Chapter 192: Netherworld! Antimatter Technology! Roulette Starts!

On the ground, in the lobby of the LA company headquarters, the Universal Press Conference is held.

At this time, Ott Cunningham, who represented the LA company, was speaking to the media reporters in a firm and passionate tone:
"We have built this huge scientific hub, with the base and the main axis completed in three months."

"The world's largest companies will go all out in their pursuit of breakthrough technologies and transcending bold ideas."

“The road ahead is long and arduous, but I will continue to explore. The endless mysteries of the universe will eventually be under our control!”

"..."

At this moment, the media reporters and celebrities from all walks of life stood up from their seats and gave warm applause to Otto's speech.

The completion of the scientific hub is a milestone of great symbolic significance for the scientific and technological research and development of human civilization!
The desperate cyber age, monopolized and controlled by major corporations, has become a thing of the past that will never return.

Today is an era of technological explosion pioneered by global giants. Progress, eternal progress is the main theme of the new generation.

On the center console of the Infinity flagship.

Seeing how well Otto had completed the speech assignment, Leon couldn't help but nod slightly, expressing his approval of Otto's abilities.

'It's time to give Ott Cunningham a promotion.'

Li Ang thought to himself.

Ott is currently the company's network director, but judging from the abilities she has demonstrated, she is fully capable of taking on a higher position.

Just as Leon was thinking about what position to promote Ott Cunningham to, Ott on the ground had already made the final conclusion to today's speech.

"Today we celebrate the opening of this great scientific hub. Its cutting-edge scientific research equipment and innovative technology will attract the greatest minds in the entire galaxy and universe for our civilization!"

"This is exactly what we hoped to witness, and this achievement will be the beginning of a new era of enlightenment."

"Today will be a great day in the history of our human race!"

"..."

As Ott Cunningham's inspiring words fell, the people who were watching the press conference burst into excited shouts.

Although most people do not know what the true role of the scientific hub is, the new era of civilization opened up by LA Company has indeed boosted mankind's self-confidence to an unprecedented level.

The cyberpunk world that respects the law of the jungle and indifferent interpersonal relationships has been reshaped into a new world where everyone is equal, everyone has opportunities, and everyone is united.

The upward trend and good atmosphere of the entire civilized society all demonstrate mankind’s beautiful expectations for the future and their pride in giant enterprises.

'Yes, the publicity work for the giant company has been done well. Now it's time to look at my next task!'

Li Ang closed the holographic screen in front of him and turned his attention back to the system panel.

Just now, Li Ang has received the various worlds of the heavens and the universe that have just been refreshed and released by the system.

This is also the second alien world copy he needs to conquer!

[Underworld]!
That’s right, the world of the heavens that Li Ang is going to next is right from the original work of an extremely unpopular movie with too many hard science fiction elements.

This time, Leon will no longer continue to challenge any other alien civilization in this worldview.

Instead, you actually go to another parallel universe to complete this new conquest mission!
"The Netherworld... I seem to have some impression of the plot of this movie, but the level of human technology in that movie is not even one tenth of my current level."

"I can instantly destroy the human civilization over there by sending just one Infinity starship, but why..."

'The first dungeon I received for conquering the other worlds was surprisingly so weak!'

Thinking of this, Li Ang couldn't help but frown slightly, and he began to ponder the real purpose of the system's arrangement.

Judging from the previous conquest of Pandora, every refresh of the system's alien copy must have its own unique meaning.

This often contains the most efficient and fastest growing operating path for the company!

But the system will not tell Li Ang directly, it will only leave many clues, allowing Li Ang to connect the dots on his own and then make the most correct choice.

There is no such thing as randomly refreshing the alien world and creating a meaningless hodgepodge.

For example, after Leon exchanged the Universal Enterprise template and unlocked the Ideal City building, an Avatar copy with floating stone resources appeared.

And there are floating stones on Pandora.

It just so happens that floating stones are exactly the resources needed for the ideal city.

From this point of view, every time Le Ang unlocks a key megastructure or building, it can correspond to the refreshed alien worlds in the heavens.

There is some kind of close connection between the two in the dark!
As long as Li Ang can dig out and analyze the correct operational steps from these clues, the technological points of his giant enterprise will explode.

If humans in the Three-Body worldview could achieve a technological leap through a "technological big bang" and catch up with the technological level of the Three-Body people.

Then what Li Ang relies on is "hanging"!
But how to use this "system" efficiently is what Li Ang should consider most urgently.

The test question this time is the new alien world copy "The Netherworld".

"If that's the case, does that mean that a certain resource or technology point in the Netherworld movie worldview corresponds to the Science Hub? ! "

'In other words, the Science Hub can speed up the iteration process of a certain technology point in the Netherworld and develop a brand new technology point!'

Li Ang's reaction was quite quick, and he did guess and deduce the truth which was very close to the facts.

If LA Company went to Pandora before, it was to obtain the suspended stone resources to maintain the ideal city.

So this time we go to the human world of the Netherworld, it is most likely to obtain one of the key technological points.

After all, the Earth in the movie "Ghost" is still the same Earth. There won't be any other rare mineral resources, only the technological points.

Then the core technology point in the movie "Ghost" should be [Bose-Einstein Condensate]!
"Condensed state......!"

Li Ang began to seriously and carefully recall the relevant plot in the original movie, as well as the setting details of the condensed matter technology points.

In the movie "Ghost", there is a kind of "Ghost" soldier killer who cannot be touched. They can ignore conventional physical killing methods and are swift and agile.

In addition, they can also float freely in the air like "ghosts".

In other words... these ghost soldiers are the ghosts who are seeking revenge!

They cannot be seen directly by the human eye, nor can they be clearly observed by thermal imaging.

These two points are extremely similar to the "ghosts" that humans believe in superstition.

But in fact, these Netherworld soldiers have simply transformed into the form of Bose-Einstein condensate through a series of technological transformations.

In natural matter, there are usually four states: solid, liquid, gas and plasma.

The Bose-Einstein condensate is a special form artificially created.

It does not belong to any natural form.

"I remember that the attack methods of these Nether Soldiers seem to be quite difficult to deal with. If you don't prepare in advance, even an Astartes warrior can easily get into trouble!"

As his memories gradually deepened, Li Ang remembered the intensity of the damage done by the Netherworld soldiers to the human body, as well as related detailed information.

The Nether Soldiers transformed into the Bose-Einstein condensate state have the state of resistance-free and viscosity-free particle flow.

It can also gather a large number of particles in the same quantum state and has extremely low temperature properties close to absolute zero.

In addition, when the condensed metal atom gas moves, the atoms move in the same direction, which can also lead to the generation of voltage-free current.

This electric current will only burn the soldier's skin but not penetrate the body.

Therefore, once the "ghost" touches and passes through the body, the result is that the soldier's internal organs, brain, skin and other tissues will be severely damaged, leading to death.

The dead soldiers would have low-temperature burns and signs of electric shock on their bodies, but their clothes would not be damaged at all.

A triple blow of low-temperature burning, electric shock, and some other chemical reactions, it's hard not to die!
But even for such a strange soldier, there is really no weapon in Leon's technological points that can kill Youming with one blow.

Because conventional physical lethal weapons pose no threat to Netherworld soldiers.

Unless it is some alternative technological tool that can achieve a comprehensive observation effect from the microscopic world.

For example... Sophon in The Three-Body Problem!
"This thing... feels similar to the quantum ghost army that Taylor in The Three-Body Problem tried to create!"

Thinking of this, Li Ang suddenly connected the Netherworld soldiers in the movie "Netherworld" with the quantized army in The Three-Body Problem.

For example, the ghost in the movie "Ghost" was actually printed by the Moldovan scientific research team in the original book through condensed matter technology.

They would rip the nervous system from a living person and seal it in a crystal coffin, leaving the person separated from himself and his consciousness, in a state between the vague boundaries of life and death.

This state will form some kind of magical quantum entanglement relationship!
Coincidentally, Taylor, the Wallfacer in The Three-Body Problem, once tried to rely on quantum weapons, such as ball lightning or some large quantum device.

To bombard human soldiers and fleets, turning them into a probability cloud and transforming them into the state of quantum ghosts.

Also in the vague boundary between life and death, such a huge ghost army can easily destroy the enemy's fleet engines.

These ghost armies can cause the same damage to the Trisolaran soldiers as the underworld does to humans.

However, this killing method can be described in just four words to the Trisolarans:

【The Lord doesn’t care! 】

Because the Trisolarans have intelligent beings.

"Could it be that the new copy opened by this system is just for me to get this quantum man-made weapon and turn the soldiers into ghosts?"

"If the Trisolarans came, they would only be so happy that their stomachs would ache because of such useless and inefficient lethal weapons."

Li Ang showed a look of disgust and shook his head in dissatisfaction. He didn't want to waste human resources to get some Netherworld soldiers.

After all, once the netherworld soldiers or quantum armies in a quantum state are observed, they will immediately fall into a state of collapse.

Schrödinger's little cat has long proved to mankind that quantum soldiers and armies are nothing more than toys when facing advanced civilizations with advanced technology in the microscopic world.

The Trisolarans are able to unfold microscopic particles from low dimensions and then fold them back to high dimensions, creating the sophon, an omnipresent "observer" of the microscopic world.

Not to mention the Netherworld soldiers, even the quantum army that Taylor tried to build would be defeated when facing the Sophon.

The final result is that it instantly collapses into useless particles the moment it is observed by the sophon.

To put it simply, Sophon only needs to "glare" and all the quantum soldiers, troops, and fleets will be reduced to dust.

This is what it means if you look at it one more time, you will explode, and if you get any closer, you will melt!

"No, the condensed matter technology in the Netherworld movie must have some other uses. It's impossible for me to simply imitate a Netherworld soldier!"

Li Ang felt that he was very close to the real answer described by the system.

"Condensed Matter... Science Hub...!"

Suddenly, Li Ang seemed to remember something.

He had seen some functional areas in the system panel of the science hub before, and the function of these functional areas was to use one technology point to quickly develop related new technologies.

"Could it be that!"

Immediately, Li Ang switched to the attribute panel of the science hub and searched for the relevant information of the [Condensed Matter] technology point.

As expected, Li Ang obtained a number of research and development related to the "condensed matter" technology point in the panel of the science hub.

For example, the properties of condensed matter can be used in research and development in the field of superconductivity, and it is a potential raw material for precision instruments, as well as atomic clocks and navigation systems.

At the same time, condensed matter can also be used for the study of quantum computing and quantum models!

Quantum computing is a revolutionary computing technology, but for LA companies with highly developed AI technology, it can only be said to be icing on the cake and cannot be considered a truly necessary technology.

However, the quantum model can help LA to conduct antimatter research, and facilitate the observation and speculation of the production, annihilation and transformation of antimatter. This is Li Ang, and this is the technology point that LA really needs!
"Yes, that's it!"

Li Ang was overjoyed. He saw an important function in the panel area of ​​the science hub that he almost overlooked.

That is the technology point research and development area!

On the system panel, Li Ang can see the entire path from "condensed matter" technology to the development of other new technological points.

For example--

[Condensed Matter Technology] - [Precise and Complete Quantum Model] - [Primary Antimatter Technology (Antimatter Engine)]

From condensed matter to elementary antimatter technology, there is just the accumulation of quantum model technology points in between.

And the original condensed matter technology is what Li Ang needs to obtain from the movie "The Underworld"!

"So that's it..."

Li Ang suddenly realized, and then he continued to flip through the pages to see what technological points the more advanced antimatter technology would have.

[Intermediate Antimatter Technology (Antimatter Defense Barrier): World of Angels & Demons]

Advanced Antimatter Technology (Antimatter Shell Screen): The World of Star Trek Into Darkness

[Super-advanced antimatter technology (antimatter cloud barrier): The world of "Rural Teacher"]

……

'Good guy! '

Li Ang couldn't help but sigh, the scientific hub is the real "magic weapon".

A small condensed matter technology, after being thrown into the science hub for several cycles of iterative research and development, can obtain new technology points related to it!
It's like throwing an ordinary piece of coal into a smelting furnace, and finally returning a dazzling diamond.

'It's a pity that in order to make the scientific hub achieve rapid cycle technology iteration research and development, we can only rely on krypton enterprise coins to speed up the process, or upgrade and create more scientific hubs.'

After reading the detailed introduction of this functional area, Li Ang's excitement suddenly subsided.

With his current level and scale of scientific hubs, as well as the amount of corporate coins, he can only use condensed matter technology to create a quantum model technology point in a short period of time.

He is still a little short of the antimatter technology he wants, but fortunately the difference is not that big. Li Ang can save enough enterprise coins by waiting for a few years or completing the mission.

"I see……!"

“It turns out this is the real operational answer.”

At this moment, Li Ang finally connected all the details.

He remembered that the last time he went to Pandora was to obtain the suspended stone resources there.

Suspended Stone is used to maintain the Utopia.

This time, he was about to go to the human world in "The Netherworld" to obtain condensed matter technology points.

Condensed matter technology is used to utilize the scientific research and development capabilities of the science hub!

Right, everything is right.

“I didn’t expect that my first trip to another world would be just to get such a technology point.”

For a moment, Li Ang felt a little bit ridiculous.

He is a giant corporation that can even build an ideal city, but he has to make a trip just for the tiny "condensed matter" technology.

You have to go!
There is no way. Although Leon's giant corporate empire appears to have strong technological capabilities on the surface, all these things were obtained for free from the prize pool of the heavens.

The existing and known scientific basis of human civilization today is actually still quite primitive and backward.

It is impossible to quickly develop new technologies independently.

The significance of the existence of the scientific hub is to speed up the human scientists in the main world to improve and supplement these basic scientific knowledge as soon as possible through the existing technological points.

Thinking of this meaning, Li Ang felt more and more that his choice was absolutely correct!
It is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. The existence of the scientific hub is to help humans in the cyber world quickly acquire advanced new scientific knowledge.

"Antimatter shell shield, antimatter cloud barrier... I have to take down all of these things!"

Looking at these technological points on the science hub panel, Leon was so greedy for a moment.

Among these antimatter technology points, the technology he wants most, needs most currently, and has the greatest chance of obtaining is the antimatter shield.

As for the antimatter engine...

Only the Trisolaran fleet could treat such a junky thing as a treasure.

The antimatter engine converts the energy released by the annihilation of antihydrogen protons and hydrogen protons into a power source for the spacecraft.

But unfortunately, the density of outer space is too small, and collecting antimatter will be very slow, so the flight efficiency is relatively low.

The Trisolaran antimatter engine fleet can only achieve propulsion flight at 10% of the speed of light.

This speed is not fast, but it is not very slow either.

Mainly compared to the Infinity's gravity drive engine, the gap between the two is too big.

Because Infinity's gravity drive engine is capable of superluminal flight!

The principle of this engine device is supported by the theory of "Alcubierre effect", that is -

【When an object moves in a gravitational field, its mass increases.

This means that objects moving in a strong gravitational field, such as a black hole or a neutron star, become very heavy.

If this effect can be controlled, it would be possible to create natural propulsion systems in strong gravitational fields, allowing for faster-than-light travel.

To describe this propulsion method simply and vividly, it is equivalent to forcing a balloon underwater and then releasing it.

The resulting thrust is the power of flight!

However, this gravity-driven engine is only one of Infinity's propulsion methods. Its space jump technology is even more amazing, and it completely defeated the Trisolaran fleet.

But even though the Infinity has great attack power, is fast and can escape, Leon still doesn't dare to confront the Trisolarans head-on and have a real fight.

The most crucial reason is that he lacks a very important technological point, that is, the antimatter shield!

The difficulty of the technological points of this game seems too simple when compared with the construction of the Matrix, Infinity, or the Ideal City.

However, Leon has been slow to draw out such a critical technological point from the reward pool, causing his fleet to be at risk of "high attack and low defense".

Although the Trisolarans' water droplets could not catch up with Leon's fleet, they could still crash through it.

After all, the water droplet is made of strong interaction material, and the hardness of this material is enough to easily smash Le Ang's Infinity.

It can be said that the strength of the Trisolaran fleet, whether in terms of attack or speed, is quite lackluster.

But their water droplets make up for the offensive power.

If Leon wants to avoid being crushed by the Trisolarans, he must eliminate the fleet's only flaw: its defensiveness!
As soon as the water droplets hit the LA company's giant ship, the Infinity, they instantly disintegrated and fell apart.

If you want to destroy the water droplet, you either have to use "four-dimensional fragments" to damage it from the inside.

Or use an antimatter shield so that when the water droplets hit the hull, they will cancel each other out and be annihilated and shattered.

"If I manage to create the antimatter shield, the Trisolarans will suffer!"

Li Ang thought so in his heart.

Of course, what Leon wants is not just the antimatter shield, which is a necessary technology point.

Leon was also quite envious of the super advanced antimatter technology point - the antimatter cloud barrier!
This technology point was used in the Silicon-based Empire in "Rural Teacher".

In the original story, the Silicon-based Empire once constructed an antimatter cloud barrier with a radius of one thousand light years as a trap to ambush the Carbon-based Empire.

The Carbon-based Empire paid the price of more than 30 warships, and finally tore a channel in the antimatter cloud barrier and drove away the Silicon-based Empire.

Obviously, this so-called antimatter cloud barrier is equivalent to the space version of the "super anti-tank mine"!
Once the enemy's starship accidentally steps into this antimatter cloud barrier, it will immediately trigger the annihilation destruction of antimatter.

At that time, the entire spaceship array will emit dazzling light in an instant, accompanied by a huge shock wave, turning the fleet and crew into nothingness!
Such a powerful defensive technology point is exactly what Li Ang urgently needs at this moment.

If he had such a thing, Leon would be able to completely block off the entire interstellar area and any alien civilization that tried to enter the sphere of influence of his giant company.

They can only make up for it with the number of their fleets and the lives of their crews!
"It's stable... Everything is stable!"

Li Ang clenched his fists with excitement. He was very excited when he thought that he would soon have the opportunity to obtain the antimatter technology points he had been longing for.

In the world view of the movie "Ghost", there is no messy weird "Eva" or any planetary conscious life.

There will be no other alien civilization.

There is only human civilization in a parallel universe, and the humans in that worldview are still in the "indigenous" era and cannot travel freely to other stars like the humans in the cyber world.

This means that Leon only needs to send out a small number of fleets and combat personnel to basically defeat the human civilization in that parallel universe.

As for the quantized Netherworld soldiers who seem powerful but are actually useless, Leon has plenty of ways to deal with them.

For example, the plasma discharge gun, which is the easiest to make, can greatly restrict the actions of the "Ghost" soldiers.

But if you want to really kill them, you can only rely on "pulling the network cable" to destroy the power supply of these Netherworld soldiers.

Cut off the human body's "neural network system" and the connection with the condensed state, and release this quantized state.

"If I could spare a sophistry, I would be able to kill all of these Netherworld soldiers."

Li Ang smiled thoughtfully.

"but……!"

"How come this system only refreshes the copy of the other world, but doesn't give me a time-space gate or passage to the other worlds?"

Li Ang couldn't help but complain.

Yes, after the second alien universe "Netherworld" was released on the system interface, Li Ang realized that he could not directly lead people or troops to that world.

Instead, you have to unlock the relevant technological points first and build a gate that spans another world and time.

Doors or passages like this that can cross the heavens, other worlds, and time and space can either be drawn from the roulette prize pool of the heavens, or developed by oneself through technological breakthroughs.

Obviously, the system still requires Li Ang to go through a wave of lotteries first and try his luck before there is a chance that a technology point such as a space-time gate will pop up.

Thinking of this, Li Ang suddenly felt that he was being played by the system. Giving him cigarettes but not fire, wasn't this deliberately teasing him? !
However, no matter how unhappy Li Ang was, he had to accept this arrangement.

Otherwise, he can only go to other interstellar space in this universe and try his luck to find other alien civilizations to vent their anger on.

"Now that things have come to this, let's draw a prize first."

Immediately, Li Ang put all his attention back on the system's lottery wheel.

This time, Li Ang saved up a total of 11 consecutive draws from the Zhutian Prize Pool, including roulette draw opportunities from level 8 to level 10!
Especially the guaranteed chance to draw from the 10th level jackpot roulette, where the technology points come from the world of the heavens - the stars!
This opportunity to draw a level 10 lottery was an opportunity that Le Ang got after unlocking the science hub.

Leon felt that his decision was a great win because he had exchanged so many things for some insignificant corporate currency!
'I wonder if this guaranteed level 10 lottery will yield something as good as the Burning Heavenly Weapon or the Ether Phase Engine.'

Li Ang thought thoughtfully, but his hands were not idle. After seeing the roulette interface, he immediately started the long-awaited lottery.

"The Wheel of the Heavens... Start!"

(End of this chapter)