interstellar farmer

Chapter 65 Lifeline

The flagship command room is divided into upper and lower floors. The first floor is very large. The various departments in charge of the battleship are allocated lots below, and the information of each department is continuously collected and sent to the command platform.The second floor is much smaller, and it is the center of the flagship podium, which is where General Cheng Didong works.

Cheng Didong took Han Zhen to visit the entire warship, while his mother and Zhao Kaiyuan went to rest in the room provided by Cheng Didong.

"Scholar Han, our fleet will be able to enter the teleportation position of the Yanhuang star in the space channel within ten days of sailing along this channel. After entering here, all the personnel will enter a dormant period. After 54 days, we will arrive at the teleportation location on the other side of the earth." Point. I heard that Han scholar was born in the earth's waterway when he transferred to Yanhuang star, and after a few days, he went through the torment of 56 days of dormancy. It can be said that you should be the youngest in the space channel User, maybe your name is also written in the national records?" People in China call this space channel connecting the earth and Yanhuang Star the Chinese lifeline.The exchanges and development of the two places depend on it. Without it, the country really does not know what it will be like.

Han Zhen smiled, this is really possible, it’s not like I have a situation like mine, but all the babies died, I’m lucky, but it’s definitely not a good thing to be on the verge of death for more than ten years! "General Cheng was joking. I was also hard-fated back then. By the way, don't call me a scholar. In fact, I am just a college student who has just graduated (Han Zhen has brought great honor to his alma mater. Of course, the diploma can I got it in advance, and the title of honorary lecturer of the Agricultural University came with the graduation certificate—too young to be a professor, so Han Zhen threw it directly into the trash can when he got it) Just call me Xiao Han, so I'm comfortable listening too."

"Han Xue...haha, okay, Xiao Han, I, Old Cheng, are so shameless." Han Zhen was a little curious when he saw the general for the first time. In addition, whether he could successfully reach the earth this time also depended on his operation. Of course, you have to make friends deliberately; Cheng Didong also dare not underestimate Han Zhen. He is definitely not a simple character who can bring a huge sensation in the agricultural world, even though he is so young.For a while, the atmosphere was very good.

"General Cheng, can you tell me about this lifeline of our country? You travel back and forth a lot, so you must be familiar with it." The space channel has been established for hundreds of years, but up to now, China has not been able to build it on its own. A similar one comes out!One of the important conditions required for the civilization level to be upgraded from level one to level two is the ability to build a five-light-year space channel on its own.Han Zhen's understanding of space channels is still superficial knowledge on the Internet. Of course, he does not know as much as Cheng Didong, who has been traveling through it all the time.

"The Chinese lifeline has been around for more than 500 years, and it is still as important and irreplaceable as it was 500 years ago. The lifeline can be maintained until now, and it is only guaranteed by people from Tiandun every ten years. To be honest, For this lifeline, we have paid too much. The maintenance cost every ten years is definitely an astronomical figure, but no matter how high the cost is, we have to accept it, because we simply cannot live without it. Knowing this technology, and not having the minerals needed for maintenance, you can only exchange it from Tiandun at a high price.” Cheng Didong also looked annoyed when he mentioned this lifeline, the method used by superior civilizations to exploit lower civilizations can be described as a knife The sword is bloody, and the methods are endless, forcing you to come to him and beg him!

Han Zhen knew more than ordinary people, and nodded solemnly.Most of the foreign exchange obtained after selling grain and minerals every year is used to repay the debt, which is a very heavy burden for the country. Under such circumstances, it is not easy to improve civilization!

"General Cheng, haven't you thought of any solution for so many years? For example?" Han Zhenyi asked pointedly.

Cheng Didong understood what Han Zhen meant, and shook his head directly: "Impossible, every ten years for maintenance, people from Tiandun operate independently and are not allowed to watch; if you want to buy this technology, the price is not A few decimals, and they have to use their currency for transactions. I just want to buy privately from other countries, such as the second-level Republic of Renault, and the third-level Principality of Verda, so the price should be cheaper, but it doesn’t work. Those of us who are at the lowest level, in their eyes, are raw material supply places and garbage dumping places. They all have agreements with each other, and there is a standard for how to do it and how to do it. Yes, but we still know about the space channel. It was taken over by Tianton, who was the first to discover earth civilization, and other countries and individuals are not allowed to interfere. Therefore, besides buying from it, we really have no other choice. There are many ways to think about it. Of course, if we can find a more civilized country than Tiandun to give it to us, that's another matter, but this can only be done for a while!" Unexpectedly, Cheng Didong's character is not as good as it looks. Majesty, he actually enjoys the pain, and has a cold sense of humor.Let alone a country with a higher civilization than Tianton, I have never heard of any of them in all these years.

"Actually, so what if we bought the technology for this space channel. We don't have the minerals needed to build the channel, we don't have the machines we need, and we don't even have a spaceship that can travel five light-years away!"

"Isn't it? Didn't it mean that we bought a warship from the Tianton Empire, and it can't do it either?" Han Zhen asked in puzzlement. 100 years ago, during the Four Kingdoms War, in order to deal with the increasingly fierce enemy's offensive , the whole country bought a warship with tight clothing and food, and made great contributions to the country's resistance to the enemy's offensive!
"Xiao Han, let me correct your mistake first. It is impossible for non-military middle-level personnel to know, but your situation is special, so I will tell you! The warships purchased by our country are not one, but one after another. Five ships! In addition to five warships, there are also eight transport ships, all of which are over a thousand meters long! It is a pity that our country only bought a hundred of the matching laser cannons. The ones sold are more expensive than battleships, the one hundred laser cannons cost the price of three warships, and the energy blocks, the energy blocks needed for one hundred salvos, converted into minerals, can fill an entire battleship Yes! It’s fucking black! Later we averaged out the [-] laser cannons and installed them on [-] ships. It was because of these [-] battleships that we were able to withstand the enemy. counterattack."

Han Zhen was stunned. He didn't expect that there was such a big discrepancy between what he knew and the facts. "Didn't it mean that our country can manufacture large ships by itself? The thirteen capital ships were all bought?"

"Of course, our country can only build four types of Fengya ships now." Cheng Didong paused and rubbed his head before continuing: "Actually, large ships with a height of about 500 meters should also be built, but the quality is very poor. , Our technology is still unable to make such a large hull operate freely, it is far less convenient than the Fengya IV, and it also costs a lot more minerals and resources, it is really not worth it.”

I see!Han Zhen recalled the alien ship he saw last year, and compared it with the ship he was on. The advantages and disadvantages are too obvious.

It's not his turn to worry about the ship, so Han Zhen continued to ask: "Then, General Cheng, the thirteen capital ships can't sail five light-years away? Isn't it said that they can jump?"

"No!" Cheng Didong answered very simply, "The bastards of the Heman family who sell the battleships are extremely cunning. They dismantle everything and sell them. The price of the space jump device is more expensive than the battleship! Just be expensive. At that time, our predecessors wanted to buy one and use it for research, but they did not expect that the thing would also require a galaxy map - not a galaxy map that can be seen with the naked eye or a telescope. That thing is useless and must be strictly based on the stars. It’s a galaxy map drawn up based on the standard. This thing is more expensive. There are less than fifty jump points within ten light years around the earth. They offered a higher price than five battleships. We can’t afford it, and he doesn’t want to. It’s for sale, and what’s even more deceptive is that they also said that there is no guarantee that fifty points can be used, and if something happens, you will be responsible for all the consequences!”

Both the space channel and the jumping point of the battleship use the principle of wormholes, but one is fixed and the other is active. When the active jumping point wants to jump, it must calculate the place to be reached and confirm it is correct. You can act. The more accurate the calculated value, the better. If there is a slight deviation, the ship will be destroyed and people will die. If there is no jump point star for calculation, just jump directly. Benign variants generally have difficulties.

"Damn it! The Heman family is such a beast family, they can even think of such crooked tricks!" Han Zhen cursed, and Cheng Didong immediately responded.

Uncle Zhao told himself a few days ago that people in the army were full of anger towards the Heman family of the Tiandun Empire, but this anger could not be vented, and it could not be expressed in person. If you want to get along well with the soldiers Relationship, scolding the mother of the Heman family is a must!
After scolding other people's mothers together, Cheng Didong was much more cordial: "Xiao Han, in fact, what they have set up for our country is only the lowest level of short-distance passage. For hundreds of years, scientists in our country have not been easy to eat. At the beginning, It takes half a year from Yanhuang Star to Earth, but now, it has been reduced to two and a half months
, the time in the channel was shortened to 54 days, which is already a remarkable achievement.When one day, we can enter from the point of Yanhuang star and immediately exit from the point of the earth, it is time for us to truly master this technology! "

Space jump technology, the current physical theory, has long believed that space is multi-dimensional. When studying in three dimensions, people think that two points in space can form a plane, so the closest point to another point is Yes, this is the earliest understanding of space jump.

Space is mobile.Planets are moving, nebulae are moving, galaxies, the whole universe is moving!Then, if you want to form the intersection of two constantly moving points, you need a wormhole. What is a wormhole?Simply put, wormholes are thin tubes of space-time connecting distant regions of the universe.It can connect two parallel spaces and provide the possibility of instant transfer.

From point A to point B, when teleporting, you need to enter a medium space. This space can also be called a channel. This channel will form a connection with the surface where point A just opened and the surface where point B is going to go. It can also be It is understood as the docking of A wormhole to B wormhole.

Why does it still take time? That is because the plane formed by the two wormholes is not thorough and the technology is not enough!It is necessary to spend a lot of time staying in that medium space.In this intermediary space, people cannot move, as if they have slept, but the sleep is long enough.

The third-level civilization has eliminated this retention time long ago, but he will not teach you for no reason. Don’t even think about a free lunch. After all, the minerals and funds required for this kind of space passage are much cheaper. Why not do it if you can earn more?

(End of this chapter)