The giant corporations that started from Night City

Chapter 512: Calabi-Yau Manifold! Annihilation of Sophon! Final General Attack!

On the colorful atomic nucleus, the sophon presents a compactified structure of the Calabi-Yau manifold, which looks a bit like a bullfight.

A three-dimensional slice of this six-dimensional geometry would exhibit fractal-like self-similarity, and when activated, the extra dimensions of the sophon would exist in the form of Planck-scale topological oscillations.

As soon as AI Europa locked onto the location of the sophon, it raised its specially made microscopic weapons, ready to hunt it down.

But in the next second, Nachiko turned into a Japanese woman in kimono, and her elegant and peaceful posture was exactly the same as that of a human being.

This made AI Europa a little dazed.

Is this thing really Tomoko...

But soon, Ott Cunningham issued an order to AI Europa through the matrix, telling it to attack Sophon immediately.

In higher dimensions, the complexity and number of structures within particles will increase dramatically. Even a proton is enough to contain the entire universe. Sophons can transform into humans or any desired image through their own nanomechanical structures.

This skill can be compared to the 72 transformations of Sun Wukong in Journey to the West.

From a macroscopic perspective, the sophon is still a proton, but when the perspective reaches the subatomic level, the sophon is able to exhibit quite complex structure and change ability.

If a real person were to carry out this assassination mission, it might be difficult for him to do it.

Because the intelligent child in front of them looked so much like a real person, but what they encountered was an AI killer. After receiving the exact instructions from Otto Cunningham, AI Europa immediately pulled the trigger.

The weapon it uses is a specially modified pistol whose bullets are shrunken antihydrogen atoms, and the interior of the substance is almost completely hollow.

The annihilation effect will only occur after it is fired and contacts the target.

Immediately, the antihydrogen atom shot by AI Europa swept towards Sophon, but failed to hit it successfully. Instead, it brushed past its body and hit the probability cloud behind it.

The fuzzy probability cloud burst into a dazzling flame, which was the scene of annihilation of matter and antimatter.

The mass of an antihydrogen atom is only 1.67 times 10-27, and it will be reduced by tens of thousands of times after being shrunk. Therefore, the explosive power it produces has almost no effect on the macroscopic world.

Even the energy generated by the bursting of bubbles blown by a child in the macroscopic world is more powerful than the power caused by the bullet.

But the purpose of this weapon is not to use the explosion caused by the annihilation effect to destroy the sophon.

After all, Chieko is not afraid of explosions. Even if they are blown into tens of thousands of pieces, they can be reassembled and restored in an instant. The whole process takes only one millionth of a second.

So what AI Europa needs is to use the annihilation effect of antihydrogen atoms to corrode its internal circuits.

The total area of ​​the sophon's microscopic circuit is equivalent to a hundred times the area of ​​the earth when expanded in two dimensions. Only by destroying part of it can we achieve real functional damage and make the sophon lose its normal function.

It is definitely not realistic to completely destroy Tomoko, but there is some chance of defeating her.

However, it is not so easy to do this.

The speed of the Sophon is faster than the AI ​​killers, even faster than the anti-hydrogen atoms shot out by AI Europa, so this ordinary attack method is actually not very effective against it.

In the blink of an eye, Tomoko's appearance has changed a lot, from a Japanese woman at the beginning, quickly transformed into all kinds of dazzling line clouds.

If you use the naked eye to distinguish, there is no way to pinpoint the location of Sophon.

Fortunately, these AI killers are connected to the Matrix. With the powerful computing power of the Matrix, it is not difficult for Europa to lock onto the traces of the Sophon.

After AI Europa fired the first shot, several other AI killers quickly followed suit, locking onto their target Sophons one by one and attacking them.

In an instant, bullets and shells came whistling like a gale, but Chieko was not afraid at all. She dodged the anti-hydrogen atoms lightly. This was their home ground, and it was not so easy for them to be hunted and killed by outsiders.

What's more, the speed of the sophon has reached a speed close to the speed of light. In the subatomic microscopic world, its speed has long exceeded the speed limit of light and can almost move at super-light speed over long distances.

It can be said that Sophon is equivalent to a god in this microscopic world. In their eyes, the movements of these AI killers are as clumsy as a stationary snail.

Through the quantum sensing matrix, the sophon can accurately determine the flight trajectory of the antihydrogen atom in a very short time, and then move to the appropriate position to avoid it.

They are like the hackers in The Matrix who have turned on cheats and can dodge bullets with ease.

For a long time, Sophon has relied on this ability to continuously replace target particles in high-energy accelerator experiments to accept collisions.

Afterwards, they deliberately gave wrong and confusing results in order to interfere with human research and development in basic physics and microscopic fields.

[You can't stop the sophons. They will soon find the right electrons to break through the strong electromagnetic field.]

Sophon used the surrounding probability clouds to form words. The Trisolarans were deliberately provoking the world's giant corporations.

The giant company set up an ambush carefully, using a strong electromagnetic field to pin the five sophons in a small area. Then what? They still have a way to escape.

These sarcastic words naturally entered the eyes of the employees of the giant company through the perspective of the AI ​​killer.

David Martinez was so angry that he gritted his teeth. Is there really no way to deal with Tomoko?

Qiansi Fox frowned and thought quickly about the next strategy in his mind. If AI Europa could not destroy Sophon, then all their previous efforts would be in vain.

It has to be admitted that the Sophon is definitely the most perfect and successful technological creation of the Three-Body Civilization, and can be called the epitome of microscopic world technology.

In the original novel of "The Three-Body Problem", Sophon has never been destroyed by any civilization.

It can be said that the Three-Body Civilization relied on the continuous information advantages provided by intelligent particles in the microscopic field and on narrowing the information gap with other advanced civilizations to gradually become a god-level civilization.

This civilization, which has taken intelligence work to the extreme, has become one of the few ace chicken-eating players that can survive until the destruction of the universe.

Even the two-dimensional foil attack of the Singer civilization could not cause any substantial damage to Sophon.

Chieko can expand in two dimensions by herself, and even dimensionality reduction attacks have no effect on her.

Faced with such a tenacious thing, many scientific researchers from the world's giant companies have consumed too many brain cells. Many people have given up hope and believe that they will never be able to destroy Sophon.

Instead of continuing to put a lot of time, energy and resources into such a tough nut to crack, it would be better to let Jack Wells directly send a fleet out of the solar system.

Intercept the Trisolaran fleet and deal with the Trisolarans at their root.

At this moment, Ott Cunningham was racking his brains over how to deal with this tough opponent.

The microscopic world is gradually eroding the AI ​​killers' sense of time, direction, and distance. If it were not for the support of the Matrix's powerful computers, AI Europa would probably have been lost in this quantum forest long ago.

In this microscopic field, it is as easy for Tomoko to dodge the attacks of the AI ​​killers as drinking water. Her leisurely and graceful posture really makes people feel despair.

Just when someone suggested abandoning the hunting plan, Ott Cunningham suddenly discovered that although the Sophons were trying their best to dodge the anti-hydrogen atoms, they had never moved.

At least they moved, but then returned to their original location. If Sophon chose to escape and hide their tracks, the AI ​​killers would be unable to do anything to them.

But Chieko just stood in the designated area and allowed AI Europa to attack her without fighting back. This behavior was obviously abnormal.

Almost at the same time, Qiansihu and Ott Cunningham, who had come to their senses, said the two words in unison: "Electronic!"

That's right, the sophons are waiting for a suitable electron that can help them neutralize the electric charge and break through the strong electromagnetic field.

The electrons in an atom do not actually move along a predetermined orbit, but are randomly distributed around the nucleus with a certain probability.

Its occurrence or not is completely random, so quantum mechanics is also needed to analyze it.

It is precisely because of this that the sophons need to continue waiting for the electron to appear again, but they cannot accurately predict where the electron will be, so they can only adopt the clumsy method of waiting.

The reason why Chieko did not run away or take the initiative to attack was that she was afraid of missing the opportunity for the right electron to appear again.

Researchers at the world's largest companies have long since determined that electrons are not all identical elementary particles.

Each elementary particle has its own differences, which allows for random combinations to create infinite possibilities.

Therefore, it is not easy for Zhizi to find suitable electrons.

For these intelligent beings, finding that key electron is the key to escaping from the strong electromagnetic field. As for the group of AI killers in front of them, they don't need to pay any attention to them.

After knowing this information, Ott Cunningham immediately gave orders to the AI ​​killers.

[All AI units, immediately destroy the probability cloud around Sophon! ]

As soon as the order was given, the AI ​​killers immediately raised their guns and aimed above the nucleus, shooting at the probability cloud of the electron's existence.

Antihydrogen atoms will naturally annihilate when they encounter electrons, although scientists such as Ott Cunningham cannot be sure where the electrons will appear.

But doing so would continually destroy the possibility of the electron appearing.

The positions of electrons in the probability cloud are uncertain. Faced with the annihilation of these antihydrogen atoms, they will not make any evasive actions like the sophons.

In the end, a large number of probability clouds are destroyed by the annihilation of matter and antimatter.

This unexpected move immediately threw the sophomores off guard.

They had finally determined the possible location of the electron, but it was destroyed by these AI killers, which made the Sophons furious.

Then, Tomoko finally moved.

Their method of attack is simple, that is impact.

Condensate itself into a high-speed flying bullet and destroy these AI killers by ramming them.

Zhizi's movements were extremely fast, and the human eye could not see any trace of the opponent at all. Fortunately, the powerful computing power of the matrix gave the AI ​​killer a pair of sharp enough eyes.

I can just about make out Tomoko's position.

Following a close combat, Tomoko was chopped into pieces by the AI ​​killer's strong interaction force weapon sword.

Unlike water droplets, the sophon itself is not actually very hard, and can even be called fragile.

But Chieko's recovery ability is very strong, and the collision just now was just a test. After realizing the AI ​​killer's extraordinary skills and weapons, Chieko also began to look for other angles to launch a fatal attack.

Sophon constantly grabs elementary particles in the microscopic world to form weapons, and uses its high speed to leave some scars on the AI ​​killers, but the protective gear of these killers are all made of strong interaction materials.

The attacks of Sophon had little effect on these AI killers.

Seeing that this trick was useless, Sophon immediately used her high speed advantage to repeatedly attack the same position of the AI ​​killers, using an extremely high attack frequency to cut the armor on Europa.

This method is certainly useful.

The weakness of strong interaction materials is actually quite obvious in the microscopic field. As long as the condensed elementary particles can be broken up, they can be disintegrated.

This is completely impossible in the macroscopic world, but very possible in the microscopic world.

However, just as the Sophons were about to knock off the strong interaction force armor on AI Europa, they found that their movements suddenly became sluggish.

My whole body felt as if it were filled with lead and I could hardly move freely.

The possibility of this happening is limited only by the magnetic field.

However, this is not the strong electromagnetic field in the macroscopic world, but a subatomic magnetic field deployed in the body of the AI ​​killer, specifically used to target the etching circuits in the body of the sophon!

At this point, Chieko's movements have become increasingly slow and clumsy, with every move they make full of resistance. They are in the magnetic field as if they were stuck in a quagmire.

The harder you struggle, the greater the resistance you will encounter.

Faced with an immobile opponent, AI Europa can handle it all by simply completing the most routine target shooting.

As the bullet flew past, the antihydrogen atom hit the sophon, and a strong light of annihilation suddenly flashed out.

No matter how complex the interior of a sophon is, it is still a proton in the final analysis and cannot avoid the physical law of matter-antimatter annihilation.

AI Europa fired continuously, giving these sophons no chance at all. The explosion knocked them off the nuclei and dropped them into the probability cloud formed by electrons.

The light of annihilation flickered one after another. Antihydrogen atoms sometimes collided with the sophons, and sometimes hit randomly appearing electrons, annihilating everything.

Only when Sophon completely disappeared in the light of antimatter annihilation did AI Europa stop and wait patiently for news from other personnel.

After a while, AI Spider Murphy, AI Batmos and other killers all killed their targets.

The staff of the Science Hub were greatly encouraged. Having dealt with the most difficult Sophon, they were now close to taking down the Three-Body Civilization!
As Ott Cunningham gave the order to withdraw, the AI ​​killers prepared to return to the macroscopic world, and the people behind her were filled with excited laughter.

"It's finally over." Senji Kitsune breathed a sigh of relief. Tomoko, who had tortured them for so long, was finally dead.

If they cannot defeat the Sophon in this battle, they will have to break through the technology in the microscopic field on their own and fight against the Sophon of the giant enterprise of the Three-Body Civilization.

Now that the five intelligent beings have been killed, this research work can be temporarily slowed down, and after defeating the Three-Body civilization, we can directly take advantage of the Three-Body people's technology for free.

However, just as Tomoko's problem was solved, before everyone could relax for a few days, a new problem arose.

That is, the Three-Body Civilization has launched the final general attack on the solar system!

(End of this chapter)