The technological competition starts with the integration of space-time memory

Chapter 253 Under the Ocean
Li Tang frowned and said, "We are staring at Mark's [Invisibility], but we still can't find out how he is using that mysterious item?"

Zero said: “Yes, preliminary inference is that the mysterious object may be hidden somewhere, and Mark should be in contact with the mysterious object through the black jade pendant.

According to your idea, Dean, the mysterious object may be a consciousness wave communicator.

Then the consciousness waves it emits can obviously travel farther than the consciousness waves we can currently emit!"

"The distance that consciousness waves can be transmitted is greater than ours?"

Li Tang thought about Zero's words and felt as if he had grasped something.

He stood up and paced back and forth in the office, thinking rapidly in his mind.

Suddenly, he stopped and said, "Zero, immediately measure the transmission distance of the consciousness wave emitted by our consciousness wave player!"

Zero said: "Dean, when you first studied the consciousness helmet, you once measured that consciousness waves can only propagate no more than 20 meters.

But now the consciousness wave player is much better than before, and it takes about half an hour to complete the re-measurement."

Upon hearing this, Li Tang said, "Immediately arrange for a retest, and test the consciousness strength of the original version of the consciousness wave player. Um... we need to test the current version as well."

"Okay, Dean."

Li Tang was inspired by the mysterious object. Since the consciousness wave has an intensity value, its propagation should also have a corresponding distance.

The distance I measured at the beginning was no more than 20 meters, so it should not be a constant value.

Because of the distance limitation of the transmission at that time, he tried to find a way to bypass the direct transmission of consciousness waves.

The consciousness wave recording and storage chip is placed directly in the helmet, which is close to the receiver's brain to directly transmit and demodulate the consciousness wave.

Who would have thought that the mysterious object suspected to be a consciousness wave communicator could actually transmit very far. This suddenly opened Li Tang's mind.

Li Tang said again: "Zero, search and compare it from the Mark-related information database.

After Paimon, the former director of the Blue Grain Organization, sent out the mysterious item, did Mark go to any special place, a place suitable for storing things?

After all, Mark didn't have his own house at that time, so he should treat this thing as a treasure.

I will definitely find a proper place to store it, and then communicate through the black jade pendant."

"Yes, Dean."

Although no relevant data about Mark had been stored before that point in time, after Zero subsequently carried out monitoring at Damon's request, relevant information related to Mark had been stored in a separate database.

Zero immediately began to call on the laboratory's [Seiko] assistants to prepare for the relevant tests of the consciousness wave player, and at the same time carried out corresponding search queries in parallel.

With the operation of the [Mengying] platform and the surge in the number of registered logins, Li Tang has continuously upgraded and expanded the server running No. 0.

The super-giant supercomputer core system currently operated by Zero is no longer located in the underground city of the headquarters base, but has been moved to the newly built underwater city in the Pacific Ocean.

The supercomputer system in the underground city of the headquarters base has become just a distributed computing backup storage unit of Zero.

As the saying goes, "A cunning rabbit has three burrows", Li Tang naturally would not put all his eggs in one basket.

In order to deal with the invasion from another time and space 26 years later, Li Tang cannot have only the current headquarters base.

The concealment of the base built on the seabed thousands of meters deep under the ocean is undoubtedly the key.

The construction of the submarine base in the Pacific Ocean took longer than the headquarters base.

It is also more difficult in terms of construction difficulty. After all, this base is built on an underwater plain more than 3000 meters deep.

This submarine plain is located east of the Kung Fu Strait and northwest of the Mariana Trench.

The reason why it was built there can be traced back to the time when Li Tang went to pick up the nuclear physicist Liu Mingyu who was rescued from the empire.

At that time, the ship that Liu Mingyu was on was suddenly targeted by an Empire Coast Guard law enforcement ship. Li Tang had no choice but to use the [Predator] to launch missiles to sink the law enforcement ship.

In order to eliminate the traces, the [Dragon Turtle], which had just been developed, was dispatched to clean up the corresponding traces.

Unexpectedly, the Dragon Turtle discovered a large lithium mine on the submarine plain nearby.

In order to mine this large lithium mine, Li Tang produced a large number of [Dragon Turtles] and corresponding intelligent machinery that could operate on the seabed.

However, the mining work was not smooth at the beginning, mainly due to the excessive pressure on the seabed more than 3000 meters deep.

It was not until the birth of [Xue Ni] that Li Tang came up with a solution during the construction of the headquarters base.

First, an inverted U-shaped [snow mud] prefabricated component is manufactured, and then a giant cargo submarine is manufactured to transport the prefabricated component to the seabed location to be constructed.

Next, a batch of intelligent construction machinery and intelligent robots such as [Yunding] and [Baigong] were deployed in areas where construction was needed.

This "snow mud" prefabricated component was then dropped at the corresponding seabed location. Due to the characteristics of the "snow mud" and the fact that the prefabricated component is more than half a meter thick, it can even withstand a nuclear bomb and can easily withstand the pressure of sea water three or four thousand meters deep.

Later, after both actual and virtual extreme tests, it was confirmed that this prefabricated component was completely solid as a rock even at a depth of more than 6,000 meters under the sea.

The next step is relatively easy, and is similar to the reclamation method at the headquarters. Use the [snow mud] prefabricated parts to cover an area on the seabed, and the intelligent robots and intelligent machinery placed in it in advance will immediately start working, digging pipes from the seabed to pump out the seawater inside.

Without the sea water, the construction speed became even more astonishingly fast.

Use [snow mud] to lay a foundation harder than granite, and then completely connect it with the prefabricated parts to form the first floor of the building.

Then they continued to add prefabricated parts layer by layer like building a house, just like building a building on the seabed.

Although the shape of such underwater buildings will depend on the shape of prefabricated parts, they appear rather monotonous.

However, being able to build huge structures three or four thousand meters deep under the sea is already an amazing achievement for mankind.

Of course, before starting construction, Li Tang must first solve the problem of building a giant transport submarine that can dive in the deep sea of ​​thousands of meters.

At that time, Liu Mingyu had not yet fully digested Professor Li Tang's new generation of nuclear reactor technology, so nuclear power was not possible.

Li Tang could only work on all-electric propulsion power, using a large number of lithium crystal batteries to build energy storage devices to provide electricity for the electric motors used in submarines.

This is because of the need to transport giant prefabricated parts and the massive amount of ore that will be obtained after future mining.

Submarines have to be built very large to meet the needs.

However, whether building a large or small submarine, if it wants to withstand the pressure of sea water thousands of meters deep, its hull material must be made of expensive alloy material.

This does not meet Li Tang's requirements. After all, this is a submarine used for transporting cargo and must be cheap.

Later, Li Tang was inspired by a video of the [Snow Mud] prefabricated parts being tested on the seabed.

Since [snow mud] has the ability to withstand seawater pressure, can a layer of [snow mud] be applied on the outside of the submarine hull?
After repeated calculations and tests by Li Tang and Zero, they finally found that the method of laying anechoic tiles could effectively lay a layer of [snow mud] outside the submarine hull.

However, the half-meter-thick [snow mud] shell means that the electric motor powered by the lithium crystal battery can only enable the submarine to travel at a maximum speed of 12 knots in the deep sea.

Although Li Tang was not satisfied with the speed of this giant transport submarine, he had to make do with it temporarily before it had nuclear power.

It’s not that Li Tang can’t make the output power of the submarine’s electric motor larger, but that doing so would require too many lithium crystal batteries.

So is this submarine built to transport cargo or batteries?

After testing by Li Tang and Zero, they finally came up with a design with the best proportions. This giant transport submarine was designed to have a full load displacement of 60,000 tons and an actual transport load of 20,000 tons.

It can be said that there is a 2-ton ship transport fleet on the seabed, similar to the Empire in the S season.

This giant all-electric deep-sea transport submarine was named the "Dragon Whale" generation by Li Tang.

The second generation will definitely be nuclear-powered. After switching to nuclear power, the entire submarine can be built larger. The optimal design proportion is a full load displacement of 12 tons and an actual load of 8 tons.

When this submarine was being tested in the deep sea, it gave Li Tang another surprise.

[Snow Mud] In addition to its extremely strong properties, it also has two major properties: one is radiation protection and the other is sound insulation.

A submarine covered with a layer of snow and mud sails in the deep sea, but its noise is even lower than the background noise of the seabed, which is so quiet that it makes people's heart palpitate.

Not only that, the [snow mud] layer can also block the detection of the submarine detector developed by Li Tang. It can be said that it is using its own shield to block the spear of its own detection submarine.

That is why Li Tang had actually established a global maritime transportation system before realizing the global air transportation system.

It is precisely because of such underwater transportation power and construction capabilities that the base group on the Pacific Ocean floor can be built rapidly.

Since the area of ​​this plain on the seabed of the Pacific Ocean is larger than the hinterland of Dragon Country, countless minerals have been found after exploration of the entire area.

This allowed Li Tang to not only deploy the supercomputer where Zero lived here, but also to build a huge base group by adopting the construction method of a central city plus a large number of mineral satellite cities.

Apart from anything else, the oil fields here are no smaller than those in the Middle East, so Li Tang doesn't have to worry about not having enough oil.

High-grade iron ore has been discovered in the submarine hilly areas closer to the south, with reserves comparable to those in Australia.

There are countless large and medium-sized mines of other types of minerals, which shows that the Pacific Ocean is the real treasure trove of mankind.

However, now only Li Tang has the technology to mine these treasures.

Of course, Li Tang would not forget the Indian Ocean. The [Dragon Whale] he had already sent out was carrying the [Dragon Turtle] to conduct a comprehensive survey of the entire Indian Ocean seabed.

Although the construction and mining of seabed mineral resources requires an initial investment process, the crazy money-making ability of the [Mengying] platform is now enough for Li Tang to start any super-giant construction project.

For Li Tang, what he has been thinking about is no longer making money, but how to achieve the true integrated development of human civilization.

Otherwise, how could he have the courage to face the huge empire alone without considering the opinions of certain people?
The operation of the [Mengying] platform is his attempt to integrate human civilization. Its underlying support includes not only the star network in space, but also the deeply hidden Star Express.

The core transportation capability of Xingchen Express is its increasingly large submarine transport fleet, which can deliver goods to any coast in the world.

For example, the besieged beach in the Middle East, or being able to deliver supplies to Lusong Island at any time without having to worry about being intercepted by the Empire.

(End of this chapter)