Lighting up super-god technology in the Three-Body World

Chapter 211 The City of Ice and Snow
In the 49th year of the Xinyuan era,
The construction of an energy city on Titan is basically complete, with the entire construction period nearly three times shorter than that of building a nomadic city on Mars! This provides a glimpse into the development of human civilization's productivity.

The exaggerated speed of infrastructure construction is mainly due to the transport of supplies via the Great Worm Bridge. Furthermore, Titan's energy city, as originally planned, was originally a region inhabited by a small number of humans, so it did not need to consider planetary environmental modification like Mars.

Incidentally, the Mars terraforming project has continued for thirty-three years, gradually transforming this once barren planet into a thriving one. While vegetation remains scarce, its vast plains are larger than the combined area of ​​all the plains on Earth.

This has led to the creation of many super buildings, such as extremely large-scale combat training bases and giant game arenas that are one-to-one replicas of the originals.

After the Energy City was established, it became extremely convenient for human civilization to obtain nuclear fusion fuels from Saturn. A special tritium-helium harvesting spaceship, jointly built by the Construction Department and the Physics Research Department, was then deployed.
It operates like an assembly line, shuttling between the city and Saturn's atmosphere, supplying humanity with over ten million tons of fusion fuel daily!
It's more than enough, absolutely more than you can use.
These raw materials, when processed in a fusion plant, can generate energy on the order of 10 to the power of 24, enough for a Blue Star civilization in the era of the United Nations to use for 10,000 years!

The energy city is truly outrageous, but even so, considering Saturn's reserves, it would take 300 billion years of continuous operation to mine all the fusion raw materials, even at a rate of tens of millions of tons per day.

Don't forget that there's another planet in our solar system, Jupiter, which is three times the size of Saturn. It's also a gas giant with an atmosphere composed of tritium and helium. Compared to the Trisolaran civilization, human civilization is far more fortunate.

However, correspondingly, Blue Star also has many major energy consumers, among which the high-dimensional topology sorting vacuum tidal antimatter preparation station designed by Bubble before its departure, the nanosecond-level updates of space data dominated by the large clock, and the permanent opening of commonly used worm bridges are the most prominent.

The energy required to maintain a high quality of daily life for humans is less than one ten-thousandth of any of the above three factors.

This also proves a point.
Meeting the basic needs of a high-quality life is merely a trivial aspect of the development of civilization; given sufficient advancement, it is easily achievable.
However, in the course of development, the shortsightedness of individuals and the stubbornness of old interest groups often hinder the progress of civilization and prevent a future of extremely abundant productivity, leading to a vicious cycle of continuous internal friction.

Luo Ji calls this situation the self-elimination mechanism of civilizations; civilizations that cannot escape this vicious cycle will never escape their home planet, even until their demise.

The Astronomical Observatory even boldly speculates that more than half of all civilizations in the universe perished during this stage.

Once they leave their home planet, the Dark Forest Law will wipe out most of the hotheads.

Having learned to conceal themselves, the spatial containment law then locked civilization within its own star system.
Civilizations that reach this stage, without any extraordinary encounters, will almost always develop warp drives.

However, developing a warp drive would be tantamount to exposing oneself, because the existence of the deadline is far too conspicuous.

To eliminate a civilization that has mastered space travel, a rather apt description would be: three-dimensional humans crushing two-dimensional ants.

Further on, spiritual matter restricted the development of all intelligent civilizations, a fact that Luo Ji and Jiang Fan could only speculate about to a certain extent.

Individuals who are able to realize this have a vision and wisdom that surpasses 99.9999% of life in the universe, which is why Jiang Fan and Luo Ji are able to become guides for human civilization.

Because they stand high enough. As for Da Shi, one can only say that between gods and men, a divine messenger is needed to mediate. He is such a person. Similar people include Bai Lan, Bei Hai, and Taylor.
Civilizations in the universe develop within such a layered 'food chain,' and the pyramid structure dictates that only a very small number of civilizations can move freely.

This explains why no traces of civilization have been found on Earth in the past.

Second World,

The plan for an ice and snow city was formally proposed at the meeting.
Jiang Fan cut straight to the point: "Building a permanent space base on the outskirts of Pluto is of great strategic significance for us to monitor the movements of the universe."

"The great historian will never be absent," he said.

"That's too far! The sunlight won't even reach there."

Luo Ji explained to him,
"Otherwise, why would it be called the Ice and Snow City? Apart from the indoor environment where humans live being kept warm by the fusion furnace, the external environment is covered by ice and snow. Even with the current physical condition of humans, they would need to wear thermal suits to stay outside for a long time."

Yun Tianming asked,
"President Jiang, isn't Ice City essentially a cosmic listening station? But do we have the technology to listen to sounds across the universe?"

Ding Yi and Luo Ji exchanged a glance. Luo Ji leaned back, gesturing for Ding Yi to explain. Ding Yi then said...

"The two main methods of observing the universe at present, electromagnetic waves and gravitational waves, both capture information with a relatively high delay."

"This delay puts us in a very passive position when facing certain special situations. By the time we observe them, they may already be at our doorstep."

"Therefore, we have developed an observation method based on the instantaneous opening of tiny wormholes, which utilizes the spatial property of quantum entanglement to obtain cosmic information from several light-years away in advance."

"And as the scope of the large clock space data model expands, our monitoring span will also expand accordingly."

Everyone nodded slightly in understanding, and Taylor then asked,

"Then why not build such a listening station on Earth? Why go beyond Pluto?"

Ding Yi's unhurried voice rang out again.

"Firstly, it is to prevent human activities within the solar system from interfering with the monitoring results; secondly, it is to attempt to establish an information interception network."

"The first point is easy to understand, but I'll explain the second point."

"As human civilization gradually uses high-yield energy devices, the electromagnetic fluctuations they generate are many times stronger than in the United Nations era, which also means a wider range of propagation and a greater likelihood of being captured and analyzed by other civilizations,"

"If we want to implement a covert strategy, we must find a way to block any channels that might leak information,"

"Previously, we lacked the necessary conditions, and even if we were aware of it, we couldn't do it. Now, the construction of the Ice and Snow City provides a realistic foundation for our experimental information interception network."

Those present all looked on with sudden realization. No wonder this matter was brought up in the meeting; it was so important. They then turned to Jiang Fan in unison and said...
"President Jiang, this project must be constructed with the highest priority."

(End of this chapter)