A week later.

A small spaceship about 30 meters long and 10 meters wide and high slowly landed on the roof apron of the Brain-Computer Center building.

The exterior of the spacecraft is painted in a conventional blue-and-white color, with an Asia-centered Earth-Moon system depicted on the horizontal stripe in the middle, and the eight Chinese characters of the "Earth and Space Defense Convention" arranged in a circle, and the entire icon is centered symmetrically.

After the spacecraft stopped, the gangway was lowered, and as the two robot warriors took the first step, Director Niu with a serious face followed, unable to get down the gangway.

At the entrance of the building not far away, Ye Ming kept shaking his head at him, very disdainful.

"Why do I only have to take a helicopter, you can take a space ship?"

"I'm here to try it out for you!"

"Well, that's pretty much it." Ye Ming said and was about to turn around and walk towards the elevator, but then he stopped and looked back at the spaceship: "Why don't you go back to the ship and talk?" This ship has no other mission, right? ”

“…… Not at the moment. ”

……

After greeting the flight attendants, Ye Ming walked into the cabin of the spacecraft.

I have to say that this is the first dedicated spaceship of mankind...... In fact, it is no different from a private jet, and even has a narrower space because of the fusion engine.

"It feels like the space is a little bit smaller."

"Well, it's mainly convenient, you just use him as a helicopter." Director Niu sat opposite Ye Ming, and then looked at him with burning eyes: "Are you sure that the plan will be revised?" ”

Director Niu landed directly in front of Ye Ming on the first "small" spaceship today, of course, not to send a special "ship" to Ye Ming - this spaceship can be seen from the paint that it is actually Taiyue's special official spaceship, and it will mainly travel between the earth and the moon in the future.

And he himself, before stepping on the spacecraft, also inspected the Guanghan base on the moon.

The reason why he rushed back in such a hurry was naturally because Ye Ming submitted a revised plan for the rice grain thruster last night.

As the highest civilian official in the Pacific Covenant in China, and the head of the entire national central system, he naturally had to ask for clarification in person.

"The experiments have been successful, of course I am sure." Ye Ming looked around, this spaceship was not designed by him, he just accepted the anti-gravity module, because he was quite curious about the interior decoration: "There is a projection on it, right?" ”

"Yes...... Can you get down to business? ”

"Haha, I'm not saying, am I?" Ye Ming laughed, and then coughed lightly: "Aita." ”

Aita's voice came from inside the cabin: "I'm here." ”

"Show Director Niu the results of the experiment."

"Okay."

Director Niu: "...... I've seen it many times, but I just don't quite understand how it works. ”

"In fact, the principle is very simple, you can understand that we can project the three-dimensional matter into the two-dimensional space according to a certain space conversion structure - don't look at it as a small two-dimensional space film, it is just bound by the force field throughout the whole process, if it is allowed to expand and amplify, it can be magnified to a very large ......"

“…… How big? ”

"Hmm...... Covering the Earth? Ye Ming said and shook his head: "Don't dwell on this, and in terms of technical prospects, there are more signs of the success of cold nuclear fusion this time - it means that we may be able to use two-dimensional unfolding technology to achieve more operations." ”

"For example?"

"For example, two-dimensional superconductivity, for example, by reducing the scale again, we can expand at the atomic level to create atoms that can be freely controlled, and for example, we can use this energy transfer technology to deliver energy to high-dimensional space......"

"Of course, the most intuitive thing is that we can achieve energy miniaturization." Ye Ming said slowly, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "In time, once the technology matures, we will be able to build a mobile artificial singularity mothership—that is the most useful." You've been on the moon this time, you've seen the current man-made singularity site, and you know how much space you need to do this kind of big project, right? ”

Director Niu exhaled lightly and nodded heavily.

This time he went to the moon, in addition to inspecting the Guanghan base and the Taiyue Defense Center, he also went to see the planning of the super accelerator project and the artificial singularity - which highly coincided with the place where Ye Ming went.

After all, he is also the same as Ye Ming, this is his first time in heaven, and he is always curious.

He also knew that in the past six months or even a year, in addition to promoting the theory of dimensional physics, Ye Ming's engineering efforts have mainly focused on two fields, super accelerators, and artificial singularities.

The former is the weapon system on which mankind depends, and the latter is the key to expanding the influence of human civilization.

Now that all the designs have been completed and the entire Earth's industrial system has been invested, CNNC has sent a large number of engineers to the moon to build a helium-3 power station to meet the energy needs of the artificial singularity and accelerator.

If it is really as Ye Ming said, if the technology of the two-dimensional reactor is mature and can miniaturize the two-dimensional cold nuclear fusion, then ...... Achieving a moving man-made singularity is no longer a dream – it can even fly with curvature.

Imagine that a spacecraft can fly faster than light with a change in curvature, and at the same time, it can stop and turn on an artificial singularity, continuously transmitting materials and even living things across hundreds of millions of light years...... What a great prospect would that be?

Not to mention the colonization of the universe, even if human beings do "traditional" interstellar trade, this thing is a big killer!

"So what's the biggest difficulty right now?" Director Niu looked at Ye Ming with burning eyes, he knew that Ye Ming had always been very radical in the use of new technologies, since Ye Ming had the words "in time" coming out of Ye Ming's mouth, it meant that the current technology was still difficult and could not be used on a large scale.

Hearing the word difficulty, Ye Ming's expression became cautious, and after a few seconds of silence, he exhaled softly: "The main thing is heat dissipation." ”

"Heat dissipation?"

"Well, heat dissipation." Ye Ming pursed his lips and nodded slightly: "At present, we can release energy through the engine, and the temperature of the cold nuclear fusion engine itself is not high, so we don't have to think too much about the problem of heat deposition." But if fusion is to be used for energy, the problem of heat dissipation is very realistic. ”

Director Niu's brows furrowed slightly: "What happens if the heat dissipation is not good?" ”

"You can understand it as heat death - relatively speaking, the two-dimensional space we have created is essentially an isolated system, it follows the second law of thermodynamics, and the system is more limited than the three-dimensional universe, it is easier to reach the limit entropy, and when the entropy reaches the limit, there will be heat death."

"Forehead......" Director Niu looked at Ye Ming carefully: "You have a solution, right?" ”

"There's no good way to do it yet."

“……”

Ye Ming laughed, he didn't have a good way now, it didn't mean that he didn't have ideas, but everything had to wait until the superaccelerator and two-dimensional space membrane generator on the moon were completed, and the three-dimensional matter with a larger mass could be two-dimensional before it could be verified.

……

Leaving the spaceship, Ye Ming and Director Niu returned to the office, and the two chatted about the fact that the Blue Star Man spaceship had set sail, and then inevitably talked about trade negotiations with the Eyed Star People, or the Kodor people.

In the trade negotiations with Youmexing, Ye Ming except for one chat with the big elder opposite, almost all of the rest were contacted and negotiated by CNY and the Taiyo business department.

The latest situation that Ye Ming knew was what Director Niu told him last time, and the other party issued a large number of lists.

"At present, the comprehensive consideration is that while we send a batch of supplies, we will also send some business representatives and diplomats over." Director Niu held the teacup, crossed Erlang's legs, and said with a smile: "It is estimated that the Kodo people feel a little uneasy that they haven't seen our real people." ”

"Send someone?" Ye Ming was slightly stunned, and then realized: "Yes, the Azure Star people must have also adapted to the environment over there, since the Kodo people can adapt to the environment over there, then the human race can obviously adapt to it." ”

"Well, and according to the basic principle of diplomacy, if the two sides determine diplomatic and trade relations, they will definitely send envoys to each other. So this time, in addition to sending people over, we may also have to pick up some of their people. ”

Ye Ming nodded, and then laughed and scolded: "Damn, I used to watch science fiction movies, and aliens drove flying saucers to the earth, and after that, humans either kneel and lick, or use native methods to fight with people like natives......"

Director Niu laughed: "You are talking about playing music?" ”

"Hahahaha! Almost! But I didn't expect the reality to be, let's go to other people's galaxies, and we have to pick people up......"

"yes...... And also to build embassies for people. Director Niu let out a long breath as he looked back at the Earth Community's data management building, which had been repaired and officials and technicians from hundreds of countries had moved in.

"You say, as we come into contact with more civilizations, will we build a diplomatic city in the future?"

"I think...... Can be repaired. Ye Ming squinted, but he was looking at space: "The universe is so vast, and there are so many civilizations...... Even the Blue Star people are not as far as the universe - even if there is a so-called habitable zone in the process of the Big Bang expansion in the universe, when human beings finish exploring the universe, they will theoretically encounter countless civilizations. ”

"Haha, is it possible that we will meet a super awesome civilization?"

Ye Ming smiled and shook his head: "I don't know, anyway, our goal is to become a super civilization......"

Director Niu nodded with emotion, and then looked at Ye Ming straight for a few seconds, until the latter was a little inexplicable, he smiled slightly: "You haven't thought about seeing that day with your own eyes?" ”

Ye Ming was slightly stunned, and immediately heard Director Niu's words, and he immediately coughed: "Old Niu, I definitely don't support the Digital Life Plan." ”

"What if someone else ...... Or will the descendants succeed? ”

"That's none of my business." Saying that, Ye Ming narrowed his eyes slightly, and said softly: "Do you know what I admire about the Azure Star People? ”

"Huh?" Director Niu was stunned: "What do they have to admire?" ”

"Even if they are facing the danger of extinction, they still adhere to certain guidelines - you should know that the Blue Star people, especially the Saint Star people, they are more qualified than us to achieve the upload of consciousness."

Director Niu thought for a moment: "You mean to upload consciousness to the brain?" ”

"Yes. I asked Uda if they could upload consciousness to the brain. ”

Uda replied in the affirmative, but said that it was not allowed. Similarly, they do not allow cloning - as this would cause the entire population to lose its ability to reproduce naturally, leading to uncontrollable destruction. Ye Ming said and paused: "Of course, I think so, they should still have the ability and hope to reproduce naturally and restore the race, and they have not yet faced a desperate situation." ”

"But in any case, they are able to realize that eternal life is not a good thing for the biological meaning of the race. At the very least, time will become less precious. ”

"Time is not precious, then...... What's the point of our pursuit, you say? Ye Ming shook his head firmly: "Only by continuing hope from generation to generation can the pursuit be meaningful, and human beings will also be meaningful." ”

Director Niu was silent for a long time and nodded: "So, let's move quickly." ”

"Yes, 10,000 years is too long, you have to seize the day!"

……

As a full-fledged polity, the negotiations between the human community and the eyers are cautious and big strides – this may seem contradictory, but in fact it is not contradictory.

On the one hand, humanity needs to urgently enlist the help of the Eyed - even if their "combat power" is better than nothing to the executor, it is always possible to cheer up, and even provide some help! On the other hand, humans also need to provide a buffer time for close encounters with eyers.

As a result, in mid-September, the "Community" began to announce various agreements with the Arimeko. These agreements include peace and friendship between mankind and the Arime, as well as trade in goods.

At the same time that the agreement was announced, promotional short stories produced by the Eyers and introductions to their planets and civilizations were also transmitted to the human world through diplomatic robots.

To accept a race, of course, it is necessary to first familiarize yourself with a race.

Fortunately, the faces of the Azure Star people were well known to humans a year ago, which can be regarded as a buffer time for humans to visually accept.

Therefore, when the Community finally announced that humanity would establish the first diplomatic relations with Arime, the mood of the entire human society was generally high and supportive.

After all...... This is a diplomatic cooperation dominated by human beings. It is not a diplomacy that human beings have signed on the head by a powerful enemy, but a diplomacy initiated by human beings and demonstrates human influence and will.

In short, it is the embodiment of the "big earth" temperament of humanity – what some jokingly call "big-ball chauvinism".

So in late September, a fleet consisting of a Star Finder, a transport ship, and a resource ship took off smoothly in Xichang Space City, carrying human goods and diplomatic missions to the Triangulum galaxy.

(End of chapter)