Deep Space Wandering Fleet-Chapter 600 - 596: Abyssal Material Plan

An hour passed, two hours passed... This individual from the Ji Haman Civilization, stricken with dementia, did not move at all and remained quietly in its place.

It was the first time humans had come into contact with this somewhat odd Level 5 Civilization, and although they were extraordinarily curious, they dared not ask too much and simply contemplated the information they had just received.

Zhang Yuan frowned and began to think hard.

"...After altering its philosophical thinking capability, a Level 5 Civilization individual should, in theory, also be able to modify its thinking speed. This insect looks sluggish, but that’s not actually the case. Its thinking speed could far surpass that of humans by a thousandfold or even ten thousandfold, making it necessary to omit most facial expressions..."

"Yes, with such a rapid thinking speed, there’s no need for facial expressions. Speech pace and tone are also irrelevant."

Recalling his initial encounter with the Hicks Civilization and the state of strong artificial intelligence he experienced, Zhang Yuan was somewhat able to comprehend this phenomenon.

In this large plaza, there were many transport ships coming and going, and many aliens as well. It seemed that Earth’s gravity at 0.98 times was a generally adaptable gravitational environment, allowing many aliens to survive normally. That’s why this bulk trade market was established here.

From the most common iron element to rare earth elements, and then to gold, platinum, and various conventional nanomaterials, everything was available. The basic trading units here were antimatter energy or Amoeba Points.

Much like a securities exchange market, the price indices of various bulk commodities fluctuated around value. With enough speculative skill, one could even obtain certain profits just from speculation.

Zhang Yuan obtained another piece of information and took a deep breath before carefully reading it.

The Dyson Sphere was not only a place for trade but also a site for scientific research.

First off, the first major scientific plan was named "Abyssal Material," a project initiated by the Level 6 Civilizations, the Amoeba Civilization and the Tabi Civilization, which aimed to explore the properties of all conventional materials exhaustively. Currently, the exploration progress was at 50.7%...

It included a long list of member names, starting with the Deep Red Industrial Union, the Hicks Civilization, and others!

And there were some names that he had never even seen before.

Zhang Yuan’s pupils slightly constricted—the "Deep Red Industrial Union" was the Level 5 Civilization that had destroyed the Green Star Civilization, sharply ideological, yet they could still cooperate...

This indicated that the Amoeba Faction indeed had wide connections and exceptional capabilities.

Most crucially, the ambition of this "Abyssal Material" plan genuinely surpassed human imagination—it aimed to explore the physical, chemical, and biological properties of all conventional materials among others!

Everything!

If the exhaustive method were used to arrange all elements into materials, including numerous biological materials like various proteins, the total might be around 10^120.

So, what was the quantity explored by the New Human Civilization?

About 10^70, and by using some algorithms to eliminate a large amount of useless materials, the progress that humans could achieve was about 10^80.

The rest would have to rely on time to accumulate gradually, or depend on improvements in computing power and algorithms...

You see, 10^80 is nowhere near half of 10^120!

The difference was 40 orders of magnitude, not even close to a fraction of a fraction!

Yet this so-called "Abyssal Material" plan had actually completed 50.7% of its progress, certainly an impressive and even shocking achievement!

Think about it, nearly half of the material properties had been fully explored—materials for curing cancer, treating dementia, or even restoring youth, how powerful is that?

"We want to temporarily join and access all the data, and we need to pay... 1.1022 million Amoeba Points? Cough cough..."

Zhang Yuan almost choked on his own saliva, "That’s a huge sum that only Level 5 Civilizations or Level 6 Civilizations could afford, right?"

The Foreign Minister next door, Yang Fan, said, "However, we can submit some materials that have not yet been explored in exchange for some of their data."

"We could also use Amoeba Points to specifically purchase some needed materials from the trade market. If we’re only buying one or two types, it wouldn’t be too expensive."

"We could even purchase on credit and then repay it by producing large quantities of materials."

After discussing for a while, everyone felt that the materials already explored by humans, when faced with the "Abyssal Material" plan that had already completed half of its scope, were basically insignificant.

However, purchasing some new materials, especially various medications, turned out to be a cost-effective choice.

The discipline of materials science always lagged behind in engineering, and the demand of humans for it was endless. This demand was genuinely infinite.

If a material could resist a billion degrees of high temperature emerged, humans could implement Controlled Nuclear Fusion Technology in minutes—why would there be a need to develop it over one or two hundred years?

If there were materials a hundred million times stronger than steel, space elevators could use rigid body structures—why would it need to be so complex?

As long as the materials are strong enough, wouldn’t it be easy to perform miracles?

However, the reality is that conventional materials have nearly reached their limits, and advancing even one step further is immensely difficult. This is truly regrettable. Materials composed of chemical bonds or metallic bonds could never be a hundred million times stronger than steel.

So, how was the Dyson Sphere constructed? The answer is: unconventional materials. ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm

This document described the relevant information about the Dyson Sphere: the main material required for the entire Dyson Sphere was a substance called "Cadlinix."

Cadlinix was not a conventional material but an intermediate substance between matter and antimatter, a subatomic fluid material that only Level 5 Civilizations could mass-produce.

It formed the framework of the Dyson Sphere, much like the rebar in a building. If based on some theories currently held by the New Human Civilization, its operating principle might be what’s called "strong interaction."

It was precisely these super materials that prevented the rigid body structure of the entire Dyson Sphere from collapsing under the force of gravity.

For these still mysterious "unconventional materials," people naturally had greater interest. Unfortunately, it was not part of the "Abyssal Material" plan and could not be obtained cheaply. If one truly wished to purchase it, the price was astonishingly high, starting in the tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands.

Seeing this, Zhang Yuan firmly stamped his foot on the metal floor below, which should be the so-called "Cadlinix." Regrettably, humans had no way to experience what this stuff actually looked like.