Chapter 491 Five-dimensional puzzle (two-in-one)

The changing starry sky outside the porthole quickly attracted the attention of Chen Fan and others.

The nebula flow spanning more than 8,000 light years is just a simple number, but for Chen Fan and the other four who are inside the Creation Land, this is nothing short of an earth-shaking change - the light red "fog" rolled towards the hollow area where the investigator starship was located.

Like a sandstorm sweeping across the sky and earth, these thin gases and dust seemed to be affected by some force and were running wildly in the starry sky at an astonishing speed of more than 2,000 km/s.

This is obviously not the speed at which a nebula should move.

Naturally, it is not an effect that can be achieved by simple microgravity - whose microgravity can make a nebula run wildly at a speed of 2,000 kilometers per second!

Of course.

If the perspective is raised to the Creation Land of 8,000 light years, the movement speed of these nebula materials is still not enough.

Let's not talk about whether the increasingly thin nebula matter inside the Creation Land can cover the entire galaxy. Just talking about those "worm-eaten" holes that are more than ten or even dozens of light years in size, relying only on the movement speed of 2000km/s, it may take thousands of years to complete this large-scale nebula migration.

However, for the long life of the Kraken, a thousand years is just a nap.

"This is..."

Looking at the wonderful scene outside the porthole, Hongshi's eyes moved, and a guess suddenly emerged in his mind: "Is the Kraken repairing its body?"

Hearing Hongshi's words, Chen Fan couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and a little joy appeared in his eyes: "It does look a bit like it."

He couldn't help smacking his lips and sighed: "I didn't expect that the Kraken was injured like this and still had the energy to repair itself. The vitality of this nebula life is tenacious enough..."

"Is the Kraken's injury serious?" Hongshi quickly captured the key information in Chen Fan's words.

"This..." Chen Fan didn't know how to explain to Hongshi for a while.

"The size of the nebula life is too large, and for our ordinary life forms, the life form of the Kraken is too abstract, so you may not have any intuitive impression of the Kraken's injuries."

Hongshi nodded thoughtfully.

Chen Fan was right.

In her opinion, even if there are some holes in the huge nebula of 8,000 light years, at least the general shape is still there, right?

In fact, not only Hongshi, but also Isa and Gao Yuan cast a confused look at Chen Fan.

"Let me give you a simple analogy."

Chen Fan pondered for a moment, stretched out his hand and called up a human body structure model on the holographic interface in front of him: "If the Kraken is regarded as an ordinary human, then his previous injuries can be regarded as countless ants devouring this person's internal organs and muscle tissues, and even the basic skeleton has been devoured for most of it, not to mention organs and tissues such as blood vessels."

As he said, Chen Fan stretched out his hand and removed various organs and tissues on the human body structure model.

And this model, after Chen Fan's operation, only a fairly clear outline remained.

It was like the land of creation that still retained its general shape.

Looking at the picture in the holographic interface, Isa and Gao Yuan's faces suddenly turned pale - the picture of Chen Fan reaching out to hollow out the human model was indeed too curious. Except for ruthless people like Chen Fan who often went in and out of biological laboratories, most people probably couldn't stand this scene.

Unlike Isa and Gao Yuan, who were shaking like a sieve, Hongshi's face was quite normal. She even had time to comment on Chen Fan's method of removing the holographic internal organs.

After all...

she was not a human at all, so she naturally didn't find this scene creepy.

For Hongshi, instead of using a human model to demonstrate, it would be better to find two blood-red gems on a planet and then cut the gems into pieces.

Chen Fan looked at Hongshi, who was interested, with some helplessness, and a rather surprising thought emerged in his mind: In Hongshi's eyes, gambling on stones should be regarded as an act of bloody violence, right?

At least it is enough to be at the level of a dismemberment case.

Perhaps sensing the strangeness in Chen Fan's eyes, Hongshi tilted his head and cast a curious, inquiring look at Chen Fan.

"Ahem!" Chen Fan coughed to cover up his guilt for his inappropriate associations, and brought the topic back to the topic, "In short, based on this foundation, the previous operation of constructing the macroscopic gravitational ties can only be regarded as perfecting the main skeleton and key organs of the Kraken."

"Don't even mention muscle tissue, blood vessels, or anything like that. There's not even a shadow of those tiny skeletons!"

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and waved away the holographic human model that was badly damaged in front of him.

As the curious picture slowly dissipated, Isa and Gao Yuan's pale faces barely recovered a little.

"Academician Wang has made an estimate. Theoretically, it will take several years to perfectly reconstruct the body of the Kraken, even if the peacekeeping fleet is fully deployed."

Chen Fan shrugged: "Don't look at me with suspicion, this is what Academician Wang said."

"The Creation Land is like a precision instrument, and the microgravity diffused in the starry sky is equivalent to the smallest parts. If you are not careful, it will cause the operation of a large nebula to become disordered."

"Has the Kraken awakened now?"

Hongshi seemed to have realized something, and finally asked a question that everyone cared about.

"I'm afraid it's not that simple."

Chen Fan shook his head: "At least so far, I haven't felt the Kraken's consciousness fluctuations in this starry sky."

"Then..." Hongshi was a little puzzled.

It took so long, the gravitational ties were built, and the nebula in the Creation Land began to repair itself, but the Kraken still hasn't woken up. Listen, is this reasonable?

"Don't worry." Chen Fan smiled and waved his hand, "This is why Wang Jing asked me to carry out this mission."

"The recovery of the macroscopic gravitational system does not necessarily allow the Kraken to regain consciousness quickly."

"Based on the latest material information theory, Academician Wang believes that consciousness resonance may have a strong stimulating effect on the macroscopic consciousness, thereby allowing the sleeping consciousness to..."

"Speak human language." Hongshi's eyes twitched, interrupting Chen Fan's words.

Chen Fan said dryly: "...Kraken may be asleep, and an alarm clock is needed to wake him up."

"Unfortunately, I am the alarm clock chosen by Wang Jing."

Hongshi: "..."

...

After calming down, the alarm clock... No, Chen Fan slowly closed his eyes.

As soon as he thought about it, the consciousness body skillfully left this body made of antimatter.

As an almost undetectable space-time fluctuation drifted towards the surrounding space-time, he had passed through the thick shell of the investigator starship and came to the empty starry sky again.

Completely different from the picture observed by the naked eye, from the perspective of the consciousness body, the vast starry sky was full of tiny ripples that looked like water waves.

With just one glance, Chen Fan recognized the true identity of these ripples - disturbing information flow.

Unlike the information flows he had seen before, the information flows diffused in the starry sky clearly had a sense of "fragmentation".

Whether it was the messy information flows released by the light stone or the regular information flows created by the Genesis unit, they were all complete ripples, with peaks and troughs.

But the information flows in front of him were different, some had only troughs, and some had only peaks.

In addition, these information flows were running around in the starry sky without any rules, which gave Chen Fan an inexplicable sense of "fragmentation".

Chen Fan's heart moved, and he drove his consciousness body towards the nearest section of the ripples.

He slowly raised his right hand, which was flashing with a faint fluorescence, and stretched it towards the broken ripples.

The information flow, which theoretically would not come into contact with external objects, suddenly underwent some unexpected changes when it came into contact with Chen Fan's right hand - it was like a ripple spreading on the water surface. When it touched a stone exposed above the water surface, the water wave suddenly rebounded and spread in a completely different direction from before.

At the same time, the information flow that was forced to change direction also had a certain impact on the surrounding information flow, and the other ripples also turned to different degrees.

But Chen Fan's attention at this time was not on these constantly fluctuating information flows.

He stared blankly at the gradually receding information ripples, and a little joy appeared in his eyes again-in these "fragmented" information fluctuations, he felt a familiar feeling.

Kraken!

These disturbed information flows scattered in the starry sky are from Kraken!

According to the current situation, Chen Fan quickly made a deeper judgment-after the macro-gravitational bond was restored, the reason why Kraken has not awakened for a long time may be due to these fragmented information flows.

These information flows have not completed aggregation, just like a person's consciousness is in a discrete state. As a nebula life, Kraken naturally cannot wake up.

Chen Fan observed the information flow in the starry sky thoughtfully, and he already had a solution in his mind:

since these information flows cannot complete aggregation by their own strength, then he will help Kraken!

He may not be able to solve other problems, but if there is a problem with the information flow...

then you have found the right person!

When it comes to information flow control, even the human connection has to lag behind him!

Chen Fan did it right away. He started trying to piece together the broken information flows scattered in the starry sky.

But...

it's easy to say, but it's not an easy thing to do.

These broken information flows are like loaches, running around in the vast starry sky. Even if Chen Fan's consciousness has the ability of curvature navigation, he still needs to spend a lot of time to "catch" these information flows one by one.

This is not even a troublesome thing.

After all, Chen Fan's control over the information flow is very strong. As long as he can catch up with these scattered information flows, he has the final say on what will happen next.

The biggest difficulty lies in the process of splicing the information flow.

These broken information flows have their own characteristics, and each information flow needs to be "placed" in the right place.

It's like a puzzle.

But this puzzle is not two-dimensional, but... five-dimensional!

Yes, according to Chen Fan's observation, all disturbed information flows are in a five-dimensional state, and because of this, they can easily break free from the constraints of the cosmic membrane.

So here comes the question.

How to put together a five-dimensional puzzle?

It involves five mutually perpendicular directions, and these information flows are all irregular shapes. He doesn't even have the "puzzle original" in his hand...

This difficulty is definitely hell-level!

Looking at the dense information flow in front of him, Chen Fan suddenly fell silent.

After a long time, he opened his mouth and burst out a swear word.

"Fuck!"

In this world, saving people also has such high-end technical requirements!

...

Inside the investigator starship.

The three people of Hongshi sat in their respective seats, silently looking at the slowly changing starry sky outside the porthole.

Among the three people, Chen Fan closed his eyes tightly, with a look of wandering in the outside world.

"I don't know what's going on with the peacekeeping fleet..."

There was some worry between Isa's eyebrows. After learning that the entire universe bubble was filled with starry sky giant scorpions, she felt a strong sense of uneasiness in her heart.

"It shouldn't be a big problem." Gao Yuan's voice came from behind. Unlike Isa, he waved his hand nonchalantly, "The human fleet is so powerful that no matter how many giant scorpions there are, they can't make any waves."

"That's what you said, but..." Isa wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Chen Fan who suddenly opened his eyes and sat up beside her, "Chen Fan? Are you awake?"

"Has the Kraken awakened?"

Isa asked hurriedly.

Chen Fan did not answer Isa's words.

His face was a little ugly, and he called up a holographic interface without raising his head.

The next second, the holographic interface automatically showed a software interface dedicated to five-dimensional object modeling.

Perhaps Isa saw something from Chen Fan's abnormal behavior, and subconsciously closed her mouth. At the same time, she raised her hand to stop Gao Yuan who was about to shout.

Under the gaze of the three people, a series of twisted ripples that seemed to have no rules and looked like earthworms began to appear in the holographic interface in front of Chen Fan.

As the number of ripples increased, a thin layer of cold sweat appeared on Chen Fan's forehead. It was too difficult to forcefully memorize an object with a five-dimensional structure.

Even though he had already left the category of carbon-based creatures, he felt a little strenuous at this moment.

You know, he had previously forced himself to remember many structures of a huge star map!

"…Tsk!"

As the speed of the ripples in the holographic interface began to slow down, Chen Fan uttered a soft "tsk!" Then he closed his eyes again and returned to his previous state of wandering in the outer world.

After waiting for a moment, he opened his eyes again, and the stagnant ripple pattern in the holographic interface began to advance again.

After going back and forth for dozens of times, the ripple structure in the holographic interface was finally sound.

"Huh..."

Chen Fan breathed a sigh of relief, then raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead: "One, help me contact Wang Jing."

"Let her use the ship's main brain... no, use the main brain of the Academy of Sciences to complete this five-dimensional puzzle as quickly as possible!"

"...Five-dimensional puzzle?" Red Stone frowned and repeated Chen Fan's words, "What is this thing?"

"It should be the consciousness of the Kraken."

Chen Fan smiled weakly: "These broken information flows are scattered throughout the Creation Land. If I'm not mistaken, as long as these information flows are pieced together again, the Kraken's consciousness can be restored."

Red Stone suddenly realized, and tilted his head again to look at the ripple structure diagram that was being rearranged in the holographic interface: "Just this five-dimensional structure?"

"Then there is no need for the main brain of the Academy of Sciences."

Hongshi hesitated for a moment and said, "Even the main brain of the Investigator Starship has a very powerful five-dimensional structure calculation and deduction ability. Solving this five-dimensional structure should be..."

Chen Fan's lips moved slightly, interrupting Hongshi's words: "This is just a broken information flow in a one-light-year star field."

"..."

Hongshi's eyes twitched suddenly: "Excuse me."

Even if it is a three-dimensional structure, the gap between an eight-thousand-light-year star field and a one-light-year star field has reached an astonishing 500 billion times, not to mention that this little thing is a five-dimensional structure.

According to this...

I'm afraid only the main brain of the Central Academy of Sciences has the ability to complete this numbing task!

...

On the other side, in the TE1571 research ship.

"... Duo Shao?!"

Wang Jing suddenly widened her eyes, staring straight at the dazzling five-dimensional structure in the holographic interface and Chen Fan's face that fell into a trance again.

"Re-join and repair the broken information flow in the 8,000-light-year star field..." Wang Jing gritted her teeth and said, "How can Chen Fan say that?"

"Do you know how much work this is?!"

"It's probably clearer." Hongshi looked at Wang Jing with sympathy, "So Chen Fan asked to use the central brain of the Academy of Sciences to perform this calculation."

As if thinking of something, Hongshi added again: "It would be even better if Zero is willing to help."

"...Hehe."

Wang Jing's eyes twitched and she rolled her eyes unhappily.

What a nice thought.

Based on her understanding of Zero, this kind of fool-proof calculation work would never...

"Don't worry, just leave it to me."

A gentle voice sounded in the laboratory, interrupting Wang Jing's complaints.

Along with this gentle male voice, a familiar young man suddenly appeared beside Wang Jing.

"...Zero?" Wang Jing stared at the young man constructed by the holographic projection in a daze, and subconsciously raised her hand to rub her eyes, "Did I hear correctly? Are you willing to take this computing task?!"

"Of course, this is my duty."

Facing Wang Jing's questioning eyes, Zero gave an extremely calm answer.

"Don't be so annoying." Wang Jing glared at him unhappily, "Why didn't you speak when I asked you to help simulate the electrical signal model in Gaia?"

"Just tell me, did Chief Lu speak?"

Zero was silent for a moment, and the virtual image in a white research robe slowly disappeared in the research ship.

When the virtual image completely disappeared, a holographic interface automatically unfolded in front of Wang Jing.

In the holographic interface, the chaotic five-dimensional structure was splicing each other at a speed visible to the naked eye, forming a series of ripples with hidden rules.

...

The star field of the Creation Land.

Chen Fan's consciousness looked at the broken information flow surrounding him, and his mind began to replay the "puzzle explanation" provided by Zero.

As his thoughts moved, an inexplicable wave spread out from Chen Fan's consciousness body, which was flashing with faint fluorescence, and gradually swept into the surrounding broken information flow.

Suddenly.

A piece of information fragments mixed in countless broken information flows seemed to be pulled by something, and instantly broke free from the information flow and hovered accurately in front of Chen Fan.

Just like a signal, the second piece, the third piece, the fourth piece...

countless scattered information fragments lined up and spliced ​​together under Chen Fan's control.

Time passed bit by bit.

A complete information flow containing part of Kraken's consciousness finally appeared in the starry sky.

[You...]

[Finally here.]

An extremely vague and weak information wave emerged in the starry sky and came towards Chen Fan's consciousness body.

At the same time, the light red starlight gradually condensed, as if it was about to turn into the ocean of light that Chen Fan had seen before.

But...

after trying for a while, the unformed ocean of light suddenly collapsed, and the information wave that seemed to exist and not exist disappeared again, leaving only a long sigh in the starry sky.

[Sigh...]

ps: Damn, this is the most painful chapter (in the physical sense) I have ever written. Tenosynovitis is really too painful.

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