Seeing Ye Zhou shaking his head, Xu Chang spoke directly.

"Interstellar pirates... to be precise, they cannot be considered pirates, but regular troops of a certain civilization."

"This story is very simple. In a certain universe, superluminal navigation technology is a technology that all civilizations can master in the early stages of development. They had discovered the transition technology even before they invented gunpowder."

"You can understand it as a kind of magic or some kind of magical power. In short, it does not require the accumulation of technology, nor does it require productivity as a basis. As long as you learn it, you can always use it."

"So, all civilizations in the entire universe began to develop in a deformed way. They used their own transition technology to expeditions between galaxies, plunder the resources of other planets and expand their own power."

"However, the development of transition technology occupies a lot of resources. These civilizations use all the materials they plundered to build new transition engines, while other basic sciences stagnate."

"----In fact, they don't need the development of basic science. Whoever has a faster and more flexible leap engine will have a greater advantage in the war."

"As long as this happens, the so-called 'Interstellar Pirates' will appear."

"They used backward weapons and equipment, and even cold weapons, and drove a spacecraft with extremely poor sealing properties made of iron and wood, but they were able to travel to another galaxy across tens of thousands of light years."

"Their territory continues to expand, and the enemies are destroyed one by one, because their enemies are just like them, and their war skills are not much better."

"We call this civilization system 'leap civilization'."

"The journey of leap civilization lasted for thousands of years until one day they came to Earth."

"Heavy artillery, missiles, fighter jets... After the initial fear, humans destroyed their fleets like they were destroyed and obtained their leap engines."

"It was not until this time that humans discovered that what they were going on was actually a wrong path."

"Or the one who leaps civilization is going astray."

"But, no matter what, with super firepower and the transition engine, humans have no more rivals in the entire universe - at least in the territory of the transition civilization system."

"This is the story of the interstellar pirates."

Ye Zhou nodded suddenly, and he vaguely remembered that this story came from some science fiction called Alien Astragalus.

Or rather than saying that this is science fiction, it is a fable, which exposes the principle of the "new technology trap" in an extremely extreme and mean way.

But it is obvious that such a situation will hardly happen in reality.

Thinking of this, Ye Zhou spoke:

"This is a good story, but it's just a fable, with too many loopholes."

"Think about it, after thousands of years of war, no matter what, the leap civilization will accumulate huge resources. As long as a small part of these resources flows into basic scientific research, it is enough to promote a qualitative change in their technology."

"What's more, the starry sky and the universe are extremely magical to civilization. The more stars you see, the stronger your desire to develop will be."

"Stars are the key to opening civilization and technology. No civilization will use a stinking wooden boat to defile the starry sea... The most likely situation is that the Jump civilization drives a super warship, carrying space weapons developed from the Jump technology, and destroys the human beings who are still using gunpowder in just one encounter."

Xu Chang nodded and replied:

"If we follow the background of this story, it is likely that this is indeed the case."

"But the question is, aren't we talking about adjacent dimensions?"

Ye Zhou was stunned and asked in confusion:

"What's the meaning?"

"Will the pumping technology be a transition technology? Will the adjacent civilization be a transitional civilization?"

"Ye Zhou, do you know the first axiom of the adjacent Pacific War?"

Ye Zhou nodded and replied:

"When civilizations in any dimension develop to control energy exchange across dimensions, they will definitely absorb energy from adjacent dimensions at all costs, until all civilizations in adjacent dimensions die due to energy suffocation."

"Or a little more simply, unless the barriers to material exchange are broken, there is no possibility of peace between dimensions, and civilizations will only destroy each other."

"The Point Guard is Here"

"So!"

Xu Chang brimmed his high-fives and then said:

"Think about it, what is the safest way to ensure that civilization in another dimension is destroyed?"

“……Build enough pumps.”

"That's right! So now the problem is here, it's a paradox."

"In order to ensure that another civilization can be destroyed in competition, they are destined to build a large number of pumps, which are 'disposable' and can do nothing except pumping water."

“That is, the pump itself actually reduces the energy endowment of one dimension.”

"Or in other words, the number of water pumps built actually determines the technical upper limit of a dimension, but any civilization has to build it, and ultimately, a relative dynamic balance is reached."

"In this case, what do you think is the most likely thing to happen? It's obvious that after they master the pump, the development of other technologies will definitely be severely hindered!"

"It is very likely that they will not exceed us in other basic technical fields!"

“This means…”

"This means that our confrontation with the adjacent dimension is not a dead end."

Ye Zhou interrupted Xu Chang's words, and the latter nodded with satisfaction and continued:

"Yes, of course it's not a dead end, but I'm not talking to you."

"What I want to say is that if our experiment is successful, then we will likely destroy a large number of already built pumps. By that time, it will not be them blocking our technology, but we are blocking them..."

Hearing this, Ye Zhou couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

This is indeed a very likely direction, and judging from the movement rules of adjacent dimensional channels, in addition to the "water pump" itself, the other party's technical level seems to be within the scope of human understanding.

But the question is, among the hundreds of millions of civilizations in the entire universe, have there really no other civilization ever tried to break through the oppression of adjacent dimensions in this way?

Or maybe they died before they had the ability to counterattack?

The answer is unknown, but at least, because of this inference, strong hope arose in Ye Zhou's heart.

Regardless of whether humans can achieve a counterattack against adjacent dimensions in simulation, at least in reality, humans are definitely more sure.

Because we will promote human science and technology to achieve leapfrog and fault-based development that ignores laws, which will win enough time for mankind.

He took a deep breath and then said:

"This is perhaps the most optimistic estimate."

"In fact, the most likely thing is that we can deal a certain blow to them, but far from turning the situation around."

"But no matter what, this action must be successful, otherwise, all subsequent plans will be empty talk."

"certainly."

Xu Chang nodded in agreement, and then the two looked at each other, parted ways in the passage, and rushed to their own jobs.

At the same time, the 18 crew members on this huge spacecraft are all ready. In two hours, they will start to orbit with the carme retrograde constellation, and after the "Zheng He" that is carrying out the pilot mission is in place, they will start to promote the orbit of the carme satellite.

This is a complex task. There are 22 asteroids in the carme cluster, the smallest one is only 40 meters in radius. The motion patterns of these satellites are extremely difficult to predict. If they happen to be in a collision orbit, they will pose a major threat to the spacecraft.

Therefore, they must complete the action of synchronizing orbit to docking as soon as possible. Only when they are tightly attached to this satellite with a diameter of 40 kilometers can they obtain temporary safety.

After completing this series of pre-operation operations, if you want to return safely, the 12 propelling engines on each spacecraft will become the key.

The power they can provide will determine the success or failure of the entire mission.

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