151: Chapter 151 Mirror World: A Dimensional Reduction Attack on Silicon Valley's Virtual Hegemony!

The blast-proof control room was very quiet.

Su Che sat in front of the main console, his hands resting on the keyboard.

The blue and white panel hung brightly in his mind.

The task reward was 180,000, and the exchange points were 120,000.

He only had 112,000 points in total right now, so he couldn't afford it.

Academician Li Zhengyang pressed his hands on the edge of the console, "Chief Engineer Su, building blocks in the sky—the workload for this is even greater than building the mothership itself, and we don't even have the blueprints."

"A space Dry Dock requires a large number of in-orbit robots, and we also need to transport tens of thousands of tons of materials to a 400-kilometer orbit. The existing heavy-lift launch vehicles simply don't have enough payload capacity." Academician Qian Zhenhua twisted the lid of his thermos.

Su Che withdrew his gaze from the void and closed the system panel in his mind.

"I am still deducing the blueprints." Su Che picked up the water glass on the table and finished the cold water, "We don't need rockets for the payload capacity issue; we have the 10,000-ton verification version of the luan bird. Its internal space is large enough, and after installing the Anti-gravity load modules, it can transport several thousand tons of building materials to low Earth orbit at once."

Academician Li Zhengyang straightened up, "Then when will the blueprints be ready?"

"At least a month. A space Dry Dock isn't just about building a frame; it requires autonomous space construction technology and precise orbital component docking technology. You should first digest the power and self-repair data of the 100,000-ton mothership."

"Stop work and rest for the next two days." Su Che set down the water glass, "After resuming work, Dean Liu, Academician Li, Academician Wen, and Academician Qian, you all take some researchers and stay at Pangu Quantum Computer. The other veteran academicians will be split up according to their professional fields to be responsible for the various key bottlenecks in the R&D chain."

The two veteran academicians looked at each other, nodded, and walked out the door.

The control room door closed, and Su Che leaned back in his chair.

A month was something he had made up.

Without skill points, the system wouldn't give him the blueprints. Even if he sat here and thought about it for ten years, he wouldn't be able to draw an authentic interstellar Dry Dock.

He had to earn skill points, and he had to do it fast.

In his mind, the familiar mechanical voice rang out again.

[Ding! Detected that the host's skill points are severely insufficient to support interstellar-level infrastructure projects.]

[System Prompt: Technological universal benefits can garner massive emotional and social value. Main branch task triggered!]

[Task Name: Can't afford to build a ship? Build a world first and make all of humanity work for you!]

[Task Content: The testing of a 100,000-ton giant ship consumes extreme resources. Please develop the underlying construction engine for the Mirror World and start the digital twin branch.]

[Task Hint: As the difficulty of subsequent technologies increases, a massive amount of skill points will be needed! You can complete the mothership simulation in the virtual world, while harvesting nationwide emotional value to earn skill points!]

[Task Reward: 30,000 skill points, unlock exchange permissions for real-digital real-time mapping technology, physical world full-element digital modeling technology, and multi-modal data fusion technology. Exchange points: 15,000.]

[Current accumulated skill points for the host: 112,000 points. Do you want to exchange?] Su Che looked at the panel.

This time it was 15,000 exchange points for a 30,000 reward—a 50% profit.

Furthermore, once the digital twin Mirror World was rolled out, there would be a series of subsequent branch tasks. Skill points would snowball, which should be enough to support the massive skill point exchanges later on!

"Exchange." Su Che confirmed in his consciousness.

[Ding! Consumed 15,000 skill points. Core technology for the Mirror World underlying construction engine has been exchanged.]

[Current accumulated skill points for the host: 97,000 points.]

[System Prompt: Supporting auxiliary technologies/blueprints/schemes have not yet been exchanged, including: Mirror World underlying architecture blueprints (800 exchange points), multi-modal data fusion algorithm library (600 exchange points), real digital twin core module (600 exchange points). Total exchange points: 2,000.]

"Exchange all."

[Ding! Consumed 2,000 skill points. Current accumulated skill points for the host: 95,000 points.]

A massive stream of data flooded into the conscious space in his mind.

The logic of real-time mapping between reality and digital, full-element modeling algorithms, and the underlying physics engine architecture.

This was not the kind of metaverse currently on the market where you wear a VR headset to play rough games; this was a super project that replicated every blade of grass and tree on Earth, as well as the physical rules, into digital space at a 1:1 ratio.

Su Che opened his eyes, pulled over the keyboard, and created a new document, naming it "Mirror World · Underlying".

He picked up the encrypted communication handheld and dialed Liu Huaqiang's number.

"Dean Liu, bring a few core researchers to the B2 level."

Twenty minutes later, Liu Huaqiang arrived at the blast-proof control room with the fourteen core researchers who had replaced the previous veteran academicians.

Fatigue showed behind his black-rimmed glasses; they had just finished running the daily maintenance program for the 10,000-ton luan bird.

"Chief Engineer Su, another new task?" Liu Huaqiang pulled out a chair and sat down.

Su Che cut off the 100,000-ton skeleton blueprint on the main screen and replaced it with an extremely complex tree structure diagram.

"The 100,000-ton mothership cannot be tested for errors directly in reality." Su Che pointed to the screen, "If it explodes once in reality, tens of thousands of tons of special materials will go down the drain. We need an absolutely realistic simulation environment."

Liu Huaqiang pushed up his glasses, "Pangu Quantum Computer's supercomputing center has been doing fluid mechanics and structural simulation."

"Not enough." Su Che tapped the keyboard, "Supercomputing can only calculate data; it cannot simulate full-element physical interaction. I want to build a Mirror World."

He threw the code for the real digital twin core module onto the secondary screen.

"Write Earth's gravitational coefficient, air resistance, material stress limits, and even space climate data into this underlying engine." Su Che looked at Liu Huaqiang, "I want to build a 1:1 Earth in virtual space, plus a low Earth orbit."

Liu Huaqiang stared at the dense, brand-new algorithmic logic on the secondary screen and didn't speak.

The researchers behind him looked at each other.

"Chief Engineer Su." One researcher spoke up, "Replicate Earth at a 1:1 ratio? This requires massive 3D modeling data and extremely high computing power support. Where are we going to get that much data?"

"Let the Yiren AI Core handle the data collection." Su Che brought up the backend allocation interface for Yiren AI, "The core will allocate 20% of its computing power to monitor the edge of the Solar System, and for the remaining 80%, cut out the majority to run the Mirror World."

He looked at Liu Huaqiang, "Dean Liu, your team's next task is to build this underlying construction engine. I'll give you three days."

Liu Huaqiang took off his glasses and wiped them with the corner of his clothes, "Three days to build the underlying engine, but what about the front-end collection equipment?"

"3D laser scanners and high-precision positioning base station arrays—the Military Science Commission logistics department has them ready, and they can be shipped this afternoon." Su Che sent the material list to Liu Huaqiang's terminal.

Liu Huaqiang put his glasses back on and stood up, "Get to work."

The fourteen researchers immediately scattered, each finding a workstation to connect to the Pangu Quantum Computer's backbone network.

The side door of the hall was pushed open, and Lin Waner walked in pushing a food cart.

It was lunchtime.

She placed an insulated lunch box on Su Che's table and opened the lid; inside were steamed sea bass and boiled vegetables.

Su Che picked up his chopsticks and took a piece of fish; there were no bones, and it had been prepared very cleanly.

"No pork ribs today." Lin Waner placed a bowl of seaweed egg drop soup to the side.

Su Che ate a piece of fish, "This is fine."

Jiang Yingxue walked in from outside, holding a tactical tablet.

She walked to the console and pulled out a chair to sit down.

"Su Che." Jiang Yingxue placed the tablet on the table, "The Eagle has made a move."

Su Che swallowed the rice in his mouth. "Speak."

"After President Trump signed the 'Global Peace Convention', the capital consortiums within the Eagle were not happy. They held a closed-door meeting on Wall Street, preparing to launch a new round of strangulation against the Dragon Country in the fields of finance and civilian technology." Jiang Yingxue brought up an intercepted meeting summary.

Su Che glanced at the screen.

"They have united with the largest tech giants in Silicon Valley, preparing to launch a global virtual reality platform called 'Oasis'. They intend to use civilian technology to seize the gateway to the next generation of the internet and bind global users into their ecosystem."

Jiang Yingxue tapped her fingers on the table twice, "They want to rebuild their hegemony in the virtual world."

Su Che picked up the seaweed soup and took a sip.

"Let them do it." Su Che put down the bowl, "The underlying code is all backward products based on traditional silicon-based chips; the computing power ceiling is right there."

He turned his head to look at Liu Huaqiang and the others who were working hard at coding.

"Once our Mirror World underlying engine is running, I will release civilian consumer-grade terminals." Su Che pointed his chopsticks at the tree structure diagram on the screen, "I will crush their 'Oasis', along with Silicon Valley's tech hegemony, outside the gates of the digital age."

Jiang Yingxue put away the tablet, "Understood, I will go keep a close eye on the capital movements on Wall Street."

Two o'clock in the afternoon.

Heavy trucks from the Military Science Commission drove into the loading area of Pangu Laboratory.

Boxes of 3D laser scanners and high-precision positioning base stations were moved into the B2 level.

Su Che directed the automated robotic arms to hardware-connect these devices with the host of the Pangu Quantum Computer center.

The Quantum Communication module lit up with blue light, and the data transmission channel was opened.

Liu Huaqiang sat at the side of the main console, his hands moving rapidly on the keyboard.

The multi-modal data fusion algorithm library was being compiled line by line and embedded into the scheduling layer of the Yiren AI Core.

"Chief Engineer Su." Liu Huaqiang stared at the screen, "The gravitational constant for the physics engine has been written, and the material stress feedback module has finished loading, but the real-digital real-time mapping needs an initial anchor point."

Su Che walked over and pulled over the keyboard.

He typed the latitude and longitude of Pangu Laboratory into the coordinate input box.

"Let this place be the anchor point." Su Che pressed the Enter key, "Scan the entire Pangu Laboratory base first."

Inside the B2 level, the newly connected 3D laser scanners emitted invisible infrared rays.

On the main screen, a 3D wireframe diagram began to generate rapidly.

The console, the vacuum melting furnace, the 40-meter skeleton test section, and even the glass of water placed on the corner of the table were all replicated 1:1 in the digital space.

This was not simple texture mapping, but full-element modeling that included physical properties.

Su Che selected the glass of water in the digital space and entered a tipping command.

On the screen, the water glass tilted, and water poured out.

The trajectory of the water flow, the splashing water droplets, and even the surface tension of the droplets on the table were completely consistent with real-world physical laws.

Liu Huaqiang watched this scene with his mouth slightly open.

"This... this is more real than reality." A researcher muttered to himself.

Su Che pulled back the view, looking at the gradually forming digital Pangu Laboratory.

This was just the first step.

Within three days, this underlying engine needed to have the capability to scan an entire city, an entire country, and even the entire Earth.

Only in this way could he sell civilian terminals to the whole world, let global netizens be active in this Mirror World, and provide him with massive amounts of skill points.

With skill points, he could exchange for the low Earth orbit space infrastructure system and build a true space Dry Dock in the sky.

Eleven o'clock at night.

Su Che sat in front of the console, checking the last section of the core code for the underlying engine.

Lin Waner walked over and draped a hoodie over his shoulders.

"Go back and sleep." Lin Waner said.

Su Che saved the code and stood up.

The equipment in the hall was still running, and Liu Huaqiang was working the night shift with a few people, monitoring the stability of the data mapping.

Su Che walked out of the blast-proof door and sat into the bulletproof Hongqi SUV.

Outside the car window, the neon lights of the capital flashed backward rapidly.

Su Che looked quietly ahead.

In his mind, the backend interface of the Yiren AI Core flickered.

That was the 20% of computing power responsible for monitoring the edge of the Solar System.

There were no new signals.

But that dead, silent deep space was like a bow pulled to its limit, ready to shoot a deadly arrow at any moment.

Three days.

Su Che closed his eyes; in three days, the Mirror World underlying engine would be completed.

Before the guests from the sky arrived, he had to forcibly raise Earth's technology tree to the interstellar era.