The spare parts library was silent, and Lin Wen, who was floating in the air, could not make any sound, but Ye Zhou immediately understood the reason for the scene in front of him.

In this small area, adjacent dimension channels are infinitely expanded, and extremely violent entropy jumps are occurring. Almost all the energy in the space is drained, and even the gravity between particles no longer exists.

Obviously, Lin Wen can no longer survive.

The moment he was shrouded in this space, the Atp energy in his body was drained. Even if the entropy increase and jump disappeared immediately, he would die of suffocation because metabolic energy could not support muscle contraction and suffocation.

But even if he died that way, his body could at least remain intact, and now...

Lin Wen's body was still decomposing, and the already thin body was undergoing a terrifying transformation.

The first thing that was broken down was his clothes, followed by his skin, and his bright red muscles were exposed to the air. In just a few seconds, it turned into a pile of red clouds suspended in the air like gas.

Immediately afterwards, the clouds continued to expand, the reds in them became deeper and deeper, and the white bones began to decompose. The indescribable clouds just slung quietly in the air, like a strange ghost.

Ye Zhou's heart was filled with fear. This series of changes happened in just a dozen seconds, and he could not do anything at all.

----No, what I can do now is not to find a way to save him. From the moment he stepped into the jumping area, he had no hope.

What should be done now is to report the situation to the superior immediately, block the entire area, and let professionals handle this jump channel.

Thinking of this, Ye Zhou looked at "Lin Wen" with pain for the last time, and then closed the door of the spare parts warehouse.

The person who was standing alive in front of him an hour ago disappeared like this.

If you weren't looking for a battery for yourself, or even if you said a few more words to him, this result could be completely avoided, because the duration of entropy increase and jump in the same position is often only a few minutes, and as long as you cross these few minutes, this result will not happen.

Ye Zhou took a deep breath, suppressed his emotions and ran to the room quickly, and reported his discovery to his superiors through the communicator. In just five minutes, all the accommodation areas were emptied. Several staff members carried a huge combustion device into the spare parts library. The entire spare parts library was burned by flames, and the entropy increase jump channel that swallowed everything also disappeared.

This is the most effective way for humans to deal with entropy increase and jump. By injecting huge amounts of energy into the jump area, breaking the path of the energy channel, thereby temporarily closing the adjacent dimension channels enriched by the Silad effect.

The design principle of Fenghuo 1 is exactly the same as this operation.

Ye Zhou looked at the flames that briefly overflowed and disappeared from the spare parts warehouse window in a daze. For a moment, a strong sense of sadness and powerlessness surged up.

He turned his head silently towards the direction of the institute, but before he could take a few steps, he felt someone patting his shoulder behind him.

He turned his head in confusion, and what caught his eyes was the face of a young woman who was also full of sadness.

"Is it okay? I heard that Brother Wen was with you before?"

Ye Zhou nodded, and he recognized the identity of the girl in front of him.

Su Shu, like himself, is a materials science researcher responsible for the design of the first wall of Fenghuo No. 1.

"I'm fine... I just can't accept it for a short period of time."

"Yeah, normal."

Su Su's eyes were dull. She took two steps and walked side by side with Ye Zhou, then continued:

"In fact, on the first day I entered here, my master warned me that the probability of entropy jumping near the energy tuning device is greater than that in any part of the world. The enrichment of adjacent dimension channels caused by the Silad effect is not a joke."

"He kept reminding me to be careful and taught me how to distinguish the jump areas that had appeared, but in the end he didn't hide."

"So, it's good to get used to it. We are living in minefields, and no one knows who the next person to step on the mine is."

"Actually, Brother Wen is already lucky. At least the entropy growth rate of the jump area he encountered was very high, and he left without pain. My master... He struggled for a whole two months, but in the end he left because of metabolic disorder."

Hearing her words, Ye Zhou sighed and replied:

"I know these, but it's still not that easy to accept as you watch things happen... Forget it, let's not talk about this anymore. Don't you think the recent jumps have happened a bit too frequently?"

According to Lin Wen's previous statement, coupled with the information contained in the information flow, Ye Zhou realized that within two months, such entropy increase jumps of similar but different intensities had occurred more than three times within the range of Fenghuo No. 1 device, and such frequency has far exceeded the general rules.

“It’s normal.”

Su Shu, who was standing beside him, replied:

"We are not facing disorderly natural disasters. What we guard the channel is an extremely advanced civilized intelligent life body. They will naturally screen the range of energy extraction. Now, the energy endowment gathered near the Fenghuo No. 1 project has the highest energy endowment, and it is normal to frequently jump."

"After all, even if it is a bandit, they will choose wealthy places to attack when they want to rob, right?"

"That's the case."

Ye Zhou nodded slightly and then continued:

"But we have to find a way to deal with this situation as soon as possible. This unpredictable jump will have too much impact on us. If the jump occurs in the core area of ​​the Fenghuo 1 device... the entire project will be in danger."

"That's why we have to set up a 'lighthouse'. The lighthouse will be ignited tonight, and most of the space channels will be attracted to it, and the scene will be... very spectacular."

Ye Zhou was stunned. He was searching for memories of the lighthouse in his mind. After a moment, he recalled that it was to ensure that Fenghuo 1 successfully ignite the small fusion reactor specially set up on the periphery. The purpose was to fill all nearby energy escape channels and create ignition conditions for Fenghuo 1.

Those "lighthouse" devices are like baits specially used to attract wild animals. From the beginning of their design, they were destined to be sacrificed.

However, even so, the safety of Fenghuo 1 ignition is not guaranteed. As Su Shu said before, the so-called enrichment of space channels caused by the Silad effect is not a joke. The higher the energy endowment, the faster the space channels will absorb energy.

If such channel enrichment reaches the critical value, the likely result is that the entropy increase jump area is completely out of control, covering the entire national energy tuning device research institute. At that time, everyone who stays in this base will not be spared.

This is a big bet, and the bet is the life of everyone, including Ye Zhou.

After a few seconds of silence, Ye Zhou asked:

"You said, is the price we paid really too much?"

Lin Wen's accident brought a huge impact on Ye Zhou, but the impact was even greater, and the personnel in this base were calm and almost indifferent when facing this matter.

They faced the death of their companions calmly, just as they also faced their upcoming fate, and no one could be sure of the fate of the ending.

Of course, Ye Zhou would not shake his firm will to move forward because of this incident, but it is undeniable that he was indeed thinking about whether there would be a better way to balance the boundaries of "sacrifice" and "harvest".

Hearing Ye Zhou’s question, Su Shu shook her head and replied:

"Where is no price to say between life and death."

"Actually, our situation is already very good. At most, we have to take some risk of sacrifice."

"In addition to us, there are many people who are working hard and sacrificing."

After a pause, she continued:

"Look, the rice fields in our base grow very well, right? But you have to know that this is the best rice fields in the country and even the world. In other places, due to insufficient fertility, even if the seedlings with the highest yield, the grain output can only barely meet the per capita demand standard."

"In this case, a large amount of food was transported to key projects. We can say that ordinary people are feeding us on hungry days."

"You also know how much effort we put in when Fenghuo 1 was established. Tens of thousands of people went to this minefield one after another. The mountains moved here and the sea filled the sea here. When large mechanical power was insufficient, many giant steel structures were even carried on by people. During the process, many ordinary migrant workers died of respiratory failure due to their deterioration of their functions."

"Also, not only our project, but also those surveyors who are trying to find a suitable entropy valley in the Great Gobi Desert no-man's land, those volunteers who have received the first genetic modification to fight the functional decline curve, those workers who have penetrated thousands of meters of seabed to mine oil... what is their price?"

"Ye Zhou, we really don't have the right to talk about the price. Life is the biggest and the smallest price we can pay. For our ultimate goal, this is nothing."

Speaking of this, Su Shu reached out and held Ye Zhou's hand, and then said gently:

"Tonight is the last night before the ending. How about it? Are there any arrangements?"

"Yes, I want to check the first wall situation at the end. What about you?"

"I'll be with you."

.........

In the next 16 hours, Ye Zhou and Su Shu completed all the inspections of the first wall of Fenghuo No. 1 device. There was no jump in time in the simulator. Ye Zhou took all the characteristics of the materials used in the first wall step by step and adjusted all the prefabricated parameters related to the materials. After doing all this, he and Su Shu sat in the control room, quietly looking at the fusion core not far away.

All the staff were in place. A few minutes later, as the commander-in-chief pressed the start button, as the rising sun rose, dozens of laser beams shot into the fusion core. Almost in an instant, the fusion core burst out with light enough to cover the sun.

----However, such light lasted only for a few seconds.

The terrifying power of the Silad effect was officially revealed, and the fusion energy generated by Fenghuo 1 was immediately swallowed up.

And the residual energy is simply not enough to support the fusion to continue.
Chapter completed!