341: Wandering Base Plan

After making a decision, Yang Dian first checked on the Dimension Butterfly's status.

Should any accident occur, the Dimension Butterfly was his trump card for escape.

"Crossing nearly 4 billion kilometers of space consumes about two percent of its energy."

"It will take half an hour for its energy to fully recover."

"This means that in a complete state, without Earth's Will's assistance, I can use spatial leaps to travel 200 billion kilometers."

"With Neptune as the boundary, the Solar System's diameter is 9 billion kilometers; 200 billion kilometers is enough for me to make 22 round trips."

"If we consider the Oort Cloud as the Solar System's boundary..."

"Forget it, the Oort Cloud's boundary is two light-years, nearly 19 trillion kilometers."

"200 billion kilometers is only about 0.0211 light-years."

"Based on the energy recovery rate, traveling from Earth to the Oort Cloud and back would take almost two hundred days, and that's assuming no accidents during that time."

"An individual is too insignificant on a Universe scale; there's nothing much to calculate for now."

"However, if I accumulate enough in the future, I could go and see the Oort Cloud."

"I wonder if there will be anything good there."

While waiting for the Dimension Butterfly's energy to recover, Yang Dian pondered the Cosmic Creature situation.

"From the known information, Cosmic Creatures can be divided into three parts."

"Silicon-based life, carbon-based life, and energy life."

"The most useful for Earth should be the Wormhole Tadpoles that can expand into wormholes, and the black coal balls."

The black coal ball was not a ball nor coal; it was a 10-centimeter diameter charcoal-black spherical Silicon-based life.

Its surface was covered with a honeycomb-like array of gravitational lenses, which could twist local space through the honeycomb lens array, forming miniature gravitational traps to capture passing dark matter particles.

In short, it was a dark matter collector.

"Speaking of which, has Dr. Bai pointed out dark matter technology yet?"

"If he hasn't yet, then if I can catch a black coal ball, wouldn't that mean I'm cross-Domain crushing him?"

After muttering a few words to himself, Yang Dian conjured a spatial shield and then took out a quantum communication phone.

After a few soft rings, the phone connected.

Before Han Zhang could speak, Yang Dian directly said:

"I am currently in the star System where Planet 2 is located, but not on the Alien Planet itself."

"Over the past half a month, I investigated the Cosmic Creature's lair and discovered many miraculous Silicon-based and energy lifeforms."

"For example, tadpoles that can expand into wormholes."

"Silicon-based lifeforms resembling black coal balls that can capture dark matter."

"There are also black fungal colonies resembling villous growing in the polar regions, which are Silicon-based lifeforms that can capture auroral electromagnetic energy and produce superconducting crystals..."

"There are many such miraculous lifeforms, and they should be of great use to our technological development."

"I'm contacting you now because I want you to get in touch with leading Materials science and Physics researchers to discuss the specific situation."

"Wait a moment." Han Zhang concisely left two words, then began to get busy.

A moment later, Yang Dian and Han Zhang's call transformed into a multi-person voice System, and then, one by one, national treasure-level scientists, either recorded in textbooks or unheard of by outsiders, joined the chat group.

"You found a Silicon-based lifeform that can capture dark matter? Where is it? How much dark matter can it capture daily? How does the Silicon-based lifeform reproduce and proliferate, and what is its reproduction speed?"

"Where is the fungal colony that can grow superconducting crystals? How much can it grow daily? Can the growth direction of the superconducting crystals be controlled? It only needs to absorb auroral electromagnetic energy to grow superconductors, is that real or fake?"

"Which Silicon-based lifeform can directly secrete liquid silicon? And provide oxygen while eating dirt? Why isn't this treasure brought back quickly!"

"What about the tadpoles that can turn into wormholes? Damn it, I've lived for over 100 years for nothing; I've never even heard of such a thing, let alone seen it. After Dimension folding, all sorts of monsters have really appeared."

"I heard there are also super large earthworms that can increase magnetic field strength? If these earthworms were taken to Mars, could they increase Mars' magnetic field strength to the same level as Earth's, thereby transforming Mars's ecological environment...?"

Amidst the continuous inquiries from everyone, Yang Dian received a message from Han Zhang: [All relevant personnel have arrived].

Upon receiving the message, he didn't hesitate, directly took out a projection bracelet, connected it to his phone's Bluetooth, and opened the virtual projection.

The surrounding endless ice disappeared, replaced by a large conference room.

There weren't many people in the conference room, only about 50 in total, all of them leaders in various relevant scientific research Domains in the country.

Aside from Dr. Bai and Han Zhang, most of the others had gray hair, clearly advanced in age.

Seeing Yang Dian suddenly appear in the conference room, Qian Xueming, relying on his familiarity with Yang Dian, was the first to walk up to him:

"I knew you were the type to do great things. You discovered those Silicon-based lifeforms, didn't you? Where are they now? And where is the fungal colony that can grow superconducting crystals?"

Clearly, what Qian Xueming was particularly focused on was superconducting Materials.

He was responsible for researching super weapon armaments.

And super weapon armaments, besides requiring rare Heavenly and Earthly Treasures, primarily needed a large amount of superconducting Materials.

As Qian Xueming's words fell, Yang Dian, seeing a group of old men and women instantly stand up, couldn't help but quickly say:

"Everyone, please wait, don't rush, let me explain one by one..."

After projecting the spatial images observed in the Cosmic Creature's lair and listing various representative Silicon-based and energy lifeforms, Yang Dian finally concluded:

"So, the purpose of calling you all to this meeting is to determine the order of containment for the Silicon-based lifeforms and which targets to prioritize when we collect them later."

The old men and women exchanged glances, then all turned their attention to Dr. Bai.

Dr. Bai, wearing a white lab coat, pushed up the glasses on his nose and said:

"According to what you've said, Wormhole Tadpoles and the gravitational trap Silicon-based lifeforms that can capture dark matter are extremely rare even among Cosmic Creatures."

"There are only 3 of the former, and no more than 200 of the latter."

"Clearly, their status is also special within the Cosmic Creature System."

"Will forcibly containing them cause negative effects?"

"For example, will your existence be observed by Cosmic Creatures, leading them to attack you?"

"Or, after bringing them back to Earth, will they become locators, allowing Cosmic Creatures to pinpoint Earth's coordinates?"

Hearing Dr. Bai's inquiry, Yang Dian nodded:

"That's possible, which is why I'm not planning to bring them back to Earth."

Yang Dian casually drew a circle in the air, projecting a brilliant starlit river:

"How vast is the Universe? Earth is not even a drop in the ocean within the Universe."

"Earth is our home planet, true, but why must we insist on putting all our eggs in one basket, on Earth, on the Solar System?"

As he spoke, Yang Dian pointed to the ground:

"My current location is on the outermost planet in the star System where Planet 2 is located, 4 billion kilometers away from the Cosmic Creature's nest."

As he spoke, the projected image changed from a simple conference room to a planetary surface completely covered in ice.

"We can absolutely build a research base inside this planet."

"And not just here."

Yang Dian smashed a piece of ice, then took out a silver star core and inserted it into the ice, throwing it towards the Universe projection behind him:

"We should use our subjective consciousness to leverage the characteristics of space."

"We can completely open up a giant scientific research base inside a star core, then stuff the star core into a giant meteorite, push the meteorite beyond the star System, and let it become our wandering scientific research base in the Universe..."