Just as everyone stood stunned by what they were seeing, the chief engineer's voice rang out again: "Activating the Stellarator's magnetic field."
Deep blue patterns lit up along the annular chamber walls, and hexagonal magnetic field units shaped the methane fluid into a rotating ring of plasma. The energy-level curve on the monitoring screen began fluctuating violently, like a dragon struggling to break free of its restraints.
Ji Ting gripped the Gravitational Wave Regulator tightly. The instant the thermometer broke through the 7,000 K threshold, the methane molecules disintegrated under the strong interaction, and carbon nuclei battered the magnetic confinement field like a torrential downpour.
"Loading the pressure field!" As Academician Miao's tense voice rang out, countless points of light suddenly burst across the holographic screen. The carbyne crystals lining the chamber's inner walls groaned, while a repair network of Nanobots sent silvery-white ripples across the material's surface. Ji Ting watched the newly formed carbon atoms rearrange themselves under a billion pascals of pressure, their electron clouds compressed into a perfect tetrahedral lattice.
The Anti-Gravity Device activated at that moment, and a pale golden beam pierced the observation window at the top of the chamber. The nanodiamonds that should have fallen suddenly hovered, forming a glittering stellar ring within the magnetic fluid. Ji Ting's and Ji Yanzhi's iris scanners adjusted their focus automatically, capturing the iridescence of those hexagonal crystalline particles as they flickered in and out of sight through quantum tunneling.
Ji Yanzhi stared ahead, dumbstruck. The sky across an area three or four kilometers in diameter suddenly darkened, and within a few breaths, a dark red nebula enveloped the entire Manor.
It was a radiance humanity had never seen before.
Countless cones of light pierced the helium mist as the entire atmosphere crystallized. The carbon released by the