Chapter 404 Last Second

Lin Xian doesn’t know how hard the seafarers’ work is, but he thinks this tradition is good.

Thank you, seafarer.

Ever since the dinner in the Silent City, Monica's judgment of the current situation made him realize that she was not just a queen who could only rule over men, but actually possessed wisdom that should not be underestimated.

Lin Xian did think this was a kind of wisdom, although he did indeed swoon over Monica's cheongsam.

But in the second half of the night, Lin Xian did feel that his swallowing speed seemed to have increased. He didn't know if it was a psychological effect or if Queen Mo's attack was indeed shocking.

[Current Mechanical Heart Level LV.6 (6720/50000)]

Mechanical Devouring: 6 (1100/5000) Increases devouring efficiency

“This efficiency is pretty good.”

At 4 a.m., Lin Xian had almost devoured half of the scrap cars in the port. Although the mechanical source points and devouring proficiency obtained from devouring the cars were not high, the advantage was a large base number, and Lin Xian was now operating remotely, and he could cover a large area just by sitting on the top of the port machinery.

After dealing with a large number of cars, Lin Xian looked at the zombies below, and then set his sights on an almost overturned ship in the port, with several carriages of the Interstellar Train on it.

"This thing probably has a displacement of tens of thousands of tons. Let's give it a try..."

Lin Xian did not hesitate and directly started the mechanical swallowing. In an instant, he seemed to hear an empty "empty" sound coming from the huge ship. Then Lin Xian felt that his mental power began to be continuously withdrawn as the scan covered.

Rub, rub, rub!

At this time, three superstring reactor phase rainbow rings lit up behind Lin Xian and began to operate at full power. Lin Xian's eyes were shining. With the blessing of the superstring reactor, he had almost an endless source of power.

"As long as there is enough time, I don't care how many tons you have. I am now a nuclear-powered bull!"

[Devouring progress 1%]

Finally, the devouring progress bar flashed in front of Lin Xian's eyes. Through the progress bar, he immediately estimated that it would take at least more than 10 hours to devour this 10,000-ton ship.

In fact, this was beyond Lin Xian's expectations. He originally thought that the mechanical structure of this ship would definitely not be as complicated as the Dragon transport ship or the Dreadnought-class. Moreover, his devouring level had been upgraded to level 6, so it shouldn't take that long. However, when he started devouring, he found that it would still take about 10 hours.

"Is it because it has never devoured a ship?"

Lin Xian frowned slightly and was a little hesitant at this time. After all, the ship looked like a lump of iron. But it had already started, so he simply gritted his teeth and started to swallow it.

Wow!

The harbor was filled with rolling waves, as if Lin Xian's action had caused a violent reaction.

At the same time, in the Zhentian ship and the Starry Sky Research Laboratory, a 'Star Watching' scientific research team consisting of hundreds of astronomical experts, engineers in the fields of information, radio astronomy technology and interstellar molecular astrochemistry has been formed. The leader of the Star Watching team, Yang Xu, is 47 years old, tall and thin. He is a former academician of the National Astronomical Observatory of Longguo and an expert in the field of astrophysics.

"Deep Space Monitoring Station report, target: Nantianmen near-earth defense platform, orbit data has been locked, geostationary orbit position: longitude 15.5°W, latitude 51.6°N, altitude 52,660 kilometers (error ±2 km), orbit inclination: 51.64°, drift rate 0.02°/day, consistent with the prediction model."

"Optical tracking shows that there is no abnormality in the main structure of the Nantianmen platform. It autonomously deployed 12 sets of photovoltaic wings in full range 6 hours and 41 minutes ago and has now stabilized in the observation orbit."

Yang Xu frowned and led a group of people to the command center. Chu Yan was here at the moment, orally telling others the information sent back by Grace.

"Captain Chu." Yang Xu came over and said, "Have you contacted Captain Lin? Are you sure he was the one who deployed the photovoltaic wing?"

Chu Yan responded, "Chief Engineer Yang, I have confirmed from Grace that this was Lin Xian's operation. His purpose in shutting down the nuclear power center should be to prevent nuclear radiation from attracting strange entities in the dark energy storm area of ​​deep space. We have found this situation many times in Xingyuan, so it is correct."

"But if the nuclear power center is shut down, Nantianmen will not be able to launch an offensive in a short period of time." Another engineer named Chen said with doubt at this time.

Chu Yan explained: "Grace discovered that there are a large number of microorganisms invading the platform. There may be some kind of deep space strange body on the external cabin platform. We are currently investigating. This problem must be solved as a priority."

Yang Xu nodded when he heard this: "Indeed, has the dark matter information decoded by the gravitational waves yielded any results?"

"soon."

Chu Yan took a deep breath: "That information is placed in the fourth deep secret order and needs to be cracked."

"The fourth deep secret order?"

The person who spoke was a slightly plump middle-aged man. This was Wu Junping, a former information engineer at Nantianmen. He looked puzzled at this moment: "How could the information be placed in the black box?"

"Is there any problem?" Chu Yan asked.

Wu Junping immediately replied: "The fourth deep secret order is commonly known as the crash black box. It is mainly used as a storage device for physical extraction after the spacecraft crashes or fails. All the information of the platform will be synchronized in it, and it is generally not stored separately. If the fourth deep secret order has it, then the other parent storage units should have it."

"Yes, the existence of a black box alone is indeed strange..." other engineers also said at this time.

"That's not right. Black box decoding shouldn't be that complicated. Grace's computing power should be able to decode it in seconds." said another engineer.

"This is the point I want to make." Chu Yan's face was slightly stern: "According to the log that Grace checked, this dark matter information was captured at 0:01 on Apocalypse Day, but when Grace was decoding it, she found that this information decoded by gravitational waves was recorded in the previous second."

"Last second? What does that mean? 0 minute and 0 second on Apocalypse Day?" Wu Junping raised his glasses, looking puzzled.

"you mean……"

Chief Engineer Yang frowned at this time, raised his hand and pointed at the clock above the command center hall, and asked Chu Yan.

"Now, last second?"

Chu Yan nodded.

quiet.

At this moment, dozens of engineers fell silent, and a sound of people sucking in a breath of cold air was heard at the same time.

Chief Engineer Yang was stunned: "So, this information cannot be extracted?"

"It seems so at present."

"What's going on? Mechanical failure?" an engineer exclaimed.

"It shouldn't be." Wu Junping shook his head immediately: "Grace's level of intelligent brain comes with a light clock system to calibrate the time. The error will not exceed 1 second in 300 years. This situation should not be just a problem of storage time..."

"Could it be that the Nantianmen platform is also caught in the time dilation effect like Xingyuan?"

"It's possible, but time dilation shouldn't have such a cycle." Chief Engineer Yang frowned and thought, then looked at Chu Yan and said, "The only way now is to use the PandaX-4T liquid xenon detector to re-decode the dark matter information."

Chu Yan said helplessly: “Grace also made this suggestion just now.”

Yang Xu immediately asked: "Could it be..."

"Yes, that dark matter information was also sent last second." Chu Yan said in a deep voice.

hiss……

In an instant, the air in the command center became extremely strange, and countless people felt a chill down their spines.

"Time loop?" someone exclaimed

"That's weird, why is this happening?"

Yang Xu said solemnly: "Dear colleagues, please don't worry, this problem..."

At this moment, he stopped talking and his eyes suddenly caught a hand raised high in the crowd not far away.

"Liu Shijie, what suggestions do you have?"

The man Yang Xu called was a young man who looked to be about thirty years old and wore large black-framed glasses.

As soon as Yang Xu opened his mouth, everyone looked over. Liu Shijie's main field was radio astronomy technology and methods. He was also nervous and his face turned pale. He swallowed hard and said carefully.

"I wonder if this information is trapped in an 'observational paradox' that makes it inaccessible."

"What do you want to express?" Yang Xu asked him.

"I...I mean, if it doesn't need to be conveyed through information, will we get the result of this information directly?"

Yang Xu's eyes narrowed: "Go on."

Liu Shijie stood up slowly. "For example, in the famous double-slit interference experiment in quantum mechanics, the final result depends on whether it is observed or not. When not observed, the particle is in a quantum superposition state, and the act of observation will cause the wave function to collapse. The particle is forced to "choose" a path and lose its wave nature. I think this dark matter information may be similar to this..."

"That's one explanation." Wu Junping said at this time: "But the problem is that this decoded information exists in the storage medium. If even the intelligent brain cannot obtain observation and acquisition, how can we observe it?"

"That's what I meant to say..."

Liu Shijie came over with sweat on his face, picked up a notebook on the table and started drawing.

"Neither we nor Grace can observe it, because this information is stored in a storage medium, but this medium cannot be read. It always exists in the last second. Grace's calculation speed is very fast, but no matter how fast it is, she cannot read the content of the last second. Unless our calculation mechanism is slower than time, can it be possible..."

"For example, the 12 photovoltaic wings of the Nantianmen Space Station have a total of 14,976 movable wings, which are adjusted by servo motors for wing angle and flipping. The servo motors of the photovoltaic wings have an anti-error mechanism. Each time the wing is adjusted by more than 180 degrees, more than 2 seconds will be used for rudder parameter calibration. If we prepare a program, compile this information through binary code, and then substitute it into the control center of the photovoltaic wing for observation and calculation, then as long as this information exists, we can definitely control the photovoltaic wing to flip, and then we can use this delay to check this information..."

He spoke a lot in an eloquent manner, but Chu Yan, an outsider, didn't understand anything at all, while Chief Engineer Yang and Wu Junping on the side were shocked.

"you mean……"

"Use the photovoltaic wing surface of Nantianmen as an observation display screen?" Wu Junping replied in surprise.

"This..." A group of researchers looked sideways.

"Will it work?"

"have no idea……"

"Chief Engineer Yang." Chu Yan looked at Yang Xu, who had a serious expression on his face.

Yang Xu responded: "It does work in theory, but we are completely unfamiliar with this kind of time collapse."

"Then decipher it."

Chu Yan nodded: "I will communicate with Professor Ye and Lin Xian right away."

Wow, all of a sudden, the entire Wangyue team exploded. Wu Junping, Liu Shijie and others immediately started to act, preparing to arrange the action logic and command steps, and then hand them over to Chu Yan.

…

"What? Last second?"

In the Black Star Forge's consciousness space, Lin Xian heard Chu Yan's voice and his face was greatly shocked: "So this information is very likely about the dark civilization?"

"That's what we think." Chu Yan's voice came:

"So you are preparing to decipher it now?"

"Yes."

Lin Xian exited the consciousness space. At this time, a group of elite teams were on the roof of the Infinity car. They were very surprised to hear what Lin Xian said.

"How can you be sure that this is information from a dark civilization?" Ning Jing asked.

"Because it was sent at 0:01 on Apocalypse Day, but we can't be completely sure." KIKI crossed her arms and looked up at the sky: "But this plan of using photovoltaic panels is quite amazing."

"So our deep space platform received the information on the day of Apocalypse?" Qian Dele said curiously.

Ding Junyi, Xiaoyuan, Monica, Lu Xingchen, the fire brother in the building, and the others were all curious at this time.

Chen Sixuan looked at the night sky and said to Lin Xian, "How long will it take them?"

"Very soon, this won't take long." Lin Xian said in a deep voice, and then called Viola

"Viola!"

【I am here.】

Viola flew over from a distance at this time. Lin Xian raised his hand and took out a large starry sky telescope and said to her: "Capture the position of Nantianmen, observe the flipping of the photovoltaic wing surface, and project the real-time image to us."

【OK.】

At the same time, at the Zhentian Ship Command Center, Ye Lan also arrived with a group of Phoenix Society high-level officials, and Chu Yan was giving instructions to Grace.

Grace quickly completed the entry link of the command code.

[Compilation has been completed, and the binary code has been translated into text. Information will be circulated on the photovoltaic wing surface. Please confirm whether to connect to the black box. ]

"The deep space monitoring station has been calibrated and is waiting for information to be input."

"The radio observatory has been calibrated."

"The current photovoltaic wing angle of the Nantianmen near-ground defense platform is 35 degrees, set as the 0 reference point."

Chu Yan looked at the Phoenix Society leaders and the Stargazing Group. At this moment, she slowly closed her eyes.

【Grace, come in.】

【Grace understands.】

5:25 AM

In the deep space, Grace slowly pressed the start button. Almost in an instant, the information captured by the black box was converted into operating instructions for the photovoltaic wing rudder motors.

In an instant, on the huge photovoltaic wing surfaces of Nantianmen, countless motors turned quietly in the uninhabited deep space, and the photovoltaic wing surfaces began to rotate.

The entire Nantianmen photovoltaic panel seemed to have turned into an old-fashioned mechanical display screen at this moment, and countless photovoltaic panels on the sunny side began to turn towards the direction of the blue star.

At this moment, everyone on the Phoenix Society aboard the Zhentian Ship and the Infinity at the docking port of Yongcheng Harbor were staring intently at the defense platform in the vast deep space.

Two seconds later, tens of thousands of photovoltaic wing surfaces flipped over and then converged into four words in all observation windows.

Four words that instantly made everyone's hair stand on end.

[No resistance]

(End of this chapter)