Chapter 646 - 384: Touring Space with 7 Women
After joining Country C, the Twin Gouyu fell in love with the newest model of the Profound Bird Fighter. The latest version was the Profound Bird-7, a two-seater heavy fighter jet. The two of them spent their days soaring through space in it.
Given their status, obtaining an exclusive, limited-edition fighter was a simple matter.
These aerospace fighters used the latest generation of Nuclear Fuel Cells, giving them a virtually unlimited flight range. The only factor limiting their journeys was the need for resupply.
A fighter's size was, after all, limited, meaning it couldn't carry many supplies. However, that was only a concern for ordinary pilots. The Twin Gouyu had a Space Gem Ring from Li Xiang, which held a vast amount of resources. Besides, they were both Divine Tier. For them, enjoying mortal food was merely a matter of satisfying their palates; they could go for decades without eating or drinking with no ill effects.
The two of them even flew straight to the Moon, visiting the Changgong Star Palace - Illusory Moon Realm recreation city and playing to their hearts' content.
When they were little, before the Apocalypse, Chiba Yuki had taken them to many amusement parks, such as Tokyo Disneyland, the Mitaka Forest Ghibli Museum, Hello Kitty Land, and the Fujiko F. Fujio Museum. But none of them were as fun as the recreation city on the Moon.
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Meanwhile, the hundreds of factories under Jiang Cai'Er were operating at full capacity, working day and night to produce countless Nuclear Fusion Reactors, cold fusion fuel cells, Quantum Computers, and Computing Satellites.
One year later, low Earth orbit was densely packed with nearly a million satellites, restoring it to its former glory—no, surpassing it. Before the Apocalypse, Earth had never had so many satellites.
Furthermore, unlike before the Apocalypse, the satellites in Earth's orbit had once belonged not only to Country C, but also to the United States, Russia, and various European nations. Any country or private company with even a little power owned satellites.
But now, those satellites had all been destroyed during the Space Exotic Beast invasion, leaving only those belonging to Country C.
In other words, only the satellites of a single company, Celestial Calculation Energy Technology, remained.
To put it another way, only Jiang Cai'Er's satellites remained.
She alone controlled all of these nearly one million satellites. Her power was utterly unprecedented!
Before the Apocalypse, human technology wasn't advanced enough to launch so many satellites. It wasn't a matter of cost, nor an inability to produce them. It wasn't even a matter of orbital capacity. Theoretically, the low-orbit region (500-2000 kilometers above the surface) has an area of approximately 4.32 million square kilometers. Using the safe following distance of a car—say, a 200-meter interval—as a metric, the region could hold hundreds of millions of satellites.
The real bottlenecks lay in areas like spectrum resources, orbital maneuvering, and traffic management. Too many would cause interference and increase the risk of collision. Furthermore, there were constraints from international agreements. For example, once certain orbits or spectrum resources were claimed, other countries couldn't touch that piece of the pie.
But for Jiang Cai'Er, this was no obstacle at all. There was no one left on Earth to contend with her.
The risk of collision was also nonexistent.
It was like a highway packed with cars—traffic accidents are common because every car has a different driver. But now, all the satellites in the sky had a single driver. The nearly one million satellites might look like separate individuals, but they were, in fact, a single, unified entity.
The Moon's airspace was clear of the black fog up to an altitude of three hundred kilometers, while for Earth, this range was even wider, extending to about twelve hundred kilometers.
Jiang Cai'Er not only restored various communication, navigation, and monitoring satellites above Earth, such as Beidou and the Thousand Sails Constellation, but also launched a total of 289,000 "Computing Satellites" to form an Earth-based "Celestial Calculation Center."
These 289,000 "Computing Satellites" were distributed throughout Earth's orbit, interconnected by multidirectional data links via inter-satellite laser transmissions. Yet, they also existed independently of each other, meaning that even if a portion were shot down, the rest would be unaffected.
This vast number of "Computing Satellites" formed an enormous supercomputing matrix, which was another of Jiang Cai'Er's Digital Life Clones—a true Celestial Net.
These Computing Satellites could not only provide immense Computing Power but also command all other satellites, Space Stations, and weapons systems (like the Space Orbital Cannon) in orbit, using them as its own. It could also connect to the Stellar Mother Ship and the Supercomputing Centers in each Underground City.
All of Jiang Cai'Er's Digital Life Clones could interconnect, her "hands and eyes" reaching every corner of the Earth-Moon System. The Computing Power and various resources she could mobilize were practically endless. Even the term "Thousand-armed Guanyin" was insufficient to describe her power.
As a result, Earth's technological progress became even more rapid, advancing beyond what people in peacetime could have ever imagined.
With enough Supercomputing Centers running across Earth and the Moon, Jiang Cai'Er's ascension to the Divine King Realm was only a matter of course.
This news was not made public, primarily because an announcement would have easily sparked panic. People would lose their sense of security.
In many sci-fi movies, this kind of entity is the main villain. But Jiang Cai'Er was truly not a villain.
Li Xiang, Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing, Lei Xiaohui, Erin, Chiba Yuki, the Twin Gouyu, and the other Divine Tiers all sensed it. They all converged on City No. 03 to congratulate Jiang Cai'Er.
Yao Yao took Li Xiang's hand in private. "Li Xiang," she said, "I want to ascend to the Divine King Realm, too. Our Dual Cultivation has already brought me to Tier Thirty-Eight."
Zhao Xueqing and Lei Xiaohui drew closer as well.