Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 111 Psychologist
Three months later.

The Wan Nian Yan Di spacecraft completed its orbit around Mercury and was fixed in a synchronous orbit above Mercury. A large number of sensors were placed in the near-water orbit by the Wan Nian Yan Di spacecraft, and soon the preparations for the experiment were completed.

The ultra-deep well that Luo Qing dug himself was named the 'Cave of Creation' by humankind.

The 'Capital' hydrogen bomb lies quietly at the bottom of the Cave of Creation, and the detonation device has been successfully reconnected.

Despite a delay of about 6 minutes, Radiaz pressed the detonation switch.

The strong electromagnetic wave signal emitted by the space radar located in low Earth orbit swept towards the Wan Nian Yan Di at the speed of light, and was then received by the Wan Nian Yan Di and relayed to the computer control terminal built into the 'Capital' hydrogen bomb.

Countries around the world also watched this scene silently through the images transmitted back via electromagnetic waves.

But this was destined not to be real-time; they would have to wait 12 minutes to see the explosion.

Countdown to zero.

A stellar hydrogen bomb with the explosive yield of 35 billion tons of TNT was detonated at the bottom of an ultra-deep well 30000 meters deep on Mercury. The light radiation penetrated the rock layer in 0.01 seconds, and the temperature inside the ultra-deep well instantly soared to 2 million degrees Celsius.

The nearby crust of Mercury could no longer withstand the impact of tens of millions of tons of TNT equivalent per second. With the epicenter as the origin, rock layers with a diameter of 500 kilometers peeled off in concentric circles, forming a giant impact crater.

The shock wave spread at extremely high speed in a near-vacuum environment, vaporizing a large area of ​​the 30,000-meter-deep well structure. The rocks inside were rapidly plasmaized, forming a high-temperature, heat-insulating, luminous gas cloud. After the gas cloud surged out of the hole, it emitted a bright white light.

In that instant, it was as if Mercury had lit up its 'engine' at the tail, and most of the kinetic energy of the stellar nuclear explosion was converted into thrust, bursting out of the hole.

But this was not a real engine after all. The burst of white light quickly spread in the form of cracks within the concentric circles. The spiderweb-like intense light covered everything and annihilated everything.

The near-perfect nuclear test in the ultra-deep well was a success!
The instantaneous thrust from the nuclear explosion caused Mercury to briefly deviate from its original orbit at a tiny angle. Upon learning of this result six minutes later, Radiaz instinctively clenched his fist. Meanwhile, the dust cloud rising from Mercury's surface obscured the sunlit side, and the reflected intense light and impending electromagnetic interference caused the Wan Nian Yan Di to automatically enter protective mode.

"So fierce."

One engineer, one of the five hundred crew members on the Wan Nian Yan Di ship, exclaimed in amazement as the first person to witness the stellar nuclear bomb explode in the Creation Cave.

The 'Emperor Yan of Ten Thousand Years' was not an unmanned spaceship. In addition to the more than one hundred space technology officers in charge of operating the spaceship, there were also hundreds of experts from various fields, and the rest were space staff responsible for maintaining life on board.

On Mercury, they witnessed together the eruption of a miniature sun.

The captain's voice came from inside the 'Emperor Yan of Ten Thousand Years': "All technicians, return to your designated positions. Stop idling and immediately check all sensors to ensure that the data is transmitted back normally."

In the captain's cabin, a young space force officer sat upright in his seat. His name was Zhuang Yu.

The burst of radiation from the explosion lasted for several seconds, destroying all the probes placed in Mercury's orbit by the Wan Nian Yan Di spacecraft. However, the probes had already completed all their missions before this, and because Mercury is a solid structure without the buffer of a liquid mantle, the shock caused by the nuclear explosion was transmitted directly to the entire planet.

An earthquake has struck the entire planet, with continuous tremors of magnitude 7 or higher on the Richter scale occurring globally for up to 6 hours.

The energy released by this explosion is equivalent to the total amount of radiation the sun emits to Mercury in 5 minutes.

"Comrades," Zhuang Yu said to everyone via the ship's public address system, "I think we need to stay in near-water orbit for a while. Earth just sent back orders that Wallfacer Radiaz requests the construction of more stellar nuclear bombs and the conduct of three more rounds of ultra-deep well explosion experiments."

"What exactly is Redias trying to do? Does he want to blow Mercury to pieces?" one of the accompanying experts said.

"Who knows? The ship's supplies are enough for a year. Looks like we'll be basking in the sun here for a year."...

Luo Qing found Rediaz in a heavily guarded basement in Venezuela.

"Radiaz, your residence is way too deep, more than 100 meters below the ground? Is this a nuclear bunker that you, as president, ordered to be built during the Cold War?"

“It’s not deep at all. If I could, I’d much rather live in that super deep well you drilled,” Rediaz said.

"Just because you have solar phobia?"

“You can understand it that way.” Rediaz smiled and handed Luo Qing a cigar.

Luo Qing wasn't used to smoking cigars, but he still put the cigar in his pocket. Seeing that Luo Qing didn't have a habit of smoking cigars, Radiaz got up and poured him a cup of hot tea as a way of expressing his feelings.

"You seem to be in a good mood," Luo Qing said.

“Of course!” Regiaz made no attempt to hide his emotions. He said to Luo Qing, “Thanks to you, Luo Qing, you made my plan three years faster. Without you, I’m afraid I would have faced their fierce obstruction.”

"They" here naturally refers to the major countries of the Planetary Defense Council.

"It's not their fault. They always have to take care of people's livelihoods. It's really asking too much of them to dig an ultra-deep well on Mercury. After all, they only just established a semi-permanent base on Mars a couple of years ago," Luo Qing said with a sigh, taking a sip of hot tea.

“No, no, no, Luo Qing, that’s not how it is.” Radiaz shook his head. “Building stellar nuclear bombs would actually consume a lot of resources, but why don’t those countries oppose me? It’s simply because those major powers are also very interested in stellar nuclear bombs, but they are too embarrassed to bring it up, so they have no choice but to use me to build these stellar nuclear bombs.”

"I'm certain that all those stellar-type nuclear bombs I've ordered to be built will end up in the hands of various major powers. Getting them to use them for my plans will be extremely difficult. Luo Qing, politicians are all hypocrites, especially those from major powers. They care about both appearances and substance. And I, this Latin American madman who appears blindly crazy to outsiders and has an abnormal obsession with nuclear weapons, am the perfect excuse for them to seize stellar-type nuclear bombs. Bah! A bunch of hypocrites!"

Luo Qing smiled faintly: "This is determined by the current civilized system. The national stage is also a necessity of the development of civilization. Under such circumstances, it is the nature of politicians to attract more resources for their own country. This has nothing to do with whether they are hypocritical or not; it is an inevitable choice given their position."

"I've learned a lot." Seeing that Luo Qing seemed to have a detached attitude towards the current social system, Radiaz astutely changed the subject.

"Luo Qing, I know that with humanity's current production capacity, we can only produce a maximum of tens of thousands of stellar nuclear bombs. But I'm asking for hundreds of thousands, or even millions. They definitely won't agree to that. What should I do?"

This was the first time Radiázs had asked an outsider for help.

It seems he also knew that a million star-shaped hydrogen bombs were not realistic.

"What do you need so many stellar hydrogen bombs for?" Luo Qing was incredibly curious.

Radiaz gave a forced smile. Luo Qing knew that his question had touched on the Wallfacer's principles, so he wisely refrained from asking further.

"It's indeed a problem that you want so many stellar nuclear bombs. Production capacity is one issue, but another is that a million stellar nuclear bombs would consume a lot of deuterium and tritium. Deuterium is relatively easy to obtain because it's abundant in the ocean, but tritium is scarce in nature and basically needs to be artificially manufactured. Current stellar nuclear bombs are a deuterium-tritium hybrid structure... Unless the stellar nuclear bombs are improved to be pure deuterium... Sigh, I'll go to Jupiter and bring you a small piece of Jupiter. Anyway, it's a gas giant, and these raw materials can be used specifically to produce nuclear bombs for you, saving you from wasting the ocean."

Luo Qing had said that he would fully support the work of the other Wallfacers, and this was certainly not just empty talk.

"That's really great, thank you so much!" Rediaz said, moved.

"Mr. Diaz, your scheduled psychiatrist has arrived." A soldier's voice suddenly came from the intercom connected to the ground at the door.

(End of this chapter)