He was pleased with the huge scale of the Orion Arm human race, but disappointed that he had not seen higher technological development.
The expansion of the Empire's territory mainly came from some of the Achievers that broke out of the solar system five hundred years ago and took root in different places.
In addition to the Quantum Leap Stargate, the new technologies created by humans are generally within the scope of Chen Feng's imagination and reasoning.
He can understand it now, but it shows that the level of explanation is not enough.
The current total human population is about 3.5 trillion, and the average population size of each planetary system is 2.43 billion.
The number of star-class Dyson membranes built by humans is more than 100,000.
The population seems huge, and the total amount of energy mobilized is amazing, but it is still a quantitative change, not a qualitative change.
If the enemy was still just a spherical battleship, perhaps Chen Feng could have declared victory in advance.
But now Chen Feng's imaginary enemy has changed from a spherical battleship to a million-fronted ship of the Compound Eye civilization located in the galactic territory. He even considered the potential threat of the Compound Eye mother star located in the Virgo Local Group. It was obviously not the time to celebrate in advance.
He was disappointed on another level.
He didn't expect to see even a familiar name.
Tang Tianxin, Ding Hu, Lin Bu, Scott, Ouyang Zhenghua, Ou Qinglan, Dong Shan, Lu Xianfeng, Bond, Ye Luming and others were all missing, and even Na Weilun, Mathilde, Gaius, Charles, Lawrence, and Bainstar were all missing.
This time, the development and changes of human civilization are so great, and the solar system has suffered a more tragic genocide. Chen Feng has thought that some people will definitely be lost.
It is entirely possible that some of the ancestors of these acquaintances remained in the solar system, and then died in the ZS doomsday catastrophe.
But it would be too much if none of them were lost.
"Weixing, search these people again..."
He added more candidates to the list.
Chen Feng has a very good memory, and he is also deliberately trying to remember more useful people. He has at least thousands of names and thousands of people's voices and smiles in his mind.
He reported all the names at once, and at the same time, he also outputted facial photos by constructing pictures in his mind with the intensity of nearly a hundred faces per picture.
When the last wave of humans left the solar system, 21 billion of the 37 billion people left, accounting for more than half.
Even if we only consider the most basic probability statistics, some of the ancestors of so many acquaintances should have left.
Two hours later, Wei Xing: "Sir, we have completed the preliminary search and have not found any corresponding people. Do you want to continue?"
Chen Feng: "Ah?"
There is really not a single acquaintance!
This does not conform to his personal logic that seems to be a fallacy but is actually the truth, which he has summarized from his experience in continuous time travel.
It is impossible that the ancestors of all the people I care about are left in the solar system, or that the Endeavour they are on capsized?
How unlucky would it be for such a comprehensive low-probability event to happen?
Chen Feng rolled his eyes.
Are you kidding me!
It was simply a ghost.
He didn't want to accept this fact, but reality would not change because of his personal will.
"Allow 10% of the computing power to start a long-term search. Notify me if there is any news. If there is no news, keep searching. The other computing power will continue to focus on analyzing technology and the situation of the Morning Wind Empire."
After giving the order again, Chen Feng spent a full two hours to complete his psychological preparation and walked out reluctantly.
He also briefly read some other important historical materials.
For example, the solar dome disappeared from the solar system in 2589 and reappeared in the Neighboring Galaxy in 2599.
The basic population size of the migration from the solar system to the Neighboring Galaxy was close to 50 million. After more than 200 years of development, by 2599, the Neighboring Galaxy already had a population size of over 10 billion.
At that time, humans had already completed the fifth generation of Dyson membranes in the Proxima system, and there were three of them, making full use of the three stars of Alpha Centauri A, Alpha Centauri B and Proxima.
The Alpha Centauri system, which includes Proxima, is the second most prosperous human civilization after the parent solar system, and because of the existence of the three star system, it has sufficient energy and is considered to have great potential.
But all this came to an abrupt end after 2599.
The solar dome became the Proxima dome, and the same trick was used to release ZS bacteria.
This time, humans were prepared. They implemented strict quarantine from the beginning, quickly cleared the planet, and completely destroyed the infected space stations and ships. Therefore, the humans on Neighbor Bee quickly eliminated the threat of ZS bacteria after paying a small sacrifice, and the span was less than five years.
The result looks good, but the time that the Neighbor Bee dome tampered with the rules to maintain the existence of ZS bacteria was too short, and the energy did not seem to be exhausted.
After that, the Neighbor Bee dome did not disappear, and it has been shrouding the three-star system until now.
Humans in the Neighbor Bee system can no longer receive external information, their potential is suppressed, and their development slows down abruptly.
This situation is slightly different from the solar system in the previous timeline.
In the eighth timeline, the leaders of the solar system humans were not sure whether the humans who left had successfully built colonies, and they were unwilling to expose the existence of these colonies, so they never announced their own technology to the outside world.
In this timeline, Belinda still insisted on announcing its research results to the outside world through radio signals in order to help the Orion Arm humans outside.
But unknowingly, the Belinda civilization had already fallen behind the Orion Arm humans by several technological generations, but they did not know that they had fallen seriously behind.
The Belinda humans are still diligently announcing information to the outside world once every ten years on average.
The most recent announcement took place in 3015.
However, almost all the fields involved in the technological information database provided by Belinda were conquered by the Orion Arm humans outside 2,900 years ago.
But no one laughs at the "ignorance and backwardness" of our neighboring humans, they just feel sorry for them.
They should have been the most promising tribe, but they bore the greatest pressure for all mankind and became caged birds.
The Orion Arm humans also saw the strength of the invaders on the dome of the neighboring planet and never stopped trying to crack the dome, but they could not find a clue and still had no way to take the dome.
This dome is obviously a cosmic miracle that exceeds human cognition of the Grand Unified Theory.
Chen Feng got an important hint from this seemingly trivial information.
This proves Sergei's second conjecture about the solar dome.
Maintaining the alienation rules that do not conform to the natural laws of the universe will indeed continue to rapidly consume the dome's reserve energy.
When the energy is consumed to a certain extent, the dome will temporarily fail and disappear in an instant.
Previously, Chen Feng had suspected that the Compound Eyes had directly moved the dome away and transferred it to another galaxy.
Now that a 10-year blank period has been exposed, it means that the solar dome should have been recalled and recharged during these ten years.
This is certainly good news.
This exposes the upper limit of the ability of the stellar dome, and there should not be any means stronger than the ZS bacteria.
At the same time, this also partially exposes the upper limit of the means mastered by the Compound Eyes civilization.
Humans have established so many colonies, and Neighbor Planet was just the more outstanding one at the time.
But the Compound Eyes have only deployed one Neighbor Planet dome.
Do they not want more?
Obviously impossible, such a useful thing, the more the better.
Chen Feng made a bold assumption and then a decisive guess.
Only one was deployed because they simply had only one in their hands.
Chen Feng even speculated on the attack mode of the prism fleet this time.
The long-distance route preset by the Compound Eyes Civilization must be directed directly to Proxima.
After arriving, the Compound Eyes Civilization should adopt a strategy of dividing its forces.
Only a small number of prisms will be sent into the dome of Proxima, and the harvest will be completed in a few years. At about the same time, the dome will be transferred to the next planetary system for blockade.
Most of the other prisms will be dispersed and rush to different human colonies, using the super-long front line to create a huge meat grinder to quickly consume the human force, and use their super-strong mobility and search capabilities to first complete the cleanup in the Orion Arm, and then pursue those humans who fled outside the Orion Arm.
This pattern is exactly the same as the war between the Compound Eyes and the Mi Tribe.
However, the battleships of the Compound Eyes have undergone an upgrade and become the current Prism Ships.
Now Chen Feng has enough knowledge about the technological level of both sides.
Based on his understanding of the war, he believes that humans in the Orion Arm can last about 100 to 150 years.
The main range of human activities is only 5,000 light years in diameter, which is much smaller than the territory of the Mi Tribe that was spread throughout the galaxy at the time, and the population is much smaller.
This war will definitely not last for thousands of years and will definitely be lost.
As long as humans cannot destroy the Prism Ships, they will inevitably perish in the end.
Perhaps real star cannons or a large number of black hole bomb clusters can pose a threat to Prism Ships, but this is a bit taken for granted.
In the previous timeline, the reason why humans could always easily trap spherical battleships and successfully restrain their ability to instantly fold was because the compound eye individuals controlling the spherical battleships made a very personal judgment and firmly believed that humans could not break through the defense of the spherical battleships and their judgment was wrong. In addition,
the main function of the spherical battleship is only patrolling, and it is not the main combat equipment of the compound eyes.
When humans rushed out of the solar system in advance and quickly developed into today's third-level civilization, the compound eyes obviously could not take it lightly.
The opponent must have been fully prepared from the beginning and took a real war attitude. It is unlikely to easily trap and beat them up.
It is necessary to face more serious enemies. This is the price that humans must bear for rapid development.
Chen Feng also believed that in a cosmic war, it was meaningless and impossible to pretend to be weak.
So Chen Feng still believed that humans would lose.
As a warrior who almost always stood to the end, he was a firm defeatist in his heart. He was really twisted, but this was also his unique skill that supported him all the way to where he is today. It
took Chen Feng nearly a whole day to read all the important information, and he was a little tired.
He stretched his waist, stood up, and began to pace back and forth in the room, thinking about the problem.
It was time to make a decision whether to have in-depth contact with the colonial humans in this timeline and join the war in person.
To be honest, he had also had an illusion when he was inflated before.
That is, he is very important to mankind, and if he does not join the war, mankind will see no hope.
But now he has slowly changed his mind.
The concept of human warfare has changed from focusing on individual combat power to cluster warfare based on battleships or fighter planes.
Even if he goes back to the war and goes to the front line in person, he is just one of the trillions of soldiers. Even
if he is more outstanding and is considered a soldier king, he is still just a drop in the ocean in a war of such a scale.
He is not so inflated that he thinks that he can match a huge army alone.
As for his war experience, it seems important, but he has long left it in the "front page code" of "The Madman's Conjecture Collection", and it has also been discovered and repeatedly studied and researched by scholars, military leaders, political leaders, think tanks, etc. of all generations.
Therefore, Chen Feng now realized that he was not as important as he had imagined.
If the most advanced weapons of mankind were not individual equipment, then it would not matter whether he was there or not.
Now it was not many days before the Compound Eyes arrived at the neighboring star.
Even the Compound Eyes fleet might have entered the Orion Arm, but it had not yet escaped from the state of long-distance folding, and humans could not monitor it.
Even if he succeeded in exposing his identity on the spot and forced scientists to develop individual weapons for him, it would be too late.
Engineering pays special attention to the accumulation of experience.
This experience is not simply the application of technology, but also includes a lot of creative accumulation.
The core of engineering is how to combine the cutting-edge technology of the current era in a scientific and reasonable way to stably and reliably achieve a certain function and meet a certain need of mankind.
The process of combining technology may seem boring and tedious, but it is actually full of creativity and inspiration. It is not art but it is like art, just like the Wright brothers invented the airplane and Karl Benz invented the internal combustion engine.
Every invention and creation in engineering seems to be full of the smell of motor oil, but it is also the embodiment of the artistic talent of top engineers.
Quantum intelligence can accumulate some experience in technology application through simulation and help humans avoid detours, but in order to achieve innovation that meets human needs, people still need to come.
At present, human beings' design concepts for armor are still stuck five hundred years ago.
There have been huge generational differences in the level of science and technology in different eras.
The mechanisms of action of the components are all different, and past experience cannot be used. If Chen Feng wants others to design individual armor for him, he has to start over from scratch.
In just one month, it is unrealistic to make up for the 500-year technological stagnation and allow individual weapons to catch up with or even surpass other types of arms.
Without the most convenient and perfect equipment, even if he went there, he wouldn't be able to show his strength.
It would make even less sense if he settled for the next best thing and chose to board a battleship and become a carrier-based soldier.
With his commanding ability, he can barely handle the duties of a fleet commander.
But he is very self-aware that he does not have the talent and gifts like Tang Tianxin, and he may not do better than others.
He ventured to the front line, which looked very impressive, but if he was not careful and died in battle early, or was captured alive, that would be really tragic.
After careful consideration, Chen Feng took into account many factors and decided not to participate in the battle in person, but to hide in the dark, quietly steal information through Weixing's resonance channel, and continue to collect data in order to obtain more information.
This war between humans and the Prism Fleet will last for a long time.
There are so many different types of warships and fighter planes, different guns and missiles. Even if they cannot destroy the prism, the explosions and energy shocks caused by each explosion will always be different.
Scientists will continue to analyze and try to find more effective means of killing.
For example, what if the shock wave caused by the explosion of a special material from a certain planetary system can cause the prism shield to vibrate violently?
For example, the secretions of a certain creature on a low-level civilization planet can corrode the prism hull after continuous purification and strengthening?
Although this is an extremely low probability event, Chen Feng must always keep looking forward to it.
In short, his existence can make the defeat in this timeline meaningful.
He can remember these important matters and bury their clues in the history of the next timeline, so that human development can be focused.
His existence can infinitely magnify the little breakthroughs of mankind.
But if he died early, he would not know whether the human beings in this timeline succeeded or failed.
If they succeeded, he did not know, so his next change might lead to failure. If they
failed, he did not see it, and could not summarize the lessons learned, which was equivalent to sacrificing in vain.
Therefore, he is the bottom line of human value in the struggle.
As long as he is still alive, he can make failure meaningful, and he can also think of ways to maintain the momentum of success next time.
In the past, Chen Feng had no choice, so he had to go up. Now
he has a choice, and he can think more before making a decision.
He has found sufficient reasons and successfully convinced himself.
So he changed his mind and decided to be more utilitarian, to be a "cold observer" hiding in the dark.
Chen Feng reopened the star map and looked at the more comprehensive projection of information.
At this time, one thousand and twenty-four star gates and 14,358 colonized star systems have been marked.
There is also an expansion column behind the name of each colonized star system. After clicking it, you can see the comprehensive development parameters calculated by Weixing weighted, including population estimation, population distribution estimation, industrial production capacity index, scientific research capacity index, achievement transformation capacity index, art and culture index, current military strength index, comprehensive assessment of military potential, etc.
Each evaluation index can be further refined. For example, the current military strength index is composed of detailed indices such as the number of ships of different levels and sizes, the technological level of ships, the comprehensive quality of soldiers, the weighted special weapons, the weighted commander's comprehensive score, etc.
Although the accuracy of these evaluations made by Weixing is not high enough and there are many errors, as time goes by, the information obtained will become more and more comprehensive, and the conclusions will become closer to reality.
Chen Feng casually clicked on a prosperous planetary system, and the scale of the star map automatically zoomed out, and the field of vision focused on the vicinity of this planetary system.
"Total population size: 5.565454 billion. Workers: 3.71551 billion. Workers are distributed by industry..."
A huge planetary civilization was simply summarized by such a long string of numbers.
Chen Feng exited the planetary system again, and the scene returned to the vast territory of the Morning Wind Empire.
His eyes were as focused as sparks, with an indescribable sadness, guilt, and expectation.
He thought of the timeline when humans were trapped and died in the solar system.
He took a long breath and thought to himself.
Gathered together is a ball of fire, scattered is a sky full of stars.
When I stare at the night sky, I always imagine everyone's face.
I caused the destruction of the solar system, in exchange for a brand new Morning Wind Empire.
But I don't think this is just my credit.
Merit is merit.
Past is past.
I don't care what future generations say, I just ask myself if I can do better.
If possible, I still hope to save the solar system.
I will face up to my own merits and demerits, and truly take up the responsibility of leadership again.
I will no longer have the slightest idea of being rushed.
I will respect my own choices, I will no longer fear responsibility, pain, mistakes, or hesitation.
This time, I will just stand by and watch!
On October 17, 3020, a fleet of 999,999 prismatic battleships appeared one light year away from the neighboring star, 10 days earlier than arriving in the solar system in the previous timeline.
The war started.
Chen Feng's Morning Breeze II was in the dark universe less than five light years away from the battlefield, heading away from Proxima Centauri and toward a seemingly empty planetary system ahead.
There was an unmanned space junk dump.