After Li Wenjia finished speaking, Lin Ke immediately showed another image in front of him.
In a workshop as bright as day, a lump of iron, tangled with wiring, sat still. The room was sparsely populated, but Jiang Ling, perceptive, still spotted a clue from its surface: those slow-moving, insect-like objects were actually trucks laden with cargo! The exposed wiring was as wide as a giant's veins, and the entire machine resembled a living tumor, twitching and trembling like an alien monster in a film or TV series, sucking nutrients from the earth. It was perhaps the most massive device ever constructed by humanity, not necessarily advanced, but wild enough, like Earth's first electronic computer.
Jiang Ling stared at it for a long time, but her thoughts were distinct and her focus was unique. "It has a somewhat crude aesthetic. I mean, isn't it incomplete?"
"Indeed, this picture was taken before it was completed. At that time, it was still lacking a starter." Lin Ke gave a thumbs-up. "It's called the 'Retractable Vacuum Drive Technology Demonstration Machine'. It's hollow inside, and was supposed to hold two micro black holes."
"Originally." Jiang Ling emphasized the word again, "Then you must have made some changes in the middle of the experiment. And now you come to me again, which means that there is something wrong with your experiment."
"Unfortunately, nothing went wrong," Li Wenjia said. "It's just that the experiment simply didn't proceed." He paused. "Why do you think we included two black holes in the original plan? It's because our universe is much more resilient than we imagined. The three-dimensional space-time we live in is like an extremely resilient spring, easily stretched and compressed by strong gravity, but difficult to penetrate.
"Scientists' solution to this problem is to use black holes, preferably multiple black holes precisely aligned, so that it is possible to stretch space-time within a certain area to its limit. It's like a wrinkled membrane. Only by completely stretching it can it be punctured with minimal force.
"But it's clear that we don't have the ability to create a black hole—or even to capture one."
"Wait, a black hole can't do that?"
"No, if a Schwarzschild black hole could do that, it would disappear from conventional space." Lin Ke waved his hand, and a four-dimensional space diagram of a black hole appeared below the image. "You see, space-time is smoothed out near the event horizon of the black hole. It does not break up, but instead converges into the black hole's mass singularity. Most previous models believed that the singularity of a black hole is a point where the radius tends to zero, but current research has found that black hole matter cannot collapse infinitely and will have an extremely dense core. Space-time plays a crucial supporting role in this process, so no matter how strong the gravity is, it cannot destroy the information contained in the matter."
"If even a black hole can't do it, then why do you think I can do it?" Jiang Ling asked curiously.
They answered in unison: "Because of psychic powers."
Li Wenjia said, "Remember the time Lao Ning took you on a submarine ride? Humans still haven't been able to replicate curvature flight, but your psychic abilities have enabled you to do so."
"Ah? So you all knew about this?" Jiang Ling touched his nose.
Lin Ke nodded and explained, "That mark has lasted for decades. It's hard not to notice it."
Li Wenjia continued, "We've seen you rubbing diamonds by hand more than once. While automated factories can produce these, the manufacturing equipment would fill several football fields."
"Other people with psychic sensitivity are not as outrageous as you." Lin Ke agreed.
"Well, that's because I'm in a bad mood! I get angry, I get angry, I get angry..." Jiang Ling said while rubbing her hair, as if her little secret had been discovered.
"Don't worry, there are no outsiders here." Lin Ke saw her doubts.
Li Wenjia added, "The above two points aren't the reasons we came to you. After all, someone with such high research value like you should be assigned directly to the lab, not sent to the trenches."
"To be honest, the Countermeasures Bureau started researching you a long time ago. Perhaps even earlier than the reverse engineering of the rings, energy particles, super data storage cores, and psychic universal agents," Lin Ke said. "Perhaps you have always had a human self-awareness in your heart, but to others, you are fundamentally different from humans." It paused. "Now, I can finally say this - you are not human."
"I'm not human?" Jiang Ling's eyes widened. "But I'm just like you. My body is symmetrical, I'm prone to making mistakes, I live in the same world, I eat the same food, I speak the same words, and I think about the same things... Why are you expelling me from the human race?"
The shadow of the Earth in the center of the room transformed into Li Wenjia's body. It shook its head, a look of resignation on its face. "Remember the clones of yours I saw when I arrived? They were only a handful of the clones we created from various cells in your body," it said. "We've tested your somatic cells, stem cells, egg cells, and even your blood cells. They're all immortal. They won't naturally divide or die naturally after leaving the body. After artificial induction, they can easily transform into totipotent cells and develop into new individuals. This is something no Earth creature could achieve, not even an Awakened being with exceptionally strong recovery abilities."
"All of your clones possess similar strength to yours, and some are even stronger. The only difference is probably their dietary needs," Lin Ke said. "Their energy consumption is very high, so their energy is not sustainable. This also applies to development and growth." It displayed another image, showing a nearly empty incubation tube. "This is one of the few embryos that was successfully cultivated using your egg cell through in vitro fertilization. It's been seven thousand years, and it has only developed to the blastocyst stage."
"Wait, wait, I'm going to be a mother? Who is the father?" Jiang Ling said with a flushed face.
Lin Ke turned to look at Li Wenjia, and after receiving authorization, he said: "The father is your acquaintance, Ruan Danxin. Of course, neither of you knew about it."
"According to current Community law, you now have the right to name him. When he matures, he will obtain the subordinate information of your Community citizen ID card," said Li Wenjia.
"Let's call him... Yan, right?" Jiang Ling thought for a moment, "I'm more traditional, so let him take my last name."
"The information has been recorded. Your wish will be automatically recorded when he performs the knowledge transplant." Lin Ke replied coldly.
At this time, Li Wenjia's voice sounded again: "Let's get back to the topic. Jiang Ling, the reason we're looking for you is actually very simple. Your clones can't meet the requirements to start the experiment, so we can only rely on you now."
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