Chapter Summaries

Chen Mengchuan celebrated as Xu Shuwei, Möbius, Lü Jianglan, and their team completed the feasibility proof for Eternal Universe Particle Communication. After a week of work with A-Chen, Chen helped refine a plan for creating the first communication devices and establishing the network’s foundational source points.

• Xu Shuwei called Chen Mengchuan to report that the team had completed the communication feasibility proof.
• Chen visited the laboratory, where Xu Shuwei explained that the theory allowed near-instant, distance-independent data transmission between symmetrical source points.
• Möbius and Lü Jianglan joined the team in celebrating the successful proof, and Chen agreed to help develop a transmission plan.
• Chen and A-Chen used thirty-five percent of the Seahorse computing nodes over the following week to refine the communication-wave transmission plan.
• The plan called for two devices to establish fixed, connected source points that would anchor humanity’s future Eternal Universe Particle Communication Network.

Chen Mengchuan and his team completed and tested the Eternal Universe Particle Source Point Information Communication Devices, then successfully exchanged humanity’s first messages through Eternal Universe Particles. Their achievement was announced quietly, and the team celebrated at a banquet that ended with Chen Mengchuan getting drunk and Zhao Wanyu warning others not to force him to drink again.

• During two months of development, Tenzhi Technology completed three technologies and partnered with Huaxia Hongqi while launching a low-altitude traffic research project.
• Chen Mengchuan’s team finished two Eternal Universe Particle Source Point Information Communication Devices and tested them with members stationed at each source point.
• Xu Shuwei sent the first message, and Toni and the others received it before Möbius sent a confirmation back successfully.
• Chen Mengchuan and his team celebrated the successful communication project at a banquet, where Xu Shuwei and Möbius drank themselves into a stupor.
• Qiangqiang poured beer on Chen Mengchuan, who got drunk and stumbled into the women’s restroom before Gu Xiaoxiao and Chen Xiaoyun helped him leave.
• Zhao Wanyu warned Xu Shuwei and Sun Zhongyong not to force Chen Mengchuan to drink again.

After waking from a nightmare about humanity conquering the universe and destroying an alien civilization, Chen Mengchuan worried over the technology humanity needed before its coming encounter with another civilization. He and Zhao Wanyu discussed the obstacles facing her gravity-vehicle project and her plan to equip Multi-Arm Crabs with gravity and graphene power systems.

• Chen Mengchuan woke from a chaotic dream in which humanity colonized the universe and he ordered an intelligent civilization destroyed with Eternal Universe Particle weapons.
• Chen Mengchuan reviewed the slow progress on A-Chen's upgrade, Lingkong 3.0, graphene computing, and the Eternal Universe Particle projects as he considered humanity's approaching clash with an alien civilization.
• Zhao Wanyu brought Chen Mengchuan a warming cloak and explained that her graphene Eternal Particle gravity vehicle project faced technical, regulatory, and political obstacles.
• Zhao Wanyu asked to borrow teams from the Gravity Project Department and the graphene project department to equip a Multi-Arm Crab with a multidirectional gravity system and graphene power components.
• Chen Mengchuan said the gravity system was not ready for direct use on a Multi-Arm Crab and suggested that Zhao Wanyu consider putting a large base on it instead.

Chen Mengchuan assessed the difficulties of building an Eternal Electric Gravity Multi-Arm Crab, then focused on the Biological Cycle Conversion Project Department and its plans for supporting long-term life in space. After uncovering serious staffing and management problems, he launched a major recruitment and reorganization before leaving to visit another research department.

• Chen Mengchuan explained to Zhao Wanyu that the Multi-Arm Crab required far more verified gravity parameters and computing power than the department could currently provide.
• Chen Mengchuan visited the Biological Cycle Conversion Project Department and reviewed its research into spacecraft life-support systems, food production, water, and waste cycling.
• Chen Mengchuan spent a week reviewing the project teams and learned from Su Ruifeng and Tang Lingling that the department lacked staff and had widespread problems with researcher commitment.
• Chen Mengchuan asked Zhao Wanyu to recruit researchers, expanding the planned 280 new hires to 1,400 and ordering Achen to assess and eliminate unsuitable staff.
• Chen Mengchuan left Tang Lingling to reorganize the department and took Su Ruifeng to the Eternal Universe Particle Space-time Traversal and Space Folding Project Department.

Chen Mengchuan learned that Toni's team had completed the first stage of Space Folding and watched their successful traversal experiments. He outlined plans to establish a base on Mars and develop resources in the asteroid belt, while the chapter ended with the team celebrating their breakthrough.

• Chen Mengchuan visited Toni's team and learned they were preparing to test Space Folding over an absolute straight-line distance of two meters.
• Toni explained that Space Folding could extend traversal distance and that the team expected to send an object four meters using the new technology.
• Chen Mengchuan told Chen Xiaoyun that they planned to establish a Martian base, survey Mars, and develop resources in the asteroid belt.
• Little Lion King Simba reported that preparations were complete, and Toni ordered the Space Folding experiment to begin.
• The team successfully traversed a gravity disc between source point circles, sent it back and forth, and observed it suspended in a half-traversed state.
• Toni's team successfully traversed white mice and ended the half-hour experiment amid celebration over several firsts.

After celebrating the successful combination of space-time traversal and space folding, Chen Mengchuan launched a new project to develop independent energy storage for the Source Point Ring. He then learned that the Super Tenzhi Building was nearly complete, with an anti-gravity platform helping construction progress.

• Chen Mengchuan and Zhao Wanyu announced houses, vehicle subsidies, and bonuses for the Space-time Traversal Department's core members.
• Chen Mengchuan assigned Toni to lead the Source Point Ring's Independent Energy Storage Technology project, which the team formally approved and began staffing.
• Chen Mengchuan worked with the new project team for three days before A-Chen told him the Super Tenzhi Building was nearly finished.
• Zhao Wanyu explained that A-Chen and the Gravity Department had developed an Anti-Gravity Tool Platform to transport materials and workers up the building.
• Zhao Wanyu said major construction companies wanted to buy the platform, but Tenzhi could not sell it without A-Chen.

At Super Tenzhi Building’s completion ceremony, Chen Mengchuan told his colleagues that Tenzhi Technology’s success was only the beginning and discussed its plans for space exploration. The group then visited the Gravity Department, where Chen was stunned by the laboratory’s active test flights.

• Zhao Wanyu organized a completion ceremony for Super Tenzhi Building, and Chen Mengchuan and the executives toured the building afterward.
• Sun Zhongyong marveled at Tenzhi Technology’s growth, while Chen Mengchuan said the company was still far from its goals.
• Zhao Wanyu explained that Elon Musk had refused to sell SpaceX technology without acquiring a stake in Tenzhi, and Chen said the company could develop its own technology instead.
• Zhao Wanyu led Chen Mengchuan, Toni, and the others to the Gravity Department after discussing plans to move more staff into Super Tenzhi Building.
• Chen Mengchuan entered the Gravity Department’s main laboratory and was surprised to see test flights underway across its many zones.

Chen Mengchuan found that Puslin’s Gravity Project Department had focused on gravity flight suits instead of advancing fundamental gravity research. He apologized for neglecting the department and redirected its efforts toward developing the technology needed for a continent-sized spaceship.

• Chen Mengchuan questioned Puslin about the department’s gravity flight suits and reviewed the project data.
• Chen Mengchuan apologized to Puslin, Yang Xue, and Tang Wei for neglecting the Gravity Project Department and letting its work drift off course.
• Chen Mengchuan criticized the department for pursuing superficial applications rather than deeper research into Eternal Universe Particle Gravity technology.
• Chen Mengchuan described his goal of building spaceships vastly larger than the Super Tenzhi Building, potentially as large as a continent.
• Chen Mengchuan urged the gravity researchers to follow Toni’s example and advance their technology more deeply, and Yang Xue asked what they should do next.

Chen Mengchuan reorganized the gravity department and urged its researchers to develop technologies for future spacecraft and life beyond Earth. After the meeting, he kept Toni and Zhao Wanyu behind to begin integrating their existing technology and advance preparations for expansion into space.

• Chen Mengchuan assigned application research to the software R&D department and proposed dividing the gravity department into application and deep research groups.
• Chen Mengchuan explained how multi-gravity and high-intensity gravity technologies could protect spacecraft and support humanity's future work in space.
• The department members considered the risks of encountering other civilizations as they contemplated Chen Mengchuan's interstellar ambitions.
• After the meeting, Chen Mengchuan asked Toni and Zhao Wanyu to begin integrating their existing technologies and preparing to move the plan forward.

Chen Mengchuan, Zhao Wanyu, and Toni prepared a concealed construction site and began work on a spaceship called the Tiansuo. After the excavation and component production systems were established, the Tiansuo project officially launched and began to get on track.

• Chen Mengchuan assigned Zhao Wanyu and A-Chen to enclose and excavate a large site, while Toni assembled a confidential team to design the spaceship.
• Zhao Wanyu and A-Chen marked off the site, built its enclosure, and arranged solar panels and government-approved landscaping plans to conceal the construction work.
• The Mechanical Arm Project equipped the Multi-Arm Crabs with excavation arms, while the Gravity Department built platforms to transport soil into the center of the accelerator ring.
• Zhao Wanyu and A-Chen began large-scale excavation, moving the soil through a covered transport zone.
• Chen Mengchuan and Toni completed the spaceship's outer hull design and named it the Tiansuo.
• Tenzhi Technology manufactured No. 29 secret steel plates, installed gravity parameter nodes on them, and launched the Tiansuo project.

Chen Mengchuan reviewed the newly approved low-altitude traffic rules while Zhao Wanyu prepared to represent Tenzhi at the launch of its gravity vehicle with Huaxia Hongqi. The Hongqi graphene eternal particle gravity vehicle was unveiled with a 4,200-kilometer theoretical range, and its public demonstration showed vehicles flying in formation.

• Zhao Wanyu told Chen Mengchuan that the Low-altitude Traffic Research Project had passed review and that the first batch of Hongqi gravity vehicles was ready for cooperative testing.
• Chen Mengchuan declined to attend the launch in Xiajīng City, and Zhao Wanyu agreed to go without him.
• Chen Mengchuan reviewed rules requiring designated flight routes, altitude and speed limits, and a driver's license with facial and fingerprint identification to activate flight mode.
• Tenzhi Technology and Huaxia Hongqi unveiled the gravity vehicle, featuring flight up to nine meters, a theoretical range of 4,200 kilometers, wireless charging, and solar panels.
• The vehicles rose into the air in formation at the end of the launch, drawing widespread media coverage.

The Hongqi graphene eternal particle gravity vehicle sold rapidly across Huaxia, and demand for gravity-vehicle licenses surged as owners awaited permission to fly. Chen Mengchuan and Zhao Wanyu discussed the vehicle’s profits and potential overseas market, which Chen Mengchuan expected to bring far greater returns.

• The first one thousand Hongqi graphene eternal particle gravity vehicles sold out in less than four hours, and deliveries began.
• After eleven days, a Su City car enthusiast earned the first No. 1 gravity vehicle driver's license and flew along the city's approved aerial routes.
• After sixteen days, sales reached sixteen thousand vehicles, while more owners pursued gravity vehicle driver's licenses.
• Chen Mengchuan returned home and played with Chen Zhihui before Zhao Wanyu took her to feed her.
• Zhao Wanyu calculated the subsidiary's sales and profits, and Chen Mengchuan predicted that overseas exports would produce much greater earnings.

Chen Mengchuan and his team completed and tested dual gravity technology, successfully creating a simulated Earth-gravity field that held objects in place as a metal passage rotated upside down. He invited the department’s core members to experience the field themselves.

• Chen Mengchuan returned to the Gravity Deep Research branch department and reviewed the verified parameters for unidirectional repulsive gravity and reverse-region positive gravity.
• Puslin presented nineteen unidirectional repulsive gravity parameters and twenty-two reverse-region positive gravity parameters, including three composite parameters.
• Achen completed verification of dual gravity and installed the gravity nodes inside a large metal pipe.
• Chen Mengchuan ordered Achen to activate the field at 0.9 times simulated Earth gravity and rotate the pipe, while the props remained in place even when inverted.
• Chen Mengchuan invited Puslin, Su Ruifeng, Tang Lingling, and other core members to experience the simulated space-gravity environment.

Chen Mengchuan and the researchers tested dual gravity technology at the Gravity Deep Research Laboratory, successfully experiencing an upside-down environment that simulated space gravity. They returned to work on multi-gravity and high-intensity gravity technology, which Chen considered essential for spacecraft propulsion and protection.

• Chen Mengchuan invited the group to test the dual gravity field, and A-Chen activated it at 1.8 times simulated Earth gravity.
• Chen Mengchuan ordered the gravity passageway to rotate, and Su Ruifeng described the four forces acting on them as they stood parallel to the floor.
• The passageway rotated 180 degrees, and Chen Mengchuan explained that the upside-down position simulated a 0.9-times-gravity space environment.
• The researchers applauded and later tested the inverted walking effect in batches before the passageway returned to its original position and the gravity effects stopped.
• Chen Mengchuan and the researchers resumed work on multi-gravity technology, while Chen Mengchuan and Yang Xue continued developing high-intensity gravity technology for spacecraft propulsion and shielding.

Toni’s team successfully tested fifteen-meter Space-time Traversal and used weak lasers to map the source-point ring. Chen Mengchuan and Toni then crossed it together, becoming the first humans to traverse the ring.

• Chen Mengchuan learned that Toni’s team planned a fifteen-meter Space-time Traversal test and went to the laboratory.
• Toni’s team sent dozens of weak laser beams through the source-point ring, confirming a successful fifteen-meter traversal.
• Toni explained that weak lasers could reveal the ring’s exact position and size, and the team used them to outline its radius of more than four meters.
• Toni had a metal U-shaped bridge placed across the source-point ring and invited Chen Mengchuan to walk across it.
• Chen Mengchuan and Toni stepped into the source-point ring side by side and emerged safely at the other end of the bridge, drawing cheers from the laboratory.

Chen Mengchuan showed Toni the progress on the Tiansuo and the team’s dual-gravity work, while researchers and Zhao Wanyu’s group tried crossing the source point ring. Zhao Wanyu’s traversal videos went viral, and she began a livestream as public interest surged.

• Chen Mengchuan told Toni that dual-gravity technology had been achieved and showed him the nearly finished excavation and 3,000-meter No. 29 secret steel framework for the Tiansuo.
• Chen Mengchuan invited researchers to cross the U-shaped bridge, and they repeatedly traversed the source point ring.
• Zhao Wanyu, Sun Zhongyong, Gu Xiaoxiao, Xu Shuwei, and others visited the laboratory, where Zhao Wanyu recorded traversal videos with Gu Xiaoxiao.
• Zhao Wanyu and Gu Xiaoxiao posted five videos online, and the clips drew millions of comments and widespread demands for a livestream.
• After Toni and Chen Mengchuan encouraged her, Zhao Wanyu attached her phone to Gu Xiaoxiao’s selfie stick and started a livestream.

Zhao Wanyu livestreamed Tenzhi Technology’s Space-time Traversal experiments, demonstrating a fifteen-meter traversal and describing upcoming tests. The Particle Shuttle was then moved to a new laboratory as preparations continued.

• Wu Yihao and his coworkers noticed that Zhao Wanyu had started a livestream and joined her broadcast.
• Zhao Wanyu showed viewers the Particle Shuttle and walked through the source-point circle to the other end of the U-shaped bridge.
• A Multi-Arm Crab pulled the U-shaped bridge out of the source-point circle while Zhao Wanyu explained the planned Space Folding and circle expansion tests.
• Laboratory staff prepared to relocate the Particle Shuttle, and Achen guided it into the new laboratory.

Chen Mengchuan and Toni brought the Particle Shuttle team to a newly built laboratory, where Zhao Wanyu livestreamed the facility and its gravity technology. The team began a Space Folding test, opening source-point rings and positioning them with gravity discs as the livestream audience watched.

• Chen Mengchuan learned that the new Space-time Traversal and Space Folding laboratory had been built in forty days with Multi-Arm Crabs and gravity platforms.
• Zhao Wanyu showed the laboratory to her livestream audience, whose viewer count climbed past thirty million.
• Zhao Wanyu explained the gravity platforms’ carrying capacities and why the Multi-Arm Crabs did not yet use gravity systems.
• Toni ordered a fifteen-meter Space Folding test, and the researchers prepared the Particle Shuttle.
• The team activated the source-point ring and Space Folding parameters, then reported a theoretical traversal distance of thirty meters.
• Toni ordered the Gravity Department to activate laser-positioning discs, which spread red beams to position the source-point rings.

Chen Mengchuan, Toni, and the research team successfully tested a 30-meter space-time traversal using an 11.13-meter-radius source point circle and a large unmanned disc. Chen Mengchuan outlined the project’s next research goals as the team continued its work.

• Chen Mengchuan reviewed the 21-meter initial source point parameters with Toni, who demonstrated the improved traversal setup.
• The team successfully activated a source point circle with the planned 11.13-meter radius.
• Toni ordered the gravity test disc to begin its traversal test as Zhao Wanyu streamed the experiment to millions of viewers.
• The 15-meter disc passed through the source point circle, completing the 30-meter traversal successfully.
• After Zhao Wanyu ended the livestream, Chen Mengchuan listed plans to increase traversal distance, enlarge the source point circle, test multiple space-folding sequences, and develop independent energy storage.

After Tenzhi Technology’s successful Space-time Traversal and Space Folding tests drew widespread attention, Chen Mengchuan reviewed the project’s long-term challenges and rewarded its researchers. He then visited the Gravity Application Department, where he learned that Zhao Wanyu had commissioned Manned Gravity Spheres, and the chapter ended with his curiosity about the project.

• Chen Mengchuan told the Space Folding team that reaching Earth-scale traversal, repeated folds, and independent energy storage would require much more work, then asked Toni and Zhao Wanyu to arrange rewards for the researchers.
• News of Tenzhi Technology’s successful thirty-meter Space-time Traversal and Space Folding tests spread online and fueled excitement about humanity’s future in space.
• Zhao Wanyu accompanied Chen Mengchuan to the Gravity Application Department so he could review its projects and progress.
• Su Xiaowei told Chen Mengchuan and Zhao Wanyu that the department lacked experimental space, and Zhao Wanyu assured him a new facility was under construction.
• Chen Mengchuan learned that Zhao Wanyu had asked the department to design Manned Gravity Spheres and asked what they were.