113: Chapter 113 The Sky-Piercing Bow! Your ceiling is my target!

Taklamakan Desert, Shennong Base, Bunker No. 3.

9:17 AM.

The central distribution valve body of the valve assembly was still spinning in the force field, the spiral flow channel was 70% formed, and the silvery-white inner wall looked like a frozen vortex in the blue light of the quantum force field.

Su Che did not stare at it.

He sat in front of the military supercomputer terminal next to it, the screen in front of him displaying the "Sky-Breaking Bow" folder, which for the moment contained only one line of text.

[Core Idea: To be determined.]

He deleted this line of text and replaced it with another.

[Core Idea: Do not defend, do not block, simply bypass it.]

He had already figured out the logic behind the Golden Dome Project.

The directional electromagnetic pulse arrays of the seventy-two bases would cover the entire airspace of Longguo, drowning all satellite communication links in electromagnetic noise.

Communication relies on electromagnetic waves, navigation relies on electromagnetic waves, and early warning relies on electromagnetic waves.

Once electromagnetic waves are suppressed, satellites are just a pile of iron lumps flying in the sky.

But Quantum Communication does not travel via electromagnetic waves.

It travels via quantum state correlation.

The transmission of information between two entangled particles requires no carrier, passes through no channel, and is unaffected by any electromagnetic environment.

You plastering a layer of electromagnetic ceiling in the sky has the same relationship to Quantum Communication as pouring soy sauce into a swimming pool to try and interfere with someone making a phone call in the next room.

It has absolutely nothing to do with it.

Su Che created a second document in the folder and typed out a title.

[Sky-Breaking Bow · Technical Route: Quantum Entanglement Communication Satellite-Ground Replacement Network.]

He began to write the plan.

The approach was very blunt: before the Golden Dome starts, switch all of Longguo's existing satellite communication links over to quantum entanglement channels.

Connect ground stations using a quantum key distribution network.

Establish direct connections between the ground and satellites using space-borne quantum entanglement terminals.

Longguo was not without this technology.

The Quantum Information Technology he provided to the Chinese Academy of Sciences before the new year had already seen the first phase of infrastructure rolled out nationwide—the quantum key distribution backbone network, covering thirty-six provincial nodes.

But that was only at a civilian level; the bandwidth was narrow, the terminals were few, and it could not support military-grade global communication.

He had to upgrade this civilian network into a military-grade global Quantum Communication network within forty hours, replacing all traditional satellite links.

Su Che listed three key bottlenecks in the plan.

First, the generation rate of quantum entangled particle pairs was insufficient; existing equipment could only generate tens of thousands of pairs per second, while military communication required hundreds of millions of pairs per second.

Second, there were too few space-borne quantum terminals; Longguo only had six Quantum Communication satellites in orbit, which could not cover the entire territory.

Third, there were insufficient quantum relay nodes at ground stations, limiting signal transmission distance.

He could solve the first problem.

With the computational power boost of 3nm quantum chips, the generation rate of entangled particle pairs could be increased by three orders of magnitude; he had a ready-made technical solution for this, and just needed to adjust the parameters.

The second problem was unsolvable in the short term; he couldn't build new satellites in forty hours.

The third problem...

Su Che stopped typing.

Six quantum satellites were not enough to cover the entire territory, but what if covering the entire territory wasn't necessary?

The goal of the Golden Dome Project was to paralyze Longguo's military communication and early warning systems.

Where were the core nodes of military communication?

They were not at the more than two thousand base stations nationwide, but at the three joint combat command centers of the Western Theater Command, Southern Theater Command, and Eastern Theater Command, plus the headquarters of the Military Science Commission in the capital.

Four points.

Six quantum satellites were more than enough to cover four points.

Su Che modified the plan.

He would not attempt global replacement, but only secure the Quantum Communication links for the four core nodes.

For the remaining areas, he would use the ground-based quantum key distribution backbone network as a fallback; even if the bandwidth was narrow, it would at least ensure that basic command information could be transmitted.

In that case, there would be enough time.

He grabbed the walkie-talkie.

"Colonel Zhou, please connect me to Lieutenant General Peng."

Thirty seconds later, Lieutenant General Peng's voice came through the encrypted phone; the background noise was loud, as if he were in some kind of command center.

"Speak!"

"General, the plan for the Sky-Breaking Bow is ready."

"So fast?"

"The Golden Dome uses electromagnetic pulses to suppress satellite signals, and I will use Quantum Communication to bypass them. He plasters the ceiling, and I'll use a tunnel."

"Quantum Communication... is not affected by electromagnetic interference?"

"Completely immune. Quantum entanglement does not travel via electromagnetic waves; to it, the Golden Dome's pulse array is like a fart."

Lieutenant General Peng did not scold him for being vulgar, because the words he himself wanted to use were even more vulgar.

"What do you need?"

"Three things. First, wake up President Liu Qianghua of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and have him mobilize all administrative permissions for the national quantum key distribution backbone network; I need to change the parameters remotely."

"Second, contact the Aerospace Control Center and send me the orbital and communication window data for the six Quantum Communication satellites in orbit; I need to re-plan the coverage strategy."

"Third..."

Su Che scratched his head.

"Have Jiang Yingxue come over, and bring me a Quantum Communication walkie-talkie while she's at it."

"Her?"

"The apocalypse fragment contains the underlying framework of the Quantum Communication protocol, and the Golden Dome array of the Yankees uses the reverse logic of this framework. I need to know the specific structure of that framework to confirm that my quantum channels won't be affected by its edge effects."

Lieutenant General Peng on the other end of the phone didn't ask any more questions and hung up directly.

Su Che put down the phone and looked back at the force field.

The central distribution valve body of the valve assembly was finished.

The silvery-white valve body was suspended in the center of the force field, the exit of the spiral flow channel gleaming with cold light, as precise as a work of art.

He put the valve body onto the temporary shelf, stacking it with the hydraulic cylinder, transmission connecting rod, and sealing ring he had completed earlier.

All the parts for the valve assembly were ready.

The next step was final assembly.

But now was not the time to assemble the valve group.

If the Sky-Breaking Bow plan was not implemented, the engine would be a useless display piece even if built; without satellite communication, fighter jets would be blind once they flew up.

The blast door of the bunker was pushed open.

Jiang Yingxue walked in, her camouflage sleeves still rolled up to her elbows, the gauze on her left wrist changed for the third time.

She handed the Quantum Communication walkie-talkie to Su Che.

"Looking for me?"

"Can you draw the Quantum Communication protocol framework from the apocalypse fragment?"

"I can't draw the complete one." She pulled up a chair and sat next to the console. "I only had access to the architectural description of the outer layer; the core encryption logic is in the internal server of Prometheus, and I don't have permission."

"The outer layer is enough." Su Che pushed the tablet over. "Draw."

Jiang Yingxue took the tablet and sketched on it with her finger.

There were not many lines, but the structure was very clear: a three-layer nested signal modulation architecture, with the outermost layer being conventional spread-spectrum communication, the middle layer being adaptive frequency hopping, and the innermost layer marked with a question mark.

"I'm not sure about the innermost layer, but based on the deployment logic of the Golden Dome array, it should be a pulse synchronization protocol based on pseudo-random sequences."

Su Che stared at the three-layer structure.

"As expected."

"What's 'as expected'?"

"Their Golden Dome is essentially still playing tricks within the electromagnetic domain." Su Che pointed to the question mark in the innermost layer. "No matter how precise this pulse synchronization protocol is, its carrier is still electromagnetic waves."

"My quantum entanglement channel is not in the same physical dimension as electromagnetic waves; even if the Golden Dome turns its power up to burn through the atmosphere, it won't be able to touch my signal."

He took the tablet back and added a line at the end of the Sky-Breaking Bow plan.

[Conclusion: The Golden Dome Project poses zero threat to Quantum Entanglement Communication; feasibility of the Sky-Breaking Bow plan: 100%.]

Save.

Send to Lieutenant General Peng.

Su Che leaned back in his chair, stretching his sore shoulders.

"Jiang Yingxue."

"Hmm?"

"You just said that the Yankees have been studying the Quantum Communication framework from the apocalypse fragment for decades."

"Yes."

"They studied it for decades, and the Golden Dome they created still has electromagnetic suppression as its core logic."

Su Che turned his head to look at her.

"Don't you find that strange?"

Jiang Yingxue frowned slightly.

"They have the underlying framework of Quantum Communication in their hands, yet they don't use Quantum Communication to build their own military network, but instead use electromagnetic pulses to suppress others' electromagnetic communication."

"What does this mean?"

Jiang Yingxue thought for a while.

"It means they... can't build it."

"Correct!" Su Che stood up, walked to the force field workbench, and picked up a niobium-tungsten alloy ingot, weighing it in his hand.

"They copied the answer from the fragment, but they couldn't understand it; they had the framework, but couldn't implement it. Just like how my grandfather and his generation created the Kunlun alloy but couldn't build the engine."

"So they could only do the opposite; since they couldn't use Quantum Communication themselves, they would ensure that no one else could use any communication either."

Su Che put the alloy ingot back into the box.

"Unfortunately, they didn't count on the fact that someone in Longguo has already figured out Quantum Communication."

The roar of a helicopter came from outside the bunker, getting closer and closer.

Zhou Qihang pushed the door open and came in.

"Su Che, the data from the Aerospace Control Center has arrived, and also..."

His tone changed slightly.

"Lieutenant General Peng asked me to convey a message to you."

"Speak."

"Just received intelligence: the launch time of the Golden Dome Project has been moved up."

Su Che's hand gripping the alloy ingot tightened by an inch.

"Moved up to when?"

"Twenty hours from now."

The countdown has been cut in half.