You say you have an iron will, are you serious?

It is impossible to achieve 100% conversion of matter into energy.

However, it can be continuously improved through the recovery of dissipated heat, and through improvements in overall structure, combustion efficiency, and many other aspects.

Of course, what is referred to here is the overall thermal efficiency, not the efficiency of doing work at one time.

In the era of internal combustion engines, a thermal efficiency of over 50% is already unparalleled high efficiency, and can compete for the world's first place.

After the era of controlled nuclear fusion, we have now entered the era of dark matter, and thermal efficiency has been further improved.

When the dark matter engine in front of us shut down autonomously, the energy efficiency was statistically calculated to have reached an astonishing level of 85% overall.

Except for Zhao Mo, everyone was stunned by this data.

85% efficiency conversion means that only 15% of the energy is lost. This is unprecedented and beyond everyone's expectations.

In their view, an efficiency conversion rate of over 70% is already amazing enough.

Now it seems that they were too conservative.

Afterwards, everyone began to check various parameter data and the status of the engine.

When everything was completed, the second launch and testing began.

After three consecutive tests, everyone breathed a sigh of relief when all the test results came out.

Zhao Mo also breathed a sigh of relief. The test results were all OK, the performance reached the set target, the state after operation was stable and healthy, and it also achieved the self-repair designed in.

This shows that the dark matter engine has been successful!

Although the next step is to raise the dark matter engine to the lunar orbit to start the experiment again, to test the dark matter's self-collection and operation functions in space as well as other tests, Zhao Mo knows that there will be no problem.

"Okay, the test will continue tomorrow~"

Zhao Mo signed his name on the inspection confirmation report, gave some instructions, and then turned back to his office.

In my mind, a long-lost "ding" sound rang out. It was the sound of the "Iron Will System" being triggered.

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for completing the main mission one: Leading mankind to the sea of ​​stars. Please receive your reward!"

Zhao Mo sat in the office chair, looked at the attribute panel in his sea of ​​consciousness, and said inwardly: "Receive it!"

The next moment, the system voice sounded again: "Congratulations to the host for obtaining an attribute value of 1500000 points!"

“150 million???”

Even though Zhao Mo had already gotten used to the system, he couldn't help but be stunned at this moment. It was so generous this time that it directly rewarded 150 million attribute points?
The reward for completing a task has increased from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands in the past, but I didn’t expect that it has now exceeded one million. It is indeed a bit surprising.

Unfortunately, even with the one-time reward of 150 million, he is unable to upgrade now, and he still has a lot less.

Then, he added the 150 million attribute points to endurance, agility, and wisdom, and refreshed the panel:
{Iron Will System:

Host: Zhao Mo

Wisdom: LV9(1000000/1000000)
Strength: LV9 (10/1000000)

Agility: LV9 (593389/1000000)

Endurance: LV9 (1000000/1000000)

Attribute points: 0
Prizes: One chance for inspiration burst; one life-saving medal; one picture; one dimensional treasure box.

The only mission: to crack the secret of rebirth! }
Endurance and wisdom already have full attribute values, and he can upgrade to LV10 once strength and agility are full attribute values.

In addition, there are no main tasks or side tasks. Instead, the mission has been changed to the "only mission" to unlock the secret of rebirth.

"So, the system is almost reaching its peak?"

Zhao Mo had a premonition in his heart, and a hint of anticipation appeared on his face: "I wonder what it will be like to upgrade to LV10~ I really want to reach that level as soon as possible!"

At around seven o'clock in the evening, on Earth, news was reported that the "dark matter engine" had successfully carried out its first ignition test.

Not surprisingly, the news made the whole world boil again.

After years of continuous reports, billions of people on Earth and on the Moon know that the day the dark matter engine is built will be the day when humans break through the solar system and truly set foot in the interstellar space!
Now, even though we have spacecraft that allow us to conduct scientific research within the solar system and build scientific research bases or even settlements on any planet in the solar system, we still cannot say that we have truly set foot in the interstellar space. We can only say that we have just taken our first step.

We cannot reach the universe outside the solar system.

We can only launch unmanned spacecraft to explore, just like the four unmanned spacecraft launched in the past two years, but we cannot send them out.

The closest galaxy to the solar system is Alpha Centauri, 4.3 light-years away.

Yes, even light takes 4.3 years to travel the shortest distance!
At the speed the spacecraft is flying, by the time all the people on board have grown old and died, the spacecraft will not have reached that place, or may not even be able to fly there because the range is not enough.

On this hopelessly long journey, there is an even more hopelessly dark space, without any familiar environment, only various radiations and lights. In such a situation, it is naturally impossible to talk about setting foot in the interstellar space.

However, with the dark matter engine, it is different. It is faster and has a longer range, allowing an adult human to reach there within his lifetime.

According to previous publicity, once the dark matter engine is built, it will have truly unlimited endurance because its fuel is the dark matter that is ubiquitous in the universe.

Even in the dark universe where there is nothing but various radiations and lights, there is a massive amount of dark matter!

This was reported in the news reports.

So, at this moment, we humans can finally be said to have set foot in the interstellar space.

The heat lasted for more than half a month before people shifted their attention.

At this time, people realized belatedly that Zhao Mo, the real "father of the dark matter engine", did not appear in the report. Instead, it was another academician of both the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Liu Zhirong, who appeared.

People don’t care about the relationship between Zhao Mo and him as both a teacher and a friend, they just wonder why Zhao Mo didn’t show up?

So many people went to Zhao Mo's Weibo account to ask questions, and also went to the aerospace department, CCTV and many other official media accounts to ask questions.

Zhao Mo naturally did not answer, as he almost never used his Weibo account.

In the end, the aerospace department was afraid that the public opinion would escalate, so they took the initiative to respond: "Academician Zhao is very busy!"

Well, Zhao Mo is very busy!

This answer makes some people dissatisfied, but it is understandable because Zhao Mo is indeed very busy, and questions like "Zhao Mo's Three Questions" still exist.

At the same time, there are rumors that Zhao Shen is in charge of leading the construction of a real spaceship, the kind that can travel at the speed of light, and there are also rumors about curvature navigation, wormhole jumping, space shuttle, and so on.

Rumors are flying everywhere and can't be stopped.

In this situation, the official departments naturally remained silent, because there was no way to respond unless they produced something.

However, at this stage, apart from Zhao Mo, no one else knows how a real spacecraft will fly next and how it will deal with the vast distances in the universe that are often calculated in light years!

Of course, this is also because people have too high expectations for the dark matter engine and Zhao Mo.

People believe in Zhao Mo and believe that the dark matter engine can help humans set foot in the interstellar space and become an interstellar civilization and a cosmic race. This has a prerequisite, which is to solve the problem of how to break through the distant universe distances measured in light years in a short period of time!
Only when this problem is solved can human beings travel across several, hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of light years in a short period of time by spacecraft, and human beings can travel freely in the universe.

If we lower our expectations a bit, we still need to be able to travel freely within our galaxy.

In fact, if there was no such expectation and if the problem of crossing the vast distances of the universe in a short period of time had not been solved, it would not be a big deal and would still be worth writing about.

At least for now, even if we travel in a conventional way, humans can break out of the solar system and travel between nearby star systems in our lifetime.

We can even adopt a relay approach to build fortress-like spaceships, such as the legendary planet-class battleships, and cram a large number of people into them at one time, hundreds of thousands or even millions, where they can naturally reproduce and then spread out to nearby star systems.

This can also be done!

……

At this point in time, Zhao Mo finally completed all the tests of the dark matter engine and obtained comprehensive data.

Then, that same night he spent another night on the moon.

Looking at the dark matter engine running stably and spontaneously in the sky, Zhao Mo pondered for a long time and finally decided to use the "opportunity for inspiration burst".

That night, his office was brightly lit.

The next morning, without taking time to rest, he applied for a special channel and returned to Earth as soon as possible.

After landing, without taking a rest, he immediately went to the capital to hold a meeting with the higher-ups and various important departments and announced two things.

"First, the normal version of the spacecraft can begin construction."

"Second, I want to build a new type of spaceship for verification. At the same time, I also need to build a matching verification device. My plan is to build it here in the outer solar system!"

Zhao Mo spoke straight to the point, then took out three manuscripts.

On a manuscript, there is a spaceship that looks very similar to a spacecraft, but the size marked on it is twenty times that of a spacecraft, and its name is "ordinary version of spacecraft."

The second manuscript showed a spaceship that was also twenty times the size of a spaceship, but with a fighter-like appearance and an extremely sci-fi design. Or, rather than a spaceship, it was more like a space battleship.

Instead of the word "space battleship" on this manuscript, Zhao Mo wrote the name "new type of spaceship".

All the people present were big shots, so they were naturally not bored enough to comment on these two names. Their attention was immediately attracted by the "new spacecraft", and their attention was also attracted by the content on the third manuscript.

This is a picture. There are ten huge parts that are independent and connected to each other. It is very mysterious~ (End of this chapter)