Chance

“Let’s chat while we eat.”

During their conversation, Fiennes hinted at his family connections. He wasn’t trying to recruit Chu Xuan, but rather to signal that he had no intention of conflict.

“You’re good, I’m good. Everything’s smooth.”

“Then I will fully support Brother Xuan’s work in the future.”

“No problem,” Chu Xuan replied.

“Everyone’s overall goal is the same.”

“…”

Chu Xuan’s words greatly satisfied Fiennes. The man before him was indeed very talented.

However, in Fiennes’s eyes, his ability, his talent, and his genius were merely tools. Just as the Deputy Speaker of The Empire on Which the Sun Never Sets suggested sending Chu Xuan abroad.

Had they ever considered what would happen if such a brilliant Scientist, who had made immense contributions to humanity, met with an accident?

Clearly, they had.

Yet, after weighing the options, they still sent Chu Xuan to work in such a distant place. Was it truly impossible without Chu Xuan there?

Heh heh!

Even a dog wouldn’t believe that!

…At the dinner table, the two didn’t discuss the Wormhole or the life-bearing planet at all, as it was still top secret.

Only a handful of people knew the details of the entire Other Shore Project.

Most people were just cogs in the machine; they only needed to work and didn’t need to understand the specifics. Han Duoduo was also unaware.

But before this, Chu Xuan had asked her if she was willing to work in another remote location three months later.

Han Duoduo agreed without a second thought. Wherever Brother Xuan went, she would go… Chu Xuan clearly perceived the deep-seated sense of superiority in the man before him, but he didn’t feel the slightest bit angry. He wasn’t a young man; he didn’t have that much anger.

Class!

Value!

Tools!

The essence of the world, even in an apocalypse, would not change.

As for the logic behind sending him so far away to work, did Chu Xuan not know it? But he was quite happy.

He also had his own plans.

Just like before, he wanted to leave a spatial node in the Solar System. After Earth left, all the resources of the Solar System would be his.

But he never had the chance.

This was because the placement of a spatial node was based on the nearest strong gravitational source as a reference, arranged with relative motion.

Otherwise, if the cosmic space were the coordinate system, it would likely drift off to who knows where due to Earth’s movement shortly after being placed.

To bind it to the Solar System, he had to leave Earth and exit Earth’s strong gravitational zone to change coordinates.

He hadn’t expected the opportunity to come so quickly when he was still worrying… In the next few days, boom!

Boom!

The United Government’s spaceships launched at a rate of almost one per day. This time, they were fully loaded with building materials and equipment.

Building an advanced scientific research base consumed enormous resources.

Some building materials could be sourced locally, but only a few. Most items had very high technological content.

Even if factories were built on the other side, it would be difficult to produce them in a short time.

An industrial system is no child’s play.

As for building a massive industry on the other side, the United Government had no interest because the transformation time was too long.

How long would it take to transform a planet’s environment?

Ten years?

A hundred years?

The latest expert estimates optimistically put it at six hundred years. Therefore, Earth was humanity’s true base camp.

Once things got on track there, like the algae and other biological transformation facilities being set up, everyone would have to withdraw.

Otherwise, even if only a few tens to hundreds of thousands of people immigrated, after two thousand years of wandering, the population might be in the billions.

By then, it would be uncertain whether the Earth United Government, which had flown over, could still manage them… So why not start preparing now and move everyone from Earth over?

As long as there were enough spaceships, it wasn’t impossible. Although it would take a month for the spaceships to cross, Earth’s speed was too slow.

It would take about sixteen years to reach the Wormhole’s location.

With effort, even moving like ants, everyone could eventually get there.

Moreover, with human technology, building another batch of Underground Cities was not difficult. The air problem could be solved by electrolyzing water to produce oxygen.

In short, there were almost no obstacles.

Why wasn’t this done? The reason was simple.

At the First Spaceflight Base, H Sub-Base, the person in charge stared at the data and murmured, “It’s a bit smaller again.”

“Sigh!”

“I should have realized earlier that Wormhole travel is definitely not without cost. Each passage consumes some kind of energy.”

“…”

At first, there was no noticeable change, but recently, with frequent back-and-forth travel, observations revealed that the Wormhole’s diameter had shrunk slightly compared to its initial size.

Although the magnitude was small, it couldn’t withstand repeated passages.

When a certain energy is depleted, will the Wormhole close?

If so, the idea of moving all of Global humanity over would have to be abandoned.