The Wallfacer's Privilege

"That's—unbelievable—"

Looking at the colossal object, Dr. Chen could not help but marvel from the bottom of his heart.

The thing before him, this gigantic beast known as the Tang, was simply too magnificent.

"Wait, if you built this thing on the ground—how are you planning to get it into the sky? Don't tell me you're just going to brute-force it?"

But in the next moment, Dr. Chen noticed a rather important problem.

This ship was larger than an aircraft carrier, a product weighing hundreds of thousands of tons in reality.

Moreover, its hull was full of sharp angles and enormous flat surfaces that defied fluid dynamics. No matter how he thought about it, it would be difficult to get it into the sky.

He had clearly heard that the country was preparing to build a space elevator. Wouldn't it be simpler to assemble this thing directly in space then?

"Heh."

"Who said we were going to use conventional methods to send it 'into the sky'?"

Ding Yi smiled at that and patted Dr. Chen on the shoulder. "Among the byproducts of our macro-atom research, we discovered an interesting little thing.

"A special particle which, in a certain excited state, displays—

"Well, how should I put it? A very miraculous antigravity effect."

"Antigravity?"

Dr. Chen's breathing stopped once more. The word struck his nerves like a sledgehammer. "Could it be—the graviton? You found the graviton?"

His voice was filled with irrepressible excitement. If the Tang itself was an engineering miracle, then the discovery of the graviton would be the Holy Grail capable of rewriting the entire edifice of physics.

"Unfortunately, no."

Zhang Qi's calm voice cut in. "Its properties are closer to those of a photon—a boson with no rest mass.

"We still haven't fully figured out its mechanism of