The Wallfacer: Everyone wants to break through my wall.

Does this even need translation?

The representative of the Victorian Republican Association scoffed, glanced at the people around him, and a group of representatives from the space city also scoffed.

Lin Feng said, "Translate this, I'm very curious about what you mean by ambition, and why this 'ambition' can make other people unhappy."

Seemingly getting impatient with Lin Feng's unreasonable demands, the representative of the Victorian Republican Association remarked sarcastically.

"As we all know, the A1 class orbit has the most suitable solar radiation, which can maximize the production of antimatter within the current material tolerance range of mankind. But the Taylor system wants to take it for itself. Is this something to be happy about? The property of all mankind should be handed over to all mankind for joint development."

The Victorian Republican Association representative's final words resonated with many other delegates, who felt that only by banding together could they secure a share of the pie in the face of a behemoth like the Taylor Group.

Lin Feng's expression remained unchanged. He asked, "Let's put aside the issue of ownership of the antimatter industrial facilities for now. I want to ask, who would be the safest person to handle the routine maintenance of these antimatter industrial facilities? Our Taylor Group, right?"

"..."

The representatives from all sides quieted down. Apart from those human forces with their own industrial resources, those without such resources could only pay others to help maintain their antimatter facilities.

What? You're not going to protect it? What if it explodes? Are you going to let all the money and political influence invested go down the drain?

Among all human factions, the Taylor system boasts the strongest industrial capabilities, making them the best choice for maintaining antimatter facilities.

"You need to understand that the A1-class orbit produces the most antimatter mass, and therefore the stockpiled antimatter mass is also the most. For this reason, the antimatter facilities in the A1-class orbit must meet the highest safety standards. You have no objection to that, right?"

Lin Feng emphasized the 'highest safety standards,' which immediately excluded industrial teams whose industrial maintenance capabilities were inferior to those of the Taylor Group.

The key point is that this cannot be disproven, since the production of antimatter is for the benefit of all mankind.

"..."

The representative of the Victoria Republican Association opened his mouth but couldn't say anything. The other representatives who had just been mocking and ridiculing Lin Feng now had their eyes wandering.

At this point, a representative from the Space Force also spoke.

"Safety must be the top priority. Antimatter is not a children's toy; its destructive power is terrifying. Therefore, we will use safety as the sole criterion for orbital division. Does anyone have any objections?"

The production of antimatter is for the development of all mankind, so in this matter, the Space Force and Lin Feng are on the same page.

"Prioritizing safety is certainly something we should agree on, but the question is, what is the standard for measuring this 'safety'? How can we define what constitutes safety?" the Earth representative inquired.

The Space Force representative stated, "Antimatter is confined by a strong electric field, and the electric field strength that space facilities can maintain can be used as a standard for measuring safety."

Chapter 188 Low-Cost Antimatter Production Methods

Saturn's orbit, a space city located near Saturn's rings.

This space city is primarily positioned as a research city within the Taylor system, dedicated to conducting various scientific research projects.

Because of the antimatter engineering project proposed at the recent Solar System Fleet Joint Conference, a group of people gathered in a virtual screening room to discuss how to further optimize the antimatter facilities and produce antimatter at the lowest cost.

In the past, oil was called black gold because industrial demand gave it value. In the foreseeable future, antimatter will rival oil, or even surpass it. Antimatter's high mass-energy conversion rate will allow humanity to easily overcome energy barriers and achieve higher-level technologies.

The most obvious example is the use of antimatter to create miniature black holes.

Antimatter can be used not only in the military, but also in industry, space travel and many other fields, as long as the production of antimatter is sufficient.

"Although this method can produce antiprotons, even after being filtered by an electric field, these antiprotons will still be mixed with negative electrons. Since both are negatively charged, they cannot be separated by an electric field. What we get is just a mixture of antiprotons and negative electrons. The solution needs to be modified."

Inside the virtual screening room, a female scholar spoke helplessly while gesturing.

The virtual projection changed in response to her movements.

An elderly male scholar standing next to her stopped her movements, and the changes in the virtual projection ceased, as if time had reversed and returned to its previous state.

"No need to change it. We have positrons to remove impurities from this mixture. We can use the annihilation reaction of matter and antimatter to remove the negative electrons. If there is one gram of negative electrons in the mixture, we will inject two grams of positrons. One gram will be used for annihilation, and the remaining one gram will be used to combine with antiprotons to form antimatter plasma."

When the male scholar shared his ideas, the eyes of those around him lit up, and their enthusiasm for scientific research was instantly ignited.

Someone nearby said excitedly, "If that's the case, then the cost will be..."

Just as the scholars were having a heated discussion, the doors to the virtual screening room opened, and everyone's attention was immediately drawn to it.

As soon as he entered the room, he became the center of attention, which made Lin Feng feel somewhat at a loss.

Lin Feng's gaze fell on the virtual projection in front of the scholars.

"It seems I've come at the wrong time."

Just as Lin Feng was about to leave, the old scholar, who recognized him, quickly stopped him and led him to the virtual projection.

"No, you've come at the perfect time. We have some good news for you."

The old scholar, suppressing his excitement, told Lin Feng, "Just now, we made another breakthrough in the technology for producing antimatter. The cost of producing antimatter has been reduced many times over. We can even produce antimatter by only paying for the daily maintenance of the antimatter facility and a sufficient amount of hydrogen atoms."

"How did you do that?" Lin Feng asked.

The old scholar explained, "The sun is a natural source of radiation. It releases high-energy particles every moment. These high-energy particles can be basically divided into charged and uncharged particles. We use an electric field to extract a large number of protons from the charged particles, and then use the protons to accelerate and bombard the target, thereby obtaining antiprotons and other particles."

Charged particles are divided into positively charged and negatively charged particles. Most positively charged particles are protons, most negatively charged particles are electrons, and most uncharged neutral particles are neutrons and hydrogen atoms.

Antiprotons and positrons also exist in the solar wind, but in very small quantities and are difficult to collect because antimatter particles in the solar wind do not exist for long and are easily annihilated by contact with other matter particles in the surrounding area.

Therefore, the antimatter facility conceived by the old scholars is to collect protons from the solar wind and use these protons to bombard a target, thereby creating antiprotons.

The old scholar continued, "By using an electric field to separate the antiprotons from the other particles, we can obtain a cluster of antiprotons."

"However, there is a problem in this process: negative electrons will be mixed in with antiprotons as impurities. Since they are all negatively charged, the electric field has difficulty separating them."

Lin Feng nodded in understanding. Antiprotons and electrons have the same electrical properties, so their physical reactions after being subjected to an electric field are naturally the same.

"At first, we considered whether we should try a different approach, but just now, after some discussion, we realized that we don't need to do that. We can simply introduce positrons to annihilate the negative electrons, and the extra positrons can combine with antiprotons to form antimatter plasma, killing two birds with one stone."

The old scholar excitedly told Lin Feng about the method they had just come up with.

Having released his excitement, the old scholar, regaining his composure, cast a questioning glance at Lin Feng with some hesitation.

"You've come here today to..."

Lin Feng coughed lightly. "I came here mainly to visit the antimatter engineering project and, incidentally, to find someone to represent me at the Solar System Antimatter Control Committee (SCC)."

"Humanity will produce antimatter on a large scale, and the SCC will have full authority to supervise the control of antimatter."

The scholars were not excited by this SCC; on the contrary, they seemed rather uninterested.

It's hard for those dedicated to scientific research to have any expectations for a job that's obviously involved in complex politics.

“You shouldn’t have come to us. This kind of personnel selection should be communicated to the higher-ups, who can then arrange the selection,” the old scholar said.

"That's why I'm here, isn't it?"

Lin Feng shrugged. His presence here to select people was naturally partly due to the influence of the Taylor Group's higher-ups.

SCC's work involves safety standards, which requires supervisors to have at least experience in the design and construction of antimatter facilities. Otherwise, how can they supervise the safety of various antimatter facilities if they only have a superficial understanding of them?

Antimatter is too important to humanity, so it must be treated with the 'highest standards'.

So what is the highest standard?

Naturally, the supervision should be conducted by top experts and scholars, rather than by a group of politicians who are political manipulators and have little or no understanding of the internal workings of antimatter facilities.

A young scholar asked, "Do people who join the SCC need to stop working here?"

Lin Feng waved his hand dismissively, "There's no rush. The main purpose of the SCC is to monitor the safety of all antimatter facilities in the solar system. The SCC's tasks will become more complicated once the number of antimatter facilities in the solar system increases."

"Please show me around this project first. I'm mainly here because I'm curious about how antimatter is produced."

The scholars who received Lin Feng's clear answer couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. They had invested a lot of energy in this project, and now that the results were about to be released, no one wanted to give up their research work at this time.

Unlike working by selling one's labor, the research work that scholars do involves not only expending energy, mental effort, and physical strength, but also devoting their hearts and souls to their work.

"This way, please. Let's start our tour from the source of antimatter particles..."

Surrounded by several scholars, Lin Feng went to the particle testing room.

Chapter 189 A Big Bubble

Throughout the entire solar system, if we were to name the most ecstatic about the antimatter engineering project, it would undoubtedly be the player group of the human fleet in the virtual space exercise. The large-scale production of antimatter means that their equipment can finally take another step forward and rival the Trisolaran fleet.

In the virtual space exercise, they were finally able to hold their heads high and gloat.

Antimatter can give their warships higher speeds, can be used to create antimatter bombs that can destroy stars, and can be used to make near-light-speed projectiles.

The antimatter engineering project has sparked considerable discussion on player forums.

"Have you heard? The antimatter engineering project."

"I watched the news yesterday morning and was so excited that I couldn't sleep well all night. After so many years since the Trisolaran fleet had antimatter equipment, we can finally have antimatter equipment too."

"Waaaaah, our suffering is finally over! We'll never have to be humiliated by the Trisolaran fleet again..."

"You're dreaming! Waaah, you'll still get humiliated. Gravitational waves and sophon technology are nowhere to be seen yet, waaah..."

"I can take down a whiny kid with one punch. At least we're not so pathetic anymore. We can have near-light-speed projectiles, gamma rays that we can throw one beam at a time, and antimatter bombs that can destroy celestial bodies. The number of tactics we can use has increased."

After rational discussion, the players realized that as the human fleet, they still had a considerable gap with the Trisolaran fleet. Even with the widespread use of antimatter equipment, the gap was only narrowed slightly, and their combat power was still not on par.

The Zhi Zi and the Black Curtain alone are enough to give them a run for their money.

However, with the widespread availability of antimatter, their available strategies and tactics have increased, which is an undeniable fact, such as blowing up stars, blowing up stars, and blowing up stars.

After enduring so many years of solar explosions, shouldn't the Trisolaran fleet finally experience the power of a solar explosion?

This is why the player community is extremely excited about their next virtual space war, and everyone is eager to get started.

Amidst the numerous discussions on the forum, there was a considerable amount of concern among the players, stemming from the current leader of the Taylor faction, Lin Feng.

"But Feng Taylor is still alive. Do you remember what's recorded in history books? He lived decades ago..."

“He shouldn’t do anything reckless. He’s a great figure in history, and now he’s the leader of the Taylor faction. He wouldn’t want to make things difficult for us.”

On the very day that the players were losing sleep over the antimatter engineering project, Lin Feng received a communication from the Space Force, originating from the Space Force's command headquarters.

The directing department at the source of the communication sought guidance and suggestions from Lin Feng for the virtual space exercise.

As the originator of virtual space exercises, and having ordered the reform of virtual space exercises decades ago, Lin Feng has not lost much authority in the Space Force's directive department even though he is now the leader of the Taylor faction.

"What? You're saying the gap between the Trisolaran fleet and the human fleet is narrowing, and you're asking if I should upgrade the Trisolaran fleet's combat capabilities?"

"Is that even a question? Of course it's an improvement."

Lin Feng gave the director's department a reply without hesitation.

Lin Feng continued, "What is the purpose of the exercise? It is to hone our human warriors. Only through failure can we reflect and improve. There is no reason to reflect and improve after victory."

The directorate hesitated before speaking, "But we don't have any new conceptual technologies on our side. We've reviewed the new technology materials proposed by the Space Force's high command, and frankly, they're not entirely satisfactory. They're too fixated on current technology. The people participating in the exercise won't feel that the gap in strength between themselves and the enemy has reached a 'vast chasm,' you see..."