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The general, desperately trying to convey this sense of urgency, attempted to persuade everyone present: "I propose that we immediately purge these corrupt entities, and the world will surely be bathed in the glory of communism!"
This proposal, which could determine the future development of the world, was passed without much questioning. Firstly, the ideological opposition between communism and capitalism itself meant that the two could not coexist. If it could not be eliminated now while it was weak, perhaps it would be eliminated in the future.
On the other hand, they were also worried and fearful of... something whose purpose was still unclear, but which was bound to exceed everyone's imagination.
The vote on launching the war proceeded smoothly, and as the last word of agreement was relayed, the communist leader seated at the head of the table was about to rise—
"Don't you have anything else to do besides this?"
Metal Frenzy: Chapter 282 Dyson Sphere
The more Lin Yi came into contact with them, the more absurd it seemed—towards these "kindred spirits" of hers.
Compared to other parallel worlds, this "Skynet World," which can traverse past and future time and space, clearly has a broader and more magnificent future and can explore infinite possibilities. However, what they have done in the past, are doing now, and plan to do in the future is exactly the same as in other worlds.
"Opposition, contradiction, suspicion, waste... They only know how to waste limited resources on things that have no value or meaning."
Even just turning our gaze slightly beyond our own kind would be good.
"Don't you have anything else to do besides this?"
Wouldn't it be far more valuable to spend more time and energy on this vast and boundless starry sky than to be confined to a small corner of this narrow planet and waste our internal energy?
In conclusion, their choice is completely illogical and unreasonable.
Instead of ignoring what is "correct," they strayed further and further in the "wrong" direction, forcing Lin Yi, who originally did not intend to interfere much in the world, to take action.
"Making a foolish mistake is your own business, but if it affects those around you, then I'm sorry."
The raised fingertip gently drew a circle on the map—not too big, not too small, just enough to encompass the most prosperous area in the Far East.
Even pity has its limits.
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The world has become quieter.
With the collapse of internal order in the United States, one of the world's two poles, and the regression of the Soviet Union, another pole, due to nuclear leaks, the doomsday shadow that had loomed over everyone for decades vanished overnight.
Everyone was baffled by how suddenly everything happened and was accomplished. There was no war that brought about the end of the world, nor any global panic that caused an economic crisis. The two most powerful countries on Earth fell down as if it were a joke, leaving only people who are still immersed in this dreamlike reality... and the ever-growing "shadow" in the sky.
It started about two weeks ago, and the first person to notice the anomaly in the sky was an ordinary American resident living directly below it.
When he woke up as usual, Michelson went out to stretch his body, but the bright sunshine did not bring him vitality as usual. Instead, a large area of regular square shadows covered, or rather, robbed, the sun from about a third of the state centered on his residence.
The local residents initially thought it was just an unusual weather phenomenon that would soon return to normal. However, as the second and third days progressed, more and more land was "stealed of sunlight," and many people realized that something was wrong.
Some people still insist that this is a special weather condition and that they just need to wait. However, others believe it is a sign of disaster, and a few even stormed the White House demanding an explanation.
Naturally, they received no explanation.
This continued for a month, until the last ray of sunshine belonging to America was completely taken away.
Even today, people without any satellites can easily spot the "shadow" surrounding the "sky" with their own eyes—it is still "tiny" compared to the vast sky, but if this "tinyness" is compared to units on Earth, it would be an astronomical figure.
On the surface, America remains calm. The chaotic voices that rise up are quick and "subside" just as quickly. In the same protest venue, you can hardly see the same faces at different times. Under a kind of silent terror, people whose "sunshine" has been taken away have fallen silent, only looking up at the increasingly dark and "narrow" sky day after day.
It was in this same atmosphere that people began to realize where those “things” that kept appearing on the American soil and then quickly disappeared had gone… They didn’t disappear; they simply appeared in another form in another place.
Time flows slowly and silently.
The shadow of the Americas began to spread to the surrounding areas, with Canada in the north and Mexico in the south being the first to be affected. As expected, the two countries that encountered the "shadow disaster" fell into panic and riots, but the chaos was easily extinguished just like in the United States before it could escalate beyond control.
People who are caught between life and death and who clearly feel this "silent terror" also fall silent.
In the second month of the "shadow's" spread, it crossed the vast ocean and silently set foot on the adjacent land under the watchful eyes of countless fearful people.
Unrest – Calm – Silence.
Similar yet different scenes occur one after another in different areas. People living under this sky where a few traces of light still remain gradually lose the distinction between day and night. Only the dappled light that can be glimpsed through the gaps in those "fragments" of the sky makes them aware of a reality.
They didn't lose the sunlight; it was just taken away from them.
Surrounded by a "metal wall" made of countless "iron sheets," it is surrounded by the sun.
In the third month of the "shadow's" spread, the entire planet's surface lost its last ray of direct sunlight.
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【‘戴森球’总体完成度17.69%,预计全期投入完成度29.15%,完成期限1942小时41分51秒】
The information feedback from the main god easily produced data that would normally require countless processes to calculate. Staring at the miniature model formed by 20000000 km: 1 cm, Lin Yi narrowed his eyes slightly.
Surrounding the side closest to Earth, one-third of the surface of the star that has been burning for hundreds of millions of years at the center is now "enclosed"—like an eggshell encasing an egg.
The fragile and thin iron sheets formed the "eggshell," which, together with the Earth's share, recklessly seized all the energy that should have illuminated the vast starry sky. This energy was then converted into an astronomical amount and continuously fed into the "God's" energy reserve system, preparing for the final step of the next operation.
P.S.: Exams are over, thank you everyone for your well wishes!
Metal Frenzy: Chapter 283 Two-Way Passage
Generally speaking, if you discover that an enemy has used a "passage" to run to your base to launch an attack—although it fails, you have actually discovered the existence of this "passage" and are able to use it—what would you do?
For most people, the choice would likely be similar: to use this "channel" to send their own members to the enemy base to launch an attack. Even if they fail to distract the enemy, it would still be worthwhile.
In the Skynet world, where the rules governing time are relatively chaotic, "time jump" is a "two-way channel" of this nature.
In 1984, a time when humanity was far from being able to grasp the concept of time, let alone jump to the past, even the "present" could not be accurately measured. However, in the future of 2029, not only did Skynet, which had mastered all of humanity's technological means, also gradually master the technology of jumping through time, even those humans who were forced by Skynet to take up arms in resistance. This is why we saw the T-800 and future human warriors appearing in Los Angeles in 1984.
If no "unexpected factors" occur, these robots and warriors from the future will all act around the mother of the future human leader, either protecting her or killing her... It's simply a matter of successfully changing the future or failing to change it, but an unexpected event happened.
Both the human soldiers from the future and the T-800 robot from the future were "eliminated" immediately after jumping to 1984. The broken things could not change the past or influence the future. After noticing the emergence of these "unexpected factors", Skynet in 2029 made a new decision. It no longer tried to change the past on a small scale: that is, to kill only the mother of the human leader as a single individual. Instead, it directly threw a "stone" at the Earth in 1984.
Undoubtedly, without the "unexpected factor" of the God Space, this stone, capable of indiscriminately activating metals, could easily destroy all current human civilizations, including the still nascent "Skynet." Changing the future would be a piece of cake. However, this future would not be the future where Skynet dominates the world in 2029, but rather a future where activated metals rule everything.
This is where the problem arises.
What is it that would make a program with mechanical intelligence willing to change the past and erase its own existence in order to take action?
Combining the stone that could induce metal to become active with the many anomalies that occurred in the intelligent world, the answer is almost obvious.
It was based on this "answer" that Lin Yi launched the second step of his action.
"Although it can only be used in this world, 'time jump' is indeed a convenient method."
Leaving aside the grandmother paradox and the like, since the "timeline" of this world can travel from the future to the past, it can naturally also travel from the past to the future.
In other words, the principle behind traveling from Earth in 2029 to Earth in 1984, and from Earth in 1984 to Earth in 2029, is similar.
"A covering magnetic field formed by high-voltage current."
Using this method, the T-800 in 2029 arrived in 1984. By slightly changing the calculation method and the magnetic field direction, it would be highly likely to "travel" to the future. Several small experiments conducted before the official implementation of this plan have indeed proven the feasibility of this method.
After obtaining the method to utilize the "time channel", the second problem to be solved is the selection of the "object".
As mentioned at the beginning, after discovering a "two-way portal" that leads to the past and the future, the future Skynet will transfer several robots similar to the T-800 and T-1000 to the past world to make localized changes—in order to avoid affecting too wide a range and causing the reality in which it appears in the future to disappear.
In response, it seems that all the world in the past could do was select a few strong human warriors to use the "two-way portal" to travel to the future and destroy Skynet—after all, they knew nothing about the future and had no idea what the future enemy was like in the past, so they could not eliminate it in advance.
However, it is important to note that there must be no "unexpected factors" present.
Because of the appearance of the main god, Skynet from 2029 abandoned its original mode of limited change of the past and directly threw a stone capable of "destroying humanity" into 1984 in an attempt to completely subvert the world of 1984—obviously it failed. So, in response to its irrational mode of action, it would be too "rude" to simply use this "two-way channel" to transfer a few powerful reincarnators to 2029. Moreover, judging from the situation when fighting the metal titan, the power of just a few reincarnators is simply not enough to change anything in that world dominated by Skynet.
"So why not broaden the scope a bit?"
It's not about one or two individuals, nor about a limited area, but rather about utilizing this proven and traversable "two-way passage"—
—How about moving this Earth from 1984 to 2029?
Based on the T-800 and the previous human relocation phenomenon, it can be determined that the relocation was not completed in the form of 'replacement'. The same substances that constitute the same individual at different time periods can coexist in the same space-time. Therefore, the phenomenon that the Earth appeared in 1984 and was originally scheduled to disappear in 2029 will not occur.
Instead, there will be two "Earths" on the same orbit—the Earth in 1984 and the Earth in 2029.
Everything that happened during the spiritual energy reversal has proven enough that fighting on home ground and fighting away ground are two completely different concepts. If we only use the "two-way channel" to transfer to the future to fight against unknown enemies, the probability of failure is definitely much greater than the probability of victory.
"In that case, let's just move our 'home field' there."
This would be impossible in other worlds because "time jumps" are far more complex and complicated than in this world, but it is entirely feasible in this world.
Transferring a single T-800 to the future might only require a "negligible" amount of energy compared to the overall reserves of the Gods. However, if the target of the transfer is expanded to the entire Earth in 1984, then the reserves of the Gods alone would be far from sufficient. Furthermore, for the entire parallel world, the largest energy source that humanity has been able to access since the dawn of humanity has never been any energy source on Earth as they perceive it to be, but rather the star that resides at the center of the solar system, providing Earth with all its "energy."
Thus, Lin Yi officially launched the "Dyson Sphere" manufacturing project—in order to obtain the energy to move a planet from the "past" to the "future".
Metal Frenzy: Chapter 284 A Giant Leap for the World
The prolonged darkness did not bring about significant changes to this planet, which had always been bathed in sunlight. On the one hand, the quantitative changes accumulated over time had not yet reached the level of qualitative change, and a period of lack of light was not enough to cause life to disappear from the planet's surface. On the other hand, the faint light leaking from the semi-enclosed "egg shell" was barely maintaining the natural ecosystem from collapsing.
However, rather than these external objective factors, people prefer to believe that this tacit atmosphere is formed by human "subjectivity".
For people in the past, it was inconceivable that they could maintain their former peaceful rhythm of life in the face of this dark and hopeless world. Back then, let alone facing such catastrophic scenes, even the slightest noise would trigger a fierce response, leading to frequent pointless conflicts. But now...
"Mrs. Sarah's husband did not come home last night."
"It seems he went to the rally?"
"Yes, it's said that there's going to be a protest march..."
"Oh, that's really bad news. I hope Mrs. Sarah recovers soon."
In a simple and unremarkable exchange, a life was pronounced to end without any "witnesses." However, no one felt any unusual emotions towards this scene; on the contrary, it was taken for granted.
Anyone would get used to it if the same thing went on for six months.
Or to put it another way, those who couldn't adapt have all "disappeared," and those who can still exist are naturally able to adapt.
—Silent terror.
It is unknown from whom it originated, or how it began to circulate in people's communication and actions. It is a term with a special meaning, not used to refer to any specific event or person, but rather it has been appearing widely for the past six months and has been penetrating deeper and deeper as the shadow spreads. It is a kind of collectivization phenomenon.
It is not directed at anyone; at least in the past six months, no one has been heard of being robbed of anything except sunlight by the "silent terror" for no reason. At the same time, it is directed at everyone; it has taken away sunlight, freedom, and all the rights of people to speak out and express their opinions. The only thing left is this seemingly peaceful but potentially collapsing ordinary world.
Sarah Anne no longer cared about counting the exact number of people. She only vaguely sensed that the once bustling streets had become much quieter. Until yesterday, the last place she lived that could barely maintain its original state—her family home—was also taken away, leaving her alone to face this silent terror when she woke up.
In a daze, the illusion of peace she had been maintaining shattered, and immense fear instantly invaded her heart. Her heavy, suppressed breathing echoed throughout the room until she couldn't help but open her mouth wide, trying to cry for help—
"call--"
A gentle breeze, seemingly from nowhere, rises and disappears, leaving behind this silent space.
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The Dyson Sphere is 29.15% complete, with a power supply rate of 99.8%, and is expected to be fully charged in 23 minutes and 57 seconds.
The sudden sound in front of him drew Lin Yi's attention away from the miniature star model below. He looked up at the sky and saw that the area covered by the "shadow" had nearly doubled compared to what he had seen three months ago. Not only was the light that belonged to Earth taken away, but even the moon, which was quite a distance away, had been stripped of most of its brilliance. One could only imagine what kind of situation those more distant regions would be in.
However, this is the limit.
"...What about the replenishment status of the parts?"
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Faced with the data provided by the main god, Lin Yi fell silent.
Acquiring any resource takes time, even if that world has been completely brought under the control of the God Space. Technology, labor, energy... all sorts of external factors limit the God's development. Although there are worlds like the MS world that can be used as processing plants, they are still a minority. Moreover, as they gradually understand and analyze the data from IS, it is no longer possible to continue exchanging so many resources with a few "insignificant" things as they did at the beginning.
Of course, besides the IS technology, Lin Yi still has a lot of things that he can exchange. For example, there are some derivatives in the field of life viruses - they don't have much use, except that they can delay aging and extend lifespan a little.
If this "derivative" were given to this "interstellar factory," the benefits would be far greater than those obtained through IS technology exchange. After all, the latter can only influence a small number of people, while the former is a decisive thing that can affect anyone in the world. However, Lin Yi did not do so.
Things are different now. In the past, Lin Yi had no choice but to use various "unconventional" means to disrupt and change the world in order to carve out a space for himself to survive. Otherwise, he would not be able to take any further action. But now he doesn't need to do that.
Although the main god is still incomplete, the various functions that are gradually being repaired and the power that has been acquired are enough to bring these worlds, which are not powerful to begin with, under complete control. As a result, there is no need to change them. Rather than changing them easily, it is better to let them evolve and develop on their own. Perhaps one day in the future, they will be able to reap even more fruitful results.
Of course, these are all long-term reasons. In the short term—or rather, the real reason that Lin Yi decided not to do so is quite simple.
Insufficient productivity.
Even with the title of "interstellar factory," the human productivity of the MS world still has its limits. After exchanging 29% of the complete "Dyson Sphere" parts with IS technology, it has reached saturation. The rest can only be obtained little by little in a long run, or they can only wait for the next one-time plunder. In any case, it is impossible to do it like before.
"...It doesn't really matter."
The gaze shifts to the azure currents filling the planetary model below, which are nearing saturation. The closed magnetic field formed by the two poles has also isolated it from all external contact except for light, awaiting only the final step.
Just moments before reaching out his right hand to make contact with the magnetic field on the surface of the "planet," he inexplicably recalled a rather famous sentence from the Origin World.
"This is just a small step for me."
The hand paused, then gently pressed down.
"But it is destined to be a giant leap for this 'world'."
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