At the most hopeless moment, Pauli blows a bubble of hope for humanity – a bubble that could burst in the next second. It is a pity that at that special moment, human beings still made extraordinary efforts to realize this bubble.

——Excerpt from "A Hundred Years of Collecting Shellfish", written by Yu Leshui

1

The earth received a call from the "Noah", saying that the "Chu's" had been successfully found, and the revived old man Chu Guifu wanted to return to the earth, and the "Noah" sent him back immediately. Ji Renrui was pleasantly surprised when he saw the message:

"Lao Chu is coming back?" But he said, "Impossible, is he willing to give up those human eggs?" That's more precious than his life. ”

According to the position of the "Noah" at this moment, the telegram traveled for nine hours on the road, but the "Noah" with the speed of light only took six hours to return. In other words, even if they were delayed for half a day after the message was sent, it would have been time for them to arrive. The "Friends of Joy" quickly began to prepare. Ge Qihong rented a house nearby, built an account for the old man, and prepared to send a sum of money from the foundation, which was enough for him to spend his old age in peace. At the same time, he arranged for people to contact Chu's children and grandchildren, who are now financially embarrassed and are probably not very happy to take their father back to care for the elderly—most of them are resentful of the old man for throwing away all his family property. But they had to know about it anyway. Ge Qihong completed all the preparations in two hours, but the "Noah" did not return for a long time.

The next day, he received another telegram, saying that Chu had suddenly changed his mind before setting off, that he would not return to Earth or come to the "Noah", and that he would not let the "Noah" pick up the thirteen children, and that he would still return to the "Chu's" to accompany his "human eggs" children. "Noah" respected the old man's decision and had already sent him back. Now that everything is over, the "Noah" is about to officially start its voyage, "Goodbye to our hometown on Earth, goodbye to our mother!" ”

Ge Qihong sighed, hurriedly canceled the arrangements that had been made, and secretly admired Ji Renrui in his heart. Although they knew that they could not receive a reply from this side, they still sent a farewell message to the ship.

After announcing the "discovery of Chu Yi Pauli" to the crew of the "Noah", Chu Tianle originally planned to inform Ji Renrui and others first, and then announce it to the public, but the news had already spread. Tracing back to the source, it turned out that when Ofhra went to the ship to persuade Liu Ye to go with the "Noah", what he said was heard by the people around him. The discovery of this trail propagation was immediately recognized by many scientists, because this new explanation was so powerful that people did not think of it in the past because of the inertia of thinking, and it was impossible to get out of the cage of old ideas. There is no shortage of similar examples in the history of science: the ancients have long proposed that the earth is round, which is very consistent with various signs, but people have rejected this idea for a long time because people cannot explain "why people under the earth do not fall". Another example is Wegener's theory of continental drift, which is also very consistent with various facts, but because the driving force of continental drift cannot be found, it has also been rejected by the academic community for a long time. Now that Chu Tianle and Pauli have proposed the most crucial motive - the intrinsic synchronization of the three-dimensional world caused by high-dimensional reasons - the conclusion that the "universe as a whole shrinks" has suddenly stood firm, and no one doubts it anymore.

On this day, Ji Renrui came to Ma's house, and he came to Xingshi to ask for guilt. He accused Chu Tianle with a sullen face, saying that he had handled this matter too rashly, and even if he had to make it public, he should try to slowly release the steam in the pressure cooker to avoid causing an explosion. He also said that the UN Secretary-General, the SCAC Executive Committee, and the heads of state of China, the United States, India, Russia, Japan, France, and Britain have all expressed the same strong dissatisfaction with him, and have also threatened to cut off cooperation and financial support with the "Friends of Music." Yu Leshui and Tianle's mother were both apologetic after hearing this, and they thought that Ji's reproach was right. Chu Tianle sighed and said:

"Brother Ji, I'm sorry I didn't discuss it with you beforehand. I'm afraid of you...... Brother Ji, none of you have the same experience as me - when I was a teenager, I was cut off by my godfather, and after a moment of severe pain, I germinated the determination to live, and I think human beings will do the same. And this news can't be hidden anyway, and it's only a matter of time before other scientists make the same discovery, so let's postpone it for a year and a half. I don't want to hide it. ”

Ji Renrui was gloomy and silent.

"As for the ...... of the United Nations and countries to break off cooperation"

Ji Renrui waved his hand and interrupted him: "Don't worry about this, it's just a momentary overreaction, and it won't be implemented seriously." The key is another point - whether they will be completely desperate and truly disheartened. If that's the case, it's not just a break from cooperation, it's a simple abandonment of effort. Tianle," he shouted Tianle, but his eyes were on Yu Leshui, "even I, the whip of God, are desperate, and I am tired." ”

Yu Leshui is bitter in his heart. This whip of God has been spurring everyone on, and he has never been seen to be the slightest frustrated, and today is the first time. She laughed and said, "You can't despair. How can we do without this whip of God? Ren Rui, anyway, I'm not desperate, let's not talk about those gossips, what God is hungry and blind, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, etc., Tianle said that it is cheap optimism. We want genuine optimism - I don't believe the universe is really dead! Even if Tianle and Pauli are geniuses, two tiny brains of 1,400 grams have dug up the ultimate secret of the universe? There are no more secrets to dig up? I don't believe it, and you won't believe it. ”

Tianle's mother also said: "Shui'er is right. Ren Rui, Shui'er is right. Mr. Ma would have said the same if he were alive. ”

Ji Renrui sighed bitterly, didn't say much, stood up and prepared to leave, "I'm leaving, I have to quickly arrange the protection of Tianle." ”

The Chu couple looked at each other, and Tianle smiled and said, "Protection for me? Do you need it? ”

Ji Renrui said in a cold voice: "Of course you can use it." You have cut off everyone's hope with one sword, and there are certainly some of the seven billion people who will go crazy with extreme despair and will use you as a target for anger. Pauli also needs to be protected, but he is much safer because the eyes of the people are always on you. I plan to let Lu Junding, an old colleague from Qi County and director of the Public Security Bureau, come and live at He's house to protect you nearby. Leshui, you should also be vigilant. ”

With that, he walked away with heavy steps.

On this morning, the Chu couple went to the "Friends of Music" for a meeting and walked around the two courtyards to try to calm everyone's emotions. As for what to do in the future, even Chu Tianle and Yu Leshui didn't know what to do, so they could only say some words of encouragement in general. After they walked around, they never saw Ji Renrui. Yu Leshui was not at ease, so she asked her husband to wait in the office for a while, and she went straight to Ji Renrui's house nearby. Miao Qi opened the door and saw that it was her, breathed a sigh of relief, and whispered:

"I can't persuade him to pour wine in the study, you persuade him, he listens to your persuasion." She added, "Let's talk, eat here at noon." I'm going to buy some deli food. ”

She hurried out. Yu Leshui pushed open the door of the study, and sure enough, he smelled a strong smell of wine. Ji Renrui didn't drink at this time, he leaned back in the swivel chair, his legs resting on the desk. Yu Leshui walked over and pulled a chair and sat across from him. When Ji Renrui saw her, he folded his legs and sat upright, his eyes were bloodshot. Yu Leshui didn't speak, just looked at him quietly.

After a while, Ji Renrui spoke first: "Leshui, I am very disappointed in Tianle this time. After all, he is a scholar, not a politician. Expressions such as the need of the heart, the perfection of the heart, and the desire to live for the sake of living, because the universe and life are bound to perish, are both truth and bullshit. It is the truth, of course, but it is a luxury for saints, because only saints can see the picture of the end of time. It's also bullshit, because 99 percent of the people only want to see this life, at most the life of their children and grandchildren. Even in this age of intellectual explosion, this is a fundamental percentage. And, in the end, metaphysical meditation is no bigger than the sky! Heaven is human beings, and now they are dead or alive! ”

Yu Leshui said softly, "You're right. I should have apologized, I shouldn't have obeyed him at the time. You must cheer up, the 'Friends of Joy', and even the whole world, are indispensable for your whip of God. ”

Ji Renrui was silent for a long time, and said in a hoarse voice: "But-maybe there is really no way ahead......"

He looked up at the fish and water, and there was water in his eyes. At this moment, Yu Leshui really felt the weakness of this strong man. She remembered that twenty-two years ago, this man abandoned the official mountain and took the initiative to carry a heavy burden on his shoulders, and also put the burden on the shoulders of her father-in-law, Tianle and herself. Over the years, Ji Renrui has been the dean of the Academy of Engineering in name, but he is actually the chief housekeeper of "Friends of Music", and he is really tired. She wanted to walk over and take him in her arms and comfort him...... Yu Leshui looked him in the eye and said:

"Renrui, Tianle is not perfect, not politically, and academically. The opinion I just said is serious, his and Pauli's new discovery will never be God's ultimate secret, we have to move on! You have to find a way out! She smiled and repeated what she had just said, "To move forward, of course, you are indispensable for the whip of God." ”

Ji Renrui let out a long breath, "Okay, you don't have to comfort me, I can come out of the emotional slump for a while." I will certainly go on, even in despair, even if I appease the people with false hopes, as I did at the earliest. ”

Ji Renrui's phone rang. He spoke a few words in English, hung up the phone, and was a little confused: "It's Abikar!" The little secretary general of SCAC, my senior classmate, he had already arrived at Nanyang Airport by civil aviation. ”

"So suddenly?"

He said that it was a purely private trip, and that on the fifth anniversary of Mr. He's death, he wanted to remember his teacher at his former residence. He also said that I only needed to accompany him alone. He looked into Yu Leshui's eyes, "Of course this must be an excuse." Presumably he brought bad news. ”

"Coming to deliver SCAC's letter of renunciation? Is it true that the United Nations is going to break off its cooperation? ”

Ji Renrui shook his head slowly, "It's not quite like that, that's official business, and I won't use such a private visit." I'll go anyway. ”

Ji Renrui picked up Abikar at Nanyang Airport and returned by helicopter. The two of them have seen each other often over the years, but after meeting this time, he couldn't help but sigh that this old senior is indeed old, with loose skin, white hair like snow, and his demeanor also shows an old state. At the age of 48, Abikar took office as the "Secretary-General of the United Nations" (Secretary-General of the United Nations) and 10 years later became the "Secretary-General of the Junior Secretary-General" (Secretary-General of the SCAC). He has always had a calm expression and a calm temperament, this kind of bearing has been cultivated in a high position for many years, but today he is somewhat tired. Over the years, Ji Renrui has cooperated with him very happily, and he admires this old senior a lot. The achievements of the three salvation operations of the United Nations are inseparable from his strong promotion, you know, it is far more difficult to promote one thing there than the side of the "Friends of Music", in addition to the SCAC Executive Committee, there are fifteen mothers-in-law above, five of whom are super mothers-in-law holding veto votes. In particular, after he retired from the post of secretary general of the United Nations, he did not live in his old age, but deigned to be transferred to the post of "junior secretary general", all because he could not forget his career. Since then, he has held a humble official position, and he can only do it by his personal prestige, strength and tenacity. Ji Renrui heard a lot of whispers from the political circles, saying that the five super mothers-in-law were already quite impatient with Ah Shi's overpower.

So, what is the purpose of his secret trip? It must have been an in-depth conversation, otherwise he wouldn't have made a special trip. Along the way, in front of the helicopter pilot, the two old classmates only gossiped a little, recalling the past about He Lao and his alma mater. When they arrived at He's house, there was a portrait of He Lao hanging in the bedroom. Abikar stood solemnly in front of the statue and muttered a chant (bowing was not allowed according to his religious customs), and Ji Renrui bowed. Then the two sat down in the living room, and Ji Renrui brewed two cups of green tea. In the swirling water, Abikar recalls eloquently that He Lao was indeed his political teacher, and he learned a lot from the lectures he gave and his daily interactions with He Lao, including ancient Chinese political wisdom. Although they do not necessarily correspond to "political or moral correctness", they are sharp truths. He Lao was essentially a follower of Machiavelli, believing that heroes were the main promoters of history, but these real promoters of history were by no means saints, let alone clear streams. Those who can move history must have the authority of the world, but society itself is dirty, and the power field is even more filthy and bloody. Therefore, if you want to grasp power, you must learn the rules of the game in the power field, and learn power tricks, dumping, party strife, forbearance, ruthlessness, hypocrisy, cunning, suspiciousness, and viciousness. Most people have been completely defiled in the process of seizing power, and after the power is in their hands, they only remember to use it to satisfy their selfish desires. Only a small number of people, although they have been polluted, still have a pure land in their hearts, and after holding the power, that pure dream will be revived, and they will use the power in their hands to promote something that is beneficial to the country and the people. Most of these people are positioned in history as heroes, powerful ministers or capable ministers, and they are both praise and depreciation figures in Confucian history books. In Chinese history, such people were fighting volumes, such as Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of Wei, Emperor Wen of Sui, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, Guan Zhong, Shang Ying, Li Si, Zhang Liang, Chen Ping, Zhuge Liang, Changsun Wuji, Li Yu (Tang Suzong's think tank), Zhang Juzheng, and so on. Abikar looked at Ji Renrui calmly:

"Over the years, I have long been polluted in the power field, but I think I still have a pure land in my heart. Ji, I know that you also keep this piece of pure land. Of course, you and I are different, and your mind and body are much cleaner than mine. ”

Ji Renrui was very grateful for his acquaintance, so he didn't talk politely. "Yes, maybe my outer body is cleaner, it's just because the 'Friends of Joy' is not a power center, at most a semi-virtual power center, so my environment is much cleaner. In fact, it is the hardest thing to be able to do this in your environment. My old senior, if there's anything I need to do, please feel free to speak up. ”

Laugh lines appeared on Abikar's black face, "Of course, that's what I'm here for. ”

Yu Leshui and her husband had lunch at Miao Qi's house. Miao Qi asked: When will the spacecraft after "Noah" be built and when will it go to the sky? She is most concerned about this, because it is also the moment when Changchang will say goodbye to his parents forever. Yu Leshui said that there is no plan yet, and after the news of the overall contraction of the universe is announced, what to do in the future will take a while for various opinions to become clear. Then she turned the topic to "Noah", saying that since it informed the Earth of the news of "Chu's", it has begun continuous flight, and there is no longer communication with the Earth, so no one knows its current situation, only that it has flown a light year away according to time. Miao Xing asked:

"I heard that Liu Ye was pregnant before she boarded the ship? That should be born by now. ”

Yu Leshui shook his head with a smile, "Your news is not accurate. When Liu Ye decided to stay on Earth, he did intend to leave a bloodline for He Zizhou. But I don't know if she was pregnant in that room, because she suddenly got on the boat and left three days later. So I can only wait for news from there. What happened to Changchang and Emma? Who caught whom? ”

"Who knows, those two children are too playful, not as steady as Yangyang and Liu Ye. They are like playing a video game when they fall in love, you attack me and you chase me and you run away. You two look at the opportunity to talk about them, and your words are more effective than mother's words. ”

Tianle smiled: "I don't need to persuade the two of us. You should know Changchang, that kid looks good, seems to be a little cynical, but actually has a lot of opinions in his heart. Miss Emmana is similar. ”

Yu Leshui's mobile phone rang, it was Ji Renrui. "Leshui, Abigal does have an important proposal. We just had dinner at your house, and I asked Sister-in-law Xu to take him around the mountains. You and Tianle come back quickly, let's discuss it and give a rough answer before he leaves. He hesitated for a moment, "Why don't you come first, like I did when I first entered the mountain, I want to convince you first." If you don't agree, you don't have to say anything about it. ”

Yu Leshui was somewhat suspicious of his caution, and deliberately joked: "Second crematorium talk? ”

Ji Renrui responded to the joke: "Yes, the second crematorium talk." Shall I go there and wait for you? ”

"No, you can wait for me at He's house, I'll go over immediately."

She asked her husband to wait for her here, and she was going to come to the helicopter and hurried to He's house in the mountains.

Ji Renrui was waiting at the door, saw Yule underwater helicopter, and hurriedly walked this way. The forty-seven-year-old woman still retains her youthful vitality, with a slender figure and a bouncy walk, her long shiny black hair flowing behind her. Yu Leshui entered the house, a little panting. To Ji Renrui's surprise, the two met, and she rushed straight to Ji Renrui without saying a word, hugged him tightly, and buried her head in Ji's arms. Ji Renrui was stunned for a moment, and then gently hugged her.

The wordless hug lasted for a long time, and both could hear each other's heartbeats. Yu Leshui looked up, looked at each other with a smile, and buried his head again.

She has never been too rigid about men and women. She believes in the idea that the average strength of a race is directly proportional to the vitality of the race, because like the desire to survive and appetite, ** is the most important instinct of a living being, and if it shrinks and withers under the weight of morality, the vitality of that race is not much better. When Uncle Ma advised her to carefully consider her marriage with Tianle, she once said happily: She can separate love from **, and at that time she thought it was normal to do so. It just so happened that at that time, Ji Renrui "fell from the sky" and came to her side, in all respects, this man is qualified to be an excellent lover. But it was also this man who inadvertently put moral shackles on her: he said that the Ma family had established the "Friends of Joy" organization, and he said that the four members of the Ma family had inadvertently occupied the moral high ground and occupied the positions of "Tianshu" and "Tianquan", which pushed her to the shrine. She has changed since then, not that she deliberately suppresses her nature, but that in the moral high ground she is in, in the fiery love with her husband, and in the high position of the Friends of Joy Foundation, she no longer thinks that love and ** can be separated, and no longer thinks that extramarital affairs are "normal things".

Since that crematorium conversation, she and Ji Renrui have become close friends - but will never be lovers again. Until this morning, when she saw that he, who had always been a strong man, showed a moment of weakness, the deep feelings in her heart were suddenly activated...... She looked up and said with a smile:

"Ren Rui, kiss me, it can be regarded as paying off a debt."

Although Yu Leshui's behavior today is too abrupt, Ji Renrui can roughly understand her psychological context, and for more than 20 years, he has a deep understanding of the woman around him. He smiled and lowered his head and kissed Yu Leshui's lips deeply. It was a couple-style kiss in which both of them felt a strong electric shock...... Yu Leshui pushed him away and looked him straight in the eye:

"I will always remember this moment." She used this sentence to tie the knot in this relationship, and then changed the subject with a smile, "Okay, let's get down to business." ”

Ji Renrui nodded at her - I will always remember this moment. He said, "Sit down first, it's a long story." ”

The two sat down, and Ji Renrui repeated Abikar's words: the remembrance of He Lao, the self-judgment of power, filth, and the Pure Land. Abikar said that the existing political structure is still effective in dealing with the catastrophe, that is, the civil 'friends of music' are at the forefront, and the SCAC is close behind, and then the world is led by the United Nations. But there are two major changes that may affect the effectiveness of the previous one. The first is that the bad news of the contraction of the universe has caused the spread of pessimism, at least the Security Council will hold its money bag tightly in the future, and will no longer spend a lot of money on salvation operations; Moreover, the Security Council, especially the permanent members, have long been tired of his powerful little secretary-general, and it is only because of his prestige among the people, public opinion, and middle- and lower-level officials in the United Nations that the mother-in-law has nothing to do with him, but he will soon be 70 years old, and the Security Council has already revealed that he wants to retire. Abikar candidly said that after his retirement, it will be impossible for the SCAC to maintain its former influence and efficiency, but in the current situation, it is precisely more forceful action is needed. He doesn't believe that humanity has reached a dead end! Just keep going, maybe tomorrow you'll find a Strait of Magellan! ”

"Yes, it should be. Surely he came up with a specific idea? ”

"Yes, he put forward an important idea, that is-" Ji Renrui stared into Yu Leshui's eyes, "let 'Friends of Music' and SCAC merge." Of course, this idea was mentioned by Admiral Haley 20 years ago, but at that time, the 'Friends of Music' was very weak, and the so-called merger was actually a co-optation of the 'Friends of Music' by the SCAC, which was inappropriate. And today's merger will definitely be dominated by 'Friends of Joy'. He offered to let me take over as the new Secretary General of the SCAC, and he was willing to assist in a short period of time, and then he would be retiring. Leshui, his real idea is: with the strength and prestige accumulated by the 'Friends of Le' and the SCAC over the past 22 years, if the two merge, there should be the strength to bypass the Security Council and become the actual world**! At that point, a whole new situation will begin for the salvation operation! Even if we can't do that, at least the new SCAC with Friends of Joy at its core will be a powerful force. Otherwise, Abikar said, maybe we're going to go it alone. ”

Yu Leshui listened quietly, nodding lightly from time to time.

"I think Abikar's analysis and assumptions are credible, but in my estimation, the Friends of Joy leadership is unlikely to agree to merge with SCAC. So, I'd like to start by talking to you one more time. If I can't convince you, then I don't have to go on. ”

Yu Leshui smiled and said, "This change is a bit too steep, you let me think about it." ”

She leaned back on the couch and fell into deep thought, while Ji Renrui waited quietly. The crematorium conversation between the two men twenty-two years ago actually laid the foundation for the rest of the world political landscape, beginning a "helium flash era" in which human creativity and ingenuity burst out with unprecedented intensity. If this conversation is agreed by Yu and then by the other leaders of the "Friends of Joy", a new period will also begin, and the salvation action will change from "advancing with prestige" to "advancing with power", and the giant wheel of the era will sail more smoothly. Ji Renrui very much wanted to see this result, but given his understanding of Yu Leshui and Chu Tianle and others, he didn't have much hope.

Ten minutes later, Yu Leshui opened his eyes and said with a smile:

"Okay, tell me what I think. Ren Rui, I don't quite agree with the merger, you see if my consideration is reasonable. First, the people of Friends of Joy, except for you, are all academics, although they are rare geniuses, but they are not suitable for SCAC work, and the merger of the two will affect work efficiency. We are better suited to play the role of moral beacon and vanguard of action. Second, after the merger of the two, it is not impossible to overthrow the Security Council, but it is more likely that we will be plunged into a dirty power struggle, which will ruin the salvation operation. Of course, if we do hold the power of the world, the salvation movement will be stronger and more effective, and it is not a big deal to do dirty things for that purpose. Is this a worthwhile risk, or does the danger outweigh the benefits? I'm leaning towards the latter. Third, I don't want you," she looked directly at Ji, "to be completely caught in the power field." ”

The third reason she said was very brief, but it caused enough shock to Ji Renrui. This sentence actually negates the alternative proposed by Ah Shi at the time, Ah Shi said, if the side does not agree to the merger, whether Ji Renrui can go to the SCAC alone to serve as secretary general. Ji Renrui said at the time that he would not leave "Friends of Music", and now Yu Leshui's opinion further denies his idea. Yu Leshui also knew that the meaning of this sentence was too heavy, and immediately diluted it with a smile:

"As you said a long time ago, my heart is too simple to think about political strategy. This is just my personal opinion, and in my opinion, it is better to submit A's idea to the leadership of Friends of Joy for discussion. ”

Ji Renrui was silent for a long time, and said calmly: "No, there is no need to submit. He smiled wryly, "If I can't convince you, I certainly can't convince anyone else." Moreover, your consideration is not unreasonable, and it is the other side of the same coin compared to what I just said. Call Abigar back and tell him the result. ”

Twenty minutes later, Abigar returned, and Ji Renrui told him his opinion on this side. The old man was calm, but the flame in the depths of his eyes was extinguished, which made Yu Leshui feel sorry. Abikar didn't dwell on the matter, instead rambling on some gossip. He said that he was about to retire, and that he wanted to live here for a while after retirement, so he lived in the house where He Lao lived. Both of them smiled and said, "Of course we welcome you and look forward to your arrival." ”

The two accompanied him by helicopter to the headquarters of "Friends of Music", and Abikar did not stop, and then rushed to Nanyang Airport by helicopter, where he went to transfer to civil aviation. Feeling guilty, the two watched the helicopter disappear into the sunset. They didn't know it then, but it was a farewell to Abikar.

The two returned to Ji's house, and Yu Leshui briefly introduced Abikar's intention to her husband, saying that she would talk about the details when she went home. Miao Ji wanted to leave them for dinner, and it happened that Tianle's mother called, and after listening to it, Yu Leshui hurriedly said to Ji Renrui:

"We have to go, and my mother-in-law told me to go back quickly, saying that a relative who I haven't seen for many years is here and wants to see Tianle."

Ji Renrui asked vigilantly: "Relatives who haven't seen you for many years want to see Tianle?" Who is it? ”

"Don't worry, my mother-in-law said she was an acquaintance."

"Okay, go back. Anyway, be careful, Lao Lu will be here tomorrow. ”

The helicopter took the couple back into the mountains and then left. The sun had set, and there was still a little sunset left in the western sky. Yu Leshui pushed her husband home from the tarmac, and saw her mother-in-law waiting at the door with grass in her hands, and the mountain wind blew her white hair. After her daughter Liu Ye left suddenly, her mother-in-law seemed to be ten years old suddenly, and she kept muttering: "Liu Ye is right." It's a woman who always has to get married, and the one who marries is also a sweetheart. Besides, even if the sky was about to fall, they would have more hope in a faster-than-light spaceship than on the ground. "But at the end of the day, there is no way to get rid of strong thoughts. Her husband is gone, her daughter is gone, and most of her world has been lost.

Yu Leshui pushed her husband, remembering her mother-in-law's phone call just now, and had some doubts in her heart. The mother-in-law said that there was a relative who she hadn't seen for many years who wanted to see Tianle, but when she spoke, she was obviously a little slurred, was there any other reason? …… By the way, she didn't mean "relatives", but "relatives", relatives that Tianle hadn't seen for many years, so who could it be? I asked my husband, but I couldn't think of it.

The two of them were already seen over there, and Cao'er screamed happily: "Grandma, Mommy is back!" Daddy is back! "Tianle's mother is also waving here. Yu Leshui responded loudly, speeding up his pace, and Tianle in the wheelchair also leaned over and beckoned to his daughter. When he was about to arrive at the gate of the courtyard, suddenly a person flashed out from behind the rocks, strode over, and shouted:

"Stop!"

Yu Leshui stood in astonishment, and his first thought was: What kind of relative is this what my mother-in-law said? Why is he like this...... The other party stretched out his right hand, holding something in his hand, and said viciously:

"Chu Tianle, I'm going to kill you!"

Over there, Tianle's mother exclaimed, followed by the exclamation of the grass. Yu Leshui reacted instinctively, turning the wheelchair around and hiding behind him. She tried to calm herself, put a smile on her face, and said to the visitor:

"This gentleman ......"

The person who came resolutely interrupted her words: "Sister Yu Leshui, I respect you and don't want to hurt you by mistake, please take the old and the young over there to avoid it quickly." But you want to persuade me, I must kill this bastard surnamed Chu, you go quickly! The controller in my hand is to blow up when you let go, don't force me to do something that makes me regret! ”

She knew that the danger predicted by Ji Renrui had really come true, and at this dangerous moment, she tried to stay calm and said decisively:

"Okay, let me arrange it."

She nudged her husband and hurried two steps forward – but not far from the killer so that he wouldn't overreact. She said to her mother-in-law, "Mom, take Cao'er and Sister-in-law Xu away!" Mom, hurry up! The mother-in-law is obviously still fighting fiercely in her heart, she can't give up her son, and she wants to rescue her granddaughter. Yu Leshui said sharply, "Mom, don't be confused! Hurry up and go, you can save three lives! She whispered under the cover of her body, "Quickly inform Ji Renrui!" ”

The mother-in-law complied with her decision, hugged the grass, called Sister-in-law Xu, who was cooking in the house, quietly notified Ji Renrui with her mobile phone, and then ran out of the house with tears in her eyes. Cao'er cried in the nanny's arms and stretched out her hand to her parents. When they walked out of the danger zone, Yu Leshui re-protected her husband behind her. The man frantically shouted:

"You go too! Get out! Don't try to convince me! ”

The husband in the wheelchair also shouted anxiously: "Shui'er, go away!" Come on! ”

Yu Leshui smiled sadly at her husband, calmly pulled her hair, and said to the killer: "Don't worry, I will leave too." However, I dare to say that before you kill Chu Tianle, you must want to tell him the reason. He has difficulty hearing and speaking now, so I'll translate for you, and I'll leave. ”

She had not misguessed the psychology of the killer, and the man shouted furiously, "I hate him!" It was He who helped us open the Eye of Heaven and lead us into the Garden of Eden, and suddenly destroyed all the hopes of mankind! All hopeful! ”

Yu Leshui felt bitter in his heart, knowing that this was a special killer, he had a devout belief in Tianle and other scientists, so when he suddenly learned that mankind had reached a dead end, his faith collapsed, and he went insane, and such a killer could not be convinced. She had to try her best to hold him back now, waiting for Ji Renrui to arrive with the police, but it would definitely be too late, and even if they came, it would probably be useless. At this moment, she was already determined to die with her husband, but she couldn't let go of the young grass when she thought of it. Her husband thought of it, struggled to get up in his wheelchair, and shouted:

"Water, go! Bring the grass up! ”

Yu Leshui smiled sadly at her husband. Most of the things in the world can't be both, in order to protect her husband, she has to give up her mother's love for Cao'er. She whispered softly to the killer:

"Thank you for calling me sister. I'll call you brother, too. Brother, do you think I can leave my husband? If you really want to do it, blow us both together. But don't worry, listen to my sister first, okay? ”

The killer, apparently afraid that the persuasion of his "sister" would break his determination, frantically shouted: "I don't listen to you!" Don't try to convince me! Get out of here, or I'll blow you up together!" I hit dozens of times, you listen, I only counted to ten, without a second warning! I started counting, one, two, three......"

Yu Leshui knew that the last moment was coming, so she bent down and protected her husband into her arms. Chu Tianle pushed her hard in a rage, his voice converter may have been disconnected, only to hear him shouting silently: Hurry up! Come on! At this moment, out of the corner of Yu Leshui's eyes, he saw a figure quietly approaching the killer from behind like a cat. She didn't dare to stare at it, lest the killer spot the man in her eyes. In the afterglow, she only felt that the man was slender and full of white hair. She thought sadly, that person couldn't save them, the killer said, ** is to let go and blow up, the appearance of that person will only make the explosion happen in advance. Suddenly hearing the killer's roar, Yu Leshui quickly raised his head and saw someone holding the killer's right hand with two hands, and the two fell to the ground and were fighting to the death. Yu Leshui immediately pounced on her husband and pushed the wheelchair to slide out quickly. Then there was an earth-shattering explosion, and Yu Leshui passed out.

She didn't stay in a coma for long, because there was a small light flickering in the darkness of consciousness that woke her up. She woke up and saw her husband silently calling out to her and pushing her. Her husband's face was covered in blood, and so was herself. She struggled to get to her feet, trying to check on her husband and her own injuries, but she found that his body and wheelchair were covered in scraps and stumps, so the blood was not hers and her husband's, but the killer and the benefactor. The mother-in-law over there was running towards this side with Cao'er, but the mother-in-law saw the flesh and blood on the ground here, so she quickly stopped and covered Cao'er's eyes. Behind her, a helicopter landed rapidly, and several people jumped off the plane that had not yet stopped and ran towards her, and Ji Renrui hit his head. The mother-in-law shoved the grass into one of them, and ran over like mad herself, screaming:

"Tianle Daddy ......"

The lights were shining in the mountains and fields, and Ji Renrui, Director Lu and several of his subordinates were dealing with the aftermath. After the doctor's examination, Chu Tianle and Yu Leshui only had some minor injuries, and only scratched a few skins in the rolling of the wheelchair. The killer and the life-saving benefactor, Chu Tianle's biological father, were completely blown to pieces, leaving only a few slightly intact stumps. It can be seen that the ** wrapped around the killer's waist is powerful, and he came with the determination to die.

The frightened grass was tired of crying, and Sister-in-law Xu carried her back to the house and fell asleep. Tianle's mother sat near the scene, looking at the bloodstained place in distraction, and kept chanting:

"Tianle Daddy...... Le Er will recognize you...... His father...... Your daughter-in-law and granddaughter will recognize your ......"

Yu Leshui knew the origin of the matter from her scattered narrative.

In the afternoon of the same day, 73-year-old Tianle Dad walked up the mountain and came here. More than 40 years ago, when Tianle was terminally ill, he became a deserter. He went out to work and never had the face to return to his hometown. He was very unhappy in his life, and he never got married again. Now that he is old, he has long known that his son has become a world celebrity and a top genius, and he is very guilty and regretful. He always wanted to come to see his wife and son, but he didn't have the face, and he also knew that his wife was married to Mr. Ma and had a daughter. Not long ago, I learned that the whole universe is shrinking, and humanity has reached a dead end, and it is the discovery made by the son! He made up his mind that, no matter what, he wanted to see his two relatives in his lifetime.

When he came, Tianle's mother received him, but she was very troubled in her heart. Decades have passed, and Tianle's mother no longer hates him, after all, this is her own husband and Tianle's biological father. But would Tianle like to see him? Would you like to take him home? It should be possible in the nature of her son and daughter-in-law, but she must obtain the consent of her son and daughter-in-law in advance. The man knew why she was in trouble, and said with low self-esteem that he didn't want his son to recognize him, nor did he want to be accepted by them, but just wanted to come and see them. Now that he had seen his wife and granddaughter, he begged to call his son back and let him hide outside and take a look at him quietly, and then he would go down the mountain and not disturb them again.

So, Tianle's mother made that call. When his son was about to come back, Tianle's father wanted to hide out, Tianle's mother wanted to do this, let him avoid it, and let him come in after the mother and son had spoken thoroughly. Maybe he was hiding for a while and found the killer. Tianle's mother never saw the killer, and she didn't know when the killer touched it. Afterwards, the police found out his identity based on the killer's DNA and knew that his name was He Xing, 27 years old this year, a local, and married. He was originally a devout worshipper of Chu Tianle and Yu Leshui, and he had come here on foot twice to secretly admire the idol in his heart, so he was very familiar with the path here. He was studying hard to sign up for the qualifying exam for the crew of the next spaceship, but his spirit broke down when he suddenly learned that there was nowhere to run from the universe. Later, he used his professional knowledge to make his own vest**, quietly touched the mountain, lurked behind the tree, and waited to attack Chu Tianle.

Tianle's mother cried: "The two of them didn't say a word, and they didn't see each other in the end." ”

Ji Renrui's eyes were gloomy, and he gritted his teeth with hatred - he hated himself. "It's all my fault! I've anticipated the danger, arranged protection, and if it's just one day sooner, nothing will happen, I'm fucking damned! ”

Director Lu asked his subordinates to dig a grave in a secluded place nearby, and buried Tianle's father's stump in pieces. The killer's body was put in a plastic bag and handed over to his relatives. But it was inconvenient for the relatives to take it away, and after timidly asking the owner's consent, they were also buried nearby. Maybe Tianle's father's grave is also mixed with the remnants of the killer, this is a helpless thing, and the two can't be separated too clearly. Tianle's mother led her son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter to make a memorial service in front of this tombless tomb. Chu Tianle and his wife bowed before the grave and said:

"Father, rest in peace."

Cao'er also saluted and said, "Grandpa, rest in peace." Grandpa is so brave. ”

Tianle's mother said: "Le Dad, you see, your son and daughter-in-law have recognized you, and your granddaughter has forgiven you." Now you can close your eyes. Le Dad, I have to confess to you in advance, and when I close my eyes, I have to accompany Mr. Ma, I can't take care of you, you can take care of yourself. ”

The people in the tomb were speechless.

On the way home, Cao'er asked strangely, "Mom, has this brave grandfather ever done anything bad?" Why do you say forgive him? ”

Yu Leshui touched her daughter's little head, "Cao'er, you'll understand when you grow up." ”

Ji Renrui immediately arranged a strong defense force for Chu Tianle. Lu Junding had retreated to the second line in Qi County, and he resigned from his position as a "deputy prefecture-level researcher" and took two of his subordinates to live in He's house. In the future, no matter where Chu Tianle went, there were two bodyguards with extraordinary skills standing beside him, and the gray-haired Lao Lu always glanced around the outer circle, his eyes as sharp as an eagle's falcon. Chu Tianle didn't like this tone, and he could even say that he had a headache. He pleaded with Ji Renrui many times, but Ji blocked it back in one bite, and there was no room for accommodation. Yu Leshui also likes the days of idle clouds and wild cranes, and does not like to be in the 24-hour staring, but thinking of the danger that her husband has encountered, she no longer disagrees.

2

On the second day of Chu Tianle's attempted assassination, the bad news came from Abikar. A Boeing 747 passenger plane from Shanghai Pudong to New York crashed and crashed in the center of the Pacific Ocean, leaving all the more than 300 passengers on board missing. The name of Ahmad Abikar is included in the passenger list.

Ji Renrui immediately rushed to New York, where he would pay tribute to the deceased in his personal capacity and on behalf of the "Friends of Music" organization. When the passenger plane passed by the crash site reported in the news, Ji Renrui looked down at the sparkling sea under the white pale clouds, and his heart was full of pain. He thought that if he agreed to Abikar's proposal, Abikar would probably stay for half a day longer to discuss the specifics, so that he might not be able to catch the crashed flight. Of course, this self-blame is too harsh, and there is no direct causal relationship between the two. But another cause and effect relationship is clear and certain—it was his refusal to ruin the last karma of Abikar's life, and Aung above the Nine Heavens would not turn a blind eye.

Abikar's funeral hall is located at SCAC, and the funeral service is of a very high standard, which is compared to the treatment of the United Nations Secretary-General, and many heads of state have come in person. The condolences of the leaders were solemn and ritualistic, and as for the ordinary people and middle- and lower-level officials of the United Nations who came to mourn, Ji Renrui saw more heartfelt grief from them. Ji Renrui bowed in silence on the mourning hall, repeated his apologies to the senior in his heart, and then withdrew from the crowd. General Douglas of the SCAC stayed with him, and the general sighed and said:

"A great man is gone. Mr. Ji, maybe you're the last person to see him. ”

Ji Renrui knew that in the United Nations building, there were also some undercurrents of criticism in the mournful atmosphere, after all, Abikar's visit to the "Friends of Music" this time was not on official business, but a secret private trip. The latter-sentence of the general was certainly not unintentional. Ji Renrui said coldly:

"Yes, President Yu Leshui and I were the last people to see him. He made a special trip to meet me and wanted to move me to take over as Secretary General of the SCAC. "He's telling the truth, and of course he's not telling the whole story." Unfortunately, I didn't agree, and I explicitly refused to meet President Yu. Otherwise, he wouldn't have left that day, and perhaps he would have avoided the disaster. Providence makes people. He sighed sadly, then added, "He told me that he didn't communicate to you beforehand. Because he reckons I'm not going to agree. He said, "If you can move me, I will recommend it to you." ”

Douglas said lightly: "Frankly, he has always been more assertive, and we are used to it. Mr. Ji, if you can take up the post of Secretary General of SCAC, of course, it will be undesirable. However, the Security Council has already revealed that it does not want to create this position again......"

"As I have already said, the 'Friends of Joy' have categorically rejected this offer, so there is no need to talk about it, and it is none of my business whether you have this position or not. It's just – Mr. Douglas, can you forgive me for being blunt? ”

"Mr. Ji, please speak up."

"Abikar went to me because he was worried that when he retired, SCAC would lose its current toughness, lose its vigorous execution, and become a talk club that takes turns to sit in the bank. Some people may say that he is too narcissistic, and I know that he is a strong and authoritarian person, which annoys many people. It's just that maybe you'll miss him after he's gone for a while. ”

Douglas looked at him and said dryly, "We're going to miss him now." Although he had some faults and often had some trouble with the SCAC Executive Committee, we all admitted that he was the real engine of SCAC, a 10,000-horsepower Caterpillar bulldozer. His tragic death is SCAC's heaviest loss, because no one has his inner strength, his prestige, tenacity, and toughness. But we will do our best, it is his cause, your cause, and ours. Mr. Ji, please rest assured, and please pass on these words to all the people of Friends of Joy. ”

His words made Ji Renrui's heart well up with a warm current, "Okay, thank you for your words." We look forward to maintaining good cooperation between the two sides. ”

The whip of God began to whizz at the headquarters of the "Friends of Joy" again. Ji Renrui said with an iron-clad face: Although the road ahead is already completely broken, we must also move forward! Squeeze out the last drop of potential to find a way to escape, so that you can find surprises along the way. Even if it still fails in the end, at least in the process of effort, the people will not go crazy out of despair!

The team that had stopped for a short time began to start again. The Academy of Friends of Music, as well as professional and amateur scientists from all over the world, are moving. Everyone first launched an attack on the "Chu Yi Pauli Discovery", but no one could overturn this theory, it was too hard, there was not a trace of gaps, and the repeated attacks on it proved its correctness more and more. So people changed the direction of their efforts, that is: on the basis of recognizing the "discovery of Chu Yi Paoli", they worked hard to find a way to move forward, and struggled to find life in the complete dead-end road.

On this day, Hawk Pauli, who has been living in seclusion on Renegg Island, suddenly called Ji Renrui and asked Ji Jichang and Kang Buming to be his assistants. Ji, Chu, Yu and the others were very pleased: it seemed that the hermit had an idea, and as long as this person moved, there was great hope. Ji Renrui immediately summoned his son. Ji Jichang smiled and said:

"That Bai Wuchang wants me to be an assistant? Accompany him bare-bottomed in the sun? ”

Ji Ren glared at him sharply, and Changchang was immediately silenced. He has always been used to being casual in front of his father, but seeing that his father has a bad temper today, he wisely dodged the gun. Ji Renrui said:

"He wants you to be an assistant, and that's a blessing for you. This person is a strange master in the scientific world, and even your Uncle Tianle admires him. ”

Chu Tianle next to him smiled and said, "Yes, I have always admired him." If you don't want to be his assistant, I'll go for you, as long as he agrees. ”

"Don't, I'll go, I'll go. But Daddy, I want Emma to go with me. ”

Yu Leshui teased him: "What, did you let her catch her, or did you catch her?" ”

Ji Jichang said with a smile, this is a profound philosophical proposition of the egg or the chicken, which is indescribable in one sentence. Ji Renrui thought for a moment and said, "Okay, you two can go." However, if Pauli still wants to be a 'celestial body,' be careful not to get in his way, so that he is still as free as he used to be. Geniuses are often eccentric, and perhaps in the 'celestial' state he has the quickest mind. ”

"No problem, Emma, that American girl, doesn't care about his bare ass."

Changchang left, and Ji Renrui called to inform Kang Buming, who was visiting the house, he didn't know what Pauli wanted an elderly science fiction writer to do, but he thought there was a reason for coming. Of course, to let the eighty-three-year-old Kang Lao be an "assistant", only a person like Pauli who does not understand the world can say it. However, this was not difficult for Ji Renrui, he changed his statement on the phone, saying that Pauli wanted to ask Kang Lao to be a "senior consultant" and asked Kang Lao's body if he could stand it. The promise over there was very refreshing:

"What's so unbearable about that, what can I do? It's nothing more than moving his mouth and talking nonsense to help him get some inspiration. Thank you Pauli for the lift, I'll be back tomorrow. ”

Kang Buming's visit to his home this time was because of his grandson's phone call. Twenty-year-old Kang Ping (the cow who was most attached to him when he was a child) said worriedly that some old ladies in the neighborhood were picking up their grandmother to go to Armenia these days. If they were traveling, that's a good thing, but what kind of mountain were they going to be on, the sacred mountain where Noah's Ark was anchored in Bible times. The Lord has told believers that when the universe falls, only there, the top of the hill where Noah's Ark rests, is the gateway to the new universe, and only the believers and blessed can be saved. Kang asked strangely:

"Your grandmother believes in this, too? She's not that kind of person. ”

"So, grandpa, you're no longer from our family." The grandson's words contained complaints, "You have been away from home for too long, grandma is too lonely, and when you are lonely, you have to seek spiritual comfort." In addition, when people are old, it is inevitable to be confused. In particular, even scientists believe that the universe is apocalyptic, and the 'Noah' that has already gone to the sky has nowhere to escape, let alone the common people? The old people in our family home, especially the old ladies, now talk about the Lord's oracle every day, and my grandmother can't believe it. Even many of my classmates at our university believe it. ”

"Niuniu, what about you?"

Niu Niu smiled and said, "I am too deeply influenced by you, an absolute atheist. But Grandpa, I'm about to lose my faith, because science I believe in can't save humanity. But grandpa, if you come to ideological education, try to persuade grandma first. The Ararat Snow Mountain is more than 6,000 meters high, and if a group of old ladies really go to climb the mountain, they will definitely leave the old bones there. ”

Kang Buming immediately went home. "Friends of Joy" is not far from his home, and he can go back by car. Although he is old, he can drive, but at a slower speed. When he got home, before he could interrogate, his wife said embarrassedly:

"What are you doing here, old man? Don't listen to. Su Fang and Feng Qin came to persuade me every day, but I agreed just for their face, and I didn't plan to go at all. ”

Niu Niu glanced at him, which meant that grandma's words could not be fully believed at this time. Kang Buming smiled and said: "It's okay to go if you want to, I'll accompany you on a trip, but you can only go to the foot of the mountain." With just our legs and feet, we can't climb the top of the 6,000-meter mountain anyway. ”

After dinner, Su Fang and Organ came immediately, they were worried that Kang Buming's return would make his wife change his hexagram, and they wanted to smash it, if they could talk about Kang Buming himself by the way, it would be more ideal. The two talked passionately in the living room, and Kang Buming couldn't help but sigh: Among the two, Su Fang used to be relatively sober, how can she be so pious now? Moreover, the theoretical level of these two old ladies has greatly improved, and they have quoted scriptures, such as: Noah's Ark anchored on the holy mountain of Ararat, there are many records in the Bible; It is also recorded in the clay tablets excavated in Nineveh, the world's earliest library, the capital of Assyria; In 1916, a Russian pilot saw the ark for the first time as he passed by the summit of Mount Ararat; In 1953, the famous explorer Navarre organized an expedition and found fragments of the ark on the top of the mountain, among other things. They never said why it was a gateway to a new universe, thinking that it was a matter of course for the Holy Mountain to have such a "saving function". They sincerely warned Kang that the end of the world was near, that the footsteps of death were clearly audible, and that hypocrites and unbelievers would soon be humiliated and suffered...... Kang's wife was a little embarrassed in the middle, neither agreeing nor opposing. In the end, Kang Buming said with a pleasant face: "What you said is very reasonable, I am also tempted, let's think about it and then say, okay?" Then he got up to see off the guests.

After the two guests left, the wife said, "I really won't go with them, don't worry." Then he complained, "You have been to the 'Friends of Music' for 20 years, and you should go home, what are the people in their eighties doing there?" Kang Buming said: "Okay, you are right, I was an idler there most of the time, and I should have come back a long time ago." I'll call tomorrow to say goodbye and accompany you on a trip for another honeymoon. But Mount Ararat is gone, let's change to a place with beautiful mountains and rivers. ”

Before going to bed, Ji Renrui called and said that Pauli asked Kang Lao to be a senior consultant, Kang Buming readily agreed, and after agreeing, he was very sorry for his wife, and hurriedly turned around to explain:

"Don't worry, wife. That Pauli was just trying to get some inspiration from me, and I went and talked nonsense, and I came back in three days at most. ”

The wife pouted, "Then it's a word." Three days. If you don't come back in three days, I'll leave with Fengqin and them, and I won't come back as soon as I leave this time. ”

"Definitely, definitely. But you can relax a little bit and add the time back and forth, up to seven days. ”

Early the next morning, Kang Buming drove away. Seven days later, he did not return.

3

As Abikar had predicted, after the theory of the "total contraction of the universe" was tested, the United Nations did break off its cooperation with the "Friends of Joy" and devoted all its funds and manpower to its own projects. The first commercial hydrogen spacecraft, the Space Bug, was soon built, increasing its speed to Mach 1.8. It will provide raw materials for fusion power plants in countries around the world. This is a surprisingly lucrative business, because the faster-than-light spacecraft turned a trip to Jupiter into cheap intercity transportation, and Jupiter's hydrogen resources are extremely abundant, and they can't be used up in 100 million years, and there is no ** resource tax. Judging from this alone, human civilization has really taken a big step, and it has been accomplished in just over twenty years, and the boiling water of the cataclysm has indeed provoked the frog to jump hard—but unfortunately it has jumped into another, larger pot of water.

To use a no-name black humor: those science fiction writers who love to write about disasters are going to be collectively unemployed, because in reality they have hit the top disaster - there is no bigger pot of boiling water in the universe than the "collapse of the universe".

The hydrogen extraction industry will be monopolized by the "official family", just like the government-run coinage and salt industry in China's feudal society, and all profits will be handed over to the United Nations. This change is far-reaching, because for the first time, the United Nations has a stable and independent source of funding, no longer has to ask countries to pay their dues on time, and for the first time has the character of a political entity. After that, it will definitely be the development of space tourism. Opinions differ as to whether tourism should remain run by the government, with the prevailing opinion being that it should be left to the private sector, but that the United Nations should impose heavy taxes.

The first awning was also laid at the first Lagrange point of the solar-terrestrial gravitational system. At present, the increase in light has not yet reached the critical point of 5 parts per thousand, and this installation is only in the nature of a preliminary experiment.

So, although the frog is still in the second, larger pot of water, the water is not boiling at the moment, and the water is at the right temperature, so that it can live a small life with a good taste.

On the day of the maiden voyage of the "Cosmic Bug", the current chief executive committee of the SCAC, General Cao Dayuan of China, invited Ji Renrui to cut the ribbon together, and the ribbon-cutting ceremony was held at the Halmahera launch site. At eleven o'clock in the afternoon, the two cut the ribbon and watched from the screen as the "cosmic bug" in the synchronous orbit burst out of a cloud of white light on its head, and then disappeared. It will travel to Jupiter at Mach 1.8 to extract hydrogen and return to Earth in a week – the main delay in the hydrogen extraction process.

The timing of the ribbon-cutting ceremony was deliberately chosen, and the awning at the first Lagrange point of the solar-terrestrial system was turned around (in fact, it should be said: the rotation of the earth turned the area into the shadow of the awning), turning the scorching equatorial sunlight into a warm vein. Due to the location of the awning, it only acts as a subtraction for direct sunlight, and as the Earth rotates, this subtraction acts evenly on the Earth's regression zone.

This kind of occasion is indispensable for reporters to interview, Xinhua News Agency reporter asked Admiral Cao:

"On the occasion of the maiden voyage of the 'Cosmic Bug', please talk about the historical significance of this maiden voyage of the Admiral."

Admiral Cao smiled and said, "It's a cliché, but I'll say it again." As we all know, hydrogen is the most abundant and basic energy source in the universe, and all energy in the universe, including light energy, fission energy, chemical energy, etc., can be traced back to the fusion energy of hydrogen, except for gravitational energy. Now, with the mature hydrogen fusion technology and the wormhole spacecraft, it is as convenient to go to Jupiter to collect hydrogen as to fetch water from the river outside the village. And at the current and predictable level of human energy consumption, a single shipment of liquid hydrogen would be enough for all mankind for a year! Humans are accustomed to living a poor life, and now they have suddenly become energy rich, and they really don't know how to spend their money. At the same time, hydrogen is the cleanest energy source, and the pollution of the earth will be reduced. What a brilliant prospect this is, human civilization is in an unprecedented heyday, and it is several orders of magnitude higher than the previous one! If it weren't for ......," he looked up, made a gesture to heaven, and said, "I don't want to say anything bad about today's festive occasion, so I'll stop there." It is hoped that with the incomparably abundant financial resources that mankind already possesses, there will soon be a breakthrough in science, and it will still be able to find a way out of complete despair. ”

The reporter smiled and said, "Thank you, Your Excellency, your answer is full of the straightforwardness of a soldier." Does Mr. Ji of 'Friends of Joy' have something to say to the people? Everyone knows you as the famous whip of God. ”

Ji Renrui said briefly: "I will do my best to continue to spur the 'Friends of Music' forward." As we all know, the 'Friends of Joy' have taken the lead in making many breakthroughs over the years, including this latest Chu Yi Pauli discovery, which is an important step forward despite its bad news. ”

General Cao heard what he was saying, looked at him, and didn't say anything.

At the end of the ceremony, the two took General Cao's special plane back to China. The plane flew out of the range of the awning, and the mild sunlight immediately became dazzling, and the attendants pulled down the sunshades of the portholes. The general said:

"Brother Renrui, I know you have something to say. Just open it up. ”

Ji Renrui asked sharply: "Does the United Nations really want to stop the cooperation and financial support with the 'Friends of Music' from now on?" ”

The general smiled mildly and said, "How can it." But in the current situation, where all escapes have been cut off, we can only temporarily retract our tentacles, and first pick up our snail shell, so that it can last as long as possible. Because I think it's unlikely that we'll be able to find a new way to escape in a short period of time. ”

Ji Renrui agreed, "Yes, with fusion technology and wormhole hydrogen extraction spacecraft, human snail life can be quite comfortable, and you can be drunk and dream of death for two hundred years, so why bother with the sky falling in the future." General Cao laughed at his mean words. However, you won't forget where these two technologies came from – they were forced out in an effort to flee. He looked at the general, "The SCAC has provided astronomical grants to the 'Friends of Joy,' and we are mindful of that. However, the wormhole spacecraft technology is provided by us for free, and I think that alone will be enough to compensate for your investment. Or will we take back the wormhole technology, monopolize the hydrogen extraction industry, and then sell liquid hydrogen to other countries at a high price? ”

General Cao laughed, "It's late! You didn't apply for a patent beforehand, and it's too late to regret it. Then he turned to a straight face, "Brother Renrui, let me say something from the bottom of my heart: despite Abikar's death, SCAC will not interrupt its long-term and effective cooperation with Friends of Joy, but has made some adjustments in its focus. And – this is also a mild protest against the 'Friends of Joy'. The last time you announced the new Chu Yi Paoli discovery without informing us, you caught SCAC off guard. Ji Renrui was silent about this. General Cao looked at him, "I know that there are also different opinions within the 'Friends of Joy', and you are strongly opposed to rashly announcing it to the public. Now that it's over, let's not talk about it, we have to turn the page and look forward together. ”

"Good, look ahead. Thank you for your wisdom. ”

The general continued: "There are also differences of opinion within the SCAC and the United Nations – for example. I share your opinion, even though the situation seems completely hopeless, we have to move forward, desperately forward! Only by continuing to move forward will there be unexpected breakthroughs, as Magellan did, as we once did. We can't passively shrink into a snail's shell, even if it's comfortable at the moment. ”

"Thank you very much for your attitude. Why don't we make a secret agreement? ”

"Okay, secret, public. Our agreement is that you will strongly spur the 'Friends of Joy' to continue to move forward and make several more big breakthroughs for humanity. Once you find a new path, even if it's just a mirage, I can convince this side to continue to provide strong financial support. ”

The two smiled and shook hands tightly, as if they had signed and sealed the secret agreement.

Just a month later, Hawker Bubble first completed a new idea, and he asked for an immediate discussion, to which the Friends of Joy leadership happily agreed. The meeting was still presided over by Ji Renrui, and he couldn't help but feel a little sad when he looked at the participants. There are already many familiar faces missing from the venue, including the deceased Ma Lao, Alex and his wife who left the earth, He Zizhou, Barrow, James, etc. But at the same time, many new faces have been added, most of them are under the age of thirty, most of them once belonged to the Noah faction established by He Zizhou, and now Ji Jichang is the new leader. They may be more sensitive and passionate, but in general, they have not yet reached the level of the older generation of "Friends of Music" scientists, and Chu Tianle has long expressed concern about this. Ji Renrui leaned down and whispered a few words to Chu Tianle in a wheelchair, and then said:

"Let's get started."

Pauli has always been reluctant to speak, and today he also handed over his assistant Ji Jichang as the keynote speaker. He himself sat casually in the back row, looking out the window, as if today's events had nothing to do with him. Emma was beside him, holding his arm affectionately, leaning on top of him, like a father and daughter. Ji Jichang walked to the screen and made an opening remark first:

"Ladies and gentlemen, Chu Yi Pauli found that it showed a completely hopeless picture of the universe. The only way to break this dilemma is to use a completely new approach, no matter how deviant it may be. The plan I'm going to talk about next was proposed by Mr. Pauli, but it was actually inspired by a science fiction novel by Mr. Kang Buming, "Bubbles," he nodded to Mr. Kang on the other side. "In the past two days, we have also had an in-depth discussion with Kang Lao, so please ask him to say a few words first." He added, "I heard that at the first meeting of the Old Frontier Ridge, Mr. Kang said that one or two of the hundred times of nonsense by science fiction writers may be right, and it is the germ of a valuable idea, and I think it is. For example, Jupiter's hydrogen extraction, which has become a reality, was predicted in a science fiction novel thirty years ago. ”

Eighty-three-year-old Kang Buming has gray hair and age spots on his face, but he is still in good spirits. He smiled and said, "But I'm ashamed, I never predicted the collapse of the universe, nor did I predict the faster-than-light wormhole flight technology. Even the idea that Mr. Pauli proposed this time is basically at the level of nonsense in my novel, that Pauli found such a grain of golden sand from a large pile of gravel and carefully washed it out. So I don't have anything to brag about, so I'll give the microphone back to Changchang. ”

Ji Jichang took the microphone and officially began his discussion:

"As we all know, our universe is not a flat space, it is distorted by the mass and energy it contains. A well-known phenomenon – the light of a distant star bends as it passes near a galaxy cluster, turning it into a virtual image of multiple stars – is a classic example of local spatial distortion caused by a galaxy cluster. Extreme distortion can also cause local space to close itself off and separate from our universe, which is called a black hole. The above is a generally accepted theory, but Mr. Kang has further elaborated on it in his novel. He said that the black hole was not completely separated from the parent universe — otherwise it would not have remained in its original position and continued to affect its original space with its gravitational pull and particle evaporation. Mr. Kang said that this is because the closure of black holes is a kind of 'brute force closure', which tears apart the original three-dimensional space with strong gravitational pull, leaving wounds that cannot be healed, and it is through these wounds that the black hole maintains a broken connection with the original universe. So, is there a way to use the method of 'non-brute force closure' to easily and completely separate a small universe from the old universe? Like children blowing bubbles and blowing a closed spherical world with a light breath? He suddenly thought of something and made a gesture to Chu Tianle, "Ah, I remember, this is Uncle Chu's strength, I heard that he has been obsessed with blowing bubbles since he was a child." ”

Everyone smiled knowingly, and Chu and his wife couldn't help but smile at each other - thinking of their first meeting. Only Pauli in the back row remained expressionless.

The above is the content of Mr. Kang's novel, and the following is the development of Mr. Pauli. In Mr. Kang's novel, he proposes to use converging lasers to separate the baby universe, which is completely a child-level fantasy - Grandpa Kang, these are the original words of Mr. Pauli, don't blame me for being disrespectful. ”

Kang Buming smiled and said, "I know Pauli's stinky mouth, you can go on." ”

"It's a childlike fantasy because that little bit of energy is far from enough to cause extreme distortion of space to close itself off. I won't say much about this, but I want to say that after nearly a decade of technological explosion, we already have a very good way to blow out cosmic bubbles, but we don't even realize it! ”

He glanced at everyone with a blazing gaze, and the participants were all quick in their thinking, and many people suddenly realized after a moment of stunned and nodded slightly. Chu Tianle also nodded happily, and his admiration was beyond words.

"Yes, it seems that everyone has already thought of it - the stimulation of the vacuum hole, the basic technology on which the wormhole flight is based. This stimulated vacuum is called 'second-order vacuum' in academic terms. There was a whisper below, and Ji Jichang turned to the speaker, "Yes, you are right, since it is named a second-order vacuum, there may be a higher-order vacuum." But that's for later, so let's not talk about it today. Our current use of wormhole technology is to continuously dig in a dense vacuum, dig a continuous wormhole, and make the space and the spacecraft in the space glide unpoweredly along the long hole of this second-order vacuum. So, what if instead of making wormholes develop in a one-dimensional direction, we connect multiple simultaneously excited wormholes into a closed sphere? Undoubtedly, this 'empty' sphere will enclose a small spherical space, like a worm hollowing out all the flesh around the peach pit, separating the peach pit from the peach. ”

At this time, the young scientist Masaharu Komatsu happily interjected: "Then it will easily separate a small universe and let it close itself due to its own tension!" Thinking about it, he added, "And it won't leave a wound in the old universe!" Thinking about it, he said, "It's like a bubble blown by Mr. Chu!" ”

The crowd laughed, and the atmosphere immediately livened up. Ji Jichang nodded to the host and said happily: "Yes, this is the idea of Mr. Pauli, it can be called a baby universe." I just used the hollowed out kernel as a metaphor for it, but you should pay attention to an important difference: the peach pit is still trapped in the flesh after separation, but the baby universe will disappear from the original universe and enter the new universe after it closes itself, or, perhaps, it may expand into a new universe itself. ”

Attendees begin to whisper to those around them or immerse themselves in deep thought. After a while, Ji Renrui made everyone quiet and said with a smile: "It seems that you have understood, but I am illiterate, so I have to ask two more questions." Changchang, you say that this baby universe will be completely separated from the daddy universe, do you mean that it is completely unknowable to us? ”

"Yes. 'Information is incomprehensible' is the basic definition of the discretion of the universe. ”

"So, how do we know that there is a baby universe that has been successfully separated?"

"It can be done indirectly. For example, pre-place a block of radium with strong radiation in the space we intend to separate, and then maintain telemetry of it from a safe distance. If the radiation suddenly disappears after excitation, then of course it disappears with the space it is in. ”

"Okay, I see. So, the next thing to do is to pre-place that space before the universe separates—like a human gene pool, or a few hundred human eggs, or simply a thousand living people? ”

"At the moment we can't say for sure whether the separation of the universe will affect the biological activity of the objects placed in it, because black holes do. As we all know, black holes are hairless, and all the material that enters the black hole is shaved off, that is, all valid information is lost, leaving only mass and angular momentum. But what about the infant universe of soft separation? Maybe it will be a little warmer and retain the hair of the substance. We can only take one step at a time – perhaps never knowable. But at the very least, by putting a tombstone in the baby universe, this kind of death information should be preservable, which at least meets the requirements of Dad's original tombstone project. ”

Ji Renrui said jokingly: "That was just the poor goal when I was poor, now it's not what it used to be, two fritters can't send me away, I have to ask for a bowl of braised pork." ”

He lowered his head and talked to Chu Tianle for a while, and the latter said:

"Maybe don't be so pessimistic. Of course, black holes are hairless, but that's because of the 'brute force' of black holes, because their strong gravitational pull destroys the structure of matter. If a soft baby universe is separated by soft force, the place in it should retain the original information. He added, "The incommunicability of information refers to the relationship between two universes. If there is still some kind of complete information in the new universe, but it is completely impossible to communicate with the old universe, this does not violate the principle of incommunicability of information. "Of course, this is all just speculation. Can the new universe hold information? Is it possible to preserve living information? Can people survive? Is it even there that still follows the physical laws of the old universe? Everything is unknown. ”

Ji Renrui said categorically: "That's later." It's still an old saying, walk up first and then find your way! Since this universe is about to collapse, let's try a new universe no matter what! Changchang, you go on to say, how to achieve it? ”

"It's not difficult. As I said earlier, the technology is fully mature, so just use the existing wormhole spaceship, a simplified version. The site of the experiment can be located at a gravitationally stable point, such as the Lagrangian point behind the Moon, where objects can be stabilized with only minor adjustments. There, a group of spaceships are used to form a sphere, with the head facing inward, to excite synchronously, to ensure that the excited second-order vacuum bubble is assembled into a closed sphere, and it is enough. ”

"How many ships?"

"We're building a big sphere out of small bubbles, and there's a good analogy in the real world – a football made out of sheepskin. If you want to separate a baby universe the size of Noah, you need a number of ships that are the number of pieces on a soccer ball. ”

"It's embarrassing that I don't play football and don't know how many pieces are on a football." Ji Renrui said with a smile.

Yu Leshui responded: "There are thirty-two pieces in total, twelve are pentagonal, and twenty are hexagonal, some are black and some are white." Facing Ji Renrui's admiring gaze, she was a little proud, "I played almost all sports in middle school and college, including football. It's playing with the boys. ”

"Thirty-two, which means thirty-two ships! It seems that this is really easy - it will not be less than the total output of the world in a year, right? ”

Chu Tianle shook his head, "It's not as difficult as you think." After entering the hydrogen age, mankind has abundant financial resources, not to mention various countries, even some billionaires will build a faster-than-light private spacecraft to facilitate family space travel. We can use technical support to promote the spacecraft manufacturing industry, and when countries and the private sector have enough spacecraft, we can borrow them for experiments and return them after use. He smiled and said, "With Brother Ji's connections and incitement, I definitely don't even have to pay rent." ”

Everyone laughed. Ji Renrui said with a smile: "I didn't say it, as long as I don't have to pay for the construction of the spaceship, I'm not afraid to be cheeky to ask for a loan." Whoever the owner of the ship is, you have to give me this face. ”

"Moreover, the spacecraft parts can be standardized, the cost will be greatly reduced, and the production efficiency will be greatly improved. In this regard, Kang Lao made a good suggestion to me, suggesting the development of a new 'implosion molding method', which can even reduce the cost of the spaceship by 95%! At the time, he was proposing a hydrogen spacecraft, which now happens to be used in the baby universe. It will develop into a big industry, and it is too late to talk about it today, and then we will talk about it in detail. ”

Ji Renrui let everyone speak freely. While listening to the speech, he beckoned Pauli over, and then discussed in a low voice with Chu Tianle and Ji Jichang beside him. When the discussion was over, he put away his smile and said solemnly:

"Okay, then the project is officially established, and the Whip of God is about to roar in the air again. Our goal is to separate a baby universe of this size – one spaceship plus a thousand living people. If there is unfortunately a God's rule that we are not allowed to send a living person out of this universe, then even if we can only give away a tombstone, we must do it! Walk up first, then find your way! Just rush forward, don't care about the sky falling behind you! Mr. Hawk Pauli, how long does it take? ”

Since the beginning of the meeting, Pauli has said the first words: "Two years." ”

"Okay, there's no moisture in this time, I won't compress it anymore......"

Pauli interrupted him: "The premise is that there will be thirty-two ready-made ships at that time. ”

"I'll leave this to me. My whip will turn back and whip my ass. As for the manpower and money you need, just ask me for it. I have only one request: to put the burden on young people such as Ji Jichang, the heavier the better. Their generation is still young, and they have to be tempered quickly. ”

"Didn't say that. In addition, I also want to invite the main god Chu. ”

Chu Tianle shook his head, ", you are the main god." I'll keep an eye on it, but I'm not going to be involved specifically. Because, I want to try to find another way outside of this road, to add a layer of insurance. ”

Pauli didn't insist any longer, "Okay, I'm not reluctant. ”

The meeting adjourned, and the personnel began to leave. Ji Renrui smiled and said to his son: "I heard you be a Pauli teacher, and you are very affectionate." My son is sensible, and I am very happy. ”

Changchang was very modest, "It's nothing, it should be, it's the duty of being a disciple." ”

Pauli smiled slightly, "It's usually called something else." ”

Ji Jichang blushed a little. After he and Emma went to Egg Island, Pauli did not stop his hobbies of sunset bathing and naked swimming. Emma didn't care about this at all, but usually they bullied Pauli for not knowing Chinese (Emma was already very proficient), and often used titles like "our bare-chested teacher" on their lips, and even more outrageous nicknames, even in front of Pauli. Now it seems that this "white-haired old fox" has long been like a mirror in his heart, and he will not move when he knows it, which is really cunning. When he saw that his father was about to stare at him, he hurriedly laughed and interrupted:

"Yes, we have a more affectionate name for Mr. Pauli. It's not just him, Emma privately nicknames her dad 'Uncle Old Whip', and her mom 'Aunt Cat' - she says 'Miao Ji' means 'Meow Meow'. ”

This immediately turned the finger on Emma, who knew that Daddy would not be angry with Emma. Emma cooperated with her lover and said sweetly, "Yes, I think this is more affectionate." But I know my uncle must prefer other titles, such as 'Mother Cat' and 'Old Whip Daddy', right? ”

Ji Renrui couldn't be angry with these two living treasures, and said with a smile: "Okay, you two hurry up and change the name as soon as possible, and your mother will be relieved." Let's go, get to work! ”

4

Pauli-Ji Jichang's group began to work like crazy. They quickly completed the theoretical calculations; The drawings of the original "Noah" spacecraft were also revised, a simplified version of the spacecraft suitable for near-space tourism was designed, and finalized drawings were completed. These drawings will be released to the world free of charge, and all future spacecraft, including privately built ones, will have to be produced uniformly according to this drawing. Then they began to carry out experimental design and corresponding preparations, among which the heaviest work (the supervision of the construction of thirty-two wormhole spacecraft) was entrusted to Ji Renrui.

Ji Jichang also started another preparation at the same time - if he succeeded in isolating a baby universe, then when the second experiment came, he would enter the new universe with a spaceship and a thousand crew members, so he had to train in advance. Compared with the "Noah" or even the "Chu's", this trip is more dangerous. Could it be a boatload of corpses entering that new universe? Or is it simply compressed into a neutron cluster? Even if they live, will they be able to find a place to stay? Can you find food? Will a spaceship be able to fly in the new universe? Are the laws of physics the same as in the old universe? …… Everything is unknown.

Such an expedition is almost synonymous with "sending to death", but they must try. The reason is simple, because before so many uncertainties there was a fact that was already established: the old universe will completely collapse in a few hundred years! Only adventure can make it possible!

His father, Ji Renrui, also used the same whip to whip himself into a crazy spinning top. First of all, he went to New York to consult with General Cao, the chief executive committee member of the SCAC. General Cao, who had already had a "secret agreement" with him, was very embarrassed, because the baby universe plan was too "unreliable" - the earth would never know whether the baby universe was successful or not, even theoretically. The "Friends of Joy" as a civil society organization dared to do such a reckless thing, but no politician dared to do so. However, Ji Ren was sharp into his chest and fully exerted his three-inch incorruptible tongue. He shook his index finger and said with a smile:

"No, no, I'm not asking the SCAC to get involved in the baby universe, it's so unreliable, how can you get cautious politicians involved? I'm just saying that Friends of Joy is willing to join hands with SCAC to usher in a brilliant faster-than-light era. It is necessary to use the most preferential policies to encourage countries and private individuals to build wormhole spacecraft, and at least 32 of them will be built in the world. Friends of Joy will provide technical support free of charge, and SCAC will subsidize 20 percent of the cost, on the condition that the spacecraft must be built within two years. Think about what the world will become with thirty-two faster-than-light ships! We can achieve solar system tourism and even interstellar tourism, we can easily build factories on the moon, and we can migrate to Mars on a large scale......"

General Cao cut him off, "Yes, yes, that's enough." This is an attractive and feasible prospect that will be successfully adopted at the SCAC and the United Nations General Assembly. As for what you're going to do with these thirty-two ships in the future, I don't care, I don't know. ”

The two smiled and slapped each other's palms, and the deal was negotiated.

Six months later, Ji Renrui, Yu Leshui, Ge Qihong and others rushed to visit the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Weston, Illinois, USA. Chu Tianle didn't come with him, probably thinking about an important thing. It had been converted into a "Fermi Spaceship Hull Construction Center", and since this suggestion was put forward by Kang Buming, and because he was a senior engineer in mechanical engineering, "Friends of Le" simply appointed him as the general manager and chief engineer of this center. Some people were worried that he was too old, but practice proved that this choice was right, and this old Huang Zhong used six months to slash Xiahou Wei - the construction center was successfully put into operation, and the construction of the first hull was about to begin.

They were greeted at the airport by Aaron Dyche, who had received He Zizhou last time and is now the center's managing manager. The magical "8" appeared under the helicopter, and Dyche let the helicopter land on the periphery of the "8" first. I saw that there was a magnificent hollow sphere with jagged notches in the upper half, through which the perfect spherical mirror surface of the interior could be seen. Walking on the road, Dyche told them that this was the hollow ball produced by the first experiment that year, because the new factory could only be built in that area, so the whole moving method was used to reinforce the ten-meter soil layer under the sphere with steel beams, pad the roller bar, and move it outward for a thousand meters. "It's a monument of the times and we're definitely going to make it permanent. You know, there are the bodies of four of my colleagues embedded in it. Dyche said desolately.

The helicopter entered the hollow ball through the gap, and everyone watched its miraculous construction and mourned the four martyrs. Helicopters flew out of the sphere, and in the surrounding fields there were dozens of tents, colorful, and thousands of people meditating outside the tents. One of the most dense places is where people are queuing up to receive food, and three old ladies are handing it out. Kang Buming greeted them on the ground near the sphere, and Ji Renrui was used to fighting with him, and when they met, he said:

"Hey, Lao Kang, why are you still oily and slippery? I thought you were exhausted from building this factory in half a year. ”

"Thanks to my deputy." He pointed at Dyche, "I've always been a lazy person, and I don't use my mouth. I only gave up my ideas and requests, and left the rest to him, and as soon as the first finished product came out, I gave it up and went back to Pauli as a consultant. ”

Dai Qi smiled and said: "This is the most brilliant leadership art, and it is happy to make your subordinates tired to death." ”

Yu Leshui pointed to the crowd in the field, "Who are these meditating people?" Seems to be chanting scriptures? ”

Kang shook his head helplessly, "It's people from all over the world waiting to be saved." Now they have changed their story and say that the gateway to the new universe is not on Mount Ararat, but here. You know? Two of my old neighbors didn't dare to climb the 6,000-meter snow-capped mountain, and now they're here. My wife came here and stumbled upon them, and they've been waiting here for six months. ”

When Kang Buming visited his home last time, he promised his wife to go home in seven days, but he broke his promise, so he kept losing money in front of his wife. Later, he came to the United States to build a factory, and simply brought his wife with him. "My wife is so busy here. After the wife met two old neighbors, they inevitably went to deliver some hot soup and hot meals, and then the scale became larger and larger, and it became a porridge shed to help the victims. If this continues, the salary given to me by 'Friends of Joy' will not be enough for my wife to throw away. ”

Ji Renrui and Yu Leshui looked at each other and smiled, "Lao Kang, you don't have to cry poor, you will make a fortune soon." ”

His smile was a little weird, and Kang looked at him suspiciously, but didn't ask. Ge Qihong smiled and asked:

"Those people are waiting for the portal to a new universe to open? Do you know the exact time? ”

"You know, the Lord has told the faithful that the portal will open at the same time the next time the particle is fired. It seems that the Lord is also very good at keeping up with the times and using the power of technology. ”

Yu Leshui sighed lightly: "Actually, I appreciate them, they are also trying to find a way to survive, it is better than complete despair." ”

The group walked around the periphery of the sphere again, looked at the mottled outer wall of the sphere, Kang Buming said: "After seeing this hollow ball, I have an intuitive impression, now let's visit our production line." ”

They still flew a thousand meters in a helicopter to the location of the original hollow ball, which is the area where the accelerator was excited by particles, where the original GDF and DO detectors were located. When the hollow ball was removed along with the 10-meter layer of soil below, it left a huge pit that could fit a 3,000-ton cargo ship. The GDF and DO detectors were not restored, only the vacuum pipe, but this section of the pipe was greatly thickened, and its shape resembled that of an ordinary high-pressure tank, with a long cylinder in the middle and a hemispherical shape at both ends. The exterior of the tank is very rough, not like the appearance of high-tech equipment, it is more than ten meters above the ground, and it is supported by ordinary wood. Kang Buming led everyone to climb up along the scaffolding, came to the middle of the tank, and carefully inspected, it turned out that the tank was rough fiberboard! It is indeed unbelievable to use this kind of fiberboard as a vacuum pipe. Kang Buming said:

"The implosion molding method, to be precise, the second-order vacuum bubble molding method, you must know its principle, right?"

Ji Renrui quipped: "We know, but since you are here to be a tour guide today, don't be lazy, let's go over the full set of tour guide words." ”

"Well, I'll go through the full set of guides. This section of the vacuum pipe is made of inexpensive bamboo fibreboard, and the inner wall is sprayed with airtight paint to ensure that it can be pumped into a vacuum. The vacuum pipe is supported by a high-strength skeleton and will not be deflated after a vacuum has been formed. As we all know, after the second-order vacuum bubble is excited, all the objects in the excitation area will 'fly' outward in an instant, forming a natural accumulation on the spherical surface of the vacuum bubble, so that this vacuum pipe is instantly transformed into the tank-shaped hull we need. So it's a one-off and needs to be rebuilt every time thereafter for the next excitation. There is no need for molds in the tank production process, and there is no need for high temperatures. The formed ball wall is thin, only two millimeters thick, but you don't have to worry about its strength. It is a neutron-like substance, with extremely high hardness, strength, toughness, transparency and finish, and is an ideal material that materials scientists dream of, and it is formed by the reconstruction of protons, neutrons and other particles. He pronounced the word "reconstruction" in an accent. "After reconstruction, it has nothing to do with the material of the original object, so you don't need expensive high-strength metals, any cheap materials, such as bamboo fiberboard, earth, sand, etc. In this way, the cost of the ship will be greatly reduced, and it is conservative to say that it will be reduced by 95 percent. ”

Yu Leshui sincerely admired: "It is really to turn decay into magic." ”

"That's right. Let's talk about shapes. Products produced with this process have only one basic shape: spherical. However, by multi-point synchronous excitation and adjustment of excitation intensity, the product can also be ellipsoidal, curved sausage and canister, the latter of which is more suitable for spacecraft hulls. You see, the vacuum tube in front of you is in the shape of a tank, but please remember that the shape of the finished product has nothing to do with it, but is determined purely by the excitation mode. As long as these materials are within the excitation region, they will 'fly' outward at the moment of excitation, forming a build-up on the walls of the vacuum bubble. However, if the shape of the material stack before excitation fits the designed bubble wall shape, the wall thickness of the product will be uniform. That's why we pre-made this section of the pipe into a mock-shaped tank. ”

The crowd was amazed by this new production process. "Lao Kang, you have opened up an era." Ji Renrui said.

Kang Buming smiled and said conceitedly: "This praise is not an exaggeration at all, so I accepted it calmly." Throughout the history of civilization, the manufacturing industry has relied heavily on the primitive properties of materials, even after the invention of plastics, alloys, and nanomaterials, it is the blending of various materials above the atomic level. Now that we have reconstituted materials at the atomic level, material experts are completely unemployed in new processes, and even the cheapest materials can achieve unimaginably superior properties after such reconstruction. ”

Ge Qihong exclaimed: "It's incredible! Truly incredible! Does that mean that even junk can be used to build ships? Even nuclear waste can be used, as long as it is reconstructed at the atomic level, the radioactivity will disappear. ”

Kang Buming stared at him in surprise, and didn't speak for a long time, which made Ge Qihong a little embarrassed, and he didn't know what layman he said. After a long time, Kang Buming said:

"Disrespectful, disrespectful, I can't imagine that Vice President Ge, who has always loved to say witty things, has such a strategic vision. Xiaoge, do you know the value of your words? You have inadvertently started a new industry with an output value of trillions of yuan! But it's not for building spaceships, and the Earth doesn't need that many spaceships right now; It's for building materials! Soon the world will be full of cheap, high-performance spherical transparent houses, and the term garbage will disappear forever! He turned to everyone and said passionately, "The significance of this invention is too great to be overstated." Since the beginning of civilization, human beings have been like a giant silkworm, greedily eating green leaves, leaving behind beautiful cocoons, but also leaving a large pile of feces. And there is more and more manure: industrial waste, domestic waste, construction waste, not to mention dangerous medical waste, chemical waste and nuclear waste, etc. This is a cancer of civilization that has never been solved, because it is essentially based on the cosmic law of 'irreversible entropy increase'. People of insight fear that one day, garbage will become mainstream or even completely submerge civilization...... Now, Xiaoge has solved this problem once and for all! Xiaoge, hurry up and apply for a patent, you and I are co-branded. Don't repeat the mistake of Clark, who lost a billion pounds in space because of his carelessness with the invention of the geostationary satellite. The income of our patent is more than one billion! ”

Listening to his last joke, Ji, Yu and Ge looked at each other and smiled, their smiles were quite mysterious, which made Kang Buming a little hairy. Without waiting for him to ask, Ji Renrui smiled and said:

"Lao Kang, since you mentioned the patent, I'll reveal the treasure in advance. Yes, this is your patent certificate, about the invention patent of the 'second-order vacuum bubble molding process', I asked President Ge to declare for you, which has covered all countries in the world. Because it is an invention outside of your position, this patent belongs to you. There is also an agreement on how Friends of Joy will pay you royalties. As he spoke, he sighed, "This is a lesson in accepting the wormhole spacecraft technology, which we provided to the United Nations free of charge to make a fortune in the hydrogen extraction industry, and now they want to stop the funding for the 'Friends of Joy'." Therefore, the technology patent is still in the hands of its own people. Lao Kang, if you agree to the content of the agreement, please sign it, and then 'Friends of Joy' will start to pay you royalties. ”

Kang Buming took hard Bangbang's patent certificate and the text of the agreement, hurriedly glanced at it, and said in confusion: "I just accidentally became a billionaire?" ”

"Yes, that's right. That's why I said you don't slam the door again, don't be afraid that Mrs. Zun will give away your salary. ”

"But this invention was actually first proposed by Yangyang."

"Yes, he was the first to propose it, but the time before the 'Noah' went to the sky was too tight, and he didn't declare it or implement it, in fact, it started with you. Besides, Yangyang has left the earth, and there is no descendant left. Anyway, the patent is already yours, how you want to spend the money is your business, and if you want to send it to Yangyang dozens of light years away, it's okay. ”

"With so much money, leaving a fraction is enough for our old couple and children and grandchildren to spend, and I will donate the rest to 'Friends of Joy'."

"I said, that's your business, I'll talk about it later. Also, your joke just now can't be treated as a joke, and it is true that you have to apply for a supplementary patent for building materials. He thought for a while, "Let's take the three people who have contributed the most, Kang Buming, Chu Tianle, and Ge Qihong, as the patentees." ”

Ge Qihong was also stunned, "Me? Just because of that sentence? ”

"Yes, a word can lose the country, and a word can prosper the country. Do you remember an anecdote from German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder? I can't remember the reason for the incident, maybe after the German team won a football match, he happily shouted: Let's have a drink! Later, this sentence was composed into a song and became popular all over the country, and he earned millions of manuscript fees in a daze. ”

"What a curse comes from the mouth. This time I'm done, the good days of being wide and fat are coming to an end, and I have to endure the hard work of the world's richest people. Then I will also learn to grow old, just leave some pocket money, and donate the rest to the 'Friends of Joy'. ”

Jokes aside, they decided to apply for a patent as soon as they got home, or that sentence, patents are safest in their own hands. Later, the group came down from the scaffolding, and Dyche said that it would take another hour to prepare, and asked them to go to the break room to rest first. Yu Leshui immediately said:

"No, since we still have time, let's go there." She pointed to the crowd in the distance, "They have been here for six months, and it is hard enough, the weather is about to get colder, and the days will be even harder." Ren Rui, you want to find a way to persuade them away, I know you have a way, you have shown your skills in Qi County, Lao Lu said that you used the anti-intermittent plan, the empty city plan, the beauty of the meat plan, and the serial plan, 'talking and laughing between the ashes'. ”

Ji Renrui couldn't help but shake his head, "You, you are really a bodhisattva." In fact, they are not bitter, they think that the penance of the flesh will reap the happiness of the soul, the salvation of the soul. ”

Yu Leshui insisted with a smile, "You try to persuade once." After persuasion, if they still insist, we have done our best. ”

"Okay, I'll try."

They still arrived by helicopter. In the center of the crowd there is a large stainless steel pot, which contains what is probably a Chinese-style chowder soup, which is fragrant and steaming, and people are queuing up to receive it, in an orderly manner. The three old ladies who held long spoons in their hands were distributed to everyone, and they seemed to enjoy the role of "giver", working very hard, and talking cordially with the recipients as they distributed. Two of the old ladies looked unkempt, they should be the two neighbors who lived a hard life in the tent, and the neatly dressed one must be Kang Buming's wife. Ji Renrui asked his companions to wait outside the circle, and he found the three old ladies and spoke for a while. Yu Leshui and the others couldn't hear what he was saying, only that he was staggered between Chinese and English, and that he was obviously speaking to the people around him. Twenty minutes later he came back and said with a smile:

"Okay, Lao Kang's two old neighbors have agreed to return to China, and the others have been shaken."

Yu Leshui admired, "So fast!" What did you say? Which of the 36 plans is this time? ”

"It's useless at all, this time by the power of the truth. I said to them: This is indeed the place where a vacuum bubble can be excited, and this second-order vacuum can be said to be a new universe, so it is not wrong for the Lord to say that this is the gateway to the new universe. But objects in the excitation zone, including the human body, are embedded in the walls of the hollow ball in front of you. You see, you can see through the gap that there's a human body, right? At that time, there were four righteous martyrs embedded in the wall, and as for whether their souls can leave the physical body and enter the new universe, according to our beliefs, we do not believe it, but it is not excluded that your faith is right. I will tell you the news that the first industrial stirring will take place in half an hour, according to the Lord: then the gates of heaven will be opened. If the three of you are willing to enter the gates of heaven, I can open a back door and send you to that tank beforehand—but after doing so, I can't guarantee the fate of your souls, but the flesh will definitely be embedded in the hull. ”

"What do they say?"

"Kang Lao's wife shook her head first, and said with a smile: 'You are mistaken, I am here to give them porridge, and I am not ready to enter the kingdom of heaven.' The two old neighbors hesitated for a while, and decided to give up the back door I provided, saying that they would leave here immediately and return to China. The others were immediately shaken, and there should be quite a few people following in their footsteps. ”

"Good, good job. Thank you Renrui, the merit is immeasurable. ”

The scaffolding over there has been dismantled, and the excitation is about to begin. They returned by helicopter and stood at the mouth of the pit, looking down without blinking. After the preparation bell rang, everything was silent, and suddenly a white light flashed, and the space seemed to twitch, and with a clear sound, the huge vacuum tube suddenly disappeared. If you look closely, it's still there, but it's a completely transparent canister-shaped hull, slightly larger than the original. The support under the tank was crooked, and the tank sat directly on the ground, and the clear sound should be the sound of the tank sitting on the ground. The vacuum pipes outside the tank range remain intact but have been detached from the tank. Two laser cutters stretched out their long arms at the same time and began to cut on the hull. The cutter glows a dazzling blue, but unlike ordinary cuts, there are no sparks flying at all, only an extremely thin cut that slowly outlines the shape of the hatch on the transparent hull as the laser extends. It seems that this new type of substance is more difficult to cut, and the cutting travels rather slowly. An hour later, two doors – no, four – were cut, and it turned out that the laser cutter had also cut on the opposite side of the tank wall.

Kang Buming and Dai Qi led everyone into a sightseeing pod, and the hydraulic telescopic arm sent the pod to the freshly cut doorway. According to Dyche, the hull will soon be removed for further processing in other workshops. Here the door is cut out in advance, just for the convenience of inspection and hoisting, and then it is time to start preparing the next product. Through the doorway, everyone looked in awe at the huge transparent hull. The bulkhead is really thin, only two millimeters, which, combined with complete transparency, is almost like melting into the air. Ge Qihong smiled and asked:

"Mr. Kang, Mr. Dykey, with such thin walls, can you really make a spaceship hull?"

Dyche seemed to have anticipated a similar problem, and prepared a sledgehammer in advance, and at this time he brought the hammer and smashed it into the hull of the ship, and everyone couldn't help but feel a sense of tightness - they were used to the scene of glass shattering under the hammer. But such a scenario did not arise. Only a clear sound was heard, and the hammer was bounced back, leaving the smashed area intact. The aftermath of that sound continued, and the shock wave traveled along the thin hull, causing the diffraction of light, and circles of colored ripples swung along the hull. From this phenomenon, this high-strength material also has excellent elasticity. Kang Buming smiled and said:

"His hammering is just a show, a visual picture for reporters, in fact, the strength of the hull is far greater than the force of the hammering, and it can even resist the impact of micrometeorites." He asked Ge Qihong with a smile, "Xiaoge, do you have a fear of heights?" If not, you can use such transparent spheres to form a skyscraper, so that the building melts into the blue sky, and the residents can look through the floor and watch the rainbow lie at their feet, and the clouds fly to a halt. ”

Ge Qihong said sincerely: "That is the realm of immortals. ”

Everyone laughed, but there was also bitterness in the depths of the smile - human society has reached a new stage, and with inexhaustible cheap and clean energy, "environmental pollution" will become an outdated old word. Mankind has entered the kingdom of freedom because of technology, from the human realm to the divine realm. Unfortunately, there is still a demon lurking in front of it, and it will swallow all this beauty without mercy, and the technology that has been deified has no way to deal with it, at least so far. True, Pauli is working hard to develop the baby universe, but the outcome is unpredictable, it can only be described as a crazy effort in despair.

Everyone said goodbye to Kang Lao in bitter joy and embarked on the road back.

Since then, new ships have been built at an astonishing pace. Based on the standardized hulls produced by the Fermi Center in the United States, Ji Renrui organized assembly line production all over the world, and all countries with the corresponding technical level participated in the production of parts and components, and finally assembled them in China. Of course, Ji Renrui had reached an agreement with all the shipowners in private in advance: after the completion of the spacecraft, the "Friends of Joy" would borrow it for three months without paying rent, but would ensure the integrity of the spacecraft, and if there was any damage, it would be compensated according to the price.

As for the industry that produced monolithic houses in the same way, Kang Buming's grandson Kangping was the general director. This is a large industry involving trillions of output value, and they must first formulate standards, conduct preliminary experiments, and complete finalized drawings.

Two years later, with the almost frantic efforts of Ji Renrui, Pauli, Kang Buming and others, thirty-three spaceships were successfully built, and one more was used as a backup. The new process and assembly line production greatly reduced the cost, and even so, the total construction cost accounted for 45% of the world's GDP that year, which greatly affected the quality of life of the people. But the people knew what it was for, so it didn't cause any trouble. There was only one thing that Ji Renrui didn't do: he originally wanted to buy insurance for the spaceship, but no insurance company dared to take over the business. In fact, even if someone picks up, Ji Renrui can't get an astronomical premium. And – after all, what's the difference between insuring and not insuring? In Ji Renrui's mind, the money in the world is now his, and it can be used for the purpose of human escape. Then, if you buy insurance, you are just transferring the money from your right pocket to your left pocket. What's more, this experiment is "intrinsically safe" (Pauli's words), vacuum annihilation can only release a trace amount of energy, that is, low-intensity light pulses, and personnel and equipment are absolutely safe as long as they are outside the range of annihilation. The success of the "Goldfish" and "Noah" is evidenced by the industrial stimulation that has been routinely implemented by the Fermi Center. So later, Ji Renrui gave up the idea of buying insurance.

In the past two years, Chu Tianle has been paying close attention to the progress of this matter, but he has indeed not participated in it. More often than not, he spends his time at home in the mountains: in a wheelchair, his eyebrows slightly frowned, his gaze focused on infinity, motionless for hours. Yu Leshui tries to spend as much time as possible at home with her husband, she knows that he is struggling to find "another way", but his search will definitely not go well. Yu Leshui could feel the anxiety in his heart. Even six-year-old Cao'er knows a rule: she must not be disturbed when her father "turns into a stone statue", and she will quietly follow Sister-in-law Xu or her mother to play outside. Yu Leshui never asked her husband how he was doing, so as not to put pressure on him. She remembered that her father-in-law took the initiative to quit scientific research in his later years, just like a water lover who took the initiative to stay away from the sea when he was old, and it was inevitable that she would feel a sense of loss at that time. Yu Leshui has a feeling that her husband may be about to leave the stage of intellectual fighting. Although he was only forty-four years old, his illness may have affected his intellect.

For a person like her husband, mere intellectual decline means the end of her life, Yu Leshui thought bitterly.

Two years later, in June, preparations for the Baby Space Experiment were all ready. Ji Renrui borrowed the "Cosmic Bug" from SCAC, pulled Chu Tianle and Yu Leshui, and came to the second Lagrange point of the Earth-Moon gravitational system, 60,000 kilometers behind the moon, to inspect the experiment on behalf of the "Friends of Music" headquarters. Thirty-two unmanned spacecraft have been moored there, and the hulls are painted with the names of each ship: "Shield Machine", "Deep Diving", "Lonely Heart", "Miner", "New Eden", "Gate of Heaven" and so on. Since the new ships are equipped with tail antennas, they still resemble goldfish, but with small tails. Thirty-two goldfish are grouped head to head, and their tails form a giant flower ball. The experiment will take place at midnight Beijing time, at which point thirty-two goldfish will spit out water bubbles (second-order vacuum bubbles) at the same time, and the thirty-two bubbles will be connected into a closed sphere, and the spherical space (first-order vacuum) enclosed by this sphere will be separated from its original three-dimensional universe, float away, and disappear.

Pauli accompanied the inspection. This guy has always been unkempt, he has been so busy in the past two years that he has even saved a haircut, and now his pale yellow hair and beard are long and unkempt. Ji Jichang and Emma privately called the teacher a "white-haired lion", which should be an apt nickname. He has not had time to swim or bathe lately, and the smell on his body is as pungent as that of a lion, but visitors are gentlemanly and pretend not to know about it. Pauli pointed to the spaceship and smiled at Yu Leshui and said:

"Look, this is your football."

Thirty-two ships are exactly the same in appearance, only the shape of the tail antenna is divided into two types. During the construction of the spacecraft, some good deeds were privately connected in series and made the following distributions: the tail antennas of the twelve ships were made into regular pentagons, black; twenty ships made in a regular hexagon, white; Taken together, they resemble the 32 pieces of a football. Considering that this small change has nothing to do with the overall situation, Ji Renrui laughed and let him go at that time. So from a distance, these ships form a large, realistic soccer ball, but it hasn't been put together yet, and there is a gap between the black and white pieces.

Yu Leshui smiled and shook his head, "This football is also a little bigger." ”

Chu Tianle also smiled: "If you want to kick it, you have to have a big foot like Kuafu." ”

Pauli pointed to the center of the soccer ball, where a grid-like object hovered, "and that's the radioactive source, which is used to verify the success of the experiment." There is a sensitive probe placed on the far side of the moon, and if the index of the probe suddenly returns to zero after the bubble is excited, we can open champagne. I made the radioactive source into a grid, a total of 125 nodes, each with 100 grams of radium fixed. Such a structure can use the low temperature of space to cool the radium block and avoid overheating the center due to radioactive energy. ”

Chu Tianle said: "But only the moment of excitation can be measured, because the moon where the instrument is placed will soon be far away from this space." "This explanation is for Ji and Yu, who are not professional scientists after all." In the past, people have always mixed 'star coordinates' with 'spatial coordinates', and only recorded the coordinates of stars when observing the universe, and never tried to determine a specific spatial point, because the vacuum is nothingness, and it is the same everywhere, and there is no feature that can be located. But after we excite it, there is a certain point in the universe, which is like the navel of the ocean, which causes the surrounding space to flow out. Because the Earth and Moon are in motion, they will quickly move away from this specific point of rest. For example, it's like lighting a firecracker in the tail of a speeding car and blowing a small crater in the ground. The pit will move away from the car very quickly, and that's because the car is moving, and the pit is stationary. ”

Yu Leshui was a little puzzled, "Then how do you verify whether the excitation is successful?" If the lump does not fall into the baby universe, it will quickly move away from the moon at that particular point, and the lunar probe will also lose its readings. ”

Chu Tianle smiled, "Wrong! If the radium block does not fall into the baby universe, but remains in the universe, it will be affected by the gravitational pull of the Earth and the Moon, and will still move with the Earth-Moon coordinate system. So the combined result is that as long as the on-the-moon probe reads back to zero, it means that champagne can be opened. Pauli, am I right? ”

"Yes."

Ji Yu and the others pondered carefully, nodded and said, "Yes, that's the case." ”

Suddenly, two clouds of blue light appeared from the tail of one of the thirty-two spaceships, and the hull of the ship moved slightly. Two or four clouds of blue light also appeared behind the tail of the other spaceships, and the hull of the ship also moved slightly. The blue light then went out and the hull returned to stability. Pauli explains:

"Thirty-two spacecraft are linkage controlled, with a central radioactive source as the origin, maintaining a strict spherical shape. If there is a slight amount of drift, the computer will automatically direct the ship's fine-tuning system to ignite and accurately correct the ship's orientation. ”

was very satisfied with the on-site inspection, and neither Ji Renrui nor Chu Tianle had any opinions. So, the group left here on the "cosmic bug" and went to the far side of the moon 60,000 kilometers away, where the experimental command post was located. At this time, the sun, the earth, and the moon are not in a straight line, and the far side of the moon (that is, the side that always faces away from the earth) is mostly bathed in sunlight, hanging like a shining gold disk over the canopy. However, this gold plate is full of scars and has many craters, but what is more striking are the numerous "seas", such as the Korolev Sea, the Tsiorsvsky Sea, the Mendeleev Sea, the Apollo Sea, the Moscow Sea, etc., which are scattered on the surface of the gold plate. Chu Tianle watched greedily, skillfully pointing out various places for his wife, and sighed heartily:

"I've been observing astronomy for 30 years, and this is the first time I've seen the far side of the moon, but I've memorized them on a map of the moon."

The spacecraft stopped in the center of the far side of the moon, a nameless plain not far from the Aitken crater. A simplified version of the ship stopped here, with the name "Nuwa" on it, and it was the spare one of the thirty-three ships. The "Cosmic Bug" closed the wormhole flight state and landed on the moon in low gravity using the power of four "little bees" in the tail. After stepping off the ship, everyone saw the command post, which was a completely transparent building that seemed to dissolve in the sunlight. It is perfectly spherical in shape, and the lower part of the sphere is buried under the moon rock. There were two dozen people and some equipment inside the sphere, and a small telescope with a video camera was facing the zenith. Pauli led the three of them into spacesuits, got off the spaceship, entered the command post through the tunnel, and took off the spacesuits again. Ji Jichang, Kang Buming, and World News Agency photojournalist and announcer Hops greeted them and shook hands with the guests, while Emma also waved to this side in the distance. Pointing to the transparent spherical houses, Pauli said with appreciation:

"Look, the credit of Kang Lao. He cleverly borrowed the well-established hull manufacturing technology to make it simple on the moon, and used the excitation system of the 'Nuwa' to create this laboratory. ”

Several people shook hands with Kang Lao and thanked him, and Ji Renrui said: "You old guy is really idle, running on the moon and making this big bubble." ”

Eighty-five-year-old Kang Buming still maintains a pure heart. He said passionately: "Welcome to the age of science fiction. Working here these days, I always feel like I'm in the scene of some kind of science fiction movie. I think that even if the final fate of humanity is unchangeable, I have to thank the pot of boiling water more than 20 years ago for allowing a group of tiny frogs to jump to the highest heights in life. ”

Ji Renrui scolded with a smile: "You old crow, don't be blind here. Let's start with the situation. ”

So, Ji Jichang introduced the preparations for the lunar base. After the introduction, Ji Renrui asked: "I see that the main force of the Pauli group is here." Do you have to use so many people for the experiment? ”

Ji Jichang replied: "No." The experiment was fully automated, and it was enough for two people except the photojournalist, but none of the partners wanted to miss the opportunity to observe the experiment with their own eyes. ”

Ji Renrui said unceremoniously: "Then you haven't learned the tradition of 'Friends of Happiness'. The tradition of Friends of Joy is to do only what is necessary and take only the most necessary risks. "Of course, I know that this kind of experiment is safe, and it only excites soft pulses of light, which are already routine in Lao Kang's factory, not to mention that it is still 60,000 kilometers away from the experimental site." But since the experiment didn't use so many people, let them go back to Earth, including the 'Nuwa' next to it. ”

Pauli immediately nodded in approval, and made a resolute gesture to his apparently reluctant men, saying, "This whip is right." I, Ji Jichang, and photojournalist Hopps stayed, and the rest left on the 'Nuwa'. ”

Ji Renrui said: "Yes, hurry back, you can watch the live broadcast in the middle of the night." ”

One of his men said in frustration, "That's a whole moon away......"

Chu Tianle smiled and said, "I have to wronged you." Don't you know the name of the whip of God? - The point is that he is right, it never hurts to be more careful. ”

Kang Buming suddenly interjected: "Yes, you should leave - but Ji Jichang can't stay." Since it was for safety, the second-in-command of Pauli's group should have left. I'll stay. He stopped the young men in advance, "For the sake of my gray hair, no one will fight with me." At my age, even burying bones in the moon is worth it, and it can definitely be regarded as a joy and mourning. ”

Ji Renrui scolded him again: "You old crow, the more noisy you are, the more energetic you are." But that's what you say. ”

Yu Leshui looked at Ji Renrui, and secretly admired it in his heart. This man is capable and thoughtful, bolder than anyone else when he should be bold, and more careful than anyone else when he should be careful. It's not that the experiment was risky, but he resolutely discarded any "unnecessary risks" in advance, and did a very good job. I really want to thank fate for bringing this person to the "Friends of Joy" (in fact, it should be said that he contributed to the birth of the "Friends of Happiness"), he is the soul of the "Friends of Happiness" like Tianle. If Tianle is the brain that thinks about it, then he is the cerebellum that manages action. His only drawback—which can only be regarded as her feelings—Ji Renrui seems to enjoy the thrill of power too much. Two years ago, she did not agree to Abikar's proposal, which was an important reason.

Ji Jichang was not very reconciled, knowing that Pauli would not agree, he still said tentatively: "Teacher, let me stay in command, you can rest assured, I promise to ......"

Pauli interrupted him and said briefly, "The group leader takes precedence." ”

Ji Jichang knew that he couldn't resist him, shook his head in frustration, and muttered: "You white-haired old goblin." Emma over there heard this, smiled and said in English, "Mr. Pauli, Changchang is calling your nickname again." Pauli was silent.

Yu Leshui smiled and urged everyone: "Let's go, let's go." Don't delay watching the live broadcast. ”

Everyone began to wear space suits, and Ji Jichang suddenly stopped halfway through it and patted his head, "Yo, I suddenly remembered, today is Dad's important day, 60th birthday!" ”

Ji Renrui was stunned for a moment, "If you don't say it, I forgot about it myself." Before leaving, your mother asked me if I could go back today, and I said sure. She didn't say anything about her birthday, maybe she wanted to surprise me? ”

Everyone laughed and said, "Go home quickly, you family of three will watch the live broadcast by the candlelight of the birthday cake." Ji Renrui suddenly patted Kang Buming, because they had the same birthday, they always jokingly called Lao Tonggeng: "You ......"

Kang Buming also remembered at the same time: "Haha, it's also my birthday!" It's okay, it's okay, I'll just spend it on the moon, it should be my most chic birthday in eighty-five years. But I have to talk to my wife. ”

He asked for a phone call at home through the headquarters, saying that he couldn't go back today, and that he would eat the birthday cake for him. The wife asked the four-year-old great-granddaughter Cricket to celebrate the birthday of the grandfather, sang the birthday song in a milky voice, and the old man hung up the phone happily.

When Kang Lao called, Pauli called Chu Tianle aside and said calmly: "Since it is the implementation of security measures, I will simply leave my last words." Chu, in case something happens, the Pauli formula is left to you. ”

Chu Tianle looked at the male lion with messy hair with emotion. Pauli's gaze was calm, but Chu Tianle read his deep meaning from it. This "white-haired old demon" can be said to be the most sober in the world, and his intuition is amazing. Insiders know that he likes to bet on a study to guess the result intuitively before coming to a conclusion, and he has hardly ever lost. In the recent period, he suddenly changed from a bare-bottomed sunbathing freeman to a workaholic, and there must be a major reason. Maybe he saw another catastrophe ahead of humanity? He once said that although the Pauli formula is an empirical formula, it has the beauty of simplicity and symmetry, and should be able to become a theoretical formula. Now, he deliberately keeps the formula to himself, of course, with deep meaning...... But it's not appropriate to talk for a long time at the moment, Tianle just smiled and said:

"You're embarrassing me. You know I'm a halfway monk, and I have a poor math background, so I can't do this. I'm sure you'll come back safely, and it's up to you to do it. ”

Pauli said with his usual bluntness: "I know you're a bit bad at math, but you have a great intuition, and it's just as important as math proficiency." Well, over to you. ”

"Okay, I'll take it for now."

The two groups of people said goodbye, and everyone came out through the tunnel and boarded the two spaceships respectively. The sun had half set, and it was twilight in the lunar wilderness. The spacecraft takes off with conventional power and then switches to wormhole flight. Before everyone's vision turned blind, everyone saw that in the brightly lit crystal ball building, three figures bathed in warm light were waving to them frequently. This has also become a posthumous photo of the three of them in everyone's memory.

The two spacecraft are parked in a synchronous orbit over the Halmahera launch site. They returned to the ground on a "little bee" and then took a special plane back to China's Xixia. It was already 11 o'clock at night when he arrived at the headquarters, and Ji Renrui didn't let the Chu couple go, asking them to eat birthday cake together. Although Yu Leshui wanted to go home early to see the grass, it was difficult to refuse, and the grass must have fallen asleep, so he readily agreed. Miao Ji heard movement outside, hurried out, and was relieved to see that it was her husband and his party. Her son, who couldn't go home, also came back unexpectedly, which made her even happier. She said:

"I finally came back today in a hurry, and I didn't delay my 60th birthday until tomorrow."

She really prepared a birthday cake and a table of feasts, and there were Lu Junding and his wife in the house. Everyone was busy blowing out candles and cutting cakes, but they all had one eye on the TV screen. On the screen, the big black and white "football" still hovers quietly, waiting for the command to ignite. Today is the seventh day of the lunar calendar, and through the window, a thin crescent moon hangs in the middle of the night sky, and the dim lunar disk is faintly visible. In terms of orientation, the experimental site, the second Lagrange point of the Earth-Moon system, is behind the center of the lunar disk at the moment. Lu Junding said to Yu Leshui:

"If the experiment is successful, I'll be able to do it right away."

He said that if the experiment is successful, the people have hope again, and they can vent psychologically, no one will come to carry out any more assassinations. He was right, but when he suddenly mentioned this at this moment of joy and excitement, Yu Leshui suddenly felt a wave of melancholy in his heart. Glancing at her husband, he was trying to eat (now that he was chewing more difficult), he didn't seem to pay too much attention to this sentence, and Yu Leshui hurriedly pulled the conversation away.

This birthday feast was a storm, because the time was almost zero. Everyone didn't have time to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, so they piled them up on the dining table and went to the living room to watch TV. Occasionally, people would look at the crescent moon outside the window, because from the real position, the experiment site was in that direction, and they really wanted to see the laboratory through the moon.

Because there are too many uncertain factors in the Baby Universe Project, today's live broadcast is relatively low-key, with no professional hosts and no VIPs to watch the ceremony. The camera switches back and forth between the experiment site and the lunar lab, where only Pauli, Kang Buming, and Hopus, who doubles as host. At 11:59, Hopps simply announced:

"The experiment is about to begin, now start the one-minute countdown!"

The computer counted monotonously, and the Ji family's room was quiet, and all eyes were fixed on the big black and white "football" on the screen. At the end of the count, the big "football" suddenly burst out with an extremely strong white light. Everyone couldn't help but shout hello, but this cheer was only half shouted before it was stuck, because the TV screen suddenly went black! At the same time, the night sky outside the window became snowy, and against the background of strong light, only the moon disk in mid-air was black, like Satan's one-eyed. The bright light flashed, and the night returned to its original appearance, only the circumference of the lunar disk remained with a thin white light, surrounding a hollow moon. However, the aperture soon faded, revealing the original crescent moon. Strangely, before the white light faded, the lunar disk seemed to shake suddenly, and then everything fell silent.

The TV screen is still black.

Such a bright light far exceeds the theoretical calculation and is a bad omen. The room was silent for a second, maybe two, and then several people jumped up at the same time and went into action. Ji Renrui and his son called and asked the staff on duty at the headquarters of "Friends of Music" and SCAC respectively, and learned that at the moment when the bright light flashed, all the people who directly watched the night sky with binoculars were temporarily blinded. At this time, the only one that could bypass the moon observation experiment site was the Chuma Telescope in space, but it was also unable to provide a report due to the data spillover caused by the sudden bright light. Chu Tianle beckoned to Ji Renrui and said:

"Immediately take the spaceship and go to the scene!"

Ji Renrui nodded and gave a series of orders on the phone. Ten minutes later, Chu, Ji, and more than a dozen other people had already boarded a helicopter, went to Nanyang to change to a "little bee", and flew towards the Halmahera launch site. At the same time, other members of Pauli's cell rushed there from all over the country.

During the flight, Ji Renrui made a decision that these people would take two spaceships to the scene of the accident. He and Ji Jichang took two members of the Pauli team to take the "Cosmic Bug" first, and Chu and Yu led the rest of the people to take the "Nuwa" to stand by in synchronous orbit. The two ships are in constant contact and the latter can only depart after receiving a safety briefing from the former. There is unlikely to be any danger behind the moon at the moment, but - they also thought the experiment was safe! Chu Tianle and Yu Leshui agreed to this decision. Chu Tianle whispered:

"Brother Ji, Changchang, take care!"

Due to the need to keep in touch at all times, the "Cosmic Bug" could only use the intermittent flight mode, and it took two hours to arrive at the scene of the accident. After crossing the lunar border, they cautiously pushed forward, and Ji Jichang kept reporting:

"All thirty-two ships are missing...... There appears to be floating objects in the distance, and it is not clear at the moment...... Now to the far side of the moon – oh my! ”

Yu Leshui, who was guarding in front of the "Nuwa" intercom, asked anxiously, "What do you see?" ”

The intercom was replaced by Ji Renrui's voice: "Come and see for yourself." It has been confirmed that there is no danger. ”

An hour later, the "Nuwa" arrived behind the moon, and the crew members were stunned by the sight. In the center of the far side of the moon, a giant bowl rises out of thin air, roughly the size of China's Turpan Basin. The bottom of the bowl is sunk deep into the surface of the moon, about ten kilometers lower than the unchanged surface of the moon around it. The walls of the bowl rise in all directions, and the edge is about thirty kilometers higher than the surface of the moon. The walls of the bowl are incomplete, the edges are jagged, and the color is inconsistent, there are dark and light areas, and there are transparent areas. The bowl has a thin wall, raised high on the surface of the moon, and it seems that it will collapse in an uproar when you poke it with your finger, giving people a sharp sense of pain. Seeing this strange scene, Chu Tianle thought of what had happened at the Fermi National Accelerator Experimental Site, where a huge hollow ball with a gap appeared, and later he knew that it was the natural accumulation of matter formed along the annihilation sphere after the vacuum was annihilated. Today's bowl is the same natural pile, but nearly a thousand times larger. At the center of the sphere is the second Lagrangian point of the Earth-Moon gravitational system, where the experiment is located, that is, the annihilation space excited by this experiment has a radius of approximately 60,000 kilometers.

At that time, the inner walls of the two hemispheres of Fermilab were very smooth, with the innermost layer transparent, gradually transitioning to opaque, and the same is true of the inner wall of this bowl today. The two spacecraft are reflected on the mirror surface of the inner wall, and because the curvature of the mirror is small, close to that of a plane mirror, the image of the spacecraft is only slightly smaller. Both ships stopped firing at this point to avoid danger. The first spacecraft released a "little bee", flying on conventional power, searching along the huge bowl wall. They soon found the remains of two spacecraft, which had become flat and flat on the edge of the bowl, but their large structures, such as the bow, the pentagon or hexagonal tail antenna, the electromagnetic acceleration coil arranged in the shape of a warp, and so on, were almost indistinguishable. The name of one of the ships was facing this side, and upon closer inspection, it was barely recognizable: Lonely Heart.

The "little bee" flew towards the bottom of the bowl, and there was an area here that was a little more transparent than the others. It used to be the experimental command post, the transparent spherical building. It is also flattened and attached to the wall of the bowl. The three people in the hemisphere became magnified silhouettes, embedded in the transparent material with their hands and feet, a bit like the paleontology embedded in amber, but the scale was dozens of times larger. Emma in "Little Bee" was heard whispering over the intercom:

"This may be Mr. Pauli, who has the whitest complexion; This should be Hopus, with the small astronomical telescope next to him; This is Mr. Kang, and you can still see his gray hair. Today is his eighty-fifth birthday......"

There was silence over there, and the crew was paying a moment of silence to the three martyrs.

The two ships left the lunar surface, and after some searching, they found a number of other ships. They are also all planarized, forming spherical fragments of the same radian. These fragments should all be equidistant from the second Lagrangian point at the moment of formation, i.e., they are all piled up on the supersphere with a radius of 60,000 kilometers. These positions are far from the gravitational stabilization point, and the mutual positions of the Earth and the Moon have long since changed, so the fragments are scattered in the Earth's orbit for hundreds of thousands of kilometers due to the gravitational drag of the Earth and the Moon. However, no cube mesh for the radium blocks was found in the fragment. Both Nuwa and Cosmic Bug have radiation monitors, but nothing is shown on the instruments. In order to confirm the disappearance of the radium block, Ji Jichang asked the spaceship computer to calculate the spatial coordinates of the radium block three hours ago, and then rushed there. The ship approached the center of the former sphere, but the instrument still did not respond. That is, the experiment was successful. The radium square, with its one hundred and twenty-five nodes, had indeed drifted away from the universe with a self-enclosed space.

The experiment was successful, and it was unexpectedly successful. Now, Pauli-inspired enclosed space is not on the scale of a kilometre, but a supersphere with a diameter of 120,000 kilometres. It could even easily enclose the Earth with a radius of 6,373 kilometers and send it to another universe. It's just that the cost of this victory was too great, it cost three lives and thirty-two valuable wormhole ships as burials.

The two spacecraft returned to the surface of the moon again, hovering in the center of the Great Bowl with conventional power to pay tribute to the three martyrs. Everyone's eyes were clear, but none of them shed tears. The strangely shaped bowl in front of you can be said to be a monument to the three people, and it is an ultra-modern work of art. It is strong enough to resist the impact of micrometeorites, and its lifespan can reach at least tens of thousands of years - but the universe does not have such a long lifespan, but only hundreds of thousands of years. In this way, this thin monument will definitely be able to "live with the sky".

They said goodbye to their comrades-in-arms and returned, and Ji Renrui said calmly:

"Three lives, thirty-two spaceships, half an annual GDP of the world. I owe a huge debt that I can't pay off in a million years, and maybe I can only get a hundred by following the three of them. ”

The Chu couple shook their heads relative to each other, and Chu Tianle whispered, "Brother Ji, don't think like this. This is a debt to all of us. ”

Yu Leshui looked sad, "It's our debt." I'll have to pay my respects to the families of the three as soon as I get back, but—how do I say it? ”

Information about this small-scale astronomical-scale catastrophe is converging one after another. An unexpected takeaway from the cataclysmic moment was the space laser interferometer LISA [1], which was jointly invested and built by the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA

There has never been a definite signal since it was built in 2015, but there was a sudden spike in records that day, and the time was the moment of experimental excitation.

On the evening of the second day, after discussing with Chu Tianle, Yu Leshui, and Ji Jichang, a joint meeting of the Friends of Le Academy of Sciences and Pauli-Ji Jichang's group was held. In view of the lessons of the last assassination, Ji Ren took precautions this time, and Pai Lu Junding and his men set up a strict guard outside the conference room. The atmosphere of the venue was heavy, and the portraits of the three martyrs were not hung, but three white bouquets of flowers were placed on the rostrum. Ji Renrui said in a deep voice:

"Everyone stood and observed a moment of silence in tribute to the three martyrs."

Everyone mourned in silence, and everyone burst into tears. After the silence, Ji Renrui invited everyone to sit down and said straight to the point:

"The Baby Space Stimulation Experiment was the biggest failure since the founding of Friends of Joy, costing three precious lives and thirty-two valuable spaceships. The world will soon be swallowed up by a fierce wave, and I, the greatest debtor in the history of mankind, can only apologize by committing suicide. But I think we need to take the time to summarize the experiment before the sword of punishment falls, so that it can be easier to confess in court. Now, I would like to give the floor to Ji Jichang, the second person in charge of the Pauli group. ”

Ji Jichang got up, walked over first, and bowed solemnly to Ji Renrui, "First of all, thank you to Mr. Ji Renrui." He thanked his father so solemnly that everyone was confused for a while. Ji Jichang said, "Before the experiment, when my father inspected the site, he proposed that most of the members of Pauli's team must be withdrawn to Earth just in case, and his decision saved 19 lives in the group. And Grandpa Kang Buming took the initiative to stay on my behalf, so that I could still stand here. ”

The participants didn't know this detail, and they all nodded appreciatively to Ji Renrui, and at the same time they all felt scared for a while. Ji Jichang immediately got to the point:

"My dad said that this was the biggest failure of Friends of Joy, but in fact the experiment was very successful, and the success was beyond our expectations. In the past, we could only excite a second-order vacuum at the kilometer level, but this time it has increased sharply to 120,000 kilometers, jumping from a macroscopic scale to a cosmic scale. In other words, if it is confirmed that the infant universe is successfully stimulated, we will easily send the entire earth to another safe universe. You don't know that the moon at this moment, together with the earth and the sun behind it, is no longer in the original space coordinates, they are wrapped in space and displaced 60,000 kilometers to the center of the sphere at that time, but because it is a synchronous displacement, the relative distance has basically not changed, and we can't feel it. The celestial body opposite the hole in the vacuum is 120,000 kilometers closer to us, and this distance difference and the resulting gravitational change can be measured, but it is not taken into account at the moment. However, there is no doubt about this, because the LISA space laser interferometric gravitational wave meter has recorded this moment unmistakably. "It reminds me of Mr. Kang Buming." If he were still alive, he would definitely be able to describe for us that invisible upheaval, that unparalleled scientific and technological progress. It's a pity ......"

The crowd was shocked. Time was too short, and most people were still immersed in grief and frustration, not yet thinking about the scientific significance of this disaster.

"Our mistake is that the second-order vacuum created by 32 times the excitation is not 32 times the original one, but they excite each other to produce secondary excitation, and the end result is this baby universe with a diameter of 120,000 kilometers. Fortunately for humans, the spherical surface of the second-order vacuum bubble reached the surface of the far side of the moon, causing a depression 10 kilometers deep on the lunar surface. If the radius of the sphere were to be 3,000 kilometers larger, the entire moon would – as happened with Fermilab – instantly turn into a thin hemispherical natural accumulation. At that time, the experiment was arranged behind the moon to make the moon play the role of a safe bunker, but we were wrong, for this vacuum bubble excitation, the bunker did not work at all, and the only safety factor was distance. As long as the distance is greater than the vacuum bubble radius, it is absolutely safe, but if it is less than the vacuum bubble radius, then any kind of cover will not work. He joked in a bleak tone, "If you make such a huge moon disk, you will definitely not need to light the lamp to read at night." ”

The joke is creepy - a huge lunar disk of hundreds of thousands of kilometers! It turns the earth into a fly on a giant ceiling lamp, a spectacle that is both spectacular and eerie. Ji Jichang continued:

"If the radius of the vacuum bubble is another 360,000 kilometers, it will be the turn of the earth. So – we're really lucky. ”

The crowd was silent. Now it's not creepy, but calm fear after being shocked, which is far more than shallow creepy. Rogge sighed deeply:

"If that's the case, we're really going to die. But it can't be helped. In order to escape the catastrophe, we have tried to take the road that we have never taken, and we cannot ensure that everything is foolproof, so we can only pray that the cosmic law that Kang Lao said will be secretly blessed - the greater the cataclysm, the higher the threshold for its excitation. ”

Ji Jichang continued: "In retrospect, our experimental plan was indeed wrong, but it was not much wrong, and it only needed to be slightly changed: instead of forming a spherical shape with their heads facing inward, the thirty-two spacecraft were all lined up on the inside, with their heads facing the periphery in a spherical shape. Thus, when the 120,000-kilometer-diameter sphere is inspired, thirty-two spacecraft will be encased in the newborn baby universe. That is to say," he glared at everyone, "not to mention the project of sending the entire Earth, at least we have the ability to send a fleet of this size to the new universe at once: thirty-two ships, plus thirty-two thousand crew members. ”

Hearing this unbelievable and reasonable conclusion, everyone was suddenly startled, and then their eyes suddenly lit up. They stared at the speaker and then turned to eye contact with each other. There was an extreme silence in the room, but there was a clear leap of joy in the silence. Emma looked at her lover with joy in her eyes. Yu Leshui looked at them, thinking with a little bitterness and a little playfulness: This is really a group of children who don't remember to eat. I had just experienced a disaster, and the tears on my cheeks had not yet been wiped away, and as soon as I heard that there was a better game, I immediately threw myself into it. She saw that Chu Tianle's eyes also brightened suddenly, staring at Ji Jichang tightly, and did not hide her appreciation. She understands her husband's psychology at the moment. The husband has always been quick thinking, clear thinking and conceited, but at this moment he suddenly discovered the same genius, just like Zhuge Liang discovered Jiang Wei in his later years, and his joy was indescribable. Chu Tianle paused for a moment, seeing that no one had spoken, and then said to Ji Jichang:

"Thirty-two ships is too much, what if we make the fleet a little smaller? I think this number can be greatly reduced when the ship is switched to 'head out' discharge. So, how many ships are used at least to excite a closed sphere? Tell your father. ”

Ji Jichang immediately turned to his father and replied, "I have already thought about it, it is the number of faces of a cube. Six ships. ”

Chu Tianle also turned his gaze to Ji Jichang's father. Ji Renrui understood what the two meant, and said with a wry smile: "I know what the two of you mean, you want me to add six more to the debt of the thirty-two spaceships, right?" If you owe, you owe, as the saying goes, lice don't itch, debts don't worry, as long as someone dares to borrow. He pondered for a moment, and then asked, "That is, the minimum size is six ships?" ”

"Yes."

"Okay. My son thanked me just now, and now I want to repay the favor, and thank Ji Jichang for his life. With this bright picture he painted, I believe that there will be no more fierce winds and waves that I was worried about. As long as we take such a big step, the people will forget about the previous failure and continue to follow us. At the same time, try to move the world to build six ships and lend them to us, and although it is difficult, I can do it. Okay, Changchang, you can discuss how to go down, I want to start thinking about going up there to fight such a big autumn wind—especially on the basis of the unpaid debts of thirty-two ships. ”

Ji Jichang began to talk about the follow-up plans, including the formation of a fleet of 6,000 people, including the revision of the Noah's Convention. Chu Tianle and Ji Renrui did not participate in the discussion that followed, both of them sat with their eyes open, and their thoughts were already swimming outside the house. Yu Leshui looked at these two people silently and was full of emotion. They are exemplars of perseverance, and they are both planning the general layout of the next big battle. Among them, especially Ji Renrui, it is said that external fundraising should be the business of the Friends of Joy Foundation, not the Ministry of Engineering, but he does not distinguish between each other and takes it all on his shoulders. Yu Leshui pondered for a moment, explained to her husband, and quietly left the venue.

This was the longest meeting in the history of the "Friends of Music", and it did not end until late at night. At the meeting, the design of the next major campaign, including the transactional aspects of the campaign, was all discussed. When the meeting ended, Ji Renrui walked out of the venue tired and saw his wife waiting for him at the door. He asked what was the matter, and Miao Qi said bluntly:

"It's Leshui who told me to guard you here. She said that I want to take care of you these days, and you are not allowed to leave a single step until she returns. She said, otherwise, you would have dared to commit suicide and apologize for the huge debt of thirty-two spaceships. "She also said that suicide is not about you thinking you are guilty, but about trying to take the moral high ground by committing suicide so that the next six ships can easily solve it." ”

Ji Renrui was quite embarrassed, "Don't listen to her nonsense." This fish president is crazy, how can I kill myself? Do I look like someone who will commit suicide? ”

Miao Qi's expression remained unchanged, "That's better, but I'll follow you anyway." ”

"Where's Yule Water?"

"I don't know. Don't look at me like that, she really didn't tell me. ”

Miao Qi really didn't leave, followed her husband home, and asked her husband to stay in her field of vision when cooking and going to the toilet. Ji Renrui said aggrievedly: "Okay, okay, I really planned to commit suicide, if you stir up the peace like this, you will also vent the murderous spirit, and you will definitely not act again." So stop staring at me and get down to business. ”

"What's the matter?"

"If the next action is implemented, Changchang will definitely go, you have to be mentally prepared."

Miao Qi's eyes turned red, "I know, and I am prepared, I have been prepared since I left the willow leaves." I won't stop Changchang. Although life and death are uncertain, after all, it is to escape, at least there is some hope. I can think of it. ”

"And the object of Changchang."

"Yes, Emma is also the backbone of the Noah's Covenant faction, and she will definitely go on the ship with him."

"I want them to leave their blood on Earth – this is also inspired by the willow leaves. Let them get married quickly and have a child before leaving. It's too late, just leave a few fertilized eggs, and you find someone to surrogate. ”

Miao Ji thought about it and said resolutely: "If you take the second path, then I will be a surrogate mother myself." Women can still be surrogate mothers after menopause, I know. ”

Ji Renrui looked at his wife, "You can decide for yourself." This matter will be handled by you from now on, and I will not bother with it anymore. ”

A few days later, Ji Jichang suddenly took Emma home. Ji Renrui knew that his wife had already talked to his son thoroughly, so he asked his son:

"Changchang, I know that the number of six ships cannot be less, and that is the minimum number necessary to excite a complete sphere. As for the number of crew members, is it possible not to be full this time? ”

Ji Jichang immediately replied: "Dad, I know what you mean. If it was a general experiment, I would definitely be cautious, step by step, and let the crew as few as possible in the first experiment. But—you know, whether the separation of the baby universe is successful or not, the parent universe is unknowable, and it is not possible to improve the next experiment based on the situation of the previous experiment, as is normal program. So, it's just a gamble. If we can triumphantly reach the other side, then the greater the number of people, the easier it will be for this population to survive. ”

Emma continued, "Besides, there are so many people who want to go to the New World! 6,000 places is far from enough. ”

Ji Renrui stopped persuading and changed the subject, "My mother has already told you about that plan, right?" ”

"Yes. We were too busy to think about these things before departure, so we decided to leave at least two fertilized eggs for each couple and asked the Friends of Joy Foundation to find a surrogate mother. Oh, by the way, because this time it's 6,000 people, and the population size is large enough that there is no need for a monogamous marriage structure. After careful discussion and voting by Noah members, it was decided to amend the relevant provisions of the Noah Convention and restore the traditional monogamy. We believe that since nature has created monogamous species, it proves that such structures have their advantages. What's more, the environment of the new universe is bound to be very difficult, and more men need to work hard. Ji Jichang said with a smile.

When the father smiled and said, "Good." Although there is no moral aspect to the two marriage structures, I still like the new law. ”

A week later, Yu Leshui came back in the dust, and she did not go back to her home in the mountains first, but to Ji's house first. "Sister Miao, hurry up and make a bowl of porridge from my hometown to catch the wind for me, I'm really tired of eating foreign food this week." She said, "I ran no less than 50,000 kilometers on this trip, and I still hung zero around the earth. I didn't run in vain. ”

Miao Ji was very happy and agreed to go to the kitchen. Yu Leshui smiled and took out a stack of hard certificates from his shoulder bag and handed them to Ji Renrui. When the latter was opened, it turned out that they were all waivers of creditor's rights, a total of thirty-two copies. The creditor column has personal signatures and various languages: Chinese, English, French, Arabic, etc.; There are also ** official seals, including China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, etc. Miao Ji heard it in the kitchen, and happily ran out to hug Yu Leshui, and said with a smile:

"With these things, I don't have to guard him anymore, do I?"

"No, you're liberated."

Ji Ren choked with a sharp throat, shook his head and said, "You are really crazy." How can I commit suicide, is my old Ji like a suicide person? ”

Yu Leshui looked at him steadily, "You won't. But if you can't get the next six boats, you'll not feel guilty, but you think it will move potential donors. ”

Ji Renrui's throat was completely choked, and he only shook his head at this time. Yu Leshui continued: "The funds for the six ships in the back have also been basically implemented, this is the list, and there may be two more work to be done." It has been explained to the donors in advance that these new ships will disappear with the new universe, so they are gifts rather than leases, and naturally they do not need to be returned. Ren Rui, this time you can rest assured, the old debt does not have to be repaid, and the new debt is not owed. ”

She joked lightly. Ji Renrui had calmed down at this moment, and said with a smile: "Don't thank you for your great kindness." ”

"Of course I don't have to thank you. In fact, this is the responsibility of the Foundation, and it is my job, but you, the dean of the Academy of Engineering, are acting on my behalf. ”

They finished the meal with ease and called in a helicopter to take Yu Leshui home. Miao Ji's several matters were satisfactorily resolved—her husband's debts, the young couple's fertilized eggs, and her son's career—so she slept very deeply at night. Ji Renrui couldn't sleep. He didn't dare to alarm his wife, and silently thought about his thoughts with his arms pillowed. He believed his son's words - humanity had the ability to send a fleet to the new universe, but he didn't dare to ensure that the crew would arrive alive, let alone that they would survive in that universe that they knew nothing about. Therefore, the son's departure must be a farewell, a physical farewell plus a psychological farewell. But it can't be helped. It is the absolutely hopeless situation that forces humanity to take such a crazy, almost suicidal act. Only in this way will the people not go mad in a long period of despair. I also hope that in these crazy actions, I am lucky to run into a Strait of Magellan that connects to hope.

Ji Renrui remembered that he had read a document that said that when Magellan began his round-the-world expedition, he actually relied on a wrong map, and the so-called strait to the east marked on the map was actually only the mouth of the people of the Río de la Plata. But Magellan, who was in a frenzy for spices and geographical discoveries, went without hesitation. History has shown that it was his fanatical and imprudent actions that led to a great discovery.

"I hope Changchang, my son, is as lucky as Magellan." He prayed.

[1]

It is a regular triangular laser interferometer in space, with a side length of 5 million kilometers, that measures gravitational waves.