Chapter 138 News from the Eternal
Jiang Fan curled his lips and whispered something bewitching.
"Once the Trisolaran civilization possesses this technology, it will quickly break free from the limitations of its existing form. So, wouldn't it be a good deal to exchange your long-awaited breakthrough in proton manufacturing for super gene technology?"

Tomoko suddenly took a step back cautiously.
"This won't work!"

Jiang Fan continued,
"Why not? Technology sharing can promote technological innovation on both sides. Imagine if Trisolaran civilization also possessed super-gene technology, it would be able to largely ignore stellar activity."

Tomoko shook her head firmly.
"Your genetic technology primarily involves the direct utilization of light energy by organisms, and we've already achieved this capability, so it's not cost-effective."

The trick failed, Jiang Fan seamlessly changed the subject.

"How is your plan to have the first group of people come to Blue Star on a small ship going?"

Tomoko replied truthfully,

"Twenty-seven Trisolarans, led by a human research officer, have boarded a sublight-speed shuttle. They are currently being accelerated by stellar gravity and are expected to reach a speed of two-thirds the speed of light. They will arrive in the solar system in six years."

Jiang Fan nodded and asked again,

"Since you have the ability to accelerate shuttles to sublight speed, why is the space speed of the first fleet so slow?"

Tomoko answered this question quickly, which did not involve any secrets of civilization.
"Only small shuttles or other solid objects can be accelerated by the gravity of a star. Large warships cannot withstand such stress and will disintegrate during the acceleration process."

Jiang Fan said "hmm" and ended the conversation.

In the 13th year of the Xinyuan era,
The Eternal had been out of contact for three years, and the subsequent Explorers 1 and 2 had also lost contact in that strange space. Based on the data they sent back, Xiling marked the location and range of the area on the star map.
The edge is about 1800 astronomical units outside the Kuiper Belt, and it takes three years to travel at 1% of the speed of light.
The diameter is unknown, but it is no less than the relative limit distance of Explorers 1 and 2, exceeding 8000 astronomical units, or 0.12 light-years, which is hundreds of times larger than the diameter of the solar system!
The Yuanyou has sailed out of the Kuiper Belt and is currently 0.09 light-years away from the Blue Planet. The ship has adopted a hibernation rotation system. More than 2,000 people are divided into 70 waves. After working for a year, each wave enters the hibernation chamber, and another wave of personnel wakes up and takes over the work.

Therefore, for the people on the battleship, this is just a one-year voyage plan after 69 years of hibernation, which is not a big problem.

In the synchronous orbit of the blue planet, 500 kilometers away from the space factory, a nano-steel network with a diameter of more than 20 kilometers was erected!

But when you look at it from the side, you will find that it is not a net in the ordinary sense, but a skeleton equipped with many Fresnel lenses!
One hundred kilometers away from the shelf is a meteorite with a diameter of more than 10 kilometers.

This is the stellar lens steelmaking technology proposed by Wang Miao, the head of the Materials Department. Through thousands of rotatable refractive transparent glasses, sunlight is concentrated on meteorite blocks to directly melt the raw materials!

Following the command from the control room,

The 100-meter-diameter Fresnel lens embedded in the Vulcan Project began to rotate.
Engineers calibrate the angles and provide feedback.

"Mirror deployment is 98 percent complete, and solar angle calibration has passed."

"receive."

The light-proof layer on the surface of the lens blooms like a kaleidoscope.
In a flash,

A dazzling bright spot of light appeared on the meteorite a hundred kilometers away.

Its surface was as bumpy as the moon. Under the illumination of the light spot, it first appeared orange-red with ripples, and then turned into a blazing white molten pool!

Metal vapor appeared, just like the description in the poem, the sun shining on the incense burner produced purple smoke!
It condensed into nano-scale particles in a very short time, forming a circle of dazzling dust halo around the core that has not yet melted!

The temperature monitoring meter's value is rising wildly.
It broke through the melting point of iron, 1538 degrees Celsius, in just a few minutes. As time went by,

In zero gravity, the molten steel spontaneously gathered into a trembling metal bead, its surface reflecting light like a small star.

"Success!"

"Stellar lens steelmaking technology has been successfully developed!"

By directly utilizing the energy of stars and the matter in the starry sky, a large-scale steelmaking task was completed!

The crazy development of Blue Star in recent years has caused the reserves of mineral resources to drop sharply.
That is, the special system of the City of Dawn, coupled with the extremely convenient transportation and the premise that agriculture and animal husbandry no longer rely on the weather for food,
This is why the environment of Blue Star was not severely damaged like in the original book!

However, the explosion of industrial capacity is increasing exponentially. Since two years ago, news has gradually come from various mining areas that there are no more mines to mine.
The basis of mass production is the hollowing out of the old mother of Blue Star.

There was no other way, so humans could only focus their attention on the starry sky. Under Jiang Fan's instruction, Wang Miao started the Vulcan Project.

In the 14th year of the Xinyuan era,
Humans moved into the first space city and named it the Unfallable City!

In the 15th year of the Xinyuan era,
Based on the Rover, humans established a permanent residential base on Mars and began to use gravity technology to transform the planetary environment.

In the 16th year of the Xinyuan era,
The Cultural Research Department formally invited Ms. Tomoko to participate in "My Three-Body Planet", showing humans the difficult living environment of the Three-Body civilization.

In the same year, the film "Cruel Civilization" revealed the sins committed by the Three-Body Civilization and human civilization in their development, shattering the newly awakened sanctity of mankind.

In the process of praising beauty and interpreting reality, a new round of Renaissance has emerged. This time, not only human civilization, but also the Three-Body Civilization is shocked!
The scope of culture has gone through regional, national, and global levels, and is now expanding towards two star systems!
Lin Bailan's daughter, Lin Xi, and Ding Yi's daughter, Ding Mian, has been sought after by two civilizations for her role in "Life First"!

More and more concepts about privacy and freedom are emerging in the Three-Body Civilization.

In the 17th year of the Xinyuan era,
Based on the original long-distance ship, Jiang Fan built more than one hundred automatic broadcasting systems around the heliopause of the solar system, which were only under the control of Xi Ling, and revealed this information to Zhizi.
In one fell swoop, it broke the restless mentality of the Trisolaran leaders and bought a lot of time for the incubation of a new culture within the Trisolaran civilization.

same year,

With the help of Tomoko, the mind transplant technology has made a great breakthrough. Hines took the initiative to sign up and conducted the first human experiment with Yamayama Keiko, successfully reviving consciousness in the cloned body.
As a result, Keiko Yamayama was pardoned for her previous crimes. It must be said that Hines was a passionate man.

A few months later,

Xiling's true form appeared before everyone, and some concepts about life were rewritten as a result.

At the same time, the real form of Chieko also appeared, but she was different from Xiling. Xiling's brain thinking relied on chips, while she relied on protons.

The difference is that if Xiling is not within the range of the human network, her real-life form will become an idiot. Chieko does not have this limitation, but her computing power and anthropomorphic personality cannot match Xiling.

In the 18th year of the Xinyuan era,
Xiling received the news from the Eternal.

(End of this chapter)

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