Starting as a Wallfacer, his defection to the Three-Body Problem shocked the world.

All plans are progressing as scheduled, and Lin Xuan has shifted her focus back to the second phase of building the Super Dream database.

Now, thanks to the simultaneous release of the three games, a massive amount of knowledge has been incorporated into the database, and the model of the entire Hyperdream world is becoming increasingly complete.

This data is sufficient to support the entire synchronous verification process.

"I need to go to Beijing Airlines."

Zhang Xiang quickly followed Lin Xuan's instructions and helped book a flight to Beijing.

A day later, Lin Xuan saw Zhao Kaiming again.

"Old Zhao, it's been a long time."

Old Zhao nodded slightly. Compared to their last meeting, Zhao Kaiming was much more taciturn this time.

Lin Xuan could sense a trace of sorrow in his eyes.

Clearly, the harbingers of a major downturn are affecting everyone, from ordinary citizens to national academicians like Zhao Kaiming; everyone has been impacted to some extent.

"Where's the young man you brought with you earlier?"

Lin Xuan knew that Zhao Kaiming was referring to Yun Tianming, who had come with her before.

"He left to do something more important."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Kaiming's brows seemed to relax somewhat.

"That's good, that's good."

"Knowing what you should do is better than not knowing where you're going at all."

"Professor Zhao, you are joking. You are a national academician of China. If you don't know what to do, then we are even less sure what to do."

Zhao Kaiming let out a long sigh, sweeping away all the gloom in his heart.

"Let's get down to business first. I heard from PDC that you're here to see a gameplay demo of Star Wars: Civilization?"

"Yes."

"The main reason is that this game is currently only used for research purposes in universities. As the game's designer, I have never seen anyone else play it, so I wanted to see how it went."

The game "Star Wars: Civilization" is actually a process of synchronization verification. For example, when Cheng Xing used the player operations in the database to defeat Radiaz, it was all a process of synchronization verification.

A large amount of data is mixed together, the optimal solution is selected, and a complete answer is obtained. This answer is then tested in the real world.

The combination of practice and theory.

Led by Zhao Kaiming, the group entered Beijing Airlines.

Compared to when Lin Xuan visited a few years ago, the university hasn't changed much; only some of the buildings on the ground have been renovated.

But when they followed Zhao Kaiming underground, Lin Xuan realized how wrong she had been.

Underground at Beijing Aerospace University is a massive aerospace laboratory, with a floor area more than ten times that of the above-ground buildings.

"Thanks to you, we came up with the idea of ​​converting the entire laboratory underground. Although this will not be able to escape the surveillance of the Sophon, the overall plan is more reassuring."

Zhao Kaiming smiled wryly.

"This can be considered a kind of escapism, a way to achieve my own inner escape."

Soon, Lin Xuan saw the simulation screen of "Star Wars: Civilization".

It is stored in a cleanroom glass room, and everyone must change into a cleanroom suit before entering the room.

At this moment, the screen displays a withered, gray planet.

"The first civilization simulation failed, and the civilization was destroyed due to the depletion of water resources."

The concept behind Star Wars: Civilization was very similar to the Three-Body Problem game that Wang Miao played back then. However, the Three-Body Problem game simulated how to solve the Three-Body Problem, while Star Wars: Civilization aims to solve the problem of the evolutionary direction of humanity's technology tree.

Because the Dream World exists only in the realm of consciousness, its images cannot be captured by any electronic device.

Therefore, we can only simulate what happens inside its world and project it into the real world so that people can roughly understand what is happening inside.

This technology was provided by Hines, who was planning to create a analytical camera that could analyze brain neural activity, and this was the prototype of his idea.

"It's spectacular, isn't it?"

Zhao Kaiming said.

"This data was actually transmitted from the Dream World about an hour ago. We did not deliberately speed it up in order to keep the device running stably."

As Zhao Kaiming spoke, he stretched out his hand and made a gesture in mid-air.

The RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) module of the simulation screen then starts working, speeding up the entire simulation process.

"The first civilization simulation, with 36 participants, begins."

"Of the 36 people, 12 chose a democratic system, 3 chose to develop extremism, and 21 chose anarchism."

"The next decision is on agricultural planting. 35 people chose to plant coarse grains, and 1 person chose photosynthesis."

"End of round: 1 person's civilization destroyed."

"The next decision is on the direction of technological development. Four people chose nuclear energy technology, 12 chose biological evolution, and 19 chose electricity."

"End of round. The nuclear option plus extremist civilization has fallen into nuclear winter due to the outbreak of nuclear war."

"Nuclear energy as an alternative to anarchism leads to energy depletion due to the inability to unify ideologies."

"Nuclear energy and a democratic system led to the creation of the first nuclear bomb, which later disintegrated due to economic collapse."

……

Messages flashed across the screen, representing the rise and fall of civilizations.

And this is just the data from one simulation group. There are more than a hundred simulation groups like this running simultaneously.

After waiting for about half an hour, all the correct decisions were finally deduced and summarized into a densely packed option box.

Next, the AI ​​begins to reconstruct whether the optimal solution for the entire simulation process is valid based on the options in this option box.

But ultimately, when this civilization reached the point of building spaceships, a fierce internal conflict erupted, leading to the destruction of the entire civilization.

Then, the AI ​​distinguished between the incorrect and correct parts, returned them to the incorrect parts, and had its more than one hundred research groups re-simulate them.

How long will this process take to yield the best results?

Lin Xuan pointed to the dense experimental data on the screen. Just as the two were talking, the simulation experiment ended in failure again, and the AI ​​started a new game.

"Who knows? It could be in the next second, or it could be ten years, a hundred years, or even until the universe is destroyed. He can't calculate it," Zhao Kaiming said helplessly.

“We’ve been working on this for about a year now. Ever since you announced this game, we’ve been relentlessly researching its solution, just like those mathematicians who are constantly trying to find π.”

π is the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle, also known as Pi, an irrational number.

Because of its indivisibility, scientists have been quite persistent in studying it, and have now calculated it to 31.4 trillion decimal places.

Many people may think that π is just a number used to calculate the area of ​​a circle, and that we only need to know that its value is approximately 3. However, this is not actually the case.

If pi can be calculated to its fullest extent, then the method of exhaustion proves that if a circle is divided to a certain degree, then the "circle" is completely equal to a "regular polygon".

This means that there is no real "circle"; the smooth curve of a circle is actually just countless small line segments.

This indicates that the curve also does not exist.

Without curves, geometric figures would become chaotic.

The idea of ​​calculating the area covered by a curve in calculus is also wrong, and the theory of limit accumulation will not exist.

Calculus will be overturned, and the existing edifice of mathematics will crumble.

And now, Star Wars: Civilization is doing the same thing, only it's much more difficult.

"Don't be discouraged. Your work is meaningful; at least it provides us with more options to consider."

Lin Xuan knew from the very beginning of the Creation of Super Dreams Project that this would be the inevitable outcome.

All simulations, all analyses, and all calculations can only ever be approximations.

The significance of the Super Dream Project's simulation of physical models lies in reducing errors to a negligible level, to the point that they can be ignored by the laws of the universe.

"Perhaps, but I probably won't live to see that day."

Zhao Kaiming smiled wryly.

"Didn't PDC already reverse engineer the effects of RX cell division fluid? You're a national academician, so it should be easy for you to get approval, right?"

Lin Xuan was somewhat puzzled. Even Zhang Xiang had a share, so if Zhao Kaiming wanted it, there was no reason for China not to give it to him.

Zhao Kaiming shook his head slightly.

“My child, I am 93 years old this year. I have dedicated myself to scientific work for nearly 70 years. From the age of 23 when I returned from studying in the United States, I have been in this position for 70 years.”

“At that time, they all advised me to stay abroad, but I insisted on coming back. I have built China from a country full of holes to what it is today, and I am already very satisfied.”

"Every generation has its own Long March. I have completed the mission of my time. The rest is up to you."

……

Zhao Kaiming passed away a month later, it seems he was deliberately waiting for Lin Xuan's arrival that day.

On the day he passed away, the PDC lowered its flag to half-mast and observed a moment of silence to pay tribute to his contributions to human space exploration.