novelden Chapter 204 May the world never have Lin Xuan again
Chapter 204 May the world never have Lin Xuan again
The 93rd year of the Deterrence Era, 2308 AD.
Solar System: Star Ring Group Space Station.
Ai AA was still wearing a red cheongsam, sitting gracefully in front of the porthole on the top floor of the space station.
Through the porthole, she could see the sun not far away, and the construction team building the ring world around it.
Due to Wade's hardline stance, there are very few humans left on Earth. Most ordinary people have been conscripted into labor service to contribute their share to this mega-project.
Apart from the Earth Federation maintaining basic government operations, more than 90% of human civilization's work has been forced to a halt due to the task of building the Ringworld.
The monetary system was completely frozen, and rewards were given based entirely on merit.
Although the abundant resources of interstellar society have made food and some basic necessities no longer a problem for human civilization, Vader's actions still extinguished the hope of many citizens to continue living.
Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
The effect of the high-pressure policy was that uprisings continued in various places. With the Trisolarans' sophons secretly fueling the flames, the number of people causing trouble naturally increased like a snowball.
The solution adopted by Wade was also quite radical, with continuous armed conflicts. Even four months ago, he used his newly acquired control of the Gravity to launch a space-based weapon strike against a Revolutionary Army stronghold, essentially performing a craniotomy on Earth.
This tactic of using a cannon to kill a mosquito effectively deterred many who intended to openly condemn Vede, causing a large number of the original insurgents to lie low and secretly observe the development of the situation.
It was only then that people were shocked to discover that the condemnation of justice and the constraints of morality could only be applied to figures like Luo Ji, who belonged to the camp of order.
As for Vader, as long as they can't remove him from his position as the Swordholder, there's really not much else they can do to deal with him.
"You should get more rest, Cheng Xin. Look how haggard you've become these past few days."
Ai AA reached out and rubbed Cheng Xin's hands, who was sitting opposite her, staring blankly at the blueprints.
After Wade's behavior became increasingly outrageous, Cheng Xin changed her strategy.
She knew that with her current power, or rather, with the power of all humanity, there was no way to overthrow Vader's tyrannical rule. Only by finding a way to remove him from the position of Swordholder could this demon be brought to justice.
This was one of Wade's plans.
You want to kill me?
Then let's build the RimWorld. Only when human civilization successfully becomes a Type 2 civilization and gets rid of the threat of the Trisolaran civilization can we revoke the Swordholder's rights and completely end the Deterrence Era.
The term "Level 2 Civilization" is just a common name used by the public, but Wang Miao has given a more accurate name for it.
The so-called Type 2 civilization is actually a stellar-level civilization. Only a civilization that can utilize all the resources within an entire star system deserves to be called a Type 2 civilization.
There are many ways to define a Type 2 civilization: warship speed, energy utilization methods, social structure, species genetics...
It is not a single condition that determines whether a civilization is considered a Level 2 civilization.
What if you encounter a civilization like the Trisolarans, who are incredibly unlucky and start with three suns?
You might say the Three-Body Problem is weak, but it's actually a Type 2 civilization. They developed warp drive technology a few years after acquiring Yun Tianming, replacing the antimatter annihilation propulsion method.
You might say he's amazing, but he can't even build a mega-structure. The absolute gravity of three stars eliminates any fantasy of building a giant project.
It's tough. In the past, humanity's understanding of the universe was limited, and we didn't realize how dire the Trisolaran civilization was. Now that we are about to reach that level ourselves, humanity truly understands the meaning of that statement.
When God closes a window, He closes all the doors along with it.
Cheng Xin felt Ai AA's touch and subconsciously shrank her neck.
Even though she and Ai AA had been together for a while, she still wasn't quite used to the way he was, so she quickly changed the subject.
"I've found something interesting, you can take a look."
As she spoke, she sent her findings to AiAA.
The data quickly popped up on the latter's retina, looking just like AR imaging, but this technology, which directly affects the human visual nerve, is more convenient.
Ah, of course, it was invented by Wang Miao. After all, he was one of the few pioneers who had experienced this technology during the beta testing phase. With the complete technology, replicating it was not a difficult task.
Ai AA quickly glanced through the information Cheng Xin had sent, her eyes filled with increasing astonishment!
Since Wade became the Swordholder, Cheng Xin has been searching for what Wade had been doing during his years of seclusion after joining the Star Ring Group.
She wanted to find some clues to see how she had gradually lost her chance to become the Swordholder.
AiAA once joked that she was watching a death replay.
However, Cheng Xin didn't care at all. The information left behind by Wade was worth her in-depth exploration and analysis. Only in this way could she find the weakness to restrain this demon.
This document represents a strategic plan that Wade devised in the early days of the Star Ring Group, which included the blueprint for the construction of RimWorld.
From a timeline perspective, Lin Xuan hadn't disappeared yet at that time, so this blueprint for building the Rimworld was most likely the task he set for Wade. It's also very likely that the Star Ring Group's Star Ring is a veiled reference to the Rimworld.
Interestingly, Vader's records contain two sets of blueprints for the construction of RimWorld: one from the early days of the Star Ring Corporation, and the other updated a month before he was about to seize the Swordholder position.
The one being built by the Star Ring Group is the latter. If Cheng Xin hadn't painstakingly searched through a massive amount of data, she probably wouldn't have discovered that there was another blueprint for the construction of the Ring World.
If it were someone else, even if they discovered this information, they would only think that the previous version was a draft of the next one. But Cheng Xin knew Wade's personality too well. Once he set his mind on a goal, he would never change it easily.
Therefore, the design of the second RimWorld blueprint must be related to his idea of seizing the Swordholder position.
Cheng Xin quickly compared the differences between the two design drawings using the AI subroutine Cheng Xing from the brain-network...
To be honest, it's really awkward that the AI has the same name as her. If Lin Xuan hadn't gone missing, Cheng Xin would really like to ask him to change the name. She feels a little embarrassed every time she uses the computing power.
However, the final comparison results from the AI greatly shocked Cheng Xin.
The blueprints for the two ring worlds are almost identical in overall structure, but there are subtle differences in the direction of the energy traction device, which results in the two ring worlds having completely different actual functions!
The chief designer of RimWorld was Wang Miao. He had actually been curious about the protruding traction devices and didn't quite understand their actual function.
But after repeatedly comparing the two images, Cheng Xin suddenly realized that RimWorld might not be an energy collector, but a weapon!
In the first design diagram, the traction device is designed to use the sun as a giant energy reactor, utilizing the energy emitted by the star itself to power the entire ring belt, thereby achieving the effect of a giant spaceship carrying all of humanity to escape to the solar system.
This is also the inside story known to most Earth Federation officials; everyone believes that the role of the Ringworld is to lead all of humanity out of the solar system and save them from the Dark Forest.
However, in the second design drawing, the traction device is not pointing outwards, but inwards!
According to the computational power projections provided by the SuperDream Database, once this device is activated, the energy released by the star will be pushed back in its entirety, causing the entire sun to begin to collapse inward and creating an imbalance in its internal energy.
When a star collapses inward, a neutron star is formed first, and all spatial dimensions are filled with neutrons, as are momentum dimensions.
According to the Pauli exclusion theorem, two fermions cannot be in the same quantum state.
This can be understood as queuing. You can get closer and closer to the people in front of you and behind you, but your positions can never overlap.
This ensures that electrons are in different stable orbits, allowing the neutron star to maintain its shape. All momentum spaces and positions within the neutron star are filled with neutrons, maintained by neutron degeneracy pressure.
It is safe up to this point, but it is not always safe; there is something called the Oppenheimer limit.
When everyone is lined up closer and closer, the surface radius of the entire queue gets smaller and smaller. At this point, if the number of people is increased, the quality of the queue increases, and the queue becomes even tighter and smaller.
If this continues, when the mass of a neutron star exceeds the Oppenheimer limit, its surface radius becomes smaller than the Schwarzschild radius, and the speed required to escape the surface exceeds the speed of light, thus forming a true black hole.
Up to this point, the device was still not very harmful; at most, it turned the sun into a black hole. Apart from causing everyone on the planet to ascend to heaven, it did not seem to pose any real threat.
However, black holes are safe because they have their own lifespan. Even a giant black hole that covers an entire star cluster will lose gravity as it absorbs more mass, until it loses all gravity and dies in the true sense.
However, RimWorld is like a turbocharger in water; it is an energy converter. The larger the volume of fluid it draws in, the stronger the gravitational pull, making it a man-made version of a black hole.
No, it shouldn't be called a black hole; perhaps it will eventually become a cosmic singularity.
Once this thing starts operating, it will be like an avalanche, unstoppable. The destruction caused by the black hole is secondary; what is truly terrifying is that if the energy of this singularity is allowed to continue to rise, it will inevitably exceed the critical value of a certain three-dimensional universe, resulting in irreversible consequences!
After the completion of the Circum-Helios accelerator, humanity has been dedicated to studying vacuum zero-point energy. Through this period of research, the Science Department and Ding Yi have produced almost the same cosmological model.
The universe is a flat plane!
That might not be entirely accurate. According to Ding Yi, and considering that the Dark Forest Theory does not apply to different dimensions, he speculates that each dimension of the universe should be a plane relative to that dimension.
For example, in their three-dimensional universe, which has three dimensions (length, width, and height), objects can move up and down in space. However, compared to the four-dimensional universe, they are only on a three-dimensional plane!
Different universes have vastly different definitions of a plane. Generally, this term is similar to two-dimensional space, but if we look at three-dimensional space from a four-dimensional perspective, isn't three-dimensional space also a plane?
The universe is constantly expanding outwards, but the temperature remains constant throughout the universe, which already explains the problem.
The hypothesis of utilizing vacuum zero-point energy is also based on this model, but before success, no one can guarantee whether their hypothesis is correct.
Let's assume this conjecture is correct: the three-dimensional universe is a plane with length, width, and height relative to the four-dimensional universe. In this case, the energy in all parts of the universe is spread out like a pancake.
Curvature drive technology is one of the simple ways to use vacuum zero-point energy.
Now, imagine what would happen if someone placed a singularity of infinite mass on this piece of paper and continuously caused the surrounding energy to collapse towards this singularity.
This piece of paper must have a limit; once that limit is exceeded, it will trigger a disaster.
Decay has begun.
The energy of the entire universe will slide towards this point due to its continuous expansion, and the originally flat three-dimensional universe will become a sloping plane.
The surrounding energy will flow back in like an avalanche, and then be suppressed and evaporated by the ring world device, so that this point exists permanently and expands permanently.
In essence, the Rimworld is an inward-directing energy conduit. It does not generate energy itself; it merely transforms energy into a transporter that destroys the flat universe.
But the problem now is, with such a huge difference in the functions of these two ring worlds, which one was originally built by Lin Xuan?
This will directly impact the future living environment of all humankind.
The construction of the Ringworld device requires a large amount of metal, so the planets in the solar system will most likely be dismantled one by one, including Earth.
At that time, humanity will only be able to survive on this ring world.
Without the threat of the Trisolarans, once humanity no longer needs the Swordholder, Wade will certainly be executed. Therefore, the ultimate use of the RimWorld will depend on Lin Xuan's attitude.
If Lin Xuan had built a spaceship that would have led all of humanity to safety, then everything would be fine, but what if it was the latter?
Thomas Wade's plan, ironically, became what all of humanity most wanted to see.
After understanding the stakes, AiAA couldn't help but purse her lips.
"Regardless of who came up with this design, neither of those two men is any good!"
Cheng Xin could see the danger involved, and the Trisolarans could naturally see it as well.
So in the past few days, the Trisolaran leader has been contacting the Devouring Civilization almost every day to inquire about the Federation's decision and when they can arrange an immigration plan for them.
There's nothing we can do. Our own civilization is just unlucky. Even with a perfect start, we can't become a level 3 civilization. We finally encounter an Earth civilization, but it turns out to be a bunch of lunatics!
They either want to broadcast the coordinates of the three bodies or destroy the entire three-dimensional universe with their own bodies. They don't want to stay in Centaurus at all and should move out as soon as possible.
As long as the Federation relocates them, Earth can do whatever it wants. Building a ring world in an attempt to threaten the entire three-dimensional universe will inevitably provoke a frenzied attack from higher-dimensional civilizations.
What a joke! We can't even ascend to higher dimensions right now, and you want to cut off the escape route for higher-dimensional civilizations? It would be unreasonable not to destroy you, okay?
The Trisolarans have basically given up on their plans to continue conquering Earth. They now only want to complete the immigration process as soon as possible and head to the second arm, hoping that Lin Xuan will never return to the world.