Chapter 461 Illusion?

Hongshi's words made the atmosphere in the investigator's starship fall to the bottom.

Time technology.

If the material information theory is the cutting-edge technology that the Human Union is exploring, then time technology is an unknown technology that is completely beyond the current capabilities of the Human Union!

Chen Fan gritted his teeth, and his right hand holding the starship joystick began to tremble uncontrollably.

Facing such an opponent, it is impossible to say that he is not afraid.

As long as the brain is not broken, survival is the first will of the living body, and Chen Fan is naturally no exception.

Panic reached the extreme, and the sudden burst of desire to survive made Chen Fan temporarily stabilize his mind.

He took a deep breath, and his previously trembling hands gradually stabilized.

"Damn..."

He squeezed out a curse from his teeth, his eyes fixed on the small, dark purple starry sky giant scorpion outside the porthole.

At this moment, his mind was particularly clear, and all kinds of details that he would not normally notice came into his eyes one by one!

Chen Fan's brain was running fast, trying to find the key to breaking the deadlock from these tiny details.

But...

the giant scorpion that regarded the starship as its prey obviously would not just take a beating.

Almost at the same time as the second wave of the investigator starship's offensive failed, a faint black light began to surge under its dark purple armor - the other party was preparing to fight back!

"Hmm?"

Looking at the clear picture presented by the visual assistance system, Chen Fan suddenly frowned: "Why do I feel... something is not right?"

Hongshi's face was still bleak, but after hearing Chen Fan's murmur, she slowly turned her head and cast a questioning look at him: "...what did you say?"

"Look, compared with the mature giant scorpion we encountered before, the black light on this giant scorpion is obviously much weaker." Chen Fan frowned slightly, he raised his hand and pointed at the holographic interface on his side, "Not only that, the data from the energy fluctuation monitor is also a bit problematic."

Hongshi looked in the direction of Chen Fan's finger.

With just one glance, she also realized the problem: "The energy intensity in this giant scorpion... is not even comparable to the most common kilometer-class giant scorpion!!"

"It should be due to premature birth." Chen Fan's eyes flashed with a faint brilliance, "The organs inside its body should not be mature yet. Even if it swallowed a lot of nutrients inside the scorpion eggs, it only barely recovered a little strength."

As he spoke, the surging black light under the giant scorpion's armor had already poured into its mouthparts.

Like other giant scorpions, it was ready to release dark matter cannons to attack the starship.

Chen Fan held the joystick tightly in his hand, and the shipboard main brain was also prepared to dodge accordingly. Waves of space-time fluctuations spread around the starship-if there was a slight mistake, the shipboard main brain would directly initiate a high-dimensional jump to avoid the opponent's attack.

But...

the situation was obviously beyond Chen Fan's expectations.

When the black light in the giant scorpion's mouthparts was about to reach its peak, the originally stable light dissipated in a violent flash, and finally disappeared silently in the giant scorpion's mouthparts.

The next second.

The giant scorpion seemed to have been hit by something. While shaking its head, it kept slapping its hideous mouthparts with its slender scorpion tail.

It seemed to be annoyed by something.

"This is..."

Chen Fan stared at the picture outside the porthole in a daze, and his face gradually became strange: "Did the mouth cannon fail to release?"

"It turns out that... the other party is just a paper tiger that looks good but is useless?"

After realizing this, the original fear quickly dissipated, and Chen Fan's thoughts became more and more fluent.

He stared at the dozens of space cracks that were still "paused" around the giant scorpion's body and the dark matter cannons that were flashing with a strong black light. Suddenly, he seemed to have thought of something, and a strong doubt gradually emerged in his eyes: "Wait..."

"Redstone, do you think that activating dark matter, an inefficient energy source, can really drive cutting-edge technology such as time suspension?"

Hearing Chen Fan's question, Redstone's face froze and he also fell into deep thought.

Everything in the event is an equivalent exchange.

Whether it is [Five-Dimensional Navigation] or [Genesis], these powerful high-end technologies have a necessary prerequisite.

Vacuum zero-point energy.

Only the pure energy from the Dirac Sea can satisfy their horrific energy consumption.

"You mean..."

Red Stone hesitated, "The other party has not mastered the time technology. This is just an illusion similar to time suspension?"

"I think so." Chen Fan shrugged, "The energy intensity in this giant scorpion is at most the level of an eighth-level civilization. How could it be possible to cross the level and touch the real time technology?"

"The illusion of time suspension..." After the fear in his heart dissipated, Red Stone's stagnant thinking became active, "Could it be the clock slowing effect caused by high-intensity gravity?"

Chen Fan's heart moved, and he quickly recalled the journey to the central black hole before entering the anti-universe.

At the beginning, if the ghost fleet had not taken action, the investigator starship and the released probe would have likely fallen into a state of "time stagnation" in the powerful gravitational field of the black hole.

Thinking of this, Chen Fan hurriedly called up the space-time field fluctuation monitoring data, trying to observe the space-time field fluctuations around the giant scorpion - gravitational fluctuations are actually the intuitive manifestation of space-time changes. Therefore, if you want to observe strong gravitational changes, you only need to directly observe the space-time field fluctuations.

"..."

Looking at the space-time fluctuation curve in the holographic interface with almost no waves, Chen Fan and Hongshi fell silent at the same time.

The guess was shattered again.

This also means that the giant scorpion has adopted some unknown means to achieve the illusion of time suspension. For Chen Fan and others, this is undoubtedly bad news.

After all, the unknown often indicates danger.

In the distance, the giant scorpion also recovered from the blow of "mouth cannon failure". After a while of repair, a faint black light flashed under the giant scorpion armor again.

Swish!

Accompanied by a sudden increase in space-time fluctuations, the giant scorpion's figure suddenly disappeared, and the time that was just "paused" began to flow again - the dozens of deep space cracks and the dark matter cannons flashing with black light shot out and hit the wall on the side of the hatching tower directly. Boom

! ! !

The black light flashed, causing the light stone floor tiles under the base to light up with a dazzling light.

Looking at the side wall of the incubation tower that was instantly swept by the aftermath of the explosion, Chen Fan's face suddenly changed.

"Oh no!"

Let alone the terrifying power of the dark matter cannon that can easily destroy a star, just the dozens of space cracks are enough to cause a huge blow to the incubation tower-even if the entire incubation tower is covered with a layer of dark purple strong interaction force armor, that level of defense is simply impossible to block the damage of the dark matter cannon and the space cracks! !

Seeing the dark light of the dark matter cannon suddenly spread, Chen Fan even imagined the scene of the incubation tower collapsing in his mind.

But...

the situation did not develop as he imagined.

The side wall of the incubation tower was wrapped in a layer of dark purple protective force field, standing safely in the constantly flashing black light!

As the aftermath of the dark matter cannon gradually dissipated, the side wall of the incubation tower that was hit head-on also revealed its true appearance.

There was no sign of any breakage!

The attack of the starship did not even break its defense! !

Beside him, Hongshi frowned, silently observing the many parameters in the holographic interface in front of him.

"No..." She seemed to have noticed something, and shook her head slowly, "The power is not right..."

"What did you say?!" Chen Fan was stunned and asked subconsciously.

[Warning! ! ]

Before Hongshi could give an answer, a bright red warning message had popped up in the holographic interface in front of him: [The enemy is approaching the starship! ]

The next second!

In a wave of time and space fluctuations, the somewhat illusory figure of the giant scorpion appeared again in front of the starship - the long-range "mouth cannon" could not work, and it could only pin its hopes on close combat.

Ding! ! !

The scorpion tail created by the strong interaction force hit the starship fiercely, and ripples appeared on the light golden shield.

"Damn it!!"

Looking at the shield load that soared instantly, Chen Fan had no time to think about it, and pulled the joystick with his right hand.

High-dimensional jump, start!

After pulling away from the giant scorpion again, Chen Fan gave the order to the ship's main brain without any hesitation: "Since the hatchery tower can withstand such an attack, use a saturation attack!"

"Fire at full force!"

Buzz! ! !

The moment the voice fell, the majestic vacuum zero-point energy instantly poured into the various weapons of the starship.

Space cracks turned into black lightning, continuously striking the giant scorpion larvae that were close at hand, and the black light of activated dark matter also lit up inside the main gun and secondary gun at the same time! !

"What did you want to say just now?" Taking advantage of the gap in the attack, Chen Fan asked Hongshi beside him, "What's wrong with the power?!"

"There's a problem with the power of the weapon!"

Redstone hurriedly called up a holographic interface: "Whether it is the dark matter cannon or the space rift, their power has been attenuated to a considerable extent when hitting the side wall of the incubation tower!"

"Although there is a protective force field of a certain strength near the side wall of the incubation tower, the substantial attenuation of the weapon's power is the fundamental reason why it cannot cause damage!"

"Power attenuation?" Hearing this, Chen Fan frowned immediately, "Why would the power of the weapon be attenuated for no reason?"

Redstone hesitated for a moment, and whispered, "I checked the status of the space rift."

"When it was about to hit the side wall of the incubation tower, the stability of the space rift had already declined significantly. Usually this situation only occurs in ultra-long-range attacks."

Chen Fan naturally understood this basic common sense.

Like conventional artillery shells and missiles, space rifts also have an effective attack range - when they fly long distances, the surrounding space will gradually produce an assimilation effect on them. Over time, this assimilation effect will cause the stability of the space rift to decrease until it self-disintegrates.

Correspondingly, the power of the space rift will gradually decline as the attack distance increases.

But for the Human Union, this is actually not a big problem.

With the technology of the Human Union, as long as the power is increased without setting an upper limit, it is enough to make the effective attack range of the space rift exceed hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of light years. The main feature

is a powerful brick flying away.

Even the space rift weapons carried on "official ships" such as the Investigator Starship, thanks to the vacuum zero-point energy engine, its effective attack range is more than one light year.

(End of this chapter)