Deep Space Wandering Fleet-Chapter 560 - 557: The Final Project

During their conversation, Zhang Yuan suddenly had an idea, could it be that the entire human educational system also needed reform?

To achieve better Spiritual Quality, did humans need to go through more suffering education?

He pondered for a while and then laughed at the absurdity of himself; considering human nature, it was very difficult to force suffering education, otherwise, there would be another rhythm of government oppression leading to public backlash...

"Tool man, oh, I am completely and utterly, the tool man of the entire New Human Civilization!"

Ye Kaifu still liked to complain, prattling on as always.

"Opening your eyes to this world, there’s no other mission than to make you work. They’d even prefer to give you a shovel to dig into the ground, where digging mines for a day still wouldn’t match the amount needed for the Planet Engine to eject for even a second."

"Of course, all one could do was to work; without it, the whole civilization would collapse... and we’ve been working up to now."

"Now we’re finally about to finish, which is great!"

Although he said this, his face showed a look of reflection.

An optimistic fighting spirit was prevalent among the Transcendents; after all, isn’t struggle something one experiences in any world?

"It’s fate!" Zhang Yuan scoffed, "Before, when they made you mine a hundred million tons, you complained endlessly. Now you must be elated, having mined a trillion tons!"

"Only a trillion tons?"

Speaking of his own labor achievements, Ye Kaifu became quite enthusiastic: "We’ve performed a series of cuts on that Planet Fortress, dividing the inside into many areas while maintaining its mechanical structure."

"In the approach to the neutron star, it will inevitably be pulled by gravity, and just relying on the kinetic energy of the Planet Engine is not enough to maintain a preset orbit. So, materials must be periodically ejected to stabilize it."

"Moreover, we’ve installed high-efficiency magnetic field screens and pulse weapons on it."

Relying solely on the three-body motion to accelerate the collision of neutron stars was still a bit strained, after all, the mass of this Planet Fortress was much too small compared to that of two neutron stars.

Therefore, scientists planned to use various interstellar weapons and a large amount of matter from the Planet Fortress itself to induce a neutron star jet!

Ye Kaifu exaggeratedly said: "This is also the main reason for the large-scale production of Hydrogen Bombs; these nuclear bombs aren’t to bombard the neutron stars—no nuclear bomb could even harm a hair on a neutron star. Instead, the attempt is to blast the planet itself into dust at the last moment!"

Both neutron stars were relatively mild fellows, not the so-called pulsars.

But that did not mean they had no magnetic fields on their surface.

The structure of a neutron star is very complex; apart from neutrons at the innermost part, there are also protons and positrons on the surface. It is these charged particles that create the tremendous magnetic fields of neutron stars.

Having orbited each other for hundreds of millions of years, they have formed a periodic magnetic field steady-state structure.

So, why trigger the neutron star jet?

Mainly to break this stable magnetic field structure.

Magnetic fields can repel each other but also attract each other; if the magnetic field attraction between the two stars could be instantly increased, it would disrupt their mutual orbit and shorten the collision time.

This matter was, of course, very complicated. Initially, scientists had considered such a scheme but could not calculate an exact one...

"Have they calculated it now?" Zhang Yuan showed a bit of interest.

Ye Kaifu explained: "On one hand, it’s about using the fragmentation of the entire planet as raw material, ideally forming a scattered accretion disk."

In order to make the neutron star emit a pulse jet, raw materials were necessary, but since this area was too clean, no pulsar had formed from the neutron star.

However, if the planetary fortress eventually shattered completely under the pull of gravity, turning into a dust-like plasma cloud, this plasma would not fall directly onto the surface of the neutron star but would be transported along the magnetic field lines to the star’s magnetic poles, thereby generating intense pulsar waves.

Ye Kaifu vividly said, "This War Star will definitely crack open, but if it breaks into a few large pieces, it will quickly merge with the neutron star and, after an explosion, there will be nothing left."

"But what if it shatters into a cloud of dust?"

"That’s why we need to bury a large number of Hydrogen Bombs inside the planetary fortress, Hydrogen Bombs powerful enough to blow the planet to dust! When the planet is about to be torn apart by gravity, let it just ’bam’ explode cleanly into a cloud of dust."

"This cloud of dust won’t fall directly onto the neutron star but will orbit it. Under the effect of the neutron star’s strong magnetic field, it will start to emit pulses."

"Great idea!"

Zhang Yuan nodded, this indeed was an excellent idea they hadn’t thought of from the start.

"As for the reason behind the formation of the two neutron stars, we’ve already investigated it thoroughly. Actually, billions of years ago, there was a three-body system here, with two White Dwarf Stars, and a proper Constant Star."

"The Constant Star sandwiched in the middle really had it bad, the two White Dwarf Stars slowly drained it completely dry, then forming the two neutron stars."

"One of the neutron stars’ magnetic poles is actually tilted and does not coincide with its axis of rotation, creating a fairly large angle."

"If handled well, the regular X-ray pulses generated by this neutron star could be skewed and emitted, attracted by the other neutron star."

"Inside the neutron star is neutrons, and on the very outer layer is some positrons; the X-ray pulses are in fact electrons... These regularly generated X-ray pulses, once attracted to another planet, would result in annihilation reactions, disrupting the magnetic field balance, and then the mutual attraction between magnetic fields could accelerate the collision!"

Zhang Yuan understood the whole principle and said with a smile, "No wonder you guys have been working with so much nuclear fuel on the Jupiter-like planet, you’ve thought of a new plan: to make Hydrogen Bombs. But how many Hydrogen Bombs would be needed to blow up a planet?"

"That bit of nuclear fuel is just a drop in the ocean." Ye Kaifu shook his head, "Compared to the mass of a planet, it’s not even a drop in the bucket; we need to produce many, many more nuclear bombs! These next few years we need to put in even more effort!"

...

Days passed by, one after the other, and the Hydrogen Bombs crammed the planetary fortress to the brim.

The Hydrogen Bombs of the new era, of course, were not the radioactive element tritium, but Deuterium Bombs, or simply Helium-3 Nuclear Bombs, which were ignited by microwaves and did not contain radioactive elements, allowing for very long storage times.

Zhang Yuan’s days were quite cheerful, in this new century, he met many old friends once again.

He turned out to be the youngest, like Comrade Ye Kaifu, who was already over three hundred years old, which meant he had diligently worked in this world for three hundred years...

Of course, in this society, the difference in physiological age wasn’t much of an issue; it had always been the system where the able rose and the mediocre fell.

There were more job positions than people, and as long as one was genuinely interested in working properly, they could always find a job that fit them.

In this period, Zhang Yuan also encountered Li Zhendong, the old bastard, and many former colleagues.

"Li Zhendong? I thought you were dead! You’re alive again!"

Zhang Yuan hugged him with excitement, his emotions stirred.

What he was most worried about was whether this guy could pass the Extraordinary Test, because Li Zhendong was just too unserious.

"Ah, I was really about to die, sucked into womanizing so deeply that I couldn’t extricate myself, those girls were too tempting, so many beautiful bodies... Then I suddenly came to my senses... That’s not fun, that’s not moral! One must be a person with morals."

Li Zhendong said loudly in self-admiration: "Why the sudden realization? Because I love the color white, it represents purity! I also love blue, it represents the color of the sky, I love joyfully soaring through the sky! I don’t like pink!"

"You’re so disgustingly corny!" Zhang Yuan pushed him away with a look of disdain, then burst into gales of laughter.