Chen Chen slowly opened his eyes.
When he saw everything in reality, the tense muscles all over his body suddenly relaxed.
At this time, he had come to a familiar white room. This room had flowers exuding fresh fragrance, clean and bright floor-to-ceiling windows, and a warm and comfortable bed.
Chen Chen sat up in bed. The warm sunlight sprinkled on his sheets, bringing with it a hint of laziness.
He knew that at this time, he had returned to the Spire, returned to his own era.
Seeing that Chen Chen had woken up, the androids who had been waiting for a long time immediately came in with a dining cart and served expensive food to the table.
Chen Chen did not pay attention to this. He just sat quietly on the bed, closed his eyes slightly, and felt everything in his mind at this time.
Just as he guessed, after returning to the cryogenic chamber on the other side and falling into a deep sleep, he immediately woke up here.
"Divine Fusion Empire? 378 years? "
Chen Chen murmured in a low voice, "So, my consciousness has transmigrated and exists simultaneously in reality and the future?"
"No, not the future..."
However, Chen Chen suddenly shook his head. "That world is dominated by the Consciousness Stealer, which means in that timeline, the Consciousness Stealer defeated me, thus enslaving human beings and restarting human civilization?"
"But, why do I exist in two timelines at the same time?"
Chen Chen shook his head and then realized that this was probably a backdoor in the consciousness battlefield that Little X had created.
Back when Chen Chen and the predecessor of the USB flash drive fought in his own dream world, he finally won by relying on the backdoor set up by Little X. At that time, Little X had this little trick up her sleeve, so it was naturally not surprising that she had set up this backdoor in the consciousness battlefield.
As for the so-called backdoor, it was probably that if he failed in the consciousness battlefield, he would not be devoured by the Consciousness Stealer. Although his spirit might be damaged, the cryogenic chamber could preserve his body perfectly, allowing him to sleep for hundreds of years.
When his spirit was restored, he could make a comeback again...
However, perhaps Little X did not expect that because of this backdoor, unknown changes occurred in the consciousness battlefield, and eventually led to the world line splitting. Just like Schrodinger's cat, the result of the battle between the two split into two completely different worlds.
One of them was the real world, which was the world after Chen Chen won.
The other world was the world where the Divine Fusion Empire was located. However, the timelines of the two worlds didn't seem to be parallel. The timeline of the other world had shifted to several hundred years in the future.
Thinking of this, Chen Chen could not help but exhale with a wistful expression.
Although he was schizophrenic, at least he was still alive, and it gave him another trump card.
With this in mind, Chen Chen immediately raised his head and asked, "X, about the consciousness battlefield, shouldn't you explain it a little?"
"Sir Godfather, the Consciousness Battlefield is a meme I've specially created for you to defeat the Consciousness Stealer."
Little X's voice came from the broadcast. "Using the consciousness bed of both parties as the foundation, you can jointly create a battlefield that allows both parties to fight against each other. However, since it's built by both parties, it's difficult to favor one party over the other. As a result, the consciousness battlefield must have a corresponding level of fairness. This is probably the only drawback of the consciousness battlefield."
"What if I win?"
"If you win, you will naturally obtain everything that belongs to the Consciousness Stealer, and the other party's consciousness will be completely obliterated!"
Little X answered matter-of-factly.
"What if the other party wins?"
"This is the only place where I boldly designed a backdoor..."
Little X continued to explain, "If the other party wins, it can only absorb a part of your consciousness, and you'll fall into a deep sleep due to the damage to your consciousness, but you won't die."
"Understood."
Chen Chen nodded. "Because I have the cryogenic chamber, after I fall into a deep sleep, the cryogenic chamber will activate the cryogenic chamber's freezing device, thus protecting my body?"
"Yes!"
Little X replied loudly, "The only regret is that, like a game, the meme is the game's code. Once a bug is generated in the program, it's very likely that the consciousness battlefield will collapse, even leading to the emergence of unknown situations. However, for your safety, I can only boldly give it a try. But so far, it seems that no unknown situations have occurred!"
"No, it has already happened."
Chen Chen said solemnly. He explained the situation of his consciousness being split. After hearing Chen Chen's explanation, Little X was suddenly surprised.
"According to what you said, your consciousness exists in both timelines at the same time, then this is likely an unknown change caused by the consciousness battlefield!"
Little X was a little surprised and at the same time a little distressed. "What should I do now? If you're in danger in another timeline, won't you be implicated here as well? "
"This can't be helped."
Chen Chen shook his head and said decisively, "Since I defeated the other party in the consciousness battlefield, I naturally have to bear the consequences of cheating. What's more, it seems that this consequence isn't something I can't bear. Instead, there's a new opportunity..."
Little X obviously did not expect this situation to occur.
It had to be said that memes were really an extremely magical thing. They had the nature of information, but they also had the power to directly interfere with matter, and the source of this energy was unknown. It might be drawn from the matter itself that was being interfered with. However, now that Chen Chen appeared in both timelines, it was not something that could be achieved by a simple meme.
Otherwise, did this not mean that this phenomenon was equivalent to creating another universe?
Of course, that was impossible. Therefore, in Chen Chen's view, this phenomenon was likely to be the result of Chen Chen's consciousness merging with his consciousness in the other timeline, allowing his consciousness to cross the dimension barrier and thus obtain the result.
However, things like memes were too amazing, even Little X could not peek into the true principle. Now, to her, memes were still at the level of 1 + 1 = 2, but as for why 1 + 1 = 2, Little X was completely clueless.
"During this period, human society has gradually restored order."
Half an hour later, Little X stood beside Chen Chen and explained the current international situation to Chen Chen who was having breakfast. "Since it was confirmed that the Consciousness Stealer had perished, the Earth Federation also announced the reason for the previous lockdown. However, they didn't explain why this happened. They only explained that the fusion death case was due to a new type of virus and that the virus has been completely cured."
"As for Mars, now that the Ares has set sail again and a new scientific research station has been built on Mars, our space department has also joined forces with the four major continents to customize a rough three-decade phase plan."
"Three ten-year phase plans?"
Chen Chen could not help raising an eyebrow.
"In the first decade, we'll build a Martian ecosphere that can accommodate 10,000 people and transfer the first batch of immigrants there."
Little X explained, "This group of people is equivalent to an experiment. We'll provide high benefits and money, using their fate and future as a stake in the experiment. They'll help us accumulate enough experience and knowledge to migrate to Mars in the future.
"In the second decade, we'll grow plants on Mars that can adapt to the environment, including the tardigrade moss we previously made, to increase the oxygen content of the Martian atmosphere and change the structure of the Martian atmosphere.
"As for the third plan, it's the most difficult. We'll find a way to restore the magnetic field of Mars, but this plan isn't a ten-year plan, but a century-long one! The first task is to create artificial strong magnetic field satellites, and it'll be like a star chain, tens of thousands of satellites orbiting together, thereby changing the magnetic field of Mars and stopping the continuous loss of the Martian atmosphere. "
Little X continued to talk incessantly. "In fact, Mars also has a magnetic field, just not as strong as Earth. About 3.9 billion years ago, the large magnetic field of Mars disappeared, leaving only a small, localized magnetic field. According to scientists, an asteroid collision occurred 3.9 billion years ago. After an asteroid hit Mars, the temperature of the mantle of Mars rose, exceeding the temperature of the core. Liquid iron couldn't cool and sink through the mantle, so iron couldn't form convection.
"The reason the Earth's magnetic field still exists is that the interior of the core is solid. The solid core and the molten outer layer containing a large amount of iron rub against each other to produce the Earth's magnetic field. The working principle is similar to a direct current generator. The situation on Mars is equivalent to the coil in the generator stopped rotating, unable to cut the magnetic induction line, so there's no current generated, and there's no magnetic field...
"After losing the protection of the magnetic field, Mars was completely exposed to the burning of the solar wind, slowly eroding the Martian atmosphere, and eventually causing the surface of Mars to transform into what it is today.
"Therefore, we came up with a set of methods to change the situation, the first of which is to launch a Martian star chain and create an artificial magnetic field to lock the Martian atmosphere.
"The second method is to build three giant boosters on Mars and fine-tune the eccentricity of Mars' orbit.
"Although the planets in the solar system are on the same level, in fact, each planet still has a certain degree of eccentricity. The orbital eccentricities of Venus, Earth, Mars, and Mercury are 0.007, 0.017, 0.093, and 0.206 respectively. The atmospheric concentration is dense, standard, thin, and extremely thin respectively. The reason why the two are inversely proportional is that a larger orbital eccentricity causes a planet to lose a part of its atmosphere when approaching the sun like a comet, so fine-tuning the orbital eccentricity of Mars can also reduce the phenomenon of atmospheric escape on Mars.
"In fact, according to scientific research, it has long been discovered that the magnetic field of Mars is actually recovering and the core of Mars is also recovering, but the recovery speed of Mars is very slow. It will probably take another 700 million years to recover to the level of resisting the solar wind. However, we can speed up this speed by tens of thousands of times, and the most intuitive way is to go to the Kuiper belt to find Ceres.
"Ceres is a dwarf planet in the solar system's asteroid belt. Its size is enough to affect the gravity of Mars. We can install a nuclear fusion engine on it to push Ceres into the orbit of Mars, making it the 'moon' of Mars. In this way, the gravity of Ceres can produce a strong compression effect on the structure under the crust of Mars, speeding up the recovery of the magnetic field of Mars...
"Through these means, we are confident that we can build Mars into the next Earth within a hundred years. This is also the first space cooperation project that the Earth Federation and we are jointly preparing to carry out, and the first phase of investment may require hundreds of billions of dollars!"
"So what are the benefits?"
Chen Chen listened for a while and then asked. Nowadays, a hundred years was not a big deal for humans. With the implementation of the mankind anti-aging project step by step, human life expectancy was rising in a straight line. In another thirty or forty years, the average life expectancy of human beings could exceed a hundred years. At this time, even Chen Chen himself did not know how long his lifespan was.
"The benefit is that we can have a permanent colony on Mars that belongs entirely to us."
Little X replied, "We're the first and only space colonization company recognized by the Earth Federation. Although there will definitely be space colonization companies from other continents in the future, we're definitely the only company that has established its own exclusive permanent colony. This is our benefit."
"Not bad."
Chen Chen nodded with satisfaction. Although Little X understated it, Chen Chen understood that there must be a lot of confrontation in order to reach this point. First of all, the four major continents would certainly not want to see Blacklight Biotechnology expand so much. Today, the hard power of Blacklight Biotechnology was almost not inferior to any of the four major continents, and even faintly surpassed them. This would inevitably arouse the vigilance of the four major continents and even the entire Earth Federation.
Of course, it was not impossible for the Earth Federation to restrict Blacklight Biotechnology now. Although Blacklight Biotechnology had a complete industrial system, at least in terms of raw materials, such as rare earths, certain high-precision materials, and so on, they could at least be used to choke Blacklight Biotechnology's neck.
However, in this way, they could forget about androids, XTN robots, and even various biomedicine and aerospace technology. Both sides would inevitably fall into the predicament of mutual sanctions.
Today, Blacklight Biotechnology could be said to have a monopoly in aerospace technology. Even the Ares was developed by the Blacklight Biotechnology Space Department alone. This was also the reason why they were willing to cooperate with Blacklight Biotechnology to develop Mars and give Blacklight Biotechnology colonization rights.
Of course, Blacklight Biotechnology also understood that it was basically impossible to abandon the Earth Federation and develop space technology alone. Even if they could now benefit from the benefits of the space technology in the USB drive, civilization must inevitably develop as a group. After all, the potential was limited if they left the group and it would not take long for them to self-destruct.
Therefore, what Chen Chen had to do was to balance the relationship between the company and the Earth Federation. At the same time, in addition to the balance, he tried to obtain the most favorable conditions and benefits.
After Little X explained these, Chen Chen tried to test the current situation of his Field energy. The two air masses in his mind had merged into one, but it seemed that they had not completely merged yet.
After several tests, Chen Chen found that the strength of Field energy had increased by about one-tenth, but the accuracy had slightly decreased. He could once magnify the structure of matter by a thousand times, but now it had dropped to 800 times.
This was probably the drawback of the fusion of Field energy and psionic energy.
However, after a temporary attempt, Chen Chen still did not test the role of psionic energy. For this new mysterious power, Chen Chen still had to explore.
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