The Science Fiction World of Xueba

After a long time, Pang Xuelin came out of the reception room.

Cheng Xin, who had been waiting outside the door for a long time, hurried up to greet her, and asked, "Professor Pang, how is your talk going?"

Pang Xuelin smiled and said, "He agreed!"

"That's good." Cheng Xin said with a sigh of relief, "Then I'll go and see him."

Pang Xuelin smiled and nodded.

Ten minutes later, Cheng Xin came out of the reception room and got into the car with Pang Xuelin.

"How does it feel to meet your old classmates?"

"It's okay, but he looks at me a little strangely. Did you say something bad about me to him?"

"In your eyes, am I such a person?"

"It's impossible to tell!"

After getting in touch with Pang Xuelin for a period of time and getting acquainted with him, Cheng Xin realized that Pang Xuelin was only talking about herself, but he didn't really think of herself in terms of actions.

Therefore, up to now, she has gradually gotten used to all kinds of irony that Pang Xuelin made of herself, and even occasionally dared to reply a few words.

Pang Xuelin smiled faintly, "Yun Tianming likes you."

"I know."

"Um?"

"I'm not a fool. Besides, during college, there were many classmates who confessed to me."

"Then you... don't have any special feelings?"

"Special feeling, what do you mean?"

Cheng Xin looked at Pang Xuelin inexplicably.

Pang Xuelin immediately came to his senses.

In the middle, Cheng Xin single-handedly pulled Yun Tianming into the Staircase Project. It wasn't until Yun Tianming underwent brain surgery that he learned from Wade that the star was given by Yun Tianming.

Coupled with the broadcast era, the two contacted again through remote communication,

Yun Tianming conveyed crucial information to Cheng Xin to avoid the attack of the dark forest.

Her feelings for Yun Tianming gradually deepened.

But this time, the plan to send stars was sabotaged by Pang Xuelin. Cheng Xin only played the role of an introducer in the process of pulling Yun Tianming into the ladder plan, and it was Pang Xuelin who mainly persuaded him.

Therefore, Cheng Xin didn't feel too much guilt towards Yun Tianming, instead, she had more or less sympathy and pity.

Pang Xuelin shook his head and said, "Nothing."

Cheng Xin sighed, "Yun Tianming is withdrawn, and I don't know if he can pass the final test."

Regarding this point, she was a little conflicted. She hoped that Yun Tianming would pass the test, but also worried about what would happen to him after he passed the test.

If Yun Tianming can pass the final test, then maybe there is still a glimmer of life, but what awaits him may be an extreme human sensory test that is more painful than death.

But if he failed the test and waited for Yun Tianming, he might be a dead end.

Pang Xuelin smiled and said, "I like him."

After a pause, Pang Xuelin said again: "Where are you going to go later, and finally go back to China, I will give you two days off."

Cheng Xin thought for a while and said, "I'll go home, but my home is on the North Fifth Ring Road, it's a bit far away."

Pang Xuelin said: "Okay, I just happen to be going to the north to pick up someone, and I'll take you home by the way."

The convoy set off quickly and finally stopped at the gate of the Central Academy of Fine Arts.

After a while, Zhuang Yan's life assistant pushed Zhuang Yan out of the school.

Pang Xuelin got off the car and greeted him.

Cheng Xin put her head in front of the car window, and saw a beautiful girl sitting in a wheelchair, joking with Pang Xuelin.

Pang Xuelin fondled her head, then bent down and hugged the girl up her waist.

"This girl should be the one who called Pang Xuelin before."

Cheng Xin thought to herself.

Soon, Pang Xuelin entered the car with Zhuang Yan in his arms.

Pang Xuelin was riding in that kind of extended bulletproof car. The back row was a seat for two pairs, and it was no problem for six people to sit. He, Zhuang Yan, and Cheng Xin naturally wouldn't be crowded at all.

"Yanyan, let me introduce you. This is Cheng Xin, my work assistant."

"Cheng Xin, this is my girlfriend Zhuang Yan!"

Hearing that Pang Xuelin took the initiative to admit that she was his girlfriend, Zhuang Yan's fair face couldn't help but blush, she nodded obediently at Cheng Xin and said, "Sister Cheng, hello!"

"Zhuang Yan, hello!"

Next, Pang Xuelin sent Cheng Xin back to her home, and then returned to the villa in the western suburbs with Zhuang Yan.

In the evening, he invited Mrs. Zhuang and Li Yao over, and when he called Wang Miao, Wang Miao told Pang Xuelin that Da Shi was also in the capital.

So Pang Xuelin simply called and invited Da Shi over.

After dinner, Mother Zhuang and Li Yao chatted with Zhuang Yan, while Pang Xuelin, Wang Miao, and Da Shi went to the study.

Da Shi's face was slightly pale, and his spirit even seemed a little sluggish.

Pang Xuelin already had a guess in his mind, but on the surface he still asked, "Da Shi, what's wrong with you? Why does your condition look so bad? Didn't you stay with Dr. Luo Ji before?"

Da Shi smiled bitterly and said, "Brother Pang, I might have to hibernate."

"Hibernation?!"

Wang Miao on the side was taken aback.

Da Shi said: "Yes, when Ye Wenjie was arrested in China last year, do you still remember the girl with the nuclear bomb? That time I was exposed to radioactive heavy metals with my bare hands, but I went for an examination a month ago, and the doctor said I had leukemia. I couldn't find a suitable match for bone marrow transplantation, and the chief has decided to let me hibernate and wake up when the future medical technology matures."

"Then what about Xiaoming?"

Wang Miao said.

"That bastard, in my name, tricked a bunch of old men and old ladies into some doomsday escape plan. Not long ago, he was sentenced to seven years in prison. Brother Pang, my family has only one single seedling for three generations. When he is released from prison in the future, If you can give me a hand, you can help me..."

Pang Xuelin said: "Da Shi, what are you talking about, don't worry, when Xiaoming is released from prison, I will arrange a job for him and guarantee him a safe life."

"Brother Pang, brother, I thank you!"

Pang Xuelin smiled.

Da Shi's son, Shi Xiaoming, is also a character. According to the description in the book, without his help, Shi Xiaoming can live a very good life by himself.

After he was released from prison, he made money again with his skills. Before the big trough, he even took the initiative to spend money to hibernate, passed the big trough safely, and could be reunited with Da Shi in the future.

After talking about Shi Xiaoming, Pang Xuelin turned his gaze to Wang Miao and said, "Brother-in-law, how is your Nano Center doing now?"

Wang Miao said with a wry smile: "There is no shortage of funds now, but the pressure of scientific research is too great. The government requires that the annual output exceed 100 tons, and large-scale industrial mass production will be achieved within three years. My hair is almost graying now!"

Pang Xuelin nodded. He was not surprised by this question.

After the arrival of the three-body crisis, the academia has benefited the most, and it is also the academia that has been under the greatest pressure.

Needless to say, it benefits, the scientific research funding and resources that were the most difficult to apply for in the past, are piled up without money at this time.

But it's also stressful.

Especially key projects like flying blade materials have even reached the level of requiring a military order.

With the current industrial level of human beings, entering into a state of great trough after 30 years has a lot to do with this abnormal social ecology.

However, for this situation, Pang Xuelin has no good solution in a short time.

Some things that happened in human society in the first thirty years of the Crisis Era were hard for people before and after to understand. Historians call it crisis infantilism.

It is generally believed that infantilism is the result of the sudden and unprecedented threat to civilization as a whole; this may be true for individuals, but it may not be so simple for human societies as a whole.

The cultural shock brought about by the three-body crisis has far-reaching effects far beyond people's original imagination.

If you look for an analogy for it, in biology, it is equivalent to the ancestors of mammals climbing up from the sea; in religion, it is equivalent to Adam and Eve being expelled from the Garden of Eden; in history and sociology, there is no analogy at all. By analogy, everything that human civilization has experienced is insignificant compared to this one event.

In fact, this event fundamentally shook the cultural, political, religious and economic foundations of human society.

This impact went straight to the deepest layer of civilization, but its influence quickly surfaced, and the most direct consequence was a great trough that lasted for nearly half a century.

That night, the three of them chatted until nearly ten o'clock before Wang Miao's family and Shi Qiang offered to leave.

Under Zhuang's mother's compulsory request and Pang Xuelin's comfort, Zhuang Yan went to bed on vacation.

Pang Xuelin held a cup of tea and sat on the terrace until late at night.

No one knew what he was thinking.

Early the next morning, Pang Xuelin took Zhuang Yan to board the convoy and left the capital in a mighty manner.

"Brother Pang, where are we going?"

"Didn't you say you've always wanted to see the stars that belong to us? I'll take you to a good place today."

"ah?!"

A look of surprise appeared on Zhuang Yan's face.

Pang Xuelin took Zhuang Yan to Xinglong, Hebei, where the famous Guo Shoujing Astronomical Telescope (LAMOST) is located.

This astronomical telescope exists in the real world. After coming to Three-body World, Pang Xuelin asked people in the astronomical field, but he did not expect that there was such a Guo Shoujing telescope in Three-body World, and the two telescopes were in similar situations.

The initial goal of the Guo Shoujing Telescope is to observe the large-scale structure of the universe, including the survey of 2.5 million galaxies in the northern and southern silver crown regions, the survey of 1.5 million bright red galaxies and the observation of about 1 million quasars.

However, because the design and installation of the telescope did not meet the original targets, and the meteorological conditions at the telescope site did not meet the original assumptions, the observation limit magnitude could only reach about 18 magnitudes, far below the planned 20.5 magnitudes, and the detection limit was only as planned. One tenth, it is impossible to effectively observe extragalactic celestial bodies.

So the telescope is in an embarrassing situation.

But no one would have thought that the failure of LAMOST in the galaxy survey led to its success in the observation of the Milky Way.

In recent years, the spectral data of hundreds of millions of stars produced by LAMOST in the Milky Way survey has become a unique wealth for global Milky Way research.

With the advent of the three-body crisis, LAMOST has focused its energy on the study of the centaur star four light-years away from the solar system.

Today, Pang Xuelin is going to observe the DX3906 belonging to him and Zhuang Yan 286 light-years away through LAMOST.

The arrival of the Wallfacers naturally received warm hospitality from relevant parties.

Even when he used LAMOST to observe the DX3906 he bought as a gift to Zhuang Yan, it did not arouse any doubts.

Pang Xuelin stayed in Xinglong for two days, during which he and Zhuang Yan not only found their star with the naked eye, but also observed the spectral data of DX3906 (the real number of this star in the real world is HIP19983) with LAMOST, and established a corresponding stellar database.

Zhuang Yan felt like a dream.

In her heart, being able to use a telescope to observe their own stars with Pang Xuelin is almost the most romantic thing that can be thought of in this life.

Not to mention, they also took pictures of the star with a Very Large Telescope.

Zhuang Yan even specially PS the photos of the two of them together with the photo of the star, as her and Pang Xuelin's phone screen saver.

After finishing this trip, Pang Xuelin sent Zhuang Yan back to school.

And he himself went to the newly established headquarters of the Chinese Space Force.

General Chang Weisi, the new director of the Political Department of the Space Force, warmly received him.

"Professor Pang, welcome to our space army to guide our work!"

"General Chang, we left last year and never thought we would meet again here."

Pang Xuelin and Chang Weisi shook hands and said with a smile.

When he crossed for the first time, he encountered a car accident, and it was Chang Weisi who sent someone to protect him.

Unexpectedly, in less than a year, he had already become a famous Wallfacer, and Chang Weisi also started to hold important positions in the Space Force.

"General Chang, I'm here today, mainly to see the formation of the Space Force, and to hear your ideas about the future space fleet and space warfare. Presumably this is also a hot topic that the Chinese military is studying. Today I am just a pure observation Otherwise, you can work normally at your usual pace."

"Okay!" Chang Weisi nodded and said, "Professor Pang, we happen to have a working meeting in the Political Department, so you can come over and listen in. Please forgive me if there is any lack of hospitality."

Then, Chang Weisi brought Pang Xuelin to a meeting room. There were already many people in the meeting room, most of whom were school-level officers in uniforms of the Space Force.

When everyone saw Pang Xuelin follow Chang Weisi into the meeting room, the whole meeting room suddenly became noisy.

No one expected that the Wallfacer would suddenly appear at an important work meeting of the military.

For a while, everyone was discussing and guessing Pang Xuelin's intentions.

"Quiet!"

Chang Weisi scolded.

The conference room fell silent for an instant.

Chang Weisi said: "I don't think I need to introduce this person. We all know him, Professor Pang Xuelin, the Wallfacer. Professor Pang came to the meeting today, mainly to see the formation of our country's space force, and to discuss with you the impact of the future space fleet and space forces. As for the concept of war, in the next meeting, everyone can speak freely. Now, we welcome the arrival of Professor Pang."

There was applause in the conference room.

Pang Xuelin nodded to everyone, smiled and sat down beside Chang Weisi.

His eyes swept over everyone.

In the end, his gaze stayed on a young colonel officer who sat in the middle of the meeting room and kept looking forward. He didn't show much surprise at his arrival.

Chang Weisi said: "Comrades, I just received the order to be the director of the Political Department of the Space Force a week ago, and today is the first time I meet you. I think everyone knows the responsibilities of our Political Department, that is how to Let our troops maintain the belief that future wars will be won. Before starting this work, I would like to ask everyone a question, do you have this belief? Or in other words, do you think there is a possibility of victory in this war? Possibility? Raise your hand if so."

The conference room fell silent, Pang Xuelin raised his hand first, and then someone raised his hand again, it was the officer that Pang Xuelin had noticed before.

The officer looked at Pang Xuelin in surprise, and Pang Xuelin smiled and nodded towards him.

The atmosphere in the meeting room suddenly became weird.

Chang Weisi was a little surprised and said, "Professor Pang, can you tell me where your belief in victory comes from?"

Pang Xuelin smiled and said, "As a Wallfacer, if I don't even have the belief in victory, then what kind of Wallfacer should I be?"

Ha ha……

Even in the always serious military meeting, everyone couldn't help bursting into laughter.

Pang Xuelin said with a faint smile: "Okay, this is just a joke. I not only have the belief of victory, but even the belief that I must win. Of course, the plan that supports this belief cannot be said yet, but it is in my mind , if I say so, then I am not a Wallfacer!"

Everyone couldn't help but looked at each other, and didn't know if the Wallfacer was bragging or there was such a thing.

Chang Weisi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he could only turn his gaze to the colonel officer and said, "Comrade Zhang Beihai, what about you, where does your belief in victory come from?"

"It really is him!"

Pang Xuelin raised his eyebrows and thought to himself.

Zhang Beihai stood up, maintaining an excellent military demeanor, and said, "Chief, I can't explain your question in one or two sentences. After all, the establishment of beliefs is a long and complicated process. The first thing I want to point out here is The current erroneous trend of thought in the army. As you know, before the three-body crisis, we always advocated scientific and rational perspectives to examine future warfare. This way of thinking has continued to the present with its strong inertia, especially the current space force. A large number of scholars and scientists joined, which intensified this trend of thought. If we use this way of thinking to think about the interstellar war four centuries later, we will never be able to establish the belief of victory."

"Comrade Zhang Beihai's words are very strange." A colonel objected loudly, "Isn't a firm belief based on science and reason? A belief that is not based on objective facts cannot be firm."

Before Zhang Beihai could refute, Pang Xuelin said, "I think Comrade Zhang Beihai's words make sense. The science and rationality we see now may not be the real objective facts. We should see that things are developing and changing. , You can't use technological determinism and mechanical materialism to see the future as dead!"

Zhang Beihai looked at Pang Xuelin in surprise.

The Wallfacer was scrambling for his lines.

Chang Weisi glanced at Pang Xuelin thoughtfully, and said, "Professor Pang, do you have any other ideas?"

Pang Xuelin said: "For the army, the belief in victory must be established. With this kind of belief, the army will lose its meaning and value. What is important is how to establish this belief!"

At this time, another officer said: "Professor Pang, we understand what you mean. It's just that the composition of the space force is very complicated. There are units from the navy and air force, the military and local research institutions, and even Some scholars from local colleges. So how to build the belief of victory, our job is not easy to do."

Zhang Hokkaido: "I think that we should at least start with the mental outlook of the troops, such as soldiers' attire, internal affairs, and how to establish a sense of mission, etc. It is undeniable that our Space Force is currently undertaking the mission of a military science academy, but our You should first realize that you are an army, and an army at war!"

Chang Weisi said: "As for how to establish a sense of mission, I think everyone has said very well. We can discuss the specific implementation plan in a special meeting in the next work. Next, let's move on to another topic of today's meeting, that It’s how to build a theory of space warfare.”

"Currently, as the research on space warfare theory in various countries is in full swing, they soon encountered a problem: the study of interstellar warfare must undoubtedly be based on the level of technological development, but now, various basic researches have just begun, and technological breakthroughs are yet to come. In the foreseeable future, this makes our research lose support. In order to adapt to this situation, the headquarters revised the research plan and divided the original single space war theory research into three independent parts, so as to adapt to the various technological levels that the human world may achieve in the future , they are: low-tech strategy, medium-tech strategy and high-tech strategy.”

"At present, the definition of the three technical levels is in progress, and a large number of index parameters will be determined in each major discipline, but the core parameters are the speed and navigation range of the 10,000-ton spacecraft."

"Low technology level: the speed of the spacecraft reaches about 50 times the speed of the third universe, that is, about 800 km/s, and the spacecraft does not have the ability of ecological cycle. In this case, the combat radius of the spacecraft will be limited to the inner solar system, that is, Neptune Within the orbit, within the space range of 30 astronomical units from the sun."

"Medium technology level: The speed of the spacecraft reaches about 300 times the speed of the third universe, that is, 4800 km/s, and the spacecraft has a partial ecological cycle capability. In this case, the combat radius of the spacecraft will be extended beyond the Kuiper belt. space within 1000 astronomical units."

"High-tech level: The speed of the spacecraft reaches about 1,000 times the speed of the third universe, that is, 16,000 kilometers per second, which is 5 percent of the speed of light; the spacecraft has a complete ecological cycle capability. In this case, the combat navigation of the spacecraft The scope will be extended to the Oort Nebula, and it will initially have interstellar navigation capabilities."

"The comrades present at the meeting today will all become members of the Space Warfare Theory Research Group. Although the research of the three theoretical branches overlaps, the research institutions are independent of each other. The names of these three institutions are tentatively designated as low-tech strategic research. In today's meeting, I want to hear about your own choice intentions, as a reference for the next job arrangement of the political department of the military. Let's talk about your choices. "

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