Road to science and technology

"This is really expensive!" Yue Yuanzhou sighed as he leaned on the sofa and smelled the aroma of wine. Capital here is resources

No wonder the highways are paved with red tickets.

Now Yue Yuanzhou finally realized that this fucking engineering team is simply a gold-eating beast!

The capital ships of these five incarnation engineering ships are actually equipped with a star placed in a space storage device as an energy source.

According to preliminary calculations about the light of Taihu Lake, it would take one star to build a distance of about half a light-year forward. Five engineering ships would be five stars. If it were to build a distance of one million light-years, wouldn't it be 10 million stars?

Yue Yuanzhou pondered: "Well, it doesn't seem to matter. There are about 400 billion stars in the Milky Way alone."

"While capturing the star, it will split all the planets in the star system. Mineral resources cannot be wasted."

Due to the huge number of stars that needed to be captured, Yue Yuanzhou dispatched the task, and Chu Yan was sent out.

Although some star systems may not necessarily have planets, some star systems do have many solid planets, and there are likely to be rare resources on the solid planets, that is, many minerals after iron elements, such as gold, silver, platinum, etc...

Although there is no shortage of gold, platinum or some rare elements in the universe, in fact, elements after iron require supernova explosions to be born, so there are definitely not many.

Take the solar system for example. If the solar system were not second-generation stars, then it is very likely that there would be no gold and silver on the earth.

If you don't want to collect rare elements, you must master the conversion of energy and mass. With the technology currently mastered by the Shenzhou civilization, it can only obtain elements before iron through heavy nuclear fusion.

As for the elements after iron, in fact, according to the knowledge system that Yue Yuanzhou currently has, there are four ways to obtain them.

The first is that after heavy nuclear fusion proceeds to iron, it continues to undergo energy-absorbing nuclear reactions. Obviously, star drive does not involve this aspect, and the Shenzhou civilization is currently studying it.

The second is to explode a star that is 1.44 times larger than the sun, causing it to explode as a supernova, and then collect the material ejected by the explosion after hundreds of millions of years... This is obviously a fantasy.

The third type of nature is still in the imagination, using super large force to pull apart quarks and form matter from the microscopic level.

The fourth option is to change the rules... I'm just thinking about it now.

Thinking about it this way, Yue Yuanzhou feels that the first method is more reliable. Even if it is reliable, it has not been settled yet.

Therefore, this operation of capturing stars is necessary for mining, and while building roads, there are also rich mineral resources. Why not do it? Anyway, Yue Yuanzhou doesn't mind that there are too many minerals. He would like to hollow out the entire galaxy. At the same time, he Don’t worry about stacking issues either.

So the crazy speculation began. In every galaxy with planets, the planets were first mined for rare minerals, then split open to extract their iron or silicon cores, and finally the stars were captured.

This wave of Shenzhou civilization was like locusts passing by, and stars disappeared one after another. Fortunately, Yue Yuanzhou did not dig near himself, and chose to dig in the Sagittarius cantilever within the Orion cantilever, which is about five or six thousand light years away from Vega.

Perhaps after thousands of years, it is inevitable that a large hole will form at the position of the cantilever of Sagittarius.

With Stellar Leapfrog, it is not difficult to capture stars in the Milky Way, but it takes time. After all, it took hundreds of years to create thousands of stars in the Trisolaran universe. Although the technology of the Shenzhou civilization has improved a lot, the technology of capturing stars has not changed quantitatively.

"It's been a long time." Yue Yuanzhou looked from the bar to the projected Vega outside the window. His thoughts were racing and he felt that he should take advantage of this time to upgrade.

But this is difficult. Just like the ongoing road construction, it is impossible to achieve it without a single piece of technology. Without Sophon's high-dimensional observation and precise guidance, it is very likely that the sea of ​​chaos will erode the tunnel.

It is impossible for Yue Yuanzhou to extract the protons and neutrons that make up his body one by one, unfold them two-dimensionally and then etch the 'circuit'. This is simply impossible.

So what if you transform yourself into a two-dimensional creature and then 'etch the circuit' as a whole?

This is definitely not possible. You must know that although the two-dimensional life technology can transform life into a two-dimensional creature, this is different from the low-dimensional expansion of microscopic particles that can be retracted. The two-dimensional transformation of life is irreversible.

In other words, if you change yourself into a two-dimensional creature, you will always be a two-dimensional creature.

Yue Yuanzhou couldn't help but think of the four-dimensional fragment that Chu Yan entered in the original Three-Body Problem. He felt that if a two-dimensional creature existed in the three-dimensional world, it would be like them entering the four-dimensional fragment, and they would see a grand world that could not be seen before. .

If a two-dimensional creature in a three-dimensional world wants to see a three-dimensional creature clearly, it needs to look around the three-dimensional creature in three dimensions and look at it bit by bit, just like scanning.

However, two-dimensional creatures are also extremely fragile. If someone in the three-dimensional world pokes them inside, they will die, as if their heart was taken out from the fourth dimension.

Therefore, this method is not feasible, mainly because it is irreversible.

"It seems that it is not easy to transform all the particles in the body into 'sophons and neutrons'."

With this thought in mind, Yue Yuanzhou planned to take a stroll, but maybe he suddenly thought of a way.

Passing through the corridor, crossing the hall, and then walking outside, the place is still the same as before, with green trees, bluestone paved roads and trickling streams forming a park-like scenery.

Now there are several more trees here, transplanted from Pandora. If it is night, these trees will emit faint lights.

"Tsk...it took me so many years to realize that Ah Zhui actually has this kind of aesthetic. If it were placed on Earth, applying for a garden planning job would be so casual." Yue Yuanzhou came to a stone bridge and couldn't help but muttered as he looked at the arrangement.

This scene reminded him of the college campus before time travel.

It really looks a bit like it. There are now various research institutes and various types of research bases located here. Most of the elites of the Shenzhou civilization gathered here to work.

"It seems good! But it would be more lively if we get some animals... Just the Pandora animal?" Yue Yuanzhou took a deep breath and looked quietly into the distance, which was a simulated sky dozens of kilometers away.

"It seems that Shenzhou Planet is not suitable for fighting..."

Yue Yuanzhou suddenly thought of the special nature of the Shenzhou Star. It was no longer the same as what he had just achieved back then. If something went wrong, it would be like starting all over again.

Although these core members have been strengthened many times, they are still unable to withstand a cosmic-level disaster.

With this in mind, Yue Yuanzhou decided to place Shenzhou next to Vega if there was no need in the future.

As for traveling by yourself, that’s easy, just build a battleship.

Something like a steel suit can be made, but it's not necessary.

Another reason is that it is too small, and Yue Yuanzhou feels that if he wants to do it, he must make it bigger.

Just as he said it, he left the Shenzhou planet with a short-distance jump, came to outer space alone, and then released the massive metal resources he carried. The next step is to let the Shenzhou planet be irradiated with Cybertron rays to transform these metals into deformed metals, and finally make the frame of the new car.

His new car is very tacky, its appearance is no different from a battleship, and its energy source is also stuffed with a star. It's just that the configuration is different. In addition to the main ship function, this battleship also has a built-in strong interaction material module. When necessary, it can be deformed and placed on the outer wall, and a full set of shields is added.

In addition, Yue Yuanzhou also put a bunch of water droplets in it like a rich upstart, which is the kind of water droplets that the Trisolaran technology has. When necessary, it can be used as a fully automatic kinetic energy weapon.

Doesn't the rich cultivator have the Ten Thousand Sword Jue? Then he can use the Ten Thousand Water Drop Jue, wave his hand, and charge tens of thousands of water droplets together, and that's it.

The advantages of scientific and technological civilization are large quantities and sufficient management, maximum productivity. If you can't hit a drop of water, just get 10,000...

Yue Yuanzhou's new vehicle and battleship was officially completed soon.

As time flies, the Shenzhou civilization has become more and more skilled in building roads and tunnels, and progress is getting faster and faster. Sometimes the energy cannot keep up. As a result, capturing stars and building tunnels have now become the unique skills of the Shenzhou civilization military.

Not only that, rest stops were gradually formed on the roads that were built by themselves, and some organizations with quick minds and smelling business opportunities began to do business at these stops.

It's like a rest stop on the highway.