The screen showed an aerial view of the crater from the air.
Jon asked, "Wasn't that supposed to show me the positive and negative matter annihilation device?"
Ella smiled mysteriously.
"Of course, that's what's being shown for you now."
"But our first production device may be much larger than you think, Jon."
Something foreboding appeared in Jon's mind when he heard this.
Turning his head to look behind him at the other Hundred Eyes, he saw that the crystalline fiber optics they were connected to were flickering rapidly, and Jon didn't even need to translate to know that they were in a state of euphoria.
Ella continued to speak.
"The year is 4265 A.D. Jon, and once again we have accomplished a technological leap forward."
"Mastery of positive and negative matter obliterating energy sources gives us simultaneous mastery of the ability to move massive objects around."
"Commence ignition."
All the preparations had been completed before Jon awoke from hibernation.
Now it was time for the final test.
Jon felt vibrations coming from the ground, ranging from a light tremor at a high frequency to a violent, strong tremor at a low frequency.
In the aerial shots coming out of the screen.
A massive distortion of light appeared at the mouth of the pit.
Then incomparably violent heat currents with white flames erupted.
"Planetary thrusters."
Jon stood up, the amount of work was quite massive, decades would not have allowed for the creation of such a behemoth, Ella had probably been building the device since 500 years ago.
The only thing Jon had really struggled with at the time was how to colonize the Hundred Eyes for an extended period of time.
Because the planet he was staying on now wasn't even their original target, this planet was only suitable for the Hundred Eyes to survive, not for humans.
Since he had learned that he could use his cells to cultivate real humans, Jon's goal afterward was still to go to Planet Beyondb.
But if he left in a spacecraft, then the Hundred Eyes Race would not be able to achieve management.
It was still 3 light-years away from Planet B. Even if Ella controlled it remotely, it would take a full 6 years for the signal to be transmitted back and forth.
It was too long, and the Hundred Eyes would be unstoppable if they were to rebel.
At that time, he had only mentioned this matter, he didn't expect Ella to be so attached to it that she had actually started the research and even manufactured it.
The completion of the planetary thruster meant that they could push the planet to the edge of Proxima afterward.
Further, they could absolutely build a star system that would move several planets of the right mass into the habitable zone.
It wasn't even impossible for the planet to enter the solar system and reach the original Earth's location to become Earth.
But that would take a long time.
That's because Ella predicts that the sun will be in an overactive phase for the next million years, and that the solar system's habitable zone will become off-limits to civilization during that time.
"How much can this one thruster move the planet?" Jon asks.
Ella quickly gave the figures.
"Originally, all the celestial bodies in the entire galaxy rotated around the center of the galaxy, and the speed of the hundred-eyed star under our feet is 115km/s. This planetary thruster can only be used to control the planet's steering if there is only one."
"But I have put the manufacture of more planetary thrusters on the agenda, in about 200 years Jon you will be able to see 100 of these thrusters."
"Don't look at the fact that these thrusters are only 18 kilometers across, but due to the planet's inherent lack of air and the efficacy of the outer belt's positive and negative matter annihilation energy sources, 100 of them would be enough to give the planet a speed of over 250km/s."
That was quite a high speed for a behemoth.
It's no wonder these 100-eyed races are excited.
The completion of the planetary thrusters in 200 years would mean that they would be able to take full control of the planet under their feet.
It was a remarkable feat.
...
The iron wall descended once again.
After the top brass of the Hundred Eyes dispersed, Jon remained seated.
"Ella, since the positive and negative matter annihilation technology has been developed to a stage where it can be utilized, what about the other item?"
During the 500 years, the Hundred Eyes still had occasional acts of rebellion.
In order to solve this matter, Jon decided to develop something that would completely enable civilization invasion and suppression.
That was virtual reality.
Part of civilization invasion was cultural invasion, even the main part.
The most difficult part of a cultural invasion was getting the other side to accept knowledge, the easier part was getting the other side to accept entertainment.
Jon's decision was precisely to create a virtual reality game world, in which the cultural rooting of the Hundred Eyes was accomplished step by step.
Ella couldn't possibly forget things.
"Virtual reality technology is fairly easy if it's just visual."
"But if it's a brainwave connection, it becomes exceptionally difficult."
"Over the course of these years, I have deconstructed the bodies of over 100,000 Hundred Eyes and discovered that Hundred Eyes do not have a brain per se, their consciousness exists in highly developed nerves throughout their bodies."
"These nerves can be interconnected to form a brain-like structure, or they can be spread out to deal with simple things, such as shutting down 99% of the nerves to sleep, and using 1% of the nerves to be on alert."
"This creates quite a bit of difficulty, trying to pull the Hundred Eyes' consciousness into virtual reality is ten thousand times more difficult than it is for humans."
With that, Ella made a gesture of invitation.
Jon stood up and headed out the door.
They walked and talked the whole way, riding the maglev train to another city.
This city didn't have much light and wasn't even surrounded by a few volcanoes, being in pitch black and freezing cold.
Entering it, one could only see tens of thousands of robots of various types working here.
"Originally I wanted to build my mainframe here."
"But I guess I'm following Jon's lead, and Hundred Eyes isn't where we belong, it's just where we started."
"So my mainframe remains on the Hope, where everything you see is part of another mainframe."
Jon looked around.
There were no words to describe it other than shock.
Because it was too big.
This was a giant city, reaching 30 kilometers in circumference.
If all the buildings here were replaced with homes of the same size, it would be easy to accommodate a million people.
And this was all part of the mainframe.
"How many times the arithmetic power of this mainframe is yours?"
Jon felt that Ella wanted this mainframe very much.
"Ten trillion times."
Ella's arithmetic power had long surpassed quantum computing in the field of digital image computing, reaching 7.9 trillion trillion trillion times per second, and adding 10 trillion times on top of that would be 79 billion billion billion billion billion billion times.
Too terrifying arithmetic power to be imagined by humans.
"The mainframe will be fully applied to virtual reality afterward."
"It's already developing a complete virtual world now, and its limit should be to construct a complex world with a diameter of 0.5 light years."
"Its arithmetic power will be fully utilized to maintain the virtual world, building 1 trillion trillion creatures in the virtual world and having each creature share its arithmetic power."
Jon did the math.
That is to say, each creature could have 79 trillion billion billion arithmetic power, and the IQ simulated by this level of arithmetic power was already not lower than that of an ordinary human.
Was this considered creating a world?
"What about the maximum number of players to be accommodated?"
Jon remembered that once upon a time on Earth, the maximum number of people that each server could accommodate was just a few dozen, and if it was any more than that, it would fall into lag.
Even if it was an online game, the number of people on the same screen was about 150 optimal.
"That virtual world has only one service that can accommodate 10 billion players on the same map at the same time."
It was simply a gamer's dream.
Jon wanted to take a trip inside just listening to it.
It was just a pity that it would take quite a while for the complex map of 0.5 light years to be constructed.
It was better for him to remain dormant and wait for that moment to come.