I Really Didn’t Want to be a Savior

At the end of June 2020, Ou Qinglan led a huge project team composed of hundreds of thousands of people to complete the trial production of mankind's first dark energy black hole bomb.

The results were gratifying, but there was controversy in various quarters about whether to conduct a detonation test.

Chen Feng presided over the meeting. He did not speak or express his position. He only listened to opinions from all sides. At the same time, he talked about his experience in decision-making during the last battle, but left the decision-making power to other professionals.

The debate among the people was fierce.

People from all walks of life analyzed and expressed their opinions in detail at the meeting.

There are several major elements:

First, black hole bombs are much more difficult to manufacture than particle bombs, and it is expected that less than ten will be completed by wartime.

The quantity is limited, one bomb is missing, so you must use it sparingly.

In addition, humans have another logical dilemma.

No one knows whether a black hole bomb could open the solar dome's blockade.

If the black hole bomb can temporarily open a hole in the dome, then it is indeed possible to consider detonating it in advance and allowing as many Spark ships and sprout ships as possible to leave the solar system early.

But if not, detonating the bomb in advance is naturally equivalent to exposing mankind's trump card.

The invaders are likely to temporarily change the strategic mode, making the direction of the war unfamiliar and uncontrollable.

For example, after the invaders arrive, they delay the release of the solar system barrier, wait for the arrival of new reinforcements, and then make plans after gathering their forces.

Or the invaders would not let go of the barrier at all, and would only further manipulate the barrier at close range, and continue to compress the solar system for countless years until human civilization is squeezed inside.

Or maybe after the invaders arrive, they neither come in nor compress the space, but continue to release high-energy materials into the solar system, heating the environment in the solar system to an unbearable level, like stewed meat in an iron pot.

These three possible situations will make Chen Feng's efforts in vain.

Therefore, this black hole bomb really cannot be exploded easily.

Is there any chance to escape some people in advance?

This question is destined to become an endless suspense with no answer.

There are dedicated scientific researchers in major research institutes to conduct long-term analysis of the solar dome, but so far, no results have been achieved.

Humanity still knows nothing about the structure of its force fields and the principles of decomposing matter and energy.

Therefore, it is impossible to draw conclusions through theoretical calculations, and we can only actually detonate it to see the effect.

However, considering the potentially huge risks, the meeting ultimately decided not to test the explosion.

"Continue to increase production capacity and stockpile more black hole bombs, and we will decide how to distribute them in September."

This is the final decision of the Supreme Summit, and Chen Feng has neither objection nor support.

It's not that he's pretending, it's that he doesn't know how to do it.

On July 1, 2020, Chen Feng’s gene arousal officially exceeded 38%.

He is the first human being whose arousal level has exceeded 38%, leading Linbu by 0.2%, which has reached 37.8%.

As his arousal level continued to rise, the rate at which he benefited from the brainwave synergistic resonance training finally slowed slightly.

Chen Feng knew very well that it was not that his body had reached its limit, but that the effectiveness of the brainwave collaborative resonance training technology had gradually reached a new limit.

In a little more than half a year, Chen Feng and everyone together have done almost everything they can.

Where there is success, there will naturally be failure.

There is almost no progress in the planting plan that Chen Feng attaches great importance to.

The planting plan consumed a lot of manpower and material resources, but not to mention planting the first component, even a stable artificial life genome was not designed.

Initially, the most ambitious idea of ​​the project team was to use one genome to cover the entire battleship.

Later, it was found that the difficulty was too great, so we settled for the second best and divided the battleship into more than ten component modules to design genes.

Then I found that the module was too difficult, so I continued to narrow the scope and started with smaller functional units...

Now that the design has turned into a simple cabin structure, there is still little hope.

What's even more helpless is that the deeper they go, the more clearly the researchers realize that there is no essential difference between designing the "gene" of a screw and directly designing a complete warship.

The difficulty is not in the seemingly complicated details of directional expression, but in creating a biological species from scratch that does not originally exist in the solar system.

If Chen Feng had not been a staunch supporter of the project, the researchers in the planting project team would have suffered a nervous breakdown and given up the project.

Establish a project, try it, overturn it, re-establish it...

The planting project team has been staggering forward in such painful groping.

On July 7, 2020, Chen Feng attended a phased meeting of the planting project team.

He carefully read through the research schedule and saw many wrong answers. An idea suddenly came to his mind and he came up with an idea that had been ignored for more than half a year.

"Since facts have proven the difficulty of designing a new life from scratch, we have to respect the facts and respect nature. Why don't we try to extract wealth from the original gene pool on the earth?"

"For example, we design a warship based on the genes of blue whales and dinosaurs, and then make some functional fine-tuning on the original basis. Since there is no way to directly grow it into a power cabin, we will build the power cabin into every cell structure. By integrating viruses that can produce antimatter and electricity into the cells of a biological battleship, each cell becomes a power capsule. We can make the blue whale battleship swim in space."

"The same goes for other parts, such as weapon systems. We embed genes from the sparrow-tailed mantis shrimp into the melee weapon system. We embed genes from the artillery carabite into the medium-range weapons."

"As for the single-person small aircraft, we will embed the dragonfly..."

When he said this, Chen Feng was stunned for a moment.

He thought of the Dragonfly fighter of the Compound Eyes.

Others also reacted one after another.

Everyone laughed.

I see.

This is the case in research. Once some seemingly simple principles that ordinary people can respond to get stuck, it is not so easy to get out even if the wisdom of the group spreads.

Maybe someone had thought of Chen Feng's idea before, but this person had a small task at hand, and he thought about sending a report to the boss after finishing what he was doing. As a result, as soon as he came to his senses, several months had passed. .

It is also possible that a small team is developing in this direction, but the technical capabilities and resource allocation are insufficient, and the results have been delayed.

This small team has no ability to affect the overall situation.

Group thinking is trapped in a blind spot, which is more difficult to turn than the rigidity of individual thinking.

At this time, leaders need to stand up and force others out of their thinking dilemma.

Chen Feng took on this role.

After being inspired by his thinking, the planting project team immediately turned around and fully devoted themselves to the work of setting up chimeric genes.

Chen Feng appointed a core project leader, Jiang Xinyi.

This long-haired girl impressed him deeply. She was also capable of surprising tricks.

After the meeting, people in the virtual venue left one after another, and Dong Shan, who was responsible for assisting the host, came over.

"Chen...Chen Feng. This is how I see it personally. In fact, I think what the planting project team is doing now is of little significance. Even if the direction you just proposed is feasible, it will take at least several decades."

“Back then, Sergey tried to mix genes from various organisms such as molluscs, microorganisms, high-temperature bacteria, and humans into the Dyson membrane system, but he only completed the preliminary design plan. When it finally took shape, he still used Many years. No matter how hard we try this time, we still can’t come up with a feasible plan that you can write down.”

Chen Feng shook his head, "I understand what you mean. I know this is unfair to the people in this timeline."

Dong Shan shook his head, "It doesn't matter whether it's fair or not. I think it's better to let the planting project team study some new technologies that can produce results and be taken away by you."

Chen Feng: "The easier things are to get, the less important they are. They are not qualitative changes. Only qualitative changes are truly valuable. I know it is impossible this time, but I believe it will be possible sooner or later. How much can I figure out this time, how much can I remember? How much. Combined with the efforts of countless people in each timeline, we can master this technology that should not belong to us."

After saying that, Chen Feng patted Old Man Dong on the shoulder again, "The more you learn, the easier it is to have a mysterious fear of science. That's how you are. On the contrary, people like me are very ignorant, so I dare to imagine boldly. And speculation. In my opinion, the potential that humans have is a miracle of the universe. Trust me, we can do it."

Seeing Chen Feng's figure gradually disappearing in the conference room, Old Man Dong had mixed feelings.

He smelled it.

Although he didn't know the reason for Chen Feng's pessimism, the old man knew very well that Chen Feng still had no hope of winning this time.

But the old man didn't blame Chen Feng for being conservative.

He knew very well that this might be the core concept that supported Chen Feng.

As for the miraculous potential of human beings in the universe, Mr. Dong seems to have some understanding.

In the previous timeline of Chen Feng's memory, humans in the 31st century were still only aware of their existence and had a first glimpse of dark energy and antimatter, as if they could see it from a distance but could not really touch it. degree.

In this timeline, we did it.

Particle bombs, Mars power and dark energy black hole bombs are all very practical applications.

Chen Feng played a huge role in the transformation of these achievements, but the value of the efforts of all scientific researchers generation after generation over the past thousand years cannot be denied.

It is precisely because we have identified the direction from the beginning and moved forward blindly and confidently that we were able to complete the development of front-end technology in advance when Chen Feng arrived, and finally achieved results overnight.

Thank God, we chose the right path from the beginning.

Because those with compound eyes who have definitely reached level three civilization still use dark energy and antimatter as their main means.

It is incredible to say that as early as the twentieth century, predecessors had already seen the two major directions of antimatter and dark energy.

In addition to these two major directions, there are also many fields such as curvature flight, quantum theory and artificial intelligence.

Before getting Chen Feng's memory, Dong Shan had often wondered how the wise ancients used their brains to understand the mysteries deep in the universe before human beings had truly left the earth.

Whenever he thought of this, he often bowed and worshiped.

The more knowledge he held in his mind, the more amazed Dong Shan was at the wisdom of the ancients.

How imaginative and wild were the scientists at that time to be able to complete such complex calculations and still be correct.

It used to be a derogatory term to value the ancients but not the present. Now it seems that the ancients are indeed worthy of respect.

The terrible potential of human beings was revealed in the late nineteenth century when people were still riding steam trains.

The ancestors at that time were still fragile and humble growing up on the earth, but their great minds had already soared into the universe.

Dong Shan could not imagine where humans would turn their attention when they reached the third level of civilization, and how they would sweep across the universe.

No wonder the compound-eyed man was so anxious and angry that he pounced on him.

Not to mention those with compound eyes, any civilization with brains would have to beat them to death if they discovered Earthlings.

well.

Dong Shan, like Chen Feng, gradually understood the compound-eyed man's position.

This war may seem unequal, but in fact it is a war that determines the life and death of both sides.

Dong Shan also believed in Chen Feng's judgment.

The scientific and technological direction of compound-eyed people should be based on unified power and extraordinary biology, but the individual's own strength is weak.

The compound-eyed person's skills in using dark energy and antimatter are not perfect, and are even a bit rough.

Maybe they don’t know the principles of these technologies at all. They only know that they can be used in this way and the effect is good, so they do it like this.

This is the essential difference between earthlings and compound-eyed people.

When people on earth see a flame, they will subconsciously figure out why the flame is born, what substances are consumed when the flame burns, what new substances are produced, and the energy changes during the burning process of the flame.

When people on earth look up at the starry sky and see stars of different colors, they subconsciously try to figure out why the colors are different.

What cosmic phenomena do different colors represent?

…

People on Earth have a terrible thirst for knowledge, which is the source of their unlimited potential.

We are born to understand what the universe looks like.

September 26, 2020.

War preparations are complete.

Earth, Hanzhou.

The swearing-in meeting was held on time.