The cold night in Siberia has finally passed. Today's weather is very clear, the sky is blue, and you can also smell the fragrant lake water of Lake Baikal in the slightly blown air. The only thing that is the beauty is that it is too cold here.

After breakfast, Zhao Huasheng sat in his tent and looked through some information casually. After a while, Zhao Huasheng called out: "Meng Zhuo?"

Meng Zhuo opened the curtain and walked in, "I'm here."

"Let's go." Zhao Huasheng said, "It's time to go back."

"Where are you going?"

Zhao Huasheng pondered for a moment and said, "Let's go to Equator City."

Equator City is actually not a city, its area is even larger than that of a country. In the newly divided geographical areas, the government divides all oceans, mountains, rivers and land that belong to the tropical region into the Equator City. It is a vast area centered on the equator, starting from the equator, extending 2,500 kilometers south to north, with a total width of 5,000 kilometers. The total area of ​​this area is as high as 200 million square kilometers. Of course, this is the total area including mountains, rivers, deserts, oceans and other uninhabitable terrains. After removing these places, the area that can be used for residence is less than 40 million square kilometers.

All human resources and construction capabilities are tilted towards these 40 million square kilometers of land.

"Okay, I'll make arrangements." Meng Zhuo nodded, turned around and was about to leave.

"Let others arrange their itinerary, Meng Zhuo, I have something to ask you." Zhao Huasheng said.

Meng Zhuo issued instructions to other staff members and then returned to Zhao Huasheng's tent.

"During this period of time... what has our human society progressed to the research on the sun? What are the things that I need to know?"

"A lot of things have happened in the past month." Meng Zhuo nodded and said, "Let's talk about solar detection first. With the efforts of many telescopes, detectors and scientific researchers, we have initially analyzed the physical process of the appearance of a low-temperature matter belt on the surface of the sun, and even reproduced this process in the physics laboratory."

"Oh? There is such a huge breakthrough? Come and see the relevant information for me."

Meng Zhuo nodded. It seemed that he had expected that Zhao Huasheng would have such a problem, so he prepared the relevant information early in the morning. After Zhao Huasheng made a request, Meng Zhuo touched it from his arms, took out a stack of information and handed it to Zhao Huasheng.

Zhao Huasheng spent about half an hour reading this information.

The data lists the reaction process, physical equations and reaction models in detail. With Zhao Huasheng's scientific literacy, it is not difficult to understand this data.

Simply put, this physical process is as follows: in the extreme environment of the sun's surface, thin substances may also undergo nuclear fusion reactions. However, this fusion is different from the core fusion that supports the heating of the sun's combustion. It does not use hydrogen or helium as the fusion raw material, but uses elements heavier than these two elements as the raw material.

In the fusion reaction chain, the fusion of elements lighter than iron releases energy, while elements heavier than iron, including iron, absorbs energy in fusion. Of course, this is under normal conditions, and the nuclear fusion process that occurs on the surface of the sun at this moment is different. Although the raw materials involved in fusion are lighter than iron, they also absorb energy rather than release energy.

This fusion model is named "Inverse Fusion" by physicists.

As for why inverse fusion occurs, this involves the difficult and obscure microscopic physical mechanism, which physicists are not very clear about. They only know that inverse fusion does exist and is happening on the surface of the sun.

The factors that trigger the inverse fusion may be related to the movement of certain matter on the surface of the sun and the strong magnetic field, and may also contain many other extremely harsh conditions. Physicists are not very clear about the specific conditions, but one thing is certain, that is, this inverse fusion process is extremely rare, and it is even rare that among the tens of millions of stars observed by astronomers so far, this phenomenon has occurred on the sun.

Then what happened to the sun now can be explained reasonably. The mass of the sun has indeed not decreased, its volume has not changed, and its pressure has not changed. It is simply because an inverse fusion event occurred on the surface of the sun, and the energy radiated by the sun is absorbed by the "inverse fusion layer", which has led to a decrease in the solar radiation level.

But this brings three new problems. Among these three problems, the first question is, what is the first driving force?

What exactly drives the solar surface to produce this phenomenon of reverse fusion? According to physicists' evaluation, the conditions for the reverse fusion reaction are too harsh. Physicists have spent countless efforts to reproduce this phenomenon in the laboratory only three times, which means that the probability of spontaneously producing this phenomenon in the natural environment is too low.

On the information Zhao Huasheng saw, a physicist vividly described the chance of reverse fusion naturally occurring: "It's like we walked into a primitive jungle that had not been involved in tens of millions of years, but unexpectedly found that there was a tree growing into a "family" wardrobe. We opened the wardrobe door and even found that even the partitions and clothes rails grew out in the wardrobe."

This is a chance that is so low that it is almost negligible. Then the question is, humans have never discovered this phenomenon on other stars in the universe. Why did it appear on the sun? Is this a coincidence, or is there some kind of force behind it?

The second question is, what force has always maintained the existence of reverse fusion?

Based on the existing limited understanding of the phenomenon of reverse fusion, physicists can already be sure of one thing, that is, it requires many conditions to maintain the existence of reverse fusion. Even if it really appears above the sun, it cannot last for a long time. Just like a house, if no one cleans it, it cannot always maintain a smooth appearance as new. So, what force makes the reverse fusion layer not only exist, but also expands to almost wrapping the entire sun?

Another physicist left a sentence on this document: "This seems to mean the existence of aliens. I would rather believe that this is what aliens do than believe that it appears naturally on the sun and then naturally evolves into such a big one."

The third question is, where does the energy absorbed by reverse fusion go?

Inverse fusion will also form new elements, but this element is very unstable. It can only exist in the natural environment for a very short time, and then it will explode, releasing all the absorbed energy and reducing it to the original element again. That is to say, overall, inverse fusion does not absorb energy, nor does it release energy. It simply stores energy in itself for a period of time and then releases it.

But... why have humans never observed energy release on the sun? Where have the disappearing energy gone?

Zhao Huasheng closed the file folder and said thoughtfully: "This is a very ideal Dyson ball model. Think about it, if we can artificially create such an inverse fusion layer and then have a way to collect and preserve those "anti-matter", stars will become our inexhaustible source of energy. Perhaps in the future, our spacecraft will no longer need any chemical or nuclear fuel. Just storing some inverse quarrels can complete the interstellar voyage that we dare not imagine now."

"So, what do you think?" Meng Zhuo asked.

"I have no opinion." Zhao Huasheng put down his file folder and stood up: "The existence of the reverse fusion layer implies the existence of an alien super civilization in many aspects. This alien super civilization has at least reached the K2 level. They have taken a fancy to the sun, so they arranged a Dyson ball outside the sun to collect the sun's energy and use it for their own use. As for why they chose the sun - who knows? Perhaps the sun really has some special features, not necessarily."

"This argument has no value." Meng Zhuo shook his head and said: "After determining the existence of the inverse fusion layer and the related physical mechanisms, many scientists from the Research Department of the Crisis Processing Center also believe that this is done by an alien super civilization. Some optical and radio telescopes have even been divided into searches for possible alien civilization spacecraft and signals. However, humans do not care about these things, humans only care about how to solve the current problems."

"Many physicists, social psychologists, science fiction writers and others have formed a group. This group is discussing why they ignore us and not contact us if this K2 civilization really exists, and whether we should actively contact them, and what attitude should we use to connect with them. Scientists are also speculating on the social models, cultures of the K2 civilization that may exist, and how to persuade them to let go of the sun, how to contact them, and whether they will anger them and cause the destruction of the earth, etc.."

"There are more experts evaluating the information left by Li Qi and the role you will play in this incident. Based on the previous information, experts believe that Li Qi had contacted this K2 civilization a long time ago, and then secretly found the weakness of this K2 civilization, and then told you the method of defeating this K2 civilization through hints."
Chapter completed!