Chapter 536 Expansion Rate: 0

"...Failure?"

Listening to Wang Jing's sighing murmur in the communication channel, Chen Fan and the others fell silent.

As powerful as the Human Union...

will it fail?

The answer is of course yes. Let

's not talk about this time. In the history of the Human Union, the Human Union has suffered no less than one major failure.

It's just that the Human Union has stood up again from failure every time and stood to the end.

That's all.

So...

is there any way out for the peacekeeping fleet now?

Chen Fan stared at the starry sky outside the porthole, and the fear and horror in his eyes gradually faded.

He racked his brains to think, trying to find the last bit of life-

the black light released by the naked singularity has caused time and space, dimensions, information flow and basic rules to fall into a state of disorder.

The Genesis Fortress may be able to sort out the basic rules of a part of the star field.

The disordered information flow can be left to him to solve.

In terms of time and space...

if the remaining peacekeeping fleets work together at key time and space nodes to create corresponding time and space fluctuations and trigger high-intensity time and space resonance, theoretically, hedging operations can also be completed.

But...

what about dimensions?

Who will correct the disordered dimensions in the starry sky?

More importantly, who will stabilize the cosmic membrane that has begun to collapse on a large scale?

The crisis caused by the naked singularity itself, coupled with the impact of the collapse of the cosmic bubble, the two are nested in each other, and have formed a complete deadlock!

To untie this deadlock, it is obviously far from enough to rely on internal strength alone.

Then...

the ghost fleet?

The image of the broken fleet suddenly disintegrating in the starry sky flashed through his mind, and Chen Fan's mood fell to the bottom again-the ghost fleet itself may have a big problem, how could it continue to help?

"Current starship speed: 0.5c."

Yi's voice was as calm as ever, which eased the atmosphere in the cockpit a little.

As the announcement sounded, the starry sky outside the porthole gradually became blurred, and the starlight from afar also showed an increasingly obvious blue tendency - the continuous operation of the dark matter working fluid propulsion engine made the speed of the investigator starship closer and closer to the speed of light, and the blue shift phenomenon became more and more obvious.

Chen Fan raised his head in silence and glanced at the holographic interface in front of him. Although the output power of the dark matter working fluid propulsion engine did not decrease at all, the acceleration of the starship began to gradually decrease, as if it encountered some strong resistance.

This is the shackles of conventional navigation.

When the speed of the starship exceeds 0.5c, its energy consumption for acceleration will become more and more exaggerated.

The announcement of Yi quietly dissipated, and the investigator starship returned to silence. Chen Fan could even clearly hear the sound of his heart beating in his chest.

Boom, boom, boom...

Every time the heartbeat fell, the gap that ran through the entire starry sky would expand a little.

This feeling of trying to escape but only waiting for death is really not very pleasant.

The beating of the heart echoed in his ears, and Chen Fan's sight was completely focused on the porthole in front of him.

One second, two seconds, three seconds.

Time seemed to slow down at this moment. Even the crack that ran through the entire starry sky had a slightly slower expansion speed...

No, that's not right!

It's not that time slowed down!

It's that...

the expansion speed of the crack really changed! !

After a short moment of daze, Chen Fan suddenly came back to his senses. He opened his eyes wide and stared intently at the huge crack in the starry sky caused by the collapse of the cosmic membrane: "First, calculate the expansion speed of the cosmic membrane crack and compare it with the expansion speed ten minutes ago!"

After a short wait, a data comparison chart popped up in the holographic interface.

"The expansion speed is the same as ten minutes ago..."

Chen Fan quickly glanced at the data chart: "This is definitely not normal!!"

"Academician Wang, can you take a look at what's going on?"

Hearing her name, Wang Jing, who had been slumped in the chair and looked like she had lost all hope in life, raised her head a little slowly: "Is there something wrong with your calculation process?"

"Impossible!"

"This machine guarantees it with its machine structure." The electronic synthesis voice of Yi sounded again, "As long as there is no problem with the observation equipment of this starship, the calculation results of this machine will definitely not be wrong."

On the other side.

Wang Jing, who had just raised her head, glanced absent-mindedly at the data comparison chart uploaded by Chen Fan.

"...Huh?"

She exclaimed lightly, and then changed her previous confused look, sat up straight, and operated the control panel in front of her with a serious expression: "How could this happen?"

She tried to explain the reason for this abnormal phenomenon: "Maybe the vibration just now destroyed the observation equipment of the starship, so it will..."

But before she finished speaking, her voice stopped abruptly-in front of her, an identical data comparison chart was presented.

"How... how is this possible?!"

Wang Jing looked at the data in front of her in disbelief: "Once the cosmic bubble begins to collapse, its collapse speed will only continue to accelerate."

"According to the mathematical model of cosmic membrane collapse mastered by the Academy of Sciences, the current collapse rate is at least twice that of ten minutes ago!"

"Could it be that... the Academy of Sciences' understanding of cosmic membranes is also wrong?"

The moment she said this, Wang Jing became dazed.

It would be fine if the hyperspace membrane was wrong, but if even the cosmic bubble was wrong, the physics building that the Academy of Sciences had worked so hard to build would collapse completely.

The next second, the expansion rate of the crack dropped by one percentage point again.

It was this percentage point that completely shattered Wang Jing's last persistence - the expansion rate of the crack at this time was lower than the expansion rate of the crack ten minutes ago.

"I don't know what mathematical model of cosmic membrane collapse is."

Unlike Wang Jing, Chen Fan's eyes flashed with a hint of hidden joy: "In short, the collapse process of the cosmic membrane is slowing down, isn't this correct?"

"..."

Wang Jing stared blankly at the data in front of her. After seeing that the data dropped by a few percentage points again, she nodded in a daze: "From, from the observation data... you are indeed right."

[Current starship speed: 0.55c. ]

A reminder message popped up in the holographic interface, but at this moment, neither Chen Fan nor Wang Jing had the heart to pay attention to this insignificant data.

Under the gaze of the two, the numbers in the holographic interface jumped again.

[Current expansion rate: 0.]

"The cosmic bubble... has stopped collapsing?"

Wang Jing couldn't believe her eyes. She even cursed: "Mastermind! Are you kidding me?!"

Suddenly.

"Beep!"

A crisp prompt sounded in the communication link, and the synthesized voice of the mainmind on the research ship came: "Hyperspace membrane communication signal detected."

"Signal strength: very low."

"Do you want to connect?"

Wang Jing, who was still immersed in shock, nodded subconsciously.

Swish!

An image filled with dense noise instantly appeared in front of Wang Jing: "Swish... Z810... Fleet."

"Academician Wang Jing... We... have successfully arrived..."

Perhaps because of the influence of the naked singularity, the entire communication process was intermittent, but this did not prevent Chen Fan and Wang Jing from hearing several key messages clearly.

Z810 Fleet!

This is...

the support fleet of the Human Alliance! !

Chen Fan shuddered suddenly, and he hurriedly stood up from the main driving seat and staggered to the porthole.

An extremely gorgeous light band stretched across the dim starry sky, and the black light inside the light band surged, still continuing to spread to the surroundings.

At the edge of the black light, less than 5,000 Human Alliance warships were struggling to escape the "pursuit" of the black light by relying on the working fluid engine - the naked singularity and the polluted information flow generated by the collapse of the cosmic membrane directly took away 90% of the main battleships of the Z619 fleet.

But Chen Fan's attention was not on these things.

His eyes passed over the black light, passed through the fleet, and finally stopped at the edge of the jagged light band.

"Tsk... We have detected a rupture in the cosmic membrane... We are repairing it..."

In the communication link, the vague report continued.

The moment the voice fell, Chen Fan suddenly widened his eyes - five extremely large gray shadows suddenly appeared at the edge of the crack! !

With the five-dimensional perspective, he could clearly see the true structure of the huge gray shadow.

The silver-white surface shone with a faint luster, and the overall structure was a double cone. The bases of the two four-sided pyramids in front and behind corresponded to each other and slowly rotated in the bizarre membrane space.

With just one glance, Chen Fan recognized the true identity of these gray shadows based on the extremely obvious characteristics.

Genesis Fortress!!

Five Genesis Fortresses!!

Moreover...

after comparing it with the scene of the Genesis Fortress landing in his memory, Chen Fan quickly realized a more critical point - the scale of these five Genesis Fortresses is much larger than the Genesis Fortress of the Z619 fleet!

Conservatively estimated...

the difference is at least ten times! !

Under Chen Fan's gaze, these five Genesis Fortresses were spaced a certain distance apart from each other and arranged in order on both sides of the crack in the cosmic membrane.

They were like nails, firmly nailing the cosmic membrane crack that was constantly expanding in all directions!

"Academician Wang!"

"Five! There are five Genesis Fortresses outside!"

Chen Fan turned around and shouted excitedly into the communication channel: "They prevented the collapse of the cosmic membrane!"

"...Huh."

The moment she learned that the physics building was barely saved, Wang Jing exhaled a long breath.

She pulled the corners of her mouth with difficulty, revealing a smile that was uglier than crying: "It seems that our luck..."

"It's really good."

...

The collapse of the cosmic membrane stopped, and the sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of the Z619 fleet and Chen Fan and his people also temporarily fell to the ground.

The research ship and the investigator starship slowly turned around and headed back to the Genesis Fortress - in order to solve the interference of the residual information flow, Chen Fan had to drill the external energy interface of the Genesis Fortress again.

Fortunately, there was no influence from the Apophis giant scorpion this time, and with the help of the first generation of information barriers generated by the Genesis Fortress, Chen Fan did not spend too much energy on it.

On the other side, without the interference of polluted information flow, relying on the working fluid propulsion engine, the remaining 5,000 main battleships of the Z619 fleet finally broke free from the pursuit of the black man and successfully arrived next to the Genesis Fortress.

According to Chen Fan's proposal, these 5,000 warships were quickly dispersed to the surrounding space-time nodes under the command of Fang Yunsheng. Then, under the precise control of the ship-borne main brain, they launched a super-high-intensity space-time shock at full power.

The shock wave spread out, and under the influence of the space-time nodes, a resonance effect quickly occurred.

A space-time tsunami actively triggered by the Human Union followed.

The tsunami briefly overwhelmed the influence of the naked singularity with its overwhelming momentum, temporarily smoothing out the abnormal space-time fluctuations around it - the principle of the whole process, to put it bluntly, is actually an oversized [space-time well].

However, this [space-time well] is used to provide a relatively stable curvature space for the main battleships and the Genesis Fortress.

Combined with the movement of the main battleships of the Human Union, this disguised [space-time well] can also move continuously.

In this way, a shallow curvature channel was completed.

Of course.

The reason why this plan was successful was mainly due to the long distance between the fleet and the naked singularity, which had limited influence. In addition, the collapse of the cosmic membrane was contained by the supporting fleet, and the violent space-time fluctuations caused by the collapse of the universe were also calmed.

But even so, this ultra-high-power [space-time trap], which was theoretically enough to cover a star field of one thousand light years in radius, ultimately only affected a range of 1.1 light years.

The range was not large, but it just wrapped up the Genesis Fortress.

In a strong space-time fluctuation, the Genesis Fortress and the dilapidated warships around it disappeared in the starry sky.

...

Five million light years away from the original central black hole.

The space-time tsunami roared in, stirring up ripples in the space-time ocean that had just recovered its tranquility from the collapse of the cosmic bubble.

"It's safe for the time being..."

Looking at the many data in the holographic interface where the fluctuations were gradually converging, Wang Jing finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The range of influence of the naked singularity is too huge. Even if the fleet is five million light years away, it can still detect some abnormal data in the surrounding space. Slight space-time and dimensional anomalies still exist, but their intensity is low and basically cannot affect the warships of the human alliance.

"Beep!"

The prompt sounded quietly, and the hyperspace membrane communication that was interrupted before due to signal problems popped up again.

Wang Jing's heart moved, and he quickly answered the communication request.

"Academician Wang Jing."

Completely different from the previous noisy images, this time the holographic communication interface was exceptionally clear - in simple terms, it was directly transformed from mosaic quality to 8K ultra-clear codeless quality.

"It's me." Wang Jing nodded with a smile, "Captain Han, thank you for your help."

"Thanks to the Z810 fleet, we are temporarily out of danger."

"Not only the Z810 fleet, but also the Z629 and Z771 fleets. Currently, all three fleets have arrived at the target universe."

The officer called Captain Han did not smile at all. He corrected Wang Jing's words in a serious manner and asked her: "In addition, Academician Wang Jing, how is the situation of investigator Chen Fan?"

Wang Jing: "......?"

Hey hey hey?

What does this mean? !

What do you mean by how is the situation of investigator Chen Fan?

It turns out that this fleet is not here to rescue her?

When did the investigator become more important than the first-level academician?

This is simply, simply the opposite of the heavenly power!

... Well, she admitted that to some extent, Chen Fan's importance was indeed a little greater.

Wang Jing coughed lightly, and with a strange look on his face, he pulled over a holographic communication interface that had not been cut off from his side: "Here, did you see it?"

"In good condition, eating delicious food, and in good health."

Looking at the strange officer who suddenly appeared in front of him with a stern face, Chen Fan, whose face was still a little pale, slowly typed a question mark.

"......?"

After dealing with the two information flow shocks of the Apophis giant scorpion and the collapse of the cosmic membrane, he almost "died of exhaustion".

You call this a good health?

And...

what's the matter with this unique accent?

On the other side.

The moment he saw Chen Fan, the officer in the Human Alliance uniform in the communication interface first looked up and down at Chen Fan's body. After confirming that there was no missing limbs, he visibly breathed a sigh of relief, and a slightly embarrassed smile appeared on his face.

"Academician Wang, this is a death order from the Academy of Sciences."

"Protect the safety of investigator Chen Fan at all costs."

"You... forgive me."

Hearing that the other party had moved out of the Academy of Sciences, Wang Jing could only nod helplessly.

——The only person who could make the fleet ignore the identity of a Class I academician is probably Chief Lu, who is qualified to issue such an order.

(End of this chapter)