Did the world end today?

Chapter 412 Listen carefully

Chapter 412 Listen carefully
Two hours later, Zhang Liming left on his private jet. Two hours after he left, someone that Bai Mo had never expected arrived at the Limiter Array base in Nevada.

As the man stepped off the plane, Bai Mo, who was waiting for his new partner with a hint of worry, immediately frowned.

She never expected that the coordination team would send him over.
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Perhaps even that person himself did not expect to gain such privileges.

When he reached out his hand to Bai Mo, he still had a look of shame on his face.

This is quite different from his usual confident, even somewhat arrogant, demeanor.

In that instant, Bai Mo also wondered if the other party had been completely assimilated by that powerful cultural sphere.

However, this impression was shattered after he spoke.

"Feel sorry."

The newcomer grasped Bai Mo's hand.

“My name is Joanne. I think you should know me, but we haven’t actually met before.”

"I'm here to take over Zhang Liming's position and continue to advance the construction of the limiter array."

"This opportunity is very rare for me."

"After all, this is a disaster we created ourselves, and it's hard for me to come here as an American."

"It's okay, don't feel guilty."

Bai Mo released Joanne's hand and then said:
"If it wasn't you, it would have been someone else."

"We have long accepted the complexity of this world, and these disturbances are an inevitable result of the development process."

After she finished speaking, Joanne paused for a moment, then said with relief:
"You really are just like I saw in the files, a pure rationalist."

"Perhaps only someone like you could produce such a precise and well-organized white paper."

"In that case, I think we don't need to say too many polite words."

"Let's get straight to the point—what's the current construction progress of the limiter array? Give me a percentage and an expected completion time."

"20%, 6 months."

Bai Mo replied:
"The infrastructure construction has been completed. The next step is to install the equipment."

"Factory and research institute are operating at full capacity, but production is still insufficient."

"Next, we plan to outsource some basic components to achieve scale in the shortest possible time."

"However, this requires..."

"Saturation production".

Joanne picked up where Bai Mo left off.

The two got into the car together, and Bai Mo glanced at Joanne with a hint of surprise.

He seems to have actually learned some truly useful ways of thinking, but...
not enough.

"That's right, saturation production."

“We need to mobilize the entire American production capacity, but the problem is that most of the capable factories and businesses have their own production targets.”

"We have communicated with your decision-making level three times regarding this issue, but there has been no result yet."

"And our time is running out."

Hearing her words, Joanne let out a heavy sigh of relief.

"That's why I was sent here."

"I will help you get this done."

"you?"

Bai Mo looked at Joanne in astonishment.

She didn't know how the other person could have such confidence.

After all, based on her understanding of Joanne, she knew that Joanne was just a relatively well-known high-energy physicist.

Moreover, even with this identity, its influence has been declining since the advent of higher-dimensional technology.

Not to mention, after he "defected" to China, his reputation in American political circles has almost completely collapsed.

How could he be so sure that he could completely handle this matter?

Looking at Bai Mo's expression, Joanne revealed a mysterious smile.

He coughed and then said:

"Perhaps this is the gap between us—I mean, not between you and me, but between the scholars of our country and the scholars of yours."

“You are more focused on what’s in front of you, or rather, you’re more inclined toward technical research.”

"And we always have to get involved in politics."

"And politics is actually more complicated than you think."

"In short, this issue doesn't need much discussion; leave it to me."

"In addition, I have brought you something new."

"Something new?"

Bai Mo put aside his suspicions about Joanne and asked curiously:

"Is it related to disaster monitoring?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Joanne's smug expression froze.

"Communicating with people like you is sometimes really not fun."

"However, well, it is indeed related to disaster monitoring."

Joanne pointed out the window, where a large transport plane was landing.

"It contains the most sensitive detection equipment that we can manufacture at this stage."

"Detection equipment?"

Bai Mo looked at the transport plane in the direction Joanne was pointing.

That was a modified and upgraded Y-20, with an actual payload of about 120 tons.

This is quite heavy, but compared to the weight of a high-precision detection device, it's really not that significant.

According to Joanne's description, the device was completely crammed into the cabin.

how did you do that?
"Do not misunderstand."

Joanne explained:

"What we have created is not a gravity monitoring system similar to the Lyra system."

"In fact, that outdated technology has already been phased out."

"Now, we're using a smarter approach."

"Quantum probe".

"Quantum probe?"

"Quantum probes targeting probability fields."

Joanne continued:
“We created two entangled clumps of particles—they are so large that they are almost macroscopic in size.”

"These two particle clusters were encapsulated in an enclosure at near absolute zero to ensure that they were in a stable superposition state."

“We will bury them separately in two deep wells 200 kilometers apart and use quantum sensors to monitor their quantum entanglement.”

“By reading the decoherence rate and entanglement breakage mode between them, we can directly listen to the noise in the probability field itself.”

"These noises are theoretically impossible to occur; the only possibility is..."

"Changes in the probability cloud."

Bai Mo finally caught up with Joanne's train of thought—at this point, she no longer needed much profound knowledge of quantum physics.

Transforming a complex problem in quantum physics into an intuitive problem in logic is extremely difficult.

But they did it.

No wonder Joanne said they were using a "smart technology".

"You suggested it?"

Bai Mo's eyes held a mixture of admiration and praise. Joanne nodded smugly and replied:

"I did do something in China, too."

"While such achievements alone are not enough to undo the atrocities committed by my compatriots, they are at least some form of redemption, aren't they?"

“That’s right.” Bai Mo nodded, then asked:

When will deployment begin?

"Now."

Joanne replied:

"The equipment will be deployed in two hours."

"Don't worry, your people are in charge of the deployment this time."

"Their efficiency"

"It always gives me peace of mind."

Meanwhile, the limiter array is an auxiliary project, the "Listen" project, located outside the deep well.

He Yong gently pushed the control stick, and the automated truss, which had already completed collaborative programming, began to gradually evacuate. Beside him, Wu You, who had been upgraded from a transport vehicle operator to a drone operator, controlled a large rotary-wing drone to gradually descend towards the wellhead and lowered a rope to lift the last section of the drill bit.

Compared to the weight of the drill bit, the drone's payload is completely redundant.

Without any unexpected incidents, the project, which had an extremely tight schedule, was officially declared completed ahead of schedule once the drill bit was gently placed in the transfer area.

Wiping the sweat from his face, He Yong sighed and said:

"2100 meters. Have we broken the record?"

"Is this the deepest well ever built by humankind?"

"No."

Wu You shook his head and replied:
"The deepest one should be the one in Russia, which is close to 20,000 meters, right?"

"I don't know, I haven't heard of it."

He Yong shook his head and said nonchalantly:
"But itss shouldn't be as big as ours—a deep well with a diameter of 3 meters and a depth of 2100 meters, such a thing shouldn't even exist."

“Back when we were building roads and bridges, it was exhausting to drive a 40-meter-long pile foundation.”

"The depth is now 50 times greater, and the construction period is only 6 days. Just thinking about it makes me feel... damn, I'm really awesome."

"However, those who do scientific research are even more impressive."

"The Las Vegas incident hasn't been going on for very long, has it? Even from the appearance of this so-called higher-dimensional overflow until now, it's only been about a month."

"They came up with a solution so quickly, that's really impressive."

He Yong gave a thumbs-up, and Wu You nodded in agreement, then sighed with relief and said:
"After burying this thing, we shouldn't be as unlucky as last time, right?"

Clearly, he was still shaken by the previous experience of abnormally low temperatures.

Although the most serious injuries the two suffered in that accident were just minor scrapes from running too fast, and even the other civilians who failed to enter the so-called "ark refuge" in time only suffered some minor frostbite.

When he is awake during the day, he is not controlled by such fear.

However, the feeling of being completely controlled by an unfathomable force, powerless to resist and unable to escape, still transformed into the most terrifying image, frequently appearing in his dreams.

This made him hesitate every day about whether to give up, but the visible progress and upward feeling here made him somewhat addicted.

The reason I stayed here is no longer simply for "profit".

He actually felt a genuine sense of being "bound to the fate of humanity".

At first, when such a thought came to him, he couldn't help but feel a sense of shame.

After all, in his previous life, he had been repeatedly told by those realistic and sophisticated egoists that a nobody like himself was neither worthy nor should participate in such a grand narrative.

But gradually, his thinking changed.

Especially when she saw He Yong repeatedly and unscrupulously boasting to others about how remarkable and significant his work was, she gradually realized that such grand narratives were not so far removed from her own life.

nonsense.

Aren't these projects projects something you participated in?

He personally flew the drones and personally trained the massive transport fleet.

Although I don't really understand the underlying technical principles, in terms of practical operation, I am already considered a fairly skilled and experienced operator in this base.

Therefore, he really couldn't bear to leave.

This sense of "immense responsibility" was something he had rarely experienced in his impoverished life.

Even so, concerns about safety still cannot be put aside.

After all, he still had a daughter.
Wu You subconsciously pinched his slightly swollen brow, and at that moment, the voice of the on-site commander came through his earphones.

"This is the dispatch center."

"The personnel who have finished the operation can retreat. The equipment is ready to be lowered into the well. There will be strong ionizing radiation in the surrounding area."

"Those who need to go back to rest can go back to rest. Those who want to see the well can go to the protected area."

At his command, all the workers in the vicinity sprang into action.

Wu and You strode onto the shuttle bus and retreated to the protected area with the others.

They did not return to their dormitory, but got off the bus in the protected area.
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Like most people, they didn't want to miss this historic moment.

Just as the protective barrier was raised, a multi-legged walking crane that had just arrived at the wellhead in the distance lifted up the so-called "probe".

Looking at the huge, metallic-looking sphere, He Yong said with a hint of doubt:

"I thought the probe was really a needle. Turns out it's a ball."

"What's the working principle behind this thing?"

"Who am I asking you to ask me?"

Wu You answered casually.

The screen in the protected area was displaying the network status of the devices in real time. He couldn't understand most of the content, but as the sphere gradually descended, a huge map unfolded on the screen.

This part is not difficult to understand.

The center of the map represents the location of the "listening" device, while the occasional "red dots" around it represent areas where disasters may occur.

There are not many of these red dots, and their density is not high.

Looking at the map, the nearest red dot is at least 200 kilometers away from my location, and it's not very large.

Wu You finally felt relieved.

With this thing, our compatriots no longer have to be so passive in the face of disasters.

He leaned back at the edge of the long table set up in the protective zone, looking much more relaxed.

"Descend 500 meters."

"1000 meters."

The on-site commander's voice kept ringing in the headset, and as the depth data continued to zoom in, the map area detected by the probe also continued to expand.

Initially, its coverage area was only a few hundred kilometers in radius.

After reaching 1000 meters, the range has expanded to cover the entire state of Nevada.

"1500 meters."

Wu You's heart skipped a beat.

Not nervous, but excited.

He was eager to know just how much he would be able to see on the map when the depth reached 2100 meters.

"2000 meters."

The map has been updated to cover the entire globe.

"2100 meters."

"Landing, base locked."

As soon as he finished speaking, the map representing the detection range flickered for a moment.

Wu You blinked.