The last ten seconds were far longer than imagined. When the grains of rice accelerated to 30% of the speed of light cut through the vast sky of the universe, everyone clenched their fists and began to count down in unison.
He Mo was no exception. Since Ye Ming left and summoned several elders, she became the temporary commander-in-chief and focused all her energy on this test detonation.
Just as the countdown sounded, a rush of footsteps sounded. He Mo turned around and saw Ye Ming striding towards him.
"three."
"two."
"one."
As the voice fell, an extremely dazzling ring-shaped aperture instantly rose in the projected virtual picture. Its light was so strong that it seemed to illuminate the entire universe.
After a while, Aita's voice sounded.
"The detector detected an explosion and the experiment was successful."
Following Aita's voice, the hall, which had been suppressing emotions, instantly erupted into thunderous applause and cheers. Countless people began to hug their friends beside them, enjoying the joy of this moment.
He Mo took a deep breath. She suppressed her heartbeat and looked at Ye Ming: "Success is within your control!"
"Well, let me say a few words."
As he spoke, Ye Ming put one hand on the table and picked up the microphone with the other.
After he fed him gently, the staff in the hall slowly stopped making noise, and then looked back at Ye Ming. Everyone's face was extremely excited.
"Thank you for your hard work."
"Let's not talk nonsense. The experiment was successful - this means that for the first time, we have mastered sub-light speed weapons and have the ability to destroy a space city-level building."
The crowd burst into laughter and applause followed.
Of course they know more than ordinary people. They know that humans develop weapons like rice grains to deal with alien enemies.
"The next on-site work will be completed by the remote analysis team. Let's take a vacation first and have a good rest for a few days. We will also be well prepared for returning to Earth for the New Year."
Ye Ming looked at everyone with a smile: "We will continue to work overtime after the New Year."
"Okay, let's break up the meeting."
Putting down the phone, Ye Ming turned around with a smile, and then gently pulled He Mo's sleeve.
When the latter saw that his expression suddenly became serious, he was slightly startled and then quickly turned around, following Ye Ming and striding out of the command hall.
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In the office, the meeting has ended, and even Su Zi is missing.
"Are there other mistakes in the experimental results?"
After closing the door, He Mo immediately walked up to Ye Ming and almost pulled his sleeve and asked.
"No, the result is exactly as expected." Ye Ming grabbed the tablet and handed it to her: "This is the picture from the detector over there. It is not much different from the explosion scene simulated by ETA. The asteroid was completely destroyed.
A large amount of debris flew into the orbit of Mars and Jupiter."
"Then..." He Mo was immediately stunned: "Then why don't you look happy?"
"Well, you were in charge of the experiment before, so I didn't inform you." Ye Ming looked at his wrist and said solemnly: "According to the signal from our high-dimensional detector, we received the signal from the vsc-67 wormhole.
The curvature is abnormal. According to preliminary analysis, it should be a fleet passing through the wormhole."
He Mo was stunned, and then the child's hole shrank instantly, and she subconsciously took a breath: "Then...is that right?"
"It's not certain yet, but...according to the Blue Star people, it should be." Ye Ming said and looked at the time on his wrist again.
He was waiting for Uda to reply to his message.
——Just an hour ago, when he had just proposed to take a bigger step and speed up the research on curvature-driven "rice grains", he suddenly received news that a high-dimensional detector had detected abnormal curvature fluctuations in the vsc-67 wormhole galaxy.
news.
That detector is a gravitational wave detector, or curvature detector, built by the Institute of High-Dimensional Physics with the help of the Holy Star people on the basis of the unification of four-dimensional and three-dimensional space at the information level.
When the Holy Star people first contacted humans, it was through this detector that they discovered the curvature fluctuations produced by humans after conducting experiments on artificial singularities.
But how to say, whether this is the executor coming... humans are not completely sure.
At this moment, Ye Ming's wrist jumped slightly, and he immediately connected the call.
The next second, Uda's figure appeared in the office projection.
"After comparing the data, it should be the executor."
The expression on Uda's face was solemn, and he looked directly at Ye Ming: "According to the curvature fluctuations, this should be a huge fleet with twenty battleships - Ye Dali, are you really ready?"
Ye Ming did not answer directly, but took a gentle breath: "In the moment before facing the enemy directly, no one dares to say that he is ready."
"Uda, how long do they have?"
"There are about 700 days left - of course, provided that their forward speed does not make a qualitative leap."
Ye Ming's brows frowned for an instant, and then he raised his eyebrows quickly: "Don't tell me, the three-year period you gave before was based on the old yellow calendar from five thousand years ago!"
"No, that's the conclusion we drew based on the information given by the Kerong people."
Ye Ming breathed a sigh of relief.
The main reason why humans are still interested in exploring overseas and establishing a trade system is because the Blue Star people gave the "three years" deadline a year ago.
In three years, with the explosion of science and technology, the liberation of productivity, and the unprecedented unity of all countries in the human world, a lot can be accomplished.
——When facing a crisis, the productivity that human beings can unleash is amazing. Among other things, during World War II, the United States built more than 100 aircraft carriers in just five years!
Under today's productivity conditions, in just one year, mankind has built more than two hundred spaceships of various types - these were only built on the ground, mostly transport ships.
When the space dock is completed in a year, it will really be time to build a spaceship.
"But if they achieve super-light displacement in the main sequence star cluster, then..." Uda also frowned and said in a deep voice: "Ye Dali Si, I just remind you that your enemy is really powerful.
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"Just how fast they are will be known by their next jump." Ye Ming closed his eyes and then opened them: "Uda, next, we will conduct experiments on artificial singularities."
Upon hearing this, Uda immediately nodded: "We are ready."
"Then since you are so worried about the power of the Executor, why...are you still conducting artificial singularity experiments with us?" Ye Ming looked at the other party with a serious expression on his face: "Logically, your choice has nothing to do with your attitude toward us.
The warning is unreasonable."
"Is it because you have a way to avoid the enforcer?"
Uda was stunned immediately. He looked at Ye Ming with a complicated expression and remained silent for a long time.
Ye Ming didn't ask any questions, just looked at each other quietly.
After a few seconds of silence, Udalisi closed his eyes and took a long breath.
"During the long period of exile, our ancestors would naturally have some specific thoughts."
Ye Ming's expression remained unchanged, and he nodded slightly: "That means you have a way to avoid the executors, not to defeat them."
In silence, Uda nodded: "You can think so. And... I strongly suggest that you... actually have one more choice."
When Ye Ming heard the other party's suggestion, the corner of his mouth curled up slightly, and a smile emerged: "You mean, we will send a boatload of people to escape now, right?"
"You can get them to come to our current galaxy."
"If you are sure that you can develop in a humble way, then it sounds really good..." Ye Ming laughed: "But... our astronauts may not be able to accept such a long journey."
Uda: "..."
"Okay, the last question." Ye Ming looked at the other party with burning eyes: "You will definitely not share strange substances with us, right?"
Uda was silent again. After a few seconds, he whispered: "The birth and utilization of strange substances are all based on the control of the intelligent brain. You cannot control the intelligent brain... And even if our spaceship carries strange substances and intelligent brains to the Blue Star, that is
After five years."
"Understood, it means we can't hope to use strange substances to fight against the Executor."
"Yes - and I think that even if there are strange substances, they can't compete with the Executors. You have to know that they have a tachyon polymerizer, which is..."
"I know, that's a super light cone strike." Ye Ming looked indifferent.
"Yes, it was a blow from outside the light cone event. Once it is located by them, it cannot even be detected."
"Well, we have the same understanding of tachyon polymer weapons." Ye Ming pursed his lips and said softly: "But our understanding of strange substances... may be a little different."
"So, if we come into contact with strange substances, can you guarantee that we will be given adequate assistance?"
Uda was startled again: "What kind of assistance?"
"Just tell me what properties your strange matter has." Ye Ming looked at the other party: "Maybe it can speed up our understanding."
"……good!"
"grateful!"
…
After ending the call, Ye Ming immediately informed Director Niu of the results of the exchange with Uda - the latter immediately gave a high-level report after the meeting.
And when he heard that Ye Ming had confirmed from the Blue Star people that the executor had arrived, Rao was mentally prepared, and Director Niu was silent for a long time before sighing.
"It's really here!"
"Actually, it has always been on the way here, but it has not entered our time cone before."
"Alas!" Director Niu sighed again: "It's impossible not to take risks now."
"Actually, it's not called adventure. High-dimensional space is very tolerant of low-dimensional space." Ye Ming narrowed his eyes slightly and said softly: "Don't worry too much about those alarmists."
"Of course I'm not worried, I'm just worried about whether it will work."
"Everything has to be tried before you know it. Of all the engineering achievements we have made over the years, which one is not the result of doing it first and then finding out the theory?"
Director Niu finally laughed when he heard this: "Haha, indeed, I forgot that you always said that you are a genius engineer."
"Well, I'm a super genius engineer!"
After hanging up the phone again, Ye Ming sat on the chair, took a long breath and closed his eyes, rubbing his eyebrows. When he opened his eyes, he saw He Mo looking at him intently.
"What's wrong?"
"Super genius engineer, it's already 8pm and you haven't had dinner yet - are you hungry?"
"I'm hungry! Let's go to a restaurant!"
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The next day, the project of multiple reactor stacking technologies based on two-dimensional space was officially established. Ye Ming was the leader of the project team, Professor Huo Laien and Professor Ezio were the deputy leaders, and other academicians and professors who participated in the project
There are as many as a dozen and hundreds of people involved in the entire project - it looks similar to an ordinary large scientific research "group", but everyone knows that this is just a purely theoretical construction and design group.
Don't say Ye Ming is in it.
Well, the name of the project team is...
——Super light cone strike.
At the same time, under the "Hypercone Strike" team, there are countless scientific research teams making breakthroughs in various technologies, and when the formal experiments are carried out, there will also be the entire lunar accelerator base and the nuclear industry group and other departments
Thousands of people cooperated.
Since then, Ye Ming has been staying at the moon base. In addition to participating in the design and discussion of the two-dimensional reactor every day, he also has to personally keep an eye on the advancement of the artificial singularity project - the space dock. He no longer has the time to take care of it.
But every day, Peng Xiaofei brings his son to brag about his skills and report on his progress.
He also said that he wanted his son to be nurtured in an environment with geniuses from an early age...
This made Ye Ming dumbfounded.
Of course, in the technological conquest of the "new rice grain", the manufacturing of the first-generation rice grain was not left behind. A week later, the second "rice grain" was successfully born and successfully entered the human arsenal.
Immediately afterwards, there was the third one, the fourth one...
When the fifth grain of rice successfully rolled off the assembly line, Starfinder, after two years of absence, finally ended its long journey and slowly entered the lunar orbit.
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Under the gangway, the leaders of Yiqian Guanghan Base, led by Ye Ming, stood in a row, waiting for the return of the Star Seeker.
"Damn it! We haven't seen each other for only two years, and the Guanghan base has turned into a city?"
Walking down the gangway, Zhou Xiangnan shouted exaggeratedly into the communicator.
"Well, you all built a town on the Blue Star over there. Is it okay if we build a small town on the moon?"
Ye Ming smiled and went up to him, and gave Zhou Xiangnan a big hug.
"Welcome home."
"Captain Li, welcome home!"
"Dr. Anna, welcome home."
"Dr. Li, welcome home!"
"Ke Lai, welcome home!"
"Dr. Chen, welcome home!"
Ye Ming shook hands with everyone one by one and called everyone's name accurately until the crew of the spacecraft had all disembarked. He took one last look at the empty cabin, then sighed softly, and then
Smiling and taking photos with everyone.
There were 300 people when we went there, but only 290 people came back.
Mo Gu and a few "die-hards" insisted on staying there.
