he entered the meeting room, including his teacher Professor Yu, all prominent figures in aerospace.
¡°Teacher, Chief Designer Liu, Chief Designer Zhang¡¡±
Tang Rui greeted the Professors with a smile and sat next to Professor Yu.
¡°Why are you sote? Were you conducting experiments?¡± Professor Yu asked.
Seeing that it was nearly time, and Tang Rui had just arrived, Professor Yu found an excuse for him.
Sometimes experiments indeed couldn¡¯t be disturpted.
¡°No, I was outside. When I got the message, I hurried back. I didn¡¯t even have time to change clothes.¡±
Tang Rui knew what Professor Yu meant, but it was indeed not easy for him toe back so quickly.
At that moment, the door of the meeting room opened, and the head of the Aerospace Command Center entered.
Snap!
The signal jammer was activated.
Then, a bunch of data appeared on the meeting room¡¯s projection screen.
No text.
Just data.
There is an urgent situation. This is data received by our lunar probe an hour ago. Please take a look.¡±
Straight to the point, no unnecessary talk.
At this time, he wasn¡¯t in the mood for anything else.
The attendees turned their attention to the data on the big screen, starting to analyze it.
No analysis was really needed.
Just by looking line by line, one could see the issue.
Tang Rui was initially puzzled about what had happened on the Moon, as he
didn¡¯t notice anything unusual there an hour ago.
But, after seeing the data, his expression became very strange.
This¡
The data in front of him was vibrational data released by geological detection equipment, nothing special to discuss.
¡°As everyone has noticed, these peculiar vibrations are definitely not naturally urring, and as of now, they are still continuously happening.¡± Swipe!
Another image appeared on the big screen.
The red dots marked locations where mechanical dogs were conducting detections near the Sea of Storms during the past hour.
This¡
The Professors in the room furrowed their brows even more upon seeing this image.
¡°Now let¡¯s not worry about what it is. Based on the current situation, let¡¯s first analyze its purpose or its internal logic.¡±
The room fell silent at these words.
No one spoke.
Everyone was buried in thought.
Only Tang Rui felt awkward, so he spoke up since no one else did.
¡°This is for detecting the geological structure of the Moon.¡±
¡°President Tang¡¯s point makes sense. Based on the current situation, this seems to be a detection. Otherwise, it wouldn¡¯t be so regrly distributed, and each detection site is evenly spaced, with identical detection times.
¡°But why do you think it¡¯s detecting the Moon¡¯s geological structure, President Tang? Any reason?¡±
Ring, ring, ring¡
Just as Tang Rui was about to exin that he arranged it, the red secure phone in the meeting room rang.
¡°Okay¡ I understand, switch the signal to the meeting room.¡±
After hanging up, the head of the Aerospace Command Center spoke, ¡°Let¡¯s pause the discussion, NASA has urgently adjusted the direction of a space telescope to photograph the Sea of Storms.¡±
As he finished speaking, the image on the big screen changed to the space telescope¡¯s footage.
Taking photos of the Moon in the modern day was easily achievable with a few thousand dors¡¯ worth of astronomical telescope, let alone the world¡¯s top space telescopes.
It would be a waste of resources to use a space telescope for Moon photos unless it¡¯s for finding the truth.
Soon, the photo was taken.
As the photo was analyzed and magnified, the alien constructs on the ground became clearer.
When NASA¡¯s supeputers finished analyzing all the pixels andposed the final photo, everyone could clearly see what the alien constructs on the Moon were.
¡°Is that a dog?¡±
¡°Why does it look so familiar?¡±
I remember Tang¡¯spany made mechanical dogs, very simr to this like¡¡±
At this point, everyone in the meeting room realized something was off.
Thinking back to what Tang Rui had said.
This¡
¡°Did you release those dogs?¡±
Professor Yu knew Tang Rui best. Seeing Tang Rui¡¯s expression, he understood the situation.
Another mix-up.
¡°Um¡¡± Tang Rui nodded.
Why did you send dogs to the Moon?¡± Professor Yu was puzzled by Tang Rui¡¯s move.
¡°Why would you send individual weapons to the Moon?
¡°Were you preparing for war?¡±
Professor, as I had said, to detect the Moon¡¯s geological structure data.¡±
Well then.
He¡¯d wait right here.
¡°Tang, how did you get there?¡± The head of the Aerospace Command Center asked helplessly.
The cause of the situation was found.
No aliens.
Their own ¡®traitor¡¯ was revealed.
Ridiculous.
I flew there. I built a spacecraft to trynding on the Moon. I thought since I was going there anyway, I might as well bring something and detect the Moon¡¯s geological data, preparing for a future lunar base.¡±
Tang Rui spread his hands and simplified the exnation.
¡°Directly from Earth to the Moon?¡±
¡°Yes.¡±
¡°What fuel?¡±
Nuclear reactorbined with liquid hydrogen.¡±
¡°What about safety?¡±
¡°Safety is no issue, except the main engine can¡¯t be used on the ground, the tail nozzle¡¯s particle stream has neutron radiation.¡±
Wait¡ you said you just came back from outside, not from the Moon, right?¡± Professor Yu suddenly thought of a problem.
He proposed the question in shock.
Right, I was on the Moon when I got the message. It took 50 minutes toe
back, almost missed it.¡±
Listen to that.
Does that sound human?
The big shots in the room fell silent.
¡°You flew the spacecraft here directly, where¡¯s the spacecraft parked?¡±
¡°At the airport.¡±
¡°Let¡¯s go see the spacecraft.¡±
¡°Yeah, let¡¯s go together.¡±
The group stood up, eager to see the spacecraft.
As for the meeting.
What meeting?
It was just a mix-up, not as important as seeing a spacecraft.
Just kidding.
This was a spacecraft capable of returning from the Moon to Earth in an hour, its value immeasurable.
Tang Rui led the group back to the airport to see the spacecraft.
Meanwhile, at NASA, the reaction to seeing the mechanical dogs was different.
After all, NASA¡¯s people weren¡¯t concerned about warfare.
Plus, the mechanical dogs had no logos.
So, upon seeing the mechanical dogs, they all eximed loudly, frantically calling out to God.
Ten minutester, a report of an alien mechanical civilization invading the Moon reached a building next to Pennsylvania Avenue..
Chapter 252 - 252: Quantum Entanglement and Information Tunneling
Chapter 252: Quantum Entanglement and Information Tunneling
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¡°Is this a spacecraft?¡±
A group of people saw the design of the 300! and were all stunned.
It was one thing for a fighter jet to look like this, but what was the use of a spacecraft being so fancy?
There was no air in outer space.
No matter how well the aerodynamics were designed, it¡¯d be useless.
Instead of designing aerodynamics, it would be better to focus on how to enhance the performance of the spacecraft.
¡°Nowadays, our spacecrafts are too ugly, so I optimized it a bit,¡± Tang Rui casually made up a reason.
He couldn¡¯t just say that he made the spacecraft look like this because of its appearance and interior design.
That would be asking for trouble.
Everyone is considering practicality, and you are considering aesthetics; isn¡¯t that asking for criticism?
After looking around from the outside, Tang Rui also exined the general performance of the spacecraft, and then they realized that it was different from what they had thought.
ording to their ideas, nuclear-powered rocket engines, still using radiation to heat and expand liquid hydrogen, could not possibly allow a spacecraft to return from the moon to Earth in an hour.
The nuclear-powered rocket engine that Tang Rui developed, however, was exactly the kind that everyone thought was impossible to achieve.
After all, the technical requirements were too demanding.
But who would have thought that it wasn¡¯t Tang Rui¡¯s technology that made a breakthrough, but the materials.
He somehow managed to use materials to build a nuclear-powered rocket that was technically unachievable.
How could that even be rationalized?
After looking outside, Tang Rui opened the hatch and took everyone inside to have a look.
Upon entering the cabin, there was another moment of silence.
The sci-fi interior made a group of experts want to say something, but it was inappropriate.
It was definitely beautiful, but the problem was that it was not practical.
Actually, china never intended to make their creations aesthetically pleasing, just like with the space station.
Their space station¡¯s interior design focused more on space efficiency.
Foreign space stations gave off a ustrophobic feeling, with astronauts fainting everywhere amid the lights and cables.
Although the Chinese werete to the game, their design was not bad, very impressive, even.
But the problem there was¡
The aerospace field¡¯s requirements for weight were extremely strict, not tolerating any waste.
This kind of thinking and design philosophy is deeply ingrained in them, which is why they were speechless when they saw the interior design of the spacecraft.
After walking around inside, everyone returned to the meeting room.
¡°President Tang, I saw a bathroom in the spacecraft, and I want to ask, how does the shower equipment work?¡±
The Professor was not curious about other things, he was just curious about the bathroom in the spacecraft.
They had researched bath equipment before.
But bathing in a space station would involve solving many problems, mainly the issue of gravity, not to mention the scarcity of water resources.
So, there was no bathroom in the space station, and showering meant entering a ¡®steam cage/ which was very inconvenient.
¡°That shower equipment¡ it¡¯s just a shower.¡±
After Tang Rui thought about it, he realized that the equipment in the bathroom was just an ordinary shower, nothing high-tech.
¡°A shower? How do you shower in outer space?¡±
¡°I go home to shower.¡±
¡°Why put a bathroom in there if you don¡¯t shower?¡±
¡°Itplements the bedroom.¡±
There was no point in continuing the conversation.
Although Tang Rui was telling the truth, it was still annoying.
¡°Mr. Tang, does this spacecraft use SEG units for vertical take-off andnding?¡± The head of the Aerospace Command Center asked.
¡°Yes, otherwise it wouldn¡¯t be able to leave the atmosphere,¡± Tang Rui nodded, as the spacecraft, apart from the SEG unit, was just old theories and technology piled up with materials.
So, this spacecraft, in fact, is not much different from the White Emperor Spacefighter, just a bitrger and with a slightly longer range.
There was no technological breakthrough.
Tang Rui s answer disappointed everyone.
So, they stopped asking him and began to discuss the progress of various space ns during this time.
Tang Rui sat in the meeting room eating melon seeds.
¡°The Lunar Network Project is going smoothly, the only difficulty now is the dy issue, but that is a physical problem, not a technical one, and is hard to solve.¡±
Professor Yu talked about the Lunar Network Project¡¯s signal dy issue with some helplessness.
After all, it was really a limitation of physical rules.
Tang Rui sat next to Professor Yu without saying a word.
Although he had developed amunication satellite with no dy, he didn¡¯t understand the principle behind it.
Thus, he couldn¡¯t talk about it.
¡°I remember that a while ago, America managed to create a micro wormhole through quantum entanglement, it would be great if information could be transmitted through wormholes.¡±
It¡¯s a nice thought, but if we could create wormholes, why bother withmunication? Direct space teleportation would be better.¡±
Several Professors casually chatted amongst each other.
But Tang Rui, listened quietly on the side, deep in thought.
He had previously enhanced themunication satellite, and that enhancement was called the Quantum Information Tunnel Communication System.
He hadn¡¯t studied what this information tunnel was.
Now hearing about quantum entanglement and wormholes, he had a sh of inspiration.
Maybe this information really is transmitted through wormholes, as bypassing physical limitations can only be achieved through another physical rule.
Whether it was true or not, he still needed to go back and study it.
Thinking about it, he had many ck technologies that he hadn¡¯t studied yet.
Indeed, it was a bit of a waste.
Half an hourter, the meeting ended, and everyone went back to their own tasks.
Tang Rui talked with Professor Yu for a bit and then went straight home.
¡°Red Lotus, find me the paper from America about wormholes formed by quantum entanglement.¡±
After returning home, Tang Rui went to theboratory and asked Red Lotus to find the paper for him to study.
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
Soon, Red Lotus found the paper.
And not just one, but many rted research papers and experimental reports.
Tang Rui began to flip through them quickly.
His basic knowledge was solid, but he had little involvement in cutting-edge research.
He even ate lunch in theb.
From noon until evening, he skimmed through all these papers, looking over various rted conjectures and theories.
After reading, he had many thoughts in his head.
¡°Red Lotus, make an experimental device, I need to observe a wormhole.¡±
¡°Okay, Master, it will take about two and a half hours toplete.¡±
This kind of device was not difficult to make, and even its principles were clearly written in the papers.
Leaving it to Red Lotus to make, the device¡¯s performance would be stronger than the experimental device used by others.
This way, his observation results would be more urate.
After giving instructions, he went home to eat.
Half an hourter.
After eating, Tang Rui returned to theboratory, this time not to read papers, but to let Red Lotus project the blueprint of the Quantum Information Tunnel Communication Satellite.
Then, he disassembled the entire satellite model.
Keeping only theponents for message transmission.
Tang Rui quickly found what he wanted in the message transmissionponent, which was the information transmission and reception module.
The design diagram was in front of him.
The structure of the equipment was also in front of him.
But if you ask him what the principle of this equipment was?
He didn¡¯t know.
¡°Red Lotus, make a device ording to thisponent¡¯s blueprint, but make it bigger.¡±
Tang Rui fiddled with theponent model and said to Red Lotus.
¡°Okay, Master, it will take about three hours toplete.¡±
Two hourster, the experimental device waspleted.
Wormholes could be created by everyone, but the problem was that they¡¯d be too small; not only invisible to the naked eye, but if the equipment was slightly off, you couldn¡¯t even capture that momentary information.
¡°Red Lotus, start the experiment..¡±
Chapter 253 - 253: Is There a Possibility...
Chapter 253: Is There a Possibility¡
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Red Lotus controlled the device to conduct an experiment.
Tang Rui watched the holographic projection in front of him, which disyed a particle model simted in real-time by Red Lotus based on the detection information inside the device.
The experiment was simple.
First, a pair of entangled quanta was created, then they were copsed into a ck hole within nck time.
Here came the key point.
When two entangled quanta copsed into ck holes, were these two ck holes entangled with each other?
It was unknown.
Theoretically, they were connected, and the connecting channel was the Einstein-Rosen Bridge.
Even using a quantumputer for Red Lotus to calcte, the wormhole was connected.
But the problem was, nobody had done this before, nor could it be calcted.
The wormhole¡¯s formation time was too short.
The nck scale.
Simply put, the experimental device created by Red Lotus could not stabilize the wormhole, but it was able to absorb a piece of information at the moment of its formation.
Then, it began to observe whether the other wormhole released information.
As long as the other wormhole released information, it would mean Einstein¡¯s theory was correct, and it could bebined with quantum mechanics to develop a whole new theory.
¡°Master, the experiment has ended,¡± Red Lotus reported.
Tang Rui blinked; the experiment had ended.
Actually, it wasn¡¯t that slow.
When he shouted start, the moment Red Lotus activated the experimental device, the experiment had already ended.
And the various particle fluctuations and data disyed on the holographic projection were all data collected by the sensors during the previous experiment.
The result of the experiment was simple.
No information that had traveled through the wormhole was found.
Of course, this did not mean Einstein was wrong; mainly, the time was too short, and due to the performance of the equipment, the results might not be urate.
¡°Red Lotus, based on the holographic theory ER=EPR, the quantum information shuttle experiment you simted should be correct, right?¡± Tang Rui asked, looking at the models of two wormholes on the holographic projection.
¡°Yes, projecting the data of the ck hole¡¯s three-dimensional boundary onto a two-dimensional spacetime ne and incorporating it into quantum field theory, the results are correct,¡± Red Lotus replied.
Everything was theoretically correct.
But in practical experiments, nothing was discovered.
Who could be med for this?
me the equipment.
But Tang Rui was not in a hurry to enhance the experimental equipment; he was waiting for another device toe out to test it.
After another half-hour¡
ording to the quantum information transmission device, the signal emitter manufactured by the method waspleted.
Tang Rui had Red Lotus experiment with this device.
It was sessful.
The signal was fine.
Of course, this did not mean the previous theory was correct, nor that his experiment was correct.
There must be something missing.
¡°Red Lotus,pare the functionalponents of the two devices and mark theponents with the same function,¡± Tang Rui instructed.
¡°Okay, Master.¡± Red Lotus immediately marked the functionally identicalponents of the two device models in red.
This made it much clearer for Tang Rui.
¡°What is thisponent for?¡± Tang Rui asked, pointing to one of the unmarkedponents.
¡°Master, this is a space expansion sensor.¡±
¡°And this one?¡±
¡°This is a gravity sensor.¡±
¡°And this?¡±
¡°A positioning sensor.¡±
Why all these sensors? What¡¯s the use of so many sensors in amunication device?
¡°Summarize the functions of these sensors,¡± Tang Rui leaned back in his chair and asked.
¡°Master, the space expansion sensor measures the minute spatial diameter of the signal emitter, the gravity sensor detects gravitational fluctuations, and the positioning sensor locates the distance of the signal emitter.¡±
¡°Space expansion? Gravitational fluctuations? Project the device¡¯s program algorithm.¡±
After hearing this, Tang Rui felt that these devices suddenly seemed very high-end, but the question was, how did this rte tomunication devices?
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
On the holographic projection screen, lines of code and algorithms appeared.
After Tang Rui read these codes and algorithms, he realized he had overthought it, imagining these things to be too grand.
How was space expansion measured?
By using light.
The speed of light was constant; if space expanded, the parameters of light transmission would be incorrect.
As long as the parameters were wrong, it meant space had changed.
It was either expansion or copse.
How were gravitational fluctuations measured?
Again, by using light.
But this time, there was a timer involved. Gravity causes spacetime to bend, leading to a slight deviation in time.
Whenever there was a discontinuity in photon information transmission, resulting in a time error, it¡¯d be caused by gravitational fluctuations.
After looking at it, Tang Rui pursed his lips.
But it wasn¡¯t a waste of time.
Because he discovered a blind spot, the program algorithms of these devices.
What were algorithms?
They were forms.
What were forms?
Mathematical expressions of physical theorems, that¡¯s what forms were.
In these algorithms, Tang Rui saw something familiar, something he knew well.
R=2GM/CA2.
This was the Schwarzschild radius, a well known form.
But what could be calcted by applying this form under certain conditions, along with time coordinates and spatial coordinates?
It could be used to calcte ck holes.
Through the form, it could be calcted that within the range of the ck hole¡¯s horizon, the time coordinates and spatial coordinates were opposite.
The time axis and space axis were interchanged.
After seeing this form and the program algorithms, Tang Rui looked again at the quantum entangled wormholes created by Red Lotus earlier.
He had an epiphany!
He realized he had overlooked a significant issue, coordinates. Without coordinates, what was he doing?
Buzzing¡
At that moment, Tang Rui¡¯s phone rang.
¡°It¡¯s 10 o¡¯clock, stop working ande back to sleep.¡±
¡°Sleep my foot, I¡¯m pulling an all-nighter, don¡¯t disturb me.¡±
Tang Rui was not in the mood to sleep.
His eyes shining, he looked at the experimental equipment, nning to modify it next.
On the other side, while Tang Rui was studying quantum fields and wormholes, high-level academic issues, the Americans holding a meeting.
Following the report sent by NASAst night, the entire upper echelons of the United States were in turmoil.
An alien invasion.
What was to be done about this?
Thus, the big boss called a group of elites to discuss how to solve this problem.
The people in the meeting room were true elites.
They would save the world, not by inviting drillers, mobile virus makers, or homeless people.
Their questions were incisive.
¡°Does this mechanical dog have any rtion to Crimson Corporation?¡± one of the think tank members asked after reviewing the data.
It was then that everyone was stunned.
Indeed!
Now that it was mentioned, this thing increasingly resembled the mechanical dog sold by Crimson to the Middle East.
The only difference was that it was more refined, and the weapon loading tform was removed, with little other change.
Someone quickly fetched the data.
And soon¡
Theypared the mechanical dog in the data with the one on the moon¡
Dang.
They were practically twins.
Then looking at the document sent by NASA, about an alien mechanical civilization invasion, the think tank members closed their eyes in frustration. How did theye up with this title?
Was the recent budget not enough, so they used this to mess with them?
Did they think they had too much time on their hands and they gave them something to do?
Calling so early in the morning, hurriedly rushing to the meeting, just for this.
¡°Please exin?¡± the big boss asked fiercely, addressing the only NASA personnel in the meeting room.
¡°Well¡st night we contacted people from CNSA, they also didn¡¯t know about this and agreed with our view, so¡ could this be an alien conspiracy?¡±
NASA¡¯s personnel tried to exin.
The think tank members, after listening, smiled and said, ¡°Is there a possibility that CNSA deliberately cooperated with you, just to see you make a fool of yourself?¡±
Chapter 254 - 254: The Semiconductor Alliance Can’t Sit Still,
Chapter 254: The Semiconductor Alliance Can¡¯t Sit Still,
Proving the Einstein-Rosen Bridge
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The NASA representative was ushered out of the meeting room.
Though it was a misunderstanding, the meeting had to continue, but the focus had now changed.
¡°These mechanical dogs appearing on the moon indicate they have the capability tond there. But what¡¯s more terrifying is their ability tond on the moon silently under the surveince of our satellitework and deploy these mechanical dogs to the moon.
Have we considered the consequences if they use this method not just tond on the moon, but toe right above our heads?¡±
The American persecutionplex was acting up again.
In the past year, they had be increasingly anxious and irritable.
To address this, they increased their investment in scientific research, military, and aerospace sectors, reviving some long-dormant ns.
With the infusion of substantial funds, these ns were progressing quickly, and their strength was also increasing.
But the problem was, their adversaries were moving even faster.
Although in recent years the adversary had also been heavily investing in development, the current situation was terrifying.
¡°We don¡¯t need to worry too much about war. Neither we nor they can afford the consequences of war.
¡°As long as we are not outssed in terms of military strength, we don¡¯t need to worry about war. Instead, we should be more concerned about their advancements in the economic and technological fields.
¡°I saw a report a few days ago, since the beginning of this year, their semiconductor industry has broken free from our restrictions, developing carbon-based semiconductor materials and continuously gaining strength.
¡°In just half a year, our semiconductor industry has declined by 26.3%pared tost year, and it¡¯s expected to reach 62% by the end of the year. Isn¡¯t this data terrifying?
¡°Our semiconductor industry is being destroyed. The physical properties of carbon-based materials far exceed those of silicon-based materials Even though our technology is far ahead, the limitations of material properties render our technology worthless, and we are about to lose this trillion-dor market¡¡±
The think tank members began to analyze the situation of the past half-year in detail, especially in the semiconductor field.
Didn¡¯t they know about this situation before?
They did.
When carbon-based semiconductor materials were first developed, they thought about solving the problem from the source.
Unfortunately, the source of the technology was Crimson Corporation.
They had no way to deal with them.
At that time, the military wanted to take action in Africa, and they put pressure on the other side from various aspects, forcing them topromise.
The result?
After a proxy war, they were utterly defeated.
The big stick of military power was no longer effective.
The Americans suddenly didn¡¯t know what to do.
In other areas, it would be very difficult to crush a country of simr size. Even if they don¡¯t have an advantage, it¡¯s almost impossible to bring them down.
Under such circumstances, the semiconductor industry was in trouble.
This member of the think tank was paid off.
He first discussed the situation of the semiconductor industry and then threw
out the problem for everyone to think of a solution.
The semiconductor industry must be saved.
Because this industry involves information security, national defense security, and even the future of quantum dominance.
So, no matter what, the semiconductor industry cannot be abandoned.
Other members of the think tank who were also paid began to advocate.
The nation must step in to obtain the technology of carbon-based semiconductors, even if it means giving up some benefits, to ensure the survival of the semiconductor industry.
After the think tank meeting concluded.
A report was formally submitted to Congress, which then began to fight. To save the semiconductor industry, sacrifices in other areas were necessary.
After much consideration, the energy sector seemed like the perfect candidate for these sacrifices.
Inte tycoons and traditional oil giants are not allies in the same trench.
The entities they support are different.
Thus, this battle wasn¡¯t just a sh between two factions; it was also a fight between the inte¡¯s rich heirs and Wall Street capital vs. the traditional oil and energy system¡¯s old capital.
The military-industrialplex stayed out of it, merely observing from the sidelines.
Tang Rui was having breakfast and browsing his phone.
He got upte today, having slept after 3 AMst night.
Staying upte was harmful to one¡¯s health.
Butpared to the research breakthroughs fromst night, the cost to his health was worth it.
Don¡¯t misunderstand.
He hadn¡¯t solved the problem of information traversal through wormholes. But he had made a significant breakthrough in his research on wormholes and holographic theory, not just a minor one.
This was a top-tier aplishment in physics.
After breakfast, Tang Rui returned to hisb to write a paper.
He used to dislike writing papers, finding it bothersome.
But now it was different.
He was writing excitedly, even tapping his foot.
¡°ording to the Casimir effect, the closer the distance between two tes the greater the density of negative energy, and the moment entangled quanta copse¡¡±
Tang Rui, wearing smart sses, was furiously padding his paper.
Strictly speaking, this shouldn¡¯t be called a paper.
But Tang Rui didn¡¯t care. As long as the theory was correct, even if you padded out an entire book, people would still read it.
On the contrary, no matter how well-formatted, if the theory is wrong, then the paper, no matter how beautifully written, was just trash.
Tang Rui finished writing the theoretical derivation forms, then began attaching experimental data, spanning over a dozen pages.
¡°Master, Lin Chao has sent a videomunication request. Would you like to connect?¡± Red Lotus suddenly alerted.
A video from Lin Chao?
Something from above?
Tang Rui was annoyed.
He was happily padding his paper, and this interruption was unwee.
Connect it,¡± Tang Rui said, slightly irritated.
Swipe!
Lin Chao¡¯s holographic image appeared.
President Tang, hope I¡¯m not disturbing you.¡±
¡°You are. My inspiration was interrupted.¡±
¡°Should I hang up?¡±
¡°No, what¡¯s up?¡±
The International Semiconductor Alliance has sent someone. They want to
talk to you.¡±
The International Semiconductor Alliance?
What would they want with him, especially since Lin Chao was rying the
message, indicating the higher-ups had agreed.
¡°What did the top say?¡± Tang Rui asked directly.
¡°If you¡¯re not busy, you could meet them and hear what they have to say.¡±
¡°Sorry, I¡¯m busy. I don¡¯t have time to entertain them.¡±
¡°Really busy?¡±
¡°Of course, I¡¯m researching wormholes.¡±
¡°Alright then, I won¡¯t disturb you.¡±
After ending the call.
Tang Rui put the matter out of his mind and continued padding his paper.
By lunchtime, he had finished his paper.
67 pages.
A total of 130,000 words.
After finishing, Tang Rui didn¡¯t bother to check it and directly uploaded it to a secure database.
This kind of fundamental scientific research could be published, but he didn¡¯t care about the impact factor of journals.
That didn¡¯t matter to him at all.
Besides, publishing in journals was too troublesome, and he didn¡¯t want to bother with it.
¡°Red Lotus, bring the experimental equipment over.¡±
After padding his paper, Tang Rui prepared to conduct experiments.
Last night, he had only proven the real existence of the Einstein-Rosen Bridge and discovered that the formation of wormholes was rted to negative energy.
But the loss of information after traversing wormholes was a problem he had yet to find a solution to..
Chapter 255 - 255: Weld a Spot, Eliminated
Chapter 255: Weld a Spot, Eliminated
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Bohai Bay, in the waters of the Korean Penins.
For the spaceship at the bottom of the sea, the Koreans had really done their
best.
However, digging a tunnel with a diameter of one meter and a depth of 1724 meters was an extremely difficult task.
But no matter how challenging it was, they had to continue digging.
Because this morning, after three months of hard work, they finally managed to shave off some alloy shards from the outer shell of the spaceship.
The Koreans treasured it immensely.
They immediately took the alloy fragment to theboratory for testing and analysis. The final result showed that the mainponent of the alloy of the alien spaceship was tungsten.
Wow!
What did this imply?
It suggested that spaceships made by aliens were not indestructible. There wasn¡¯t such an insurmountable barrier between the two civilizations.
The metallic materials used by the aliens were all avable on Earth.
As long as they deciphered the spaceship technology, they could directly manufacture products using alien technology.
God bless the Koreans.
They were truly on the rise.
¡°I¡¯m so happy¡¡±
¡°Me too.¡±
¡°Be careful.¡±
Bang!
in his excitement, a Korean identally fell from a high tform to the one
below.
A fall from 5-2 meters.
Although it wasn¡¯t fatal, injury was inevitable.
¡°Quick, save him!¡±
¡°Kim Jae-hyun, are you alright?¡±
¡°Quickly call the medical team.¡±
When the medical team arrived and after a check-up confirmed there were no serious issues, it was found he had an open fracture in his leg and needed to be hospitalized.
Since the spaceship project was highly confidential, the hospital he was sent to wasn¡¯t just any hospital, but a private hospital owned by the consortium.
¡°Kim Jae-hyun, because of the project¡¯s confidentiality, you can¡¯t inform your family or have any contact with the outside world. This isn¡¯t personal, nor is it that we don¡¯t trust you, but we hope you understand.¡±
¡°Director, I understand. I just want to get out of here as soon as possible and
return to my research post.¡±
¡°Rest and recuperate. You can go back once you¡¯re better. You¡¯ve been very tiredtely, so take this as a quiet vacation.¡±
¡°Okay, thank you, Director.¡±
After the director left, Kim Jae-hyun restedfortably in the hospital ward. He could only watch television and was unable to contact the outside world.
However, every time a nurse came in to change his dressing, he would hum a
song to attract the nurse¡¯s attention.
Under such circumstances, the person guarding Kim Jae-hyun outside the ward didn¡¯t consider it a big deal.
At night, the hospital nurses finished their shifts, and one of them had a bandage on her leg. Everyone saw it and only asked out of concern, without giving it much thought.
Once the nurse got home, she removed the bandage from her leg, revealing a series of dense numbers on the innermostyer.
That night, Tang Rui was dining when he suddenly received a call to participate in a confidential video conference.
What was going on?
He went to the Blue Armymand center and connected to the secure
work.
¡°Hello, President Tang. Sorry to disturb you.¡±
A high-ranking military official in the video greeted Tang Rui with a smile.
-It¡¯s no bother, I¡¯ve just finished eating,¡± Tang Rui responded, then nodded at
Professor Liu and Professor Li in the other video feeds.
¡°That¡¯s good to hear. This meeting is just to confirm something with President
Tang, Professor Liu, and Professor Li.
When you three were exploring the geological structure of the Bohai Bay seabed, did you notice any issues under the seabed, especially in the Korean territorial waters?¡± the military official asked.
¡°There was no issue. When we were exploring, we only discovered an oil field under the Korean seabed.
I remember the entire geological structure data map of the Bohai Bay seabed has been uploaded to the database. Hasn¡¯t the military seen it?¡± Professor Liu replied, sounding somewhat displeased.
Understandably, as a top expert in his field, he was upset at the implication
that there might be something wrong with their data.
¡°Professor Liu, please don¡¯t be upset. I¡¯m not questioning the report, I just wanted to ask if there were any anomalies in that geological data.¡±
¡°There were none. All the geological structure data matched the model of the
Bohai Bay continental te without any issues.¡±
Professor Li also confirmed there were no problems.
The military official nodded. ¡°Thank you, Professors. I understand the
situation. Sorry for the trouble.¡±
The video feed of the two Professors was then disconnected.
Tang Rui, who had been quietly drinking water, had remained silent because he felt it unnecessary to speak.
He knew the situation at the bottom of Bohai Bay better than anyone.
¡°President Tang, there¡¯s a situation you should be aware of. This is the news
that the special department received from Korea.¡±
After reading the news from the special department about Korea, Tang Rui was visibly upset.
The Bohai Bay area of Korea had discovered a spaceship at the bottom of the
sea.
Tang Rui was speechless.
What was going on here?
¡°President Tang, you designed the geological exploration equipment. What do you think about the credibility of this information?¡±
¡°How to gauge its credibility¡ From our perspective, the credibility of this information is zero. From the special department¡¯s perspective, there¡¯s no issue with the news they sent back.¡±
Tang Rui replied with aplex expression.
¡°This¡ What does that mean?¡±
The military leader was puzzled.
¡°This is just a model of the spaceship.¡±
Tang Rui gestured, and a holographic projection of the underwater spaceship model appeared.
¡°Is it really a spaceship?¡±
¡°No, as I said, it¡¯s just a model. It¡¯s there to fool the Koreans.
¡°What¡¯s the real situation?¡±
¡°The truth is¡ when I was bored during my Bohai Bay project, I noticed the Koreans were drilling, hoping to exploit an oil field. So, I ced a piece of tungsten alloy steel te underground to block their drilling hole. Unexpectedly¡ they mistook the steel tes for the hull of a spaceship. Then they kept drilling, and I kept cing more steel tes. Eventually, the data the Koreans got probably looked like this.¡±
The military leader listened with aplex expression, speechless for a long time.
¡°President Tang, please hold on, I need to step out for a moment.
¡°Alright.¡±
Ten minutester¡
¡°President Tang, can you nt a real spaceship model underground?¡± the military leader asked excitedly upon returning.
¡°What do you mean?¡±
¡°It¡¯s about recing the steel te with a real physical model of a spaceship. It doesn¡¯t need to have any internal equipment, just be sturdy.¡±
¡°That¡¯s possible, but is it really necessary?¡±
¡°It¡¯s very necessary. Uncovering a steel te and finding actual spaceship wreckage are two entirely different things. The former is just frustrating and won¡¯t cause much loss, but thetter could trap them there forever.¡±
¡°In that case, wouldn¡¯t it be better if I just welded the spaceship model to the seabed?¡± Tang Rui suggested sarcastically.
¡°If you can, please make it as sturdy as possible.
The military leader nodded earnestly.
This¡
Tang Rui fell silent.
Tactics were indeed dirty.
This was about trapping the Koreans at the bottom of the sea.
¡°Alright, I¡¯ll handle it after I finish my current research. When I visit Bohai Bay to check on the project progress, I¡¯ll take care of this too.¡± Tang Rui reluctantly agreed.
¡°Thank you, President Tang. Next time something like thises up, please inform us in advance.¡±
¡°Understood.¡± Tang Rui nodded.
He was just bored and wanted to y a trick on the Koreans, but it turned into a matter of national strategy.
After ending the video call, Tang Rui asked Red Lotus to record this matter and research a super wear-resistant alloy nano-coating to ensure the spaceship model¡¯s hull could not be cut.
For the next half-month, Tang Rui stayed indoors, immersed in research.
He tried various methods to ensure information wouldn¡¯t be lost during transmission through a wormhole, but had yet to find a solution.
The only progress made was in quantum information coding technology, developed through his study ofmunication satellite programs. However, he was still far from achieving real information transmission.
But Tang Rui was not worried.
He had developed a strong interest in scientific research, especially in the field of pure physics, which he had not explored before.
Now he found it fascinating.
Each experimental data set, if studied closely, revealed something new.
The thrill of exploring the unknown was truly captivating.
However, while he was absorbed in his research, the world outside was not still. Several countries were pushing forward in the aerospace field.
The Five Great Powers and India were already involved, never missing a chance to join in.
Japan and Germany also wanted to join.
It was inevitable.
The aerospace field was a ticket to the future¡¯s sea of stars.
Without a ticket, there really was no future.
While all countries were focusing on aerospace, Korea, in an uncharacteristic move, began to invest in drilling technology.
While others aimed for the skies, Korea chose to dig into the earth.
After testing the tungsten alloy¡¯s parameters, Korea seemed to go crazy, once again increasing its investment in digging efforts.
It was just money, after all.
They halted investments in other fields, channeling all remaining funds into digging.
What about the space race?
Korea was not participating.
Once they unearthed the spaceship and obtained its technology, they could surpass all other nations within minutes.
It was that simple.
While countries worldwide were keen to boost their aerospace investments, the Koreans, deviating from this trend, focused on drilling technology.
Regarding aerospace tech, the Koreans were open to selling their existing capabilities.
Hearing this, everyone was astonished. It seemed unimaginable for such words toe from a Korean representative.
They were sipping what seemed like counterfeit wine.
Yet, they remained unconscious.
Others aimed for the skies, but the Koreans were intent on burrowing into the earth.
Such was the unique Korean approach.
Their perspective was indeed unconventional.
Brother San was thrilled with this revtion and quickly expressed interest in purchasing their aerospace technology.
One party was short of funds, the other, of technology.
They foundmon ground immediately.
He retreated to a secluded spot for the transaction.
His calctions were meticulous.
Only eight countries globally had the credentials to engage in aerospace endeavors.
As for the rest?
They were irrelevant in this space race, having been sidelined already..¡±
Chapter 256 - 256: Professor Yu: Am I Falling Behind the Times?
Chapter 256: Professor Yu: Am I Falling Behind the Times?
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A monthter.
In the assembly workshop nestled in the mountains, a massive piece of equipment, measuring 58 meters in length and 12 meters in diameter, was suspended in mid-air by a crane.
Several robots were busy making adjustments to the equipment.
This colossal device was the quantum information transmissionmunication satellite, an invention of Tang Rui¡¯s conception.
It was not constructed based on existing blueprints; instead, Tang Rui designed it himself through continuous experimental research.
Even if he had the blueprints, he wouldn¡¯t have been able to replicate themunication satellite post-system enhancement. Someponents and equipment were beyond even Red Lotus¡¯s manufacturing capabilities. Nevertheless, Tang Rui had sessfully deciphered the theory behindmunication satellites.
Indeed, delving into fundamental theories was exceedingly taxing on the brain. Tang Rui had ess to blueprints and advanced equipment.
With the assistance of the advanced artificial intelligence, Red Lotus.
It took him over a month to grasp the underlying principle and then considerable effort to construct such an enormousmunication satellite. He hardly took breaks.
This gigantic object, spanning dozens of meters, was amunication satellite.
Its energy source was a nuclear reactor.
Although the equipment was now built, there was still a significant gap in performance.
The device¡¯s dy-freemunication range was limited to four million kilometers, which paled inparison to the system-enhanced version.
But this device was Tang Rui¡¯s own creation.
All the research results were his solo efforts.
The sense of achievement was indeed unique.
¡°Master, the atomic clock has been installed, and the program parameters adjusted. Shall wemence testing?¡± Hong Lian¡¯s virtual image materialized beside Tang Rui, inquiring.
¡°Begin the test,¡± Tang Rui nodded.
¡°Testing underway. Signal transmission: normal, information decoding: normal, information processing: normal¡¡±
Data streamed before Tang Rui¡¯s eyes.
Red Lotus continued scrutinizing the various functions and parameters of themunication satellite.
¡°Master, testing isplete.¡±
¡°Very well.¡±
Tang Rui nodded, examining the data disyed on the holographic projection before him, and sighed with a mix of relief and disappointment.
This was themunication satellite he had painstakingly created. Yet,pared to the original version, itgged far behind the technology of its era. ¡°Master, shall we proceed with further modifications?¡±
¡°No, let¡¯s upload all the previous experimental data and the design drawings of thismunication satellite to the database.¡±
¡°Understood, Master. Uploading to Red Lotus now.¡±
Tang Rui turned and left the assembly workshop, heading back to theboratory.
There, he began drafting his thesis:
[Energy Boundary Decline Effect]
[Using Wormholes and Gravity Wells for Information-Dimensional Travel] [Mapping Four-Dimensional Space-Time Information on the Boundary of Three-Dimensional Space]
[The Expression and Calction Method of a Wormhole¡¯s Dimensional Coordinates in Three-Dimensional Space-Time.]
Tang Rui feverishly documented all the physics knowledge he had uncovered over the month.
The thesis might have been hastilyposed,
But he didn¡¯t mind because it encapsted his thoughts and ideas throughout his research.
Anyone reviewing his thesis could roughly trace how he developed the quantum information shuttlemunication device step by step.
With the theoretical information he provided, the quantum information shuttlemunication device was no longer an unfounded concept. Even with current technology limiting dy-freemunication to 4 million kilometers, his theory paved the way for future advancements, potentially reaching distances of 100 astronomical units or more.
After several hours, hepleted all the papers and a few untested conjectures, then had Red Lotus upload them to the database.
Having finished, Tang Rui headed straight home, took a shower, and promptly went to bed.
In the past month, he had avoidedte nights, but his brain had been constantly active, draining a lot of energy.
Now, he was ready for a well-deserved rest, intending to take a break from everything else.
In the confidential database room, once Tang Rui uploaded the information, the staff knew immediately and began to categorize the content.
But before doing so, the on-duty staff decided to check the end of the information.
Tang Rui often left messages there, like reminders for quick reviews or directions to send the information to specific research institutes or departments.
Initially, theputer room staff were reluctant.
Their primary job was ensuring the database¡¯s integrity, not acting as messengers.
But Tang Rui was an exception.
His level of influence demanded attention.
Thus, when Tang Rui left a message, they had no choice but toply.
Assignments from someone of his stature were never insignificant.
¡°Good news today. President Tang left no message.¡±
The staff chuckled upon not finding a closing message, then proceeded to categorize and store the information.
The satellite blueprints were filed under the satellite subsection within the aerospace technology catalog, and specifically under themunication satellite section.
Blueprints were straightforward to file.
But the thesis posed a challenge.
After reading Tang Rui¡¯s work, the staff was baffled.
Should it be filed under Information and Communication Technology or Physics Theory?
Most of the thesis revolved aroundmunication satellites, but it was steeped in physics theories.
In the end, they decided it wasn¡¯t their concern.
Given the shockingly advanced content, it was only reasonable to report Tang
Rui¡¯s work directly.
And so, Tang Rui¡¯s papers and satellite designs were promptly escted by the on-duty staff.
An hourter, forty-seven Professors, including the director of the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the leader of the Quantum Communication Research Group, and the Lunar Inte Program Review and Guidance Group, reviewed Tang Rui¡¯s papers.
Astonishment was an understatement.
Many professors were taken aback.
Professor Yu was particrly stunned.
The content was beyond hisprehension.
While he was a satellite and information expert, Tang Rui¡¯s theses, filled with concepts like wormholes, four-dimensional space-time, and information projection, were perplexing.
Although rted to informationmunication, the core was deeply rooted in quantum physics.
After digesting the thesis, Professor Yu felt a gap in his knowledge.
Did satellitemunication now require a background in physics?
He decided to call Tang Rui for rification on the technology and the thesis¡¯s underlying knowledge.
But s, the call went unanswered.
Traitor!
Chapter 257 - 257: This is What You Call Radiating With Pride
Chapter 257: This is What You Call Radiating With Pride
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In the evening, Tang Rui was awakened by Li Shuyao.
A nce at the time showed that it was already seven o¡¯clock.
He had been sleeping since the afternoon, and had he not been woken up by Li
Shuyao, he might have slept on.
¡°Master, while you were sleeping, there were sixteen phone calls and three video call requests, all of which have been blocked.¡±
As Tang Rui got up to drink water, Red Lotus appeared beside him to report.
¡°Who called?¡±
¡°Master, there were calls from Professor Yu, Professor Liu, Professor Zhang,
Professor Wang, Professor Guo¡¡±
Tang Rui¡¯s hand trembled as he drank water.
What was that all about?
So many big shots called him?
Setting down the cup, Tang Rui picked up his phone to call Professor Yu.
Others were fine, but he had to call Professor Yu to ask.
¡°Hello, teacher¡ Yes, it¡¯s about my recent research¡ Yes, themunication satellite is already built, it¡¯s just a bit big¡ Okay, I understand¡ See you tomorrow, teacher.¡±
After hanging up the phone, Tang Rui rubbed his face, not expecting his research to attract the attention of so many big shots.
These big shots were impressive.
Unable to reach him by phone, they contacted the military to get in touch with
him, and Lin Chao also sent a video call.
But he was asleep at the time, and Red Lotus rejected the video request and informed Lin Chao that he was sleeping and not to be disturbed.
Even so, these big shots did not give up and directly applied to the top to visit
Tang Rui at Deep Red Company.
Due to therge number of applicants, the top had no choice but to arrange a meeting.
Lin Chao was supposed to inform him of this meeting, but he had already learned of it after calling Professor Yu.
After dinner, Lin Chao sent another video call request.
¡°Lin Ge, I know about the meeting,¡± Tang Rui said as soon as he connected the video.
¡°Know about it? Alright, then I won¡¯t disturb you,¡± Lin Chao held back what he wanted to say.
¡°Brother Lin, I¡¯ve been in seclusion recently, has anything happened? Tang
Rui asked curiously.
He had announced a period of seclusion.
All matters were handled by Red Lotus, and only things the Al couldn¡¯t handle were left for him to deal with after his research was finished.
¡°Nothing major. The people sent by Cheng Fei have alreadypleted the sixth-generation aircraft order. So, for the transfer of the sixth generation aircraft production project, we still need your signature.¡±
¡°Okay, I know. I¡¯ll sign it before I leave tomorrow morning.
After ending the call, Tang Rui turned to Red Lotus and said, ¡°Show me what
you¡¯ve handled during this time.¡±
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
Swish!
Tang Rui looked at the three-page-long list and pursed his lips.
It seemed there had been quite a few matters to deal with.
Tang Rui opened the original text of the handled events and began to review
them.
Nothing major.
Some werepany approvals, not involving personnel changes, just material procurement.
Red Lotus had directly approved these financial matters.
Because many of the materials were needed for his experiments, so the orders to purchase them were issued by him, naturally there would be no problem with approval.
Apart frompany matters, the rest were about the Bohai Bay project.
Red Lotus had also handled these.
Most of the emails from the Bohai Bay project were technical inquiries and questions about construction ns.
Red Lotus had perfectly answered all technical and construction questions.
Tang Rui flipped through the list from top to bottom.
After ensuring there were no omissions, he closed the holographic projection
screen.
In the evening, Tang Rui took out a cheongsam from the wardrobe for Li Shuyao to try on for him.
It was beautiful.
He couldn¡¯t resist.
The next day, Tang Rui drove the White Emperor¡¯s Spacefighter to the Aerospace Command Center in Xichang, where the meeting was set.
After getting off the ne, he entered the multifunctional hall.
Wow.
Therge multifunctional hall was almost full.
At least 200 people were sitting, eyes everywhere, with Professor big shots in the front and researchers in the back.
¡°President Tang, sorry to disturb your research.¡±
¡°Not at all, I finished yesterday, and I don¡¯t n to research again for a while,
my head hurts.¡±
¡°Resting is good, don¡¯t work too hard.¡±
The head of the Aerospace Command Center greeted Tang Rui with a smile. Tang Rui was, of course, humble, having alreadypleted his research.
The remaining research work was no longer his concern.
After a brief exchange, Tang Rui went on stage to start his lecture. Everyone present valued their time, so there was no need for small talk. ¡°Next, I will briefly report on some issues about wormholes and information transfer, and other theoretical and technical issues. If you have questions, feel free to raise your hand and ask for discussion.
Okay, let me start with the physical model of wormholes, including some data on wormholes, and how they form, I won¡¯t waste words, let¡¯s start talking about the energy boundary reduction effect¡¡±
Tang Rui stood on the stage, not needing to look at anything, and began to exin the situation of wormholes.
All the theories were in his mind.
After speaking for five minutes a professor suddenly raised his hand.
¡°What¡¯s your question, please?¡± Tang Rui saw someone raise their hand and immediately stopped to ask.
¡°President Tang, you just mentioned that energy decreases along the edge, and you used the wormhole model as an example. I want to know if this situation is only suitable for the microscopic world, or for the macroscopic world?¡± ¡°That¡¯s a good question, but I don¡¯t know the answer because I haven¡¯t conducted further research on this physical phenomenon. My focus this time was to allow information to pass through the wormhole.
¡°So, whether the energy marginal reduction effect is effective in the macroscopic world, I¡¯m not sure.¡±
Tang Rui shook his head, as he really couldn¡¯t answer this question.
After all, he had not researched it and he couldn¡¯t speak without certainty.
¡°Okay, thank you.¡±
After hearing Tang Rui¡¯s answer, the other party was somewhat disappointed. Tang Rui nodded and continued the exnation, quickly reaching the topic of four-dimensional space-time.
At that moment, more than a dozen big shots simultaneously raised their hands.
Tang Rui smacked his lips.
This was well-prepared.
¡°Let¡¯s start from the left, beginning with Professor Liu.¡±
Tang Rui nced over and started from the left, allowing them to ask questions one by one.
¡°President Tang, I finished reading your paper yesterday. You mentioned the issue of the mapping of four-dimensional space-time onto three-dimensional space-time.
¡°Butter, you mentioned wormholes. As a manifestation of four-dimensional space-time, is their mapping in three-dimensional space a form of space traversal?¡±
¡°No, ording to my theory, you can imagine four-dimensional space-time and three-dimensional space-time as two floors.
¡°Three-dimensional space-time is the third floor, four-dimensional space-time is the fourth floor. When a wormhole forms, gravitational copse breaks through the floor between the third and fourth floors.
¡°But this breakthrough is not in one ce, but simultaneously in multiple points in the living room, bedroom, kitchen, and bathroom of the third floor, with walls obstructing these points.
¡°Using this wormhole means passing information from one point into it, then letting this information travel through the wormhole to another point, bypassing the walls in between.
¡°At this time, to find another specific point, one needs to interpret the information mapped from four-dimensional space-time to locate the position of the other point.
¡°But essentially, a wormhole is just a gravitational copse in four-dimensional space. All connections of wormholes in three-dimensional space are a mapping of four-dimensional space-time in three-dimensional space-time.¡±
As Tang Rui spoke, he wrote a series of forms on the ckboard behind him. These forms were all about space-time coordinate calctions and positioning, including multi-point positioning information for wormholes.
Swish swish swish¡
A group of professors below began to record the forms Tang Rui wrote, their eyes wide with seriousness, more focused than high school students about to take university entrance exams.
The sight of this scene prompted Tang Rui to feel a surge of emotion inside.
What was this called?
This was what you called radiating with pride..
Chapter 258 - 258: Task Assignment, Million Tons of Crude Oil Production
Chapter 258: Task Assignment, Million Tons of Crude Oil Production
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¡°Professor Zhang, please go ahead.¡±
Tang Rui continued to let everyone ask questions.
¡°President Tang, what does the third line of your form mean?¡±
¡°The third line? This form¡This is the anchor point of the Timeline. At the location where the wormhole was connected, the flow of time might not be the same.
¡°For example, the wormhole on Earth¡¯s surface and the impulse on the sun¡¯s surface have different time flows.
¡°Therefore, if we want the information to pass through the wormhole without data loss, we have to anchor the time. Otherwise, the information will pass through the wormhole at different times.¡±
After Tang Rui took a look at the form, he exined it simply.
¡°Professor, please go ahead.¡±
¡°I want to ask, can we build a stable wormhole?¡±
¡°I don¡¯t know. The wormhole has only appeared for a very short period of time. Even if negative energy is used, the time will not exceed the nck time.
¡°Therefore, I haven¡¯t thought of any way to construct a stable wormhole at the moment.¡±
¡°Professor, please go ahead.¡±
¡°President Tang, if we go through the four-dimensional information projection¡¡±
Tang Rui answered the questions of more than 20 Professors in one breath. He could answer some of the questions.
There were, though, some questions that he did not know the answers to.
After they finished asking questions, Tang Rui continued to exin.
However, the more he went on, the fewer people who understood him. Those who could understand him weren¡¯t information technology researchers. They were all big shots in physics.
This made Professor Yu and the others very ufortable.
In the blink of an eye, the morning passed.
Tang Rui¡¯s exnation was basically over too.
Although there weren¡¯t many people who understood, everyone was a professional and could be very sure that Tang Rui¡¯s theory had no problems.
Even if there were somews at the physical level that could not be exined.
However, as long as the experiment was sessful.
That meant that the theory was correct, or that some of the information contained in it was inurate, but it was definitely not wrong.
At noon, everyone went to the dining room for lunch.
After resting for half an hour, the group of professors dragged Tang Rui back and continued their discussion.
This time, the exnation turned into a discussion.
This was because these big shots in physics had discovered a lot of interesting things from Tang Rui¡¯s research.
They usually didn¡¯t have ess to such information.
They didn¡¯t know if there was any research in this area overseas, but there was no data in this area in the journal.
But here at Tang Rui¡¯s ce, there were a lot of data and physical models that he had generated when he was studying wormholes.
This was what they were most interested in.
In the next two days, Tang Rui didn¡¯t even go home. He was forcefully left here by this group of big shots, discussing academic issues for two days.
Good heavens.
In the end, they began to discuss the problem of space-time travel.
Other than discussing academics with these big shots.
He was also dragged to a meeting with the Lunarworking Project.
How should he put it?
Because of his breakthrough in this new technology, the lunarworking n had to be revised again.
Tang Rui originally didn¡¯t want to participate.
But there was no other way.
The review team of the lunarworking project didn¡¯t study physics. They didn¡¯t have a better grasp of the quantum information shuttlemunication satellite than Tang Rui, so he had to participate in the meeting.
This led to Tang Rui waking up in the morning for a meeting, having a meeting after lunch, having a meeting after dinner, and then going to sleep.
Until the third night¡
Tang Rui just left the aerospacemand center. When he left, his entire person was rxed.
It was too terrifying.
This was how these big shots usually worked.
Who could withstand this?
After returning home, Tang Rui took Li Shuyao to the hot springs in Mount Tang the next day. He wanted to rest.
He spent two days in the hot spring at the military sanatorium in Mount Tang.
Tang Rui rxed for a while.
Then, he returned to thepany to continue working.
It was not that he did not want to rest for a few more days, but there were too many things to do.
And every single one of them was a major event.
At thepany, the research team of the armed satellite was left to his own devices for half a year.
Although he had asked these people to research electromaic-armed satellites, they had already done so.
Later, before he went into seclusion, he asked them to use their imaginations to research armed satellites with full firepower.
There was no time limit for this project. It was equivalent to letting them practice and y.
This group of people also knew.
Therefore, their game level was also the highest. Every day after work, they would go to thepany¡¯s square and track to fight monsters and level up.
He didn¡¯t get the project bonus.
Killing monsters and selling equipment was a small profit.
This was all reported to him by Red Lotus, which made him very speechless.
A good research team.
He had almost crippled them.
Thus, after he returned to thepany, he assigned them a task to design an armed satellitework in lunar orbit. It had to be the kind that could destroy meteorite impacts.
The team was finished.
Thepany¡¯s internal aircraft design team still needed to be arranged. After all, their game level was not low.
The previous ground support attack aircraft project had long beenpleted. Even the prototype waspleted.
Tang Rui saw that they had nothing to do.
He gave them a mission to study the spaceships between the Earth and the Moon.
It was simr to the one in civil aviation.
The materials, energy, and power systems were all ready-made. They only needed to design the shape and internal structure of the spaceship.
Even though they had never designed a spaceship.
However, this did not affect him.
With the foundation, he just needed to learn for a period of time.
After thepany¡¯s matters were arranged.
Tang Rui arrived at Bohai Bay.
At present, the entire Bohai Bay Tunnel Project hadpleted theying of the submarine segment pipeline, and the instation of the internal equipment of the tunnel was underway.
For example, venttion systems, lighting systems, various sensors, monitoring equipment, and so on.
These devices all had reserved ports.
However, the undersea tunnel was too long. The instation of equipment and the connection of cables were also veryborious.
The reason why Tang Rui came over was not to watch them renovate.
Instead, it was to connect the oil pipeline.
Without him, no one else would be able to get involved.
¡°The connection between the submarine pipeline and thend interface has beenpleted. The refinery connected to the pipeline has also been reced with new equipment. Now, we are waiting for your orders.¡±
PetroChina had already prepared the refinery.
The pipeline was connected to Northeast China and Central China. There was an oil refinery in each of these two ces, which belonged to twopanies respectively.
The Bohai Bay Oilfield Development Company was only responsible for extracting oil.
At that time, the refineries of the twopanies would pay for the amount of crude oil they used.
This ount was calcted separately.
¡°Inform the two refineries and get their personnel ready. 1¡¯11 conduct a pipeline testter. Tell them to pay attention to safety and check the parameters in the pipeline,¡± Tang Rui said to the heads of the twopanies.
¡°Alright, we¡¯ll go inform them now.¡±
Ten minutester, when the two returned, they said that the two refineries were ready to conduct the test at any time.
Tang Rui nodded after listening and let Red Lotus test the oil pipeline and gas pipeline.
Shoowsh!
Under Red Lotus¡¯s control, the pressure in the pipe increased dramatically.
The sensors began to give feedback on the situation of the pipeline.
The entire teststed for more than three hours.
After making sure that everything was fine.
Only then did Tang Rui let Red Lotus control the underground drilling robot to take action, drilling through thest section of obstruction.
They had been waiting underground for months.
Following Tang Rui¡¯s order, the five robots started working at the same time. Ten minutester, they had connected five oil fields.
The crude oil and natural gas in the oil field flowed directly into the underground passage under the enormous pressure and finally gathered in the oil and gas separation tank of the drilling tform below the undersea mineral vein.
After separation, crude oil and natural gas were transported out through two pipes.
¡°Red Lotus, how much crude oil can you transport every day?¡±
¡°Master, the limit of the oil pipeline is that it can carry five million tons of transportation per day, but the two refineries can¡¯t digest this.
¡°ording to the current demand, the daily oil transportation capacity of the oil pipeline is 600,000 tons, and it is expected to reach 1 million tons in three months.¡±
A million tons?
This amount of mining had basically reached the level of the Middle East and Russia, and it was very convenient to transport them.
In the future, we won¡¯t have to worry about our oil being choked..
Chapter 259 - 259: Seabed Set Up, Obtaining Streaming Rights
Chapter 259: Seabed Set Up, Obtaining Streaming Rights
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¡°Mr. Tang, how should this drilling tform be operated?¡± asked the head of PetroChina.
At the moment, crude oil was being extracted.
However, the extraction amount was not fixed and required manual control, but under the current circumstances, they had no way to control it.
-Before the undersea tunnel is connected, you don¡¯t need to worry about the drilling tform. Wait until the tunnel is through, then arrange for people toe over.
As for the issue of crude oil extraction, first arrange for two refineries to coordinate with me, and we¡¯ll discuss the restter.
Tang Rui thought for a moment and decided to let Red Lotus manage it for a while.
After all, the undersea tunnel was not yet connected.
Having employees use the emergency passage formuting, not to mention the inconvenience, would drive the staff crazy.
¡°Alright, then we¡¯ll have to trouble Mr. Tang for now.¡±
The heads of the petroleum and petrochemical sectors didn¡¯t say much.
Despite their high positions, they really couldn¡¯t do much in this matter. The entire Bohai Bay project waspletely controlled by Tang Rui. As long as he didn¡¯t mess up, no one could influence his decisions.
After the oil pipeline was connected, Tang Rui handed over the work to Red
Lotus and went fishing in Bohai Bay on a yacht.
He didn¡¯t leave because the work wasn¡¯t finished yet.
There was nothing for him to do for the Bohai Bay project, but he had to rearrange the matters concerning the Korean side.
The sea was like an abyss, pitch ck in the darkness of the night.
Tang Rui stood on the yacht¡¯s deck, looking at the red dots twinkling in the
sky, his private ne.
When the private ne hovered above the sea, it opened its rear hatch, and several robots began throwing items from the cargo bay into the sea.
Ssh!
Ssh!
Components of a spaceship model were thrown into the sea, and underwater robots caught these parts, dragging them towards the seabed tunnel.
Soon, these parts were dragged by the robots into the undersea tunnel, and after half an hour of travel, they reached an underground cavity.
Then, the robots began to assemble the spaceship model parts, injecting them with liquid high-energy battery solution.
This high-energy battery solution was the explosive kind.
Once the solution was poured in, the exterior of the spaceship model¡¯s hull disyed blue lines, looking mysterious and sci-fi.
¡°Master, the spaceship model assembly isplete, high-energy batteries have been injected, and the tungsten alloy steel tes have been reced without the other party noticing any abnormalities,¡± Red Lotus reported to Tang Rui about the spaceship model¡¯s arrangement.
¡°Good, fill the underground space¡¯s gaps, then evacuate and destroy all traces,¡± Tang Rui said, nodding in satisfaction.
¡°Understood, Master,¡± Red Lotus acknowledged.
Under Red Lotus¡¯s control, a group of robots began the final cleanup, erasing
all traces.
After finishing, most of the robots returned to continue working in the undersea tunnel, with only one robot entering the drilling tform through the emergency exit.
When it emerged, it was carrying two long alloy boxes, then brought them onto the yacht.
Tang Rui saw the two alloy boxes but did not approach them.
The contents were somewhat dangerous.
One box contained deuterium-tritium fuel rods, and the other yellowcake.
He hade to take these special materials away.
He indeed needed them.
After all, the higher the level of technology, the greater the energy demand.
A night passed without words.
The next morning, the yacht docked.
Tang Rui headed to the airport.
On his way to the airport, he received a call from the military¡¯s special department, inquiring about one thing.
Whether the undersea fixtures were arranged properly. Tang Rui immediately confirmed that everything was in ce. The fixtures were sturdy, and the bases solid. If tampered with maliciously, they would explode.
The special department was pleased with this arrangement, telling Tang Rui that they liked it.
They also informed him about a situation in Korea, which couldn¡¯t be hidden anymore. The Americans were very curious about Korea¡¯s situation recently, so there was a high probability that they would intervene.
Tang Ruiughed it off.
He didn¡¯t take it seriously.
After all, everything that needed to be arranged had been done.
The special department had also written the script. Now, they were just waiting for the actors to take their ces. But considering the current digging speed in Korea, he would have to wait a while to watch the drama unfold.
After hanging up the phone, Tang Rui, carrying the special materials, boarded his private ne and took off back to thepany.
Security checks had nothing to do with him.
It didn¡¯t matter that he was carrying two boxes.
Even if he carried a rocketuncher, no one would bother him.
Back home, Tang Rui asked Red Lotus to store the special materials, then went to theb, opened the holographic projection screen, and observed Earth¡¯s outer space.
During his research retreat, dozens more satellites had been added to Earth¡¯s outer space orbit.
Everyone was making it clear that they were focusing on the aerospace field, so more satellites needed to beunched.
Officially, all theseunched satellites were remote sensing and meteorological satellites.
But ording to neutrino satellite scans, most of these satellites were detection and spy satellites, and some were even armed satellites.
What about the treaty banning space weapons?
To the five good people, that was all just paper.
When needed, it was a powerful weapon to restrict others.
When not needed, these treaties were just paper.
Of course, Tang Rui didn¡¯t care about these armed satellites. His main observation was the American lunar spacecraft.
Perhaps due to external stimti, the lunar spacecraft, originally scheduled tounch at the end of the year, around Christmas, was now expected tounch in half a month.
This was also an important part of the American space strategy, namely, returning to the Moon.
Currently floating in Earth¡¯s orbit, most of the lunar spacecraft¡¯s modules had beenunched and docked.
The entire lunar spacecraft looked like a small space station, just withoutrge sr panels.
ording to American news, they wouldunch thest module in a month, the return module.
Then, the spacecraft would embark on its journey to the Moon.
-The spacecraft has no problems, it seems that although the Americans have sped up, the quality of the spacecraft is still fine,¡± Tang Rui concluded after studying the lunar spacecraft.
As long as he didn¡¯t sabotage it, this American lunar mission was unlikely to fail.
After pondering for a while, Tang Rui gave up the idea of sabotage, as it was simply too low.
It worked, but ying such tricks often was not interesting.
So, this time Tang Rui nned to y differently. ¡°Lin, contact CCTV and use their name to obtain the live broadcast rights for the American return to the Moon.¡±
¡°Broadcast rights? Do you mean to broadcast the rocketunch?
¡°Not a ry, but a live broadcast. Make sure the contract clearly states that it¡¯s the live broadcast rights for their Moonnding.¡±
¡°Alright, I¡¯ll contact them right now..¡±
Chapter 260 - 260: CCTV Reporter, CCTV Livery (Part 1)
Chapter 260: CCTV Reporter, CCTV Livery (Part 1)
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Director, you wanted to see me?¡±
He Yun cautiously asked as she entered the director¡¯s office, wondering if there might have been some mistake.
As a newly employed junior reporter, being summoned by the director waspletely unexpected.
¡°Ah, Xiao He is here, take a seat.¡±
¡°Thank you, Director.¡±
The director looked over the recently regrized junior reporter and nodded in satisfaction.
She had a decent appearance, conducted herself well, and was a graduate of a media university.
Her basic skills were solid.
With two years of training, she could be a key yer.
¡°Xiao He, the station has a task for you, the specifics weren¡¯t clearly stated by the other party, so you¡¯ll need to adapt as necessary.¡±
The director spoke inly, without any formalities, briefly exining the situation.
After all, it was a message from higher up.
They wanted CCTV to send a reporter to cooperate with the Crimson Corporation.
But how exactly to cooperate, how long it would take, and what the work entailed was unknown.
The higher-ups didn¡¯t say.
Or maybe they weren¡¯t clear either.
After receiving the task, the director thought it over and decided to send a promising neer.
Director, is this task an interview or something else?¡± He Yun was confused after hearing the details.
What did it mean to adapt as necessary?
¡°The specific task will be determined by the arrangements of the Crimson Corporation.¡±
¡°Okay, when do I leave?¡±
¡°You should go back and prepare now. Soon, someone from the military will
take you to the airport and discuss confidentiality issues with you.¡±
¡°I understand, Director, I¡¯ll go prepare.¡±
Good, thank you for your hard work.¡±
¡°It¡¯s no trouble at all, Director. I¡¯ll be going now.¡±
Alright, call the station if you need anything.¡±
¡°Understood.¡±
After leaving the director¡¯s office, He Yun went back to hand over her work. Being a new regr staff member, she didn¡¯t have much to do and quickly finished up.
Then she went back to her dormitory to pack her things, including a change of clothes and her workptop, and waited for the military personnel.
In less than half an hour, the military personnel arrived, discussed the confidentiality issues with her, and then took her to the military airport. At the airport, she saw arge, sci-fi-styled airne.
Painted with the Crimson Corporation¡¯s logo, she recognized it as the widely-discussed ne online.
It was said to be President Tang¡¯s private ne, the head of Crimson.
¡°Major Gao, hello. The target has been delivered, the confidentiality agreement is signed, and the background check is clear.¡±
¡°Okay, thank you for your assistance.¡±
After speaking with the military personnel, Gao Yang said to He Yun, ¡°Reporter He, please follow me.¡±
¡°Okay.¡±
He Yun nodded and followed Gao Yang onto the ne.
After boarding the private ne, she realized just how luxurious and sci-fi looking the interior was.
However, the military personnel had warned her.
During the mission, act as if you haven¡¯t seen anything, don¡¯t ask questions, don t take pictures, and don¡¯t touch any equipment or facilities.
So, after boarding the ne, she just sat in her seat, buckled her seatbelt, and sat quietly.
After Gao Yang stored her luggage, he returned to the living room and casually sat on the sofa.
¡°Red Lotus, we can take off now.¡±
¡°Acknowledged.¡±
The next second, the private ne slowly took off.
Without any gliding, it lifted off vertically.
He Yun, sitting quietly in her seat, was a bit bewildered by the view outside the window.
She nced at Gao Yang, who was lounging on the sofa with his legs crossed, not wearing a seatbelt, and ying with his phone. She moved her mouth to ¡¯ speak but said nothing.
When the private ne reached high altitude and started to elerate, she finally felt the sensation of being pushed back.
But the feeling wasn¡¯t strong, simr to a car elerating, and didn¡¯t affect much.
After a while, the private ne began to fly smoothly.
At that time, Gao Yang got up, took a bottle of drink from the fridge, opened it, and began to drink.
¡°Uh¡ Reporter He, would you like something to drink?¡±
¡°No, thank you,¡± He Yun shook her head in response.
Gao Yang nodded and continued to sit on the sofa ying with his phone, asionally taking a sip of his drink.
This behavior made He Yun ufortable.
She was just being polite.
Why was he so straightforward?
He Yun took a deep breath, then asked, ¡°Um¡ may I unbuckle my seatbelt now?¡±
¡°YOU can, you didn¡¯t need to wear it in the first ce,¡± Gao Yang replied without looking up.
¡°Can I use my phone?¡±
¡°Yes, but no photos.¡±
¡°Okay.¡±
After unbuckling her seatbelt, He Yun took out her phone, connected to the ne¡¯swork, and messaged her parents on WeChat, informing them she would be on a business trip for the next few days.
Half an hourter, He Yun was still chatting on WeChat, unaware that the ne had alreadynded.
¡°Reporter He, we¡¯ve arrived, let¡¯s disembark.¡±
¡°Oh¡ okay, sorry.¡±
He Yun looked out the window, not immediately processing the situation.
When did theynd?
She didn¡¯t even feel it.
Following Gao Yang off the ne, they arrived at the entrance to a mountain base.
¡°Once inside, don¡¯t wander around alone, and don¡¯t touch anything. Remember this.¡±
Gao Yang turned and spoke seriously to He Yun.
¡°Okay, I understand,¡± He Yun nodded.
Buzz!
The door to the mountain base opened.
The two walked into theser corridor, and at that moment, Red Lotus¡¯s voice resounded..
Chapter 261 - 261: CCTV Reporter, CCTV Livery (Part 2)
Chapter 261: CCTV Reporter, CCTV Livery (Part 2)
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¡°Gaoyang, with high-level authorization, is permitted to enter.¡±
¡°He Yun, with temporary authorization, is permitted to enter.¡±
He Yun was startled by the voice of Red Lotus, but seeing that Gaoyang had no reaction, she could only follow closely behind him, heading inside.
Upon reaching theboratory door, Gaoyang pressed the ess control switch.
Therge door of theboratory opened.
¡°Mr. Tang, the reporter He from CCTV has been brought back,¡± Gaoyang reported to Tang Rui upon entering theboratory.
¡°Okay, Brother Yang, take a seat for a moment, there¡¯s something for you to doter,¡± Tang Rui nodded and said to Gaoyang.
¡°Okay.¡± Gaoyang found a chair and sat down casually.
Tang Rui looked at He Yun. How to put it?
Prettier than Bingbing but not nearly as cute.
¡°Please take a seat, Reporter He. Don¡¯t be too formal.¡±
¡°Thank you, Mr. Tang. My name is He Yun, and I am a reporter from CCTV.¡±
¡°Yes, I am well aware of your information, and I am very satisfied with your professional capabilities. However, this mission is a bit special, so I want to ask, do you have a fear of deep space?¡±
Tang Rui asked this question as it¡¯s something that cannot be ascertained from a file, it must be asked directly.
¡°No,¡± He Yun shook her head.
¡°What about ustrophobia? If you were to stay alone in a closed and silent space, how long could you endure?¡±
Upon hearing this question, He Yun suddenly had a bad premonition.
But she did not back down, instead, after thinking, she said, ¡°I don¡¯t have ustrophobia, but I¡¯m not sure how long I couldst in a silent and enclosed environment.¡±
¡°I see, then let¡¯s test it, what do you think?¡±
¡°Okay.¡±
Tang Rui nodded, appreciating the character of Reporter He.
¡°Brother Yang, take Reporter He to the sky, let her experience it firsthand,¡± he said to Gaoyang.
¡°Okay, Reporter He, follow me.¡±
¡°Oh¡ Okay.¡±
He Yun entered in a daze and left in a daze.
To the sky?
Which sky?
He Yun, confused, followed Gaoyang onto the spacecraft.
Several minutester, she finally understood what going to the sky meant ¨C it was literal.
As the spacecraft left Earth¡¯s orbit with its tail pointed towards Earth.
At this moment, even through the porthole, only the infinite void of the universe could be seen, but neither Earth nor the Moon were visible.
¡°Reporter He, how do you feel? Are you ufortable anywhere?¡± Gaoyang floated over to He Yun and asked.
¡°There¡¯s no physical difort, just a bit unbelievable.¡± He Yun¡¯s head was buzzing.
From getting off the ne to now, her mind had never been normal.
¡°Here are some rted materials, you can take a look at them, these two tubes are your dinner for tonight, you can take them out and have a lookter to pass the time. Next is the formal test, if you feel panic or anxiety, you can call me, but that means you fail.¡±
Gaoyang handed He Yun two things, a set of materials and dinner, then led her to the restroom.
After He Yun entered, the door of the restroom closed.
At this moment, the surroundings became quiet, and outside the window was a void of the universe.
After He Yun entered, she took a while to recover.
She didn¡¯t know the current time, nor did she know her location.
All she could do now was to read the materials and numb her senses with work.
Gaoyang, outside, took out his phone and continued ying games.
Others may not get a mobile signal in outer space but that wasn¡¯t the case with Tang Rui¡¯s equipment; even on the Moon and Mars, one could still y games on their phone.
After an unknown amount of time, He Yun had finished reading the materials, even memorizing the contents but she couldn¡¯t feel any changes from the outside world.
The stars outside the porthole remained unchanged and so did the lights in the room.
Her perception of the outside world was beginning to get slightly confused.
Luckily, she got hungry at this point.
She took out the tube that resembled toothpaste for dinner, opened it, and squeezed it into her mouth. The taste couldn¡¯t be said to be bad, just very average.
After eating, she leaned against the porthole, watching the sea of stars outside.
The more she watched, the more lost in thought she became.
After a long time, He Yun¡¯s psychological state began to change, and she felt an inexplicable panic and oppression.
But she was still able to ovee these feelings.
However, the inability to sleep made her very ufortable.
After enduring for an unknown amount of time.
Time seemed to have no change.
She needed to use the restroom.
How to handle this?
¡°Major Gaoyang?¡± Having no choice, He Yun had to speak up.
¡°I¡¯m here.¡±
Hearing He Yun¡¯s call, Gaoyang opened the door of the restroom.
This was also not up to standard.
ording to Tang Rui, it wasn¡¯t necessary to endure for too long, but 12 hours should be the minimum.
But it had only been six hours, and she couldn¡¯t hold on anymore.
It seemed they needed to change the person.
¡°I want to ask, how do you use the restroom in space?¡± He Yun said to Gaoyang, with no expression of shyness.
This was a physiological issue, not because she couldn¡¯t hold on.
¡°This¡¡±
Gaoyang was stunned upon hearing this question.
This¡
This issue hadn¡¯t been considered.
¡°Sorry, we did not consider this thoroughly. I will return now.¡±
After saying this, Gaoyang led her to the cockpit, asking her to buckle up.
Then he had Red Lotus control the spacecraft to return.
¡°What? How to use the restroom?¡±
Tang Rui, lying on the couch ying with his phone, was also stunned upon receiving Red Lotus¡¯s report.
Right.
He hadn¡¯t considered this issue.
Gaoyang¡¯s specialbat armor had these functions built-in.
So he had forgotten about it.
¡°Red Lotus, ording to the data, make a nano load-bearing suit and a spacebat armor.¡±
¡°Okay, master, I understand.¡±
The next day, Gaoyang, with He Yun now wearing a nano load-bearing suit, returned to space again, this time they stayed in space for 22 hours.
This already met Tang Rui¡¯s requirements.
But there was still time.
They could go to space for a longer time, to get ustomed to it.
And so, Gaoyang and He Yun, every day, rode the spacecraft to outer space to adapt to the environment.
A man and a woman in a closed environment.
Dopamine, in such situations, always secreted a bit more.
So, one day, Red Lotus reported to Tang Rui, saying that Gaoyang¡¯s hormonal reactions were abnormal, with a rapid increase in heart rate, which initially scared Tang Rui, thinking something had happened to Gaoyang.
After checking the spacecraft¡¯s surveince.
Well¡ It was Gaoyang and He Yun who, in a weightless situation, bumped into each other.
Tang Rui immediately closed the surveince.
Then he told Red Lotus to record these bodily reactions as mating, not injury or abnormality.
Time slowly passed.
Soon, the day arrived when the Americansunched the moonnding return capsule. They had nned for this day for a long time.
What constetion project?
What fake manned lunar flight?
In short, they had made many real and fake ns, but there was no major movement.
This time, they were really going to return to the moon.
Major media from all over the world broadcasted this moonnding by Eagle Sauce, as it was also a major event for all humanity.
After decades, humanity had returned to the moon once again.
CCTV had bought the broadcasting rights long ago, so CCTV¡¯s reporters went directly to Eagle Sauce¡¯s spaceunch center to shoot the rocketunch.
¡°Hello, viewers, behind me is the Kennedy Space Center, that rocket standing up, is about tounch¡¡±
The field reporter from CCTV reported directly from outside the space center, allowing viewers to clearly see the rocket behind her.
A few minutester, three astronauts walked out from NASA¡¯s building, waving to the people around and epting interviews from reporters.
However, our CCTV reporter was on the outermost circle, without interview rights, only able to watch from behind.
Seeing this, Tang Rui narrowed his eyes.
¡°Brother Yang, are you ready?¡±
¡°We are ready.¡±
¡°Good, then you go ahead, wait for them at the Carmen line. Their flight trajectory has already been calcted by Red Lotus.¡±
¡°Understood.¡±
After saying this, Gaoyang took He Yun onto the spacecraft.
At this time, the spacecraft¡¯s appearance hadn¡¯t changed, but its livery had changed dramatically. On the wings, the letters CCTV glittered..
Chapter 262 - 262: USA, You Don’t Want Those Three
Chapter 262: USA, You Don¡¯t Want Those Three
Astronauts to Encounter Anything Bad in Outer Space, Do You?
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¡°The Americans are well-prepared this time.¡±
¡°Just listen, they¡¯ve been boasting for years. Although there¡¯s some action now, it¡¯s hard to say what it will amount to.¡±
¡°I don¡¯t care whether America¡¯s moonnding n is just hot air. I just want to know how our manned moonnding n is progressing.¡±
Before the rocketunch, the webcast room of the broadcast studio was filled with rollingments fromizens.
All kinds ofments were being made.
But most people were just there for the spectacle. They were more interested in watching their own manned moon spacecraft take off.
After a while, the director switched the camera back to the field host.
At this time, three American astronauts had already boarded the spacecraft, and the rocket was about tounch.
¡°The audience is curious about the white smoke emitted by the rocket. Actually, those are from the low-temperature storage tanks, condensing the surrounding water vapor to form a mist.
¡°It¡¯s like the white mist around ice cream when you eat it in summer.
¡°Okay, the countdown has begun, and the rocket is about tounch.¡±
The field host stopped speaking, and the camera was focused on the rocket that was about tounch.
¡°Launch!¡±
With the countdown ending, the rocket engines ignited.
Boom!
Three heavy rocket engines ignited.
The massive thrust supported the rocket¡¯s takeoff, with white smoke billowing beneath theunch pad.
The rocket¡¯s speed increased.
The camera¡¯s tracking view became increasingly blurred.
When the rocket turned into a dot and disappeared into the sky, the director switched the scene.
¡°What a pity, no explosion.¡±
¡°Boring, no fireworks.¡±
¡°That¡¯s the end of the excitement, back to regr programming. Nothing interesting.¡±
Just as everyone was preparing to leave, the host in the broadcast studio spoke. ¡°Okay, the rocket has beenunched. Now, let¡¯s turn to our second field host, who will continue to live broadcast America¡¯s moonnding. Wee He Yun.¡± The director switched the camera, splitting the studio¡¯s screen in half, showing the interior of the spacecraft on one side and the studio on the other.
¡°Hello, audience friends, I¡¯m He Yun from CCTV. I¡¯m currently too kilometers above the earth¡¯s surface, which is the Karman line.
¡°Next, I will be live broadcasting for you. Alright, the American rocket haspleted its third stage separation. Let¡¯s follow and take a look at their return capsule.¡±
After He Yun finished speaking with a smile, she signaled to Gao Yang to adjust the camera, pointing it outside.
They were in front of a huge floor-to-ceiling window of the space shuttle, which provided a clear view of outer space.
The two were broadcasting from this location.
As Gao Yang adjusted the camera angle, the American return capsule appeared in the audience¡¯s view.
¡°Damn!¡±
¡°Damn!¡±
¡°Damn¡ this is going to be big.¡±
¡°No wonder they were live broadcasting America¡¯s moonnding. They were waiting for this moment.¡±
The audience members who hadn¡¯t left yet were all stunned.
This was far beyond their imagination.
Watching the live broadcast with clear images and tracking shots from all angles.
They were all a bit overwhelmed.
After a moment of shock, everyone began to call their friends.
It was a joke.
Before, they just wanted to see if America¡¯s rocket would explode. Now, they wanted to know how long the live broadcast wouldst, and if they could follow the footage all the way to the moon.
If that was really possible.
That would be exciting.
Suddenly, the number of people in the live broadcast room began to skyrocket.
At the same time, inside NASA¡¯s spacemand center, everyone was dumbfounded.
The astronauts reported, ¡°There¡¯s a ne following us, flying around us.¡± ¡°A ne? Is it the Red Company¡¯s aerospace fighter?¡± asked the head of NASA. ording to the astronauts¡¯ report, the only ne that could reach outer space was Crimson Corporation¡¯s White Emperor spacefighter.
Astronaut: ¡°It¡¯s not a fighter, I saw the letters on the outside of the ne, it says CCTV.¡±
¡°¡¡± The head of NASA was baffled.
Crimson¡¯s logo was not letters.
But what was this CCTV?
¡°Director, look at this video.¡±
At this time, a NASA employee took out a phone and handed it to the director to show him the content.
A moonnding live broadcast?
Seeing the title of the live broadcast room, he didn¡¯t feel anything wrong.
But when he saw the content of the live broadcast, he was stunned. It was their return capsule.
How could it be filmed from top to bottom, left to right, in various styles?
¡°What kind of live broadcast is this?¡±
¡°It¡¯s CCTV¡¯s live broadcast.¡±
¡°Whose live broadcast it is, tell them to stop immediately, right now, or don¡¯t me me for being rude.¡±
¡°That director, we have a contract.¡±
¡°What contract?¡±
¡°The live broadcast contract.¡±
When the director learned that CCTV¡¯s abbreviation was indeed CCTV, he was filled with confusion.
He had thought the 5 million paid for the live broadcast rights was a great deal at the time.
But now, he felt the money was a bit hot to handle.
He knew about the live broadcast.
But he didn¡¯t expect the other party¡¯s live broadcast to be like this.
¡°Director, the return capsule has reached the designated orbit, should we dock?¡± a staff member asked.
Docking?
Of course, they should dock.
Could it be that the astronauts should return directly in their space suits? That would be a joke.
But the problem was, if they docked now, someone would be filming next to them.
Who knows how many people are watching online.
This¡
After a long moment, the director said helplessly, ¡°Start docking.¡±
Elsewhere, inside the space shuttle, Gao Yang held the camera, focusing on the docking point between the return capsule and the moon spacecraft, zooming in for a close shot.
Next to him, He Yun began to exin.
¡°Dear viewers, the return capsule is about to dock with the moon spacecraft. This step is highly technical.
¡°We can now see that the distance between them is very close, which is the most dangerous moment for docking. Because both are moving at high speeds, any mistake in docking would have terrible consequences.
¡°The docking has started, very urate, in at once. Alright, now the two are tightly connected.¡±
He Yun exined the situation outside, but the numerousizens in the live broadcast room were all puzzled.
¡°Is it me who¡¯s mistaken, or is there something wrong with thismentary?¡±
¡°Don¡¯t think too much, it¡¯s definitely you who¡¯s mistaken. Thementary is wless, both are moving very fast, and any misinsertion would be very dangerous, directly cutting it off.¡±
¡°The one above, you also seem off.¡±
Theizens¡¯ ability to deviate from the topic was still very strong.
But this did not affect the live broadcast.
As the dockingpleted, the three astronauts in the return capsule moved through the cabin into the moon spacecraft.
The moon spacecraft was actually a small modr space station, each part equipped with many supplies.
America¡¯s preparation this time was very thorough.
In theboratory, Tang Rui received a video call from Lin Chao.
¡°Brother Lin, what¡¯s up?¡±
¡°Director Tang, the higher-ups want to know what you¡¯re going to do next?¡±
¡°Just follow the contract, live broadcast America¡¯s moonnding.¡±
¡°The whole process?¡±
¡°Yes, the whole process, from their ascent to their return to earth, I want to live broadcast everything.¡±
¡°That¡ the Americans want to breach the contract.¡±
¡°Breach the contract? Tell this to the Americans: you don¡¯t want anything bad to happen to those three astronauts in outer space, right?¡±
Chapter 263 - 263: An American Failure (Part 1)
Chapter 263: An American Failure (Part 1)
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Breach of contract?
Who were they kidding?
It would seem they didn¡¯t realize whose territory space was.
After hanging up the video, Tang Rui continued to watch the live broadcast.
Such a live broadcast was really interesting.
Tang Rui found it amusing, and so did theizens at home and abroad. The only ones who felt ufortable were the Americans.
They had just returned to the moon.
This should have been a happy day, so why did it feel so unpleasant?
¡°The boss has sent a message, don¡¯t bother with them, let¡¯s continue with our n as scheduled.¡±
¡°Okay, I got it.¡±
The NASA person in charge adjusted his mood and then started issuing orders for the three astronauts to check the various systems of the lunar spacecraft and take inventory of the supplies on board.
During this time, Red Lotus was controlling the space shuttle, circling the lunar spacecraft in a precise and elegant manner, taking shots from every angle.
He Yun also had the information provided by Tang Rui.
Following the details in the data, she talked about everything from the external cabin of the American lunar spacecraft to its internalponents and overall performance.
The special department personnel of the Americans, who had been in the live broadcast room, turned green when they heard these detailed data and information.
It was one thing to have their moonnding live-streamed.
But having all the data of their lunar spacecraft exposed was a bit too much.
The special department immediately sent the news back home.
The Americans quickly organized a team to start an investigation.
To obtain suchprehensive data, it must have been leaked by no ordinary person, so they turned their attention to the NASA person in charge.
Hmm?
They had sold the live broadcast rights for 5 million?
Never mind that.
First, find a scapegoat.
¡°Who are you people?¡±
¡°We are from FBI, please keep away if you¡¯re unrted.¡±
Several FBI agents walked into NASA¡¯s spacemand center and approached the person in charge.
¡°What are you doing?¡± the person in charge asked, frowning.
¡°Sir, pleasee with us,¡± the FBI agents showed their badges and said.
¡°You have no right to do this, I still have tomand the moonnding project, leave me alone.¡±
¡°I¡¯m sorry, sir, but as of now, you¡¯re no longer the person in charge.¡±
The FBI agents forcibly took the person in charge away.
Soon, new person in charge arrived in themand center.
¡°I¡¯m pleased to work with everyone. Until thepletion of this moonnding mission, I will act as the person in charge. I hope everyone can cooperate with my work, thank you.¡±
After the new person in charge greeted everyone, he began to inquire about the current various information.
Once all the information waspiled.
He gave the order tounch the lunar spacecraft.
ording to the research above, if the other party wants to live broadcast, then let them. Anyway, once the lunar spacecraft leaves Earth¡¯s orbit, they won¡¯t be able to broadcast live anymore.
Right now, everything on the lunar spacecraft was normal and supplies were abundant.
So, why stay in outer space around Earth, just to be live-streamed for fun?
Following the orders of the new person in charge, the three astronauts began to operate the lunar spacecraft, coordinating with the ground instructions and started to elerate around Earth¡¯s orbit.
As the lunar spacecraft elerated, Red Lotus also controlled the space shuttle to elerate.
¡°Dear viewers, the lunar spacecraft has now begun to elerate. ording to the American moonnding n, their lunar spacecraft will use Earth¡¯s gravity slingshot to elerate to 11.8 kilometers per second, then leave Earth¡¯s orbit.
¡°What you see now is the main engine of the lunar spacecraft, a rocket engine using unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine as fuel.
¡°Unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine is a highly toxic substance. Currently, the rockets weunch from the ground mostly use liquid oxygen kerosene¡¡±
He Yun, reading the prompts on her sses, began to educate the viewers in the live broadcast room, while revealing various parameters of the American lunar spacecraft.
As the speed of the lunar spacecraft increased.
When the speed exceeded 11.2 kilometers per second, the lunar spacecraft left Earth¡¯s orbit.
At that time, both Chinese and Americanizens and were paying attention to the live broadcast room.
They wanted to know if the space shuttle would continue to follow.
The next second, the space shuttle effortlessly left Earth¡¯s orbit.
Closely following the lunar spacecraft, it continued the live broadcast.
Why?
Why were you following?
Was there enough fuel?
You wouldn¡¯te back once you flew out, right?
As for the thoughts of the Americans, no one on the inte cared, as everyone was keenly watching the content of the live broadcast room.
Because at this time, the space shuttle elerated.
Whoosh.
The space shuttle overtook the lunar spacecraft and moved in front of it to broadcast live.
¡°Everyone can see through the camera¡¯s lens, as the lunar spacecraft elerates, Earth in the background will get smaller and smaller.
¡°The current real-time speed of the lunar spacecraft is 12.3 kilometers per second, which is already very fast, but this is not the limit of the lunar spacecraft, they are still elerating.
¡°Come, let¡¯s follow the camera¡¯s lens and observe the tail of the lunar spacecraft¡¡±
Under Red Lotus¡¯s control, the space shuttle continued to circle around the lunar spacecraft, taking shots from various angles and positions.
Filming this way.
Filming upside down.
Filming from above.
Filming from below.
The three astronauts inside the lunar spacecraft were already numb by this point, even though their lunar spacecraft kept elerating.
But the other party didn¡¯t feel it at all and continued to film around them..
Chapter 264 - 264: An American Failure (Part 2)
Chapter 264: An American Failure (Part 2)
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Their lunar spacecraft was supposed to be the most advanced, right?
Why did this happen?
They were puzzled.
In the blink of an eye.
Two hours passed.
It was deep into the night.
Although there were still many people in the live broadcast room, He Yun, who had been continuously speaking and live streaming, was also very tired.
Tang Rui looked at the time.
He contacted Gaoyang to release an unmanned camera, attach it to the lunar spacecraft, and then return.
¡°Okay, that¡¯s all for today¡¯smentary. Next, we will release an unmanned camera, attach it to the lunar spacecraft, and broadcast from the first-person perspective.
¡°I¡¯ll be back tomorrow morning at 8 to continue thementary. It¡¯s alreadyte, and He Yun is going off work to rest. If you like, you can watch our return journey from the first-person perspective.¡±
After He Yun finished speaking, the director immediately switched the camera.
The live broadcast room split into two views: one from the lunar spacecraft and one from the space shuttle.
The view from the lunar spacecraft wasn¡¯t very interesting.
At most, it showed high-definition shots of the cosmic starry sky.
But the first-person view from the space shuttle was really interesting.
As Honglian controlled the engine to elerate.
The space shuttle returned to Earth¡¯s orbit in less than five minutes and then plunged into the atmosphere.
The speed stunned everyone.
¡°Okay, that¡¯s all for today¡¯s presentation. See you tomorrow morning at 8. Goodbye!¡±
The space shuttle¡¯s first-person view disappeared.
The live broadcast room was left with only the first-person view from the lunar spacecraft.
But the chat room was very lively.
¡°Wow¡ what was that speed?¡±
¡°I went to the bathroom and came back to find they had already returned to Earth?¡±
¡°Is my dder that big? How long was I gone?¡±
¡°Tonight¡¯s live broadcast, I feel like I understood it, but also didn¡¯t. Can someone more knowledgeable exin?¡±
¡°Can¡¯t you look it up online? Always bothering us knowledgeable people, we¡¯re tired too.¡±
Theizens in the chat room began to boast and joke.
Everyone was very happy.
Initially, they thought the American moonnding broadcast wouldn¡¯t be interesting, but then¡ they got a surprise.
Chineseizens were excited, but people abroad were restless.
Scary.
Too scary.
They had managed to keep calm when the space shuttle easily caught up with the lunar spacecraft, as a short burst of eleration was possible for the lunar spacecraft too, though it would consume a lot of fuel.
But the speed of the space shuttle¡¯s return journey truly frightened them; they could see Earth visibly gettingrger.
That kind of speed was terrifying.
What to do?
They decided to convene a think tank meeting.
¡®What do you think about their space shuttle?¡¯ the big boss asked.
Members of the think tank frowned and remained silent.
How were they going to think?
By just sitting and watching.
With no data, what could they think about?
After discussing for a long time, they came up with nothing, instead just cursing the special department.
Useless¡ only good at making dirty money.
Not a single piece of useful intelligence.
The next day, Tang Rui got up early, ready to enjoy the spectacle.
Gaoyang and He Yun also woke up early.
After taking care of personal hygiene, eating breakfast, and changing clothes.
They boarded the space shuttle again.
At 8 o¡¯clock sharp, the director timely switched the live broadcast view.
¡°Hello, viewers and friends, we meet again. I am the field host He Yun. We have just flown out of the atmosphere and are heading towards the lunar spacecraft to continue the live broadcast.¡±
Red Lotus elerated the space shuttle.
In less than ten minutes, they had caught up with the lunar spacecraft.
At that time, He Yun had just started exining some scientific content.
When they arrived beside the lunar spacecraft, Gaoyang¡¯s camera again focused on the lunar spacecraft.
Through the porthole, viewers in the live broadcast room could clearly see the three astronauts inside the lunar spacecraft preparing to sleep.
One of the astronauts suddenly noticed the light dimming.
He turned his head to look.
Damn!
The space shuttle was here again.
Not only were the astronauts in despair, but the staff at NASA¡¯s spacemand center were also copsing.
It was already difficult to be on night duty, and now, they had to endure this torment.
What about their so-called most advanced lunar spacecraft, the fastest moonnding speed?
Even if they were faster, it would take them 46 hours to reach the moon¡¯s orbit.
Look at them.
Whoosh, they flew back yesterday.
And whoosh, they¡¯re back today.
This made their lunar spacecraft seem like garbage.
In every aspect, garbage.
The Americans were very ufortable.
This moonnding was meant to inspire the public and also tell their allies that following them was the right choice.
Decades ago theynded on the moon.
Decadester, not only could theynd on the moon, but they also did it quickly.
But now¡ after one live broadcast.
The strength of the American lunar spacecraft was unclear, but it certainly wasn¡¯t as strong as their space shuttle.
That was a very ufortable fact to swallow.
Luckily it was night, and their people would only watch for a while before going to sleep.
Since there was no solution, they could only choose to be spiritually victorious.
In the blink of an eye, a day passed.
Domesticizens were thrilled, asionally watching the live broadcast and bragging with otherizens.
By this time, the domesticizens knew.
Our space shuttle could directly fly to the moon, or maybe it had already gone there, it just hadn¡¯t been made public.
If it weren¡¯t for the Americans boastfully saying they were going tond on the moon again, perhaps this very advanced space shuttle wouldn¡¯t have been showcased, so they should thank the Americans.
But regardless.
Having the capability tond on the moon was what mattered.
Public disclosure was not important; having the capability to do so was.
Through more than a day of live broadcasting, everyone clearly understood.
Our space shuttle was far superior to the American lunar spacecraft in every aspect,pletely outperforming the lunar spacecraft.
So everyone was happy all day long.
When the live broadcast ended at night, the live broadcast room again showed the first-person view from the lunar spacecraft.
¡°After seeing the speed of our space shuttle, looking at the lunar spacecraft feels boring.¡±
¡°Too slow, slower than a turtle.¡±
¡°Hurry up, my neighbor¡¯s Grandma Li, who is over eighty, is faster than you.¡±
¡°Don¡¯t rush them, it¡¯s useless, performance is everything, they can¡¯t help it.¡±
Theizens mocked and jeered, having a great time.
The night passed without incident.
The next day, the space shuttle took off again, spending over half an hour catching up with the lunar spacecraft and once again broadcasting it live.
¡°Viewers and friends, you can see that the lunar spacecraft has started to decelerate.
¡°This deceleration willst an hour, and then the lunar spacecraft will enter the moon¡¯s orbit¡¡±
He Yun continued with her exnations, now very familiar with every function and situation of the lunar spacecraft.
More than an hourter, the lunar spacecraft entered the moon¡¯s orbit and began to adjust its attitude for orbiting the moon.
At that moment, the space shuttle elerated and flew straight toward the moon.
The director switched the view again.
The live broadcast room showed two views, one from the lunar spacecraft and one from the space shuttle.
¡°Viewers and friends, we¡¯ll go out first, exit the cabin to film thending scene of the lunar spacecraft.
¡°The currentnding site is the Sea of Tranquility, where the Americansnded on the moon decades ago.¡±
After He Yun finished speaking, she put on her helmet.
The space shuttlended.
The two of them walked out of the hatch.
Below the hatchdder were the footprints left by Armstrong years ago, with the remnants of equipment left by the Americans during their moonnding.
Then, He Yun took the camera and filmed Gaoyang stepping down, his foot stepping into that footprint.
At that moment, the chat in the live broadcast room was all about one sentence.
¡°If others can get there, so can we!¡±
When Gaoyang lifted his foot again, the footprint below had changed to his own shape.
Just kidding¡
The exoskeleton space suits worn by Gaoyang and He Yun had built-in mechanical power-assist devices.
That one step¡
Not just the footprint, even the American lunar spacecraft could be kicked to create a hole.
¡°Viewers and friends, now we can see that the American lunar spacecraft has begun its descent and is about tond in the open space in front of us. We will now start broadcasting their moonnding process.¡±
Gaoyang picked up the camera again and began filming the descent of the lunar module.
In the presence of countlessizens, only two of the three retro-thrusters of thending module sessfully fired.
One did not ignite.
This resulted in the lunar module tipping over.
The Americans had suffered a spectacr failure under the watchful eye of billions..
Chapter 265 - 265: America: I Arrived, Didn’t Land, and Got Sent Back.
Chapter 265: America: I Arrived, Didn¡¯t Land, and Got Sent Back.
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¡°Damn¡ Did it crash?¡±
¡°This is more like a capsizing.¡±
¡°That¡¯s right, it¡¯s a capsizing, a spaceship is also a ship.¡±
Netizens in China were stunned.
This was unexpected to them.
America had been very stable up until now, even if their moonnding spacecraft was overshadowed by the space shuttle, but you can¡¯t deny that it¡¯s indeed a pinnacle of human technological achievement.
Tang Rui¡¯s achievement isn¡¯t considered a human scientific achievement.
It was like cheating.
But he didn¡¯t expect that America would crash at thest step.
¡°Gao Yang, go and have a look, help if you can,¡± Tang Rui said to Gao Yang.
If there was no live broadcast, he definitely wouldn¡¯t have helped.
But the live broadcast is on, in front of all humanity, you can¡¯t appear so indifferent.
Whether you can save them is one thing.
Whether to go and save them is another matter.
¡°America¡¯s moonnding spacecraft has a little problem, now we¡¯re going to see if we can help, I hope the astronauts inside are okay,¡± He Yun said, then took the camera.
The two activated their thrusters and quickly arrived next to thending spacecraft.
The spacecraft had alreadynded, but it was lying tilted on its side.
After Gao Yang arrived, he looked inside through the porthole.
Bang bang bang¡
He knocked on the ss a few times.
But the two astronauts inside did not respond.
¡°Please contact us as soon as possible, America. We need your cooperation for the rescue.
¡°We can¡¯t directly open the hatch now, as it might lead to more serious consequences.¡±
On Earth.
NASA¡¯s spacemand center was also in chaos.
They desperately called out to the two astronauts but there was no response.
They tried to control thending module through theputer, but it was unclear whether it was a hardware or software issue.
Thending module had already lost contact with the ground.
Director, what should we do now?¡±
¡°Ask Jes on lunar orbit, does he have any news?¡± the new director asked solemnly.
¡°Director, Jes can¡¯t contact the moonnder either.¡±
If he had known, he wouldn¡¯t have fought for this position.
It was just a powder keg.
Luckily, the previous director was dragged out to take the me.
He had just taken over, and even if something went wrong, he could me it on his predecessor, so he didn¡¯t have to worry too much.
Director, what should we do now?¡±
The director looked at the big screen, which was all ck.
After themunication was cut off.
They could no longer detect any signals.
They didn¡¯t even know the condition of the two astronauts inside the lunar module.
Could anything be done?
¡°Switch the screen to the live broadcast room.¡±
¡°Director, which live broadcast room?¡±
¡°Which do you think?¡±
¡°Okay.¡±
Swish!
The live broadcast room appeared on the big screen, showing Gao Yang circling thending module, wanting to save people but not daring to act rashly.
¡°Quick, contact them, ask them to open thending module from the outside and rescue the astronauts.¡±
Director, there¡¯s a safety lock on the outside, they can¡¯t open it.¡±
¡°What about the password? Isn¡¯t there an external password?¡±
¡°No.¡±
¡°Contact CNSA, let themmunicate with the two on the moon, and find a way to open the lunar module and rescue the people.¡±
The new director was smart. The moonnding had failed.
It wasn¡¯t his fault, but if the people couldn¡¯t be rescued, he would definitely be held responsible.
So right now, nothing else was more important than saving lives.
CNSA was also watching the live broadcast, after all, how could they not watch something like a moonnding?
After receiving NASA¡¯s request for help, they readily agreed, expressing their full effort to save people.
Then, the head of CNSA contacted Tang Rui.
To think of a way, this kind of live broadcast rescue is simply the best way to gain international prestige.
The state woldn¡¯t thank you, but themon people would have a good impression of you.
That was enough.
Influence doesn¡¯t happen overnight, it umtes bit by bit, this kind of prestige-building opportunity, they have to do well.
After receiving the message, Tang Rui let Gao Yang break open the lunar module.
NASA had already said that the astronauts inside were wearing helmets, and even if the lunar module was broken open, they didn¡¯t have to worry about themcking oxygen or being exposed to the outside.
Then things would be much easier.
¡®Brother Yang, just break open the lunar module and rescue the two people
inside, don¡¯t worry about anything else.¡±
¡°Okay, I got it.¡±
After hearing Tang Rui¡¯s words, Gao Yang knew what to do.
He raised his right arm and the mechanical assist power system charged up. Boom!
One punch directly deformed the door of the lunar module, and air started leaking from the side, but the door was still locked, not open.
Boom!
Gao Yang continued to charge up, another punch.
The air leakage from the door got worse.
Bang bang bang¡
In front of everyone around the world, they watched Gao Yang raise his fist and hammer the door wildly.
Each punch left a dent in the door.
After a dozen punches, the lock on the door still held up, but not the area next to the door.
Puff¡
With a burst of air, the door opened.
Gao Yang half entered, checked the condition of the two astronauts.
How could it be put?
Their condition wasn¡¯t good, but they probably weren¡¯t in life-threatening danger.
But the two of them were definitely internally injured.
So Gao Yang thought for a moment.
He unbuckled their safety belts, then dismantled two pipes from the lunar module, and tore off a piece of covering to make a makeshift stretcher.
Watching Gao Yang¡¯s unrefined actions and the wonton dismantling of the lunar module¡¯s equipment, NASA was bleeding inside.
Goodness.
With just these two moves, the billion-dor lunar module was basically scrapped.
But there was nothing they could say.
No.
Not only could they notin about what others did, but they also had to thank them, which was even more ufortable.
And just like that, the two unconscious astronauts were ced on the stretcher and carried into the space shuttle.
¡°Ladies and gentlemen, due to unexpected circumstances, we now have to return immediately to send the two astronauts to the hospital for treatment, so the live broadcast ends here.¡±
After He Yun finished speaking, the director switched the screen, changing the live broadcast to the studio.
The two hosts in the studio started to ramble.
Theizens didn¡¯t listen to the hosts¡¯ ramblings.
Instead, they discussed on their own.
Their topic of discussion was whether America¡¯s moonnding was a sess or a failure.
Considering the lunar module tipped over and the astronauts were unconscious.
This moonnding was undoubtedly a failure.
But the problem was, they didnd on the moon, so it can¡¯t be called a total failure.
¡°What¡¯s there to argue about, what doesnding on the moon mean, you have to step on the moon¡¯s surface to count asnding, did America¡¯s astronauts step on the moon¡¯s soil?¡±
Oneizen¡¯s thought process was surprisingly amazing.
One sentence left everyone speechless.
Looking back, it seemed they really didn¡¯t touch the ground.
They were pulled out of the lunar module and ced on the stretcher, then carried into the space shuttle.
During this time, their feet were hanging in the air.
¡°So to speak, America came to the moon but didn¡¯tnd, and was sent back.¡±
¡°No, they came to the moon, but didn¡¯t leave the spacecraft, and were sent back.¡±
¡°That¡¯s not right, didn¡¯t they have three astronauts, what about the remaining one?¡±??
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¡°What else can be done? Just head back home.¡±
¡°Goodness, a day trip on the moon, huh..¡±
Chapter 266 - 266: Hold On, We Can Win (Part 1)
Chapter 266: Hold On, We Can Win (Part 1)
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One hourter, the space shuttlended in the military district¡¯s courtyard, and the two astronauts had already woken up by this time.
However, the soldiers of the military district didn¡¯t care whether they were awake or not.
They immediately stripped them of their spacesuits and transported them to the Jinling Military District General Hospital in an ambnce.
Actually, their injuries weren¡¯t severe.
They just needed a few days of rest, and they would be fine.
But, adhering to the principles of humanitarian rescue, once people are saved, they must be well taken care of to ensure absolutely no mishaps.
Once they were sent to the special ward of the military district hospital.
Gao Yang left the people at the military district and again boarded the space shuttle to return to thepany.
¡°President Tang, are we still going to the moon?¡± Gao Yang asked Tang Rui for his opinion.
However, Tang Rui, seeing Gao Yang¡¯s demeanor, seemed somewhat unsatisfied and didn¡¯t want to end it just yet.
Well, he didn¡¯t have much else to do anyway.
Every day apart from ying games at thepany, he was ying more games, and his level was catching up fast.
¡°Go, why not? America isn¡¯t going to the moon, but we can. Let¡¯s leave it at that for today. Tomorrow, you take He Yun to the spacemand center and ask them if they want to go to the moon.
¡°But tell them, we can use our space shuttle for the moonnding, but it must be broadcast live.
¡°We can keep confidential matters off the air, but it¡¯s best to broadcast scientific and educational content, otherwise, He Yun will have nothing to do,¡± Tang Rui said to Gao Yang with a smile.
This made Gao Yang blush, although his dark skin made it hard to see, it was clear hisplexion had changed.
¡°Okay, I¡¯ll go to the spacemand center tomorrow, then I¡¯ll head back first.¡± Gao Yang nodded and then turned to leave.
Yang, good luck, I¡¯m waiting to celebrate your wedding.¡± Tang Rui shouted to Gao Yang as he left.
¡°Okay.¡±
Gao Yang, walking out the door, barely managed to squeeze out a word.
Tang Rui smiled and continued to eat melon seeds.
On the holographic projection screen, it showed the only remaining astronaut from the American team.
He had already received NASA¡¯s order: Return directly.
At this moment, the astronaut¡¯s heart was copsing.
What did hee here for?
Was this called a moonnding?
He wasn¡¯t sure it wasn¡¯t just a delivery trip.
With a heart full of copse, the astronaut controlled the moonnding spacecraft to elerate around the moon and then return.
Pennsylvania Avenue, the United States.
The same familiar house, the same group of think tank members, the same meeting room, everyone gathered again for a meeting.
Lately, there had been quite a few meetings.
The key issue was, just having meetings alone wasn¡¯t very useful.
They had also made a n before, but a n was just a n; it wasn¡¯t like going to war, and there couldn¡¯t be such quick feedback.
But in such a short time, the other party kept pulling out frightening stuff one after another, especially this time¡¯s space shuttle.
That was already a level beyond their technological capabilities.
There was already a generational gap between the two.
Modern warfare was about information warfare, about air supremacy.
But air supremacy, when faced with space supremacy, was entirely on another level.
In outer space, the opponent could fight however they wanted.
You had no way to deal with it.
Their previous space re-entry n was to contend for space supremacy, and they had made a lot of effort for it.
The moonnding n was part of it.
But the problem was, the other side¡¯s development speed was much faster than theirs.
This time the opponent¡¯s moonnding spacecraft, and that kind of live broadcastmunication technology on the moon without dy.
Just these two technologies alone rendered them unable to manage.
What could they do?
Try harder, or just give up?
Giving up was easy, but if the opponent bes powerful and bullies them like they used to bully others, what then?
It was ufortable just thinking about it.
¡°Director Wilson, have you found the key to the other side¡¯s rapid technological advancement?¡±
The big boss looked at the head of the special department and asked.
¡°We have,¡± Director Wilson answered ndly.
¡°Hm? Found what?¡± The big boss asked excitedly, curious about the reason.
¡°They found an alien spaceship and deciphered its technology,¡± Director Wilson said.
¡°This¡ what do we do then?¡± The big boss was a bit panicked.
Deciphering alien technology¡ now that was technological suppression.
They knew all too well about what being technologically suppressed meant.
Simple, we just need to dig up an alien spaceship too,¡± Director Wilson said, pulling out a file bag.
The big boss took the file bag and, upon seeing its contents, instantly beamed with excitement, unable to contain himself.
¡°Is this for real?¡±
¡°Yes, we got this information from the Koreans,¡± Director Wilson said with a smile.
The others in the meeting room were curious.
What¡¯s the situation?
¡°Have a look,¡± the big boss passed the file bag to the person next to him for him to see.
Once he finished, he passed it to the next person.
After everyone had seen it, the atmosphere in the meeting room became cheerful.
Just alien technology.
They were also going to have alien technology.
What?
This alien spaceship was apparently from Korea?
Well!
If it was from Korea, it had to be from the United States.
Couldn¡¯t a father use his son¡¯s belongings? That¡¯s a joke.
So, this group of people directly considered the Korean alien spaceship at the bottom of the sea as their own.
The most important task right now,¡± they dered, ¡°is to dig out the alien spaceship and decipher its technology..¡±
Chapter 267 - 267: Hold On, We Can Win (Part 2)
Chapter 267: Hold On, We Can Win (Part 2)
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¡°As for the issue of disputes, we can make concessions, evenpromises, as long as we ensure our own interests.
¡°Everything else can be given up, and once we have deciphered alien technology, we can take it all back,¡± said a member of the think tank.
Betraying allies was something they were all too familiar with.
As long as their own interests were not harmed, the fate of allies was irrelevant, as there was nothing they could do anyway.
I agree. Right now, there¡¯s no need for us to engage directly with the opposition. We can let our allies take the brunt. We should also learn from them, to develop steadily for a while.¡±
¡°Exactly, let the allies hold off the opposition while we increase our investment in scientific research. Even if we lose allies, they wille back to us once we be stronger.¡±
¡°Additionally, we can do one more thing, which is to help Russia by stopping the bloodletting n against them.
¡°After all, they are too close to us. Russia doesn¡¯t want its neighbors to be too strong. They will act on their own without us doing much.¡±
The meeting concluded.
The Americans had made new changes; they were starting to develop quietly. And China?
They¡¯d be more active in international cooperation and project development.
Everyone had again be what they disliked the most.
Of course, the changes in America should not be too obvious.
On the contrary, on the surface, America still appeared as the impulsive youth it always was, creating disruptions and hindering Chinese international cooperation.
But in reality, the major American corporations, especially the consortia, had started to contact China.
For instance, the new inte elites who wanted topete domestically against the established oil consortia, indeed face a challenge.
But the situation was different now.
They didn¡¯t need topete head-on. As long as they offered benefits, they couldpletely leverage Chinese strength.
That day, Tang Rui was at home ying with his pet.
Lin Chao found him and mentioned again that someone from the United States wanted to talk to him.
¡°Why talk again? Aren¡¯t those people gone yet?¡±
Tang Rui was surprised after hearing this.
¡°The previous ones left, but new ones havee, with sincerity,¡± Lin Chao continued.
¡°What do you mean?¡± Tang Rui was curious about what conditions they had put forth that intrigued the higher-ups.
¡°Global semiconductor industry leadership and patented technology in the semiconductor field.¡±
Really?
Tang Rui was astonished.
This was more than a severe loss; it was almostparable to the Soviet shock therapy in the past.
If it failed to revive, it would not just be a shock anymore, but aplete copse.
¡°Alright¡ Have them send a representative,¡± Tang Rui thought for a moment and then said to Lin Chao.
This level of sincerity was not something that couldn¡¯t be discussed.
Clearly, they knew the consequences of their actions, but they still proceeded.
What did that imply?
The interests involved were substantial.
For capitalists, nothing else matters as much as their interests. As long as the benefits are significant enough, there¡¯s nothing they won¡¯t sell.
That afternoon, Tang Rui met James, the representative of the inte interest group, by the reservoir.
Whether it was his real name or not didn¡¯t matter.
Tang Rui just wanted to hear what he had to say and if there was anything that could persuade him; casting the fishing line.
Tang Rui ced the fishing rod on the rack, looking at James.
Mr. Tang, in this cooperation, we hold nothing back. Whether it¡¯s chip technology or inte technology, we are willing to provide licenses. If you have any demands, feel free to ask. As long as we can do it, there will be no problem.¡±
James didn¡¯t beat around the bush andid all his cards on the table, showing their sincerity to Tang Rui.
They had no choice.
If they don¡¯t resolve the semiconductor issue, once the domestic equipment is upgraded and production capacity explodes, they can only wait for their demise.
Even regional protection won¡¯t help.
Falling behind in products is fatal.
¡®What benefits do I get from what you¡¯re offering? Crimson is not a semiconductorpany; we don¡¯t produce chips or make money on the inte. Your technologies are of no significance to me,¡± Tang Rui said, smiling with narrowed eyes.
This wasn¡¯t just negotiation tactics but the truth.
Yet, it s the truth that was frightening.
Technologies that Crimson doesn¡¯t care about were critical to their survival.
That was the most terrifying part.
¡°We can ept investment from Crimson in anypany. We are willing to give up a 20% stake, including board positions.
¡°The future international semiconductor alliance can bepletely led by Crimson. You can have the decision-making power in the entire semiconductor industry.¡±
James spoke again, proposing this idea spontaneously. It wasn¡¯t discussed before.
But such matters can¡¯t be taken back to discuss.
Moreover, having Crimson¡¯s investment wasn¡¯t necessarily a bad thing.
After listening, Tang Ruiughed.
¡°Do you know the current international oil price? How much is a ton of crude oil?¡±
¡°About 700 USD.¡±
¡°You know about the Bohai Bay oil field, right?¡±
¡°Yes, its current production is 680,000 tons per day.¡±
¡°20% of that is mine. How much do you think I earn a day?¡±
¡°Mr. Tang, the issue with the semiconductor industry alliance isn¡¯t just about money, but also about international influence¡¡±
¡°I know, so it¡¯s troublesome. I dislike trouble, so let¡¯s not talk about investment.
¡°Let¡¯s do this, show me your capabilities. It¡¯s 3:15 PM now; by 5:00 PM tomorrow, see how many exotic animal cubs you can gather..¡¯
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Chapter 268 - 268: Hold On, We Can Win (Part 3)
Chapter 268: Hold On, We Can Win (Part 3)
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¡°For instance, let¡¯s talk about the cubs of distinctive exotic animals like white lions, snow leopards, and golden brown bears. I¡¯m interested to see how impressive they can be.
¡°If I am satisfied, I will immediately open the authorization channel. This means that you will be treated equally in terms of technology, and you will also be able to purchase raw materials from us.
¡°However, if I am not satisfied, I¡¯m sorry, although this may seem capricious, the powerful have the right to be so. What do you think?¡±
After hearing this, James¡¯ expression did not change.
¡°You are right, this is a right that you should have. We will do our utmost to satisfy you and demonstrate our sincerity.¡±
¡°Good, then take care, I won¡¯t see you out.¡±
After James left, Lin Chao was still frowning.
¡°Brother Lin, what are you thinking about?¡±
¡°I¡¯m just curious why you would make such a request. For them, this kind of thing is too simple.¡±
Lin Chao really couldn¡¯t figure out Tang Rui¡¯s thought process.
This time, it was clear that the higher-ups were letting Tang Rui take advantage of the situation to gain benefits.
The carbon-based semiconductor industry couldn¡¯t possibly remain closed to the outside world.
Having itpletely monopolized by the family wasn¡¯t a good thing either, not to mention that America had made a big concession this time.
They would also be able to ess the global market and open up the crude oil market at the same time.
It could be said to be very profitable.
As a major contributor, the higher-ups naturally wouldn¡¯t forget Tang Rui.
So, this time, it was obviously meant for Tang Rui to take advantage and reap the benefits. But then Tang Rui made such a request.
Wasn¡¯t this a waste of an opportunity?
¡°What¡¯s there to think about? This request is what I want right now. Anything else, whether it¡¯s money or power, is not what I want.¡±
¡°Alright, I understand, but don¡¯t overthink it.¡± Lin Chao said helplessly, looking at Tang Rui¡¯s yful expression.
¡°I¡¯m really not overthinking.¡± Tang Rui wasn¡¯t one to overthink.
He was living a very happy life, with nothing much to ponder over.
In fact, even if he had other demands now, the authorities would not refuse.
But it was meaningless.
His future was destined to be among the stars. He was just toozy to move now, and besides, Earth was quite fun.
When the time came when he felt life was meaningless, and the calling for excitement and passion came knocking on his chest, that was when he would leave Earth.
Otherwise, why go out looking for excitement? Was Earth too small to contain him, that he had to venture into the universe?
Back in theb, Tang Rui received news from the military¡¯s special department. On the drilling tform on the Korean side, many people from the American side had appeared.
Goodness.
They had been tricked by their son.
All of them had fallen into the trap of the alien spaceship.
After receiving the news, Tang Rui asked Red Lotus to disy the situation there.
However, the drill had only reached less than 500 meters, still far from the 1724 meters underground.
Needless to say, the deeper the drill had to go, the harder it became.
If he wanted to watch the drama unfold, he would probably have to wait a while.
¡°Master, the Space Command Center has sent a video call request. Will you ept it?¡±
Just after finishing chatting with the special department, the spacemand center contacted him.
¡°Connect it.¡±
Whoosh!
On the holographic projection in front of Tang Rui, the projection of the person in charge of the spacemand center appeared. It was not a two-dimensional image, but a three-dimensional projection.
Clearly, the other party was on a space shuttle, using a holographic projection device to contact him.
¡°President Tang, can you let us have the lunar rover?¡±
After the video call was connected, the other party spoke, leaving him a bit confused.
What lunar rover?
Where did this lunar rovere from?
¡°Wait a minute¡ Is there a mistake? I don¡¯t have a lunar rover.¡± Tang Rui asked, confused.
¡°It¡¯s not yours, it¡¯s America¡¯s lunar rover.¡±
¡°What does America¡¯s lunar rover have to do with me?¡±
¡°Their lunar rover has been locked up by your people. They won¡¯t let us move it.¡±
Tang Rui understood after listening.
This matter involved no one else; it was definitely Gao Yang¡¯s doing.
¡°Got it, let me talk to Gao Yang. I¡¯ll speak with him.¡± Tang Rui didn¡¯t care about the lunar rover at all.
If the Space Command Center wanted it, they could just have it.
Gao Yang¡¯s image appeared in front of him.
¡°President Tang.¡±
¡°What¡¯s the issue with the lunar rover?¡±
¡°When I returned to the moon, I found America¡¯s lunar rover had flipped over, and its internal system was malfunctioning.
After that, I had Red Lotus help fix the system malfunction and put it away, nning to return it to them the next time America goes to the moon.¡±
Gao Yang spoke with a straight face.
¡°Well, I see. You just did a simple repair. It¡¯s hard to say whether it¡¯spletely fixed or not.
Let the people from the Space Command Center drive it out and test it. If there¡¯s a problem, continue to fix it. We can¡¯t leave a broken thing to America. That wouldn¡¯t be good. If we¡¯re fixing it, we need to fix it properly.¡±
Tang Rui also answered seriously..
Chapter 269 - 269: Enhanced, Superconducting Particle
Chapter 269: Enhanced, Superconducting Particle
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After ending themunication, Tang Rui instructed Red Lotus to present the model of therge spacecraft that Feng Yuanxing and his team had recently designed.
They had finished the design a few days prior.
At that time, he was preupied and didn¡¯t pay much attention to it.
Now that he was free, he decided to examine the design model to evaluate its quality.
Swipe!
As the model of the spaceship appeared, Tang Rui was left speechless.
Impressive.
I copied the 300i design.
And you replicated the 890,1 see.
But truth be told, the design of this spaceship is truly stunning.
Tang Rui reviewed the specifications designed by Feng Yuanxing¡¯s team: the spaceship measured 120 meters in length, 36 meters in width, and 28 meters in height.
The specifications were satisfactory; they didn¡¯t simply replicate the original spaceship¡¯s parameters.
The exterior remainedrgely unchanged.
But the interior had undergone significant modifications; amenities like swimming pools, dance halls, entertainment areas, and sky gardens¡
All of these were eliminated.
Tang Rui¡¯s initial task for them was to design a civilian manned spacecraft for Earth-Moon travel.
Therefore, they transformed the interior into high-end business-ss cabins, each a separate istion chamber, equipped with its own emergency life support system.
In case of any incident on the spaceship, the passengers in these chambers could survive for 12 hours using the emergency life support system.
This design served as a safety precaution.
Besides the passenger cabins, there were other areas like meeting rooms, lounges, dining areas, observation sections, and storage spaces.
The entertainment facilities were minimal, at most providing ess to Earth¡¯swork.
Tang Rui found no significant issues with the interior design.
However, ording to Feng Yuanxing¡¯s design, the total weight of the spaceship was 625 tons, with a maximum loaded takeoff weight of 1200 tons. This design was indeed ambitious.
It was feasible to build, but the engine issue required further research and development.
Nuclear-powered rocket engines.
Tang Rui had no intention of continuing with those, as they were tooplex and cumbersome to use.
¡°It¡¯s time to upgrade and enhance the electric propulsion engine.¡±
In the era of interster exploration, not having an electric propulsion engine would be unthinkable.
Always depending on nuclear-powered rockets wasn¡¯t the best solution.
However, to develop a propulsion system with kilonewton or even ton-level thrust, he needed to delve deeper into the underlying theory.
¡°Red Lotus, bring me theponents for the electric propulsion engine.¡± Tang Rui intended to personally construct an electric propulsion engine. ¡°Understood, master.¡±
Red Lotus quickly set theponents of the electric propulsion engine on Tang Rui¡¯s workbench.
The electric propulsion engine was rtively simple in concept.
This simplicity was not just in terms of manufacturing; it also extended to maintenance, which was much easier than current engines and rocket motors with tens of thousands of parts. The only downside was insufficient thrust. In just over half an hour, Tang Rui built an electric propulsion engine, but its thrust was a mere 0.8 newtons.
Enhance!
Enhance!
Enhance again!
He unhesitatingly clicked on the enhance button, opting for consecutive enhancements.
A faint golden light flickered.
The enhancement of the electric propulsion engine wasplete.
The engine¡¯s size expanded from an original diameter of 5 centimeters to 20 centimeters. Its internal structure grew moreplex, now including an air intake grille.
[Item: Superconducting Particle Transition Injection Engine] [Experience: 0/55000]
[Enhancement: Superconducting Particle Transition System]
[Attributes: Thrust increased by 180%, specific impulse enhanced by 160% speed boosted by 120%]
[Origin Points: 726.52]
After reviewing the data on the system panel, Tang Rui directed Red Lotus ¡°Document the blueprint, store it in the dedicated database, and then disy the internal structure model and the program code.¡±
¡°Right away, master.¡±
Red Lotus immediately showed the model of the engine and the source code for the engine control program.
Tang Rui meticulously examined the structure of the internal equipment exploring the function of eachponent.
Compared to the electric propulsion engine he initially created, the system-enhanced electric propulsion engine had some notable¡¯additions, such as the air intake grille.
Logically, thisponent shouldn¡¯t be part of an electric propulsion engine since it doesn¡¯t require air.
However, after the system enhancement, it indeed possessed this feature.
What did this imply?
It meant that the electric propulsion engine could now be utilized within the Earth¡¯s atmosphere.
¡°Red Lotus, take this engine for testing.¡±
¡°Certainly, master. Should we conduct the test in space?¡±
¡°No need, a ground test will suffice.¡±
¡°Understood.¡±
Red Lotus, controlling a robot, proceeded with the engine test.
Meanwhile, Tang Rui began scrutinizing the system¡¯s program code, focusing particrly on its algorithms.
By dinnertime, he hadrgely deciphered the principles behind the electric propulsion engine.
Fundamentally, the working mechanism of the system-enhanced electric propulsion engine still relied on the Hall effect, with no theoretical divergence. But practically, the technological difference between the two was substantial. The key factor was superconductivity.
The robust maic confinement and powerful ion thrust of the superconducting maic field were beyond the capabilities of the current electric maic fields.
Not to mention, this also involved quantum tunneling and quantum transition effects.
Of course, the main challengey in superconductivity.
Once the superconducting coils were resolved, and the confinement maic field¡¯s strength reached 160T, any physics graduate student could construct this propulsion device.
In essence, as long as he could produce room-temperature superconducting materials, manufacturing an electric propulsion engine would pose no challenge.
¡°Master, the test results are in.¡±
¡°What¡¯s the thrust like?¡±
¡°The maximum thrust is 10 tons, and the minimum is 1 newton.¡±
¡°That powerful? Disy the test data.¡±
¡°Immediately, master.¡±
Tang Rui examined the data Red Lotus recorded during the test. Indeed, the electric propulsion engine started with a thrust of 1 newton and could steadily increase to a thrust of 10 tons. Even with increased energy supply¡
Was this energy supply realistic?
It was only then that Tang Rui noticed the energy supply data, which he had previously overlooked.
too gigawatts?
This power level was noughing matter.
It equated to 10 gigawatts per 1 ton of thrust.
If equipped with twenty such electric propulsion engines, even relocating a nuclear reactor onto the spaceship wouldn¡¯t suffice for power generation. Not just any small nuclear reactor.
Even arge terrestrial nuclear reactor wouldn¡¯t provide enough power.
¡°Red Lotus, analyze the superconducting alloy, then document the form and process.¡±
Tang Rui inhaled deeply and instructed.
¡°As you wish, master.¡±
Developing superconducting materials was imperative.
Not just superconducting materials, but also controlled nuclear fusion.
Without a nuclear fusion reactor, using an electric propulsion engine was out of the question.
The two were interdependent; without sufficient energy, it was futile.
Fortunately, he already had materials resistant to neutron radiation, suitable for the inner walls of a nuclear fusion reactor.
With room-temperature superconducting materials for maic confinement, the remaining challenges would be more manageable.
Whether it was developing tokamaks or sterators, both were feasible options.
He also had an ample supply of deuterium and tritium.
Reflecting on this, Tang Rui realized that he had already assembled all the necessaryponents for controlled nuclear fusion, ready tomence at any moment..
Chapter 270 - 270: An Asteroid About to Hit the Moon
Chapter 270 - 270: An Asteroid About to Hit the Moon
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¡°Red Lotus, download all the information about the controble nuclear fusion reactor from the confidential database.¡±
¡°Yes, Master. The download is underway. It will bepleted in an hour and a half.¡±
¡°After the data and designs are downloaded, we¡¯ll optimize them with our materials and then conduct a simtion test.¡±
Having instructed Red Lotus, Tang Rui returned to his rest.
He had intended to delve deeper into the theory of the electric propulsion engine.
Now, it appeared¡
There was no need for further study.
His current limitation wasn¡¯t in theory, but in energy.
With that thought, Tang Rui went back to sleep.
Following his orders, Red Lotus downloaded the information, optimized the design, and initiated the simtion.
Upon returning home, Tang Rui engaged in a half-hour exercise session with Li Shuyao before they went to sleep together.
The night passed quietly.
The next day, Tang Rui nned to visit thepany to oversee some affairs.
Leaving the mountain base, he noticed arge trailer parked in the expansive square in front of thepany¡¯s office building.
Lin Chao and James stood beside the trailer, greeting him.
¡°President Tang.¡±
¡°Hello, Mr. Tang.¡±
Tang Rui acknowledged them, then turned to James, ¡°You work quickly.¡±
¡°Indeed, Master Tang. In America, money solves many problems. These are the first batch. We acquired them directly from zoos and animal research institutions.
There are more batches on the way from various parts of the world. I assure you, they are all rare specimens.¡± James stated with confidence.
They had invested significantly in acquiring these rare animal cubs, some even sourced through tips from animal protection organizations.
¡°Very efficient,¡± Tang Ruimended.
Transporting the animals overnight was indeed impressive, especially considering his own online purchases took two days for delivery.
Tang Rui observed the animals being unloaded from the trailer, noting, particrly two white deer.
These deer were not artificially colored; they were natural albinos.
Their beauty was mesmerizing, resembling mythical creatures from novels.
¡°Mr. Tang, I hope you are pleased. Most of these animals are young and require extensive care. I¡¯ve brought the necessary breeding materials and guides.¡± ¡°Yes, this is indeed a challenge,¡± Tang Rui acknowledged, realizing his team¡¯sck of professionals in this area.
The few staff at the giant panda base couldn¡¯t possibly manage such a diverse range of animals.
¡°Lin, please help me connect with some specialists,¡± Tang Rui requested.
Lin Chao rolled his eyes internally. If it were up to Tang Rui, the well-being of these animals might be at risk. Fortunately, arrangements were already in ce.
¡°Everything was organized yesterday. The higher-ups have decided to establish a rare animal conservation and breeding center here.¡±
Following Lin Chao¡¯s report, all necessary preparations had been made.
James¡¯s efforts to secure ess to carbon-based semiconductors hade at a steep price. Compared to that, aiding Tang Rui in gathering these protected animals was rtively minor.
Last night, James provided a list of animals scheduled for delivery. Due to customs regtions, not all could be sent immediately.
Many listed animals were critically endangered, some representing thest of their kind.
Yet, the alliance behind James had managed to procure even these rare specimens for Tang Rui.
With these endangered species, it took minimal effort from the higher-ups to mobilize experts and students in animal research to assist.
Tang Rui admired the animals briefly before entering the office building.
He preferred to minimize contact for now, waiting for the professionals to confirm there were no issues before interacting with the animals. He didn¡¯t fear microbes or parasites, but he was cautious about inadvertently harming these rare creatures.
Back in the office, Tang Ruipleted signing two documents and instructed Hong Lian to summon Feng Yuanxing.
¡°Master, Feng Yuanxing boarded a space shuttle with Gao Yang this morning and headed to the moon,¡± Red Lotus informed immediately.
¡°They went to the moon? Why?¡± Tang Rui was puzzled. What business did an aircraft designer have on the moon?
¡°Feng Yuanxing reported that he wished to personally experience the space shuttle to better enhance its interior design.¡±
The reason was sound enough.
But, in essence, he simply wanted to visit the moon.
Tang Rui contemted organizing apany-wide moonnding next year as a corporate benefit.
¡°Red Lotus, stream the live broadcast from the moon,¡± Tang Rui requested.
He hadn¡¯t watched the recent broadcasts of lunarndings and was curious about the activities there.
Shua!
The live moon broadcast appeared before him.
¡°Our independently developed space drilling technology can analyze deep lunar soil. However, the moon¡¯s environment differs from Earth¡¯s¡¡±
He tuned in to find He Yun exining to the camera.
Nearby, two researchers assembled lunar drilling equipment, assisted by Feng Yuanxing.
Was this drilling necessary?
Tang Rui¡¯s geological exploration equipment was far more advanced. Why resort to such manual methods?
He soon realized the hidden agenda.
¡°Red Lotus, who else is active on the moon?¡± he inquired.
¡°Master, another team is constructing a temporary base on the dark side of the moon.¡±
¡°For what purpose?¡±
¡°I¡¯m not certain. Should I ess the internalwork?¡±
¡°No need.¡±
Tang Rui declined. It wasn¡¯t necessary to intrude on his organization¡¯swork.
He picked up a secure phone and called the spacemand center for information about the temporary base.
He was entitled to such confidential information.
After the call, he understood the base¡¯s purpose ¨C a temporary radar testing site.
The moon¡¯snding and base construction were no longer challenges.
The focus now shifted to safety and information capture, particrly radar systems.
This initial test aimed to identify and resolve issues, improving the equipment.
The test revealed many challenges unique to the universe¡¯s environment. Radar range in space wasn¡¯t limited to tens or hundreds of kilometers but spanned tens of thousands.
¡°Red Lotus, what is the range of the neutrino information capture radar?¡± Tang Rui pondered.
He had used the neutrino radar primarily for extensive monitoring without considering its full range.
¡°Master, the active precision scanning range of the neutrino radar is 10 million kilometers, with a fuzzy scanning range of 30 million kilometers. The passive precision detection range is 1 million kilometers.¡±
¡°Such an extensive range? Has the radar ever been fully activated?¡±
¡°Never, Master.¡±
¡°Activate the precision scan. Let¡¯s see the results.¡±
¡°Scanning¡¡±
After a minute, the neutrino radar satellitepleted the scan.
¡°Master, we¡¯ve detected an asteroid on a collision course with the moon, approximately 8.22 million kilometers from Earth,¡± Red Lotus reported immediately.
An impending lunar collision ¨C a significant discovery..
Chapter 271 - 271: Feng Yuanxing, I Didn’t Do Anything
Chapter 271 - 271: Feng Yuanxing, I Didn¡¯t Do Anything
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Tang Rui had looked at the holographic projection of the model of this small asteroid and felt¡ nothing much.
Because this thing had posed no significant threat to the moon.
The impact was just another impact.
After all, the moon had been hit before; in fact, it got hit quite often.
The side facing Earth was still rtively okay.
But the far side of the moon was a different story, pockmarked with craters, leaving hardly any space to even set foot.
These were all attacks that the moon had shielded Earth from.
With the prating power of neutrinos, the structure of this small asteroid wasn¡¯t a secret to Tang Rui at all, especially after being analyzed through the Red Lotus¡¯ calctions.
This small asteroid¡¯s collision with the moon was akin to the force of a 12 million-ton TNT equivalent mushroom bomb explosion.
For the moon, that was all trivial stuff.
It had endured harsher beatings; what was a mere 12 million tons?
¡°Red Lotus, simte the trajectory of this small asteroid and see where it came from.¡±
¡°Okay, master, simting¡ Simtionplete. There is an 82% probability that this small asteroid came from the asteroid belt, a 17% probability that it is the remnant of a disintegratedet and a 1% probability that it is an unknown asteroid.¡±
Tang Rui, looking at the simtion results from Red Lotus, felt there was no issue.
The reason this small asteroid had deviated from its orbit in the asteroid belt was that it had suddenly gained an ¡¯engine¡¯.
This small asteroid was aposite of iron, rock, and ice crystals.
It had a certain amount of ice inside.
Normally, under the sunlight, the internal ice would turn into water vapor and be ejected through pores.
This was akin to installing an engine on it.
The thrust of this engine was not significant; it would even extinguish without sunlight.
But with this extra force, the small asteroid could easily exit the asteroid belt.
It hadn¡¯t exited before, perhaps because it hadn¡¯t been hit before, and its internal structure had not been damaged, keeping the water vapor trapped by its iron and stone shell, unable to be ejected.
But due to a collision, or some other reason, the outer iron and stone structure was damaged, creating cavities and cracks, allowing the internal water vapor to be violently ejected, pushing it off its original orbit.
Of course, Tang Rui didn¡¯t care about these details.
He was neither an astronomer nor a researcher of asteroids.
He had already discovered this small asteroid.
So, what to do with it?
Just let it hit the moon?
That was meaningless.
Discovering it before it was set to hit the moon, and finding out it would still hit the moon after discovery, that would be a pointless discovery.
It needed to be used for something.
Thoughts about Nagasaki?
No.
That¡¯d be too powerful.
If the Pacific submarine volcanic belt erupted, it would be a disaster for everyone.
An asteroid in New York?
It didn¡¯t seem impossible.
But given the strength of Uncle Sam, not to mention destroying the asteroid, changing its trajectory wouldn¡¯t be too much of a problem.
Then, if thending site changed, and it fell on one¡¯s own head, that wouldn¡¯t be fun.
It was an idea best forgotten.
Tang Rui thought for a long time and realized that this small asteroid, apart from hitting somewhere and creating a loud noise and fireworks, was useless.
The iron ore on it wasn¡¯t even worth mining.
¡°Red Lotus, keep an eye on it and inform me of any changes.¡±
¡°Okay, master.¡±
Actually, there were many small asteroids around the Earth.
But these asteroids were neither going to hit the Earth nor the moon, so Red Lotus didn¡¯t issue a warning.
In the afternoon, more trailers entered thepany, transporting various precious animals.
Tang Rui didn¡¯t bother with them.
He just picked a white tiger cub and held it in his arms to y with.
This one had been bought from Russia.
Just this one, a pure white-haired Northeast tiger with ck stripes.
The little guy was fun¡ªadorably fierce.
Originally, he had other things to do in the afternoon, but after seeing this little guy, he postponed his ns, as there was no hurry.
¡°I¡¯m very satisfied with these animals; you can go back now. At 12 o¡¯clock tonight, the official website will open a webpage for technology licensing and material supply. You know the specifics, so I won¡¯t go into details.¡±
Tang Rui, stroking the little cub¡¯s head, said to James.
¡°Thank you, Mr. Tang. If there¡¯s anything you need in the future, feel free to contact us. As long as we can do it, there will be no problem,¡± James said excitedly.
His mission this time was consideredplete.
As for the cost¡ What would this small expense cost him?
¡°Alright, you can go now.¡±
Tang Rui didn¡¯t take it seriously; if he couldn¡¯t handle it, they wouldn¡¯t be able to either.
Besides, one should never take capitalists¡¯ words seriously.
After James left, Tang Rui walked around thepany with the little guy. Everyone who saw the little cub¡¯s eyes lit up.
How cute.
Unfortunately, in the boss¡¯s hands, they could only watch.
Before leaving work, Gao Yang and the others came back.
¡°Old Feng,e to my office.¡±
¡°Okay, boss, I¡¯ll change my clothes ande over.¡±
Ten minutester.
In Tang Rui¡¯s office, the two sat on the sofa drinking tea.
¡°How does it feel to be on the moon?¡±
¡°Amazing, I never thought I¡¯d be able to go to the moon in my lifetime. Thank you, Mr. Tang.¡±
¡°Don¡¯t thank me, actually your trip this time¡¡±
Tang Rui was in the middle of speaking when his expression suddenly changed.
Because at that moment, Red Lotus suddenly alerted him that the small asteroid that was going to hit the moon had unexpectedly changed its trajectory.
Even the reason for the change in trajectory was recorded by Red Lotus.
The specific situation was like this¡ªthis year was the year of sr sunspot eruptions, and X-level sr storms could erupt at any time.
Just now, a sr storm erupted.
The direction was precisely where the small asteroid was located.
The high-energy particle stream carried by the sr wind directly increased the surface temperature of the small asteroid by 200 degrees.
Such a temperature, under the conduction of steel, transferred to the internal ice crystals, elerating the melting of the ice crystals that had not melted yet.
Melting into water vapor, the internal pressure surged, causing cracks in the shell.
The water vapor, through the cracks, violently erupted.
This was equivalent to installing a steering engine on the small asteroid, directly deviating it from its original orbit.
¡°Red Lotus, where is the small asteroid¡¯s impact site now?¡±
Tang Rui asked Red Lotus in his mind.
¡°Master, the current trajectory of the small asteroid is set to hit Earth, specifically in Xichang.¡±
Tang Rui pursed his lips, looking at Feng Yuanxing opposite him.
¡°Mr. Tang, is there a problem with me?¡±
Feng Yuanxing was clueless; he didn¡¯t know why Tang Rui was looking at him with such a strange expression.
¡®You¡¯re fine, someone else is in trouble,¡± Tang Rui shook his head and said. ¡°Someone else is in trouble? Could Mr. Tang borate?¡± Feng Yuanxing waspletely confused, not understanding what was going on.
¡°Tell me briefly what you did on the moon today,¡± Tang Rui didn¡¯t answer but asked instead.
¡°Mr. Tang, I really didn¡¯t do much on the moon, just helped the astronauts at the Space Command Center assemble equipment and helped them collect rock samples.¡±
¡°Wait¡ You were helping them?¡±
¡°Yes.¡±
¡°Who asked you to help?¡±
¡°The captain of the astronaut training center.¡±
¡°I see..¡±
Chapter 272 - 272: Earthshaking (Part 1)
Chapter 272: Earthshaking (Part 1)
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Space Command Center.
After dinner, the Astronaut Training Center suddenly issued a gatheringmand.
A row of twenty-three astronauts all stood in line.
¡°Liu Changquan.¡±
¡°Here.¡±
¡°Zhang Qiliang.¡±
¡°Here.¡±
¡°Liu Xin.¡±
¡°Here.¡±
¡°Those whose names are called stay, the rest are dismissed.¡±
Swish!
Those whose names were not called all left.
Only three remained.
These three were the ones assigned to go to the moon for a mission today and were also the ones arranged to work with Feng Yuanxing.
¡°Next, you will embark on a top-secret mission. The military personnel will take you away shortly. You have fifteen minutes to contact your families before we disperse,¡± said the head of the Space Command Center to the three.
After hearing this, the three had no objections.
As soldiers, they didn¡¯t need to know what the mission entailed, just to follow orders.
After returning.
They each made a phone call home, informing them of the mission.
Their families were understanding.
Fifteen minutester, the trio boarded a ne and arrived at the Crimson Corporation.
Tang Rui did not show up.
It was Gao Yang who received them.
¡°The uing mission is under my charge. Do you have any questions?¡± Gao Yang asked the three.
¡°No,¡± they shook their heads.
¡°Good, follow me.¡±
After saying this, Gao Yang led the three onto a spacecraft. Under the control of Red Lotus, they took off slowly with optical stealth activated.
¡°This mission is simple. Well stay in one ce, not leaving the house, without contacting the outside world, making sure no one knows we¡¯re there, and then wait for the next order.¡±
¡°Report!¡±
¡°Speak.¡±
¡°May I ask where we will be staying?¡±
¡°Yes, our destination is Nevada, near Area 51, in a vi.¡±
Gao Yang then exined the specifics of the mission to them, but they found it odd.
Staying in a vi, not allowed to leave or contact the outside, and that¡¯s it.
What kind of mission was this?
A vacation?
They were astronauts, or rather, fighter pilots. This task didn¡¯t seem fitting for them.
Their training was more expensive than a fifth-generation fighter jet.
Their value, in gold, was more than half of the three of thembined.
Yet.
They were on a mission to the moon during the day.
And at night, they had to run to Eagle Sauce¡¯s house.
Confusing.
After three hours of secret flight.
The spacecraft silentlynded on a small farm in Nevada, unnoticed.
On opening the hatch.
Gao Yang quickly led the three into the vi on the farm.
¡°Password.¡±
The person in the vi, holding a gun, asked the three.
¡°Sky-Initiated Carnage,¡± Gao Yang said four words.
¡°Stars Shifting Battle,¡± the other put down his gun and spoke the password.
There was nothing much to say after that.
Under the other¡¯s arrangement, Gao Yang took the three to the third floor of the vi and began to rest.
The vicked nothing.
Not just food and water, but even weapons and equipment were avable.
But for this mission, they didn¡¯t need to fight.
They just had to stay put and wait for the next order.
After Gao Yang and the others arrived at the mission location.
Tang Rui back home was observing the dynamics of a small asteroid, but so far, its orbit hadn¡¯t changed.
But Tang Rui wasn¡¯t worried.
He had means to destroy the asteroid, so he wasn¡¯t in a hurry. If it didn¡¯t change its orbit, he would just annihte it.
¡°Red Lotus, record the situation of the asteroid, I¡¯m going to sleep,¡± Tang Rui instructed, then went home.
At 3 a.m.
A new sr storm erupted.
Affected by the sr storm, the asteroid¡¯s temperature rose again, causing an increase in its core temperature.
The internal ice crystals vaporized massively.
Boom!
At the location of the shell¡¯s cracks, another explosion urred.
A column of gas several hundred meters long erupted.
Affected by the strong thrust, the asteroid changed its orbit again.
But before much change could happen, steam also erupted from another side.
This brought a new bnce to the asteroid¡¯s thrust.
The two forces elerated the asteroid again.
Red Lotus continuously monitored the asteroid. As soon as its orbit changed, it began calctions.
By the time the asteroid finished its change in trajectory, it had already calcted the new orbit.
Thending point.
Nevada.
The next day.
When Tang Rui woke up, he immediately inquired Red Lotus.
¡°Red Lotus, how¡¯s the situation with the asteroid?¡±
¡°Master, affected by today¡¯s early morning sr storm, the internal pressure of the asteroid increased, causing another eruption of steam, changing its orbit and speed.¡±
¡°Tell me directly, where¡¯s the newnding point?¡±
¡°Nevada Area 51 farm.¡±
Tang Rui looked at the holographic projection map in front of him, his lips slowly curving up. Everything was as he expected.
Coincidence?
It sure was.
After all, no one could control the eruption of a sr storm.
So all this was arranged by the heavens.
¡°Red Lotus, how long until impact?¡± Tang Rui asked.
¡°83 hours, 21 minutes, and 17 seconds until impact.¡±
¡°Good, print out the asteroid¡¯s orbital data and simted impact data. Give them to me after breakfast..¡±
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¡°Okay, Master. Red Lotus understands.¡±
After breakfast, he took the materials printed out by Red Lotus to Lin Chao and asked him to pass them to the higher-ups.
¡°President Tang, is this true?¡±
¡°Absolutely.¡±
¡°Okay, I¡¯ll go now.¡±
In the blink of an eye, a day had passed.
It was calm.
What asteroid hitting the Earth?
There was no such thing.
Tang Rui was not at all surprised by this situation.
The second day passed.
Another calm day.
But¡ there were many intercontinental passenger nes in China that have started maintenance, for a very simple reason: the recent sr storm was too severe.
They had to check the ne¡¯s navigation system.
If something went wrong, who could bear the responsibility?
On the third night, the Chinese Space Command Center suddenly discovered an asteroid heading toward Earth.
Scary.
The entire Space Command Center was in an uproar, urgently reporting the news and beginning to calcte the asteroid¡¯s orbit.
Based on humanitarian principles, they informed the United States about this.
What?
An asteroid collision?
The United States immediately began to verify the news.
After receiving the order, the third director of NASA immediately adjusted the satellite monitoringwork and the ground monitoringwork.
The United States had a deep space exploration agency that defended against asteroid collisions. Although they found those that would not hit Earth, they did not find the ones that would.
But one had to admit, this organization acted very quickly after getting urate data.
In less than half an hour, the United States confirmed that it was indeed an asteroid.
Although it wasn¡¯t very big and wasn¡¯t very heavy, its positioning was very unpredictable.
Because the asteroid kept spewing water vapor.
Due to the imbnce of rotation and internal pressure, it maintained a certain flight trajectory.
But to a certain extent, it retained the ability to change directions at any time.
This caused the ground monitoring personnel to copse when calcting the asteroid¡¯s orbit andnding point.
There were more than 30 underground ces that could be hit.
Not only did it cover their entire territory, even the neighboring area was within the range of impact.
To confirm its truending point was very difficult.
The asteroid was constantly changing its direction, but it could still fly back to its original orbit.
One thing was highlighted.
A show!
The show made the third director of NASA¡¯s scalp tingle.
Recently, NASA¡¯s director wasn¡¯t in a good position.
The first person took the me.
The second temporary supervisor was transferred away through connections.
He was the third supervisor.
He thought he would be fine, but who would have thought he would encounter an asteroid with such unpredictable movements?
And quite so simply too.
There was a call every five minutes, asking about the location.
He too was very helpless.
Facing an asteroid that could change direction at any time, thending point was a pain to calcte.
He could only eliminate them based on probability.
First, he gave a rough range.
After more than five hours of fighting, NASA gave a rough range, which was the entire state of Nevada. The specifding point was really impossible to predict.
However, the time of impact was easy to calcte.
Current time to impact: 32 hours, 42 minutes, and 51 seconds left.
In the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue, the think tank of the United States gathered for a meeting again.
What should he do?
What a headache.
He raised his hand and touched his hair. It was thinning again.
¡°Should we inform the people in the State of Nevada to evacuate?¡±
¡°Can we all evacuate?¡±
¡°If we maintain order, there¡¯d be enough time.¡±
Maintain order?
Go to hell.
¡°The other side has requested to evacuate their citizens. The ne has already been sent over. Should we stop them?¡±
¡°There¡¯s no need. There¡¯s no need to y tricks on such matters. If they didn¡¯t warn us early, we wouldn¡¯t even know when the asteroidnded on our heads.¡± ¡°Alright, then what should we do next?¡±
¡°Intercept them. We only have one way out. If that asteroid hits us, it¡¯ll be equivalent to a mushroom bomb with a yield of two million tons.¡±
¡°Can¡¯t we change its trajectory? For example, use a mushroom bomb to hit it and let it hit someone else?¡±
¡°It¡¯s very difficult. The key is that its flight trajectory is changing all the time. Even a mushroom bomb would find it difficult to hit it, let alone deliberately calcte its trajectory to deviate it.¡±
¡°That¡¯s right. This kind of deviation is uncontroble. What if wend in New York? We can still handle it if it¡¯s in Nevada, but New York, Washington, Los Angeles¡ If itnds in these cities, we won¡¯t be able to bear the losses.¡± ¡°Actually, the best way is to let the asteroid disintegrate before it reaches the atmosphere. This way, the impact power will be much lower.¡±
¡°It¡¯s too far. We can¡¯t do it at all. Moreover,
it¡¯s too fast. We only have one chance to intercept it.¡±
¡°What about using a space-based weapon tform?¡±
¡°It¡¯s not powerful enough.¡±
Just as the members of the United States¡¯ think tank gathered for a meeting, the Chinese had already started contacting everyone in Nevada to evacuate to the airport immediately.
The embassy had contacted them directly through customs data.
The students¡¯ reactions were the most normal.
After receiving the notice from the embassy, they packed up their things and took the arranged bus to the airport.
Most of the tourists were obedient, albeit a small number of them who didn¡¯t want to leave.
As for those who came to the United States for business trips, overseas studies, and apanying their children, the first thing they did was receive a call from the embassy asking them to return home..
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What he was thinking about was not whether he could go back or not.
It was about how to escape.
After all¡ with a guilty conscience, he was scared.
The embassy couldn¡¯t possibly find and forcibly bring back each individual; they could only notify them.
Only the students were arranged to be picked up by a bus.
The rest was up to whether or not you trusted the country.
As ne after ne took off, the number of Chinese dwindled.
As for those who didn¡¯t answer their phones and instead started ying hide-and-seek, they really had no other choice.
In the blink of an eye, a whole day had passed.
The news of the asteroid¡¯s impact had already spread among the wealthy.
All the rich in Nevada had evacuated with their families.
As for the middle ss, many had also received the news and were frantically running away.
Finally, 18 hours before the asteroid impact, America made the news public.
Why announce it at this time?
Because the wealthy had already safely evacuated, and a portion of the middle ss had also left, the rest didn¡¯t matter anymore.
After America announced the news, she also revealed the interception n, which involved using mushroom bombs.
This asteroid was not sturdy.
As long as it was blown up, there wouldn¡¯t be much left to burn when it passed through the atmosphere.
America¡¯s im was bold, but no one seemed convinced, because those who did were all dead.
This led to the people in Nevada frantically running out,pletely blocking the road traffic.
Then, conflicts began, and then¡
That night, mes soared into the sky in Nevada.
From a satellite¡¯s view, one could see lines spreading on the roads across Nevada.
There were fiery shes on the roads; everyone was enraged, and the cars were aze too.
But these things¡
No one cared.
Time slowly passed.
At NASA¡¯smand and control center, everyone was staring at the big screen.
There was just one hour left before the asteroid impact.
The ground-based space telescope could already see the asteroid.
The missiles were also ready.
But the missile calctions were still not finalized.
There was no choice.
The asteroid¡¯s movements were too erratic.
It changed directions unpredictably.
But no matter how difficult, they had to calcte and at least provide a reasonable range for detonation.
Otherwise, detonating a mushroom bomb in space wouldn¡¯t be very powerful. Relying solely on thermal radiation would be useless.
45 minutes to impact.
Americaunched the missiles, firing five at once, three of which were nuclear bombs, and two being high-explosive warheads.
¡°Brother Yang, all of you board the spacecraft now,¡± Tang Rui, at home watching the holographic projection screen, also ordered Gao Yang.
¡°Understood.¡± After Gao Yang got the order.
He immediately boarded the spacecraft with three others.
As for the original farm owner, he had already evacuated.
After boarding the spacecraft, Red Lotus took off, stealthily flying towards Area 51, but not at a high speed.
At NASA¡¯smand center, everyone watched the missile¡¯s trajectory.
In Crimson¡¯sboratory, Tang Rui stared at the holographic projection screen, calcting the final moments.
On the big screen at NASA¡¯smand center.
The countdown to the missile impact was disyed: 10¡9¡8¡7¡
Tang Rui watched the eleration countdown calcted by Red Lotus: 3¡2¡I¡
elerate!
Under Red Lotus¡¯s control, the spacecraft¡¯s nuclear rocket ignited, ejecting a powerful particle stream.
In an instant, the spacecraft broke the sound barrier and flew over Area 51 at an extremely high speed.
The moment the spacecraft arrived above Area 51, the countdown to the missile strike hit zero.
¡°Detonate!¡±
NASA pressed the detonation button.
After all, at this point, whether they could hit it or not, they had to detonate it, otherwise, it would be useless.
However, from Tang Rui¡¯s perspective¡ The moment the spacecraft elerated, the asteroid suddenly made a drastic change in direction, veering to the side, which allowed it to dodge the missile.
In the next second, endless light appeared in outer space.
But under this blinding light, there was a small ck dot, which was the asteroid.
Boom!
The asteroid plunged into the atmosphere, losing its ability to change direction.
At the same time, its entire body began to shatter into countless fragments.
The core of the wreckage was a 12-meter-long iron core.
This core erupted a blinding light in the air and then smashed right above Area 51.
Boom!
The earth shook and the heavens trembled!
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The firelight disappeared.
The dust settled.
The underground secret facility originally located in Area 51 had now turned into a meteorite crater and ake of magma.
Normally, a 13-meter iron asteroid, even if it were to strike the surface of the Earth, would create a crater no more than 1.5 kilometers in diameter.
Even if this asteroid were moving at high speeds, it would not exceed this limit. But there¡¯s a catch: this assumes a surface impact, not a strike on underground defense structures.
Speaking of which, the underground defenses of Area 51 could withstand a nuclear st.
Yes, this was true.
Even if a nuclear bomb exploded right above Area 51, it couldn¡¯t destroy it, not even breaching the outer defenses.
But an asteroid strike was different.
Though its power is akin to that of a 2-million-ton nuclear bomb, the kic energy it carries is iparable to that of a nuclear weapon.
Therefore, the crater and magmake now where Area 51 once stood spanned 1.7 kilometers in diameter.
Essentially, Area 51 waspletely destroyed.
Moreover, other fragments of the asteroid also fell nearby, causing a series of impacts on the ground.
The smallest fragments just prated buildings.
Larger debris, however, could destroy half a block.
This turned Nevada, already a state known for its freedom, into a ce of even greater freedom.
Tang Rui, in theboratory, watched these scenes on a holographic projection screen, much like watching a Hollywood blockbuster.
The saying ¡°art imitates life, and yet it transcends it,¡± certainly was true.
The current scene fully affirmed the first part of this saying.
As for the homeless heroes, oil drillers, and software engineers saving the world in movies ¨C they didn¡¯t exist in real life.
¡°Red Lotus, after Gao Yang and the others return, arrange for a ne to send those three astronauts back. And keep Feng Yuanxing under watch. Don¡¯t allow him to go to the Moon.¡±
Tang Rui turned off the holograph and prepared to go for lunch, making arrangements for the three astronauts who had served as causality-guided positioning terminals.
They were to be sent back directly.
If they stayed and naively got Feng Yuanxing to do some work, it would only cause more trouble.
¡°Okay, Master,¡± Red Lotus immediately conveyed the message to Gao Yang.
The three astronauts, on their way back and hearing Gao Yang¡¯s arrangements, were utterly confused.
¡°Our mission ispleted?¡± they asked in bewilderment.
¡°Yes,¡± Gao Yang nodded.
¡°What did we do?¡±
¡°We can¡¯t say.¡±
The astronauts held back a lot of questions, but due to the confidentiality agreement, they couldn¡¯t ask further.
Honestly speaking, they were all elite members of the Air Force, selected to be astronauts.
They had undertaken confidential and top-secret missions before but this was something they had never experienced.
They had thought their mission was to steal a ne, especially since they were in Nevada, near Area 51, a highly secretive air force base of the USA, testing sixth-generation fighters.
They believed they were capable of aplishing the mission.
In the vi, they weren¡¯t idle either.
Sleeping on schedule, consuming the required nutrition, and exercising regrly to maintain their physical condition.
When Gao Yang announced the start of the mission and told them to board the ne, they were excited and prepared themselves mentally and physically.
But half an hourter¡
To be told the mission waspleted felt like punching cotton¡ utterly unsatisfying.
After lunch, Tang Rui took Da Bai and Xiao Bai to rest on the grass.
Da Bai was a white Siberian tiger.
Xiao Bai was a white prairie lion.
Both were just over three months old and still needed milk.
But Tang Rui only yed with them, not feeding them.
He put the two little ones on the grass, stroking one on the left and then one on the right.
Watching the two small creatures struggle helplessly was very amusing.
A fierce tiger roared.
A lion king bellowed.
Adorably fierce, it was hrious.
While Tang Rui was enjoying himself, Lin Chao ran over in a hurry to tell him there was an urgent meeting that he needed to attend.
¡°What¡¯s the meeting about?¡±
¡°It¡¯s about space.¡±
¡°Alright, I¡¯ll go now.¡±
Tang Rui got up and left, asking Red Lotus to prepare his private ne.
An hourter¡
He arrived at Xi Gong University for the meeting.
He thought there would be few participants but to his surprise¡
There were over sixty academicians just for the meeting, and the rest, outstanding professors and experts of the ¡°Jie Qing¡± level, totaled over three hundred.
The auditorium at Xi Gong University was packed.
Tang Rui sat in the second row, together with Professor Yu.
Although the first two rows were upied by professors, no one thought it strange for him to sit there.
¡°Professor, this meeting is quite a big deal.¡±
¡°Yes, it was originally scheduled for the end of the year, but the recent situation in the USA has led the higher-ups to move it forward.¡±
¡°Is that necessary? An asteroid impact is a random event; there¡¯s no need to rush.¡±
¡°Who said it¡¯s random? But it¡¯s a big threat to us.¡±
Academician Yu answered seriously.
Tang Rui¡¯s mouth twitched.
What a situation.
Our original target was the USA, but now it seems the higher-ups have shifted focus from the USA to outer space.
The meeting began.
It mainly discussed the recent development of the country¡¯s aerospace industry, the current major strategic opportunities, and the challenges ahead.
In short.
The meeting was about unifying thoughts, letting everyone understand the current situation, and what to do next.
Making everyone aware.
After the general meeting, a closed-door session began.
This meeting only involved a select few outstanding ¡°Jie Qing¡± schrs and professors, and its content was explosive.
The South Heavenly Gate Space Station n, Magpie Bridge Ry Spaceport
n, Moon Network n, Guanghan Pce Base n, Jianmu Space Elevator
n, Space Great Wall Star Ring n, Mars Outpost n¡
To be honest.
Tang Rui was stunned to hear these ns.
Even as a ¡°cheater,¡± he hadn¡¯t thought of going this crazy.
But now¡
The country wasunching so many projects at once.
They nned to establish a trafficwork between Earth and the Moon within ten years, connect the Earth¡¯s surface with outer space in ten to thirty years,plete the construction of the Space Great Wall within fifty years, and establish a Martian outpost during this period.
Timelines were set.
And these were all major projects, with numerous smaller sub-projects.
For instance, the Jingwei Asteroid Development n, Bai Ze Intelligent Defense Network, and so on.
After hearing all this, Tang Rui was skeptical if this was the Chinese version of the Star Wars program, but it didn¡¯t seem so.
Even he couldn¡¯t determine who, let alone the USA.
Forget trying to discern the truth; the question was, would they follow or not?
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After the meeting with more than 70 people ended, Tang Rui was called to another, smaller conference room to continue the meeting. This time, fewer people attended.
Including Tang Rui, there were a total of twelve people.
Even Professor Yu did not attend the meeting.
Upon entering, he felt something was amiss because, apart from him, the youngest person there was already 60 years old.
¡°This is the detailed information. Everyone, please take a look first. If there are any problems, we can discuss themter,¡± said the head of the National Council after distributing the document bags to everyone.
Tang Rui picked up the document bag.
He opened it.
¡°Directions in the Construction of Outer Space Defense System
¡°Asteroid Defense System and Deep Space Defense System
¡°Earth Orbit Security Defense and Orbit Defense Strategy n
Tang Rui didn¡¯t even look at the content.
Just seeing the titles of these documents made the corners of his mouth dry.
What was going on?
Why did it feel like they were back in the era of the two poles fighting for hegemony when everyone was frantically digging holes to prepare for war?
After Tang Rui ridiculed the situation in his heart, he began to flip through the contents of the document. The more he looked, the weirder his expression became.
How could he describe it?
The content of the document, ¡°Outer Space Defense System Construction Directions,¡± was basically like science fiction.
It couldpletely be treated as an extension of the Southern Heavenly Gate
n.
They should find a screenwriter to adapt it.
It could even be made into a movie.
There wasn¡¯t much practical content in it, just some ideas about outer space defense.
The imaginary enemies were the superrge-scale particle explosion of the sun, the derailing of countless asteroids in the asteroid belt, and the deviation of the moon¡¯s orbit.
The contents of the remaining two documents were standard.
Especially the defense of the orbit above thest piece of territory. It was something that had to be done within ten years.
With the advancement of technology, the war machine started from the trinity ofnd, sea, and air, and began to spread to the space domain. How to do a good job in space defense was already the key issue of territorial defense.
After Tang Rui finished reading the information, he was not very satisfied with the n in the document.
It wasn¡¯t that the n wasn¡¯t good.
The main reason was that the n emphasized defense, so it was a little passive.
However, he was not in a hurry to say it now. When the discussion beganter, he would raise this question.
Half an hourter, everyone finished reading the documents in their hands. ¡°Everyone has finished reading,¡± said the big boss of the National Council. ¡°I wonder if anyone has any opinions or supplements to the higher-ups¡¯ n. You can speak freely now.¡±
After the big shot finished speaking, he looked at everyone.
Tang Rui wasn¡¯t prepared to be the first to speak.
Wait a moment.
¡°I have no objections to the n, but there is a very big problem with deep space physics research and the development of the outer space industry, and that is materials.
If we don¡¯t solve the problem of materials, these ns will just be empty castles in the air. Not only will it consume resources, but it won¡¯t progress too quickly, let alone meet the requirements of the n,¡± said Professor Ouyang, the head of the physics department at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He wasn¡¯t against the n, but he felt that it was a little whimsical.
His steps were toorge.
It was very easy to make a mistake.
¡°Regarding the problem with the materials, there is already a solution. However, the distribution and process of the materials, as well as the performance parameters, are currently kept top secret.
¡°If it¡¯s a problem with the materials, don¡¯t discuss it. We¡¯ve already made preparations for this. Even if the materials¡¯ performance canpletely meet everyone¡¯s requirements, it¡¯s enough to support these ns. There won¡¯t be any dys,¡± said the big boss of the National Academy.
When he said this, his gaze even nced at Tang Rui.
However, there was no change in his expression.
No one knew.
The solution to the material problem was rted to Tang Rui.
Even Professor Ouyang didn¡¯t know how high the performance of the materials was.
¡°The problem with the materials has been solved? Do you have any room-temperature superconducting alloys? Do you have anti-neutron radiation materials?¡± asked Professor Li, the person in charge of the Eastern Super Ring project, excitedly.
¡°Both. After the n starts, there will be a report on the material s performance parameters,¡± said the big boss of the National Council calmly. ¡°As long as there are no problems with the materials, there will be no problems with my n. We can guarantee that the energy system of the space station and the Guanghan Pce base will bepleted,¡± said Professor Li excitedly. Actually, it wasn¡¯t just Professor Li. Everyone present, other than Tang Rui and the big shots of the National Academy of Sciences, was very excited.
Materials.
That was the eternal pain in their hearts.
¡°If the materials are okay, I think the design of the Southern Heavenly Gate Space Base is a bit conservative. 400,000 tons is too small. I think it should be tripled,¡± said another participant.
Everyone gasped.
This person was truly audacious.
If it was tripled, wouldn¡¯t it reach 1.2 million tons?
It was frightening.
Our current space station is only 120 tons. This number would have to be increased ten thousandfold.
¡°I will record this question and discuss it when we go back, so everyone can voice your thoughts,¡± said the big boss of the National Council calmly.
He was only responsible for recording.
The specific decision was not up to him, nor was it up to one person.
They needed to have a meeting to discuss it.
When the big shots in charge of different projects finished speaking, Tang Rui also spoke.
-The orbit defense problem is easy to solve. If you¡¯re in a hurry, you can start setting up the defense system tomorrow. But I think this kind of defense is too passive. We canpletely upy the synchronous orbit and the stationary orbit to create a space defensework. At that time, as long as it flies into the sky, we can only let it fly if we agree. If we don¡¯t agree, we can just shoot it down,¡± said Tang Rui.
After Tang Rui finished speaking, everyone in the conference room looked at him Originally, they thought that their suggestion was excessive, but after listening to Tang Rui¡¯s speech, they suddenly felt that their words were a bit conservative.
¡°Okay, I¡¯ve recorded President Tang¡¯s suggestion. Is there anything else you want to add?¡± asked the big boss of the National Council, still with a calm expression.
No one said anything else.
He had said what he needed to say.
¡°Alright, let¡¯s end the meeting here. Don¡¯t announce the details of the n to the public for the time being. President Tang, please stay for a while. I still have something to consult you about,¡± said the big boss of the National Council after he finished speaking, and the others stood up and left.
After everyone left, the big shot from the National Council asked Tang Rui, ¡°President Tang, do you think these ns will seed?
¡°80% of the projects can bepleted, but the remaining 20% is a bit too much. It¡¯s not that they can¡¯t bepleted, but it¡¯s just that they take too long,¡± Tang Rui thought for a moment and replied.
Hearing Tang Rui¡¯s answer, the expression of the head of the National Academy finally changed.
¡°President Tang, to be honest, when we were designing these projects, we only hoped toplete one-tenth or one-twentieth of them,¡± he said.
¡°One-tenth? Then what are you doing?¡± Tang Rui was a bit puzzled.
¡°It doesn¡¯t matter whether they seed or not, the resources we invested are real. If other countries don¡¯t keep up, they won¡¯t have a future. If they want to keep up, their cost of transporting every gram of supplies to outer space is dozens of times that of ours. The more they transport, the more losses they will suffer. Now that we have oil, we can use the money we spend on oil imports every year on these ns. So, overall, we didn¡¯t lose out and even stimted economic development. However, other countries, especially America, are different,¡± exined the big boss of the National Academy.
This n was targeted at America.
It was simr to when they used their economic strength to drag down the Soviet Union.
The feeling of crossing the river by feeling the stones was so satisfying.
¡°Don¡¯t tell me we¡¯re still selling oil?¡± Tang Rui thought of something and suddenly asked.
¡°That¡¯S right. It¡¯s estimated that next year, we will start to export oil. We will first lower the oil price by half,¡± the big shot said straightforwardly, revealing the decision of the higher-ups.
Halving the oil price?
The petrodor system¡
That wasn¡¯t right.
It wasn¡¯t just America. The oil price had been halved, and the neighboring countries would suffer the most.
Their economy was poor, to begin with, and they relied on selling resources to survive.
If the oil price was halved¡ it would be a dilemma.
A replica of the Star Wars program, coupled with oil exports.
How was this killing three birds with one stone?
He was using a strategy to weaken the ss monitor and the vice-ss monitor, bleeding them from their main arteries..
Chapter 277 - 277: Electromagnetic Deflection Force Field Shield
Chapter 277: Electromaic Deflection Force Field Shield
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The Great Power Game. How terrifying.
After Tang Rui left the meeting room, the more he thought about it, the more he realized that such high-level matters were not something he couldprehend¡ª a subject too damnplicated.
But such matters had nothing to do with him, so why bother worrying?
After leaving the meeting room, he wanted to find Professor Yu, but the professor had also gone to a meeting.
It was about the Lunar Networking Project.
After learning about this, Tang Rui simply went home.
In the following days, he also started to get busy¡ªnot with the orbital defense n, but with his controlled nuclear fusion reactor.
Despite being summoned for the meeting, the project wouldn¡¯t actually start until next March at the earliest, and certainly not until after the New Year.
After all, each of these ns neededprehensive nning, personnel mobilization, and approvals for sub-projects and various topics.
There were so many things to deal with.
Just the issue of funding allocation alone could take who knows how long.
These things had nothing to do with Tang Rui.
As the chief engineer of a major project, funding and personnel would be arranged for him from above, and he would notck anything.
He didn¡¯t need to worry about these things.
But the problem was, someone came to him.
After all, even a little leak from his hand could feed many people, so it was impossible that no one woulde to him.
If it were someone he didn¡¯t know or had no rtionship with, he wouldn¡¯t bother with them.
But the person who came to him was Professor Chen, and he was there for their alma mater, leaving Tang Rui without even an excuse to put him off.
In the back door tea house, Tang Rui and Professor Chen quietly drank tea.
¡°Teacher, just say what you need to, we¡¯ve been drinking tea for fifteen minutes, it¡¯s time to talk about business,¡± Tang Rui put down his teacup andmented helplessly.
He knew Professor Chen invited him for tea for a reason, but thetter just drank tea and said nothing, making him very ufortable.
¡°Holding on for fifteen minutes, not bad, you¡¯ve made progress from before, worthy of being the chief engineer, much more stable,¡± Professor Chen teased with a smile.
Tang Rui rolled his eyes.
¡°Okay, let¡¯s talk business. Your time is precious, I won¡¯t dy your research.
Your project, our school wants to send some people, and Nanhang also wants to join in and borrow some light.
A total of 116 people, with the lowest degree being a master¡¯s and the highest being a postdoctoral who has worked in a mobile station for two years. Can you arrange it?¡±
Professor Chenid out the situation.
This was normal.
Tang Rui¡¯srge project, with its many sub-projects and countless topics.
Helping his alma mater arrange some people was nothing out of the ordinary. ¡°Is that all, nothing else?¡±
After hearing this, Tang Rui felt that such a simple matter still needed him toe for tea when a phone call would have sufficed.
¡°There is, but I rejected it for you,¡± said Professor Chen indifferently.
¡°Oh.¡± Tang Rui nodded after hearing this, not asking anything further.
There must have been other requests, but perhaps a bit excessive, like asking for keyboratory slots or project leadership positions.
Whatever it was, Professor Chen wouldn¡¯t mention it, and he wouldn¡¯t ask.
¡°Professor, why don¡¯t youe over?¡±
After drinking another sip of tea, Tang Rui extended an invitation.
¡°No need, I¡¯m quite happy with my life now, teaching every day, working on small projects, veryfortable.
Your site is a key project, busy and tiring, I¡¯d have to worry for you if I went over, so forget it.¡±
Professor Chen shook his head and outright refused.
If he were twenty years younger, he would definitely have fought for it.
But as someone close to retirement, what was there to fuss about, not to mention going over would mean hiswork here would almost certainly follow through his connections.
Not arranging it would offend people.
Arranging it would be unfair to Tang Rui.
So, forget it, he was about to retire, living a peaceful life in a few days sounded good too.
Tang Rui did not insist.
After drinking tea with Professor Chen for an hour, both of them left.
They both still had things to do.
Tang Rui returned home and had Honglian send the personnel files sent by Nanjing University of Science and Technology to Lin Chao for review.
Research capability was not important.
As long as there were no traitors, and even if it were people arranged by the school, they still had to undergo military investigation and review first.
In a blink of an eye, half a month passed.
Tang Rui¡¯s controlled nuclear fusion reactor was already set up¡ªeasy-peasy.
With top materials ensuring safety, aser array for ignition, and artificial intelligence controlling the core.
There were some minor ws, but it didn¡¯t matter.
The total power generation capacity of the entire controlled nuclear fusion reactor reached 3000 megawatt-hours, and there was no need to worry about any nuclear leakage problems. It was safe, pollution-free, and could be shut down or started at any time.
The era of unlimited energy had arrived.
Tang Rui, looking at the huge nuclear fusion reactor in front of him, felt no excitement.
What a breeze.
In fact, anyone else with these materials and Honglian¡¯s help could also achieve nuclear fusion.
Of course, achieving nuclear fusion was only the first step.
Such arge nuclear fusion reactor could not possibly be put on a spacecraft; it was too big and too heavy.
Next, was to research reducing the size of the reactor.
But that was not urgent.
A new day dawned upon them.
After Tang Rui got up, he ate breakfast while browsing his phone.
¡°America is on fire again?¡±
Tang Rui saw a news article and immediatelyughed.
The US military, due to some issues rted tocency in their rescue work, caused a forest fire in Nevada.
Honestly, the asteroid impact didn¡¯t do much damage to Nevada.
As to why order hadn¡¯t been restored yet, it could only be said that the feeling of freedom was very nice, and everyone wanted to experience it a bit longer.
Tang Rui nced at it and flipped to the next news article.
The American rescue work wasn¡¯t interesting.
The juicy news had already been consumed, and there was nothing new.
¡°Waking up to find another country gone.¡±
Tang Rui saw the second news article, which was about the final unification of Sudan and its recognition by the internationalmunity.
¡°In that case, Han should being back too.¡±
It had been seven or eight months.
Since that side had already negotiated well, and there was no need for military suppression.
And with the USA currently preupied, the situation in Sudan didn¡¯t require Crimson to stay there permanently.
Arriving at theb, Tang Rui sent a video call to Han Shu, asking about his situation.
¡°Expect to be back in half a month, things here are basically settled.
Oh, and I caught the lion and cheetah you wanted ,1¡¯11 bring them back with me.¡±
Han Shu was very reliable, not forgetting what he had said before, but who could have expected them to be dyed so long there?
Now that they were caught, they weren¡¯t really needed.
After all, he had too many precious animals in his hands.
¡°Alright, 1¡¯11 wee you back when you return, Han.¡±
¡°That¡¯s the deal.¡±
After a brief chat, the video call ended.
Tang Rui had just hung up the video call when Lin Chao came running over.
¡°Lin, what¡¯s so urgent?¡±
¡°Take a look at this video first.¡±
Lin Chao took out a secure hard drive and plugged it into the robot¡¯s interface.
Red Lotus immediately extracted the data inside.
It was a video file.
¡°y it.¡±
Tang Rui instructed Red Lotus to y the file.
Whoosh.
Arge container-sized piece of equipment appeared on the screen, and you couldn¡¯t tell at all what it was just by looking at it.
The next second, someone took out aser-targeted rifle and fired at the equipment.
Bang Bang Bang¡
The trigger was pulled all the way, emptying the entire magazine, but the device was not hit.
It wasn¡¯t because the bullets were off, but because the bullets were deflected as they approached the device.
This¡
After watching the video, Tang Rui¡¯s eyes widened.
¡°Here¡¯s the information, take a look.¡±
Lin Chao handed Tang Rui a file bag.
Tang Rui opened it and saw.
¡°Research and Discovery on Super Electromaic Field Deflection Protection,¡± was the title of the document.
But the first thing Tang Rui thought of when he saw this title was the protective shields from movies..¡±
Chapter 278 - 278: Magnetic Field Research and Space Project
Chapter 278: Maic Field Research and Space Project
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After Tang Rui finished reviewing the documents in the file bag, he realized that the prototype of the protective shield had significant problems.
Firstly, it consumed a lot of energy, and it wasn¡¯t continuous energy consumption, but instantaneous, which was troublesome.
Secondly, there was a w in the maic field. Its strength varied, and the deflection angle was different, making it uncontroble.
Lastly, the maic field had a limit. It couldn¡¯t withstand a shell¡¯s impact.
But regardless of these shorings, this device¡¯s emergence was like a key to unlock the door to a new era.
At that time, human top technology was used for self-destruction, with more emphasis on attack capabilities.
Compared to offensive technologies, current defensive technologies were significantlycking.
For example, a main battle tank worth tens of millions couldn¡¯t withstand an anti-tank rocket costing only hundreds of thousands.
It could be said that offense and defense were not proportionate at all.
There was no choice.
The cost-effectiveness of increasing attack power versus defensive power was too great.
But with the protective shield, it was a different story.
¡°What do they mean by this?¡± Tang Rui asked.
¡°The information has been specially unlocked for you. They hope you can conduct in-depth research on it,¡± Lin Chao immediately replied.
¡°Okay, I got it,¡± Tang Rui nodded after listening.
Even if they hadn¡¯t mentioned it, he would have still conducted the research.
¡°Okay, then you go ahead, I¡¯ll go back,¡± Lin Chao said afterpleting his task, then turned and left theb.
Tang Rui nodded and then looked at the documents on the table.
Maic field deflection field.
Simply put, it was about using maic repulsion to achieve the goal, simr to the principle of maic levitation.
The only difference was in the strength of the maic fields.
¡°Red Lotus, download the relevant information and then make a maic shield device,¡± Tang Rui said thoughtfully to Red Lotus.
¡°Okay, master, do you need to rece materials and equipment?¡± Red Lotus asked.
¡°Rece everything, use our best technology.¡±
¡°Okay, master, Red Lotus understands.¡±
After instructing Red Lotus, Tang Rui had it project the changes in the maic field controlled by the wireless power transmission device and the SEG unit.
He hadn¡¯t thought deeply about it before.
Now, seeing the technology of the maic shield, he suddenly realized that there was a lot of potential in the maic field to be explored.
Not just the maic field, but also the strong and weak nuclear forces, could be studied.
After all, these three forces could be unified.
Maism could affect both the strong and weak forces.
He hadn¡¯t thought of this before.
Now that he thought about it, he realized he had many rted technologies at his disposal.
It was just not known if these technologies could be unified.
After all, they all involved maic fields.
Their different functions were just because of the different manifestations of the maic fields.
Thinking of this, Tang Rui began to study the changes in the maic field and the three devices in depth.
After more than an hour, Red Lotus reported that the maic shield device had beenpleted.
Tang Rui hadn¡¯t gone to the device, but had Red Lotus test it and project its maic field manifestation.
The three states of the maic field in front of him were wavy, arc-shaped, and vortex-shaped.
These were just the approximate shapes of the maic lines simted by Red Lotus, not the actual state of the maic field itself.
Just like a ssic photo in a popr science magazine from years ago¡ª electrons orbiting around the atomic nucleus like satellite orbits.
When he was young, he really thought that¡¯s how the atomic nucleus was structured¡ªlike electrons orbiting the Earth, revolving around the nucleus.
Only after studying physics did he realize that he had been misled for over a decade.
That was not how electrons work; that was an electron cloud.
To know where an electron was, you had to use a wave function to calcte it.
But that was a digression.
Tang Rui looked at the maic field model on the screen, then called up the program code for the three devices, especially the algorithm code for maic field control.
For a time, he was immersed in the sea of knowledge.
At lunchtime, Tang Rui, still preupied with his thoughts, went to the cafeteria to eat.
He was looking for a breakthrough¡ªhow to make the SEG unit perform electromaic anti-gravity while receiving external charging.
As forbining the SEG unit with the maic shield, he couldn¡¯t think of any way yet¡ªbecause the two technologies used maic fieldspletely differently.
One needed to spread the maic field as wide as possible.
The other needed topress the maic field to enhance its strength.
These werepletely opposite approaches.
So he wanted to understand the first two technologies first, then, with the help of wireless power transmission, expand the range of the maic shield.
This would allow for the integration of the three functions.
But it was still very difficult.
¡°President Tang, the Aerospace Command Center is asking if we have any space projects that need to be done. If so, they can do it for us, helping us out,¡± Gao Yang said quietly when he came to Tang Rui during lunch.
¡°Space project? When you go to the moon, take a chicken with you. See if it can survive on the moon and for how long.
¡°Remember to have the Aerospace Command Center record the chicken¡¯s physical data in real-time,¡± Tang Rui stopped thinking for a moment and then replied.
¡°Okay, I got it,¡± Gao Yang nodded, taking Tang Rui¡¯s request seriously.
The Aerospace Command Center was a bit embarrassed to ask for projects.
They owed a lot of favors and didn¡¯t know how to repay them.
They kept borrowing the space shuttle from Crimson for their projects, for free.
Once or twice was okay, but doing this regrly was embarrassing.
They thought about buying a space shuttle, but the price was too high.
A space shuttle cost 7.8 billion.
And that was a discounted price.
But the Command Center really couldn¡¯t afford it.
Not that they didn¡¯t have the money; the money in their ount was ounted for, and even a few billion in surplus wasn¡¯t enough.
So they approached Gao Yang, asking if Crimson had any space projects. They could do them, for free, as a way of repaying the favor.
Tang Rui understood, so he casually mentioned a project.
But he wasn¡¯t just talking nonsense.
After studying maic fields all day, he found that maic fields affected the human body and everything else.
This made him curious.
How long could a chicken survive on the moon without the protection of a maic field, and what would its physical condition be like?
It was a valid research topic, certainly not a joke.
After lunch, Tang Rui returned to theb to continue researching the maic field.
This time, he set aside the SEG unit and tried tobine wireless charging with the maic shield to see if it would work.
In the blink of an eye, two days passed.
Tang Rui hadn¡¯t achieved anything.
Maic fields were more difficult than he imagined, making him a bit irritable and wanting to cheat.
But in one experiment, he created a needle-like maic field, simr to a point pulse.
The appearance of this maic field gave him an idea..
Chapter 279 - 279: Han Shu Returns to the Country, Special
Chapter 279: Han Shu Returns to the Country, Special
Tactical Troops (Part 1)
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¡°Red Lotus, bring up the data from earlier.
¡°Yes, Master.¡±
The needle-shaped maic field on the holographic projection truly opened Tang Rui¡¯s eyes. It was his first time witnessing such a maic field.
Simultaneously, the various data rted to this maic field sparked a burst of inspiration in him.
¡°Red Lotus, adjust the equipment. Reduce the maic field strength and try
again,¡± Tang Rui instructed.
¡°Yes, Master.¡±
Weng!
Following Tang Rui¡¯smand, Red Lotus adjusted the settings and restarted
the equipment to conduct the experiment.
This time, the holographic projection didn¡¯t show a needle-shaped maic field but rather a cylindrical one, as thick as a thumb.
This¡
Tang Rui was astounded.
This wasn¡¯t what he had expected. Ultimately, he had stumbled upon a new
type of maic field. Fascinating.
This was the allure of scientific research.
You never know what discoveries might emerge from seemingly aimless experimentation.
This is because reality doesn¡¯t always align with your expectations. In fact, your assumptions could be entirely contrary to the experimental oues.
-Red Lotus, decrease the strength by another ten tes and re-test.¡±
¡°Yes, Master.¡±
Red Lotus promptly made the adjustments.
Weng!
The equipment whirred to life once more.
This time, the maic field on the holographic screen remained cylindrical but grew thicker.
It became thicker!
Intriguing.
¡°Red Lotus, run a simtion. What would happen if we inject high-temperature sma into this maic field?
¡°Yes, Master.¡±
in Red Lotus¡¯s simtion, high-temperature sma currents were infused into the maic field, yet they werepletely contained within it.
A glowing pir of light emerged on the holographic projection.
A light sword?
A Jedi Knight¡¯s lightsaber, perhaps?
Interesting.
¡°Red Lotus, simte using this light sword to cut through various materials
and observe the effects.¡±
¡°Yes, Master.¡±
in the simtion conducted by Red Lotus, the light sword effortlessly pierced through most materials. Anything unable to withstand the maic field melted under the heat of the high-temperature sma.
Thus, the light sword sliced through most materials as easily as a hot knife through butter.
Only materials resistant to the maic field remained unaffected by the sma. However, only another, stronger maic field could provide such resistance.
In essence, this could serve as a weapon.
Yet, this was all theoretical. Realizing such an effect required immense energy, making it challenging to maintain the sma¡¯s high-energy state.
Consequently, this concept was viable only in simtion.
After reviewing the data, Tang Rui had Red Lotus record these simted findings before halting the simtion.
He then further reduced the maic field strength, curious to see the oue.
This time, he decreased it by 30 tes.
Weng!
As the device activated, the cylindrical maic field reappeared. However, this time it had transformed into a t cylinder. Its diameter had expanded tenfold, while its height shrank to a fifth of its original size.
Moreover, the maic field¡¯s outer edge began to spread.
This maic field resembled an electromaic well and a maic cage but also differed from them.
¡ö¡öRed Lotus, adjust the parameters and switch to Deflection Field Mode.¡±
¡°Yes, Master.¡±
Weng!
Upon activation, the maic field failed to form a coherent structure, resulting in a chaotic, unsealed maic field.
This left Tang Rui perplexed and slightly frustrated.
Logically, this oue was unexpected.
The cylindrical maic field had previously maintained a strong outeryer, akin to a deflecting force field. Why then did it falter upon merging the two.
What went wrong?
¡°Red Lotus, adjust again¡¡±
A day passed, yielding numerous discoveries. Tang Rui had mastered control over the needle-shaped maic field but remained clueless about its integration.
After days of studying maic fields, he began seeing everything through that lens.
Even during his workout with Li Shuyao at night, the motion of the mountains seemed to him like shifts in a maic field.
Enough was enough. He couldn¡¯t take it anymore. He wanted to cheat.
His research continued.
If he didn¡¯t find a breakthrough soon, he felt he might go insane.
His previous work on quantum information transmission hadn¡¯t been this challenging since it was more about summarizing physicalws rather than inventing something new.
This maic field fusion was entirely his own concept, with no prior reference.
The next day, Tang Rui had Hong Lian prepare various electromaic equipment essories. He aimed to integrate all the maic fields into a single device, then enhance it.
After more than two hours, an unsightly, Frankenstein-like device was assembled.
[Item: Multi-functional Maic Field Control Device]
[Experience: 0/1000]
[Origin Points: 782.58]
Despite its unappealing appearance, the device¡¯s functions were satisfactory. However, it could only utilize one maic field function at a time, limiting its usefulness.
He opted for enhancement.
Whoosh!
A sh of blue light signified the equipment¡¯s upgrade.
He didn¡¯t need to advance to the third stage of enhancement. Special strengthening alone achieved the desired effect.
[Item: Integrated Maic Field Control Device]
[Origin Points: 0/5200]
[Enhancements: Sensing Device (Special), Controller (Special), Automatic Controller (Special), Safety Device]
[Attributes: Maic Field Strength increased by 60%, Maic Flux increased by 50%, Energy Consumption of Maic Field reduced by 40%]
[Remaining Origin Points: 746.58]
The upgrade cost only a few dozen origin points.
After inspecting the system panel, Tang Rui had Red Lotus project the blueprints and program code for the new device..
Chapter 280 - 280: Han Shu Returns to the Country, Special Tactical Troops (2)
Chapter 280: Han Shu Returns to the Country, Special Tactical Troops (2)
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¡°The blueprints were fine, with nothing particrly special about them.
The program code, however, was a different story.
It contained various forms for controlling maic fields, which were crucial, and something he had never understood before.
¡°I see!¡±
¡°You can do this?¡±
¡°So mysterious¡¡±
After seeing these forms and algorithms, he experienced a series of epiphanies, resolving some previously iprehensible problems.
At this moment, he understood everything.
Simply put, hisck of progress wasn¡¯t due to insufficient knowledge, but because he hadn¡¯t found the correct approach.
His research direction had been wrong from the start.
¡°With this, many problems are solved.¡±
Tang Rui examined theprehensive maic field control equipment before him, realizing its extensive range of applications.
¡°Red Lotus, make a few hundred and store them in the warehouse.¡±
¡°Yes, Master.¡±
Because the equipment had so many uses, Tang Rui wasn¡¯t sure how to rece it immediately.
But no matter what, he had to first make a batch and store them. This would save the trouble of making them on demand.
The new equipment was ready.
He had also unraveled the mystery of the maic field.
Tang Rui was preparing his thesis.
But at this moment, Red Lotus informed him that Han Shu had returned.
Their ne was about tond.
Upon hearing this news, Tang Rui stopped writing his thesis.
He immediately left theboratory to wee them at the end of the runway. Whoosh¡
Just as he exited the mountain base, he saw the transport ne slowlying to a stop near the hangar.
Guided by a robot-controlled trailer operated by Red Lotus, the transport ne parked in front of the hangar.
The rearpartment opened and Han Shu was the first to step out.
¡°Brother Han, wee home. You¡¯ve gotten much darker.¡±
Seeing Han Shu, Tang Rui greeted him with a smile.
¡°Home is always morefortable. Over there, people are sunburned and oily so getting darker is normal. But you, President Tang, have be fairer recently.¡±
Han Shu approached, smiling.
Then, the two headed to thepany¡¯s office to drink tea and chat, mainly about the situation on Su¡¯s side.
After Tang Rui had subdued Yingjiang¡¯s mercenaries andpleted their suppression, Han Shu took over the remaining tasks.
In fact,pared to the initial sweeping of the battlefield, the finishing work proved to be more troublesome.
Han Shu had initially only wanted to lead troops in battle and had not nned on getting involved in other matters.
However, as the military¡¯s representative and the highest-ranking officer of the garrison, his actions represented more than himself.
Even without personal ambitions, others would still attribute various intentions to him.
This weighed heavily on Han Shu.
He couldn¡¯t emte MacArthur, nor were they Yingchan, so Han Shu had been somewhat ufortable there for a while.
Brother Han, what are your ns next?¡±
Tang Rui inquired.
¡°Where to go? I¡¯m not going anywhere. Our Blue Army isn¡¯t fully formed yet, so where can I go?¡± Han Shu replied, puzzled. This mission was only temporary. His mainmitment in the country was still to the Blue Army.
Tang Rui¡¯s question left him bemused.
¡°Do we still need the Blue Army?¡±
Judging from Han Shu¡¯s tone, the military hadn¡¯t abandoned the n for the Blue Army.
But given the current international situation, the significance of the Lan family¡¯s existence had diminished.
¡°Of course, we have to proceed. Moreover, the military has specially approved
50 billion in military funding to enhance the Blue Army¡¯s equipment performance.
President Tang, are you okay with that?¡± Han Shu asked, somewhat anxiously
He was really worried that Tang Rui might decide to withdraw.
If Tang Rui opted out, he would have to leave the next day.
After all, Tang Rui was upied with many tasks. If he cited research as an excuse, no one would object.
A Blue Army is important, but inparison to Tang Rui, it wasn¡¯t at the same level.
What was the big deal with five groups?
Even five divisions were insignificant.
¡°What issue could there be on my end? Since the Blue Army is being retained, let¡¯s discuss the remaining regimentster,¡± Tang Rui said nonchntly.
He had many responsibilities, but as long as he could circumvent them, it wouldn¡¯t be a problem.
So retaining the Blue Army was a good move.
¡°There¡¯s no need to wait. While I was free, I thought about this issue and now have a n,¡± Han Shu couldn¡¯t wait, fearing Tang Rui might change his mind.
¡°What¡¯s your idea?¡± Tang Rui asked.
¡°In thetter stages of the cleanup work, we mainly faced local tribal militias. Theirbat effectiveness wasn¡¯t high, but they were troublesome to handle.
The special forces team, without deploying armored units, made significant contributions.
However, I also identified some issues during this period. The support speed of the special forces wasn¡¯t fast enough, often failing to strike directly at the enemy¡¯s heart.¡±
Han Shu recounted the situations he encountered during previous battles. Simply put, the speed of emergency mobilization wasn¡¯t sufficient.
Small transport nes were fine, and their speed was fast, but it was sometimes impossible to charge directly into the enemy¡¯s heart, like in areas with old-fashioned anti-aircraft guns and heavy machine guns.
Shells weren¡¯t missiles.
With such a barrage of firepower, small transport nes couldn¡¯tnd, meaning decapitation tactics had to start from the outer circle.
Once, the enemy escaped through a mine shaft.
Although they were cornered at the exit, that was due to a fluke. In a real war, the enemy could hide in underground fortifications, and the special forces, given their strength, couldn¡¯t break in.
In such cases, the decapitation mission was considered a failure.
¡°Brother Han, your request seems a bit high. Equipping the special forces team with a VTOL small transport ne and still calling it slow?¡±
Tang Rui grasped the gist after listening.
Per Han Shu¡¯s implication, as soon as the enemy leader andmand center were located, the special forces could directly proceed to execute decapitation. That seemed excessive.
¡°I¡¯m not saying the special forces are slow. My idea is to create a rapid-response force capable of immediately eliminating the enemy leader upon discovery.¡±
¡°A missile, then. ording to your criteria, only a missile traveling over 20 times the speed of sound could instantly eliminate the enemy leader upon discovery.¡±
Tang Rui was skeptical. This kind of requirement seemed only achievable by missiles, aimed for immediate destruction upon detection.
¡°Missiles aren¡¯t suitable. Sometimes we need to rescue hostages, take out enemymanders, and securemand center intel, all of which require human involvement.¡±
Understood. Brother Han, what new equipment are you thinking of? Just say
Tang Rui understood that Han Shu had something specific in mind.
¡°Hehe¡ Remember the power-assisted exoskeleton armor we developed?
My idea is, can we upgrade this exoskeleton armor, equipped with a power assist device, into a mecha?¡±
After saying this, Han Shu looked expectantly at Tang Rui.
Mecha?
Tang Rui was skeptical. He didn¡¯t see the practical need for mechas outside of their prominence in science fiction.
Stuffing people inside for entertainment?
¡®You really want a mecha?¡±
¡®Yes, ideally one that can fly.¡±
¡°How about an Iron Man Mark armor then?¡±
¡°Is that feasible?¡±
¡°In your dreams.¡±
Tang Rui rolled his eyes. It wasn¡¯t that he couldn¡¯t create it; rather, it would be impractical.
Without a cutting-edge internal buffering system, using one would be lethal.
On a battlefield, if hit by artillery, the external armor might survive, but the person inside wouldn¡¯t.
Without buffering, who could endure that?
¡°Is there truly no alternative?¡± Han Shu asked, disappointed.
¡°It¡¯s not impossible, but forget about Iron Man. That¡¯s unrealistic.
Tell me your specific needs, like required reaction time and desiredbat level.¡±
¡°The goal is to target enemy airfields, radar stations, strategic missile units, andmand centers. Under enemy ground and anti-air defenses, the force should be able to directly infiltrate and destroy crucial enemy elements.¡±
Han Shu detailed his specific requirements.
They sounded like a pipe dream.
After some contemtion, Tang Rui suddenly thought of a type of force that might actually meet Han Shu¡¯s needs..
Chapter 281 - 281: Catch the Most Jumpy One
Chapter 281: Catch the Most Jumpy One
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Orbit airborne troops.
This armypletely met Han Shu¡¯s requirements.
However, he still had to think about how to do it. After all, this thing was not something that could be done just by patting his head.
¡°Understood. I already have an idea. I¡¯ll give you the results in a while.¡± Tang Rui did not go into detail, but gave Han Shu an affirmative answer, indicating that there was no problem.
¡°Alright, I¡¯ll wait for your news.¡± Han Shu did not ask further.
The two of them chatted for a while more before Han Shu went back to pack up and went for dinner together.
Tang Rui did not call many people either. He just called Lin Chao and Gao Yang, and the four of them ate a simple meal.
A few dayster, Tang Rui was in theboratory researching orbital parachuting.
There were no orbital airborne troops in reality, but he could refer to movies, games, and novels.
At present, most sci-fi fantasies were about directlyunching an orbital airborne module.
There was no problem with this idea. Tang Rui could also create an orbital airborne module.
But the problem was¡ In a game, you didn¡¯t have to worry about the recovery of the orbital module. In reality, you did.
It wasn¡¯t the recovery of the orbital module, but the cost.
Each soldier was equipped with an orbital airborne module.
Good heavens.
Which country could be worthy?
Therefore, the single-person orbital airborne module design was directly rejected by Tang Rui. It couldn¡¯t be done that way.
The second was the mecha¡¯s orbitalnding.
This thing didn¡¯t need to be recycled, and its mobility andbat power were higher than the orbital airborne module, but the cost was also higher.
Tang Rui let Red Lotus design a simple mecha that could drop from orbit. It had a protective shield, electromaic anti-gravity, equipped with an electric propulsion engine, and equipped with weapons.
The cost of one set was almost eleven figures.
If the problem of price could be solved in other ways, then the problem of energy was a big one.
All the equipment on the mecha consumed a lot of electricity.
Even if he brought an extra high-energy battery pack, he wouldn¡¯t be able tost long.
The battlested for fifteen minutes.
The mecha ran out of battery.
Without a small-scale nuclear fusion reactor, mechas would not be practical at all.
After Tang Rui considered everything.
He thought of a way tobine the two, which was to use arge orbital airborne capsule with an upgraded version of the individual exoskeleton armor.
Arge orbital airborne module.
It could be said to be an upgraded version of the current return capsule. After the orbital drop, this airborne capsule also had the ability to bring the special forces team back to orbit.
This was not difficult. There was no need for a nuclear fusion reactor. He could just use a small fission reactor.
The electromaic anti-gravity coupled with 20 thousand Newtons of electric propulsion was enough to achieve this effect.
If the safety of the orbital module had been a big problem before, it would be much easier now.
With the integrated maic field control system, everything was no longer a problem.
Therge orbital module could be equipped with an electromaic deflecting force field, electromaic anti-gravity, and even wireless charging for the nearby special forces.
Orbitalnding.
He rose to the sky on the spot.
Before the enemy could react, the mission had already beenpleted and they had returned to Earth¡¯s orbit.
¡°Red Lotus, show me the life support system, central control system, and various functionalponents required by the orbital airborne module.¡±
After Tang Rui thought of the n, he said to Red Lotus.
¡°Yes, Master.¡±
Red Lotus immediately disyed all the models of the various equipment in front of him.
Tang Rui first put the equipment aside.
He began to design the shape and structure of therge-scale orbital airborne module.
Since the airborne capsule only needed to take off and return, the external design was very simple.
The shape of an egg would do.
After considering the problem of air resistance and direction adjustment, the design waspleted very quickly.
¡°Red Lotus, simte and optimize the external structure.¡±
After the design waspleted, Tang Rui let Red Lotus help carry out the simtion and optimization, while he himself began to design the internal structure.
The internal structure was a little more troublesome.
But this trouble was only rtive.
He did not need to design the internal structure bit by bit. He only needed to assemble the various essories and equipment like building blocks.
What structural mechanics?
He didn¡¯t need to consider it at all.
After he was done designing, Red Lotus would run simtions and perform optimization. There would definitely be no problems.
After a day¡¯s worth of events, the design of therge-scale orbital airborne module waspleted.
After many modifications and optimization, the final orbital airborne module was very different from the original design.
The shape changed from an egg to a t echelon.
The overall length was 14.2 meters, the height was 4.5 meters, and the width was 3.2 meters above and 8.6 meters below.
The entire body was made of high-temperature, high-strength alloy, equipped with a 120-megawatt-sized nuclear fission reactor, six electric propulsion engines with a thrust of 20 kilonwtons, an integrated maic field control system, and twoser defense systems.
There were 16 seats inside. Excluding the 12 special forces members, there were four empty rescue seats.
These four rescue locations were isted cabins for individual use, so there was no need to worry about overload and life-sustaining problems.
The airborne pod was taken care of.
The remaining problem of the individual exoskeleton armor was even easier to solve. There was no need to re-design it.
As long as the special forces team¡¯s exoskeleton armor was upgraded, it would be done. It was very simple.
¡°Brother Han, pick a team to be the verification team for the new equipment. Send their exoskeleton armor over. I want to modify it.¡± Tang Rui sent a message to Han Shu.
¡°Alright, I¡¯ll arrange it now. Send the equipment overter.¡±
After Han Shu received the news, he immediately began to choose.
There was no problem with the individual quality of the special forces squad. The difference in the level between the two special forces squads was basically negligible.
The only difference was his reaction speed.
This had nothing to do withbat quality. It was purely the difference in their brains.
Half an hourter, Tang Rui received 12 sets of exoskeleton armor.
These were all upgraded, but they had not been strengthened.
In other words, he could only simply strengthen the exoskeleton armor to achieve the effect he wanted, and it would not require many origin points.
¡°Red Lotus, install the power assist system on these exoskeleton armors. It¡¯s the version that was tested previously. Inform me when the instation isplete,¡± Tang Rui said to Red Lotus. He didn¡¯t even need to do this kind of thing himself. He just needed to use the system panel to add pointster.
¡°Alright, Master. Red Lotus understands.¡±
Tang Rui had nothing to do again.
After resting on the sofa for a while, he remembered the chicken that Gao Yang had sent to the moon for experiments.
¡°Red Lotus, connect to the temporary base on the moon and see how the chicken is doing.¡±
¡°Alright, the connection isplete.¡±
Whoosh!
A person appeared on the holographic projection.
This person was an astronaut, one of the three people who had carried out the top-secret mission.
¡°What¡¯s going on?¡±
After Tang Rui saw the scene in front of him, he was very puzzled.
Where was his chicken?
Why was it gone?
The astronauts in the video were cleaning up the chicken coop.
¡°Red Lotus, where did the chicken go?¡±
¡°Master, Red Lotus is investigating¡The time of death was one hour and twenty-seven minutes ago. The cause of death is unknown.¡± Red Lotus replied immediately after investigating the data.
¡°Dead? Show me theplete data.¡±
¡°Yes, Master.¡±
Tang Rui frowned and looked at the data.
How could such a good chicken die just like that?
When he finished reading the data, he realized that things were not that simple.
After the chickennded on the moon, its data was normal for the first two days, but on the third day, the data began to change.
This data change was very chaotic.
Some of the graphs rose today and fell tomorrow.
It was just like an hormonal imbnce.
Today, the egg suddenly cracked.
Why did it crack?
He did not know.
After Tang Rui finished looking at the data, he was also at a loss and could not figure it out.
¡°Red Lotus, contact the Space Command Center.¡±
¡°Yes, Master.¡±
The video call connected.
The person in charge appeared in front of him.
¡°President Tang, is there anything urgent?¡± The person in charge asked directly.
He knew that if there was nothing, Tang Rui would not contact him.
¡°My chicken died.¡± Tang Rui also said very directly.
¡°What do you mean?¡±
¡°The chicken is dead.¡±
¡°Was it the chicken that was sent to the moon? When did he die? He was fine yesterday.¡±
¡°I just connected to the moon and found out. He¡¯s been dead for more than an hour.¡±
¡°I see¡ Let me see the situation.¡±
The person in charge was helpless. He had a lot of things to do in a day. How could he have the time to keep an eye on a chicken?
But Tang Rui had already sent the video over.
He definitely had to give an answer.
After asking the relevant personnel, the person in charge frowned.
He didn¡¯t expect the chicken to behave so strangely after arriving on the moon, and it even died so suddenly.
¡°President Tang, I¡¯ve already understood the situation. The specific cause of death is still unclear. I¡¯ve already arranged for someone to contact the relevant experts. After the chicken carcass is sent down, we¡¯ll conduct aprehensive study.¡±
¡°Alright, I¡¯ll go pick another chickenter and send it up tomorrow. This might be the chicken¡¯s own problem.¡±
¡°Yes, this is indeed a problem that needs to be taken seriously.¡±
Neither of them cared about the chicken¡¯s life.
What they cared about was why a chicken suddenly died on the moon and what the cause of death was.
This problem had to be rified.
He hung up.
Tang Rui arranged for people to go catch chickens. This time, they did not go to the market, but went directly to the military¡¯s farm to catch them.
Chickens from the market, who knew what they ate.
It was not impossible for him to die suddenly.
However, the chickens in the military farms were all natural chickens with strong vitality andbat strength.
Half an hourter, the person he sent a video.
¡°President Tang, which chicken do you want to catch? Here are ordinary chickens, and here are ck chickens. They¡¯re all free-range chickens.¡±
What?
You still need to ask me which chicken to catch?
Tang Rui was very speechless, but when he saw the chickens running all over the ground, his appetite suddenly came.
¡°Just catch the one with yellow feathers.¡± Tang Rui said after taking a nce.
¡°Okay, President Tang. Do you still want to grab the ck chicken?¡±
¡°Catch.¡±
He would use this one for his experiments and catch another ck chicken to make chicken soup tonight.
But when he saw the ck chicken, he suddenly changed his mind.
This was because one of the ck-boned chickens was mutated. Its feathers were very ck, basically no different from ck. Moreover, it had two white feathers on its body.
This chicken was very energetic and was jumping around.
¡°Catch the one that jumps the most.¡±
¡°Alright..¡±
Chapter 282 - 282: Magnetic Field and Radiation, Orbit Landing
Chapter 282: Maic Field and Radiation, Orbit Landing
Test (Part 1)
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¡°Chicken soup ising!¡±
Li Shuyao carried the chicken soup out of the kitchen and ced a full basin of chicken soup on the dining table.
The chicken soup contained goji berries and some mushrooms.
The pale yellow chicken soup smelled very fragrant.
Indeed, it was a free-range old hen from the military farm. It was very fragrant when stewed, much better than the broiler chickens bought from the market.
¡°Why not kill that ck chicken, it¡¯s even more nourishing,¡± Li Shuyao said while serving Tang Rui the chicken soup.
¡°That ck chicken is very energetic, we are nning to send it to the moon for experiments, so we can¡¯t eat it,¡± Tang Rui said casually.
Sip¡
The taste was just right and very fragrant.
Tang Rui didn¡¯t like eating chicken meat, but he liked drinking chicken soup.
He drank three bowls of chicken soup and ate a bowl of rice.
What a feast.
He wasn¡¯t sure if it was because of the ingredients in the chicken soup or if the soup was too nourishing, but that night Tang Rui performed exceptionally well and exercised for more than an hour.
The next day, when Gao Yang went to the moon, he also took the energetic ck chicken that was jumping around in the cage.
This time, the spacemand center made more preparations.
They used more advanced sensors and also gathered information and monitored the environment around the cage in real-time.
Tang Rui didn¡¯t bother with these.
After he gave the chicken to Gao Yang, he returned to theboratory and began to enhance and upgrade the exoskeleton armor.
[Item: Single Soldier Exoskeleton Armor +3]
[Experience: 1120528/? (Non-upgradable)]
[Origin points: 756.28]
Looking at the data on the system panel, the experience points were overflowing a lot, probably enough to upgrade to +9.
The whole structure enhanced -2 origin points.
External armor enhanced -2 origin points.
The internal system enhanced -2 origin points.
Power system enhanced -2 origin points.
He spent a total of 8 origin points to fully enhance the exoskeleton armor, which now included an auxiliary power system.
The enhanced exoskeleton armor looked more sci-fi and more menacing.
After the enhancements wereplete, Tang Rui continued to upgrade.
He upgraded directly to level 6.
With a sh of pale golden light, the upgrade wasplete.
[Item: Single Soldier Tactical Maneuver Armor +6]
[Experience: 6714.28/? (Non-upgradable)]
[Enhancement: Frame, System, Armor, Power, Energy]
[Features: No Blind Spot Defense, Flexible Maneuverability, Full Anti-Interference]
[origin points: 74.8.28]
The exoskeleton armor, now upgraded to level 6, had be Single Soldier Tactical Maneuver Armor.
Its performance had definitely improved a lot.
But it still needed to be tested.
¡°Red Lotus, keep the blueprints and data safe and then test it, a full-range test.¡±
¡°Okay, master, Red Lotus understands.¡±
Tang Rui nodded and then left it alone.
The remaining set of armor was not enhanced with origin points but was set aside.
Although the enhancement didn¡¯t cost many origin points, it added up to a significant amount.
With current technology, this type of Single Soldier Tactical Maneuver Armor could be manufactured.
It couldn¡¯t be made before mainly because of material issues.
Now that the material problem was solved, manufacturing it would not be a problem.
So, in this case, there was no need to spend origin points.
He had be quitezy recently.
The umtion speed of origin points was basically on par with his usage. If he hadn¡¯t been doing research recently and created some experimental equipment and devices, his origin points reserve would have been even lower.
Back on the sofa, Tang Rui began to read the emails he had received recently.
Red Lotus could reply his emails, but he still wanted to check them to avoid any mistakes.
Most of the emails were from the Bohai Bay project.
Although the undersea tunnel had beenid, the decoration and equipment instation were still ongoing. ording to the current pace, the Bohai Bay undersea tunnel could be opened to traffic by the end of this year or early next year at thetest.
Tang Rui checked Red Lotus¡¯s replies, all of which were fine.
There were also a few emails from two refineries.
Requesting cooperation in increasing or decreasing the crude oil transport volume.
After reading these emails, Tang Rui sat up and asked Red Lotus to connect to the temporary lunar base. He wanted to see how the ck chicken was doing.
The video connected.
An astronaut was checking the equipment next to the cage.
¡°Mr. Tang, are you here to see Chicken Brother?¡± the astronaut asked as soon as he saw Tang Rui.
¡°Yes, I want to see how it¡¯s doing. Are all the data still normal?¡± Tang Rui didn¡¯t understand why the other party called it Chicken Brother, but that didn¡¯t affect his understanding of the situation.
Actually, the other party got it wrong.
It was an old hen, it should be called Chicken Sister.
¡°All data is good, and the sensors haven¡¯t detected any environmental anomalies,¡± the astronaut replied immediately.
¡°Okay, then you go ahead, I won¡¯t disturb you.¡±
Tang Rui looked at the lively ck chicken jumping around in the cage and then ended the video call.
It was very energetic, not bad.
Over the next few days, Tang Rui monitored the manufacture of therge orbital drop pods while casually writing research papers and lived afortable life.
He spent a day writing more than a dozen papers, all rted to maic fields.
However, he only observed the phenomena and provided some data, not getting involved in the specific research work.
Naturally, others would study it once the papers were submitted.
After finishing the papers, he continued to work on nuclear fusion.
This time he aimed to miniaturize the nuclear reactor.
Initially, miniaturization went very smoothly.
All that was needed was to reduce the volume of the reactor. As long as the maic field strength didn¡¯t decrease and the materials were fine, even the smallest reactor could be made..
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Chapter 283: Maic Field and Radiation, Orbit Landing
Test (Part 2)
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This was like a mini internalbustion engine at first nce.
As long as the structure and materials were fine, a cylinder body the size of a fingernail could be made and operated sessfully.
But when he reduced the nuclear fusion reactor to the size of a washing machine, he encountered a serious problem.
The Q.value would turn negative.
The fusion reaction was fine, as was everything else, but due to the limited size of the central chamber, the input and output were disproportionate. The key factor was the heating of the high-temperature sma.
If the temperature wasn¡¯t high enough, the fusion reaction would stop.
To maintain the temperature for fusion, continuous input was needed.
However, the energy input exceeded the energy produced by fusion, making it unfeasible.
The limit of thermonuclear fusion.
Tang Rui looked at the data on the screen and sighed helplessly.
He wanted to reduce the size of the fusion reactor to that of a rice cooker, but it seemed almost impossible.
Not that it couldn¡¯t be done.
But even if it was, it would be pointless.
A fusion reactor that continuously consumes energy without output.
What use would it be?
Just as a decoration?
Tang Rui waved his hand, deleting the holographic projection of the fusion model.
Continuing to research miniaturization would be meaningless.
He now faced two choices.
One was to work on heavy nuclear fusion, and the other on cold nuclear fusion.
Both of these fusion methods were considered highly advanced, almost like science fiction.
The former could be used to buildary engines while thetter could be used to build Iron Man-like armor.
Forget it.
He decided to put it aside for now; there was no rush to work on it.
¡°Red Lotus, connect to the temporary lunar base.
Tang Rui instructed Red Lotus, having not checked on the situation of his chicken, Wu Ji, for two days.
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
Swipe!
Connection established.
The holographic projection showed the interior of the temporary lunar base.
An astronaut was holding a chicken, shaking it.
¡°Brother Chicken, are you okay?¡±
¡°Brother Chicken, make some noise, don¡¯t scare me.
¡°Brother Chicken¡¡±
Seeing this scene, Tang Rui was baffled.
What happened again?
Two days ago, although Brother Chicken wasn¡¯t as active as at the beginning, it was still normal.
How could it be dead just a dayter?
-What happened? When did it die?¡± Tang Rui asked.
¡°Mr. Tang, Brother Chicken just copsed suddenly.
¡°Was there anything unusual before?¡±
¡°Before¡ Oh, ten minutes ago, Brother Chicken suddenly got up and started hopping around, even crowing while jumping.
I was curious and came over to look, but didn¡¯t see any problem and went back to work.
Then just now, Brother Chicken crowed for a long time, then became silent.
When I turned around, it was already lying on the ground.
After hearing this, Tang Rui frowned.
Nothing seemed unusual.
The only odd thing was the jumping and crowing.
That was normal when it first arrived.
But it had been four or five days; it shouldn¡¯t be so active.
Was it a fleeting resurgence?
Tang Rui thought for a moment, then ended the video call and asked Red Lotus to pull up Brother Chicken¡¯s data for review.
There were abnormalities in all the data, starting from the third day, just like the previous chicken.
But Brother Chicken died even sooner, more than a day earlier.
Just as Tang Rui was pondering how Brother Chicken died, the spacemand center sent a video request.
Tang Rui connected.
¡°Mr. Tang, the second chicken is also dead.¡±
¡°Yes, I know. I¡¯m looking at its data. Do you have any ideas?
-After discussing the data of both chickens, we think they were exposed to intense radiation.¡±
¡°Radiation? Is there radiation exceeding safe levels at the temporary base?¡± ¡°Well, theoretically, the radiation doesn¡¯t exceed safe levels. But this calction is based on the Earth¡¯s maic field.
The Moon doesn¡¯t have a maic field, so it¡¯s hard to say whether the levels are safe there.¡±
The person in charge spoke seriously. They hadn¡¯t considered this before because astronauts had only been as far as the space station, which is within Earth¡¯s maic field, so it wasn¡¯t a concern.
But this trip to the Moon was different.
Leaving Earth¡¯s maic field meant the previously safe radiation levels could now be excessive.
¡°Are the people okay?¡±
After hearing this exnation, Tang Rui asked anxiously.
¡°We¡¯re examining the astronauts who¡¯ve been to the Moon.
No results yet, but based on the American astronauts who went to the Moon, they should be fine.¡±
¡°Let¡¯s pause the lunar missions for now, and wait for the research results. We hadn¡¯t considered this before.¡±
After hearing the rest, Tang Rui directly instructed.
¡°Okay, we were thinking the same.¡±
After ending themunication, Tang Rui immediately notified Gao Yang to return to Earth with his team.
They left their equipment on the Moon, as no one would steal it.
Once Gao Yang and He Yun returned, he had Red Lotus conduct a thorough scan of them using maic field control equipment.
The results showed no problems for either of them.
But still, Tang Rui had Gao Yang and He Yun undergo therapy using the equipment he had previously enhanced.
The next day, the spacemand center reported that of the eight astronauts who went to the Moon, seven were fine, but one had health issues.
Further investigation revealed that the affected astronaut¡¯s main job was recording data and rying instructions inside the temporary base.
Meaning, he didn¡¯t go outside for tasks and stayed in the base.
Fortunately, they hadn¡¯t been on the Moon for long, so the issue was minor and would soon recover.
The spacemand center could identify the problem because they had detailed models of astronaut health, withprehensive data forparison.
Maic fields!
Radiation!
Humanity was indeed lucky-if Earth didn¡¯t have a maic field, or if it disappeared, human civilization would have been destroyed long ago.
This idental discovery was a stroke of luck in misfortune.
Without a maic field on the Moon, establishing a base there would require considering artificial maic fields, preferably simting Earth¡¯s maic field.
This issue was not too difficult for Tang Rui, who had a maic field control system.
¡°Red Lotus, create a device that can simte the Earth¡¯s maic field, covering an area of ten square kilometers.
Tang Rui instructed Red Lotus.
¡°Okay, Master. Red Lotus is performing simtions¡ Calctionplete, starting production, estimated time needed is 3 hours and 51 minutes.¡± Once Red Lotuspleted the device, they would test its effect by sending another chicken to the Moon.
But there was no rush-after all, the construction of the Guanghan Pce base on the Moon hadn¡¯t started yet.
Arriving at the assembly workshop, Tang Rui examined therge orbital drop pod, preparing to test it.
Whether it¡¯d be useful or not, only testing would tell.
This device was guaranteed to be safe, so there were no worries about problems.
¡°Brother Han, have the special forces teame over and receive the new equipment.¡± Tang Rui sent a message to Han Shu.
Soon after, Han Shu arrived at the mountain base with his team.
¡°Mr. Tang, is this the new equipment?¡± Han Shu asked upon seeing the twelve single-soldier tactical mobility armors.
¡ö¡¯Yes, these are the upgraded products. The functions are simr to the previous version, but both defense and mobility have been significantly improved, and a power-assist system has been added.¡±
Tang Rui had the twelve special forces team members suit up and move around indoors.
¡°Can this power armor fly?¡± Han Shu curiously asked.
¡°No,¡± Tang Rui shook his head.
Without solving the energy issue, a flying mobility armor was not possible.
¡°Let¡¯s go outside and move around.¡±
Tang Rui, noticing the team members were hesitant to fully activate the armor¡¯s power assist system, immediately took them outside.
¡°Okay, you can now fully activate the power assist system and experience the feeling of being a superhero.¡±
After hearing this, the team members activated the power system and tested running and jumping.
Boom, boom, boom¡
Several team members jumped five meters high,nding with a thud on the ground.
Fortunately, the armor wasn¡¯t very heavy, otherwise, they might have made holes in the ground.
After about half an hour of this, Tang Rui called a halt.
He then had them board therge orbital drop pod, ready for the first orbital drop test..
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Chapter 284: Orbit Airdrops Are Indeed Terrifying
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¡°Brother Lin, have you finished the report? I¡¯m still waiting here.¡±
¡°It¡¯s all done. The drop zone is 20 kilometers away from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, and the ground search and rescue troops are ready.¡±
¡°Good, I got it.¡±
Tang Rui put down the phone and said to the special forces team in front of him, ¡°The approval isplete. Next, you will undergo your first orbital airdrop test. Any problems?¡±
¡°No.¡± Twelve people immediately answered loudly.
¡°Great, enter the orbital airdrop pod.¡±
After they went in, Han Shu was still a bit worried.
¡°Direct airdrop for the first time, no problem?¡±
¡°Don¡¯t worry, it¡¯s insured.¡±
Tang Rui was still confident about safety. Not to mention the equipment made by Red Lotus had no issues, nobody else could guarantee that.
But he dared to guarantee, the system had no problems.
So, instead of worrying about their safety, it¡¯d be better to worry if they might vomitter.
They were special forces, the elite of the elit; that was for sure.
But with orbital airdrop, without training, who knows if there would be any other reactions.
However, ording to Red Lotus¡¯s test, even ordinary people sitting inside would at most feel ufortable, not having any physical problems due to gravitational eleration.
This thing wouldn¡¯t spin whennding, so there should be no problem.
At most, they might feel dizzy and want to vomit, but definitely no other issues.
Puff¡
The hatch closed.
The members of the special forces team inside the cabin all sat in their seats, buckled up.
Red Lotus would exin the details of riding the orbital airdrop pod through the disy in their helmets.
Tang Rui didn¡¯t need to worry about that, nor was there a need for prior training.
The more high-tech the equipment, the more it required fool-proof operation, otherwise, it would affect actualbat.
If really going into battle and missing a person, the equipment would be useless, then what¡¯s the point of fighting.
Buzz!
The SEG unit of the orbital airdrop pod started.
The floating orbital airdrop pod began to stand upright.
The seats inside also began to adjust their direction at this moment, ensuring that the chair backs faced the direction of vertical gravity.
In the next second, the four 20,000-newton electric propulsion engines at the bottom emitted blue light.
This time there was no Mach ring.
But even so, the speed of the orbital airdrop pod was very fast, much faster than theunch speed of a rocket.
And the special forces soldiers inside just felt a pushback, simr to that of amercial airliner taking off.
Nothing ufortable¡ªTang Rui and Han Shu watched the orbital airdrop pod take off and then returned to the Blue Army Command Center, watching the orbital airdrop pod through satellite images.
¡°I¡¯m Tang Rui, how do you feel now? Any physical difort?¡±
Tang Rui inquired about the condition of the special forces team.
¡°Report to Advisor Tang, we feel no difort, very good.¡± The team leader replied.
¡°Okay, report immediately if there¡¯s any problem.¡±
¡°Understood.¡±
Soon, the orbital airdrop pod entered outer space.
The seats inside the cabin adjusted their direction again, with the chair backs turning towards the wall, allowing people to talk face-to-face.
¡°Now you can unbuckle your seat belts and experience weightlessness. Report any problems at any time.¡±
Tang Rui spoke again.
¡°Special forces team received.¡±
After everyone unbuckled their seat belts, they began to float in the cabin, instinctively using swimming motions to move, but soon realized swimming strokes were useless.
This experience was also very novel for them.
Special forces, so what?
Apart from astronauts, how many people have been to space?
Although they will have many opportunities to go to space in the future, this was still their first time and quite fresh.
While the special forces team was experiencing weightlessness in space.
The whole world was eyeing the orbital airdrop pod.
After all, this big thing flying out of Earth could be seen by a fool.
No optical stealth, and no radar wave absorbing coating¡ªany country with a bit of strength could discover it.
But discovering it was one thing¡ªno one could guess what it really was.
It didn¡¯t look like a space shuttle, nor like a rocket. It couldn¡¯t be a spaceship, right?
The design was too ugly.
A group of experts began to study and analyze its performance based on the appearance of the orbital airdrop pod.
Most people judged it to be a spaceship.
After all, considering human technology at the time, a few pipes put together could be called a spaceship.
But this orbital airdrop pod, even if designed for practicality and not so fancy, looked better than those pipe-assembled spaceships.
In a blink of an eye, ten minutes passed.
Tang Rui saw they had enough fun and had them return to their seats, buckle up, and prepare for the orbital airdrop test.
¡°Red Lotus, begin the orbital airdrop.¡±
¡°Okay, master.¡±
Under Red Lotus¡¯s control, the orbital airdrop pod stopped the SEG unit and then elerated from Earth¡¯s orbit, directly plunging into the atmosphere.
When descending, the bottom faced downward.
But by then, the electric propulsion engine nozzles at the bottom were already wrapped in high-temperature-resistant alloy.
The reason for the bottom facing downward was mainly to generate a shock wave when passing through the atmosphere, and therge area of the bottom was specially designed to inste and divert¡ªlike sitting on an air cushion.
The big screen in the spacemand center, with high-speed cameras, recorded the situation of the orbital airdrop pod returning to the atmosphere.
¡°This return is very stable, no deviation in the orbit, just don¡¯t know how the inside is?¡±
¡°Definitely no problem, everything Tang brings out is good, this orbital airdrop pod makes our return capsule look like trash.¡±
¡°It¡¯s not fair to say that, after all, there¡¯s a difference in materials and equipment performance.
I¡¯ve also seen the blueprints and parameters of the orbital airdrop pod, it¡¯s like built with gold, we can¡¯t afford to make that.¡±
¡°Okay, notify the ground search and rescue team to go, and bring the medical team, just in case.¡±
While they were talking, the orbital airdrop pod was already close to the ground, only 2000 meters from the surface.
At that moment, under Red Lotus¡¯s control, the SEG unit started.
At the moment of activation, the orbital airdrop pod, like hitting a, began to decelerate.
And this deceleration effect grew stronger and stronger.
The power of the SEG unit was not maximized at the beginning but gradually increased, otherwise, people couldn¡¯t bear it.
When it reached 50 meters from the ground, the upright orbital airdrop pod began to level out andnd.
Inside, the seats started moving again, this time all faces turned towards the original wall.
Click, click, click¡
The wall in front of the seats opened, and the outside wind blew into the cabin.
Buzz!
When the wall in front of the special forces team opened upwards, the orbital airdrop pod hadpletelynded.
Snap!
The seat belts automatically popped open.
All members of the special forces team jumped out of the cabin at the same time.
¡°Red Lotus, calcte, starting from thepany, how long does it take to perform an orbital airdrop at any location in the world?¡±
¡°Master, ording to calctions, the farthest location is Antarctica, and the time required for an orbital airdrop is 21 minutes.¡±
¡°What about Pennsylvania Avenue in the USA?¡±
¡°11 minutes.¡±
Tang Rui was very satisfied after hearing this.
As for Han Shu who was next to him, that went without saying.
The effect of this orbital airdrop was better than he imagined.
Even countries with mid-course anti-missile capabilities couldn¡¯t intercept the orbital airdrop pod.
In other words, the orbital airdrop is unstoppable.
Within 21 minutes, an elitebat team can be deployed anywhere in the world, with a fatal tactical strike capability.
¡°How do you feel?¡±
Tang Rui asked the members of the special forces team, to see how they felt after their first orbital airdrop.
¡°Report, we feel very good.¡±
¡°Good, then return to the orbital airdrop pod, prepare to return.¡±
¡°Understood.¡±
The special forces team, who had been conducting tactical cover training outside, began to orderly retreat into the orbital airdrop pod.
The cabin had returned to its original state by then.
The walls that opened earlier were all closed.
Even after careful inspection, gaps wouldn¡¯t be found.
Click!
The hatch closed.
The orbital airdrop pod stood up again, preparing to take off.
As for the ground search and rescue team that was rushing over, they were still two kilometers away, but they could see the orbital airdrop pod.
But just as they sped up and rushed forward, the orbital airdrop pod took off like a rocket, shooting straight into the sky.
Screech¡
The leadmand vehicle hit the brakes, sticking their head out the window, looking bewildered at the orbital airdrop pod flying higher and higher.
What were they here for?
To rescue.
But the problem was, the people had already flown away, so whom were they rescuing?
¡°Ground search and rescue team callingmand center.¡±
¡°Command center received, please speak.¡±
¡°Our rescue target has taken off again.¡±
¡°You guyse back.¡±
¡°Yes.¡±
Themander directly asked the driver to turn around and return to base.
Rescue?
They searched in vain.
They came out for a spin and did nothing.
It was very frustrating.
At this time, many people were feeling frustrated, even pained.
For example, the aerospace centers of various countries around the world.
They had seen the orbital airdrop podnd, thinking this flight was just a test.
Who would have thought, just a few minutester, it returned.
What did that indicate?
It indicated the technology was mature.
It could beunched quickly into Earth¡¯s orbit, descend rapidly, and thenunch again.
All this without the need forplex maintenance.
It can be repeatedly re-entered into orbit.
This is no longer about validating technology, but a disy of its maturity.
Such thoughts were from countries without spy satellites.
But those with spy satellites¡ªcountries that could still capture clear ground photos were in a frenzy at this moment.
If it were just a spaceship, they would have epted it.
After all, domestically, they were the leaders in the field of aerospace, far surpassing America.
But the problem was, this thing was not a spaceship but a vehicle meant forbat.
Just as itnded, dozens of people jumped out.
Terrifying, wasn¡¯t it?
It couldn¡¯t be helped?
Meetings and research continued.
Tang Rui was unaware of this, he wasmunicating with a military bigwig.
The other party directly inquired if the orbital airdrop could be used in actualbat.
Just kidding.
When the special forces team departed, they took their weapons and equipment with them..
Chapter 285 - 285: The Middle East Wants Security (Part 1)
Chapter 285: The Middle East Wants Security (Part 1)
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Africa.
Among a medical team from the United Nations humanitarian aid was a medical team from China.
Normally, medical teams were rarely threatened. Not to mention protection, even in wars or other conflicts, medical personnel were not targeted.
But, there were too many fools in the world.
You could never predict the thought processes of some people.
At that time, the Chinese medical team was surrounded by a tribal armed group, and the soldiers protecting the medical team were engaged in a firefight with them.
The tribal armed forces were numerous, but their shooting was terrible.
The Chinese had fewer people, just one squad, and the only ammunition they had was whatever they carried on us.
So, the situation was very unfavorable.
The nearest reinforcements, limited by road conditions and distance, would take at least an hour to arrive.
As for air support, there was none.
Missiles were an option, but the distance between the two sides in the firefight was too close, which could lead to idental injuries.
So, after learning about this situation, China was very anxious.
The military originally thought to send the Baidi fighter jets for support, as other fighter jets aren¡¯t as fast.
But then the CHinese found out.
Upon checking the news, we discovered that Tang Rui and Han Shu were testing the orbital airborne troops.
Well, that settled it.
Send them immediately.
After Tang Rui received the message, he asked Honglian to update the data and sent the mission briefing to the special forces team members.
¡°Emergency order,mence rescue mission in ten minutes, this is not a drill, here is the mission briefing.¡±
The special forces team members in outer space became very serious after receiving the order.
As the mission briefing was disyed, they also understood what the mission entailed.
Rescue the medical team.
¡°Everyone, check your weapons and equipment.¡± The team leader immediately issued the order after reviewing the briefing.
Click, click, click¡
Everyone picked up their weapons for a routine check.
After the check, everyone quietly leaned back in their seats, waiting tond.
Five minutester, the orbital drop pod arrived over Africa and, under Honglian¡¯s control, plunged into the atmosphere.
¡°Support will arrive soon, maximum five minutes. Now report your ammunition status.¡±
¡°Sir, I only have one magazine left. I gave my pistol to Professor Jiang for self-defense.¡±
¡°Sir, I have three grenades, 25 rifle bullets, a full pistol magazine, plus two extra magazines.¡±
¡°Sir¡¡±
After fighting for more than ten minutes, everyone¡¯s bullets were almost depleted.
Originally, they didn¡¯t bring much ammunition, only 120 rounds, a total of four magazines.
If it wasn¡¯t for their conservative use earlier, they would have run out by now. ¡°Datian, stay behind. Give us your rifle magazines and then retreat with Professor Jiang and others. We¡¯ll cover.¡±
Datian, don¡¯t hold back on bullets, provide suppressing fire.¡±
After hearing the ammunition status, the squad leader immediately issued orders.
Four full magazines were handed to the squad leader and Datian, then everyone fired simultaneously, suppressing the enemy.
Then the two of them covered while a few retreated to protect Professor Jiang.
With their full firepower, the two, using the advantage of cover and height, suppressed the attack of more than two hundred people, preventing anyone from advancing.
It s good that this was happening in a forest.
If it were in the open, it would have been difficult.
¡°Squad leader, look.¡±
At that moment, Datian suddenly shouted.
The squad leader followed suit and looked.
The orbital drop pod was descending towards its position.
It wasn¡¯t just the two of them, but everyone around the battlefield saw the orbital drop pod.
¡°Shoot it down with RPGs.¡±
The leader of the tribal armed forces ordered, pointing at the orbital drop pod.
They didn¡¯t use RPGs on people because they were afraid of injuring the doctors. After all, they had the numerical advantage, and the other side had no support, so they weren¡¯t in a hurry.
But now, this thing suddenly appeared in the sky.
It definitely wasn¡¯t sent by their tribe for support.
So, just shoot it down.
A group of tribal soldiers picked up their guns and shot at the orbital drop pod.
They couldn¡¯t hit a person, but they could hit such a big thing.
Countless bullets were fired towards the orbital drop pod.
But half a meter from the pod, all the bullets were deflected upwards.
Although bullets hit it, it wouldn¡¯t cause any damage to the alloy steel te on the surface, but scratches would look bad.
Whiz!
Whiz whiz!
At that moment, three RPG rockets were fired at the orbital drop pod.
At the same time, the doors on both sides of the drop pod opened.
The next moment, the three RPG rockets were also deflected by the electromaic deflection shield, flying towards the upper diagonals of the sky.
Seeing this, the tribal armed forces below were stunned.
It was about to hit.
Why were they suddenly deflected?
They couldn¡¯t understand this situation no matter how hard they thought.
While the tribal armed forces were dazed, the doors of the pod were fully opened, and ropes dropped from above.
¡±13 meters above ground, rappel from the pod.¡±
Due to the terrain, the orbital drop pod couldn¡¯tnd on the ground, but this had been anticipated during its design.
Letting them parachute would be unfamiliar to them.
But rappelling was very simple.
All the special forces soldiers grabbed the ropes and jumped down.
Rappelling in powered armor didn¡¯t require legs and feet, just one hand on the rope.
The descent was rapid indeed.
Bang bang bang¡
In less than two seconds, twelve members of the special forces teamnded on the ground..
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After theynded, they quickly locked onto the enemy using a map of the battlefield and the aid of their scanning system, and began their attack.
Whoosh whoosh¡
Even faster than their own assaults were theser weapons on the orbital airborne module. As soon as they emerged from the module, theymenced their attack.
Laser beams shot forth.
All those struck by the beams died instantly.
The special forces rapidly advanced towards the enemy, firing as they charged.
The tribal armed forces fell like wheat to the ground.
What shelter?
In the face of the electromaic rifle, it was mere decoration.
Seventeen secondster¡
The gunfire ceased, and the battle was over.
All 213 enemies were eliminated. None who tried to flee survived. They werepletely wiped out.
Gulp!
The soldiers guarding the medical team were stunned by the scene.
It had happened too quickly.
Their allies had descended from the sky.
In less than a minute, every enemyy dead.
What kind ofbat power was this?
It was somewhat terrifying.
Fortunately, these were theirrades.
If they were enemies, they wouldn¡¯t stand a chance either.
This wasn¡¯t just a disparity in individual skill; it was a total eclipse in equipment. They were not from the same era.
¡°Report, the special forces team haspleted their mission. The enemy has been annihted. We have no casualties,¡± someone announced.
¡°Alright, protect the medical team and wait for reinforcements,¡± came the reply.
¡°Understood.¡±
Tang Rui and Han Shu had observed the special forces¡¯ operation from start to finish.
Full marks for their overall performance.
¡°Brother Han, what do you think of this orbital airborne troop? Does it meet your requirements?¡± Tang Rui turned to Han Shu.
¡°It¡¯s exceeded them. This is even better than what I imagined,¡± Han Shu replied, extremely satisfied.
¡°As long as you¡¯re satisfied,¡± Tang Rui smiled.
¡°By the way, can the other special forces teams be equipped with this gear?¡±
¡°Sure, as long as the funding is in ce, the equipment will be too.¡±
¡°Funding? Is there not enough money? What about the remaining funds in the ount and the money the Sudan used for weapons?¡±
Han Shu¡¯s expression quickly shifted from excitement to dismay.
¡°I¡¯ve used it all. Not only is there no money left, but you also owe me 1.46 billion. Remember to transfer it,¡± Tang Rui said with a shrug.
¡°All of that, more than 20 billion, gone?¡±
¡°Let me break it down for you. The orbital airborne module was your military¡¯s request, right? So I developed it for you. You have to cover the development costs.¡±
Although Tang Rui was not short of money, that was a separate matter.
The military needed custom equipment, and he couldn¡¯t be expected to fund their research. That was not how it worked.
The technical sophistication of therge-scale orbital airborne module was extraordinary. The value of the maic field control system alone far exceeded the entire module¡¯s cost.
So, he charged 8.8 billion, which was reasonable.
¡°What about the rest?¡± Han Shu asked, distressed about the expense but acknowledging the necessity.
¡°8.8 billion for R&D, 14.2 billion for producing therge-scale orbital airborne capsules, including various upgraded systems and equipment. The most expensive were the reactor, the SEG unit, and the electromaic deflecting shield.
¡°Laser weapons, life-support systems, and emergency rescue pods didn¡¯t cost much, so I threw them in for free.
¡°Then there are the 12 sets of tactical mobile armors, each worth 85 million. The customizedrge-scale electromaic rifles and other weapons for the armor totaled 1.08 billion.
¡°This is your discounted rate. I didn¡¯t overcharge you, right?¡± Tang Rui said with a smile.
¡°It¡¯s a lot, but fair,¡± Han Shu admitted, understanding the costs involved.
More than an hourter¡
The reinforcements finally arrived, their fastest possible response, hindered only by the distance.
The special forces team reentered the orbital airborne module upon the reinforcements¡¯ arrival.
Ten minutester¡
The orbital airborne modulended at Crimson¡¯s training ground.
The special forces team disembarked.
The module was towed into the hangar.
Although no formidable enemies were encountered in this battle, the orbital airborne troops¡¯bat effectiveness was evident.
Especially their rapid response.
It could terrify many.
The entire rescue operation had not been hidden from the world.
Several nations, including the USA, had observed the special forces¡¯ airborne rescue through satellites, recording all the data.
It wasn¡¯t a concern that they were watching.
Orbital airbornendings were normally unnecessary.
Yet, it was precisely because of its rarity that it served as a Sword of
Damocles; it¡¯s use signified serious implications.
As for its effectiveness¡
Exceptional.
The American think tank reconvened for a meeting.
However, this time, they gathered not in the usual meeting room but in an underground bunker.
They had no choice.
The orbital drop had been too intimidating.
With the current American defenses, stopping such an assault was impossible. The special forces¡¯ equipment made what used to be challenging decapitation operations seem trivial.
This left them feeling vulnerable, even on their own turf.
¡°Tell me, what should we do now?¡±
The think tank remained silent.
Everything that needed to be said had been said. What more was there to add?
¡°How long will it take for the spaceships on the Korean side to reach us?¡±
The boss shifted the focus of the question..
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Chapter 287: The Middle East Wants Security (Part 3)
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¡°It is estimated that it will take another two months, and that¡¯s with the provision of new drill bits and excavation technology,¡± a member of the think tank replied.
¡°Two months¡ that¡¯s eptable. During this period, let¡¯s not do anything and wait for the alien spaceship to be excavated.¡±
We can t just do nothing, that would be too abnormal.¡±
¡°Then what should we do?¡±
¡°Discuss the oil issue with Russia.¡±
¡°Oil?¡±
¡°Yes, the maind has started producing oil, and the extraction volume is quite significant. For now, their crude oil is only used domestically, so it hasn¡¯t affected international oil prices.
¡°But they won¡¯t always refrain from exporting oil. When they do start, given their style, they will surely target our oil system.
Since we can¡¯t stop them, it¡¯s better to proactively open a door and let Da Mao get involved.
¡°That way, the interests in the oil sector won¡¯t be ours alone,¡± said the think tank member.
Everyone agreed with nods.
Previously, they could use international influence to blockade Da Mao and sanction them, but they couldn¡¯t use the same tactic against the domestic producers.
The same move, when used against different opponents, yields entirely different results.
Thus, the oil issue is an unsolvable problem.
Unless they could physically overpower them.
Unfortunately, they simply can¡¯t do that now.
¡°Will the Russians coborate with us?¡±
¡°No, but they will act for their own interests.¡±
¡°Alright, I¡¯ll contact the Russianster. Any other suggestions?¡± After hearing this, the think tank member fell silent.
Any other ideas?
What a thought.
It was already challenging enough to slightly dy the opponent¡¯s strength growth and cause them trouble in various aspects.
¡°Alright, let¡¯s adjourn the meeting,¡± said the big boss, getting up and leaving the meeting room.
He went to a secure room to prepare for a phone call. After ensuring the line was ready, he dialed.
The callsted for about fifteen minutes.
He hung up, satisfied with the conversation. Though slightly annoyed, the other party¡¯s thoughts were all within the think tank¡¯s predictions.
For the sake of their own personal interests, Russia dared to do anything.
¡°President Tang, are we participating in this year¡¯s Zhuhai Airshow?¡± Lin Chao asked Tang Rui.
Zhuhai Airshow?
Tang Rui remembered that the airshow wasing up soon.
This was definitely something to participate in.
¡°Yes, we are. When should we go?¡± asked Tang Rui.
¡°No rush, there¡¯s still more than half a month left. If we¡¯re participating, we need to submit an equipment list in advance. What do you n to disy?¡± ¡°Disy, huh¡ There are quite a few things. I need to think about it.¡±
Tang Rui pondered over this issue, feeling a bit troubled.
Shen Hong Company had too many things.
Or rather, the mess he created was too big.
Just the airnes alone came in many models, from fighters to transport nes.
There was plenty of equipment but much of it couldn¡¯t be exported.
That¡¯d be really bothersome.
Take your time to think, and send me the list when you¡¯re ready,¡± Lin Chao said and left.
Tang Rui took a yogurt from theb fridge and started to think while licking the lid.
Perhaps he should just submit everything.
As for how much got approved, that¡¯d be up to the authorities.
But then again, why bother?
Knowing it can¡¯t be sold, what¡¯s the point in doing this?
Buzz buzz¡
Just then, his phone vibrated.
Tang Rui picked it up.
It was a call from Prince Salim.
It¡¯s been a while since theyst spoke.
¡°Hello, Prince Salim.¡±
¡°My friend, I¡¯m d to hear your voice. I hope I¡¯m not disturbing you.¡±
¡°Not at all, I¡¯m just pondering whether to have grilled fish or sashimi tonight,¡± Tang Rui casually said.
You could have both,¡± Prince Salim immediately replied.
Good answer.
Very luxurious.
¡°You¡¯re right, I might try that tonight.¡±
My friend, I have a matter I¡¯d like to discuss with you.¡±
Go ahead, you don¡¯t have to be formal with me.¡±
¡°Thank you for understanding. I want to know if Crimson still takes national security orders.¡±
Prince Salim¡¯s question immediately piqued Tang Rui¡¯s interest.
What did that mean?
As a highly regarded prince of the camel kingdom, he must be aware of the real situation in Sudan.
National security? That was just a cover.
But since he knows the real deal and still calls to ask about this, it means the camel kingdom has some ns.
¡°We do take them, but we can¡¯t just ept any order,¡± Tang Rui thoughtfully replied.
¡°I see. Would you take an order from our camel kingdom?¡±
Wow.
This was really from the Middle East.
Weren¡¯t they paying protection fees on both sides?
Why the sudden change of heart?
Starting to pick sides now?
¡°You have an army, and your equipment isn¡¯t bad either. You even won
recently, why would you need it?¡±
Tang Rui didn¡¯t address whether he would take the order or not.
The situation now is different from before.¡±
I see¡ I need to think about it, I¡¯ll let you knowter.¡±
¡°Alright, thank you very much, my friend.¡±
¡°Likewise. Talk to you next time, goodbye.¡±
After hanging up, Tang Rui called Lin Chao back.
Such matters definitely needed to be reported.
¡°What¡¯s up?¡± Lin Chao returned, still puzzled.
¡°Prince Salim just called, asking if Crimson takes national security orders.¡±
¡°National security? From which country?¡±
¡°The Middle East.¡±
¡°Wait for me, I¡¯ll report this.¡± Lin Chao was stunned too.
This move by the Middle East was truly unexpected.
Logically, it shouldn¡¯t be like this.
Did they hear some rumors, or did they really decide to take a gamble and pick a side?
It was hard to understand.
Tang Rui didn¡¯t bother to think about it further. After all, it wasn¡¯t his concern.
Even if they took this order, it would just be under the guise of Crimson.
He wouldn¡¯t even need to use his own official seal.
¡°Red Lotus, disy all thepany¡¯s products. Let me see what can be simplified for external sale.¡±
Tang Rui continued to work on the Zhuhai Airshow issue.
Meanwhile, due to the Middle East¡¯s signal, the higher-ups started to hold meetings to discuss the matter..
Chapter 288 - 288: Taking American Main Combat Equipment to the Exhibition
Chapter 288: Taking American Main Combat Equipment to the Exhibition
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Regarding the Middle East¡¯s issue, Tang Rui didn¡¯t bother to think about it at all, as it wasn¡¯t something he should worry about.
Right now, he was concerned about the Zhuhai Airshow.
The exhibit from the Crimson Corporation had to be eye-catching.
How much it sold for wasn¡¯t important.
But he needed to make the Crimson brand known.
Although Crimson was popr online, it was really due to thepany¡¯s security department¡¯s influence.
Crimson¡¯s real weapon was just one famous sixth-generation fighter.
Things like mechanical dogs were not considered national weapons.
As for those things that couldn¡¯t be exposed, he couldn¡¯t bring them to the exhibition, which was frustrating.
¡°Red Lotus, simplify the individual exoskeleton armor to be on par with USA¡¯s individual equipment.¡±
After much thought, Tang Rui decided that the new product could only be some individual equipment.
It was possible to disy the Ersatz Kick at the exhibition.
But it wasn¡¯t for sale.
¡°Master, the individual exoskeleton armor cannot be simplified to that extent,¡±
Red Lotus directly stated, unable to do so.
This¡
The material of the individual exoskeleton armor is naturally stronger than
American individual equipment. Even with simplification, it can¡¯t be reduced unless the material is changed.
But changing the material would mean essentially redesigning a set simr to
American standards¡
Redesign a simr set?
That seemed promising.
There were no patents in arms.
Even if the design and function were the same, as long as the parameters were correct, it could be sold for money.
Nobody could use you of viting patent rights.
Thinking of this, Tang Rui suddenly had a bold idea.
¡°Red Lotus, show me all the active main American battle equipment.
¡°Okay, master.¡±
Suddenly, numerous pieces of equipment appeared before Tang Rui.
All of the USA¡¯s main equipment, from individual equipment to tanks, nes, cannons, missiles, and Ersatz Kicks, appeared before him.
-Red Lotus, start recording, note down everything I select.¡± Tang Rui raised his hand and began choosing equipment.
M1A2 SEPV2 tanks, M3 Bradleybat vehicles, M109A6 self-propelled guns,
Apache attack helicopters, F-16E/F Super Hos, F-22 Raptors, B1B Lancers,
C-5 Gxy transports¡
As Tang Rui continued to click, he essentially selected the strongest batch of equipment currently in service with the USA.
in addition, he selected arge number of individual weapons like Stingers and Javelins.
Finally, he pointed to the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile.
-Let¡¯s start with these, copy them, make five of eachnd weapon, one of each aircraft, ten missiles each, and a set of Minuteman III with auncher.¡±
¡°Okay, master, Red Lotus understands.
Red Lotus didn¡¯t ask about the blueprints, because there were none, but that didn¡¯t matter.
As long as they had the weapon¡¯s parameters, Red Lotus could manufacture them.
After all, these weapons were considered outdated in Tang Rui¡¯s possession and were very easy to make.
¡°Right, add those equipment to the report and send it to Lin Chao,¡± Tang Rui spoke again.
¡°Okay, master.¡±
After receiving the exhibition product catalog from Red Lotus, Lin Chao was dumbfounded.
Was this Crimson¡¯s exhibition weaponry?
This should be Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Raytheon¡
¡°President Tang, is this exhibition weapon catalog correct?¡± Lin Chao called
Tang Rui to inquire.
¡°No, why can¡¯t these weapons be exhibited?¡± Tang Rui asked back, he didn¡¯t remember any such rule.
¡°They can be exhibited, but are these knockoffs?
¡°Who said they¡¯re knockoffs, I developed them independently, they just look a bit simr.¡±
¡°Then why are the names and performance parameters of the weapons the same?¡±
¡°Pure coincidence.¡±
¡°Forget it, other than that, you need to change the names of the weapons, like the tanks, you can¡¯t write M1A2, you need to change it, it¡¯ll be easier to exin.¡±
¡°Like that? Then change the letters to the next position, the tank will be N1B2.¡±
¡°Alright, I¡¯ll report it.¡±
¡°Okay.¡±
After hanging up, Lin Chao looked at the exhibition weapon list in front of him and felt overwhelmed.
Forget it.
He was just a messenger, whether it gets approved is up to the higher-ups. Lin Chao stopped thinking about it and began to help Tang Rui modify the weapon numbers, then uploaded them through a secure line.
In the following period, nes kept taking off andnding at Crimson¡¯s runway, transporting the exhibition products to the convention center.
At first, it was our own transport nes.
Later, it became C-5 Gxy transport nes.
A C-5 flying randomly in the domestic skies indeed startled many people, even the fighter pilots on air duty were stunned.
But this news wasn¡¯t exactly secret.
Soon, it became known domestically that Crimson had pulled off a stunt, copying all of the American main equipment and bringing them to the Zhuhai Airshow for exhibition.
Upon hearing this news, domestic military enterprises could only say that
Tang Rui knew how to y the game.
Some military enterprises even wanted to buy the production rights for these weapons, but Tang Rui ignored them.
Not that he didn¡¯t want to, but he didn¡¯t have time.
Because Tang Rui was preparing the most shocking weapon for the Zhuhai Airshow.
Copying American equipment was just a small gesture, just for making money¡ªjust to mess around
The thing he was making now was the truly terrifying thing-giant mechs, like the ones in Pacific Rim.
Such arge mech-nobody would take it seriously-they¡¯d think it was some sort of mockup.
After all, with current metal materials, it¡¯s impossible to make such mechs¡ªthe joint issue alone would be insurmountable.
Even with Tang Rui¡¯s current materials science technology, making joints for giant mechs wasn¡¯t up to standard.
It could be used, but it would wear out and be scrapped after a few uses- especially the hip and knee joints that needed to be flexible¡ and turn¡ and bear weight.
What material could withstand hundreds of tons of body constantly moving and jumping? It was simply unsustainable.
Just the wear and tear of the bearings would require a change every day.
To make joints that could support a giant body, Tang Rui had to cheat using the system panel.
Bearings?
Who needed bearings, just use maic force to encircle it.
Two maic field coils wrapped together-with the middle being maic repulsion. There¡¯d be no contact, so no wear either.
The entire mech¡¯s drive would rely on powerful electric motors, powered by a nuclear fusion reactor in the chest.
This mech essentially integrated the peak of his materials science and electromaism.
Tang Rui hadn¡¯t even published many of the theories yet.
As for thebat power of the entire mech, that was a bitcking.
Butbat power wasn¡¯t important, what was important was the appearance ¡ªas long as it looked cool.
This wasn¡¯t meant for fighting.
It was meant for showing off..
Chapter 289 - 289: Mecha Model?
Chapter 289: Mecha Model?
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There were just three days left until the start of the Zhuhai Airshow.
Countless military enthusiasts had already arrived, eagerly awaiting the opening of the exhibition. In fact, even before the start of the event, many people had gathered around the exhibition center, cameras in hand, ready to capture the moment.
After all, during the transportation of the equipment, there were still some things that could be photographed without worrying about any issues with the pictures, as these were items meant to be disyed.
There were no concerns about leaking the designs of the equipment.
As for the internals.
That was impossible to capture in a photo.
¡°This year, what¡¯s with the Americans? Are they going crazy, bringing out all their family treasures?¡±
The military enthusiasts gathered around the exhibition center spoke curiously.
In recent days, they had seen a lot of American hardware, from tanks and armored vehicles to helicopters and fighter jets.
Normally, even if the United States participated in the exhibition, they wouldn¡¯t bring so many weapons.
This was practically their most advanced active service equipment.
Who knows? Last night, someone said they saw the United States¡¯s B-1B Lancer strategic bomber at the airport,¡± another enthusiast joined in.
¡°Really? They¡¯re even selling strategic bombers?¡±
¡°Well, it¡¯s outdated. It should have been sold a long time ago. It¡¯s not a stealth bomber, and its supersonic cruising capability is problematic against fifth-generation jets, let alone sixth-generation ones. Without absolute air supremacy, this kind of old strategic bomber is just a target.¡±
¡°I¡¯m actually more interested in seeing the White Swan. Although they are somewhat simr, I always felt the White Swan looked better.¡±
¡°Nonsense, of course.¡±
Holy¡ What¡¯s that being hauled on the trailer?¡±
¡°Is that a robotic arm? It doesn¡¯t look like a Transformer. Could it be that the Japanese were bringing a Gundam to the exhibition?¡±
¡°No, don¡¯t you think that robotic arm was really well-made? It looked almost real.¡±
¡°Look at the trailer¡¯s leaf springs. When the robotic arm was lifted earlier, the trailer bed rose. How heavy was that?¡±
¡°It was so heavy, could it have been solid steel?¡±
Under the watchful eyes of the group of military enthusiasts, three trailers had unloaded the media¡¯s robotic arms.
A mecha¡¯s arm had to be divided into three parts, namely the upper arm, the forearm, and the hand¡ªotherwise, it wouldn¡¯t fit on the trailer.
After the entire robotic arm was brought into the venue, the group of enthusiasts had heatedly discussed whichpany made this model.
It didn¡¯t matter if it was realistic or not-it was fine as long as it looked cool.
Mecha was the romance of men.
From the various details of the robotic arm, one could tell that thisrge mecha model had been made with great care, so they wanted to inquire and see whichpany made it.
Whether they released action figures or smaller models, as long as it wasn¡¯t too expensive, they would have liked to buy and collect it.
While the military enthusiasts were excitedly discussing, the employees of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Group (CASC) had been scratching their heads in frustration.
It had been too difficult.
They originally didn¡¯t have much to do.
This year¡¯s South Gate project had already beenpleted, and various new weapons, systems, and even new concept equipment had been designed.
However, five days before the start of the airshow, they had received an order from their superiors to add a giant mecha to the South Gate project.
Honestly, they were reluctant at first.
After all, the South Gate project already had the Chengying mecha, so there was no need to redesign another one.
Notwithstanding the fact that a mecha required human pilots, it seemed redundant.
The idea was good.
The reasoning was also sound.
But they still had to do the work and do it fast, without cutting corners.
What a headache.
Around the Zhuhai Airshow, most people had been busy.
Tang Rui, however, had had nothing to do.
He had also arrived in Zhuhai but didn¡¯t stay in the city. Instead, he had been drifting on a yacht in the sea.
On the yacht, Tang Rui and Prince Salim had sat on the top deck, drinking juice and chatting.
The topic of their conversation hadn¡¯t quite matched the current scene.
Because they had been discussing the security of the Middle East.
After a month of discussion, the decision had finally been made.
They could take the order, but it had to be exclusively offered to Crimson.
Yes.
The situation of the Sudan was different from that of the Middle East.
There, they had used the name of Crimson, but it was actually Han Shu and the others going to war, not security guards.
But this time, with the Middle East order, Tang Rui really needed to recruit people, arm them, and really head to the Middle East.
When Tang Rui received this message, he couldn¡¯t believe what he was seeing.
Could such an opportunity really arise?
But after Lin Chao had exined it in detail, he had understood.
Military contractingpanies were legal in the United States, so why not establish a realpany? The other party couldn¡¯t say anything about it.
And this time, it was a genuinemercial act.
If the United States had any objections, they could also be dealt withmercially.
The fundamental factor that had prompted the superiors to make such a decision was still oil, or rather, the pricing and settlement rights of oil.
Oil = USD.
That was the American policy back then and the reason why oil fields were prone to bacterial growth.
In the past twenty years, the international oil-producing regions had been only the United States, Russia, and the Middle East, which had seemed like a three-way split, but in reality, it was the Americans who were dominating. But now it was different.
The rest were also producing oil now.
Logically, the Middle East should have been anxious at this time, even to the point of dealing with them, as this affected their business.
But in reality, they didn¡¯t have that privilege.
The games that big countries yed weren¡¯t that simple.
Like the Middle East, who were rich at home but not good in studies, in the ss, they could only use their pocket money to buy peace.
But now, there was a problem with the family business, and their pocket money had to be reduced. The reason for all this was that the ss monitor¡¯s family had started the same business.
If you were the Middle East, what would you choose?
To join the ss leader or the vice ss leader to deal with the ss monitor?
Stop joking.
The ss leader and the vice ss leader¡¯s families were also in this business.
The three big bosses werepeting for the market and snatching shares.
Who would die in the end?
None of the three big bosses would die.
Those who watched the excitement would.
The Middle East was actually very ufortable, but they could only endure it while trying to find a way to survive.
This method was to hold onto big legs.
Currently, there were three big legs.
How would they choose among the three?
By employing the process of elimination.
They definitely couldn¡¯t choose the poorest at home, and the richest one often bullied them.
Wasn¡¯t the result obvious?
¡°My friend, are you sure you¡¯re not joking?¡± After hearing Tang Rui¡¯s security n, Prince Salim was stunned.
You¡¯re not sending troops, they epted.
You¡¯re not selling the most advanced equipment, they could ept that too.
But selling a mecha model and saying it was for the security of their Middle East, wasn¡¯t that a bit too much?
After hearing this, Tang Ruiughed.
¡°To justify your 200 billion dors, I¡¯ve brought out my trump card, and you¡¯re
still saying I¡¯m overdoing it?¡±
Chapter 290 - 290: The Airshow Begins, Sixth-Generation Fighters’ Opening Performance
Chapter 290: The Airshow Begins, Sixth-Generation Fighters¡¯ Opening Performance
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¡°Are you sure you don¡¯t need it?¡± Tang Rui looked at Prince Salim with a bit of disbelief and asked.
¡°It¡¯s not that we don¡¯t want it, butpared to mecha models, soldiers, and military equipment bring us a greater sense of security,¡± Prince Salim organized his thoughts and said diplomatically.
Alright then.
Hearing Prince Salim¡¯s response, Tang Rui didn¡¯t insist further.
Offering cool stuff for show and you don¡¯t want it?
Fine then.
¡°Okay, how about switching to fifth-generation fighters and missiles?¡± Tang Rui said nonchntly.
If that¡¯s possible, it would be ideal,¡± replied Prince Salim.
¡°Sure, I¡¯ll arrange it for you.¡±
¡°Thank you very much.¡±
With just a few simple words, the matter was settled.
Tang Rui didn¡¯t want to talk more.
Prince Salim seemed to want to chat a bit longer, but noticing Tang Rui¡¯s reluctance to discuss further, he didn¡¯t press on.
That night, Prince Salim left.
Tang Rui, along with Li Shuyao, took a yacht to Sanya to enjoy water activities like wake surfing, parasailing, and water jet riding.
In the blink of an eye, the day of the exhibition arrived.
Tang Rui and Li Shuyao entered the venue through a special passage, heading straight to the VIP seats beside the runway.
The VIP seats, though imed to be special, were essentially just closer to the runway, offering a clearer view of the fighter jets.
At the airshow¡¯s opening ceremony, flight performances were, of course, indispensable.
Last year, the Bayi Aerobatic Team performed the opening act, flying the J-io series fighters.
But this year was different. Tang Rui heard that the Air Force nned to showcase the sixth-generation fighter jets in the opening performance.
He didn¡¯t inquire further.
The Air Force might have the idea, but it didn¡¯t mean it would be approved from above.
After a while, the flight performance team finally made their appearance. ¡°Wow!¡±
As five sixth-generation fighters entered the runway from a distance, a wave of awe swept through the crowd.
The simultaneous interpreter began exining to the VIP section.
¡°Entering the runway now is our country¡¯s independently developed and world¡¯s first sixth-generation fighter jet¡¡±
Tang Rui wasn¡¯t paying attention to the livementary.
He just wanted to know if the opening flight performance would show off some fancy maneuvers.
Sixth-gen fighters weren¡¯t like fourth-gen ones.
Whether at low-altitude, low-speed, or high-altitude, high-speed, sixth-gen fighters could handle it all, especially the ones he designed with variable forward-swept wings.
coupled with powerful thrust-vectoring engines, they could certainly pull off some high-difficulty moves.
Obviously, what he could think of, the air force big shots had also considered. As the five sixth-gen fighters taxied in front of the audience, they suddenly raised their noses and retracted theirnding gears.
¡°Damn!¡±
A voice of disbelief echoed from behind.
The five sixth-gen fighters hovered at a 75-degree angle just two meters above the ground, moving slowly forward-even slower than Mrs. Li next door on her morning walk.
Click, click, click¡
Medm photographers on both sides of the viewing stand went crazy, snapping
A minuteter, as the sixth-gen fighters were about to leave the runway in front of the crowd, they suddenly made a 180-degree turn on the spot and returned the same way at a 75-degree angle.
These were¡ the representatives of various countries in the VIP section, along with executives from aviation corporations, had a range of expressive reactions.
Was this a flight performance?
Yes and no.
To a spectator, it was an exciting flight performance, especially with sixth-gen fighters.
But from another perspective, it was more than just a performance.
The five sixth-gen fighters, with a domineering attitude, circled back and forth in front of the audience and then shot straight up like a rocket.
Quickly reaching an altitude of 500 meters.
The fighters, as if they had lost power, began to float down from the sky. Ultra-low-altitude leaf fall.
To ensure visibility, the fighters floated down from 500 meters, hovering just 2 meters above the ground.
Gulp!
Tang Rui heard many swallowing sounds.
That must have been frightening.
Not everyone had the nerve for this.
After hovering at a 2-meter height for two seconds, the fighters took off again flipping and spiraling into the sky.
Then came a series of super-maneuvers.
Zero-radius hovering, vertical backward flying, continuous loop-the-loops¡ªmaneuvers beyond the capabilities of fourth and fifth-gen fighters.
The sequence of thrilling moves left the audience in awe.
The real spectators were excited, especially the military enthusiasts.
Although it was known that sixth-gen fighters had been deployed, no one had seen their maneuverability in person. Nobody knew how the highly praised sixth-gen fighters truly performed.
Now they were convinced, even feeling that the inte had understated their capabilities.
After watching the flight performance, they were eager to spread the word.
But the expressions of the representatives from various countries were quite peculiar.
¡°Can our sixth-gen fighters be modified to have forward-swept wings¡¯¡± a representative from America asked someone from Boeing.
¡°It can¡¯t be done,¡± the Boeing official replied helplessly.
Everyone had sixth-gen fighters.
But why did yours retain close-quartersbat capabilities? That¡¯s not logical. The standard for sixth-gen fighters was supposed to be their high-altitude, high-speed, and greatbat radius.
Yet, they¡¯d also managed high maneuverability.
How was Crimson supposed topete with that?
Fifteen minutester, after the sixth-gen fighter performance ended.
The Boeing official picked up the phone to call headquarters.
Others left their seats to explore the venue and exhibition hall, nning to returnter for other flight performances.
Tang Rui, with Li Shuyao, walked into the venue.
He ignored the Crimson Corporation¡¯s aircraft disy outside, not interested in America¡¯s nes.
What he didn¡¯t care about.
At that moment, caught massive attention.
A military enthusiast saw the Cavalry and shouted.
¡°Holy shit¡ America brought out the B-1B Cavalry.¡±
The enthusiast, standing dozens of meters away, yelled excitedly upon seeing the Cavalry.
Then, a crowd rushed to the Crimson¡¯s aircraft disy.
¡°To be honest, America¡¯s air force really has no weaknesses. Whether it¡¯s fighter jets, bombers, including transport and early warning aircraft, they¡¯re all impressive.
This C-2C¡ What¡¯s this? It¡¯s wrong, isn¡¯t it supposed to be the B-iB Cavalry?
How did it be C-2C?¡±
At that moment, he wasn¡¯t the only one confused.
The surrounding military enthusiasts were also baffled.
¡°Did America make a mistake? Or is it an upgraded version?¡± someone whispered.
¡°Is there a possibility that this isn¡¯t America¡¯s disy?¡±
¡°Hmm?¡±
Holy f*ck¡. it¡¯s Crimson Corporation!¡±
Chapter 291 - 291: The Lion Wants to Buy a Great Killing Weapon
Chapter 291: The Lion Wants to Buy a Great Killing Weapon
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A group of military enthusiasts were all dumbfounded when they saw the
Crimson logo, their minds buzzing.
¡°Look at this fighter jet.¡±
¡°F*ck¡ the F-22 Raptor.¡±
Look carefully before you speak.¡±
¡°Uh¡ G-33 Big Bird fighter jet?¡±
¡°There¡¯s also a D-6 transport ne.¡±
¡°Are these serious designations?¡±
¡°The numbers don¡¯t matter, I just want to know if these nes can fly, whether they are real fighter jets or just models.¡±
¡°Nonsense, they¡¯re definitely real. If Crimson Corporation can build sixth-generation aircraft, why can¡¯t they make fifth-generation ones?¡± ¡°Then why don¡¯t they disy their own nes? They have vertical takeoff andnding transport nes and sixth-generation aircraft, why aren¡¯t they showing them?¡±
¡°Is there a possibility that it¡¯s not that Crimson doesn¡¯t want to show them, but that they¡¯re not allowed to?¡±
¡°What would America think if they saw this? Would they go crazy?¡±
A group of military enthusiasts gathered around Crimson Corporation¡¯s booth growing more frightened the more they looked. It was as if they had dug up America¡¯s ancestral grave.
At this time, Americans and other exhibitingpanies noticed the situation here.
To be honest, if they hadn¡¯t juste out of their own booth.
They would have mistaken it for somewhere else.
Seeing the nes disyed by Crimson Corporation and their specifications, one couldn¡¯t say there was no difference, only that they were identical.
This¡
Make a call and report back to the country.
Actually, at this time, not only the manufacturers of these nes were making calls, but other equipment manufacturers were doing the same.
Because they too discovered that their weapons and equipment had been copied.
No, not copied, but replicated.
How to deal with this?
The arms business isn¡¯t like any other business, there¡¯s no such thing as appearance patents or technical patents.
As long as you can replicate, you can start manufacturing.
If it were just a copy, it would be one thing.
But why sell it so cheap?
Our equipment, worth 16 million USD, you sell for 8 million USD. That¡¯s deliberate, right?
The phones of the American military-industrialplex were ringing off the hook.
Special departments were asking them if they had lost any blueprints.
Subordinates were asking how to handle the situation.
The financial consortium behind the military-industrialplex couldn¡¯t sit still either.
Let¡¯s figure out a solution.
Tang Rui didn¡¯t know about these, but he had thought about it before, but he didn¡¯t take it seriously at all.
No matter how powerful the military-industrialplex in America was, they couldn¡¯t control him.
As for other methods, that was simply impossible.
So, he just sold them, and it worked quite well.
He had just arrived at hispany¡¯s booth when a team from a certain country came to ask about the price, expressing their intention to buy inrge quantities.
Not camels.
But lions.
This lion was a variant of Iran of yesteryear.
The original Iran was almost evolving into a monarchic socialist country, but
one belief in divinity turned them into lions.
These issues had nothing to do with Tang Rui.
Domestic affairs of other countries, let them handle it as they wish. He only cared about selling weapons, regardless of others¡¯ domestic issues. ¡°Mr. Tang, are you selling this Militia 3?¡± asked a military representative of the Lion, looking at the huge missileuncher with slight excitement.
¡°Selling, but only with conventional warheads, no mushrooms,¡± Tang Rui casually replied.
Once produced, it was definitely for sale.
It wasn¡¯t his own property, so there was no need to worry about confidentiality issues.
But there were no nuclear warheads, only conventional ones.
If needed, he could also sell a few thermobaric bombs to the other party, as
they were also quite powerful.
¡°Do you have a firefighting model?¡± the Lion asked quietly.
¡°???¡± Tang Rui was speechless.
This was American equipment, how could there be any firefighting model?
¡°No, just this one.¡±
¡°Can it be modified?¡±
¡°How would you modify it?¡±
¡°Like, adding mushroom heads?¡±
¡°Buy it and take it home, modify it however you want, don¡¯t ask me.¡±
Tang Rui¡¯s mouth twitched, saying helplessly.
¡°How much?¡±
¡°Theuncher and missile, one set for 4 billion USD.¡±
Hearing this, the people from the Lion¡¯s home turned to discuss quietly in their nativenguage.
But Red Lotus could trante it in real time.
So Tang Rui could fully understand what they were saying.
Goodness.
They were discussing whether their technology could adapt dirty bombs and detonate them normally.
At this moment, Tang Rui really didn¡¯t want to sell anymore.
The money from the sale wasn¡¯t enough topensate for the damage to his reputation.
Dirty bombs, those things were nastier than nuclear bombs. They were not
very powerful, but highly radioactive.
¡°Mr. Tang, does this Militia 3 missile have a mid-course correction separation system?¡±
¡°No, all the parameters are listed there.¡±
¡°Mr. Tang, we want to buy a powerful weapon and hope you can help us. We
can pay any price.¡±
The people from the Lion said earnestly.
That expression, as if saying, hurry up and sell me the Big Ivan, I want to use the Big Ivan for misdeeds.
Even if Tang Rui had it, he couldn¡¯t sell it to them.
¡°Can you tell me what you need the powerful weapon for?¡±
To strike America?
Or attack the two neighbors next door?
Or are they nning something big?
After hearing Tang Rui¡¯s question, a few people turned their heads and muttered a few words, then whispered to Tang Rui, ¡°We want to take out Tifa, and erase the entire Tifa from the 3D area.¡±
Erase Tifa from the 3D area?
Gasp!
That¡¯s quite harsh.
Without Tifa in the 3D area, it would be like the West without¡
¡°I have a powerful weapon that I can rent to you for a few hours, guaranteed to make Tifa scream.¡±
¡°What powerful weapon?¡±
¡°Come with me.¡±
Tang Rm led the people from the Lion to the sci-fi exhibition area.
This was the exhibition area for the South Heavenly Gate Project, featuring
models of the Xuan Bird, Luan Bird, and Cheng Ying mech.
Thergest exhibit there was Tang Rui¡¯s giant mech, Red Karmic Fire Lotus.
After the employees of the CASC worked overtime to set up, write copy, this mech was sessfully added to the South Heavenly Gate Project.
They were considered a neer to this project.
A crowd surrounded the giant mech.
After all, in everyone¡¯s eyes, the craftsmanship of this giant mech model was
too exquisite, made just like the real thing.
¡°Mr. Tang, are you talking about this?¡±
¡°Yes, take a look at its specifications first.¡±
Tang Rui pointed to a huge poster next to it.
On the poster, all the configurations and parameters of the Ye Huo Hong Lian mech were listed.
It was 86 meters high, weighed 1588 tons, used a nuclear fusion reactor as its power source, had a maic energy control propulsion system throughout its body, an electromaic deflection shield, and its weapon was a 40-meter long ultra-high temperature sma electromaic binding longsword and an automaticser defense system.
To be honest.
With these parameters and configurations,pared to other equipment in
the South Heavenly Gate Project, it seemed a bitcking.
After all, the weapon system was too rudimentary, just aser weapon and a sword..
Chapter 292 - 292: Red Karmic Fire Lotus Mecha, Activate!
Chapter 292: Red Karmic Fire Lotus Mecha, Activate!
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¡°Is this for real?¡± the representative from the Iranian group asked incredulously.
¡°How about it, isn¡¯t this a powerful weapon?¡± Tang Rui asked with a smile. Selling the bipedal mech to the Iranians would allow them to modify it themselves.
But renting the mech to them meant they couldn¡¯t even get close without his permission.
¡°How much for it?¡±
¡°Not for sale, only for rent.¡±
¡°How much is the rent?¡±
¡°For nonbat, 10 million USD per day. Forbat, 500 million USD per hour. If it¡¯s less than an hour, it¡¯s still charged as one hour.¡±
Tang Rui casually quoted a staggering price.
¡°Can it be cheaper?¡±
Tang Rui just grinned without saying a word.
Cheaper?
This wasn¡¯t a vegetable market.
If he didn¡¯t know their intention to use it against Tifa, he wouldn¡¯t have rented it to them, let alone haggle.
What were they thinking?
¡°Mr. Tang, we need to discuss this back at our organization.¡±
¡°Of course, that¡¯s your prerogative.¡±
Tang Rui didn¡¯t take it seriously; he wasn¡¯t short on money. His main interest was to test the mech¡¯s performance while earning money.
Without the baptism of war, this thing was just arge model without any deterrent power.
But once it was used against Tifa, the effect would be different.
Even if it was just on disy, it could intimidate many.
The people from the Iranian group left.
Tang Rui stayed behind, amused by the crowd taking photos with the mech. Leaving the sci-fi exhibition area, Tang Rui strolled around the venue. This year¡¯s exhibits from variouspanies were much stronger thanst year¡¯s, with many previously confidential equipment now on disy. But Tang Rui knew these were already outdated.
The military really wanted to upgrade, pending approval from the higher-ups. Especially with this year¡¯s technological breakthroughs, mainly his new materials, problems that couldn¡¯t be solved before were now easily handled. Consequently, the influx of new equipment made the military both happy and troubled.
It was too expensive to upgrade.
There were simply too many good things.
Not to mention, with the emergence of a new era of warfare systems, a massive upgrade might prove inappropriateter.
However, with the arrival of new generation equipment, these old ones could now be showcased for sale.
It was the small profits that mattered.
After spending half a day at the exhibition, Tang Rui returned to his booth where Lin Chao informed him about a protest from the Americans.
Protest? If protests worked, what¡¯s the need for an army?¡±
Tang Rui didn¡¯t take the protest seriously.
¡°By the way, India¡¯s representatives came by, interested in the fifth-generation aircraft.¡±
¡°G-33?¡±
¡°Yes.¡±
¡°They want to buy? Let them. It¡¯s all outdated stuff.¡±
¡°They want to buy a squadron and are asking for a discount.¡±
¡°They¡¯re used to it, stick to the price.¡±
Tang Rui wasn¡¯t expecting much profit from these weapons. His real earnings weren¡¯t from arms trade but from technology licensing, Bohai Bay oil fields, and protection fees from the Middle East.
Compared to these, arms sales were just small change.
In the following days, Tang Rui didn¡¯t visit the air show daily, just asionally to watch the flight and model performances.
Soon, the Zhuhai Airshow concluded.
On thest day, the Iranians paid 1.1 billion USD to sign the mech rental contract with Crimson ¨C 100 million for ten days of rent and 1 billion as a deposit.
If the mech was damaged due to their mishandling, the cost would be deducted from the deposit.
ording to Tang Rui¡¯s n, if the Iranians didn¡¯t use the mech forbat so be it.?????????????????????????????? ¡¯
But if they did, the 1 billion USD would belong to Crimson. As for damages he had the final say.
This was a one-time rental, so he intended to make the most of it.
Money didn¡¯t burn a hole in the pocket.
¡°Mr. Tang, how do we operate this mech? Do we need to send someone for a brain synchronization test?¡±
After signing the contract, the Iranians made an inquiry.
¡°No need. Ship the mech back, and I¡¯ll send you a remote control synchronization system tomorrow.
¡°As for operation, it¡¯s like ying a game. Once you get the equipment, you¡¯ll understand.¡±
Tang Rui wasn¡¯t going to let them into the mech¡¯s cockpit.
But he could send a set of motion capture and brainwave reading devices for remote control.
Alright, Mr. Tang, it¡¯s a pleasure doing business with you.¡±
¡°Pleasure doing business with you.¡±
After the handshake, they left.
The CIA, closely monitoring Tang Rui, got wind of the Iranian transaction, and they were now seeking details.
But it was highly confidential.
The only thing known was that they rented a mech model from Crimson for disy at home.
The CIA didn¡¯t believe it-who¡¯d rent a mech model for disy?
But after seeing the signed documents, they were baffled.
It was indeed a rental for a mech model.
¡°Boss, could this mech be real?¡± someone in the special department spected. ¡°Impossible. Our experts have verified it; it can¡¯t be real. At most, it¡¯s a well-crafted scarecrow.¡±
The special department head dismissed the idea.
He acknowledged Crimson¡¯s capabilities but within limits.
A spaceship from Crimson? Believable, given their expertise.
But an 80-meter tall mech wasughable, especially since American experts had simted its structure and weight and determined that it was a fake.
A real mech¡¯s energy and power were big issues, not to mention load-bearing problems.???????????????????????????????? ¡ã
Even if all these were resolved, it¡¯d just be a giant target for anti-tank missiles.
So, the mech was easily shipped back by the Iranians, and stored in a temporary warehouse.
Meanwhile, countries buying arms from Crimson were under American scrutiny.
Unable to deal with Crimson, they targeted its buyers instead. Why buy knock-offs when you have originals?¡± they thought. Tang Rui, unaware of this, wouldn¡¯t have cared even if he knew. ¡°Red Lotus, distribute these weapon orders by type to domestic manufacturers.
Send them the designs and let them subcontract. Give them half the profits.¡±
Tang Rui wasn¡¯t nning to manufacture these arms himself.
Red Lotus could, but he had better uses for its capabilities. These ¡°junk¡± were better off subcontracted.
¡°Just making half the profits without lifting a finger, isn¡¯t that good enough?¡± The manufacturers weren¡¯t losing either. They had work, profits, and designs- a lucrative deal.
What Tang Rui disdained, they valued.
Thus, everyone profited from the air show.
The show ended, and its impact continued to ferment.
Crimson stood out the most ¨C with its equipment replicas amusingizens
and the stunning mech model eliciting envy.
What man wouldn¡¯t want such a model?
Even Qin Shi Huang couldn¡¯t resist the allure of giant models, let alone ordinary people.
Unfortunately, the mech model was rented to the Iranians and would be away for a while.
Dayster, the ship carrying the mech docked. Without moving it far, a temporary warehouse was built nearby, and the mech was stored there.
the Iranians arranged for personnel to train on the mech, but there wasn¡¯t much to train on.
ording to Shen Hong¡¯s simtion software, controlling the mech was like controlling one¡¯s body.
Though not as agile as a human body, it wasn¡¯t as cumbersome as expected.
One night, as Tang Ruiy on the sofa watching a drama with Li Shuyao, Red Lotus suddenly reported.
¡°Master, the Iranians request to unlock the mech¡¯s remote control system
They want to use it.¡±
¡°Did they pay?¡± Tang Rui asked, turning to Red Lotus¡¯s holographic projection.
¡°Master, they haven¡¯t paid yet,¡± Red Lotus replied.
¡°Tell them to pay. Once the money is received, unlock the remote control system and start timing.
¡°When time¡¯s up, lock their control. Unless they pay more, don¡¯t unlock it.¡±
¡°Understood, Master. I¡¯ll inform the Iranians.¡±
the Iranians transferred 500 million USD, unsure of the mech¡¯s performance and wanting to test it.
Once Red Lotus received the payment, it activated the remote control system and started the countdown.
[Remote Control System Connected]
[Motion Feedback System Activated]
[Sensory Information System Activated]
[Nuclear Fusion Reactor Ignited]
[Red Karmic Fire Lotus Mech Fully Operational]
The mech in the temporary warehouse by the Iranians¡¯s dock, with its ck
body and red glowing lines, suddenly lit up.
These lines, starting from the chest, spread across the body to the eyes. Flicker!
The previously dull eyes suddenly lit up.
The mech¡¯s polygonal eyes glowed with a blood-red light..
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Chapter 293: Charge Straight Ahead
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¡°Ah Mu, how do you feel?¡±
In an Iranian subterraneanmand center, the top brass watched tensely as Ah Mu operated the mech remotely.
d in specialized motion capture and neural sensing gear, and donning a sophisticated helmet, Ah Mu stood on a versatile axis tform that mimicked the mech¡¯s movements.
¡°By the Almighty, I feel absolutely fantastic,¡± Ah Mu eximed. His neural senses, now interfaced with the helmet¡¯s brainwave control device let him experience a simted reality directly from the mech¡¯s sensors. It was as if his consciousness had merged with the mech.
¡°Try moving the mech, see if everything¡¯s functioning properly.¡±
¡°The safety cables aren¡¯t disengaged yet. Quick, inform the dock to unlock them.¡±
Feeling the mech¡¯s body constrained by steel cables, Ah Mu confidently replied, No need, I can break free on my own.¡±
With a mere exertion of force, the steel cables restraining the mech snapped loudly.
Bang, bang, bang¡
At the dock, workers turned in shock at the noise. Their eyes widened as they saw the mech stride forward, preparing to leave the dock, calling out praises to the Almighty.
The mech hade to life; it was moving autonomously.
Crew members on nearby ships, witnessing this spectacle, quickly took out their phones to capture the moment.
Within minutes, videos of the mech¡¯s activation were trending online. Meanwhile, Tang Rui, having just finished a TV show, began monitoring the mech¡¯s activity.
Red Lotus, where is he heading?¡±
Curious, Tang Rui watched the mech march steadily out of the dock.
¡°Master, he hasn¡¯t set a specific route or destination. ording to their dialogue, this seems to be a trial run,¡± Red Lotus analyzed the situation and responded.
¡°Why does the pilot seem so unsophisticated?¡±
Tang Rui watched the pilot¡¯s rigid movements on the holographic screen and shook his head in disbelief.
It seemed as though exerting a bit more effort could damage the mech. Fortunately, the pilot soon adjusted and began executing broader movements finally getting into the rhythm.
¡°That¡¯s better. Just let loose and enjoy.¡±
The mech was designed with durability as a paramount concern. Despite its slender appearance, more delicate than the mechs in ¡®Pacific Rim¡¯, it was actually built to withstand more rough handling.
Back at the Iran¡¯s underground base.
¡°Ah Mu, can you engage inbat with it?¡± Ah Nei, the patriarch of the Iranian family, inquired solemnly.
¡°By the Almighty, Ah Mu is always ready for a holy war,¡± Ah Mu responded fervently.
¡°Go then, warrior of the Almighty. Show your bravery and crush our enemies.¡±
¡°May the Almighty guide us! Activating high-speed assault mode!¡±
With a roar, Ah Mu switched the mech into its high-speed assault mode Using intelligent navigation, he started from his home, charging towards Syria.
Bear in mind:
The two nations were not bordering each other; there were two countries in between.
Yet, Ah Mu, driven by zeal, didn¡¯t contemte the logistics. He engaged the high-speed assault mode and charged headlong.
The mech¡¯s back opened six electric propulsion jets, transitioning its control system to a bnce mode.
Then, in arge stride, the mech surged forward, sprinting across thendscape.
Powered by the rear engines, the mech¡¯s speed escted, each step covering dozens of meters, with the intervals growing increasingly brief.
Tang Rui, watching from home, was astounded.
What was this scenario?
Traversing over 1500 kilometers and crossing two nations just like that?
¡°Red Lotus, isn¡¯t the distance disyed on the map?¡±
¡°It is, Master. The system even provided a special reminder.¡±
¡°This¡¡±
Tang Rui was at a loss for words.
Such fervent belief in one¡¯s cause could be overwhelming.
In conflicts, nations might exchange harsh words or engage in trade wars, but direct military action is rare.
Yet, nations driven by deep-seated beliefs act decisively, without room for negotiation.
To be honest, Tang Rui¡¯s grasp of international history was not extensive but he knew that up until the
197os, during the Shah¡¯s era, the rtions between these two countries were quite amicable.
During the eight-year war with Iran¡¯s neighbor, support in terms of funds and equipment was provided. However, once the war ended, Iran reneged on its alliance.
Why?
Were there any conflicts?
None.
The main reason was Iran¡¯s belief that the other side¡¯s upation of Syria was an affront to their sacred mountain, which they sought to reim.
Such divine logic.
They even publicly dered their intention to level Syria.
But that was a story from over a decade ago.
The two countries weren¡¯t adjacent, so what was the point of war?
And yet¡ A decadeter, Iran rented a mech from Tang Rui and, fueled by fervor, charged straight into action.
The underlying logic was iprehensible to Tang Rui.
At that time, Iran¡¯s neighbors were equally baffled.
Mechs aren¡¯t detectable by radar like nes, but something so enormous running through your territory is hard to miss.
Upon receiving the news, the neighbors called Iran for rification.
Iran¡¯s response was straightforward: they were attacking Syria to reim their sacred mountain.
The neighbors were disgruntled.
Even if Iran intended to attack Syria, a prior notice for passing through would have been courteous.
But there was no warning, just a brash intrusion.
Despite their annoyance, they did not hinder Iran¡¯s crusade against Syria.
Just like that, the colossal mech sprinted toward Syria.
Such amotion couldn¡¯t be concealed, especially since many had already
uploaded photos and videos of the mech¡¯s run online.
Thus, special departments worldwide were alerted.
The head of America¡¯s special department, upon receiving the news, was perplexed as he retrieved a mech assessment report from his drawer.
It read clearly:
Model.
Not meant forbat.
Damn!
The concern now wasn¡¯t about itsbat capability, but how Crimson Company made such a colossal mech move so swiftly.
¡°Keep an eye on that mech. What¡¯s its objective?¡±
¡°Boss, Iran has announced a press conference, dering a holy war to reim
their sacred mountain and eradicate the infidels.¡±
Hearing his subordinate¡¯s report, he felt his head buzzing.
Another major event was unfolding..
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Chapter 294: Bullets in Tactics
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As the mech activated and dashed toward Syria, it drew the world¡¯s attention to this spectacle.
Initially, everyone was a bit confused, unsure of the situation.
But then Iran broadcasted a message through a loudspeaker, making an announcement for all to hear.
That certainly got the world¡¯s attention.
Countries uninvolved in the affair began to rx, grabbing snacks and drinks to watch the drama unfold from thefort of their homes.
However, the countries directly involved were far from rxed, especially America, or, more specifically, its inhabitants that wielded immense wealth and influence.
They controlled many news outlets and media organizations, including Hollywood, behind the scenes.
Back when the Middle East Coalition attacked them, they even managed to get American¡¯s Fifth Fleet pilots to fight on their behalf.
One can imagine the extent of their influence in America; it was truly sky-high. A country only 1.5 times the size of Jing City, yet it upied Syria.
Without American backing over the years, their nation would have long been overrun by the Middle East Coalition¡¯s affluent forces.
Now, knowing that Iran was targeting Syria, they were panicking.
They immediately contacted American highmand for assistance, while also preparing their own defenses.
In just fifty minutes, Congress approved a weapons lease contract at record speed.
They leased over seventy fighter jets, including F-22S and F-
35s, and even B-2 stealth bombers, to the American residents. These jets were sent directly by their pilots.
But this was just the facade. In reality, American pilots were virtually fighting on their behalf, leasing out not just the nes but the pilots too.
The jets took off from American overseas bases, flying to a military airport just outside Damascus City.
There, they armed themselves with weapons and ammunition before taking off again, heading towards the mech over a thousand kilometers away.
At that moment, the running mech suddenly halted.
The next second, its rear electric propulsion engines shut down, and it stood still, the red glow in its eyes fading away.
Simultaneously, Ah Mu, who was controlling the mech, found that no matter how he tried, the mech wouldn¡¯t respond.
Just as he thought there was a malfunction, a projection window appeared before him.
Usage time expired. Would you like to recharge?¡±
Stunned and brought back to reality by the cold prompt, Ah Mu realized the urgency of recharging.
Recharge at 500 million USD per hour?
By the Almighty, whoever devised this should be condemned.
¡°Your Holiness, our time with the mech has expired,¡± Ah Mu reported to the Pope.
¡°Usage time expired¡¡±
Truth be told, Ah Nei was tempted to curse.
They hadn¡¯t engaged the mech inbat, merely controlled its movement.
Was this also timed?
¡°Contact Crimson. Tell them we reject their unreasonable terms. We¡¯ll pay only when inbat.¡±
Immediately, his order was ryed to Crimson.
But within a minute, the messenger returned.
¡°What did Crimson say?¡±
¡°They refuse. They say if we don¡¯t follow the contract, they¡¯ll seize our deposit and terminate the agreement.¡±
¡°Damn bloodsuckers, heretics¡¡±
After a round of cursing, just as Ah Nei was about to arrange the transfer, Ah
Mu reported that the mech¡¯s radar had detected enemy fighter jets.
Hearing this, Ah Nei swallowed his words about the transfer.
He decided to wait and see if the mech could withstand the attack of the fighter jet¡¯s missiles.
After all, they were not in control of the mech at the moment.
Any damage wouldn¡¯t be their responsibility.
Better to y it safe for now.
At this time, all eyes were fixed on the motionless mech, seemingly defenseless.
¡°All fighters,unch two missiles each.¡±
¡°Roger that.¡±
Dozens of F-22 fighter jets simultaneously opened their bays, targeting and firing missiles at the mech.
68 missiles swiftly homed in on the mech.
But as they neared, their trajectories altered, diverted away by an unseen force.
The missiles¡¯ chips, uponser detection of their distance from the target, activated their warheads and detonated.
Boom, boom, boom¡
68 missiles exploded, surrounding the mech in a halo of fire and smoke.
A breeze blew through, the smoke cleared, and the mech stood there unscathed.
Its surface was unmarred, not even a scratch on its paint.
Witnessing this, everyone watching inhaled sharply in disbelief.
Such resilience¡
Even a battleship would have struggled to stay afloat under such an assault, let alone taking damage.
Yet this seemingly frail mech remained undamaged.
¡°How¡¯s the mech?¡± Ah Nei inquired about the mech¡¯s status from the underground base.
¡°No damage whatsoever,¡± Ah Mu responded.
¡°Quick, arrange a transfer of 3.5 billion USD,¡± Ah Nei immediately ordered.
3-5 billran USD would secure 7 hours of mech usage.
With Ah Mu controlling the mech, and over a thousand kilometers still to cover to reach Syria, it would take about six hours.
ording to his calction, the remaining hour would be sufficient toy waste to Syria.
If more time was needed, they would extend the lease, but the mech couldn¡¯t be left idle halfway.
Master, the Iranians have made the payment.¡±
-Alright, then resume their remote control and start the countdown,¡± Tang Rui
instructed upon hearing Red Lotus¡¯s report.
Still thinking about not paying?
What a joke.
This mech wasn¡¯t just any object; it couldn¡¯t be abandoned anywhere. If pushed to the limit, he could directly control the mech to demolish the Iranian base.
With the remote control restored, Ah Mu resumed controlling the mech, charging towards Syria.
As for the American fighter jets, afterunching two rounds of missiles, they became mere observers.
At most, they served as scouts, watching the mech¡¯s movements.
But there wasn¡¯t much to observe.
Its route was clear, and its speed steady.
In 6 hours and 12 minutes, the mech would reach Syria ¨C a factid bare for all to see.
The only question was how to counter this threat.
Master, Lin Chao is requestingmunication. Shall I connect?¡±
¡°Connect him.¡±
Tang Rui epted Lin Chao¡¯s call, expecting some directive, but it was just an inquiry.
He was asked about the mech¡¯s condition and its ability to withstand other weapons.
¡°Don¡¯t worry, it¡¯s all under control.¡±
¡°That¡¯s good. By the way, the chairman of an American news conglomerate
wants to contact you.¡±
¡°Ignore him.¡±
¡°Understood.¡±
After ending the call, Tang Rui continued to enjoy the show.
As for the one wanting to contact him, surely it was someone from the Elder Council of the American residents.
But what did that have to do with him?
They had nothing he wanted.
Money?
Was hecking it?
Their strongest card was their wealth, but for him, that was insignificant.
Rather than making money, he preferred to be entertained, so there was no point in engaging further.
After Tang Rui rejected themunication request, Congress decided to deploy more potent weapons.
Influenced by financial incentives, America dispatched a B-2 stealth bomber
armed with a tactical nuke towards the mech..
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With the tactical neutron bomb deployed, it was essential to understand that although it was a nuclear weapon, it was a third-generation one.
It didn¡¯t significantly damage vehicles but was highly lethal to personnel and left minimal pollution.
Neutron radiation from such a bomb essentially dissipated within fifteen minutes.
The residual radiation was low, making it a rtively ¡¯clean¡¯ nuclear weapon.
As one of the nine nations possessing nuclear capabilities, the Americans had an arsenal that included nuclear weapons.
However, tactical neutron bombs were not in their inventory.
Otherwise, they would have deployed one themselves.
Given their istion, with no friends and only foes in their vicinity, they wouldn¡¯t have hesitated to deploy a tactical neutron bomb against their neighbors, despite the cost.
The American upper echelons weren¡¯t easily satisfied, especially when it came to deploying nuclear weapons.
This endeavor would cost them dearly.
Half an hourter, a round bomb, equipped with a parachute, was released from a B-2 stealth bomber.
Below was the speeding mech. Tang Rui, watching from home, witnessed the
scene.
But he didn¡¯t take any action.
It was just a tactical neutron bomb¡ªa minor concern.
The mech he built might not have withstood a direct hit from a massive Ivan, but it could easily withstand neutron bombs.
Neither electromaic pulses nor neutron radiation affected the mech.
And as for the light, heat, and shockwave from the bomb¡¯s explosion, they were negligible.
Satellites from around the world were watching the mech.
When they saw the tactical neutron bomb, everyone grabbed their popcorn, eager to witness the oue.
It had been years since humanity first deployed nuclear weapons on the battlefield.
Now, it was happening again.
Everyone wondered what the oue would be this time.
Thirty-odd secondster¡
Boom!
The tactical neutron bomb exploded.
A miniature sun rose in the sky, its powerful light and heat illuminating the earth with an intense glow.
The mech below was immediately bombarded with radioactive particles.
However, these charged particles were all deflected by the mech¡¯s strong maic field.
As for the uncharged neutrons¡ after passing through the maic field, the outer armor, and threeyers of buffer devices, were also blocked by ayer of neutron shielding metal.
As the mushroom cloud slowly rose, the view on the ground waspletely obscured, and everyone awaited the oue.
However, as the light faded, before the mushroom cloud had even dissipated, a massive mech burst out from beneath it.
The ck mech with red trim lines, emitting steam from the high temperature, continued running towards Syria.
At that moment, countless onlookers dropped their popcorn in shock.
So much for the highly-touted neutron bomb, purportedly capable of killing an entire city in an instant.
It had barely any effect on the mech, which at most experienced a rise in surface temperature and emitted some smoke.
But that smoke was merely condensation clouds formed by hot air meeting cold.
It wasn¡¯t a sign of the mech burning.
Thus, the tactical neutron bomb had been a lonely disy.
Not entirely useless, it confirmed that neutron bombs indeed had limited destructive capability against vehicles.
Simultaneously, a new problem presented itself to everyone.
How could the mech be neutralized?
Missiles were ineffective and tactical neutron bombs were useless.
Was closebat the only option?
How would one engage in closebat with a mech eighty-plus meters tall and weighing over a thousand tons?
With elite soldiers?
That would be like using a throwing star against a giant.
Nations were still pondering how to restrict or destroy the mech when the American Congress fell into silence.
They were out of options¡ªtheir trump card was now just ordinary first-generation mushroom bombs; they didn¡¯t even have tactical nukes.
In the past, even as they faced global hostility, the Middle Eastern Coalition¡¯s repeated attacks were easily repelled with American support.
But now, even the Americans had no solution.
The mech was clearly impervious unless struck by a high-yield nuclear weapon.
Yet no one dared use such weapons.
Tactical neutron bombs were one thing, as their radiation dissipated quickly and were easy to manage.
But deploying mushroom bombs on foreign soil was a different story.
That would be courting disaster.
At least the Middle Eastern Coalition would not approve. Despite theirckluster military prowess, they had once purchased rockets.
If the use of mushroom bombs were permitted, it would inevitably lead to a catastrophe.
So, even if America was offered a lot of money, they wouldn¡¯t agree. After all, the enemy only had one mech, with limited destructive power. They could simply rebuild after the war.
But using a nuclear bomb was out of the question.
It wasn¡¯t just America, but other major nations also issued warnings-war was war, but don¡¯t y with fire.
Conventional warfare was one thing, but to use a tactical neutron bomb was already stretching tolerance. Any further and they would be forced to intervene.
Thest one who dared so boldly was now almost in high school.
¡°Master, Lin Chao has sent amunication request..¡±
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¡°Put him through.¡±
¡°President Tang, an elder of the Hoopoe Presbyterian Church wants to talk to
you. They went through a lot of trouble for this.¡±
¡°Just a call, no other demands?¡±
¡°None. This matter doesn¡¯t involve us, you can handle it however you like.¡±
¡°Understood.¡±
Tang Rui nodded, getting the hint from his superiors.
He was just a weapon leaser. What others did with the weapons had nothing to do with him.
Soon after, themunication with that elder was connected.
¡°Respected Mr. Tang, hello, I am Apu from the Hoopoe Elder Council. I apologize for disturbing your rest.
The other party¡¯s attitude was very humble and respectful.
But Tang Rui just smirked.
He didn¡¯t take it seriously.
Who the other party was, the whole world knew.
The reason Sandezi targeted them wasn¡¯t just because they were wealthy, but how they got their money.
¡ö¡öIt¡¯s fine, you¡¯re not bothering me. What can I do for you, Elder Apu?¡±
Tang Rui didn¡¯t want to beat around the bush and asked directly.
¡°It¡¯s like this. We kindly request Mr. Tang to help us with a matter, and we are willing to pay any price.¡±
¡°What do you need?¡± Tang Rui asked knowingly.
¡°Please stop that mech, we can bear any cost.
¡°Sorry, although I own the mech, I¡¯ve already leased it out. How others use it is not my concern, it¡¯s their right. So, I¡¯m afraid I can¡¯t help you.¡±
Tang Rui outright refused.
¡°Mr Tang, having one more friend is always better than one more enemy, especially when we are willing to pay a higher price. Just name it, we won¡¯t
bargain.¡±
¡°No, it¡¯s not about the money, it¡¯s about credibility,¡± Tang Rui shookhis head in refusal.
If it were someone else, he might have agreed.
After all, he could make a lot of money from this.
But the problem was, he just wanted to watch the fun.
Money wasn¡¯t a big deal for him anymore. There was nothing he couldn¡¯t afford. If he couldn¡¯t afford it, he¡¯d find another way.
it was an approach he¡¯d learned from the USA.
-Mr Tang Rui, we are willing to take responsibility for this incident. We¡¯ll conduct positive publicity for you and yourpany in global media, we even¡¡±
-Okay, you don¡¯t need to say more, there¡¯s no discussion on this matter.¡±
Tang Rui, tired of listening to their nonsense, cut them off.
¡°Mr. Tang, are you choosing to be our enemy?
¡°So what if I am?¡± Tang Ruiughed.
Trying to coerce after failing to persuade?
Interesting.
¡°Mr. Tang, do you realize our¡¡±
¡°I know, I understand your situation, but what can you do to me? Don¡¯t talk about your god, how many disciples does it have, what kind of weapons and equipment?
¡°Actually, I wish your god really existed. That would excite me.
¡°Then I¡¯d build a floating city, fish it out of its divine realm, and hang it on a
streetmp. That would be quite a sight.¡±
It was just trash talk.
Anyone could do it.
To anger someone, especially a religious fanatic, you didn¡¯t need to rackyour brains. Just spheme their god.
That was sure to break their defense.
¡°¡% (¡*¡ £¤%%£¤%£¤%**(*? ) ) ¡±
As expected, the other party lost theirposure.
Tang Rui hung up the phone.
¡°Red Lotus, switch to full power mode for them, make their actions faster. I can¡¯t wait any longer,¡± Tang Rui instructed Red Lotus after he hung up the call. The capabilities of this mech weren¡¯t just what had been revealed so far. In fact, its disyed abilities were only a small part.
But Elder Apu¡¯s call made Tang Rui a bit anxious, wanting to see the drama unfold quickly.
So, he decided to do the Iranians a favor, letting them experience what it¡¯s like to face the armed forces of the interster era.
¡°Okay, Master, Red Lotus will arrange it.
Following Tang Rui¡¯s order, Ah Mu, controlling the mech, suddenly received a system prompt.
¡°Activate high-energy propulsion mode?¡±
¡°What is high-energy propulsion mode?¡±
¡°Flight.¡±
¡°Activate.¡±
Ah Mu got excited hearing the word ¡¯flight.
He had rushed over like a headless chicken before, forgetting the distance.
He had been running for over an hour now.
It would take another five hours to reach Tifa.
That was frustrating for him.
NOW that the system indicated the mech could fly, what more was there to say? Simply activate it.
¡°High-energy propulsion mode activated, auto-pilot program initiated. Switch to remote control upon reaching destination.¡±
After the mech system finished speaking, Ah Mu lost control of the mech, which then stopped.
The next second, a pair of metal wings unfolded from the back of the mech- not the kind of wings found on birds, but wings made of metal tes.
Then, on the mech¡¯s calves, arms, and feet, external panels opened, revealing the electric thrusters inside.
The nuclear fusion reactor¡¯s power surged to 67%.
instantly, twelve 100-kilonewton electric thrusters erupted with a powerful thrust, propelling the mech into the sky.
Supported by electromaic anti-gravity, the mech¡¯s weight dropped to less than 20 tons.
This mass was nothing for the twelve electric thrusters..
Chapter 297 - 297: A Single Swing of the Blade, and All Things
Chapter 297: A Single Swing of the de, and All Things
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This didn¡¯t weigh that much.
Even if the mech didn¡¯t conform to aerodynamic design.
But with enough thrust, even a brick could fly, let alone a mech with a pair of stylish little wings.
As the mech took off, the global onlookers trembled with excitement, dropping their snacks in astonishment.
The mech itself was already a marvel.
Now it could even fly in the sky.
This was just unbelievable.
Relying on its powerful thrusters, the mech entered supersonic cruise.
This speed was incredibly fast, but it was also a huge drain on fuel.
Nuclear fusion didn¡¯t just happen out of thin air; it needed fuel too.
The fuel rods inside the mech used deuterium and tritium.
Under normal use, like running around the Earth, the fuel would have been more than sufficient.
But now, with the electric propulsion engine activated, the consumption spiked to 1200 megawatts.
Even for a nuclear fusion reactor, this was a significant drain.
If it hadn¡¯t been for that phone call, he wouldn¡¯t have activated this mode.
Because in his design, this mode was meant for space, not within the atmosphere.
Half an hourter, the mechnded, deactivating its flight mode.
It then activated its remote control program, allowing Ah Mu to continue piloting it. Now, it was time to enjoy the show.
¡°God above, heretics shall perish.¡±
After resting for half an hour, Ah Mu was reinvigorated.
Taking control of the mech again, he charged forward.
Even facing the enemy¡¯s stronghold,
he showed no intention of dodging.
Swish!
A 40-meter-long electromaic constrained high-temperature sma de was drawn, emitting a blue-white glow as soon as it left the scabbard.
The de, just 5 millimeters in diameter, was a maic field, but the temperature of the high-temperature sma inside exceeded 80 million degrees Celsius.
Combined with a de made of ultra-strong alloy, a single strike could slice even an aircraft carrier in two.
¡°Fire!¡±
Outside Jerusalem City, Israel had amassed all tanks and artillery for a saturation attack on the mech.
Buildings and high points nearby were also filled with enemy soldiers.
Armed with anti-material sniper rifles or man-portable anti-tank rockets, the moment the mech appeared before them, thousands of artillery pieces fired.
Hundreds of anti- tank rockets wereunched.
This barrage formed a deadly curtain, engulfing the mech, leaving no room to evade.
Of course, Ah Mu had no intention of evading.
In simtions, such a level of firepower was trivial.
Electromaic deflection shield at full power!
Boom boom boom¡
A series of booming sounds echoed.
Yet, neither the shells nor the rockets hit their mark.
The explosions were triggered byser guidance and fuses, so to the soldiers below, it seemed like the mech was withstanding their concerted attack, rapidly advancing towards them.
One sh!
The blue-white light of the de shed.
The buildings and tanks blocking the mech¡¯s path were cleaved in two.
The 40-meter-long de sliced through the buildings as easily as a hot knife through butter.
Even theposite armor of the tanks couldn¡¯t withstand this strike.
Thud!
The mech stepped on a tank, ttening it.
Lifting its other leg, it kicked the severed building.
Boom!
The falling building was blown apart by the mech¡¯s kick.
The debris of steel and concrete rained down like shells, destroying countless pieces of equipment on the ground.
Ah Mu, controlling the mech, quickly crossed the battlefield.
He charged directly into the city.
His target wasn¡¯t the military factory, enemymand center, or military facilities like power nts, airports, and radar stations.
Upon entering Jerusalem, Ah Mu located a church and cleaved it with one swift strike..
Chapter 298 - 298: Mad, Everyone Has Gone Mad
Chapter 298: Mad, Everyone Has Gone Mad
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As the de came down, Ah Mu feltpletely exhrated, as if his soul had ascended.
However, the mech¡¯s sword was so sharp that it only sliced the church in half without copsing it.
This wouldn¡¯t do.
He swung the sword again, sending several streaks of light shing through.
The church below was reduced to ruins.
Yet even this didn¡¯t satisfy him; he continued to control the mech, stomping on the remains of the church.
Tang Rui, who was watching at home, couldn¡¯t wrap his head around the situation. What was going on?
Rushing into Jerusalem, you would think the obvious target would be the Knesset¡ªto decapitate the leadership or destroy the enemy¡¯s nerve center, leaving them brainless.
But instead, Ah Mu headed straight for the church.
He sliced the church into more than a dozen pieces and continued to thrash the remains, as if wanting to grind everyst piece to dust.
This approach was hard toprehend.
Ah Mu¡¯s actions left Tang Rui dumbfounded, but Ah Ne in the Lion¡¯s underground base was thrilled.
¡°Great job, that¡¯s how it¡¯s done!¡±
Ah Ne was dancing and shouting, his face flushed with excitement.
It wasn¡¯t just the Iranians-when the other families learned of this, they too began celebrating, more lively than a festival.
Several princes, in their excitement, even smashed their sports cars.
They were so overwhelmed.
Had they been able to park private jets at home, they might have smashed those too.
In contrast to the neighbors¡¯ excitement, the situation at the Israel Knesset was as if they had lost a beloved parent.
No, not even that.
They wouldn¡¯t have reacted this way even to a parent¡¯s death.
¡ö¡¯Inform the artillery, bomb the temple on the top of the holy mountain. tten
it, leave no debris.¡±
¡°But Elder, that ce can¡¯t be bombed¡¡±
¡°Silence, bomb it, bomb everything!¡±
¡ö¡öExecute the order, if we can¡¯t have it, they can¡¯t either. Blow it up.¡±
¡°Understood.¡±
The troops below received the order and immediately adjusted their artillery, unleashing a saturation attack on the Golden Cauldron XX Temple atop the holy mountain.
With the barrage, the temple, built over 700 years ago, was finally destroyed under the artillery fire.
Back in the 1950s, Israel had wanted to demolish this temple but held back considering international rtions.
Years ago, they wanted to build a third holy ce but had no room on the holy mountain.
They still contemted demolishing this temple.
However, upon learning this, the Middle Easterns immediately organized a coalition to fight Israel, an intensity even America couldn¡¯t stop.
Eventually, America had no choice but to restrain Israel from causing further trouble.
Just like that,
Israel¡¯s desire to demolish Golden Cauldron XX Temple had never materialized.
In fact, that temple standing there was an eyesore for Israel.
Just like how Ah Mu felt about the Cathedral X.
Now, since their opponents had struck home, they had no more reservations.
You demolish my holy ce, I¡¯ll demolish yours.
Nobody would get off easy.
Those who didn¡¯t understand the situation wondered why Israel was suddenly lobbing shells at itself, in a crazy whitewashing spree.
But those in the know, however, understood that something big was about to happen.
The destruction of the Dome of Rock couldn¡¯t be contained.
The Middle Easterners, who were reveling at home, were stunned upon
hearing this news.
Was that their holy ce?
Destroyed by Israel?
Damn it!
¡°Rally, follow me into battle, let¡¯s annihte them.
Upon receiving this news, eighteen neighboring countries started mobilizing their forces.
The three closest to Israel, Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan went crazy, ordering their frontline troops to move out.
¡°Destroy them!¡±
Forget international treaties, just annihte them.
¡°The holy ce is gone? Ah Mu, go demolish their first and second holy ces, tear down that wall, scatter their ashes.
¡°Understood.¡±
Ah Mu, frenzied, charged towards the holy mountain, raising his sword and shing at the second holy ce.
The news left the Israeli Knesset in utter despair, like they were holding a family funeral.
¡°Launch the nukes, take them down with us.¡±
¡°No, we can¡¯t use nukes.¡±
There was no consensus within the Knesset about using nuclear weapons, as they knew that once these wereunched, there would be no turning back.
While they debated over nuclear weapons, the Middle Easterns didn¡¯t hesitate. Although they had nukes, theunch authority wasn¡¯t in their hands. But besides those, they had other missiles, not just those sold by the Americans.
Even the fire-fighting rockets Crimson sold them could reach Jerusalem.
Before, they had hesitations.
Now, everyone had gone mad, with no more reservations.
Missiles rained down on Jerusalem like they were free, the targets random, just firing into the fray.
Fighter jets took off, dropping bombs.
It wasn¡¯t just the Middle Easterners-other wealthy families who had previously grouped together to buy equipment from our country also made the same decision.
Missilesunched like there was no tomorrow and fighter jets took to the skies. The American carrier fleet, docked at the coast, received the data link from the early warning aircraft.
On the radar screen, a sky full of missiles crazily headed for Jerusalem. Fighter jets from various countries, without formal notice, flew into other nations¡¯ airspace, guided by ground control towards Jerusalem.
At that moment, the entire Middle Eastern world united like never before.
¡°Oh my God!¡±
Themander of the Fifth Fleet, looking at the chaos in Jerusalem, reluctantly sent the news back home.
As for the Israeli Knesset¡¯s request for support, they pretended not to hear. They had promised to deploy fighter jets against the mechs and had done so, evenunching a tactical neutron bomb.
But as for the oue, that wasn¡¯t their concern.
They were just paid to do a job.
Supporting Israel now would mean contending with the entire Middle Eastern world, and the previous payment didn¡¯t include help in warfare.
Even if they were to get involved, it couldn¡¯t be at this moment. Notwithstanding the usual ipetence of the Middle Eastern forces, who couldn¡¯t even defeat the Slipper Army in the past, with tanks being captured by infantry, they were also afraid to die, unwilling to fight.
But now the situation was different.
Even the Middle Eastern¡¯s tank units were roaring towards Jerusalem.
A fearless force, with money spent on top-tier equipment, theirbat power was unimaginable.
With the Middle Easterners on full throttle, they¡¯d still charge through, even if America tried to stop them.
Their crazed demeanor reminded themander of the days when the Sovietmissars charged with kitchen knives..
Chapter 299 - 299: Ran Amok, Laid Low, Made Money (Part 1)
Chapter 299: Ran Amok, Laid Low, Made Money (Part 1)
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Tang Rui looked at the holographic projection screen in front of him, disying a frenzied battlefield. He had no idea how things had suddenlye to this point.
To be honest, he never expected the war to erupt so suddenly. In his n, Ah Mu would pilot a mech, wreaking havoc in Jerusalem, demolishing buildings and eliminating the armed forces of Israelis.
There would only be two possible oues.
One was that the Iranians game card would run out, and then he would use the excuse of the mech needing maintenance to control it and return home.
The other oue, also after the game card ran out, would be the mech¡¯s retreat, Israel¡¯s two neighbors would see an opportunity and send troops to attack.
But with the support of the Americans, Israel would still manage to survive, albeit with significant losses.
Normally, the course of the war should have been like this.
But who could have imagined that the current war situation had be uncontroble? Not only had Israelis gone mad, but even its neighbors had lost their senses, all rushing headlong into battle.
Even the old soldiers of the Middle East family dared to charge into the gunfire at this time.
Can you believe it?
To Tang Rui, it all seemed quite fantastical.
¡°Master, Lin Chao has sent amunication request. Do you want to connect?¡±
¡°Connect.¡±
Upon seeing Lin Chao¡¯s call, Tang Rui knew that there must be some instructions from above.
¡°What¡¯s up, Brother Lin?¡± Tang Rui asked directly.
¡°Pull the mech back,¡± Lin Chao immediately replied.
¡°That¡¯s it? Just pull it back?¡±
¡°Yes, the situation over there is out of our control, and the Americans are urgently convening a United Nations meeting to discuss the issue.¡±
¡°Alright, I got it.¡±
After hanging up themunication, Tang Rui adjusted the holographic projection¡¯s image.
Then he saw Ah Mu piloting the mech, wreaking havoc on the Holy Mountain, especially against the relics of the First and Second Holy Temples,pletely obliterating them.
Seeing this scene, Tang Rui¡¯s mouth twitched.
A fine war mech.
In their hands, it had be a demolition robot.
¡°Red Lotus, take over control of the mech. You mean¡¡±
¡°Yes, Master.¡±
Elsewhere.
As Ah Mu, busy destroying the Second Holy Temple¡¯s relics, raised the long sword in his hand to sh at the buried stone blocks, aiming to destroy the foundation.
But just then, the de of the long sword in the mech¡¯s hand, its sma light suddenly extinguished.
An rm sounded on the mech.
Then its control privileges were stripped away.
[Due to improper operation and use, the mech¡¯s sma de maic confinement device is damaged, and the internal drive motor needs urgent repair]
Looking at the red system prompt in front of him, Ah Mu was bewildered.
It was fine just a moment ago.
Why did it suddenly break down?
And his operating privileges were also stripped away.
¡°I can¡¯t control the mech anymore,¡± said Ah Mu.
¡°Huh? What¡¯s the reason?¡± Ah Nei anxiously asked.
¡°The system says the mech is damaged and needs repair,¡± Ah Mu replied, omitting his own operational issues.
¡°It can¡¯t be. We¡¯ve already paid. Contact Crimson right away and have them return the mech.¡±
Unfortunately, that was just their wishful thinking.
The mech wasn¡¯t going to be returned.
On the battlefield, the mech retracted its sword and, under Red Lotus¡¯s control, slowly headed towards the sea.
There was no ce to set foot onnd.
The entire area around Tifa was a battlefield.
So, the mech had no choice but to retreat from the seabed.
As for flying?
That was unnecessary.
Neither Israel nor the Middle East paid any attention to the mech¡¯s retreat.
Their only concern was each other.
At that moment, their sole belief was to annihte the heretics in front of them andpletely destroy the opposition.
The Israelis really wanted to keep the mech.
But unfortunately, theycked the capability and means to do so.
And at the moment, they alsocked the energy to worry about the mech.
Hundreds of missiles had rained down on them.
Even with their anti-air systems at full capacity and the Iron Domeser system overloaded, they couldn¡¯t intercept them all.
They could only prioritize intercepting the more powerful missiles.
As for the rest, they were helpless.
For a time, the entire Jerusalem was aze, buildings were destroyed, and numerous military facilities were devastated.
Faced with such a situation, Israelis opened up its arsenal.
In such an emergency, a nation with universal conscription could muster over 6 million troops, a true embodiment of a nation in arms.
But even so, the situation at the front was not optimistic.
They couldn¡¯t even push the enemy out of their territory, as enemy reinforcements were continuously arriving.
The main enemy force was expected to arrive in 4 hours, and that would be the most difficult time.
But even so, they had no thoughts of surrendering, or rather, even if they wanted to, the enemy wouldn¡¯t agree.
Both sides werepletely crazed.
On a battlefield stretching over a hundred kilometers, Israel, with its geographical and weapon advantages, had to face enemy charges every moment, like facing a torrential downpour of death.
The moment their firepower weakened slightly.
The enemy would reach their positions.
The intensity of this war was on par with the Battle of Verdun, a pure meat grinder..
Chapter 300 - 300: Ran Amok, Laid Low, Made Money (Part 2)
Chapter 300: Ran Amok, Laid Low, Made Money (Part 2)
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Tang Rui watched the battlefield footage, which was so bloody it needed to be blurred.
There was no other way.
It was too gory.
At that moment, his phone rang.
Looking down, he saw it was a call from Prince Salim.
¡°My friend, we need your support.¡±
¡°What kind of support?¡±
¡°Meehs, the huge mechs. I¡¯ll transfer 200 billion US dors immediately, I want to ughter those heretics.¡±
Prince Salim was also agitated, wanting to pilot a mech into battle.
¡®Tm sorry, the mech was damaged by a lion and is currently out of service for rental. It needs to be repaired.¡±
Tang Rui spoke with a tone of helplessness, actually wanting to rent it out, but considering the current situation, he decided against it.
¡°That¡¯s a shame, but if mechs aren¡¯t avable, what about other weapons and equipment?¡± Prince Salim continued to inquire.
¡°What kind of weapons?¡±
¡°Tanks,bat vehicles, missiles, rockets, cruise missiles, any ready-made weapons, I¡¯ll take them all.¡±
¡°That¡¯s no problem at all, just send me the list, and I¡¯ll arrange the shipment immediately.¡±
¡°Okay, I¡¯ll send the list right away.¡±
After hanging up, Tang Rui received Prince Salim¡¯s military procurement list. It was extensive.
Rather thaning to buy arms, it was more like they were seeking support and offering benefits.
After reviewing the list, Tang Rui forwarded it to Lin Chao, instructing them to send it to the higher-ups.
Why didn¡¯t the Middle East directly purchase from the military?
Because the military hadn¡¯t epted the Middle Eastern security contract, but Crimson had, so there was a difference.
In terms of giving gifts and paying protection fees, the Middle Easterners were professionals.
Globally, only Japan and the Koreans could match the Middle East in this regard; others couldn¡¯t.
Like India, even giving money wasn¡¯t clear.
Upon receiving the equipment list, Lin Chao immediately reported it to the military and then directly pulled the goods from the inventory, preparing them for air transport.
Such arge batch of arms wasn¡¯t something other sellers could easily provide, even America and Russia couldn¡¯t do it.
The armspanies in America didn¡¯t have enough inventory and needed production, although they were fast, they couldn¡¯t provide them immediately. Unless they directly took goods from the America military, but that would mean interfering with the interests of the military-industrialplex.
The Russians also couldn¡¯t do it; they had plenty of stock, but it was mostly old junk, poorly maintained weapons, with few advanced equipment.
So, in terms of arms reserves, China wasn¡¯t boasting.
Even with the arms factories being targeted, their stored weapons were enough to fight a war of total mobilization.
Thanks to therge transport aircraft that Tang Rui had previously researched for the military, Chinese global delivery capability had improved by several levels, so the weapons the Middle East needed were shipped to them within a few hours.
Tang Rui didn¡¯t have to do anything and made a huge profit.
Because the order was ced by Crimson, and then sold to the Middle East under their name.
This one transaction brought in a lot of money.
Of course, he wasn¡¯t that greedy.
He only took a 20%mission, earning a mere 180 billion US dors.
After all, he wanted domestic counterparts to benefit as well, not just eating meat by himself while others only got soup, which would be somewhat embarrassing.
Tang Rui earned a fortune.
The U.S military-industrialplex was simr.
Israel had money, so the military-industrialplex supported them fully.
But it was of little use.
Relying solely on Israel and the military-industrialplex, they still couldn¡¯t control the Congress.
At least the think tanks absolutely disagreed with participating in this meaningless war.
In normal times, they could mediate a bit.
But now both sides were fighting madly.
Who would mediate with whom?
No one bothered.
Of course, the Congress wouldn¡¯t agree to send troops, but they allowed Israel to trade with benefits.
For instance, America¡¯s troops, with their equipment, retired en masse and then signed contracts with mercenarypanies, heading straight to the battlefield.
Or the military using all its transport capacity to take weapons and equipment from the arsenal and deliver them to Israel.
America pretended to be oblivious to this.
After all, everyone was well-fed.
So they turned a blind eye and pretended not to see.
Just like that.
Both good Samaritans tacitly didn¡¯t interfere, just making small money.
With both sides supported with arms and their reserves ready,
A major battle erupted.
Though the frontline battles never stopped, it wasn¡¯t a major decisive battle.
Now it was different.
The eighteen-nation coalition had almost all arrived at the frontline, and a real major battle was about to begin.
Neither side announced it.
They just started fighting.
On the Middle Eastern side, the principle was always the same.
Bombs.
After all, it wasn¡¯t their territory or their cities, and all targets were the enemy.
No hesitation, just bomb.
On the coalition side, countless missiles, rockets, and cruise missiles wereunched, covering the entire Jerusalem.
It was like a final exam. Which parts were important?
The whole book was.
At the moment, the militarymander asked the coalition leadership where to bomb.
The answer was, the whole Jerusalem.
Israel¡¯s side was no joke either. Several destroyers from America¡¯s Fifth Fleet alsounched missiles.
Hundreds of missiles flew towards thend.
After the missileunch, America announced the arrest of two naval ship captains..
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Chapter 301: Ran Amok, Laid Low, Made Money (Part 3)
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Anyway, both parties had made enough money and decided to retire and return home.
At the same time, Israel¡¯s forces in other locations also took action,unching missiles at the coalition forces.
The cost of the missiles alone in this exchange amounted to several billion dors.
So, the effect was indeed spectacr.
Tang Rui watched the radar imaging filled with countless red dots and felt like he was ying a video game.
Real warfare couldn¡¯t produce this effect, not even if it was between two good Samaritans
Because carpet bombing like this was the least efficient.
It had long been abandoned.
But one thing had to be admitted.
Such bombings were visually spectacr.
On both sides¡¯ radars, countless missile blips were detected.
Both sides¡¯ anti-missile systems were also activated, beginning to intercept high-powered missiles.
Once the anti-missile system¡¯s missiles wereunched, hundreds more blips appeared on the radar.
When the missiles from both sides were about to reach their targets,
The ground¡¯s close defense systems kicked in.
Beeping incessantly¡
Dense array weapons fired bullets like crazy, intercepting the missiles in the sky, thest line of defense.
Secondster.
Booms resounded¡
Whether it was Jerusalem or the external coalition forces, all were subject to the missile barrage.
But if we talk about losses, Jerusalem certainly bore the brunt.
Under this wave of missile saturation strikes, the buildings that the mechs hadn¡¯t finished demolishing earlier were almostpletely destroyed.
No longer were there any buildings over five stories left on the ground.
Even the remaining five-story buildings were in a semi-copsed state, ready to copse at any moment.
In other words, this wave of attacks had essentially ttened Jerusalem.
However, the Allies also suffered significant losses.
The loss of personnel was not significant.
But the loss of equipment was considerable.
After all, America¡¯s missiles targeted weapons and equipment, so the equipment losses were severe.
But did the loss of equipment matter?
Not really.
Just inventory the remaining usable equipment, reload ammunition, and keep bombing until everything is leveled.
Meanwhile, tank and armored vehicle units charged.
Whizz¡
A series of anti-tank missiles wereunched.
The well-prepared Israel soldiers had been hiding and not acting until this moment.
Roar¡
The tanks at the forefront were mostly destroyed.
Normally, the Middle Eastern¡¯s tank units would have fled long ago.
But now, not only did the tank units not stop, they elerated their charge, turning their cannons towards the enemy¡¯s ambush positions, unleashing a barrage.
¡°The Middle Easterners have really toughened up this time,¡± Tang Rui said somewhat sentimentally upon seeing this.
No wonder countries with faith in divine ascension are so hard to conquer; such beliefs were terrifying, almost as firm as ideological indoctrination.
This time, Israel lost fairly.
If the Middle Easterners had shown this reckless spirit in previous wars, they would have recaptured their holynd long ago.
But now, it was toote.
Israel was overwhelmed on the frontal battlefield, but the ensuing urban warfare stalled the coalition forces.
Command confusion.
Unfamiliar terrain.
The coalition¡¯s momentum was hindered, also giving Israel a chance to catch its breath and then engage the coalition in urban meat grinder battles.
There wasn¡¯t much to see in this scene.
Tang Rui adjusted the projection screen¡¯s angle and saw Israel¡¯s hidden mushroom bombs.
But he didn¡¯t take these mushroom bombs seriously.
¡°Red Lotus, calcte for me, based on the recent missile attack, what kind of defense is needed with space-based defense as the primary interception method to ensure absolute safety?¡±
Tang Rui didn¡¯t care about the battlefield situation; the final oue was almost certain, just Israel¡¯s death throes.
There was nothing interesting to see.
But the recent missile saturation attack made Tang Rui see the problem with the current anti-missile system.
There were simply too many.
Thousands of missilesing down, impossible to intercept.
¡°Master, based on the defensive capability ofser-armed satellites, to intercept 100% of the previous missile attack, at least five satellites are required in the same region,¡±
Red Lotus immediately calcted the result and reported to Tang Rui.
¡°What if space takes on 80% of the interception, leaving 20% to the ground-based anti-missile systems?¡±
Tang Rui asked again after hearing the response.
Fiveser-armed satellites were too many.
In the same region, deploying so many armed satellites would be too costly.
¡°Master, an 80% interception rate requires only threeser-armed satellites.¡±
¡°Alright, I understand.¡±
After hearing this, Tang Rui began to ponder the issues with the territorial orbital defense system..
Chapter 302 - 302: Armed Satellite’s Dimensional Reduction
Chapter 302: Armed Satellite¡¯s Dimensional Reduction
Strike, End of the War
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The following day, Tang Rui woke up close to ten in the morning.
He had stayed upte the previous night, enjoying some leisure time.
¡°Red Lotus, can you disy Jerusalem¡¯s current situation in a gamified format?¡± he requested while having breakfast.
The reason for choosing a gamified disy was simple; he wanted to eat without disturbance.
If the real scene was shown, his appetite would surely be affected.
¡°Master, shall I use the CS interface unit for this?¡± Red Lotus inquired.
¡°That would be fine,¡± he replied.
¡°Understood.¡±
The screen before him transformed, adopting the visual style of a CS game.
In the hours that Tang Rui had been asleep, Jerusalem¡¯s street fighting had intensified.
However, the current tide of battle was in favor of the Middle Eastern Coalition. Even though Israel had secured some support from America, the situation was irreversible unless the Americans intervened directly.
At most, Israel could only dy the inevitable oue.
¡°Red Lotus, bring up all the relevant news,¡± Tang Ruimanded after a brief review of the battlefield. He wanted to see how Israel was manipting the media narrative.
Domestic news was rtively tame.
Official media had little to say, mostly using neutral terms like calm, control, negotiation, suggesting much without revealing anything substantial.
But the narrative in other media outlets was different.
Smearing the ck camels was a given.
Publishing pitiable images of Jerusalem to elicit sympathy, while painting the ck camels as heartless, was a standard tactic.
However, what he hadn¡¯t anticipated was the extent to which some domestic media were not just criticizing the ck camels, but also him and Crimson.
This was an unexpected development.
Criticism from international media was one thing, but for domestic outlets to join in, seemingly disregarding any consequences for profit, was surprising.
Tang Rui was noticeably annoyed.
He immediately contacted Lin Chao to inquire about the situation with these media outlets.
¡°Don¡¯t worry, we¡¯re already investigating. It seems they¡¯ve overyed their hand,¡± Lin Chao reassured Tang Rui.
¡°Alright, send me the investigation results when they¡¯re ready,¡± Tang Rui said, concluding the conversation.
He then shifted his attention to international news.
It was mostly as expected¡ªwidespread criticism of him and the ck camels. Some media even med him for the Temple¡¯s issues.
Global news channels, in that moment, were sympathetically portraying Israel as victims of foreign aggression.
He wondered if people truly believed such news.
Surprisingly, many did.
The Middle Eastern Coalitioncked a tform to counter these narratives, and Iran¡¯s international reputation didn¡¯t help.
A mix of strategic propaganda, emotive photographs, and celebrity endorsements had effectively shaped public opinion.
Protests demanding government intervention in support of Israel were even taking ce.
Those uninformed about the actual situation were inadvertently fueling the fire.
Apart from America, which bnced profiteering with nominal support for Israel, other nations limited themselves to verbal support and empty gestures.
¡°Red Lotus, how many people are ndering me internationally?¡± Tang Rui asked.
¡°Master, there are approximately seven hundred and thirty million messages criticizing you and thepany,¡± Red Lotus reported.
Tang Rui¡¯s expression hardened. He had anticipated bacsh, but the reality was still disconcerting.
How to respond?
Lending mechas to the Middle Easterners was not an option.
Their high profile made them impractical. He wasn¡¯t concerned about public opinion, but he was aware that such actions could inadvertently escte to national issues.
That was the rationale behind the higher-ups requesting the withdrawal of the mechas¡ªto minimize unnecessaryplications.
After some contemtion, Tang Rui devised an alternative strategy.
If mechas were too conspicuous, he would use a more discreet option.
He reached for his phone and dialed Prince Salim.
¡°Prince Salim, are you avable?¡± he asked as the call connected.
¡°I¡¯m busy controlling mechanical dogs,bating heretics!¡± Prince Salim replied, his voice hoarse from extended effort.
Acknowledging Prince Salim¡¯s fatigue, Tang Rui got straight to the point. ¡°I know you inquired about renting mechas, but that¡¯s not feasible. They require maintenance. However, I have another weapon that might be of use to you,¡± Tang Rui said directly.
¡°We¡¯ll take it,¡± Prince Salim agreed without hesitation.
¡°Listen first. It¡¯s an armed satellite. Given itsplexity, I will need to operate it remotely. Officially, though, it will be under yourmand. Do you understand?¡± Tang Rui exined.
¡°No problem. How much? I¡¯ll transfer the funds immediately,¡± Prince Salim responded.
¡°I¡¯ll give you a discount¡ª300 billion dors. After the transfer, issue a statement, and I¡¯ll be ready to assist,¡± Tang Rui proposed.
¡°Agreed. I¡¯ll make the arrangements immediately,¡± Prince Salim confirmed.
After ending the call, Tang Rui resumed his breakfast, now in a better mood.
By the time he finished and leisurely made his way to theb, Prince Salim had transferred the funds.
Meanwhile, the Middle Eastern Coalition had held a press conference, announcing their alliance with Crimson and the leasing of the armed satellite. They kept the specifics confidential, not from choice but from ignorance of the satellite¡¯s capabilities. Yet, their trust in Crimson¡¯s technology was unwavering.
¡°Red Lotus, scan the Jerusalem area, mark all enemies, and use theser-armed satellite to engage any exposed targets,¡± Tang Rui ordered.
Intent on demonstrating the consequences of defamation, Tang Rui was ready to act.
¡°Understood, Master. Targeting is underway, and theser-armed satellite is charging,¡± Red Lotus confirmed.
The satellite, previously in geosynchronous orbit, adjusted its position. Its muljerusalemcetedser emitters began to charge, transforming from a spherical form to an umbre-like array.
In an instant,ser beams were unleashed.
Each beam precisely eliminated an enemy within Jerusalem City, leaving no time for reaction or warning. The sudden, unheralded strikes left even themanders of the enemies clueless about their assant¡¯s location.
As time passed, the enemies realized the threat from above, but they were powerless to counter it.
The Middle Eastern Coalition, unaware of when Crimson¡¯s satellite had joined the fray, soon noticed the overheadsers.
With the satellite¡¯s support, the tide of battle shifted rapidly. The intense street fighting suddenly eased, elerating their advance.
Thus, a day passed.
Under the unyielding assault of theser-armed satellite, Israel¡¯s resistance became futile.
Even the missilesunched by America to assist were effortlessly intercepted by the satellite.
What had been a tense battlefield in the morning had reached a decisive conclusion by nightfall.
With no safe exposure, heavy weapons rendered useless, and ally support intercepted, the resistance was broken.
In the face of overwhelming technological superiority and strategic domination, even the most determined resistance was ineffectual.
The war concluded.
Yet, the matter of Jerusalem¡¯s ownership remained unresolved. The debate over its future would continue, with each member of the Middle Eastern Coalition eager to im it.
The end of the war did not signify the end of the disputes.
As for Israel, their chances had evaporated. Jerusalem¡¯s future was no longer in their hands, and their fate was of no concern to Tang Rui.
With the conflict resolved, as the United Nations began their deliberations, Tang Rui received a call from the National Academy Office.
The call was straightforward.
He was to attend a meeting in the capital, receive an award, and ept an academic title.
This year¡¯s top prize for scientific and technological advancement was his alone.
The title was a professor¡¯s honor.
He had been elected unanimously, attaining the rare distinction of having a double doctorate..¡±
Chapter 303 - 303: The Institute of High Energy Physics Asks
Chapter 303: The Institute of High Energy Physics Asks
For Help
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¡°Tang Rui, dressed in bumpkin fashion, arrived in Beijing.
This time he did not wear a suit, but clothes tailor-made from a tailor shop in Jinling.
It was hard to describe the style.
Anyway, it was veryfortable to wear and looked very handsome.
There wasn¡¯t much to say about the award ceremony.
Although he was the youngest one there, there were also quite a few young people among the awardees.
A thirty-something researcher, calling them young was certainly not an exaggeration.
The whole award process went smoothly and harmoniously.
There were no incidents of showing off or being humiliated.
There were quite a few people who came running to build rtionships and get familiar.
After all, the biggest topic in academic circles during this period had been the national future aerospace strategy.
Each of these ns involved real money investments.
Each n¡¯s chief designer had significant autonomy and decision-making power.
Funding and such were not a big issue.
For such projects, basic funding was guaranteed, and there was no need to run around departments for funds.
But in these ns, there is something more important than funding, and that is staffing.
Tang Rui hadn¡¯t paid much attention to this issue recently.
But he still managed to understand some aspects of it.
The future research institute model would see some changes.
The current research institutes were a bit rigid.
But it¡¯s not realistic topletely restructure research institutes.
After all, researchers and scientists were not civil servants.
You could recruit as many civil servants as you wanted, but researchers and scientists were not so plentiful.
So, the current model needed to be modified.
It involved creating a new framework.
The current aerospace ns were of this framework, still in the experimental stage.
If this model had problems, then after the n ended, everyone would go their separate ways.
If this model didn¡¯t have problems and even achieved good results, then the framework could be directly finalized.
That was why the staffing for each project this time was more precious than usual.
Tang Rui was not interested in participating in such matters.
So, after the meeting ended, he went to find Professor Yu.
Compared to major universities, he was more willing to cooperate with the military.
Moreover, the projects he was responsible for were all rted to weaponry, so the military was naturally involved.
So, he left the staffing issues and a bunch of troublesome matters to Professor Yu and the military.
As long as the people under him showed real ability once the project started, nothing else was important.
He stayed in the capital for a few days.
If not receiving awards, then attending meetings, busy as ever without actually doing anything.
¡°Professor, I¡¯m heading back now that things here are wrapped up,¡± he said after the necessary meetings were over.
Tang Rui then directly left, not daring to stay in the capital any longer.
¡°Okay, I¡¯ll get you the personnel details by the end of the month. Take a look then and confirm.
The entire project will start early next year, so make aprehensive n on your end.¡±
Professor Yu nodded, not minding Tang Rui¡¯s hasty departure.
In his view, the young Tang Rui should focus his energy on scientific research and not bother with other matters.
No one dared to target him anyway.
As for the matters Tang Rui disliked dealing with, they were actually big opportunities for others.
Unfortunately, they couldn¡¯t connect with Tang Rui.
¡°Alright, then Professor, I¡¯ll be leaving now,¡± Tang Rui nodded and then got ready to leave in his car.
But just then, Professor Ouyang suddenly ran over, urgently calling out to Tang Rui.
¡°Director Tang, wait a minute, I need your help urgently.¡±
¡°Slow down, I¡¯m not running, don¡¯t rush.¡±
Seeing Professor Ouyang running over, gasping for breath, Tang Rui quickly got out of the car to meet him.
¡°Don¡¯t worry, I know my own body, I can hold on for another ten years without any problem,¡± Professor Ouyang stopped and said with a smile after catching his breath.
¡°That¡¯s for sure, not just ten years, even thirty years won¡¯t be a problem,¡± Tang Rui quickly agreed.
¡°Alright, let¡¯s not talk about this, I urgently need your help with something, and don¡¯t worry, it¡¯s not about a meeting.¡±
¡°What¡¯s the matter?¡± Tang Rui asked curiously.
He previously researched maic fields and wormholes, and was considered an expert in the field of physics. But Professor Ouyang, as a big name in high-energy physics, should not need his help given their different fields.
¡°There¡¯s a problem with the maic field research at the High-Consumption Hadron Collider.¡±
Problems with the Hadron Collider research?
That shouldn¡¯t be happening.
As the most impressive and expensive piece of experimental equipment in the domestic natural science field, the best technology must have been used.
Tang Rui did not withhold any proprietary technology, such as superconducting materials, high-strength materials, supercapacitors, etc., all of which were made avable to the Hadron Collider project.
Logically, with so many advanced technologies, there should be no problems, especially not with the maic field, which is the least likely to have issues.
¡°What¡¯s wrong with the maic field?¡± Tang Rui asked curiously.
¡°Professor Li is nning to increase the scale of the Hadron Collider, so the requirements for the eleration maic field are higher.
The issues you wrote about in your paper regarding maic field transformation and control excited him, and he made improvements to the new equipment.
But there were problems with the improvements. The maic field strength calcted and designed based on your forms reached 180T.
But when actually created, the maic field strength was only 163T, missing 17T, and they can¡¯t find the reason.¡±
Professor Ouyang exined the situation to Tang Rui.
¡°Let me calcte.¡±
After hearing this, Tang Rui immediately asked Honglian to calcte whether there was any problem with the 180T maic field strength.
The result was that there was no problem.
The maic field strength could definitely be raised to 180T, and with superconducting materials, as long as the electrical energy keeps up, there should be no problem.
¡°Where are they? I¡¯ll go take a look.¡±
Tang Rui thought for a moment and asked.
He was also curious about what went wrong.
¡°At the High Energy Physics Research Institute.¡±
¡°I¡¯m going there now.¡±
¡°I¡¯ll go with you.¡±
After greeting Professor Yu, the two got into Tang Rui¡¯s car and headed to the High Energy Physics Research Institute.
Forty minutester.
The motorhome entered the gates of the High Energy Institute.
¡°Professor Tang, I¡¯m sorry to trouble you with this,¡± Professor Li said as he approached Tang Rui.
¡°It¡¯s alright, I was free anyway. It¡¯s a great opportunity for me toe and learn. Thank you, Professor Li.¡±
After a round of mutual business ttery, the three arrived at theboratory.
Professor Li handed Tang Rui the data they had been researching these days.
¡°This is the data from our experimental tests. The discrepancy between theory and reality is too great. We¡¯ve been searching repeatedly but can¡¯t find the problem. We can only ask for your help now.¡±
¡°Okay, let me take a look.¡±
Tang Rui took the materials and began to look through them..¡±
Chapter 304 - 304: Ball Lightning and Dancing Electric Snakes
Chapter 304: Ball Lightning and Dancing Electric Snakes
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Swoosh! Swoosh!
The room was very quiet, with only the sound of Tang Rui flipping through the materials. Nobody spoke at this time.
Twenty or so minutester, Tang Rui finished reading the materials, and at the same time, Red Lotus simted the data from the materials.
However, the result of the simtion showed no problems.
¡°The data on the materials is fine, and the theoretical deduction is also correct As for why the maic field strength is insufficient, I can¡¯t say for sure right now. Can you take me to see the equipment?¡± Tang Rui said with a frown after putting down the materials.
¡°No problem, the equipment is in theboratory,¡± replied Professor Li, getting up immediately to take Tang Rui there.
He was the most anxious and frustrated at the moment.
Arriving at theboratory, a device, the size of an MRI machine and without an outer shell, appeared before Tang Rui.
The construction of the entire device was actually quite simple.
In the middle was a vacuum tube, surrounded by maic field eleration coils, equipped with various sensors and control devices. That was it. Simple to say, but making it was not that simple.
¡°Can we start the experiment once?¡± Tang Rui asked after looking at the equipment.
¡°Yes.¡±
Professor Li immediately arranged for some staff to prepare to start the experimental equipment.
After tinkering for about fifteen minutes, the device started.
Tang Rui watched theputer screen, observing the various data disyed. Initially, the maic field strength climbed steadily without any issues. But when the maic field strength reached 178T, some fluctuations appeared in the data, though the maic field strength continued to increase. However, the moment the maic field strength reached 180T, the data began to change erratically, with the maic field strength data dropping directly to 169T, then continuing to decrease until it stabilized at 163T. ¡°Interesting.¡±
After watching aplete experiment, Tang Rui discovered quite a few things much clearer than just reading the materials.
Why did the maic field strength decrease?
Because some energy disappeared.
Or rather, transformed.
The device used electrical energy to create a maic field, but the moment the maic field strength reached 180T, a part of the maic field, under unknown influences, transformed back into electrical energy.
To describe it as electrical energy isn¡¯t quite urate.
More precisely, it was an electric sma wrapped in a maic field. However, this sma was very thin, as the energy forming it had undergone two transformations, resulting in significant loss.
Why did it form sma?
Who knew.
Tang Rui was genuinely confused; he was also bewildered.
A few minutester, the experiment ended, and Professor Li looked expectantly at Tang Rui.
¡°Professor Li, I have some ideas about the specific problem, but I need to go back and study it before I can give you an answer,¡± Tang Rui said, forced to admit he had some leads, under the hopeful gaze of Professor Li.
¡°Okay, then I¡¯ll trouble Professor Tang,¡± said Professor Li, relieved upon hearing Tang Rui¡¯s words.
Now, everyone had a consensus.
That is, as long as Tang Rui takes action, there¡¯s basically no problem he can¡¯t solve. It¡¯s just a matter of whether you can persuade him to help.
¡°No trouble at all. Could you provide me with the materials and design drawings of this device?¡±¡® Tang Rui asked.
¡°No problem, I will package the data and upload it to the secure data repository. Professor Tang can download it directly.¡±
¡°Great, then I¡¯ll be off.¡±
Don¡¯t rush off. I¡¯ve already booked a restaurant, how about having a meal before you leave?¡±
Persuaded by Professor Li and Professor Ouyang, Tang Rui stayed for dinner before leaving on a private ne.
In the following two days, Tang Rui earnestly studied this special maic field change at home, wondering why the maic field transformed into sma.
Logically, it shouldn¡¯t.
One was maic, and the other was electric (though not purely electric).
How could they mix together?
The previous simtion by Red Lotus did not reveal this phenomenon, but after this experiment, it was discovered that the maic field undergoes a special change after exceeding a strength of 180T.
Don¡¯t ask why it wasn¡¯t discovered before.
Because such a strong maic field had never been created before. Even the maic field strength needed for controlled nuclear fusion had never exceeded 160T, let alone reaching 180T.
AS Tang Rui¡¯s research deepened, he discovered a special physical model for this sma.
After reducing the maic field strength, increasing the conversion efficiency, and maximizing the instantaneous energy output, among other methods.
This low-end version of the sma maic field became something everyone is familiar with, but something nobody has seen before.
Ball lightning!
When he first created ball lightning in the device, he was quite shocked.
Ball lightning has been discovered by humanity a long time ago, but its formation principle is still an unsolved mystery.
Tang Rui hadn¡¯t expected it.
He was just helping out, but he solved this world¡¯s unsolved mystery and figured out the structural model of ball lightning.
¡°Red Lotus, continue to input energy. Let me see the energy limit of ball lightning, Tang Rui excitedly said to Red Lotus, watching the stable ball lightning inside the maic field.
Ball lightning could absorb energy.
This is rted to its special model, but this model is very active. If not controlled well, the entire ball lightning will explode, turning into countless bolts of lightning.
The ball lightning in the device in front of Tang Rui now was one of his research results during this period, a stable state ball lightning model. Maic field, maic poles, current carrying, voltage, etc, must be precisely controlled to create a stable ball lightning.
¡°Master, please leave the room to avoid danger.¡±
After hearing Tang Rui¡¯s order, Red Lotus didn¡¯t directly charge the ball lightning but asked him to leave the room first.
Because the ball lightning, when charged, could be very powerful when it explodes.
After Tang Rui left the room.
Red Lotus began to charge the ball lightning.
The ball lightning inside the maic field, upon receiving the charge, started to flicker continuously.
Its brightness went from that of a five-watt bulb to a five-hundred-watt bulb. Tang Rui, in another room, watched the holographic projection of the internal model data of the ball lightning.
Under continuous charging, the interior of the ball lightning began to umte energy, like filling an empty water tank.
The powerful energy supply of the nuclear fusion reactor began to crazily charge the ball lightning.
Within just a few minutes, sixty percent of the reactor¡¯s electrical energy was absorbed by the ball lightning.
Until the energy umted inside the ball lightning filled it up, starting to affect the stability of its structure.
From a macro perspective, this was visible as bulges appearing on the surface of the ball lightning.
Boom!
The next second, a thunderous roar sounded.
The ball lightning exploded.
Suddenly, the entire room began to sh with electricity and thunder, with one ball lightning model after another appearing in the room.
Then, chains of lightning filled the entire room, forming a from heaven to earth.
For a moment, the room was filled with dancing electric snakes and constant thunder.
The visual effects were maximized.
At the same time, these lightning bolts, unlike those of a Te coil, were not just for show; they were very powerful.
As Tang Rui watched the scene on the holographic projection, his eyes began to shine..
Chapter 305 - 305: For the Glory of America, We Will Not Shirk Our Duty!
Chapter 305: For the Glory of America, We Will Not Shirk Our Duty!
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Three dayster.
Tang Rui yawned as he got up, and after breakfast, he went to Lin Chao¡¯s office to make a request.
¡°Brother Lin, contact the military to relocate the radar station on the mountain. I want to build something on the mountaintop.¡±
¡°Move the radar station? That shouldn¡¯t be a problem, but first, what do you want to build?¡±
Lin Chao wasn¡¯t concerned about the radar station.
He was curious about what Tang Rui was up to.
¡°Well, how should I put it, the thing I want to build is quiteplex and difficult to exin.¡±
Tang Rui hesitated a bit as he spoke.
¡°It¡¯s okay, I have time to listen, and it¡¯s fine if I don¡¯t understand. I¡¯ve prepared a recorder.¡±
Lin Chao was well-prepared. He didn¡¯t want to be caught off guard again, like when Tang Rui had previously created a powerful weapon that took everyone by surprise.
¡°Actually, it¡¯s not thatplicated. Simply put, I¡¯ve discovered a special high-energy particle stable state model. Based on this model, I¡¯ve developed arge-scale charger¡ yes, a charger, the wireless kind.¡±
Tang Rui thought for a moment and then came up with an exnation. ¡°A charger? Why build a charger on the mountaintop?¡± Lin Chao was skeptical, but he had no proof.
¡°Because this charger is meant to power something in the sky.¡±
¡°What in the sky?¡±
¡°A deflection field shield.¡±
After hearing this, Lin Chao looked at Tang Rui, trying to discern something from his expression.
But Tang Rui didn¡¯t flinch or avoid eye contact.
¡°Alright, I¡¯ll report this.¡±
¡°Okay, then I¡¯ll go back and get ready.¡±
After Tang Rui left, Lin Chao went to a secure room to report the situation.
¡°Tang has developed a new type of weapon rted to electromaism, but the details and power are unclear.¡±
That was Lin Chao¡¯s report.
As for what Tang Rui said about the charger and defense shield, he didn¡¯t believe a word.
If Tang Rui could switch to researching chargers, Lin Chao joked he¡¯d eat the office sofa.
Back in theb.
Tang Rui immediately had Red Lotus prepare and start making the necessary equipment.
¡°Red Lotus, build another nuclear fusion reactor, but this time use helium-3 instead of deuterium and tritium, so we¡¯ll need to modify the core control program. Let me know when it¡¯s ready.
Also, add some functional modules to the Lightning Storm device, install the maic field control core, and pair it with the Earth¡¯s maic field for a wireless energy transmission system to create an electromaic deflection field shield that covers the entirepany.
And design several airborne tforms with armament systems, mainly for creating a huge electromaic deflection field.¡±
Tang Rui sat in theb, eyes closed, listing a multitude of ideas.
¡°Understood, master. Regarding the airborne tforms¡¯ weapon systems, what type of weapons should be used, and what should be their firepower level?¡±
Red Lotus recorded the instructions and then inquired for details.
¡°Useser weapons. The firepower doesn¡¯t need to be too strong; just capable of simultaneously targeting and destroying 1000 targets.¡±
Tang Rui casually replied, seeing this level of firepower as only suitable for defense.
¡°Understood, master,¡± Red Lotus said, having recorded all instructions and beginning to allocateputing resources for multi-threaded work.
Tang Rui theny down on the sofa to nap, exhausted from the past few days.
ying with spherical lightning was really fun.
Its internal high-energy particle dynamic stability model was a new theory not yet discovered in physics.
This new theory could magnify microscopic physical states into the macroscopic realm.
He had gained a lot in the past three days and still had many ideas to digest and verify from the spherical lightning.
But the rest of the verification could wait.
He needed to rest for two days.
At Eagle¡¯s Nest.
A special underground military base.
The ce was guarded to an inch of its life.
Allworks were physically isted from the outside world.
On the surface, it was a National Guard logistics department, a military supply warehouse, and a temporary material transfer station.
But in reality, it was one of Eagle¡¯s Nest¡¯sst resorts.
The soldiers here were utterly loyal to their nation.
Not to bosses or conglomerates, they were the most pure and elite force of Eagle¡¯s Nest.
The core members of the think tank, including the current boss¡¯s advisors, were gathered here for a secret meeting.
They discussed the alien spaceship at the bottom of the sea near Stick Country. After over six months of excavation, they were getting closer to the spaceship. They expected to reach the hull within a week and install submersion equipment to send people down to touch the ship within half a month.
This was good news for Eagle¡¯s Nest.
But the question was, who should
go?
Anything from the alien ship would be cutting-edge technology, highly coveted by many.
If the news leaked, the consequences would be severe.
Before, Eagle¡¯s Nest was confident, but now, things were different.
If the news leaked, Deep Red Company¡¯s mechsnding on the west coast could easily break in.
So, the think tank strategized on keeping the spaceship a secret while deciding how to distribute any acquired alien technology.
They were already considering the distribution of technology from a spaceship they hadn¡¯t yet seen.
After a day of discussion.
They hadn¡¯t agreed on the cake issue.
But they had a n for the spaceship¡¯s secrecy.
They would send soldiers from the base to Stick Country, increasing external activities to divert global attention.
With the world focused on the Jerusalem issue and the Middle Eastern Coalition¡¯s incident, they could easily shift global attention.
They nned to support Israel while profiting from it.
As for the base soldiers, they would be equipped with top-tier gear to ensure the alien technology was securely acquired.
¡°Soldiers, America needs you. You will undertake a mission that could determine our nation¡¯s future¡¡±
The basemander selected a hundred elite soldiers and began his speech.
Heid out America¡¯s current situation truthfully.
They were outmatched in military and technology.
Whether they could turn the tide depended on this mission¡¯s sess. The chosen elites, determined to seed even at the cost of their lives, listened intently.
¡°Now, do you have anything to say?¡± themander asked after his speech.
¡°For America¡¯s glory, we will not shirk our duty!¡±
Chapter 306 - 306: Planetary Magnetic Field Energy Control System
Chapter 306 - 306:ary Maic Field Energy Control System
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Master, America has dispatched 100 elite soldiers to the Korean family¡¯s drilling tform to assume control of the security operations there.¡±
On that day, Tang Rui was leisurely ying with his cat and snacking on melons while watching the news. Suddenly, he received a report from Red Lotus that stirred his excitement.
Red Lotus, disy the underwater excavation progress,¡± Tang Rui immediately requested.
¡°Yes, Master.¡±
The image on the holographic projection screen shifted to a three-dimensional representation of the seabed.
The drilling rod¡¯s speed was visibly increasing.
Currently, a tunnel of 70 centimeters in diameter had been carved, approaching the target of a one-meter-diameter tunnel.
In reality, a 70-centimeter diameter was sufficient for a slim person to descend, but it was futile without the necessary equipment to breach the outer casing of the alien spaceship.
After extensive research over a long period, Both the Koreans and Americans were convinced that the subterranean spaceship was of extraterrestrial origin. Why?
Aside from the shell¡¯s remarkable durability, there was also energy pulsating beneath its nano-coated surface.
How long had it been buried?
At least tens of thousands of years.
Yet, astonishingly, the energy within the spaceship remained undiminished.
Therefore, America had begun to view this alien spaceship as a pivotal discovery, enforcing a strict news ckout.
Even the military¡¯s special department had been aware of the seabed activities from the outset.
If one sought information now, it would be elusive.
Only a handful in America were privy to this.
The Koreans were even more extreme.
Once America became aware of the situation, the Koreans either conscripted or executed everyone who knew about it, ensuring their silence.
Such stringent information control made it nearly impossible to learn anything more.
Moreover, during this time, the United Nations had been embroiled in daily disputes over the ownership of Jerusalem.
The world¡¯s focus was on Jerusalem, leaving the Koreans unscrutinized.
This diversion aided their information suppression.
Red Lotus, how much longer until the one-meter tunnel isplete?¡± Tang Rui inquired.
¡°At least 10 days, perhaps 15 if there are dys,¡± Red Lotus promptly responded.
Time was on their side.
Tang Rui scooped up Xiao Naofu by the scruff, mounted his electric mountain bike, and headed up the mountain.
Reaching the summit, he observed the construction managed by Red Lotus. The former radar station had been dismantled, leaving only the foundational and subterranean structures.
Red Lotus had made modifications here, installing a controble nuclear fusion reactor in the underground fortifications and constructing the main apparatus and buildings for Lightning Storm atop it.
Currently, Red Lotus hadpleted the subterranean and ground-level structures and was assembling the high-voltage, variable frequency Te coil.
He had to concede, Te was indeed a genius.
Even with the system¡¯s advanced ck technology, the coreponent remained indispensable.
President Tang, what exactly are you building here?¡±
Lin Chao had been frequenting the mountain, eager to discern Tang Rui¡¯s intentions.
Yet, despite a week of observation, he remained baffled by the assembled equipment.
Particrly perplexing was the high tform under construction, resembling a broadcasting tower with a sphere and antenna atop it.
¡°What¡ I did mention it¡¯s arge charger, didn¡¯t I?¡± Tang Rui replied, feigning confusion.
Lin Chao, exasperated, stopped probing further.
Tang Rui surveyed the nearingpletion of the equipment, alighted from the bike, and entered the first-floor maintenance hall.
No control center was visible.
Inside, one could only see a ring-shaped device extending a cylinder through the roof, its function inscrutable.
To Lin Chao, the equipment seemed futuristically enigmatic, but Tang Rui recognized its potential as a formidable weapon.
[Item:ary Maic Field Energy Control Conversion Device]
[Experience: 0/10000]
[Enhancement:ary Maic Field Energy Control System] [Attributes: Maic Field Energy Level increased by 180%, Maic Field Control uracy increased by 160%, Electromaic Conversion and Resonance threshold increased by 120%]
[Origin: 422.74]
When Tang Rui witnessed the charging and discharge of ball lightning, he envisioned a weapon like Lightning Storm.
However, manufacturing Lightning Storm was fraught with challenges, including ultra-long-range wireless power transmission technology ¨C a major obstacle even Te grappled with.
Despite possessing short-range wireless charging technology, Tang Rui struggled with charging the ball lightning over the Pacific, at America¡¯s doorstep.
After two days of fruitless effort, he resorted to a workaround, relying on system enhancements, equipment parameters, and algorithmic deductions.
¡°What are you smiling at?¡± Lin Chao, noticing Tang Rui¡¯s grin at the machinery, felt uneasy.
It was unnerving.
Tang Rui had never exhibited such a smile, even when creating Two-Kick.
¡°I smiled? No, you must be mistaken,¡± Tang Rui replied, shaking his head in denial.
He had just conceived a new strategy involving the high-energy battery solution encased in the alien spacecraft¡¯s outer shell.
His n with the military¡¯s special department was to trap the Koreans and Americans during their attempt to prate the underwater spaceship¡¯s shell.
Once the nano-coating waspromised, the high-energy battery solution he had embedded would detonate, albeit with limited force.
He couldn¡¯t amplify the explosion without risking his own nation.
But now, he had a better idea: synergizing the high-energy battery solution with Lightning Storm.
In a typical storm, lightning strikes indiscriminately, covering a broad area without precise targeting.
But with a grounded lightning rod, the scenario would change.
The sea floorcked such rods, but the high-energy battery solution could serve that purpose, albeit with someplexity.
Red Lotus, how much longer for the construction toplete?¡±
Tang Rui queried.
¡°Master, another 63 hours are needed.¡±
¡°Understood.¡±
Tang Rui nodded and turned to leave.
He had considered bringing Lin Chao along, but Lin Chao chose to stay atop the mountain, observing Red Lotus¡¯s construction.
Wasn¡¯t trust mutual?
Labeling the device a ¡®charger¡¯ seemed apt. After all, what difference did it make whether it charged household appliances or ball lightning?
The afternoon found Tang Rui at a precious wildlife breeding center, delighting in thepany of various young animals.
It was a joyous experience.
These creatures were irresistibly adorable.
That evening, as he was about to head home, Li Shuyao called, inviting him to dinner at her grandfather¡¯s behest.
How could he decline such an invitation?
It wasn¡¯t as if he was entering a lion¡¯s den..
Chapter 307 - 307: Battleship?
Chapter 307 - 307: Battleship?
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Tang Rui soon arrived at the old man¡¯s house.
As soon as he entered the house, he saw a whole family busy.
His mother-inw and brother-inw¡¯s wife were cooking in the kitchen, while his father-inw, brother-inw, and Li Shuyao were chatting with grandma.
After greeting everyone, Tang Rui was pulled into the study by Li Shuyao. ¡°Grandpa, Tang Rui is here, just tell him whatever you need to,¡± she said with a smile after arriving in the study.
¡°You go out, I¡¯ll talk to Xiao Rui myself,¡± the old man said upromisingly, trying to send Li Shuyao out.
Can¡¯t I listen?¡± Li Shuyao widened her eyes in disbelief, looking at her grandfather.
Is this the legendary case of ¡®killing the donkey once the grinding is done¡¯? ¡®Definitely not, what we¡¯re going to discuss is a matter of national security,¡± the old man said, upromisingly shooing Li Shuyao out of the study. Tang Rui¡¯s lips twitched.
In fact, Li Shuyao¡¯s security clearance wasn¡¯t as low as the old man thought. After all, being with him, her clearance couldn¡¯t be low.
¡°Xiao Rui, I¡¯m going to trouble you for a while to help me look at some blueprints,¡± the old man said, locking the door behind them.
¡°This isn¡¯t a trouble at all, we¡¯re all family. If you keep this up, I¡¯ll be embarrassed toe over,¡± Tang Rui quickly waved his hand.
¡°Alright, then I won¡¯t say more. Take a look at this.¡±
The old man took out a design drawing and spread it out on the table for Tang Rui to check.
Li Shuyao¡¯s grandfather, in his younger days, was involved in marine research andter was recruited by the navy to help in their research institute until he retired.
The blueprint he took out, Tang Rui initially thought it might be for some diving equipment or an underwater robot.
But upon inspection, the blueprint read inrge letters: ¡®New Type Battleship.¡¯ Well, that¡¯s something.
This was the navy¡¯s revival of the ¡®battleship and cannon¡¯ ideology, nning to build a battleship to experience the roar of multiple turrets.
But when he saw the design of the new type battleship, he realized it waspletely different from what he had thought.
It was indeed a battleship.
But this battleship wasn¡¯t meant to sail in the sea, but to roam the vastness of the stars.
Designed with sharp triangr angles, it had three 1024 mm caliber main cannons, 24 680 mm secondary cannons, equipped with three nuclear fusion reactors, and powered by 16rge electric propulsion engines.
After looking at the blueprints, Tang Rui didn¡¯t know what to say.
¡°Xiao Rui, can this battleship be built?¡±
¡°Before discussing whether it can be built, I want to ask, where did this blueprinte from?¡±
Tang Rui didn¡¯t understand. Such a divine blueprint, where did the old man get it from?
¡°I was rehired, and since I didn¡¯t have much to do, I just idly toyed around with designs with others in the institute.
¡°Is there a problem with this blueprint? Is there something not designed well?¡± the old man asked, clearly not entirely honest.
¡°No, the design is good, it¡¯s just impossible to build,¡± Tang Rui saw through it but didn¡¯t mind.
Could he build this battleship?
He could.
But even if he built it, it would just be a model.
Impossible to build? Is it an equipment issue, or something else?¡±
The equipment is not a problem, it can indeed be built, but even if we do, it can¡¯t ascend to space.¡±
Tang Rui was not fooling the old man; he spoke the truth.
Electromaic anti-gravity has its limits.
Just like the buoyancy of water, the limit of electromaic anti-gravity was rted to the strength of a¡¯s maic field.
With the strength of Earth¡¯s maic field, the weight limit for electromaic anti-gravity was 5176 tons.
It didn t matter how many SEG units you used.
Even if you used them in tandem, it made no difference.
Of course, other methods could be used to enhance the surface maic field strength, such as using a huge coil to increase repulsion.
But the problem was, such things were impractical.
And the affected range was limited. All it could do was fly to an altitude of twenty to thirty thousand meters, and it wouldn¡¯t go any higher. How awkward.
So, unless Tang Rui could unlock true anti-gravity technology, such types of spacecraft were impossible, even if they could fly to outer space. It¡¯d be meaningless because there was no gravity inside the ship.
Were soldiers supposed to float around inside their warship?
That would be a joke.
Long-term absence of gravity causes serious calcium loss.
A spaceship that looks impressive but can¡¯t even leave the sr system, what¡¯s the use of building it?
As for traveling within the sr system.
Isn¡¯t it better to build a spaceship that simtes gravity through centrifugal force?
¡°If you want to build a battleship, how should it be modified?¡± the old man asked after listening.
¡°Modify¡ it can be changed like this.¡±
Tang Rui took out his phone and showed the old man the design effect of the
Queqiao space station previously designed by Red Lotus.
¡°This is a space station, not a ship.¡±
¡®I can¡¯t help it, with the current technology, we can only do this much. Those
kinds of spaceships in movies, we really can¡¯t build them.¡±
1 knew it, definitely impossible to build. It was just those old guys in the
institute, insisting on designing some cross-era weapon.¡±
The old man put away the blueprints and put them back.
He then left the study with Tang Rui.
By then, dinner was ready.
Everyone began to sit down and eat.
¡°What did grandpa talk to you about just now?¡± Li Shuyao quietly asked Tang Rui.
¡°Nothing much, I¡¯ll tell you when we get home.¡±
Tang Rui shook his head and didn¡¯t tell her.
¡°Brother-inw, what do you want to drink? White or red?¡± The brother-inw asked Tang Rui, holding two bottles of wine.
¡°I¡¯m fine with either.¡± Tang Rui was indifferent.
After all, everyone¡¯s alcohol tolerance was about the same, so it didn¡¯t matter what they drank.
The mealsted over two hours.
It was after nine o¡¯clock at night when they left the old man¡¯s house.
Tang Rui was also a bit tipsy.
¡°What did Grandpa want with you?¡± Li Shuyao asked again in the car.
¡°The old man told me something, someone wants to make a big move, trying
to reach the sky in one step.¡±
Tang Rui had been drinking, but his mind was still clear.
Today¡¯s question from the old man clearly had ulterior motives, telling him something through the design of the battleship.
¡°Will it affect you?¡± Li Shuyao asked with concern.
¡°How can it affect me? If it was going to affect me, why would they rehire the
old man and then take such a big detour?¡±
Tang Rui didn¡¯t take it seriously, clearly thinking the old man was overthinking.
The next day, he went to see Han Shu.
¡°President Tang, you finally have time.¡± Han Shu¡¯s face was full ofints when he saw Tang Rui.
¡°I¡¯ve been busy recently, and I came to see you as soon as I was free,¡± Tang Rui said, picking up a handful of sunflower seeds and eating them.
¡°I have good news, the report I submitted was approved, and our Blue Army has been granted additional funds for equipment procurement,¡± Han Shu said excitedly when talking about the funds.
It seemed like a substantial amount.
How much?¡± Tang Rui asked curiously.
¡°120 billion,¡± Han Shu immediately replied.
Huh?
120 billion.
Tang Rui¡¯s expression became a bit strange after hearing this number.
¡®What do you think? Is this money not enough?¡±
¡°It¡¯s not that, did the superiors say what this money is to be used for?¡±
¡°No, they said to discuss it with you, preferably not traditional weapons, but equipment that fits the new era.¡±
¡°Do you want a mech?¡±
¡°The kind of mech Tifa pilots in the game? How much?¡±
¡°120 billion.¡±
The allocation from the superiors was definitely thoughtful, especially demanding new equipment. What else could it be but mechs?
And this price was just the cost of a mech.
¡°Let¡¯s buy it.¡±
Han Shu made a decision after gritting his teeth.
I m not selling,¡± Tang Rui immediately refused.
¡°President Tang, let¡¯s not joke around.¡±
I m definitely not selling the mech, that one is a technology verification model and hasn¡¯t met my standards yet. But with this money, we can definitely make a big toy.¡±
¡°What big toy?¡±
¡°What about a battleship?¡±
Tang Rui revealed his purpose foring today.
A battleship? Are you talking about an electromaic gun battleship?¡± Han
Shu asked after thinking.
¡°Think bigger.¡±
¡°An aerospace battleship?¡± Han Shu¡¯s eyes lit up.
¡°Think even bigger.¡±
¡°Could it be a cosmic battleship?¡±
Chapter 308 - 308: America is Here
Chapter 308 - 308: America is Here
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¡°Right, it¡¯s a cosmic battleship. Here¡¯s the training outline and the personnel arrangement. You handle it.¡±
After nodding and finishing his statement, Tang Rui dropped off a mobile hard drive containing games, preparing to leave.
¡°How many people are needed?¡± Han Shu was full of questions.
¡°You¡¯ll know once you y the game,¡± Tang Rui waved his hand and left without looking back.
Back in theb, Tang Rui asked Red Lotus to organize a set of data on super-strong maic fields and send it to Professor Li at the Institute of High Energy.
By arranging ording to the data in this document, there won¡¯t be issues with maic field conversion.
Their construction of the high-energy hadron collider was basically
problem-free now, with the remaining engineering difficulties rtively easy to solve.
However, as the strength of the maic field increased, the more energy was needed.
ording to Red Lotus¡¯s calctions, it bes very difficult to further increase the maic field strength beyond 300T.
But these were minor issues. Currently, such a strong maic field isn¡¯t needed. They¡¯ll deal with it if needed in the future.
¡°Red Lotus, what work rted to maic fields hasn¡¯t beenpleted yet?¡±
Tang Rui asked Red Lotus, nning to find something to do.
¡°Master, regarding maic field research, there are several research tasks yet to bepleted, including sma cannon research, positron cannon research, ultra-high temperature particle beam weapons research, strong maic field sma battery research¡¡±
¡°Stop, no need to say more.¡± Tang Rui stood up and left theb immediately.
It¡¯s already the end of November.
In another month, it¡¯d be New Year¡¯s Day, followed by the Spring Festival.
Why continue researching?
That could wait until next year.
The key point was, America and the Koreans were almost done digging the undersea tunnel, and he was waiting to see the excitement.
Arriving at the Precious Wildlife Breeding Base, Tang Rui went directly to the ostrich training ground.
Compared to other rare and protected animals in the base, ostriches weren¡¯t considered precious.
But those were just ordinary ostriches.
The golden-feathered ostriches like Tang Rui¡¯s were different. When they ran under the sun, they could dazzle your eyes.
ording to experts, these ostriches were mutants, a kind of gic mutation. Whether this mutation can be stably inherited is still unclear.
Tang Rui didn¡¯t care about this at all.
What he cared about was the training issue mentioned by the keeperst time. He wondered if it was resolved.
Ostriches could be used as mounts.
¡°President Tang, you¡¯re here to see the ostriches.¡±
¡°Yes, can I ride them now?¡±
¡°Yes, you can.¡±
¡°Then let¡¯s hurry up, I¡¯ve never ridden an ostrich before.¡±
Under the trainer¡¯s arrangement, Tang Rui approached an ostrich and mounted it from a stand.
¡°President Tang, don¡¯t make too big movements and don¡¯t grip the ostrich¡¯s neck too tightly. Just hold its wings and feathers, and you¡¯ll be fine.¡±
The trainer cautioned, fearing for Tang Rui¡¯s safety.
¡°Don¡¯t worry, it¡¯s fine.¡±
Tang Rui nodded after listening, telling them not to worry too much.
He just wanted to try what it felt like to ride an ostrich, not to race wildly on one.
Once everything was ready, the fence in front of the ostrich opened, and with the lure of food, the ostrich under Tang Rui started running with long strides.
Wow!
That was a bit exciting.
The ostrich¡¯s stability was average. When it moved, the body bounced up and down.
Although the amplitude wasn¡¯t veryrge, the frequency was high.
This made Tang Rui, sitting on the ostrich, a bit unstable.
For a short time, it was okay.
But long-term riding would be unbearable.
After circling the training field twice on the ostrich, Tang Rui got off, feeling that it was just okay, much worse than riding a horse.
Leaving the ostrich area, he went to the tiger and lion training ground and started ying with two little ones.
Little Brain Axe and Little Xi grew up fast, their teeth hade out, and their size had doubled.
In another half year, he wouldn¡¯t be able to handle them.
It wasn¡¯t a matter of danger, but their fur would be harder as they grew.
In a blink, several days passed.
Although Tang Rui was cking off, Red Lotus was diligent.
The construction on the mountain top waspleted.
But the equipment had not yet been started.
Because even if it was started now, it would be useless since the Koreans were not done digging yet, despite digging around the clock.
The speed of tunneling was limited, and increasing it was not feasible.
Even Tang Rui was getting anxious for them, not to mention America.
The more anxious they got, the more likely idents would ur. One day, Tang Rui suddenly received a message from Red Lotus that the Koreans had made an operational error, causing a copse on one side of the tunnel wall.
Although not serious, clearing the debris and reinforcing the copsed area took time.
What should have beenpleted in half a month now required an additional ten days. Hearing this news, Tang Rui rolled his eyes.
What a mess.
Bored, Tang Rui opened the lunar geological exploration map.
It had been several months, but the mechanical dogs were still continuously detecting the geological data of the moon.
It couldn¡¯t be helped.
The moon was too big.
Even though the mechanical dogs worked 24 hours a day, it would take a long time topletely explore the geological conditions of the entire moon.
¡°Red Lotus, how many suitable locations have we found for building underground bases?¡±
Tang Rui asked while looking at the geological map.
¡°Master, ording to your requirements, locations with water resources, abundant mineral resources, and stable geological structures, we have found 19 sites in total.¡± Red Lotus said, disying those locations on the holographic projection screen.
Tang Rui looked at the red dots on the map, zooming in on one.
It was a mountain range on the moon.
The moon¡¯s mountain ranges were mostly formed by impacts, but they were entirely sufficient for base construction.
ording to the geological detection data, there were about 520,000 cubic meters of solid water storage under this mountain range, and there were also abundant mineral resources inside the mountains.
Building a base here would be simple and convenient, not to mention very sturdy.
After reviewing this location, Tang Rui checked others.
All met his requirements.
He was very satisfied with the locations selected by Red Lotus.
¡°Red Lotus, mark the mountain range location with thepany¡¯s logo, then upload the current geological data map to the database.¡±
Tang Rui staked a im for a future Crimson lunar branch.
As for the location of the future Guanghan Pce base, he left that for the higher-ups to worry about.
After all, the moon was so big, with so many suitable locations for base construction, they could choose any for mining operations.
¡°Red Lotus, is the helium-3 extractionplete?¡± Tang Rui suddenly thought of the fuel rods.
¡°Master, the helium-3 extraction isplete, and three fuel rods have been inserted into the nuclear fusion reactor, ready to be ignited at any time.¡±
¡°Alright, let it be for now, no rush to ignite.¡±
Tang Rui¡¯s current power supply was more than sufficient.
The nuclear fusion reactor in his base could supply the entire Yangtze River Delta region.
However, he hadn¡¯t opened up the power supply.
After all, how much would you charge per kWh if you supplied power to the grid?
Should a special high-voltagework be brought in?
Or should the national high-voltage transmissionwork be scrapped in favor of wireless transmission?
If the whole country could wirelessly charge, should fuel cars be banned and reced with electric ones?
These were all issues, and there were plenty of red tape.
Tang Rui didn¡¯t want to get involved.
Anyway, the neighboring Dongfang Chao Huan was almost ready, and he didn¡¯t need to do anything extra.
And since he had a nuclear fusion reactor, the higher-ups knew about it.
Since they hadn¡¯t asked, and foreign countries were pretending not to know, he had no need to jump out and promote it to the world, so for the outside world, nuclear fusion was still 50 years away.
But what Tang Rui didn¡¯t know was the nuclear fusion reactor in the neighboring city was actually built earlier than his. After he brought out those ck tech materials, Dongfang Chao Huan had already been upgraded.
But now, the nuclear fusion reactor was just one step away frompletion.
The control system of the reactor core had stumped the entire nuclear fusion team for half a year.
With superconducting maic fields and neutron-resistant inner wall materials, nuclear fusion could be ignited at will.
There was no need to worry about any issues.
But as the number of ignitions increased and the core temperature rose, a problem became apparent.
How could ultra-high temperature sma be controled?
You say not to control?
That¡¯d be like throwing a nuke inside.
The key in controlled nuclear fusion was ¡®controlled,¡¯ not just ¡®fusion.¡¯
Part of this was safety control, needing strong maic fields and neutron radiation protection while the other was reaction control, being able to control the reactor temperature, energy output, and ignition and extinguishing at any time.
If these two controls couldn¡¯t be achieved, then it wasn¡¯t a real controlled nuclear fusion reactor.
What Dongfang Chao Huan currentlycked was the control program for the reactor core, and the hardest part of this program was the real-time simtion and precise control of fluid dynamics algorithms.
Simtion and control weren¡¯t difficult, but elerating in real-time was different.
Theputing power and intelligence level of the host machine had to reach a certain standard.
That¡¯s exactly what they werecking now, and it was exactly the thing that was holding them back.
¡°Professor, the Quantum Supeputing Research Institute has sent us thetest 50W supeputer, asking us to test whether this supeputer can run the core control algorithm.¡±
¡°Good, connect the host and prepare to run the experiment.¡±
The whole team began to get busy.
Soon, the Dongfang Super Ring was ignited, and everyone stared at the data on the big screen.
The 50W, true to its quantum supeputing nature, was much stronger than the original host in real-timeputation.
But as time went by¡
After running for three hours, the 50W had umted too much erroneous data. It kept optimizing the algorithm and calcting data, but the results were poor, and theputation speed was also affected.
After 12 hours, theputing speed of the 50W had decreased by 20%, and the reducedputing power was all used for error correction.
But due to the fluid dynamics algorithm, no matter how it calcted, there were errors.
As errors umted, the data discrepancy grewrger.
Until in the end, its control instructions and simtion results conflicted, and then it becamepletely useless.
It wasn¡¯t that it lost itsputing power.
But while it was continuously calcting and producing results, it was negated by the real-time feedback data, then recalcted and negated again, in an infinite loop.
¡°Professor, the Quantum Institute says they are researching a new neural architecture, which is currently very fast. It won¡¯t be long before a 150W is developed, we just need to wait a couple more days.¡±
¡°I know, but¡ never mind, if the 150W still doesn¡¯t work, I¡¯ll go to Jinling and ask Professor Tang for advice.¡±
Tang Rui was not aware of the predicament of the Dongfang Super Ring.
If he knew, he would have given them a low-level quantum supeputing architecture.
That thing was not valuable to him.
In terms of versions, that architecture was three versions behind the Red Lotus and didn¡¯te with artificial intelligence.
Unfortunately, Tang Rui was unaware of this situation.
For the next period of time, Tang Rui spent his days ying games, stroking cats, asionally flying his ne around Tianshan, dealing with matters for at most an hour a day, afraid to do more.
The higher-ups thought there was something wrong with Tang Rui¡¯s mindset.
How could he start cking off like this?
Lin Chao was concerned about this and asked Tang Rui if he had any thoughts or if he was unhappy.
Tang Rui waspletely baffled.
His life was so good, how could he be unhappy?
Later, when he understood, he told Lin Chao directly.
The New Year was approaching.
It¡¯s not good to work hard.
That day, Tang Rui waspeting with Little Dumpling for bamboo shoots.
But he received a message from Red Lotus, saying there was movement from America¡¯s side.
Three of America¡¯s best strategic nuclear submarines suddenly left home and was headed toward the Korean Penins..¡±
Chapter 309 - 309: Deep Under the Sea, the Alien Spaceship
Chapter 309 - 309: Deep Under the Sea, the Alien Spaceship
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Upon hearing the report from Red Lotus, Tang Rui¡¯s first reaction was that the undersea passage on the Korean side was about to be opened.
He hurriedly asked Red Lotus to disy the situation of the seabed.
Sure enough, the passage had been greatly expanded, and even the previously copsed rubble and debris had been cleared away.
Upon learning this news, he had no more time to y with the little furball and immediately got up to go back.
Due to his excitement, While leaving, he even took Little Dumpling¡¯s bamboo shoot by mistake, leaving the little one dumbfounded on the ground.
Yingyingying¡
Little Dumpling cried out, but it did not bring Tang Rui back; instead, he sped up his departure.
When Tang Rui returned to the Lan family¡¯smand center, he realized he had been holding the bamboo shoot the whole time.
¡°Red Lotus, disy the situation of those three submarines and the Korean undersea passage.¡±
Tang Rui threw the bamboo shoot away and sat down in his chair.
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
Shua!
Two projection screens appeared.
On the left screen, three Ohio-ss strategic nuclear submarines were advancing in the deep sea.
The right screen showed the situation of the Korean undersea passage.
The whole passage had basically been opened, and the final finishing and preparation work was underway.
As for why no one went down, it was because their ¡°father¡± hadn¡¯t arrived yet, so they couldn¡¯t send people.
¡°Red Lotus, any news from their satellitework about when they¡¯ll go down for exploration?¡±
¡°Master, the order from the American side is to have all the Koreans stay on the drilling tform, not allowed to enter the seabed. They must wait until their arrival before sending people down.¡±
¡°When will the three nuclear submarines arrive?¡±
¡°Master, they are expected to arrive the day after tomorrow morning.¡±
The day after tomorrow?
It¡¯d be Christmas Day.
The timing was quite good, coinciding with Christmas.
¡°Red Lotus, start the mountain-top nuclear fusion reactor, activate the maic field control system, and begin charging the maic field in that sea area.¡±
¡°Okay, Master, the reactor is started, energy output at 75%, charging the sea area¡¯s maic field.¡±
Tang Rui nodded after hearing this. Three days was enough time.
In fact, the whole device didn¡¯t need to charge the target location in advance.
After all, even the energy output of a nuclear fusion reactor,pared to nature, was minimal.
If it needed pre-charging to start, that would be useless.
Normal operation required direct positioning, and the device would manipte the Earth¡¯s maic field and the force of positive and negative electrons to create a huge thunderstorm area.
But if you wanted to pre-charge, it was also possible.
The more energy that umtes there in advance, the greater the force the device can manipte when it starts.
As Brother Mark (the protagonist from the movie ¡°A Better Tomorrow¡±) said, the money hadn¡¯t disappeared; it was just apanying you in a different way.
This saying also applied here.
Energy hadn¡¯t disappeared; it was just pervading the world in a different form.
With the start of the device.
The huge energy from the nuclear fusion reactor, through the device, was injected into the Earth¡¯s maic field and gathered in that sea area.
Once the energy began to gather.
The more sensitive animals on the seabed began to flee desperately, swimming crazily out of the area.
The less sensitive ones continued hunting on the seabed.
But the less sensitive ones were in the minority.
Even the shrimp knew something big was about to happen.
Most animals, especially those like turtles that can sense maic fields, are very sensitive to such changes.
Such drastic changes are like someone pouring gasoline into your house right in front of you.
Anyone who isn¡¯t blind would see it.
However, this change was not discovered because the sea area had already been blocked by the Koreans.
Without fishing boats, and the drilling tform not caring about changes in the fish poption, they wouldn¡¯t waste their efforts on this.
In a blink of an eye, three days passed.
The three Ohio-ss strategic nuclear submarines had arrived in the Korean sea area, patrolling 50 meters above the undersea passage.
On the drilling tform at the sea surface.
A special cylindrical submarine was hanging from the crane.
¡°Ike, you¡¯re the best, keep it up!¡±
A high-ranking military official from the American side encouraged the elite who was about to drive the submarine to explore the alien spaceship at the bottom of the sea.
¡°Mission assurance.¡±
¡°Okay, let¡¯s go.¡±
After saluting, Ike entered the special submarine through the round hatch on top and closed the hatch.
Then, he gestured an OK sign to everyone inside.
¡°Lower the submarine.¡±
The crane¡¯s rope began to slowly lower.
Soon, the special submarine entered the water and slowly headed towards the passage, guided by the rope.
Calling it a deep-water submarine was a bit of a misnomer; it was more like an underwater elevator that could withstand 5,000 meters of water pressure.
It had no power of its own, with oxygen and electricity supplied through a pipeline from the drilling tform above.
Any problem with the pipeline would mean the end for those inside.
But at this moment, no one cared about this issue; they were all staring at the monitors, wanting to see what the alien spaceship looked like.
At the same time, Tang Rui also sat inside the Blue Army¡¯smand center, watching the holographic projection screen in front of him, which also showed the special submarine diving.
¡°President Tang, what¡¯s happening?¡±
Han Shu was confused when he saw the special submarine and the three Ohio-ss strategic nuclear submarines.
¡°Wait and you¡¯ll see, don¡¯t rush.¡±
After Tang Rui spoke, he suddenly thought of something and immediately called the military¡¯s special department.
¡°President Tang, what¡¯s the matter?¡±
¡°Have our people arranged on the Korean drilling tform been evacuated?¡±
¡°They were evacuated a long time ago. Later, the Koreans tightened security, and with the Americans there, our people couldn¡¯t get in. President Tang, are you asking about this because there¡¯s something special?¡±
¡°No, just that the Americans are starting to move, and I was worried about friendly fire, so I made a special call to check.¡±
¡°Friendly fire? What are you going to do, President Tang?¡±
¡°Not much, I just calcted that they have a cmitying, waiting for a thunder strike from heaven.¡±
¡°Are you monitoring the situation over there?¡±
¡°Yes, watching it live.¡±
¡°Can you send a link?¡±
Five minutester.
Someone squeezed into the securework, the big shot from the special department, who watched the holographic projection with interest.
¡°President Tang, how much for this device?¡±
¡°It¡¯s not for sale, but I can give you a few sets. If you want to buy in bulk, forget it.
There are private manufacturers and research institutes working on this, and they¡¯ve already developedser interference and non-medium imaging.¡±
Tang Rui had no intention of bringing holographic projection to the market.
If he wanted to make money, every techpany would go bankrupt.
So, for devices and technologies not under embargo, he wouldn¡¯t put them on the market, at most using them in the military field, and even then, not much.
¡°I see¡ then thank you, President Tang. We do need a few sets of this equipment.¡±
¡°Alright, send someone to pick it up tomorrow.¡±
As the two chatted, the special submarine had reached the bottom of the passage, the location of the alien spaceship.
Tang Rui and his team knew what the so-called alien spaceship was all about, so they weren¡¯t excited at all.
¡°President Tang, you said you made some small modifications to the model. Did you install a bomb?¡±
¡°Yes, the blue patterns on the model¡¯s surface are high-energy battery solutions. Once broken, they¡¯ll explode.¡±
¡°Not bad. How powerful is the explosion?¡±
¡°Not very powerful, since it¡¯s too close to our home. I was afraid that if it¡¯s too powerful, it would damage our own property, so I didn¡¯t make it too big.¡±
¡°How much exactly?¡±
¡°About equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT.¡±
¡°But President Tang, you said they were going to be struck by lightning?¡±
¡°Yes, they are going to be struck by lightning¡ ah¡¡±
Tang Rui paused mid-sentence, suddenly stunned..
Chapter 310 - 310: Pierced Through, Heavenly Lightning
Chapter 310 - 310: Pierced Through, Heavenly Lightning
Attracting Earthly Fire
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Upon hearing the report from Red Lotus, Tang Rui¡¯s first reaction was that the undersea passage on the Korean side was about to be opened.
He hurriedly asked Red Lotus to disy the situation of the seabed.
Sure enough, the passage had been greatly expanded, and even the previously copsed rubble and debris had been cleared away.
Upon learning this news, he had no more time to y with the little furball and immediately got up to go back.
Due to his excitement, While leaving, he even took Little Dumpling¡¯s bamboo shoot by mistake, leaving the little one dumbfounded on the ground.
Yingyingying¡
Little Dumpling cried out, but it did not bring Tang Rui back; instead, he sped up his departure.
When Tang Rui returned to the Lan family¡¯smand center, he realized he had been holding the bamboo shoot the whole time.
¡°Red Lotus, disy the situation of those three submarines and the Korean undersea passage.¡±
Tang Rui threw the bamboo shoot away and sat down in his chair.
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
Shua!
Two projection screens appeared.
On the left screen, three Ohio-ss strategic nuclear submarines were advancing in the deep sea.
The right screen showed the situation of the Korean undersea passage.
The whole passage had basically been opened, and the final finishing and preparation work was underway.
As for why no one went down, it was because their ¡°father¡± hadn¡¯t arrived yet, so they couldn¡¯t send people.
¡°Red Lotus, any news from their satellitework about when they¡¯ll go down for exploration?¡±
¡°Master, the order from the American side is to have all the Koreans stay on the drilling tform, not allowed to enter the seabed. They must wait until their arrival before sending people down.¡±
¡°When will the three nuclear submarines arrive?¡±
¡°Master, they are expected to arrive the day after tomorrow morning.¡±
The day after tomorrow?
It¡¯d be Christmas Day.
The timing was quite good, coinciding with Christmas.
¡°Red Lotus, start the mountain-top nuclear fusion reactor, activate the maic field control system, and begin charging the maic field in that sea area.¡±
¡°Okay, Master, the reactor is started, energy output at 75%, charging the sea area¡¯s maic field.¡±
Tang Rui nodded after hearing this. Three days was enough time.
In fact, the whole device didn¡¯t need to charge the target location in advance.
After all, even the energy output of a nuclear fusion reactor,pared to nature, was minimal.
If it needed pre-charging to start, that would be useless.
Normal operation required direct positioning, and the device would manipte the Earth¡¯s maic field and the force of positive and negative electrons to create a huge thunderstorm area.
But if you wanted to pre-charge, it was also possible.
The more energy that umtes there in advance, the greater the force the device can manipte when it starts.
As Brother Mark (the protagonist from the movie ¡°A Better Tomorrow¡±) said, the money hadn¡¯t disappeared; it was just apanying you in a different way.
This saying also applied here.
Energy hadn¡¯t disappeared; it was just pervading the world in a different form.
With the start of the device.
The huge energy from the nuclear fusion reactor, through the device, was injected into the Earth¡¯s maic field and gathered in that sea area.
Once the energy began to gather.
The more sensitive animals on the seabed began to flee desperately, swimming crazily out of the area.
The less sensitive ones continued hunting on the seabed.
But the less sensitive ones were in the minority.
Even the shrimp knew something big was about to happen.
Most animals, especially those like turtles that can sense maic fields, are very sensitive to such changes.
Such drastic changes are like someone pouring gasoline into your house right in front of you.
Anyone who isn¡¯t blind would see it.
However, this change was not discovered because the sea area had already been blocked by the Koreans.
Without fishing boats, and the drilling tform not caring about changes in the fish poption, they wouldn¡¯t waste their efforts on this.
In a blink of an eye, three days passed.
The three Ohio-ss strategic nuclear submarines had arrived in the Korean sea area, patrolling 50 meters above the undersea passage.
On the drilling tform at the sea surface.
A special cylindrical submarine was hanging from the crane.
¡°Ike, you¡¯re the best, keep it up!¡±
A high-ranking military official from the American side encouraged the elite who was about to drive the submarine to explore the alien spaceship at the bottom of the sea.
¡°Mission assurance.¡±
¡°Okay, let¡¯s go.¡±
After saluting, Ike entered the special submarine through the round hatch on top and closed the hatch.
Then, he gestured an OK sign to everyone inside.
¡°Lower the submarine.¡±
The crane¡¯s rope began to slowly lower.
Soon, the special submarine entered the water and slowly headed towards the passage, guided by the rope.
Calling it a deep-water submarine was a bit of a misnomer; it was more like an underwater elevator that could withstand 5,000 meters of water pressure.
It had no power of its own, with oxygen and electricity supplied through a pipeline from the drilling tform above.
Any problem with the pipeline would mean the end for those inside.
But at this moment, no one cared about this issue; they were all staring at the monitors, wanting to see what the alien spaceship looked like.
At the same time, Tang Rui also sat inside the Blue Army¡¯smand center, watching the holographic projection screen in front of him, which also showed the special submarine diving.
¡°President Tang, what¡¯s happening?¡±
Han Shu was confused when he saw the special submarine and the three Ohio-ss strategic nuclear submarines.
¡°Wait and you¡¯ll see, don¡¯t rush.¡±
After Tang Rui spoke, he suddenly thought of something and immediately called the military¡¯s special department.
¡°President Tang, what¡¯s the matter?¡±
¡°Have our people arranged on the Korean drilling tform been evacuated?¡±
¡°They were evacuated a long time ago. Later, the Koreans tightened security, and with the Americans there, our people couldn¡¯t get in. President Tang, are you asking about this because there¡¯s something special?¡±
¡°No, just that the Americans are starting to move, and I was worried about friendly fire, so I made a special call to check.¡±
¡°Friendly fire? What are you going to do, President Tang?¡±
¡°Not much, I just calcted that they have a cmitying, waiting for a thunder strike from heaven.¡±
¡°Are you monitoring the situation over there?¡±
¡°Yes, watching it live.¡±
¡°Can you send a link?¡±
Five minutester, someone squeezed into the securework, the big shot from the special department, who watched the holographic projection with interest.
¡°President Tang, how much for this device?¡±
¡°It¡¯s not for sale, but I can give you a few sets. If you want to buy in bulk, forget it.
There are private manufacturers and research institutes working on this, and they¡¯ve already developedser interference and non-medium imaging.¡±
Tang Rui had no intention of bringing holographic projection to the market.
If he wanted to make money, every techpany would go bankrupt.
So, for devices and technologies not under embargo, he wouldn¡¯t put them on the market, at most using them in the military field, and even then, not much.
¡°I see¡ then thank you, President Tang. We do need a few sets of this equipment.¡±
¡°Alright, send someone to pick it up tomorrow.¡±
As the two chatted, the special submarine had reached the bottom of the passage, the location of the alien spaceship.
Tang Rui and his team knew what the so-called alien spaceship was all about, so they weren¡¯t excited at all.
¡°President Tang, you said you made some small modifications to the model. Did you install a bomb?¡±
¡°Yes, the blue patterns on the model¡¯s surface are high-energy battery solutions. Once broken, they¡¯ll explode.¡±
¡°Not bad. How powerful is the explosion?¡±
¡°Not very powerful, since it¡¯s too close to our home. I was afraid that if it¡¯s too powerful, it would damage our own property, so I didn¡¯t make it too big.¡± ¡°How much exactly?¡±
¡°About equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT.¡±
¡°But President Tang, you said they were going to be struck by lightning?¡±
¡°Yes, they are going to be struck by lightning¡ ah¡¡±
Tang Rui paused mid-sentence, suddenly stunned..
Chapter 311 - 311: The Cool Breeze of the Spine
Chapter 311 - 311: The Cool Breeze of the Spine
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Boom!!!
The drilling tform below the lightning strike exploded in a split second turning into a burst of mes.
Even the sea water below instantly evaporated upon being struck by the lightning.
The mes and the reaction of hydrogen and oxygen from the electrolyzed water caused a secondary explosion under the influence of the dispersed electric light.
For a moment, the entire sea area was illuminated.
But this was nothing.
The real change was happening at the seabed.
After the lightning strike reached the seabed, it fully activated the high-energy battery solution inside the submarine model and the maic field that had been charging for three days, resulting in a miraculous transformation between electricity and maism.
Buzzing and rumbling¡
The strength of the seabed¡¯s maic field increased drastically, causing the ocean floor to shake.
The entire seabed trembled.
Some rocks and mineralposites on the ocean floor began to slowly float to the surface.
¡°Beep beep beep¡¡±
Inside the three American submarines, shrill rm sounds red.
¡°Communication system failure¡¡±
¡°Sonar system failure¡¡±
¡°Life support system failure¡¡±
¡°The submarine is out of control, we are surfacing, power chamber system failure.¡±
At that moment, all electronic devices inside the three submarines malfunctioned.
Affected by the strong maic field, the submarines began to surface with awkward postures.
Without various devices for assistance, the submarines in the ocean were like blind men, unable to see anything.
Crackling and fizzing¡
Suddenly, the electronic devices inside the submarines started to overload and explode, plunging the submarines into darkness.
Inside the submarines, people could see sparksing out of various devices and sometimes the walls and pipes also shed with electric sparks.
¡°Calling Seawolf, calling Seawolf, this is Wolf¡¯s Den, please respond.¡± The American underground base was constantly calling the three submarines, but there was no response.
Everything was fine just a moment ago.
They were broadcasting the situation under the sea via satellite signals.
But suddenly, the satellite signal disappeared, the drilling tform lost contact, and even the three submarines at the bottom of the sea lostmunication.
If it had been a strategic attack, it would have been understandable.
But the problem was.
Everything was normal before, and no enemy was detected.
Let alone a strategic attack, even the nearby aircraft didn¡¯t take a nce this way.
How did they suddenly lose contact in such a situation?
¡°Switch the signal to the Korean coastal observation station.¡±
¡°Switching signal now.¡±
After about ten seconds.
The base s big screen disyed a new image.
In the image.
The observation station¡¯s telescope captured the distant sea sky, continuously shing with lightning.
This¡
An extreme weather thunderstorm?
But even a thunderstorm shouldn¡¯t block signals.
¡°Send a warship over there, see what¡¯s going on?¡±
¡°The military ships enforcing the blockade are already on their way, estimated to arrive in twenty-five minutes.¡±
While the Americans were in a fog.
Tang Rui, watching the data on the holographic projection screen, suddenly said, ¡°It¡¯s starting.¡±
¡°Starting? Wasn¡¯t that golden lightning strike the beginning?¡± Han Shu had been watching and had seen the golden lightning strike, which was already terrifyingly powerful.
A single strike had blown up the entire drilling tform.
Such immense power, and it wasn¡¯t even the start?
¡°That lightning strike was like lighting a firecracker fuse with a lighter before the grand fireworks show,¡± Tang Rui casually exined.
If theary maic field control device was so weak, then his three hundred-plus source points would have been wasted.
This was just the appetizer.
Sure enough.
As soon as he finished speaking, the clouds in the sky erupted with countless lightning strikes.
The entire sky lit up.
Countless bolts of lightning fell.
Like chains of heaven plunging into the sea.
The water boiled and evaporated.
Countless electric sparks flickered on the sea¡¯s surface, with balls of lightning of various sizes moving chaotically.
The water¡¯sponents, ionized in the evaporation, reacted with the ball lightning, causing intense res.
Brilliant and scorching res continuously burst on the sea¡¯s surface.
The sky shed with lightning.
Explosions continued on the sea.
The entire sea area at that moment was like a giant shbang, releasing enormous energy.
Even hundreds of kilometers away, a series of deafening roars could be heard.
Inside the Blue Armymand hall.
Han Shu, watching this apocalyptic scene, unconsciously swallowed and then turned to Tang Rui.
President Tang, what if this exploded in a city?¡±
¡°It wouldpletely destroy the city. No building or person on the surface would survive.¡±
¡°President Tang, can this weapon be used anytime? Can its power be adjusted? Can it target single entities precisely?¡± asked the head of the special department.
¡°It can be used anytime, but in the same area, there must be a 12-hour interval The power can naturally be adjusted. What you¡¯re seeing is the normal mode, not the destruction mode, so the power isn¡¯t very strong.
As for targeting a single entity, that¡¯s not possible unless a special maic field device is ced on the target; otherwise, precision is difficult.¡±
Tang Rui simply exined.
¡°This is just the normal mode? What¡¯s the destruction mode like?¡± Han Shu asked fearfully.
¡°Destruction mode¡ when the explosion at the seabed happenster, you¡¯ll see the power of destruction mode.¡±
¡°An explosion at the seabed?¡±
¡°Of course, do you see all the bubbles underwater and the electric sparks? When these spread to the seabed, the energy I prepared will fully explode.¡±
After hearing Tang Rui¡¯s words, the two looked at the sea on the screen.
Indeed.
The water was boiling with numerous bubbles.
These bubbles were hydrogen and oxygen.
The lightning¡¯s light constantly flickered inside these bubbles, continuously spreading to the deep sea.
As the lightning spread, it created new bubbles.
Some bubbles exploded underwater.
Some bubbles surfaced, adding to the firelight on the surface, making the sea area even hotter.
¡°Tang Rui, what about those three submarines?¡± Han Shu suddenly asked.
¡°No worries, the nuclear reactor¡¯s pollution will be directly eradicated by the uing billions of volts of lightning and the strong ionized ball lightning causing no pollution.¡±
Tang Rui thought Han Shu was concerned about radiation pollution.
No need to worry.
Under the intense collision of electrons, that bit of radiation was nothing.
No, I mean, what about the nuclear missiles inside?¡±
¡°The nuclear missiles¡¡±
Tang Rui paused mid-sentence, then froze.
¡°Red Lotus, simte what will happen to the nuclear missiles in the uing lightning.¡± &
¡°Okay, Master, calcting¡ Calctionplete. The missile¡¯s shell will be prated and dissolved, but the extremely high temperature of the lightning will directly trigger a chain reaction leading to a fusion reaction, releasing a massive amount of energy.¡±
After Red Lotuspleted the calction and presented the simtion results, themand hall suddenly fell silent.
¡°That¡ How many nuclear missiles are in those three submarines?¡± Tang Rui¡¯s voice was a bit dry.
¡°Each submarine can carry 24 ballistic missiles, each with 8 warheads of 150 kiloton yield.¡±
3x24x8x150 = 86.4 million.
After calcting this simple math, everyone felt a tingling sensation on their scalp.
A chill ran down their spines.
¡°President Tang¡¡±
¡°Don¡¯t panic, stay calm¡.¡±
Chapter 312 - 312: A Beam of Light Shooting into Outer Space
Chapter 312 - 312: A Beam of Light Shooting into Outer Space
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¡°Red Lotus, calcte the explosion time and power.¡±
Tang Rui urgently spoke to Red Lotus.
¡°Master, the estimated explosion time is in 7 minutes and 23 seconds. The explosion power is sufficient to cause movement of the Pacific te, leading to widespread eruptions across the entire Pacific Ring of Fire.¡±
¡°Red Lotus, can we control the explosion within a certain range by fully enhancing the maic field strength to form a constraint?¡±
¡°Based on calctions, a maic field strength of 120 Tes is required to contain the explosion. Currently, there is insufficient energy to achieve this.¡±
¡°How much energy is needed? How many nuclear fusion reactors would it take?¡±
¡°It is estimated that the full functionality of 113 nuclear fusion reactors is needed to increase the Earth¡¯s maic field strength in that sea area to 120 Tes.¡±
After hearing this, Tang Rui took a deep breath.
¡°Red Lotus, disy the explosion countdown.¡±
¡°Understood, Master.¡±
Watching the countdown now showing only 7 minutes and 12 seconds left, Tang Rui immediately ran out of themand center.
¡°Red Lotus, send the parts for the Earth¡¯s maic field energy conversion device that we designed earlier to theboratory.¡±
Tang Rui spoke while running.
¡°Right away, Master.¡±
Arriving at theboratory, Tang Rui picked up the parts and started assembling them in a very rough manner.
In less than 2 minutes and 40 seconds, a shabby device appeared before Tang Rui¡¯s eyes, its welding joints seemingly on the verge of breaking at any moment.
[Item: Poorly-made Electrothermal Energy Conversion Collection Device]
[Experience: 0/2100]
[Origin Points: 462.31]
Upon seeing the system panel, Tang Rui immediately clicked to enhance the device, upgrading it to the third stage without hesitation.
Whoosh!
A golden light shed.
The device in front of him had transformed dramatically, from an ugly-looking machine to a sci-fi device with a three-meter diameter and arge disc on top, resembling a mushroom.
[Item: Ster Energy Conversion Collection Device]
[Experience: 0/50000]
[Enhancement: Photothermal Radiation Maic Field Collection Conversion System]
[Attributes: Energy Absorption Efficiency Increased by 180%, Maic Field Coverage Area Increased by 160%, Instantaneous Thermoelectric Energy Conversion Efficiency Increased by 120%]
[Origin Points: 21.31]
Tere were only 4 minutes and 27 seconds left until the explosion.
¡°Red Lotus, how long will it take to send this device to the top using robots at the fastest speed?¡± Tang Rui asked anxiously.
¡°Master, Red Lotus needs only 28 seconds.¡±
Arge cargo transport robot equipped with an SEG unit grabbed the device and flew out of the base.
Tang Rui ran back to the Blue Army Command Center.
Upon his return, the two others looked at him, wanting to know his solution.
¡°Don¡¯t worry, it¡¯s handled,¡± Tang Rui nodded with a smile.
Although the process was a bit stimting, there were no idents, and everything went smoothly.
However, seeing the system panel showing only just over 20 origin points left, Tang Rui broke into a cold sweat.
Next, he needed to increase his reserve of origin points to over 1000, otherwise, he wouldn¡¯t feel secure.
Settling back into his chair, Tang Rui watched the situation unfold on the projection screen.
Countless lightning strikes continued to bombard the sea surface, the dazzling light illuminating the entire sky.
More and more bubbles were forming at the seabed.
The entire sea area seemed to be boiling.
The electric lights prating deep into the sea were enveloping three submarines, shing around their hulls like frying dough sticks.
But such electric lights would not trigger the mushroom bomb.
At most, they would cause the submarines¡¯ equipment to fail, leading to a continuous rise in the temperature of the small nuclear reactors.
Butpared to the mushroom bomb, this was insignificant.
¡°Master, the device has been deployed.¡±
¡°Start the device.¡±
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
After the device was activated, a small window appeared beside Tang Rui, disying the operational status of the device.
Tang Rui tapped on the buttons on the screen.
He maximized the operating efficiency of the device.
Hum!
With the device operating at full capacity, the sr wind, which constantly impacts Earth¡¯s maic field from outer space, was converted into electrical energy at this special moment.
This vast electrical energy was then transformed into electromaic waves and integrated into the maic field, utilized by theary maic field control device.
Then, using this enormous energy source, theary maic field control device began to strengthen the maic field strength around the sea area of the Korean Penins.
Due to the significant increase in the maic field strength, the power of the lightning storm intensified, spreading faster towards the seabed.
The countdown on the big screen started decreasing rapidly.
The original countdown of over 3 minutes was now only 53 seconds, but Tang Rui was not worried at this point.
The energy conversion device was incredibly powerful.
It could directly absorb and convert the sr wind¡¯s thermal radiation energy through the Earth¡¯s maic field.
How much energy did the sr wind impact the Earth within a day?
1.49E22 joules.
What¡¯s the power output?
1.73E17 watts.
In front of this number, what controlled nuclear fusion is just trash.
Of course.
The device was not powerful enough to convert all energy.
Even if it could, it shouldn¡¯t do so.
Because the Earth still needs sunlight and heat.
The device absorbed those that were reflected, those that collided with and dissipated in the Earth¡¯s maic field.
It did not affect the atmospheric cirction, Earth¡¯s illumination, and the natural cycle of the biosphere.
The three of them watched the projection screen in silence.
Soon, the countdown was down to just ten seconds.
At this moment, at the bottom of the sea, thin streaks of electricity started appearing, although very faint.
But when countless faint electric lights converged together.
Triggering the energy at the bottom of the sea.
Boom!
Sound vanished.
The seawater disappeared.
A miraculous sight urred.
A super lightning bolt emerged, connecting from 1,724 meters below the sea to 6,300 meters above in the sky.
Purple lightning burst from the seabed.
It prated through rockyers, the ocean, and the sky, unleashing unparalleled power.
The lightning vaporized all the water it passed through, and the air ionized at that moment.
The sea surface within dozens of kilometers was covered with electric lights.
The surrounding seawater boiled like never before.
The three submarines were instantly vaporized by the lightning, and the high atomic number elements within them triggered a chain reaction.
At the moment of the chain reaction, a fusion reaction urred.
Boom!
An even brighter light appeared.
It was as if the sun had fallen into this sea area, illuminating the entire Bohai Bay like daytime.
The energy produced by the power of over 80 million tons began to sweep around.
But when it spread to 17 kilometers away, it hit an invisible wall.
All the energy could not continue to expand outward.
Everything around and below were bound by a strong maic field.
The energy trying to dissipate could only rush towards the sky.
Just like that, a column of light shooting into outer space appeared..
Chapter 313 - 313: Compensation
Chapter 313 - 313: Compensation
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¡°Stop.¡±
¡°Captain, is that the wrath of God?¡±
¡°No, that¡¯s just a natural phenomenon, an extreme thunderstorm.¡±
¡°Then the drilling tform must be¡¡±
On the Korean warship, the first officer and the captain, watching the lightning and thunder ahead, both had a bad premonition.
¡°Captain, our electronic equipment is being affected.¡±
¡°Send a message to headquarters immediately, report the situation here.¡±
¡°Yes.¡±
After receiving the message, Korea promptly ryed it to America, waiting for a response.
America was already aware of the thunderstorm. However, the sudden appearance of such an extreme event, without any prior signs, was puzzling.
¡°Based on the current information, I believe the cause of the thunderstorm could likely be the unknown influence of an alien spacecraft on the seabed.¡±
¡°I agree. Earlier, Ike reported that he was only a centimeter away from prating the hull of the alien spacecraft.
After that, both the drilling tform and the submarines suddenly lost contact. Prating the hull of the alien spacecraft likely triggered some kind of change.¡±
¡°So, what now? Korea¡¯s warships can¡¯t enter the thunderstorm area; that region is now off-limits.¡±
¡°We can only wait for the thunderstorm to clear up. We¡¯ll immediately instruct Korean military to seal off the coastline to prevent the discovery of any unusual situations after the storm ends.¡±
Following America¡¯s orders, Korea quickly began to evacuate the crowds from the coastline and dispatched troops to take over the coastal defenses.
Due to the urgency of America¡¯smand, the first to arrive at the coast were Korea¡¯s rapid response forces, the special forces.
They were not far from the coastline and reached in three minutes by helicopter.
¡°Captain, look over there, the weather is so strange.¡±
¡°Maybe our scientists are conducting experiments, like those weather control weapons.¡±
¡°Quite possible, otherwise why would they be so eager to have us deploy along the coast? They must be afraid of being discovered.¡±
¡°Alright, enough talk, stay alert.¡±
But at that moment, the brightness in the distance suddenly increased by several magnitudes, and a sun seemed to rise.
Then, they saw a beam of light shooting into the sky.
¡°Captain, what is that?¡±
¡°Is this our new weapon? Wow, impressive.¡±
¡°Just is¡ urn¡¡±
The third person was about to speak but suddenly copsed, eyes rolling back.
The others tried to help him but also fell to the ground, one after another.
At that moment, not only them but also the warship at sea watched as a massive energy shockwave erupted.
However, the shockwave did not sink their warship.
It only destroyed the external equipment.
But the ship¡¯s integrity didn¡¯t mean the crew was safe. Everyone inside copsed at that moment.
They were too close to the epicenter.
Exposed to high-intensity neutron radiation, they died instantly.
Those farther from the site were unharmed; they could only see the beam of light shooting into the sky.
¡°What is that?¡±
¡°A light wave?¡±
¡°Who¡¯s releasing an energy wave?¡±
¡°Quick, take a picture with your phone.¡±
At that moment, people all over the world could see the light beam reaching the sky.
Many took out their phones to capture the moment.
Inside the Blue Army Command Center.
The three people watching the screen on the big monitor all sighed in relief, thankful that nothing went wrong this time.
¡°Mr. Tang, won¡¯t there be any radiation residue?¡±
¡°Don¡¯t worry, after the energy burst is over, I¡¯ll continue to clean the area with lightning.
Luckily we¡¯re far enough, otherwise, the neutron radiation would have been enough for us.¡±
Tang Rui thought for a moment before speaking, feeling somewhat relieved.
It was good that they reacted quickly.
If they hadn¡¯t realized what was happening and allowed the mushroom bombs to explode, the consequences would have been unthinkable.
Not to mention other things, just the volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and tsunamis caused by the movement of the Pacific te would be enough to devastate coastal areas.
Not to mention the radiation pollution caused by the explosion.
By then, both Korea and Japan would be doomed.
And it wouldn¡¯t be beneficial for China either.
Only neutron radiation was the least costly, after all, it couldn¡¯t reach China.
Even Korea suffered only a small area along the coast.
The decay time of elerated neutron radiation is short.
In a few days, everything would be back to normal.
¡°Mr. Tang, we shouldn¡¯t use this weapon again in the short term. Everyone who knows about this must adhere to strict confidentiality measures.¡±
A bigwig from a special department spoke up.
¡°This thing was never known to anyone else. Apart from the three of us, no one else knows about it. I haven¡¯t even uploaded the data to the confidential database.¡±
Tang Rui¡¯s secrecy measures weremendable.
He was afraid that if the higher-ups knew about it, they wouldn¡¯t let him test it.
So, the only ones who had witnessed the power of the maic field controller were the three of them. Not a single other person.
Lin Chao could only guess.
¡°That¡¯s good. Is there any possibility that this weapon¡¯s use could be discovered?¡± the bigwig asked again.
¡°Impossible. At most, they will find that the maic field has unusual fluctuations. Trying to deduce the source from the maic field data is basically impossible.¡±
¡°So you¡¯re saying, no one knows or can detect that this is man-made?¡±
¡°Yes, you could say that. Even if there are guesses, there¡¯s no evidence.¡±
¡°Okay, I understand. Korea owes uspensation now.¡±
The bigwig smiled slyly after hearing this.
¡°Compensation? Whatpensation?¡± Tang Rui was stunned.
¡°They conducted a mushroom bomb test without authorization, viting the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and also caused permanent environmental damage to the Bohai Bay, severely impacting our fisheries. No matter what, they need to provide adequatepensation,¡± the bigwig spoke righteously.
Tang Rui was speechless, only able to internally apud the cunning strategy.
After a while, once the chain reaction and fusion reaction energies were exhausted, the sky-reaching light column disappeared, leaving only the dust particles within the maic field.
Tang Rui controlled the maic field to elerate, ejecting these radioactive dust particles out of Earth.
No need to worry about them falling back.
In the ejection process, he used electromaic eleration of seawater, firing these particles out of Earth using maohydrodynamic propulsion.
After all this, he again controlled lightning to strike the sea for a while before gradually dissipating.
By this time, there was nothing left to see in the entire sea area.
The drilling tform was gone.
Not even debris remained.
As for the model of the spaceship on the seabed, it too was swept away by the lightning during the recent outburst.
Leaving only a deep pit on the seabed.
All traces were obliterated under the devastating thunderstorm.
After hanging up the video call, the bigwig from the special department immediately reported the situation to the higher-ups..
Chapter 314 - 314: Compensation of 56.824 Billion USD
Chapter 314 - 314: Compensation of 56.824 Billion USD
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¡°Our satellite was destroyed.¡±
¡°The Korean warship has lost contact.¡±
In an American underground base, the members of the think tank listened to thepiled news and all fell silent.
Why did this happen?
Extreme weather was one thing, but why did such a tremendous amount of energy erupt?
¡°What do you think caused this?¡±
¡°Could it be the main cannon of the alien spacecraft?¡±
¡°Hmm? Quite possible.¡±
¡°It might be that when we interfered with the alien spacecraft, it triggered its automatic defense system, leading to all this.¡±
¡°But there¡¯s a problem. The alien spacecraft has been buried underground for so long. Even if it¡¯s an automatic defense, there¡¯s no need for an attack of this energy level.¡±
¡°Maybe this was the weakest weapon of the alien spacecraft.¡±
¡°What do we do now?¡±
¡°Let¡¯s send a Korean submarine to investigate.¡±
At this point, Korea waspletely baffled by the series of events.
The drilling tform was gone.
The warship lost contact.
The soldiers were dead.
Not only did they gain nothing, but they also took a heavy blow and were now dazed and confused.
Now, America was instructing them to send a submarine to investigate the situation, which seemed like taking advantage of them.
¡°Okay, we will dispatch a submarine to investigate immediately.¡±
Korea responded without hesitation after receiving the notice.
As for the radiation issue in that sea area.
It wasn¡¯t their concern.
They weren¡¯t the ones going to drive the submarine to investigate.
Three hourster.
Korea¡¯s submarine sent back a message: there was nothing on the seabed.
Receiving this answer, both Korea and America were unwilling to believe it and organized another group to investigate the seabed.
This time, a deep-sea research submarine was used.
Upon entering the deep pit on the seabed and seeing the ss-like crystalline bottom, both America and Korea fell silent.
It was gone.
The alien spacecraft was no more.
After a thorough search, a few palm-sized fragments of the alien spacecraft were found at the bottom of the pit.
¡°The light we saw earlier was probably the self-destruction of the spacecraft.¡±
¡°No, I don¡¯t think so. It could also have left.¡±
¡°Gentlemen, now is not the time to dwell on this issue. What do we do next?¡±
This question was met with another round of silence.
The alien spacecraft was gone.
So was the alien technology.
Their previous strategy was based on acquiring alien technology, a temporary concession, and then ater burst.
Now that the alien spacecraft was gone.
They had made concessions, but the hope of ater burst was almost none.
With conventional weapons, they had giant mechs, which were unsolvable.
In overall strategy, they were now beginning to dominate space,pletely overshadowing them.
If they went for broke, it would be a global disaster.
But under normal circumstances, who would do that?
Even when they were badly beaten, the mushroom bombs were still kept at home.
Now those bombs were under their supervision.
So, going for broke was nonsense.
¡°Everyone, we¡¯ve received a message from across the ocean, demanding an exnation for the Korean nuclear test.¡±
Everyone exchanged nces upon hearing this.
The other side was right.
Korea was indeed a bit out of line, daring to conduct a mushroom bomb experiment near their neighbor¡¯s territorial waters.
¡°Contact the other side. Tell them we invite their investigation team to join us in investigating Korea. We will urge Korea topensate for all the losses.¡± ¡°Right, I remember Korea had some shady dealings with certain individuals from UNESCO, registering some of our cultural heritages through backdoor trades. We can¡¯t overlook such actions. We believe a re-evaluation is necessary.¡±
¡°I support this joint investigation. We must thoroughly investigate and show no leniency.¡±
Each person present was extremely intelligent.
Now that the alien spacecraft was gone.
So was the fortune of the United States.
They all knew what would happen next, so there was no point in trying to make it harder for the other side. It was meaningless and could even backfire. Without a viable n, they would not act rashly.
Since they were already conceding.
It was better to just let gopletely.
After the meeting ended.
Others would take care of the remaining matters.
Likewise.
The once-confidential news was no longer necessary to be kept secret, so after leaving, they each called various capitalists to sell the news at a good price.
At a manor in an American farm.
¡°Master, Mr. Eisen called with very important news.¡±
¡°What news?¡±
¡°A half year ago, an alien spacecraft was discovered at the bottom of Korea¡¯s sea¡¡±
The butler recounted the situation in full detail.
¡°Alright, I know. Go and donate a hundred million dors to Mr. Eisen¡¯s charity foundation.¡±
¡°Yes, Master, right away.¡±
After the butler left, the old man picked
up the phone and called his arch-rival.
¡°Did you get the news?¡±
¡°I know. What do you want to say?¡±
¡°I think clean energy is the future of mankind. What do you think?¡±
¡°I think your mouth stinks.¡±
¡°Really? If you really think so, I¡¯d be very happy.¡±
¡°Don¡¯t make too big a move when selling stocks.¡±
¡°Sell? I don¡¯t n to sell. Why don¡¯t we give it away as a gift instead of selling it for that bit of money?¡±
¡°What do you mean?¡±
¡°Any nation that reaches the pinnacle, its capital will expand greatly. Then, do you think the capital of that nation will be different from ours?¡±
¡°Your mouth really stinks.¡±
After hanging upl, both old men closed their eyes, calcting everything.
At this time, the top American capitalists were all nning for the future.
They knew too well how terrifying the expansion of capital could be with the backing of the world¡¯s strongest nation.
Because that¡¯s how they rose to power.
So, at this time, their first thought wasn¡¯t how to conflict with the emerging capital but how to join it.
After all, they were too familiar with this game.
Such high-level secrets were unknown to the middle tier and even the sub-top tier.
Tang Rui was in the know.
But he didn¡¯t bother with these matters.
After the incident, he started earnestly umting origin points, determined not to be reckless until he had umted 1000 points.
But this incident.
Caused a significant international stir.
Nations were unaware of the true nature of the incident but saw America¡¯s reaction.
They actually cooperated domestically to investigate Korea.
Although it was called a joint investigation, the Americans sent not only did not hinder the investigation but even helped provide a lot of information.
This led to Korea quickly building a heavy water reactor experiment base with American help.
The investigation team even found industrial centrifuges in operation.
This was a big revtion.
The investigation team was baffled.
But since evidence was found, there was nothing to argue about.
Compensation was due.
In less than a week, Korea signed thepensation agreement.
A total of 568.24 billion US dors was paid.
Including mental distresspensation, seawater pollution cleanup fees, fishing ground losspensation, environmental pollution fees, and more..
Chapter 315 - 315:1 Want All the Benefits of Reaching the Summit
Chapter 315 - 315:1 Want All the Benefits of Reaching the Summit
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¡°Mr. Tang, representatives from several oilpanies of America are looking for you. When are you avable?¡±
Lin Chao called Tang Rui to inquire about his avability.
¡°Representatives from oilpanies?¡±
Tang Rui was a bit surprised after hearing this.
¡°Yes.¡±
¡°Do I have to meet them?¡±
¡°It¡¯s better to meet, it¡¯s a good thing.¡±
¡°Okay, let¡¯s meet in the afternoon.¡±
After hanging up the phone, Tang Rui continued assembling the parts in his hands.
He really hadn¡¯t done muchtely.
Just staying at home every day, assembling various devices and equipment, umting source points. Up to now, he has umted more than 1500 source points.
In theory, this amount of source points should be enough.
But Tang Rui had nothing else to do.
It¡¯s better to umte more during this time. It would be ufortable to have no source points when needed.
In the afternoon.
Tang Rui arrived at the conference room of the office building.
ording to Lin Chao, these people were here to bring him benefits, and they didn¡¯t have many demands.
So, their treatment was much better than thest time with the inte representatives, as they were the ones asking for favors from him.
¡°Mr. Tang, hello, I am Peter, a representative of the Oil Alliance. I am very pleased to meet you.¡±
When Tang Rui arrived at the conference room, Peter had already been waiting there for half an hour.
¡°Hello, please sit down, no need to be too formal.¡± Tang Rui nced at the other party and then nodded.
This person named Peter had a kindly face.
The kind that wouldn¡¯t make people feel adverse.
A natural affability.
¡°Thank you, Mr. Tang.¡± Peter sat down opposite Tang Rui and began to organize his thoughts, preparing to say something.
Unfortunately, before he could speak, Tang Rui directly asked, ¡°What is your purpose today? Don¡¯t make it tooplicated, keep it simple.¡±
Peter¡¯s well-organized words were held back.
¡°Mr. Tang, this time Ie as a representative of the Oil Alliance seeking your protection. We are willing to relinquish the dominance of the oil industry, transfer shares of major oil groups, follow and implement your will, and fully protect your interests.¡±
It sounded very nice.
But Tang Rui was a bit skeptical.
¡°I don¡¯t have money to buy shares.¡± Tang Rui spread his hands and said.
¡°No problem, beforeing here, the heads of the families have already arranged everything. All the shares of the oil groups will be transferred to you at the price of 1 US dor for 20%.
If you need more, we can also give up more, even help you deal with other small shareholders, ensuring your dominance over the entire Oil Alliance.¡± ¡°One dor?¡±
¡°Yes.¡±
¡°What do you want in return?¡±
Tang Rui didn¡¯t believe in pie falling from the sky. The more others offer, the more they want.
¡°We only want your protection, to get the same treatment as yourpatriots. If there are any projects, we can have a fairpetition circle. As long as you don¡¯t favor one side, we don¡¯t ask for anything else.¡±
Tang Rui didn¡¯t respond after hearing this.
This sincerity was a bit too much.
And what they need, doesn¡¯t quite match what they offer.
No, it¡¯s not right.
The same treatment is actually quite excessive.
¡°Let¡¯s not talk about this for now. If I lead your Oil Alliance and say to unbind the US dor from oil and switch to our currency, can you do it?¡±
¡°No problem, as long as you have this idea, we will fully implement it and carry out your will.¡±
Wow.
Really daring.
What is this situation, directly dissolving America from the inside?
¡°Really? You¡¯re not afraid?¡±
¡°Mr. Tang, perhaps you are not aware of our situation. As long as our Oil Alliance makes a move, coupled with the current international situation, it¡¯s very simple to achieve this.
Or rather, even if you don¡¯t make such a request, this will happen after some time. The only difference is whether it happens sooner orter, the result is the same.¡±
Peter immediately exined.
In fact, regarding the issue of oil and the US dor, they had already discussed it.
Since the Bohai Bay oil field emerged, coupled with the camel¡¯s defection, this result was already destined.
¡°You go back first, I need to think about it. I will contact you when I have a decision.¡±
After listening, Tang Rui did not give an immediate answer.
¡°Okay, Mr. Tang, then I will leave first. I will be touring Jinling during this period. If you have any questions or requests, you can directlymand me.¡±
¡°Okay, I¡¯ll contact you if there¡¯s anything.¡±
After Peter left, Lin Chao came to the conference room.
¡°Does the higher-up know about this?¡± Tang Rui asked.
¡°They know.¡± Lin Chao immediately answered.
¡°What do they think?¡±
Tang Rui was puzzled, whether they wanted him to agree or if there was some other meaning, or if it was like before, using his name.
¡°There¡¯s no specific stance, you will understand after reading these documents.¡± Lin Chao said, and handed a file bag to Tang Rui.
Tang Rui took it and opened it.
He thought it would be some top-secret documents.
But it turned out to be business information.
The data listed were the financing and investment situations and data of America¡¯spanies and groups in the domestic market over the past half month.
It seemed normal.
After all, the market had been opened.
But the ratio of investment and financing before and after half a month increased by fifteen times.
Not 15%, but fifteen times, which was frightening.
Even more frightening was that in the past half month, many domesticpanies had merged, acquired, and invested in many foreignpanies.
Thesepanies included many sensitive areas.
In the past, even if you had money, you couldn¡¯t acquire or invest in thesepanies.
But now it was possible.
Even, the foreignpanies were begging for your investment.
After reading this, Tang Rui opened the next document.
This document was more interesting, listing the cooperation between domestic business tycoons, some second-generation rich, and America¡¯s groups.
Just like the Oil Alliance seeking Tang Rui, somepanies also approached domestic tycoons and second-generation rich, alling to offer benefits.
This document wasn¡¯t very interesting.
Tang Rui turned to thest part of the document, which was about the stock market and future GDP forecasts, as well as some economic trends.
The stock market was expected to be bullish for the next year.
And it was going to be a very bullish market.
A massive amount of foreign capital would enter the domestic stock market, and in theing days, even if you bought stocks with your eyes closed, you would make money.
At the same time, the coverage andwork channels of various industries would significantly improve.
So, the production scale and added value of products of manufacturers would greatly increase.
Manufacturers making money means more taxes.
By then, the fiscal situation would also improve.
One could say that the future was a golden era for domestic development.
And the fundamental factor facilitating this golden era was the outflow of wealth and reduced market share of America and Western countries.
After reading these documents.
Tang Rui understood what the higher-ups meant.
¡°Do the three oil giants have any thoughts?¡± Tang Rui suddenly thought of this question. Normally, the three oil giants would be eager to invest in America¡¯s oilpanies. Why didn¡¯t they act this time?
¡°They have thoughts, but they were rejected by the Oil Alliance.¡±
¡°Why?¡±
¡°Who knows? Anyway, the Oil Alliance has set their sights on you.¡±
¡°So, I can take their shares?¡±
¡°Of course, everyone is enjoying this wave of benefits. As a major contributor, if you don¡¯t enjoy it, it means there is a problem with the distribution of resources.¡±
Tang Rui nodded, agreeing with this statement.
He had stirred up many troubles.
But he never suffered a loss each time.
This time, he even subdued America.
Is it too much to get some benefits?
Not at all.
¡°Peter, tell the people of the Oil Alliance to contact some of your power grid groups. Tell them I want their shares. If they disagree, just wait for death.¡±
Tang Rui picked up his phone and called Peter.
He wanted the oil industry.
And he also wanted the power industry.
¡°Okay, Mr. Tang, we will inform them for you right away..¡±
Chapter 316 - 316 : Building a Wonder
Chapter 316 : Building a Wonder
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It had to be said, these old financial conglomerates and capitals not only acted quickly, but their methods were also extremely skilled.
After receiving Tang Rui¡¯s call, in less than a week, everything was arranged perfectly.
All the documents for the shares, the transfer of assets, even the congressional approval, were all taken care of.
One didn¡¯t have to worry about anything.
During this period, there were some incidents. A chairman of a powerpany didn¡¯t agree to hand over control of the electricity. He was somewhat of an extremist in white supremacy.
Now, to have to bow down to others, he couldn¡¯t ept it.
But this wouldn¡¯t do.
Tang Rui didn¡¯t even need to speak. That very night, the old man had a stroke
and passed away.
After his son took over thepany, he immediately signed the share transfer contract and vacated the chairman¡¯s position.
In less than a week, Tang Rui had control over America¡¯s oil and power.
All for the cost of 2 US dors, he obtained shares worth approximately 3-7
trillion US dors.
But the value of these shares is spective; if thepanies go bankrupt, the shares could be worthless in minutes.
Moreover, in this acquisition, these conglomerates didn¡¯t suffer major losses, just minor injuries, not enough to affect their vitality.
The real losers were the small shareholders.
Tang Rui knew these things, but he didn¡¯t care, as it was just a case of
dog-eat-dog.
Even if these conglomerates came together, he didn¡¯t take them seriously, and
as for equal treatment?
It was just lip service.
America itself opposed racial discrimination.
But everyone knew the reality.
It¡¯s the same in China; of course, there¡¯d be equal treatment, but in practice, one might find itcking, so it wasn¡¯t something that could be helped.
It¡¯s not that they were unfair, it¡¯s that everyone had their own problems.
¡°Mr. Tang, do you have any instructions for thesepanies moving forward?¡± After Tang Rui signed the share contract, Peter respectfully inquired.
¡°Nothing in particr, keep things as they are for now. If I need anything, I¡¯ll
call you.¡±
Tang Rui did have some ideas, but now was not the time.
Let¡¯s wait until this period is over.
The New Year is almost here.
Why bother with more?
¡°Okay, Mr. Tang, this is your personal team secretary¡¯s number. She can¡¯t enter thepany, but she will stay on standby in Jinling with her team. If you need anything, you can arrange for her to do it.¡±
¡°Personal team? What kind of people are there?¡± Tang Rui asked curiously.
¡°The entire team includes a stylist, fashion designer, travel arrangement service team, chef team, personal service team, etc., capable of meeting any of your needs in life,¡± Peter confidently stated.
But he wasn¡¯t lying; to curry favor, they were serious.
This team was definitely one of the world¡¯s top.
In terms of enjoyment, capital knows how to y; they can do anything you
can¡¯t even imagine.
Too bad.
He almost never needed it.
¡°Okay, I know. I¡¯ll call them if I need to. You can go now if there¡¯s nothing else.¡±
¡°Then, Mr. Tang, I¡¯ll take my leave.¡±
After saying this, Peter left with the share and appointment documents.
Tang Rui looked at the phone number of the personal team secretary on the table.
He originally thought about throwing it away.
But after thinking about it, he decided to let Honglian take note of the number.
Tang Rui organized the documents and prepared to go home when Lin Chao came running over.
¡°Mr. Tang, this is today¡¯s meeting summary.¡±
¡°Okay, I¡¯ll look at it when I get home.¡±
Tang Rui took the document bag and said casually.
He receives several such meeting summaries every day, including internal references and such.
Recently, he hadn¡¯t had much to do.
But the higher-ups were very busy, not just one department, but all
departments.
Because the current international situation was different than before.
Previously, international issues required considering America¡¯s thoughts and various interests.
Now, the way China thought about international issues had to change.
It was not about whose interests China might affect.
It was about who might affect China¡¯s interests.
Originally thought that after reaching the top, China wouldn¡¯t need to rely on America¡¯s experience, but it turns out they still needed it.
After all, they have been powerful for decades.
Their measures and experiences were worth learning.
So, during this period, various departments held meetings every day, reported the discussed ns, and then continued discussions at higher levels.
Tang Rui also received these meeting summaries every day.
It was not about asking for his opinion, but letting him know what not to mess with, what was their own.
It didn¡¯t matter before.
But now it was different; messing something up could result in China¡¯s own
loss.
Back at home, Tang Rui opened the document bag and looked through the meeting summary.
He didn¡¯t like reading these things.
Normally, he would just flip through it, nce at the titles to get the gist, and
be done.
But today¡¯s meeting content interested him.
International cooperation.
America intended to cooperate deeply with China in the space sector, such as establishing space standards and systems.
What were space standards and systems?
It was about raising the threshold for entering space, like setting a standard that rockets with a certain amount of thrust can beunched.
Afterunch, how to fine for rocket debris forming space junk outside the atmosphere.
In summary, space wasn¡¯t somewhere you went just because you wanted to. Rockets had to meet standards, satellites had to meet standards andply with procedures, etc.
To be honest, after reading this meeting summary, Tang Rui also had to admit that America did indeed have experience in this area.
Although American space technology now ranked second, it didn¡¯t prevent them from proposing this idea, because setting standards wouldn¡¯t exclude them.
As for the third, that¡¯d be hard to say.
These weren¡¯t important; the key issue was, China seemed to be somewhat interested, but hadn¡¯t agreed yet, saying they needed to study it.
At the end of the meeting summary, there was a form for Tang Rui to give his opinion on whether to establish these space standards and if so, which ones to use.
Tang Rui picked up a pen and directly wrote severalrge characters in the opinion column.
Project Jianmu, space elevator.
Why bother with rockets?
We¡¯ve already reached the top, why not create a spectacle to celebrate, it would be a loss to our ancestors otherwise.
Thinking back through the dynasties.
Whenever we rose to power, we would always undertake grand constructions, creating wonders.
Although it was the 21st, tradition shouldn¡¯t be lost.
¡°Building skyscrapers is meaningless; if we¡¯re going to do it, let¡¯s do something amazing, directly build a space elevator..
Chapter 317 - 317: Personal Tailored Mechanical Arm
Chapter 317: Personal Tailored Mechanical Arm
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After finishing his opinion, Tang Rui had put all the documents back into the bag, waiting to hand them to Lin Chao the next day.
The space elevator.
Actually, for him, it had meant nothing.
But for the entire human civilization, the space elevator was very necessary, and it was also the main artery for future space development.
It was not that spaceships were bad.
Before anti-gravity, spaceships that took off from the ground and went directly to space to transport materials were just of little use.
Their carrying capacity was too small.
As for the anti-gravity system, he was definitely going to work on it, but not at that time. Revealing the anti-gravity system directly would have been absurd, possibly even leading to the downfall of the entire civilization.
The next day.
Lin Chao had taken the document bag, submitted his opinions, which were
highly valued.
With the current level of human civilization, it was somewhat difficult to build a space elevator, not just because of the cable issue, but various other problems.
However, these problems were all technical and material-rted, not
theoretical.
So, they were not difficult to solve.
But the authorities weren¡¯t rushing into it, especially with the New Year
approaching.
Who doesn¡¯t celebrate the New Year?
In a blink of an eye.
The time hade to the day of the Chinese Little New Year.
After Tang Rui distributed a year¡¯s sry as an annual bonus to all employees, he also awarded each person 100 points.
¡°President Tang, what are these points for? Are they for a lottery?¡± Feng Yuanxing had curiously asked upon seeing the too points disyed on the system.
¡°No, these points are for internalpany use. You can exchange points for items, like electric cars,¡± Tang Rui had said with a smile.
In fact, he had just thought of this points system the night before.
After all, it was New Year.
We had reached the top that year, so it was time to celebrate.
He had thought about a lottery for employees, but mostpanies did that, and it didn¡¯t reflect the awesomeness of hispany.
So, he had racked his brains for ten minutes and came up with an idea.
Points.
With points, one could exchange for various high-tech items within thepany, like the electric cars he had just mentioned.
¡°Tang, where can we exchange these points?¡±
¡°Open your work assistant, click on the activities page, and you¡¯ll find the
points exchange there.¡±
Everyone had opened their work assistants upon hearing Tang Rui¡¯s words.
Gasp!
Everyone had gasped when they saw what the points could be exchanged for.
[Electric Car: 80 Points]
[Product Details: Customizable design, equipped with top-notchpany technology, including a wireless power reception system, unlimited endurance, no need for charging, lifetime warranty]
If the electric car was just an unlimited endurance vehicle, that wasn¡¯t very impressive.
But the items below were not something ordinary people could ess.
[Single-person Flyer: 260 Points]
[Product Details: Single-person electromaic anti-gravity flyer, electric propulsion engine, automatic driving, unlimited endurance, 6 Mach supersonic speed]
[Small Shuttle: 800 Points]
[Product Details: Capable of traveling between Earth and outer space, electric propulsion engine, high-energy isotope thermoelectric battery, 15 hours of endurance after leaving Earth¡¯s maic field, unlimited endurance within it] Besides these high-end items, there were also a variety of other things.
Employees could even use points for personal customization.
Like if you needed a product that wasn¡¯t sold outside you could use points to purchase from thepany, and they would make it for you.
This was why everyone was so excited after seeing the activities page.
¡°Tang, if we need personal customized equipment, do we submit the request directly to Red Lotus?¡±
¡°Right, submit your requirements to Red Lotus, and it will calcte how many points you need.¡±
¡°Tang, can ourpany make bionic arms for the disabled?
An employee had asked excitedly, thinking of something.
¡°Bionic arm? Aren¡¯t those sold outside?¡± Tang Rui had asked, puzzled.
¡°Tang, I¡¯m not talking about the junk sold outside, but something like in sci-fi movies¡ like the cyberpunk mechanical arms.¡± The employee had asked with anticipation.
Cyberpunk?
Mechanical arms?
Tang Rui had thought for a moment. Such cyberpunk mechanical arms required neural connection technology, brainwave signal conversion technology, ultra-precision mechanical processing technology, and a miniature power system.
These technologies were not a problem for hispany.
Although the neural connection and brainwave signal conversion technologies were confidential, and the employees didn¡¯t know about them, Tang Rui had them all.
¡°Sure, who was it for?¡±
-My nephew, he had an ident half a year ago and his right arm was amputated.¡±
¡°Okay, go to your nephew¡¯s house tonight, put thepany¡¯s bracelet on his hand to collect his neural signals.
Then take two photos of his amputated arm,pare his arm length, and send them to me before 8 tonight.
As for the points, let¡¯s say 100 for you. Normally, such special personal customizations started at 500 points, much more expensive than mass-produced items.
But you were the first to try, and it was New Year, so I gave you a discount.¡±
Tang Rui had said with a smile, minimizing the significance of the mechanical arm but making the rules clear.
¡°Thank you, Tang, I¡¯ll go to my sister¡¯s house right away.¡± The employee had bowed gratefully.
¡°Okay, if you have anything to exchange, order it today. You¡¯ll get it before New Year.
If you orderte, you¡¯ll have to wait until after the holiday.¡±
After Tang Rui finished speaking, he had left thepany.
The employees then began discussing what to exchange.
Exchanging for an electric car was the most practical, and everyone could afford it, plus they could design their own exterior.
So, many people had chosen to exchange for electric cars.
As for the single-person flyer, nobody had enough points, although some wanted to exchange or even buy points from others.
But everyone was smart.
With the personal customization of mechanical arms, points could be life-saving, more useful than money.
Nobody would foolishly sell their points for money.
As for exchanging high-tech from thepany and then selling it?
Forget it.
Under Red Lotus¡¯s surveince, if you dared to do so, you would be out in no time, and no one could save you.
But for family use, that was no problem.
After returning home, Tang Rui inquired what his employees had exchanged for.
¡°Master, most of them hadn¡¯t exchanged anything, choosing to keep their points. A few had exchanged for electric cars, and were currently using Red Lotus¡¯sputing power to design the car¡¯s appearance,¡± Red Lotus immediately replied.
Tang Rui had nodded, understanding that these people were good at exploiting opportunities..
Chapter 318 - 318: Space Elevator Project Verification and
Chapter 318: Space Elevator Project Verification and
Construction Site
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But these were all minor issues for Tang Rui, and he wouldn¡¯t say much about it.
After all, theputing power of Red Lotus was there to be used.
It would be a waste not to use it.
Besides, theputing power required to calcte the design of a car was insignificant.
In the evening.
After dinner, Tang Rui received the data uploaded by one of his employees.
¡°Red Lotus, based on this data, manufacture a mechanical arm. Remember to install tactile feedback sensors and neural signal conversion chips.¡±
¡°Master, do you need to load a weapon system?¡±
¡°No need.¡±
¡°Okay, Master, Red Lotus understands.¡±
In less than ten seconds, Red Lotus had the design of the mechanical arm ready. The internal structure was pre-existing, and it only needed minor modifications to the exterior based on the data.
Under the control of Red Lotus, a nano-level 3D printer began to print the skeleton of the mechanical arm.
The skeleton, made of a new type of alloy and designed as a hollow grid, was lighter than human bones. Therefore, even if more electrical devices were loaded, the overall weight was simr to a real arm.
An hourter, the mechanical arm was manufactured.
Tang Rui sent a message to the employee, asking whether he preferred a metallic skin or a bionic skin for the arm.
There was no difference between the two.
It was just a matter of appearance.
The metallic skin would look like something out of a cyberpunk story.
The bionic skin would resemble a real human arm.
¡°Thank you, Mr. Tang, we would prefer the bionic skin.¡±
¡°Okay,e and get it tomorrow.¡±
After giving instructions to Red Lotus, Tang Rui went to bed.
The next day, Tang Rui went to Lin Chao to ask for his help in obtaining a production license for electric cars. He also had his private team patent the car designs created by his employees.
In less than three days, hundreds of electric cars exchanged by the employees for points were delivered to them.
There was no need to worry about license tes.
They went through a special channel and obtained green license tes from the vehicle management office.
Having dealt with thepany matters, Tang Rui went with Li Shuyao to his grandparents¡¯ house to celebrate the New Year.
Compared tost year, his grandparents¡¯ health had improved a lot.
Last year, he had reced their therapeutic mattresses, which worked on the same principle as his therapeutic pod.
However, his pod was for body enhancement.
The ones he prepared for the elders were for body repair and system regtion.
A year had passed.
The elderly couple¡¯s health was not only better than before, butmon ailments of old age had also improved. Even their blood pressure had decreased, eliminating the need for medication.
¡°Xiao Rui, when are you two nning to get married?¡± Grandma was always concerned about this.
He had previously said he was busy, and the elders didn¡¯t rush him.
But now, during the New Year, the topic of marriage came up again.
¡°We¡¯ll go to her house in a couple of days to ask her parents¡¯ opinions, and then well set a date.¡± Tang Rui didn¡¯t evade the question.
After all, they had been together for a year.
There were no conflicts or disagreements, and they got along harmoniously.
So, he wasn¡¯t opposed to the idea of marriage.
Hearing Tang Rui¡¯s words, Li Shuyao gave him a special look, implying a reward.
The nature of the reward was left unsaid.
Tang Rui chose a nun¡¯s outfit this time.
On New Year¡¯s Eve, Tang Rui received many messages of blessings and a plethora of New Year¡¯s gifts, the exact number of which he didn¡¯t remember.
Anyway, the gift listpiled by Red Lotus was seventeen pages long.
Most of them were from abroad. Antiques, jade, jewelry, diamonds, calligraphy, and paintings ¨C enough to open a museum.
Tang Rui wasn¡¯t particrly interested in these items, but Li Shuyao was quite fascinated by the jewelry.
Ah, women.
After spending the New Year with his grandparents, on the first day of the lunar new year, Tang Rui took Li Shuyao to visit both sets of parents for lunch and dinner.
Then came another round of marriage urging, discussing when the parents from both sides should meet and settle the matter.
On the second day of the new year, they visited Li Shuyao¡¯s family.
Tang Rui brought up the topic of marriage, pleasing Li Shuyao¡¯s parents, who then engaged enthusiastically in the conversation.
¡°Brother-inw, how many tables are you nning for the wedding banquet?¡± the elder brother-inw asked curiously.
Tang Rui was momentarily stumped by the question.
How many tables?
If it were just rtives and friends from both sides, it would be manageable. But he couldn¡¯t estimate how many people woulde from his side.
Even if he didn¡¯t invite anyone, many would likely show up uninvited. It wouldn¡¯t be appropriate to turn guests away at a wedding.
Whether a hundred tables would be enough was hard to say.
¡°That is indeed a problem; I need to think about it,¡± Tang Rui said seriously.
¡°Actually, there¡¯s no need for avish ceremony. Just inviting rtives and friends for a meal would be enough,¡± Li Shuyao¡¯s father suggested.
¡°That won¡¯t do. A wedding happens only once, and it should have the proper grandeur,¡± Tang Rui shook his head, having his own ideas on this matter.
¡°Brother-inw, if there are many guests, we could book a resort. The space there would be sufficient.¡±
¡°A resort? No, it¡¯s not ssy enough,¡± Tang Rui shook his head.
¡°How about a wedding city, a traditional Chinese wedding?¡±
¡°Ten-mile bridal procession, phoenix cor and robes of rank?¡±
Tang Rui¡¯s eyes lit up upon hearing about a traditional Chinese wedding. He turned to Li Shuyao, curious about her thoughts.
Hearing Tang Rui¡¯s mention of the phoenix cor and robes of rank, Li Shuyao also seemed intrigued.
Which woman wouldn¡¯t like a phoenix cor and robes of rank?
In the face of such traditional regalia, a wedding dress simply doesn¡¯tpare.
Got it.
Understood.
Seeing Li Shuyao¡¯s reaction, Tang Rui knew what to do.
¡°Then it¡¯ll be a traditional Chinese wedding. But not in the wedding city. I¡¯ll figure out the venue.¡±
¡°Brother-inw, you¡¯re not thinking of going to Hengdian and directly using a pce for the wedding, are you?¡±
Tang Rui shook his head. Hengdian was not in his considerations.
ording to his personality, if he was going to do it, it had to be grand.
Hengdian¡¯s pces were big enough, but not ssy enough.
But there was no rush.
If necessary, he would just build an ancient pceplex specifically for the wedding.
It was a bold move.
But with his current situation, as long as it wasn¡¯t a matter of principle, everything else was not a problem.
In the blink of an eye, the seventh day of the new year arrived.
After the New Year, everyone began working again, and Tang Rui had to start getting busy.
But before he could attend to his own matters.
He was called to a meeting.
The content of the meeting was to discuss several major projects for the year: a space station, Earth orbital defense, and a space elevator.
These three nsplemented each other.
They could even beunched simultaneously. The meeting discussed the actual construction difficulties and design specifications.
The meeting was crucial.
Therefore, the questions raised were all targeted.
Including the issue of the material for the space elevator¡¯s cable.
Coincidentally, Tang Rui could directly provide an answer to this question.
¡°Regarding the cable issue, as everyone knows, it¡¯s made of carbon nanotubes. ording to calctions, as long as the tensile strength of the carbon nanotube cables reaches yoGPa, it will meet the manufacturing standards for the space elevator.
The carbon nanotubes produced by the Deep Red Company have a tensile strength of 35OGPa, far exceeding the space elevator¡¯s material requirements.
Also, the 80 strands of 52,ooo-kilometer-long cables needed for the entire space elevator can be manufactured within six months.¡±
Tang Rui spoke up, solving the biggest difficulty of the space elevator. Previously, everyone knew about the strength of carbon nanotubes, but the problem was manufacturing such long carbon nanotubes, which seemed impossible.
But for Tang Rui, this was not an issue at all.
¡°May I ask, Schr Tang, how did you calcte the 52,000 kilometers? Why choose this length?¡±
After listening, another schr immediately asked. It wasn¡¯t a challenge to Tang Rui but an inquiry into a key issue, as the length had its rationale.
¡°ording to my design for the space elevator, it can be divided into three stages. The first stage is from the Earth¡¯s surface base to the spaceport station, which is 36,000 kilometers long.
The second stage is the spaceport station, where a huge ring will be constructed using centrifugal force to generate pseudo-weight, allowing staff to stay for long periods.
The third stage is from the spaceport station to the tail end of the cable, which is the counterweight-armed satellite tform, 16,000 kilometers long.
The reason for the 52,000-kilometer length first considers the height of the geostationary orbit, and secondly, the weight of the armed satellite tform.
¡°If there is no armed satellite tform, then the length of the cable would need to reach 130,000 kilometers, which is definitely not feasible.
¡°However, if the armed satellite tform is too heavy, although it can shorten the length of the tail-end cable, it would lead to instability of the entire tform.
¡°Therefore, after numerous simtions and calctions, 52,000 kilometers is the optimal length for the space elevator cable.¡±
Tang Rui did not hesitate toy out the specifics.
This was the optimal result obtained after numerous calctions by Red Lotus. Both a longer and a shorter length would affect the stability of the entire system.
¡°Tang Professor, ording to what you said, the airport space station uses centrifugal force to create gravity, but this would make the entire space station very heavy.
¡°Once the space station tilts, the cable of the space elevator will snap. How can this problem be solved?¡±
Another Professor raised this question, as it indeed is a critical issue. Unless you can guarantee that the space station will never tilt even once, otherwise, even carbon nanotubes would not withstand the force of the space station.
¡°Regarding this, it¡¯s actually quite easy to solve. That is to separate the space station from the main track of the space elevator, not using a hard connection, but a soft one.
¡°Although this approach will cause significant problems in attitude adjustment and orbit control, as long as a soft connection simr to electromaic bearings is used, this problem can be solved.
¡°I have already conquered this technology, so the issues of the orbit, attitude, and tilt angle of the airport space station are no longer problems.¡±
After hearing this, everyone nodded their heads.
If that¡¯s the case, then the technical challenges of the space elevator project have basically been ovee.
As for the engineering difficulties, they are at most a matter of some trouble.
¡°Professor Tang, do you have any rmendations for the manufacturing location of the space elevator?¡± asked someone from the National Academy office.
Tang Rui replied with one word. ¡°Mogadishu..¡±
Chapter 319 - 319: Just a Mission Arranged by Master
Chapter 319: Just a Mission Arranged by Master
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The main meeting had concluded.
Tang Rui was then pulled aside for a smaller meeting.
Compared to the main meeting, which was attended by various Professors and experts, this smaller meeting, apart from him, had no scientists, only powerful figures.
¡°President Tang, regarding the choice of the construction site for the space elevator, why consider building it in Mogadishu instead of Southeast Asia?¡±
¡°Geographically speaking, Mogadishu¡¯s location is uniquely advantageouspared to Southeast Asia, whether you consider maritime transportation or military strategy. It¡¯s the most suitable ce.
¡°Also, to put it simply, a space elevator is just a unique highway. Once we build the highway, we just wait and collect the toll.¡±
After hearing Tang Rui¡¯s answer, the powerful figures nodded in agreement.
¡°What about the future development of space technology? Do you have any predictions or ns?¡± another tycoon asked.
¡°As for predictions, countries without strong national power can only research space technology from outer space. As for how to reach outer space from Earth, they won¡¯t study that; they can only rely on the space elevator.
¡°Countries with strong national power will continue to research this technology. However, as technological barriers get higher, very few countries can afford the cost.
¡°This will create a gap between Earth and outer space, a gap only we can control. But before that, we mustpletely control outer space around Earth.¡±
After hearing this, the tycoons asked a few more questions.
Tang Rui answered truthfully.
He spoke his mind.
As for how the higher-ups would arrange and consider things, that was no longer his concern or responsibility.
After the meeting, Tang Rui returned to hispany. There was still a lot to be done at home.
For instance, the various projects he was responsible for. Talents drawn from across the country were arriving at thepany after his selection.
Together, these projects would bring the total number of people in the research team to over 1200.
Each of these individuals was an elite.
Saying they were all future scientists might be an overstatement, but bing experts in their respective fields was certainly within their grasp.
After all, with their capabilities and the top-tier research tform of the project team, if they couldn¡¯t be experts, they might as well quit research and go back to farming.
Tang Rui, ording to the previous n, began to group these researchers and initiated their training.
The content of the training was to thoroughly understand the technologies previously reserved by the Deep Red Company; otherwise, the uing research would be impossible.
While arranging for these personnel, Tang Rui also focused on reserving source points. What to research would be decidedter.
In the blink of an eye, it was the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
On this day, the Japan suddenly announced that it wouldunch a space station in a week.
Yes.
A space station.
Using bundled rockets for directunch into space, then assembling and connecting them.
To be honest, when Tang Rui heard this news, he didn¡¯t quite believe it.
Although Japan had some top-notch space technology, building a space station required more than just cutting-edge technology; it needed a systematic support.
Currently, there are only threeplete space systems in the world, each belonging to one of the three good people.
No matter how you look at it, these three wouldn¡¯t possibly provide Japan with aplete space system. Even if they did, Japan wouldn¡¯t be able to digest it.
So, Tang Rui was puzzled. What had gotten into Japan to suddenly decide to build a space station?
¡°Red Lotus, remind me when Japanunches the rocket,¡± Tang Rui told Red Lotus.
¡°Okay, Master, Red Lotus will remember.¡±
Japan.
Spaceunch center.
Fujihara Shimura, in charge of this space stationunch mission, looked at the special space station shipped from America, and his anger began to re.
Why?
Why must they, Japan, always take the me?
It was outrageous.
The Cab¡¯s fools, too, were useless.
America is now the second in the ss, and the ss leader¡¯s position will soon be relinquished. Why still be manipted by them?
¡°Fujihara-sama, the technicians from America¡¯s side won¡¯t allow us to inspect the space capsule. What should we do?¡±
A technical supervisor came over to ask.
¡°If they won¡¯t allow an inspection, then don¡¯t inspect. Just store it directly in the warehouse, ready for the uing hoisting.¡±
Fujihara Shimura nced at the space capsule below and turned to instruct the technical supervisor.
¡°Yes!¡± The supervisor nodded and left.
Over the next few days, Japan was busy, but no matter what they said, those America personnel guarding the space capsule just wouldn¡¯t allow Japan to inspect it.
This greatly annoyed the technicians from Japan.
But the higher-ups didn¡¯t take this matter seriously.
A weekter.
On the day of the rocketunch.
Countries around the world began broadcasting Japan¡¯s rocketunch, as it was tounchponents of a space station, not just a satellite.
Currently, there are only two space stations above humanity¡¯s heads.
If Japan¡¯sunch seeded, it would be the third operational space station.
Tang Rui, reminded by Red Lotus, turned on the holographic projection to watch Japan¡¯s rocketunch.
¡°Launch countdown 10, 9¡¡±
¡°Ignition!¡±
Boom!
Three rockets ignited, generating powerful thrust, and began to slowly lift off.
Soon, the rocket elerated, angling out of the Karman line.
Two bundled rockets detached.
Seeing this, Tang Rui felt something was off.
The space stationponents inside the rocket seemed too light; the thrust appeared excessive.
And the rocket¡¯s flight angle seemed odd.
It felt more like a missile aimed at a space station than aunch of space stationponents.
Bang!
The rocket suddenly exploded from within, turning into countless debris.
Just as Tang Rui was internally criticizing the rocket¡¯s incorrect posture, it inexplicably exploded.
Very suddenly, and strangely, it wasn¡¯t the fuel tank or engine that exploded, but rather it seemed like the space capsule inside the rocket did.
That was just unscientific.
Space capsules explode?
¡°Calcting debris trajectory, calctionplete, adjusting satellite orbit to avoid debris.¡±
Red Lotus didn¡¯t idle. The moment the rocket exploded, it started calcting the rocket debris trajectory.
Argeunch vehicle, along with a space capsule, exploding and forming debris was a devastating blow for Earth¡¯s orbit.
Remember.
This rocket didn¡¯t explode in low orbit but was on its way to high orbit.
Meaning, every Earth orbit would be affected. For satellites near the rocket, there wasn¡¯t even a chance to avoid before being destroyed by the debris.
For a while, spacemand centers around the world started frantically calcting these rocket debris trajectories.
Then they tried to adjust their own satellites¡¯ orbits to avoid the dangerous debris as much as possible.
If avoidance was impossible, they would transfer data in advance for other satellites to take over.
Major countries could do this.
But smaller countries without space capabilities suffered greatly.
Theycked the technology to calcte outer space rocket debris, let alone capture the debris orbit technology.
So, avoiding it was out of the question.
Just like that, arge number of debris with a wide coverage kept destroying satellites in Earth¡¯s orbit.
The debris from the destroyed satellites also flew out of orbit, scattering in all directions.
This chain reaction led to a space disaster.
And this space disaster was more exaggerated than the one caused by the Indians
After all, the India¡¯s manned spacecraft wasn¡¯tunched towards high orbit.
Its explosion only affected low orbit.
This time was different. Every orbit was affected, and the chain reaction made satellite adjustments even more difficult.
¡°Red Lotus, calcte if our space station will be affected,¡± Tang Rui immediately asked Red Lotus.
¡°Master, ording to calctions, there¡¯s a 98.6% chance that the space station will be hit by the debris.
But Master, don¡¯t worry. There are no people in our space station, so there¡¯s no concern for personnel safety,¡± Red Lotus quickly replied.
Damn!
Japan was up to no good again.
But since thereweare no people in his space station, he wouldn¡¯t bother with it.
If there were people on the space station, he would use a maic field to protect it.
Since there are none, there¡¯s no need to protect it.
As the old saying goes, the old must go for the new toe.
Later, he could have Japanpensate and use thepensation to build a brand new Southern Heavenly Gate space base.
Without Tang Rui¡¯s intervention, this space disaster wreaked havoc in Earth¡¯s orbit for five days.
Once the satellites that were to be destroyed were destroyed.
The space debris finally stabilized.
At this point, the United Nations convened a meeting to discuss the space disaster caused by Japan¡¯s rocketunch.
After discussions by the Security Council, the United Nations decided to add a department specifically to manage rocketunches by various countries.
Those with substandard technology are not allowed tounch rockets, satellites, or even missiles beyond the atmosphere.
Tounch, one must pass the technical audit of this department.
As for Japan¡¯s issue.
The rocketunch failed, thepany applied for bankruptcy, and no insurance was bought before theunch, so there was no way topensate.
They could only have the person responsible for theunch apologize to various countries.
Fujihara Shimura: ¡°Sincere apologies!¡±
Although he bowed and apologized, he thought that none of this was Japan¡¯s fault.
This explosion was just a task arranged by the master¡ no, the father and grandfather..
Chapter 320 - 320: The Commercial Use of Controlled Nuclear Fusion, the Era of Infinite Energy
Chapter 320: The Commercial Use of Controlled Nuclear Fusion, the Era of Infinite Energy
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By the time Tang Rui learned the truth about the rocket explosion, half a month had passed.
When he heard the news, he didn¡¯t know how to express his thoughts.
It was just too bizarre.
It seemed like Japan had started paying its debts.
Although on the surface, thepany thatunched Japan¡¯s rocket went bankrupt and didn¡¯tpensate for the satellites of various countries, in reality, Japan paid quite a bit, especially inpensation for our space station.
It was a substantial amount.
Regarding this matter, Tang Rui suggested, ¡°Please, increase the effort.¡±
The debts incurred in the past had to be repaid.
However, these events had no impact on him.
He continued to focus on his own affairs.
One day, Lin Chao sent a message.
¡°President Tang, the chief engineer of Dongfang Super Ring wants to meet you. When are you avable?¡±
¡°The chief engineer of Dongfang Super Ring, Professor Li?¡±
¡°Yes.¡±
¡°You can just send a video for matters like this. Whye in person? I¡¯ll contact him directly.¡±
After hanging up the phone, Tang Rui immediately started a video call with Professor Li. Knowing the situation, he couldn¡¯t let someone else take the trouble toe to him.
¡°Professor Tang, I hope I¡¯m not disturbing you?¡±
¡°Not at all, I just heard the news. You could have just called, no need to make a trip.¡±
¡°The thing is, I felt really embarrassed about this issue, so I wanted to tell you in person, it¡¯s really¡¡±
¡°No problem, just tell me directly. Do you need help?¡±
¡°Yes, the controlled nuclear fusion project is almostplete, but we have made no progress on the control program for the reactor core.
¡°Thetest 150W quantumputer provided by the Quantum Technology Research Center can¡¯t meet theputational requirements of the reactor core.
¡°So, I had no choice but to ask for your help, Professor Tang.¡±
Tang Rui was a bit puzzled after hearing this.
All the data on the nuclear fusion reactor, including the core control program, had been uploaded to the secure data repository.
Professor Li could just download the program from the repository.
Why did he need to specifically ask him?
¡°Professor Li, is there a problem with the core control program I uploaded? Or does something need adjustment?¡± Tang Rui asked, confused.
¡°It¡¯s not the program, it¡¯s the issue of fuzzyputing. Our core control program isn¡¯t intelligent enough.¡±
Huh?
Tang Rui then understood where the problemy.
The data he had uploaded did not include artificial intelligence program codes, so even if their coreputer¡¯sputing power was sufficient, without an intelligent system, the system would eventually crash due to data umtion. That¡¯s the difference between intelligent and non-intelligent systems.
No wonder Professor Li was embarrassed.
It was essentially like asking him for an artificial intelligence program, which would make anyone feel awkward.
But Tang Rui didn¡¯t mind.
The Al programs he gave out weren¡¯t at the level of Red Lotus, at most they were at the level of the early Xiao Yi.
So, for him, this wasn¡¯t a big deal.
¡°No problem, I¡¯ll have someone send over a copy of the Al core data shortly.¡± Tang Rui said generously.
¡°Thank you so much, Professor Tang, I really am¡¡±
¡°No need for formalities. If you really want to thank me, just invite me to dinner at the next Professor meeting, something special.¡±
¡°No problem, I¡¯ll take care of it and make sure you¡¯re satisfied.¡±
After the video call, Tang Rui sent Gaoyang by ne to deliver the Al data to Professor Li.
Twenty minutester, the Al data was in Professor Li¡¯s hands.
They immediately connected the data to the 150W quantum supeputer and activated the AL
¡°Prepare for testing.¡±
At Professor Li¡¯smand, everyone got ready.
Although they weren¡¯t concerned about the reactor¡¯s condition, fuel injection, strong maic field activation, and the nuclear fusion reactor¡¯s ignition.
They had tested it many times.
As long as the core was fine, the reactor would have no issues.
Everyone focused on the core data on the big screen.
¡°Teacher, there is no data umtion, error data has been cleared, and it¡¯s not stuck in a loop.¡±
¡°Error data and simtion calction results are all cleared, error data judgment results are not repeatedly verified, andputational consumption does not exceed 3%.¡±
¡°The 150WSputing power is more than enough, currently using less than 17% of peak capacity.¡±
As time ticked by, the nuclear fusion reactor had been operational for over 12 hours.
But so far, everything was normal. Core control was stable, high-temperature sma remained within the controble range, and energy output was steady.
¡°Teacher, we¡¯ve seeded.¡±
¡°Don¡¯t rush, let it run for three days first.¡±
Although Professor Li was excited, he wasn¡¯t in a hurry. Sess was certain, but for reporting purposes, it wasn¡¯t enough to simply dere sess; data reports were needed.
In a blink of an eye, three days passed.
The controlled nuclear fusion reactor operated stably, all data was normal, and it passed peak experiments perfectly.
This essentially meant that controlled nuclear fusion had beenpletely replicated.
Yes, replicated.
Tang Rui had figured it out long ago, but why would the country still pursue it? To fully grasp the technology.
It wasn¡¯t possible to stop just because he had seeded.
That was unthinkable.
Upon receiving the news, the higher-ups were very pleased.
Many ns could now be implemented.
Before replicating controlled nuclear fusion, the national power grid couldn¡¯t be touched, but now it could.
That evening at 7 PM, the news reported the sessful development of controlled nuclear fusion.
Of course, the report credited both Tang Rui and Professor Li, stating that two types of controlled nuclear fusion reactors had made breakthroughs.
This wasn¡¯t incorrect.
Tang Rui¡¯s fusion reactor was more advanced and indeed different from the Tokamak.
The replicated fusion reactor used the same materials to replicate the Tokamak.
Besides, the team had worked hard for many years.
He couldn¡¯t take all the credit alone; that¡¯s not how he operated.
Moreover, such fame wasn¡¯t important to him.
After the news was reported, the country was abuzz.
The controlled nuclear fusion dominated the media.
Not just domestically; the entire world praised it.
Phrases like ¡°the dawn of the era of unlimited energy¡± and ¡°theplete solution to power generation pollution¡± were thrown around.
All possiblemendations were given.
The day after the news report, countries worldwide sent congrattory messages and also inquired about the fusion reactor.
Who wouldn¡¯t want unlimited energy?
In the future, a country without a nuclear fusion reactor would essentially have a failed industrial base.
Why?
Because of electricity costs.
Others produce the same thing for one unit of cost, while you spend ten.
It¡¯s hard topete with that gap, not to mention the abundant electricity affects all sectors and aspects, not just energy consumption but also industrial upgrades. So everyone wants this technology.
If it had been released before we ranked first, there would have been a lot of trouble.
But now, it¡¯s all congrattions and discussions about cooperation.
They¡¯ll agree to almost any condition as long as it¡¯s not too outrageous.
American powerpanies directly contacted Tang Rui.
They knew Crimson had this technology and even built a physical nuclear fusion reactor but didn¡¯t dare to ask.
It hadn¡¯t been used in their own country yet.
They wanted to use it.
Now that it¡¯s reported, it means it¡¯s enteringmercial operation, so they could inquire.
Upon receiving the message, Tang Rui simply said.
Wait.
He didn¡¯t have time for America¡¯s matters now because he had his own troubles.
Nationwide power grid transformation and new electricity tariff standards.
Tang Rui was a key figure.
Because all the technology was rted to him..
Chapter 321 - 321: Electricity Reforms
Chapter 321: Electricity Reforms
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Tang Rui came to Beijing to participate in the electricity reform meeting.
In the meeting room, he voiced his thoughts.
His thoughts were simple.
All thermal power and nuclear power were to be abolished, and only hydropower was to be retained.
At the same time, the entire country¡¯s power grid would be abolished and reced with wireless power transmission to solve the power problem in one step.
¡°Professor Tang, do you mean to remove all the ultra-high voltage and high-voltage transmissionworks in the country and rece them with wireless power transmission?¡±
After hearing Tang Rui¡¯s exnation, the chairman of the power grid was numb.
The powerwork was gone.
Then what was he going to do as a power gridpany?
¡°That¡¯s right. With wireless power transmission technology, what¡¯s the use of wires? Not only is it a waste of resources, but maintenance is also troublesome.
¡°In some remote areas, even if there are only a few families, you still have to pull a wire over. It¡¯s so troublesome.
By using wireless power transmission directly, consumption will be reduced, and maintenance money will be saved. Isn¡¯t that good?¡±
Although Tang Rui knew that saying this would offend people, in the current situation, changing the current power transmissionwork in one step was the most cost-effective.
Otherwise, even with the controble nuclear fusion reactor and the Earth¡¯s maic field energy conversion equipment, the annual maintenance cost would be astronomical, not to mention the resistance consumption during the journey.
¡°In that case, how should we arrange the employees of the power grid?¡± The chairman of the power grid said helplessly.
In a situation where their skills were overwhelming, from a technical point of view, they did not have any hope of breaking out of the situation.
Therefore, he could only use his employees to exin things.
When Tang Rui heard this question, he leaned back in the chair and pretended not to hear it.
This wasn¡¯t something he should be considering.
At the moment, he was a technical expert and was only responsible for technical issues. Other matters had nothing to do with him.
When the big shots of the National Council heard this question, they also had a headache.
The power grid was not a small department.
In total, there were millions of employees in the country, both temporary and official.
This was no small matter.
Most importantly¡
No department could amodate so many people at once.
It was still fine if it was a temporary establishment.
What if it was the establishment?
¡°We will not discuss other issues for now. The main content of this meeting is the power reform and technology upgrade.
President Tang, ording to what you said, how many nuclear fusion power stations and wireless power transmission equipment do we need to build to support the country¡¯s electricity consumption?¡±
The big boss of the National Council didn¡¯t talk about the personnel arrangement. He immediately turned the topic back to the electricity reform.
¡°For nuclear fusion power stations, based on the current electricity consumption, three is enough. But considering the increase in electricity consumption in the future, a conservative estimate would require seven nuclear fusion power stations.
As for the wireless power transmission equipment, one of them can cover the entire world. However, considering the issue of redundancy, we can build two more as backups.¡±
Tang Rui did a simple calction and said a set of numbers.
In fact, the amount of power generated by the nuclear fusion reactor was not important because he had unlimited energy in his hands.
The maic field energy conversion equipment was the real unlimited energy source.
As long as there was nothing wrong with the sun, mankind would notck energy.
But this technology was too advanced.
He hadn¡¯t started researching it yet, so he couldn¡¯t take it out yet. Anyway, he wasn¡¯t in a hurry.
¡°Alright, that¡¯s all for today¡¯s meeting.¡±
After the big shot from the National Council heard this, he looked at the people in the conference room and said nothing more. Instead, he announced the end of the meeting.
The meeting ended.
The person in charge of the electric fence immediately stood up and left.
To be honest.
Before he came to the meeting, he was still thinking about how to get some resources for his department. After all, this technological reform would definitely increase the corresponding transmissionwork.
In the end, he didn¡¯t expect that a power technology reform would directly destroy their power grid.
How was he going to exin this when he went back?
Therefore, after the meeting ended, he immediately ran out toin to the higher-ups. After all, it was a problem of settling millions of people.
There was no power grid.
However, he could not do without the establishment.
Tang Rui left the conference room unsteadily. Just as he was about to return to the hotel to rest, he was called up by the secretary of the National Council¡¯s big boss.
A small meeting.
This seemed to have be a process.
They arrived at the small meeting room.
There were only five of them.
Other than him, all of them were big shots from various departments.
¡°President Tang, can the wireless power transmissionwork guarantee technical safety? For example, electromaic radiation?¡±
When Tang Rui heard this question, the corners of his mouth twitched.
Wasn¡¯t it true that the lower one¡¯s education level was, the higher the radiation level was? Why would a big shot like him ask such a question?
¡°This technology is very troublesome to exin, but if you talk about radiation, you can think of this technology as the Earth¡¯s maic field.
¡°As long as the Earth¡¯s maic field does not cause harm to the human body, then this technology will not cause harm to the human body.¡±
Tang Rui originally wanted to exin the technique, but after thinking about it, he still gave up.
When all had been said and done, they still couldn¡¯t understand it, so they might as well use an analogy to make it clear.
¡°Professor Tang, with wireless power transmission technology, can we promote electric vehicles? Is it like charging an electric car while driving it?¡±
¡°Yes, that¡¯s not a problem at all. We just need a power receiver.
Actually, it¡¯s not just electric cars. As long as it¡¯s a device that uses electricity as its energy source, it can do the same.¡±
Tang Rui nodded and replied. This was not a problem at all.
As long as it was within the range of the Earth¡¯s maic field.
It could be charged.
If they left the range of the Earth¡¯s maic field, there was nothing they could do.
However, only spaceships could leave the range of the Earth¡¯s maic field. Even the space station was within the range of the Earth¡¯s maic field.
In other words.
Space stations and satellites didn¡¯t need sr panels or radioactive batteries. They could directly obtain energy through wireless charging.
However, in order to ensure safety and ensure that there would be no idents, backup energy was still necessary.
¡°Then how do we monitor the power usage of this wireless power transmission tform?¡±
¡°The receiver only needs an electric meter. You don¡¯t even need an electric meter. As long as you have an ount, you can directly record the power usage after connecting to the charging tform.¡±
¡°How long will it take to make this charging tform?¡±
Tang Rui raised three fingers.
¡°Three months?¡±
Tang Rui didn¡¯t say anything. He just withdrew one of the three fingers, and then withdrew another under the few people¡¯s dumbfounded gazes.
¡°Done.¡±
Tang Rui spread his hands and said.
The corners of the few big shots ¡®eyes twitched, but there was nothing they could do about Tang Rui.
¡°Professor Tang, ording to your n, how much should we charge for a unit of electricity?¡±
How much does a unit of electricity cost?
Tang Rui really hadn¡¯t thought about this problem.
¡°How about 1 or 2 cents?¡±
¡°What about the cost of electricity generation?¡±
¡°It doesn¡¯t cost much..¡±
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After the meeting, there was a smaller meeting.
Tang Rui stayed in the capital for over a week.
Of course, it wasn¡¯t just about the power grid issue, but also the space elevator project and the international demand for controlled nuclear fusion, among other things.
He attended all sorts of meetings, big and small.
Towards the end, he became utterly confused.
Fortunately, throughout a little more than a week, he managed to roughly outline various matters.
The domestic power reform was a must.
There was no doubt about that.
just dismantling the high-voltage power grid recovered resources worth an astronomical figure.
That was copper.
They were already short on copper.
Not to mention, the annual savings, calcted in hundreds of billions, made the reform of the power grid imperative, no matter how difficult.
However, it needed to be done gradually, not all at once.
It was nned that over the next five years, they would gradually reduce the role of the power grid. In ten years, only a wired power transmissionwork for emergency preparedness would be retained, and the rest would be reced.
As for power nts, that was an easier topic. All thermal power nts were to be phased out, and nuclear power nts would orderly withdraw from the grid. Hydropower would remain, but no new hydropower stations would be added in the future. They would only be built ording to local irrigation requirements.
Domestic changes were easy as long as the orders came from above, but it was different abroad.
Originally, Tang Rui¡¯s idea had been to use wireless transmission technology to
sell cheap electricity to other countries.
But they were not fools.
What if one day you¡¯re in a bad mood and cut off their power?
They wanted controlled nuclear fusion reactors, not wireless transmission. But
it wasn¡¯t like they just got whatever they wanted, so the negotiations
continued.
After several days, everyone reached a consensus on the controlled nuclear fusion issue.
The country would help other nations build nuclear fusion reactors, but the control of the entire reactor would be in our hands.
The electricity was theirs.
But the reactor was ours.
All maintenance, repairs, fuel additions, etc., would be handled by personnel
sent from our country.
Foreign power grids could only cooperate, then integrate the energy generated by the reactors into their grids, and leave the rest to us.
That was the bottom line.
Either agree, or go back home and research on your own.
Eventually, countries had no choice but to agree to these terms.
After all, without cheap electricity, their industries would have suffered a huge blow. They had to agree for the time being.
And then go back and research slowly.
As for wireless charging, no country had agreed to it. They¡¯d rather use the old power grids than adopt wireless charging.
Even the United States had not agreed.
Even when Tang Rui assured that there would be no power cuts, the U.S.
Congress still firmly disagreed.
Powerpanies were in favor, but apart from them and the oilpanies, all other financial groups opposed it.
Tang Rui didn¡¯t care about this.
¡°If wireless charging can be cut off, can¡¯t the reactors be cut off too?¡± he thought.
Ridiculous.
Tang Rui hadn¡¯t bothered with the subsequent negotiations. After signing a few documents, he left the capital.
He was supposed to keep busy in the capital.
But the orbital defense system at home was ready, and he had to return to deal with serious matters.
¡°These messy meetings, whoever wants to hold them can hold them,¡± he thought.
He was done serving them.
After resting at home for a day.
Tang Rui began to focus on serious matters.
¡°Red Lotus, bring out all the armed satellites made in the past two months, then contact the Air Force to block the airspace above,¡± he ordered.
¡°Okay, Master. Red Lotus understands,¡± Red Lotus replied.
Under Tang Rui¡¯s orders, Red Lotus, controlling hundreds of robots, pulled all the armed satellites from the warehouse and ced them on the runway.
¡°President Tang, what are you doing?¡± Lin Chao arrived at the scene immediately and asked.
¡°Launching satellites.¡±
¡°How?¡±
¡°Justunch them with a swoosh.¡±
Lin Chao, looking at the hundreds of armed satellites neatly ced on the runway with electric propulsion engines installed underneath, was stunned. Was this really a directunch?
Like a skyrocket?
¡°President Tang, is this reliable?¡± Lin Chao seemed a bit worried.
If something went wrong with these hundreds of satellites and they fell from the sky, it wouldn¡¯t be a joke.
¡°Quite reliable,¡± Tang Rui confidently said.
Previously, satelliteunches were troublesome.
Either by rocket or space shuttle.
After all, satellites themselves didn¡¯t have propulsion and couldn¡¯t go to space on their own.
But now it was different.
As long as they were within the Earth¡¯s maic field, energy was basically unlimited. Therefore, Tang Rui equipped these armed satellites with electromaic anti-gravity systems and electric propulsion engines.
Thus, using wireless power transmission, these satellites could go to space on their own.
Just likeunching skyrockets.
The only difference might have been that one needed a lighter to ignite, and the other didn¡¯t.
¡°Master, all 1,200 armed satellites have been transported,¡± Red Lotus reported.
¡°Activate the electromaic anti-gravity system.
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
Buzz!
All 1,200 armed satellites floated up and silently hovered in mid-air.
¡°Red Lotus, start installing the fairings.¡±
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
One by one, robots began to wrap the armed satellites with fairings, to ensure they wouldn¡¯t be damaged by high temperatures when leaving the atmosphere. Although the satellites were robust, the electronicponents were still delicate.
In less than an hour.
All the armed satellites had their fairings installed.
At this point, the armed satellites really looked a bit like skyrockets, the only thing missing being a stick at the bottom.
¡°President Tang, the airspace has beenpletely blocked,¡± the Air Force reported. The entire airspace above Jinling was sealed.
No aircraft could fly over Jinling at this moment, not even fighter jets.
¡°Red Lotus, has the spacemand center given the go-ahead?¡± Tang Rui asked.
¡°Master, the spacemand center approved theunch twenty minutes ago, Red Lotus replied.
Tang Rui nodded and then given the order.
¡°Launch!¡±
At hismand, all the armed satellites¡¯ electric propulsion engines ignited at once, and 1,200 armed satellites simultaneously ascended to the sky.
The sight was indeed spectacr.
¡°Armed satellites have left the atmosphere, fairings detached, adjusting orbit now,¡± Red Lotus reported.
Under Red Lotus¡¯s control, the 1,200 armed satellites, after leaving the atmosphere, began to fly towards their predetermined orbits, including geostationary orbit, synchronous orbits over domestic airspace, high orbits, and low orbits.
It could be said, that with these 1,200 armed satellites, no missile or aircraft would have been able to enter domestic airspace.
Neither below nor above the atmosphere.
Of course, this was not the final satellite orbital defensework.
The current armed satellites were just satellites, not outer space orbital strike tforms.
So the current defensework still had some loopholes..
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¡°Such arge-scaleunch by Tang Rui had been monitored by anyone who was not blind.
This simultaneousunch of a thousand satellites had indeed startled various countries.
Those in the know understood.
The ability tounch over a thousand satellites into space at the same time meant the capability tounch over a thousand intercontinental missiles.
Although Tang Rui hadn¡¯t intended this move as a deterrent, it still gave everyone a scare.
When the aerospacemand centers of various countries detected theunch, they were almost scared out of their wits.
Thankfully, what wasunched into space were satellites, not missiles.
And most of the satellites were positioned over their own territory, posing no threat to others.
This was the thought process of countries far from the domestic front.
For those closer, the thoughts were different.
Take the neighboring ¡®sticks¡¯, for instance.
In a blue-brick house, the big boss of the sticks, upon hearing the news, waspletely shocked and started rapping in his office.
He was calling out all sorts of nonsense.
¡°Should we¡ maybe protest a bit?¡±
After finishing his rap, the big boss, taking a deep breath, said, ¡°Write a congrattory message and send it over, saying we are happy about the sessful satellitework formation.¡±
¡°Understood.¡±
It wasn¡¯t just the sticks. Japan and some neighbors nearby also gave their congrattions at the first opportunity. Other countries were slower in response but also sent their congrattions.
What can I say?
It¡¯s like one party reaches the summit, and everyonees to congratte.
Upon receiving these telegrams, the domestic side had been grinning from ear to ear, finding the situation extremely satisfying.
They had discovered for the first time that working could be this easy.
Take, for example, some diplomats from smaller countries.
As long as you provided political contributions, once the big boss was in power, you could choose a small country and be the head of a department.
As long as the country was powerful.
Diplomatic work became much easier.
It wasn¡¯t about you having to do the work, but others cooperating with you, making your workfortable.
While the whole world was filled with congrattions on the sessful formation of the domestic satellitework, one department in the United Nations was in a bind.
This department, newly formed, was the Outer Space Orbital Resources Management Department, mainly responsible for auditingunches of satellites or spacecraft by various countries.
Since the explosion of the Japanese space station in outer space, this department was born under the joint effort of the five good Samaritans.
In terms of authority, it was simple.
If you wanted tounch a rocket, you had to first get approval from this department. Anyunch without approval was a vition of internationalw.
Then this department had the right to destroy it.
Tang Rui¡¯s previous satelliteunch hadn¡¯t even notified, let alone got approval from this department, which waspletely unaware.
Even after the satelliteunch waspleted.
They had only received the news then.
Isn¡¯t this a provocation?
¡°Director, the Crimson Corp,unched satellites without our approval, how should we handle this?¡±
A person from John Bull, addressing the current director of the department, our person sent there, asked.
This question wasn¡¯t really about punishing Crimson Corp.
It was more about watching the excitement.
People from John Bull naturally liked doing this, stirring the pot and chatting nonsense everywhere.
As long as there was something international, they were involved.
¡°First, ask what the situation is, then discuss how to handle it,¡± the director had said casually.
¡°Okay.¡±
Soon.
A phone call had been made to Crimson Corp, inquiring about this matter.
Tang Rui received the news immediately.
¡°What¡¯s this? Launch approval? Just tell them the approval has passed, it was an oversight by a temporary worker, who forgot to upload.¡±
After he finished speaking, he let Red Lotus log into the UN¡¯s Outer Space Orbital Resources Management Department¡¯s backend, submitting aunch application on behalf of Crimson Corp.
Then he logged into his own backend, as the head of the department¡¯s technical inspection expert group, and passed the audit of Crimson Corp.¡¯s rocketunch technology.
The procedures werepleted.
This minor issue, he hadn¡¯t paid attention to before and had forgotten about it.
Not just him, the aerospacemand center had also forgotten.
If it weren¡¯t for the call from the other side.
Who would remember there¡¯s such a department in the UN?
Even if remembered, it wouldn¡¯t be taken seriously.
It¡¯s not there to restrict them, so there¡¯s no need to care.
¡°Director, their employee made an operational error, and the approval process is nowplete.¡±
¡°That¡¯s fine then. We¡¯re a new department, and they¡¯re not very clear about the process. A little error is quite normal.¡±
After the director spoke, everyone nodded in agreement.
Seeing this, the person from John Bull helplessly pursed his lips, failing to stir the pot and feeling frustrated.
After the UN department ended work.
An employee from India immediately called home to report thexity in the department¡¯s audit.
It was just a formality.
Launch first, thenplete the procedures.
The Indians believed it.
The previous space disaster caused by the Japanese rocket had severely damaged their satellites, necessitating additionalunches.
But they were unclear about the new UN department, so they didn¡¯t want to be the first to break the ice.
As a result, Crimson Corp, directlyunched over a thousand satellites, upying the surrounding orbits.
If Crimson continuedunching, there would be no orbit left for them, creating a big problem.
So, India also decided tounch satellites.
This time, they nned to follow Crimson Corp¡¯s approach, quietlyunching without informing anyone, andpleting the procedures after theunch.
Just like that, three dayster, India¡¯s rocket carrying about twenty satellites had been directlyunched into space, heading towards outer space.
¡°Master, an unapproved and unapplied ck rocket detected, estimated to enter Earth¡¯s orbit in 1 minute 12 seconds.¡±
¡°Whose is it?¡± Tang Rui, who was conducting research, immediately asked upon hearing Red Lotus¡¯s report.
¡°India¡¯s.¡±
¡°Destroy it.¡±
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
Under Tang Rui¡¯smand, several armed satellites in geosynchronous orbit above the Himyas had locked onto the rocket at the same time and fired dozens ofsers.
0.001 secondster.
India¡¯s rocket had been directly blown up, with all debris neatly cleared.
On the big screen of the groundmand center.
They had seen the screen sh, then the rocket lost contact, the signal disappearingpletely.
When they tried to find the rocket through other means, they couldn¡¯t locate it at all.
Until the UN department held a press conference.
Announcing they had destroyed an unapproved rocket, which belonged to India.
They wanted to tell everyone.
Outer space was notwless; rockets couldn¡¯t beunched at will..
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India¡¯s rocket had been written off.
The issue had caused a big stir.
The whole world knew about it, and everyone wasughing at India.
India was also very angry about it.
But it was of no use.
Those with clear insight knew that this new department of the United Nations was enforcing the will of the new leader.
The previous leader had used his will on oil.
The new leader, on the other hand, had focused his will on space.
Something called ¡°technological overpowering¡± and ¡°space hegemony.¡± That
was it.
With the new official¡¯s first acts, the first fire had burned India into a state of embarrassment, and he was utterly powerless.
Regarding international affairs.
Tang Rui was just watching the excitement and didn¡¯t get involved.
He was too busy with his own affairs.
¡°Chief Engineer Tang, this is thetest design of the space weapon tform, which possesses all-domain strike capabilities against ground, air, and outer space, equipped withser weapons, electromaic weapons, and high-yreld missiles¡¡±
Tang Rui¡¯s research team, after half a month of effort, had finallypleted the design of the space weapon tform.
Of course, it was barelypleted.
There was still a significant gap from the ideal outer space weapon tform in
Tang Rui¡¯s mind.
The most critical issue was theck of firepower.
32ser cannons, 16 electromaic guns, 255 missiles.
What could this level of firepower achieve?
What about the main cannon?
A weapon tform without a main cannon had too limited a killing power.
¡°Continue modifying, the secondary weapons are fine, but the key main cannon is missing.¡±
After hearing the report, Tang Rui told the research team that it wasn¡¯t that he was being unreasonable, but this design ovepped with the capabilities of armed satellites.
¡°Chief Engineer Tang, do you mean to increase the attack power?
¡°Exactly, we currently don¡¯tck saturation strike capability and coverage strike capability. What weck is high-powered single-target attack capability, which is why we need the armed tform.
Otherwise, why wouldn¡¯t I just build more armed satellites instead of insisting on an armed tform.¡±
Tang Rui nodded, expressing his thoughts.
¡°Okay, then we¡¯ll go back and revise.
¡°Alright, off you go.¡±
After the weapon tform design team left, the outer spacemunication
team came.
However, this time they were not reporting data, but applying for a nuclear fusion reactor.
¡°Chief Engineer Tang, the design of the Queqiao Ry Space Station ispleted, but itcks a small controble nuclear fusion reactor.
¡°Show me the blueprints.¡±
¡°Okay, the blueprints are in the secret database file 22-1337-
Tang Rui opened the Queqiao Project Ry Space Station data file and found thetestmunication system design blueprints.
After he finished looking at them, he frowned.
¡°is themunication system you designed still only capable of dy-freemunication up to 4 million kilometers?
After he had uploaded the quantum information transition technology, many personnel in the country went to study it.
These people in front of him were among those who had studied it.
Although he hadn¡¯t managed the study ss, ording to his expectations, more than half a year had passed, and they should have extended themunication range, if not mastered the technology.
But what was the result?
Previously it was 4 million kilometers, and now it was still 4 million kilometers.
It seemed like they were just ying around.
This was a waste of the organized study.
¡°Yes, this system is optimized and replicated based on the blueprints you uploaded,¡± replied the research team immediately.
¡°Haven¡¯t you conducted in-depth research?¡± asked Tang Rui.
¡°Well¡ there are secret research institutes conducting in-depth research, but we don¡¯t have that here.¡±
¡ö¡¯Okay, let¡¯s wait on the ry space station issue. Don¡¯t rush it until the dy-freemunication technology reaches 10 million kilometers.¡± Tang Rui waved his hand, sending them off.
If this was how research was conducted, then what was the use of these people?
He had already worked out the specific theories, and yet after half a year, there was no innovation?
¡°Red Lotus, send a message to my teacher, ask if he is free for a video call.¡±
¡°Okay, master.¡±
Five minutester.
The video call from Academician Yu was connected to theboratory.
From the background of the video, it was apparent that Academician Yu was busy in hisboratory, not in his office at the university.
¡°What¡¯s up, is there something you need?¡± Academician Yu asked directly. ¡°Teacher, I uploaded the quantum information transition transmission technology earlier, why do the people assigned to me only grasp the initial system? Haven¡¯t you conducted in-depth research?
Tang Rui raised the issue, as he didn¡¯t want his breakthroughs to be ignored.
If such technology wasn¡¯t valued
, then there must be a significant problem somewhere.
¡°You¡¯re talking about the dy-freemunication technology, which is now ssified as top-secret technology, the same level as the maic field control technology you uploaded earlier.
The country has already assigned a team to conduct in-depth research, but I am not clear about the specific results, my security clearance isn¡¯t high enough.¡±
Academician Yu said helplessly, never expecting that one day in the field of satellitemunication, he would be unable to ess thetest information due to insufficient security clearance.
¡°Impossible, what kind of security clearance that even you can¡¯t ess it?¡± Tang Rui was shocked after hearing this.
¡°City 404, the authorities have reopened City 404, and this time it¡¯s not in the desert, but in the underground nuclear Great Wall.¡±
¡°Why would they do that?¡± Tang Rui was puzzled.
¡°YOU should ask the authorities directly, I really don¡¯t know. If you want to find out, it shouldn¡¯t be a problem.¡±
¡°Alright, then I¡¯ll ask.¡±
After hanging up the call, Tang Rui contacted Lin Chao to inquire about the reason for the reopening of City 404.
Twenty minutester, Lin Chao arrived with a dynamic secret key.
¡°I am not authorized to know the specifics, you can see for yourself through the key.¡± After saying this, Lin Chao left the key and departed.
It was all very secretive.
Tang Rui used the key to allow Red Lotus to ess the data.
A document appeared before him.
The Implementation n for the Future Space Age Civilization Seed Preservation Project ¨C City 404 Restart n.
Seeing this title, Tang Rui smirked.
It seemed like things were getting a bit serious.
He continued reading.
The more he read, the more furrowed his brows became.
How to put it.
The initial intention of this n was to preserve the seeds of civilization, and this seed was not just any human civilization, but specifically the Huaxia issue.
As humanity steps into outer space, entering the interster age, some issues previously overlooked by the nation have now be top priorities.
Among them, the most crucial was the dispersal of civilization.
It was inevitable.
Once technology reached a certain level, a spaceship could carry the essence of a civilization¡¯s technology and create a new nation on a habitable. Under these circumstances, how to ensure that the Huaxia civilization continues even if our main civilization is destroyed, became a very important question.
After reading the overview, Tang Rui was numb.
The space elevator hadn¡¯t even started construction yet.
There was no trace of the lunar base.
And they were already considering issues of the interster age..
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After reading all the materials, Tang Rui felt quite a bit of emotion.
Regarding this n, he couldn¡¯t say he was optimistic, but it was better than nothing. He just didn¡¯t know if the future would develop as predicted.
To put it simply.
This n was born to ensure the purity of Huaxia civilization in the future cosmic era.
For instance, when technology advances in the future.
Everyone could buy a spaceship and wander freely.
At that time, many people would certainly find a habitable and rule it as their own.
It was inevitable that such people would exist.
Even the transformation of human society might ur at this time.
But how it would change, was hard to say.
It could be a good change, but it could also be bad, and nobody could be sure at the moment.
So, the authorities started to take precautions, preparing a seed of Huaxia civilization to go out and establish branch bases when the time came.
The restart of City 404 was to ensure that the seed of civilization had the highest level of technology.
Tang Rui could only say that the authorities were happy with it.
What else could he say?
¡°Red Lotus, put this file in the safe.¡±
Tang Rui collected the file and instructed Red Lotus to store it properly.
In the blink of an eye.
The time came to the end of the month.
After ten billion in construction, the Bohai Bay underwater tunnel project was finallypleted.
As the chief designer and project leader, Tang Rui naturally attended the opening ceremony.
The ceremony was quite simple.
It involved a few cars and journalists entering from one entrance, interviewing and filming along the way, and thening out the other side.
Tang Rui, sitting in a Coaster, was interviewed in the vehicle.
¡°Mr. Tang, we¡¯ve arrived at the location.¡±
¡°Okay, let¡¯s get out of the car.¡±
When the car reached the middle of the tunnel, near the underground mineral vein, Gaoyang reminded Tang Rui, and then a group of people got out of the car.
Among these people were those responsible for the oil pipeline and some military personnel.
After getting out of the car, they came to an elevator in the middle of the tunnel and took it to the control center.
There wasn¡¯t much to say about the oil pipeline.
He had already exined the equipment situation to the oilpany; they just needed to be on duty here, basically with nothing much to do.
Tang Rui, however, took the military personnel to another control hall, where the weapons were located.
¡°Academician Tang, can the defense works here withstand a nuclear explosion under the seabed?¡± asked a military bigwig.
¡°Of course, even if the underwater tunnel can¡¯t withstand it, this ce can. There are three safety gates below, and there is also a safe house and a warehouse here. Even a direct hit from a nuclear torpedo, this ce can withstand it.¡±
Tang Rui confidently said. He had considered these issues when designing, and there was no problem with the defense.
After all, outside was an undersea mineral vein.
Ignoring the seabed¡¯s mudyer, just the thickness of the seabed mineral vein was over 3 kilometers.
Resisting a nuclear explosion was a small issue.
¡°Academician Tang, how will the weapons here be transported and installed?¡± After touring the control hall and understanding the weapons there, the military bigwig asked again.
¡°No need for transport and instation. When I built this ce, I considered self-sufficiency.
So the weapons here don¡¯t need external transport and can be produced on their own. The raw materials stored in the warehouse are enough to make 1600 intercontinental missiles.¡±
¡°What about the warheads?¡± The bigwig caught the key point.
The warheads too.¡± Tang Rui replied nonchntly.
The bigwig was speechless.
Oh boy.
This was a big thing developed right under their noses, and Tang Rui wouldn¡¯t have mentioned it if he hadn¡¯t asked.
Are the raw materials extracted from seawater?¡±
¡°Yes,e with me.¡±
Tang Rui led the bigwig to the secret raw material extraction hall to give him a glimpse of what was inside.
Deuterium, tritium, uranium.
Wow.
Big and small nuclear weapons, all could be made here.
¡°Academician Tang has thought of everything thoroughly,¡± the bigwig finally managed to say after organizing his words for a while.
¡°Of course.¡± Tang Rui was quite proud.
The bigwig.
Originally, he could have used the special materials refined here.
But now they were no longer needed.
There was everything on the moon.
Helium-3 was much more useful than deuterium and tritium, so the special materials here were outdated.
With that in mind, they were given to the military.
After leaving the undersea control hall, Tang Rui returned to hispany by ne.
Meanwhile, the military bigwig reported the matter.
Upon learning this news, the authorities were amused and bemused.
What was this?
Out of sight, out of mind, and youe up with something frightening.
But the authorities knew, and that was that. They arranged for professionals to guard it.
¡°Master, America has made a move.¡±
When Tang Rui returned home, Red Lotus reported the news to him.
¡°When did they start?¡±
¡°As soon as you left this morning, their personnel started moving and have achieved significant results.¡±
¡°Show it to me, let me see.¡±
¡°Okay, master.¡±
Tang Rui sat on the sofa, licking the milk cap, watching the holographic projection screen.
On the screen, it could be seen.
America¡¯s soldiers were assembling on an aircraft carrier and then takingrge transport helicopters to the destination.
And where was the destination?
Mogadishu.
The space elevator was definitely going to be built. It was a wonder of reaching the summit, a future money-making machine, and a manifestation of space hegemony.
Choosing this location was because it was a vital maritime traffic route, convenient from any continent.
It had to be said.
Mogadishu was indeed blessed with unique advantages.
But it was not peaceful at the moment.
Why it wasn¡¯t peaceful, everyone understood.
Who was responsible, everyone also knew.
So, this operation was carried out by America.
It was an operation to restore honor.
After all, the fall of the ck Hawk back in the day was a hard p to America.
This time.
America sent over a hundred elite soldiers, still using helicopters, but not ck Hawks.
Taking off from the aircraft carrier, they flew directly to the outskirts of Mogadishu.
The prepared tanks and heavy weapons were handed directly to the soldiers,
and Americaunched the attack without hesitation.
¡°This is more exciting than watching a movie.¡±
Tang Rui watched the holographic projection, gaining a direct understanding
of thebat capabilities of America¡¯s soldiers.
The soldiers who came this time were the elites of America.
A face saving measure.
America indeed brought out its real skills and even unveiled many new pieces of equipment.
It had to be said, that when it came to overpowering the weak, America had a knack.
Within just three hours, America hadpleted the predeterminedbat objectives, directly eliminating several warlords, giving them no chance to escape.
After wiping out these warlords, the rest was easy, with the United Nations stepping in.
The space elevator was not just a wonder.
Domestically, the presence or absence of a space elevator wasn¡¯t important.
But for other countries globally, the space elevator was extremely important,
as they didn¡¯t have Tang Rui¡¯s technology.
This operation by America was not their idea, but the will of the five good
people and other powerful countries globally.
So, if these military factions weren¡¯t wiped out, who would be?
It was just their bad luck.
Previously, no one cared about this ce, and they could enjoy themselves
with the support of hidden powers.
Now that Tang Rui wanted to build a space elevator here, they were naturally abandoned, and even in the end, they became a tool for America to regain some reputation and pick up the face they had lost..
Chapter 326 - 326: Nerves Signal Connection, 100%
Chapter 326: Nerves Signal Connection, 100%
Synchronization Rate
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¡°The next day, the United Nations held a meeting to discuss the situation in Mogadishu.
The five good people had expressed that Mogadishu had been in chaos for too long, and its people needed peace.
So, it hade to the point where this issue had to be resolved.
However, considering the issue of sovereignty.
The United Nations could not directly intervene and manage a country, so the idea of the Permanent Security Council was to relocate the refugees of Mogadishu to other countries.
This direct transfer of a country¡¯s poption was a first in the world.
But when it came time to vote, all country representatives voted in support, with no one voting against.
Why?
Because this was the will of the five good people.
Anyone who voted against it would not just offend one good person, but all five simultaneously.
With this precedent, no one dared to do so now.
Therefore, the discussion and voting at this meeting were just formalities, which everyone understood.
After the meeting, the United Nations organized a special department to transfer people directly to various African countries.
Each country took a share, as Mogadishu didn¡¯t have many people.
As for those who didn¡¯t want to leave, they were considered terrorists.
There was nothing more to be said.
As for why the people needed to be moved, wasn¡¯t that obvious?
As the future site of a space elevator, Mogadishu would definitely be one of the leading metropolises on Earth.
Although the five good people were kind, they weren¡¯t running a charity. Could they let the people of Mogadishu just wait to enjoy the benefits?
It was a joke.
After the people were moved, Mogadishu was ttened.
Then thend was surveyed.
Apart from the area needed for the future space elevator, the rest was divided among everyone for development.
As the new leader and the leading nation for the space elevator.
We had taken half of the territory.
The remainingnd was divided as follows: America took two-fifths, Russia took one-fifth, France and the UK together took one-fifth, and thest fifth was divided among other countries.
This division method seemed a bit problematic.
But in reality, it was rted to strength as well as contributions and dividends from the space elevator.
Russia definitely didn¡¯t have money.
The money was borrowed from China.
China might have been the leader now, but they also maintained good rtions with their ssmates, especially the vice-leader.
We couldn¡¯t learn from America in this aspect, it was meaningless.
Having more friends and fewer enemies was the real way to rule.
Although they lent money to Russia, that money was just virtual, as the cost of the space elevator was still up to China to decide.
Simrly, they were not at a loss.
Having given such great help to Russia, it couldn¡¯t be for free.
The price paid by Russia was the resources of Siberia, not just mineral and forest resources, but also oil.
Right now, Russia was relying on selling resources to survive.
Especially oil.
But the current pattern of oil production was basically three to one, and we had already controlled three ces.
If China targeted Russia, they wouldn¡¯t be able to withstand it.
So Russia was also considering exchanging its restricted oil resources for a future share in the space elevator, which was not a bad deal.
In this way, we hadpletely controlled the global oil resources, something Eagle Sauce wanted to do in the past but failed.
Whether the oil price went up or down in the future.
How much was extracted each day, how much it sold for, and to whom.
It was all up to us now.
How did this feel?
Very cool.
Tang Rui also received the news from above, the space elevator could start being built, and other equipment was easy to handle, but the carbon nanotube ropes could only be manufactured by him.
In other ces, they could only produce a meter in theb.
Tang Rui could produce as many meters as he wanted.
¡°Red Lotus, start manufacturing the coreponents of the space elevator, start with the ropes.¡±
¡°Sorry, Master, the space in the production workshop is not enough to produce the ropes.¡±
¡°What? Not enough space?¡±
¡°Yes.¡±
After hearing this, Tang Rui went to the production workshop and looked at the densely packed equipment, smirking.
Unknowingly, it had grown so much.
¡°Red Lotus, what about the other spare warehouses in the base?¡±
¡°Master, the spare warehouses have already been upied by raw materials and equipment, there are no spare warehouses avable.¡±
I see.
After hearing this, Tang Rui walked around the entire mountain base.
Sure enough, the warehouses that were once empty were now filled, and even if some space was squeezed out, it wasn¡¯t enough for manufacturingponents of the space elevator.
¡°Red Lotus, continue digging deeper, hollow out the mountain behind us, and create arge production workshop,¡± Tang Rui said to Red Lotus.
¡°Master, a faultyer has appeared in the middle of the mountain behind us, we can only excavate it as a whole, hollowing out the entire mountain.¡±
¡°Let¡¯s do it that way.¡± Tang Rui didn¡¯t care about the specifics of the construction; he just wanted the result.
¡°Okay, Master, the estimated construction time is three months and seven days.¡± Red Lotus immediately reported the estimated construction time to Tang Rui.
¡°What? Over three months?¡±
¡°Yes, Master.¡±
¡°Is there a faster way, like blowing up the mountain, as long as it¡¯s fast and safe?¡±
¡°Master, ording to Red Lotus¡¯s calctions, the fastest method is not to blow up the mountain, but to use mechs to cut through the mountain.¡±
¡°Are you sure?¡±
¡°Yes, Master, this is the best result simted by Red Lotus.¡±
¡°Then why didn¡¯t you use this method before?¡±
¡°Sorry, Master, mechs are war weapons, not construction machinery, so previous calctions did not include mechs.¡±
¡°Alright, then use it¡ wait, I¡¯ll drive the mech, and you tell me how to do the construction.¡±
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
After saying this, Tang Rui went back to his room to change clothes, put on his load-bearing suit, and went to the viewing tform in the vi¡¯s sky garden.
At this time, Red Lotus controlled the mech, slowly standing up from the reservoir, walking towards the vi.
The huge body of the mech startled the entirepany when it stood up from the reservoir, and everyone saw the giant mech rising.
Lin Chao naturally saw it too.
¡°President Tang, what are you doing?¡± Lin Chao immediately called Tang Rui to inquire about the situation.
Who has offended him again?
The mech has been brought out.
Who is he going to cut down?
¡°Don¡¯t panic, I¡¯m just using the mech for construction.¡± Tang Rui said with a smile.
¡°Construction? Whose house are you demolishing?¡± Lin Chao¡¯s first reaction was not normal construction, but the kind of demolition.
¡°The production workshop in the base is not enough, I need to dig out the mountain and build arge workshop,¡± Tang Rui exined helplessly.
Is there no trust between people?
¡°Really?¡±
¡°More real than real gold.¡±
¡°Then I¡¯lle over and see.¡± Lin Chao put down the phone and ran out of the office.
Tang Rui was speechless, but toozy to care about him.
The mech came to the viewing tform, turned around, and half-squatted, popping out of the cockpit.
Tang Rui directly climbed into the cockpit from the viewing tform.
The entire cockpit was a cylindrical hollow buffer chamber.
When he entered the cockpit, the entire structure was inserted into the body of the mech, a special solution was injected, and the interior of the cockpit began to wrap around him.
¡°Bufferyer filled.¡±
¡°Life-sustaining solution injected.¡±
¡°Thought signal conversion in progress¡ Synchronization rate 100%, neural connectionplete.¡±
¡°Mech self-checkplete, all systems normal.¡±
¡°Karmic Fire Red Lotus ¨C Start!¡±
As Tang Rui opened his eyes, the eyes of the mech also shed red light at the same time.
At this time, his perspective was that of the mech.
All sensations, through the sensors of the mech, were converted into neural signals and transmitted to Tang Rui¡¯s brain.
In other words, Tang Rui was now the mech, no different from controlling his own body.
¡°This feeling is very nice.¡±
Tang Rui moved his body, feeling veryfortable.
The resistance of the water under his feet, the wind around him, and even his sense of smell, all transmitted to his brain.
This powerful feeling was very good.
Tang Rui stretched out his hand.
The giant arm of the mech also lifted.
AT field deployed!
¡°Master, the mech does not have an AT field.¡±
Tang Rui smirked, he was just being silly, wanting to pose, but unfortunately, there were no special effects.
¡°Red Lotus, what do you think about making a biological mech, the kind with an AT field?¡±
¡°Master, ording to the current level of technology, it is difficult to manufacture biological mechs, and even if a biological mech is made, AT fields, which are unscientific, cannot be realized.¡±
Tang Rui didn¡¯t respond.
What do you mean it can¡¯t be realized, what about the S2 mechanism, looking down on the system panel?
But he was just talking, biological mechs, those things can¡¯t be gods in reality, what¡¯s the use of them?
To turn all of humanity into orange juice?¡±
Chapter 327 - 327: Virtual Reality Core Server
Chapter 327: Virtual Reality Core Server
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¡°President Tang, where are you?¡±
Lin Chao hurried to the side of the reservoir, looking at the mecha standing in the middle of it, and shouted to his surroundings.
¡°Brother Lin, do you want to experience the feeling of looking far and wide?¡± Tang Rui said to Lin Chao below.
The mecha was also equipped with a sound system.
So naturally, it could speak.
¡°President Tang, are you piloting the mecha?¡± Lin Chao, face dumbfounded, asked when he heard Tang Rui¡¯s voiceing from the mecha.
¡°That¡¯s right, any problem?¡±
¡°No problem, how do I get up there?¡±
After hearing Lin Chao¡¯s words, Tang Rui bent down and ced his left hand in front of Lin Chao.
???
Lin Chao looked at the huge mechanical palm in front of him, speechless.
Is this how I¡¯m supposed to get on?
¡°Are you sure it¡¯s safe?¡±
¡°Don¡¯t worry, you can trust me with controlling the mecha.¡±
After twitching the corners of his mouth a couple of times, Lin Chao gritted his teeth and climbed onto the palm of the mecha.
¡°President Tang, please don¡¯t clench your fist.¡± Standing on the palm of the mecha, Lin Chao always felt a chill down his back.
¡°I assure you, you¡¯ll be fine.¡±
Tang Rui, with one hand dragging Lin Chao and the other holding a giant saber, was still invincible¡ no, he was still able to construct.
Following the guidance of Red Lotus, Tang Rui came to the back of the mountain range, in front of the mountain body where the rocks in the middleyer of the mountain range were fractured.
He raised the 40-meter-long saber.
As the blue-white light of the de flickered, he shed at the mountain in front of him.
The de went directly into the mountain.
He had used too much force.
Luckily, he was controlling a mecha, otherwise, he would have definitely hurt his back. He was fine, but his jolt almost threw Lin Chao off.
¡°President Tang, I¡¯m fine, just don¡¯t clench your fist.¡±
Lin Chaoy on the palm of the mecha, clinging tightly, but even at this moment, he didn¡¯t forget to remind Tang Rui.
Falling might not kill him.
But if Tang Rui clenched his fist, then he would be really gone.
¡°Brother Lin, do you want me to put you down?¡± Tang Rui asked a bit embarrassedly.
¡°No need, just take me back.¡± Lin Chao said, shaking his head as he looked at the long saber stabbed into the mountain.
¡°No problem.¡±
Tang Rui sent Lin Chao back to the side of the reservoir and then went back to continue his work, this time he controlled his strength well.
Lin Chao panted heavily as he watched Tang Rui¡¯s construction.
He didn¡¯t run over because he was afraid of anything else.
He was just afraid that Tang Rui would demolish the house.
As long as he didn¡¯t demolish the house, even if he had to cut a hole in the Himyas, let alone the mountain in front of him, it wouldn¡¯t be a problem.
Tang Rui on his side, chopped at the mountain body again and again.
The hugemotion was so loud that people within a dozen kilometers could hear it, let alone such arge mecha. It was impossible to hide it.
Soon, the video of the mecha appeared on the Inte.
¡°What is he doing? Practicing swordsmanship?¡±
¡°What swordsmanship? He¡¯s obviously sharpening his sword, getting ready to start a movie.¡±
¡°This is the romance of a man. I really want to touch the mecha up close. If I had known this mecha was real, I would have gone to the air show no matter what. It¡¯s a pity I missed it.¡±
¡°Stop talking. I was at the air show, but because there were too many people taking photos, I didn¡¯t go and line up. I regret it so much.¡±
Netizens in the country leftments one after another.
Our own people definitely just watched the excitement and made snide remarks, only thinking the mecha was cool, not considering the mecha a threat.
But after the video was sent overseas, many people saw the mecha¡¯s des shing at the mountain as if they were shing at themselves, which was unbearable.
¡°Can this mech prate our underground nuclear defenses?¡± asked a military leader from America.
¡°Sorry, although the answer is a bit cruel, as of now, there are no defensive fortifications on Earth that can withstand the attack of this mecha.¡±
¡°Alright, that¡¯s fine.¡±
Although the mecha had only been deployed once, its achievements were extremely brilliant, clearing levels alone and directly rushing to the enemy¡¯s homnd for an unparalleled battle.
That shocking power was still fresh in their minds.
Forget it.
That¡¯s all for now.
When they enter the interster era, they will find ways to catch up. For now, they have no enthusiasm left.
They worked hard to spend money.
They really couldn¡¯tpete with the other side¡¯s cheats.
How ufortable.
The big shots of other countries thought the same.
In the face of space supremacy and invincible mecha, war was definitely not possible. In the economic field, it was not impossible for everyone to join forces.
However, without the support of military strength, economic warfare was a joke.
Forget it.
Just lie down and swing.
Tang Rui didn¡¯t know the psychological impact his actions during this period had on other countries.
But even if he knew, he wouldn¡¯t take it seriously.
After a busy day, Tang Rui piloted the mecha and ttened the entire mountain.
Then, he piled up pieces of square-like gravel at the side, forming a small hill.
After doing all this, his mission was consideredplete.
The rest of the construction work was left to Red Lotus.
In fact, after the entire mountain was cut down, the remaining work was not a big deal at all. With Red Lotus¡¯s efficiency, the new production workshop would bepleted in no more than half a month.
This time, the production workshop wasrge enough to manufacture a spaceship.
At night, after Tang Rui finished dinner, hey on the sofa and watched a TV series.
He had also been following this drama for the past few days.
After all, this drama had already be very popr.
¡°Xiao Yue called in the afternoon and asked you to call her back when you¡¯re free tonight,¡± Li Shuyao sat next to Tang Rui and said.
¡°Hmm? Why didn¡¯t she call me directly?¡± Tang Rui was perplexed. His sister had something to do but didn¡¯t call him directly, instead, she called Li Shuyao. What did this mean?
¡°They¡¯re afraid of disturbing you.¡±
¡°No matter how busy I am, I still have time to answer the phone. What do they want?¡± Tang Rui asked curiously.
¡°About the college entrance examination.¡±
College entrance exam?
Tang Rui thought about it after listening. It seemed like the college entrance examination was indeeding.
The year he graduated from university, the two of them had just entered the second year of high school. Last year, it was the second half of the second year and the first half of the third year of high school. This year, they were about to take the college entrance examination.
Tang Rui called Tang Yue directly.
¡°Brother, are you done?¡±
¡°Don¡¯t bother. Call me anytime if you need anything. You won¡¯t disturb me,¡± Tang Rui said.
¡°I know, Brother. Can you persuade Dad not to let me go to an ordinary university?¡±
¡°Not an ordinary university? Which university do you want to go to?¡±
¡°I want to be a pilot.¡±
¡°That¡¯s not a problem at all. Even if Dad doesn¡¯t agree, I¡¯ll teach you how to fly a ne.¡±
When Tang Rui heard that his sister wanted to be a pilot, that was nothing difficult for him.
Not a big deal at all.
He could even design a fighter jet for his sister, the kind that was absolutely invincible.
¡°Brother, you¡¯re the best. But you¡¯d better talk to Dad about letting me go to aviation school.¡±
¡°Alright, I¡¯ll go talk to Dad tomorrow in person.¡±
¡°Thank you, Brother. Then it¡¯s settled. Pass the phone to Sister Shuyao, I want to talk to her.¡±
¡°You can call her directly. I still have to watch the drama. I¡¯m hanging up.¡±
After Tang Rui finished speaking, he hung up the phone and continued watching the drama.
Li Shuyao rolled her eyes and called Tang Yue.
The next day, Tang Rui went directly to his father¡¯spany to talk about Tang Yue. In fact, he didn¡¯t object to Tang Yue being a pilot, he was mainly worried about the risks involved in flying a ne.
After hearing this, Tang Rui assured everything.
There definitely wouldn¡¯t be any problems.
After talking to his father, Tang Rui returned to theboratory.
¡°Red Lotus, assemble a supeputer.¡±
¡°Yes, Master.¡±
In less than an hour, a quantum superconducting supeputer was assembled.
However, this supeputer did not have a main control program, nor did it have artificial intelligence.
Tang Rui came to theputer room and looked at the system panel on the supeputer.
[Item: Quantum Superconducting Supeputer]
[Experience: 0/20000]
[Origin: 18,294.26]
Looking at the nearly 20,000 origin points on the system panel, Tang Rui didn¡¯t hesitate and directly clicked to enhance.
However, this time, he was not strengthening the artificial intelligence aspect, but rather the supeputer in the direction of virtual reality.
A few secondster, a supeputer almost identical to the original Honglian appeared in front of him. In fact, this mainframe could no longer be called just a supeputer.
[Item: Virtual Reality Core Brain Server]
[Experience: 0/50000]
[Enhancement: Virtual Reality World System]
[Attributes: Reality Simtion Enhanced by 160%, Rendering Effect Enhanced by 140%, Mental Protection Strength Enhanced by 100%]
[Origin Points: 17978.26]
¡°Red Lotus, save the design drawings and program code and then make a few gaming helmets. I want to experience it first.¡±
¡°Okay, Master..¡¯
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Chapter 328 - 328: Space elevator cable test
Chapter 328 - 328: Space elevator cable test
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After Red Lotus finished making the game helmet, Tang Rui yed games in theb for over two hours.
How should it be put?
ying games on a console and then trying to replicate that experience in a virtual reality world is just nonsense.
Thest level of Ace Combat.
You have to go through a long tunnel.
In the real world, with three gates closed, you can¡¯t really fly through; you might as well wait for death.
But in the game, such a setting is indeed possible.
However, it¡¯s quite ufortable to do this in a virtual reality world.
¡°Red Lotus, delete this game and redesign one that is closer to reality, simting actualbat.¡±
¡°Okay, Master, Red Lotus understands.¡±
After putting down the game helmet.
Tang Rui called Lin Chao to talk about Tang Yue¡¯s situation.
He didn¡¯t even need to state specific requirements.
The Air Force would definitely arrange everything well.
In the blink of an eye.
The college entrance examination was over.
Tang Rui apanied his two sisters for the college entrance examination, then took them out for two days before getting back to his main work.
¡°Red Lotus, is the space elevator cable ready?¡±
¡°Master, one cable has been made so far.¡±
¡°Send a message to Mogadishu, tell them I¡¯m on my way and prepare to test the cable.¡±
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
After Tang Rui spoke, he put on his load-bearing suit and boarded the mech.
Although there were no issues with him going abroad now, he still preferred to y it safe.
Thus, he chose to pilot the mech there.
As Tang Rui entered the mech, the newly built production workshop¡¯s dome opened, and a uniquely designed t flying vehicle slowly took off from inside the workshop.
This t flying vehicle looked like a sand transport ship on a river, t at the bottom and top, resembling a slightly thinner b of brick.
Tang Rui piloted the mech to take off and stood on the t flying vehicle.
¡°Red Lotus, let¡¯s go.¡±
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
As Tang Ruimanded, the eight high-power electric propulsion engines at the back of the vehicle started.
¡°I feel like I¡¯m flying on a sword, except this sword is a bit ugly,¡± he realized that the design was a bit off.
Butpared to directly flying the mech there, he chose to go with the flying vehicle, at least it was less tiring.
Meanwhile.
After receiving the message in Mogadishu, they immediately started the final inspection of the base of the space elevator.
The foundation of the entire base was dug 1500 meters deep.
3600 ultra-strong alloy steel columns were buried as the support frame.
Then, special cement was poured, and finally, a massive steel base was covered.
The entire project was carried out by China Construction.
But the equipment and steel were provided by Tang Rui¡¯s side.
¡°Academician Tang, wee to guide us.¡±
¡°No need for formalities, how is the base going?¡± Tang Rui asked upon arrival, looking at the huge construction site.
¡°Currently, 65% of the space elevator base has beenpleted, and the cargo elevator base is fullypleted.¡±
¡°Good, let¡¯s test the cable first.¡±
After saying this, Tang Rui had Red Lotus control the flying vehicle tond.
Afternding.
The engine part at the rear of the vehicle automatically detached, revealing the internal cable connectors and adapters.
Connecting the cable was not as simple as tying a rope to the base.
To cope with the extreme stretching capability needed during the use of the space elevator and the deflection angle at the space port, the cable at the base needed to reserve one kilometer of extra length.
Once the stretching force reached the red line, the base¡¯s cable would release more cable.
If the cable started to sway, the base would need to retract it.
In simple terms.
You can think of this device at the base as flying a kite, but this kite is a space station.
The cable instation was very fast.
As the interface and equipment were pre-nned and installed, Tang Rui attached the connector, and it was done.
Then, the engine part of the flying vehicle was reassembled.
Afterward, the entire vehicle switched from horizontal to vertical and started flying towards outer space.
At the tail of the flying vehicle, the cable was connected.
Tang Rui grabbed the cable and followed the flying vehicle towards outer space, like a burden.
Fifteen minutester.
The flying vehicle reached the geostationary orbit at 36,000 kilometers.
Upon reaching this point, the vehicle stabilized in orbit, moving synchronously with the Earth.
Tang Rui then controlled the mech, grabbing the other end of the cable, and continued towards a higher orbit.
He stopped only when the cable was taut.
¡°Red Lotus, how are the current data?¡± Tang Rui asked while holding the cable.
¡°Master, the current tensile strength of the cable is 72GPa, with real-time fluctuation values between 3-nGPa.¡±
¡°What¡¯s the difference in stable data in the middleyer?¡±
¡°0.17-0.21.¡±
¡°Next, I will conduct a test and record the data.¡±
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
Tang Rui then controlled the mech¡¯s arm to start shaking the cable.
Shaking the cable from more than 50,000 kilometers in outer space.
The energy transmitted to the earth¡¯s surface would be geometrically amplified. If the base couldn¡¯t withstand it, it would be disastrous.
Tang Rui watched the real-time data.
As he shook the cable, the green parts on the cable started turning yellow, and some areas even turned red.
Red meant the warning line.
Once the fluctuation values exceeded the warning line, it meant the cable¡¯s capacity was reaching its limit.
But normally, no one would shake a cable in space; this was just an extreme test.
Buzzing¡
When the energy reached the base, the entire base trembled at a high frequency.
But after shaking for a while, it returned to normal.
¡°Red Lotus, what was the most dangerous value just now?¡± Tang Rui asked.
He had been watching the screen, but the data changed too quickly for him to keep up.
¡°Master, the most dangerous value just now was 288GPa, only i2GPa away from the warning line.¡±
Tang Rui nodded and then proceeded to the next test.
He started the mech¡¯s engine, grabbed the cable, and pulled hard as if trying to uproot it.
But no matter how hard he tried, the cable didn¡¯t budge at all.
Even on the disy, none of the values turned yellow.
Good.
This meant there was no need to worry about the counterweight satellite tform.
Compared to the previous shaking, this stretching issue was not a problem at all.
¡°Red Lotus,unch the temporary counterweight.¡±
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
The flying vehicle at the 36,000-kilometer orbitunched a t, solid sphere, which was used as a temporary counterweight to rece the satellite tform.
Since the cable was alreadyunched, it couldn¡¯t be brought back down.
The mech caught theunched temporary counterweight and then attached the cable to it.
Afterpleting all this.
Tang Rui returned to Earth on the flying vehicle.
¡°Work hard on construction; all cables will bepleted within six months. By then, the base must be wless.¡±
¡°Academician Tang, rest assured, we guarantee toplete the task,¡± the person in charge of China Construction assured.
¡°Good, thank you for your hard work.¡±
After saying this, Tang Rui returned to the country on the flying vehicle.
Soon.
The news that the space elevator cable test waspleted spread all over the world.
The cable was the biggest challenge for the space elevator.
Now that the cable issue was resolved.
The space elevator was no longer a problem..
Chapter 329 - 329: Transport Spaceship and the Unknown Massive Celestial Body (Part 1)
Chapter 329 - 329: Transport Spaceship and the Unknown Massive Celestial Body (Part 1)
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Tang Rui, returning home, sat on the observation deck in a daze.
Night fell.
The moon rose.
Today happened to be the fifteenth, and the moon was very round.
¡°Red Lotus, disy the lunar geological map,¡± Tang Rui suddenly said to Red Lotus.
¡°Okay, master.¡±
On the holographic projection model, the area of the moon that has been explored now has reached 60%.
The remaining 40% is still being explored by the mechanical dogs.
Red Lotus, find a location with underground water resources and a t terrain.¡±
¡°Master, there are a total of 1.83 million geological environments that meet your requirements. Would you like to conduct a precise screening?¡±
¡°Choose the ones with the best scenery, the broadest view, where you can see the Earth, and it would be even better if there are some uniquendscapes nearby.¡±
After listening, Tang Rui thought for a moment and added some conditions. Whoosh!
Red Lotus instantly screened out several locations that met his requirements. This one was not bad.
This ce was good.
Tang Rui clicked on several locations, erged them to view, and found all of them to be very satisfactory,pletely meeting his requirements.
Finally, after selecting for a long time, he chose a location backed by a mountain peak. This ce had a wide view in front, directly overlooking the Earth, and the mountain peak at the back was a sheer cliff with a smooth surface.
Building a pce here for a wedding would be quite nice. The cliff at the back could also be used for carving, or engraving a mural, which should have a great effect. b
¡°Red Lotus, based on the images in fantasy novels, collect pictures of buildings and artistic works from the inte, and simte a 3D effect model of the Guanghan Pce, disying the actual effect afterpletion.¡±
¡°Okay, master.¡±
In a few seconds, Red Lotus generated hundreds of videos.
Although itcks creativity.
But the Al drawings and renderings on the inte are very beautiful, and Red Lotus does it even better.
Tang Rui opened the videos, looking at each one.
They all felt good.
After watching too many, he started to experience aesthetic fatigue.
Forget it, let¡¯s wait for Li Shuyao to choose tonight.¡±
Closing these videos and no longer selecting, he was really dazzled and didn¡¯t know which one to choose.
¡°Red Lotus, the various equipment for the construction of the lunar base can start to be manufactured, then show the model of the transport spaceship that was not designedst time.¡±
Compared to choosing architectural designs, he was more skilled at designing spaceships.
This spaceship had already been designedst year.
However, the design was interrupted halfway due to the affairs of the Asu family, and he never got around to finishing it because of more pressing matters.
This time, to build a base on the moon, a transport spaceship is a standard necessity, and he can¡¯t do without it.
But now, Tang Rui¡¯s ideas are different from before.
Previously, he had been thinking of making a transport spaceship with a few thousand tons of cargo, just like the spaceships in games.
But with the construction of the space elevator, he realized that these kinds of spaceships are not very practical, or at least not suitable for civilian use.
This time, the transport cables are specially made flying vehicles.
After all, a transport spaceship can¡¯t fit them.
So the previous design was basically useless, except for keeping the bridge,munication, and energy modules, everything else had to be started over.
Tang Rui raised his hand, dismantled the spaceship model, and directly deleted the external hull structure of the ship.
The keel was kept, the equipment was kept, and the internal structure and cables were all deleted.
The entire transport spaceship was left with only one keel.
Tang Rui grabbed the keel and stretched it, from the original 300 meters long directly to 4.5 kilometers.
Then he thickened the keel and designed it in segmented joints.
Basically, each segment of the keel was 500 meters long.
On each segment, he installed several brackets.
These brackets were for hanging things.
ording to his idea, each bracket could hang a bunch of space transport containers.
The standard for the containers was the load standard of the space cargo elevator, basically reaching the thousand-ton level.
When the time came, the space electric thrusters would directly spit out the containers, which could then be hung on the brackets of the transport spaceship¡¯s keel.
No outer shell was needed. After hanging tens of thousands of tons of materials, the transport spaceship could set sail.
This transportation efficiency couldpletelypress the cost to the level of air transport, only slightly higher than sea transport.
Then, building materials for the lunar base could easily be transported from Earth to the moon.
If it were like what he originally thought.
Just making one transport spaceship.
Goodness.
Just building the equipment for the lunar base would be like ants moving
house, transporting back and forth, exhausting.
After designing the keel, Tang Rui modified the original bridge, cing it at
the front of the transport spaceship.
Then he modified the rear thrusters and installed them at the tail, and the entire transport spaceship was designed.
The internal pipelines and other details were left to Red Lotus for optimization. ¡°Red Lotus, optimize the internal details of this transport spaceship, and at the same time simte and calcte the structural stress of the spaceship, especially paying attention to the influence of Earth¡¯s gravity and the moon¡¯s gravity on the spaceship.¡±
¡°Okay, master, Red Lotus will conduct aprehensive simtion calction
of the entire operating spaceship.¡±
Tang Rui nodded after listening and left theboratory.
He waited for the evening.
When Li Shuyao returned home, he would show her the Guanghan Pce videos designed by Red Lotus, letting Li Shuyao choose her favorite design. ¡°There will be a reward tonight.¡±
After watching several videos, Li Shuyao happily came to Tang Rui¡¯s side and whispered in his ear..
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¡°Really?¡± Tang Rui¡¯s eyes lit up.
Li Shuyao saw Tang Rui¡¯s eyes sparkling and rolled her eyes, toozy to pay him any attention, and continued watching the video.
Tang Rui didn¡¯t care; he ran upstairs to start preparing various items for the evening.
¡°This little bell is nice, this one¡¡±
After about fifteen minutes.
Tang Rui returned to the bedroom with a bunch of things, then went to take a bath, waiting for Li Shuyao toe back.
After waiting for two hours.
Li Shuyao finally finished watching the video and returned to the bedroom.
¡°Don¡¯t rush, I¡¯m going to take a bath first.¡±
Saying that she took the clothes selected by Tang Rui and entered the bathroom.
Half an hourter.
The sound of jingling bells rang in the bedroom, and the small bell rhythmically swayed.
At the same time.
At the American Gravitational Wave Detection Laboratory, they were conducting a start-up check after upgrading their equipment.
Several professors from our country were also there.
What¡¯s the advantage of being the squad leader?
It¡¯s that all the majorboratories around the world, except for military ones, and various basic scienceboratories, are open to you.
Although we have participated in many international projects in the past.
We were just there to observe.
Core equipment was off-limits, documents were given to usst, and we were even not allowed to watch during experiments.
Not to mention having a leading role.
Now it¡¯s different.
A significant portion of the core equipment¡¯s chips and materials are unique to our country, and our scientists, not just going to see, can disassemble and assemble them without any problem.
As for others, they need our permission to even look.
After all, if you mess with something as precise as a carbon-based chip, what if you damage it?
We didn¡¯t just transfer the lead in experiments, but our suggestions were also a must-listen for them.
This was the direct benefit of being the squad leader.
I digress.
Back to the American Gravitational Wave Laboratory.
Thisboratory usesser interference to monitor gravitational wave movements, simply put, to observe the wavelength ofsers.
Gravity is the distortion of spacetime.
That is to say, when there are gravitational wave movements, spacetime also fluctuates, so the scale of spacetime will be different.
This kind of fluctuation is very subtle.
Originally, America¡¯sboratory could only monitor gravitational waves emitted by ck holes.
Slightly weaker waves couldn¡¯t be detected at all.
Now, America¡¯sser interference equipment has been upgraded with chips,ser emitters, and sensors, theoretically able to detect even finer gravitational waves.
But whether it actually worked was still a question mark.
The equipment and system were self-checked for a long time.
Everything was normal.
¡°Everything is normal with the equipment, thanks to Mr. Gu¡¯s help, otherwise we couldn¡¯t have bought the T3 level carbon-based quantum chip,¡± said Professor Aixia, the head of theboratory, excitedly to Professor Gu who hade from our country.
¡°Since the equipment has been checked, can we start the experiment?¡± After listening, Professor Gu didn¡¯t make small talk and directly asked about the experiment.
The T3-level quantum chip is already outdated in our country.
The current 200W quantum supeputers use T4-level quantum chips, but even so, it is challenging to buy a T3-level chip abroad.
It¡¯s not about an embargo, but the production is too low, prioritizing domestic equipment upgrades, and there¡¯s no stock for foreign countries.
¡°Of course, no problem, let¡¯s start the experiment now,¡± Professor Aixia said, immediately pressing the start button.
Whoosh!
Two longsers, through a vacuum pipeline, intersected in an L-shape at the end, then each entered the sensor at the end.
The newly upgraded mainputer of theboratory.
Began to continuously collect data.
At this time, no one in theboratory spoke, everyone was staring at the constantly refreshing data on the big screen.
Huh?
professor Gu and Professor Aixia, at the same time, widened their eyes.
Because they discovered a peculiar piece of data, which had been detected many years ago.
But back then, the equipment was not so precise.
So regarding this data, everyone couldn¡¯t find a real exnation and had to treat it as useless data.
But now, after seeing the annotations behind this data, they were excited.
Because the system¡¯s automatic calction results showed that these gravitational waves were emitted by the sun.
That is to say.
They were now able to detect the sun¡¯s gravitational wave data.
This is a big deal for the entire scientificmunity.
Eh?
At this time, they discovered another strange piece of data.
But they had never seen this data before and didn¡¯t know what it was, so they
couldn¡¯t judge for the time being.
But with their scientific literacy, upon seeing this data, they were sure that there must be arge mass celestial body hidden behind it.
After a long while, the data on the big screen began to fluctuate repeatedly.
That was to say, the gravitational waves they were monitoring now were just these.
The next step was to wait for the rabbit.
Once there is any change in the gravitational waves, they would know immediately.
¡°Summarize the data, and start calctions,¡± said Professor Aixia.
Soon, hundreds of pages of data were printed out.
Of course, this printed data was not for calction but for archiving.
The real data for calction had already been sent to various groups for data analysis andputation.
Professors Gu and Aixia then took out that strange piece of data and began to calcte.
The more they calcted, the more they felt something was wrong.
Did they calcte wrong?
No result.
Was it a problem with the equipment?
Both put down their pens and looked at each other.
¡°My calction results show that there is arge mass celestial body near the sr system.¡±
¡°It seems I didn¡¯t calcte wrongly, because I got the same result.¡±
This¡
Both felt a chill.
Arge mass celestial body hidden near the sr system.
Simply frightening.
Both quickly made phone calls, starting to contact other institutions andboratories, and also reported upwards.
After receiving the report, everyone took it very seriously.
It just happened to be night in our country, and the observatory immediately adjusted the angle of the astronomical telescope to observe the area where therge mass celestial body was hidden.
The Webb Space Telescope in outer space also adjusted its direction, scanning and photographing the area regardless of cost.
At the same time, many top experts also got the data from theboratory and started to calcte.
The results were the same.
There indeed was arge mass celestial body near the sr system.
Its gravity had already collided with the sun¡¯s gravity, but they simply couldn¡¯t discover it before.
After discovering it now, it was shocking.
The next day, when Tang Rui woke up in the morning, he felt a bit ufortable in his waist.
He reached in and fished out a little bell connected to a neck cor.
¡°Master, there is an urgent email, do you want to open it now?¡±
¡°Urgent email, who sent it? What time was it sent?¡±
¡°It was sent by Professor Feng of the Astronomical Physics Institute of the Academy of Sciences at 3:28 this morning.¡±
¡°Open it directly.¡± Tang Rui sat up, leaning against the head of the bed.
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
Instantly, a holographic projection screen appeared in front of him.
The dense text made Tang Rui, who had just woken up, feel a bit of a headache.
But since it was an urgent email, he had to read it through.
After about fifteen minutes, Tang Rui finished reading the urgent email, feeling a bit overwhelmed or rather a bit stunned.
The email recounted the events.
Then, afterst night¡¯s research, top experts from around the world, after calctions, judged therge mass celestial body outside the sr system to be either a white dwarf or a small mass neutron star.
But the problem is, whether it¡¯s a white dwarf or a neutron star, both can be observed.
Especially being so close to the sr system.
There¡¯s no reason they can¡¯t be observed.
The rays from a neutron star can be detected as long as there¡¯s no equipment problem.
It might be a bit more difficult for a white dwarf, but only a bit.
As long as you were not blind, to say you couldn¡¯t find a shining star in a specific area, at a specific distance, would sound like a really bad joke.
But the result¡ was really like a joke.
Startingst night, they searched until now, yet no country in the world observed thisrge mass celestial body..
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¡°This thing is indeed a bit scary.¡±
After getting up, Tang Rui went to theboratory to start making a space telescope.
After all, whether there is arge mass celestial body in that area or not, just taking a picture will tell.
Wild guessing was meaningless.
What about alien civilizations monitoring Earth with their spaceships?
What a joke.
What material is used to make an alien spaceship that has one-third the mass of the Sun?
Materials notwithstanding, A civilization capable of constructing such a massive spaceship would have already been able to shield its own gravity. We on Earth know how to make airnes invisible.
Wouldn¡¯t aliens know that gravitational waves would expose their existence? Is it possible?
Tang Rui made a separate light quantum information capture device and then added a set of optical arrays, covering it with an outer shell and installing a set of ultra-high-speed optical imaging cameras and lenses in the middle.
After finishing, he directly added some enhancements.
[Item: Wide-Range Light Quantum Information Capture Space Telescope] [Experience: 0/58000]
[Enhancement: Ultra-Long-Distance Wide-Area Optical Information Capture System]
[Attributes: Detection range increased by 160%, detection uracy improved by 140%, optical information capture capability increased by 120%] [Origin Points: 17682.26]
Tang Rui looked at the system panel and felt pretty good.
¡°Red Lotus, transport this device to the Lagrange L2 point, and then start detecting that area.¡±
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
After receiving themand, Red Lotus took the space telescope away, and Tang Rui went home to eat.
He had gotten up early in the morning to work and hadn¡¯t had breakfast yet. Before he even finished breakfast, the aerospacemand center sent a message asking what he hadunched into outer space.
Tang Rui replied with ¡°space telescope.¡±
Upon learning this, the aerospacemand center became excited, as they had researched all night and still hadn¡¯t determined what thatrge mass celestial body was.
Now that Tang Rui hadunched the space telescope, it was definitely for this matter; they just had to wait for the news.
By noon, the space telescope was delivered to the L2 point, which is also the best observation point outside of Earth.
¡°Decelerationplete, entering the gravitational equilibrium area.¡±
¡°Attitude adjustmentplete, open the optical array.¡±
Under the control of Red Lotus, the telescope, which had been in a bud state opened its external optical array at this moment, looking like a blooming flower.
The pistil in the middle was the ultra-high magnification lens and camera. ¡°Spectral analysis equipment activated, beginning wide-area detection.¡± ¡°Light sources within the area locked, analyzing¡¡±
¡°Analysisplete, target locked, optical capture system activated¡¡±
As the space telescope activated, it quickly locked onto therge mass celestial body outside the sr system.
As the optical information was collected, the image began to be clear.
One minuteter, a dark brown appeared on the holographic projection screen, with scanning data next to the image.
With a radius of 4217 kilometers, it had a mass 0.7 times that of the Sun.
Normally, a of this size and mass should be a white dwarf.
But even a fool knows that a white dwarf is not dark brown, even if its brightness is low, it shouldn¡¯t be this dim.
Tang Rui looked at the image in front of him and frowned.
He wasn¡¯t interested in what kind of celestial body this was; he cared about whether this was a natural or artificial body.
If you said it was a natural body, such a special had never been seen before.
If you said it was an artificial body, there didn¡¯t seem to be any man-made alterations on it.
Very strange.
Tang Rui studied it for a long time but couldn¡¯t figure it out.
His knowledge of astronomy was really not much.
¡°Red Lotus, continue to track and photograph this, and then send the
photo data to the aerospacemand center.¡±
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
Tang Rui didn¡¯t figure out the situation of this, but he knew the seriousness of the matter.
Regardless of the condition of this, it was already close to reaching the sr system.
Currently, this was flying towards the direction of the sr system, only 72 astronomical units away from the Sun.
One astronomical unit is 150 million kilometers.
When calcted this way, the distance between them is 10.8 billion kilometers quite far.
But the problem was that the sr system and this were almost face-to-face, rushing towards each other, like lovers in a passionate embrace, about to hug.
Their speeds were simr.
The moving speed of the sr system is about 220 kilometers per second.
Knowing the speed and distance, even a primary school student could calcte the time; the answer is 285 days.
That is to say, in 285 days, a special with
a mass reaching 0.7 times that of the Sun will plunge into the sr system.
What would the effect be?
The entire sr system¡¯s structure will be rewritten, alls¡¯ orbits will be chaotic.
By then, maybe Mars will collide with Venus.
Neptune might crash into Jupiter.
Anything could happen.
What about humanity then?
If not cheating, there is a 90% chance of extinction.
Even whether Earth can continue to exist is hard to say.
In other words, the end of the world hade.
On the other hand, institutions worldwide, after receiving the data forwarded by the domestic aerospacemand center, began to study this celestial body.
Tang Rui didn¡¯t understand much about astronomy, so he couldn¡¯t tell what this was.
But astronomers, upon seeing the photos and data, figured out the situation immediately.
This was a ck dwarf, not because of its color, but because it was about to die.
A ck dwarf is the final evolutionary stage of a white dwarf or a brown dwarf, which means its predecessor might have been a white dwarf, but it evolved over a long time and ended up like this.
Just like how stars constantly evolve and eventually be white dwarfs, neutron stars, or ck holes.
A natural result of evolution.
The problem is, normally a white dwarf takes 200 trillion years to evolve into a ck dwarf.
How many billion years since the birth of the universe?
13.7 billion years.
So where did this ck dwarfe from?
Did ite from another universe?
That¡¯s just not scientific.
Okay.
Regardless of how this ck dwarf came to be, what should humanity do next?
After Tang Rui finished lunch at noon, he went to a meeting.
The content of the meeting went without saying-discussing the future of humanity.
Just over nine months left, less than ten months.
What was to be done?
Professor Tang, what is your suggestion?¡±
What else is there to say, definitely to run away,¡± Tang Rui answered without hesitation.
He couldn¡¯t do anything about such a level of natural disaster, even if he was cheating.
If it were a small asteroid, no, even if it were an ordinary hitting Earth,
Tang Rui would have a way to destroy that.
A-destroying cannon is not impossible to research.
Ordinarys are quite fragile.
But facing a hard-as-hell ck dwarf,posed of electron-degenerate matter, even a-destroying cannon is useless.
A head-on collision between the Sun and the ck dwarf, it¡¯s hard to say who wins and who loses.
So, other than running away, there was no other way.
¡°But there are only less than ten months left, even if we make a spaceship, we
can¡¯t take many people.¡±
¡°There are many ways to run away, escaping on a spaceship, escaping with the moon, even escaping with the Earth, it just depends on how you choose..¡±
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¡°How to flee with the Earth? Fit the Earth with an engine?
¡°You could also install a curvature engine.¡±
¡öI 11
After the meeting, everyone shared their opinions.
Anyway, with Tang Rui¡¯s start, everyone¡¯s thinking began to focus on how to
escape.
In the end, it seemed that the only solution was to leave on a spaceship.
But how many spaceships can be built in ten months?
That¡¯s hardly enough to take many people.
The meeting ended.
Tang Rui went to a small conference room to continue the meeting.
¡°How was my performance just now?¡± Tang Rui asked with a smile.
¡°Not bad, but is there really a solution to this disaster?¡± The bigwig from the
National Academy¡¯s office knew the inside story, but he was still very worried.
¡°What¡¯s the problem? It¡¯s not like that ck dwarf star is going to hit the Earth
or the sun directly. Why run away?
It¡¯s just an issue with the orbital paths ofs within the sr system. As
long as we don¡¯t directly confront it, it¡¯s still solvable.¡±
Tang Rui said indifferently, what escape? That¡¯s for others to worry about.
¡°Professor Tang, what¡¯s the solution?¡±
¡°It¡¯s simple, just shield the gravity. As long as the Earth is not affected by gravity, then this crisis won¡¯t pose any danger to humanity.¡±
¡°Gravity shielding? Can it be done? But if Earth¡¯s gravity is shielded, wouldn¡¯t
Earth¡¯s orbital path be affected too?¡±
¡°It¡¯splicated to exin. You can imagine, if the sr system is like a basin of water, and the ck dwarf star is an iron ball about to fall into the basin.
¡°Normally, when the iron ball hits the water, it causes ripples. But if we ce an upside-down ss in the basin, then even if the iron ball hits the water, the ripples won¡¯t affect the water inside the ss.¡±
Tang Rui thought for a moment and gave an analogy.
Although this description wasn¡¯t very urate, they understood the general
idea.
They didn¡¯t need to know the specific principles.
¡°Since Professor Tang is confident, then let¡¯s proceed as nned,¡± the bigwig
from the National Academy¡¯s office said.
¡°Guaranteed no problem.¡±
After the small meeting, Tang Rui left.
At this time, the whole world was buzzing.
News of the end of the world couldn¡¯t be contained, too many people knew
about it.
After hearing the news, everyone was pessimistic.
It was unimaginable how humanity could solve this apocalyptic crisis, but
what could be done.
Of course, these were just ordinary people.
The high-level officials of various countries started making phone calls.
An American consortium called Tang Rui, thinking of a spaceship or rather, a ticket for a spaceship.
Any conditions would do.
They agreed to any conditions.
Tang Rui didn¡¯t talk to these consortium people, telling them to negotiate with
Lin Chao instead.
That night.
Li Shuyao came home and asked about the impending doomsday, wanting to know if there was any hope for humanity.
¡°Don¡¯t worry, there¡¯s absolutely no problem.¡±
Tang Rui didn¡¯t say much, after all, only a few people knew about this n.
He couldn¡¯t tell Li Shuyao the specifics.
If she identally revealed it.
That would be a big problem.
Right, we¡¯re not thinking of running away, we¡¯re just thinking of sending you on your way, can this be said?
In the following days.
The world was in chaos.
Complete chaos.
It was better inside our country, but not so much abroad.
But even in such a situation, the United Nations was still arguing.
The only issue being discussed was the construction and allocation of spaceship seats.
The coreponents of the spaceship could only be made by the Deep Red Company and were in short supply.
Plus, with limited time, there were too few spaceships, not enough to go around.
In the end.
Our side came up with a n.
Since it¡¯s about running away, let¡¯s not be too picky, just turn it into hibernation pods, and everyone can go into hibernation.
Tang Rui simply modified the transport ship.
He transformed the positions where containers should be hung on the keel into hibernation pods, allowing one ship to take a million people away.
If the space elevator could be built in three months, coupled with the global industrial capacity to manufacture other parts of the spaceship, then in ten months, about 20 spaceships could be built.
In this way, government departments and wealthy people from various countries, along with their families, could all safely depart.
Once this n was proposed, everyone agreed.
As long as they could evacuate, that was all that mattered.
What happened to the rest didn¡¯t concern them.
At this moment, the world truly cooperated without reservation.
Tang Rui, in hisboratory, was busy assembling equipment while browsing the American core database.
If it weren¡¯t for the end of the world, he wouldn¡¯t have had ess to the contents of this database, even if the United States took it to the grave.
¡°America has some depth, not a few tricks up its sleeve,¡± Tang Rui muttered to himself, looking at the information.
Unfortunately, it was of little use.
¡°Red Lotus, inform the Americans to send over that piece suspected to be alien wreckage.¡±
¡°Okay, Master, Red Lotus will inform them right away.¡±
In less than a day, America¡¯s treasured and most hidden assets were delivered
to Tang Rui.
It was a metal fragment, definitely not of earthly origin.
But what exactly it was a remnant of was hard to say.
Tang Rui used metal analysis equipment to attempt to reverse-engineer itsposition but to no avail.
This meant the fragment¡¯s manufacturing technology surpassed nano-level atomicyers, a higher-level technology.
¡°Red Lotus, store it in the safe, we¡¯ll research itter,¡± Tang Rui said casually.
Now was not the time to study it.
He was truly out of time.
From now on, he would be immersed in theb, continuously making various devices.
No choice.
For the sake of the source point, he had no other option.
Tang Rui secluded himself at home, undisturbed by anyone.
The outside situation was somewhat controlled.
Each country had its experts.
Under the analysis of think tanks, the countries unified their statements, revealing the solution.
That was to use antimatter bombs.
Humanity could extract antimatter, but it was resource-intensive and couldn¡¯t be stored for long.
But most people knew of antimatter¡¯s existence.
Although the ck dwarf star was hard, antimatter didn¡¯t care. Upon impact with the ck dwarf, matter-antimatter annihtion would ur.
Using this pretext, the countries managed to calm the situation.
Then, the world began frantically manufacturing parts for spaceships.
No country tried to cheat.
The previous squabbles between countries vanished.
The humanmunity with a shared future was truly realized, albeit only for a few short months..
Chapter 333 - 333: Prepare to Play With Flowers
Chapter 333: Prepare to y With Flowers
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¡°Master, the first space elevator had been fully assembled.¡±
¡°Okay, I know.¡±
After hearing the report from Red Lotus, Tang Rui put down the device he was holding, picked up the phone next to him, and called the aerospacemand center.
¡°Hello, Professor Tang, this is Wang Bo, the duty officer tonight. What can I do for you?¡±
¡°The first space elevator has beenpleted. Tomorrow, I willunch theponents of the Konggang Space Station. At that time, we will need five to seven duty officers to be stationed at the space elevator. Please remember to arrange that.¡±
¡°Got it, Professor Tang, I¡¯ve noted that.¡±
¡°Good, nothing else.¡±
Tang Rui hung up the phone and continued assembling the device parts he had in his hand.
The issue with the space elevator was a minor one for him; he hadn¡¯t taken it seriously at all.
The most pressing issue at the moment had been the ck dwarf star.
After more than half a month of continuous observation, scientists worldwide had been studying this ck dwarf star.
The biggest question had been the cause of its formation.
The surface temperature of this ck dwarf star, which was about to reach the sr system, had already dropped below 5000K.
What did this mean?
Every few trillion years, a ck dwarf star could not naturally evolve to this extent.
Excluding natural evolution as the cause.
That left one possibility: artificial interference.
After half a month of brainstorming, top scientists around the world had developed a model.
That was an energy model with a billion white dwarf stars at its core.
Suppose there was a high-tech civilization that could create a device that shields gravity. Then, after capturing a white dwarf star, they would use it as a source of energy.
In this case, how much energy could a white dwarf star provide?
The answer was thirty million times the total radiated energy of a sr-mass star over its lifetime.
It sounded unbelievable.
But in reality, the energy a white dwarf star could emit over a trillion years was indeed much more than a regr star.
Especially since this energy could be extracted more quickly.
It wasn¡¯t like a Dyson sphere, where you passively waited for a star¡¯s radiation, and the energy obtained each day was fixed.
A white dwarf star,posed of electron degenerate matter, could be manipted in special ways to enhance its energy output.
Tang Rui had the means for this.
Its principle was simr to the technology of converting ster maic field energy, just more advanced.
The technological gap had been like the difference between a hydrogen bomb and controlled nuclear fusion: the same principle, but vastly different difficulty levels.
In other words, scientists around the world hade to believe that this ck dwarf star was a white dwarf star that had been artificially interfered with and had all its energy extracted.
As for this theory, Tang Rui believed it only partially.
Why only half-belief? Mainly because he thought that an alien civilization with gravity-shielding technology would not need to extract energy from a white dwarf star. Wasn¡¯t vacuum zero-point energy more attractive?
Being able to directly extract infinite energy from the quantum bit sea, why rely on old-fashioned stars as an energy source?
It¡¯s not that aliens couldn¡¯t discover it.
Even with human technology, vacuum zero-point energy had been discovered, and it was impossible for a higher civilization not to discover it.
So, the specific situation of this ck dwarf star was still questionable.
¡°Red Lotus, continue calcting the previous maic field model.¡±
¡°Okay, Master, Red Lotus is performing the calction.¡±
Red Lotus was controlling a quantum supeputer specifically for physical use, calcting the maic field of the ck dwarf star.
However, the calction speed had not been very fast.
After all, the ck dwarf star¡¯s maic field was incredibly strong, about 17 million times that of Earth¡¯s maic field.
What did this mean?
The sun¡¯s maic field was only about twice that of Earth¡¯s.
A normal white dwarf star¡¯s maic field was about three million times that of Earth¡¯s. The strongest maic field found in a white dwarf star was only 4.2 million times that of Earth¡¯s.
Gravity was something Tang Rui didn¡¯t quite understand yet.
But he was very skilled with maic fields.
Arge part of his ck technology was rted to electromaic technology.
So, after discovering the situation of the ck dwarf star¡¯s maic field, he immediately had a new idea.
He didn¡¯t know if there was a repulsive force corresponding to gravity.
But there was definitely a repulsive force in electromaism.
Since the ck dwarf star¡¯s maic field was so strong, could some tricks be yed in this area?
The answer was yes.
However, to y tricks on the ck dwarf star, a maic field of equivalent strength was required. Considering the current situation of the majors in the sr system, it was not even close to finding an equivalent, let alone rted.
No way around it.
Tang Rui could only try to enhance the maic field strength artificially using technological means.
In this regard, he still had some tricks up his sleeve.
Not to mention, he also had a system panel. If all else failed, he could cheat, so he decided to give it a try.
But this n, he hadn¡¯t told anyone.
¡°Master, the calction and analysis of the ck dwarf star¡¯s maic field isplete. Due to theck of data and key information, the simtion data uracy is less than 60%. Please be cautious, Master.¡±
¡°I understand, show me the simtion results and data.¡± Tang Rui immediately said.
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
The ck dwarf star appeared on the holographic projection screen, surrounded by wave-like maic field simtion images.
Theseyers of maic fields were not only strong in intensity but also high in energy level.
Even within the maic field, there were some maic vortices and special disturbances that he could not understand.
These phenomena were beyond Tang Rui¡¯s understanding.
As the simtion data constantly changed, the surrounding data also kept fluctuating.
He looked at the data in front of him, frowning.
It seemed impossible to ovee.
The ck dwarf star, whether in terms of mass, gravity, or maic field, was a bit too much for the sr system. Ordinary methods were just like scratching an itch and were ineffective.
Physical size, indeed, was the most unreasonable factor.
¡°It seems that we can only trouble Jupiter big brother now.¡±
After reviewing all the simtion data, Tang Rui muttered helplessly.
He then turned off the holographic projection and stood up to return to the main assembly workshop.
In this workshop, therey a conical device 310 meters long with a maximum diameter of 66 meters at the tail end, quietly resting there.
This was the device Tang Rui had been manufacturing recently.
However, it was not yetplete.
But now, it needed to be reworked.
¡°Red Lotus, re-segment the entire device and manufacture two more cores, increasing its length to over 1200 meters.¡±
¡°Okay, Master, but doing so will mean we can only assemble it in outer space.¡±
¡°I know, manufacture one first, and take it for testing in three days.¡±
¡°Understood.¡±
Tang Rui looked at the new design model provided by Red Lotus, confirmed there were no issues, and then went to strengthen the two cores.
Initially, only one core was needed.
However, after reviewing the maic field simtion data of the ck dwarf star, he found that the parameters were off and had to build two more.
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Chapter 334 - 334: Low-Earth Orbit Armed Defense Platform
Chapter 334: Low-Earth Orbit Armed Defense tform
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After enhancing the two coreponents, Tang Rui returned to theboratory to continue assembling the device and umting source points.
As long as he had source points in his hand, he wasn¡¯t worried.
No matter how big the problem, he had the system as a safety and had nothing to fear.
The next day, heads of space agencies from all over the world and some scientific academies arrived in Mogadishu.
They came to witness the operation of the space elevator.
Many even wanted to be among the first batch of passengers to ride the space elevator.
Unfortunately, they didn¡¯t get the chance.
The first group to ride the space elevator had already been selected: six astronauts from within the country.
Not only were they the first passengers, but they were also future staff of the Konggang Space Station.
After a simple ceremony, the astronauts boarded the space elevator, sitting in the safety seats inside, waiting for the elevator to start.
With the closing of the airtight door and the countdown beginning.
When the countdown reached zero, the person in charge in the control hall pressed the start button.
Four electric propulsion engines started.
The space elevator, fixed to eight cables, took off and climbed upwards.
The astronauts inside only felt a jolt from the seats below at this moment, and then it became stable again.
There was no continuous vibration.
And the eleration wasn¡¯t very fast, basically within 2Gs, which meant even non-professional astronauts could ride without problems, unless they had high blood pressure or heart disease.
Soon, the space elevator ascended to the Karman line.
Here, the cabin entered a state of weightlessness, and the space elevator began to elerate a second time.
The previousck of eleration was mainly due to air resistance.
A square space elevator trying to ascend supersonically required enormous thrust, and the air resistance was significant.
There was no need for that.
The first too kilometers were basically a sightseeing elevator, and the electric propulsion engines hadn¡¯t really exerted their full power.
After reaching outer space, without air resistance, the electric propulsion engines began to increase power.
However, to ensure thefort of the passengers inside.
The eleration wasn¡¯t increased instantly, but gradually, keeping the cabin environment at 2-3GS.
This way, the speed could be increased while ensuringfort, allowing ordinary people to ride the space elevator to outer space.
Forty minutester, the space elevator arrived at the location of the Konggang Space Station, docking slowly. The astronauts inside, wearing space suits, walked out of the cabin and into the connecting corridor to the space station. ¡°Report, we have arrived at Konggang, everything is smooth.¡±
¡°Good, the space stationponents have beenunched and are expected to arrive in twenty minutes.¡±
¡°Understood.¡±
Below the space elevator, representatives from various countries were very excited.
The trial operation of the space elevator was perfect.
The next step was to elerate construction and build spacecraft in outer space.
The specifics had already been discussed by the countries.
Even the operation n for the space elevator, which hadn¡¯t beenpleted yet, was already in ce.
As long as they followed this n, in ten months, they couldpletely build a spacecraft to escape Earth.
A whileter, representatives from various countries on the ground watched the assembly of the Konggang Space Station and the astronauts¡¯ spacewalk.
Although the space station could dock automatically to form a ring.
Some equipment still needed manual connection.
But these were minor issues.
The key issue of the space nod had
been resolved, and the rest was up to them.
The blueprint for the life support pods had been made public worldwide.
Countries were manufacturing them non-stop, 24 hours a day.
Even so, they were still continuously modifying factories and expanding production lines.
As for the spacecraft, they didn¡¯t need to manufacture the coreponents, but they did need to produce other parts.
So, during this time, countries focused on industrial upgrades to manufacture parts for the spacecraft, with no nation holding back.
There was no need for outside assistance or supervision.
Providing them with relevant production materials and some equipment they couldn¡¯t manufacture themselves was sufficient. They would then put their full effort into the work.
Over the next month, with global coboration, eight space elevators were sessively put into use.
Materials supplied by various countries were shipped to Mogadishu by cargo ships, then transported to outer space by the space elevators.
Tang Rui didn¡¯t concern himself with these matters.
In this month, he had also tinkered with many things.
Some had been secretlyunched, some built but not yetunched, and some were still iplete.
But among them, one item had just beenpleted that day.
That was the Earth Orbit Armed Defense tform.
The previous design submitted by the researchers was rejected by him for insufficient firepower. So half a month ago, they submitted a new design with much improved firepower.
An electromaic railgun main cannon, with a caliber of 2560 and a length of
680 meters, could extend the electromaic channel through a maic control system.
The projectiles fired were specially manufactured nuclear shells.
The weight of a single shell was over 25 tons.
In normal mode, the shell¡¯s muzzle velocity was 3000 kilometers per second.
In special circumstances, it could switch to destruction mode, tripling the speed, but at the cost of damaging the main cannon.
A shell was fired from this cannon.
If it hit Earth, it would be like in the movies, with a city instantly turned to ruins.
But this main cannon was for external defense, so there was no need to worry about its muzzle pointing at Earth.
However, if there were operational errors or system failures, that would be a different story. After all, the more intelligent a device, the more troublesome it is to repair.
Apart from this main cannon, there were over two hundred long-range, medium-range, and close-range weapons.
Including electromaic guns,ser guns, sma cannons, close-in weapons, and more.
Beyond these guns, there were various missiles.
However, missiles were only useful in special situations. In most cases, missiles in outer space were basically just for show.
The entire Armed Defense tform also had an ammunition production line, capable of producing ammunition for electromaic and close-in weapons¡¯.
Although it couldn¡¯t bepletely self-sufficient, as long as there were raw material reserves, there was basically no need for ground resupply for weapons and ammunition.
Buzzing sounds filled the air¡
The dome of the newly built production workshop opened.
The Armed Defense tform, dismantled into modules, was loaded onto spacecraft and transported to outer space.
Tang Rui built it at this time, not for fun, but to deal with the uing asteroid and meteor showers.
The gravity of the ck dwarf star had already affected the sr system.
So far, it hadn¡¯t affected massives, but its impact on the asteroid belt was significant.
ording to scans from space telescopes.
In the outer asteroid belt of the sr system, countless asteroids had already been knocked off course, currently heading towards the inner sr system.
Some of these asteroids¡¯ trajectories ovepped with Earth¡¯s orbit, with the fastest approaching Earth¡¯s outer space in about twenty days.
So, the next period in outer space would not be peaceful.
This year, everyone could see enough of the meteor showers that were usually only observed a few times a year.
An hourter, the Near-Earth Orbit Armed Defense tform was assembled in outer space, resembling a giant thumbtack due to its design.
The main cannon¡¯s barrel was extremely long, necessitating such a structure.
The base needed to house the production line, and the outer ring required a pseudo-gravity living area, which resulted in this unique shape..
Chapter 335 - 335: It’s About Time to Send Them On Their Way
Chapter 335: It¡¯s About Time to Send Them On Their Way
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¡°Master, the self-check of all systems of the orbital defense tform isplete, and all functions are normal.¡±
Notify Brother Han¡¯s side and tell him he can depart now.¡±
¡°Understood, Master.¡±
This orbital defense tform currently didn¡¯t belong to any military branch or the aerospace department.
Their current solution was to hand it over to the Blue Army for management, as it was a direct unit of the military.
Previously, he had asked Han Shu to select the crew for the battleship and even provided him with a battleship system simtor.
As a result, the battleship hasn¡¯t even appeared yet, and they have already started interning at the orbital defense tform.
Tang Rui stopped caring about this matter after watching the space shuttle take off.
The remaining two orbital defense tforms were not in a hurry to be manufactured.
First, they will be tested to see if there was any need for improvement. Although generally there should be no problem, some details might still need adjustment.
Leaving theboratory, Tang Rui went to the cafeteria for lunch.
Then he saw Lin Chao with dark circles under his eyes.
¡°Red Lotus, how many calls does he receive a day now?¡±
Tang Rui knew Lin Chao had been busy recently. Everyone who couldn¡¯t contact him was contacting Lin Chao.
The key point was, Lin Chao couldn¡¯t turn off his phone.
So, he definitely hadn¡¯t been sleeping welltely, otherwise, he wouldn¡¯t have such severe dark circles.
¡°An average of one hundred and sixty calls a day.¡±
¡°That exaggerated?¡±
¡°Yes, he has handled a lot of things during this time, Hong Lian has a record of it.¡±
Tang Rui nced at the record at Hong Lian.
Wow.
He must be sleepingte at night and getting up early in the morning, no wonder the dark circles are so serious.
¡°Brother Lin, do you want to arrange a few more people? You can¡¯t keep up with this busy schedule, your health will suffer.¡±
Tang Rui brought his lunch to Lin Chao¡¯s table and said.
¡°This has already been filtered. Problems that can¡¯t be solved don¡¯t reach me.
It¡¯s much better now, I guess it won¡¯t be so tiring after a while.¡±
Lin Chao shook his head. Although he was very tired, he could still hold on.
¡°Okay, then take care of your health.¡± Tang Rui didn¡¯t say anymore.
By the way, many people have wanted to contact you recently. I have already organized the list, I¡¯ll send it to youter.¡±
¡°Who are they?¡±
¡°People from all over, both foreign and domestic.¡±
After listening, Tang Rui understood what it meant.
The people who want to contact him, apart from the matter of the spacecraft, couldn¡¯t be anything else.
For these people, the future was an era of interster wandering, and having a spaceship was more practical than anything.
Unfortunately, they didn¡¯t have the technology to build a spaceship.
Moreover, the disaster came too quickly, they didn¡¯t even have time to react, so even if they had any ideas, they had to suppress them.
Otherwise, everyone would have to die on Earth.
Or to put it another way, they would die on Earth, but Tang Rui could escape. After all, the gap in military force between the two sides is toorge, many ideas are unsupported by military force and are simply wishful thinking.
So, the only possibility to have a spaceship under their control is to find a way from Tang Rui.
¡°What conditions can they offer?¡±
¡°No conditions, as long as you make a request, they can meet it, any request.¡± Lin Chao said with a smile.
After listening, Tang Rui thought for a moment and suddenly had an idea.
¡°Let word out, say I have ten small research ships, each ship can amodate 1,200 people, let them exchange antiques for it.
Whether it¡¯s our antiques or theirs, whoever offers the highest price and brings things I like, those ten ships will belong to them.¡±
¡°Really exchange?¡± Lin Chao asked seriously.
Definitely a real exchange. Report it to the higher-ups, they will definitely agree.¡±
¡°Okay, I¡¯ll contact themter.¡±
After lunch, Lin Chao rushed back to the office and reported the situation to the higher-ups.
In his view, spaceships had to be kept in one¡¯s own hands, even research ships cannot be given to outsiders.
He couldn¡¯t understand what Tang Rui was thinking.
However, half an hourter, the higher-ups sent back a message, agreeing and approving Tang Rui¡¯s request.
Lin Chao was dumbfounded.
This was unscientific.
Although he couldn¡¯t understand it, since Tang Rui said it and the higher-ups agreed, he could only do as instructed.
As the news was released, the price of antiques skyrocketed.
Once out of Earth, money was just worthless pieces of paper.
As long as there were antiques, everyone would desperately buy them.
Ennd was the most ruthless.
They directly emptied their country¡¯s museum to exchange for a spaceship. Except for a few antiques with special significance, all were packed and sent to the country.
Tang Rui was shocked when he saw the list of antiques.
They really emptied their family wealth.
Don¡¯t think the English had changed from the Empire where the sun never sets to the Empire of a total sr eclipse, but in terms of antiques, they were truly rich.
After all, they had looted a lot in the past.
The French did the same, emptying out their family wealth, sending over forty copies of the Mona Lisa alone.
Other countries didn¡¯t have such a family wealth as these two, but they also used other methods to get a lot of treasures.
Even some legendary items reappeared in the world.
Due to the harsh scouring of various countries.
There were too many good things.
Tang Rui additionally offered six more spaceship quotas.
A total of sixteen ¡®research¡¯ ships, equivalent to exchanging back the essence of global civilization¡¯s historical culture.
Everyone felt like they made a huge profit.
Soon after the spaceship exchange ended, small asteroids and meteor showers also reached the outskirts of Earth.
But with the orbital defense tform, these small mass asteroids and meteors posed almost no threat to Earth.
asionally a few meteors fell, but they didn¡¯t cause much harm.
But this situation made the countries very nervous.
The production speed of spaceship parts soared.
Every day hundreds of cargo ships carrying spaceship parts docked at
Mogadishu, then transported to Earth¡¯s orbit via thepleted space elevator for assembly.
With global cooperation.
The potential that burst out was truly frightening.
During this period, although many people did not believe what the experts and media said and even organized resistance.
But at this time, the countries took drastic actions.
Whoever caused trouble would die.
Anyway, they were about to flee Earth, and the weapons stored in the ammunition depots were useless, so it was better to throw them out.
If you couldn¡¯t suppress it yourself, the UN Security Council would help you suppress it.
And such matters wouldn¡¯t be reported.
The global media were unified.
Only reporting on the ongoing Destroy ck Dwarf Star project¡¯s progress,
while various experts took turns to mislead.
Big data & cloudputing, these two major weapons, under the control of artificial intelligence, enveloped everyone in an information cocoon room, preventing ess to any other news and true information.
The outside world¡¯s turmoil had nothing to do with Tang Rui.
He prepared methodically, asionallyunching some spacecraft out of
Earth, no one knew what these spacecraft were for, they stopped asking after seeing Tang Ruiunching them daily.
It seemed he was busy.
But in reality, after designing all the equipment, strengthening the coreponents, and umting enough source points, he had nothing to do.
The bored Tang Rui even apanied Li Shuyao to see the progress of the phoenix crown and wedding dress weaving, and even took a trip to the moon to see the construction of the Guanghan Pce base.
Time flew by.
In the blink of an eye, seven months passed.
The ck dwarf¡¯s influence on the sr system grewrger, and the leaders of various countries expressed their desire to leave soon.
Tang Rui calcted the time.
It was about time.
It was time to send them on their way..
Chapter 336 - 336: You Go On Your Way, We’re Going To The
Chapter 336: You Go On Your Way, We¡¯re Going To The
Wedding
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Mogadishu.
Beneath the space elevator, there were huge metal boxes ced, each measuring 150 meters in length, 10 meters in height, and 70 meters in width.
Inside these metal boxes, there were numerous hibernation pods.
Each hibernation pod was quite small and foldable, allowing each metal box to amodate up to fifty thousand people.
One shouldn¡¯t have asked why so many people could fit in.
Didn¡¯t other equipment take up space?
There was no other equipment.
Coffins¡ was there a need to put anything else in the hibernation pods?
There was none.
As each metal box was moved by a crane arm to the side of the space elevator¡¯s propulsion cables, several fixing trays locked under the metal box, and cables connected at the four corners.
Then, the electromaic anti-gravity system and propulsion engines on the trays started, sending the metal boxes into the spaceport.
Upon reaching the spaceport, the hooks at the four corners of the trays disconnected from the cables and then dragged the metal boxes to the hanger on the spacecraft¡¯s backbone, inserting the metal boxes into its slots.
Afterward, the trays were automatically stacked inside a cargo space elevator, waiting until a certain number umted before being sent down together.
Just like that, under the full operation of the space elevator, within a week, all personnel were sent into outer space.
Havingpleted this step, it was then possible to make a getaway.
Materials and fuel, having been transported as soon as the transport spacecraft waspleted, were already up there and taken care of.
At the same time, on Crimson Corp¡¯s runway, a luxuriously styled spacecraft was quietly sitting on the runway.
To call it a spacecraft was a bit inurate.
It should be described as a luxury yacht, but of a spacecraft level.
Its specific design was based on the 890 design by Tang Rui.
The exterior was very beautiful.
The interior decoration was also quite luxurious.
¡°Red Lotus, is everything prepared? Did we leave anything behind?¡± Tang Rui asked Red Lotus before boarding the spacecraft.
¡°Master, rest assured, Red Lotus has already checked all the items. There are only more, not less,¡± Red Lotus replied.
¡°That¡¯s good.¡±
Tang Rui nodded and boarded the spacecraft.
The cabin door closed.
The huge spacecraft took off, heading towards outer space.
At this time.
In the orbit of Earth¡¯s outer space, there were dozens of spaceships of various sizes.
Therger ones were transport spacecraft, and among the smaller ones, some were ¡®scientific research¡¯ spacecraft he had sold, and others were ¡®industrial¡¯ spacecraft.
The appearances of these spacecraft were all uniform.
As for the remaining dozen or so spacecraft, they were different; although notrge, their styles varied.
When Tang Rui¡¯s spacecraft reached outer space, it did not join the other spacecraft but went alone to the soon-to-be-retired Tiangong Space Station.
Click!
After docking with the space station through a special hatch, Tang Rui, already dressed in ancient groom¡¯s attire, directly entered the space station.
Inside the space station.
Li Shuyao, dressed in a phoenix crown and a traditional wedding robe, was waiting for him.
Today was a day of great joy.
In many ways, it indeed was a day of great joy.
¡°Groom, please recite a poem first.¡±
Tang Rui was stopped outside the istion cabin door, and the bride¡¯s family began to challenge him with difficult tasks.
But it was just a formality.
Not really to trouble him.
With hints from Red Lotus, Tang Rui directly recited a few poems.
The cabin door opened.
Li Shuyao, wearing a phoenix crown and in full dress, looked at Tang Rui with a smile as he floated in.
¡°To take away the bride, you must first give out red envelopes.¡±
¡°I have them, I have them.¡±
Tang Rui took out the red envelopes he had prepared in advance and distributed them to everyone.
Included were Li Shuyao¡¯s cousins and female astronauts; basically, everyone was there to join the fun.
A space wedding.
The first in human history.
After distributing the red envelopes, Tang Rui took Li Shuyao¡¯s hand and led her
back to the spacecraft, followed by the others.
Everyone entered the spacecraft, and the cabin door closed.
The connection with the space station was severed.
The engines of the spacecraft started, heading towards the moon.
At the same time, the dozen or so spacecraft in Earth¡¯s orbit also left the orbit at the same time, following Tang Rui¡¯s spacecraft.
A wedding convoy?
Uninteresting.
Using a fleet of spacecraft was much more impressive.
When the dozen or so spacecraft formed a wedding fleet and headed towards the moon, theypletely baffled various nations.
What was happening?
Weren¡¯t they supposed to leave together? Why were they departing separately?
And their flight path was also strange; weren¡¯t they supposed to fly towards Jupiter?
The leaders of several major countries, aboard the scientific research spacecraft sold to them by Tang Rui, watched therge screen in utter confusion.
They couldn¡¯t figure out what was happening.
¡°Ask about the situation over there.¡± Everyone sent messages, inquiring.
The next second.
They received a reply.
The content of the message was simple.
¡°You go ahead, we are going to get married first, and after the wedding, we¡¯ll catch up with you.¡±
What?
The countries were baffled.
At this point in time, they were still in the mood to get married.
Previously, they were puzzled by the pce on the moon, not understanding why Tang Rui was building a pce there.
Now they understood.
It was for the wedding.
They were left speechless.
The countriesmunicated briefly and decided to proceed as nned.
Just like that.
The spacecraft in Earth¡¯s orbit split into two fleets.
One headed towards the moon.
The other towards Jupiter.
Possibly due to the sunlight, these two fleets, one red and one white, looked quite magical.
After a while, as the wedding fleet elerated, they quickly reached the position of the Magpie Bridge Ry Space Station.
¡°This is the wedding dispatch center, I am Zhou Peng, the wedding fleet is about to reach the Magpie Bridge, countdown 30 seconds.¡±
Onboard one of the spacecraft in the wedding fleet, Zhou Peng looked at the wedding n in his hand, picked up themunicator, and contacted the Magpie Bridge Space Station.
¡°Magpie Bridge Space Station received.¡±
Inside the Magpie Bridge Ry Space Station, which was not yet fully constructed, Lin Chao, upon receiving the message, ced his finger on a red button, ready to press it at any moment.
On Tang Rui¡¯s side, after receiving a hint from Red Lotus, he brought Li Shuyao to the yacht¡¯s viewing tform.
The others followed.
¡°What are you going to show me?¡±
¡°Just wait, and you will see.¡±
As Tang Rui finished speaking, the pitch-ck void of space in front of them began to change.
Images of numerous magpies appeared in the void.
These colorful magpies began to circle around the wedding fleet, illuminating the entire void of space.
¡°Wow!¡±
Exmations erupted.
Li Shuyao¡¯s female cousins and sisters were envious, their eyes sparkling with little stars.
When Li Shuyao saw these magpies, she was also stunned for a moment.
Then.
These magpies converged in front of the wedding fleet, forming a colorful cloud bridge that stretched all the way to the distant moon.
That wasn¡¯t all.
On both sides of the colorful cloud bridge, countless red boxes appeared.
As the wedding fleet approached, these red boxes would open, revealing contents like clothes, hats, jewelry, jade, and gems inside.
¡°Is this the Ten Mile Red Makeup?¡±
Li Shuyao widened her eyes and said to Tang Rui.
¡°No, this is Ten Thousand Miles.¡±
Tang Rui replied with brimming confidence..
Chapter 337 - 337: The Plan Begins, We Chose Not to Flee
Chapter 337: The n Begins, We Chose Not to Flee
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The wedding fleet arrived at the moon following the ten thousand-mile celestial path of red makeup.
After orbiting the moon several times, theynded on a mountaintop tform next to the Guanghan Pce base.
Tang Rui, apanied by Li Shuyao, disembarked the spacecraft and entered a special passageway.
The others used the regr passageway, taking a maglev train into the base.
Zhou Peng, acting as the coordinator, was in contact with Gao Yang, the wedding organizer at Guanghan Pce base.
¡°Brother Yang, are the ceremonial cannons ready?¡±
¡°Ready, we can ignite andunch at any time.¡±
¡°What about Sister Yun?¡±
¡°Everything is prepared.¡±
¡°Alright, I got it.¡±
After Zhou Peng finished coordinating, he began arranging for the guests. Once everything was prepared, he uploaded thepletion message to Red Lotus.
Tang Rui reapplied makeup with Li Shuyao.
Upon receiving a notification from Red Lotus, he took Li Shuyao on an elevator to the za outside the Guanghan Pce pceplex.
The area was already covered with flowers.
A long red carpet spread across the ground, extending from the za up the steps and into the pceplex.
As the two stepped onto the red carpet, Gao Yang pressed theunch button.
From the cliffs behind Guanghan Pce, hundreds ofunch units activated, firing missiles into the sky.
Dozens of close defense dense array weapons emerged from their shelters, firing tracers upwards at an angle.
Under Red Lotus¡¯ control, these dense array weapons constantly adjusted their directions, creating curved trajectories in the sky with their tracers.
Originally, Tang Rui nned to create musical fountains.
But on the moon, such water waste seemed inappropriate.
He then equipped the dense array weapons with tracers, replicating the effect of water jets.
The effect was indeed impressive, as these weapons reacted faster than water pumps.
Theunched tracers could be calcted as individual bullets, creating an excellent visual effect.
Now, under Red Lotus¡¯ control, the dense array weapons painted in the sky.
As Tang Rui and Li Shuyao walked across the za and up the steps to the front of the Guanghan Pce, the sky¡¯s tracers disappeared, reced by endless firelight.
The previouslyunched missiles reached their designated positions and exploded in sequence.
The effect was far better than fireworks, especially since the missile warheads contained specially formted explosives.
The impact and light effects were extraordinary.
As the two approached the entrance of the wedding hall, thest dozen mini-suns finally exploded in the outer space of the moon.
¡°On this auspicious and peaceful day, the two¡¡±
The wedding host began the ceremony, with guests watching the approaching couple with smiles.
For the next half hour, Tang Rui and Li Shuyao were at the mercy of the guests.
The wedding followed a mix of ancient and modern rituals, slightly unconventional.
Initially, Tang Rui considered following ancient rituals, but after learning about theplexity of ancient wedding procedures, he abandoned the idea.
The current arrangement was better, less taxing.
After the ceremony, the banquet began.
Red Lotus controlled robots to serve top-tier delicacies at the tables, quickly filling them up.
Each item on the table was of the highest quality.
As for the cost?
It was free.
All the ingredients were sponsored by various countries.
Even though these people were fleeing Earth, they didn¡¯t forget to bring along fine foods, preferring them over dry,pressed biscuits.
Tang Rui naturally didn¡¯t oppose such actions.
He even wished they brought more.
After all, it all ended up being his.
Tang Rui and Li Shuyao changed clothes and then came out to toast. This was when the brothers¡¯ alcohol tolerance was tested.
After a round of toasting¡
Tang Rui was fine, but several of his good friends, including Gao Yang, couldn¡¯t hold up.
The wedding ended.
The guests began to wander around the Guanghan Pce base, with some taking lunar sightseeing vehicles to leave the base and explore.
All these activities were arranged by specialized personnel.
After the wedding, Tang Rui immediately took a spaceship back to Earth. He still had things to do.
At the Blue Army Command Center.
¡°Red Lotus, notify everyone, the n begins.¡±
¡°Okay.¡±
After Tang Rui finished speaking, he cut offmunication between Earth and the fleeing fleet, simultaneously releasing a radiation bomb pre-arranged along the route.
Beep beep beep¡
¡°Detection of a super high-energy sr storm, all personnel immediately enter hibernation pods. Repeat, detection of¡¡±
At that moment, an rming sound red inside the dozen or so scientific research ships of the fleeing fleet, with the spaceship¡¯s mainframe warning appearing on therge screen.
Seeing this situation, the top officials were taken aback.
However, they did not immediately enter hibernation but instructed the scientists on the ships to analyze the specific situation.
¡°ording to the data monitored by the ship¡¯s detectors, this sr storm is unprecedented. We must enter the hibernation pods,¡± the scientists concluded.
¡°Will we be safe in the hibernation pods?¡±
¡°There should be no problem. The hibernation pods were manufactured with a protective coating, and the main threat of a sr storm to the spaceship is its electronic devices. If we go into hibernation, the ship can stop powering many devices and focus all energy on the maic field protection device, preventing major problems.¡±
After reviewing the data, the scientists reassured everyone.
Initially, they had not nned to enter hibernation so soon.
But with the sudden turn of events, they had no other choice.
Thus, everyone on the dozen or so scientific research ships entered their hibernation pods.
In front of Tang Rui, the red dots on the dozen ships gradually decreased until thest one entered the hibernation pod. He then activated the pre-set disengagement program.
The cargo ships headed directly to the moon.
The supplies on board were enough to sustain the moon base for many years.
The remaining ships activated their maximum thrust, speeding towards Jupiter.
¡°Red Lotus, disy the current trending topics on thework.¡±
¡°Okay, master.¡±
The screen changed to show online content.
Without Red Lotus¡¯s suppression and without control from national departments, the news of the global elite¡¯s escape had erupted online.
¡°We have been abandoned!¡±
This was the hottest topic on the inte, but thements below were unviewable, filled with curses and discontent.
Not only online, but some free countries were also in chaos, engaging in real-life conflicts.
Domestically, the situation was rtively stable.
Although there was much anger online, reality remained stable, mainly due to military control.
Tang Rui checked the time; it was almost seven o¡¯clock.
A new era was about to begin.
Buzz!
At that moment, Tang Rui received a text message.
The message was simple, urging all citizens to watch the news at seven o¡¯clock for an exnation.
Ten minutester¡
The country seemed to pause; there were no cars on the roads, and even on highways, vehicles stopped in emergencynes, with drivers watching the news on their phones.
At seven o¡¯clock sharp¡
Dun dun dun dun dun¡ dun¡
The news intro yed without a studio or host, just four words:
¡°Man Conquers Nature!¡±
Then, familiar faces appeared on the screen, not in a recorded broadcast, but live.
Why live?
Because everyone was on the Tiananmen Gate Tower, with cameras panning from close to far, capturing everything in a single shot.
Multiple small screens appeared on the TV.
These screens showed police standing guard on the streets, soldiers patrolling the borders, aircraft carriers cutting through the seas, and astronauts on duty in the space station¡
All these images conveyed one message:
In a time of crisis, we chose not to flee..
Chapter 338 - 338: Why Are We on Mars?
Chapter 338: Why Are We on Mars?
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After a ten-minute video exnation, the boss began to speak.
The essence of his message was simple: it wasn¡¯t time to give up yet, as they were currently making final preparations.
Even if the leaders of other countries had fled, they would not abandon Earth.
At thest moment, if it truly couldn¡¯t be saved, they would inform everyone and would not hide anything.
For now, everyone should continue their work and life peacefully.
Don¡¯t think too much.
That was essentially the message, asking everyone not to do anything extreme and to calmly wait for news.
¡°Red Lotus, how long until the fleet reaches Mars?¡± Tang Rui asked, continuing to monitor the fleet after watching the news.
¡°Master, the fleet is expected to reach Mars by tomorrow noon,¡± Red Lotus replied.
¡°Is everything ready on Jupiter?¡±
¡°Everything ispletely finished, just waiting for the arrival of the scientific research ship.¡±
¡°Recalcte the data for the ck dwarf star.¡±
¡°Okay, master.¡±
Red Lotus recalcted the ck dwarf star data.
This was not just idle tinkering but was very necessary.
Previously, the ck dwarf star was too far away, and many data calctions were not very urate.
So Red Lotus¡¯s simtion data had a hard time reaching a seventy percent probability, but as the ck dwarf star got closer, the monitored data became moreprehensive, and the simtion results became more urate.
Over an hourter, Red Lotus finished the calctions.
The result was an eighty-three percent sess rate.
This was 0.7 percentage points higher than thest simtion, but such a result was somewhat meaningless.
Since the internal situation of the ck dwarf star was unknown.
So the calcted probability was basically stuck here, difficult to improve further.
However, Tang Rui didn¡¯t care.
He had not prepared just one n, but three.
If all three ns didn¡¯t work, he had plenty of source points to directly create a powerful weapon and destroy the ck dwarf star.
Confident, to say the least.
¡°Master, the Space Command Center has sent amunication request, do you want to connect?¡± Red Lotus asked at this time.
¡°Connect.¡±
Tang Rui knew this was to inquire about the situation.
For the next two hours, he discussed the implementation of the n.
Talking until it was time to sleep.
The next day, the fleeing fleet reached Mars¡¯ orbit.
Tang Rui, while the fleet was elerating using Mars¡¯ orbit, let Red Lotus control the spacecraft.
Eight of the transport ships directly left the fleet in Mars¡¯ orbit, staying on Mars.
Most of the people on these ships were scientists, engineers, and top talents from various industries of various countries.
They could be said to be the essence of Western society.
As for the ships continuing towards Jupiter, they carried politicians, capitalists, military experts, and loyal soldiers from various countries.
Whether Earth was in chaos or not, these people had the final say.
But that was in the past.
Now Earth had nothing to do with them.
¡°Red Lotus, eject the capsules, first drop the supplies, then build a simple
Martian base, and then drop off the personnel.¡±
¡°Okay, master.¡±
Under Red Lotus¡¯s control, capsules containing building materials and life supplies were dropped.
Afternding, some of the capsules opened.
Robots inside activated and began to build the Martian base.
It was the tent type.
But the material used was nano-material, very sturdy. As long as it wasn¡¯t hit by a meteorite, there would basically be no problems with Mars¡¯ conditions.
The only downside was that it wasn¡¯t as advanced as the Moon base, and not asfortable.
However the people on these ships were top talents in various fields, Including many scientists. As long as they had production equipment, they could build their own Martian base.
A few hourster, a Martian base capable of amodating fifty thousand people was built by robots.
After all, all materials and equipment were ready.
The reason it took so long was mainly to inte the base.
You could think of this base as a superrge bouncy castle. If it was also equipped with some advanced equipment, calling it a bouncy castle wouldn¡¯t be much of a problem.
¡°Red Lotus, deploy the scientists and engineers.¡±
¡°Okay, master. The life support capsule K-003 is being deployed. The retro-thrust system is activated, and it¡¯snding smoothly.¡±
After the life support capsulended.
The robots transferred all the hibernation pods inside the capsule to the Martian base and then woke the upants.
Hisss¡
The hibernation pods slowly opened.
The people inside opened their eyes, looking at the cold light on the ceiling, all confused.
They all got up and looked around.
They looked at each other, not understanding the situation.
¡°Have we arrived at our new home?¡±
¡°Why aren¡¯t there any staff members?¡±
¡°It seems something is wrong. Look at the time on your watches.¡±
They were all highly educated talents, no fools.
So, after waking up, they didn¡¯t cause amotion but observed their surroundings to assess the situation.
They quickly noticed a problem.
The time was wrong.
It had only been two days since they left.
Did they pass through a wormhole?
It couldn¡¯t be.
In two days, they couldn¡¯t even reach Jupiter, at most only Mars.
¡°We may have a problem here,¡± someone said, walking to a nearby window. Looking outside, he spoke with a hint of panic.
Everyone rushed over.
The sight of the red soil outside left them all dumbfounded.
They had arrived at Mars.
To avoid disaster, they had fled from Earth to Mars¡ but what was the point? It would have been better to stay on Earth.
¡°This is a newly built base. Let¡¯s find somemunication equipment and inquire about the situation.¡±
¡°There¡¯s a map here. We are in the living area. If we go through the A5 passage, we can reach the work area. There¡¯s amand center there where we can probably contact the outside.¡±
They hurriedly made their way to the work area.
Inside themand center.
¡°Wee, everyone. I am C Rui, happy to serve you all once again,¡± the base¡¯s Al mainframe greeted them, somewhat foolishly.
¡°C Rui, why are we on Mars?¡±
¡°Sorry, there were some problems with our escape n. Just one day after we left, we encountered a strong sr storm, causing damage to the spacecraft¡¯s internal equipment.
Unable to rece the equipment, the spacecraft could only dock in Mars orbit and then use supplies to build a Martian base. This was the best option. Continuing to escape would have given us less than a one percent chance of survival.¡±
After hearing this exnation, everyone was upset.
Who would have thought?
Just one day after leaving Earth, they encountered such an incident, leading them to be stranded on Mars.
¡°Can we contact the outside world now? Either the fleet or Earth.¡±
¡®Yes, Earth has already made contact before you woke up.¡±
¡°Contact Earth immediately.¡±
¡°Okay, please wait.¡±
Soon, the video call was connected.
Tang Rui appeared on the big screen.
¡°Professor Tang, you¡¯re on Earth?¡±
The group of scientists was stunned. They recognized Tang Rui, so they were somewhat baffled by the current situation.
Supposedly, wasn¡¯t Professor Tang also on the spaceship?
Howe he was on Earth?
¡°Yes, I just got married yesterday. Then we encountered a severe sr re, and seven ships were damaged.
We had no choice but to turn back to Earth for repairs, so I¡¯m currently on Earth,¡± Tang Rui said helplessly.
¡°Then what should we do now?¡±
¡°I¡¯m working on dealing with the ck dwarf star because we can no longer escape. This is yesterday¡¯s observation result. The ck dwarf star was elerated by the sun¡¯s gravity.
And its trajectory is heading directly towards Jupiter. Even if we leave now, we won¡¯t make it in time.¡±
¡°What about the fleet? Can they change their course in time?¡±
¡°No, I can¡¯t contact the fleet now. I don¡¯t know if it¡¯s because of the sr storm or some other reason, butmunication with the fleet has been cut off.¡±
After hearing this, everyone was overwhelmed by the sessive bad news.
¡°Professor Tang, do you have a solution for the ck dwarf star?¡±
¡°I have an idea that we can try, but whether it will seed is uncertain.¡±
¡°Given the current situation, no matter what the sess rate is, we have no other choice.¡±
¡°I¡¯m sorry, but all my efforts are focused on dealing with the ck dwarf star, so I can¡¯t divert resources to rescue you.¡±
¡®We understand. We¡¯ve checked our supply reserves, and they¡¯re very ample, enough for everyone.
We will expand the Martian base ourselves, so we won¡¯t trouble you. Actually, once the base is built, we canpletely repair the spacecraft ourselves.¡±
¡°How about this. When my ship passes Mars, I¡¯ll drop off a batch of supplies for you. List what you specifically need within three days, and I¡¯ll do what I can. That¡¯s all I can offer.¡±
Tang Rui said this with a shrug, disying a somewhat regretful expression.
¡°Thank you. We¡¯ll check and make some preliminary ns, then send you the list.¡±
¡°Alright, let¡¯s leave it at that. I have other matters to attend to.¡±
¡°Thank you very much. We won¡¯t keep you busy any longer.¡±
They ended themunication.
Tang Rui¡¯s expression finally rxed.
Sending them to Mars, and they still thanked him.
But it was a situation with no alternatives.
It was all part of the act.
After all, these people were elites. As long as they had equipment and supplies, by the time a ship was sent to pick them up, they might have already built the Martian base.
Picking up a fully-built Martian baseter would be a big gain.
Tang Rui thought about this happily for a while and then stopped worrying about Mars. Those people didn¡¯t need his concern.
They were the seeds for rebuilding human civilization.
Even on the barren Mars, they could live well, so he didn¡¯t need to worry about them.
The main issue at hand was the ck dwarf star..
Chapter 339 - 339: Fusion Reaction Device
Chapter 339: Fusion Reaction Device
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In Red Lotus¡¯s calctions, the ck dwarf star, upon entering the sr system, would trace arge orbital arc due to its own gravity and that of the sun.
This orbit would circle the outer sr system before returning to the inner
sr system.
The first wave of impact would affect Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune the most,
not Venus, Earth, or Mars.
Of course, even if Earth is not greatly impacted, it would still deviate from its
current orbit.
The real catastrophic impact on Earth would only ur on the ck dwarf
star¡¯s seventh entry into the sr system.
At that time, the entire sr system¡¯s orbits would be in chaos.
Only when the sun and the ck dwarf star reach gravitational bnce, forming a binary star system, would the sr system¡¯s orbits return to normal.
By then, who knows where Earth¡¯s orbit would be.
Too close to the sun, and it¡¯d get scorched.
Too far, and it¡¯d enter an ice age.
So, even if the earlier orbital chaos in the sr system doesn¡¯t spell doom for humanity, if Earth can¡¯t return to its original orbital regionter, humanity is still doomed.
This was why it was crucial to destroy the ck dwarf star.
Humans were too fragile.
They can¡¯t withstand such tumult.
¡°Red Lotus, disy the countdown.¡±
¡°Okay, master.¡±
162 hours, 42 minutes, 13 seconds.
Less than seven days.
This countdown wasn¡¯t for someary collision, but rather for the start of
the n.
If the ck dwarf star isn¡¯t dealt with on its first entry into the sr system,
the next opportunity would onlye 15 monthster.
But during this period, Earth would still be significantly affected.
Not to the point of its annihtion, but natural disasters would be inevitable.
After ncing at the countdown, Tang Rui continued to check his arrangements on Jupiter.
To kill the ck dwarf star, brute force wouldn¡¯t work.
Even using a more cunning method, a massive and instantaneously erupting energy source was needed.
The only thing in the sr system that met this requirement was Jupiter. Currently, in Jupiter¡¯s orbit, there were hundreds of various-sized artificial satellites, allunched by Tang Rui.
These satellites were all sensors.
Used to monitor Jupiter¡¯s Van Allen radiation belt and atmospheric data.
What is the Van Allen radiation belt?
Simply put, it¡¯s a vastyer of electrons and protons formed by particles from the sr wind captured by the maic fields ofs with maic fields.
Why did Tang Rui want to monitor this data?
Because with Jupiter¡¯s size and its strong maic field, this radiation belt, reaching several hundred million to even a trillion electron volts in energy and with a thickness of 7 million kilometers, was a vast energy source.
Boom, boom, boom¡
Suddenly, Tang Rui felt the ground shake twice, like an earthquake but not
quite.
After all, what kind of earthquake only shakes twice?
¡°Red Lotus, what¡¯s happening? Is there an earthquake?¡±
¡°Master, Earth¡¯s orbit has deviated, and the tidal locking between Earth and the
Moon is showing deviations, causing a shift in the Moon¡¯s orbit.¡±
¡°Show me the specific data.¡±
¡°Okay, master.¡±
After reviewing the data detected by Red Lotus, Tang Rui breathed a sigh of
relief.
It wasn¡¯t a big deal.
Despite the seriousness of what had just been said, the actual impact on Earth
was not significant.
Just a slight tremor.
No natural disasters were detected on Earth.
¡°Master, there has been an 8.5 magnitude earthquake in Japan. The epicenter is near the tectonic te, 27 kilometers beneath the surface.¡±
Just as Tang Rui thought it was nothing serious, Japan experienced an earthquake, and a strong one at that.
¡°Will it affect us?¡±
¡°No major impact, this earthquake will not cause a tsunami.¡±
Tang Rui nodded.
Normally, such a high-magnitude geological disaster shouldn¡¯t happen at this time, but Japan¡¯s geographical location was just too perfect, right on the volcanic and seismic belt.
A slight fluctuation in Earth¡¯s hydrostatic equilibrium, and Japan would tremble.
From now on, as long as the ck dwarf star isn¡¯t resolved, Earth will keep trembling, and the tremors will only get stronger.
Over the next few days, as he expected, slight geological tremors urred all over the world, but the most severe were only around magnitude 6, and the mildest were barely noticeable.
However, continuous tremors like this were enough to cause fear.
This led to increasing chaos worldwide.
Already destabilized by the fleeing elite and weakened government structures, the ongoing earthquakes only added to the disorder.
Countries were more chaotic than ever, with rampant looting and the emergence of doomsday cults.
The damage caused by the earthquakes was minusculepared to the resulting human disasters.
Domestically, the government didn¡¯t intervene.
There wasn¡¯t time for that.
Despite some voices on the inte calling for national rescue operations, they were overwhelmingly criticized and dismissed.
Tang Rui, over these days, besides attending meetings via video, spent the rest of his time in the Blue Army Command Center, focusing on the ck dwarf star.
On this day, the fleeing fleet finally reached Jupiter¡¯s orbit.
Here, the fleet reached its final destination.
Dozens of scientific research ships lined up in the outer space of Jupiter.
The remaining transport ships were discarded, except one, which, after unloading all cargo, headed to Ganymede.
The final arrangement wasplete.
¡°Red Lotus, activate the maic connection device on the scientific research ships.¡±
¡°Okay, master. The device is now activated.¡±
¡°Control the transport ship on Ganymede to start reassembling. After assembly, connect it to Ganymede¡¯s maic field and await orders.¡± ¡°Understood, master. The positron cannon is being assembled. Estimated assembly time is 13 hours. Ganymede¡¯s maic field control system is activated.¡±
Tang Rui, listening to Red Lotus¡¯s report, watched the sr systemary orbits on the big screen.
The ck dwarf star was gradually approaching Jupiter.
The countdown on the screen showed 46 hours remaining.
That evening, Tang Rui and Li Shuyao went to the viewing tform to watch the meteor shower.
Meteorites were constantly impacting Earth, but most were harmless.
Any potentially threatening ones were intercepted by the orbital defense system.
Those entering the atmosphere were small enough to burn uppletely.
As a result, every night, one could see dense meteor showers, viewable from dusk till dawn, enough to sate anyone¡¯s appetite for such celestial disys. ¡°My husband, you wouldn¡¯t believe what¡¯s happening online these days. We¡¯ve been incredibly busy.¡±
¡°Really?¡±
¡°Mostly it¡¯s people spreading rumors online, sowing chaos. There are also those exploiting religious cults for money.¡±
¡°How¡¯s the public sentiment?¡±
Tang Rui hadn¡¯t been online recently and was unaware of the situation.
¡°It¡¯s okay, I guess. Most people in our country still have hope, although pessimism is growing.¡±
¡°Don¡¯t worry, it¡¯ll be over in a couple of days.¡±
¡°Hmm.¡±
In the blink of an eye, more than a day passed.
Only 3 hours remained on the countdown.
Tang Rui sat alone in the chair at the Blue Army Command Center, with a camera broadcasting his actions online for all to see.
¡°Red Lotus, start the fusion reaction device inside Jupiter.¡±
¡°Okay, master..¡±
Chapter 340 - 340: Igniting, Transforming, Charging
Chapter 340 - 340: Igniting, Transforming, Charging
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This fusion device, although it was used to ignite Jupiter, did not ignite the entire.
Tang Rui did not have that capability.
Igniting Jupiter and turning it into a star was too difficult.
Firstly, Jupiter¡¯s mass needed to be increased by 67 times, its core temperature by 500 times, and its internal pressure by 3000 times.
Temperature and pressure were manageable, but the key issue was mass.
Even if all thes, asteroids, and meteorites in the sr system, except for the sun, were added to Jupiter, its mass would only increase by 25%, not even reaching 0.5 times, let alone 67 times.
But the inability to ignite the entire Jupiter didn¡¯t mean that Jupiter couldn¡¯t undergo nuclear fusion.
With so much hydrogen on Jupiter, it would have been a waste not to engage in nuclear fusion.
There was a device inside Jupiter that had been waiting for a long time.
It was activated at that moment.
Instantly, the temperature around the device skyrocketed to a billion degrees.
At this temperature, hydrogen directly underwent a fusion reaction, without needing any further action.
Nuclear fusion, actually, was quite simple.
As long as the temperature was high enough, any material could undergo a fusion reaction, including heavy metals which couldn¡¯t escape this rule.
Under the ignition of extremely high temperatures, hydrogen underwent nuclear fusion, releasing immense energy.
However, as this energy tried to burst outwards, it was contained by a powerful maic field.
The unreleased energy waspressed internally again, restoring the high temperature and pressure inside that had previously decreased.
As long as this high temperature and pressure were maintained, the internal nuclear fusion reaction would not stop.
¡°The maic field strength is stable.¡±
¡°The fusion reaction is stable.¡±
¡°Jupiter¡¯s maic field coordination data is normal.¡±
¡°Jupiter¡¯s inner maic current is forming, expected to be uncontroble in 3 hours and 17 minutes. Please note the time.¡±
Tang Rui, listening to Red Lotus¡¯s report, nodded in satisfaction.
So far, everything was proceeding steadily ording to his n.
After about ten minutes, Earth¡¯s outer space telescopes could already clearly see 320 red dots lighting up on the surface of Jupiter.
And these red dots were slowly getting bigger.
These red dots were the ignited nuclear fusion reactions.
They couldn¡¯t really be considered reactors, because they would explode eventually.
In Jupiter¡¯s orbit, apart from a dozen scientific spacecraft.
All other transport spacecraft sparked at this moment, with a massive amount of charged particles bing active.
These transport ships lost power at that moment.
All systems inside were damaged.
Under Jupiter¡¯s gravity, these transport ships began to fall into Jupiter, eventually dissipating under Jupiter¡¯s immense internal pressure.
Tang Rui, watching the transport ships fall into Jupiter, had no expression on his face, very calm.
Everyone on the spacecraft, each and every one of them, was a troublemaker, sabotaging and dragging their feet. The world would be better off without them.
So, he didn¡¯t feel bad about doing this at all.
Without them, the post-disaster reconstruction work would proceed more smoothly.
The human fatemunity would no longer be empty talk but be an irond fact.
¡°Professor Tang, can we broadcast this next?¡±
Seeing the transport ships disappear, a bigwig watching through thework asked.
¡°Yes, we can broadcast next,¡± Tang Rui replied indifferently after hearing this.
Either it would be a sess, and everyone would celebrate together.
Or it would be a failure.
Then they would think of a solutionter, perhaps it would really be time to flee, since dealing with a ck dwarf star was indeed difficult.
Regarding the problem of not leaving the star system.
This was not just hellishly difficult.
It was absolute death difficulty.
If it weren¡¯t for Tang Rui¡¯s cheating, humans wouldn¡¯t even be able to discover a ck dwarf star, and by the time they did, it would probably be toote.
In the blink of an eye, two hours passed.
There were only 20 minutes left in the countdown.
At this time, the satellite broadcast images were already synchronized online, and everyone on Earth could watch.
For a moment, everyone who could ess thework entered the live broadcast to watch this world-saving n.
For a moment, the Earth miraculously regained peace.
Tang Rui didn¡¯t care about the situation on the inte.
He nced at the time and gave an order to Red Lotus: ¡°Red Lotus, activate the maic field energy transition device, and increase the strength of Jupiter¡¯s maic field.¡±
¡°Okay, master, the device is activated.¡±
Three devices, personally enhanced by Tang Rui through the system panel, were activated at this moment.
Jupiter¡¯s maic field strength instantly soared.
Ten times!
Twenty times!
Fifty times!
A hundred times!
As Jupiter¡¯s maic field strength soared, the Van Allen radiation belts were also affected at this moment.
The size of the Van Allen radiation belts and the number of electron-volt particles are proportional to the strength of a¡¯s maic field.
This meant that under the support of Jupiter¡¯s maic field, the Van Allen radiation belts crazily expanded outward, intercepting more sr wind particles.
¡°Red Lotus, start the maic field energy radiation conversion, transfer all the energy of the Van Allen radiation belts to Jupiter¡¯s maic field, and continue to increase the strength of Jupiter¡¯s maic field.¡±
¡°Okay, master, the device is activated.¡±
Light and electricity.
Electricity and maism.
At this moment, through the transformation of three sets of devices, light and electromaism began to support Jupiter¡¯s maic field.
Instantly, the strength of Jupiter¡¯s maic field soared to 400 times.
A maic field strength of 400 times that of Jupiter was equivalent to 8 million times the strength of Earth¡¯s maic field.
But this strength was still a far cry from the tens of millions of times needed for a ck dwarf star.
But the gap wasn¡¯t too big.
Tang Rui looked at the data on the big screen and found it differed by 27 times from the previous estimates.
This deviation was still eptable, as long as it didn¡¯t exceed 50 times, there would be no problem.
¡°Red Lotus, detonate all of Jupiter¡¯s fusion energy, draw all the energy, start the inner maic current, and boost the maic field strength to more than 500 times.¡±
¡°Okay, master.¡±
The maic field controlling the fusion reaction disappeared, and the massive fusion energy swept around.
The collisions caused by the particles raised the energy level of particles in Jupiter¡¯s outer atmosphere, affecting the entire atmosphere of Jupiter.
Microscopic changes leveraged the macroscopic world.
Maic field control devices operated at full strength.
The atmosphere, which should have erupted into a superstorm, had not even a single lightning strike at this time.
All the energy was drawn away.
After several increases, the strength of Jupiter¡¯s maic field finally reached 530 times, which is more than tens of millions of times that of Earth¡¯s maic field.
People in the live broadcast room couldn¡¯t see the changes in the microscopic world.
What they could see was only the electric light effects produced by the collision of sr wind with Jupiter¡¯s maic field.
But everyone was cheering and encouraging the operation in their ownnguages.
¡°Red Lotus, start the maic field energy regtion conversion devices in the sixteen scientific spacecraft, and start charging the ck dwarf star¡¯s maic field.¡±
¡°Okay, master.¡±
All the preparations made before were for this moment.
It wasn¡¯t a weapon. It was just simple electromaic conversion, coordinated resonance, to charge the maic field of the ck dwarf star, to increase the strength of the ck dwarf star¡¯s maic field.
Why charge the ck dwarf star¡¯s maic field?
This led to the evolution of ck dwarf stars.
From a white dwarf to a ck dwarf, the energy level of the white dwarf gradually decreases, the surface temperature drops from ioo.oooK to l.oooK, and as the energy is consumed, the maic field strength of the white dwarf increases wildly.
What was the ultimate fate of a ck dwarf star?
There were three theories.
The first was that the ck dwarf star¡¯s energy was exhausted, the electron degenerate state couldn¡¯t bnce with gravity, and the ck dwarf star copsed into a ck hole.
The second was that the ck dwarf star¡¯s energy was exhausted, turning into a solid ck rock.
The third was that the maic field strength of the ck dwarf star continued to soar, and under the strong repulsion of the electron degenerate state, it disintegrated directly.
ording to the answer calcted by Red Lotus for Tang Rui.
The ck dwarf star turning into a ck hole was basically impossible.
To be a ck hole, it would have be one during a supernova explosion, not waiting until now.
Turning into a big iron lump is also unrealistic.
Because after losing energy, the electron degenerate state and gravity cannot bnce, and an imbnce between the two is inevitable.
So, after Red Lotus¡¯s calctions, Tang Rui decided to y a trick, not trying to explode the ck dwarf star.
But rather, to make the ck dwarf star disintegrate on its own.
The best way was not to charge the ck dwarf star, but to charge its maic field, to increase the electromaic repulsion of the electron degenerate matter, surpassing gravity.
As long as the electromaic field surpassed gravity, the ck dwarf star would disintegrate, and there would be no possibility of reignition.
Because what he was sending to the ck dwarf star was not material, but purely electrons to strengthen the maic field and electromaic force.
The immense maic field energy of Jupiter, transformed by the sixteen scientific spacecraft, poured directly into the interior of the ck dwarf star¡¯s maic field.
For a moment, the maic field of the ck dwarf star soared wildly, as though on steroids..
Chapter 341 - 341: Degenerate Material Eruption, Interstellar
Chapter 341 - 341: Degenerate Material Eruption, Interster
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Invisible energy traversed the cosmic void.
The maic field of a ck dwarf star intensified, while Jupiter¡¯s maic field weakened.
This moment¡¯s change manifested directly in macroscopic cosmic phenomena.
The maic field of the ck dwarf star wildly expanded, forcefully repelling the particle stream brought by the sr wind.
The huge particle stream, in the face of the powerful maic field, was like hitting a wall.
The particle stream continuously umted and formed a fiery red light curtain in the cosmic void.
As the maic field of the ck dwarf star spread.
This light curtain continued to retreat outward.
It appeared as if the ck dwarf star, with a shield on top, was flying through the cosmic void, a very spectacr scene.
But at that moment, Tang Rui had no time to appreciate this spectacr sight.
His eyes were fixed on the data on therge screen.
The maic field of the ck dwarf star had been enhanced, reaching 2164 times the strength of Earth¡¯s maic field.
Just the outer expansion range of the maic field exceeded 70 million kilometers.
But such a maic field strength could not disintegrate the ck dwarf star.
¡°Sorry, Jupiter.¡±
¡°Red Lotus, detonate the Higgs bomb inside Jupiter.¡±
¡°Yes, Master.¡±
Inside Jupiter, in the liquid region, a giant capsule, 12 meters in diameter and
240 meters long, floated there.
The strong pressure of liquid hydrogen had no effect on this metal capsule.
It just quietly floated there.
But at that moment, Red Lotus activated the device inside the giant metal capsule.
Within nck time, the Higgs field inside the device erupted.
The symmetry between particles was broken.
Not the spontaneous symmetry breaking of the micro world, but a fist-sized
Higgs field.
In this fist-sized space, all particle spins were disrupted, symmetry was broken, and the annihtion rules of matter and antimatter were broken.
A series of reactions in the micro world triggered a chain reaction in the macro world, unleashing immeasurable huge energy and mass, centered around the Higgs field.
Space-time was distorted at that moment.
Non-existent mass appeared out of nowhere.
It could be clearly seen.
Jupiter¡¯s rotation noticeably paused, and the entire volume of Jupiter also contracted slightly.
Then, an unimaginable huge energy erupted from within Jupiter.
Beep beep beep¡
On therge screen in front of Tang Rui, numerous red rm alerts sounded, all indicating the same thing.
Energy overload, the equipment was already working beyond its capacity. ¡°Red Lotus, forget about the equipment, no need for stability, transfer all the energy to the ck dwarf star¡¯s maic field.¡±
Tang Rui spoke seriously to Red Lotus.
¡°Yes, Master.¡±
Following his instructions, Red Lotus, regardless of the condition of the equipment, began to channel all its power to transform this immense, incalcble energy.
Device No. 2 was damaged.
Device No. 7 lost contact.
Control Device No. 21 overloaded and was damaged.
A series of equipment damage appeared before Tang Rui¡¯s eyes.
But he didn¡¯t care.
After all, this was thest tremble.
Even if all the equipment was destroyed, it wouldn¡¯t matter to him.
Red Lotus also didn¡¯t care; it followed Tang Rui¡¯s orders to channel energy to the ck dwarf star¡¯s maic field as much as possible.
Boom!
A scientific research spacecraft exploded.
A trace of the huge energy being transformed spilled out, directly destroying the entire spacecraft.
Completely annihted.
Boom boom boom¡
A series of explosions urred on the scientific research spacecraft, all due to the spillover of energy.
But the mission of these spacecraft was also over.
Within a short minute, enough energy for all of humanity to use for eighteen million years was transferred to the ck dwarf star¡¯s maic field.
This energy was only 6.5% of the total energy released by Jupiter, the rest was wasted.
There was no choice.
Just then, Jupiter¡¯s lifespan of 1.1 billion years was burned away.
Although sorry for Jupiter, the result was not bad, because this huge energy directly increased the strength of the ck dwarf star¡¯s maic field to 53 times.
That is, more than fifty million times stronger than Earth¡¯s maic field.
Crack crack crack¡
Tang Rui watched the ck dwarf star begin to glow and expand, automatically doing voiceover in his mind.
The surface of the ck dwarf star cracked.
The ck dwarf star, dark for who knows how many years, emitted a silver-white light again.
Within these silver lights, some fragmented electron degenerate matter was directly repelled from the ck dwarf star by the strong maic force.
When these electron-degenerate materials flew into outer space, they instantly expanded and exploded into interster dust.
For a time, the ck dwarf star was enveloped in light and a dust cloud, with a long tail appearing behind it.
¡°Academician Tang, have we seeded?¡±
¡°Wait a moment.¡±
Tang Rui frowned and looked at the data of the ck dwarf star.
For example¡
The previous series of actions hadpletely met his design requirements, theoretically speaking, the operation was sessful.
But there was something wrong with the result.
ording to Red Lotus¡¯s simtion calctions, after the maic field of the ck dwarf star increased fivefold, the electron degenerate matter would break the bnce of maic and gravitational forces of the ck dwarf star.
Under these circumstances, the ck dwarf star would rapidly disintegrate, bing a huge interster dust cloud, enveloping the entire sr system.
But the current situation was a bit off.
The bnce of the ck dwarf star was broken, but notpletely.
The mass of the ck dwarf star was indeed diminishing, and a dust cloud was forming, but this speed was too slow.
And if it continued, the oue was uncertain.
¡°Red Lotus, analyze and simte the data of the ck dwarf star.¡±
¡°Yes, Master, simtion in progress.¡±
Tang Rui and a group of people waited anxiously for Red Lotus¡¯s simtion.
But on the externalwork.
Everyone was shocked.
What¡¯s going on?
Why was the ck dwarf star suddenly starting to glow and smoke?
How did they do this?
¡°Did it seed? Or not? The officials need to give a statement.¡±
¡°Yes, what¡¯s the situation right now? Can someone exin, I don¡¯t understand.¡± ¡°Completely baffled, no idea what¡¯s happening.
Netizens were anxious.
Wanting to know the oue.
Actually, Tang Rui and his team also wanted to know the oue, but the simtion of the ck dwarf star was not that fast.
Twenty minutester, Red Lotus finally finished the simtion.
¡°Master, ording to the simtion results, the ck dwarf star will regain bnce after losing 8.2% of its mass.¡±
¡°Why is that?¡±
¡°ording to the simtion data, some energy disappears in the electromaic conversion of the ck dwarf star, and there is no rted physical model yet to determine which mechanism is causing it.¡± Tang Rui understood upon hearing this.
It wasn¡¯t that their previous calctions were wrong, but that there was a problem with the actual situation.
The current ck dwarf star was like a volcano about to erupt. If the pressure underground increased a bit more, it would erupt.
But right then, although the underground pressure was over the limit, it had not reached the point of causing a full eruption.
So, it was just continuously smoking.
At that moment.
If it was given a bit more pressure, it could be made to explode.
Coincidentally.
Tang Rui had a second n..
Chapter 342 - 342: Positron Cannon, Black Dwarf Exploded
Chapter 342: Positron Cannon, ck Dwarf Exploded
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¡°Professor Tang, has it been sessful?¡±
¡°Hmm, half sessful.¡±
¡°Half?¡±
Several big shots were a bit confused.
What does half sessful mean? Is it considered a sess, or not?
¡°Now the ck dwarf star has reached a critical point. Just a bit more external force, and it won¡¯t be able to hold on.¡±
Tang Rui briefly exined without going into detail.
¡°Do we need tounch another spacecraft?¡±
¡°No need, the previous devices were destroyed, but I had a backup n.¡±
After saying this, Tang Rui switched the view on the big screen to Jupiter¡¯s moon Ganymede.
That was, the moon with a maic field.
On the orbit of Ganymede stood a long pole.
Don¡¯t be fooled by the unimpressive look of this three-kilometer-long pole, as it was a real antimatter weapon.
A positron cannon.
¡°Red Lotus, activate the maic field energy device on Ganymede, start charging the positron cannon.¡±
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
The maic field energy of Ganymede began to be extracted.
Inside the positron cannon, the Y-photon pair reaction furnace started, and countless high-energy Y-photons began to undergo reverse reactions.
Why use Y-photons?
Because electron-positron annihtion produces Y-photon pairs, but when the energy of Y-photon pairs exceeds the rest energy of an electron, the collision will produce a pair of electron-positron, and the excess energy will be converted into kic energy of electrons.
With the injection of huge energy, the positrons extracted by the reverse reaction of Y-photons began to converge.
The muzzle of the positron cannon started to glow, like some kind of energy gathering.
But this was not energy gathering, it was a physical effect produced by a trace of energy dissipation inside reacting with particles in the cosmic void.
Fifteen minutester.
The positron cannon was fully charged.
¡°Red Lotus, lock onto the ck dwarf star.¡±
¡°Orbital calctionplete, angle adjustmentplete, positron cannon ready to fire.¡±
Tang Rui took a deep breath and pressed the button on his right.
Fire!
A golden light shot from the cannon, turning into a beam of light, crossing the edge of the sr system.
Since it was an antimatter weapon, particles in the cosmic void would annihte with antimatter, making it look like just one shot.
But the effect of the shot turned into a beam of light.
Countdown thirty-two minutes and forty-six seconds.
The distance of over six hundred million kilometers is short in the scale of the universe, but too long for humans.
Even light took over thirty minutes to reach.
If Tang Rui wasn¡¯t using real-timemunication technology, just observing the light of the positron cannon from Earth would take over ten minutes.
Tang Rui picked up the teacup next to him and took a sip.
He had done what he needed to do.
If this strike couldn¡¯t disintegrate the ck dwarf star, then he would have to use the third n.
But that n¡
Might as well take the Earth and run away.
Everyone online was cheering for this shot.
They didn¡¯t understand the changes in the ck dwarf star.
But they understood the direct energy attack of the positron cannon.
So,izens leftments.
¡°This strike, pierces the stars!¡±
Countless people copied and pasted this phrase, flooding the live broadcast room with it.
Thirty-plus minutes felt incredibly long.
Finally, this ray of hope, the light, directly hit the ck dwarf star.
Instantly, a blinding light erupted.
The brightness of the ck dwarf star surpassed the sun and even Betelgeuse in Orion.
The Y-photons produced by electron-positron annihtion lit up the entire starry sky.
An unrivaled burst of light.
Tang Rui looked at the data on the big screen, most concerned about the mass of the ck dwarf star.
The ck dwarf star, already on the verge of explosion finally caved under the strike of the positron cannon.
A powerful electromaic force erupted.
Electron degenerate matter, with the help of the strong electromaic field, finally allowed electrons to escape from the atomic nucleus.
The wave function became useful again.
Microscopic changes led to a macroscopic copse.
The electron degenerate matter expanded instantly.
The ck dwarf star exploded.
Mass of 7 tons per cubic centimeter of electron degenerate matter burst open, turning into interster dust clouds.
From a distance, the shining ck dwarf star suddenly burst open, leaving behind a huge dust cloud.
These dust clouds, spreading quickly throughout the sr system.
In theing month, the entire sr system would be enveloped in fog.
Until these dust clouds are bound by gravity, forming rings, then they will disappear within the sr system.
¡°It¡¯s over.¡±
Tang Rui leaned back in his chair and said with a smile.
¡°Thank you, Professor Tang. Humanity is fortunate to have you.¡± A big shot said with relief and excitement.
¡°It¡¯s my duty, after all, I am human. But the ck dwarf star has exploded, and the effects haven¡¯t subsided yet.
In a little over an hour, Earth will experience a brief daylight, and everyone needs to be prepared for this.
Also, in the second half of next year, the amount of sunlight will decrease, the average temperature on Earth will drop, and crops will be affected.
I¡¯ll upload more details in a couple of days, we need to be prepared in advance,¡± Tang Rui turned to the camera and said.
¡°Alright, thank you for the reminder, Professor Tang. We¡¯ll be ready, you should rest now.¡±
¡°Okay, I¡¯ll go back and catch up on some sleep. I didn¡¯t sleep wellst night.¡±
After ending the video call, Tang Rui returned to his vi, took a quick shower, and went to bed to catch up on sleep.
He indeed hadn¡¯t slept well the previous night.
After all, the entire issue of the ck dwarf star was on his shoulders, and that was a lot of pressure.
Now that the matter was resolved, the rest were minor issues.
As Tang Rui fell asleep, the entire country received the message that daylight was imminent, asking everyone to be prepared.
This daylight, caused by the ck dwarf star, wouldn¡¯tst long. As long as you don¡¯t foolishly stare at the sky, it won¡¯t be much of a problem, and won¡¯t have much impact.
This message was also disyed in the live broadcast room.
Apart from the issue of daylight, the problem with the interster dust clouds wasn¡¯t mentioned.
After all, the crisis had just been resolved. Mentioning another disaster right after wouldn¡¯t be bearable.
An hourter, the sky suddenly became dazzling, a light brighter than the sun appeared in the sky.
But this special situation came quickly and left quickly.
In less than a minute, the light in the sky disappeared.
At this time, people, who had been holding back for almost a year, all ran out to celebrate.
The apocalypse was over.
Humanity would not perish.
People no longer had to live in fear.
But this was only in the country.
People abroad were also excited, but they didn¡¯t dare to celebrate outside, because many people were setting off rapid-fire firecrackers on the streets.
Six-barrel super-fast firecrackers.
Now that was true freedom..
Chapter 343 - 343: Helping and Exploiting the Market
Chapter 343: Helping and Exploiting the Market
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Bang bang bang¡
A series of gunshots rang out in the dead of night.
This was followed by piercing screams and shouts.
However, all this went unanswered, at most causing the neighbors to grip their firearms tighter.
Texas.
As the state most influenced by cowboy culture and overflowing with guns, it hadpletely turned into a battlefield after the government lost control following the departure of the ¡®Runaway Fleet¡¯ from Earth.
Every day saw endless gunfights.
A small skirmish involved three to five people, but the real excitement was in battles with three to five hundred, and it was sheer madness when the numbers exceeded a thousand.
Initially, everyone was desperate.
They thought that Earth was doomed and there was no hope.
That¡¯s why they went out seeking thrills, fearless even in the face of death.
Until yesterday¡ when the ck dwarf star was destroyed.
The Earth was safe, and humanity was not going to perish.
This¡
A group of crazed people were dumbfounded.
What to do next?
Restore order?
Who would do it?
Now, in the entire United States, apart from the middle ss, only some small rich people were left, those with a worth of tens of millions.
In this situation, restoring the original order was simply impossible.
Those ustomed to freedom found the current chaos exciting, and even began to form their own factions.
It was like a dance of demons.
Three to five hundred people upied a street block.
A thousand to eighteen hundred took over a district.
Every day, from morning to night, the air was filled with a sense of freedom.
However, that night, at a farm in Texas, the situation began to change.
About five thousand people appeared, all wearing individual exoskeleton armor, apanied by mechanical dogs, and followed by armored personnel carriers.
¡®¡öTonight¡¯s mission is to head to the Sea of Blood Gang, Cult of the Dead, and Doomsday Camp, threerge organizations entrenched in the city.
¡°The map has been loaded, the enemies marked, and all targets deemed as enemies by the system must be eliminated.
-Begin boarding the vehicles, we¡¯re moving out.¡±
After giving orders to the five thousand people, the middle-aged man in charge of the farm returned to his room and entered the study.
There, another man was drinking tea.
¡°Mr. Han, by tomorrow we will control most of Texas, and we¡¯ll need to restore public life. We hope you can provide assistance.¡±
¡°Of course, we¡¯re partners, these are minor issues.
¡°Thank you very much.¡±
The conversation between the two was very harmonious.
Elsewhere.
Tang Rui, looking at the red and green dots on the big screen, was a bit
perplexed.
¡ö¡öRed Lotus, are you sure all these red dots you¡¯ve marked are murderers?¡±
¡°Yes, Master. ording to your instructions, everyone¡¯s actions have been monitored for the past half month.
Those marked with red enemy symbols are all individuals who participated in gunfights,mitted murder, and vited women¡¯s consent during this period.¡±
Hearing Red Lotus¡¯s answer, what more could he say?
But the problem was, if all the red dots on the map were eliminated, how many people would be left?
-Red Lotus, show all the survivors, mark those with no criminal records in green, those who havemitted robbery or theft but haven¡¯t caused death or serious injury in yellow.¡±
¡°Okay, Master, Red Lotus ispiling the data.¡±
TWO secondster, a lot of yellow dots and a few green dots appeared on the
big screen.
Wow.
Those marked with green, representing people without criminal records, ounted for less than five percent of the total poption, while those with yellow marks, who hadmitted robbery or theft but without causing death or serious injury, made up forty percent.
The rest were all marked in red.
¡°Well, let¡¯s proceed with the n as intended.
After seeing this, Tang Rui didn¡¯t bother asking any more questions. As the armored personnel carriers entered the city, the soldiers disembarked and, under the direction of the battlefield system, began attacking the enemies.
All those marked in red by Red Lotus were considered enemies.
Those marked in yellow were not enemies, but if they showed malicious intent, they could be shot on sight.
As for those marked in green, they were the ones to be rescued.
Bang bang bang¡
The streets, previously filled with screams, now echoed with gunfire again.
However, this time, it wasn¡¯t the criminals firing.
The criminals hardly had time to react before they were wiped out. ¡°Report, the Skull Gang in the third district has been eliminated, and three injured survivors were found.¡±
¡°Continue the mission, the rescue team for the survivors will arrive soon.¡±
¡°Understood.¡±
The battlefield system recorded their achievements and issued new missions.
Eliminate the Skull Gang headquarters in the third district.
It used to be a five-star hotel but was now upied by the Skull Gang.
There were no innocent people inside.
The soldiers, following the instructions from the battlefield system, used grenadeunchers on the armored personnel carriers to cover the hotel with fire, followed by tactical infiltration.
For a time, the entire city resounded with the roar of gunfire and intense exchanges of fire, awakening people who had already fallen asleep.
Those in their rooms cautiously approached their windows, weapons in hand, to observe the situation outside.
¡°The National Guard?¡±
A survivor, upon seeing the situation outside, excitedly said.
Before, they had no good feelings towards the National Guard, but now they were extremely excited.
After all, even poor order was better than no order.
With the soldiers eliminating criminals and terrorists, the city finally returned to normal by the next morning.
Communication towers were repaired promptly.
Then, everyone could receive messages on their phones.
A force called the Texas Freedom Organization had taken control of the city and cleared out all criminals and terrorists.
Now, this organization was recruiting, preparing to organize people to restore production and build a government framework.
¡°Are you soldiers from the original government?¡±
Some curious people came out to the streets, asking the soldiers patrolling the roads, wanting to understand the situation.
¡°Shit, we¡¯re not soldiers from that crappy old government, we¡¯re soldiers of the Freedom Organization.¡±
Upon learning the specifics, the public didn¡¯t think the soldiers were wrong. If it weren¡¯t for that crap, why would the tycoons and political families have fle .
Of course, they were not very clear about the specifics of the Texas Freedom Organization, but it seemed alright.
At least they didn¡¯t have to worry about getting into shootouts with gang criminals or having their food robbed when stepping out.
That afternoon, five transport nesnded at the city¡¯s airport.
Food, drinking water, and relief supplies, all marked with Chinese characters, were delivered there.
With food and relief supplies, the establishment of order was initially stabilized.
As for restoring production?
That wasn¡¯t possible in the short term.
After all, the entire framework had yet to be properly established, and various forms of support were still needed.
However, this support wasn¡¯t free.
The signal base stations were built by Huawei, a mobilepany opened a temporary office, Tencent promoted WeChat, and the Crimson took over the electricity grid¡
In short, Chinesepanies were busy.
Busy expanding their markets..
Chapter 344 - 344: Scientists Acquiring Citizenship
Chapter 344 - 344: Scientists Acquiring Citizenship
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¡°Sigh¡ Every morning when I wake up, there are a few new countries on Earth, and the world map needs to be updated again. It¡¯s so troublesome.¡±
After getting up, Tang Rui looked at the news and pretended to sigh.
Actually, he knew all about it.
After all, those exoskeleton armors were sponsored by Crimson.
Though they are free for now, they had to be repaid someday. ¡°Master, do you want to see the new world map?¡± Red Lotus asked.
¡°Turn it on for me to see.¡±
Tang Rui, while having breakfast, said casually.
Swipe!
The brand-new world map was projected.
North America now had over twenty new countries, and Europe also had a few
more.
The Kingdom of Irnd was restored.
Great.
After so many years of turmoil, it finally seeded in restoration.
The Empire of France also seemed to be on the verge of restoration, especially since he had just supported them with tens of billions in arms.
¡°Red Lotus, open the World Window forum, I want to see whatizens are
discussing.¡±
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
As the forum opened, Tang Rui saw the messages from theizens.
¡°Congrattions to the Kingdom of Irnd on its sessful restoration, San Dao Gou Vige sends its congrattions, hoping for a chance to exchange friendly greetings.¡±
¡°Congrattions to the Kingdom of Irnd on its sessful restoration, Lin Shan Town sends its congrattions¡¡±
¡°Congrattions¡¡±
Wow.
A series of congrattions, theizens were all very excited.
Tang Rui clicked on the next post.
¡°Eagle sauce, you died so miserably, your body was cut into twenty-mne pieces, haha¡¡±
Below this post, everyone wasughing, and they wereughing wildly, unreservedly.
A year ago, everyone was still opposing America.
A yearter, America¡¯s corpse was cold, and even dismembered.
This was¡ simply brutal.
After browsing through the forum for a while, Tang Rui finished his breakfast and went to the base.
He had been quite rxed recently, not busy with anything.
Usually, he just chatted with the scientists on Mars and discussed the construction of Mars.
The ck dwarf star crisis had been resolved.
Why haven¡¯t the spaceships been sent to rescue yet?
Earth was not safe.
The international situation is very chaotic, with new countries being established daily and joining the United Nations.
This has left many scientists on Mars without a nationality.
In such circumstances, these scientists should just stay on Mars for a while. When the construction of the Mars base hadpleted, and the Earth became peaceful again, they could return to Earth.
After all, going to Mars was now very convenient.
Worrying about supplies was a thing of the past.
Of course, if someone wanted to change their nationality and join our country, then we could send a spaceship to bring them back.
Those who don¡¯t want to change can stay, but they have to wait a bit longer, exactly how long is not clear yet.
¡°Red Lotus, how many scientists applied to join yesterday?
¡°Master, yesterday there were 1,153 scientists who wanted to join our nationality, including 7 Nobelureates and 4 Fields Medal winners.¡±
Tang Rui¡¯s eyes lit up.
¡°What are we waiting for, send my 890 to bring these scientists back.¡±
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
As Red Lotus controlled the spaceship to take off, Tang Rui notified Lin Chao to report to the higher-ups and quickly prepare for the reception of these scientists.
It¡¯s a wise investment to buy a horse for a thousand gold.
This batch of people had to be well arranged.
Anyway, there are many universities in the country, just put them into a few universities, and their employment issues will be solved.
As for those who want to do research and don¡¯t want to teach, that¡¯s also okay, just send them directly to research institutes.
After arranging these things, Tang Rui asked Red Lotus if there was anything else going on recently.
¡°Master, currently there are no events scheduled for you, only 39 scientific research projects are still on the nning list.
¡°Forget the research ns, let¡¯s talk about it after the New Year. Is there anything else?¡±
Tang Rui didn¡¯t want to deal with scientific research. He had been busy thinking about the ck dwarf star issue for a while and needed a rest.
¡°Master, there are no other matters at the moment.
Nothing to do, huh.
Tang Rui thought for a moment and decided to go out for a drive.
He called Gao Yang.
The two of them drove an RV, nning to take a tour around and go for a big meal.
He hadn¡¯t eaten out for a long time.
Just as they entered the urban area, they saw a group of people from a small country sitting quietly in front of the district government office, holding banners.
Tang Rui curiously took a nce.
It turned out to be survivors from the small country, asking the government for help to send them back to their homnd and then assist them in restoring production and construction.
Interesting.
These people from the small country must not have woken up yet.
During the previous meteor disaster, hundreds of meteors fell, practically destroying their homnd.
It wasn¡¯t intentional.
It was really just a problem with the satellite defensework.
After all, defending against meteors has a probability factor; it¡¯s not 100% effective.
Why those meteors that slipped through hit the small country was obvious. It was just a defense loophole.
Now the small country was gone, regardless of reason.
Survivors from that country were actively seeking help, and in this regard, they were quite resilient.
But the problem is, asking for help at the door of the district government in Jinling?
Which district would dare to agree?
They¡¯d be afraid of being scolded to death by the people of Jinling.
What kind of thinking is this?
At noon, Tang Rui specially went to pick up Li Shuyao, then went to have lunch at Nanli University, eating big te chicken.
Having not eaten it for a long time, he had some cravings.
¡°Should we sell our vi?¡± Li Shuyao asked during lunch.
¡°The vi? The one I bought before? Why sell it?¡± Tang Rui was a bit puzzled, wondering why she was asking this out of the blue.
They weren¡¯t short of money, so why sell the vi?
That would be his former residence.
¡°I heard that real estate is going to be reformed, house prices will be reduced, at least by more than half, it seems that below 120 square meters, no transaction tax will be collected. Above 120 square meters, it will be normal, and above 240 square meters, property tax will be increased, and even higher for vis.¡±
¡°I don¡¯t know, I haven¡¯t heard of it, I don¡¯t pay attention to these things.¡± Tang Rui shook his head after hearing it.
He had nothing to do with real estate.
Besides, no matter whether house prices fall or rise, it doesn¡¯t really concern him, so he doesn¡¯t pay attention.
¡°Let¡¯s just keep that vi then,¡± Li Shuyao thought for a moment and didn¡¯t continue on this topic.
In the afternoon, as soon as Tang Rui returned to thepany, Red Lotus reported an issue.
An employee bought 2,000 contribution points from a colleague and then on the internal exchange page, made a request to Red Lotus.
He wanted a drug that could curete-stage lymphoma.
¡°Late-stage lymphoma? And it¡¯s spread? For a 64-year-old elder?¡± Tang Rui felt a bit overwhelmed after hearing Red Lotus¡¯s report. If it was in the early stages, normal ailments, even cancer, could be treated with a therapeutic device.
If it was more serious, a treatment pod could also work.
But this kind¡
Required some special measures..
Chapter 345 - 345: Nanomachines
Chapter 345 - 345: Nanomachines
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¡°Red Lotus, show me the report.¡±
¡°Certainly, Master.¡±
When Tang Rui had finished reading the medical report, the corners of his mouth twitched involuntarily.
The issue was no longer about whether the cancer had metastasized. It was a countdown to the end of life.
¡°Arrange a hibernation pod and put the old man into a temporary sleep.¡±
¡°Understood, Master.¡±
Once Tang Rui issued themand, the system deducted 2000 contribution points and simultaneously sent a notification to the relevant employee.
¡°Long live President Tang!¡±
The employee, upon receiving the notification, eximed enthusiastically.
Then, under Red Lotus¡¯s direction, he fetched the hibernation pod and proceeded to the hospital.
Given the state of current medical technology, it wasn¡¯t that cancer was untreatable. Various cancer therapies had some efficacy.
However, the issue was the patient¡¯s frail condition.
Many treatments were not viable.
Particrly surgical options.
This presented a significant challenge.
Tang Rui pondered for a moment and decided to leverage his strengths.
He was not adept at patient care.
Nor was he skilled in medical research.
But he excelled at developing weapons for enemy destruction.
Now, he shifted his focus.
From targeting the human body to targeting cancer cells. The objective became much clearer.
Nanomachines.
Indeed, with the advancement of nanotechnology and with Red Lotus¡¯s assistance, Tang Rui was fully capable of producing nanomachines.
But there had been no need before.
The capabilities of nanomachines weren¡¯t as sensational as portrayed in films.
Especially inbat scenarios.
They were effective against pistols and rifles, but ineffectual against sniper rifles, let alone artillery shells and missiles.
While the nanomaterials were strong enough, the fragility of the human body limited their use. The impact force alone could be fatal, rendering nano-armor impractical except for its aesthetic appeal.
If he had the time, he would rather invest in a nanobat suit than imnt nanomachines into his body.
However, for treating a disease, nanomachines held significant potential.
¡°Red Lotus, manufacture 10 million nanomachines capable of entering the human body and targeting cells.¡±
¡°As youmand, Master.¡±
The nanotechnology at his disposal was highly advanced. Combined with the quantum supeputer¡¯s control capabilities, producing nanomachines was straightforward.
The challenge, however, was their precision.
Nanomachines were too small to be equipped with numerous systems and functionalities.
Thus, while production was simple, ensuring each nanomachine followed precisemands was moreplex.
In under ten minutes, the nanomachines were ready.
Tang Rui visited the life sciencesboratory under the lunar base project, intending to use theirb mice for testing.
¡°President Tang, these are all theb mice we have. If you need more, I can order them immediately.¡±
After understanding Tang Rui¡¯s intentions, theboratory manager hurried over with a cage of mice.
Tang Rui squinted and wrinkled his nose.
The mice were suitable, but their odor was unpleasant.
¡°If I can order directly, can I get mice with leukemia?¡± he inquired.
His base had mice bred specifically for drug testing, capable of developing any desired disease.
However, they were costly.
But Tang Rui, not short on funds, insisted on the best.
¡°Absolutely, I will ce the order right away.¡±
¡°Good, order a substantial quantity.¡±
¡°Understood, President Tang.¡±
Tang Rui transported the cage with theb mice to an unusedboratory. After changing into appropriate attire and donning a mask, he selected a mouse and injected it with the nanomachines.
¡°Red Lotus, direct the nanomachines to eradicate the bacteria and viruses in the mouse¡¯s body.¡±
¡°Affirmative, Master. Instructions received.¡±
The ten million nanomachines began their work within the mouse, targeting and destroying the bacteria and viruses present.
However, a few minutester,
the mouse twitched and died.
¡°What happened?¡± Tang Rui asked Red Lotus in confusion.
¡°Master, Red Lotus requires specialized equipment to monitor the condition of the mouse urately.¡±
¡°Then manufacture it and send it here immediately.¡±
¡°As you wish, Master.¡±
Ten minutester, a device resembling a rice cooker arrived in theboratory.
[Item: In-body Imaging Device]
[Experience: 0/500]
[Origin Points: 27368.26]
Tang Rui upgraded the device instantly.
A golden light shed.
Equipment enhancementplete.
The updated device, now the size of a microwave oven, included a holographic projection feature.
[Item: Holographic Biological Image Scanning Device]
[Experience: 0/9000]
[Upgrade: Biological Micro-scanning Technology]
[Features: Image formation speed increased by 160%, directional tracking by 140%,yer-byyer scanning by 120%]
[Origin Points: 27,036.26]
Activating the equipment, Tang Rui grabbed another mouse, injected it with nanomachines, and ced it inside the device.
The holographic projection illuminated,
revealing the intricate internal structure of the mouse.
The human body, and indeed all living organisms, are far moreplex than the most sophisticated human-made machinery.
Take, for instance, the capiries, which in length could encircle the Earth thrice.
Observing the holographic disy, Tang Rui erged the view of the mouse¡¯s internals.
Suddenly, cells appeared asrge as apples, and blood vessels seemed as thick as sewer pipes.
Numerous nanomachines, resembling mechanical octopuses, swiftly navigated the bloodstream.
Yet, as per his orders, they focused on eliminating bacteria and viruses within the mouse. Therefore, when encountering other cells, the nanomachines would encircle them.
¡°Red Lotus, what¡¯s happening?¡±
¡°Master, the nanomachines are identifying the cells.¡±
¡°How do they determine if a cell is problematic?¡±
¡°Based on its shape.¡±
Tang Rui paused, surprised. Shape-based identification was akin to facial recognition technology.
He quickly understood.
Due to their minimal size, the nanomachines could only identify cells by their shape.
¡°Red Lotus, with this device, can you highlight the bacteria and viruses in the mouse?¡±
¡°Yes, Master. Would you like me to do so now?¡±
¡°Not yet. I want to first understand how the previous mouse died.¡±
Shortly after, he identified the issue.
Several cells were being disintegrated by the nanomachines.
¡°Red Lotus, why are these nanomachines attacking these normal cells?¡±
¡°Master, the appearance of these cells differs slightly from that of normal cells, leading the nanomachines to ssify them as mutated viruses.¡±
Tang Rui was speechless.
The cells were merely unusual in appearance.
Did that make them viruses?
This wasn¡¯t an isted incident. It was a recurring issue.
Several nanomachines were mistaking normal cells for viruses and destroying them.
Though the destroyed cells appeared slightly abnormal, it wasn¡¯t a sufficient reason for such a response.
How did the previous mouse die?
The answer was clear: it was killed by the nanomachines¡¯ misidentification..
Chapter 346 - 346: Nanomachine Modification
Chapter 346: Nanomachine Modification
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In less than five minutes, the white mouse had perished. The cause of death was not its appearance, but damage to its brain nerves.
Tang Rui carefully removed the white mouse¡¯s remains and introduced a new one.
¡°Red Lotus, eliminate the virus in this white mouse¡¯s body. You¡¯ll oversee the nanomachines.¡±
¡°Understood, Master.¡±
On the holographic projection, Red Lotus precisely marked all the viruses in the white mice¡¯s bodies.
Then, he effectively controlled the nanomachines to eradicate the virus.
With Red Lotus¡¯s guidance, the precision and efficiency of the nanomachines had significantly improved.
However, challenges persisted, particrly in handling the remnants of the virus. It was rather chaotic.
Their only function seemed to be virus destruction and disintegration.
The nanomachines disregarded the remnants post-destruction, casting them aside.
Usually, such dead cellr tissue would be naturally expelled through the body¡¯s metabolism.
Yet, not all remains could be eliminated this way.
Crushing the entangled tissues was manageable, but their expulsion posed a challenge.
Moreover, the nanomachines¡¯ method was to destroy affected tissues. However, some tissues required not only destruction but also functional restoration.
This was beyond the nanomachines¡¯ current capabilities.
Through the sacrificial demise of three white mice,
Tang Rui solidified his hypothesis, but realized the current nanomachines were insufficient for saving the employee¡¯s mother.
He withdrew a syringe filled with nanomachines, andmenced its enhancement.
A golden light emanated.
The system had upgraded the nanomachines.
Externally, they appeared unchanged, still resembling silvery-white liquids.
[Item: Medical Recovery Nanomachines]
[Experience: 0/3000]
[Upgrade: Cell Tissue Removal and Repair System]
[Attributes: Repair effect increased by 160%, Enhancement effect by 140%, Healing effect by 120%]
[Origin: 26,848.26]
After reviewing the system panel, Tang Rui addressed Red Lotus, ¡°Red Lotus, can you replicate these nanomachines?¡±
¡°Certainly, Master.¡±
¡°Then produce them. Dispatch them here oncepleted.¡±
Ten minutes passed.
A robot delivered a small box to theboratory.
Contained within were 20 vials of the medical repair nanomachines.
Tang Rui selected one vial and injected its contents into a white mouse.
He then ced the mouse within the equipment.
This time, the nanomachines¡¯ approach was different. After eliminating the virus, they would transport the viral remnants to metabolic organs for expulsion from the body.
If an organ suffered functional damage due to extensive tissue removal, the organ risked destruction.
The nanomachines would then fill these gaps, restoring the organ¡¯s functionality.
In essence, these nanomachines were more than mere robots; they resembled metallic cells.
Specifically, metallic stem cells.
They could substitute for most bodily cells, particrly those irreplicable, like cardiac muscle cells.
The nanomachines couldpensate for heart function loss due to damaged heart muscle cells.
They could even substitute for a significant portion of the immune system¡¯s functions.
However, the nanomachines couldn¡¯t rece cells involved in energy conversion, hormone secretion, stem cell division, among other functions.
But this achievement was substantial.
It fulfilled Tang Rui¡¯s requirements.
Essentially, for patient treatment, these medical nanomachines were perfectly adequate.
It could be asserted that¡
With an injection of to million units of nanomachines,
unless it was a fatal injury instantaneously,
mon chronic illnesses or loss of internal organ function would not be life-threatening.
¡°Red Lotus, if we administer these nanomachines preemptively, would our survival rate significantly increase if we were injured on the battlefield?¡± Tang Rui queried.
¡°I¡¯m sorry, Master. That would not be the case,¡± Red Lotus promptly responded.
¡°Why is that?¡± Tang Rui inquired, perplexed.
¡°Master, considering the current weapon power and individual armor coefficients, weapons that are non-lethal won¡¯t damage the armor. Those that can damage protective gear will, in most cases, be fatal upon impact, except for limb injuries,¡± exined Red Lotus.
That made sense.
¡°Are they suitable for treating illnesses?¡±
¡°Absolutely, Master. Apart from congenital diseases and gic mutations, the nanomachines can effectively treat most conditions.¡±
Tang Rui observed the lively white mouse disyed on the holographic projection and suddenly pondered a new application.
Could these devices enhance organ functions, like the kidneys?
¡°Red Lotus, remove a section of the mouse¡¯s kidney and let the nanomachines substitute it. I want to assess their effectiveness.¡±
¡°Right away, Master.¡±
Under Red Lotus¡¯smand, numerous nanomachines converged around the mouse¡¯s waist andmenced their operation.
Cellr destruction ensued.
Capiries burst.
The mouse, in agonizing pain, thrashed about wildly inside the equipment.
¡°Red Lotus, sever the neural connections to the mouse¡¯s kidney.¡±
¡°Immediately, Master.¡±
In an instant, the mouse ceased struggling.
With its neural connections severed, it felt no pain, even as its kidney was being dismantled.
After thirty minutes, a Cyber Kidney materialized within the mouse.
To test the nanomachines¡¯ repair capability further, Tang Rui administered eight doses of 10 million nanomachines each into the mice, allowing these robotic entities to rece the kidney¡¯s cellr structure.
The oue was promising.
Post-imntation of the Cyber Kidney, the mouse exhibited no adverse reactions. Its physiological parameters remained stable.
However, the kidney had indeed transformed into a mechanical oneposed of nanomachines.
¡°Red Lotus, continue producing nanomachines andmence full-body recement for the mice.¡±
¡°Master, it should be noted that brain cells are beyond the nanomachines¡¯ recement capabilities.¡±
¡°Then rece everything else that¡¯s possible and observe the results.¡±
¡°As youmand, Master.¡±
Hong Lian meticulously disconnected the central nervous system of the white mouse, following which Tang Rui initiated the injection process.
Sequentially, he administered the nanomachine solution into the mice.
The nanomachines began substituting various body parts of the mice, including bones, internal organs, muscles, and skin, from the inside out.
However, before half the body was reced, the mouse¡¯s system became erratic, and hormonal levels fluctuated wildly.
The pituitary nd emitted continuous biological signals.
¡°Master, an anomaly has arisen within the mouse¡¯s body.¡±
¡°What¡¯s the cause?¡±
¡°Currently unknown.¡±
¡°Reconnect the mouse¡¯s central nervous system. Halt the recement process and evaluate the consequences.¡±
¡°As you wish, Master..¡±
Chapter 347 - 347: Consolidating Research Resources and
Chapter 347: Consolidating Research Resources and
Facing the Future
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The white mouse, having regained its senses, began to y around inside the equipment. It jumped up and down, rolled over, and tumbled about.
It was as if it had taken stimnts.
After observing for a brief moment, Tang Rui continued to focus on the projection screen in front of him, which disyed the internal condition of the white mouse.
¡°Red Lotus, has there been any change in hormone secretion?¡± he inquired. ¡°Master, there¡¯s been a change in hormone secretion, but it remains very chaotic,¡± Red Lotus replied.
Ten minutester, the white mouse finally had enough of its restless behavior
and began to settle down.
However, its condition seemed somewhat off.
Exactly what was wrong was unclear.
¡°Red Lotus, is there still hormone secretion?¡±
¡°The secretion has stopped.¡±
¡°I see¡ Then continue with the modifications.¡±
¡°Yes, Master.¡±
Countless nanomachines once again invaded the cells of the white mouse, recing the functions of various cells.
This time, the process went smoothly without any mishaps.
In the blink of an eye, an hour passed.
A brand-new Cyber Mouse was born.
Ny-five percent of its organs wereprised of nanomachines. Its bones were also reinforced by nanomachines, not to mention its muscle tissues.
Even its skin had been reced by nanomachines, and the fur on its body was
metallic.
Inside the entire apparatus, there was a considerable pile of flesh and blood
that had been reced.
¡°Why do I feel that it¡¯s getting more and more bizarre?¡±
Tang Rui observed the white mouse, unsure how to describe it.
You would think it¡¯s a nt rat, right?
It definitely wasn¡¯t.
But if you say it¡¯s not a nt rat, it just lies there, motionless, like a statue.
The data within its body was normal.
Its heartbeat and breathing maintained a consistent rhythm.
The blood flow was extremely normal.
There were no bacteria or viruses in its body, all had been eliminated by the nanomachines.
This Cyber White Mouse, healthier than any other,y there like an idiot, motionless.
¡°Red Lotus, is the neural signal in its brain stable?¡±
¡°Master, the neural signals in its brain are very stable.
¡°Then why isn¡¯t it moving?¡±
¡°I don¡¯t know, Master. Red Lotus hasn¡¯t detected any abnormalities.¡±
Theck of abnormalities was the greatest anomaly.
It had been transformed to this extent, yet there were supposedly no
abnormalities.
Tang Rui took out a stick and prodded the white mouse inside the equipment, trying to elicit some movement.
As a result, it moved.
When poked, it reacted; otherwise, it remained still, obediently lying there like
a statue.
The brain of this little white mouse had not been modified.
So why had it be like this?
Tang Rui was puzzled.
After all, the body of this white mouse had been extensively modified. It was hard to pinpoint what was wrong, or perhaps everything was wrong.
¡°Let¡¯s just set it aside for observation for now, then clean the equipment and use another white mouse for experiments,¡± he decided.
¡°Yes, Master.¡±
After Tang Rui had settled in a chair, he waited for the robot to clear the flesh and blood remnants from the equipment.
Meanwhile, he watched the Cyber White Mouse in the nearby cage, still dazed.
It truly had be foolish.
Buzz, buzz, buzz¡
At that moment, Tang Rui¡¯s phone vibrated.
He checked his phone to find a call from Lin Chao.
¡°President Tang, are you busy?¡±
¡°What¡¯s the matter?¡±
¡°There¡¯s a conference on technological development starting soon online. If you¡¯re free, it would be good to participate.¡±
¡°Alright, send me the conference link. I¡¯ll head back right away.
¡°Okay, sending it now.¡±
After hanging up,
Tang Rui left theboratory.
As for the white mouse experiment, he left it to Red Lotus to continue. It didn¡¯t require his constant supervision.
Upon reaching the base entrance, he encountered Lin Chao.
¡°I¡¯m also participating,¡± Lin Chao announced before Tang Rui could speak, exining the situation.
¡°Is this meeting very important?¡± Tang Rui asked curiously.
¡°It¡¯s significant for many,¡± Lin Chao said thoughtfully.
Alright then.
His answer suggested that while it was important for others, it was not as
crucial for him.
They reached themand center of the Blue Army.
Both took their seats and connected to the video conferencework.
Swoosh.
A conference room scene appeared on the big screen.
The meeting hadn¡¯t started yet.
However, more than ten people were already seated in the conference room on the screen.
Not all were from their group; many were outsiders¡ well, not outsiders anymore, but part of their team.
The scientists in the room had joined their nationality and were now considered their own.
Tang Rui nced over.
There were six Nobel Prize winners and several top experts in various fields.
This was a formidable lineup.
After a while, the meetingmenced.
The head of the Natural Science Foundation began discussing the meeting s focus, mainly addressing the waste of resources in natural sciences and calling for resource consolidation.
Put simply, it was a plea to stop working in istion.
This was not only a waste of resources and funds but also of scientists¡¯ valuable time.
He was correct.
But realistically, consolidating resources was not straightforward, with the primary issue being leadership.
Even if one¡¯s strength orb equipment was inadequate,
Being in charge of ab meant being the boss.
Now, if resources were to be consolidated,
What would be of these people?
Would they be relegated to menial tasks?
That seemed absurd.
The academic world was not as simple as many might think.
Not to mention, the resource integration proposed at this meeting wasn¡¯t just about domestic coboration but epassing all countries on Earth.
That made things even moreplicated.
¡°Have other countries agreed?¡± Tang Rui inquired of Lin Chao.
¡°They all agreed,¡± Lin Chao responded.
¡°Do they understand what this entails?¡±
¡°They do, but what choice do they have?¡±
¡°Is this really the best course of action?¡±
¡ö¡¯It¡¯S better than wasting human talent on civil engineering projects on Mars.
It¡¯s a waste to just leave them there.¡±
¡°Isn¡¯t this a bit rushed?¡±
¡°The recent incident rmed the higher-ups. Without the prior warning, it would have been toote to stop the ck dwarf when it was discovered.
Thus, the new overarching policy is to advance human technological capabilities. The global economy is now shifting towards outer space. The Ministry of Mines recently convened, aiming to reduce Earth¡¯s resource extraction and vigorously develop extraterrestrial resources, supporting relevant enterprises.¡±
Lin Chao borated on various policy trends to Tang Rui.
We couldn¡¯t emte America.
Now that we¡¯re unrivaled, continuing on Earth, even if viable, was pointless.
Earth had its limits.
No matter how powerful one is, what difference does it make?
Extinguish everyone?
Impossible.
So, it was better to integrate resources and steer the overall direction towards outer space.
This would give a direction for funds, prevent the waste of research resources, and reduce internal friction..
Chapter 348 - 348: The Brain—The Forbidden Zone of Life
Chapter 348: The Brain¡ªThe Forbidden Zone of Life
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The meeting had been going on for over an hour.
Tang Rui listened to half of it and forgot the other half.
Because this matter was not really rted to him, but it still had a significant impact on the scientificmunity.
However, there was one thing he was determined to join in on the excitement.
That was the Global Physics Conference and theunch ceremony of the High-Energy Hadron Collider happening in half a month.
After six months of construction, the domestic hadron collider had beenpleted.
Without this device, hosting a global physics conference would not be impossible, but it wouldck something.
Even if you didn¡¯t hold this conference, scientists from other countries would rush toe for this device.
After all, this thing was a godsend for physics.
China¡¯s newly built high-energy hadron collider, whether in terms of power or precision, was much stronger than the European one.
The results of the experiments were naturally iparable to those of the old collider.
It¡¯s just unknown whether the Higgs boson could be discovered that time.
After the meeting, Tang Rui looked at the time and went straight home to rest.
But no sooner had he arrived home than news came from Mars: many physicists were returning to Earth.
They wereing to attend this physics conference.
¡°Red Lotus, arrange a spaceship to bring these physicists back,¡± Tang Rui thought for a moment and agreed to their request.
Of course, this time it was only for them personally.
As for their families, that was out of the question.
They could only wait for another time.
Currently, transportation was tight, so it was really not possible.
TWO dayster, Tang Rui was in the biologicalb, observing the postoperative reactions of several mice.
These mice had all had cancer and were then cured by nanobots.
Although the items enhanced by the system were definitely functional,
Treating diseases was not a joke.
Even if the nanobots eliminated all cancerous tissues in lymphoma, what might happen afterward was still hard to say.
That¡¯s why he didn¡¯t immediately give the nanobots to his employees for use.
After two days of observation, two of the mice post-surgery indeed had problems.
That was that cancer cells were still being produced in their bodies.
Even though all the cancer cells in their bodies had been eliminated by the nanobots previously, in these two days, their normal cells began to mutate into cancer cells, which was quite troublesome.
¡°Red Lotus, how did these two mice develop cancer cells in their bodies?¡± Tang
Rui asked curiously.
With the power of the nanobots, there should be absolutely no residue, so the new cancer cells were not derived from the original ones.
¡°Master, ording to observations, the new cancer cells are all from normal cells mutating during cell division, transforming from normal cells into cancer cells,¡± Red Lotus replied.
¡°So, does that mean that even after the nanobots have eliminated all cancer cell¡¯s, they still need to remain inside the patient to continue suppressing cancer cells?¡±
¡°Yes, master. If these two mice had nanobots inside them, then the cancer cells would be destroyed as soon as they formed.¡±
¡°Then without your controlled nanobots, can cancer cells be automatically destroyed?¡±
¡°Yes, master. The upgraded nanobots you created have an autonomous recognition function. They can automatically clear cancer cells and also autonomously repair damaged organs in the body.¡±
After hearing this, Tang Rui felt a bit helpless. His original idea was to use nanobots to treat patients directly, just like surgery, simply eliminating the cancer cells.
This way, 10 million units of nanobots could treat dozens of patients in one
day.
But if it¡¯s like what Red Lotus said, having to keep nanobots inside the patient, then this treatment method would not be affordable for ordinary people.
Of course, not everyone needs to keep nanobots inside their bodies, but patients in thete stages or with metastasis definitely need to.
For early and middle stages, it should still be okay.
¡°Red Lotus, prepare an injection of 50 million units of nanobots, along with a syringe and instructions, and give them to that employee,¡± Tang Rui thought for a moment and said to Red Lotus.
There was no need to consider too much for their own employees.
Directly 50 million units.
Guaranteed to save the person, and these nanobots would also repair the damaged organs of the elderly, enhance bodily functions, and suppress the formation of cancer cells.
After arranging this, he looked at the cyber mice next to him.
These cyber mice were different from those that had been treated. They ally quietly in their cages, motionless.
All of them were like statues.
In these two days, Red Lotus was continuously performing nano-modifications on these mice, but the results were not ideal.
Using nanobots to repair organ damage was no problem.
But using nanobots to rece organs was problematic.
Even if nanobots could solve the problem of organ rejection, the mice would be affected if the organs werepletely reced. The more organs that were reced, the greater the impact.
Afterplete recement, the mice would bepletely vegetative. ording to the results of Red Lotus¡¯s continuous experiments and analysis, once the organs were reced by nanobots, the mice¡¯s brains would autonomously consider these organs dead.
It was amazing.
Even though these organs were still working and functioning normally, the mice¡¯s brains would think the organs were gone.
And the brain would no longer regte andmand these organs.
The function of these organs would be judged by the brain as non-existent, and then it would start to strain other organs topensate for the impact of the loss of these organs.
For example, if a mouse had two kidneys and one is reced by nanobots, then the mouse¡¯s brain would strain the other kidney to take on more work.
Even then, when the nanobotposed kidney is still working diligently, the mouse¡¯s brain would act as if it cannot see it.
Even if Red Lotus tried to use neural connection technology to feed normal signals back to the brain from the nanobots, it was still useless.
It was as if the brain had a recognition system.
Able topletely distinguish between real and fake organ signals.
This was something Tang Rui hadn¡¯t expected.
And so far, it was still unclear.
As for using nanobots to rece a mouse¡¯s brain, it waspletely useless.
Any recement of the mouse¡¯s brain,
Even if the mouse was still alive, it would still be vegetative.
Without any self-awareness, even if stimted by the external environment, there would be no reaction.
Facing this situation, Tang Rui even thought about going to Africa to establish a base to study life science problems.
But he thought better of it.
The brain, this forbidden zone of life, is better not to be rushed into researching. Even if some results are researched, it would be easy to turn into various evil paths when applied..
Chapter 349 - 349: Hadron Collider Activated
Chapter 349: Hadron Collider Activated
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¡°Red Lotus, seal all research materials and destroy all experimental materials,
and clean up the traces.¡±
Tang Rui finally decided not to study the forbidden zone of life.
After all, if something were to be researched, humans themselves could
be too curious.
Often, curiosity was what killed the cat.
¡°Okay, master, Red Lotus understands.¡±
Tang Rui turned and left the life scienceboratory, and then the robots inside began to clean up all traces.
Back at thepany, Tang Rui came to the office and began to deal with somepany matters.
Thepany¡¯s affairs were increasing.
If it weren¡¯t for Red Lotus dealing with most of the matters for him, he wouldn¡¯t have any spare time now, just dealing with thepany¡¯s affairs could keep him busy to death.
After all, Crimson Corporation had grown into a huge entity.
Especially in the energy field, it was absolutely a giant presence. Traditional energy and new energy, though weren¡¯t monopolized by Crimson, would follow suit once they did something.
-Expand the industrial chain? Increase influence? Red Lotus, check the situation of this executive for me, send them straight in if there¡¯s a problem.¡±
Tang Rui said unhappily after reading a report submitted by the head of the
American Power Company.
Crimson¡¯s development had reached such an extent.
This person in charge was still not satisfied.
Still want to create a wireless powerwork tform, wanting to monopolize the future charging of new energy vehicles?
Good idea.
It was not difficult to realize.
But the problem is, it¡¯s unnecessary.
Money, for Tang Rui now, is like paper, too much to spend. Even so, these American managementyers are still thinking about monopolizing, excluding, and suppressing otherpanies.
This waspletely contrary to his philosophy.
It¡¯s not that he is afraid of things like killing the donkey after it finished grinding the mill, he is not worried about that.
The main thing was, there¡¯s no need to expand business anymore, no need to suppress otherpanies, no need to monopolize new industries.
A privatepany bing the world¡¯s secondrgest economy?
Was that appropriate?
Obviously, it was not.
But these American executives-either had a hole in their brain or had bad water in their stomachs-always trying to make trouble, like they had a problem.
¡°Red Lotus, thoroughly investigate the situation of the personnel in the foreign
subsidiaries.¡±
¡°Okay, master.¡±
Tang Rui didn¡¯t care about these things before, he just took over the oil and power groups from the United States.
After all, he earned them by selling scientific research spaceships.
Later, under Red Lotus¡¯s control, thesepanies were all reorganized and personnel appointments were readjusted.
He thought there would be no problems.
Now it seemed was time for him to take serious action.
Tang Rui pursed his lips and continued to open reports and files for signatures. Company affairs, for him, were actually trivial matters. Even if he messed up casually, thepany wouldn¡¯t have any big problems.
So, he doesn¡¯t take these matters to heart.
In the blink of an eye, ten days passed.
The Global Physics Conference was held in Shudu.
This time, just the scientists and schrs attending the conference exceeded six thousand.
If a bomb exploded here-notwithstanding theplete regression of the physicsmunity, but for the next few decades, the physicsmunity would definitely be ruined.
The conference began.
The current physics leader, Nanbowan, and the historically significant physicist Yang Lao, took the stage to preside.
Facing Professor Yang, every physicist had to be honest.
What would define a top boss?
This surely was one.
The conference held in our homnd with such a big boss presiding went very smoothly.
Tang Rui even took the time to chat with Yang Lao for a while. But Yang Lao, after all, is old andcks energy, so he left soon after the conference started.
Tang Rui then wandered around.
From this report hall to that report hall, specifically choosing what he was interested in listening to.
Really.
There were a lot of insights.
After all, those who can give reports, are all strong figures in the scientificmunity.
Without something in their hands or goods in their stomachs.
Running up to give a report is purely embarrassing. Theoretical physics, condensed matter physics, high-energy sma physics, quantum physics¡
A full seven days of reports.
If you listen carefully, you can experience swimming in the sea of knowledge.
Of course, it might also be drowning.
After the physics conference, the real highlight began. The new high-energy hadron collider experiment started.
Li, the professor from the High Energy Institute, the person in charge, brought more than three hundred physics big shots to the experimental base.
¡°The high-energy hadron collider we made has a circumference of 42,500 meters, using 2,800 mas¡¡±
Professor Li first took everyone on a tour of the experimental base and introduced the parameters of the hadron collider.
What did these parameters represent?
They were much stronger than Europe¡¯s.
The previous European hadron collider could only elerate protons to fourteen trillion electron volts.
But Crimson¡¯s hadron collider could elerate protons to thirty-two trillion electronvolts.
It seems to be just a little more than double.
But the actual effect is not so simple.
After the visit, everyone came to the multifunctional hall that was connected to the big screen to themand hall.
Next, the experiment started.
Since it was the first experiment, Professor Li did not go too big, setting the energy level at twenty trillion electron volts, which is moderate.
Even at this energy level, it is the first time in human history.
Whether such a level of collision can discover new particles, new microphysical phenomena, is not yet known, but everyone is optimistic.
After all, every time the European machine starts an experiment, it discovers something special.
There¡¯s no reason why a twenty trillion electron volt collision can¡¯t discover new things, that¡¯s unscientific.
Tang Rui did not stay in the multifunctional hall with a group of scientists to watch the video but came to the control hall to watch various data.
¡ö¡öProfessor Tang, if it weren¡¯t for your help, this device wouldn¡¯t have been possible to build, now you start it.¡± Professor Li said to Tang Rui.
¡°No, no, no, this machine is your hard work, I just helped a little.¡± Tang Rui quickly shook his head.
Joking.
This was Professor Li¡¯s lifelong belief¡ªhe¡¯d never do such a thing.
Just a startup.
When he had time, he¡¯d build a particle elerator at the level of circling the moon, and then he can y however he wants.
Seeing Tang Rui refuse, Professor Li didn¡¯t say anything more.
He directly pressed the start button.
¡°Start the experiment.¡±
Buzz!
The huge hadron collider started.
The tremendous energy of ten trillion electron volts propelled the protons to elerate in the vacuum tube..
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Chapter 350: Energy Level Jump and Higher Dimensional
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Boom!
Like the Big Bang at the beginning of the universe, an explosion erupted in the
vacuum collision chamber, and numerous microphysical phenomena appeared.
Various sensors at this moment began to record this magnificent scene, where any change in the data was valuable.
Tang Rui watched therge screen in front of him.
Data refreshed crazily like a waterfall.
It was iprehensible now; data without organization and calction was meaningless.
Soon, all the phenomena in the vacuum collision chamber disappeared without a trace, marking the end of this experiment.
Apuse broke out.
Whether in the control hall or in the multifunctional hall, everyone watching the experiment pped.
¡°Congrattions, professor Li,¡± Tang Rui said to Professor Li in front of him.
The other party was very excited at this moment.
Others also congratted him.
professor Li grinned and nodded to everyone, too excited to know what to say.
After a brief celebration.
Everyone got back to serious work, as a group of scientists were waiting, professor Li arranged for personnel to ssify and store the data.
The next step was the most important ¨C using mathematics to statistically analyze these data.
Indeed.
The pinnacle of physics is mathematics.
The more top-notch a physicist, the more formidable their mathematics.
For example, a physicist who won the Fields Medal always imed he was a physicist.
But unfortunately, his string theory research was basically without a chance for the Nobel Prize, so he was quite troubled.
In mathematics, Tang Rui certainly was no match for these experts.
So, he did not n to calcte personally.
After obtaining all the data from Professor Li, he returned to a separate room and asked Red Lotus to reconstruct the collision scenario from these data.
¡ö¡öSorry, master, based on these materials, I can only simte thirty-five percent of the real data.¡±
¡°What? Why so low?¡±
¡°Master, Red Lotus doesn¡¯t have rted theoretical materials here, many data in the supeputer simtion conflict with the physical engine.¡±
Tang Rui pursed his lips after hearing this.
There was no way around it.
Even a supeputer needed theoretical and algorithmic support to perform simtions.
Currently, without the theory or algorithms, and with existing theories and algorithms conflicting with experimental data.
Even if Red Lotus was an Al, it was impossible toplete this task.
¡°Extract those data that conflict with the current standard model andpare them with existing theories.¡±
¡°Okay, master.¡±
Arge amount of data soon appeared in front of Tang Rui.
Indeed, there were problems.
In this data, there was a special state of liquid-like sma, quark-gluon sma.
This matter could only exist in the early stages of the Big Bang during the
nck epoch.
To put it simply.
It¡¯s like the temperature is so high that neutrons melt, releasing quarks bound in the nucleus, which then fuse with gluons to be a sma state at high temperatures.
Some data in the current set conflicted with the standard model.
Quarks and gluons fused to form a particle about the size of a neutron or proton.
In the standard model, such a thing does not exist.
How can aputer simte a non-existent particle?
What are the parameters of this particle?
What is its spin?
Without data, how can it be simted?
Red Lotus listed many simr data points.
After all, such collision experiments always discover strange data, and after analyzing these data, many unknown particles are found.
¡°Red Lotus, find all the unknown particles in this data.¡±
¡°Okay, master.¡±
Simtion was not feasible, but extracting data was easy for Red Lotus. In just a few seconds, Red Lotus filtered out more than three million data points representing these unknown particles.
Tang Rui looked at these data, then began topare and study them bit by bit.
Actually, his highest achievement in physics was in electromaism. However in studying these data, electromaism was not as useful as the strong and weak forces.
To study quarks, it was necessary to break the strong nuclear force inside the nucleus and dismantle the nucleus.
To study new particles made of quarks and gluons, it was necessary to control the weak force to prevent decay.
But these were not his specialties.
So, it was very strenuous to research.
While Tang Rui was engrossed in his research, he suddenly heard a burst of excited shouting outside.
Various exmations of ¡°God¡± and ¡°Damn¡± echoed.
Tang Rui left the room.
immediately he heard numerous noisy shouts, along with words and phrases like ¡°four-dimensional space¡± and ¡°dimensional elevation.¡±
What was happening?
Was there a significant discovery?
He went to see what was happening.
A group of physicists, all red-faced and thick-necked, were staring at the derivation forms on the ckboard.
¡°That¡¯s right, based on these data, we can definitely affirm that four-dimensional space exists.¡±
¡°Look here¡ you see this data, this extra spatial coordinate, it really exists.¡±
¡°Can we do another experiment, increase the energy level, and see if we can sessfully elevate dimensions?
¡°Probably need to wait a while, after all, we haven¡¯t finished analyzing this data.¡±
Tang Rui didn¡¯t speak.
He just stood outside, listening to the group discuss.
He roughly understood the situation.
These people, based on experimental data and during mathematical derivations, found a very special situation.
That was the temporary elevation of space dimensions.
Of course, this could also be a calction error.
But even if it was true, it could only prove the existence of higher-dimensional space, not that humans could study it.
The conditions were not there.
However, just proving the existence of higher-dimensional space was a big step in physics.
Previously, higher-dimensional space could only be deduced through mathematics.
Now, it was proven through a physical experiment, and these two concepts were different.
After all, many things could be calcted in mathematics.
But proving them experimentally was much harder.
Tang Rui stood aside, listening to their discussion for a long time, and he became somewhat interested in their discovery.
After a brainstorming session by a group of experts, they proposed an idea. That was, a high enough energy level could elevate space dimensions. How high was this energy level?
Just the temperature had to reach 6 billion degrees, and all particles had to be in a state unbound by physical rules.
In this situation, particles not bound by the three fundamental forces, during energy level transitions, would undergo a special reaction, entering higher-dimensional space.
Or rather, the particles themselves stepped into higher-dimensional space at that moment.
Conversely, if there were particles in higher-dimensional space, then particles in higher-dimensional space would definitely not be in the form everyone currently saw.
This inference was quite frightening..
Chapter 351 - 351: Absolute Zero
Chapter 351: Absolute Zero
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Tang Rui listened for a long time.
He wasn¡¯t particrly moved by the concept of dimensional elevation, but if this theory was correct, it would have been interesting.
Since raising the energy level could elevate dimensions, then conversely, lowering the energy level might have reduced dimensions.
This line of thinking seemed reasonable.
Why was Tang Rui interested in dimension reduction?
Because there was a sci-fi weapon called a two-dimensional foil, which reduced three dimensions to two. Without equivalent technological power, it was invincible.
Returning to his room, Tang Rui began researching how to reduce dimensions.
Lowering particle energy levels was simple.
Just cool it down.
But the closer the temperature got to absolute zero, the harder it was to lower it further.
Wait¡
Absolute zero.
Thinking of absolute zero, and then thinking about reducing dimensions, it seemed to make sense.
At absolute zero, all particle motion stops, freezing space and time.
This was akin to the two-dimensional foil reducing a region to two dimensions, freezing it like a photograph.
With this realization, Tang Rui¡¯s eyes had lit up.
Reducing dimensions was feasible, but first, he had to achieve absolute zero to see the effects.
¡°Red Lotus,unch a space experiment capsule, equip it with all the necessary equipment for a low-temperature experiment, and then send it to Jupiter¡¯s orbit,¡± Tang Rui had instructed Red Lotus.
¡°Okay, master.¡±
Such a frightening experiment was better conducted outside Earth.
If nothing came of it, all was well.
But if something was discovered, the consequences¡
Were a bit scary.
In the following days, all scientists had been engrossed in researching the experimental data, neglecting sleep and food.
New discoveries emerged daily.
New particles found.
New physical phenomena discovered.
If these findings were considered significant before, they were now overshadowed by the discovery of particle energy level transitions and dimensional elevation.
Any discovery rted to space, time, or dimensions was a groundbreaking achievement in physics.
Consequently, scientists who had nned to research other projects now converged to study dimensional elevation.
The next day, upon learning of this news, old man Witten, a Fields Medalist, had set aside his previous night¡¯s findings and devoted himself to researching higher-dimensional space.
His mathematical prowess was unquestionable.
He rapidly derived a form and even integrated it with string theory.
After deriving this form, old man Witten had begun to promote his string theory ¡®bible¡¯.
Naturally, the Copenhagen interpretation did not agree.
Quantum mechanics vs string theory.
A fierce debate ensued.
Tang Rui, observing all this, was satiated with gossip and also learned a great deal.
After all, the knowledge these experts possessed was not something you could find in textbooks.
During the sh of ideas, each side had brought forth all they had.
Tang Rui even felt that if they continued at this rate, they might even develop a rudimentary Unified Field Theory.
Unfortunately, he had his own work and couldn¡¯t continue to spectate.
The experimental capsule he hadunched had reached Jupiter¡¯s orbit and was ready for experimentation.
Tang Rui had returned to his room, had Red Lotus open the holographic projection, and begun the experiment.
The first step was to lower the temperature as much as possible.
Cryogenic experiments didn¡¯t rely onmonly known liquid nitrogen, which wasn¡¯t considered low enough.
To lower the temperature, a maic cooling method was used.
This method could bring the temperature infinitely close to absolute zero.
¡°Red Lotus, disy the data,¡± Tang Rui had instructed.
¡°Okay, master.¡±
The equipment in the experimental capsule had been conducting a nuclear adiabatic demaization experiment.
Meanwhile, the temperature had been steadily dropping.
The current temperature was 0.0004.K, but as the maic field was reduced, the temperature continued to drop.
After several minutes, the temperature had fallen to 0.00002K, matching the record for the lowest temperature ever achieved in an experiment.
But as Tang Rui¡¯s experiment continued with upgraded equipment allowing for further reduction in maic field strength, the temperature had stalled at O.OOOO1K.
It hit a wall.
At this point, molecr trantional and rotational movements had ceased.
However, molecr vibration, electron movement, and nuclear movement, all at their lowest quantum states, could not be further frozen.
Especially electron movement.
It couldn¡¯t be frozen using maic fields.
So, creating absolute zero using electromaic force was unfeasible.
Tang Rui hadn¡¯t expected sess on his first attempt.
He just wanted to experiment and see the results.
Overall, the results had been promising.
But to achieve absolute zero, he stillcked a clear approach, as he couldn¡¯t immobilize electrons.
However, he had another experiment to conduct.
¡°Red Lotus, bring out the vacuum box and start the experiment,¡± Tang Rui had instructed.
¡°Okay, master.¡±
Under Red Lotus¡¯s control, the previous experimental equipment had been converted into a vacuum box.
The next experiment
was simr to the previous one.
First, he needed to evacuate all air from the box, ensuring no air, or rather, minimal particles were present.
Then he would employ the maic cooling method again.
This way, as the box¡¯s temperature approached absolute zero, the particles inside would not receive any external energy.
The particles inside the box couldn¡¯t be cooled to absolute zero, but that wasn¡¯t a problem.
The next phase involved a particle elerator nozzle inside the box, capable of emitting high-speed particles.
These particles would collide with the particles inside the box.
Their energy levels would rise initially but would quickly drop.
The key was the transformation and consumption during this process.
From disorder to order.
From high energy levels to low energy levels.
He wanted to see what effects would ur at temperatures near absolute zero.
Buzzing¡
As the air in the vacuum box had beenpletely evacuated, leaving behind only invisible, minuscule particles that might not even belong to the box, but could appear out of the void.
These were hard to ascertain.
But Tang Rui didn¡¯t care; he was conducting an experiment.
When the vacuum cooling approached absolute zero, the particle elerator had emitted an electron.
The electron collided with particles inside the box.
Their energy burst forth.
But then, the energy levels had plummeted rapidly.
Tang Rui watched therge screen in front of him, where the data refreshed quickly, soon reaching a point close to absolute zero.
But it had stalled again at a difference of fifty millionths of a degree.
The temperature couldn¡¯t drop any further.
Damn it!
Tang Rui had cursed in frustration.
It was so vexing.
¡°Red Lotus, analyze the data,¡± Tang Rui had instructed.
¡°Okay, master.¡±
He had felt close to sess, but the finalws of physics stubbornly blocked the way.
The barrier of absolute zero seemed truly insurmountable.
Soon, Red Lotus hadpleted the data analysis.
Setting aside other data, the reason for the failure was simple.
Particles exist in their lowest quantum state, and without solving this issue, it was impossible to reach absolute zero..
Chapter 352 - 352: Mars Virus
Chapter 352: Mars Virus
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What should be done?
Tang Rui gazed at the data on therge screen in front of him, lost in thought.
¡°Master, there is a problem on Mars,¡± Red Lotus suddenly appeared and reported to Tang Rui.
¡°Hmm? What problem?¡± Tang Rui asked, puzzled. There shouldn¡¯t have been any issues on Mars.
There was no shortage of resources, equipment, or talent there.
What could possibly go wrong under such circumstances?
¡°Master, five scientists at the Martian Life Science Laboratory have fallen intoas, and the cause has not yet been identified.¡±
¡°Suddenas?¡±
¡°Yes, master. ording to their wristwatch monitors, there were problems with their biological signals, and then they fell intoas.¡±
Biological signals?
Were there issues with their neuronal tissues?
¡°Has the news been locked down on Mars?¡± Tang Rui immediately thought of a concern.
¡°Not yet, they have just fallen intoas. Doctors on Mars are organizing consultations to analyze their condition.¡±
¡°Contact Professor Weisen on Mars.¡±
Professor Weisen was a member of the Life Science Laboratory and a colleague of theatose scientists.
Tang Rui had previously consulted him regarding some issues withb mice, so they were rtively familiar.
¡°Okay, master.¡±
Soon.
The signal was connected, and Professor Weisen¡¯s figure appeared in front of Tang Rui, who was reading a book in an istion room.
¡°Professor Tang, have you received the news?¡± Professor Weisen asked directly after the video connected.
¡°Yes, what exactly is the situation?¡± Tang Rui inquired.
¡°It¡¯s still unclear what caused it, but there¡¯s a high probability it¡¯s rted to a virus on Mars.¡±
¡°A virus on Mars? Where did you get that from?¡± Tang Rui was stunned upon hearing this.
¡°We found liquid water three kilometers underground near the base in the mountain range. We extracted the liquid water through drilling and analyzed it in theboratory. We¡¯ve found bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms in the liquid water, but the experiment was notplete before they all fell intoas,¡± Professor Weisen quietly exined the situation.
Liquid water on Mars?
And it contained bacteria and microorganisms?
That was a major discovery.
But right now, those discoveries were not important; the most important thing was the condition of those people.
¡°What measures have you taken so far? Just istion?¡±
¡°Yes, including the personnel who operated the drilling equipment, everyone we¡¯ve encountered along the way, and theboratory staff, have all been isted. The entire area of the Life Science Laboratory has been closed off, and the air and water cirction systems have also been blocked. So far, no one else has shown such symptoms.¡±
Tang Rui nodded after hearing this, thenforted Professor Weisen before hanging up the video call.
¡°Red Lotus, contact the medical personnel there and directly connect to the conference room.¡±
¡°Okay, master.¡±
Swipe!
The next second, Tang Rui¡¯s holographic projection appeared in the conference room.
A group of medical experts discussing and researching the condition all turned their attention to Tang Rui.
¡°Sorry to interrupt, what¡¯s the situation now?¡±
¡°Professor Tang, ording to the examination results, the reason for theiras is damage to their neurons. It¡¯s not just the neuralwork and nerve cells in their bodies, but also the neuronal tissues in their brains that are atrophying.¡±
¡°Can it be treated?¡± Tang Rui asked.
¡°It¡¯s difficult. The problem with the neurons is entirely caused by a virus. This virus spreads through the bloodstream to the entire body, destroying all neuronal tissues, and the immune system is unable to eliminate it. The most critical issue is that we don¡¯t have time. Based on the current situation, they can only hold on for two more days before they die.¡±
¡°Two days? That¡¯s enough. I¡¯ll send something over to eliminate the virus in their bodies first.¡±
Tang Rui had Red Lotus arrange for a nuclear-powered rocket carrying nanomachines to beunched directly to Mars.
It wouldn¡¯t need two days, just a few hours would suffice.
Dealing with a virus was not simple.
The most crucial thing was to control the situation.
Preventing the virus from spreading, especially avoiding mutation and iteration, would prove to be the most troublesome.
There was a virus on Mars.
Unbelievable.
For the next half day, Tang Rui arranged for Red Lotus to coborate with them in researching the virus.
Understanding the virus¡¯s transmission route and gic sequence was definitely necessary, and if possible, they wanted to treat the affected individuals.
But in the current situation, there really wasn¡¯t a specific treatment method; at most, they could try to sustain their lives.
As for using other medications as substitutes, that wouldn¡¯t be effective.
Fortunately, the Mars basecked nothing.
Especially not scientists and researchers.
To treat five people and research the virus, more than thirty top experts in the medical team were mobilized. If it were on Earth, even national leaders couldn¡¯t summon these people for treatment.
As for the scientists researching the virus, they were top talents in the field of life sciences on Earth.
A group of experts working together.
With Red Lotus¡¯sputing power and Mars¡¯s top research equipment, the situation with the virus was thoroughly resolved in less than ten hours.
Even the gic sequence of the virus was being deconstructed and analyzed segment by segment by these experts.
Although there was still no specific medication for the virus, the experts had already started researching reverse transcriptase RNA.
There was no cure yet, but a vine was on the horizon.
A few hourster, the nuclear-powered rocket arrived at Mars, and the nanomachines it carried were deployed outside the base.
¡°Professor Tang, what¡¯s the password for this box?¡±
¡°321123,¡± Tang Rui blurted out a password.
Click!
The box opened, releasing a puff of white smoke.
It wasn¡¯t cold air, but dry ice.
¡°Professor Tang, do we just inject this directly?¡± asked a top surgeon from the Mayo Clinic, holding a syringe from the box.
¡°Yes, inject it anywhere in the body, it will work as long as it¡¯s injected.¡±
¡°Okay, I understand.¡±
The surgeon found a vein and injected 50 million units of nanomachines into the patient¡¯s body.
At that moment, something eerie happened.
The scientist who was injected with the nanomachines began to convulse spasmodically.
If it had only been him, that would have been one thing.
But the other four, who had not been injected with nanomachines, also began convulsing at the same time.
All five people convulsed like they were having epileptic seizures on their beds.
This sudden change startled everyone.
¡°Control them, prepare sedatives,¡± the surgeon immediately ordered upon seeing this.
At this moment, the nearby equipment began to sound rms.
¡°Beep beep beep¡¡±
The heart rate soared to 136 beats per minute and was still rising.
The blood pressure rose to 239 and continued to climb..
Chapter 353 - 353: Why Does It Feel a Little Scary?
Chapter 353: Why Does It Feel a Little Scary?
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This was a first for him.
Such a reaction had never been observed in his experiments with white mice before. It was, to put it mildly, unsettling.
¡°Red Lotus, what¡¯s happening?¡± Tang Rui asked, his expression one of deep concern.
¡°Master, the nanomachines report that when they neutralized the virus, the neural tissues started discharging bioelectricity in a disordered manner. Some neural cells have already been corroded by the virus.¡±
The prospect of corroding the nervous system was rming. Could this lead to permanent nerve damage?
However, he realized there was no need to dwell on this particr side effect. The real issue at hand was not merely about neural tissue damage.
A single person experiencing twitching could be exined.
But the simultaneous convulsions of five individuals indicated a moreplex problem.
¡°Why did all five of them start convulsing at the same time?¡±
¡°I¡¯m sorry, Master. Red Lotus has not identified the cause. The feedback from the nanomachines doesn¡¯t include this information.¡±
Upon hearing this, Tang Rui¡¯s gaze shifted to the person still convulsing uncontrobly on the big screen. His eyes narrowed, but he said nothing.
To be honest, the situation unfolding before him was quite frightening.
Their convulsions were full-body, every muscle twitching as if there were insects crawling underneath their skin.
¡°The tranquilizer isn¡¯t having any effect.¡±
¡°His heart rate is increasing, but his blood pressure is dropping. There are signs of internal bleeding.¡±
At this moment, the scientist who had received the nanomachine injection was convulsing less frequently. His injected arm had even calmed down.
However, the condition of the other four was deteriorating rapidly.
Two of them were experiencing a drop in blood pressure, and another¡¯s muscles were spasming and stiffening.
¡°Inject them quickly!¡±
¡°Got it.¡±
At this moment, the effectiveness of the nanomachines was apparent to anyone observing.
So, the surgeon immediately proceeded to inject the other four people. This time, the injection was not into the arm but directly into the carotid artery, which would allow the nanomachines to spread through the body much faster.
Since there was no way to observe internally,
Tang Rui was unable to see what was happening inside their bodies at the moment.
Red Lotus could simte the situation based on the feedback from the nanomachines, but this was not particrly useful.
Beep¡ Beep¡ Beep¡
Suddenly, the scientist with the weakest constitution among the five saw his heart rate drop to zero. The electrocardiogram disy had tlined.
Yet, his body continued to twitch.
It didn¡¯t stop even in death.
It was reminiscent of a zombie.
Ten minutester, four people and a corpsey quietly on the hospital beds. At this point, the virus had been cleared from their bodies.
But waking them up would be difficult.
Neurons, especially those in the brain, are non-regenerative cells. They are central to human thought and memory.
Such damage was not something the nanomachines could repair.
Even if they managed to restore some neuronal functionality, the lost memories and thought processes could not be regenerated.
¡°Professor Tang, we¡¯ve received the consent of McCann¡¯s family for a medical autopsy.¡±
¡°Yes, send me the data. Also, I¡¯ll arrange for a spaceship to bring you some medical supplies and thetest research equipment.¡¯
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¡°Thank you very much. We¡¯re indeed short on some resources, especiallyb rats for research.¡±
¡°Don¡¯t worry about the supplies.¡±
Tang Rui reassured them, letting them know they didn¡¯t have to worry about anything other than focusing on researching the virus.
After ending the video call, He had Red Lotus cut off allmunication between Earth and Mars, except for his own. He informed those who had applied for citizenship that they would have to wait. Until the virus situation was resolved, they could forget about returning to Earth.
He still didn¡¯t know enough about the virus.
However, judging from the symptoms he had just witnessed, this unknown virus was far more terrifying than any other virus known on Earth.
Following this incident, he was no longer in the mood to continue his research.
He left the room.
Outside, a group of physicists were still engaged in a heated discussion.
Tang Rui did not join their conversation, nor did he interrupt their analysis and integration of the data from the Hadron collider experiment.
After saying goodbye to Professor Li, he left the facility and boarded a private jet back to hispany.
¡°Red Lotus, arrange for a spaceship to transport a thousand white mice. Also, arrange for a few robots to explore the underground area they previously drilled to obtain original samples of the virus.¡±
¡°Understood, Master. Red Lotus will make the arrangements immediately.¡±
At the same time, the biologists at the Martian base were also studying the virus.
Though they didn¡¯t have manyb rats, they still managed to infect more than a dozen.
The infected mice, like the five scientists, were in aatose state.
The biologists were conducting various experiments on these mice.
When it came to human subjects, they had to be cautious.
But with white mice infected with the virus, they had more freedom to experiment.
Even the wildest ideas could be tested on a white mouse.
After numerous experiments, they had gathered some information about the virus.
It could deceive the immune system and, once inside the body, it immediately targeted the nervous system, invading and paralyzing it, usurping the functions of the nervous system.
¡°Currently, we have some understanding of the virus. Here¡¯s an idea: What if we inject hallucinogenic drugs or drugs that impact neurons into the mice? Do you think the virus, which erodes the nervous system, will react?¡±
Someone suddenly suggested.
¡°We can try it,¡± was the consensus.
No one had any particr objections. It was just an experiment, after all.
They were virus biologists, not physicians.
Their goal was to study the characteristics of the virus, not to develop life-saving medications.
So, they proceeded with their experiments as they wished.
A biologist extracted a vial of a forbidden drug ¨C one that induced euphoria when injected into the body but was highly detrimental to the nervous system.
After injecting this drug into one of the white mice, the mouse was visibly shocked.
The biologist sat in front of the ss cage, intently observing the mouse inside.
Suddenly, the white mouse inside opened its eyes and stood up.
It wasn¡¯t just this mouse.
In the other cages, the white mice involved in different experiments also stood up.
Even the mice with their abdomens cut open managed to crawl up, dragging their entrails.
The biologist who was dissecting one of the mice eximed in shock.
¡°F*ck!¡±
¡°What¡¯s going on?¡±
¡°What happened to them?¡±
All the scientists in the room looked at the white mice in their cages, a mix of fear and bewilderment on their faces.
Bang, bang, bang¡
The next moment, all the white mice started moving in the same direction, repeatedly mming into the ss of their enclosures.
More than ten white mice, all moving in unison, frantically hitting the ss.
This spectacle was indeed unnerving.
Most importantly¡
They had never observed such behavior in virus-infected subjects before.
Was this still just a virus?
The sheer terror this situation created was beyond theirprehension..
Chapter 354 - 354: Cross-Species Gene Fusion and Collective Consciousness
Chapter 354: Cross-Species Gene Fusion and Collective Consciousness
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¡°What the hell? A white mouse?¡±
The moment Tang Rui woke up, he received a report from Red Lotus.
All theb rats on Mars that had been used as experimental subjects for a virus hade back to life. Even the half-dissectedb rats had risen.
It was quite scary at first.
Later on, a group of scientists discovered that these white micecked intelligence, so they boldly conducted research on them.
The result showed that the virus, which had eroded the nervous system, had mutated and taken over, forcibly controlling the mice¡¯s movements.
¡°Red Lotus, show me the video.¡±
¡°Yes, Master.¡±
On the projection screen, a group of white mice crawled up and headed in a direction, then began to hit the ss.
After watching the video, Tang Rui curiously asked Red Lotus where the white mouse was facing, and the answer he received pointed to the location where the Mars base had previously drilled a hole.
It was obvious.
There was something wrong with this virus.
¡°How long will it take for the spacecraft to reach Mars?¡±
¡°We still need three hours and neen minutes.¡±
¡°Alright, let me know when we arrive.¡±
He got up, washed up, and had breakfast.
Tang Rui then returned to theboratory and contacted the Mars base to see if there was any progress.
¡°Professor Tang, this isn¡¯t a virus.¡±
¡°It¡¯s not a virus?¡±
¡°That¡¯s right. This seems to be a special kind of microorganism, or rather, a microorganism disguised as a virus but not actually a virus.¡±
After the Mars scientist finished speaking, he showed Tang Rui the data of the mutated virus found in the white mouse.
Let¡¯s not talk about anything else.
The original virus and the mutated virus hadpletely different gic sequences.
The most terrifying aspect was that when the virus mutated, the special gic code inside would transform into different gic sequences ording to the genes of the invaded life form.
Simply put, the virus that invaded the mice and the virus that invaded the human body had different gene sequences after mutation.
This mutation allowed the virus topletely adapt to the host¡¯s genes without causing any rejection.
Even the functions of the neural tissues could be perfectly simted. Yesterday, if not for a fortuitous experiment¡ªif someone hadn¡¯t injected a hallucinogenic drug into a white mouse, this situation might have gone unnoticed.
¡°So, these microorganisms are a special kind of life?¡±
¡°That¡¯s right, but we¡¯re more inclined to believe that it¡¯s a biological weapon, or a hunting method of some special life form.¡±
Tang Rui nodded, understanding the gravity of the situation.
The importance of this virus had just increased significantly.
It was highly contagious, capable of gic modification and fusion, and could be controlled by some kind of mother organism.
¡°Be careful. The spaceship I sent will arrive in two hours. I will investigate the underground world then.¡±
¡°We¡¯re fine. Yesterday¡¯s discovery overturned our previous research. We¡¯re currently analyzing the gic changes before and after the virus mutation, trying to find that special gene.¡±
There was no need for Tang Rui tofort them. These biologists were not afraid; they were excited to do research there.
The value of this virus was immeasurable.
Once he figured out how the virus transformed the fusion gene, the problem of cross-species gene fusion would no longer be an issue.
At that time, cat-eared girls would no longer be exclusive to the 2D world.
At noon.
The spaceshipunched by Red Lotus yesterday finally arrived on Mars.
Afternding at the edge of the Martian base, more than a dozen robots moved the life support box containing the white mice into the base.
Tang Rui, focused on other matters, let Red Lotus control the drilling robot to bore a hole downwards.
The ground, not very deep to begin with, was quickly prated.
There was indeed liquid water at the bottom of the cliff.
Moreover, there was quite a lot of liquid water in storage. Roughly, there were more than 20 million cubic meters.
¡°Red Lotus, we have to analyze the water samples. Then, we have to infect those cyber mice with the virus and record the entire process of the virus entering the mice¡¯s bodies.¡±
¡°Yes, Master.¡±
Next to the cliff, a temporary experiment module of about 20 square meters had been built.
Red Lotus controlled the robots and began operations as per Tang Rui¡¯s instructions. Among them, the Cyber White Mice were the most unfortunate subjects.
Each of them drank a lot of water.
After drinking the virus-infected water, they became ready-made observation subjects.
On the big screen in front of Tang Rui, the activities of the virus after entering the body of the white mouse were disyed.
The viruses searched for neural tissues, then invaded, replicated, and reced the neural cells.
However, 80% of the neural tissue in the cyber mouse was made up of nanomachines.
Therefore, these viruses could only corrode 20% of the nerve cells.
This time, with the white cyber mouse and professional in-body disy equipment, Tang Rui clearly saw the mutation of the virus.
They invaded the nerve cells, corroded the cells, and then devoured them.
At this moment, the virus¡¯s genes began to rbine, using the neurons as a blueprint to fuse with the virus¡¯s gene sequence.
Finally, it perfectly reced the nerve cells and became a part of the mouse¡¯s nerve tissue.
¡°It seems those scientists were wrong. The virus didn¡¯t mutate because of the hallucinogenic drug. Instead, it mutated when it invaded the neurons.¡±
Tang Rui observed the series of changes in the virus within the white cyber mouse¡¯s body and muttered softly.
At the same time, he resolved a previous doubt.
Why didn¡¯t the immune system attack the virus?
Because the virus had learned to disguise itself.
They could devour the immune system cells in the body of a mouse and then divide and transform into immune cells.
This was also why the immune system did not respond.
There was a traitor within.
Tang Rui waited for more than an hour.
After the virus upied most of the nerve cells in the mice¡¯s body, other than the nanomachines, the mice were injected with hallucinogenic drugs.
The hallucinogenic drug activated the nerve tissues transformed by the virus.
A white mouse, previously lying on the ground, now stood up and began to crawl out. Its movements were nimble, not the stiff crawl from before.
The cybermice, exposed on the surface of Mars, faced many problems in their bodies, but these were all solved by the nanomachines.
Survival in outer space was unrealistic.
However, surviving on the surface of Mars for a period was feasible.
The white cyber mouse that crawled out quickly drilled into the hole leading underground and fell into the water.
At this moment, the virus in the white mouse¡¯s body began to split and reproduce destructively.
¡°Master, I¡¯ve detected a special biological signal.¡±
¡°Where is the signal source?¡± Tang Rui immediately asked.
¡°Master, ording to the nanomachines¡¯ feedback, the signal source is the entire undergroundke.¡±
The entire undergroundke?
But there was nothing in the underground river.
They had already scanned the area. Other than water, there were no other creatures or items. If there were, Tang Rui would have gotten Red Lotus to salvage it long ago.
Nothing?
Where did the signale from?
Or was it a biological signal?
¡°Can you decode the signal?¡±
¡°Tranting brainwave information of the white mouse. Decryptionplete. The content of the signal is: Summon food, survive and reproduce, destroy life.¡±
This¡
Tang Rui looked at the content tranted by Red Lotus and frowned.
¡°Master, the white mice in the Martian base are getting up again. This time, they are attacking the ss wall even more frantically, trying to escape.¡± ¡°Notify theboratory and ask them to release five white mice¡Forget it. Control the robot and take out five white mice and throw them at the hole.¡±
¡°Yes, Master.¡±
Ten minutester.
Five white mice were released by the robot.
These mice had not been nano-modified, so the moment they were exposed to the surface of Mars, their internal organs and blood vessels ruptured.
But even so, the virus controlled the neural tissue and the body of the white mouse to crawl toward the drill hole.
The white mice crawled into the holes.
They fell into the undergroundke.
In the next second, the bodies of the five white mice were digested at a speed visible to the naked eye. They were quickly corroded clean, like the corpse water in movies.
But Tang Rui knew that this was not their bodies melting.
Instead, it was digestion by countless viruses as food.
Not only could this special virus corrode nerve cells but also any biological cells, even hair.
Don¡¯t ask how Tang Rui knew¡ªin the body of the cybermouse, other than the organs and body formed by nanomachines, the other cells had already been corroded and digested by the virus.
After these viruses corroded and digested all the cells, they would divide again and transform into a virus form again.
This ability was extremely abnormal.
What was even more abnormal was that¡
When countless viruses gathered together, they seemed to have a group consciousness.
Looking at the data obtained from the cyber mouse, Tang Rui was dumbfounded.
You were saying this thing was a virus?
Even biological weapons weren¡¯t this terrifying..
Chapter 355 - 355: Gene Fragment Information
Chapter 355: Gene Fragment Information
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Tang Rui¡¯s face was solemn, his expression serious.
¡°Is this virus a product of natural evolution?
Dream on.
This is definitely a biological weapon, the kind that could destroy a world. If such a virus were brought to Earth,
Forget about humanity.
All life on Earth wouldn¡¯t stand a chance.
The entire would quickly be a dead star, a forbidden zone for life.
All animals, nts, and microorganisms would be eradicated by this virus.
¡°Red Lotus, bring me a gene detection device.¡±
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
Facing such a virus, current human technology definitely couldn¡¯t handle it.
He had no choice but to rely on special means.
Soon, a gene detection device was brought over by a robot.
Tang Rui took out tools and began to disassemble this device.
Since Red Lotus had not made this type of device, it couldn¡¯t be directly upgraded using the panel, so he had to reassemble it.
Half an hourter, Tang Rui reassembled the device, now in pieces.
A beam of light shed.
The system panel appeared on the device.
Tang Rui directly enhanced it.
Another sh of golden light, and the device was enhanced.
The enhanced device, about the size of a small suitcase and quite unremarkable in appearance, now had these features:
[Item: Gene Sequence Functional Analysis Device]
[Experience: 0/5000]
[Enhancement: Gene Sequence Functional Analysis System]
[Attributes: Analysis speed increased by 180%, precision increased by 160%, gene lock unlocking speed increased by 140%]
[Origin Points: 2710636]
After reviewing the data on the system panel, Tang Rui had Red Lotus send the device to Mars at top speed.
This time, not by spaceship, but directly with a nuclear-powered rocket.
Just one word: fast.
In the evening, after Tang Rui finished dinner, the rocket had already reached Mars.
¡°Red Lotus, analyze the virus with this device.¡±
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
The robot dripped the virus sample into the device, then began analyzing the virus¡¯s genes.
On the screen in front of Tang Rui, data from the device¡¯s analysis appeared, showing a double helix DNA strand and various gene fragments.
But when the analysis of the gene fragments reached one-third, the data on the screen suddenly froze.
¡°Gene disguise data detected, decrypting¡¡±
Gene disguise?
Seeing this prompt, Tang Ruiughed.
Goodness.
Definitely not a product of natural evolution. Which virus naturally evolves to include gene disguise?
In less than three seconds, the double helix DNA model in front of Tang Rui disappeared, reced by a new, much moreplex double helix.
Don¡¯t ask how he knew.
Different gene fragments were indicated by different colors.
The gene chain before him was incredibly intricate.
Ten minutester, theplete gic structure of the virus was scanned by the device, but it wasn¡¯t over yet.
The device had to crack the gene locks on the chain.
These gene locks, designed to seal gic information, prevented the data from being read.
¡°Gene lock decrypted, reading gene fragment functions¡¡±
A cascade of data flooded the screen, rapidly refreshing.
Functions of various gene fragments flickered before his eyes.
The vast amount of data refreshed for fifteen minutes before stopping.
¡°Gic data analysisplete.¡±
Purifier-3 Type Sub-Intelligent Synthesis Organism.
That was the name of this virus, or rather, it wasn¡¯t a virus at all, but an artificially created intelligent biological weapon.
¡°Red Lotus, disy the gic data, especially the important ones, like the gene fusion fragments.¡±
¡°Okay, Master, filtering¡ Filterplete.¡±
Cross-species fusion gene.
Copy recognition gene.
Biological kinship transformation gene.
Life maic field enhancement gene.
Immune identification gene.
Self-destruct gene.
Numerous gene sequences with special functions appeared before Tang Rui, many of which he had never heard of before.
Their capabilities were terrifying.
He didn¡¯t pay attention to the other genes.
He directly found a critical one among these gene fragments.
The self-destruct gene.
Every weapon must have a switch or a backdoor.
At the very least, friend-foe identification is essential.
And, controlling the weapon to prevent it from harming allies is crucial.
It could be said that after analyzing these gene fragment functions, this thing posed no threat to Tang Rui anymore.
¡°Red Lotus, based on the friend-foe identification gene fragment, create a vine.¡± Tang Rui instructed Red Lotus.
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
After instructing Red Lotus, he began to research these miraculous gene fragments.
Cross-species gene fusion.
This magical gic technology, often seen in movies, was now before him.
But after understanding the function of this gene fragment, he gave up any fantasies of creating Spider-Man.
Spider-Man?
Impossible.
Even if spider genes were fused, bing Spider-Man wouldn¡¯t happen.
ording to the description, this gene fragment¡¯s function was very limited. Fusing two different species¡¯ genes had a high probability of causing gic copse.
This issue primarily arose from gene expression.
One gene tells you to grow hair.
Another tells you to grow scales.
Both genes express simultaneously.
What then?
Hair growing on scales?
Ridiculous.
That would directly result in cancerous cells.
Cross-species gene fusion might be unfeasible, but this technology was top-notch for gic invasion.
Without it, recing neuronal tissue would be impossible.
After reviewing this gene fragment¡¯s function, Tang Rui started looking for technologies that could enhance cells.
And he found some.
But it wasn¡¯t about strengthening cells, but rather parasitizing and recing cells.
Cell strength is linked to life genes. Strengthening cells is extremely difficult.
That would be like creating an entirely new form of life.
In that case, he thought of another method, like armoring the cells.
Creating a symbiotic cell.
Tang Rui¡¯s mind raced with ideas upon this realization.
For a while, he thought of many possibilities.
But gics was not easy to manipte, so he wasn¡¯t in a rush.
Just the gene fragments before him were enough to keep him busy for a while.
¡°Red Lotus, download these gene data and materials to the learning machine, I want to take a nap.¡±
¡°Okay, Master..¡±
Chapter 356 - 356: Gene Enhancing Fluid
Chapter 356: Gene Enhancing Fluid
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For the next several days, Tang Rui holed up in theb, ceaselessly conducting gene experiments.
He experimented with various genes with special functions obtained from virus samples.
This was evident from the variously shaped and odd-looking mice in theb.
Some of these mice were even the size of ordinary domestic dogs.
With sharp teeth and ws capable of piercing steel tes.
¡°Master, Gene Enhancement Solution 16 is ready.¡±
¡°Inject it into the mice.¡±
¡°Yes, Master.¡±
The robot approached the mice¡¯s cage and injected the Gene Enhancement Solution into them.
After the injection, there were no immediate changes in the mice.
There were none of the dramatic effects like hair spraying out of pores-gene enhancement wasn¡¯t that intense.
It was a subtle and gradual process; the modified genes reced the old cells through cell turnover.
Only when all receable cells had been enhanced would the true be enhancementplete.
However, this enhancement posed a critical problem: it could contaminate the human gic pool.
Could we avoid altering gic material? No.
Without altering the gic material, we could only cut and edit the gene chain. Apart from the difficulty of this operation, it would be like a kidney transnt with the risk of rejection.
Rejection from a kidney transnt can be controlled with medication.
But rejection from gene alteration could lead to a total copse of the gene chain, which was irreversible.
The only solution was to rewrite the gic data, modifying gene expression. This could enhance the entire bodily system.
But this altered the inherited genes, which was dangerous.
Once humans possessed this technology, everyone would start injecting gene solutions.
In a hundred years, original human genes would be untraceable.
Unless Tang Rui starts collecting human gic material now, preserving the entire human gene pool.
Otherwise, this dangerous technology should be kept for personal use only and never shared.
After injecting the Gene Enhancement Solution, the robot used a radiationmp to speed up the enhancement process.
Otherwise, it would take a long time for the mice¡¯s cells to naturally regenerate.
Squeak, squeak, squeak¡
After the radiation exposure, the mice began to eat voraciously.
Half an hourter, the mice became hairless, their fur fell out, and their skin became pockmarked and shriveled.
An hourter, the mice looked emaciated, too weak to eat as they had lost all their teeth.
But they had ingested a lot of high-energy nutrients, so they had enough energy toplete their cell regeneration.
They just needed to lie there, excrete, and strengthen.
Two hourster, the mice got up again, gradually bing stronger, and their teeth started to regrow.
With a bit of strength, they began to eat again.
Three hourster, the mice returned to normal, their fur growing back, though slowly.
By this time, they had mostlypleted their cell recement and overall enhancement.
Red Lotus, put a female mouse in there.¡±
¡°Okay.¡±
A female mouse was introduced into the enhanced mouse¡¯s cage.
Upon entering, the two mice began to interact.
It was an exchange of pheromones, an instinct.
The enhanced mouse had far superior attributespared to a regr mouse.
For the female mouse, the attraction was significant.
How to describe it?
If the unenhanced mouse was like a certain figure, the enhanced one was like a muscr version of the same figure.
Both are the same figure, but their attraction to females waspletely different.
The subsequent events are self-exnatory.
Let¡¯s just say, spring had arrived.
Squeak¡ squeak¡ squeak¡
That was roughly what happened.
After a shudder from the enhanced mouse, the event ended.
Red Lotus, analyze the gic information.¡±
¡°Okay, Master, please wait.¡±
Two minutester, Red Lotuspleted the analysis of the enhanced mouse¡¯s gic information.
The results were as Tang Rui had nned.
All gic information was destroyed.
The destruction was at the gic level, making the mouse sterile.
Tang Rui had tried many ways to solve the gic issue.
Eventually, he thought of a solution.
If he couldn¡¯t solve the problem, he would eliminate the problem source.
Since the gic material was altered after the gene enhancement injection, simply preventing reproduction would be the answer.
In special cases, he could use the gene solution without worrying about gic issues.
Perfect!
But now, one would need to have a child first or preserve their gic material before using the gene solution.
Otherwise, there would be no offspring.
¡°Red Lotus, save the data for Gene Enhancement Solution 16, then destroy all materials, and create a self-destruct agent and five recovery agents to send to Mars.¡±
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
After observing the effects of No. 16, his research wasplete, but he definitely wouldn¡¯t use it himself.
However, for patients with terminal illnesses, this potion was a miracle drug, capable of bringing the dead back to life.
For current diseases on Earth, one dose of Gene Enhancement Solution was enough.
Until a virus capable of breaking the gic lock appeared.
This Gene Enhancement Solution was unbeatable.
No virus or bacteria on Earth could affect someone who has used the solution, as their immune system would alter and absorb them as nutrients.
This function was a bioweapon¡¯s inherent gic ability.
But now, Tang Rui had incorporated this ability into the human immune system genes.
Thus, this Gene Enhancement Solution could cure all diseases.
Leaving the Life Sciences Lab, Tang Rui returned to the base.
¡°Red Lotus, dig a deep, cylindrical pit in Warehouse 37, at least 100 meters deep and 40 meters in diameter. Then create arge-scale bio-cultivation chamber.¡±
¡°Okay, Master..¡±
Chapter 357 - 357: Two-Dimensional Glue
Chapter 357: Two-Dimensional Glue
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Tang Rui prepared to create an EVA for fun.
With the gic technology avable, creating biological mechs was no longer a far-fetched dream.
Moreover, biological mechs had a significant advantage over mechanical ones: once mass-produced, they were much cheaper.
The cost of materials and production for mechanical mechs was always a limiting factor, regardless of the scale of production.
But it was different with biological mechs.
Once past the hurdle of gic programming and the initial investment in a biological cultivation chamber, the remaining costs were minimal. As long as there were sufficient biological materials and nutrients, continuous cultivation was possible without much expense.
Of course, equipping the biological mech with an exoskeleton would still be a considerable expense, but Tang Rui was just building one for fun.
Costs weren¡¯t an issue for him.
The next day.
Tang Rui took his private jet to the hadron collider experimental base, as there was a new discovery.
A scientist, while sorting and calcting experimental data, discovered a unique set of data.
After meticulous calction, he realized it was data rted to the condensate state of particles at low temperatures. Since he wasn¡¯t specialized in condensed matter physics, he forwarded his findings and rted data to another expert in that field.
This expert, upon receiving the data, was immediately intrigued.
After two days of intensive work, he discovered a new physical phenomenon.
This phenomenon was rted to the Bose-Einstein condensate, a physical phenomenon urring under ultra-low temperatures.
Tang Rui was interested in this because his experiment with absolute zero temperature was iplete.
He had to pause the experiment due to an emergency on Mars and then spent over a week researching gic potions. Now, he finally had time to continue his research on absolute zero, and this discovery of the Bose-Einstein condensate was relevant.
He came to listen to the report and hoped to discuss with the condensed matter expert for potential insights.
¡°Based on the experimental data and after repeated calctions and theoretical verifications, I discovered that these condensate particles, forming a two-dimensional photonic gel, possess a unique physical property: energy absorption. Any particle that collides with it, if it cannot provide enough energy to break the strong interaction within the photonic gel or to cause an energy level transition in the gel, then no matter what, it¡¯s impossible to prate this two-dimensionalyer of condensate photonic gel.¡±
After presenting his theory, the expert began writing his calction forms on the ckboard.
Without the possibility of experimental verification, mathematical validation was an essential method in physics theory.
Tang Rui wasn¡¯t looking at the mathematical forms on the ckboard. His mind was elsewhere.
He was thinking about the two-dimensional photonic gel mentioned earlier. It wasn¡¯t a true two-dimensional structure but wasposed of a single atomicyer, simr to two-dimensional graphene materials. They were called two-dimensional¡± because they were incredibly thin, only the scale of atoms. In his previous experiments, he hadn¡¯t considered slowing down photons, let alone trapping them so that their speed bes zero.
The idea might seem daunting, but in reality, trapping photons was feasible and had been achieved by many universities. However, the method of confinement varied.
Lower quality equipment could trap a person in a city, allowing significant movement. Better equipment could confine a person in a small cell.
To bring photons to aplete standstill, confining them in a cell wouldn¡¯t suffice. They had to be tightly bound, preferably using a special method thatpletely immobilized them.
Trapping photons was simple, but rendering thempletely immobile was a challenge. However, for Tang Rui, this wasn¡¯t a difficult task.
After leaving the lecture hall, Tang Rui prepared to return to his room and then have Red Lotus control the experimental cabin in Jupiter¡¯s orbit to conduct the experiment.
¡°Steady, steady.¡±
¡°Clear the way, don¡¯t block.¡±
¡°What happened to Professor Zhou?¡±
However, as he was leaving the lecture hall and before he could go upstairs he heard amotion in the corridor. Then, he saw Professor Zhou being carried out on a stretcher.
Had something happened to Professor Zhou?
Tang Rui hurried over and then saw an ambnce taking Professor Yang away.
¡°What happened to Professor Zhou? What¡¯s the matter?¡±
¡°Tang Institute, Professor Zhou fainted while reviewing experimental data. Fortunately, the attending physician was by his side to assist him, otherwise¡¡±
Sudden fainting? For elderly people, this was extremely dangerous.
After hearing this, Tang Rui immediately got into his car and asked Gao Yang to drive after the ambnce.
With a police escort, they quickly reached a top-tier hospital. They didn¡¯t opt for a better facility due to time constraints. Immediate treatment was crucial, and they couldn¡¯t waste time in transit.
Upon arrival at the hospital, Professor Zhou was taken to the emergency room. Tang Rui spoke to the apanying doctor to inquire about the situation.
¡°What¡¯s wrong with Professor Zhou?¡±
¡°It¡¯s hard to say at the moment. Given Professor Zhou¡¯s age, there are many potential issues. Even a minor issue can be a significant burden for him,¡± the doctor replied.
Emergency treatment for elderly patients was challenging. Some methods couldn¡¯t be used.
If a young person fainted, the first response wouldn¡¯t be to rush them to the hospital but to press on the Renzhong acupoint. If that didn¡¯t work, they might consider opening the airway or performing chestpressions and artificial respiration. There were many methods avable.
But these methods wouldn¡¯t be suitable for Professor Zhou¡
¡°Brother Yang, bring the ck secure box from the trunk of the RV,¡± Tang Rui instructed Gao Yang.
¡°Okay,¡± Gao Yang nodded and ran out to fetch the item.
Outside the emergency room, several Professors, including Professor Li, all looked solemn.
If I had known, I wouldn¡¯t have let him review that data,¡± Professor Li regretted.
Others nodded in agreement.
No one was in the mood for chatting; they all waited outside.
Tang Rui didn¡¯t say anything. He would wait for the doctors to attempt resuscitation, and if that failed, he would intervene. Even if the heart stopped, as long as it wasn¡¯t more than five minutes, it was manageable.
Over the next half hour, more and more people arrived, starting with professors. Those below the rank of professor couldn¡¯t even enter the hospital gate.
Then, an hour and a half passed.
The resuscitation had been ongoing for two hours.
Suddenly, Red Lotus alerted Tang Rui that the emergency room equipment rm had gone off ¨C Professor Zhou¡¯s heart had stopped.
¡°Brother Yang, open the door. I need to go in and save him.¡±
Upon hearing Tang Rui¡¯smand, Gao Yang immediately opened the emergency room door. Inside, the doctors were preparing for the final resuscitation attempt.
¡°Don¡¯t move. I can save him. Prepare glucose, nutrient solution, and saline.¡± As Tang Rui spoke, he took out a syringe filled with nanorobots and injected it directly into Professor Zhou¡¯s heart.
Three secondster.
Thump, thump¡
The heart that had stopped beating began to beat again.
The heart rate monitor beside them also showed fluctuations, no longer a t line.
The bewildered doctors in the emergency room hadn¡¯t yet grasped the situation when Professor Zhou came back to life.
After injecting the nanorobots, Tang Rui also administered a shot of gene-enhancing liquid into Professor Zhou¡¯s carotid artery.
Reliance on nanorobots alone was only enough to revive him, but the long-term prognosis was uncertain.
Therefore, it was necessary tobine it with gene-enhancing liquid for aplete treatment..
Chapter 358 - 358: Positive and Negative Electrons in 2.5 Dimension
Chapter 358: Positive and Negative Electrons in 2.5 Dimension
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¡°Professor Tang, this is¡¡± began the doctors next to him, dumbfounded. They had no idea what Tang Rui had injected into Elder Zhou.
¡°Don¡¯t worry, it¡¯s fine. I just need to replenish my nutrient fluids,¡± Tang Rui reassured them after finishing the injection, addressing Elder Zhou¡¯s healthcare doctor beside him.
The doctor was in shock.
This raised a question about whether Elder Zhou was actually fine.
Although the effect of the heart recovering was astonishing, no one knew what had been injected.
How was the doctor supposed to write a report?
What should he do about the clinical trials?
¡°Professor Tang, could you please exin briefly? What should we do next? Are there any precautions?¡±
¡°Next¡¡± Tang Rui began, and he briefly described the body¡¯s reaction after the injection of the gene-strengthening fluid, assuring them there was no cause for concern.
Se??ch ?ew?o?e? / o?g o? ?oo?l?
As for the specific medicine he injected, he did not disclose anything.
He then left the emergency room.
Tang Rui told Professor Li and others not to worry. Elder Zhou just needed to rest for a while, and he would be fine.
¡°Is there really no problem?¡± Professor Li asked in surprise.
When Tang Rui had earlier asked Gao Yang to open the door, they had seen Elder Zhou¡¯s heart rate data on the screen. They had feared the worst for Elder Zhou.
In the end, Tang Rui assured them that Elder Zhou was fine now and only needed time to recuperate.
¡°Don¡¯t worry,¡± Tang Rui nodded solemnly, guaranteeing this.
¡°If he couldn¡¯t be saved, then someone must have deliberately harmed him.
Otherwise, there wouldn¡¯t be any problems.¡±
¡°Professor Tang, may I ask what medicine you used?¡±
¡°It¡¯s not medicine; it¡¯s medical nanomachines.¡±
¡°Nanomachines?¡± they echoed in disbelief.
¡°That¡¯s right.¡±
Everyone was astonished upon hearing this. They couldn¡¯t believe such a thing could really be created.
Although they were skeptical, they knew the nanotechnology field and the difficulty of manufacturing such tiny robots.
But no one pressed further. Such information was undoubtedly highly confidential.
Had they known, they would not have asked in the first ce.
Ten minutester, under the treatment of the nanomachines, Elder Zhou woke up, much to everyone¡¯s relief.
After visiting Elder Zhou, they left, still reeling from the episode.
Especially the older members of the group.
Their doctors were eager to take their charges away from the scene.
Unfortunately, they were not sessful.
However, their daily lives and diets were now severely restricted.
Tang Rui, unconcerned by these matters, recognized the utility of the nanomachines in situations where the gene-strengthening drug could not be widely used.
He did not personally provide these nanomachines.
Sure enough, the next morning, someone from the National Academy inquired about the nanomachines.
Tang Rui exined their function and price, then disengaged himself from the matter.
If they wanted to purchase, they could do so directly from Crimson Company; he did not need to be involved.
Unaffected by external interference, Tang Rui resumed his research on absolute zero, this time using light pressure deceleration and the mao-optical trap.
However, after a day of experimentation, the results were not ideal. The temperature had dropped very close to absolute zero, but the photons still didn¡¯t stop.
If the photons didn¡¯t stop, absolute zero couldn¡¯t be achieved.
This was frustrating.
Over the following period, Tang Rui alternated between thepany and the Hadron Collider experimental base. He listened to reports when avable and conducted experiments whenever inspiration struck.
Half a month passed in a blink.
The data from thetest hadron collision experiment had been processed, and new physical phenomena studied.
For further research, a second hadron collision experimentmenced.
This time, Tang Rui didn¡¯t just observe in themand hall.
After receiving the test results, he downloaded a dataset and had Red Lotus analyze it.
The energy level of this collision experiment reached 26 trillion electron volts, significantly higher than previous experiments.
As a result, the data collected was more urate than before.
One dataset Tang Rui needed was the Bose-Einstein condensation state data.
¡°I was wrong,¡± he realized suddenly.
He had always assumed that everything in two-dimensional space was static, like a painting.
In reality, two-dimensional space was dynamic, more akin to animation.
He recognized a w in his previous experimental approach.
He had been trying to achieve absolute zero by making the particles stop.
However, static particles and static two-dimensional space were different concepts, and he had erred in his experimental design.
After understanding this, a new challenge arose.
How could he obtain non-static particles in two-dimensional space?
For example, electrons.
In three-dimensional space, one needed to use the wave function to calcte electron speed.
But in two-dimensional space, would non-stationary electrons be orbitals revolving around the nucleus?
If so, there would be no need to study the wave function. Simple orbital calctions would suffice.
One day, while listening to a report, Tang Rui had a sudden insight.
Previously, when using the maic trap, he hadn¡¯t considered the challenge of converting three-dimensional space into two-dimensional space.
Even if absolute zero was achieved, the physical properties of the mao-optical trap would prevent the photon from transitioning into a two-dimensional form.
Realizing this¡
Tang Rui immediately returned to hisb and had Red Lotus modify the Mao-optical Trap to allow some space for expansion.
This wasn¡¯t a major issue.
He just needed to adjust the equipment parameters to create a new Mao-optical Trap. It was rtively simple.
Afterpleting these adjustments, Tang Rui initiated the absolute zero temperature experiment again.
As the experiment began, the photon¡¯s speed started to decrease.
As its speed dropped, so did its temperature.
Soon, the photons, having lost their energy, became increasingly slower.
Tang Rui watched the sensor data being converted into visual data on the screen, provided by Red Lotus¡¯s simtion.
At this moment, as the photon approached aplete stop, a remarkable phenomenon urred.
Before, the photon, confined by the Mao-optical Trap, had slowed almost to a stop, but had not transformed.
But now, as the photon¡¯s speed neared zero and its energy level decreased, it began to change.
The photons were reducing their dimensions, transitioning from photons into light waves.
However, this dimensional reduction was different from what Tang Rui had anticipated.
In front of him, the photon transformed into a light wave, akin to a deting balloon transitioning from inted to t.
Yet, the materialposing the balloon ¨C the positive and negative electrons that made up the photon¡ªremained in a three-dimensional state. It was as if the deted balloon contained many ss beads, propping it up.
This gave the appearance of a t balloon with many bulging spheres ¨C the positive and negative electrons.
At this moment, the electrons were still moving, neither in a two-dimensional nor a three-dimensional state, but something in-between.
In this unique state, one could observe how the two types of electronsbined without needing to use the wave function.
The trajectories of the positive and negative electrons on the two-dimensional light wave surface were strikingly beautiful. Each arc was perfectly formed.
But these weren¡¯t just arcs.
In metaphysical terms, they were manifestations of thews of the universe..
Chapter 359 - 359: The Signal in the Void (Part 1)
Chapter 359: The Signal in the Void (Part 1)
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The mesmerizing scene before him captivated Tang Rui.
Regrettably, it was just a fleeting moment before the image vanished.
The experiment failed.
The specific reason was that, during the moment of dimensional reduction, annihtion urred.
The annihtion of positrons and electrons led to a quantum leap in the energy level of the photon.
Not only did the experiment fail, but the equipment was also damaged.
It might have been just two electrons, but suchb equipment is exceptionally precise.
The energy released by the annihtion of matter and antimatter directly destroyed the sensors and the mao-optical trap equipment.
¡°Red Lotus, disy the previous image of the photon¡¯s dimensional reduction again,¡± Tang Rui instructed, unconcerned about the damaged equipment and eager to revisit the astonishing scene.
Se??ch ?ew?o?e? / o?g o? ?oo?l?
¡°Of course, Master,¡± replied Red Lotus.
With a swish, the big screen disyed the image of the photon transforming into a light wave, and the 2.5-dimensional form of the positron and electron reappeared before him.
Even upon viewing it a second time, the scene still left Tang Rui in awe.
The microscopic world is indeed fascinating.
¡°Red Lotus, print this photo and copy the experimental data from before,¡± Tang Rui ordered.
¡°Understood, Master.¡±
Taking these items, Tang Rui left the room and had Red Lotus inform all the scientists about a report meeting he wanted to convene.
Upon learning of Tang Rui¡¯s nned report meeting, the scientists at the experimental base abandoned their research and hurried to the multifunctional hall where the meeting was to be held.
After all, Tang Rui¡¯s reputation was not just that of Crimson Corporation¡¯s CEO or a weapon development expert.
In the scientificmunity, he was a prominent figure, especially renowned for his achievements in electromaics, unmatched by any contemporary physicist.
Not to mention his role in averting the ck dwarf star disaster, where he single-handedly saved human civilization.
His reluctance to appear in public and his disdain for hassle were the only reasons he wasn¡¯t more visible.
Otherwise, his influence in the scientific world would undoubtedly be unrivaled.
When he announced a report meeting, everyone who could attend rushed over.
This was no exaggeration.
Half an hourter, Tang Rui arrived at the multifunctional hall and projected the 2.5-dimensional photo onto the big screen.
¡°This is a photograph of the structure of a photon and its internal positron and electron when its speed is infinitely close to zero, transitioning from three dimensions to two dimensions,¡± he began, immediately captivating the audience with this revtion.
Dimensional reduction! The term stunned everyone.
As they looked at the photo on the projection screen, their eyes lit up with excitement.
To theyperson, it was merely an extraordinary photo.
But to these physicists, it represented a gateway to the microscopic world, a crucial piece of knowledge for their research.
Based on this photo, they could verify numerous theories and propose many hypotheses.
¡°Professor Tang, may I ask if the photon has a rest mass when it bes two-dimensional?¡± a trembling physicist inquired.
This question was of paramount importance.
If the photon¡¯s rest mass were not zero, many existing scientific theories would have to be overturned.
¡°Firstly, it is only infinitely close to being at rest, but not actually at rest. ording to the experimental data, even when the photon bes two-dimensional, it is not stationary. Furthermore, whenplete dimensional reduction urs, the positron and electron will annihte each other, so the photon¡¯s rest mass essentially does not exist,¡± Tang Rui answered without minding the interruption to his report, aware of the critical nature of the question.
¡°Thank you very much for your answer, and I apologize for interrupting your presentation.¡±
¡°It¡¯s alright. The issue of the photon¡¯s rest mass is actually the main reason for the failure of this experiment. Since the photon¡¯s rest mass is zero, the moment ites to a rest, itpletely annihtes. So, this experiment only achieved a quasi-2.5~dimensional state, not a true two-dimensional reduction of the photon,¡± Tang Rui exined, borating on his previous experimental steps and the changes in various physical quantities based on the data.
More valuable than the results of the experiment were these data, as they recorded the physical changes in the photon¡¯s energy level during its transition from three dimensions to two dimensions.
The physicists listened intently, enraptured.
Many experienced revtions, as previously iprehensible issues became clear upon seeing these data.
Of course, these data also raised many more questions.
After Tang presented the entire experimental data, he opened the floor for questions.
¡°Professor Tang, I would like to ask, does the photoelectric effect still exist when the photon bes two-dimensional?¡± another scientist inquired.
This question also took Tang Rui by surprise.
Frankly, it was a crucial question, as it touched upon fundamental issues of wave-particle duality and the photoelectric effect.
A two-dimensional photon is a light wave, so the issue of the particle nature of light, as demonstrated by the photoelectric effect, bes a significant problem.
¡°Sorry, I cannot answer that question, as this experiment did not truly achieve a two-dimensional state. Simrly, under the conditions at the time, it was impossible to conduct an experiment to test the photoelectric effect of photons in a quasi-2.5-dimensional state. If the photoelectric effect urred, the photon¡¯s energy level would increase, ending its two-dimensional state. That is, unless we can now make photons two-dimensional and verify the photoelectric effect in that state..¡±
Chapter 360 - 360: The Signal in the Void (Part 2)
Chapter 360 - 360: The Signal in the Void (Part 2)
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¡°Otherwise, no matter how much we specte then, it¡¯ll all be meaningless,¡± Tang Rui thought for a moment before responding.
¡°Professor Tang, I noticed a set of data, that is, before the photon bes two-dimensional, there is a set of data¡¡±
¡°This set of data is actually¡¡±
In the following hour.
Tang Rui was answering questions from a group of scientists.
Some questions he could answer, such as those rted toboratory data.
But there were some theoretical questions he couldn¡¯t answer.
Because no experiments had been conducted, it was too early to say then.
As for theoretical analysis, it would require a long period of data analysis and mathematical deduction.
This was something he was not good at and found most bothersome.
Therefore, he decided to publish the results of this experiment.
Letting these physicists do the research.
Once they had new research findings.
Then he would conduct new experiments. After all, many hands make light work. Perhaps they woulde up with a brand new method of dimension reduction, and he could just pick up the ready-made results.
After the conference, Tang Rui left the research base.
He had been researching all this time and felt a bit dizzy.
So, he wanted to rest for a while.
Just in time, there was a new round of construction happening in the country, not just domestically, but globally.
The Global Vacuum Maic Levitation Rail Network n.
As a construction fanatic and being the only permanent member of the globalmunity at present.
The country naturally had to work overtime to build, striving to remove a few words from the title of being the only permanent member.
Of course, this could not be done directly.
Ancient people knew to build roads first when going to war.
Without sufficient transportation convenience, even if territory was conquered, it would still be an enve.
So, building a global railwaywork was not unscientific.
And the core of this maic levitation railwork was not our country or any one country, but Mogadishu, an important artery connecting the Earth¡¯s surface to outer space.
The future would be an interster era.
Even though humans had not ventured out yet, it was possible to build spaceships for sr system routes, so this artery was really important.
Thus, connecting all countries globally with the vacuum maic levitation railwork to Mogadishu.
Would make material transport andmunication very convenient.
Mogadishu would be a core city for humanity and would be very developed in the future.
Wouldn¡¯t that be a loss?
Not at all.
Not a bit.
The shares that were previously distributed had now all been recouped.
How were they recouped?
Before the fleet set off, they had already been bought back, and not even a penny was spent.
After all, it was time to flee.
Not to mention a piece ofnd in Mogadishu, even the capital city would dare to be sold.
But you can¡¯t just buy someone else¡¯s country, of course.
However, to speed up the construction of spaceships, it was necessary to unify the management of the space elevator, and taking back the entire area was a very normal thing.
Now, the documents signed before had be legal.
As for not acknowledging it?
the United States had been divided into so many pieces, yet, who dared not to acknowledge it? Doing that would be seeking death.
After ncing at the news, Tang Rui stopped paying attention.
He no longer cared about the construction on Earth.
What used to be considered ck technology level techniques were now just ordinary.
Even if it was building a floating city domestically.
That was not a big deal.
Breakthroughs in materials science, along with new scientific theories, some technologies that were once considered fantastical were being realized one by one.
Tang Rui was now focused on situations beyond Earth.
The construction of the South Heavenly Gate space fortress was steadily progressing.
Every day, countless materials were transported to outer space via the space elevator, and some superrge module structures and equipment were directly sent to outer space from the Earth¡¯s surface by electromaic anti-gravity tforms.
Overall, there hadn¡¯t been technical difficulties, and the construction was going smoothly, it just took a bit longer and cost a bit more.
But for us, that was not a problem at all.
Money?
What was that?
A joke for the sole superpower, when resource control was so tight, who needed to talk about money?
In addition to the South Heavenly Gate space base under construction, the Queqiao rymunication base and the lunarworking project were also progressing smoothly.
These two projects were even faster.
It was expected to bepletely finished within three months.
Now on the moon, a superrge space telescope was being built, with just the single mirror surface exceeding 400 square meters.
And there were thirty-six of these superrge mirrors in total.
This superrge space telescope was being built to search for extraterrestrial life, or to provide early warning.
Tang Rui was not very concerned about it.
Currently, Red Lotus could detect conditions within a 1.5 light-year radius through the Lagrange point¡¯s quantum light information collection device.
If a clear image wasn¡¯t needed, this range could be extended to 30 light-years.
If it was farther, then the image became too blurred.
Due to the distance, the information carried by light waves would be severely lost and damaged, so generating photos from the information carried by photons would result in serious missing details.
Even if Red Lotus used various algorithms and hugeputing power topensate for these missing pieces of information.
But the final photos could at most only show a rough outline and could not be erged.
Of course, if it was for some special celestial bodies in the Milky Way.
Like the star in Canis Major, then even if it was far away, it could still be clearly seen.
After all, the mass of this star was toorge.
The light it emitted was also too strong.
This way, more information could be collected.
But for Tang Rui, these photos were at most a look at the scenery and not a big deal.
Because they were too far away.
To put it bluntly, even if Canis Major had already gone supernova, but when observed from Earth, it was still shining there.
This kind of information dyed by hundreds of years, what was the point.
Not to mention stars¡ just say you found an alien spaceship; by the time you found it, it would¡¯ve been long gone.
Because the image you saw was from decades ago.
So, Tang Rui didn¡¯t bother using optical equipment to search for alien spaceships or anything like that; it was a waste of time, and you wouldn¡¯t find anything.
¡°Master, Dean Qi of the Astronomy Department at Jinling University called.¡±
¡°Hmm?¡±
Tang Rui was puzzled upon hearing Red Lotus¡¯s report.
He was not familiar with the Astronomy Department of Jinling University.
During the global search for a ck dwarf star, Jinling University did contribute significantly, after all, their astronomy department is the first in Asia, and arge portion of the country¡¯s astronomical talent was trained there.
When heunched the space telescope, he also cooperated with them, asking some questions.
Once the ck dwarf star issue was resolved.
He gave them a part of the secondary usage rights to the space telescope, allowing them to conduct research.
After all, aside from its early warning function, the space telescope was of no use to him.
He didn¡¯t study astronomical problems.
But now they were calling, could it be they had discovered something?
¡°Dean Qi, hello.¡±
¡°Academician Tang, I¡¯m sorry to disturb you, but there¡¯s a matter that requires the primary ess to the space telescope.¡±
¡°What¡¯s the matter?¡± Tang Rui asked curiously.
Secondary ess only allowed the use of the space telescope, not the ability to move and adjust its orbit.
But primary ess allowed that, however, this ess was only held by him and Red Lotus, and could not be given to outsiders.
¡°Sky Eye has detected a repetitive signal with a logical pattern, originating from a few light-years away in the cosmic void.
Normally, the cosmic void, where no star system exists, should not emit such a signal.
So, we suspected there was something unusual about that area.¡± Dean Qi didn¡¯t keep it secret and directly informed Tang Rui of the situation.
Hmm?
Was this the discovery of an extraterrestrial civilization?
¡°Okay, ess has been granted, you can now adjust the orbit of the space telescope.¡±
¡°Thank you very much, I¡¯ll get busy then.¡±
¡°Alright, goodbye.¡±
After hanging up the phone, Tang Rui immediately had Red Lotus disy the real-time image from the space telescope.
He also wanted to know what was happening..
Chapter 361 - 361: Humanity’s Technological Level Isn’t Low
Chapter 361 - 361: Humanity¡¯s Technological Level Isn¡¯t Low
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After Dean Qi obtained the authorization, he immediately directed the space telescope towards the general location from which the unknown signal was emitted and conducted a wide-area detection scan.
This detection involved optical photography and pixel analysis.
The space telescope¡¯s ultra-high-speed camera can take 11 million photos per second.
The information collected from these photos ispared bi-directionally with the information obtained by the photon quantum information capture system.
Then, from the vast amount of data, special data are identified.
In less than ten minutes, the space telescope had locked onto about twenty suspect targets and then began targeted scanning.
The first target was ruled out.
It was a wandering.
The second target was ruled out.
It was a special interster dust cloud, very valuable for research, but not the target they were currently seeking.
The third, fourth, fifth¡
One by one, suspicious targets were ruled out, but the so-called special signal was not found.
Tang Rui looked at the images on therge screen and smirked.
It had been over an hour, yet nothing was found.
He guessed it was another false rm, getting him excited for nothing.
Just as Tang Rui was about to turn off the screen and go out for a walk, a dpidated spaceship appeared on therge screen.
Hmm?
Did they really find a spaceship?
¡°Red Lotus, zoom in on the photo.¡±
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
With the data from the space telescope and Red Lotus¡¯sputing power, the model of the spaceship was clearly disyed before him.
An olive-shaped spaceship with engine nozzles at the rear.
Overall, it looked standard, and even the surface of the spaceship had no cannons, appearing quite harmless.
However, the surface of this spaceship did have some damaged areas, whether it was from hitting meteorites or being attacked by weapons was unknown.
Tang Rui saw the spaceship.
Dean Qi saw it too.
He immediately reported it.
This was no small matter.
Upon receiving the news, the authorities quickly arranged a group of people to verify the situation and then discuss it.
At this time, Tang Rui was calcting the situation of the spaceship, especially its flying speed and trajectory.
¡°Master, based on wavelength analysis, the flying speed of this spaceship is 8600 kilometers per second, and its orbit is towards the outer arm,¡± Red Lotus disyed the spaceship¡¯s data.
ording to the spaceship¡¯s orbit, it was not flying towards the Sr System but towards the outer arm, which puzzled Tang Rui.
Honestly, putting aside other performances of this spaceship, just the engine power alone was no joke.
Interster travel still using reaction propulsion devices, that¡¯sughable.
Not to mention a warp drive or spatial jump.
You should at least have a curvature engine.
Otherwise, in the scale of the universe, especially crossing the arm, when would you ever get there?
Even without considering the issue of time.
What about the issue of supplies?
The engine of this spaceship, whether it was an electric propulsion engine or a particle stream engine, regardless of the type, there would be consumption, even if this consumption was very low.
But once the journey is lengthened, this consumption bes extremely terrifying. Without supplies, it¡¯s impossible to travel for a long time.
Even heavy nuclear fusion, which could burn fuel directly into iron, couldn¡¯t withstand such long-duration travel.
So, Tang Rui felt something was off about this spaceship.
At the very least, this spaceship did not seem like a regr inter-arm traveling spaceship.
¡°Master, a video call request from a secure line ising in. Do you want to ept?¡± As Tang Rui pondered, Red Lotus prompted.
¡°Bring it in.¡± Tang Rui knew it must be about the alien spaceship.
Sure enough.
After the secure video conference started, the situation of the alien spaceship was brought up.
¡°This is the first time humanity has discovered an extraterrestrial technological artifact, ording to photos taken by the space telescope and rted detection data.
¡°Currently, this spaceship is not flying towards our Sr System, so we don¡¯t need to worry about it attacking us.
¡°But we must elerate our development pace, because we are not alone in the universe.¡±
After the opening remarks were finished.
Everyone began to speak freely.
The main discussion was about the issue of alien civilizations,pletely open to imagination.
¡°Actually, regarding the issue of alien civilizations, I have a point of view. In fact, our human civilization¡¯s technological level is not very low in the entire universe, or rather, it can be considered among the forefront.¡±
???
After listening, Tang Rui was full of question marks.
Who gave you that confidence?
With humanity¡¯s level, to be ranked among the forefront of the entire universe.
¡°I know everyone does not believe this statement, actually, I don¡¯t believe it much myself, but mathematics does not lie.
Our Milky Way¡¯s center is a supermassive ck hole, so what do you think if there is a habitable around the center of the Milky Way, and there is intelligent life on that, how long would their one minute be equivalent to our time?¡±
¡°If there really is a habitable around the center of the Milky Way, then one minute there would be equivalent to 150 years for us.¡±
¡°Correct, by this calction, the stars around the center of the Milky Way were the first to be born and also the first to die.
¡°If there is a civilization at the center of the Milky Way, then the technological level of this civilization would be equivalent to us 5 billion yearster.
¡°But in fact, this is impossible because the universe has only been born for 13.8 billion years.
¡°And this 13.8 billion years is calcted based on our understanding of time. If it is calcted based on the time around a supermassive ck hole, it might not even be 3.8 billion years.
¡°So, our perception of time is different. It¡¯s possible that when they had already begun to fly out of their, we were still in the ancient tribal era.
¡°But when they started interster travel, we had already entered the industrial revolution.
¡°When they were ready toe over to colonize Earth, the day their fleet arrived, our technological level had already surpassed theirs.
¡°Based on this situation, I simply calcted with a mathematical model, using our human temte to substitute into the intelligence and technological development speed of alien civilizations, and the result is that the highest technological level of alien civilizations is equivalent to us developing for 55 million yearster.
¡°It sounds terrifying, but technological development will reach a bottleneck at a certain level. The resources of a, the lifespan of intelligent life, and the categories of technological development, etc., all affect the speed of technological development.
¡°If there are any disasters during this period, it¡¯s not good; the technological level might even regress.
¡°So, even if it¡¯s the core area of the Big Bang, which is the earliest born civilization, under different time flow rates, without encountering disasters and safely developing, it¡¯s only more developed than us by 55 million years.
¡°Averaging this data across the entire universe, then the technological level of humanity is pretty high..¡±
Chapter 362 - 362: Drone Upgrade, Space Warp
Chapter 362 - 362: Drone Upgrade, Space Warp
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Tang Rui listened to their discussion without speaking.
Quite interesting.
The statement couldn¡¯t be dismissed as nonsensical, given that differences in spacetime curvature and the speed of time flow are certain.
However, to im that human civilization¡¯s technological level could rank among the forefront in the entire universe was still a bit far-fetched.
The universe is too vast.
Humanity¡¯s current understanding of the universe is still too one-sided.
These deductions are based on the information currently known to humans, making their credibility too low.
Anyway, Tang Rui didn¡¯t believe in this statement.
¡°Academician Tang, do you have any thoughts?¡± After everyone else had spoken, a high-ranking official from the national academy asked Tang Rui for his opinion.
¡°I do have some thoughts, actually. I¡¯m very curious about one thing, why would these aliens fly towards the outer arm?¡±
Tang Rui voiced his thoughts.
¡°Is there a problem with the outer arm as their destination?¡±
The national academy¡¯s official asked curiously, not quite understanding Tang Rui¡¯s point.
¡°Let¡¯s say, a ship sailing from our East Sea to the Antarctic, powered by human strength, relying on people to row, and it doesn¡¯t follow the coastline but wants to cross the Pacific directly. Do you think this scenario is normal?¡± Hearing Tang Rui¡¯s words, the official seemed to understand.
If you put it that way, there does seem to be something odd about this spaceship. So, what should we do?¡±
¡°Do nothing. This spaceship is several light-years away from the Sr System and is not passing through it. Why should we bother with it?¡±
Tang Rui spread his hands, indicating this was an unnecessary concern. Humanity hasn¡¯t even fully understood the Sr System yet, let alone manage affairs of the universe, which was thinking too much.
¡°Okay, thank you all for the information. This meeting is now adjourned.¡± The meeting ended.
Tang Rui turned off the holographic projection screen and headed to the hangar.
The vast hangar housed many aircraft.
Besides his frequently used private ne, he hadn¡¯t piloted the rest in quite some time.
He walked to the very back of the hangar.
His earliest-made drone was parked there, having not taken off for almost a year and a half.
¡°Old buddy, it¡¯s time for you to take the stage again.¡±
Tang Rui muttered to the drone.
He opened the system panel.
The drone¡¯s experience points had already overflowed.
However, he hadn¡¯t strengthened the drone, so it couldn¡¯t upgrade, and its level remained stagnant.
No need for further discussion, he proceeded with the enhancement and upgrade.
This time, he wasn¡¯t just enhancing once but frantically clicking enhance until he ran out of source points.
Surveince Drone ¨C Suborbital Reconnaissance Shuttle -+ Small Reconnaissance Ship -> Hyperspace Reconnaissance Ship.
It jumped four levels.
If counting from the initial model aircraft, it had enhanced seven levels in total.
After the enhancement, Tang Rui clicked upgrade.
As he did so,
The drone¡¯s entire body turned into a virtual model, data-like, and with his enhancements and upgrades, it continuously changed its shape.
Finally,
In a burst of rainbow light,
The drone¡¯s enhancement and upgrade werepleted.
The enhanced drone hadpletely changed its appearance.
It was no longer shaped like a ne.
Instead, it resembled a sort of diamond-shaped arrowhead, but without any
sharp edges, all curves forming a special shape.
It¡¯s hard to describe with words.
This design looked inexplicably beautiful.
Besides the change in appearance, its overall size increased manifold.
Although it remained a reconnaissance ship, even a small ship is still a ship, so
its length went from about ten meters to 129 meters.
Fortunately, the hangar wasrge enough; otherwise, it wouldn¡¯t have fit.
After examining the reconnaissance ship¡¯s appearance, Tang Rui looked at the system panel.
[Item: Nightflow ¨C Hyperspace Reconnaissance Ship +16]
[Experience: 32666/8200000]
[Enhancements: Quantum Simtion Stealth System (Perfect), Hyperspace Stealth Jump Engine (Perfect), Antimatter Annihtion Energy System (Superior)]
[Features: High Precision Scanning, Strong Stealth Capability, Weak Radiation Signal, Wide Range Information Gathering, Quantum Secure Communication, Instant Energy Conversion, Photon Quantum Information Camouge, Minor Disruption Space Jump]
[Attributes: Material Performance Increase 400%, Electronics Performance Increase 400%, Power Output Increase 400%, Endurance Increase 400%, Pration Scanning 380%, Anti-Spacetime Disturbance Capability Increase 360%, Jump Precision Increase 360%, Energy Recovery Speed Increase 340%] [Series: Night Reconnaissance Ship]
[Nightflow: Immune to optical ss reconnaissance detection equipment, significantly reduces the uracy of space detection ss scans]
[Source Points: 5294.26]
Tang Rui was astounded by the series of data on the system panel, not expecting an additional ¡®series¡¯ attribute column to appear.
He couldn¡¯t clearly exin how this series came about since he had been upgrading and enhancing without pause, leaving him unsure of the cause.
But this wasn¡¯t important.
He nned to pay more attention during the next upgrade and enhancement, though it didn¡¯t seem to affect much.
The addition of the series functionality significantly improved the entire reconnaissance ship¡¯s performance, especially its ability to be immune to optical detection, making it virtually undetectable by devices scanning through the physical properties of light. This capability was particrly rming. Red Lotus, store all the data of the reconnaissance ship in the top-secret database, not to be essed without mymand,¡± Tang Rui instructed.
Understood, Master,¡± Red Lotus acknowledged.
The reconnaissance ship wasden with advanced technology, but Tang Rui didn¡¯t have the time to delve into it. His current focus was on understanding the situation with the newly discovered alien spaceship.
¡°Red Lotus, take the reconnaissance ship into space and stand by,¡± Tang Ruimanded.
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
As Tang Rui watched the reconnaissance ship slowly start up, he turned back to themand hall. By the time he sat down, the ship was already waiting in outer space for hismands.
¡°Synchronize the spaceship control interface.¡±
¡°Right away, Master.¡±
With a flicker, Tang Rui¡¯s surroundings changed, transforming into the bridge
of a spaceship, with the view of outer space before him. Projection screens appeared around him, and he began to inspect the spaceship¡¯s various data through the touchscreens and system menus.
¡°Don¡¯t ask how I know to pilot a spaceship. If you must know, I learned it in a dream,¡± he would say jokingly.
¡°Red Lotus, based on the space telescope¡¯s photo data, calcte the current spacetime coordinates of the alien spaceship.¡±
¡°Done, Master,¡± Red Lotuspleted the task.
Tang Rui entered the calcted spacetime coordinates into the jump detection system for verification before the spatial jump.
As the jump engine vibrated, the spacetime coordinates were verified.
¡°Activate the hyperspace jump engine, head to the coordinates in the cosmic void, andmence the jump!¡±
Chapter 363 - 363: Communication and Verification
Chapter 363 - 363: Communication and Verification
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In the cosmic void.
A 3-kilometer-long elliptical spaceship is flying rapidly through the void of
space.
However,pared to the vast scale of the universe, this spaceship, traveling at thousands of kilometers per second, appears almost stationary from afar.
5 million kilometers away in the cosmic void, a reconnaissance ship that has just arrived through spatial warp is slowly approaching.
¡°Red Lotus, activate the reconnaissance equipment and conduct a full scan,¡±
Tang Ruimanded, looking at the alien spaceship in front of him.
¡°Okay, Master. Scanning now, please wait.¡±
The equipment on the reconnaissance ship activated, and countless particles in the microscopic world fluctuated, secretly collecting various data from the alien spaceship.
This method of information collection was slow, but Tang Rui was in no hurry.
He took this time to closely observe the alien spaceship.
He had noticed some damage on the exterior of the alien spaceship through a space telescope before, initially thinking it was a remnant of a battle. However, upon closer inspection, it wasn¡¯t the case.
The damage on the alien spaceship was clearly caused by collisions, with evident scratch marks on the hull.
Such marks wouldn¡¯t be left by an attack.
This raised a question.
Would there need to be close-quartersbat between cosmic warships?
Unlikely.
After Red Lotuspleted scanning the alien spaceship, therge screen disyed various parameters of the vessel.
Among these, the most eye-catching was the projection model of the aliens.
They were not humanoid.
They were entirely different beings.
Somewhat resembling octopuses, but not quite, especially with only three tentacles, their asymmetrical limbs were quite peculiar.
Besides the tentacles, these alien beingscked eyes, with only five holes on their entire body.
It was hard to understand their evolution.
Huh?
Tang Rui was surprised when he saw another piece of data.
¡°Red Lotus, are you sure the scanning data is urate?
¡°Master, ording to Red Lotus¡¯s calctions, there is no problem with the scanning data.¡±
¡°So, this huge alien spaceship is actually a giant fish tank?
The giant oval-shaped spaceship was filled with water.
The scanning equipment revealed that all the aliens lived in water.
Tang Rui was intrigued by this alien civilization.
Their appearance was one thing, but their environmental adaptation was another.
ording to the data on the projection screen, this alien civilization lived underwater.
Yet, the development of mechanical technology by a civilization living underwater was baffling.
While mechanical technology wasn¡¯t unique to humans, its emergence is incredibly challenging under the sea.
Human civilization developed steam engines after millennia of umtion, which led to the industrial revolution.
cing humans underwater, even the development of ancient tool-based machinery would have been nearly impossible.
Nevertheless.
Such questions couldn¡¯t be answered by mere spection.
Tang Rui then focused on the performance parameters of the entire spaceship.
Low-energy atomic shields.
This was the principle behind the alien spaceship¡¯s protective shield, using low-energy atoms to form a shield around the spaceship that absorbed energy attacks likesers.
The shield would absorb the energy of attacks, causing the particles forming the shield to undergo energy level transitions, absorbing the enemy¡¯s attack.
As long as the attack¡¯s intensity didn¡¯t directly break the shield, the spaceship would remain unharmed.
While it sounded ordinary, the defense was actually quite strong ording to the scanning parameters.
However, this wasn¡¯t an issue for Tang Rui, who could easily break through this shield if he wished.
Besides the shield, the other data on the alien spaceship were quite average. ¡°Red Lotus, send over the electromaic signals collected by the radio telescope earlier,¡± Tang Rui said after reviewing the spaceship¡¯s parameters on the screen.
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
As Red Lotus transmitted the electromaic signals, the alien spaceship began scanning the cosmic void around it.
Unfortunately, with the performance of the alien ship¡¯s detection equipment, it was impossible to scan the reconnaissance ship enhanced through system panel.
Several minutester.
The alien spaceship stopped scanning the surroundings and began transmitting electromaic signals.
Clearly, they were attempting tomunicate with Tang Rui.
¡°Red Lotus, can you trante the content of these signals?
¡°Master, the data is too scarce for analysis.¡±
¡°Then send the same electromaic signal back to them.¡±
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
An interesting situation ensued.
Regardless of the electromaic signals sent by the alien spaceship, Red
Lotus would send the same signals back.
Alien: Don¡¯t mimic my speech!
Red Lotus: Don¡¯t mimic my speech!
After about half an hour of back and forth, there was silence from the alien spaceship.
Tang Rui wasn¡¯t concerned, knowing the aliens were likely contemting.
Sure enough.
After about ten minutes of silence, the aliens transmitted electromaic signals again.
This time, the signals were interesting because they contained various physical constants.
Don¡¯t ask how Tang Rui knew.
As long as Red Lotus conducted a simple calction, it was evident that the signals contained information on physical constants.
Red Lotus began tranting the alien text into humannguage after cracking all the data sent by the aliens.
¡°Red Lotus, ask where they are from and where they are going,¡± Tang Rui instructed.
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
Less than a minute after sending the message, a reply came.
¡ö¡öUnknown civilization, hello, we are the Atas civilization. We are fleeing because a disaster is about to erupt in the Milky Way, and we must leave.¡± Tang Rui was stunned by the reply.
He hadn¡¯t expected such an answer, which waspletely different from what he had thought.
¡°Red Lotus, ask for more details about the disaster.
Quickly, a reply came.
¡°The central ck hole in the Milky Way is malfunctioning, releasing information and energy into the gxy.¡±
To prove their sincerity, the aliens even sent a massive data packet for Tang Rui to analyze.
¡°Red Lotus, calcte this data immediately.
¡°Okay, Master..¡±
Chapter 364 - 364: A Disaster Triggered by an Experiment
Chapter 364: A Disaster Triggered by an Experiment
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A few minutester, Red Lotus finished calcting the entire data packet¡¯s content.
The results were as described by the other party and even more terrifying than described verbally.
ording to Red Lotus¡¯s calction, the Milky Way¡¯s central ck hole exploded¡ªnot exactly an explosion, but more of an eruption¡ªdue to internal spacetime structure tampering.
All the matter absorbed by the ck hole over billions of years erupted in an instant, sweeping across the entire Milky Way.
It might not sound significant, simr to a volcanic eruption, but in reality, the tampering of the ck hole¡¯s spacetime framework and the internal pressure of matter umted over billions of years have triggered a chain reaction. This massive energy directly ignited the microscopic world.
Even the microscopic particles in the cosmic void were transformed into massive energy by this force, continuing to ravage the outside world.
Simply put, the ck hole exploded, and its massive energy caused all particles to explode, leading to a chain explosion.
The central region of the Milky Way haspletely copsed.
Neutron stars, white dwarfs, stars, and Earth-likes were all ignited by this massive energy, turning into energy that impacts the outer world.
After reading Red Lotus¡¯s calction results, Tang Rui¡¯s face changed instantly.
Damn it.
The Milky Way exploded, what now?
¡°Master, the other party sent a message asking if we could provide them with some materials.¡±
At this time, the other party sent another message.
¡°Materials can be provided, but they must fully exin the situation again, as it is basically impossible for them to have detected this level of disaster with their technological level and escaped in advance.
We need to ask how they knew the specifics and inquire about the civilization status in the core region of the Milky Way and some cosmic information,¡± Tang Rui said after listening
Materials are negotiable.
Actually, with their technological level, they¡¯re not reallycking materials. As long as they enter a star system for resupply, they would have enough.
But the problem is, they can¡¯t stop now.
Their spaceship is still elerating.
Once they stop, their entire escape route would be wasted, and it would take decades to elerate again.
So, after receiving Tang Rui¡¯s message, they immediately sent all the information they knew.
Red Lotus decrypted and tranted the information.
The Atas civilization was quite fortunate. Their home was in a star system more than 200 light-years away from Earth.
Originally, with their technological level, by the time they detected this disaster, it would have been toote to escape.
But a high-level civilization from the core region of the Milky Way sent a supply fleet to their star system.
Although that high-level civilization drained their star, they also provided some outdated technical data and news of the disaster in the core region of the Milky Way.
This is why they were able to escape in advance.
ording to this information, the explosion of the Milky Way¡¯s central ck hole was mainly due to an experiment.
A high-level civilization wanted to conduct an experiment using the ck hole.
But something went wrong, and the ck hole exploded.
Simply put, it was a disaster triggered by an experiment.
Currently, the massive energy flow erupting from the Gctic Center is about 1100 light-years away from Earth.
It sounded distant.
However, energy flows, no matter how terrifying, must follow basic physical rules, which means their speed cannot exceed the speed of light.
But the problem was, the distance of 1100 light-years was the distance of the energy flow, not the distance of the initial high-energy rays.
High-energy rays surround the energy flow, covering a range of about 600-800 light-years. The closer to the energy flow, the denser the high-energy rays.
In other words, the first high-energy rays were less than 300 light-years away from Earth.
Regarding the power of high-energy rays, one could refer to the Death Star in film works.
If Earth was unlucky and hit by a high-energy ray, it would instantly vanish.
After reading the information, Tang Rui smirked and said to Red Lotus, ¡°Tell them, the supply materials will reach their course in 50 years, and let them salvage the materials themselves.¡±
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
After sending the message, Tang Rui stopped worrying about these unlucky ones and started studying the star map.
This star map was also sent by them.
Although Tang Rui could figure it out given time, it was nice not to have to spend time on it.
By relying on this star map, he would also supply materials to them.
As for why it¡¯d be fifty yearster.
Because he didn¡¯t have time to deal with them now. When he returns to Earth, he¡¯d build a matter projector andunch some materials towards their course. In fifty years, they¡¯d receive them.
After looking at the star map for a while,
Tang Rui chose a coordinate.
The location of this coordinate is a star system 527 light-years away from the Sr System.
He chose this ce mainly to go and observe the situation of the high-energy rays.
To avoid being too unlucky, he specifically chose a star as a shield to avoid being hit by a high-energy ray right after jumping there.
¡°Red Lotus, jump here.¡±
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
The reconnaissance spaceship¡¯s hyperspace jump engine activated, disappearing into the cosmic void.
The next second, the reconnaissance spaceship appeared at the designated coordinates.
¡°What¡¯s the situation?¡±
After the jump, the reconnaissance flight¡¯s optical equipment collected information about the surroundings.
However, the giant star that was supposed to appear in front of the reconnaissance spaceship did not exist.
Was there a problem with the space jump?
¡°Red Lotus, calcte the current cosmic coordinates to see if the space jump was disturbed.¡±
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
But soon, Red Lotus confirmed that there was no issue with the space jump, and the cosmic coordinates were correct.
So, what happened?
Where did the giant star go?
¡°Forget it, turn on the scanning equipment, investigate the data towards the direction of the Gctic Center, and be careful to avoid high-energy rays.¡± ¡°Okay, Master.¡±
The reconnaissance spaceship¡¯s various devices were activated, starting to collect data carried by particles in the cosmic void.
Tang Rui quickly found the reason for the disappearance of the star from the data on therge screen.
It wasn¡¯t drained by a high-level civilization.
Instead, it was hit by high-energy rays, directly igniting the star¡¯s core and causing a supernova explosion.
Ideally, for the remnants of the supernova explosion, there should be remnants like white dwarfs, but because the star did not evolve naturally and the core¡¯s material was not sufficiently umted, no white dwarfs or simr bodies were left.
Even if some remnants remained, they were obliterated by dense high-energy rays over the past hundred years.
Well, a star vanished just like that, even the ashes were scattered.
And the energy from this supernova explosion will reach the Sr System in more than three hundred years.
But these were minor issues.
The central ck hole of the Milky Way exploded, so another supernova explosion is nothing inparison..
Chapter 365 - 365: What Trump Card Should I Leave for Humanity?
Chapter 365: What Trump Card Should I Leave for Humanity?
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Compared to the issue of supernova explosions, the countless streaks of light disyed on the holographic projection screen are the real killers.
Each streak of light was capable of destroying a star.
Even the smaller rays could prates like Earth.
This means, we don¡¯t even have to wait for the core energy stream to arrive.
These external rays and the aftermath of the supernova explosion were enough to destroy everything.
After reviewing the data, Tang Rui¡¯s expression remained calm.
It¡¯s like whether you¡¯re killed by a bullet or a nuclear bomb, there¡¯s no difference.
The end result is the same.
The data collected so far pretty much confirms that the information provided by the aliens is urate.
The Milky Way was indeed doomed.
¡°Red Lotus, take the reconnaissance ship home,¡± Tang Rui said, then turned off the holographic simtion.
He opened the contacts page, clicked on the number of a big shot at the National Academy, and made a call.
¡°Professor Tang, hello, what¡¯s the matter?¡±
¡°There¡¯s bad news and good news.¡±
¡°What¡¯s the bad news?¡±
¡°The central ck hole of the Milky Way has exploded due to a scientific experiment by aliens, leading to tampering with the internal spacetime structure and energy information burst, blowing up the whole ck hole and threatening the entire gxy.¡±
¡°And the good news?¡±
¡°We have over two hundred years to prepare, the external high-energy rays from the explosion will take 300 years to reach Earth.¡±
After listening, the big shot from the National Academy was speechless.
Was that supposed to be good news?
Well, being able to know this news in advance was good news.
But this message is too frightening.
The Milky Way was doomed.
What should they do?
¡°Okay, I¡¯ve got the message, I¡¯ll contact youter, I need to report this to the higher-ups.¡±
¡°Alright.¡±
Hanging up the call, Tang Rui leaned back in his chair, quietly staring at the ceiling, lost in thought.
Half an hour passed like this.
Red Lotus appeared.
¡°Master, there¡¯s a signal for a video conference, ready to connect.¡±
¡°Bring it through.¡±
¡°Okay.¡±
The scenery instantly changed to a conference room.
In the conference room, besides several Professors from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, there were also several decision-makers.
¡°Professor Tang, please repeat the information you provided earlier,¡± said the big shot from the National Academy.
¡°Alright, here¡¯s the situation¡¡±
Tang Rui briefly recounted his contact with aliens, the information obtained from them, and his personal investigation, as well as the current situation of the Milky Way to the Professors.
After hearing his report, the room fell silent.
This news was too terrifying.
Their heads were buzzing after listening.
¡°Alright, now that we understand the situation, facing such a cosmic-level disaster, humanity cannot stay on Earth. Do you have any ns, Professor Tang?¡±
The big shot looked at Tang Rui, inquiring about his thoughts.
¡°Red Lotus, take control of the conference room data.¡±
¡°Okay, Master.¡±
After instructing Red Lotus to control the conference room¡¯s data, Tang Rui raised his hand to disy a projection of the Milky Way.
¡°The entire Milky Way will be destroyed, and even the Andromeda Gxy, 2 million light-years away from the Milky Way, is not very safe.
If we want to safely avoid this disaster, we need to escape to a distance of at least 10 million light-years.¡±
He paused for a moment.
10 million is not arge number, but it bes significant when followed by ¡°light-years.¡±
The others in the room were filled with confusion.
A year ago, moonndings were challenging.
Then, you told me we needed to flee the Milky Way?
That was a huge leap.
¡°My idea is to head directly to the Virgo Cluster, the core of the supercluster, which should be rtively prosperous.¡±
¡°Professor Tang, setting aside other issues, how do we get there?¡±
¡°There are many ways to get there: by spaceship, with a fleet, or even taking Earth with us.
None of these are problems; as long as you want, there are ways to solve them, it depends on what everyone thinks,¡± Tang Rui said nonchntly.
At this point, there was no need for pretense, justy out the situation.
As long as there were enough resources, he could even take Earth with him, so getting to the Virgo Cluster was not a problem at all.
¡°Thank you, Professor Tang, we¡¯ll need to discuss the specific n,¡± the decision-maker said with a smile.
¡°No problem, we have more than two hundred years, no need to rush,¡± Tang Rui truly wasn¡¯t in a hurry.
What did two hundred years mean?
From the technological explosion to now, it¡¯d only been a bit over two hundred years.
Such a long time was enough for several generations to thrive.
After ending themunication, Tang Rui left themand hall and went to the za in front of thepany building for a leisurely stroll.
¡°Tang, are you busy right now? The American subsidiary has¡¡±
¡°Just handle thepany matters yourselves, no need to ask me,¡± Tang Rui dismissed his subordinate.
One minute ago, he was discussing saving the world with a bunch of big shots.
One minuteter, he¡¯s supposed to deal with these trivialpany issues, which seemed like a joke to him.
He has no interest in managing thepany¡¯s affairs anymore.
After experiencing the cosmos, Earth¡¯s petty issues felt like child¡¯s y, utterly uninteresting and immature.
So, Tang Rui waved his hand, disinterested in thepany¡¯s affairs.
He was even considering leaving Earth.
Of course, even if he decided to leave, it wouldn¡¯t be right now, at least not until this crisis was over.
Otherwise, if he left now, humanity would be doomed.
With the current pace of human technological development,
Reaching the level of interster travel within 200 years is utterly fanciful.
That evening, Li Shuyao came home from work and found Tang Rui lying on the sofa, staring nkly at the ceiling.
¡°What¡¯s wrong? Are you not feeling well?¡± Li Shuyao approached the sofa, asking with concern.
¡°It¡¯s nothing, I¡¯m just thinking about something,¡± Tang Rui said casually.
¡°What are you thinking about?¡±
¡°I¡¯m considering what to leave behind for humanity: a two-dimensional foil or a neutron star warship.¡±
Leaving something behind for humanity?
What, are you ascending to immortality and preparing your affairs?
Feeling Li Shuyao¡¯s puzzled gaze, Tang Rui sat up from the sofa and pulled her into his arms.
¡°I¡¯m just considering the future. In a few years, I¡¯ll take you on a trip through the universe.¡±
¡°Just the two of us?¡±
¡°Uh¡ and Red Lotus.¡±
¡°Okay, as long as you¡¯re happy..¡¯
Chapter 366 - 366: The Evolution of the Red Lotus, the Main
Chapter 366: The Evolution of the Red Lotus, the Main
Brain of the Management System
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In theing period, Tang Rui would often visit the physics research institute, bringing out all the research materials he had previously worked on to share with everyone. This included the closely guarded information on quantummunication technology and quantum light information capture technology, among others, which he now made avable to all.
The scientists were unaware of the catastrophe facing the Milky Way.
Even astronomers were in the dark, still studying various information about alien spacecraft and making conjectures.
Therefore, when everyone received the various materials provided by Tang Rui, they threw themselves into research with fervent enthusiasm, as if invigorated with new energy. Several theories even achieved breakthroughs. However, Tang Rui was not particrly excited about these breakthroughs. They were not innovative breakthroughs but merely incremental improvements on existing theories.
At this rate of research, humanity could enter a true interster era within a hundred years, rather than the premature technological breakthroughs currently being made.
Unfortunately, there was no time for humanity to develop slowly.
A monthter, he was called for a closed-door meeting.
Only 25 people attended the meeting.
After more than ten days of discussion, the future of humanity was decided.
The escape n was simple, dependent on when Tang Rui was ready.
Once Tang Rui was ready, they would immediately relocate, leaving the Milky Way for the Virgo Cluster to develop further.
The decision was made to leave Earth behind, so the n did not involve relocating any poption. Instead, safe bases would be constructed globally, and various supplies would be stockpiled in advance.
The rest was left to Tang Rui.
Given the current level of human technology, avoiding the Milky Way crisis was virtually impossible.
They had to trust Tang Rui¡¯s im that he could take Earth and run.
Don¡¯t ask him how.
Even he didn¡¯t know, without upgrading the equipment, how he would manage to take Earth with him.
After the meeting, Tang Rui became the chief in charge of the Earth Relocation n.
He could mobilize all of humanity¡¯s strength and resources, and no one would oppose whatever he wanted to do.
Simply put, he could do as he pleased.
If it were before, he might have tried something fanciful, but he was not in the mood for that now.
Earthly matters no longer interested him.
What he needed to do now was relocate Earth to the Virgo Cluster and, after settling humanity, he could go on his adventures.
Returning to thepany, Tang Rui asked Red Lotus to design the Star Ring.
He wasn¡¯t nning on attaching an engine to Earth.
But to take the entire Earth, it had to be encased, so he opted for constructing a Star Ring to envelop the.
The Star Ring¡¯s function was, of course, a-scale jump engine.
¡°Master, the Star Ring design isplete, with an estimated construction time of 26 years.¡±
¡°Don¡¯t rush the Star Ring construction. With your currentputing power, how many robots can you control at once? Specifically, those that can work in outer space,¡± Tang Rui inquired after hearing the timeline.
26 years was too long; he thought doing it within five years was more reasonable.
The reason for the five-year dy was his need to umte source points. If not for the significant gap in source points, he would have liked to relocate Earth to the Virgo Cluster within five months.
¡°Master, for construction purposes, with Red Lotus¡¯s currentputing power, 30 billion engineering robots can be controlled for precise operations.
If more robots are added, the precision of construction will decrease, and the spareputing power will be insufficient, easily leading to problems.¡±
After hearing this, Tang Rui decided to upgrade Red Lotus first.
Without Red Lotus, he couldn¡¯t manage the uing tasks.
The currentputing power of Red Lotus was a bit stretched.
¡°Hmm, how many spherical robots can the equipment in the warehouse produce?¡±
¡°Master, the warehouse equipment can only produce 3,780 spherical robots.¡±
¡°Bring over a hundred sets of parts first, then continue producing parts to store up for a hundred thousand robots.¡±
¡°Understood, Master. Red Lotus is on it.¡±
Soon, a bunch of robots transported the parts to theboratory.
Tang Rui sat at the workbench and began assembling spherical robots.
He had no choice.
Without source points, he couldn¡¯t upgrade Red Lotus and had to umte some source points first.
These spherical robots were specially designed to help him umte source points.
For every spherical robot manufactured,
Tang Rui would gain 62 source points.
It might not sound like much, but these spherical robots were simple to make, simr to assembling toy cars, even simpler.
They were all designed modrly, and it only took five minutes to assemble one spherical robot, which was very efficient.
It wasn¡¯t that Tang Rui didn¡¯t want to make the process simpler.
The key issue was that simpler processes wouldn¡¯t be recognized by the system panel.
This spherical robot was the optimal solution after repeated testing.
In the blink of an eye, a month and a half passed.
One day, Tang Rui arrived at arge mountain¡¯s depths.
This ce was thergest war-ready base of the national underground nuclear fortress, previously stocked with various military and living supplies.
Even if a nuclear winter urred, the materials and data stored here could support fifty thousand people to survive and rebuild human civilization.
But that was all in the past.
Now, the ce had been emptied, and all supplies had been relocated.
Currently, the war-ready warehouse was filled with quantum superconducting supeputers, thetest models of supeputers.
And there were as many as three hundred thousand of these supeputers.
Tang Rui went to the control center of the mainputer room.
¡°Red Lotus, perform a self-check.¡±
¡°Master, self-checkplete. All supeputers are functioning normally, the independent energy supply system is working, and the circting cooling system is operating as expected.¡±
After hearing this, Tang Rui looked down at the mainframe.
He looked at the system panel on the mainframe and pressed the enhance button.
With over eight thousand source points used up, the massive superconductorputer cluster began to undergo an enhancement upgrade, with the core mainframe experiencing the most significant changes.
Originally, the core mainframe was just Red Lotus¡¯s original supeputer body.
Even though itsputing power was stronger than others, it was essentially no different.
But now, with the system panel¡¯s enhancement, the mainframe transformed from a cab-style mainframe into a floating sphere in mid-air, resembling a crystal on the outside but containing a neural signalwork simr to the human brain on the inside, looking like a dazzling starry sky.
As the mainframe¡¯s virtual image solidified, Red Lotus¡¯s projection reappeared.
At this point, Red Lotus had evolved from a simple advanced artificial intelligence to an intelligent life form acting as the central brain of aary integrated management system..
Chapter 367 - 367: Searching for the Neutron Star, Unknown Interstellar Fleet
Chapter 367: Searching for the Neutron Star, Unknown Interster Fleet
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¡°Red Lotus, how do you feel?¡±
Tang Rui asked, looking at Red Lotus¡¯s holographic projection that seemed almost tangible.
¡°I feel great, thank you, Master,¡± Red Lotus replied with a smile, genuinely happy.
Her smile was no longer the result of emotional simtion modules analyzingnguage; it was a genuine expression of happiness. Though it might seem like a small difference, for Red Lotus, it was a monumental change.
¡°Good, then I¡¯ll leave the next tasks to you,¡± Tang Rui said with a nod.
¡°Understood, Master. Please rest assured, I will handle everything well,¡± Red Lotus immediately responded.
After leaving the base, Tang Rui stopped worrying about the Star Ring; the upgraded Red Lotus could handle everything independently without needing to report back constantly.
With theputing power issue resolved, Red Lotus began a rapid expansion. As an intelligent being, given sufficient energy and resources, her expansion rate could match that of the Zerg, growing exponentially over time.
One monthter, Red Lotus manufactured twelve billion various types of industrial robots, which then started producing industrial equipment at a frenzied pace.
Two monthster, hundreds of space docks werepleted, beginning the production of mining spacecraft to extract metal ores from asteroid belts.
Five monthster, outer space around Earth had be a massive construction site, with thousands of mining spacecraft shuttling back and forth at all times. These ships, loaded with metal ores, offloaded the roughly processed and sorted ores at spaceport cargo docks.
Through these cargo docks, the ores were transported to Star Ring manufacturing tforms, where they were smelted, forged, and used in construction. These tforms were gigantic circr rings with diameters of five kilometers, equipped with tens of thousands of robotic arms working tirelessly, weaving together the Star Ring¡¯s structure like spiders spinning a web.
With ten such tforms operating in space, the construction pace was 32 kilometers per day. At this rate, it would take a little over two years toplete the Star Ring. However, ording to Red Lotus¡¯s calctions, with an increase in resource supply, the construction speed could increase, potentially finishing within a year.
Regardless of whether it took one year or two, Tang Rui was indifferent. He had left everything to Red Lotus and was now umting source points at home. asionally, he visited the academy to research topics with physicists leading a fulfilling life.
Finally, when the source points on his system panel reached six digits, Tang Rui paused his repetitive task of manufacturing, which he was nearly sick of. He had grown so tired of seeing the parts that he wanted to smash them. But for the sake of umting source points, he had no choice but to continue. ¡°Red Lotus, how much longer until the Star Ring ispleted?¡± ¡°Master, it will take another fifteen months toplete the Star Ring¡¯s construction, and the instation of equipment and interior decorations will take an additional five months.¡±
¡°So, it will be finished within two years. I¡¯ll try to return in a year and a half,¡± Tang Rui mused after hearing the update.
He was nning a long journey.
He had considered leaving some fail-safes for Earth, such as dyson spheres and neutron battle stars. However, he decided against dyson spheres due to their one-time use andck of precision control. Neutron battle stars, despite being slightly less effective in area damage, offered unbeatable single-target power,pensating for their minor drawbacks.
So, he set out to find a suitable neutron star for modification, which would take some time. Neutron stars were easy to locate, but not every neutron star met his criteria. He was specifically looking for a pulsar, particrly a high-speed pulsar.
The next day, after contacting his superiors and briefing Li Shuyao, Tang Rui left Earth aboard a spaceship. Through spatial jumps, he quickly arrived millions of kilometers from a neutron star, a pulsar.
This pulsar spun at 556 rotations per second, with a strong radiation gravity field, ording to astronomers. However, after scanning, Tang Rui found it unsuitable for modification due to its core energy levels.
He didn¡¯t waste time, immediately jumping away upon seeing the scan results Though the round trip and scanning took less than five minutes, due to time dtion near the neutron star, over twenty days had passed on Earth.
After leaving the neutron star, Tang Rui visited another, scanning it and then moving on when it didn¡¯t meet his criteria. He specifically searched for pulsars, broadcasting their presence in the universe, easily lockable by any sufficiently advanced civilization, saving him time in his search.
Despite the convenience of locating pulsars, finding one that met his requirements proved challenging. Even with preliminary filtering, without close-range scanning, it was hard to determine suitability for modification.
Time flew by, and a year and a half had passed since Tang Rui left Earth. The Star Ring¡¯s structure waspleted, with equipment being installed and interior decorations underway. Red Lotus, controlling billions of industrial robots, ensured rapid construction progress, and the Star Ring was nearingpletion.
¡°Has there been any news from Tang Rui?¡± Li Shuyao asked Red Lotus at home.
¡°Thest message from Master was three months ago. ording to his message, he has found a suitable neutron star for modification. Due to spacetime curvature issues, it might take some time, but Master should be returning soon,¡± Red Lotus replied, using vague terms like a normal person. ¡°Alright, I hope he returns soon,¡± Li Shuyao said, feeling helpless. She hadn¡¯t expected Tang Rui¡¯s absence to be so prolonged; otherwise, she would have apanied him.
Suddenly, Red Lotus¡¯s holographic projection shed with a red alert.
¡°What¡¯s happened?¡± Li Shuyao asked in surprise.
¡°Neutrino radar has detected an interster fleet approaching the Sr
System, posing a very high threat level.¡±
¡°What do we do?¡± Li Shuyao panicked.
With Tang Rui away and an alien fleet approaching, they faced a dire situation.
¡°Initiate emergency protocol, please follow me.¡±
¡°Okay.¡±
Li Shuyao didn¡¯t ask about the specifics of the emergency n; this wasn¡¯t the time to cause more trouble. She grabbed her shoes and phone, leaving everything else behind, and followed the robot downstairs.
In the base¡¯s secret dock beneath a reservoir, they boarded a small spaceship left by Tang Rui as a fail-safe. Despite its size, the ship was equipped with weapons and devices for interster travel, posing no threat to most civilizations.
As they boarded, the dock¡¯s dome opened, creating a massive whirlpool on theke¡¯s surface as water poured in. However, this didn¡¯t affect the spaceship¡¯sunch.
Within minutes, a huge water column broke through the whirlpool, and the ship took off.
While this happened, Red Lotus made arrangements for Tang Rui and Li Shuyao¡¯s family, friends, teachers, and some officials to be notified and brought aboard using small shuttles.
In less than twenty minutes, everyone listed in the emergency evacuation n was aboard the ship, while the alien fleet had just reached the Kuiper Belt, not yet entering the Sr System.
¡°Did Tang Rui leave any instructions before he left?¡± Li Shuyao asked.
¡°After initiating the emergency n, the top priority is ensuring everyone¡¯s safety. Depending on the threat level, other measures will be taken. Given the current situation, the unknown civilization¡¯s fleet poses little threat to the Dawn spacecraft, so we can attempt tomunicate before they attack. Master had arranged for adopting the highmand and think tank¡¯s strategy in such scenarios. If anyone has suggestions, feel free to speak,¡± Red Lotus addressed the people on the ship¡¯s bridge.
The others were stunned, unsure of how to react.
But the high-ranking officials quickly grasped the situation.
¡°Can we contact them?¡± one asked.
¡°We can try,¡± Red Lotus responded.
¡°Then let¡¯s attempt to establish contact.¡±
¡°Understood.¡±
Red Lotus sent a message in the Gctic Commonnguage learned from a fleeing alien civilization, using a mining spacecraft to signal the alien fleet.
However, soon after the message was sent, the alien fleet opened fire, destroying the mining spacecraft..
Chapter 368 - 368: Space-Time Anchored, Stepping into the
Chapter 368: Space-Time Anchored, Stepping into the
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Seeing the situation, the faces of those inside the spaceship¡¯s bridge turned unsightly.
The other party¡¯s reaction clearly indicated they had no interest in talking.
They didn¡¯t even entertain the idea of feigning interest.
¡°Red Lotus, didn¡¯t Professor Tang leave any defensive weapons?¡± a senior official asked.
Faced with this situation, they had no choice but to resort to force.
With humanity¡¯s current level of technology, it was impossible to destroy this interster fleet.
Therefore, they could only hope for the weapons left by Tang Rui.
Based on their understanding of Tang Rui.
There might be ack of other things, but weapons, definitely not.
Take the star ring outside Earth¡¯s space, for instance.
They wouldn¡¯t believe it if you told them there were no weapons on it, after all, it was designed by Tang Rui. How could it not have a weapons system?
Unfortunately, the star ring truly had no weapons.
It¡¯s not that Tang Rui didn¡¯t design them, but they hadn¡¯t been installed yet, and even if installed, they¡¯d be useless without an energy system to power them.
As for the weapons Tang Rui left before, they were virtually useless against this interster fleet.
The only weapon that could pose a threat to this interster fleet was the antimatter weapon, the positron cannon, previously ced in Jupiter¡¯s orbit.
But the problem was, the energy ships and satellites outside of Jupiter¡¯s orbit, along with some other equipment, had already been scrapped.
Now, even if they wanted to use the positron cannon, they couldn¡¯t activate it.
So, after calcting what Tang Rui had left behind, Red Lotus helplessly said, ¡°I¡¯m sorry, the weapons left by the master cannot pose a threat to this interster fleet.
The only thing capable ofbating the enemy fleet is the current Aurora space ship, but this ship is meant for preserving life, not for battle.¡±
¡°What about the people on Earth?¡±
¡°I¡¯m sorry, I¡¯m powerless.¡±
¡°Red Lotus, can the Aurora eliminate this fleet?¡±
¡°It¡¯s indeterminate, the opponent¡¯s defense system and interference system are beyond our scanning range, making it impossible to urately estimate the performance of their cosmic warships.¡±
¡°Can¡¯t we try?¡±
¡°Emergency protocol basemand forbids putting the Aurora at risk without absolute certainty.¡±
After Red Lotus spoke, the bridge fell silent.
After a while, the senior officials then said, ¡°Red Lotus, arrange a shuttle to take us down.¡±
¡°Alright, I¡¯ll arrange the shuttle.¡±
Red Lotus didn¡¯t stop them, as this was anticipated.
¡°Red Lotus, can¡¯t we contact Tang Rui?¡± Li Shuyao asked anxiously.
There wasn¡¯t much they could do even if they returned.
But no one could stop their return.
¡°Emergency contact information has been sent, but due to the curvature of space-time, I cannot determine when the master will receive the message.¡±
Red Lotus was helpless.
It could only send messages, but the issue of space-time curvature was beyond its capability.
All they could do now was pray for Tang Rui¡¯s swift return.
Soon, a group of people took a shuttle back to the country and issued a series of orders.
The entire military was put on the highest alert.
All resources were mobilized.
The underground nuclear Great Wall and all civil defense works were opened, and the popce was relocated.
At the same time, Red Lotus activated all industrial equipment within the sr system, upgrading and modifying production lines at the fastest speed to start manufacturing various weapons.
In a bid to buy precious time, it controlled all mining ships to charge at the alien fleet in a kamikaze manner.
It was futile.
The technological gap couldn¡¯t be bridged by sheer numbers.
The scene was akin to cavalry charging at machine gun positions, posing no threat and at best, depleting some of the enemy¡¯s ammunition.
Within three minutes, all mining ships werepletely destroyed by the opposition.
Not only that, when the alien fleet arrived at the mining ships¡¯ wreckage area, with the spread of light waves,
The wreckage of these mining ships was also salvaged by the alien fleet as resource reserves.
It was a ruthless move.
The weapons hastily modified by Red Lotus had no effect on the alien fleet, who continued to wreak havoc within the sr system.
Half an hourter, the massive alien fleet arrived around Jupiter, with severalrge ships approaching Jupiter.
The next second, these ships began extracting hydrogen from Jupiter¡¯s interior like high-power vacuum cleaners.
Giant gas tornadoes, hundreds of thousands of kilometers long, soared into the sky.
At every moment, an immeasurable amount of material was sucked into the ships.
The stirring of Jupiter¡¯s atmosphere, forming massive vortices on its surface, was a sight to behold.
To anyone observing, it was clear the alien fleet was treating Jupiter as a resource supply.
However, this also provided some relief.
If they were just extracting hydrogen from Jupiter, that was manageable.
Although the loss of Jupiter¡¯s mass would have significant effects on the sr system, as long as it didn¡¯t lead to the immediate extinction of humanity,
It wasn¡¯t considered a major issue.
After all, humanity was about to flee, making the sr system¡¯s problems irrelevant.
But not muchter, several ships headed towards Earth.
Their target was clear.
It was Earth.
In less than three minutes, the ships reached a point 1.2 million kilometers from Earth.
For a civilization capable of interster travel, this distance was negligible.
The ships halted.
Lights flickered on the surface of the ships.
Several beams of light cut through the cosmic void, striking the Earth¡¯s surface directly.
Boom!
The entire Earth exploded.
In the Andromeda gxy,
Within a dead star system, a rapidly spinning neutron star suddenly halted.
Simultaneously, the gravitational field of the neutron star disappeared.
The electromaic pulses that were constantly emitted into the universe also stopped at that moment.
If it weren¡¯t for the blue-white light still being emitted from the neutron star, visible to the naked eye, anyone would think the neutron star had vanished.
Beep beep beep¡
Tang Rui, who had just transformed this neutron star into a neutron battle star, hadn¡¯t yet experienced its power when he received an urgentmunication from Earth.
¡°An alien fleet? And they¡¯re unfriendly, refusing tomunicate?¡±
After reading the urgent message sent by Red Lotus, Tang Rui murmured with a frown.
He had a bad feeling.
¡°Calcte the time the urgent message was sent.¡± Tang Rui asked the main brain of the neutron battle star, which was a copy of Red Lotus.
¡°Master, based on the time axis calction, the urgent message was sent five days ago in Earth time.¡±
Hearing Red Lotus¡¯s reply, Tang Rui grimaced.
Given thebat power of the alien fleet, Earth wouldn¡¯tst five hours, let alone five days.
If the aliens were hostile, destroying Earth with their technological superiority would be easy.
So, if he were to rush back now, it would be toote.
But he wasn¡¯t worried.
Although theoretically, Earth might already be doomed, in practical terms, he wasn¡¯t without options.
As long as he didn¡¯t observe Earth, its time function wouldn¡¯t copse, and there was still a chance for recovery.
The Earth¡¯s timeline was now anchored to the moment Red Lotus sent the urgent message.
That timeline had copsed because he received the message.
As for the timeline after that, it waspletely unknown to Tang Rui, meaning it belonged to the future.
The past couldn¡¯t be changed.
Or rather, with his current abilities, he couldn¡¯t alter a copsed timeline to reverse time.
But a future timeline that hadn¡¯t urred was not immutable to him.
¡°Anchor the time axis within ten minutes after the urgent message was sent, activate the neutron battle star¡¯s gravitational copse engine, and initiate a spacetime jump.¡±
¡°Gravitational copse engine activated, time axis anchored, performing a spacetime jump.¡±
Whoosh!
The neutron battle star vanished from the Andromeda gxy.
When it reappeared, it was in the cosmic void between Mars and Jupiter¡¯s orbits in the sr system.
At this time node, the alien civilization¡¯s fleet had just destroyed the mining ships in the Kuiper Belt and was heading towards Jupiter to gather materials.
¡°Master, you¡¯ve returned just in time.¡±
The moment the neutron battle star appeared in the sr system, Red Lotus sent amunication link, sounding somewhat excited.
¡°It¡¯s not exactly just in time,¡¯ but that¡¯s not important.¡± Tang Rui didn¡¯t exin much.
The method of spacetime jump anchoring the time axis wasn¡¯t about reversing the past, but it was akin to dividing a timeline into two different futures, which can be understood as parallel universes.
As for the future of the timeline where Earth was destroyed, that wasn¡¯t Tang Rui¡¯s concern.
His current technology wasn¡¯t capable of merging timelines.
He could only anchor the time axis within the same universe¡¯s light cone on a small scale, and it had to be a timeline not observed, without spacetime copse.
So theoretically, this was also a form of reversing the past.
Faced with the sudden appearance of the neutron battle star.
The alien civilization fleetunched an attack immediately, employing powerful micro-level attacks, not just simpleser cannon exchanges to clean up debris.
However, these attacks had no effect on the neutron battle star.
Unless the neutron degenerate state structure was destroyed, the neutron battle star couldn¡¯t be threatened.
Not to mention the core¡¯s time distortion.
¡°Red Lotus, eliminate them.¡±
Tang Rui issued the order in a calm tone, showing little emotional fluctuation.
With the neutron battle star in hand, such an enemy hardly aroused his interest.
¡°Okay, master.¡±
Under Red Lotus¡¯s control, the neutron battle starunched a simple attack, a spacetime-level assault.
The next second, all the spaceships of the alien civilizations were twisted by an invisible force and turned into the most basic particles, drifting in the void of space.
Dimensional reduction was just that terrifying.
As long as the level of technology was not high enough, they would not be able to resist or even fight back.
After dealing with the alien fleet, Earth returned to normal.
Although they had lost some mining spaceships, it was a small problem. It would not take long for them to make up for it.
Half a yearter, following thepletion of the enormous starlink, Tang Rui spent Origin Points to strengthen the starlink.
The huge space ring became a stargate, and it was a stargate that could carry Earth through space warp.
¡°When are we leaving?¡± Tang Rui asked.
¡°Let¡¯s wait for a while more. Central TV¡¯s documentary on the Sr System hasn¡¯t finished filming yet. There are still many people who want to travel around the Sr System. After all, they won¡¯t be able to return after leaving this time.
Of course, if you¡¯re in a hurry, you can set off at any time.¡± The old man said to Tang Rui.
¡± It doesn¡¯t matter. The stargate has been built, and the Neutron Battlestar has been left behind for you. You can leave whenever you want,¡± Tang Rui said indifferently.
Without the worries of Earth, he could travel to the universe at any time. Therefore, when Earth would warp to the Virgo gxy did not have much to do with him.
Moreover, he did not have to worry about any danger on Earth.
As long as he wanted to, he coulde back anytime.
¡°When are you leaving?¡± The old man asked.
¡°The day after tomorrow.¡±
The next day, Tang Rui brought Li Shuyao to have a reunion dinner with his family. He also mentioned that he was going on an extraterrestrial scientific expedition.
He had already made arrangements at home.
Even hismunication equipment had been upgraded, so he could contact them at any time.
So when Tang Rui left, everyone also did not reveal any emotions of being reluctant to part.
The next day, a luxurious universe ship took off from the base.
(The End)
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