This time, Hu Yu forced himself to take a week off, and also gave everyone a long holiday. Everyone worked very hard. Xiao Xiao was right. Just because you don't rest doesn't mean others have to work too. After all, everyone is human and needs rest, to reunite with their families, and to have their own time and space.
Although Hu Yu had something on his mind, he forced himself to spend a week with Xiao Xiao. Once the holiday was over, Hu Yu immediately gathered relevant personnel to study the Trojan horse plan.
After Hu Yu explained the Trojan Horse plan to everyone, they all felt that they had indeed become entrenched in technology, accustomed to using technology to solve problems, and had lost the wisdom of human warfare.
Although the plan seems feasible, there are many details to consider when implementing it. How to choose the base location, how to make the Xuan Star Civilization discover the fake base unintentionally, how to dispel their suspicions about the energy sphere, and so on are all issues that require careful study at every step. The Xuan Star Civilization was able to rise among countless civilizations, and its level of intelligence is definitely no less than that of humans. What humans can think of, they can certainly think of as well. Therefore, this plan must be arranged flawlessly.
After discussion, the location of the base was still chosen around the vortex. After Hu Yu's years of management, it would be easy to create a scene of frequent human activity there. Although this place is very close to the transportation route of the Mu Star Civilization, the most dangerous place is also the safest place. The Xuan Star Civilization would agree with this.
Setting up a fake base in a remote location would not only be difficult for the Xuan Star Civilization to find out about, but it would also arouse Xuan Star Civilization suspicion that they might be deliberately letting them know.
The Mu Star Civilization's transport route is within a few hundred light-years of the vortex. We need to find a way to let the Mu Star Civilization's fleet know about it, and then have the Mu Star Civilization relay it to the Xuan Star Civilization. This way, the credibility will be higher. However, we still need to figure out how to make the Mu Star Civilization's fleet discover it without arousing suspicion.
Secondly, there's the design of the energy spheres. Academician Zeng decided to concentrate all the energy spheres together, requiring 240 quadrillion energy spheres to form two enormous planetary-shaped energy spheres more than twice the diameter of Earth. Once this energy sphere explodes, it will not only destroy part of the Xuan Star Civilization's territory and fleet, but more importantly, it will increase spatial density, causing the Xuan Star Civilization's territory to form a spatial vortex. At that time, the Xuan Star Civilization's fleet's advantage will not be apparent, and the Grim Slayer will be invincible within the vortex thanks to the energy spheres.
Third, the Xuan Star Civilization needs to learn some of the methods for using the energy spheres. Once they master these methods, their suspicions will be further dispelled. For example, the fleet currently uses electromagnetic waves of a specific frequency to detonate the energy spheres, and later they developed gravitational waves that can also detonate them. If the Xuan Star Civilization knows about one of the detonation methods, such as electromagnetic waves, they will realize that the possibility of the second detonation method is extremely low. Therefore, they will create an electromagnetic shielding environment for safety, and then there will be a possibility of transporting the energy spheres back to their civilization's territory.
All the problems were listed one by one, and each one had to be discussed and verified repeatedly. That wasn't enough; the result of one discussion wasn't enough either. Hu Yu simply sent the entire plan to the terminal of every citizen. Now the population of Earth Two has reached more than 23 billion. Hu Yu wanted each of these 23 billion people to nitpick every step of the plan. If there were any unreasonable parts, he hoped that they would offer suggestions for correction.
These scientists are very good at scientific research, but they are not necessarily good at strategy. Soon, billions of suggestions were put forward, ranging from the selection of the site for the fake base and the arrangement of the fleet to the placement of each piece of equipment and the degree of wear and tear.
Even more meticulous individuals, combining opinions from the internet, wrote detailed plans totaling millions of words, deeply moving everyone. Although some of these opinions were unreliable, many were insightful, such as the wear and tear on equipment and the various traces left by personnel activities. Hu Yu hadn't considered these details when making the plan, but now, in retrospect, he should have taken them into account. To deceive a civilization more advanced than himself, no detail could be overlooked.
The Trojan Horse Plan couldn't be completed in a day or two; it involved too many things. Hu Yu selected a group of people from the Academy of Sciences, the Strategy Department, and the Engineering Department, along with several hundred members of the public who had been selected through multiple rounds of screening, to form the Trojan Horse Plan Task Force. These people would write a detailed plan.
There is no time limit for writing the plan, because the transformation of the energy ball takes a long time, and there is not just one Trojan Horse Plan. Everyone needs to write multiple Trojan Horse Plan to deal with possible changes. The plan must be very detailed, including how to remedy any oversights.
Besides the Trojan Horse Plan, the most troublesome issue is the conversion of the energy spheres. With the current conversion capabilities of these devices, the conversion time for 20 stars the size of the Sun would probably be longer than the lifespan of the stars.
Hu Yu had no choice but to contact Academician Zeng and Academician Liu again. Academician Zeng had previously mentioned improving the conversion equipment and methods, but he didn't know how much improvement it would actually bring.
"General, as I said before, converting a star is simply a matter of adding equipment. Now, our method of using transport ships to travel back and forth between stars to steal matter is definitely not feasible. We can only use the method of converting the entire star."
" Academician Zeng, just tell me how many conversion devices you need."
"General, you need to be prepared, there's a lot to come."
"Academician, just tell me. I've already given up attacking the Xuan Star Civilization once, what else can't I bear?"
"Okay, if we wanted to convert a star the size of the Sun at the fastest speed, we would need 6 trillion devices. Each device could convert one cubic kilometer of matter into energy within one hour."
"6 trillion?!"
"Academician, this is a bit too much. Even if we stop all warship production, it would still take tens of thousands of years to build all this equipment."
"No need for that. Converting matter into energy involves magnetic field lines entering microscopic particles and disrupting the Perfect Structure of Basic Energy. The energy will no longer appear as matter, but as pure energy. So the equipment is actually very simple; it's just a special device that can emit magnetic field lines. I've already calculated that if we stop all the Grim Slayer from producing this kind of equipment, it will take about 200 years."
(This data is an estimate. In 2018, China produced 150 million air conditioners, with over 92 million sold domestically and over 57 million exported. This is just one product. If we select 100 products from around the world, the annual production would be 15 billion units, which is not an exaggeration. The article mentions 6 trillion, so 15 billion multiplied by 200 years equals 3 trillion. With productivity increasing countless times, simply multiplying this figure by 2 should be acceptable. Many of the figures in this article are not just random guesses. I have reasonably increased them based on current large-scale items on Earth, such as cars and airplanes, and the speed of technological upgrades to avoid exaggeration. For example, the Grim Slayer " aircraft has an annual production of 80,000 units. In 2018, Boeing and Airbus each produced over 800 aircraft. If we include the world's nine major aircraft manufacturers plus smaller ones (let's say 10), and ignore others, that's 8,000 passenger planes produced globally each year. This doesn't even include fighter jets and other aircraft. Multiplying this figure by 10 is equivalent to the number of people worldwide focusing on aircraft manufacturing. The sheer size of the Grim Slayer" aircraft is a result of technological advancements.)