A genius? I just love studying.

Chapter 337: Casting stones to ask for directions
Excuse me, what happened? I've already stocked up on instant noodles, and now they're telling me Kagasa isn't coming?

I'd already downloaded Black Myth: Zhong Kui, planning to play through the game during the typhoon, but then my company told me I have to go to work tomorrow. Family, who understands this feeling?

【You've got some nerve, beating up Zhong Kui in Black Myth? You should at least survive first!】

As Hagata changed direction, netizens on online platforms immediately started discussing it heatedly. They didn't know what had happened, but simply thought it was a normal change in direction. After all, the power of nature is unpredictable, and it is normal for typhoons to change direction.

Only those who knew some of the inside story felt as if they had survived a catastrophe, thankful that Kagaza had left.

[I was terrified. Kakasa was only 0.01 centimeters away from me, but in a few seconds it would be gone. Because I decided to tell a lie, although I have told countless lies in my life, I think this one is the most perfect... (The picture shows Kakasa turning from the shore into the deep sea)]

[Am I right? "Mc" is indeed "Kexun". When Hagaza saw the "Mc" character I posted on the shore, he immediately slunk away.]

Many people even made jokes about it, completely unaware that they had just narrowly escaped death.

[From an insider's perspective, if it weren't for Professor Chen this time, we'd probably all be dead by now. You should all be secretly happy.]

【What? What does this have to do with Professor Chen?】

In short, Professor Chen used sophisticated models and a series of methods to guide Hagasha to change his course.

[Pfft... Commanding the wind and rain? Could this be any more outrageous? I admit Professor Chen is very capable, but this is just too ridiculous.]

【No? If that's true, you really dare to say anything, are you courting death?】

Some insiders revealed a few words, but no one believed them. What Chen Hui had done before was still within their understanding, since controlled nuclear fusion had been proposed decades ago.

The idea of ​​summoning wind and rain was mentioned much earlier, but that was a myth from thousands of years ago, so naturally they didn't believe it.

For those high-ranking officials who know the inside story, especially those from other countries, their hearts are now ice-cold. They feel that the soaring Eastern dragon seems to have no flaws, and they cannot shake it in the slightest.

The huja went to the deep sea, and after raging there for a few days, it naturally dissipated.

After correcting some of their misconceptions, Chen Hui left the Yinglong Control Center and returned to his research lab to continue his previous thinking.

Outside the window, the wind and rain were gloomy, seemingly echoing the presence of Hagaraja, as a rare downpour struck the capital.

The sound of rain pattering against the windowpanes, striking the ground and leaves, brought a sense of tranquility to the entire city.

Chen Hui took a deep breath, paused his thoughts, got up and walked out of the room. He stared blankly at the pouring rain, letting his mind go blank, thinking of nothing and doing nothing.

A moment later, he went downstairs and walked straight into the rain, strolling in the downpour.

The entire company of security personnel immediately became alert and went on high alert, searching for any possible anomalies. Some were about to go into the rain to bring Chen Hui back, but Dai Yafeng stopped them.

He had been with Chen Hui the longest. Although Chen Hui's behavior was strange at the moment, he could see through Chen Hui's eyes and knew that Professor Chen was thinking about something. He knew he shouldn't disturb him at this time.

The heavy rain had been falling for quite some time, and the ground was already covered with a layer of water about an inch thick.

Thousands of raindrops fall, each one creating ripples on the water's surface. These ripples intersect, overlap, and form complex and beautiful patterns.

Chen Hui stared blankly at the scene, his mind empty. Dai Yafeng had guessed wrong this time; he wasn't thinking about anything at all. He was simply immersing himself in the torrential rain.

Suddenly, a particularly large raindrop struck the water, creating a deep depression. As the surrounding ripples passed through this depression, their paths curved subtly.

In that instant, Chen Hui's pupils suddenly contracted!

The indentation caused by that water droplet is just like the curvature of spacetime!
And aren't the deflections of other ripples just like the trajectories of matter moving in a gravitational field?
Countless flashes of inspiration burst forth in Chen Hui's mind, instantly transforming his previously blank brain into a vibrant tapestry of colors, as if the emptiness he had just experienced was solely for the sake of this moment's blossoming.

But the real revelation comes in the next moment.

Once the large water droplet completely merged into the lake, the depression disappeared, the lake returned to calm, and the source that caused the bend was gone. However, its effects—the altered ripples—continued to spread and interact.

"The source... is not independent! It is a condensed state of the field itself!"

Chen Hui suddenly stopped in his tracks, completely unaware that he was soaked to the bone.

The seemingly indestructible barrier in his mind was shattered by this seemingly ordinary natural scene.

He had been trying to forcibly stitch gravity and the matter field together as two separate parts, but the revelation from the lake told him that matter and spacetime might just be different manifestations of the same cosmic wave.

The singularity that leads to infinity may simply be because our mathematical description is still at the level of raindrops, without understanding that it is actually part of the water surface.

Chen Hui rushed back to his office and frantically erased all the artificial patches on the draft paper.

He returned to the elegant Chern manifold framework, but this time, he introduced a revolutionary concept: context-independent quantum topology.

He no longer distinguishes between the stage that carries spacetime and the particles that perform on it. In his new equations, all matter, energy, force, and even spacetime itself are excited states that emerge from this more fundamental, dynamically evolving topology.

The singularity problem is easily solved because, within this framework, there are no infinitely small points, only topological transformations at different scales.

It was dawn when he wrote the last symbol.

The heavy rain had stopped sometime earlier, the sun peeked out, and the morning light shone through the window onto the whiteboard covered with formulas. Those symbols were no longer just abstract mathematics; they seemed to have come to life, quietly telling the whole secret of the universe from its birth to its future.

Chen Hui put down his pen, feeling an unprecedented sense of calm and exhaustion.

What he accomplished was no longer a theory, but a world.

The Grand Unified Theory is like a door that he gently pushed open, behind which lies the most profound and magnificent scenery of the universe that mankind has never seen before.

He knew that from this moment on, human civilization had entered a completely new era.

He himself was not only the founder of the era, but also the first mortal to glimpse the realm of the gods and feel boundless loneliness.

Once the nature of gravity is understood, it can be manipulated by manipulating the structure of spacetime. Understanding the nature of all forces and particles allows us to master the technology of extracting energy from the vacuum or efficiently creating and controlling antimatter through the Casimir effect.

Using the enormous energy extracted from vacuum energy and the exquisite manipulation of metric fields, the spaceship can create a warp bubble around itself. The spacetime inside the bubble is flat, and passengers cannot feel the acceleration, while the spacetime outside the bubble is extremely compressed and stretched, propelling the spaceship to travel at an effective speed far exceeding the speed of light.

That is, the warp drive engine that once appeared in science fiction novels!
As ideas began to surface in his mind, a spark of inspiration ignited even more, and Chen Hui felt as if a brand new door had opened before him.

Of course, Chen Hui needs more time to accomplish these things; at the very least, he needs to verify the correctness of his theory.

This requires planetary particle colliders, as only particle colliders of this magnitude can observe traces of spacetime curvature.

After several years of construction, with China's current industrial strength, the planetary particle collider codenamed Chaos Ring has entered its final stage, but it is expected to take at least another year.

Your physics proficiency has increased from level 7 (17%) to 18%.

Your math proficiency has increased from level 7 (66%) to 67%.

A barrage of comments popped up in front of Chen Hui's eyes, his physics proficiency increased by 78%, and his math proficiency increased by more than 30%.

Chen Hui had a premonition that the theory he had constructed was sound.

Next, he will use this theory to slowly construct the truth of the universe. He understands that he now has a set of source code describing this universe, and now he needs to use this source code to reconstruct this world.

If he can actually complete this step, then theoretically, he could manipulate the world at will by modifying the source code!

……

In the pure black void, a multifaceted crystal with a diameter of less than three meters is slowly rotating. This is the Silent Eye monitoring node deployed by the Web-Weaving Civilization at the edge of the Oort Cloud in the solar system, and its surface is covered with dimensional black hole material with an absorption rate of up to 99.999%.

There is no physical space inside the node, only intertwined quantum fields, where analyst Zeta's consciousness flows, his mental tendrils gently touching the encrypted data stream coming from the direction of Blue Star.

"Abnormal energy signature detected in the direction of Blue Star".

The AI's thought process calmly flowed into Zeta's consciousness. On the energy spectrum projection, the blue planet marked as a T-3c class observation target was continuously releasing energy spectrums that defied natural laws in its orbital region.

Zeta focused its perception on a signal that was neither ordinary nuclear fission nor the chemical fuel propulsion they had previously detected. It was a surprisingly stable fusion signature, not the violent natural fusion inside a star, but a precisely controlled, continuously outputting flow of energy.

"Increase the resolution," Zeta commanded.

Ripples appeared on the surface of the neutron sphere, dramatically improving the resolution.

Near Mercury's orbit, several structures are reassembling themselves in space. Microscopic scans show that these structures are converting hydrogen isotopes into helium with near-perfect efficiency and an astonishingly low energy dissipation rate.

"Activate the quantum entanglement scanning array." Zeta's thoughts were imbued with a rigorous scientific attitude.

On the outer wall of the monitoring station, sensor panels covering several square kilometers began to operate, directly acquiring real-time information from within the solar system through quantum entanglement, thus avoiding the observation lag caused by the speed of light delay.

The data came in like a tidal wave.

In the data stream, bright spots twinkle, and the asteroid belt mines are like a swarm of bees awakening, with thousands of engineering units trailing light as they disassemble and reconstruct celestial bodies rich in metals and volatiles.

On the Martian equator, a massive orbital accelerator is being laid, and magnetically levitated cargo bays are being propelled into deep space with astonishing acceleration. Further away, near Jupiter's orbit, a massive energy harvesting array is taking shape, greedily drawing energy from the gas giant's raging magnetic field and radiation belts. Its design pattern subtly points to a level of energy application that is unsettlingly efficient.

In the analysis of the development model, the resource acquisition efficiency exceeded the threshold of the nascent stage by 37.4%.

The scale of the space structure is close to the standard of the expansion phase, and its energy characteristics... An abnormal fusion confinement field signal was detected with a confidence level of 98.7%, indicating that the technology of controlled nuclear fusion has been initially mastered.

The technology development path is exceptionally steep; risk assessment: potential uncontrollable variables!

Zeta's core processing unit heated up slightly.

It wasn't surprise, but confirmation, like a gardener discovering a seedling growing too fast and with an unfamiliar shape on the edge of a carefully manicured garden. It might bring new flowers, or more likely, it would spread thorns.

Zeta's mental tendrils paused for a moment.

A civilization that has mastered controlled nuclear fusion, traveled at low speeds of light, and has begun interstellar exploration has already stepped into the threshold of interstellar civilization.

The information was instantly transmitted back to the host planet of the web-weaving system via a quantum entanglement network.

At the Decision Center of the Consensus Ring in orbit around the home planet, the minds of twelve governors are connected through a neural network, conducting synchronous deliberations in a virtual space-time.

"The evidence is conclusive: Earth civilization has broken through the technological singularity and is transforming into an interstellar civilization at an astonishing speed."

"Their expansion pattern exhibits typical exponential characteristics, and at the current trajectory, it will reach our observational boundaries within fifty years."

The thoughts of the rulers converged, collided, and eventually converged in quantum space. As an observer civilization that had been hidden in the Milky Way for tens of thousands of years, the Web Weavers were well aware of the uncertainty of emerging civilizations.

"Activate the Pathfinder Protocol." The Supreme Commander's thoughts echoed in the virtual space. "Deploy camouflaged detectors and assess their threat level and technological limits."

The command was instantly transmitted back to the monitoring station via the quantum channel.

They need a test, a test that is enough to force the other party to show its strength, but will not immediately trigger a full-scale conflict. The method must be clever and leave room for maneuver. Even if it is discovered, it can be disguised as a natural cosmic phenomenon to avoid directly angering a high-level civilization that may be hiding unknown forces.

The target was a metal-rich asteroid located in the outer solar system, which was originally traveling along a stable orbit and had no intersection with the inner planets.

A force was applied silently, without a dazzling energy beam or the appearance of a huge spaceship, only with extremely subtle gravitational field manipulation, like a master chess player gently moving a chess piece.

The asteroid's orbit was altered with extremely subtle calculations, precisely utilizing the planetary gravitational slingshot effect, setting it on a long journey that would ultimately lead it toward Earth.

The entire process was like a micro-sculpture on a cosmic scale, filled with calmness, precision, and a masterful application of the laws of physics.

(End of this chapter)