The Science Fiction World of Xueba

The next day, Pang Xuelin woke up from a hangover, it was almost ten o'clock in the morning.

In the luxurious presidential suite, Kanter is waiting in the living room.

Perhaps because of the heavy burden of the Wallfacer, yesterday Pang Xuelin, Taylor, Hines, Rey Diaz and others rarely put down the mask of the Wallfacer, chatted until midnight, and established a good relationship with each other.

"Kanter, have you had breakfast yet?"

Pang Xuelin yawned and walked out of the bedroom.

Kanter said: "I've already eaten, Professor Pang, what do you want to eat? I'll have someone bring it to you right away."

Pang Xuelin said: "Whatever, if there are soy milk and fried dough sticks, it will be even better. If not, ordinary western food is also fine."

Kanter said with a smile: "Professor Pang, I will order someone to prepare it right away. The Hilton family said that they are very honored that the Wallfacers stay at the Hilton Hotel. Currently, the hotel has special preparations for each Wallfacer that suit their tastes." Foods from all over the world, and the soy milk and fried dough sticks you want must be available.”

Pang Xuelin smiled, not surprised.

At the initial stage of the Wallfacer project, the Wallfacers possessed lofty power and prestige, almost no different from the ancient emperors.

It wasn't until two consecutive Wallfacer projects failed and died that the international community began to criticize the Wallface project more.

After reaching the Great Depression, the Wall Facing Project became an ancient joke.

However, Pang Xuelin believed that yesterday's round table meeting was enough to make the implementation of the wall-facing plan much easier than in the original book.

Of course, bumps and bumps are definitely indispensable, especially the power game between the Wallfacer and the PDC, which will run through the entire process of implementing the Wallfacer plan.

"By the way, where are the other Wallfacers?"

Kanter said: "Mr. Taylor has gone to Japan, Mr. Rey Diaz is going to visit the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, and Dr. Bill Hines has returned to Europe with his wife. They will hold a meeting soon. An international brain science conference, and Dr. Luo Ji..."

When it came to Luo Ji, Kanter hesitated to speak.

Pang Xuelin smiled and said, "What happened to Luo Ji?"

Kanter said: "Dr. Luo Ji made a request,

He asked us to help him find an original ecological manor with its back against the snow-capped mountains, facing the lake, and possessing grasslands and forests at the same time..."

"You did it?"

"Yes, the Committee of the Wallfacer Project agreed to Dr. Luo Ji's request, as long as the resources proposed by the Wallfacer do not exceed the scope set by the Wallfacer Project, or cause harm to human life, otherwise, any questioning of the Wallfacer is a violation of the Wallfacer Project Spirit."

"So, if I make such a request, you will also meet it?"

"certainly!"

Pang Xuelin shook his head with a smile, and said, "Forget it, I'm not as lucky as Luo Ji, and I still have a lot of tasks on my head."

Kanter smiled and didn't speak. He thought that the task Pang Xuelin mentioned was the responsibility of the Wallfacer, but he didn't know that Pang Xuelin was referring to the system task.

"By the way, Professor Pang, how do you plan to arrange your next itinerary?"

Pang Xuelin pondered for a moment and said, "I want to see Mr. Garning, the rotating chairman of the PDC."

...

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Pang Xuelin met this busy man in Garning's office in the United Nations Building.

Garning is an old man from Russia. He made a special trip to the airport to greet Pang Xuelin when Pang Xuelin attended the Wallfacer Conference, and the two had met once.

When we met again, Garning looked dusty.

"Professor Pang, I just flew back from London. I planned to fly to Tokyo in the afternoon, but I heard that you wanted to see me, so I spared two hours."

In the United Nations, although the Secretary-General is nominally the supreme leader of the United Nations, the rotating chairman of the Planetary Defense Council is the most powerful one.

However, the rotating chairman of the Planetary Defense Council is generally sent by the five major countries in rotation, and can only serve for a maximum of three years.

Pang Xuelin smiled and said: "Mr. Chairman, I am here this time, and I mainly want to ask you for help."

"What's up?"

Garning picked up the steaming coffee on the table, blew on the steam, and then took a sip.

"I want to send a probe to Trisolaris!"

Pang Xuelin smiled!

Garning's eyes widened suddenly, and the coffee in his mouth was almost sprayed out in one gulp.

After a while, Garning swallowed all the coffee and said, "Professor Pang, is this part of the Wallface project?"

Pang Xuelin nodded with a smile and said, "Yes, this is part of the plan!"

Garning pondered for a moment, picked up the phone on the table and dialed out, saying, "Vade, come to my office."

Then, Garning hung up the phone, looked up at Pang Xuelin and said, "Professor Pang, since that's the case, let me introduce you to someone, I think he should be able to help you."

Pang Xuelin said: "Mr. Chairman, why don't you ask me why I sent a probe to Trisolaris?"

Garning smiled and said, "Professor Pang, you have the largest amount of resources available to you among the five Wallfacers. Sending a probe to the world of Trisolaris is completely within the scope of your available resources. In addition, Launching detectors is already part of the mainstream defense plan, but no one has mentioned it for the time being."

"So that's it!" Pang Xuelin blinked and asked, "May I take the liberty to ask, what is the approximate range of resources I can call?"

Garning shrugged and said: "Professor Pang, I'm sorry, in order to prevent the Wallfacers from misusing resources, the Wallfacers Committee has not yet obtained permission from the Wallfacers to inquire about the amount of available resources."

"Understandable!"

Pang Xuelin nodded and smiled.

After a while, there was a knock on the office door.

Garning said, "Come in!"

Someone pushed the door and entered.

Pang Xuelin looked at the other party. The other party was younger than he imagined, probably in his thirties. The lines on his face were very classic, and there was a hint of rigidity like a sculpture.

Although his eyes seemed a little tired, but from the sharp look in his eyes from time to time, it can be felt that this is a tough character who is not easy to get along with.

Garning said: "Professor Pang, let me introduce you. This is Vader, Thomas Vader, the director of the Strategic Intelligence Bureau of the Planetary Defense Council. He used to work in the KGB, and he was transferred to the Planetary Defense Council not long ago. The Director of the Strategic Intelligence Agency (PIA). PIA is mainly responsible for the intelligence work on the Trisolaran civilization. I think, if you want to launch a probe to the Trisolaran world, Director Vader is a very good collaborator! "

"Mr. Vader, hello!"

"Your Excellency, Wallfacer, hello!"

Pang Xuelin raised his eyebrows, smiled and shook hands with Wade.

Vader did not call himself Professor Pang like others, but called himself the Wallfacer.

It shows that this is a person who is wary of anyone. Of course, it is also possible that this is a common problem among intelligence department staff.

"Your Excellency Wallfacer, you want to send a probe to Trisolaran?"

Vader was a little curious.

"Director Wade, you can just call me Professor Pang." Pang Xuelin smiled slightly and said, "Why, is there any problem?"

"Oh, no problem, Professor Pang!"

Vader shook his head, he was just a little surprised, he didn't expect this Wallfacer to agree with his thoughts.

However, it would be considered a good thing for Wallfacers to intervene in launching the probe.

At least when the PDC masters approve funds for them, they might be able to add a zero to the end of the check when they are loose.

Garning looked at his watch and said, "Professor Pang, you can talk to Director Vader about launching the detector. I'm going to catch a plane to Tokyo soon, so I won't talk to you about it."

"Mr. Chairman, go to work!"

Saying goodbye to Garning, Pang Xuelin turned his gaze to Vader and said with a smile: "Director Vader, can you take me to visit the PIA?"

"sure!"

Wade glanced at Pang Xuelin calmly. He always felt that the Wallfacer looked at him a bit strangely, but he didn't know what was wrong.

However, he could feel that the Wallfacer had no hostility towards him.

Wade doesn't know much about Pang Xuelin. This Wallfacer officially revealed his identity to the outside world yesterday. He is a former member of ETO who once helped high-level human beings obtain information on the Three-Body civilization. He is the founder of the Wallfacer Project and a top international mathematician.

Especially for the identity of a mathematician, Vader also checked it on the Internet, and the mathematics community spoke highly of him, and he was almost hailed as the number one person in the contemporary mathematics circle.

Naturally, Pang Xuelin didn't know Wade's thoughts. At this time, his heart was already full of joy.

In the Three-Body Trilogy, the protagonist in the first part has the least sense of existence. In the second part, Luo Ji, although he was already a saint by the time of the third part, continued the life of human beings for hundreds of years out of thin air, and finally became the gravekeeper of human civilization.

But his existence did not cover up the light of the other two supporting roles at all.

One of them is Zhang Beihai, the father of the galaxy in the second part, and the other is Thomas Vader.

Thomas Vader is the character in the third part of The Three-Body Problem "Death and Immortality". He has a firm will and a tough personality, and he does things to achieve his goals by any means.

In the novel, as the director of the PIA, he first proposed the idea of ​​launching a detector to the Trisolaran world. When scientists all expressed that it was technically unfeasible, he even said something like using resources to change the principle.

Later, due to technical limitations, Vader decided to use a probe to send a complete human brain to the Trisolaran world.

However, this plan has very high requirements for candidates. In order to make his subordinate Vadim a candidate for the plan, the savage Vader made Vadim suffer from leukemia through radiation, which directly caused Vadim to get sick while driving. Died in a car accident.

And hundreds of years later, in the era of deterrence, in order to compete with Cheng Xin for the position of sword bearer, Wade even chose to assassinate Cheng Xin.

Unfortunately, Vader failed.

In the later evaluation of Vader by the Three-Body Civilization, if Vader was the sword bearer, his deterrence curve would be almost a 100% straight line, and Luo Ji, who had been a sword bearer for fifty years, would have the same degree of deterrence. However, it fluctuates around 90%.

Later, in order to develop the light-speed spacecraft, Vader chose to be hostile to the federal government, and even died with the federal government with antimatter bullets.

However, in the end, under Cheng Xin's persuasion, the hero chose to surrender.

"Losing humanity, losing a lot, losing bestiality, losing everything."

The words Wade said to Cheng Xin at the last moment can be said to be a portrayal of his whole life.

Such a powerful figure, Pang Xuelin does not want him to follow the trend of history, and finally disappear in the two-dimensional void together with human civilization.

Wade got into Pang Xuelin's special car, and under the protection of a group of guards, he went straight to the PIA headquarters.

PIA is headquartered in a six-story old building not far from the United Nations Building. This building was built at the end of the 18th century. It is solid and thick, like a large piece of granite.

The building was empty and looked a bit cold, with all kinds of unopened cardboard boxes and office equipment piled up in the corridors and offices.

Wade took Pang Xuelin to his office, while Kanter and a group of guards stood outside.

Wade poured a cup of instant coffee for Pang Xuelin, then he took out a box of cigars from the drawer and said, "Professor Pang, do you smoke?"

"no thank you!"

Pang Xuelin smiled. Although he had experienced the smell of tobacco when using flying blade materials to kill people in Whale Song World, he was not going to let himself be infatuated with it.

Vader said: "Then you don't mind if I smoke?"

Pang Xuelin laughed and said, "It's okay, you can do whatever you want."

Wade nodded, lit the cigar, took a deep breath, and said: "Professor Pang, you have also seen that PIA has just been established, and the people sent by various countries to report have not yet arrived, just me and my colleagues Here comes Mikhail Vadim. Oh, Vadim is the director of our technical planning center. He participated in the design of the former Soviet Buran space shuttle in the 1980s and later served as the deputy of a cargo spacecraft. Chief designer. Our PIA is mainly an intelligence agency with the Trisolaran Fleet and the Trisolaran home planet as the main target of investigation, so it has a relatively strong technical and aerospace background. To be honest, if you didn’t propose it, I would also propose to Trisolaris has launched a human probe."

Pang Xuelin said with a smile: "Can you call Vadim over? I just want to chat with professionals with aerospace background."

"no problem."

Vader picked up the phone on the table and called Vadim.

After a while, Vadim went upstairs. To Pang Xuelin's surprise, Vadim did not come alone. Behind him was a beautiful yellow-skinned girl.

The girl looks very sunny, and she gives people a good impression at first glance. Her image is exactly like Gao Yuanyuan, a female star that Pang Xuelin has met in the real world.

In the real world, Gao Yuanyuan was almost unanimously considered by Three Body fans to be the best actor to play Cheng Xin. Pang Xuelin did not expect that in the Three Body world, a real person would be so similar to that clear-mouthed girl.

"Professor Pang, Director Vader, hello!"

Vadim said hello to Pang Xuelin and Wade respectively, and then introduced: "This is a colleague who just came to PIA to report, my aerospace technology assistant, called Cheng...Cheng..."

"Cheng Xin!"

Cheng Xin said a little anxiously.

Pang Xuelin's eyes swept over Cheng Xin lightly, feeling the urge to shoot her to death with a gun.

The heroine in the third part of the Three-Body Problem "Death and Immortality" has plunged mankind into an endless abyss in the name of love several times.

Although Pang Xuelin is very clear that this girl is just the embodiment of the collective will of mankind, even if Cheng Xin is gone, there will be another Zhang Xin, Li Xin, and Wang Xin, but at the beginning, he really wanted to kill Cheng Xin .

Cheng Xin was a little uneasy, and even faintly felt a little fear.

She majored in aerospace, and after graduation, she joined the research group for the development of engines for the new generation of Long March rockets.

This is an important and core place in the eyes of others, but Cheng Xin's enthusiasm for her profession has long faded.

She realized early on that relying on chemical rockets might never make it to the true spaceflight age.

The emergence of the Trisolaran crisis made this fact even more obvious. It is simply a dream to build a solar system defense system relying on chemical power.

After the Trisolaran crisis, the United Nations began to establish various agencies related to planetary defense.

These agencies differ from previous UN organizations in that they are administratively headed by the Planetary Defense Council (PDC), but are largely staffed by national contributions.

The domestic aerospace system has transferred a large number of personnel of various levels into such institutions.

Cheng Xin also followed this opportunity and left the engine design team of the spaceflight segment of the aerospace vehicle and came to PIA.

It's just that she didn't expect that on the first day she came to PIA to report, she would meet a real boss.

That director, Vader, who looked sharp and tough, was nothing more than that. What really frightened Cheng Xin was the Wallfacer sitting opposite Vader.

The name Pang Xuelin was unknown before the Wallfacer Conference was held.

But after the Wallfacer Conference ended, he has become one of the most well-known figures on the planet, a former ETO member, founder of the Wallfacer Project, a mathematician, and a Wallfacer.

Various status bonuses made this boss a legendary existence.

There are many rumors about Pang Xuelin on the Internet, and there are also many photos of Pang Xuelin.

In the photo, Pang Xuelin is sunny and handsome, like a big boy, and looks harmless to humans and animals.

But when she actually met Pang Xuelin in person, Cheng Xin realized that this so-called first impression was simply a big mistake.

The first time Pang Xuelin looked at her, his substantial eyes made her feel as if she had been completely seen through.

What frightened her even more was that she inexplicably felt a hint of hostility, even killing intent, from Pang Xuelin's gaze.

Cheng Xin didn't know where Pang Xuelin's hostility came from, but now, she just wanted to stay as far away from this man as possible.

Pang Xuelin smiled faintly and looked away from Cheng Xin.

Cheng Xin couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Wade on the side looked at Pang Xuelin with some surprise. He had a faint feeling that Pang Xuelin knew Cheng Xin, and even looked at the girl with a hint of hostility.

But Vader didn't bother to think too much about it, he just needed to perform his duties well, and if there was any problem between the Wallfacer and this girl, he didn't care.

What's more, with the power of the Wallfacer, if he really wants to do something to this girl, he has nothing to do.

Pang Xuelin smiled and said, "Mr. Vadim, Ms. Cheng Xin, please sit down. Since you all have a background in aerospace technology, it's just right. I just discussed a plan with Director Wade, and I want to ask your opinions."

"Professor Pang, please tell me."

Vadim said.

Pang Xuelin said: "That's it. We are going to launch a probe to Trisolaran. Do you think it is feasible with the current technology level?"

Vadim was slightly taken aback, looked at Cheng Xin, and said, "Professor Pang, do you have any specific technical specifications?"

Pang Xuelin said: "The only indicator is for the detector to reach one percent of the speed of light."

Vadim frowned, and said puzzledly: "That is to say, if the acceleration phase is considered, but the deceleration is not considered, the probe will reach the Oort Nebula in two to three centuries, where it will contact and detect the decelerating three body fleet!"

"right!"

Pang Xuelin nodded.

Vadim said: "But according to the current space speed of human beings, it will take 20,000 to 30,000 years to reach the Oort Nebula. If the probe is launched now, our probe may not fly when the enemy fleet arrives four hundred years later." Get out of the house."

"So one percent of the speed of light is an indicator that must be achieved."

Pang Xuelin smiled lightly, as if this indicator was as simple as eating and drinking.

"Increase the current space speed by a hundred times? This is absolutely impossible at present."

Vadim shook his head firmly.

At this time, Vader said: "Don't forget that we have resources! Spaceflight was just a marginal business in the past, but now it has entered the mainstream, so we have huge resources that were unimaginable before! We use resources to change the principles and turn Huge resources focused on that tiny thing, propelling it to one hundredth of the speed of light with brute force!"

Vadim shook his head with a smile, and said: "Director Vader, I don't want to offend you. The word of using resources to change the principle will make people laugh if it is spread. It's okay to talk about it here, but don't say it at the PDC meeting. "

Cheng Xin quietly looked at Pang Xuelin out of the corner of her eye, but Pang Xuelin just watched Vader and Vadim arguing with a smile, as if watching a play.

In the next second, Pang Xuelin suddenly turned his eyes to Cheng Xin, and when they met, Cheng Xin instantly felt as if she had become the prey of a ferocious beast.

She quickly looked back, only to feel cold all over.

But Pang Xuelin didn't seem to let her go, and smiled lightly: "Ms. Cheng Xin, do you have any ideas?"

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