"Professor Wang Yueheng, are you still listening?"

Liu Xin, who had been talking non-stop about her creative inspiration, suddenly realized that there had been a long silence on the other end of the phone.

Mistakenly thinking that he had talked too much and that Wang Yueheng was losing track of his train of thought, he asked a question, feeling a little embarrassed.

"Teacher Liu Xin, please continue. I've been listening the whole time."

Upon hearing this, Wang Yueheng, who was considering other matters, responded.

"These are the few ideas I have in mind for now, but I don't rule out the possibility of more ideas coming up later."

"So do you think these ideas I mentioned can be written into a novel and published?"

"Or do you have any comments or requests?"

When the key issue was raised, Liu Xin asked somewhat nervously.

They were afraid that Wang Yueheng would reject their idea outright or give a vague and perfunctory response.

"The science fiction ideas you mentioned are quite good."

"As for your point about advanced civilizations in the universe fighting each other for survival, I haven't yet figured out what terminology to use to describe that..."

"How about we name it the 'Dark Forest Theory'?"

"Under these universal rules of survival, Earth's civilization can be threatened by extraterrestrial civilizations, and it can also use this to threaten other advanced civilizations..."

"For example, by sending coordinates into space, we could allow other, more advanced civilizations to destroy a civilization that poses a threat to us."

Upon hearing science fiction writer Liu Xin's question seeking his opinion, Wang Yueheng thought for a moment and spoke into the microphone.

"The Dark Forest Theory..."

"Wow, that's such a fitting name!"

"The universe is like a dark forest, and everyone is both a hunter with a rifle and prey for others..."

Upon hearing this, Liu Xin was taken aback at first, then seemed to be inspired once again, and suppressed her overwhelming joy as she spoke.

"But how do we send out these coordinates?"

"Simply sending information to the moon or Mars is clearly not enough; it must be able to break through the solar system and even the Milky Way galaxy..."

"And it will definitely consume a huge amount of energy, which must have a reasonable source..."

However, upon hearing Wang Yueheng mention another innovative idea, Liu Xin couldn't help but frown.

For a moment, he was stumped by the topic raised by Wang Yueheng.

"sun!"

"We could consider using the Sun's gravitational lensing effect to treat it as a stellar signal relay station."

"This way, we can send out the coordinates of the target satellite, which will allow civilizations at least ten light-years away to receive the human signal. It would be enough even in science fiction."

"Even with the technological level of the 1980s and 90s, it's possible to exaggerate it slightly and make the novel more relevant to modern life..."

Now it was Wang Yueheng's turn to continuously instill creative ideas in science fiction writer Liu Xin.

They even provide the other party with some professional knowledge.

"..."

"Professor Yue Heng, I never imagined you had such a wealth of knowledge! You're amazing!"

When Liu Xin heard Wang Yueheng casually mention a technical term like gravitational lensing, she was shocked and her eyes widened.

"So, based on your idea, Professor Liu Xin, this new logic chain for science fiction can basically be established."

"The foundation of civilization is survival, and survival requires the consumption of resources. However, the total amount of matter in the universe remains constant. In order to compete for limited resources, the Dark Forest Theory came into being..."

"A civilization operating within the Dark Forest theory is vulnerable to attacks from other civilizations and faces a survival crisis if its coordinates are exposed, but it can also expose the coordinates of other civilizations to retaliate..."

"In addition, I think we can incorporate a brand new concept to help the characters in the story travel through time and space without having to go through quantum-level interdimensional travel, which is 'deep sleep'."

"During deep sleep, the human body can almost ignore the passage of time and wake up at will decades or even centuries into the future, directly achieving the effect of time travel..."

"Similarly, this technology can be figuratively named 'hibernation' to help readers understand it..."