Chapter 42: The Wind Rises
Number 13792 quickly adjusted his mood. He asked the Archon of Science: "How long do we have left?" β
"100,000 three-body hours. This is a time when it is completely guaranteed that nothing will happen, once the 100,000 three-body hours have passed, everything will be too late. β
"So can our orbital accelerator transfer all the people?"
"We need to at least double the size of what we already have, and we need to double the number of ships we use to transport them. We now have to go to our new home, the solar system, where our comrades on Earth have helped us adapt the asteroid belt to live in. β
"Well, go and have all the consuls come to me for a meeting, and after the meeting, let everyone know the news, and inform your comrades on Earth of this incident. Transmit our information about the Black Domain to the comrades of the Earth to see if we can establish the kind of Black Domain Belt in the solar system that Comrade Gao Wei said. If not, we'll only be able to spend more than two hundred years in the deceleration phase......"
The Archon of Science nodded, and left the office. In the next 100,000 three-body hours, I'm afraid some of them will be busy.
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Earth, another joint meeting.
"I agree."
"I agree."
"I agree."
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The rotating chairman of the meeting took the stage to show the final results: "After voting, a total of 363 votes were in favor of agreeing to list the Black Domain Plan as a key plan, and the rest were one abstention and one vote against. Therefore, the Black Domain Project proposed by Mr. Gao Way will receive the Consortium's grant and corresponding attention, and this plan will be independent from the Curvature Plan and enjoy the same treatment as the Curvature Plan. β
No one refuted, and Gao Wei took the stage to take over the letter of appointment from the rotating chairman and officially served as the commander-in-chief of the "Black Domain Project".
When he stepped off the stage, the beautiful girl in his team who had always had a crush on him kissed him directly, so much so that his face turned slightly red, and the faces of those around his face were blurred, and it seemed that only each other was left in his eyes.
After 100,000 Trisolaran hours, all the Trisolarans were concentrated on tens of thousands of spaceships, and most of them chose to dehydrate because of space. Only in this way can this number of spaceships be able to carry all the Trisolarans.
"Let's get started." 13792 stands in front of the giant pendulum of the Trisolaran star, surrounded by archons from various realms. They will be the last to evacuate. For reasons of secrecy, the spacecraft can only act in batches, not continuously, otherwise such a scene would be too conspicuous in space.
In fact, because of the effects of relativity, they themselves feel less than a year, and most of the time is spent in the process of acceleration and deceleration.
On Earth, the instruments that can form a huge black domain are already in place, and Gao Wei is in charge of real-time calculations to slow down the Trisolarans who will arrive in five years, because of the danger of the black domain, so he needs to sit here for a long time - an open area that is already outside Pluto's orbit.
But fortunately, she is still by his side. Gao Wei felt a different feeling in such a place. Sometimes they stand on the porthole of a spaceship and watch the infinite universe, and sometimes they walk in the endless darkness in spacesuits.
There was a feeling of happiness in Gao Way's heart. But his work didn't stop there, and here a huge buffer strip is being laid, only a few hundred meters wide, which will be completed in three years. Then two years of debugging and related experiments, plus the Trisolarans who should have come from afar, there are many special uses for this wall. For example, blocking aggression, studying the light-speed effect, and so on.
I have to say that in this universe that cannot travel faster than the speed of light, the speed of light is really a very inexplicable weapon.
The great migration of the three-body problem is continuing, and these people are more than 200 years later than the First Fleet, but more than 100 years earlier, and it has to be said that the development of science and technology is really changing with each passing day.
It is precisely because of the establishment of this buffer zone on the high way that the First Fleet can also avoid the trouble of slowing down, so the First Fleet will probably arrive shortly after most of the people of the Trisolaran arrive in the solar system. This time period is about twenty years or so. After all, at this time, the Trimaran First Fleet could only move at the speed of ten percent of light. Twenty years is enough to reach the solar system without slowing down.
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In the blink of an eye, five years have passed. The first group of people from the Three-Body Problem will arrive in Pluto's Black Domain in 24 hours.
Many people on Earth who chose to hibernate for this moment were awakened, Ye Wenjie, Yang Dong, and other scientists, all of whom came here on spaceships in the inner solar system. Ding Yi also came, although he is very old now, he is still full of energy.
Luo Ji, Shi Qiang, Zhang Beihai, Taylor, Rediaz, the Hines and his wife, and Wade also came here. All of these people came here when the Three-Body Problem was about to arrive.
On the first ships of the Trimaran 1379, 1379 sat opposite the FΓΌhrer, who had been soaked a day earlier. Through Tomoko's contact, they knew that they would meet many old friends this time, and it was difficult to calm down for a while.
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At this time, Li Yi did not appear in the base of Jupiter, and after observation a few days ago, he found that a UFO with a speed of 15 percent of light flew from the direction of the Bojiang-e star, and after detailed observations, Li Yi noticed that it was a giant crystal about three meters long.
Inside the crystal there are intricate pipes that appear to be man-made.
"The Devourer?" Li Yi began to talk to himself after seeing the crystal clearly, "Although "Devourer" and "Three-Body Problem" are written by the same author, they have different worldviews, why is there a plot of a suspected devourer in the three-body world? β
The technology in Devourer is not the same as the technology tree in Three-Body Problem. In the original work, Li Bai's civilization in the sequel "Poetry Cloud" of "Devourer" is so high-profile, I am afraid that in this world, I am afraid that I will fight to the death with the Zero, until the universe is buried with them.
In this three-body world, perhaps the gods behind the dinosaurs are not as powerful and high-profile as in "Poetry Cloud", but they are definitely not easy to mess with, and they should at least reach the edge of a god-level civilization.
And the strength of the dinosaurs should also be strengthened, and it is very likely to reach the level of humans in the crisis era in the original three-body problem. After all, their technology has not made great progress for tens of millions of years, and it is still in the field of nuclear fusion, and quantum technology is only a few superimposed binary atoms, and there is no sign of antimatter.
At the current level of humanity, it is enough to hang the Devourer Empire of dinosaurs. But Li Yi has a sense of crisis, Li Bai is civilized, it is not so easy to deal with. He walked inside a laboratory and looked at the beating macroatomic nuclei and the protons that were in the process of autonomizing. A thought in my heart gradually became firm.