The giant corporations that started from Night City
Chapter 312: Hearing the Truth in the Morning! Einstein’s Equator! Vacuum Decay!
Chapter 312: Hearing the Truth in the Morning! Einstein’s Equator! Vacuum Decay!
Li Ang always has the habit of drawing a prize before officially opening the star gate and refreshing the new universe. He always feels that he can find some bugs and find some clues to break the deadlock in the prize pool.
For example, the previously extracted Scorpion Tail virus played a huge role in dealing with the Pioneers in the Pacific Rim universe, helping the giant corporation to eradicate this civilized species.
Maybe this time the lucky draw can also yield some key props to pass the level!
Just when Leon was about to open the lottery interface, Secretary-General Lucy suddenly sent him a new email. When Leon clicked on it, he found out that it was two pieces of good news.
The first good news is that the Science Hub, with the joint efforts of a large number of intelligent AIs, Forerunner AIs, and multiple Transcendental AIs, has finally developed the [Antimatter Cloud Barrier].
This is one of the top civilized weapons from “Rural Teacher” and is a very powerful strategic-level defensive weapon.
The antimatter cloud barrier is equivalent to a death mine deployed in the three-dimensional space of the universe. Once a passing fleet touches these antimatter, it will immediately trigger annihilation.
Without sufficiently powerful shield technology, the fleet would be instantly swallowed up by a large antimatter cloud.
However, even if equipped with shield technology, but without the corresponding antimatter shield, the fleet would still quickly trigger armor overload, forcing it to evacuate the restricted area.
This can be considered a relatively advanced defensive weapon in the war of interstellar civilizations, and it is also the technological point that Leon has been thinking about for the past decade.
Now, the staff of the Research Department have successfully developed the antimatter cloud barrier, which means that the defense line of the main universe will be more stable and secure.
As for the second good news, the sentinel array located in the main universe has been established, and not long after it was put into use, it eavesdropped on the movements of an alien fleet!
The Pandora galaxy four light years away has welcomed a second alien civilization. The civilization fishing plan of the world giant, which has been dormant for nearly half a century, has finally been updated to the second season.
According to the information eavesdropped by the Sentinel Array, the size of this alien fleet is not small, and its engine level has reached sub-light speed.
It is obvious that this is an alien civilization with a wealth of resources. They have their own production areas and bases, which are much stronger than the previous wanderer civilization.
However, compared with the current giant enterprises in the universe, there is still a big gap. In most of the galaxy in the current main universe, the giant enterprises are already top-notch dominant civilizations.
However, the giant company has not made in-depth development of the main universe, and the area is still limited to the solar system and hundreds of surrounding galaxies. After all, this is Leon’s last base.
In other planes of the universe, Leon can expand unscrupulously and quickly establish and build a system of universal trade circles, but in the main universe, he dare not develop too deeply for the time being.
The dark forest in “The Three-Body Problem” applies to every universe. Li Ang must leave a bottom line fund for the giant company to make a comeback, and security is particularly important.
“A 2.6-level alien civilization…”
Looking at the civilization level assessment sent by the Development Department, Leon nodded thoughtfully. This fish is still fat, but it would be a bit of a waste to swallow it just like that.
Let’s follow the old practice, talk about cooperation first, and if that doesn’t work then launch a devastating attack to leave no one alive.
The wanderer civilization that the giant corporation captured last time on the planet Pandora was too weak and there was no need for them to cooperate, so they ended up being destroyed.
Whether it is a civilization or an individual, once it is too weak and humble and has no use value, it will be abandoned like grass.
Being used by others is not the most terrible thing. The most terrible thing is that you are not even worth being used.
When Li Ang selects members of the World Trade Organization, he will also divide them according to their civilization level.
For example, some high-level civilized species will be given priority to obtain in-depth cooperation from giant companies, and will also give them a few more halo arrays for free as a greeting gift.
[I have arranged for Alex, Goro Takemura, and K to send a survey team to the Pandora galaxy to coordinate the civilization fishing plan.]
Looking at the name K in the email submitted by Lucy, Leon remembered that this was Agent K in “Blade Runner”.
Gosling’s face in the movie appeared in his mind. Speaking of which, this clone Agent K is also a legendary figure in the investigation department of a giant company.
He has been involved in many criminal investigations and surveys. Alex probably took him with him on this fishing mission to facilitate his promotion later.
【approve. 】
After replying to Lucy’s message, Leon turned his attention back to the lottery.
Although there was no chance to unlock the new megastructure this time, the good news is that Leon got a chance to draw from the level 11 prize pool!
Before this, Li Ang really thought that level 10 was already the highest level prize pool, but the appearance of level 11 prize pool made him see more possibilities.
Even if there is no guarantee that good things will come from any world, Leon can be sure that the items in the level 11 prize pool will definitely not be bad.
“If we draw Ultraman Tiga or Ultraman Zero, it will be a lot of fun!”
Li Ang chuckled and immediately clicked on the lottery. As long as the 11th-level lottery was not too distorted, even if only items from the 9th-level prize pool appeared, he could barely accept it.
[This roulette 10 consecutive draws have obtained:
Einstein’s Equator (Golden Legend·Morning Word·Law-level weapon)
Blacklight Virus (Prototype Gentek)
Pandora-class anti-ship psionic cannon (Xiling Empire, Xiling Apostle)
City Folding Technology (BJ Folding)
Second generation Sentinel robot (X-Men Trask Industries)
Type 92 Magnesium Shooting Tank (Godzilla VS Biollante Japanese Special Guard)
10 tons of adamantium (Marvel Universe Dr. McClane)…】
“Einstein’s equator in ‘Morning Message’?!”
When he saw that the level 11 lottery was not distorted and even a golden legend was dropped, even Li Ang, who had seen countless big scenes, couldn’t help but be stunned.
Because strictly speaking, the Einstein Equator he drew is not a super weapon that can destroy a star with one shot, but a regular-level weapon that can destroy countless star systems with one click!
But this thing is just an experimental device that the humans in “Hearing the Truth in the Morning” tinkered with by coincidence, and it may not be able to trigger successfully 100%.
But once it is triggered successfully, it will cause the collapse of the universe!
“This wave is really about to take off!”
Li Ang was filled with surprise and joy.
The so-called Einstein Equator is actually a particle accelerator, but this accelerator is quite unusual. It only needs to accelerate the pipes surrounding the equator to blast out creation-level energy!
When this thing starts running at full power, it accelerates particles to 10 to the 20th power electron volts, which is close to the energy of the Big Bang.
Once fully opened, it would easily cause vacuum decay.
The law of vacuum decay is based on the fact that the environment of the universe is just a false vacuum, like ghostly virtual particles that appear and disappear in an instant.
This is equivalent to the vacuum environment of the universe, which is actually a boiling quantum ocean. Virtual particles and real particles make the vacuum have a certain energy level.
The energy level of virtual particles is lower than that of real particles and is in an unstable state.
But when the particles begin to be bombarded by acceleration, the high-energy process caused will lead to the emergence of another state of vacuum energy level.
This vacuum energy level will be lower than the current real particles, and even lower than virtual particles, resulting in a “true vacuum” with an energy level of zero!
The volume of this vacuum is only the size of an atom at the beginning, but once it is formed, it will cause the high-energy vacuum to fall towards the low-energy vacuum, assimilating it into the same low-energy vacuum as itself.
This is what is called “vacuum decay”!
Once vacuum decay occurs, it will expand outward in all directions, and its speed will soon reach the speed of light, causing all neutrons and protons in the affected universe to decay.
Obviously, the process of vacuum decay is somewhat similar to the dimensionality reduction attack caused by the two-dimensional foil.
But unlike a dimensionality reduction attack, the result caused by the two-dimensional foil is “only” dimensionality reduction, which drops the three-dimensional space to two dimensions.
But in the universe of “The Three-Body Problem”, some civilizations can “reversely ascend”, actively fall from a high dimension to a two-dimensional one, and continue to survive. The effect of vacuum decay is to pull a high-energy vacuum into a low-energy vacuum environment. After decay, the universe will no longer support all kinds of fancy high-energy releases.
This means there will be no high-energy weapons such as laser cannons and star destroyers. In a universe where microscopic things such as neutrons and protons are all shrinking, all life forms will perish.
Generally at this time, the universe can only start the next restart cycle and give birth to a new Big Bang, which is equivalent to starting over from scratch.
To put it more simply, once the Einstein equator is opened, it will destroy the earth in 0.03 seconds.
It would take five hours to destroy the solar system, four years to destroy the nearest star system, and a hundred thousand years to destroy the entire Milky Way, causing the entire universe to inevitably and rapidly decay.
A universe that could have lasted trillions of years may only need a few hundred million years, or even tens of millions of years, to be restarted with one click.
Of course, if Leon deploys Einstein equators in multiple galaxies at the same time and triggers this vacuum decay at the same time, perhaps the universe restart can be completed faster!
As long as there are enough deployments, it only takes a year or two for the Universal Corporation to destroy a universe, or even less.
“The probability of the particle impact triggering the Einstein Equatorial Accelerator is still 100%? It really can be restarted with just one click!”
After reading the explanation on the system panel, Li Ang had a clearer understanding of this level 11 regular weapon.
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You have to know that most particle accelerators are not necessarily able to successfully bombard particles. It all depends on luck to achieve this.
In the original work of “Hearing the Truth in the Morning”, as the ceiling-level species of cosmic civilization – the troubleshooter civilization, the reason they arrived on Earth was to extinguish the flame of vacuum decay that had not yet ignited.
But the Einstein Equatorial Accelerator is a key experimental tool for mankind to complete the grand unified system of physics. Without this step, the truth cannot be discovered.
However, the “troubleshooters” who are gods are determined not to let humans use this thing to get in touch with the truth, because the price of obtaining the grand unified theory is too heavy!
In fact, long before the birth of the universe in “Hearing the Truth in the Morning”, there were already top civilized species that obtained the grand unified theory through particle bombardment experiments and solved all the mysteries of the universe.
But the ensuing vacuum decay led this species to its inevitable death. In order to preserve this truth, they emitted it through gravitational waves.
Eventually, the universe restarted, and as one of the earliest species born, the Chosen Troubleshooter civilization got this string of data information for free.
Relying on the secrets of his predecessors, the troubleshooter suddenly realized and reached the top, becoming the only god in the “Morning News” universe.
Relying on the information in gravitational waves, the troubleshooters not only learned the supreme secrets of the universe, but also understood the horrific law of natural disaster, vacuum decay.
They thought that since they had become gods, they could not allow other civilizations to conduct particle impact experiments, either for the purpose of protecting the universe or out of the practical need to monopolize the status of risk-removing civilization.
So, using this as an excuse, the troubleshooters began patrolling and investigating the entire universe, and they were quite selective in choosing their targets for observation.
That is, which civilized species looks up at the stars more often and more frequently will be the one that deserves more attention, and humans happen to be one of the people on the key observation list.
Curiosity is one of the important driving forces for the development of every civilization. The more you look at the stars, the more you want to fly up to take a look.
From the attitude of troubleshooters who try their best to guard against other civilized species and come into contact with the truth of the universe, we can know how terrifying the law of death of vacuum decay is!
Once this kind of decay occurs, it is like terminal cancer for the universe, and it can only lie down and die.
“What a great thing!”
Li Ang sighed from the bottom of his heart.
In the eyes of ordinary people, Einstein’s Equator is a weapon that even if you draw it, you still dare not use, because once you use it, you and the enemy will explode.
If it were an ordinary person, Einstein’s Equator could only be used as a strategic threat weapon, but for Leon, it was a magic weapon for quick clearance!
Whenever Leon encounters an extremely difficult universe that he cannot pass through, he can use this thing to restart it with one click.
When the decayed universe reassembles and starts the Big Bang cycle again, the Universal Corporation will be the only “God” in the universe.
However, if they do this, the giant corporation will not get any spoils, after all, everything will be reset to zero, and only some basic materials will remain in the restarted universe.
Thinking of this, Li Ang felt more and more that he had firmly established the title of Paradox’s number one player. Other players could only destroy a country or a planet, but with him, he could even destroy an entire universe!
“I hope I don’t have to use this thing in the future.”
Li Ang chuckled. Unless the difficulty of the universe copy was too disgusting, he definitely didn’t want to use this thing.
After all, the price to pay for restarting a universe is too high. This is not because Leon is being chaste, but because doing so is a loss and he won’t get much practical benefit.
The giant corporations in the universe have no shortage of territories in one or two universes. The technological points and resources in other universes are what Le Ang values.
Immediately, Leon jumped over the Einstein Equatorial Accelerator and looked at the objects in the sky behind him.
The items drawn this time are very interesting, such as the blacklight virus, psionic cannon, and city folding technology from “Prototype”.
The function of the blacklight virus is to allow the host to assimilate the tissues and genetic information of various organisms, and absorb other biological tissues for its own use.
Things like improving physical fitness, self-repair and regeneration abilities, those are all basic operations!
To put it simply, an individual who has been infected with the Blacklight virus can transform himself into a creature that can transform at any time to adapt to various combat environments.
In Leon’s vision, he could use the Blacklight virus to train a special Blacklight team to carry out various lurking, assassination, and espionage missions.
“This virus is a bit too Cthulhu…”
Li Ang smiled. By devouring other species, one can gain the abilities of that species. If this happened in a fantasy world, he would at least be given the Taoist name “Devour Ancestor”.
All he needs to do is devour various wild ancient beasts and monks from various sects and automatically inherit their abilities. Isn’t this the practice of a purely evil villain?
Then, Li Ang looked at the psionic cannon from “The Xiling Empire”.
This psionic cannon is a powerful heavy ship-borne weapon that can cause great damage to warships and interstellar fortresses. It is considered to be a ship-borne equipment of the same level as the hard light cannon.
“It’s still somewhat useful, better than nothing.”
Next, Leon looked at the city folding technology, which interested him the most besides Einstein’s equator and the blacklight virus.
As the name suggests, urban folding means folding and turning the city over. This technology can achieve extremely strong urban bearing capabilities, overcoming gravity and acceleration during the folding process.
The multi-dimensional urban space in “Interstellar” and the flipped city in “Inception” are similar to this kind of urban folding.
This thing doesn’t actually have much use, but as a pure ornamental show, it’s still quite good. Sometimes beautiful waste is just for viewing and entertainment.
The second-generation Sentinel robot from “X-Men” has the ability to fly, detect and scan opponents, and analyze the opponent’s attack habits to respond accordingly.
A natural born Jeet Kune Do Kung Fu master, he is more than capable of being used as a security robot for a giant company.
As for the magnesium-ray tank used to fight Godzilla, this thing can emit 500 million V magnesium rays, which is enough to barely defeat Godzilla, so it’s useless.
Adamantium is interesting, but it’s a pity that there are only 10 tons of it, so this amount can’t be used to make anything amazing.
Li Ang decided to take out a batch of adamantium alloy and make some swords and weapons as prizes for senior generals.
“It seems that the Universal Corporation is fully capable of producing a group of Wolverine warriors on its own.”
Le Ang looked at the self-healing ability of the Blacklight virus, plus the claws made of adamantium alloy. Isn’t this the characteristic of Wolverine?
With the current huge size of the giant enterprise, it is entirely possible to mass-produce a Wolverine special forces team.
The scene of groups of Wolverine or Brother A (the protagonist of the original movie) is outrageous just to think about it.
(End of this chapter)