107: Chapter 107 The Birth of Ten Treasures! The Gravity Adjustment Device Shocks the World

"Congratulations, Mr. Lin. Ms. Song has been confirmed pregnant, currently about six weeks along."

When Professor Zhao, the chief obstetrician at the capital's "Hive" Medical Center, handed the report to Lin Yun, her expression was extremely subtle—a mix of professional composure as a doctor and a hint of "witnessing history" excitement.

After all, the birth of every one of Lin Yun's children had been accompanied by a global-scale technological earthquake.

Now, it was the tenth.

Lin Yun took the report, his eyes scanning the data, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly.

Song Mingyue was sitting on the examination table, her overalls swapped for a loose hospital gown, but she refused to take off the crooked hard hat on her head—she insisted on keeping it.

"Six weeks." Song Mingyue's tone was as flat as if she were reading a construction daily report. "That means it was around the week they started weaving the carbon nanotube cables, right?"

"Yes." Professor Zhao nodded.

Song Mingyue was silent for a moment, then said something that caught everyone present off guard.

"The timing is fine. There are only three kilometers of cable left to weave. It can be finished before the test run. The first three months of pregnancy won't affect my work."

Lin Yun: "..."

Professor Zhao: "..."

"Engineer Song." Lin Yun took a deep breath. "That is not what you should be concerned about right now."

"Why shouldn't I be concerned about the schedule?" Song Mingyue glared at him defiantly. "The space elevator's first test run is in two days. I said I was going to be on the first trip up."

"You are pregnant."

"Pregnancy isn't an illness."

"You cannot take the elevator to space."

"On what grounds?"

"On the grounds that you are carrying my child."

Song Mingyue's face flushed red instantly.

Not from shyness—but from anger.

"Mr. Lin, your logic is flawed. You said I was more important than the cables, but now you say I can't go up because I'm carrying your child—so, am I more important, or is the child?"

Lin Yun was stumped.

The lethality of this question was comparable to a kinetic warhead.

"Both are important." He gave what he considered the safest answer.

Song Mingyue stared at him for three seconds.

"Evasive."

Then she hopped off the examination table and bent down to put on her shoes.

"I won't go on the first test run. But the second time—after you confirm it's safe—I must go up."

"Why?"

"Because I need to personally supervise the installation of the core module for the synchronous orbital platform, 'Tiangong.' I am the only one who understands the mechanical structure up there best."

Song Mingyue put on her shoes, straightened up, and adjusted the hard hat on her head.

"Also, Mr. Lin."

"Hmm?"

"Do your other... partners know?"

Lin Yun's expression turned subtle.

"Shen Ruoxi knows. She's the one who helped me choose the obstetrician."

The corners of Song Mingyue's mouth twitched violently.

"Your primary wife helped you find an obstetrician for your new woman's prenatal checkup. Mr. Lin, your family relationships are more complex than any building I've ever designed."

"We have an agreement—"

"I know you have an agreement." Song Mingyue interrupted him. "I've read that 'world's craziest marriage agreement' drafted by Lu Wanxing, which has fifty billion views worldwide."

Song Mingyue walked to the door, paused, and looked back at Lin Yun.

In those phoenix eyes, there was no resentment, no grievance, only the calm and rationality unique to an engineer.

"I joined this not because of love. At least, not at first."

"I did it because of the space elevator. Because it's been my lifelong dream."

"As for the rest—" Her gaze softened slightly. "We'll talk about that after the star bridge is built."

She pushed the door open and walked out.

Lin Yun stood where he was, watching the closed door, and let out a long breath.

"Commander." Red Queen's voice rang softly in his mind. "Analysis of Ms. Song Mingyue's emotional fluctuations indicates that sixty-three percent of her 'calmness' is feigned. Her actual heart rate is twenty-eight percent higher than usual."

"Don't analyze her heart rate."

"Understood."

In the following days, Lin Yun shuttled back and forth between the Equatorial Base Station and the capital, pushing for the completion of the final three kilometers of the "star bridge" cable while making various arrangements for Song Mingyue's pregnancy.

Song Mingyue rejected his suggestion to "return to the capital to recuperate," insisting on staying at the Equatorial Base Station, appearing in the weaving factory on time every day, her barely visible small belly protruding, holding a spectrometer to inspect the cables centimeter by centimeter.

"I said every centimeter must be checked. Pregnancy is no exception."

Lin Yun could do nothing with her.

When the pregnancy entered its fourth month—three months after the first test run of the "star bridge"—Song Mingyue's belly finally began to show.

But she still appeared on the construction site every day wearing oversized overalls, her hard hat never removed.

"Engineer Song, you need to rest!" Her assistant, Xiao Li, was pacing anxiously.

"The level-one stress test report hasn't been signed yet; what rest?"

"But your due date is next month—"

"The due date is the due date, and the schedule is the schedule. If my child is truly promising, it will wait for me to finish signing the report before coming out."

As it turned out, Song Mingyue's child did indeed "wait" for her.

The day the tenth baby was born was in the medical pod at the Equatorial Base Station, not in the capital.

Because Song Mingyue insisted on giving birth next to the "star bridge."

"Let the first thing my child sees be the sky ladder its mother built."

Those were her exact words.

The delivery process was surprisingly smooth.

Professor Zhao and three top obstetricians stood guard throughout the entire process.

When a loud, clear cry of an infant echoed through the medical pod, Lin Yun stood outside the door, clenching his fists.

[Ding! Congratulations to the Host, the tenth heir has been born!]

[Gender: Male]

[Talent detection in progress...]

[Talent confirmed: "Structural Instinct" — S+ Grade!]

[Talent description: This heir is born with an innate ability to understand and manipulate all physical structures (from molecules to planets). Capable of intuitively perceiving the stress distribution, weak points, and optimization schemes of any structure.]

[S+ Grade! This is the second S+ grade talent recorded by the system!]

[Technological reward generating...]

Lin Yun's heart raced.

S+ grade talent!

Of the previous nine children, only Wu Bao Lin Xi's "Time Perception" had shown signs of evolution, but the grade was always marked as "Unknown." The other eight children's talents were all standard S grade.

The tenth baby was the first to be explicitly marked as "S+ Grade" by the system!

[Technological reward generated!]

[Reward: Full set of technical blueprints and theoretical foundations for the Gravity Regulation Device!]

[Technical description: This device can precisely regulate the magnitude and direction of a gravitational field within a specified range. Regulation range: 0.01 G to 10 G. Coverage radius: Up to five thousand meters. Energy source: Controlled Nuclear Fusion reactor.]

[Note: This technology belongs to the same technical lineage as the gravitational fluctuations emitted by the fifth channel of the "Moon Gate," but its safety and controllability far exceed the latter.]

Lin Yun stared at the data popping up on the system, stunned.

A Gravity Regulation Device!

The significance of this technology was simply indescribable!

Installing a Gravity Regulation Device in the space elevator would allow for the simulation of Earth's gravity inside the cabin, preventing passengers from experiencing discomfort due to gravity changes during the ascent!

Installing a Gravity Regulation Device in the "Guanghan Palace" lunar base would allow the base to have a gravitational environment identical to Earth's, fundamentally solving the damage caused to the human body by long-term low gravity!

Installing a Gravity Regulation Device in the "Luan Bird" fleet would allow for crew protection during high-G acceleration, increasing the warship's maneuverability by several orders of magnitude!

Even—

If the Gravity Regulation Device were made large enough, it could simulate a planet's gravitational field in space, creating an artificial gravitational environment—this was one of the core prerequisites for future space colonization!

"Commander." Red Queen's voice echoed in Lin Yun's mind, rarely carrying a hint of... excitement?

"The technical blueprints for the Gravity Regulation Device have been read and analyzed by me. The core principle of this technology is based on the artificial excitation and directional control of gravitons—this completely breaks through the existing framework of physics."

"If this technology is applied to the space elevator—the weightlessness problem during the cabin's ascent will be completely solved. Passengers will not feel any change in gravity, just like riding a regular elevator."

"Furthermore, I have calculated an additional application plan—installing micro-gravity regulators along the cable, which can increase its effective payload by at least three times by controlling the cable's own gravitational load."

Three times!

The original cable's single-trip carrying capacity was five hundred tons—after installing the Gravity Regulation Device, it would increase to fifteen hundred tons!

"Immediately begin the manufacturing of the Gravity Regulation Device prototype." Lin Yun's voice trembled slightly with excitement. "The installation location for the first prototype—the space elevator cabin."

"The second one—the 'Guanghan Palace' lunar base."

"The third one—the 'luan bird no. 1' flagship."

The door to the medical pod opened.

Professor Zhao walked out, her expression even more shocked than when she was delivering the baby.

"Mr. Lin, the baby is very healthy. Seven jin and two liang, all indicators are normal. However—"

"However what?"

"His first action after birth was not to cry."

Professor Zhao swallowed.

"He reached out and touched the metal wall of the medical pod. Then—a tiny crack on that wall—a micro-crack that even our instruments hadn't detected, caused by uneven stress during construction—automatically... healed."

"The moment his finger touched the wall, the molecular structure of the wall rearranged itself. The crack disappeared completely."

Lin Yun strode into the medical pod.

Song Mingyue was half-leaning on the delivery bed, her face pale but her eyes bright. In her arms, a chubby baby boy was lying quietly, those phoenix eyes, just like his mother's, staring unblinkingly at the ceiling above.

No—not the ceiling.

Lin Yun followed the tenth baby's gaze.

That direction was exactly where the "star bridge" cable was located.

The tenth baby's little hand was slightly grasping at the air, the movement exactly the same as the posture the fourth baby, Lin You, used when manipulating Space Folding.

But the tenth baby wasn't manipulating space—he was manipulating structure.

On Lin Yun's system panel, a new set of data was flashing—

[A weak resonance signal has been detected between the tenth heir and the "star bridge matter" cable!]

[The tenth baby's "Structural Instinct" talent has a natural perception and affinity for "star bridge matter"!]

[Inference: The tenth baby may become the core maintainer and upgrader of the "star bridge" series of super-projects in the future.]

Lin Yun lowered his head, looking at the little guy in his arms.

The tenth baby blinked, and then did something that made goosebumps rise all over Lin Yun's body—

He reached out his little hand and grasped Lin Yun's index finger.

At that moment, Lin Yun felt a strange sensation on his index finger—not the softness and warmth of a baby's little hand—but a tiny vibration similar to a "scan."

It was as if the tenth baby was reading the "structural data" of his body through touch.

Three seconds later, the tenth baby let go of Lin Yun's finger, and a satisfied smile appeared on his little face.

Then he closed his eyes and fell asleep quietly.

"What is he doing?" Song Mingyue asked weakly.

"He is... recognizing his father." Lin Yun said this, not even sure if the explanation was correct.

But he was certain of one thing—the connection between this child and the "star bridge" was no coincidence.

Carbon nanotubes were Song Mingyue's carbon nanotubes. "star bridge matter" was the product of energy injected by "Tia." The tenth baby's talent was "Structural Instinct."

There seemed to be some causal chain between these three things.

"Give him a name." Song Mingyue said, her voice growing fainter—she was too tired.

Lin Yun thought for a moment.

"Lin Qiao."

Song Mingyue was stunned for a moment, then smiled—that kind of smile that was exhausted to the extreme, yet sweet to the bone.

"Good name."

After saying this, she fell into a deep sleep.

Lin Yun carefully placed the tenth baby into the baby incubator, then walked out of the medical pod.

Outside the tent, the equatorial sun poured down like a golden waterfall. The "star bridge" radiated an orange and golden light in the sun, like a huge glowing vine growing out of the earth.

Red Queen's voice rang in his mind.

"After the tenth baby was born, there was a significant change in the 'resonance' network of the nine existing heirs."

"What change?"

"The tenth baby's 'Structural Instinct' talent acts as a 'stabilizer' in the 'resonance' network. After he joined, the resonance fluctuations between the original nine heirs—that exponential energy growth that sometimes went out of control—became 'structured'."

"Simply put—the tenth baby's existence makes the other nine children's talents more controllable and stable."

"He is a cornerstone."

Cornerstone.

Lin Yun savored this word and glanced at the sky-piercing "star bridge" in the distance.

Ten children now.

Ninety more to go.

But with the Gravity Regulation Device, the space elevator's operating efficiency would increase by three times. The lunar base would have an Earth-level gravitational environment. The "Luan Bird" fleet's combat capability would reach another level.

And more importantly—the core principle of the Gravity Regulation Device belonged to the same technical lineage as the gravitational fluctuations emitted by the fifth channel of the "Moon Gate."

This meant that humanity finally had a key to understand the secrets behind that fifth channel.

"Brother Lin!" Xiao Zhang ran over, waving a data pad in his hand.

"The blueprints for the Gravity Regulation Device prototype have already been sent to the 'Hive' industrial zone! Professor Fang says he can complete the assembly of the first prototype within seventy-two hours!"

"But he says there is a problem—"

"What problem?"

"The prototype requires a precise graviton calibration process. This process—Professor Fang says with his equipment's precision—will take at least two weeks."

"Too slow."

Lin Yun pondered for a second.

"Let the tenth baby do it."

Xiao Zhang was dumbfounded.

"The tenth baby's 'Structural Instinct' talent can perceive the precise state of any physical structure. Using his talent to calibrate gravitons—is more accurate than any instrument."

"But... but the tenth baby was just born..."

"Have you ever seen a newborn baby who can repair metal cracks?"

Xiao Zhang was speechless.

"Notify Professor Fang. In seventy-two hours, I will bring the tenth baby to calibrate it personally."

Lin Yun turned around and took one last look at the direction of the medical pod.

Song Mingyue was still sleeping inside.

That woman who used a hard hat as a nightcap had, after building a tower to the sky for humanity, brought a "cornerstone" to this world that could stabilize all things.

"Brother Lin." Xiao Zhang suddenly called out again.

"What else?"

"The date for the space elevator's first manned test run—"

Xiao Zhang's eyes were as bright as two stars.

"Is tomorrow."