The strong electromagnetic field blocking Tomoko has gradually narrowed to the Northern Hemisphere, and will then shrink further to a city, a block, or even a room, a molecule.

The reason why they need to go in early is to interfere with the Zhizi and prevent them from collecting electrons further, so that they don't have a chance to escape from the strong electromagnetic field.

In addition to the combatants in this operation, there is also a special person who took the initiative to ask for help, that is Ding Yi, a science madman who wanders the earth.

Originally, in principle, a scientific and technological talent like Ding Yi would never be sent to the front line.

But Ding Yi kept begging Qiao Lu to bring him, just to see the true face of Zhizi's Lushan.

Ding Yi said: "You need to have someone who knows Zhizi well enough to accompany you, and you can't do it with just a group of soldiers." You can't just run around like a blind fly, you don't even know what Tomoko looks like, right? ”

"It shouldn't be you, Doctor." Qiao Lu resolutely objected, "If something happens, what a loss to the scientific community!" ”

"As if you're not important, don't you risk your life all day?" Ding Yi retorted.

In this regard, Qiao Lu was really embarrassed to say anything, so he had to change his way of thinking and persuade:

"I'm a combatant myself, and I'm capable of protecting myself. The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and I can't guarantee that I will be able to take care of your safety. ”

"This life is my own, and I have the right to do what I want."

Anyway, no matter what Qiao Lu said, Ding Yi insisted on following, and it wasn't until he claimed that he was going to die in front of Qiao Lu that Qiao Lu had to consider agreeing to his request.

Nothing can stop Ding Yi's enthusiasm for science, and perhaps it is precisely because of this that he will become the chief physicist of the wandering earth, and few people can compare with him in this field.

In the end, Qiao Lu had no choice but to come forward to vouch for Ding Yi to participate in this operation, and asked the Wandering Earth Investigation Team to protect him.

Probably as Ding Yi said, in the almost completely unfamiliar microcosm, having a physicist who can help explain various phenomena is also very necessary for this operation.

Qiao Lu and his party stood on the starting platform of the quantum realm, each wearing a white suit with a Pym particle.

The strong electromagnetic field has been further narrowed to the Asian range, and the monitoring has found that Tomoko is indeed bumping around in the magnetic field, presumably quickly checking every electron.

"Countdown to departure, three, two, one!"

As Hank Pym pressed the start button of the device, the platform under Qiao Lu and the others instantly turned into a tunnel, and then everyone quickly shrunk and fell into it, as if they had fallen into a black hole.

In the process of shrinking, Qiao Lu first saw bacteria of all sizes, dragging long flagella, wandering like tadpoles.

Water bears, which can only be seen with a microscope, are now like deep-sea monsters, at least much larger than bacteria.

Even smaller are the viruses, which are oddly shaped, mostly covered with bumps or spikes on the surface, like a strange fruit.

It's just that these are just flashes in front of Qiao Lu's eyes, because they have to enter a deeper microcosm, and even a cell seems as vast as the Milky Way.

Qiao Lu and his party fell all the way into what looked like a porous structure in cheese or cake, and this layer was already at the molecular level, and they kept shrinking and falling into these holes.

What comes to mind is a celestial-like structure of several smaller spheres revolving around a large sphere, which are the extranuclear electrons and nuclei that make up atoms.

In the eyes of Qiao Lu, who has shrunk to the subatomic level, the nucleus is as huge as a planet, containing protons and neutrons, and there are quarks and gluons in the subdivision of the two, but this step is basically enough.

They fell into the nucleus of an atom, and the electrons formed a cloud of probability around them that looked like a paste, with complex colors and lines changing over a wider area.

It may be the string theory or the membrane theory that the most basic structure of matter, the lines or planes in a state of constant vibration, constitute different subatoms due to the different frequencies of vibration.

Everything seems so bizarre, very different from the macrocosm that humans originally live in.

Or that human beings simply cannot imagine that there could be such a colorful world in a very small atom.

"Incredible!"

At the moment when he successfully shrunk to the subatomic level, Ding Yi looked around excitedly, for physicists, I am afraid that this is heaven, at least the closest place to scientific truth.

"Sure enough, at the subatomic level, every electron is different. For a long time, the scientific community believed that the mass, charge, and structure of electrons were fixed, so they were all exactly the same elementary particles. But now we can finally see clearly, we just haven't gotten to the point where we can see the difference! ”

"Mind you, Doctor, we're not here to do research." Qiao Lu interrupted.

How far humanity is from truly completely indivisible elementary particles, no one can know. Qiao Lu is not interested in dwelling on this, they are here to hunt Zhizi!

"Everyone check the oxygen level, and whether the weapons and equipment are normal, and don't drop the chain when the war starts!"

Since humans shrink to the subatomic level, an oxygen molecule is countless times larger than itself, so in order to move freely in this situation, oxygen must also be reduced to the subatomic level in order to be able to breathe normally in the microscopic world.

At the same time, after narrowing down to this level, there is no way to perceive the macrocosm, just as the microcosm cannot be observed in the macrocosm.

The sensors and I/O interfaces inside the equipment are smaller than the wavelengths of all electromagnetic waves, which means that they can't keep in touch with the outside world, so they have to adapt here.

It can be said that exploring this microcosm is no less dangerous than exploring space, or even more so, and if you are not careful, you will never come back.

Because of this, human civilization has always had no way to take the Zhizi that is only the size of a proton, and it is simply a contest in different dimensions.

After Qiao Lu's reminder, Ding Yi returned to the topic and said:

"The chion has been continuously shrunk to the size of an ordinary proton, which means that it, like us, has no way to perceive the macrocosm. At least the outside world is free from Tomoko's surveillance, and the next thing is to fight it in the subatomic microcosm. ”

Now is the first time that human beings have competed with Zhizi in the same dimension, and the victory or defeat with the three-body civilization is here!