Great Power Technology.

Chapter 449 Beacon Project
Ye Zhou followed Lin Wen through the field path back to the road, and then entered the living area of ​​the National Energy Tuning Device Research Institute all the way. When he arrived in this area, Ye Zhou finally saw the details of the building facilities around him. A bit of a shadow of the future.

The layout planning of these buildings is extremely compact. Each house shares the same wall with the adjacent houses, and the walls are covered with solar panels. Compared with residential areas, such buildings are more like factory buildings.

After pushing open the door and entering the interior of the dormitory, Ye Zhou suddenly felt as if he had returned to his student days.

The dormitories are distributed on both sides of the corridor. There is a sensor light at a certain distance, which will only light up when someone walks by. The light source used is also an energy-saving light source with extremely low brightness. Only from this From the details, it can be seen that the human beings living in this era have already reached the point of using energy to the extent that they are penny-pinching.

After returning to his room, Lin Wen put down the bag in his hand and went to the kitchen familiarly, then opened the induction cooker on the stove and said:
"Ye Gong, I guess your furnace is also a problem with the UPS. Recently, the entropy increase curve in our area is very unstable, and the attenuation of many batteries has jumped, and I don't know what's going on."

"Look, sure enough, the UPS capacity has dropped to 30%, no wonder you said the stove is not hot."

"I said Ye Gong, this stove is dirty enough, I think you have to find a wife, you are in your 30s, it will be too bad if you don't get married again - you and Su Shu are getting married soon, right?"

Hearing this, Ye Zhou shook his head and replied:

"Don't worry about it, 30 years old is still young. Is there any news outside recently? Tell me about it. I haven't read much news recently, and I feel that I have been blocked."

Lin Wen removed the scrapped UPS battery, wiped off his sweat, stood up, and said:
"Don't worry about being in your thirties? Ye Gong, this is not our parents' generation. Now the decline curve of function is getting steeper and steeper. After the age of 30, you will age very quickly."

"I think you really haven't paid much attention to the news outside. Haven't you read the bill just passed two days ago? The age of marriage has been lowered to 16 years old. Some countries are even more exaggerated. They simply abolished the age limit for marriage."

Ye Zhou opened his mouth wide in astonishment, and then asked:
"Won't this cause social and ethical issues?"

"It's been so many years, it's still ethical. Not all countries can maintain the same order as ours at this time. Think about it for yourself. Since the invasion of the adjacent dimension 40 years ago, the world's population has plummeted by 30% %, many countries have simply collapsed.”

"Didn't there be news two days ago? In order to pursue the fertility rate, the island country has begun to advocate returning to the matriarchal system and engaging in mixed marriages. There is no way around this."

"Here, you sit here for a while, I'll go to the spare parts warehouse to help you find a new UPS, you can watch the news by yourself first."

Ye Zhou nodded, took the tablet from Lin Wen, walked back to the living room and sat on the sofa.

The thickness of this tablet is much thicker than the PADs of his own era, and probably most of the volume is used on the battery to offset the problem of battery capacity drop caused by energy dissipation.

He clicked on an app on the desktop that looked like a search software. After thinking for a while, he entered the first keyword that appeared in his mind.

"Communication".

Afterwards, hundreds of millions of news popped up. Ye Zhou sorted the news in reverse chronological order. On a website dedicated to archiving historical news, he saw the context of the development of the communication industry in the world.

A large number of energy-intensive technologies have been abandoned, and quantum communication has been banned from large-scale use because of its impact on adjacent dimensional channels. Human communication technology is actually showing a retrogressive trend——for example, what Ye Zhou said now The wireless network used, in fact, has reached the level of 4G in my own timeline at most.

After reading the communication-related content, Ye Zhou searched for key words such as energy, materials science, agriculture, and heavy industry. The index has declined, and in fact, the technology of the entire human society has shown an extremely contradictory state.

Theoretical research continues to achieve breakthroughs, but the application technology is constantly regressing.

This is a forced choice. In this process, human beings are trying to bet everything on themselves, seeking the possibility of breaking through the blockade of "energy suffocation".

And the key node of this possibility is the ultra-large nuclear fusion device.

After reading the content in the technical field, Ye Zhou searched for relevant social news. As expected, those hypocritical Westerners were indeed controlled by the white left. A large number of people resisted the official allocation of social resources, and even ignored the future generations. Life and death set off a wave of "timely carpe diem", which is called "carnival movement" by the world.

"Give civilization to the years, not to civilization."

The long-forgotten slogan was revived, and many became believers in it. However, their optimism was not rewarded. Within a decade of the carnival eruption, the entire Western world nearly collapsed and the official grip Forces have been reduced to a minimum, high-end theoretical research has almost stagnated, and many major projects that may break the blockade have all been closed, and the people there have really entered the pre-apocalyptic carnival.

The rate of entropy increase is still increasing, and the trend of energy dissipating to adjacent dimensions is unstoppable. Everyone is trying their best to grab more resources, so that they can enjoy the greatest joy before going to hell.

In this crazy world, Huaxia became the only stronghold.

The strong organizational ability once again played a role. Although the carnival movement also caused a certain impact on the social order, it was quickly subdued. The people here did not care about the "is it all worth it?" Questioned, and resolutely launched the plan of the national energy tuning device, code-named Fenghuo.

And the base where Ye Zhou is located is the Fenghuo No. [-] base.

Ye Zhou let out a long sigh of relief after initially understanding the details that the information flow did not convey.

He never imagined that one day in the future, the world would develop to such an extent, and he never imagined that even after so many lessons, those Westerners would still be embarrassed.

"Giving civilization to the years"?
Give a fart!
The crisis the world is facing exceeds the sum of all the crises faced in human history. Under such circumstances, any demeanor, civilization, and etiquette are extremely extravagant things. Slim to almost invisible chance.

This nation rose from a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood. From the moment she was born, she faced endless crises, whether it came from nature, from the enemy, or from within herself.

But every time, she crushed all obstacles with that paranoid to crazy strong will, and this time, it was just another bigger challenge.

Judging from the information on the Internet, China’s efforts to break through energy suffocation are definitely not limited to the Beacon Project. It has promoted high-yield grains on a large scale to deal with the food crisis, and pushed genetic enhancement technology to increase the life expectancy of the population regardless of so-called ethical doubts. Open up wasteland within a certain range, create oxygen to cope with the drop in oxygen concentration caused by the reduction of gravity, and promote photovoltaic projects at any cost to make up for the gap in energy dissipation.
All of these actions, even if they are taken out randomly, are enough to be recorded in the annals of history, and Huaxia in this era has started dozens of super-large projects by itself.

This is not only against this world, but even against another dimension, another universe.

When everyone is slowly suffocating in a solid room that is completely closed and almost impossible to open, when others choose to sleep and die in comfort, these Chinese people are trying their last strength to put that The impenetrable walls are broken.

Thinking of this, Ye Zhou couldn't help feeling a little emotional.

Compared with those Westerners, Ye Zhou admires the islanders more. Although their ideas for solving problems are very strange, at least they are making some attempts instead of completely screwing up.

He suddenly understood the meaning of "beyond entropy increase" written on the simulation plot.

Yes, Huaxia is fighting with another civilization from the adjacent dimension. What they have to do is to push the technology of this world to a level that is enough to kill the goblin guarding the passage before the energy dissipation reaches a critical value. Seek a way out for your own civilization.

This is a race, the most important, life-and-death race in human history.

And the Beacon project that I participated in is the key to the victory or defeat in this race.

Ye Zhou let out a long sigh of relief, put down the PAD in his hand and walked out of the room, wanting to go directly to the beacon laboratory mentioned in the information flow to see the latest progress of the project.

According to the guidance of the information, tomorrow is the time for the first ignition of the Beacon Project. All the testing work has been completed, and all that needs to be waited is a perfect time window—this is why the Institute sent researchers like them to the rice fields to harvest rice. On the one hand, this piece of rice field belonging to the research institute is indeed a source of food to feed this group of researchers, and someone always needs to harvest it. On the other hand, it is also to forcefully reduce the stress level of the researchers through physical labor.

Thinking of this, Ye Zhou suddenly felt a little funny --- this was in line with the usual style of the organization he belonged to.

He stepped out of the room and was about to walk towards the laboratory when he suddenly noticed something unusual.

It's been a full hour since he left. Does it take that long to go to the spare parts store to get a UPS battery?
An ominous premonition surged in Ye Zhou's heart, he turned around and rushed back to the dormitory, and quickly ran to the spare parts warehouse in his memory.

As he expected, the moment he pushed open the door of the spare parts warehouse, what appeared in front of him was an extremely terrifying scene.

Lin Wen was suspended in the air, and his body...was disintegrating!

(End of this chapter)