From black technology to super engineering.

two months later.

On January 18th, the first snow of 2040 fell.

Thanks to the elimination of fossil fuels and the popularization of trams, as well as the arrival of the Earth's Little Ice Cycle, the greenhouse effect that has been worried about for decades has also disappeared with this snow.

Qi Yumo held Ye Xiaoxi's hand with his left hand and held a down jacket in his right hand. He was also wearing a down jacket and stood on the roof of the brain computer center, waiting for Ye Ming's return.

Amidst the heavy snowfall, the roof of the building was soon covered with a thin layer of white catkins.

"Mom, snowman, I want to make a snowman."

This was the first time for little Niuniu, who was already in kindergarten, to see such heavy snow. She immediately broke away from Qi Yumo's hands and ran toward the center of the roof.

"Well, go ahead and pile it up." Qi Yumo didn't stop her, but smiled evilly. She raised her wrist and glanced at the time, then took off her gloves, took out her phone and clicked twice.

Soon, the snow accumulated on the roof began to melt and turned into streams all over the ground.

The small pile of snow that Ye Xiaoxi had just piled up became shorter and shorter at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Mom, why is the snow melting?"

The little girl was puzzled and raised her hands anxiously, trying to catch the snow with her palms and add bricks to the snowman.

Obviously, the speed at which she catches snowflakes is far inferior to the speed at which the snow melts.

"Oh, I don't know either."

"Mom is lying!" Ye Xiaoxi turned around and said angrily: "I'll ask Mother Ita."

"...She's busy, so don't disturb her."

Ita was originally going to pick up the plane, but now is the critical time before the winter vacation. Ita is so busy that she even brought herself a power bank...

"It's too annoying! Then I'll go downstairs to pile it up!"

"You don't wait for dad anymore?"

"...Okay, then I'll wait for him."

The little girl, who had lost her temper due to the automatic heating system on the roof, stood back at the entrance of the passage and looked up at the sky with her mother.

Not long after, in the heavy snow, the ETA fell from the sky and landed steadily on the roof.

……

"Where is my son?" Ye Ming put on the down jacket handed over by his wife, rubbed his daughter's head again, then squatted down and picked up her daughter: "Niuniu, where is your brother?"

"Dad, my brother is afraid of the cold." Ye Xiaoxi said seriously: "He is only six months old."

"Okay, I forgot." Ye Ming, Qi and Mo looked at each other and smiled, and they quickly walked into the elevator with their daughter in their arms.

After returning home, Ye Ming looked at his sleeping son, took a quick bath, and then lay down on the sofa in the study extremely relaxed.

But as soon as he sat down, his daughter stuck her head out and said, "Dad, we are building a snowman."

"Huh? It's so cold, are you sure you want to build a snowman?"

"Dad, are you afraid of the cold?"

"Although I'm afraid, but to accompany you..." Ye Ming said with a smile and stood up: "Let's make a snowman!"

At this moment, two voices calling Ye Xiaoxi came from downstairs.

Listening to this sound, it should be Zhou Xiangnan's twin boys shouting.

"Niuniu, let's build a snowman."

"Okay!" Ye Xiaoxi had sharp ears and immediately rushed into the bedroom, opened the balcony door with a bang, and shouted into the cold wind outside: "Wait for me!"

Ye Ming was stunned: "What about me?"

"Just cool down!"

Ye Ming: "..."

Paint and Ink: "..."

Seeing the little girl happily going out, one can imagine Ye Ming's depression.

He hurried back slowly, just wanting to spend more time with his daughter, but he didn't expect that he would be asked to cool off as soon as he came back...

"Am I a bit of a failure as a father?"

"From a family perspective, it's really not that successful." Qi Yumo pursed his lips, hung the coat Ye Ming just picked up back to its original place, and sat down in front of him with a smile.

As early as eight years ago, heating was installed in the provincial capital to deal with the waste heat from the power plant, so that the south now does not have to rely on carrying the winter as it did in the past few decades, achieving a true family environment that feels like spring all year round.

"Then from other perspectives, I should still be successful." Ye Ming chuckled and sat on the sofa again.

"...Why weren't you so thick-skinned when I met you before?" Qi Yumo looked at Ye Ming with a smile, and thought of the time when they just met this guy - Ye Ming had not yet become famous at that time, so At that time, Ye Ming was almost like a nerd, focusing on his studies.

He is just a "student master" in her eyes, and a very limited one at that.After all, she still knows what the provincial diploma was like 20 years ago and how valuable those who can get it are.

But who would have known that Ye Ming suddenly "descended" from the sky, making today's provincial Jiaotong University the most awesome school in the entire universe...

"When you reach middle age, you can't escape being greasy?" Ye Ming chuckled, lay down completely, closed his eyes again, and let out a long breath.

But soon, he opened his eyes: "If one day, I want to go to the empire, do you agree with me to go?"

"What?" Qi Yumo was startled: "Which empire are you going to?"

"Just go to... our enemy's home planet. Of course, using the word enemy now does not mean that we will also be enemies in the future."

"...Please tell me clearly, when will you go? What are you going to do? And...didn't we just recover the Hydra Super Galaxy Cluster? According to public statements, the enemy still has at least 50 more super galaxy clusters..." Qi Qi Yu Mo looked surprised: "Can I go to the empire now?"

Ye Ming hummed slightly, and the expression on his face became serious. Then he briefly introduced the situation to Qi Yumo.

Two months ago, he led Liana and Hall on the planet Ella to witness a battle in which humans destroyed tens of thousands of battleships using only three ghost particle weapons, or rather...

Abusive food.

Yes, it's a cruelty.

After the ghost particles carried out the task of clearing the entire star field without any worries, Zeng Yuanhai's fleet jumped over. There was only one thing that could be done, which was to touch up the sword and then determine the final result.

The results of the battle were brilliant, with [-] ships of various types completely annihilated.

However, because it came so smoothly and easily, people were unable to feel shocked by this number - what really shocked ordinary people was why humans could win like this.

This is no longer the Fire Age vs. the Age of Bows and Arrows, but the Fire Age vs. the Stone Age.It is not a generational difference, but a difference in civilization level.

So, when the news reached the earth, the hot topic of discussion was not the result of the war, but how powerful human beings are, and whether there are any opponents in this universe... And... since human beings have behaved like this, it is conceivable that , this asymmetric war, the shock to the empire can be imagined.

Especially Hall and Leanna.

Therefore, just after the battle, Liana contacted the Empire again, hoping that the Empire would sit down and negotiate with humans again.

"You mean, now we have to negotiate with the empire? And then you want to join in?"

"Of course I won't get involved in their negotiations. I just want to see their paradise."

Ye Ming had already sat up and looked at Qi Yumo: "I think it is better to go and see it in person than to use brain-computer equipment to connect to the paradise."

"...What is so rare about the Paradise?" Qi Yumo said and realized that it was a bit redundant to ask - her husband was a great scientist and had a deep-seated "rareness" for unknown mysteries, so she paused: "Are you sure that the Empire will surrender? And... is it safe?"

"We're still talking about it now."

"..." Qi Yumo took a deep breath: "I mean, what is the core? Is it peaceful coexistence, or?"

"Peaceful coexistence?" Ye Ming chuckled: "Do you think, now that the war is like this and the strength gap between the two sides has grown to such a great extent, we will still focus on peaceful coexistence?"

"what is that?"

"Well...basically, it's harmless treatment."

As soon as Ye Ming finished speaking, the watch on his wrist vibrated. After taking a look at the number, he hesitated for a moment, and then picked up.

The light curtain on the ceiling lowered, and Peng Xiaofei's figure appeared in the room.

"Mr. Ye, oh...Seventh sister is here too." Peng Xiaofei was wearing the chief engineer's uniform and hat, looking like he was on the front line.

"I just got home. If you need anything, please tell me."

"Well...that's it. I originally wanted you to come over and take a look at the Tianhuan Project, but you said you just came home, so forget it..."

Ye Ming frowned slightly: "I know I shouldn't answer your call... What's wrong?"

Peng Xiaofei, who was born as an operator, can now be regarded as the chief engineer of the human Tianzihao - he is responsible for the overall construction and key control of many large-scale projects including the space dock, so of course, he is also the Tianhuan Project chief engineer.

"Actually, there is no big problem. It's just that during the construction, we found that the error of the docking device was a bit large, but after calculation by Aita, there was no problem... This is a bit puzzling."

Ye Ming immediately sat upright after hearing this: "The error is a bit big? Be more clear, has it reached the limit of correction?"

"Not yet, let's even put it this way, if you don't pay attention to it, then it is considered a reasonable error."

"But according to my experience... Such errors should not actually occur, because Aita cannot make mistakes - all machinery is controlled by Aita, and theoretically the accuracy can be completely guaranteed."

"Still within the error?" Qi Yumo, who had been listening carefully at this time, interrupted: "Then why do you want Ye Ming to go over and take a look?"

"I just intuitively feel that this is a bit abnormal." Peng Xiaofei said and paused: "Anyway, it depends on your convenience and your intuition - in half a month, the first phase of the project will be completed, and it can be adjusted by then. of."

After listening, Ye Ming nodded slightly: "I understand. You can continue to observe the construction first, and then send me the data. I will take a look and contact you if there are any questions."

"Ok."

After hanging up the communication, Ye Ming raised his wrist again, planning to call up the data in the bedroom.

As Peng Xiaofei said, although all the parameters of the project are within the error range, since Aita intervened throughout the entire process, there should be "no error" - to be precise, the error will be extremely small and accurate. Just get to a very nice middle value.

This is not Peng Xiaofei's blind trust in Aita, but a summary of his experience in the past ten years.

It's like, although a person always gets an A with a score of 90 to 100 in an exam, the A in the past was always 98, and the difference would not be more than 1 point.Now suddenly there is a difference of two or three points, only 95 points...

This gap can naturally be seen at a glance by anyone who keeps an eye on the results.

Seeing this, Qi and Mo stopped disturbing him. They turned and went downstairs to bring him a glass of boiling water with a small handful of wolfberries in it.

……

An hour later, Ye Ming opened his eyes from closing his eyes in meditation. He turned his head and looked at the door, and saw Eta just walking into the room.

In the past half hour, he had been communicating with Ita in his mind.

But the results of the exchange did not yield much.

"Could it be caused by Jupiter's gravity?"

Now that Aita is in front of him, Ye Ming has cut off the connection in his mind and switched to conversation.

"It is possible that the sky ring project is too close to Jupiter - such a giant planet, in terms of size, it is larger than some stars, which means it suffers from density."

"It seems that our knowledge in the field of astrophysics is still limited."

"This is the life of the universe. Human beings haven't even understood their own lives yet." Ita stood with his back to Ye Ming, while pointing to his lower back: "Change the battery, there is a spare one."

"...Why are you wasting so much electricity now?"

"There's no way, the machine is too old, and I don't have time to replace it with a new one."

When Ye Ming replaced the spare battery for her, Ita sat across from Ye Ming and saw the wolfberry in the cup at a glance. A big smile immediately appeared on the display on her face: "Hey, did you drink wolfberry?"

Ye Ming: "...don't you want me to take you to the empire?"

"Ye Ming, you threaten me."

"I just asked you if you want to do it!"

"No, that's not what I want, but what you want too." Ita's voice became a little serious: "And only I can go."

——Ye Ming wants to go to the empire. In addition to wanting to see the paradise, the most fundamental thing is... to "send" Ita to the paradise.

This is not simply to use data to access, but to "physically" go to the center of that paradise to see what is inside.

Because, according to Liana, according to Hall, according to the descriptions of Crozier and other imperial people who have seen the promised land.

The Promised Land is not a fictional world, but a giant artificial light ball "visible to the naked eye".

It hangs high in the orbit of the Holy Empire's mother planet, Mobis Planet, like a beacon, lighting up the sky of the entire empire.

For tens of thousands of years, no one, including the Imperial people, knew how the Paradise was constructed and what was inside it.

Only the ancestors in the promised land know.

In other words, the ancestors of the Imperial people created a paradise, but this paradise was not open to anyone.

Only through the intellectual brain and in the form of data can we "visit".

Of course it was impossible for Ye Ming to "visit", he was just curious.

What is the center of that light ball? Can it lead to another space?