Great Power Technology

Ye Zhou followed Lin Wen through the field path back to the road, and then entered the living area of ​​the National Energy Tuning Device Research Institute. In this area, Ye Zhou finally saw the details of the building facilities around him. A bit of a shadow of the future.

The layout of these buildings is extremely compact. Each house shares the same wall with the adjacent house. The outside of the wall is covered with solar panels. Compared with a residential area, such a building looks more like a factory building.

After opening the door and walking into the dormitory area, Ye Zhou suddenly felt like he had returned to his student days.

Dormitories are distributed on both sides of the corridor. There is a sensor light at regular intervals. It will only light up when someone walks by. The light source used is also an energy-saving light source with extremely low brightness. Just from this It can be seen from the details that human beings living in this era have reached the level of energy utilization that counts every penny.

After returning to his room, Lin Wen put down the bag in his hand and walked to the kitchen with ease. Then he opened the induction cooker on the stove and said:

"Ye Gong, I think your furnace is also a problem with the UPS. Recently, the entropy increase curve in our area has been very unstable. Many batteries have experienced jumps in attenuation. I don't know what's going on."

"Look, as expected, the UPS capacity has dropped to 30%. No wonder you said the stove is not hot."

"I said, Ye Gong, this stove is really dirty. I think you have to find a wife. You are already in your late 30s. If you don't get married, it's really hard to get married. Are you and Su Shu about to get married?"

Hearing this, Ye Zhou shook his head and replied:

"Don't worry about it. You're still young at 30. Is there any news outside recently? Tell me about it. I haven't watched much news lately. I feel like I'm closed off."

Lin Wen removed the scrapped UPS battery, wiped his sweat and stood up, then said:

"Aren't you anxious in your thirties? Ye Gong, this is not the generation of our parents. Now the decline curve of function is getting steeper. After the age of 30, we will age very quickly."

"I see that you really haven't paid much attention to the news outside. Didn't you see the bill that was passed two days ago? The marriage age has been lowered to 16 years old. Some countries have even gone as far as to cancel the age limit for marriage."

Ye Zhou opened his mouth in shock, and then asked:

"Wouldn't this cause social and ethical problems?"

"These days, ethics are shit. Not all countries can maintain the same order as us at this time. Think about it for yourself. Since the invasion of neighboring dimensions 40 years ago, the world's population has plummeted by 30%. %, many countries have simply collapsed."

"Isn't there news two days ago? In order to pursue fertility, the island country has begun to advocate returning to the matrilineal system and engaging in mixed marriages. There is no other way."

"Well, you sit here for a while. I'll go to the spare parts warehouse to help you find a new UPS. You can watch the news for a while."

Ye Zhou nodded, took the tablet thrown by Lin Wen, walked back to the living room and sat on the sofa.

The thickness of this tablet computer is much thicker than the PAD of his own era, and most of the volume is probably used in the battery to offset the problem of reduced battery capacity caused by energy escape.

He clicked on an APP on the desktop that looked like a search software. After thinking for a moment, he entered the first keyword that came to his mind.

"Communication".

Subsequently, hundreds of millions of news items popped up. Ye Zhou sorted the news in reverse chronological order, and on a website dedicated to archiving historical news, he saw the development of the communications industry in the world.

A large number of high-energy-consuming technologies have been abandoned, and quantum communication has also been banned from large-scale use because of its impact on adjacent dimensional channels. Human communication technology is actually showing a retrogressive trend - just like now, as Ye Zhou said The wireless network used was actually at most the level of 4G in my timeline.

After reading communications-related content, Ye Zhou searched for keywords such as energy, materials science, agriculture, heavy industry, etc. After simply scanning a long list of news, he found that starting from the invasion of adjacent dimensions, due to energy The index is declining, and in fact the technology of the entire human society has shown an extremely contradictory state.

Theoretical research continues to achieve breakthroughs, but applied technology continues to regress.

This is a forced choice. In this process, human beings are trying to risk everything they have to pursue the possibility of breaking through the "energy suffocation" blockade.

The key node of this possibility is the ultra-large nuclear fusion device.

After reading the content in the technical field, Ye Zhou searched for relevant social news. As expected, those hypocritical Westerners began to be controlled by the white left. A large number of people resisted the official allocation of social resources, even without any regard for future generations. Life and death has set off a trend of "carpe diem", which is called the "carnival movement" by the world.

“Give time to civilization, not time to civilization.”

This long-forgotten slogan was revived, and many people became its believers. However, their optimism was not rewarded. Within ten years after the outbreak of the Carnival movement, the entire Western world almost collapsed, and official control The power has dropped to a minimum, high-end theoretical research has almost come to a standstill, and many major projects that may break the blockade have been shut down. People there have truly begun to enter the pre-apocalyptic carnival.

The rate of entropy increase is still increasing, and the trend of energy escaping to adjacent dimensions is unstoppable. Everyone is trying their best to grab more resources so that they can enjoy the greatest pleasure before going to hell.

In this crazy world, China has become the only fortress.

The strong organizational ability once again came into play. Although the carnival movement also caused a certain impact on the social order, it was quickly calmed down. The people here did not care about the questions from the West similar to "Is all this worth it?" Questioned, resolutely launched the plan for the national energy tuning device, code-named Fenghuo.

The base where Ye Zhou is located is Fenghuo Base No. 1.

After initially understanding the details that were not conveyed by the information flow, Ye Zhou let out a long sigh of relief.

He did not expect that one day in the future, the world would develop to such an extent, and he did not expect that even after so many lessons, those Westerners would still be embarrassed.

"Give the years civilization"?

Give a shit!

The crisis facing this world exceeds the sum of all the crises faced by mankind in history. Under such circumstances, all manners, civilizations, and etiquette are extremely luxurious things. Only by moving forward, regardless of all costs, can we strive for that little bit of luxury. The chances are so slim that they are almost invisible.

This nation has risen from a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood. From the moment of its birth, it has faced never-ending crises, whether from nature, enemies, or from within itself.

But every time, she crushed all obstacles with her paranoid and almost crazy will, and this time, it was just another bigger challenge.

Judging from the information on the Internet, China's efforts to break through energy suffocation are definitely not limited to the Fenghuo Project. It has promoted high-yield grains on a large scale to cope with the food crisis, and has promoted genetic enhancement technology to increase the life span of the population regardless of so-called ethical doubts. Land reclamation and oxygen production are carried out within the area to cope with the decrease in oxygen concentration caused by the decrease in gravity, and photovoltaic projects are promoted at all costs to make up for the gap in energy dissipation.

All of these actions, even if taken at random, are enough to be recorded in history. In this era, China has launched dozens of very large projects on its own.

This is not just against this world, but even against another dimension, another universe.

When everyone was locked in a solid room that was completely closed and almost impossible to open and slowly suffocated, when others chose to sleep and die in peace, these Chinese people were using their last bit of strength to put those people away. Indestructible walls break.

Thinking of this, Ye Zhou couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

Compared with those Westerners, Ye Zhou admires the islanders more. Although their ideas for solving problems are very strange, at least they are making some attempts instead of completely failing.

He suddenly understood the meaning of "Beyond Entropy" written on the simulation plot.

Yes, China is fighting for its life with another civilization from the adjacent dimension. What they have to do is to push the technology of this world to a level that is enough to obliterate the goblin guarding the passage before energy dissipation reaches a critical value. Seek a way out for your own civilization.

This is a race, the most important and life-or-death race in human history.

And the Fenghuo project that I participated in is the key to winning or losing in this race.

Ye Zhou breathed a long sigh of relief, put down the PAD in his hand and walked out of the room. He wanted to go directly to the FiberHome Laboratory as prompted in the information stream to see the latest progress of the project.

According to the information guidance, tomorrow is the time for the first ignition of the Beacon Fire Project. All testing work has been completed. All that needs to be waited for is a perfect time window. This is why the institute will let their researchers go to the rice fields to harvest rice. On the one hand, this rice field belonging to the institute is indeed the source of food to feed this group of researchers, and someone always needs to harvest it. On the other hand, it is also to forcefully reduce the stress level of the researchers through physical labor.

Thinking of this, Ye Zhou suddenly felt a little funny - this was in line with the consistent style of the organization he belonged to.

He stepped out of the room and was about to walk towards the laboratory when he suddenly noticed something unusual.

A full hour has passed since he left. Does it take that long to go to the spare parts warehouse to get a UPS battery?

An ominous premonition surged in Ye Zhou's heart. He turned around and rushed back to the dormitory, running quickly towards the spare parts warehouse in his memory.

As he expected, the moment he pushed open the spare parts warehouse door, what appeared in front of him was an extremely terrifying scene.

Lin Wen was suspended in the air, and his body was decomposing!