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

Chapter 306 This Journey, Stargazing (4k)

The wind swept across the East African savanna, causing the white beard of the coalition government chairman to flutter slightly.

The old chairman was discussing African development with African Union leaders on the East African savanna. He was chatting with an old black man who looked just like Mandela under a baobab tree when he suddenly received a series of messages.

And each message was more significant than the last.

One message came from Beijing, stating that Luo Qing, the former hermit, had secretly emerged from seclusion and appeared at a science conference to discuss the issue of light-speed travel with scientists.

One message came from the direction of the Great Ring, regarding Luo Ji's (the author of the previous article) information about "elderly civilization" and "refugee fleet" traveling towards the solar system.

One message came from Jupiter, stating that all three fleets had entered a state of Level II combat readiness.

I'm over a hundred years old, can't I just finish this term and retire properly?
First, regarding Luo Qing's secret exit from seclusion, this news has not yet been made public and is only known to high-ranking government officials, so it can be ignored.

Secondly, there's the content of Luo Ji and Karl's discussion. Luo Ji made public the matters of "Earth One," "retirement civilization," and "refugee fleet," which caused a new wave of public panic.

Following *The Three-Body Problem*, *Eliminating Danger*, *Eridanus*, and *Devouring*, is another new extraterrestrial life form heading towards Earth?
And it wasn't an invading fleet like the Trisolarans or the Devourers, but rather a fleet composed of retirement ships and refugee ships?
What is the solar system? Is it like a rural retreat?

Why does everyone want to try a bite?
Also, why choose to retire on Earth?
Are you planning to retire here after paying social security?
And what's that refugee spaceship...?

The last piece of news is: the Solar System Fleet has entered Level 2 combat readiness.

This is what puzzles the chairman the most.

According to information from the three fleets, apart from the three-body probes that have already been captured, the remaining nine three-body probes seem to have all disappeared. This has raised the vigilance of the three fleets, and they have successively entered a state of level two combat readiness.

Level 2 combat readiness means that, apart from the starships themselves, all defensive positions, including those around Jupiter, have entered a state of combat readiness, and all three fleets have issued attack orders.

Found, destroyed.

It should be noted that these interstellar defensive facilities were originally planned for the Great Ring as the main force to protect Jupiter's orbit. Their firepower was so great that even the Devouring Empire at its peak would have suffered a setback.

Moreover, the three fleets even temporarily froze their interstellar parade.

Fleet International has initiated emergency negotiations with the six-dimensional sophon. The Trisolarans explained that the probe may have been damaged or out of control, but it is clear that humanity does not believe them at all.

Fleet International demanded that the Trisolaran civilization immediately have its remaining probes emit visible light.

The Trisolaran civilization also learned to shirk responsibility, even suggesting that peace talks be held after re-establishing contact with the probe several hours later.

Does the Trisolaran civilization truly have the sincerity to negotiate peace? This is a question that Fleet International is currently concerned about.

The old chairman rubbed his temples, feeling dizzy and his head was like mush. He was over a hundred years old and in a real slump. He usually had to rack his brains just dealing with the conflicts between countries on Earth, and the affairs of interstellar space were a completely different level of trouble.

The old chairman stared blankly at the various messages that came in for a while.

After a while, he discussed the matter with the African Union leaders beside him, and then had MOSS and government think tanks analyze it. In the end, the old chairman made a decision that went against tradition.

Pack all these messages together and send them to Luo Qing.

...

Luo Qing glanced down at the flashing avatar of the United Government Chairman, thought for a moment, and then opened the other party's chat window.

After reading the message, he remained silent for three seconds, then opened the chairman's profile, scrolled to the bottom, and precisely clicked "block," followed by "delete."

As if feeling insecure, Luo Qing swiftly blacklisted and deleted all 17 leaders of major powers, leaders of supranational organizations, leaders of social organizations, former commanders of the three major fleets, the chairman of the Solar System Joint Conference, Luo Ji, Ding Yi, Wade, Hines, Radiaz, Qin Shi Huang, Liu Xiu, Qian Mengjian, MOSS, Karl, Lin Jun, Shan Qing, Bojiang Girl, No. 1379, and the Risk Remover Sensor.

Since some special contacts couldn't be operated via mobile phone, Luo Qing simply severed his four-dimensional divine sense. Those electromagnetic waves that spread at ten times the speed of light, which he had casually created, vanished into spacetime like severed threads.

In short, just delete the friend.

As for where these random friends came from, that's none of your business.

They really treat me like an emperor, making me do whatever they want with every little thing.

After blocking and deleting them, Luo Qing felt much better.

Although he didn't want to get involved in these trivial matters, Luo Qing still accidentally flicked his wrist, and the Emperor Banner flew out with a whoosh.

Followed by.

The phantom of the Human Emperor Banner begins to expand at the speed of light, centered on Earth. In 10 hours, the phantom of the Human Emperor Banner will cover the entire solar system. Within the coverage area of ​​the Human Emperor Banner, every person, dragon, and mushroom will have a tiny phantom of the Human Emperor Banner on their head.

Big guarantee.

Will this kind of guaranteed minimum benefit affect the development of civilization itself?

To be honest, Luo Qing didn't know.

At the same time, the spiritual energy of the low-grade spirit stone that was buried in the courtyard of the wall-facer finally dissipated to the edge of the solar system.

If a mung bean falls into the Pacific Ocean, then the Pacific Ocean becomes mung bean soup. This extremely faint, almost non-existent spiritual energy, while perhaps useless in the solar system, can provide Luo Qing with an anchor point.

One, an anchor point for cultivators.

After finishing all this, Luo Qing adjusted his hat brim and turned back to the scientists' debate area. These physicists were debating ways to reach the speed of light, and the dozen or so solutions they had come up with all carried the air of "theoretically feasible, but a pipe dream in practice."

Luo Qing selected three that he thought were more likely to be successful.

These are "spacetime bubble", "wormhole travel", and "higher-dimensional space".

Under the constraints of special relativity, all three methods can enable cultivators with mass to reach or exceed the speed of light.

1. Spacetime Bubble.

Difficulty: 9, Feasibility: Low

Warp drives are not exclusive to our neighbor, the Trisolarans. As early as 1994, Mexican physicist Miguel first proposed a theoretical model of warp drives within the framework of general relativity. His core idea was to compress the spacetime in front of the spacecraft and expand the spacetime behind it, forming a "warp bubble" that envelops the spacecraft. The spacecraft remains stationary inside the bubble, while the fluctuations in spacetime itself propel the spacecraft to faster-than-light speeds, which does not violate the relativity principle that "the speed of light in a local area cannot be exceeded."

However, this idea has been proposed for over two hundred years, and physicists still consider it pure "science fiction." Moreover, physicists do not believe that traditional cultivators can "compress space." Apart from Ding Yi's intention to focus his next research on this, almost no one is paying attention.

When Luo Qing heard this method, his eyes lit up. He had some experience in straightening space while working with black holes. However, the technology of a warp drive was countless times more difficult than straightening space, and Luo Qing might not be able to handle it, but perhaps he could give it a try. Based on this method, Luo Qing came up with another unconventional approach: throw a black hole out, let it travel at the speed of light, and then hitch a ride by getting stuck at the edge of the event horizon.

There are two drawbacks: first, it is not easy to turn, and second, it is easy to get sucked in.

And what if we get sucked into a black hole...

No job guaranteed.

Part Two: Wormhole Travel
Difficulty: 10, Feasibility: Extremely low
Wormhole travel is even more outrageous, almost deviating from theory and falling into the realm of science fiction. Even with the unified theory of the universe, humanity has only verified that wormholes are "permissible."

But how does it exist? How does it come to be? Does it even exist at all? Humanity has no idea.

Hoping that Luo Qing will create a shortcut connecting two different spaces by drilling holes in the spatial structure is less effective than hoping that Luo Qing will learn the ability of a Tribulation Transcending cultivator to [tear space].

—But in this world, there isn't even a tribulation lightning, so advancing to the Tribulation Transcending stage is pure fantasy.

Three: Higher Dimensions
Difficulty: 3, Feasibility: High

The most likely solution.

According to the four-dimensional data from the Devouring Empire, four-dimensional space structures can provide a "shortcut" to circumvent the limitations of special relativity for faster-than-light travel. If humans could create a large area of ​​four-dimensional space and allow Luo Qing to enter it and travel in a straight line, his projection in three-dimensional space might appear as faster-than-light travel.

Because in four-dimensional spacetime, the straight-line distance between two points is shorter than in three-dimensional spacetime, cultivators are essentially walking along the "diagonal" of spacetime, thus achieving movement similar to faster-than-light speed.

Moreover, Luo Qing's four-dimensional divine sense has confirmed that the speed of light in four-dimensional space is 10 times that in three-dimensional space, and his escape speed of 10% of the speed of light, when flying in four-dimensional space, will be projected onto the standard speed of light in three-dimensional space.

The problem is, where can you find such a large four-dimensional fragment? You can't expect him to conjure one by hand. Moreover, this method has a fatal flaw: once a four-dimensional fragment is created, the speed immediately reverts to its original state.

As for other methods that can be achieved at the speed of light, they are far beyond Luo Qing's current capabilities and cannot be relied upon for the time being.

Interestingly, all three methods point to "spacetime".

Luo Qing found it interesting. Humanity had thoroughly digested a lot of the Devouring Empire's four-dimensional technology, antimatter technology, and the theories of the Risk Eliminators. Their theoretical reserves far exceeded their technological level.

To fully grasp current human theories, technology would need at least a thousand years of development. Two years ago, the Solar System Development Agency boldly declared: "Humanity is currently experiencing the third technological explosion."

(The first was from the Industrial Revolution to the Nuclear Age, and the second was from the Great Depression to the Interstellar Age.)
But theory is theory, and technology is technology. At least in Luo Qing's understanding, it would take thousands or tens of thousands of years for humanity to develop a spaceship that travels at the speed of light. And it is unrealistic to expect humanity to spend thousands or tens of thousands of years researching a spaceship that travels at the speed of light.

It would be better to continue cultivating oneself.

Including the 100 years of his previous life and the 200 years of this life, Luo Qing's 300 years of cultivation across two lifetimes only barely gave him the power to capture stars. Not only was his realm stuck at the Nascent Soul stage, but his strength was also only at the Integration stage. Meanwhile, Jiang Renhuang from his hometown had cultivated to the Tribulation Transcending stage and become the Human Emperor in 300 years, and had cultivated to the Mahayana stage and reversed the Primordial Limitless Immortal in 500 years.

Let alone comparing myself to Emperor Jiang, even compared to those candidates for Emperor, such as Ji Kongkong, the controller of the Time Law of the Great Zhou Dynasty, I, an ordinary cultivator from the Nine Provinces, am far inferior.

As for the matter of merging with the Dao in his previous life and defying the fall of immortals...

The hero does not mention being brave.

And he wasn't particularly brave either.

"I'm just an ordinary cultivator, why make things difficult for myself?" Luo Qing often comforted himself with this thought.

After obtaining three methods to break the speed of light from the scientists, Luo Qing planned to return to his seclusion.

Try all three methods.

Luo Qing returned to his own Wallfacer compound and then entered a state of cultivation.

No matter how immersed Luo Qing was in cultivation, the messages sent to him by the Joint Chairman kept repeating in his mind. His sea of ​​consciousness, which should have been as clear as a mirror, was churning. Luo Qing made faces and couldn't concentrate on his cultivation.

Thoughts about all of humanity surged within him more and more intensely, so he simply lifted the futon and got up, turned off the constantly scrolling message board, lay down on the sofa, and stared blankly at the white marble wall in front of him.

As for the Trisolaran probes, Luo Qing didn't really care. He knew the locations of these probes, but he didn't want to tell the three major fleets. He had already done a lot in fighting the dinosaurs, so he didn't need to personally guard even a single probe.

He was more concerned with other issues, such as Luo Ji's intelligence, what the "retirement civilization" was, where the refugee spaceship came from, and why these two civilizations knew the location of the solar system.
These messages haunted Luo Qing's thoughts like a demon.

Theoretically speaking, the solar system should not be exposed, right?
He knew that scientists on Earth were currently using neutrino emitters to probe star systems within 50 light-years. Neutrino beams are directional and do not possess the gravitational wave or solar-amplified electromagnetic wave properties that could reveal the location of the solar system.

Given that they are in a safe position in the solar system, how did these old men and refugees know about Earth? If the information that Luo Ji extracted from Karl is true, then the origin of life on Earth is the amino acids that those old men spread.

Doesn't that mean that the human species actually has another creator?
With the Human Emperor above, Luo Qing didn't believe this; he preferred that humanity evolved on its own.

Moreover, a civilization from five billion years ago—a civilization on this timescale—is something Luo Qing has only ever seen among the Risk Rescuers. A civilization of this level should have already crossed the threshold of a god-like civilization. Why would they want to "retire" towards the solar system?
How far away are the retirement civilization fleet and the refugee spaceship from Earth? These are the questions that Luo Qing cares about most. If they are still far away, then there is no need to rush.

But if the distance is close, it becomes very troublesome.

Most importantly, even with the light cone telescope, humans still cannot verify or observe this point.

Because humans lacked specific directions for refugee ships and retirement fleets, even the most powerful light cone telescope needed a direction to be used. The dinosaurs only knew they were coming to the solar system to receive refugees and provide for their retirement, but they didn't know the other party's location.

Moreover, due to its enormous size and millions of lenses, the light conic telescope is actually beyond human capabilities to make large-angle deflection adjustments; it can only be fixed in one direction for slight angle adjustments.

Once the angle is adjusted by more than 10°, it would take at least a year for both humans and dinosaurs to adjust.

This passive waiting in the face of the unknown made Luo Qing very uncomfortable.
Three minutes later.

Luo Qing kicked the door open.

Amidst the astonished gazes of countless people, Luo Qing transformed into a ball of golden light and then flew directly towards the Great Ring!

Seclusion? Let whoever wants to go into seclusion do so.

He simply couldn't convince himself to ignore these hidden dangers. The scope of ordinary divine sense was limited to the solar system, and the threads of four-dimensional divine sense were too localized.

He wanted to use the large circular light cone telescope to personally adjust its direction and see which guests were coming to the vicinity of the solar system!

According to astronomical observation data, there are approximately 2.6 stars within 200 light-years of the Sun.

Luo Qing wanted to look at all 2.6 stars with the naked eye!
(End of this chapter)