Chapter 17 - Earth-Drilling Rocket!

After driving dozens of kilometers, Shawn returned to Tesla's headquarters.

People around the world were a little surprised.

"Ball Master, you're returning here, it can't mean that you're still studying, right?"

An anonymous Chinese man said, "Ball Master's learning spirit is even stronger than ours before our college entrance exams."

Even now, there were still people discussing what exactly were those beans that Shawn had been preparing the whole day.

Some people even claimed that Shawn would not live long after eating that kind of food.

Shawn did not think much of it.

He still had a year to go. He was the only person left on Earth.

No matter how strong his learning ability was, it was still an unimaginable challenge.

All the knowledge stored in his mind was now fully integrated.

If scientists were to compare it with something, it could be said that the current Shawn would be comparable to dozens or even hundreds of scientific research teams.

What Shawn lacked was not knowledge but a large team to help him.

These were all things that Shawn needed to solve.

Shawn went directly to the manufacturing building of Tesla headquarters.

The manufacturing building had computers and all kinds of intelligent equipment for making cars.

He carefully took a stack of A4 paper.

"F*ck, not again. What is the Ball Owner doing? Is he going to develop all sorts of strange things?"

"The Ball Owner is a chemical maniac. Authentication complete..."

"A planetary engine?"

Shawn was excited just thinking about it. This was probably going to be the greatest creation in all of human history.

However, based on his first design, a planetary engine was an extremely complicated design.

He needed to make a draft.

Careful planning is the driving force of human beings.

Without it, human beings would have missed a lot of inventions.

When human beings first discovered the elements, the discovery was made by an unknown chemical worker.

Holding the pencil in his hand, he drew on the draft paper.

In the beginning, his lines were slightly curved but after ten minutes, the curved lines started to look like they had been drawn with a ruler.

"I feel like the Ball Owner is playing a joke on us.

"???"

"???"

"Look at him drawing. In the beginning, he looked very unfamiliar. Even though I don't know what he is drawing, I'm an art student and could tell. I just know it!"

"Those curved lines are indications of someone completely new to drawing."

"However, after only drawing for more than ten minutes, he's already drawing straight lines like he's using a ruler. Does he have a strong foundation in drawing?"

"Isn't he playing with us?"

James prompted, "Reminder, this is impossible. The global surveillance system is currently controlled by the commander of the space fleet."

"Oh..."

The comments section exploded.

"The US has always been living under the surveillance of the country's military? This is too terrifying."

"Doesn't that mean that the American authorities know about our daily lives and even what we do every day?"

"Strongly denouncing the United States for doing so."

James had not expected that his words would push the United States into the wind.

"James' choice of words had been inappropriate. He will be silenced for an hour."

"Everyone, please speak in the comments section in a friendly manner. Do not post about topics that involve the interests of any country or you will be banned."

Anonymous Indian man: "I want freedom of speech."

"Indian man. Topics that involve the policies of some countries are sensitive. He will be silenced for 10 hours."

"Hahahahaha."

Over 100 million comments, all with smiling faces, flooded the screen.

An important leader in India, who was always stirring up controversial topics, was currently looking at the big screen with an extremely dark face.

Shawn kept working on his blueprint.

"Don't you guys care what the Ball Owner is drawing? This time, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with chemistry."

"The Ball Owner is a genius, I think the Ball Owner is developing a spaceship."

"Go to Hell. Do you think a single person alone has the ability strong enough to develop a spaceship that can travel through space?"

What they did not know was that Shawn was developing a planetary engine.

It was not enough to develop a planetary engine and use nuclear fusion energy as fuel.

They had to upgrade the fuel.

He had planned on making an engine powered by nuclear fusion.

However, it was not a good idea to use nuclear fusion to propel a planet for such a long interstellar migration of the whole Earth.

A fuel source that was even more advanced than nuclear fusion was the Quark-Gluon Plasma. This energy was abundant in the middle of the Sun.

When two quark particles collided, the energy produced would be eight times more than when nuclear particles collided. If millions of quark particles collided, the force generated would be enough to destroy the world.

In theory, we could use special methods to cool the quark and keep it in a stable state. Using this controlled burst of energy, one could use it to power an engine that could drive the planet.

At the same time, Shawn had to develop a framework that was solid enough to sustain the pressure from such a strong force.

Otherwise, once the quark particles exploded, forget the solar storm engulfing the Earth, the Earth would be instantly destroyed by the explosion.

According to the preliminary design, the planetary engine would span across the Earth's equator for more than 100 kilometers.

The diameter of the engine in the polar regions would be more than 20 kilometers.

Shawn sketched out a planetary engine with a diameter of 50 kilometers.

Particle collisions, magnetic confinement rings, quark projectors, support structures, and emergency control devices.

Due to the lack of manpower, he would need to develop an artificial intelligence system to help control the main structure.

The entire design was even more complicated than a spaceship that could achieve space-fold flight.

Everyone looked at Shawn's drawing and was stunned.

"I can't understand it at all. Can someone tell me what kind of drawing this is?"

Ah San said, "I know, this is a diagram of the flow of bodily fluids."

System notification: "Warning Ah San, please pay attention to your words. This is your first warning. After three warnings, you will be banned."

Ah San: ...

"Why are you targeting me..."

"Ball Owner, aren't you an expert in stock trading?"

"This must be a stock market diagram."

"Is your stock market diagram like this?"

"I want to give birth to a monkey for Ball Owner. You are like a beautiful painting."

An expert said, "This seems to be an extremely complicated mechanical design."

"Mechanical design. The expert is bragging again."

"Japan. Slander detected. Verbal attack. Silenced for an hour."

Japan: "I..."

He went up to a central control computer. This was not a computer used by ordinary people. It was a professional drawing computer.

He opened the CAD drawing software and started drawing.

This time, the entire world was shocked.

Shawn drew up 3D drawings of the draft and divided them into ten thousand parts.

"Ball Owner, what is he doing? Is he really building a spaceship?"

People from all over the world: ...

"Didn't he make his fortune in the stock market? When did he become a chemist and now a master mechanic?"

"Why does the thing he drew look like a rocket?"

"Isn't the rocket upside down?"

Maybe it's a ground-penetrating rocket that can drill a hole into the ground before the solar storm arrives..."