Chapter 126: Fifth-grade Civilization, The Beginning of the Interstellar Age

Lin Lei had a sudden inspiration, and to capture this idea, he rushed into his workshop and began working day and night without stopping.

This near-mad working style made Lin Lei’s already poor physical condition even worse. His originally thin frame almost became skin and bones.

If Lin Lei had not always known the limits of his body, he would have collapsed long ago.

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to rest, but the design work for the new curvature generator required an extremely coherent logical reasoning process. Too many pauses, while not completely ruining his previous efforts, would greatly delay the completion date of the work.

He locked himself in a small room of less than fifteen square meters, eating when hungry and sleeping when tired. Apart from the work at hand, he cast all other things behind him.

During this time, Lin Lei vaguely knew that someone had entered the room a few times and said something to him, but he just hummed a few times and brushed it off.

Outside the workshop, Lin Xin complained to Old Xiao, “He is destroying his own body. I think he is almost unrecognizable from thinness. Grandpa Xiao, can you just let him go on like this? If he continues like this, something bad will definitely happen!”

“We are monitoring his physical condition by adjusting the nanobots. The current situation is not too bad. When it reaches a truly dangerous level, we will stop him. Rest assured, Little Xin.”

Old Xiao sighed. He was definitely a master in theoretical understanding, and his Grand Unified Field Theory had been verified as correct by all existing experimental phenomena. However, in specific design work like this, he felt power less.

These things had to be done by these passionate and creative young people.

Lin Lei’s seclusion lasted for a full three months! Three months later, a “wild man” with a hairy face and hair as messy as straw staggered out of the workshop.

He stumbled towards Old Xiao’s office, silent all the way, only tightly pressing his lips, as if enduring something with gritted teeth.

“Bang!” Lin Lei directly smashed into Old Xiao’s office door with his body and staggered inside.

Not only Old Xiao was in the office; Lu Daolin and Li Yi were also there. They all looked at the young man who looked like a madman with surprised expressions.

Lin Lei remained silent. He placed a thick stack of papers on the desk and then laughed with great pleasure.

His smile was hidden behind a thick beard, and his nose was almost covered by the beard. With the cover of his long hair, almost only a pair of eyes were visible on his face.

A pair of wise eyes shining with brilliance left an unforgettable impression on the three people present!

“Bang” was the sound when Lin Lei could no longer support his body. He collapsed to the ground in a limp heap. He only felt powerless all over, and endless fatigue rose from the depths of his marrow. Darkness began to slowly occupy his field of vision.

Old Xiao immediately stood up. He didn’t even care about the blueprints on the desk, quickly grabbed the physical condition reading instrument, ran to Lin Lei’s side, and began to receive information transmitted from the nanobots in his body.

Li Yi, beside him, immediately called the nursing center of the research institute.

Lu Daolin also stepped forward and asked with concern, “How is his body? Is this young man Lin Lei White?”

Several minutes later, the specific situation of Lin Lei’s body was displayed on the instrument. The result made Old Xiao breathe a sigh of relief. He carefully helped Lin Lei up and placed him on the long sofa in the office.

Then he said to Lu Daolin, “There is nothing major. He is just too tired and fell asleep.”

…To what extent must one be tired to fall asleep in such a situation? The three of them were silent.

At this time, Old Xiao finally had time to look at the design blueprints placed on the table. He flipped through them roughly one by one, and his expression became increasingly serious.

One hour later, he suddenly slapped the desk with his palm and shouted, “Perfect, this is truly perfect!”

If the concept of the energy core proposed by Lin Lei before was somewhat detached from reality, then this current design could completely be put into production and manufacturing. It was so detailed and perfect!

But the surroundings were quiet with no movement. Old Xiao looked up and around, only to find that the office had only him left, without knowing when the others had left.

Even the sleeping Lin Lei on the sofa was nowhere to be seen. This mysterious situation made him a bit bewildered.

Just a moment ago, there were clearly four people here. How could they have vanished in the blink of an eye?

At this moment, Li Yi and Lu Daolin returned to Old Xiao’s office, with Lin Xin following behind them.

Lu Daolin, who was actually the oldest among them and not much younger than Old Xiao, smiled at Old Xiao as soon as he entered the office, “You, for decades, your temper hasn’t changed a bit. As soon as you immerse yourself in your thoughts, you forget everything else completely.”

Old Xiao didn’t care about Lu Daolin’s scolding at all, just asking repeatedly, “How is it? Is White okay?”

“Barely!” Lu Daolin said only three words.

“What do you mean barely?” Old Xiao hurriedly asked for clarification.

“His body is at the limit of collapse. All physiological indicators are at a level that can barely maintain brain clarity. If it goes any further, there is a high probability that he will fall asleep and never wake up. In fact, even now, his heart function has shown a certain degree of failure.”

Lin Xin interjected. Her tone sounded cold on the surface, but if one listened carefully, one could hear the hidden emotional fluctuation.

He was the only person in more than thirty years who had moved Lin Xin. Whether it was his genius or his hard work, it was shocking.

The three people present had watched Lin Xin grow up, so of course they could hear it. The three of them exchanged a glance with tacit understanding, completing an unspoken communication in an instant.

It seemed that no matter what, this Lin Lei White had gained Lin Xin’s special attention.

Li Yi cracked a joke to break the slightly silent atmosphere in the office, “Old Xiao, tell me, did he solve the problem of the energy core?”

Speaking of this, Lin Xin also became curious. She wanted to see what ability this person had that allowed him to remain calm and composed under the gaze of her father’s statue.

Old Xiao held the blueprints precious in his arms and said only one sentence, “This is the cornerstone of humanity’s journey into the Universe!”

…

This major breakthrough kept the Earth side silent. They did not make it public. Instead, following the detailed and almost perfect solution proposed by Lin Lei, they manufactured an energy core with practical application value at a lightning-fast speed.

The entire process took only ten days! The related factories worked day and night.

Eighty percent of the energy provided by humanity’s only controllable nuclear fusion reactor was consumed here.

Ten days later, a deep nuclear fusion energy core with a diameter of five meters appeared in an underground base a thousand meters deep.

The maximum output power of this core was even twice that of the nuclear fusion reactor skyscraper on the surface, and it was very stable and safe.

Another huge advantage was that it no longer required heavy hydrogen as nuclear fusion fuel; even ordinary hydrogen atoms could complete fusion.

As for hydrogen elements, not to mention other places in the Universe, on Earth itself, the boundless oceans contained inexhaustible hydrogen resources.

Lin Xin had calculated carefully. Through the modification of Lin Lei’s curvature generator and with super-large power supply, with humanity’s current manufacturing standards, the maximum Curvature of the spaceship’s Warp Engine could reach fifty, a full tenfold increase!

In terms of the endurance of spaceships of the same volume, instead of only lasting for one minute as before, it could continue moving for 1000 hours! That is to say, it could fly a distance of more than 5.5 Light Year. This was a leapfrog breakthrough!

Leite’s home planet was 50 Light Year away from Earth. With this deep nuclear fusion energy core, Earthlings still could not reach there.

But it must be clear that this energy core was just a semi-finished product. It could be further optimized to increase the maximum output power and total energy output.

Lin Lei’s design had a very large room for improvement and could be said to have unlimited potential!

According to the simulation by the Supercomputer, the physical volume limit of this energy core was a sphere with a diameter of 10 centimeters. That is to say, in the future, Earth would set off a wave of energy innovation.

As long as a deep nuclear fusion engine was installed on a car, and it was refueled only once, the energy provided would be enough to let the car run until it was scrapped! And there would still be excess.

Of course, no one would install such a Divine Artifact-grade thing on a primitive, four-wheeled car. The future would belong to the Suspension Car.

The impact brought by this energy core was not limited to this. Its design and production also drove a large-scale leap in the technologies of Space Loop and Warp Flight, which was not previously expected.

This underground base also immediately obtained energy from this energy core at the first opportunity, completely breaking free from its reliance on surface energy sources.

And this base would become Earth’s secret factory, beginning the manufacturing of spaceships and the development and research of various high-level technologies.

It was believed that Earth Civilization a hundred years later would give the Layite People a big surprise!