META Quantum Era

Chapter 4 Breathing1

Zhang Nanmen didn't expect that the ram fusion engine could really be developed within 20 years. During the years when they worked together to impact the most cutting-edge technology, the cooperation between the two was still vivid. However, now the Sri Lankans are gone. Wu Yue did not see the establishment of the world's first universal fusion nuclear power plant, let alone participate in today's event, leaving only a black and white holographic projection on the seat. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 2081 at the age of 75. Just one year later, the world's first fusion power station was located in his hometown of Chengdu, and five years later, in 2086, four 'Prism' fusion engines were also officially offline and installed in pairs on the Pangu-class starship designed by Zhang Nanmen. There are also two reduced versions of the fusion engines called 'folding mirrors', which are used as the main engine of the large Kronos detector. After a lapse of 20 years, the fireworks project has long been a household name, and today's event is the unveiling of the two starships, and the launch date is set for the evening of three days later. However, few people know the fate of Zhang Nanmen, and the two starships were not designed according to the plan of the first plan. In Pang Tai's words, the starship that the old man had in mind was originally going to the outer solar system, but in fact he only built two mining ships. However, Zhang Nanmen was extremely satisfied to achieve such an achievement, because he knew that humans had knocked on the first door of starship navigation, and now he was just taking a slight detour. And he couldn't be clearer in his heart, if it weren't for the huge benefits behind this, this project might not have started yet. After the lengthy opening ceremony, people's sense of expectation for these two starships has reached its peak. Although they have long seen their true faces on the Internet, today's sense of ceremony is completely irreplaceable. The projection focused on Zhang Nanmen. The old man, dressed in a white dress and with eyes like torches, stood up and said hello to the more than one billion viewers watching the live broadcast. "Before the unveiling of the Pangu Starship, let me pay tribute to my ancestors here. " The projection slowly blurred, and an old rocket from the last century appeared in everyone's vision, next to a black and white portrait photo. The rocket is called "Dongfang" and was transformed from a p-7 intercontinental missile. It is equipped with the first artificial earth satellite. The portrait is naturally Korolev. "It has taken humans a full 3 million years from walking upright and using wooden sticks to the present, but the technical achievements of these 3 million years of looking up at the stars have only given us the first wooden stick to explore the truth of the universe. "Zhang Nanmen led everyone to bow to the projection: "Tribute to Sputnik 1." " Subsequently, the rocket changed from p-7 to p-9, the famous space dog Lycra, and photos of astronaut Gagarin appeared in the projection. Zhang Nanmen paid tribute to the ancestors one by one, and then the camera turned to the vacant seat. Although Zhang Nanmen said nothing, the entire audience couldn't help but stand up, and countless shrapnel screens and white flowers floated in the crowd. 'The greatest physicist of mankind, Professor Wu left us an eternal artificial sun...','Professor Wu Yue, your contribution will go down in history forever...','Tearful eyes, I wish he was just careless and late...' After a short remembrance, two behemoths covered with screens appeared in the middle of the projection. As the curtain slowly opened, today's protagonist appeared. If you let people look at it decades ago, this thing is not linked to the word rocket at all, let alone a spacecraft. It's just a flat white oval sphere with two ends, like a mango with both ends cut off by a knife. And these two giant mangoes weighing more than 500 tons, in addition to carrying the ultimate dream of the astronauts to the sea of stars, are also full of another kind of desire of people in this special era. As early as twenty years ago, Zhang Nanmen saw the terrifying power of capital. Although at that time, the fireworks plan was just a pile of waste paper, after the evaluation meeting that night, a major earthquake occurred in international precious metal prices.With the implementation and operation of the fireworks plan, the price of iridium metal, as a necessary raw material for brain-computer interfaces, has even shrank more than ten times in the past two decades. After all, this element has also been fired more than ten times since the synthesis of plastic crystals. Coupled with technological innovation and countless brain-computer interface parity campaigns over the years, in addition to inflation factors, the price of a set of interface implants by Fry has dropped from the first batch of four million to more than 700,000 euros. More than 700,000 euros. Although this is still sky-high for most people, people at least see hope. In Anji's Oort simulation algorithm, there are at least 100 billion tons of high-purity metal iridium deposits in the Kuiper Belt. As long as the raw materials are no longer expensive, one day all mankind will have the opportunity to enter the meta-universe. After the unveiling of the starship, the square boomed again, and countless virtual characters and barrage screens accompanied by screams and crowds pushed the atmosphere of the opening ceremony to its c****x. It's not hard to imagine why people are so excited. After all, the implantation rate of brain-computer interfaces is less than 5% of the global population. Among the more than one billion people on the scene, most of them used VR equipment, stereo projection, and even computer screens and other terminals to participate in the celebration. Anji has used VR equipment and has a deep understanding of the difference between the two experiences. Entering the meta-universe in any way other than the brain-computer interface feels like a complete 'dimensional reduction blow'. People are nothing more than relying on the five senses to interact with the real world. When your touch, hearing, smell, vision, and hearing are all completely deceived, then this is another real world. That kind of delicate reality cannot be simulated by any VR device. In order to obtain that key, people can understand the fanaticism about it. Just as the celebration was going on normally, Anji suddenly received an urgent message from Pang Tai. "Something's wrong, do you want to come and have a look? " It's really inexplicable, how can this guy whisper at such a time? "It's still early for the celebration to end, what's the hurry? " "The New Delhi beta server array has been disturbed by unknown interference, and it is preliminarily confirmed that it was an enemy attack. " Anji suddenly felt cold, and this sentence was placed in the real world, which was called a terrorist attack. But because that group of special terrorists is widely recognized as the enemies of the meta-universe, only they will launch hacking attacks on the meta-universe. In order to distinguish it from terrorist attacks in the real world, it is called an enemy attack. "How is the situation? " "How are you? After all, it's just a beta-type server.