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

Chapter 62 Ding Yi and Jiang Xingchen (Seeking monthly votes)
After the blue sun disappeared, the rain stopped, and overnight, people recovered from the panic and confusion that followed the macro-fusion.

The public's reaction was far more interesting than the military's realization of what had happened.

They simply couldn't believe that the cultivators who were cutting through the combined fleet one minute had died inexplicably the next.

Even if the concept of macro-fusion is popularized, it won't make a difference.

With cultivators leading the way, who the hell still believes in science?

You countries around the world started this fire yourselves, even hosting a massive live broadcast covering 40 billion people, and now you're all changing your story? Extinguishing this fire of cultivators won't be so easy.

Compared to rational governments and PDCs, the public is in a state of heightened excitement, while governments and PDCs around the world are frantically pouring cold water called 'rationality' over the heads of these excited people.

This contrast between hot and cold weather has led many people to question the world.

The final verdict on the macro-fusion event was ultimately not reached.

Having witnessed Luo Qing's miraculous abilities, the military itself was also hoping for another miracle. According to later historical records, many heads of state privately and repeatedly asked the scientific team one question:
Is Luo Qing still alive?
Nobody can say for sure.

In fact, the physics community has a more accurate description of whether Luo Qing is alive or dead.

Like death.

Regardless, Luo Qing's disappearance is a fact, and the generals in charge of the [Pacific Coordination-2015] operation are conducting an emergency review of this black swan event.

An officer asked, "No modern equipment was detected on the Elcano sailing ship. How did macro-atoms and macro-fusion come about?"

A physics expert replied: "Macro-atoms are easy to capture; you just need to use an electromagnet to attract them... That fifth-century Toledo sword was probably modified by ETO into an electromagnet, which is not difficult. As for the excitation of macro-fusion... that's also simple; you just need to make two macro-atoms collide at a relative speed of 500 meters per second—in the microscopic world, that's really a very slow speed."

Materials experts created a model of the 'Toledo Sword' on site. The sword blade is made of metal and has a miniature current exciter embedded in it. It can either turn the sword blade into an electromagnet to lock macro atoms or cause two macro atoms to collide.

Some have questioned this model: "How can ETO accurately select and excite macroatoms that are specific to the body?"

The physics expert explained, "They didn't even bother to select them! They only had a little over a hundred macroatoms in total. After removing the macroatoms with smaller microstructures, they stuffed all the remaining few dozen macroatoms into the sword. When Luo Qing arrived, they activated the current, allowing these macroatoms to accelerate freely on the sword, colliding with whichever one they encountered! In any case, when the Blue Sun appears, the kill radius within 200 meters is unlimited; only beyond 200 meters will it become selective!"

"What about the remaining macroatoms that didn't collide?"

"It has long since lost its restraints and has dissipated into the atmosphere."

"Can anyone tell me, at what microscopic level does macro-fusion cause damage? At the molecular level? At the atomic level? At the atomic nucleus level?"

"Between the atomic and molecular levels, don't forget that macro-fusion is selective. Some macro-fusions can resonate with a hair, turning all of humanity into hairless monkeys after an explosion. Some macro-fusions can target clothing, destroying all knitted items after an explosion. Some macro-fusions even target chips, like in 2005, when nearly half of China's chip industry was destroyed, causing Nvidia's stock price to increase tenfold. These macro-level selective forces are clearly at the molecular level, since molecules are the foundation of macroscopic matter!" [1]

The physics expert's explanation made those present realize that ETO had planned and prepared everything long ago.

They did indeed manage to annihilate cultivators with the power of mortals.

The generals had initially mocked ETO's attempt to assassinate Luo Qing, comparing it to Don Quixote charging at the windmill giant with his sword. But now, the mighty windmill giant had been killed by Don Quixote with a single stroke.

If ETO can still be considered part of humanity, then humanity can indeed proudly say: We have slain 'God'.

"What are the chances of Luo Qing's death?" the US lieutenant general, who was in charge of the exercise, asked persistently. "That's a great question."

The physics expert paced back and forth for a minute under everyone's gaze before finally giving his answer.

"There is no concept of death in the quantum realm. It may collapse into a state of destruction or into a state of existence in the next moment. Who knows how God will roll the dice? But one thing is certain: with the superposition of the observer effect of hundreds of millions of people in the human world and the Trisolaran world, he will most likely be in a state of destruction forever."

The physics expert's words extinguished the last glimmer of hope, and the large conference room fell completely silent.

After a long silence, the lieutenant general slowly raised his head, his voice somewhat hoarse: "I should take responsibility for this."

“It’s not your fault, General. No one could have imagined that a woman could swim dozens of nautical miles with an iron sword and climb onto a sailboat. The fleet’s radar was never designed to scan the human body.”

"No, I take full responsibility. As the commander-in-chief, my negligence has destroyed all hope for the future of mankind."

"General, please calm down. This matter is not over yet. Let's wait a little longer," Jiang Xingchen said, sitting in the shadows.

...

Ding Yi returned to Earth from the International Space Station aboard the 'Opener' spaceplane.

He came down here specifically because he had heard about Hong Jubian and Luo Qing, but unlike others who got caught up in the nitpicking of whether the cultivators were dead or not, Ding Yi had other things to do.

—What exactly was the destructive nature of that macro-fusion that devoured two lives and a wooden boat?
He heard that large-scale power outages had occurred in countries around the Pacific Rim, including the west coast of Canada and the United States, the northern part of Australia and New Zealand, the southeastern coast of China, almost the entirety of Japan and the Korean Peninsula, as well as the Chukchi Peninsula of Russia and the Alaskan Peninsula across the Bering Strait.

Unlike in 2005, however, the human chips are still intact. Meanwhile, the PDC inspected the infrastructure in the power outage areas and found no man-made or natural objects destroyed by the macro fusion; only the power system was damaged.

Despite Ding Yi's investigation, he ultimately failed to uncover anything unusual. He could only vaguely confirm that this macro-fusion excitation wave was likely to appear in the form of energy.

"The energy of macro-fusion will not dissipate without a reason before it destroys enough of the corresponding matter. The energy of macro-fusion will not decay, and it will not spread into the universe even if it penetrates the Earth."

"Unless there are unknown substances that are the priority targets of macro-fusion, these substances counteract the spread of macro-fusion and ultimately lead to the end of macro-fusion."

As Ding Yi spoke, his gaze fell upon Jiang Xingchen. As one of only two people present with a strong connection to Hongjubian, Jiang Xingchen understood Ding Yi's meaning.

"Old Jiang, come with me to the site."

The atmosphere between the two in the small investigation room was somewhat strange. Faced with Ding Yi's invitation, Jiang Xingchen hesitated for a moment before nodding.

[1] Someone asked, can macro-fusion eliminate water droplets?
Unfortunately, no.

Macro-fusion essentially uses the wave function resonance of macroscopic quantum states to selectively disintegrate the interatomic bonding forces (chemical bonds/crystal structure/or molecular structure) of target matter, causing the matter to directly disintegrate into microscopic particles (powder/ash) at the macroscopic level, without involving changes to the atomic nucleus, such as nuclear fission or fusion. This effect is similar to "precisely dismantling the microscopic structure of matter," rather than destroying the atomic nucleus itself. If the atomic nucleus remains unchanged, the atom remains unchanged. (This sounds a bit convoluted, but it's covered in middle school physics and isn't difficult to understand.)
Water droplets are made of a strong interaction material, essentially composed of atomic nuclei tightly packed together by an unknown force field. Only the neatly arranged nuclei are exposed to the outside world, with no electrons remaining. At absolute zero, they are immune to any chemical reactions and are virtually impossible to destroy by macroscopic external forces. Therefore, macroscopic fusion cannot take effect on the surface of a water droplet, and even if it did, it could not destroy the droplet.

The illiterate version explains: Macro-fusion is used to break down molecules; the surface of a water droplet is composed of atomic nuclei, so it cannot be broken down.

The power ranking in this book is as follows: molecule > atom > atomic nucleus > proton (sophon) and neutron > electron > quark > string.
Note: In string theory, strings are incredibly small, with a diameter of approximately 10^{-35} meters, almost approaching the Planck size. They are envisioned as the most fundamental unit constituting everything, but this concept remains theoretical.

(The strange power rankings have increased again.)
(Quack! It's a quark-level powerhouse!)

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