189: Chapter 189 Solar System Version of Vanishing Technique: The Giant Beast Escapes into the Void!

Alien civilization navigation timer, day 113.

4:00 PM, B2 level of Pangu Laboratory.

Su Che integrated the underlying code for the active stealth signal generation technology into the main framework and leaned back.

The mineral water bottle beside the keyboard was empty.

Zhao Mingyuan tossed a data packet over from the secondary screen.

"The third version of the adaptation algorithm fully covers active compensation for solar storms and interstellar dust friction, and the 5% dedicated computing power pool on the main god ai is running steadily."

Su Che received the file and scanned the core parameters.

"What about the coordinated control of multi-domain coupling?"

"Academician Qian has a first draft, and he'll send it over after he finishes running the optical verification himself."

Su Che stood up and walked to the center of the hall.

Academician Qian Zhenhua was squatting in front of the optical testing bench, with three metamaterial samples of different curvatures laid out in front of him.

The surface of each one was covered with that eerie liquid metal film.

"There's a problem with the curved surface fit."

He didn't look up, instead poking at a piece of printed data on the edge of the testing bench with the red ballpoint pen in his hand.

"The flat surface effect is perfect, the convex surface effect is perfect, but in concave areas where the radius of curvature is less than 0.8 meters, the flow rate of the liquid metal in the micro-nano flow channels decays, leading to uneven coating thickness."

"What's the thickness deviation?"

"A maximum of 0.4 micrometers." Academician Qian Zhenhua stood up. "That's enough; the optical refractive index compensation in the concave areas has local blind spots, and the infrared band will leak trace amounts of thermal signals."

Su Che took a look at the 3D structural diagram of the luan bird hull.

As a behemoth of the 100,000-ton class, the concave areas on the hull shell accounted for less than 8% of the total area.

But this 8% was entirely concentrated at the lips of the engine intake ducts and the roots of the flow guide vanes in the force field ducts.

These were precisely the locations with the strongest thermal signals.

"Wen Bo." Su Che turned his head and called out.

Wen Bo was squatting in front of his workstation in the U-shaped array area, holding a concave sample and examining it repeatedly.

"Try narrowing the flow channel width from 200 nanometers to 150."

He put down the sample, pulled a pencil stub from his pocket, and did some calculations on a piece of scrap paper.

"Narrowing the channel width increases capillary force, which could actually pull the flow rate of the liquid metal back up in the concave areas, but the machining precision needs to be raised by a level; the cutter heads of the existing Zhulong Production Line can't do it."

"Switch to the sub-nanometer lithography and deposition integrated machine for engraving."

He looked up at Su Che for two seconds.

"Using a sledgehammer to crack a nut."

"As long as the blade is fast enough."

Wen Bo stuffed the pencil stub back into his pocket and walked toward the door, carrying his enamel mug.

"I'll go coordinate with Zhou Dehai."

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Alien civilization navigation timer, day 114.

10:00 AM.

In the holographic projection sent back from Kaitian Base, Zhou Dehai held up a newly engraved concave flow channel substrate.

Under the microscope, the surface of the substrate showed uniform nano-scale grooves, with the channel width precisely locked at 150 nanometers.

"It's done." He handed the substrate to Wen Bo beside him. "Engraving this with the sub-nanometer integrated machine is like writing calligraphy; it takes two minutes per piece."

Wen Bo took the substrate, flipped it over, and placed it into an ultrasonic cleaner.

After cleaning, he used a micro-pipette to draw half a milliliter of liquid metal and dropped it onto the point of maximum curvature on the concave surface.

The silvery-gray liquid spread silently, penetrating evenly along the nano flow channels.

Wen Bo picked up the thickness gauge and applied it.

There was silence on the other end of the projection for three seconds.

"Uniform." He turned the thickness gauge over to show the numbers to the camera. "The global deviation is within 0.05 micrometers."

Academician Qian Zhenhua tossed his red ballpoint pen onto the table on the B2 level.

"Solved."

Su Che entered the parameters of the new flow channels into the linkage simulation model for the shield and stealth systems.

The main god ai ingested the data and ran a full-band scanning simulation.

Radar: Zero echo.

Infrared: Completely consistent with cosmic background radiation.

Optics: Transparent.

The concave blind spots were completely eliminated.

"Finalized." Su Che closed the simulation interface. "All concave flow channels are to be reworked; re-engrave them using the sub-nanometer integrated machine."

"The concave areas of the entire ship's hull are approximately 4,800 square meters." Academician Zhang Weide walked out from the back row, his engineering calculator tucked into his chest pocket. "Based on the machining speed of the integrated machine, it won't delay the final assembly schedule."

"Schedule the production." Liu Huaqiang signed the tablet and pushed it to Zhou Dehai.

Bottom left corner of the monitoring wall.

Lunar base.

The main framework of the third building, the communication relay station, had been completed.

A cluster of fifty robots formed two production lines on the south side of the crater, one line carrying bricks and the other laying walls.

In the Dry Dock on the right, hundreds of silver-gray superconducting thin-film patches had appeared on the surface of the luan bird's hull, and the prefabricated parts of the quantum state stealth shield were being laid out section by section.

Su Che withdrew his gaze.

Academician Sun Qiwen walked to the main console, carrying his signature large enamel mug, and took a gulp of water.

"After adding the stealth layer, the radiation efficiency of the heat dissipation channels has changed again. The liquid metal locks all infrared radiation inside the shell, so the original design of the heat dissipation wings needs to be re-checked."

"How much has it changed?"

"The thermal load inside the shell has increased by 12%. The micro-channel liquid cooling needs to increase its flow rate, and the expansion area of the copper-based heat dissipation wings also needs to be supplemented."

"How much can we add without affecting the cross-section in the retracted state?" Academician Zhang Weide leaned in.

"Within 7%." Academician Sun Qiwen pointed at the data on the screen with his enamel mug. "Exceeding this number, the load margin of the folding hinges won't be enough."

"5%." Academician Zhang Weide pressed his calculator a few times. "Leave a 2-point safety margin."

"Fine, I'll release the revised thermal management report tonight."

Academician Sun Qiwen turned and left.

Zhao Mingyuan slid over from next door.

"You hardware guys are really troublesome; changing one place pulls ten other threads."

"When you write code, changing one line also pulls ten other threads."

"That's different; my threads are virtual, so it doesn't hurt to pull them."

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Alien civilization navigation timer, day 115.

The entire B2 level entered the final sprint.

Academician Sun Qiwen's revised thermal management report was uploaded to the encrypted storage before dawn.

Academician Zhang Weide used the Pangu Quantum Computer to finish re-checking the truss stress after the heat dissipation wing supplementation; the conclusion was the same as last time, within the safety envelope.

Wen Bo returned to Pangu Laboratory with the first batch of reworked concave flow channel substrates.

The Zhulong Production Line at Zhou Dehai's end simultaneously started mass production of the stealth prefabricated parts for the whole ship; in the holographic projection, the silver-gray thin-film components slid out from the end of the production line like water.

3:00 PM.

Su Che bundled all modules—the ultimate version of the Full-band Metamaterial Stealth Structure, deep space stealth coating, multi-domain stealth coordinated control scheme, interstellar environment stealth adaptation algorithm, revised liquid metal flow channels, revised heat dissipation wing thermal management, and truss stress re-check—together.

He packed them all into the main system.

"Final joint debugging, implementation."

The command was transmitted to the Dry Dock via the Quantum Communication network.

400 kilometers high.

On the shell of a complete module at the front of the luan bird's main skeleton, a robotic arm laid the last piece of the ultimate version of the stealth film into place.

Carbon nanotube composite substrate as a base, liquid metal filling the micro-nano flow channels, and an anti-coherent extinction film on the outer layer.

Three-layer structure, with a total thickness of less than 5 millimeters.

"Power on."

In the 3D model on the main screen, the outline of that module instantly became blurred.

Zhao Mingyuan leaned toward the big screen.

Global Deep Space Quantum Radar aimed at that module for a directional scan.

The scan results popped up within two seconds.

Radar cross-section: Absolute zero.

Infrared radiation: Completely coupled with the deep space background.

Optical reflection: Active compensation effective, the starry background behind the module was perfectly reproduced.

Solar radiation waves: Full-band absorption, zero leakage.

"Hit it," Su Che said.

The main god ai controlled the standby directed energy emitter in the Dry Dock and aimed it at the module.

100% power.

The liquid metal film on the module's shell underwent adaptive deformation the moment it was hit, absorbing the energy of the high-energy particle beam and converting it into thermal energy, which was then directed into the micro-channel liquid cooling intermediate layer.

The temperature in the area where the heat dissipation wings were deployed rose slightly.

On the infrared detection channel, there was still no abnormal signal leakage.

The anti-coherent extinction layer locked all thermal radiation tightly.

Zhao Mingyuan took a step back.

"It took a shot, and you can't even see a red dot on the outside."

Academician Qian Zhenhua walked to the big screen and drew a circle in the air with his ballpoint pen.

"Directed energy attack, radar detection, infrared search, optical reconnaissance, solar radiation scattering—all five channels are neutralized."

"Add one more," Su Che typed a string of commands on the keyboard.

Global Deep Space Quantum Radar switched to gravitational wave detection mode.

The readings on the gravitational wave channel didn't fluctuate at all, remaining completely consistent with the cosmic background.

"Six channels." Su Che leaned back in his chair.

Academician Li Zhengyang walked over, twisting his thermos, and looked at the screen for five seconds.

"Unless you touch it with your hand, this module doesn't exist to the entire universe."

Liu Huaqiang stood in front of the big screen for a while, took the mechanical pencil tucked behind his ear, spun it in his hand, and tucked it back.

"Send the mass production schedule of the prefabricated parts to Zhou Dehai," he turned and walked toward the east side. "Sort the priority for the whole ship's installation."

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Alien civilization navigation timer, day 116.

8:00 AM.

Su Che, Zhao Mingyuan, Academician Qian Zhenhua, and Academician Li Zhengyang were all in front of the main console.

Wen Bo's enamel mug sat on the edge of the console, steaming, while he crouched beside it, checking the final material inspection report.

The third round of full-system, full-band scanning had been running all night.

The results popped up in the center of the main screen.

Six major detection channels, three rounds of stress testing, extreme condition simulations, and saturated attacks superimposed with peak thermal loads—all returned to zero.

"Engineering finalized." Su Che entered the conclusion at the end of the document.

In his mind, a mechanical voice slammed into his consciousness space.

[Ding! Main research task "Dress the Giant Beast in the Ultimate Night Suit!" has been completed!]

[The Full-band Metamaterial Stealth Structure – Ultimate Evolution version has passed all system tests! The four core technologies—Deep Space Global Electromagnetic/Optical/Infrared Multi-domain Stealth Coupling, Solar Radiation Wave Shielding, Interstellar Dust Signal Masking, and Active Stealth Signal Adaptive Compensation—are all fully activated!]

[The 100,000-ton luan bird has achieved full-dimensional concealment within the Solar System!]

[Task Reward: 600,000 Skill Points!]

Su Che closed the panel.

In the image on the right side of the monitoring wall, inside the Dry Dock, the luan bird was swallowing another batch of module components.

The final assembly was still moving forward.

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

The cursor for the sentry ship lit up about 8.7 billion kilometers away.

He pulled up the speed curve.

791 kilometers per second.

It was faster than a few days ago.

Zhao Mingyuan glanced at the number from the secondary screen.

"It's rushing."

Su Che closed the panel.