Chapter 500 Pollution from outside the cosmic bubble?

Outside the small universe.

The double-pyramid Genesis Fortress is traveling in a five-dimensional posture around this small universe with a scale of 10,000 light years.

Due to the spatial peculiarity of the cosmic bubble itself, the entire cutting work actually takes place in the five-dimensional space.

A silver-white starship as small as dust is also in a five-dimensional state, silently following the Genesis Fortress.

It is the TE1571 research ship.

Considering the particularity of this cutting of the universe, Wang Jing drove the research ship away from the place of creation early and turned to provide technical support for the Genesis Fortress.

Inside the research ship.

Wang Jing stood in front of the porthole, quietly watching the picture outside the porthole.

After ascending to the fifth dimension, the whole world has undergone earth-shaking changes, and some things that are usually invisible will also be completely revealed in the five-dimensional space-

such as the cosmic bubble and the cosmic membrane.

Outside the porthole, the huge cosmic bubble is suspended in the inner space of the hyperspace membrane. The many lights coming from outside the hyperspace membrane are clearly reflected on the surface of the cosmic membrane, making it look like a crystal dewdrop.

There are two gaps of different sizes on the surface of the dewdrop. The former is the trace left by the peacekeeping fleet's forced landing, and the latter is a circle of thin scars left by the cutting of the microcosm.

That scar is the cliff of time and space.

Wang Jing couldn't help but think of a statement that was once popular at the Academy of Sciences forum-the so-called universe cutting, to put it bluntly, is actually a tailoring work based on the macroscopic scale.

She originally scoffed at such a statement.

After all, microcosm cutting is a technology that can only be achieved when space technology has developed to the extreme. How can it be compared with simple tailoring?

Whether it is the many calculations in the process of universe cutting, or the transplantation and specialization of universe membranes after the cutting is completed, they are all real high-end technologies!

But now, looking at the Genesis Fortress shuttling back and forth in the space-time cliff, continuously bringing out "filaments", Wang Jing suddenly felt that this statement had some merit - perhaps because the cosmic membrane of this cosmic bubble is relatively tough, after being extracted from the main universe, it can still retain its original form, thus forming those "filaments" following the Genesis Fortress, which also makes the so-called tailoring work have a concrete display.

Time passed by bit by bit.

The filaments behind the Genesis Fortress increased and decreased, decreased and increased, and a layer of inexplicable film gradually appeared on the surface of the small cosmic bubble located in the center of the space-time cliff.

This is the cosmic membrane that has been rewoven by the Genesis Fortress and mixed with a specialized structure.

"It seems that everything is going well?"

Just as Wang Jing was immersed in the meticulous work of the cosmic tailor in front of him, Song Ziliang's voice suddenly came from the communication interface that had not been interrupted, breaking the quiet atmosphere in the scientific research ship.

"Yeah."

Wang Jing came back to his senses, glanced calmly at Song Ziliang, who looked tired in the holographic interface, and turned back to his seat: "I'm lucky this time. I thought something would go wrong when cutting the cosmic bubble."

"After all, this is the first time I've encountered nebula life, and no one knows how Its consciousness is generated."

"But you." Wang Jing picked up the water cup beside him and drank a sip of water calmly, "Why don't you continue to study the theory of material informatization with old man Lin, and come to pay attention to the cutting of cosmic bubbles?"

Hearing Wang Jing's words, Song Ziliang smiled bitterly and waved his hands repeatedly.

"Academician Wang, I'm just an academician who has just been promoted to a full member, and... you also know that I'm not cut out for scientific research."

"Let alone the material information theory, even the wormhole information theory proposed by Teacher Lin at the time is not something I can easily understand, otherwise I wouldn't have come to the Dangerous Technology Administration."

Wang Jing pursed her lips and smiled silently: "Why? After staying in the Academy of Sciences for a while, you want to go back to the Administration?"

"I guess so." Song Ziliang smiled awkwardly and scratched his head, "After all, Chen Fan is an investigator under my jurisdiction, and Teacher Lin and Chief Lu also want me to go back to the Administration to work."

The smile in Wang Jing's eyes became more and more intense.

What you said... Isn't it just that I was disliked during the scientific research process?

No wonder I just said that I'm not cut out for scientific research, it turns out that I was hit.

That's normal.

The material information theory is too advanced. At the same time, with the participation of Chief Lu and a group of top academicians, the research speed has been directly raised to a level that ordinary people cannot understand. Not to mention Song Ziliang, an academician who has just been promoted to a full member, even some relatively weaker Level II academicians find it difficult to keep up with the thinking of this group of top academicians.

What is this called?

A genius picked out of millions or even tens of millions is just the threshold to enter the Human Union Academy of Sciences.

"By the way, according to Chief Lu, I only need to be responsible for the docking work of Chen Fan in the future." Perhaps seeing the teasing in Wang Jing's eyes, Song Ziliang changed the subject with an awkward expression.

Wang Jing raised her eyebrows slightly.

This did not exceed her expectations. With the many abilities that Chen Fan has shown so far, let alone transferring an academician to dock, even mobilizing the entire Academy of Sciences to dock would not be excessive.

"Speaking of which."

Wang Jing seemed to have thought of something, and turned to look at the holographic control interface on the side: "The work of cutting the small universe is coming to an end, why is there no movement from Chen Fan?"

"Master brain, try to search for the hyperspace membrane communication signal of [Varilla]."

As soon as the voice fell, the picture in the holographic interface changed rapidly.

Then, the electronic synthesized voice of the shipboard mainframe sounded quietly: "No hyperspace membrane communication signal from the Varela has been detected yet."

Hearing this, Wang Jing frowned immediately: "What's going on?"

"Could it be that Chen Fan forgot to switch the communication method?" Song Ziliang said weakly.

"Impossible!"

Wang Jing rejected Song Ziliang's guess without hesitation.

During the cutting of the small universe, it is very normal for the starship to lose contact for a short time. After all, tachyon broadcasts cannot pass through the closed space-time cliff, nor can they pass through the reconstructed cosmic membrane. Switching the communication signal will naturally cause a certain delay.

As for why the communication link is not switched in advance to avoid this situation in advance...

the reason behind it is actually not difficult to understand.

Hyperspace membrane communication is based on the cosmic membrane and the hyperspace membrane. Although its impact on both is basically negligible, for the sake of safety, before cutting the small universe, Wang Jing specifically told Hongshi to wait until the new membrane becomes stable before turning on the hyperspace membrane communication to avoid affecting the cutting and subsequent film-sticking process.

"Hongshi is a veteran investigator, she is unlikely to make such a low-level mistake."

"Besides... even if Chen Fan and Hongshi both made this mistake, the shipboard main brain will automatically switch the communication method at the scheduled time." As he said, Wang Jing glanced at the time, "It's now three minutes overtime!"

"This..." Song Ziliang's face changed slightly, and his expression became solemn, "What happened?"

"It must have happened!"

Wang Jing affirmed Song Ziliang's words with absolute certainty.

She quickly glanced at the Genesis Fortress, which was still shuttling through the space-time cliff, and said with an ugly expression: "Damn it! The microcosm cutting work has not been officially completed, and the research ship can't enter the microcosm at all now!"

Without any hesitation, Wang Jing made a decision directly:

"Mastermind, continue to search for the hyperspace membrane communication signal, and at the same time send a full-band call to the [Varilla]!"

"Notify the Genesis Fortress to speed up the microcosm cutting!"

...

At the same time, in the place of creation.

The micro information storm continued to stir in the sea of ​​light, and the invisible ripples spread wantonly in it, making the already fluctuating sea of ​​light even more turbulent.

In the central eye of the storm, Chen Fan was controlling this increasingly fierce information storm with an extremely solemn expression.

Unlike conventional information storms, the information contained in this information storm was wrapped with polluted information from the broadcast civilization. As the intensity of the information storm gradually increased, even Chen Fan couldn't help feeling frightened.

If this thing is used openly, it can at least destroy a weaker eighth-level civilization!

"I don't know where all this polluted information comes from..."

Chen Fan muttered in a low voice, trying his best to control the direction of the storm and compress it around the consciousness body - the entire Creation Land is the body of the Kraken, and directly releasing these polluted information is tantamount to stuffing the "virus" back into the Kraken's consciousness body.

Looking at the sphere next to him, which is filled with countless ripples inside and looks like a ball of fog, Chen Fan felt his scalp tingling.

God knows how to deal with this tricky thing! !

Of course, it's not all bad news.

As the information storm is completely formed, the speed of extracting information pollution is obviously much faster, and the state of the Kraken has begun to improve at a speed visible to the naked eye - the originally chaotic consciousness fluctuations now have some superficial rules.

[Your Excellency the Envoy...]

Just as Chen Fan was trying to extract the pollution information, a vague wave came from the surrounding sea of ​​light: [Thank you again... for your help...]

Listening to the severely lagging, intermittent voice as if caused by a network failure, Chen Fan's eyes suddenly lit up: "Kraken, you recovered?!"

[Reluctantly, reluctantly...]

"Where did this pollution information come from?"

After hearing Kraken's second response, Chen Fan couldn't even wait for the other party to finish his words, and directly asked: "Did you hear some inexplicable broadcast just now?!"

[Broadcast? No, there was no broadcast.]

Kraken stumbled and answered: [Pollution comes from all around.]

"What?"

Chen Fan frowned fiercely.

No broadcast?

How is that possible? !

He would never admit his mistake. These polluted information are exactly the same as the polluted information mixed in the high-dimensional broadcast. They must come from the broadcasting civilization!

Could it be that...

in order to attack Kraken, the broadcasting civilization used a more direct information weapon?

Thinking of this, Chen Fan's heart tightened: "What do you mean by coming from all around? This information pollution must have an accurate source, right?"

Perhaps because the information storm constantly extracted polluted information, Kraken's consciousness fluctuations were much clearer than at the beginning, and the severely stuck words also improved a little: [I can't find the source of this information flow...]

[I only know that this polluted information appeared at the same time in all the marginal areas of the Creation Land.]

[They attacked from all directions and directly invaded my consciousness. 】

"By the way, can't you control these polluted information?" Chen Fan remembered something belatedly, "Just like me, extract the polluted information from the consciousness body..."

[I can't do it...]

Kraken's voice was full of helplessness: [I can't control other information flows as you do. ]

[I can only... control my own information flow. ]

Chen Fan was stunned, and his expression was also a little surprised.

There is such a thing!

Originally thought that controlling information flow is the ability of information-state life, now it seems... this guess is actually wrong!

Now is not the time to delve into the details. Chen Fan temporarily suppressed the many questions in his mind and turned his attention back to Kraken's previous description of polluted information.

"Pollution appears at the edge of the creation land at the same time..."

Chen Fan murmured in a low voice, turned his head and looked at the end of the red nebula: "Then the polluted information has not disappeared?"

Under the influence of gravity, the red nebula slowly surged, and the starry sky was extremely quiet, without any signs of pollution information erosion.

[No. 】

Kraken did not hesitate: [It has even become more concentrated. If it weren't for your help, I'm afraid I would have...]

"How are you now?" Chen Fan took a deep breath and asked Kraken, "I have to go to the edge of the Creation Land. You here..."

[...]

For Kraken, the edge of the Creation Land is extremely dangerous now, so he instinctively wants to stay away from that dangerous area.

But... the pollution is still spreading. Without Chen Fan, he will still be on the road to chronic death.

Instead of staying inside the Creation Land and dying, it is better to fight with Chen Fan!

As long as the information state pollution is solved, he can survive!

Thinking of this, Kraken gritted his teeth and made a decision: [I'll go with you!]

...

The edge of the Creation Land.

Here, the gravity from each star has become extremely weak, and the light red nebula has also become extremely thin.

Wow...

The weak information fluctuations flashed in the starry sky, and the light red starlight gathered in the dim starry sky, forming a slowly undulating sea of ​​light. A figure shrouded in starlight stood in the sea of ​​light.

As soon as he arrived at the edge of the Creation Land, Chen Fan couldn't help but frown.

There was no other reason.

In his eyes, the dim starry sky was filled with faint ripples, and each ripple revealed familiar and disgusting information fluctuations.

Just as Kraken said, the entire edge of the Creation Land was filled with polluted information!

With the most intuitive observation ability, Chen Fan only took a glance and noticed the problem - slightly different from Kraken's description, these polluted information did not only appear in the Creation Land, they also appeared in the small circle of star fields outside the Creation Land! Not

only that, in Chen Fan's view, the polluted information outside the Creation Land was even more concentrated!

"Could it be..."

He moved in his heart, while continuing to maintain the information storm that extracted information pollution from Kraken's body, he took Kraken to the star field outside the Creation Land - in order to prevent the small universe cutting work from hurting Kraken, there was a full thousand light-years of redundant star fields around the Creation Land.

One thousand light years.

For Kraken and Chen Fan, who have mastered the ability to modify their own coordinates, this long distance can be crossed in the blink of an eye.

Soon, Chen Fan and Kraken crossed a thousand light-year redundant star field and came to the edge of the small universe.

The edge of the universe is like a towering air wall for three-dimensional or four-dimensional creatures.

Without ascending to the fifth dimension, no matter how hard you try, you can't move forward half a step.

But if you observe with the naked eye, there is still endless starry sky behind the air wall-after the cosmic membrane is gradually improved, the edge area of ​​the small universe is no longer a deep black, but a barrier like a mirror.

Countless starry skies are reflected in the mirror formed by the cosmic membrane, and the mutual reflection forms an illusory starry sky with no end in sight.

"I'm not mistaken..."

Chen Fan looked at the endless starry sky in front of him and whispered, "This information pollution... comes from outside the universe bubble."

"This is a big trouble..."

Next to Chen Fan, a light ball that had shrunk to only a few hundred kilometers slowly rose and fell, and sent out a somewhat vague message: [Outside the universe bubble...]

[Isn't that the location of the Genesis Fortress?]

"Yes, that's why I said it's a big trouble."

Chen Fan sighed heavily, and the worry in his eyes became more intense: "I suspect that the broadcasting civilization has already taken action against the human fleet. These polluted information are just the aftermath of the escape into the small universe."

Today's human fleet has mastered the basic information manipulation technology, but... can they block this kind of elusive polluted information attack?

Chen Fan didn't dare to think about it.

[This, this, this...]

Kraken was frightened by Chen Fan's words, and the miniature red light ball fluctuated violently a few times: [What should I do? ]

"..."

Chen Fan fell into silence again.

Yes, what should I do?

The investigator starship is in a downtime state. They can't contact the outside world at all, and they can't determine the situation outside.

At this point, it seems that there is only one way left.

"Kraken, do you think I can pass through this cosmic membrane to the big universe bubble?" Chen Fan gritted his teeth and asked in a deep voice.

He is ready to go into battle himself, cross the cosmic membrane, and go to the big universe bubble to check the situation!

[No, no, no! 】

Hearing Chen Fan's question, the red light ball suddenly became more violent. Kraken hurriedly stopped his thoughts: [Emissary, this is too dangerous! 】

【Even if you don't consider the broadcast civilization you just mentioned, crossing the cosmic membrane itself is a very dangerous thing! 】

【Unlike the inside of the cosmic bubble, the environment outside the cosmic bubble is very harsh. 】

【I don't know if this is dangerous for you, but for the consciousness, it is an extremely harsh environment! 】

Perhaps afraid that Chen Fan would not believe it, Kraken added repeatedly: [Tens of millions of years ago, in order to find other life, I once tried to break free from the cosmic membrane. 】

【For this, I did not hesitate to consume the energy stored for millions of years, and finally successfully crossed this intangible membrane. 】

【But what greeted me was not a paradise, but a desert that was extremely dry! A desert with no human habitation and no end in sight! 】

【Just standing on the edge of this desert, my consciousness began to disintegrate uncontrollably...】

【Although I quickly escaped back to the cosmic bubble, the crisis still caused me considerable losses. 】

【For this reason, I had to fall into a deep sleep that lasted millions of years. 】

(End of this chapter)