Chapter Summaries

Chen Mengchuan described Tenzhi Technology’s plans to expand from Earth through the Solar System and beyond, then joined the team for a 1,000-meter three-fold Space Folding test. The test began as the new Particle Shuttle rose toward an opening in the laboratory roof.

• Chen Mengchuan told Xu Shuwei that Tenzhi Technology planned to establish a Mars base, explore the Solar System and Milky Way, and eventually reach beyond the Eternal Universe Particle theory.
• Toni told Chen Mengchuan that the team was preparing a 1,500-meter traversal test using a new Particle Shuttle and four newly assembled shuttles.
• Chen Mengchuan, Toni, Simba, Chen Xiaoyun, Su Ruifeng, and Tang Lingling recalibrated the source-point parameters with a graphene photonic quantum supercomputer thirty-two times faster than Haimar.
• Achen verified the revised parameters, and Chen Mengchuan set up a three-fold Space Folding traversal over an absolute straight-line distance of 1,000 meters, for a theoretical distance of 3,000 meters.
• Toni opened the laboratory roof, and the new Particle Shuttle and a gravity work platform rose toward the opening for the test.

Chen Mengchuan, Toni, and their team successfully tested a 3,000-meter space-time traversal and discussed scaling Space Folding technology toward Earth-Moon travel. Two days later, the team gathered to witness Xu Zhenglin and Zhang Ying prepare to land on the Moon, while Chen Mengchuan reflected on the approaching alien spacecraft and the limited time to prepare.

• Toni directed the Particle Shuttle team to project and stabilize a source point ring, and a mecha pilot confirmed the ring was stable for a 3,000-meter traversal.
• Chen Mengchuan congratulated the team and proposed testing five Space Folding operations across 4,000 meters as a step toward docking Earth and the Moon within a year.
• Chen Mengchuan estimated how repeated gravity traversals and 2,048-fold Space Folding could bridge the distance from Earth to the Moon, inspiring the control-room team.
• Two days later, Chen Mengchuan and others gathered at the Eternal Universe Particle Communications Department to watch Xu Zhenglin and Zhang Ying prepare for their lunar landing.
• Chen Mengchuan reflected that his group had little time to prepare before six alien spacecraft arrived, though he did not know whether they would be ready.

Xu Zhenglin and Zhang Ying prepared for Tenzhi 1’s lunar landing, then stepped onto the moon in their mechs as ground headquarters watched. They began their first lunar exploration amid celebrations on Earth.

• Xu Zhenglin admitted to Zhang Ying that he was nervous about landing and wondered whether the moon matched the training materials.
• Xu Zhenglin and Zhang Ying spoke with Xu Shuwei and officials at ground headquarters about their flight and the Multi-Arm Crab’s deployment in lunar orbit.
• Tenzhi 1 landed safely, and Chen Mengchuan and the laboratory staff celebrated the milestone.
• Xu Zhenglin and Zhang Ying moved through the sealed transfer chamber and stepped onto the gray lunar surface in their mechs.
• Xu Shuwei connected a video call, and Xu Zhenglin and Zhang Ying told him they felt great.

Xu Zhenglin and Zhang Ying explored the lunar surface and flew to a vast crater, while researchers on Earth discussed the Moon’s much larger impact basins. Toni suggested that data gathered by the Multi-Arm Crabs might eventually explain how the largest craters formed.

• Xu Shuwei spoke with Xu Zhenglin and Zhang Ying as they tested their armor’s temperature control while walking on the Moon.
• Xu Zhenglin requested activation of the multidirectional gravity flight system, and he and Zhang Ying flew toward their assigned crater.
• Xu Zhenglin and Zhang Ying reached the crater, which measured more than seven kilometers across, and its scale stunned them and the researchers watching on Earth.
• Toni described lunar craters larger than the one they had visited, and Chen Mengchuan explained the size of the Aitken Basin to Sun Zhongyong.
• Toni said that data collected by the Multi-Arm Crabs might eventually help researchers analyze how the enormous craters formed.

After Tenzhi Technology’s Moon landing sparked worldwide attention, Chen Mengchuan told his colleagues the company was still moving too slowly toward its goal of exploring the Solar System. He launched a new project to build a Medium Circular Orbit Graphene Wireless Solar Power Station, leaving the researchers stunned.

• Media coverage of Xu Zhenglin and Zhang Ying’s Moon landing swept the world, and footage of them exploring the lunar crater in gravity mechs inspired widespread interest.
• Tenzhi Technology declined purchase offers for its mechs, while Huaxia authorities introduced rules requiring licenses for personal aircraft.
• Chen Mengchuan authorized two departments to use the triple-crystal graphene mini supercomputer to develop the Gravity Multi-Arm Crab.
• Chen Mengchuan convened a project meeting with the Gravity Application, wireless current transmission, and graphene departments and said Tenzhi Technology’s progress was too slow.
• Chen Mengchuan announced that the new project was a Medium Circular Orbit Graphene Wireless Solar Power Station, shocking the researchers and department heads.

Chen Mengchuan set a plan in motion for Lingkong 5.0 and a medium Earth orbit graphene wireless solar power station, then joined his team to test eleven Space Foldings across 4,000 meters each. The chapter ended as they activated the source-point ring for a 44-kilometer Particle Shuttle test.

• Chen Mengchuan proposed Lingkong 5.0 and established the Medium Earth Orbit Graphene Wireless Solar Power Station Project with support from Huaxia Electric Grid Group.
• A week later, Zhao Wanyu woke Chen Mengchuan in the laboratory and urged him to go home to see his daughter.
• Toni reported that the team had verified the 4,000-meter source-point parameters and completed the fourth through eleventh Space Foldings.
• Simba told Chen Mengchuan that the final simulation for eleven Space-time Traversals had succeeded, enabling a theoretical 44-kilometer test.
• Chen Mengchuan and the team prepared Particle Shuttle No. 2, confirmed the initial source-point positioning, and activated the source-point ring.

Chen Mengchuan, Toni, Simba, and the research team celebrated successful Space-time Traversal tests, then planned faster and longer trials to improve Tiansuo’s performance. Simba revealed that he and Tang Lingling had become a couple.

• The team activated the source-point ring and sent four mechas through it, confirming a successful traversal and return across four thousand meters.
• Chen Mengchuan calculated Tiansuo’s projected traversal cycle at roughly 442 seconds, and he and Toni discussed ways to reduce the time and increase speed.
• Chen Mengchuan revised Simba’s next-phase plan to target forty-eight Space Folding operations across forty thousand meters, and Simba said the new graphene supercomputer could make it possible.
• Toni asked Simba about his girlfriend, and Simba confirmed that he and Tang Lingling had gotten together after working and talking on the project.

Huaxia’s Moon Exploration program showed the Gravity Multi-Arm Crabs finding and extracting lunar ice, confirming that water existed on the Moon and prompting worldwide debate about lunar settlement. While Chen Mengchuan focused on test data for future missions, he returned home to Zhao Wanyu and found her making him supper as he worried over problems in their work.

• Moon Exploration became a global ratings sensation, and its latest episode showed the Multi-Arm Crabs investigating the Moon’s volcanic basalt plains.
• Two Gravity Multi-Arm Crabs found extensive ice near the lunar poles, then drilled and collected liquid and solid water samples under instructions from the ground team.
• The lunar water footage confirmed earlier scientific findings and sparked worldwide debate about whether humans could live on the Moon.
• Zhao Wanyu declined Western interview requests and remembered Chen Mengchuan’s belief that humanity should seek planets suited to survival if it had to leave Earth.
• Chen Mengchuan and his colleagues treated the lunar mission’s data as preparation for a future Mars landing while the world awaited Tenzhi 1’s return.
• Chen Mengchuan came home after work, and Zhao Wanyu made him lamb-noodle soup while asking about the problems affecting his progress.

Chen Mengchuan felt pressure over the slow progress of the Space-time Traversal project, so Zhao Wanyu took him to visit other departments. At the Biological Cycle Conversion Department, they reviewed Edward’s liquid pipeline design for the Tiansuo, which divided the spacecraft into three core water-source areas.

• Chen Mengchuan discussed the difficulty of achieving the Space Foldings target and his concern that the project was falling behind.
• Zhao Wanyu suggested that Chen Mengchuan leave the Space-time Traversal Department to Toni and Simba for the time being and visit other departments with her.
• The next day, Chen Mengchuan told Su Ruifeng and Tang Lingling to follow Toni, then went with Zhao Wanyu to the Biological Cycle Conversion Department.
• Zhao Wanyu introduced Chen Mengchuan to Edward, the project leader responsible for designing the Tiansuo’s liquid pipeline system.
• Chen Mengchuan examined Edward’s design, which divided the Tiansuo into three core water-source areas and incorporated gravity and wireless current transmission technologies.

Chen Mengchuan inspected the Biological Cycle Conversion Project’s successful life-support tests and learned that its systems could sustain a space habitat. A week later, Zhao Wanyu brought him, Toni, and other core members to see the Gravity Department’s completed multiple-gravity technology, where they arrived at a vast metal sphere made of gridwork.

• Edward explained the Tiansuo’s water supply, humidity control, and wastewater recycling systems to Chen Mengchuan.
• Chen Mengchuan reviewed the project’s tests, which showed that plants, fish farming, and poultry farming could support people in a sealed habitat.
• Chen Mengchuan and Zhao Wanyu spent the morning at the Biological Cycle Conversion Project Department before Zhao Wanyu returned to her work.
• Chen Mengchuan told Toni that Edward’s team had joined the project to pursue greater personal value, while he wanted to protect his family and companions.
• A week later, Zhao Wanyu took Chen Mengchuan, Toni, and other core members to inspect the Gravity Department’s completed multiple-gravity technology.
• Puslin welcomed the group as they arrived at the enormous gridwork metal sphere.

Puslin demonstrated a multi-gravity sphere that let people move freely inside while it rotated without affecting their bodies. Chen Mengchuan praised the technology and invited Puslin to join the Tiansuo’s maiden voyage to Mars, which Puslin accepted.

• Puslin welcomed Chen Mengchuan and the others aboard his completed multi-gravity sphere and activated its internal gravity field.
• Chen Mengchuan walked, jumped, and moved across the sphere’s interior, finding its composite gravity stable and comfortable.
• Puslin activated gravitational rotation, and the sphere spun while the occupants felt only their vision rotate.
• Chen Mengchuan recognized the sphere’s reverse sustained gravity technology as suitable for possible integration into the Tiansuo.
• Chen Mengchuan invited Puslin to join the Tiansuo’s maiden voyage to Mars, and Puslin agreed.
• Toni asked how the sphere worked, and Puslin described its layered gravity fields and real-time adjustments.

Chen Mengchuan learned that Puslin and the team had perfected source point external gravity technology and built an extraordinarily dense gravity disc. The group left the disc’s purpose unresolved as Chen Mengchuan realized they were testing high-intensity gravity technology.

• Puslin showed Chen Mengchuan and the group a rendering of a sphere with a complex gravity model and explained how the team had developed source point external gravity technology.
• Zhao Wanyu told Chen Mengchuan that the contributors had received rewards and recognition on technology monuments, and A-Chen reminded him that she had mentioned the monuments 462 days earlier.
• Puslin led the group to a circular plaza where a gray-blue gravity disc had damaged the concrete around it.
• Puslin explained that the one-cubic-meter disc weighed about 18.4 tons and had cost several billion US dollars to make.
• Chen Mengchuan inferred that Puslin and the team were testing high-intensity gravity technology.

Puslin demonstrated the breakthroughs his researchers had made in high-intensity gravity technology, including a rapidly ascending gravity disc and a gravity sphere that generated a barrier. Chen Mengchuan was impressed by the new technology, and the chapter ended with everyone witnessing water stop in midair before reaching the sphere.

• Puslin showed Chen Mengchuan, Zhao Wanyu, and the others the gravity node specifications, which reached 7.92 tons of reverse gravitational force per node.
• Puslin's researchers activated the gray-blue gravity disc, which shot rapidly into the sky before descending back to the plaza.
• Puslin presented a gravity race car capable of land, water, and air travel, with a tested maximum speed of 2,277 kilometers per hour.
• Puslin demonstrated a small gravity sphere that stopped a high-pressure water stream three meters away, creating a gravity barrier.

Chen Mengchuan examined the Gravity Application Department’s anti-gravity barrier and inventions, then returned to the Space-time Traversal Department determined to figure out how Yamada Yuichi had achieved Earth-scale traversal. Meanwhile, Zhao Wanyu rejected a proposal from Sun Zhongyong, Wang Fanghua, and Ji Dong, insisting that Tenzhi should focus on the distant stars.

• Chen Mengchuan tested the gravity barrier with Puslin and learned that its four-meter shield could withstand the laboratory’s high-pressure water cannon.
• Chen Mengchuan toured gravity-powered inventions, including floating lights, foldable furniture, and the proposed City in the Sky.
• Zhao Wanyu left early, and Toni told Chen Mengchuan that the Tiansuo was expected to be completed in one month, with space-time traversal technology still unfinished.
• Chen Mengchuan recalled Yamada Yuichi’s Earth-scale space-time traversal and secluded himself to consider what he had missed.
• Zhao Wanyu rejected the proposal presented by Sun Zhongyong, Wang Fanghua, and Ji Dong, saying their focus should remain on the distant sea of stars.

After ten days of seclusion, Chen Mengchuan realized that the three departments had neglected the fundamentals of Eternal Universe Particle Science. He reunited the original founders and urged them to resume verifying the science, leaving them poised to begin the work together.

• Zhao Wanyu rejected acquisition proposals for Baidu and announced that Tenzhi Technology would focus on exploring the universe rather than acquiring the search engine.
• Chen Mengchuan spent ten days in seclusion exchanging ideas with Achen while Zhao Wanyu arranged for staff to look after him.
• Chen Mengchuan told Zhao Wanyu that he had new ideas and that the team needed to verify them together.
• Two days later, Chen Mengchuan reunited with the other nine founders of Eternal Universe Particle Science and their senior assistants.
• Chen Mengchuan explained that the Gravity, Space-time Traversal and Space Folding, and Communications departments had hit bottlenecks because they had neglected further verification of Eternal Universe Particle Science.
• Chen Mengchuan asked everyone to set aside their current work and resume verifying the science, saying they had only barely opened its door.

Chen Mengchuan argued that the departments’ technological bottlenecks came from an incomplete understanding of Eternal Universe Particle Science and urged his colleagues to return to fundamental research. As the teams began reorganizing, he reflected on the three departments’ roles and the importance of overcoming their obstacles before humanity ventured into the universe.

• Chen Mengchuan told his colleagues that Eternal Universe Particle overlap was only a basic characteristic and that the departments needed to deepen their understanding of the science.
• Xu Shuwei agreed to assemble a 21-person team for the Eternal Universe Particle Communications Department, while Puslin began arranging teams for Gravity Deep Research and the Gravity Application Department.
• The other core members committed to reorganizing their teams, and Chen Mengchuan adjourned the meeting as they returned to their projects.
• Chen Mengchuan considered the Communications Department’s work on a universal network essential for keeping the Tiansuo connected and navigating beyond Earth.
• He reviewed the Gravity Department’s growing commercial success and the Space-time Traversal and Space Folding Department’s lack of returns, then concluded that all three departments’ bottlenecks depended on deeper particle research.

Zhao Wanyu told Chen Mengchuan that the Tiansuo was nearly complete and persuaded him to take the exhausted research team on a visit. As everyone prepared to go, Chen Mengchuan asked how many Multi-Arm Crabs had been used to build it.

• Zhao Wanyu told Chen Mengchuan that the Tiansuo was basically ready and mentioned that Zhihui missed her father.
• Chen Mengchuan reflected on the research groups’ progress, including Toni and Chen Xiaoyun’s theories about Eternal Universe Particles and the three-dimensional universe.
• Zhao Wanyu suggested that Chen Mengchuan take the team to visit the Tiansuo and give them an afternoon off.
• Chen Mengchuan announced the outing, and Zhao Wanyu’s assistants brought in food and drinks for the researchers.
• As the team ate and discussed the Tiansuo, Chen Mengchuan asked Zhao Wanyu how many Multi-Arm Crabs had been used to build it.

Zhao Wanyu led Chen Mengchuan, Toni, and the others to see Tiansuo, revealing the enormous spacecraft hidden inside Tenzhi Technology’s graphene solar photovoltaic power plant. The group boarded a gravity work platform to view the three-kilometer-long vessel up close.

• Zhao Wanyu explained that over 4,000 Multi-Arm Crabs and roughly 20,000 gravity bee swarms were working on Tiansuo.
• Zhao Wanyu took the group in gravity sightseeing vehicles to the power plant, where they speculated about Tiansuo’s size and future significance.
• Zhao Wanyu led everyone through a passage into an observation area, where they saw Tiansuo floating in a vast indoor space.
• Chen Mengchuan and the others were stunned to learn that Tiansuo was three kilometers long and 750 meters wide.
• Zhao Wanyu brought a gravity work platform to the observation area, and the group boarded as Tiansuo came fully into view.

Chen Mengchuan and the others explored the enormous Tiansuo, learning about its seven-level interior and the resources used to build it. Zhao Wanyu showed them the five-tier fruit and vegetable zone, where plants thrived under specialized growth lamps.

• The group compared the Tiansuo’s immense size to trains and aircraft carriers as the gravity platform approached it.
• Zhao Wanyu guided the group into the Tiansuo’s central Great Heat Zone and explained its seven levels, twenty-four zones, and transit passage.
• Chen Mengchuan asked how much dense steel the Tiansuo required, and Zhao Wanyu described its construction and the support she received from Ah Chen and her Second Uncle.
• Zhao Wanyu took the group to the fruit and vegetable zone and explained how she and Ah Chen had redesigned it into five growing levels.
• Chen Mengchuan asked to stop, and Zhao Wanyu showed the group the thriving plants and explained how the growth lamps simulated sunlight.

Zhao Wanyu showed Chen Mengchuan, Toni, and the others Tiansuo’s farming and leisure facilities, demonstrating that its biological cycle system could support thousands of people. After the visitors returned to the research department, they eagerly discussed the spacecraft and hoped to travel into space aboard it.

• Zhao Wanyu explained that Tiansuo’s fruit and vegetable zones and biological cycle system could meet the daily needs of 8,000 people.
• Chen Mengchuan and Toni discussed the Gravity Department’s artificial gravity fields and the rapid work of the Multi-Arm Crabs.
• Zhao Wanyu showed the group Tiansuo’s fish and livestock farming zones, including thirty-two aquatic areas and sixty-two livestock areas.
• The group toured Tiansuo’s sports and entertainment facilities before Zhao Wanyu and Chen Mengchuan arranged for most visitors to return to the research department.
• The researchers excitedly discussed Tiansuo and hoped to board it for future journeys into space, while observing the confidentiality agreement.