The giant corporations that started from Night City

Chapter 509 It is often advanced civilizations that destroy the cosmic environment!
Seeing Song Zhaomei and V showing surprised and shocked expressions, Qian Sihu shook his head helplessly: "This is the inevitable phenomenon caused by the situation in the Dark Forest."

"Superluminal travel has basically become the exclusive domain of advanced civilizations. Ordinary civilizations simply don't have the channels or methods to achieve superluminal travel. Even reaching the speed of light is a luxury."

"The communication barriers between civilizations have led to an infinite extension of the chain of suspicion. If all civilizations could communicate through superluminal travel like other civilizations, the situation in the Three-Body Universe might not be what it is now."

After saying that, Qiansihu sighed again.

In fact, when it comes down to it, the current dark forest situation in the Three-Body Universe is entirely caused by human factors.

Civilizations like the Three-Body Civilization are struggling on the edge of survival not because they are not motivated, but simply because of the bad overall environment.

Ordinary civilizations do not have the ability or qualifications to destroy the environment. The real culprit behind the difficulties and hardships in the technological development of the Three-Body Civilization is this group of old Dengs who seized the development opportunities.

Dimensionality reduction attacks and light speed reduction attacks are all disasters created by these unethical advanced civilizations.

They are the ones that the world's giants really want to deal with.

"Don't be too depressed, the good news is that other advanced civilizations may have a grand unified model of the universe in their hands, or even more than one civilization has this model."

"As long as we can find a way to obtain this model, we may be able to use law-level weapons to accurately carry out targeted strikes, and there will be no need to use the ether phase engine to empty this universe."

Qiansihu smiled indifferently. He knew too well how difficult it was to establish a grand unified model of the universe. Sometimes one had to destroy a universe to obtain it.

But after destroying the universe, the obtained grand unified model will become invalid. After all, even the universe is gone, and this model cannot be applied to other universes.

If the grand unified model of the "Three-Body" universe could be obtained, then the Universal Enterprise would be like having a full-map plug-in, allowing it to see the position of the enemy at a glance.

This will be of great benefit to the integrated actions of giant companies.

"Are we sure we can deal with these advanced civilizations?"

Song Zhaomei couldn't help but frown. The world's giant corporations had never fought head-on with a civilization that could use a variety of law-level weapons. The next battle might not be that simple.

"At least in my opinion, it's a fifty-fifty chance."

Qiansihu raised the leg of his glasses and said, "This winning rate is not low for a scientist."

V interrupted the two and said, "Alright, no matter what the chance of winning is, now is not the time to discuss this. Let's first figure out how to deal with these Trisolarans."

Of course, V also knows that there are many civilizations more powerful than the Trisolarans, but the current world giants have not encountered them yet. They have to take one step at a time and eat one bite at a time. If they take too big a step, they may hurt their roots.

There's no point in thinking too far ahead at this moment.

In the later stages of the dimensional war, it is probably no longer an ordinary scientific scope, but a battle between gods with strange powers and distorted laws of nature.

It is impossible to describe it in simple language, and only a child's wild and abstract thinking can give us an idea of ​​it.

Soon, a research seminar convened by Ott Cunningham began. The meeting went smoothly, and the scientific research team of the giant company made good progress in just one year.

At the meeting, Li Ang affirmed the contributions of various researchers and expressed his full support for technological development in the microscopic field.

With the encouragement and trust of the Archon, the morale of the Giant Enterprise's Science Hub was greatly boosted. In the process of continuous research on the microscopic world, they gradually figured out some plans and ideas for hunting down the Sophon.

Among them, Hermann Gottlieb, the weird and paranoid scientist from the "Pacific Rim" universe, is a cutting-edge talent in microscopic research.

With his full cooperation, the global giant gradually mastered the method of finding Sophon.

An important prerequisite for catching prey is to know the location of the prey.

The sophon is only the size of a proton and can move at the speed of light, changing its position. Observing and identifying its position is much more difficult than finding a needle in a haystack.

If Sophon insists on avoiding the observation of the giant corporations in the microscopic field, they may never be able to find Sophon's trace in their lifetime.

Fortunately, Chieko's movements and positions can be traced.

In order to lock down human technology, the Three-Body Civilization had to send out intelligent particles to move at speeds close to the speed of light, while interfering with the experimental results of multiple high-speed particle accelerators on Earth.

During this process, the global giant company can make arrangements in advance and lock on to the position of Sophon based on the opponent's movement trajectory.

However, it is far from enough to just identify the position and trajectory of the intelligent particle. The most critical problem is how to destroy or capture it.

In the microscopic world, protons are already the most basic units of matter, which is fundamentally different from things in the macroscopic system.

It can be crushed but not destroyed.

In fact, through experimental observations by Hermann and others, it was found that when a sophon is broken into several parts, multiple sophons will be produced.

They will have a tight and strong quantum connection with each other, just like cutting off one magnet and getting two magnets.

Although the functionality of each sophon fragment will be less than the original one, under the guidance of the automatic repair program, these fragments can be quickly put together to form a sophon that is exactly the same as the original one.

This situation occurs in every high-energy particle collision experiment conducted by humans. The way that sophons interfere with particle experiments is to replace target particles in receiving collisions, thereby misleading humans into making experimental data erroneous.

When the sophon has completed its interference task, it can repair itself in just one millionth of a second and then interfere with the next high-energy particle accelerator.

It can be said that it is impossible to destroy the sophon using conventional means. The only way to destroy the sophon is probably through antimatter annihilation or a singularity bomb created by dark matter.

The lowest-cost method is of course to use antimatter.

Theoretically, humans only need to pay one antihydrogen atom to kill a sophon through the annihilation effect, which saves more resources than destroying water droplets.

But how to hit the target has become the most troublesome problem.

A sophon is faster than a water droplet and can turn more flexibly. If it senses the existence of antihydrogen atoms on the path ahead, it will definitely not crash into them stupidly.

In addition, antimatter is extremely unstable in nature and can hardly exist under normal conditions. Once it leaves a specific container, it will annihilate and disappear in less than 0.1 seconds.

Therefore, launching antimatter to hit the sophon is much more difficult than asking Zhang Fei to embroider. Just how to preserve the antimatter in nature for a long time is enough to stump them.

Seeing that everyone was at a loss, Hermann proposed his own idea: "Protons have a positive charge. Even if they are transformed into sophons by the Trisolarans, their basic properties will not change."

"We can create a strong electromagnetic field to confine it first, and then we can decide how to deal with it later." However, Ott Cunningham immediately shook his head and rejected the plan: "We thought of this method a long time ago, but how to set up a strong electromagnetic field is a difficult problem in itself."

"In the best case scenario, we would deploy a strong electromagnetic field along the flight path of the sophon, and then take advantage of the situation to capture it in one fell swoop."

"But this is only under ideal conditions. You have to know that our every move on Earth is under the surveillance of the sophon. Once the sophon detects that we are trying to create a strong magnetic field, it is impossible for it to fall into the trap."

"It's possible that just when we were about to activate the strong electromagnetic field, Tomoko had already escaped from the capture range, leaving us with nothing."

Sophon itself is a Three-Body AI that integrates a supercomputer and has a certain degree of independent thinking ability. Although it does not understand human thinking very well, it still has some observations in the field of science.

Therefore, no matter from which angle, if you want to capture the sophon by setting up a strong electromagnetic field, it will definitely alarm the sophon, which is doomed to be a futile act.

"Then I'm afraid we can only enter from the microscopic realm and kill it by creating a proton killer like Sophon."

Hermann gave a helpless smile.

"Then can we change our thinking and set up some strong electromagnetic fields near each high-energy particle accelerator? Wouldn't this also prevent the sophons from interfering with human experiments?"

V asked.

If we can help humans break through the technological blockade as soon as possible, perhaps we can also bring about a technological explosion for the humans here on Earth, saving the world's giant corporations some worries.

However, Dr. Halsey shook his head and denied it, saying, "Humans have already used this method."

"This can indeed prevent Tomoko from coming in for a short period of time, but it will be useless over a long period of time."

V was surprised: "Why is this happening?"

"There is no doubt that protons have a positive charge."

"But it's not that difficult to solve the electrical problem. All the sophon needs to do is absorb some electrons in advance to neutralize its own positive charge, and then it can easily pass through the strong electromagnetic field in a neutral state."

Dr. Halsey sighed. "It's not easy to find electrons that match exactly, but for Sophon it's just a matter of time."

"It's useless to rely on a strong electromagnetic field to stop the movement of the sophon. It's too difficult to trap it."

Hearing this, V couldn't help but gasp. He didn't expect that this Tomoko would be so troublesome and could even make so many smart people feel difficult.

If we continue this discussion, I'm afraid countless problems will arise.

It seems that the only way to effectively solve the problem is to complete the technological points in the microscopic field as soon as possible, otherwise any shortcuts will be futile.

The Three-Body Civilization has gained too many advantages through its technological leadership in the microscopic field, especially in terms of information asymmetry!

"Has Tomoko noticed our location now?"

V looked at Ott Cunningham and asked.

They have been in the "Three-Body" universe for some time, so even if their tracks are discovered by Sophon, it is acceptable, but they will always be at a disadvantage in terms of information asymmetry in the future.

Ott Cunningham waved her hand and unfolded the holographic screen. The entire solar system suddenly appeared. She called up a picture and pointed at the red dots moving at high speed and said:

"Those five red dots are the Trisolaran intelligent beings. Three of them are orbiting the Earth, and the other one is in the orbit of Jupiter, monitoring Fleet International."

"The last one is constantly hovering near the Moon of War. I think Tomoko hasn't found a way to get in yet, so he can only stay around and look for an opportunity to get in."

V frowned again. As expected, they were discovered by the Three-Body Civilization.

Fortunately, the headquarters has not been completely exposed to Tomoko's surveillance. The current situation is that Tomoko realizes that there is a problem here, but is not clear about the specific situation.

At this stage, the world's giants feel somewhat helpless about the technological points of the Three-Body civilization, and the same is true for the Three-Body civilization towards the technological points of the world's giants.

Both sides were somewhat helpless against the other.

But the difference is that the giant enterprises are rapidly catching up with the microscopic technology that the Trisolaran civilization is proud of by relying on their powerful scientific and technological productivity, while the Trisolarans have no way to catch up with the giant enterprises.

As long as time can be dragged on, the ones who will have the last laugh will be the global giants and human civilization.

At this moment, Qiansi Fox, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke up: "Is there a possibility that we can lure Tomoko into the Moon of War and then trap it with an energy field?"

The War Moon of the Universal Corporation mainly relies on the light stealth technology of the Temporary battleship and a strong enough energy field to achieve this almost impeccable camouflage and invisibility.

Qiansi Fox believes that once Chieko enters the Month of War and shuts down the energy field, this little thing will inevitably be trapped by the giant company.

V was stunned for a moment, then realized that if War Moon took the initiative to expose himself to Tomoko's sight, it would indeed be easy to attract Tomoko over.

But wouldn’t this be like inviting a wolf into the house?

Ott Cunningham immediately shook his head and rejected the plan, saying, "That's impossible. Not to mention how much risk this would put us at, it would only take three sophons to monitor the Moon of War."

"We can't ask the Trisolarans to send five sophons to monitor us. What's the point of arresting only a few sophons if we don't catch them all at once?"

In fact, what Ott Cunningham was most worried about was not the feasibility of this plan, but its political impact.

If Tomoko secretly sabotages and harms the governor of a giant company, then they will be the culprits and cannot escape blame!

Li Ang's personal safety is more important than completing the integration of the Three-Body Universe.

"Besides that, our energy shield cannot be deployed or closed that quickly. The speed of the sophon is too fast. Once it senses that we are trying to block it, it can easily escape at the speed of light."

The Infinite Divine Machine of the Science Hub had already considered and calculated various plans, and the idea proposed by Qiansihu was naturally included.

There is a certain probability of success, but the risks and consequences of failure are not something they can afford.

So much top-secret information and intelligence cannot be given to the Trisolarans for free.

(End of this chapter)