188: Chapter 188 Weaving a Deep-Space Night-Traveling Cloak: Dimensional Concealment of Liquid Metal!
Alien civilization voyage timer, day 110.
Pangu Laboratory, B2 level.
Su Che swallowed the orange slice in his mouth, the sourness flooding the root of his tongue.
He looked at the newly archived Quantum State Stealth Shield test log on the main screen, his hand resting on the edge of the keyboard.
A mechanical voice sounded on time in his consciousness space.
[Ding! Detected a fatal flaw in the deep space concealment capability of the 100,000-ton class aerospace mothership, main research and development task triggered!]
[Task Name: Dress the Behemoth in the Ultimate Invisibility Cloak!]
[Task Content: The quantum shield can take a beating, but the best defense is to ensure the enemy cannot find the target at all.]
[Please research and develop the Full-band Metamaterial Stealth Structure - Ultimate Evolution Version, to achieve deep space full-domain electromagnetic/optical/infrared multi-domain stealth coupling, solar radiation wave shielding, and interstellar dust signal masking, allowing the mothership to completely vanish within the Solar System!]
[Task Reward: 600,000 skill points, unlock redemption permissions for deep space full-domain electromagnetic/optical/infrared multi-domain stealth coupling technology, solar radiation wave shielding technology, interstellar dust signal masking technology, and active stealth signal adaptive compensation technology. Redemption cost: 320,000.]
[Current host main skill point balance is sufficient, redeem?]
"Redeem." Su Che issued the command.
[Ding! Consumed 320,000 main skill points, core technology unlocked!]
[System Prompt: Supporting auxiliary technologies have not been redeemed, including: Ultimate Version Metamaterial Stealth Array blueprints, deep space stealth coating formula, multi-domain stealth collaborative control scheme, and interstellar environment stealth adaptation algorithm. Total redemption points: 70,000.]
"Redeem all."
A massive data stream washed into his brain.
Su Che closed his eyes, straightening out the complex stealth coupling logic and material formulas in his consciousness space.
He opened his eyes and pulled up the auxiliary material list.
A line of red text flashed at the bottom of the panel.
[System Prompt: Detected that "Deep Space Multi-domain Coupling Liquid Metal" in the material list cannot be manufactured in reality; host can proceed to the Interstellar Material Library for redemption.]
Su Che switched to the independent point pool panel.
Since the Mirror World opened globally and the entire population connected, the subtle emotional value provided by global players online had been silently accumulating in the background.
After this period of accumulation, this independent point pool had already saved over six million points.
He opened the Interstellar Material Library and entered the target in the search bar.
"Deep Space Multi-domain Coupling Liquid Metal (10 tons of base material)".
Price: 5,000,000 independent points.
Five million.
Su Che did not hesitate at all and clicked confirm directly.
[Ding! Consumed five million virtual ecological independent points, 10 tons of Deep Space Multi-domain Coupling Liquid Metal has been materialized to the Kaitian Base Special Material Type-A Blind Storage.]
Su Che closed the system panel, disassembled the technical documentation for the Ultimate Version Metamaterial Stealth Array, and pushed it to the public big screen.
"Dean Liu." Su Che grabbed the mineral water bottle on the table. "Full-band Metamaterial Stealth Structure upgrade, cycle is seven days."
Liu Huaqiang spun the mechanical pencil between his fingers, his gaze sweeping over the progress bar on the screen.
"Seven days?" He tucked the pencil back behind his ear. "Replacing stealth materials isn't like writing code; Wen Bo's basic material synthesis will take at least half a month."
Wen Bo took a sip of water, looked at the material list on the right side of the screen, and frowned.
"New type carbon nanotube composite base material, this is no problem, the Zhulong Production Line can produce it, but what the hell is this 'Deep Space Multi-domain Coupling Liquid Metal' below?"
He leaned closer to the screen, staring at that line of physical and chemical parameters.
"It can maintain liquid flow between absolute zero and three thousand degrees? And it can absorb full-band electromagnetic waves while having built-in dynamic optical refractive index adjustment?"
Wen Bo set his enamel cup heavily on the table. "There is nothing on Earth that can be explained by the periodic table like this!"
"There is." Su Che unscrewed the bottle cap and took a sip. "Kaitian Base Special Material Type-A Blind Storage, ten tons of base material are already in storage, take your people to retrieve them."
Wen Bo froze for two seconds, grabbed the enamel cup on the table, and turned to walk out.
"Zhao Mingyuan." Su Che's fingers landed back on the keyboard. "Interstellar environment stealth adaptation algorithm, make the friction signals from solar storms and interstellar dust into an active compensation logic."
Zhao Mingyuan was chewing on peanuts. "Active compensation? This amount of calculation will consume quite a bit of computing power from the main god ai."
"Give it a five percent dedicated computing power pool." Su Che typed the first line of code. "Stealth is the top priority; computing power is to be supplied openly."
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Alien civilization voyage timer, day 111.
The holographic projection of Kaitian Base lit up on the B2 level.
Zhou Dehai was wearing an anti-static suit, pointing at a heavy-duty spraying device behind him that had just been retrofitted.
"The coating equipment is ready." Zhou Dehai raised his hand and patted the machine's casing. "According to the parameters you gave, the nozzle was replaced with a corrosion-resistant ceramic base, and the pressure pipelines were all relaid."
Wen Bo appeared at the edge of the projection screen, holding a specially made transparent sealed container in his hands.
"This liquid metal is extremely weird." Wen Bo held the sealed container up to the camera.
The container held half a liter of silver-gray liquid.
But when the laboratory's strong light hit it, the surface of the liquid did not produce any reflection; the light seemed to be directly swallowed.
Even more eerily, as Wen Bo shook the container, the edges of the liquid refracted the background behind it, making the entire container look like a distorted optical void.
"Stored in a glass jar, it's like a miniature black hole." Wen Bo's voice was filled with irrepressible excitement. "The physical properties completely subvert common sense."
"Duh, full-band wave absorption plus dynamic refraction."
Academician Qian Zhenhua chimed in from the B2 level, playing with a red ballpoint pen in his hand. "Hurry up and put it on the machine for a test spray; don't hold it like a treasure."
"Start the machine." Su Che issued the command at the main console.
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Alien civilization voyage timer, day 112.
10:00 AM.
Zhao Mingyuan pushed the second version framework of the interstellar environment stealth adaptation algorithm into the test chamber.
"The high-energy particle bombardment signal brought by solar storms, the compensation logic has run through; the main god ai can predict particle trajectories 0.02 seconds in advance and generate anti-coherent waves on the surface of the liquid metal layer, directly smoothing out the friction signals."
Academician Li Zhengyang walked over, carrying a thermos, and looked at the simulation data on the screen.
"If this layer of liquid metal film is damaged, how long can the adaptive compensation last?" Academician Li Zhengyang asked.
"The film is fluid."
Su Che pulled up a piece of disaster recovery code and pushed it in front of Academician Li Zhengyang.
"The surface of the new carbon nanotube base material has micro-nano flow channels; damaged areas will be automatically filled by the surrounding liquid metal within 0.01 seconds."
Academician Li Zhengyang finished reading the code logic, said nothing, and turned to leave.
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Alien civilization voyage timer, day 113.
2:00 PM.
Wen Bo returned to Pangu Laboratory with the first sample plate sprayed with the Ultimate Version stealth film.
He placed a suitcase on the optical testing table and opened the latches.
The suitcase was empty.
Academician Qian Zhenhua walked over, felt around above the suitcase with his hand, and touched a cold, hard solid object.
"It has built-in optical camouflage compensation."
Wen Bo tapped the invisible sample plate with his finger, producing a crisp metallic sound.
"It not only absorbs light, but also actively simulates the ambient light behind it. To the naked eye, it is transparent."
Academician Qian Zhenhua started the full-band scanner and aimed the probe at the location of the sample plate.
The scanning progress bar advanced rapidly.
"Radar cross-section, absolute zero value." He stared at the data on the secondary screen.
"Infrared signature, completely consistent with the room-temperature background; thermal radiation is perfectly locked inside."
"Gravitational wave interference, background noise level."
Academician Qian Zhenhua tucked his ballpoint pen back into his pocket and took half a step back.
"Once this thing is installed, unless you get within one meter with your naked eye, no one in the universe will be able to find it."
"You can't see it even if you get close." Wen Bo leaned against the edge of the testing table. "Unless you crash into it."
Su Che sat in front of the main console, looking at the summarized test data.
The R&D cycle was just over half complete, and progress on both the material and hardware ends was ahead of schedule.
The dimensional reduction strike characteristics of the liquid metal saved a massive amount of time on repeated trial and error.
He switched back to the code repository and continued writing the final piece of underlying logic for the active stealth signal generation technology.
The sound of keyboard typing echoed steadily on the B2 level.
The fabric of the invisibility cloak had already been woven; now it just needed to be stitched tight.