Chapter 458 Blockage

"...Has it been resolved?"

Hongshi's somewhat weak voice suddenly sounded in the quiet communication channel.

Chen Fan subconsciously looked at the investigator starship not far behind him.

Hongshi, wearing exoskeleton armor, leaned against the hatch of the starship, and Isa accompanied Hongshi silently. With the help of the visual assistance system, Chen Fan could even clearly see Hongshi's slightly pale face.

Although the overall information disturbance of the incubation tower base is not strong, the information disturbance in the core area will still have a considerable negative impact on the body of ordinary people, not to mention that Hongshi had just waited for more than ten minutes beside Chen Fan!

"Yes."

Chen Fan responded to Hongshi's inquiry and turned to walk towards the starship: "Academician Wang said that in another 32 hours, the first batch of star giant scorpions will arrive at the place of creation."

"As for the support fleet... there is some hope, but whether it can succeed depends on luck."

"In any case, we have to speed up."

Hearing Chen Fan's words, Hongshi's face suddenly became solemn: "What to do next? Collect light stones, or..."

She looked up at the dense scorpion eggs above her head: "Help Academician Wang catch a few scorpion eggs?"

"..." Chen Fan thought for a while and shook his head repeatedly, "Neither."

He followed Hongshi's gaze and looked up. The scorpion eggs that kept wriggling in the black light were like the eyes of a devil, which looked particularly creepy.

"I'm going to cut off the dark matter transmission channel of the hatching tower first."

Chen Fan said in a deep voice: "Let's not talk about the scorpion eggs near the base. Even if the scorpion eggs on the top of the hatching tower are successfully hatched, it will be a headache."

"Besides... who knows if these scorpion eggs will undergo any messy changes after the giant scorpions arrive at the place of creation."

Before crossing, he had seen many similar movies.

In line with the principle of stability first, he didn't want to make any more trouble.

Hongshi nodded and agreed to Chen Fan's proposal: "It is indeed impossible to rule out this possibility. What are you going to do?"

Chen Fan didn't say anything, but just silently nodded at the investigator starship next to him.

...

A few minutes later.

As the hatch of the starship slowly closed, the starship that was originally parked on the dark purple base quickly took off.

In the starship cockpit.

Chen Fan carefully observed the holographic interface just above the main console.

It showed a holographic structure diagram of the entire hatching tower. In the azure base map, several bright red emphasis marks were clearly marked.

"Yi, are you sure the main pipelines are in these areas?"

"This is the result calculated by this machine based on the flashing law of the light stone, and it cannot guarantee 100% accuracy." The electronic synthesized voice sounded in the cockpit.

Chen Fan subconsciously glanced out of the porthole.

As Yi said, the flashing light on the dark purple base has a very obvious pattern.

The light stone lights up from the energy source, and then spreads in all directions like a wave.

There are not many main pipelines. There are only five nodes in such a large incubator.

Chen Fan raised his eyebrows and directly controlled the starship to the nearest node.

Soon, he saw the so-called main pipeline-among the many spiral columns, the huge main pipeline is particularly conspicuous!

A huge column with a diameter of more than a kilometer extends from the bottom of the base, like a towering tree. After leaving the surface of the base, it quickly splits out several branches and stretches towards the spiral columns.

The rich black light surges rapidly inside the column, driving the surrounding light stones to flash continuously.

Cutting off the dark matter transmission channel is not an easy task.

At least it is not a cutoff in the conventional sense - once the transmission pipeline is broken, the activated dark matter will gush out from the crack.

This thing is a real dangerous item!

Once a leak occurs, it will decay rapidly and release extremely huge energy at the same time!

To a certain extent, the activated dark matter in the pipeline and the shells of the dark matter cannon are the same thing. If you act rashly on it, it will only turn the entire hatching tower into a shocking bomb!

Therefore, after a brief discussion, Chen Fan decided to adopt a special "cutoff" plan.

Rather than cutting it off, it is better to call it blocking.

Under the control of the shipboard main brain, the investigator starship slowly adjusted the position of the ship. As a white traction beam lit up, several round cake-shaped devices slowly flew out of the open belly hatch and accurately fit on the surface of the main pipeline.

The technological content of these round cake-shaped devices is not high. They are just the most basic grand unified field generating devices. Of course, the output power has definitely reached the level of the ninth-level civilization.

Although the diameter of each round cake is more than ten meters, for the main pipeline with a diameter of one kilometer, these round cakes are just some spots on the surface of a thick tree trunk.

"Start blocking!"

Looking at the round cake that has completely surrounded the main pipeline, Chen Fan gave the order without any hesitation.

Buzz!!!

The zero-point energy stored in the round cake suddenly gushed out, activating the grand unified field generating device inside.

Inside the main pipeline wrapped in dark purple armor, a layer of invisible barrier slowly formed around the inside of the pipeline and gradually grew into the inside of the pipeline.

Gradually, the inner diameter of this main pipeline has been reduced to one-third of the original.

The activated dark matter that was originally able to pass smoothly will suddenly pause when passing through this barrier formed by the grand unified field, and then rush forward like a cannonball.

The most intuitive manifestation is that the black light that was originally surging at a uniform speed has an abnormal rate change - this abnormal phenomenon is becoming more and more obvious as the grand unified field barrier gradually closes!

Finally.

Under the full operation of the grand unified field generation device, the barrier formed by the grand unified force field was successfully closed, and the surging black light seemed to encounter some strong resistance. The momentum of the rush suddenly stopped, and finally quietly accumulated directly below the barrier.

"Successful blocking."

Yi's electronic synthesis voice sounded in the cockpit.

Chen Fan looked at the main pipeline that was getting brighter and brighter, and couldn't help but feel a shudder.

He couldn't help but ask aloud: "Yi, how long can this thing last?"

To put it bluntly, this barrier formed by the grand unified force field is actually a gate that blocks the flow of water.

Once the gate cannot withstand the impact of the activated dark matter, or the strength of the main pipeline is insufficient to withstand the pressure of the dark matter accumulation, the consequences may be...

unimaginable!

It is no exaggeration to say that the entire incubation tower is likely to be instantly transformed into a giant planet-level firework! !

"This machine has calculated the impact of activated dark matter. Theoretically, it will not be penetrated before the main pipeline bursts." Yi quickly gave the answer, "As for the main pipeline bursting, this machine thinks there is no need to worry for the time being."

"Usually, energy transmission pipelines will have a pressure detection function. Once the pipeline is found to be blocked, it will immediately stop transmitting energy..."

Before the voice fell, the half of the main pipeline that was originally shining with black light dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The bright light stones around also quickly extinguished, leaving only a little weak white fluorescence - this is the light caused by the energy fluctuations of the investigator starship.

"Look." The electronic synthesized voice continued to come, "It is estimated that the abnormal pressure inside the pipeline has been detected, and it has been shut down urgently."

Chen Fan breathed a sigh of relief, and his heart, which was originally suspended in the air, fell back to the ground.

He calmed down and raised his head to look at the spiral column connected to it.

On the dark purple column, the densely packed scorpion eggs still flashed with a few faint black lights, which were the activated dark matter remaining inside the scorpion eggs.

But as time went by, without external energy supply for a long time, the frequency of these scorpion eggs' wriggling began to slow down gradually, and the black light inside them began to decay until it disappeared.

Not only that, the scorpion eggs' originally plump and tough outer membrane also dried up at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Just like a bunch of grapes exposed to the sun, after losing water, they became a bunch of shriveled and skinny raisins.

"Academician Wang is right."

"The growth process of these scorpion eggs requires a huge amount of energy. Once they lose the external energy supply, they will soon enter a state of growth stagnation."

Hongshi's voice came from the side: "According to this trend, it is estimated that it will not take much time for these scorpion eggs to die from energy depletion."

Chen Fan nodded, retracted his gaze and looked at the other four main pipelines.

"One."

Chen Fan, who had no worries, flashed a cruel look in his eyes: "Speed ​​up!"

"Cut off all the main pipelines as soon as possible!"

(End of this chapter)