Chapter 393 No Man's Sky

Buzz...

The order was issued, and when the shipboard main brain completed the coordinate conversion, the majestic energy instantly poured into the jump engine!

"Although most particles in the anti-universe are anti-particles, there are still some exceptions."

Wang Jing's calm voice came from the side: "The anti-particles of some particles are themselves, such as photons."

"In addition, the spatial parameters and basic rules of the anti-universe are basically the same as those of the material universe." "

Therefore, for the high-end starships of the Human Alliance, entering the anti-universe will not cause too much performance degradation."

"After a certain degree of adaptive adjustment, the Human Alliance starship can even fully restore its performance in the material universe."

"The same is true for wormhole jumps."

As Wang Jing's voice fell, a dazzling light burst out in the dim starry sky, and a distorted hyperspherical structure appeared in the center of the light.

Because there is not much interstellar matter in the surrounding space, there is no dazzling accretion disk outside the wormhole this time.

Time passed bit by bit.

As if affected by some external force, the constantly distorted hyperspherical structure finally stabilized.

Swish! !

The research ship suddenly rushed forward and rushed into the wormhole in front of it!

...

Accompanied by a powerful space-time fluctuation quietly passing by, ripples also spread out on the calm space-time ocean.

A ball and a ship appeared extremely abruptly in this quiet starry sky.

For the sake of safety, the research ship's jump destination is not the Anti-Varilla star system, but the empty starry sky a full 100 light years away from it.

"Why does it feel a bit strange..."

In the cockpit of the research ship, Wang Jing frowned and reached out to call up a huge, constantly moving waveform.

Chen Fan's heart moved and he quickly recognized the "identity" of this waveform.

The space-time field fluctuation monitoring system and the space-time field fluctuation waveform are considered a basic compulsory course for starship pilots.

It has a wide range of uses. Whether it is to explore extreme celestial bodies or search for starship traces, it can come in handy.

It is no exaggeration to say that it will be used in almost every step from the start of the starship to the docking of the starship.

Compared with the Varela, the space-time field fluctuation monitoring system equipped on the research ship is undoubtedly more powerful - greater power, larger monitoring range, higher sensitivity...

But...

Such a powerful space-time field fluctuation diagram has a very rare picture!

On the waveform diagram, several wave peaks slowly spread to the distance, and then, a curve with almost no ups and downs appeared.

Just like the last straight line on the electrocardiogram, it brings an inexplicable sense of suffocation.

Seeing this picture, Chen Fan's brows also frowned tightly: "How could this happen..."

Under normal circumstances, the waveform diagram of space-time field fluctuations should be very messy - the larger the detection range, the more civilizations are covered, and the space-time fluctuations generated by various starships during flight are becoming more and more complicated. In addition to intelligent creatures, stars, planets and various large celestial bodies will also generate corresponding space-time fluctuations during their operation.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, the space-time field monitoring system often sets a threshold to directly shield the space-time field fluctuations caused by small-scale celestial bodies, and only retain some space-time fluctuations generated by supermassive celestial bodies and various starships.

Since there are not many advanced civilizations in the universe, the waveform finally presents a graph with rapid fluctuations at low positions and occasional activity at high positions.

For a straight line like the current one, there is almost only one possibility - there is no civilization that has mastered curvature navigation within the detection range of the space-time field fluctuation monitoring system!

But...

is this possible?

Chen Fan was shocked and subconsciously asked Wang Jing, who was standing beside him: "Academician Wang, how big is the range of the space-time field monitoring of the research ship?"

"Or... did you adjust the settings incorrectly and raise the shielding threshold of the fluctuation signal?"

Wang Jing's face was a little ugly, and he quickly checked various settings.

After making sure there were no settings issues, she shook her head and replied in a low voice: "The space-time field monitoring range of the research vessel is very large. In three-dimensional state, it can at least cover a star field with a radius of one million light years."

"If it is a directional detection, the farthest detection distance can even reach hundreds of millions of light years."

"If it is upgraded to the fifth dimension... with a large number of autonomous probes, a research ship will even be able to monitor a normal-sized cosmic bubble."

"In addition, I have lowered the monitoring threshold. Theoretically, even the lowest level of curvature engine fluctuations can trigger the early warning of the monitoring system."

"But so far, the monitoring system has only detected some space-time fluctuations generated by various celestial bodies!"

Hearing the series of data reported by Wang Jing, Chen Fan was even more shocked: "So... there is no civilization that masters the curvature engine within a million light-year range?"

Wang Jing looked heavy: "From the detection results, it is indeed the case."

"Damn..."

Chen Fan seemed to have thought of something, and cursed in a low voice: "Could the song of the ghost fleet come true again?"

"Song?"

Wang Jing was stunned for a moment, then suddenly raised her head and looked at Chen Fan beside her: "You mean..."

Chen Fan's face was gloomy as he called up a record in the holographic interface provided by the smart terminal: "Academician Wang, take a closer look, is this similar to what we encountered?"

[We are in the starry sky, looking forward to the birth of new life. ]

[But... things are not what we want. ]

Looking at the two lyrics in front of her, Wang Jing's face changed completely.

"If it is really like what these two lyrics say..."

Chen Fan's eyes were a little horrified, and he murmured in a low voice: "In this universe, I am afraid that there is not only a civilization that has not mastered the curvature technology!"

"But... there is no civilization at all!!"

This is... a truly unmanned space!

"This... this is impossible!!"

Wang Jing was shocked and shook his head repeatedly: "Although this universe is very young, it is at least tens of billions of years old, just like the node universe."

"How could there be no civilization in such a large and mature star and galaxy?"

"Broadly speaking, the conditions for the birth of life are not harsh." Wang Jing calmed down and continued, "According to rough statistics from the Human Union, a cosmic bubble of this size can be said to be full of life!"

"Even if only one in ten million life species can evolve wisdom, there should be a lot of highly intelligent life in this cosmic bubble!"

Chen Fan shook his head with a wry smile: "Academician Wang, I don't know about these biological knowledge, but... we can do a simple investigation."

"Then select some planets that meet the conditions for the birth of life to see if there are any signs of life on them."

"In addition... take this opportunity to send a probe to conduct a simple investigation of the Anti-Variela star system one hundred light years away."

Wang Jing thought for a moment and nodded in response.

"Just do as you say."

"Mastermind, release the detectors, and survey the surrounding one thousand..." Wang Jing pondered for a moment and revised his instructions, "No, conduct a rough survey of habitable planets that meet the standards of the Human Union within ten thousand light years!"

The scope of habitable planets that meet the standards of the Human Union is very large.

Carbon-based, silicon-based, sulfur-based, amino-based...

all kinds of life and habitable planets are included!

For example, for carbon-based life forms like humans, liquid water and a certain proportion of atmosphere are indispensable conditions.

But for silicon-based life forms...

extremely cold frozen planets and extremely hot magma planets are both perfect environments-under extremely cold conditions, silicon and rare earth elements are combined, and silicon-based life can survive in the form of electric current, just like [Gaia]; under extremely hot conditions, silicon and carbon are interchangeable, and silicon atoms can replace carbon atoms to form long silicon chains, forming life forms similar to carbon-based life forms!

This is the case for silicon-based, not to mention niche life forms such as sulfur-based and amino-based.

In the investigation of the Human Union, some planets that seem to have no possibility of life often breed strange life forms!

...

More than ten minutes later.

Under the isolation of the light golden shield, the door of the research ship slowly opened, and hundreds of gray-black spherical detectors shot out at a rapid speed.

During the whole process, under the protection of the grand unified field, these gray-black detectors did not touch any structure of the research ship.

It was not until they left the light golden shield around the research ship that the grand unified field that had been wrapping these detectors slowly dissipated.

"Huh?"

Looking at the gray-black spherical detectors outside the porthole, Chen Fan seemed to have noticed something and stood up from his seat with a slight exclamation.

There was no shield around these hundreds of detectors, and they were exposed to the anti-universe without any cover!

What surprised Chen Fan was that even so, the fire of the annihilation reaction did not appear on the surface of these gray-black detectors!

After a short wait, these gray-black spherical detectors scattered like birds and beasts, rushing around!

With the faint fluctuations of time and space, all the detectors quickly disappeared in the visible universe.

"This is..." Chen Fan's heart moved, and he vaguely guessed the truth.

"Did you notice? These detectors are actually made of antimatter."

Wang Jing's voice came from the side: "For scientific research ships, it is not difficult to simply manufacture some antimatter technological creations."

"The functions of these detectors are very simple. In addition to the basic navigation and exploration functions, their most important function is self-replication."

"Like nanomachines, these detectors can use local materials and rely on various resources in the universe to replicate themselves."

"When the Human Alliance explores new cosmic bubbles, this type of detector is often used."

While explaining, Wang Jing raised his hand and pressed a few virtual buttons on the holographic panel in front of him again.

Whoosh!!!

More than a dozen light golden lights shot out from the hatch on the belly of the scientific research ship, and rushed towards the direction of the Anti-Varilla star system without hesitation!

"These detectors have many functions, and the internal instruments are also more accurate."

"They will be responsible for the detection of the Anti-Varilla star system."

(End of this chapter)