August 26, 3020.

A super-large space transport ship that can carry 50,000 people took off from the Everest Space Center, 1,100 kilometers away from the Great Snow Mountain Base, and headed for the transportation hub space station that was slowly circling in the distant space orbit.

In addition to the nearly 10,000 recruits from the Great Snow Mountain Base, this spaceship also had nearly 40,000 recruits from six other large bases.

After arriving at the hub, these 50,000 recruits will gather here with millions of other recruits from all over the world, and then board thousands of small and medium-sized transport ships to go to the fleet circling in multiple layers of solar orbits.

At present, the entire human race has nearly one million fleets, tens of millions of warships of different specifications.

After almost exhausting all the metals, semiconductors, rare metals and various elements in the solar system, humans have built tens of millions of warships of various types.

Each fleet is large or small.

A main battle fleet of the size of the Tianxin Fleet has thousands of warships of different types.

The mother ship carrying swarm fighters, command flag ship, main battle cruiser, destroyer frigate, assault battleship...

Other low-level fleets range from dozens to hundreds of ships.

These millions of fleets are not stationed together.

Instead, they are in the form of legions, relatively close to each other, distributed near the orbits of each layer in the solar system, forming a fleet defense line of three layers of twelve legions.

Among them, the Uranus Region 1 Legion, where the Tianxin Fleet is located, is stationed outside the orbit of Uranus.

"Did you see that bunch of starlight? That's the Mars Sector II Legion, with a total of 5 million spaceships and hundreds of millions of soldiers. Over there, that very faint light is the Uranus Sector III Legion, which is similar in strength to our Sector I Legion, with 7 million spaceships and 1 billion soldiers." "

Currently, all the shipborne attack and defense modules of the entire army were just replaced and deployed the year before last. Among the more than 30 billion human population, nearly half are soldiers! Humankind's military strength has reached an unprecedented peak."

"How is it? I saw that you didn't have much confidence in this war. Are you feeling a little better now?"

In the command cabin, Tang Tianxin said to Chen Feng with a smile.

Looking at the human fleet that was as bright as stars in the sky, Chen Feng had to admit that his blood was boiling.

He was working hard.

Humanity had never given up.

Billions of comrades.

How could they be without clothes?

After five hundred years of development, it can even be said that humans have been militaristic. Humanity has made too many preparations for the day of the decisive battle.

Chen Feng had never been to space before, and because of his temporary pessimism, he had not understood the current military situation. It was not until he saw it with his own eyes that he could feel the silent determination from the dancing glow.

He smiled, "It's a little better. I hope we can have a fight."

"Of course, it's a pity that Ou Qinglan and Dr. Mathilde haven't succeeded yet. Otherwise, we can increase our chances of winning."

Tang Tianxin sighed.

Chen Feng was not on the large transport ship.

Half an hour before the large transport ship was launched, he and dozens of other recruits from the Great Snow Mountain boarded Tang Tianxin's special high-speed shuttle ship and headed straight for the outside of Uranus.

At this time, the other recruits were in the narrow and crowded shuttle transport cabin, tightly bound by safety belts.

Chen Feng, however, was in the spacious command cabin, sitting side by side with Tang Tianxin, talking about life and pointing at the stars.

The speed of the high-speed shuttle ship was much faster than that of an ordinary transport ship, and it quickly caught up with and surpassed a medium-sized transport ship in front.

Chen Feng turned his head and looked at the blue tail flame of the transport ship, which was thousands of kilometers long, and he was filled with emotion.

After another leap in human technology, today's aerospace technology has reached a height that Chen Feng has never seen before.

Although the main propulsion method of the spacecraft is still the medium reverse propulsion technology, which seems to be the same as the essence of a thousand years ago, it is actually very different.

The blue tail flame is not a real flame, but a super-fast plasma stream carrying amazing kinetic energy and thermal energy.

The plasma inside will be accelerated to a level close to the speed of light when it is just pushed out of the nozzle.

According to the core law of conservation of momentum, these near-light-speed plasma streams will provide huge kinetic energy for the warship.

Every massive ion can easily push the huge warship to a large speed increase.

This was not possible before.

The long tail flame looks amazing, but in fact, the mass of the medium consumed per hour is less than 100 grams. The total medium consumed to push the transport ship to Pluto is less than 1,000 grams.

Moreover, the material of this medium does not need to be specific. You can collect a meteorite, a piece of space junk in the universe, or dismantle an old seat and throw it into an atomizer to transform it into a usable plasma liquid.

The main energy for the spacecraft engine is still electricity.

The directional movement of a large number of electrons is still the most efficient and widely used medium for humans to use.

But the way humans obtain electricity has changed fundamentally.

Inside the solar system, the Dyson membrane with space biological characteristics converts solar energy into electrical energy, and condenses it into a huge biobattery that can be cut and taken away in pieces.

These bio-batteries, which contain amazing energy, go through a series of transformations, where the energy is transferred to smaller intermediate carriers, namely nuclear fusion battery packs, and finally deliver the energy to various mechanized units that need energy.

When the vehicle moves away from the solar system and enters deep space, without sufficient starlight, the ubiquitous cosmic background radiation can also be absorbed by the small Dyson membrane, providing the basic energy for basic power.

In theory, humans today already have the ability to travel across the entire galaxy.

If we have a longer lifespan, stronger construction capabilities, and consume more galaxy resources of the same level as several solar systems, we can even build a space suitable for a large number of people to live in and build a complete space society system. Humans can begin to covet other large galaxies outside the Milky Way and spread across the entire universe like locusts.

That is a beautiful vision.

After most of the day, the fast shuttle passed through the large entrance and exit opened on the Dyson membrane, flew over the orbit of Uranus, arrived at the starry sky where the Tianxin fleet was stationed, and docked with the command flagship.

Tang Tianxin led a group of people into the flagship, turned around and ordered: "Except Chen Feng, Ding Hu and Bond, everyone else will go to their respective battleships according to their original posts. There will be veterans there to familiarize you with your posts. Dr. Ouyang and Scott and other technical personnel will go to the laboratory in the mother ship to continue their scientific research and be responsible for the daily technical support of the fleet."

Hearing this, the others turned around and left.

When they arrived at the fleet, Tang Tianxin seemed to have become a different person. In front of outsiders, he appeared more powerful and decisive.

"Ding Hu, you will go to the flagship's third Morning Breeze squadron as the captain, and Bond will join your column. You should go too."

Brother Hu and Bond also left.

Only Chen Feng was left. He pointed at himself and asked, "What about me?"

"You will be my personal security officer. But most of the time I won't call you, you can arrange it freely. However, when I need you..."

She blinked and walked away. She

had just returned to the fleet and she still had a lot of things to deal with.

Chen Feng rolled his eyes and was powerless to complain.

This blatant sponsorship was really infuriating.

Never mind, it was better this way, so he could have some free time.

He simply planned to go back to his security officer's exclusive cabin to listen to some songs and communicate with the project teams in the Science City.

I don't know if the status of the security officer is really that high, or if he was accidentally given special privileges, but his accommodation cabin is very large, nearly 100 square meters, with all kinds of facilities and space layout.

He even has a dedicated room to house the rather large Infinite Awakening Device.

This is a battleship where space is very limited.

Sitting on the soft sofa and letting the smart assistant make a cup of warm Atomic Synthesis Dahongpao, Chen Feng glanced at the many communication requests piled up in his personal communication.

He ignored them all.

He listened to songs for two hours, especially reviewing the song "Across the Starry Sky" that he liked very much, and then he came out of the state of wandering in the ocean of music.

"Weiwei, remove the visual barrier, let me see the starry sky outside."

The living room of his accommodation cabin is right next to the outer perimeter of the flagship, with the best view of the starry sky.

As the projection of the light screen used to block his vision slowly dissipated, he saw the scene outside.

The floor-to-ceiling window of Chen Feng's living room was facing the direction of the sun.

Looking back from here, it is difficult to distinguish the earth, Mars, Jupiter and other planets behind with the naked eye. You can only see the fist-sized sun with a faint colorful halo.

The sun is not dazzling.

Originally, when looking back at the sun in the starry sky of the universe, there will be no colorful halo.

The reason for this is that the Dyson membrane between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus diffuses part of the sun's light, and when it falls into the naked eyes of people outside the Dyson membrane, there will be such a dazzling and eye-catching colorful halo like a bubble flare.

Chen Feng sighed sincerely.

The Dyson membrane is really an amazing and great technology.

Your grandpa is still your grandpa after all.

Sergei, five hundred years ago, was still so powerful. At that time, he proposed the complete design concept of the Dyson membrane, which was digested by later generations more than two hundred years later and turned into reality.

In many science fiction works around the 21st century, whether it is a TV series or a movie, the concept of the Dyson sphere often appears.

But in fact, with the resources within the solar system, it is impossible for humans to have so many metals and semiconductor materials to build a Dyson sphere that can cover the sun.

Even if the materials are sufficient, humans do not have so much time to build such a huge metal structure.

The time required is not measured in years, but in hundreds of thousands of years or millions of years.

The genius Sergei proposed an amazing and incomparable idea.

Since metal and semiconductor materials do not allow it, and human construction capabilities do not allow it, why can't we use biological materials?

We create a membrane-like life without intelligence and let it grow into a Dyson membrane!

The problem that originally belonged to materials science and energy science was suddenly turned around by Sergei and became a biological problem.

The root of all concepts has returned to the most primitive level.

Plants.

Photosynthesis.

Quantum physics.

Quantum biology.

Einstein proposed the wave-particle duality of light as early as the 20th century.

In the cognition of the first to second level civilization, all energy in the universe seems to be divided into countless categories, but their essence is waves. At the same time, when this energy wave shows regular movement, it will be transformed into matter.

The ultimate essence of all energy such as light, radiation, heat energy, electrical energy, etc. is waves.

Light is the form of energy that is easiest for humans to understand.

The Earth has been around for 4.55 billion years, and has been illuminated by the sun for 4.55 billion years.

In the long history of the Earth, life originated, cell structures became complex, and microorganisms, plants, and animals were formed...

Plants are producers.

The so-called producers are those that use sunlight as energy to complete photosynthesis to form organic matter, which is eventually used and consumed by animals and nature and then returns to heat energy.

This heat energy is constantly dissipating into the universe through the atmosphere.

Assuming that the atmosphere is an inward-closed existence and heat energy cannot be dissipated, then the mass of the earth must have been increasing.

This increased part is the weight of light.

When light shines on the earth, in addition to being reflected back into the universe, it will also be partially absorbed by the earth, so the earth will be impacted by light pressure.

This light pressure may be extremely small, but it exists objectively.

This is the qualitative expression of light energy.

After the birth of plants, the emergence of chlorophyll has brought about a qualitative change in the earth's absorption efficiency of sunlight.

Before humans mastered antimatter technology, photosynthesis was still the most efficient and incredible way of energy utilization that humans had seen.

It is full of the mystery of nature.

Its birth is like a benevolent gift from the universe.

The moment the light hits the leaves and enters the chlorophyll,

the light is absorbed and transformed into a piece of pure energy.

This piece of energy transcends the limitations of time and space, annihilates at the level of light, and is born out of nothingness at the level of chlorophyll, accurately hitting the uncertain electron, knocking it away, and finally catalyzing a series of reactions to generate ATP.

Sergey's inspiration came from photosynthesis, from the incredible ultra-high efficiency quantum conversion in the process of conversion from light to matter, which is enough to transcend the shackles of time and space.

Sergey absorbed all the knowledge of his predecessors, especially all the achievements of another great biologist Lai Wenming, and simulated and designed a piece of artificial DNA sequence.

This is a great life that should not appear naturally in the universe.

More than two hundred years later, the generation of experts from the School of Life Sciences transformed this DNA sequence from theory into reality, and merged it into two seeds, which were carried by different spacecraft to two points corresponding to the north and south poles of the solar system.

The two seeds absorbed light in the vacuum of the universe, germinated and grew, and grew into a huge membrane that was as thin as a cicada's wing but could withstand solar wind and cosmic radiation.

After several decades, the two membranes finally completed precise docking in the ecliptic plane, becoming an olive-shaped giant egg that enclosed the orbit between Saturn and Uranus.

It is both a machine and a living thing.

It survives in the vacuum of the universe and completes photosynthesis.

Unlike the quantum reactions that occur in a tree, the quantum reactions related to photosynthesis in the Dyson membrane are even more amazing.

It can be understood in this way: a beam of light shines on the Dyson membrane on one side of the solar orbit, and the energy that can knock electrons away may be generated on the other side of the solar orbit diagonal.

At this moment, the energy spans a distance of 3 billion kilometers, which is infinitely times the speed of light.

Unlike ordinary plants, the electrons knocked out of the Dyson membrane will not immediately collide with the elements to generate ATP, but will spiral and converge into a huge current, spiral around the Dyson membrane, and eventually form a huge coil that conforms to Ampere's law, forming a huge electromagnetic field that is co-orbital with the magnetic fields of the north and south poles of the sun.

This voltage that drives the current flow is infinite in the current understanding of humans.

Humans use this voltage difference to build parallel circuits on the Dyson membrane, and construct a huge ultra-long-distance microwave power transmission network in the solar system space, sending electric current to various planets and space bases to provide energy for humans.

When Tang Tianxin's fast shuttle was heading to the outer orbit of Uranus, it changed direction from time to time to avoid the microwave power transmission network that was invisible to the naked eye. On

the other side, accompanied by the spiral surge of electric current, electrons converged on the biological core at the south pole of the Dyson membrane.

The electron flow was classified here, first returning to the original energy again, and then re-condensing into matter.

Quarks were born.

Atoms, neutrons, and electrons were born again.

At the south pole of the Dyson membrane, energy directly generated hydrogen and hydrogen isotopes composed of protons and electrons.

These isotopes, like the hydrogen in the sun, undergo a violent fusion reaction to generate isotopes with larger atomic weights on the periodic table, and eventually grow into giant biobatteries like fruits. The

mass-energy conversion is brought to its extreme here, and pure energy becomes real matter.

This is equivalent to directly converting solar radiation from energy to matter, and it is a new, infinitely usable new energy source.

Its output is unlimited.

The sun is immortal and will never stop.

Chen Feng quietly looked at the Dyson membrane, imagining the huge and incomprehensible electric current inside, and took a deep breath. He

could only sigh that it was great.