Chapter 304 Feeding the Earth's Core Energy
At the summit of Kunlun, a heavenly palace stands atop the clouds.
The frigid winds were shattered by an invisible barrier. Gu Qing stood with his hands behind his back on the edge of the cliff, his gaze piercing through the thin sea of clouds and the ionosphere, quietly watching the high-orbit space two hundred kilometers away.
In his view, the world presents dimensions completely different from those of ordinary people.
He could see the magnificent main cable called the "space elevator," like a long, luminous needle firmly anchored between heaven and earth; he could see the prototype of the high-orbit space forward base being built; he could see the meteorites and asteroids dragged back by the titanium crystal anchor chains being cut and diverted, turning into a continuous stream of resources, which would then sink to the ground along the transport capsule.
Humanity is cheering for this hard-won "resource return," believing that the operation of the high-orbit industrial chain has finally freed the Earth from its predicament.
But there was no sign of relief in Gu Qing's eyes.
He lowered his head slightly, his gaze piercing through the millennia-old glaciers of Kunlun, through the heavy lithosphere, reaching the deepest part of the earth.
Nourished by the revival of spiritual energy, Earth's major dragon veins are indeed reviving, the Earth's crust is slowly thickening, and new associated mineral veins are being nurtured in the abyss. This planet has long since transcended the realm of ordinary planets and is transforming into a massive "mother planet embryo."
However, it was too slow and too hungry.
This natural rate of regeneration, measured in decades or centuries, is simply insufficient to satisfy the terrifying drain on humanity's current high-intensity warfare, industrialization of cultivation, and simultaneous advancements in space infrastructure. Human civilization is like a colony of ants parasitizing an embryo, desperately draining the very marrow the mother had painstakingly accumulated in order to resist external enemies from the abyss.
The Earth didn't fail to come back to life; rather, it came back to life too slowly and became extremely weak.
Gu Qing withdrew her gaze and looked back at the deep starry sky.
Those asteroids and meteorites that are towed back to high orbit are seen by orbital engineers as a keel for pressure resistance, a base for flying swords, and heavy industrial materials.
But from the perspective of someone of Gu Qing's caliber, that was not the whole truth at all.
The star materials deposited and refined over hundreds of millions of years in the high-radiation environment of deep space, along with the high-order energy flow free in the vacuum background of the universe, constitute a complete external energy supply system.
If we only use these extraterrestrial meteorites to make magical artifacts and build bases, we are only utilizing half of their value. The true ultimate use of deep-space minerals is to serve as pressure-bearing bases, flow channels, energy filters, and pressure-stabilizing nodes.
The stellar energy that was extracted from the Gathering Star Platform and the high-level energy streams that were tamed from deep space by the high-orbit array are the real elixirs.
The grand vision that Gu Qing had hidden deep in his heart was to "draw down" these purest and most violent high-level energies from high orbit and slowly pour them back into the core of the Earth.
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At the same time, on the ground, in the Kyoto joint control room.
The first phase expansion plan for the "Starry Sky Advance Base" is undergoing final review. The Dean of the Array Academy sat in front of an extremely sophisticated holographic array panel, leading several high-level array masters to check the surface anchor point receiving maps of the high-orbit resource flow one by one.
As deep-space minerals were continuously returned, the throughput pressure at the surface anchor points increased sharply. The original plan of the Coordination Agency was to expand the unloading array of the Kyoto First Base at the bottom layer, but after the director retrieved the original array logic of the lowest layer of the space elevator, the operation suddenly stopped.
"Professor Wang." The dean pushed up his specially made chip glasses, looked up, and said with an undisguised look of amazement, "When our Array Court was checking the expansion plan for the underlying base, we discovered an extremely ingenious design blind spot."
"Design blind spots?" Wang Mingyuan walked over quickly.
The dean pushed the ancient blueprints to the main screen, zooming in to the maximum. He pointed to a massive structure where the space elevator pierced the deepest part of the Earth's crust.
"At the deepest point of the space elevator's surface anchor point, there is a massive, never-before-used underlying array. For the past few years, the engineering community and our Array Court have taken it for granted that it is a 'shock-absorbing counterweight system' used to stabilize the Earth's crust and counteract the tension of the elevator's main cable."
The dean's fingers flew across the screen, bringing up an extremely complex spiritual pressure trajectory model.
"But I just re-analyzed its array logic. It's neither a shock-absorbing array nor a physical ore transport channel."
"This is an excellent anti-missile energy array!"
The dean surveyed everyone in the conference room, his voice trembling with excitement: "Its valve opening is astonishingly large, and its spiritual pressure points absolutely vertically downwards—directly towards the mantle layer, even connecting to the deepest node of the Central Plains' main dragon vein!"
Upon hearing this conclusion, the entire joint control room fell silent.
Deep beneath the foundation of the space elevator lies not a transport pipeline, but a super drainage valve that extends directly into the heart of the Earth!
Wang Mingyuan suddenly stood up, as if a lightning bolt had struck his mind. All the clues connected frantically in that instant.
"Supercomputing team!" Wang Mingyuan decisively ordered, "Immediately establish a brand-new simulation model!"
"The subjects of our simulation are the stellar energy descending from the Star Gathering Platform and the high-order energy flow tamed by the high-orbit array! We are calculating the absorption efficiency of these energies after they have been layered, reduced in order, and stabilized by the space elevator, and then sent into the mantle and the main dragon vein nodes!"
Ten seconds later, the supercomputing array emitted a steady hum.
On the large screen, countless models of spiritual energy transmission began to be built rapidly.
This is by no means a simple and crude way of dumping energy into the Earth's core. Analysis shows that the Earth's veins and core are like a massive, extremely weak organism desperately needing nourishment. If the energy flow is too strong or too high-level, the Earth's veins simply cannot digest it, resulting not only in a severe waste of high-level energy but also easily causing localized blockages of Earth's energy and tremors of its spiritual veins.
This is an extremely sophisticated macroscopic conditioning method.
The supercomputer quickly provided an optimal green infusion curve: using a multi-array system at the high-orbit forward base for layered reduction, and utilizing newly captured ferromagnetic nickel to construct a stable flow channel. Instead of seeking immediate results, it employed a long-term, gradual flow rate for continuous perfusion.
It's like attaching a fine, long IV needle to this long-depleted home planet. Only a few drops of vital essence, nourishing silently.
The Earth's ability to generate its own energy will steadily increase under the nourishment of this long-lasting flow of high-level energy, ultimately completing an incredible "dimensional ascension".
Looking at the green curve that symbolized the optimal solution, Wang Mingyuan slumped into his chair, let out a long breath, and his eyes shone with a piercing light.
Old Chen stared blankly at the meteorites being towed back on the radar; the dean looked at the magnificent reverse diversion array. Only at this moment did they truly understand the ultimate meaning of the grand scheme orchestrated by the one who laid out this plan.
The ore is merely used to build the teeth and stomach of this enormous digestive system, while the higher-level energy that has been stripped away and domesticated is the food that Earth truly needs to consume.
"Unlock the base layer...reverse flow array."
Wang Mingyuan slowly propped himself up, his gaze fixed on the simulated red line on the big screen that ran from a 200-kilometer high orbit, through the main cable of the space elevator, and finally pierced into the depths of the mantle and the main dragon vein.
They intend to use the entire space elevator as a power source to supply energy to Earth.