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

Chapter 309 Beyond the Light Cone (3k)

The technicians who were assisting Luo Qing with data recording suddenly noticed that the powerful cultivator had become much more silent. He sat on the sofa for a while, then stood up and remained silent, as if he had become a different person.

Subsequently, Luo Qing devoted himself entirely to the observation work.

Instead of rushing to find the location of "Earth One", he conducted a two-hour continuous observation of the Second Fleet.

In the 100th minute of observation, the Trisolaran Second Fleet stopped accelerating and stopped at 10% of the speed of light. In other words, the Trisolaran Second Fleet was heading towards Earth at 10% of the speed of light!
22 years later, they will surpass the Trisolaran First Fleet.

Forty years from now, the Second Fleet will arrive in the solar system.

Luo Qing did a quick calculation of the acceleration power and came up with a series of data that made him frown.

The second fleet of the Trisolarans accelerated at a constant speed, and the large-arc turns did not affect the constant acceleration. It took the second fleet 100 minutes to accelerate to 10% of the speed of light, with an average acceleration of 5000 meters per second. During these 100 minutes, its G-value was...

510G.

The maximum power propulsion speed G-value of the human star-class warship [Advance 4] is 120G.

Moreover, it cannot remain in the 120G high acceleration phase for an extended period; it can only last for a few minutes before entering the uniform acceleration phase.

To truly reach 10% of the speed of light, a stellar-class warship would need to accelerate for at least a full day.

In other words, in terms of acceleration alone, the Second Fleet's acceleration is at least five times that of humans, and it can continue for 100 minutes, accelerating directly from zero speed to 10% of the speed of light.

This still seems to be below the maximum speed of a human star-class warship, which is 20% of the speed of light. However, in reality, the acceleration capability exhibited by the Second Fleet at this moment has already left humanity far behind.

The only good news was that the Second Fleet seemed to have reached its speed limit after accelerating to 10% and stopped accelerating.

Based on the glow of the Second Fleet's engine, Luo Qing made a bold deduction about the engine's technological principle. He concluded that it was an engine based on the principle of matter-antimatter annihilation, rather than the controlled nuclear fusion engine used by humans and dinosaurs.

Judging from the Second Fleet's "luxurious" acceleration, the Trisolaran fleet may have mastered the ability to mass-produce antimatter or efficiently capture antimatter particles.

In any case, the Second Fleet is coming.

Humans will not be able to see this scene until at least four years later using the light cone telescope. Luo Qing did not intend to tell humanity every detail about something that humans would discover themselves in four years.

In his view, humanity had already delivered a passable performance in the battle against the Devouring Empire, and in his understanding, escorting humanity to this point was enough.

From the moment Luo Ji comprehended the complex civilization structure of the Black Forest Light Sea in the universe, and Hines laid out the escapism, humanity had already matured.

After all, under the premise of Hessen, escapism is indeed the best path for civilized survival, and Luo Qing no longer harbors any prejudice against escapism.

Escapeism is indeed the best option for civilization in his absence.

In short, humanity will definitely be able to handle the Trisolaran crisis on its own.
All I need to do is hold off the "god" that devours the empire.

While we're at it, let's open the box on First Earth and see what kind of person this end-of-life is who disrespects Old Deng and mistreats refugees.

You, as the final producer, had better be able to defeat the human solar system fleet. After dealing with the Trisolarans, Luo Qing wouldn't mind letting humanity learn how to launch the first standard "Black Forest" strike and resolve this hidden danger of the First Earth.

As for how his vision broke through the true "light cone" limitation, Luo Qing had already gone through all the physics theories in his mind as soon as he sat down on the sofa.

Unfortunately, physics is not omnipotent; even the grand unified model of the universe cannot explain it.

Now, when he looks up at the stars, he can no longer distinguish whether the star appearing in his eyes is a star from hundreds of years ago or a star that has just arrived in his line of sight.

In the blink of an eye, beyond the cone of light.

However, this does not mean that he can see the surface of the Trisolaran planet instantly. His vision is still that of a normal cultivator. To truly see things at a great distance, he still needs to rely on the light cone telescope system.

Dinosaur technology does have its merits.

Luo Qing also learned that in the international direction of the fleet, the negotiations between humans and the Trisolarans had also reached a stalemate, and the six-dimensional sophon that had not uttered a single truth was directly tied up by humans with a magnetic bottle.

Subsequently, the chairman of the Solar System Joint Conference walked up to the six-dimensional sophon and unilaterally announced that negotiations between humanity and the Trisolaran civilization had been terminated.

The scheduled meeting of intelligent life was repeatedly postponed. The mushrooms were so engrossed in waiting that their caps were drooping before the meeting even started. Even the Tyrannosaurus Rex Karl, who arrived late, was getting a little impatient.

What are humans doing?
They're even more indecisive than the dinosaurs.

Moreover, during this period, humanity still failed to locate the remaining nine probes. Luo Qing also sensed that the dozen or so sophons outside the solar system had re-entered the solar system, but he did not interfere.

Five years of technological breakthroughs and the development of magnetic bottle technology have enabled humanity to build large-scale, high-magnetic isolation chambers to shield against sophons.

Even if he doesn't deter these sophons and they return to Earth, once humanity discovers that the particle accelerator has been interfered with by sophons again, they will naturally take the initiative to build a massive forced isolation chamber to protect the detector from interference. Before humanity has a solution to the sophons, Luo Qing doesn't mind deterring them; once a solution is found, he won't need to do it personally anymore.

After all, hitting Tomoko is also troublesome; it requires him to glare at him forcefully.

Regarding Fleet International.

Due to concerns that the remaining nine detectors might be antimatter bombs, Fleet International has called off the parade. The 4900 starships are currently being evacuated, but given the original density of the fleet and the potential negative impact of the controlled nuclear fusion engines on nearby ships during the evacuation, the evacuation process will be longer than expected.

But at least, the outermost warships, including the Paradox Engine, have successfully entered the "Forward 1" state and left the parade.

However, due to the issues of ideological imprinting and escapism raised by Hines, Fleet International did not allow starships to leave Jupiter's orbit, lest any potential "imprinted individuals" engage in escapist behavior.

These starships, now separated from the parade, had nowhere to go but to cruise slowly near Jupiter's orbit.

Building on this, humanity detonated approximately 80 oil-film nuclear bombs, completely sealing off an area within a 20 million-kilometer radius of Jupiter's orbital city, ensuring that the nine probes would be detected immediately once they appeared in Jupiter's orbit.

Humanity has witnessed the terror of antimatter bombs, and stellar hydrogen bombs are like docile kittens compared to them. The worst-case scenario envisioned is that the Trisolaran probes carrying antimatter bombs would rush towards the human fleet or towards Earth.

Including the Jupiter orbital defense systems that have entered a state of readiness.

In short, humanity has already reached the maximum level of caution.

In addition, Fleet International has done some other preparatory work.

For example, Fleet International has officially authorized the reverse engineering of the captured Trisolaran probe.

Ideally, we should pry open this probe so that scientists can examine its internal structure and analyze the technological level of the Trisolaran world.

Although based on existing external quality tests, the possibility that it contains antimatter is extremely low.

But what if? What if this capturing detector doesn't have it, but other detectors do?
The Trisolaran probe, which has been blocked, surrounded, targeted, and restrained in various ways by five star-class warships, is currently not far from Jupiter's orbit.

Ding Yi was on one of the escort warships at that moment, and he strongly insisted on becoming the first human to come into contact with the Trisolaran probe.

Fleet International was not supposed to allow this. Allowing this highly regarded physicist to ride on the escort warship and observe the Trisolaran probe from a distance was already the biggest concession the fleet had made. Now, they were letting him get up close to the probe.

This is very dangerous.

But Ding Yi's attitude was extremely firm. He even threatened to kill himself, saying that if he was not allowed to be the first to contact the Trisolaran world's probe, he would hang himself in front of the three fleet commanders.

Who are the commanders of the three fleets? How could they be afraid of a physicist's death threat? Even if he were Ding Yi, he would be no exception.

Then Ding Yi brought up Luo Qing and reiterated his statement: if he wasn't allowed to take the first probe to contact the Trisolaran world, he would go and complain to Luo Qing.

Filing a complaint is indeed more intimidating than suicide, not to mention that everyone knows these two brothers have an exceptionally good relationship.

Thus, the three fleets reluctantly agreed to Ding Yi's proposal, but each sent an observer to accompany Ding Yi.

Ding Yi was already prepared. He discreetly tucked a small hammer into his waistband, avoiding the pre-departure inspection. Then, he boarded the 'Mantis' workboat and, along with three other observers, slowly flew towards the Trisolaran probe that was trapped inside the 'magnetic bottle' and unable to move.

...

The saying "Destiny lies within the cone of light" no longer applies to Luo Qing.

Luo Qing even suspected that he could see the expansion at the edge of the universe at this moment, but unfortunately, due to his poor eyesight, he could not make any sense of the dark cosmic background.

Whether it's 50 light-years, 500 light-years, 5000 light-years, 5 light-years, or even the Milky Way's diameter of 10 light-years, as long as Luo Qing can see them, he can see the instantaneous state of these stars.

The premise is that it is visible.

Currently, there are three galaxies that humans can observe with the naked eye under a clear sky in the Northern Hemisphere: the Large Magellanic Cloud (16 light-years from the Milky Way), the Small Magellanic Cloud (22 light-years from the Milky Way), and the Andromeda Galaxy (250 million light-years from the Milky Way).

But what humans "see" are galaxies from 16 years ago, 22 years ago, and 250 million years ago.

What Luo Qing sees is the current galaxy, without any time delay. Everything in sight is instantly visualized on Luo Qing's retina.

This also means...

Luo Qing's efficiency in opening boxes has increased significantly.

A beam of light, imbued with immense terror and profound cause and effect, continuously shot out from the light cone telescope, beginning a comprehensive survey of all stars within 200 light-years of the solar system with extremely high efficiency.

(End of this chapter)