Chapter 437 Not participating in the war[5400 words]
He was pleased with the current huge scale of Orion Arm humanity, but disappointed that he had not seen higher technological development.
The expansion of the empire's territory mainly came from the parts of the Endeavor that broke out of the solar system five hundred years ago and took root in different places.
In addition to the quantum leap star gate, the new technologies created by humans are generally within the scope of Chen Feng's imagination and reasoning.
If he can understand it now, it means his level is not good enough.
The current total human population is approximately 35 trillion, and the average population size of each planetary system is 2.43 billion.
The number of stellar-level Dyson membranes built by humans is more than 100,000.
The population seems huge, and the total amount of energy mobilized is staggering, but it is still a quantitative change, not a qualitative change.
If the enemy was still just a spherical battleship, perhaps Chen Feng could have declared victory in advance.
But now Chen Feng's imaginary enemy has changed from spherical battleships to the million-sided warships of the compound-eye civilization located in the Milky Way. He has even considered the potential threat of the compound-eye mother star located in the Virgo local galaxy group. It is obviously not time to celebrate in advance at this time.
time.
There was another layer to his disappointment.
He didn't expect that he didn't even see a familiar name.
Tang Tianxin, Ding Hu, Lin Bu, Scott, Ouyang Zhenghua, Ou Qinglan, Dong Shan, Lu Xianfeng, Pang De, Ye Luming and others did not even have Wei Lun, Mathilde, Gaius,
Charles, Lawrence, and Bernstad were nowhere to be seen.
This time, the development of human civilization has changed so much, and people in the solar system have been wiped out. Chen Feng has never thought that some people will definitely be lost.
It is entirely possible that some of the ancestors of these acquaintances remained in the solar system and died in the ZS doomsday catastrophe.
But not having any is too much.
"Weixing, search for these people again..."
He added more names to the list.
Chen Feng has a very good memory, and he is very deliberately trying to remember more useful people. He has at least a thousand names and the voices and smiles of thousands of people in his mind.
He reported all the names at once, and at the same time, by constructing pictures in his mind, he output photos of faces with the intensity of nearly a hundred faces in each picture.
When the last wave of humans left the solar system, 21 billion of the 37 billion people left, accounting for more than half.
Even if we only consider the most basic probability statistics, the ancestors of so many acquaintances should have gone out.
Two hours later, Wei Xing said: "Sir, the preliminary search has been completed and the corresponding person has not been found. Do you want to continue?"
Chen Feng: "Ah?"
There are really no acquaintances!
This does not conform to the personal logic that seems to be fallacy but is actually the truth that he has summarized through his long-term experience through continuous time travel.
I can’t say that the ancestors of everyone I care about remain in the solar system, or that the Endeavor they were on capsized, right?
What kind of bad luck would it take for this comprehensive and low-probability event to happen?
Chen Feng rolled his eyes wildly.
Fuck me!
It's like a ghost.
He doesn't want to accept this fact, but the reality does not change due to his personal will.
"Allocate 10% of the computing power, enable long-term search, notify me if there is any news, and keep looking for it if there is no news. The other computing power will continue to focus on analyzing technology and the status of the Morrowind Empire."
After being given instructions again, Chen Feng spent two full hours to complete his mental construction and reluctantly walked out.
He briefly read some other important historical materials.
For example, after the solar dome disappeared from the solar system in 2589, it reappeared in the Proxima Galaxy in 2599.
The basic population size that migrated from the solar system to the Proxima Centauri galaxy was close to 50 million. After more than two hundred years of development, by the year 2599, the Proxima Centauri galaxy had a population of more than 10 billion.
At that time, humans had taken the lead in completing the fifth generation Dyson membrane in the Proxima Centauri galaxy, and there were only three of them, using all three stars: Centauri a, Centauri a b and Proxima Centauri.
The Centauri galaxy, which includes Proxima Centauri, is the second most prosperous human civilization after its parent solar system. Due to the existence of the three-star system, it has sufficient energy and is considered to have extremely high potential.
But all this came to an abrupt end after 2599 years.
The Sun Dome became the Proxima Centauri Dome, and the same trick was repeated with the introduction of ZS bacteria.
This time, humans were prepared. They implemented strict isolation from the beginning, quickly wiped out the planet, and completely annihilated the infected space stations and ships. Therefore, the humans of Proxima Centauri quickly eliminated the threat of ZS bacteria after making a small sacrifice.
The span is less than five years.
The results look good, but the time the Proxima Centauri dome tampered with the rules to maintain the existence of ZS bacteria was too short, and the energy does not seem to be exhausted.
Since then, the Proxima Centauri dome has not disappeared, covering the three-star system until now.
Humans in the Proxima Centauri system can no longer receive external information, their potential has been suppressed, and their development has suddenly slowed down.
This situation is slightly different from the solar system in the previous timeline.
The human leaders of the solar system in the eighth timeline were not sure whether the departing humans had successfully established colonies, and were unwilling to expose the existence of these colonies, so they never announced their own technology to the outside world.
In this timeline, Proxima Centauri still insists on announcing its research results to the outside world through radio signals in order to help the Orion Arm humans outside.
But unknowingly, the Proxima Centauri civilization was already several technological generations behind Orion and humans, but they didn't know that they were seriously lagging behind.
Humans on Proxima Centauri still work tirelessly to release information to the outside world on average once every ten years.
The most recent announcement occurred in 3015.
However, almost all fields involved in the scientific and technological information database provided by Proxima Centauri were conquered by humans in the Orion Arm as early as 2900 years ago.
But no one laughed at the "ignorance and backwardness" of humans on Proxima Centauri, they just felt sad.
They were supposed to be the tribe with the most potential, but they just endured the greatest pressure for all mankind and became caged birds.
The Orion Arm humans also saw the power of the invaders on the Proxima Centauri dome, and they never stopped trying to crack the dome, but they could never find a clue, and there was still no way to get rid of the dome.
This dome is obviously a miraculous existence in the universe that exceeds human understanding of the grand unified theory.
Chen Feng got an important hint from this piece of seemingly trivial information.
This proves Sergey's second conjecture about the solar dome.
Maintaining alienation rules that are inconsistent with the natural laws of the universe will indeed continue to rapidly consume the dome's reserve energy.
When the energy is consumed to a certain level, the dome will temporarily fail and disappear instantly.
Chen Feng had previously suspected that the Compound Eyes had directly removed the dome and moved it to another galaxy.
Now that 10 years of blank time have been exposed, it means that during these ten years, the solar dome should be recalled and recharged.
This is certainly good news.
This exposes the upper limit of Stellar Dome's capabilities, and there should be no stronger means than ZS bacteria.
At the same time, this also partially exposed the upper limit of the means mastered by the compound-eye civilization.
Humanity has established so many colonies, and Proxima Centauri was just the more outstanding one at the time.
But the Compound Eyes always only launched one Proxima Centauri dome.
Do they not want more?
Obviously it's impossible. With such an easy-to-use thing, the more the better.
Chen Feng made a bold assumption and then made a decisive guess.
They only put one in because they only have one in hand.
Chen Feng even guessed the attack mode of the prism fleet this time.
The long-distance route preset by the compound-eyed civilization must lead directly to Proxima Centauri.
After arriving, the Compound Eye Civilization should adopt a strategy of dividing its forces.
Only a small number of prism ships are sent into the Proxima Centauri dome, it takes several years to complete the harvest, and at about the same time, the dome is moved to the next planetary system for blockade.
Most of the other prism ships will spread out and attack different human colonies respectively, using the ultra-long front to create a huge meat grinder, quickly wearing down the human strength, and using their super mobility and search
ability, first complete the clearing within the Orion Arm, and then pursue those humans who fled outside the Orion Arm.
This pattern is exactly the same as the original war between the Compound Eyes and the Lost Tribe.
It's just that the battleships of the Compound Eyes have undergone updates and become today's prism ships.
Now Chen Feng has enough understanding of the technological levels of both parties.
Based on his understanding of war, he believed that the humans within Orion's arms could last approximately one hundred to one hundred and fifty years.
The main range of human activities is only 5,000 light-years in diameter, which is much smaller than the territory of the Mysterians that spread throughout the Milky Way, and the population is also much smaller.
This battle will definitely not last for thousands of years, and it will definitely be lost.
As long as mankind cannot destroy the prismatic battleship, mankind will eventually be defeated.
Perhaps a real stellar cannon or a large number of black hole bomb clusters can pose a threat to the prism ship, but this is a bit taken for granted.
In the previous timeline, the reason why humans could easily trap the spherical battleship and successfully restrain its ability to instantly jump was because the compound-eyed individual who controlled the spherical battleship made a very personal judgment and firmly believed that
Human beings were unable to break through the ball ship's protection and made a mistake in judgment.
Moreover, the main function of the ball ship is only for patrolling, and is not the main battle equipment of the Compound Eyes.
When humans broke out of the solar system early and rapidly developed into today's third-level civilization, it is obvious that compound-eyed people can no longer take it lightly.
The opponent must be on full defense from the beginning and show a true war attitude. It is impossible to easily trap him and beat him wildly.
We must face more serious enemies. This is the price that mankind must bear for its rapid development.
Chen Feng also believes that in a cosmic-level war, it is meaningless and impossible to pretend to be weak while actually being super strong.
Therefore, Chen Feng still believes that mankind will lose.
As a warrior who almost always stands to the end, he is a firm defeatist at heart. He is really twisted, but this is also the unique skill that has supported him all the way to where he is today.
It took Chen Feng nearly a whole day to read all the important information, and he was a little tired.
He stretched, stood up, and began to pace back and forth in the room, thinking about the problem.
It is time to make a decision whether to have in-depth contact with the colonial humans in this timeline and personally join the war.
Frankly speaking, he had had an hallucination before when he was inflated.
That is, he is very important to mankind. If he does not participate in the war, mankind will see no hope.
But now he slowly changed his mind.
Humanity's war concept has changed from focusing on individual combat power to cluster combat based on battleships or fighter planes.
Even if he went back to fight and went to the front line in person, he would still be just one of trillions of soldiers.
Even if he is more outstanding and is considered a military king, in a war of this scale, he is still just a drop in the ocean.
He is not so arrogant as to think that he alone can match a huge army.
As for his war experience, it seems important, but he has long left it in the "title page code" of "Madman's Conjectures", and has been discovered, and then used by scholars, military leaders, political leaders and think tanks of all generations.
Waiting for repeated deliberation and thorough research.
Therefore, now Chen Feng realizes that he is not as important as he thought.
If the most cutting-edge weapon of mankind is not a personal equipment, then it would be almost the same with or without it.
There are only a few days left until the Compound Eyes arrive at Proxima Centauri.
Even the fleet of the Compound Eyes may have entered the Orion Arm, but it has not yet emerged from the long-distance jump state, so humans cannot detect it.
Even if he successfully reveals his identity on the spot and forces scientists to develop a personal weapon specifically for him, it will be too late.
Engineering pays special attention to the accumulation of experience.
This experience is not simply the application of technology, but also includes the accumulation of a lot of creativity.
The core of engineering lies in how to combine the cutting-edge technologies of the current era in a scientific and reasonable way to stably and reliably achieve certain functions and meet certain human needs.
The process of combining technology may seem boring, but in fact it is full of creativity and inspiration. It is not art but is like art, just like when the Wright brothers invented the airplane, Carl Benz invented the internal combustion engine, etc.
Every engineering invention and creation seems to be full of engine oil, but it is also the embodiment of the artistic talent of top engineers.
Quantum intelligence can accumulate some experience in technology application through simulation and help humans avoid detours, but in order to achieve innovation that meets human needs, people still need to come.
At present, human beings' design concepts for armor are still stuck five hundred years ago.
There have been huge generational differences in the level of science and technology in different eras.
The mechanisms of action of the components are all different, and past experience cannot be used. If Chen Feng wanted others to design individual armor for him, he would have to start over from scratch.
In just one month, it is unrealistic to make up for the 500-year technological stagnation and allow individual weapons to catch up with or even surpass other types of arms.
Without the most convenient and perfect equipment, even if he went there, he wouldn't be able to show his strength.
It would make even less sense if he settles for the next best thing and chooses to board a battleship and become a carrier-based soldier.
With his commanding skills, he is barely qualified for the position of fleet commander.
But he is very self-aware that he does not have the talents and talents of Tang Tianxin, so he may not be able to do better than others.
He ventured to the front line and looked very impressive, but it would be really tragic if he accidentally died in battle early or was simply captured alive.
After careful consideration, Chen Feng considered various factors and decided not to participate in the battle in person. He would only hide in the dark, quietly steal information through the resonance channel of Weixing, and continue to collect information in order to obtain more information.
This war between humans and the prism fleet will last for a long time.
There are so many different types of warships and fighter planes, different guns and missiles, even if they can't break the prism ship, there will always be some differences in the explosion and energy impact caused each time.
Scientists will continue to analyze and try to find more effective means of killing.
For example, what if the shock wave caused by the explosion of a special material from a certain planetary system can cause the prism ship's energy-gathering shield to vibrate violently?
Or for example, the secretions of a certain creature on a low-level civilization planet can corrode the watch case of a prism ship after continuous purification and strengthening?
Although this is an extremely unlikely event, Chen Feng has to keep looking forward to it.
In short, his existence can make the defeat in this timeline meaningful.
He can remember these important matters and bury their clues into the history of the next timeline, so that human development can be focused.
His existence can infinitely magnify the small breakthroughs of human beings.
But if he died early, he wouldn't know whether humans in this timeline succeeded or failed.
If it succeeds and he doesn't know it, then his next change may cause failure.
If he failed, he didn't see it, and he couldn't sum up the experience and lessons, it would be like his sacrifice was in vain.
Therefore, he is the bottom line of value for human struggle.
As long as he is alive, he can make failure meaningful, and he can figure out how to maintain his success next time.
In the past, Chen Feng had no choice, so he couldn't get into it.
Now that he has a choice, he can think more about it before making a decision.
He had found a good reason and successfully convinced himself.
So he changed his mind and decided to be more utilitarian and become a "cold observer" hiding in the dark.
Chen Feng reopened the star map and once again watched the information become more comprehensively projected.
At this time, one thousand and twenty-four star gates and 14,358 colonial star systems have been marked.
There is also an expansion bar behind the name of each colonial system. After clicking it, you can see the comprehensive development parameters calculated by Weixing weighting, including population estimate, population proportion distribution estimate, industrial production capacity index, scientific research capability index, and achievements.
Transformation capability index, art and culture index, existing military strength index, comprehensive assessment of military potential, etc.
Each evaluation index can continue to be refined. For example, the existing military strength index is composed of the number of ships of different levels and sizes, the technological level of the ships, the overall quality of the soldiers, the weighting of special weapons, the weighting of the commander's comprehensive score, etc.
index composition.
Although the current assessments made by Weixing are not accurate enough and contain many fallacies, as time goes by and the information obtained becomes more and more comprehensive, the conclusions will become closer and closer to reality.
Chen Feng casually clicked on a prosperous planetary system, and the scale of the star map automatically shrunk, and his vision focused on the vicinity of this planetary system.
"Total population size: 5.565454... billion people. Workers: 3.71551... billion people. The distribution of workers by industry is..."
A huge planetary system civilization is simply summarized by such a long series of numbers.
Chen Feng exited the planetary system again, and the scene returned to the vast territory of the Morrowind Empire.
His eyes were as focused as sparks, filled with indescribable sadness, guilt, and expectation.
He then recalled the timeline when humans were trapped and died in the solar system.
He took a long breath and thought to himself.
When gathered it is a ball of fire, when scattered it is a sky full of stars.
When I stare at the night sky, I always imagine everyone's faces.
I caused the destruction of the solar system and replaced it with a new Morrowind Empire.
But I don’t think this is just my fault.
Work is work.
To pass is to pass.
I don't care what future generations say, I just ask myself if I can do better.
If possible, I still hope to keep the solar system.
I will face up to my own merits and faults and truly assume the responsibility of a leader again.
I will never have the slightest idea of being pushed away from the shelves again.
I will respect my own choices, and I will no longer be afraid of responsibility, pain, mistakes, or hesitation.
This time, I will just sit back and watch!
On October 17, 2020, a fleet composed of 999,999 prismatic battleships appeared one light-year away from Proxima Centauri, arriving in the solar system 10 days earlier than in the previous timeline.
The war begins.
Chen Feng's Morrowind 2, in the dark universe less than five light years away from the battlefield, turned away from Proxima Centauri and headed for a seemingly empty planetary system ahead.
