187: Chapter 187 The Aegis is Forged, and the Alien Sentinel Accelerates Once Again!

Alien civilization travel time, 108th day.

Pangu Laboratory, Level B2.

Academician Sun Qiwen slammed the third revised thermal management report onto the console, placing his large enamel mug beside it; the water inside was already hitting the bottom.

"The deployment area of the radiator wings has been cut by forty percent."

He wiped his chin with his palm; the stubble from two days of not shaving made his palm itch.

"The heat transfer coefficient of the micro-channel liquid cooling interlayer has been recovered. The copper-based radiator wings are surface-enhanced with carbon nanotubes, quadrupling the radiation heat dissipation efficiency."

"What about the folding hinges?" Academician Zhang Weide's voice came from the U-shaped array area.

"Tungsten disulfide solid lubricant bearings, no risk of vacuum cold welding."

Wen Bo held up a silver metal rod, "Fatigue life is 120,000 cycles, 20,000 more than you required."

Academician Zhang Weide did not reply.

He pulled an engineering calculator from his pocket, pressed a few buttons, added some stress data to the manuscript with a pen, stood up, and walked over to Su Che's workstation.

"The additional bending moment of the folded radiator wings on the luan bird truss is within the safety envelope. The aerodynamic drag in the deployed state only affects maneuvers within the atmosphere; there is no drag in the space environment."

Su Che took the manuscript, glanced at it, and placed it on the left side of the keyboard.

"Finalized. Send it to Zhou Dehai for production scheduling."

The holographic projection of Zhou Dehai hung in the corner on the east side of the hall, with the production workshop of Kaitian Base in the background.

The sound of the Zhulong Production Line machines came through the projection, deep and continuous.

"The copper-based base plates for the radiator wing modules will be produced today, and the carbon nanotube reinforced coating will be finished tomorrow. What about the superconducting film on the periphery of the shield? Which version is Wen Bo on?"

"Version four."

Wen Bo walked to the optical detection table and placed a silver-gray film, thinner than a cicada's wing, onto the sample rack.

Academician Qian Zhenhua stood at the other end of the detection table and started the full-band reflectance scan.

The data ran for eight seconds.

"The quantum fluctuation radiation leakage has dropped to 10 to the power of negative 14 watts per square meter."

He pulled the cap off his ballpoint pen and drew a circle on the test report, "Human eyes, thermal imaging, radar, and gravitational wave detectors are all blind."

"The leakage of the third version was 10 to the power of negative 12." Academician Li Zhengyang walked over to look at the report, "Two orders of magnitude. Wen Bo, what did you change?"

Wen Bo did not even look up, "I fine-tuned the ratio of the quantum dot anchoring agent by 0.3 percentage points. For this 0.3, I tested sixty-seven groups."

Su Che pulled the test data onto the main screen and scanned it.

Stealth coupling module, passed.

He switched back to the shield core code repository.

At the workstation next door, Zhao Mingyuan had already iterated the dynamic adaptation scheduling algorithm to the sixth version.

"The disaster tolerance logic for omnidirectional, no-dead-angle energy response is finished." He pushed over a data packet.

"If any sector is destroyed, the eight adjacent sectors will fill in within 0.001 milliseconds, with energy density no lower than 70% of the nominal value."

Su Che received the data and merged it into the main framework.

The image in the lower-left corner of the monitoring wall refreshed.

Lunar Development Base.

Fifty autonomous construction robots spread out their work area on the flat ground on the south side of the crater.

The outer walls of the resource storage warehouse were coated with anti-radiation paint.

The second building, the life support module, was being topped off, with lunar soil bricks being stacked layer by layer under the hoisting of robotic arms.

The fusion reactor indicator light of the power station was steadily glowing green.

In the image on the right, the lights in the Dry Dock manufacturing bay never went out.

Inside the main skeleton of the 100,000-ton-class luan bird, several more sets of Anti-gravity load regulation modules and energy pipeline aggregation nodes had been added.

The final assembly was moving forward without a moment's pause.

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Alien civilization travel time, 109th day.

2:00 PM.

Su Che packed all modules of the shield system into the test chamber.

"Final assembly joint debugging."

He accessed the computing power channel of the Deep Space Main God AI.

The main screen rendered a 3D holographic model of the 100,000-ton-class luan bird.

The silver-gray steel surface was covered with a layer of pale blue translucent light shell; it was a visualization of the quantum state energy field.

The light shell was composed of 6,400 independent sectors, and each sector was an independently operating energy shield tile.

The 6,400 shield tiles were connected into a complete shield through the scheduling algorithm written by Zhao Mingyuan.

"Simulate attack, first round." Su Che input the command.

The main god ai selected a virtual high-energy particle beam from the ammunition depot and struck it directly above the bow of the luan bird.

The energy density of the impacted sector instantly soared by 3.2 times.

The thirty-six surrounding sectors synchronously poured stored energy into the impact point.

Response latency: 0.0008 milliseconds.

Overall shield integrity: 100%.

"Second round, omnidirectional saturation attack."

520 virtual warheads smashed into the luan bird simultaneously from all directions of the sphere.

The pale blue light shell fluctuated violently, and the energy between the sectors surged like a tide.

Three seconds later, the attack ended.

The light shell returned to calm.

Overall shield integrity: 97.6%.

"Where did it break?" Zhao Mingyuan peeked over from next door.

Su Che magnified a small area below the stern.

During the saturation attack, three sectors were hit simultaneously while adjacent sectors were also under pressure, resulting in insufficient borrowed energy and a brief 3-millisecond window of vulnerability.

"The radiator wing deployment area below the stern."

Su Che marked the location, "The radiator wings occupy physical space, so the coverage density of the shield sectors at this location is 15% lower than the hull."

"The radiator wings cannot be cut. If they are cut, the thermal management will collapse." Academician Sun Qiwen spoke up from the side.

"Not cutting them. Add three sets of backup energy storage units at the base of the radiator wings, specifically for this area, and have the main god ai weight this area in the scheduling algorithm."

Zhao Mingyuan slid back to his workstation to change the parameters.

"Third round." Su Che started the simulation again.

The same 520 omnidirectional saturation attacks.

Three seconds later.

Overall shield integrity: 99.8%.

The 0.2% loss came from statistical noise and is not reproducible.

Liu Huaqiang handed over a production report and took off his reading glasses to put them in his pocket.

"The mass production process for the superconducting film has been run through by Zhou Dehai. The seventh version of the process parameters for the Zhulong Production Line at Kaitian Base has a yield rate of 96%."

Su Che took the report and flipped to the last page.

"When can the prefabricated parts be launched into space?"

"The first batch will be loaded and sent to Jiuquan Launch Base the day after tomorrow."

Lin Waner came in from the side door, carrying a plastic bag in her hand.

She placed the bag on the corner of Su Che's desk; it contained two boxed meals and a bag of oranges.

"The cafeteria made sweet and sour pork ribs today."

After saying this, she turned and left.

Zhao Mingyuan peeked over from next door at the bag of oranges.

"Is there any for me?"

No one responded.

Zhao Mingyuan pulled his head back and continued typing code.

Su Che opened the meal box, one hand holding chopsticks and the other on the keyboard.

He picked up a piece of rib, took two bites, swallowed it, and finished typing a patch of disaster tolerance logic code with his left hand.

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Alien civilization travel time, 110th day.

10:00 AM.

A test countdown popped up simultaneously on the screens at all workstations on Level B2.

Su Che sat in the center of the main console.

All software and hardware modules of the quantum state stealth shield: superconducting film material formula, anti-coherence extinction layer optical design, dynamic adaptation scheduling algorithm, micro-channel liquid cooling thermal management, foldable radiator wing structure, truss stress adaptation scheme, and prefabricated part mass production process.

Seven lines converged into one.

Ultimate full-system joint debugging.

This time, it was not a virtual model.

Inside the Dry Dock manufacturing bay, a robotic arm laid the first real superconducting film on the shell of a test cabin section of the luan bird skeleton.

The film was 2.8 microns thick, presenting a silver mirror texture in a vacuum.

The quantum state energy field generator was installed on the inside of the film, with its standby indicator light glowing dim yellow.

"Power on." Su Che issued the command.

The command passed through the Quantum Communication network and reached an altitude of 400 kilometers.

The generator activated.

A layer of invisible quantum state energy field rose from the surface of the test cabin section.

The Global Deep Space Quantum Radar automatically aimed at that cabin section and scanned it once.

Detection result: No echo.

Infrared detection: No signal.

Gravitational wave detection: Background noise level.

The test cabin section had disappeared from all known detection means.

Academician Qian Zhenhua twisted the cap of his ballpoint pen twice.

"The anti-coherence extinction layer is effective, and the quantum fluctuation radiation is completely canceled out."

Su Che switched to attack simulation.

The main god ai controlled a spare directed-energy emitter next to the Dry Dock and aimed it at the test cabin section.

The impacted area of the energy field lit up for an instant, the energy storage filled in, and it recovered.

The cabin section was intact.

"Increase power."

The emitter output was pulled to 300%, far exceeding the laser power of a single Xuan Nu.

The energy field fluctuated violently for 0.2 seconds, then stabilized.

The cabin section was intact.

Zhao Mingyuan gripped the chair armrests while looking at the data.

"Dynamic adaptation 0.001-millisecond response; actual measurement and simulation are completely consistent."

"The peak temperature rise of the liquid cooling interlayer is 17 degrees, and the safety margin is sufficient."

"The stress fluctuation at the mounting point is 0.4%, which is negligible."

Wen Bo stood in the back row with his arms crossed.

"The superconducting film is intact, zero peeling, zero cracks."

Su Che turned off the attack simulation.

In his mind, a mechanical voice struck.

[Ding! Main R&D task "Put a quantum armor on the steel-naked beast!" completed!]

[Quantum state stealth shield full-system test passed! Quantum state energy shielding effectively blocks high-energy strikes, full-band stealth coupling achieves full-dimensional detection avoidance, and the shield's dynamic adaptation nanosecond-level response provides no-dead-angle coverage! The first layer of combat defense for the Luan Niao Mothership is officially ready!]

[Task reward: 380,000 skill points!]

Su Che did not look at the panel.

He stood up and walked to the monitoring wall.

In the lunar image in the lower-left corner, the foundation of the third building had been half dug.

The robot swarm dragged neat trenches on the lunar surface, like carving a chessboard grid in the desert.

In the Dry Dock on the right, the space between the ribs of the luan bird was filled with pipelines and equipment.

The final assembly was still moving forward day and night.

That layer of silver film on the shell of the test cabin section gleamed with a cold light under the cabin lighting.

The first shield tile.

There are still 6,399 pieces left.

Su Che withdrew his gaze and switched to the deep space monitoring panel of the Global Deep Space Quantum Radar.

The sentry ship cursor was shining 9.2 billion kilometers away.

He brought up the velocity curve.

762, 771, 778.

It was still accelerating.

And the acceleration itself was increasing.

Su Che turned off the panel.

He stood in front of the main console for three seconds, then turned and sat back in his chair.

The luan bird now had a brain, nerves, and the first layer of skin.

But this layer of skin could only block known weapons.

No one knew what kind of guns that thing creeping over from the edge of the Solar System was carrying.

It needed to be a few layers thicker.

Su Che opened the technical document for "Full-band Metamaterial Stealth Structure: Ultimate Evolution Version" and started reading from the first page.

His handheld device vibrated once.

An encrypted text message from Lieutenant General Peng Zhenbang.

"The sentry ship's acceleration has been reported to the highest leadership. The priority of national scientific research resources has been raised again. Everything must make way for the Southern Gate."

Su Che placed his phone face down on the desk.

He flipped to the third page of the technical document, picked up a pen, and wrote a line of text in the blank space.

"Stealth is not about hiding; it is about making it unable to find the door."

The air conditioning vent on Level B2 emitted a steady hissing sound.

Zhao Mingyuan had peeled an orange at some point, and the sour scent drifted over.

Su Che took a slice and put it into his mouth.

It was so sour it made him grimace.

The armor was ready, or rather, the skin was ready.

It was time to start working on the stealth suit.