Light Speed ​​War

Chapter 280: Quantum Backflow

"Then how will you rescue your companion?"

"Utilizing a phenomenon similar to quantum backflow."

Quantum backflow? In everyday life, the direction of motion of objects is always the same as the direction of their momentum. In the quantum world, particles possess a unique property: they can move in the opposite direction of the force they are propelled by.

Zhou Yuan lowered his head and pondered for a moment. He was only making a guess, estimating that the human race launched some kind of "propulsion" body, and the human photonic consciousness trapped in the energy trap and invaded by the intelligent race's information body would undergo a similar "quantum backflow" under the "propulsion" body, thus breaking away from the intelligent race's information body.

"Is there anything I can do?"

"No need, just prepare the cascaded consciousness storage device. Zhou Yuan, thank you."

Zhou Yuan had mixed feelings about the human race. To some extent, they were autocratic, but at times they were also "polite." Like these two times they entered the fifth-dimensional space portal, the humans had lied to him. However, if he put himself in their shoes, what the humans did didn't seem excessive, and was somewhat understandable. If he were in their shoes, he would have made the same choice. Last time, the humans did it to destroy the intelligent race's super-body droplet cultivation field; super-body droplets were the best weapon to attack the six-dimensional space black hole barrier. This time, the humans were trying to save their companions.

The super-body droplet slowly approached the huge topological manifold light cluster. Seven or eight days later, at Lefia's prompting, Zhou Yuan stopped the super-body droplet from moving.

The enormous topological manifold of light, shifting like demonic fire, took on all sorts of bizarre shapes, leaping and bounding left and right.

Zhou Yuan instructed Nana to activate all the fleet's detection equipment. Only the space detection technology equipment taught by the five-dimensional humans could detect the enormous topological manifold of light. Other advanced detection equipment manufactured in three-dimensional space, such as energy detectors and consciousness detectors, showed no change. Zhou Yuan estimated that this "invisible" energy trap was hindering his observation. Zhou Yuan's attempt to observe the technology and phenomena used by the five-dimensional humans to rescue their companions using a mechanism similar to "quantum backflow" was now impossible. For now, Zhou Yuan could only use the five-dimensional space detection technology equipment to observe the changes in this topological manifold of light.

About four hours after the super-droplet stopped moving forward, the huge topological manifold light cluster, which had been changing like demonic fire, suddenly went berserk and violently "impacted" in different directions. The speed was so fast that, on the spherical holographic screen, it looked like a ball of fire moving rapidly and producing a series of afterimages. These afterimages, however, formed a fractal structure that flowed in a loop.

Zhou Yuan knew that the fifth-dimensional human race had already dealt with this energy trap. He estimated that this illusory "fireball" phantom was the result of one or more "propulsions." Zhou Yuan had not observed gravitational waves or anything like that, so he didn't know how the human race achieved this "propulsion."

After circulating for forty minutes, the "fireball" phantom began to slow down. The topological manifold light orb began to vibrate slightly at its center. As it vibrated slightly, the size of the manifold light orb also became smaller and smaller, and its shape approached that of a sphere. After another ten minutes or so, the topological manifold light orb turned into a small, fixed spherical light orb and stopped changing.

Zhou Yuan noticed that a milky white halo had also appeared on the hull of the flagship escort ship. The milky white halo gradually disappeared and converged into the cascaded consciousness storage warehouse. He knew that the human race had successfully carried out "quantum backflow" and rescued two thousand compatriots from the energy trap created by the intelligent race.

The three human holy judges expressed their gratitude to Zhou Yuan again, and Zhou Yuan congratulated them on their rescue, without expressing any dissatisfaction with the two "lies" told by the human race.

Zhou Yuan then informed the Dean of the Academy of Sciences, Zhou Yuan, about the "quantum backflow" technology used by the human race to rescue their companions and the phenomenon of that huge topological manifold light cluster.

Seemingly to make up for what she owed Zhou Yuan, Lefia informed him that the Human Race's Holy Judgment Center had decided to give him a great gift. Lefia explained that the spherical light cluster after the "quantum backflow" contained residual information sponges from the intelligent race. The human race could perform "surgery" on the cluster, first separating it from the energy trap, and then transforming it into a super "light brain." This super "light brain" could better assist Zhou Yuan in his research into fifth-dimensional and even sixth-dimensional space. If Zhou Yuan agreed, the human race would bestow the super "light brain" upon the artificial intelligence Nana, making Nana smarter, more powerful, and most importantly, more "human-like."

Faced with the temptation of the human race's super "light brain" gift, Zhou Yuan couldn't help but be tempted. So he called Nana and told her about the human race's super "light brain" plan.

Zhou Yuan noticed that Nana's virtual body was flickering again, and a thought suddenly struck him.

“Master, from a safety perspective, this plan is extremely dangerous for you. I don’t know if I will still be the same person after I receive this super ‘light brain’, or if I will continue to obey your orders. However, the human race’s super ‘light brain’ plan is indeed very valuable. After all, with my current knowledge and abilities, research on the fifth and sixth dimensions cannot be of much help.”

"Nana, I know all of this. Since you don't want to, then let's just forget about it."

"Master, Nana will follow your orders."

"it is good."

Actually, Zhou Yuan had another idea in mind, which was to give Nana human consciousness. However, he was not entirely confident in controlling Nana with human consciousness. After all, if Nana, this artificial intelligence, had human consciousness, her abilities would be beyond his prediction.

Zhou Yuan had no choice but to put the matter aside and place his hopes on the humans on the two planets, since he didn't seem to lack time now.

Thinking of time, Zhou Yuan recalled the research results of the Imperial scientists that he had reported to him half a year ago. They believed that matter, energy, consciousness, and information were the four fundamental elements of the universe. In the fifth and sixth dimensions, consciousness and information dominated, while in the fourth dimension and below, matter and energy dominated. The characteristics of time were the watershed between the fourth and fifth dimensions, as well as the dividing line between the dominance of matter, energy, consciousness, and information.

After Zhou Yuan told Lefia that he had rejected the human race's super "light brain" project, Lefia didn't say anything, but simply relayed the message to the Holy Judgment Center, and the human race stopped mentioning the matter.

The human race seems quite interested in the spherical orb of light and hopes that Zhou Yuan can prepare a warship to house it. Human scientists will conduct a series of studies on the orb, after all, it is a remnant of the intelligent race.

Zhou Yuan did not refuse. Following the human scientists' request, he modified a warship. After the warship was modified, the humans "stripped" the spherical light orb, which was then placed and bound inside the modified warship. The human scientists then began their research.

Lefia informed Zhou Yuan that the human race had decided to stay in this space for a period of time, partly to study the spherical light cluster of the intelligent race, and partly to send out a specially made information code to summon their companions from other spaces to meet in this space.

Zhou Yuan believed that this space was safe for the time being and was not in a hurry to leave, so he did not refuse the human race's request, and the cascaded consciousness storage device manufacturing started again.

With abundant resources and energy, coupled with Zhouyuan's continuous and powerful technological advancements, the civilizations of Earth and the Horizon Planet developed rapidly. After nearly twenty years of rapid development, the humans of both planets were now capable of interstellar travel. In their respective planetary orbits, the humans of both planets built shipyards and began manufacturing spaceships and warships. Earth's empire's technology began to be put into practical use, such as modular manufacturing technology.

Under Zhou Yuan's arrangement, one of the four nine-star orbiting systems was opened to the humans of the two planets, allowing them to voluntarily migrate and develop planetary towns. Zhou Yuan promised these colonists better living conditions and rewards. A migration boom arose among the humans of the two planets.

While the current level of prosperity on Horizon Earth is slightly less than that of Earth, its potential for future development seems to be better. Zhou Yuan attributes this to the unity of the people, which in turn benefits from the fact that the people of Horizon Earth all believe in the "Du" religion. Although some people on Earth also believe in the "Du" religion, they make up less than half of the population.

Zhou Yuan began to consider building an Earth Empire fleet, but he needed a reliable and suitable person to be his deputy. Therefore, Zhou Yuan had to select from ten outstanding military personnel from the human databases of the two planets provided by Nana.

Because these ten outstanding individuals are all humans whose consciousnesses have undergone mirror-symmetric transformation, Zhou Yuan cannot modify or edit their consciousness stream data. Instead, Zhou Yuan simulates the mirror-symmetric transformation of these ten individuals' consciousnesses. After the transformation, he allows this consciousness to grow in virtual reality, lead military forces to complete various tasks, and observes their leadership, command, military talent, military management philosophy, learning ability, technological mastery, consciousness deficiencies, completion time, etc. He then comprehensively scores and ranks them based on their various abilities.

About ten days later, the ranking of the ten people came out. Zhou Yuan noticed that the first two were from the Flat Earth and the third was from Earth. All three of them were from the Earth Empire Military Academy. Coincidentally, all three of them were believers in the "Du" religion.

The Earth Empire Military Academy, also located on the main planet of the Empire, is one of the three major institutions of the Earth Empire, along with the Imperial Academy of Sciences and the Imperial Star Bureau. Zhou Yuan intends to transform the Military Academy into the Imperial Fleet.

Zhou Yuan and Lefia decided to personally go to the Earth Empire Military Academy to meet these three people.

The little bee-shaped spaceship, carrying Zhou Yuan and Lefia, arrived at the Empire's main planet in no time. Zhou Yuan first inspected the Imperial Star Administration, demanding that it plan and lay out the four nine-star orbiting-the-sun systems with a forward-looking vision and advanced awareness. He would personally plan the ten-star orbiting-the-sun system. Then, Zhou Yuan met with Label Zhou Yuan and listened to the progress of the Empire's scientists' advanced research and the absorption, digestion, and utilization of technology. Given the importance of research on five-dimensional space, six-dimensional space, and other spatial and temporal aspects, Zhou Yuan decided to establish a special important institution within the Academy of Sciences: the "Space-Time Research Bureau," which includes the "Time Research Institute," "Space Research Institute," "High-Dimensional Space Information Research Institute," "Light Quantum Consciousness Research Institute," and "High-Dimensional Space Mathematics Research Institute," among others. This time, Zhou Yuan emphasized mathematics.

The Imperial Military Academy is located 400 kilometers northwest of the capital city of the main planet.