Let you be the wall-facer: you turn around and join the Three-Body Problem?

"No, I'm here."

Luo Ji and Taylor turned around at the same time and saw a familiar figure walking towards them in the distance.

"You guys chat, I'll go cook."

Taylor patted Luo Ji on the shoulder and turned away.

At noon when the sun was at its highest, Luo Ji and Lin Xuan stood on the golden grass and looked towards the forest in the distance.

After a long while, Luo Ji finally uttered his first sentence.

"I'm going to try to study cosmic sociology because..."

Lin Xuan suddenly reached out to interrupt Luo Ji, and Luo Ji suddenly remembered that Chieko was around and was constantly monitoring them.

"Do what you want. I've handed Luo Congmin over to Zhang Beihai's family. She's safe."

"Thank you."

"No need to thank me. You should shoulder your responsibilities. At least when Minmin grows up, I can tell her what kind of person her father is."

Chapter 54 Bees and Flies

Year 7 of the Crisis Era.

Wang Miao’s three space elevator projects were completed perfectly.

This is a day worth commemorating for all mankind, because the completion of the space elevator marks the first step for mankind to officially step into the starry universe.

Wang Miao and some veteran astronauts took a space shuttle to space and looked down at the entire cargo transportation process of the space elevator.

After the space elevator is successfully built, the first step is naturally to build a space station.

They plan to use three space elevators to build a space station about ten times wider than the International Space Station in Earth's synchronous orbit, which will serve as an anchor for humans to deploy defense forces into outer space.

Soon, the three space elevators, No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3, started operating simultaneously, transporting up the "cargo" that needed to be assembled.

The construction of a space station is not as imagined. It is not just built on the ground and launched into the sky. The propulsion force required is too great.

Instead, they first disassemble and build each component on the ground, and then find a way to transport these built items into space one by one and assemble them.

A lot of effort was put into building the International Space Station.

But now it’s good. PDC has come up with a new gadget in recent years - a space repair machine.

This thing is similar to a small drone, except that it can fly in space and perform related work. It is equipped with a welding device that can perform welding repairs on artificial satellites in space.

There is a storage compartment on its back, which contains a highly plastic nanorobot developed by Wang Miao earlier.

The principle of this thing is a bit like expansion screws. When these nanorobots are sprayed onto the object that needs to be repaired with high pressure, they will quickly fill the holes with themselves and complete the repair.

However, because the artificial intelligence technology has been locked by Zhizi, these nanorobots can only be used for repair work.

Soon, three space elevators carrying the three basic components of the space station slowly pulled up from the ground.

Currently, the only countries capable of manufacturing such huge space components are China, Russia, and the United States.

Huaxia is responsible for the main part of the entire space station and the power supply module.

Since Ding Yi's controlled nuclear fusion technology can already achieve a positive output in terms of energy consumption ratio, it is possible to directly abandon the traditional energy supply method such as solar energy and use controlled nuclear fusion to power the entire space station.

Afterwards, the astronauts' living cabin and hibernation cabin will be taken care of by Eagle Sauce. After using the space elevator to lift them to the height of the synchronous orbit, they will begin to dock with the main part.

Finally, there is the external dock module that the Russian bear is responsible for.

This thing can be considered an invention in human history. After all, we have to consider the possibility of space ships coming here for supplies in the future, so we let the Russians, who are good at heavy industry, make this module.

"Have you decided on a name?"

Wang Miao looked at the senior aerospace experts behind him.

This is the first step for mankind to explore the universe, so the name of this space station is very important.

"This... I haven't decided yet. How about you name it, Professor Wang?"

Wang Miao is in charge of the space elevator project, so the naming rights of this first space station should naturally be given to Wang Miao.

Wang Miao was stunned, then hesitated for a moment.

"Then... let's call it Reach."

The pulling of the space elevator went smoothly, thanks to Lin Xuan's suggestion to change the entire space elevator into a segmented docking. This not only alleviated the gravity that might be brought by itself, but also had the advantage of not colliding with satellites and various space debris in space.

In order to explore space, humans have launched many artificial satellites and rockets. After they were decommissioned, the remains of these space junk have been floating in orbit, destroying everything around them at an extremely fast speed like meteorites.

If a space elevator is built in a straight line, it can be easily destroyed by these debris.

And there is another key point. When the space elevator sends ground objects up, the Coriolis force generated by the rotation of the earth is the hypothetical force that describes the motion of a rotating system.

This force will interfere with the space elevator's lifting compartment, causing the entire space elevator to slow down its ascent or descent.

Typhoons are caused by the Coriolis force caused by the rotation of the earth.

But after stratification, this problem has been alleviated to a certain extent.

While Wang Miao was busy building the space station in the sky, Ding Yi was also busy underground.

However, his research results over the years are not as obvious as Wang Miao's.

Sure enough, just as Ding Yi had guessed before, the road to controlled nuclear fusion has come to an end.

No matter how hard you squeeze this sponge, not a drop of water can come out.

"What's wrong, Dr. Ding Yi? You look so sad."

Shi Qiang came over with a smile and took out a cigarette from his pocket.

"Would you like to have one? A cigarette after dinner will make you as happy as a god."

Ding Yi waved his hand.

"Go away, I have a terrible headache now, don't bother me anymore."

Shi Qiang was not annoyed when he heard him say this.

"Dr. Ding, although I don't know much about science, I still want to give you some advice. Just relax."

"You're like a bee and a fly in a jar."

"What do you mean?"

"Uh...ah? Didn't you hear this story when you were a kid?"

"When I was a kid you were still a fertilized egg."

Shi Qiang: ...

"Well, this is an old story. Our teacher told us when I was in school. It said that there was a glass jar with its bottom turned upside down, so that the sunny side was shining on the bottom of the jar, but the mouth of the jar was facing downwards."

"Then, put a bee and a fly in this glass jar. Guess which one will come out first?"

"bee?"

"Wrong, it's a fly."

"Because the sunlight is shining on the bottom of the bottle, bees love sunlight, so they will always fly upwards, but the mouth of the jar is at the bottom, so it is difficult for the bee to fly out. But flies are different, they will bump around aimlessly, and you can't predict when they will crash out."

Ding Yi thought about Shi Qiang's words for a long time before he spoke.

"You mean to say that we actually have a problem with the direction of our research, because the inherent thinking of scientists has limited my imagination, causing me to always follow the experience of my predecessors. This kind of thinking has limited me, so my research has stagnated?"

Shi Qiang was stunned.

"Damn, you scholars are really awesome. I just said a few simple words, but you can come up with so many explanations from them!"

When Ding Yi heard this, he was also stunned.

"Isn't this what you want to tell me?"

"Of course not. What I mean is that you are running around like a headless fly. Who knows, one day you might mess up that Thomas device..."

"Tokamak."

"Oh, yes, that's it. That's what we did. So, relax. Let's go have a couple of drinks first. Maybe you'll come up with a good idea."

Chapter 55: The Wallfacer Hearing, the meeting where I said they would listen obediently

In the 8th year of the Crisis Era, the Trisolaran fleet was 4.20 light years away from the solar system.

This is the fifth year of the Wallfacer Project. Except for Lin Xuan and Luo Ji, the other Wallfacers are unable to attend this meeting.

"Dr. Luo Ji, it is an honor to see you attending the Wallfacer hearing in my lifetime."

Galnin looked at Luo Ji in the audience with a smile.

It's been five years. Do you know how embarrassing it is for PDC that a Wallfacer has been absent from the meeting for five years?

If Kante hadn't been reporting on Luo Ji, the PDC would have thought that this guy had died outside.

Luo Ji also felt a little embarrassed when he heard Galnin's teasing.

Indeed, he had not been here for almost five years. If it were not for Lin Xuan leading the way, he would have almost forgotten the location of the venue.

Kante was right. He and Lin Xuan were like two extremes, one was an overtime maniac, and the other was an expert at playing badly.

Lin Xuan has achieved the achievement of being present every time.

Lin Xuan was present on time for almost every Wallfacer hearing every year. Six hearings were held in five years. The extra one was a meeting he added when he asked the PDC for Liu Chang to assist him.

Look, they have already started to learn to work overtime on their own, and this is the first time that Luo Ji has come to attend a hearing for the Wallfacers.

"Lin Xuan, is there anything I need to prepare for the meeting? Should I write a speech or something?"

"Need not."

Lin Xuan shook her head slightly.

"Just tell me what kind of help you need with your next plan, or what kind of contribution you have made this year."

"Of course, if you don't want to say it, you can just say [this is part of the plan], and they won't pursue it further."

Luo Ji was stunned.

"This... isn't good. I haven't made any contribution, but I'm asking the PDC for something?"

Lin Xuan smiled.

"Do you know what a Wallfacer Hearing is?"

Luo Ji shook his head.

Lin Xuan pointed at herself and then at the chairmen on the stage.

"The Wallfacer Hearing is the meeting where I say they listen obediently."

Luo Ji: ???

Shock value from Luo Ji +15.

The meeting started soon. Since there were only two Wallfacers attending this Wallfacer hearing, the PDC simply held the Space Force meeting together with the Wallfacer hearing.

First, the space force headquarters of various countries reported on the latest armaments situation.

The fourth batch of military and political backbones who reinforced the future plan have completed hibernation. The simulation game of "Star Wars: Dark Battle" provided by Lin Xuan before was very effective, which greatly compensated for the possibility that these soldiers who awakened in the future could only work in the lowest positions.

In the original plot, in that doomsday battle, the Trisolaran water droplets blew up hundreds of star-class battleships, but they were not reported to the command system because the top leaders of the space force at that time underestimated the strength of the hibernators.

The water droplets had already been analyzed for spectrum using visible light images of the battlefield by two hibernators, one named Li Wei and the other named Zhao Xin.

Li Wei is the intermediate controller of the electromagnetic weapon system of the Wannian Kunpeng, and Zhao Xin is the target identification assistant of the Beifang battleship.

They were part of the tens of thousands of soldiers who were to reinforce the future plan. When they discovered that the water drop had destroyed the first ship, the Infinite Frontier, they had already begun analyzing the water drop.

However, because the hibernators did not know how to operate the ships and their positions were too low, they were unable to report accurate information, which was the direct reason why the entire fleet was defeated and only a few people were left.

Therefore, Lin Xuan has been reminding Chang Weisi to pay attention to training the operating techniques of these officers who will reinforce the future plan, and even let Chang Weisi drink the RX cell division potion.

From the moment he first met Zhang Beihai, he and Zhang Beihai were actually working together on a plan to strengthen the future.

If Zhang Beihai knew about Lin Xuan's plans, he would definitely give Lin Xuan a lot of shock value.

His assisting performance was so good that he reduced almost all possible variables in future reinforcement plans to the minimum. All he had to do was wait for Zhang Beihai to wake up from hibernation.

The first phase of the meeting ended quickly, and the two wall-facers began their speeches.