Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 148 Einstein's Equator
The White Emperor's Holy Sword automatically expanded into a flying platform. On the broad sword spine, the American president, imitating Luo Qing, sat cross-legged in the center, exposed at an altitude of ten thousand meters. It would be a lie to say she wasn't nervous. She wanted to grab the hem of the cultivator's clothes for some sense of security, but she restrained herself.

A pale blue gale protected the sword, preventing the outside wind from blowing the mortal president away.

The sword blade continuously swept past wisps of milky clouds, which were the air being pushed aside. From a distance, the flying [White Emperor Holy Sword] looked like a sharp shuttle. Despite its speed of up to 60000 km/h, it did not cause any sonic booms.

[White Emperor Holy Sword] is Luo Qing's dedicated driver, so he won't make any low-level mistakes.

The destination of this trip is Kampala, the capital of Uganda. Kampala is the largest city near the equator, where a large number of scientists and world leaders have gathered.

Ding Yi's experiments, which disregarded the people's livelihood, had already provoked the anger of various countries, but he also received the support of almost the entire scientific community. This was the first time since 1840 that scientists had directly confronted politicians.

Luo Qing stood on the tip of the sword, his divine sense spreading to Earth and then expanding towards the solar system at the speed of light. Although he did not notice anything unusual except for the eight sophons, he felt uneasy for some reason.

The White Emperor's Holy Sword is currently flying along the equator, with the Einstein Equator stretching for 40,000 kilometers beneath its feet. This is the largest engineering feat in human history, consuming resources a hundred times greater than the combined resources of three space elevators. This has contributed to the accelerated arrival of the Great Depression.

In Luo Qing's view, Einstein's equator resembled a giant black ribbon stretching across the endless sky. Encircling the Earth, the equator traversed land and sea, crossing different countries and regions, displaying a breathtaking sense of endless extension.

On the land side of Einstein's equator, one can also see the construction sites and cities built along the Einstein equator. Where the Einstein equator passes, rainforests recede, deserts give way, and mountains are pierced, forming a macroscopic straight line on a two-dimensional plane that connects everything along the way.

The section of the tunnel in the ocean is simpler: a black bridge, 100 meters wide, spans the sea. To reduce the construction difficulties caused by water pressure, the Einstein Equator is built entirely on the water, with a large number of alloy pillars standing beneath the tunnel in the deep ocean.

The Chinese refer to Einstein's equatorial sea section as the "Purple Golden Beam Supporting the Sea" and the space elevator as the "White Jade Pillar Supporting the Sky".

Luo Qing also noticed that there were many people driving in the Global Tunnel below. He asked, "Is there a highway and railway built inside the main tunnel of Einstein's Equator? I see quite a few people inside."

The US president nodded: "Yes, it would be a shame to use a project of this scale only as a scientific experimental tool, because China was the main force in building this mega-project. Their engineers built highways and maglev railways inside the tunnels, and also built a service station every 500 kilometers. Didn't we often see 'vesicles' in the tunnels we just flew over? Those are rest areas inside the tunnels, fully equipped with all kinds of facilities. If it were on land, these 'vesicles' would connect to the nearest city. Many countries around the equator have benefited a lot from this, such as Uganda, this poor little country, which has become one of the richest countries in the African Union."

The US president thought for a moment and then said, "Einstein's Equator is the most popular tourist attraction. For less than $1000 a train ticket, you can achieve the feat of 'circling the earth.' This was one of the most popular ways to travel before the Great Depression."

"I understand." Luo Qing nodded. For humans, anything that can be commercialized and generate economic benefits is worth doing.

The Einstein Equator is not only a scientific research facility, but also an important part of human infrastructure on Earth.

Luo Qing's divine sense began to penetrate deeply into Einstein's equator itself, peeling away the layers like an onion until it reached the core.

Aside from the civilian facilities mentioned by the US president, the main body of the Einstein Equatorial Accelerator appears to be ready to start. Streamlined beams of light spread through the tunnel, and the metal hoops inside seem to be superconducting coils that generate strong magnetic fields. At the center of these superconducting coils is a strange thin tube, which is the particle channel of the Einstein Equatorial Accelerator and the core of the entire project.

Ding Yi once frankly stated that the first step for humanity to break the sophon blockade will begin at Einstein's equator.

Faced with this brute-force method of breaking the sophon blockade, the Trisolaran world didn't have a good countermeasure: to create as many sophons as possible and send them to Earth. Seemingly aware that humanity was about to conduct a new round of hadron collider experiments, the remaining eight sophons in the solar system all arrived near Einstein's equator.

The sophons cautiously kept their distance from the Wallfacers, flying erratically near the equator at the speed of light, but all were prepared to interfere with the experiment. Two of the sophons had already ventured deep into the thin pipe.

But Luo Qing was certain that these eight wisdom stones were not the reason for his unease. He scanned the area with his divine sense, from space to Earth and even the Earth's core, but found nothing unusual.

But his intuition told him that the main reason for his unease seemed to be...

The Einstein Equatorial Accelerator itself?

Luo Qing's brows furrowed into a knot.

Ding Yi is only conducting high-energy particle experiments. Although it consumes some electricity, it shouldn't have much of an impact.

After all, based on existing experimental knowledge, high-energy particle experiments at the microscopic level cannot affect the macroscopic world in any way.

Luo Qing had already seen the vast, arid African continent. Of the five continents, Africa was the first to be desertified, after all, the number of genetically modified trees planted in Africa was the largest, and a year later, most of them had withered and died.

[Qingmu Sword] also didn't have a good solution for these genetically defective plants. According to Xiaoqing, these genetically defective plants would be considered inherently weak back in their hometown, and even with forced growth, they would have difficulty thriving. The only option was to wait and replant trees that hadn't been genetically edited.

"Xiao Bai, Sha Jian, we're almost there."

"Okay." The deep voice of [White Emperor Holy Sword] rang out.

But just as Xiaobai began to descend, Luo Qing suddenly stopped.

"What's wrong?" the US president asked anxiously.

"Xiao Bai, take the American president down to find Ding Yi. I noticed there are many heads of state there. Protect them. I'm going out for a bit." Without answering the American president, he gave instructions to the [White Emperor Holy Sword], but still seemed uneasy. He directly cast an array plate towards the area where the heads of state and scientists were gathered. The array plate perfectly merged with the soap bubbles in the sky above Canberra, quickly forming a silky, thin array.

Although it looks like it could be easily punctured, it was strong enough to withstand the full firepower of seventy human planetary warships for three minutes.

The White Emperor's Holy Sword landed with a bewildered American president, while Luo Qing's figure suddenly flashed and then completely disappeared.

(End of this chapter)