Chapter 13
Under this gaze, Chen Xi smiled and greeted them. Then he saw the eyes of these orange-red-eyed machines flash, and their handsome and delicate faces tried their best to smile at him.
This familiar reaction immediately put Chenxi at ease. Hmm, although the eye color was different, it was still the familiar machine race.
Later, through Jin Yi's introduction, Chen Xi learned that these handsome men with orange-red eyes were a special group of the machine race. To put it simply, they were all technicians, mainly engaged in research and development. Most of the machine race's current new technology research and development achievements came from them, while the rest appeared with a small probability in the vast majority of ordinary machine races.
Compared to the dark red-eyed machine race, the orange-red-eyed research-oriented machine race is much smaller in number, but its importance is self-evident. They are also relatively homebodies, mostly engrossed in research and development, and rarely venture out.
However, this time, because of Chenxi's matter, they couldn't stay any longer and immediately went to the mastermind. They believed that if Jin Yi didn't let them come, they would collectively go on strike.
Jin Yi felt that their reasons for applying made sense. Professional matters should be left to professionals. Humans have been gone for too long, and their infrastructure for serving humanity is no longer up to par. Various situations need to be considered, and it is most appropriate to entrust such matters to meticulous and thoughtful technical personnel. Therefore, he gladly allocated ten slots to them to form a team to improve Chen Xi's quality of life.
Then these key technical personnel no longer cared about striking, but instead fought tooth and nail for those ten spots. In the end, these ten champions stood before Chen Xi.
Chen Xi had no idea what kind of bloody battles these smiling, benevolent machine races had gone through to get to him. He looked at them curiously and started talking to them.
Chen Xi knew why these machine races had come, but he felt he was already very satisfied with his current life. It was like living in paradise, and he couldn't think of any way to improve himself. So he just wanted to chat with them and thank them for coming all this way. But soon, he realized he was wrong.
"Look, these are some of the most popular flying car models and personal aircraft in human history. Of course, there are also these newly designed concept drawings. If there's anything you like, we can send you the blueprints now and have the base build it. When you arrive at the base, you'll be able to see all the flying cars and personal aircraft you like..."
When Chen Xi saw the various car models displayed by the other party, especially those bionic cars with powerful and cool designs, whose scales seemed to open and close freely as if breathing, and which were accompanied by the roar of wild beasts, she couldn't take her eyes off them.
"What style of accommodation do you prefer at the base? Would you like this rooftop garden style, a steel nest-like structure, or perhaps a more retro Eastern palace style or a majestic ancient castle style..."
Chenxi's voice went silent.
"The starship you are currently on is just an ordinary starship. A custom-made starship for you is under construction, equipped with various special features designed specifically for you, and with a much more spacious interior..."
Chenxi stopped breathing.
"Look..."
"Look..."
Although the process of these orange-red-eyed machine races standing out from their fellow races was extremely fierce, the competition among the technicians was clearly still very principled. At the very least, each of these ten machine races had a deep understanding of human preferences and was absolutely qualified to complete the task of improving Chenxi's quality of life. The suggestions they made all hit the nail on the head regarding Chenxi's key issues.
After being knocked unconscious by the series of objects for a while, Chen Xi finally regained his voice, but his subconscious reaction was still, "Let's not take these, the cost is too much..."
However, before Chenxi could finish speaking, a low laugh came from behind her. Chenxi turned around and saw Jin Yi's eyes filled with laughter.
Chenxi looked at him with some doubt. Was what he said wrong?
Then, the next moment, Jin Yi took a step forward, gently put his hand on Chen Xi's shoulder, helped him turn around, and said to him, "I have something to show you."
As he finished speaking, a strange change occurred in the starship cabin they were in. The alloy wall on the outside slowly became transparent until it was like glass, allowing them to clearly see the starry sky outside.
A few minutes later, Jin Yi said to Chen Xi, "Look, in that direction."
Following Jin Yi's pointing finger, Chen Xi looked in the direction he indicated. At first, he couldn't see anything clearly, but the starship was moving very fast. Gradually, the originally tiny celestial bodies were magnified, allowing Chen Xi to see them more clearly. At this moment, Chen Xi realized something was wrong, because he discovered a very strange "planet" in the direction Jin Yi had shown him.
It was a "planet" with a very smooth surface and a metallic luster, which looked strangely out of place among the celestial bodies in space. As the distance continued to close, Chen Xi couldn't help but open his mouth in astonishment, because as the distance decreased, he finally saw that the so-called "planet" was actually made up of pieces of metal. Obviously, it was a man-made "planet".
It's obvious who created this man-made "planet".
Looking at the countless tiny metal pieces on that planet, Chen Xi couldn't even imagine how big they actually were. In short, it was definitely a huge project.
But why did Jin Yi and the others go through all that trouble to build a metal planet? And for some reason, Chen Xi always felt a sense of déjà vu about that metal planet, as if something was about to emerge from it.
At this moment, Jin Yi smiled at Chen Xi and said, "Can you remember what that was? Let me tell you its name, it's called a Dyson sphere."
Dyson! Ball!
Chen Xi's pupils suddenly contracted. At that moment, the vague sense of familiarity he had felt earlier finally broke through because of this name. He remembered everything. Chen Xi looked at the metallic planet again, his eyes filled with disbelief. "That's a Dyson sphere?! You mean, what's inside... the sun!"
Jin Yi nodded and said, "That's right."
The Dyson sphere is a concept that was proposed as early as the time of Chen Xi. That concept is an artificial celestial body that completely encloses a star using a hypothetical giant artificial structure, thereby obtaining most or all of the star's energy output.
Can you imagine? That would be equivalent to using a star as a power source, having a natural nuclear fusion reactor in space.
As we all know, stars, such as the Sun, possess enormous energy. Earth receives only a small amount of energy from the Sun, yet it sustains all life on Earth. So, imagine how terrifying it would be to capture all the energy of a star directly. With highly automated technology, energy would represent everything, a continuous source of wealth.
Unfortunately, in the era when Chen Xi lived, such things could only be imagined and only appeared in science fiction works. But he never thought that such things would actually come true now.
However, just as Chen Xi was staring intently at the Dyson sphere, Jin Yi whispered in his ear, "Do you know how many Dyson spheres we have right now?"
Chen Xi blinked, looking at Jin Yi somewhat slowly, "How many?"
11,822.
Chenxi lost the ability to speak again.
Jin Yi couldn't help but raise her hand and ruffle Chen Xi's black hair, and said softly with a smile, "The Dyson Spheres we have have about 20% left over after meeting our daily needs, so you can spend as much as you want within the range of more than two thousand Dyson Spheres. You really don't need to save for us, baby."
Two thousand Dyson spheres made Chen Xi feel a little dizzy. At that moment, he suddenly experienced the feeling of being incredibly wealthy.
Author's Note:
Zhihu Q&A: What's it like to be the richest person in the universe?
□□: Thanks for the invitation. Being in space, just leaving Earth, feels like having pocket money calculated in Dyson spheres.
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