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Chapter 240 The Wandering Earth Plan Failed, Three Views

The Wandering Earth Plan Failed: Research on the Remains of the Planetary Engine

——Year One of the Major Events in the Lunar Calendar
Seeing the long list of titles on the first page, Lin Feng immediately became interested.

The Wandering Earth Project, in particular, is a key event that spans the entire period from the end of the Old Earth era to the end of the wasteland today.

If the Evolution Alliance had not proposed the Wandering Earth plan to deal with the world-destroying crisis caused by solar storms, humans and the entire planet would have been exposed to high temperatures of hundreds or even thousands of degrees in high-energy rays and turned into charcoal.

By then, even if we build underground shelters hundreds of meters underground, we will not be able to withstand the continued warming caused by the storm.

More importantly, the rays and energy waves released by solar storms will evaporate and blow away more than 90% of the Earth's water.

Even if there are a small number of survivors who return to the surface after the crisis, they will have a hard time because of the barren and scorched earth.

In particular, the scarcity of water resources makes it impossible to complete the photothermal cycle that fixes solar energy, and the number of people that can be fed has been severely restricted.

Humanity still has the possibility of escaping extinction.

And because of the existence of evolvers, the demand for high-energy food will only increase.

When they, who represent the military power, are not well fed, the social order and the operation of the entire system will face collapse.

It was for the above reasons that the Evolutionary Alliance at that time launched the Wandering Earth Project, allowing the Earth, which was originally in the habitable zone of the solar system, to escape the orbit it had been traveling for four billion years and head for a new home.

At this moment, Lin Feng was concentrating on looking through the background recorded on the paper in his hand.

There are records about the old Earth period, but it is estimated that only the dark and turbulent old calendar era before the wasteland can be recorded in detail and accurately.

After all, most of the survivors who walked out of the shelter in that era were eyewitnesses of the catastrophe.

Among them there are many first-, second-, and even third-level kings. Their understanding of that era is far more detailed than that of Lin Feng, who was only at the fourth level of enhancement at that time.

After the background was explained, the subsequent progress of the Wandering Earth Project was also presented to Lin Feng:
At the end of the catastrophe, humans observed the wreckage of spaceships from space through space telescopes. Some of them turned into meteors and fell to the earth...

The main bodies of these spacecraft, especially the power systems at the tail, are still flying along the inertial route towards the stars at the center of the solar system.

In fact, ordinary debris will not cause much impact. After all, the sun is essentially a nuclear fusion furnace with a surface temperature of thousands or even tens of thousands of degrees. The internal core temperature can even reach 15 million degrees!
While it is revolving around the Milky Way, many small meteorites or asteroid fragments hit it, but they can't make any waves at all.

Whether it is rock or metal, it will melt directly before it comes into contact with the sun, or even vaporize and float away, with no effect on the sun.

But the problem is that the wreckage of the alien spacecraft must have a power furnace at the tail, and it must be at least nuclear-powered.

According to the analysis of the debris that fell to Earth at the time, these alien spacecraft had already mastered controlled nuclear fusion and were able to achieve miniaturization.

What's even more terrifying is that in order to adapt to space travel and facilitate the acquisition of fuel to start the furnace, the power device at the tail of the alien spacecraft, with a diameter of 500 meters, uses heavy nuclear fusion technology.

That is to say, the feasibility of human beings launching the Wandering Earth plan came from this.

However, heavy nuclear fusion requires a sufficiently high pressure environment to start.

It is like the most common and basic hydrogen nuclear fusion, but its ignition method is equivalent to the fuse of explosives.

The essence of the sun is a huge hydrogen nuclear fusion device. The hydrogen atom isotopes inside are fusing continuously for 24 hours, producing helium and other larger mass elements while releasing a large amount of light and heat energy.

To form stable hydrogen fusion, a high-temperature and high-pressure environment of at least 10 million degrees is required. This is why when humans develop hydrogen bombs, they need to use nuclear fission atomic bombs as their detonators to create conditions for triggering fusion reactions.

In traditional nuclear fusion, like that of the sun, the final product is iron because its structure is the most stable.

But heavy nuclear fusion does not start with hydrogen, but with elements of larger atomic mass.

Helium, an element one level higher than hydrogen, requires a high temperature of 200 million degrees Celsius, while using ferrosilicon, the most common and abundant element on Earth, requires a terrifying environment of at least 1 billion degrees.

Only in this way can the stable internal structure of the iron element be destroyed, the strong nuclear force between the protons and neutrons inside the nucleus be broken, and they can be re-aggregated after fission to form elements with larger mass.

Therefore, the entire process of heavy nuclear fusion will also produce various heavy metal elements, such as common metals such as silver, gold, lead, or other rare metals, etc.

Heavy nuclear fusion also exists in the real universe, but only stars with at least eight times the mass of the sun are qualified to undergo heavy nuclear fusion.

And only at the end of life, when a large amount of iron has accumulated, will a supernova explosion occur, and heavy elements such as gold atoms will be born in an extremely high temperature and high pressure environment.

These materials were thrown into the deep universe by the explosion and formed part of the planet.

However, the heavy nuclear fusion mastered by the alien spacecraft can reach a temperature of hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius even in its low-power dormant period.

Once such a core is near or inside the sun, it will explode violently.

It is very likely to ignite the sun prematurely and accelerate the nuclear fusion reaction. Even if the conditions for a supernova explosion are not met, it can still trigger a strong solar storm and destroy the temperature environment of all planets in the solar system.

Therefore, the Wandering Earth Plan is imperative for the Evolutionary Alliance, which has become an advanced evolutionary.

Especially the kings in the middle and late stages of the third stage cannot escape into the unknown deep space on replica spaceships like other evolvers.

Due to the huge demand for food and energy, even when entering a low-energy dormant period, a large amount of life source must be consumed on time to maintain the long-term survival of the third-level cells.

This requires a stable and spacious environment to raise evolved life or cultivate evolved meat.

However, it is impossible to build a spaceship that can accommodate a million people in a short period of time.

Therefore, they can only use the technology of spacecraft wreckage to build a large heavy nuclear fusion reactor to propel the Earth away from the sun while providing sufficient energy for the underground shelter.

To maintain the operation of the large shelter and support the third-level king who is the leader.

With the advancement of the plan, relying on the physical fitness of everyone becoming enhanced in the post-Cataclysm era, and the call and assistance of the Evolvers, in a limited time of less than twenty years, humans and evolved beasts worked together to complete the construction of nearly 10,000 heavy nuclear fusion engines.

After all, the physical strength of the evolved humans and evolved beasts is comparable to that of large-scale engineering machinery, and they are even more flexible.

These heavy nuclear fusion devices, also known as planetary engines, are enough to propel this 600 trillion ton rocky planet out of the sun's gravitational pull and into deep space after they are all ignited and started.

Most of these planetary engines are located in the southern hemisphere.

Because there are abundant raw materials and a sparse population there, it is very suitable for the simultaneous construction of large planetary engines.

As the main driving force to push the earth away.

To this end, they dug out the entire South Africa, Australia, and South America to obtain countless metal ores and ignition fuel to start the engine.

Eighty to ninety percent of the engines are in the entire southern hemisphere, and the remaining one thousand are distributed in the northern hemisphere.

It is mainly responsible for controlling the direction of the earth, which is equivalent to the rudder that controls the direction of travel.

To match it, there are also a thousand large underground shelters that can accommodate billions of survivors or evolved beasts.

It was enough for all living things on Earth at the time to have their own place to stay, to enter the shelter's hibernation capsules, until the arrival of a new world after ten thousand years of voyage. According to the records of the large shelter base at that time, everything went smoothly until the Wandering Earth Project was ignited and launched, propelling Earth out of the solar system.

The successful ignition initiated heavy nuclear fusion, generating sufficient thrust to push the Earth out of its polar orbit and then accelerate to an escape velocity of 42 kilometers per second.

Finally, with the help of Jupiter's gravity, it breaks free from the sun's gravitational pull and heads for its destined Proxima Centauri.

According to the subsequent wandering plan, the wandering time is 2,500 years until entering the Alpha Centauri star system, also known as Centaurus.

Three of the stars are the smaller Proxima Centauri.

As the future object of Earth's revolution.

But too many changes happened during this period, resulting in a gap of a thousand years in history.

When the major bases fell into slumber and even the third-level kings went into hibernation, most of the base operations were actually handed over to the computer system.

And the product of the Evolution Alliance's original agent program, a group of artificial humans with strength comparable to that of third-level evolvers.

Responsible for maintaining the operation of the underground shelter.

At the same time, ensure that the survivors can reach their new homes.

These things are actually also implicitly mentioned in later versions of the Holy Spring Sutra.

But the first edition of the Holy Spring Sutra that Lin Feng saw at this moment specifically pointed out that the agent was actually created by the third-level king of that year to ensure that he could obtain stable supplies and maintain his position while in hibernation.

The agent's first priority is not to protect humans.

But to protect the third-level king.

Even if it means sacrificing other ordinary first- and second-level evolvers in the shelter, it will be worth it.

At the same time, their command priority is to ensure the survival of the third-order king, which is even higher than the Wandering Earth plan.

In other words, in the eyes of the top leaders of the Evolutionary Alliance, their own survival priority is definitely higher than the orders of the Earth and all of humanity.

Therefore, the text records that the third-order kings and even the gods of old were not as noble and selfless as traditional propaganda said, and that they were not the saviors and redeemers of the earth and mankind.

The subsequent failure of the Wandering Earth project and the current situation of being trapped in a wasteland apocalypse are all related to the deviation in the agent settings.

They are a group of artificial life forms that can rival the third-level kings, and are also a mixture of machinery and flesh and blood.

It can directly absorb various forms of energy to maintain its own needs.

There is no need to reduce the demand and loss of cells in the body by sleeping and hibernating like the evolved ones.

So during the entire 2,500 years of drifting, they remained awake, distributed within the shelters and in the planetary engines on the surface.

Ensure the normal operation of the engine.

As for the subsequent events, the Lord of the Holy Spring and His eight followers, the Eight Sages on the religious emblem, calculated a total of three most likely versions during their growth and travels.

The first one is the defect of the agent project, which caused most agents to awaken their self-awareness. Then, due to differences of opinion, an internal melee broke out, causing the Earth to enter the middle area of ​​the Samsung system.

Finally, the doomsday will come with three days in the sky.

The second one is the plan of several third-stage late-stage kings at the top of the Evolution Alliance.

These people once stood at the top of the world, and no one could match them in terms of their own strength or power.

Their only purpose is to explore possible subsequent paths of evolution, that is, the path to becoming a god.

Even the subsequent Wandering Earth project and the heavy nuclear fusion planetary engine were created by them.

This view has some conspiracy theories.

It is said that it is very likely that the world-destroying crisis brought about by spacecraft wreckage and solar storms does not actually exist.

The Evolution Alliance advertises this way simply to mobilize all surviving humans and evolved beasts in the most efficient way to serve their plan to become gods.

The so-called planetary engine is to provide a better environment for the development and evolution of these third-level kings.

After all, the energy provided by a heavy nuclear fusion device is enough to operate a large shelter that can accommodate five million people for tens of thousands of years.

During this period, humans in the shelter no longer need to worry about their own survival. They only need to serve the shelter owner, the third-level king, wholeheartedly.

However, there are relevant records showing that a strong high-energy particle flow storm was indeed observed in the fifth year after the Earth left the solar system.

As a result, many planetary engines were affected and the control devices located underground were damaged.

The Earth fell into a year-long period of silence, and the communication networks between major bases were directly interrupted.

So this view also has logical flaws.

Lin Feng is more inclined to believe that the world-destroying crisis does exist, but it has not yet reached the point of extinction of all living things.

High temperatures of at least hundreds of degrees cannot kill the evolvers hiding hundreds of meters underground, especially the third-level kings. Even if they face a particle storm, they can rely on their powerful evolutionary genes to reshape their cell bodies.

So in Lin Feng's opinion, the most likely scenario is that the Evolution Alliance is taking advantage of the situation.

Through the apocalyptic crisis, they divided up the earth's resources and suppressed the king of evolved beasts in the sea at that time.

After all, after escaping the solar system, the oceans were directly frozen, the surface turned into permafrost, and the evolved beasts could only hide in underground shelters.

However, humans can continue to develop by relying on their technological strength and provide evolutionary resources for the third-level kings.

Otherwise, Zong Shiyue wouldn't have been able to break through from the middle stage of the third rank to the late stage of the third rank during his dormancy, and finally reach the wasteland era after the God's Birthday...

Begin the transformation to godhood above level thirty-nine.

And finally, the third view...

Lin Feng was stunned.

Because there is only one sentence:

If you want to know the truth, fly up and take a look.

(End of this chapter)