On September 30, 2022, Xia Ming returned to Zhishen, and this time not only did the spaceship change, but 39 people came with him.

The 25-day voyage was a bit dreary for these people, except for the initial acceleration and final deceleration phase, they all lived at 0.8 to 1G of inertial force and didn't enjoy much of the zero-gravity space-style romance.

There were also a few dangerous situations during this period, the Scavenger hit the cosmic dust and deviated from its course for a time, and the stiffness of the Zhiyin material and the accuracy of the attitude adjustment made this disaster that could have buried the ordinary spaceship a funny story. Of course, this kind of thing that is lower than Boltzmann's brain probability actually happened, which is an interesting story in itself.

In addition, Professor Hawking's physical condition is more worrying, he was rescued twice during the entire journey, both because he was too excited, causing a cerebral hemorrhage. However, every time he woke up, he said that he would never die until he stepped into that star gate.

The Scavenger accurately dived into the depths of the ravine of Homo sapiens, the mechanical arm fixed the spacecraft on the ditch wall, the front hatch opened, Xia Ming took the lead, except for Su Yu and a few people who had not yet adapted to their bodies, such as the little fresh meat Yang Dan who stayed behind, the others wore spacesuits and disappeared into the ravine one by one.

In the silver-white passage, Xia Ming looked at the extra room and was very puzzled.

Then the girl in the leotard appeared, and the others were shocked and inexplicable, there are still living people here?

Xiaotang stepped forward, blocked the girl's excessively exposed body, looked at it carefully, and sighed: "Fortunately, Xia Ming told me, otherwise I would really be scared half to death", and glared at Xia Ming after speaking, making him quite innocent.

"She's not a human, she's just a humanoid interface, so you can think she's a robot," Xiaotang told the others.

"Hello everyone, I'm Qianyi, not surnamed Qian, according to the way humans take names, my surname is Xia."

Qianyi's self-introduction made everyone suddenly, and the gaze that looked at Xia Ming became more complicated. In their understanding, this stargate is managed by a high-level artificial intelligence, and Xia Ming's self-proclaimed stargate manager does not seem to be lying. Otherwise, the interactive interface of this artificial intelligence would not have Xia as its surname.

A group of people suddenly burst into a bunch of questions, and even a scientist wanted to come over and pinch to figure out what such a human-like robot was made, but he only took a step when his shoes were entangled in the metal wire that suddenly appeared.

"I only communicate with Xia Ming", Qian Yi said lightly, seeing that everyone didn't understand what he said, and added: "I am his exclusive interactive interface, and without his permission, I will not have any contact with other people." ”

Can't you just embellish it with more academic language......

With a group of people's meaningful eyes, Xia Ming was very helpless.

Strips of metal rose from the floor, twisting and changing, and soon turned into a long couch.

Xia Ming said to everyone: "This is the buffer zone of the stargate, the environment completely simulates the earth, and everyone can leave the spacesuit." We don't have much time, but we still have time to catch our breath. ”

Officials, businessmen, scientists, and public figures all looked like they were in a dream, and they took off their spacesuits and sat on the sofa to rest.

In the small room, Xia Ming looked at the extremely familiar furnishings, frowned, and said, "You even have the memory of Qianyan?" ”

This room is exactly the same as the house that Xia Ming rented for convenience when he was working part-time.

"Yes, as I said before, Lin Qianyan formed a very strong personality infection with R3AI, the signal I projected to the earth. When Lin Qianyan died, the signal transferred to another person was also distorted. ”

Qianyi, to be precise, Xia Qianyi, when he said this, his eyes looked at Xiaotang. Xiaotang showed a relieved and relaxed expression, she finally figured out what was going on with Lin Qianyan's ghost she saw at that time.

Qianyi continued: "With the level of your consciousness activity, you shouldn't think of me as Lin Qianyan's rebirth. ”

"Okay...... We won't be entangled in Lin Qianyan's affairs anymore, what I want to know most is, do these people come in and have an extra burden on you? I remember when I got into the buffer zone, I had to go through ...... It's called stringing. ”

Xia Ming began to communicate with Qianyi, and his "telepathy" with Qianyi did not need to use QNI or Shen to chat, but a more advanced thinking resonance.

"Stringing is the transformation process before there is no anchoring, and now that we have completed the anchoring, it also means that the passage from your cosmic bubble to the high-dimensional space-time has been ordered, such as the flow rate of time, and now it has been synchronized."

"But your guess is also correct, I support the only exit of the high-dimensional space-time that has not collapsed at present, and every bit of power is used to delay the disintegration of the high-dimensional space-time."

"It's just a simple material entry, it won't cause me too much burden, if it involves thinking life, it will require me to expend strength to be compatible with the low-level primitive mode."

"I should have explained to you that the human mind is essentially the movement of strings. In order to ensure that this kind of motion can maintain the complete structure of low-dimensional space-time even in high-dimensional space-time, I need to make special annotations on the mind-string field, and devote more energy to help them solve the motion state and filter out the high-dimensional influences that will disturb their structure. ”

What Qianyi said, Xia Ming could understand, but Xiaotang was very puzzled, but she was good at digesting it, and soon had her own understanding: "To put it simply, you have to spend effort to add a shield to others, right?" ”

"Yes, except for Xia Ming. Moreover, the higher the consciousness activity, the less power I have to spend, just like you, and the girl named Xiao Huan outside......"

Qianyi looked at Xiaotang: "Your consciousness activity has reached 0.1, which means that the power spent on you only needs one-ten-thousandth of that of other people." ”

"Speaking of which, what exactly is consciousness activity? How are the values set? ”

Xiaotang only heard Xia Ming explain slightly, and he was very curious about this "attribute".

"When your self-consciousness is strong enough to change the original structure of the mind, you are able to control the deeper movement of the thought strings, which is also the basis for the mind to be able to autonomously maintain an intact structure in high-dimensional space-time, and this foundation is set at 1."

Qian Yi said to Xia Ming, "It is recommended that you raise the consciousness activity to this foundation at the right time. ”

Xia Ming asked, "Is this the right time?" ”

"Don't you need to show your people what they're doing?"

"It will take me a lot of extra strength, and if you can't relieve my pressure, the barrier protecting this exit will be more unstable and will disintegrate faster," Chiyi said. ”

"After all, it's still this, I know", Xia Ming pulled out a list of weapons in the AR field of vision: "Fight monsters, right, the problem is that I'm not sure how threatening our weapons are now, how well do you know them?" ”

"Those things are low-dimensional beings that have been brought to a high-dimensional plane by another me, just like you. It's just that their strings lose their normal structure and mutate. Their threat to the barrier is the violent disturbance of the chaotic strings, which is not a physical destruction. However, to dispel such disturbances, it is necessary to destroy their physical carriers. I don't know how much of a threat you are to you on the physical level, but I can be sure that the technology required to destroy their physical carriers is not beyond the level of the cosmic bubble you are in. ”

Qianyi's explanation is still obscure, but Xia Ming is relieved, which means that even if he uses gunpowder weapons to fight, he can at least fight.

"Then I'll go and decorate, first touch the details, right......"

Before Xia Ming left, he looked at the room and sighed, "You better make this place a conference room or something." ”

"As you wish", Qian Yi nodded, and the room began to change at the same time.

"In addition, you have to change your clothes ......", as soon as Xia Ming spoke, Qianyi's tights turned into silver and white metal liquid and faded to his ankles.

Qian Yi used Xia Ming's familiar tilting posture to ask gently, "How to change?" ”

"Uh, you tell her", Xia Ming took his eyes off the perfect body and let Xiaotang go up.

Under Xia Ming's planning, there have been many changes in the silver-white passage, the rest area has been separated separately, and another area has become a preparation area for action.

A steady stream of weapons and equipment sent from the Scavenger was sent into the preparation area, and Xia Ming and Anson changed into power armor suitable for space combat. These power armors, except for the energy part, other systems, including intelligence and circuits, are all made by Xia Ming with Zhiyin materials.

"That's how I understand it, the place outside the stargate is like a wasteland after the explosion of the magic net, although the goddess of magic Mithra has fallen, her residual consciousness is still guarding such a gate, and the magic net can also work near this gate."

"Our mission is to enter the wasteland and rid the demonic creatures. Each time one was cleared, the goddess regained a trace of divine power, and the door was a little safer. Once we have found and reclaimed the temple of Mithra, the goddess will return and the wasteland will be able to become a paradise again. ”

Anson used his mind to rearrange Xia Ming's explanation, but this statement made Lao Hong and Old Man Huang shake their heads.

"What a magic net, what a goddess, the gods and gods are so boring", Lao Hong said disdainfully: "Isn't the Xingmen a wild place where jackals, tigers and leopards are in charge?" Let's go in, slash and burn, build rivers and build dikes, and then we can farm. ”

"Goddess, it's good to be Nuwa Niangniang", Old Man Huang rarely agreed with Lao Hong's opinion.

Although there is a whole set of scientific explanations, seeing that everyone has their own understanding, Xia Ming will no longer talk nonsense.

The first batch of people who were preparing to enter the Star Gate, including Hawking, Musk, Bezos and others, were stunned when they saw Xia Ming and the others fully armed.

"Gentlemen, this stargate will bring a whole new world to humanity, but it will not be free. If we don't keep it, we don't get the future, but the end. ”

After Xia Ming finished speaking, he took Anson and the others into the light film, and Musk and the others looked at each other, and after a while, they hurriedly followed when Hawking's wheelchair advanced the light film.

Standing in the silver-white square, looking up at the canopy that seemed to have hundreds of billions of universes folded together, Hawking's voice sounded a long exclamation: "Is this the beginning of everything?" (To be continued.) )