277: Chapter 277 Gravitational Field Tears Apart Warship, New Punishment is Physiological Hyperplasia?

After Su Che piloted the shuttle back to Genesis, he did not linger in his office but walked straight into the depths of the ship.

He prepared to check out the door that had just been conquered by Academician Zhong and his team.

In front of the sixty-third door, Ye Zhiqiu was analyzing data on-site with several physicists.

The door was already open, and the interior space was surprisingly simple.

In the center, there was only a silver metal sphere floating in mid-air, its surface covered with microscopic circuits difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, looking like a metal heart wrapped in a spiderweb.

"Chief Engineer Su." Seeing him approach, Ye Zhiqiu handed over the data tablet in his hand.

Su Che took it and scanned it.

[Shipborne Precision Artificial Gravitational Field Control System]

Originally used for creating artificial gravity, pulling or repelling large celestial bodies, stabilizing the ship's structure, distorting local space, etc., it can achieve precise control of the gravitational field within a hundred-kilometer radius of the ship.

"What's the difference between this and the one at the eighth door?" Su Che asked.

He remembered that one was called the "Ship-wide Zonal Precision Gravity Control System."

"The difference is huge." Behind Ye Zhiqiu, an elderly British professor named Roger Hamilton adjusted his monocle and explained.

"The system at the eighth door is 'internal'; its function is to allow different compartments within the mother ship to possess independent gravity environments ranging from zero to one hundred Gs, essentially serving the personnel and experiments inside the ship."

He pointed to the silver sphere inside the door.

"And this one is 'external'; its function is to control the gravitational field outside the mother ship."

Roger's tone carried a hint of shock.

"For example, using gravity to capture an asteroid, or in battle, directly distorting the structure of enemy warships with a strong gravitational field, or even creating a gravity trap."

Su Che understood.

One manages internal affairs, the other handles external warfare.

One is the air conditioner at home, the other is a giant fan that can stir up a storm.

"Can this thing crush that Tayake Civilization sentry ship directly?" Su Che asked a very practical question.

"Theoretically, as long as the opponent enters the hundred-kilometer range and does not have equivalent gravity counter-technology, we can instantly apply a gravitational shear field exceeding ten thousand times standard gravity."

Ye Zhiqiu's answer was very direct, "Never mind a sentry ship, even their main warships could be torn apart directly."

Su Che didn't speak again, just looking at the silver sphere.

The mother ship had gained another fang.

He handed the management authority of this system directly to Ye Zhiqiu and Roger Hamilton.

...

In the following time, Su Che's life was split into two halves just like before.

Half the time was spent on Genesis, following up on the unlocking progress, and the other half was spent in Su Family Village, coordinating the research and development of the five major projects.

The mother ship's unlocking was advancing steadily, while at Su Family Village on Earth, things were in full swing.

The Dyson Cloud project team led by Eric Weir had already entered the third stage of deployment.

At the temporary spaceport in the asteroid belt, the massive electromagnetic catapult track had been basically completed.

Every few minutes, a standardized collection satellite was accelerated to the limit, like a silver bullet, precisely shot into the preset inner orbit of the Sun.

After detaching from the catapult track, these satellites would autonomously complete deceleration and attitude calibration, and then slowly unfold huge light energy collection sails.

The light energy they captured was precisely transmitted via laser to the receiving base stations on the Moon and Earth, injecting a continuous stream of energy into the entire interstellar village's industrial system.

On the Nantianmen Fleet R&D side, Soren Kesh was leading a group of top brains to tackle Penrose energy technology.

In a heavily guarded underground laboratory.

A micro black hole was constrained by a powerful magnetic field within a fist-sized space, spinning crazily, distorting the surrounding light and time.

Academician Sun Qiwen, Academician Zhang Weide, and other Dragon Country academicians were cooperating with Kairos experts, carefully "stealing" energy from the ergosphere of the black hole.

Soren Kesh told Su Che the theoretical output power of this device.

It was equivalent to the sum of one hundred nuclear fusion power plants; once the technology matured, the million-ton-class luan bird would possess near-infinite endurance.

And the Life Science and Consciousness Engineering project team led by Talia Knox had made even more breakthrough progress.

Academician Chen Shian and Zhou Dehai showed Su Che their latest achievements in a cleanroom.

"Chief Engineer Su, we have successfully realized the controllable extension and repair of human cell telomeres in the laboratory."

Academician Chen Shian's tone could hardly hide his excitement.

"A healthy lifespan of three hundred years is theoretically no longer an obstacle. What needs to be done now is to stabilize the technology and carry out clinical applications."

Talia Knox displayed another technology: primary consciousness digital backup.

They could already fully back up a person's entire memory and cognitive logic, although it could not yet exist independently of the biological body.

But this meant that in the future, death caused by accidents would have the possibility of "resurrection."

As for the two newly established project teams, they had also fully launched their work.

Nolan Ames submitted a grand "Solar System Resource Comprehensive Development Plan."

It planned to establish a fully automated mining fleet in the asteroid belt within the next few years, mine nuclear fusion fuel in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn, and initiate preliminary transformation of Mars.

Sibel Quinn led her team, burying themselves in a vast sea of formulas and theories.

Attempting to unify the four fundamental forces, laying the most solid theoretical foundation for human civilization to move to a higher level.

...

On the mother ship side, the unlocking progress was still not fast, but what was unlocked was not bad.

Ye Zhiqiu's group was the first to conquer the sixty-fourth door, behind which was a massive data processing center.

[Shipborne Global Interstellar Intelligence Collection and Analysis System]

This system could actively monitor, capture, and analyze all unencrypted and crackable communication signals in the surrounding star regions, and intelligently judge the behavioral patterns and power dynamics of civilizations.

Su Che immediately transferred Ella Ruth, a senior intelligence analyst from the American Ministry of State Security, from the expert list.

This woman in her forties, who looked shrewd and capable, said only one sentence after seeing the system.

"With this, we can know what the enemy wants to say before they open their mouths."

Subsequently, Su Wanxing's second group also successfully unlocked the sixty-fifth door.

[Shipborne Interstellar Ancient Civilization and Relic Detection System]

This system was specifically used to scan various relics, wrecked ships, and energy residues in the universe, capable of analyzing the technological level and extinction causes of ancient civilizations, and even locating lost technological treasures.

Su Che looked at the function description, and a thought suddenly came alive in his heart.

Now, the mother ship had the capability for both jump and conventional cruising, it had previously unlocked the interstellar resource collection and refining processing center, and now it had this relic detection system that was like a treasure map.

Once he was done with this pile of messy tasks, he had to drive the ship out for a stroll, go exploring, mine some ore; that was what interstellar life should be like.

He suppressed the restlessness in his heart and called over Daisy Lawrence, the American expert in charge of optical technology, to take full charge of this system.

This blonde lady excitedly familiarized herself with various operations at the console.

Not a few days later, she ran over to tell Su Che that she had discovered energy traces of a Level 3 Civilization in a nearby star system.

...

Everything was moving in the best direction.

Until Kairos opened the sixty-sixth door for Friedman's third group.

When those familiar punishment mechanism words appeared again, Friedman's face turned green on the spot.

He felt like he must not have checked the almanac before going out recently.

Last time it was gender rewriting, what the hell was it this time?

In the center of the door panel, a humanoid energy phantom was floating.

The phantom was translucent, slender, maintaining a static posture somewhere between dance and gymnastics.

[Unlock Method: Mirror Phantom Replication.]

[The phantom will perform coherent body movements; the user must replicate it in real-time as if looking in a mirror. Excessive body deviation or delayed movements will be judged as failure.]

[Complete the entire set of movements to activate a node; there are twelve nodes in total.]

Seeing this, everyone felt it was acceptable; it was just imitating movements, which was better than guessing riddles or smelling scents.

But when the last line of the punishment description appeared, the atmosphere in the entire corridor became somewhat unusual.

[Failure Punishment: Triggers forced physiological proliferation of the individual; the proliferated part and size are random and irreversible.]

Someone in the corridor chuckled muffledly.

Friedman turned back and glanced, and the laughter stopped immediately.

But the atmosphere was indeed much more relaxed than the last gender rewriting punishment; after all, proliferating a part, if one was lucky...

Su Che was also thinking about this question.

It was random, after all; if it happened to be in certain places, it might even be considered a gain.

But if it happened to be on the nose, feet, or chin...

Su Che extinguished those messy thoughts.

He beckoned to Kairos.

"Prepare twenty slips of paper, write the numbers one to twenty on them, and fold them up."

Kairos took the order and left, returning with a stack of folded slips of paper in a few minutes.

Su Che took them and waved them at Friedman's third group.

"Draw lots to determine the order; whoever gets which number goes in that order."

Friedman was the first to reach out, pinched a slip of paper from Su Che's hand, and unfolded it.

"Seventeen."

His shoulders relaxed; at least he didn't have to lead the charge.

The remaining nineteen people stepped forward one by one to draw lots.

The one who drew number one had a completely collapsed face, while the one who drew number twenty wished he could treat himself to a chicken leg.

"Number one, who is it?"

A tall figure stepped out of the crowd.

Erik Lindberg, the chief scientist at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' Institute for Particle Physics, the guy who usually dealt with quarks and bosons.

He stood directly in front of the humanoid phantom on the door panel and flexed his wrists.

The phantom moved.

It lifted its left hand and bent its elbow, palm facing outward, kicked its right leg backward, and tilted its body forward by thirty degrees.

The movements were coherent and smooth, like a slow-motion dance.

Lindberg followed along.

Left hand lifted up, elbow joint bent down, palm flipped over.

When kicking the right leg backward, his center of gravity was not steady, and the forward tilt angle was ten degrees more than it should have been.

The light pattern on the door panel flashed, red.

[Activation failed, forced physiological proliferation started.]