Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 292 New Ring (5k)

Upon receiving the news from Earth, the chairman of the joint conference immediately threw the agenda for the Wallfacer Project hearing into the shredder and personally drafted a new one.

— Several notices regarding the continuation of the "Wall-Facing Program".

The appearance of the second cultivator caused a huge sensation throughout the entire pan-human world, which includes the Devouring Civilization on the Devouring Ring and the Light Speaker Civilization, which coexists with the Fleet International.

In short, the entire solar system became lively because of Luo Ji's "adventure".

How to cultivate immortality became a common topic among humans, dinosaurs, and the Puji.

Following the hearings on the Wallfacer Project, humanity also plans to hold a joint conference of intelligent life in the solar system.

Emboldened by their great victory, the Solar System Fleet is now capable and confident of convening this meeting.

There are many delegates nominated for this Joint Conference of Intelligent Life in the Solar System.

The Soul of Shan Qing – Representing Luo Qing's Will.

Pojang Girl – Representative of Pojang Crystal

Tyrannosaurus Karl – a representative of devouring civilization.

Green Mushroom Lin Jun – Representative of the Light Speaker Civilization.

The captured fat white fish—a representative of the white fish population.

Chairman of the United Government – ​​Representative of Earth International.

Commanders of the three fleets – International Representatives of the Fleet.

The Trisolaran probe plus the six-dimensional sophon—representatives of the Trisolaran civilization.

In addition, there were many special guests, such as Luo Ji (the Wallfacer), Hines (the Wallfacer), representatives from major countries, outstanding fleet commanders, heroic captains, famous social activists, and so on.

The Wallfacer Project hearing was merely a warm-up for this grand conference. Everyone believed that human civilization was the true hegemon of the solar system. Human civilization was at its strongest point in history, with no powerful enemies externally and no immediate threats internally—it was the perfect time to showcase humanity's brilliance!
As a dominant civilization, it naturally needs to display the demeanor of a hegemon.

Humanity, including Fleet International, has begun to envision a bright future in this vast cosmos.

To commemorate this historic moment, the organizers devised hundreds of plans just for the layout of the conference venue. For example, some suggested holding an interstellar parade of 4000 star-class warships above the venue to showcase the power of the solar system fleet. Others proposed setting up the venue on the Devouring Ring to demonstrate the unparalleled power of the solar system fleet. Some even suggested holding a special UN General Assembly meeting to change the Crisis Era back to the Gregorian calendar.

In short, in this grand event that all of humanity has been eagerly anticipating, the bright and brilliant starry sky seems to be within reach.

...

"Have you heard? Another Wallfacer has also become a cultivator."

In Jupiter's orbit, the Natural Selection was leaving its home port. Behind the Natural Selection, almost all of the Solar System Fleet's star-class warships were assembling. In the captain's cabin, Dongfang Yanxu floated over like a soft dolphin, spinning once.

"I've heard about it." Zhang Beihai stood in front of the control panel, using his authority as the vice captain to verify the various data and energy reserves of the Natural Selection.

"Senior, why do you seem so indifferent? Don't you want to cultivate immortality?"

“I want to.” Zhang Beihai’s fingers moved nimbly across the holographic projection, and various data flashed by rapidly. In the upper left corner of the holographic projection, besides the Natural Selection, there were eleven other warships. These warships were old comrades-in-arms who had participated in the advance fleet together and completed the feat of piercing the ring.

Dongfang Yanxu said quietly, "Senior, is this how men in your era treated girls?"

Zhang Beihai's voice remained steady: "Your great-grandmother didn't talk as much as you."

"Damn it!" Dongfang Yanxu waved her fist, then suddenly remembered something and immediately asked, "Senior, you and Dr. Luo Ji are from the same era, have you ever met him?"

Zhang Beihai: "No."

“I don’t believe it. My great-grandmother said you’ve seen at least one Wallfacer.”

Zhang Beihai was not fooled by her. After checking the warship's full load status, he looked thoughtfully at the thousands of star-class warships gradually gathering on the warship's radar map.

Of the three fleets, the Asian Fleet was the first to receive orders to begin its return journey to Jupiter's orbit, about two months ago. The American and European Fleets followed suit, recalling almost all of their starships.

The reason given by the three fleets for recalling their warships was to hold a "military parade" for the upcoming Joint Conference of Intelligent Life in the Solar System, and to incidentally install the already mature shipborne "Iron Curtain" device on all the warships.

Zhang Beihai had been pondering the relationship between these two matters for a very legitimate reason.

"Senior, I'm speaking to you. Who is the captain between us?"

"You're the captain, I'm the first mate," Zhang Beihai said dismissively to the Eastern captain, regaining his composure.
“I have no connection with Dr. Luo Ji, but I once met Mr. Luo Qing on the Pioneer spaceplane. At that time, he had not yet made his mark in public, so when he caught up with the spaceplane, it really scared the people on board.”

Zhang Beihai chuckled: "Besides that, as one of the first members of the Chinese Space Force, I was responsible for liaising with a Wallfacer from the United States who came to inspect our work. His name was Frederick Taylor, you may not be familiar with him. After all, he was the first Wallbreaker to sacrifice his life. Later, under Mr. Luo Qing's influence, Taylor was posthumously recognized as a martyr by the PDC at the time. As for Mr. Taylor's Wallfacer project, it was also hidden and sealed away."

"But history books hardly mention this Wallfacer," Dongfang Yanxu remarked with lingering emotion.

"He sacrificed himself too early. His being overlooked by history is only temporary. The Wallfacers were all a great group of people." Zhang Beihai sighed softly.

Dongfang Yanxu asked in confusion, "Is Rediaz also one? He is a recognized 'terrorist' in history. He used a nuclear bomb to blast Mercury into the sun. That's really terrifying. The chain reaction it caused could really destroy most of the solar system."

As he spoke, Dongfang Yanxu made an exaggerated expression: "Destroy the solar system!"

After a moment's pause, Zhang Beihai gave Dongfang Yanxu a positive answer: "Believe me, Radiaz is also a great man, and his Wallfacer Project is brilliant."

Dongfang Yanxu didn't quite agree with this, but after two or three years of getting along, she had developed a strong dependence on Zhang Beihai for making decisions. This rational and wise man could always prove that his decisions were the most correct.

"Captain, where are the probes from the Trisolaran world now?" Zhang Beihai asked casually.

"Ah... I heard from Commander Qian that this probe has been locked in a 'magnetic bottle' and is currently being towed towards Jupiter's orbit by the 'Arctic Magnetic Field' star-class warship. I heard it's almost at Saturn's orbit and has now slowed down and entered forward phase two. It's estimated that it will take at least ten more days to reach Jupiter's orbit."

Zhang Beihai asked, "Isn't that probe capable of flying on its own, and quite fast at that? Why do we have to have our warships tow it over?"

"It can't fly anymore. The sophon sphere said that the probe was smashed to pieces by the interstellar dust cloud when it passed through the Oort Cloud. Braking on the outer edge of the Kuiper Belt consumed its last bit of energy. Now it's practically scrap and can only be towed here by the warship."

“This is a very dangerous act,” Zhang Beihai said.

Dongfang Yanxu said, "The Solar System Fleet also knows this, but no matter how dangerous it is, what harm can something the size of a crippled truck cab cause? At most, it's just filled with antimatter. This is why the fleet chose to send the [Arctic Magnetic Field] warship to use the 'Magnetic Bottle' to capture it."

Moreover, four parallel stellar-class warships were constantly locked onto it with gamma laser beam cannons. Not only was it impossible for it to break free from the super 'porcelain bottle's' restraints, but even if it did, the four ready-to-be-activated gamma laser beam cannons could destroy it instantly. Beside the detector, there were also 12 stellar-class hydrogen bombs that could be remotely triggered at any time. As for the electromagnetic kinetic energy cannons, they were all aimed and ready to be used without incident.

From Dongfang Yanxu's words, it is clear that the Solar System Fleet has taken this little thing seriously enough, controlling it with magnetic bottles, locking it with ship cannons, and surrounding it with hydrogen bombs.

Unless a monkey with a hairy face and a thunderous mouth suddenly appears inside, or a Luo Qing appears, it is absolutely impossible for things to get out of control.

“Using a ‘porcelain bottle’ would indeed be more reliable,” Zhang Beihai nodded thoughtfully.

The magnetic bottle has an extremely strong binding force on metal objects. Once the magnetic bottle is formed, it is almost impossible for the detector, which has a rusty metal exterior, to break free from the magnetic bottle's restraint, unless the opponent's instantaneous acceleration can exceed thousands of Gs.

But that's impossible. Currently, apart from the cultivator Luo Qing, no known aircraft can achieve this level of acceleration. Even the [Forward IV] acceleration state of a stellar-class warship only has an instantaneous acceleration of around 120G.

As for the 'Magnetic Bottle' technology itself, it is one of the hundreds of advanced technologies that humanity seized from the Devouring Empire.

In fact, humans are no strangers to 'magnetic bottle' technology. As early as the early Crisis Era, when Ding Yi attempted to conquer controlled nuclear fusion technology, the toroidal magnetic field (tokamak device) he carried in orbital space was a type of magnetic bottle.

Its principle is to generate a closed ring magnetic field through a ring coil, and at the same time, cooperate with a longitudinal magnetic field to make the magnetic field lines form a spiral closed structure, thereby forming a closed magnetic bottle.

However, humans have not improved the magnetic bottle technology. The reason for this is that the technology is not very practical for humans. Manipulating magnetic fields is only a small branch of human technological development. Moreover, humans only broke through the blockade of the sophons five years ago, and there are many, many directions that need to be developed.

Human technology is now flourishing, and a new wave of technological explosion has begun to emerge. However, five years is ultimately too short a time. Most new technologies are still in the experimental and demonstration stage, and naturally, there is little research on magnetic bottle technology.

Dinosaurs had a need to control antimatter, and magnetic bottle technology is a key technology for maintaining the state and orientation of objects within four-dimensional space. Therefore, in terms of 'magnetic bottle' technology alone, dinosaurs far surpassed humans.

The new 'magnetic bottle' technology captured from the Devouring Empire allows humanity to create a strong magnetic field at both ends within the target space simply by installing two powerful magnetic modules on the outside of the warship and generating strong magnets through two power supplies.

The magnetic field strength at both ends is much greater than that in the middle region. The magnetic field lines bend inward at both ends, forming a "bottle mouth," while the magnetic field in the middle region is more uniform, resembling the "bottle body."

Charged particles will spiral along the magnetic field lines in the magnetic field. When they reach the strong magnetic field regions at both ends, they will be "reflected" back to the middle by the magnetic field, thus being confined within the "bottle" formed by the magnetic field.

During the Great Ring War, the dinosaurs used this technology, utilizing the high-speed tracks formed by tens of thousands of electrically charged magnets on the back of the rings, to efficiently control thousands of 'magnetic bottles'. They then used these bottles to launch thousands of antimatter weapons, successfully intercepting three hundred suicide attacks by humans.

After the Devouring Empire surrendered unconditionally, the human army landed on the Great Ring, completed the complete occupation of the Great Ring, and then began to analyze the advanced technology of the dinosaurs.

The dinosaurs didn't hold back at all, directly handing over all their technologies to humans, including heavy nuclear fusion technology, magnetic bottle technology, ultra-large-scale construction technology, white dwarf matter processing technology, supramolecular materials technology, and so on.

This even includes technologies such as 'high-dimensional space fragments' and 'antimatter manufacturing', which are completely unverifiable by humans at this stage.

Both of these technologies require the large ring to be powered at full capacity to be realized. High-dimensional space fragments are another story; expanding a large number of particles into a four-dimensional structure to form a four-dimensional space requires an enormous amount of resources. Just maintaining the existence of four-dimensional fragments requires a continuous supply of massive amounts of energy.

Humans cannot afford this at present, unless they are willing to let the ring consume a planet, and only after it is saturated can they carry out large-scale four-dimensional fragmentation.

Humans consumed the electricity of an entire city in a laboratory to create a four-dimensional fragment space of about 1 cubic centimeter. This high-dimensional space existed for only about 0.1 microseconds before instantly evaporating and disappearing.

Therefore, high-dimensional space debris is not of research value at this stage; humanity has merely recorded the technology.

As for antimatter manufacturing technology, the reasoning is similar to that for high-dimensional space fragments. The Devouring Empire manufactures antimatter by using a large ring equatorial accelerator to bombard particles, generating antiparticles through these collisions, which are then confined and collected.

Interestingly, the energy level of the large ring equatorial accelerator is no weaker than that of the Einstein ring equatorial accelerator that humans once built, but the large ring equatorial accelerator has obviously been modified in some way to keep it at a level that can produce antimatter, but cannot achieve an effect similar to 'shattering quarks'.

In response, Ding Yi suspected that the Devouring Empire had also been visited by the Risk Removers, but for some reason, the relevant records were erased from the Devouring Empire's history books.

To mass-produce antimatter, the Great Ring Equatorial Accelerator also needs to be activated... but the Great Ring is basically starving right now, and humans can't feed it enough.

Given the potential for antimatter in combat, Fleet International has paid close attention to this technology and invested significant resources in its research. Unfortunately, scientific progress is rarely achieved overnight; currently, humanity can only produce a very small number of antimatter atoms in the laboratory, counted in particles. Weaponization and practical application still have a long way to go.

In any case, the technological reserves of dinosaurs far exceeded human expectations.

Humanity also realized from the analysis of the Devouring Empire that the victory of the Great Ring War was essentially a victory of the human fleet's blitzkrieg tactics, and did not mean that the Devouring Great Ring was truly powerless to fight back.

Without Luo Qing's presence, in the MOSS simulation, if humanity performs exceptionally well, there is a 60% probability that the Devouring Ring could be intercepted outside Jupiter's orbit, but this would come at the cost of the destruction of the vast majority of star-class warships.

There is about a 40% chance that even if the solar system fleet tries its best, it will still be unable to effectively damage the rings. Humanity will have no choice but to use the lunar mission to exile the moon and crash it into the rings!

The moon's mass is far greater than Pluto's, enough to destroy the rings in one blow!
Of course, there is also a slight possibility that humanity will be defeated, the moon will be destroyed by the giant rings or escape, the earth will fall, and humanity will hide on Mercury and eke out a living.

Fortunately, we won.

After humans landed on the Great Ring, they immediately and without hesitation destroyed all the weapons in the Devouring Ring that could threaten human star-class warships.

The Great Ring's defense system consists of four layers:

Large-scale orbital nuclear missile defense system

"Sunspear" class gamma laser beam turret,

"Moon Spear" class gamma laser beam turret,

"Star Spear" class gamma laser beam turret,

Under human control, the Devouring Empire retained only 5000 nuclear weapons as self-defense weapons, and all ballistic missile delivery vehicles were destroyed, so that these nuclear weapons could only be used on the inner surface of the ring.

All 360 "Sun Spear" class gamma laser ray gun emplacements were destroyed by Luo Qing during the war; not a single one remained.

The 3600 "Moon Spear"-class gamma laser turrets were deliberately destroyed by humanity. The power of the Moon Spear-class lasers was comparable to the gamma laser main cannons of human stellar-class spaceships, posing a threat to stellar-class warships. The vast majority of the Moon Spears were destroyed by humanity, with only one hundred remaining under the direct control of the human garrison.

The 36000 "Star Spear" class gamma laser beams were even weaker, barely able to penetrate the atmosphere of the Great Ring itself, with power levels comparable to those of human planetary warships and space carriers. However, humanity showed no mercy, dismantling the vast majority and leaving only 2000 for direct control by the human garrison.

All of the Great Ring's interstellar docks were forcibly demolished to ensure that the Great Ring had no capacity to produce or manufacture any Devouring Warships.

Humanity, after all, is a civilization that has experienced two world wars and the global anti-ETO wars, and knows how to "effectively eliminate risks".

A ring without fangs is a good ring. Compared to the idea of ​​defeating the solar system fleet and directly devouring Earth in the Ring Project, humanity has been merciful enough.

(End of this chapter)