Chapter 562 Consciousness is missing?

As the anti-universe bubble returned to normal, the central singularity was once again wrapped by the airtight event horizon and fell into the darkness without light.

Although the central black hole has suffered several significant mass reductions in the past period of time, its size is still a considerable number until now. According to Wang Jing's requirements, it is undoubtedly an extremely time-consuming and energy-consuming task to check the central black hole star field inch by inch.

Even though the human fleet is huge in number and can temporarily manufacture a large number of small detectors equipped with information entropy fluctuation detection devices, in order to check this piece of starry sky, the fleet still stayed in this star field for more than three days.

Three days later.

TE1571 research ship, in the core biological laboratory.

Four capsules and four translucent cylindrical culture mediums were placed in the center of the laboratory. In front of one of the semi-open capsules was a blood-colored crystal that was several people tall and flashed a faint red light from time to time. A large number of wires and electrodes of various specifications were connected between the crystal and the semi-open capsule.

The laboratory filled with various instruments was not spacious. After accommodating these nine big gadgets, there were only a few narrow passages for single people to walk.

Wang Jing stood silently at the end of the passage, her eyes quickly swept across the holographic interface that automatically appeared on the console, and finally stopped at the first capsule.

Through the observation window on the surface of the capsule, she could clearly see a familiar face.

At the same time, in the cylindrical culture medium in front of this capsule, there was also a body with exactly the same face "floating".

"Chen Fan..."

Looking at the two bodies that maintained all vital signs under the life support system, Wang Jing murmured in a low voice: "Where did you go..."

"Beep... Beep..."

The steady prompt sound of the buzzer echoed in the laboratory, and three capsule-type cabins made a slight humming sound at the same time. Wang Jing's sight subconsciously moved towards the three capsule cabins.

Since the fleet is about to return to the main universe, and there is almost no matter in the anti-universe at this time, the antimatter body that was previously painstakingly built has become useless.

In a sense, whether it is within the fleet or returning to the main universe in the future, the clones and investigator starships made of antimatter can even be regarded as a burden - once the protective barrier disappears due to misoperation, they will instantly turn into super-powerful antimatter bombs!

Although the probability of this happening is very low, it is not zero after all.

It is for this reason that during the fleet's search for Chen Fan's consciousness, Wang Jing also began to prepare for the consciousness return experiment of the three people in Redstone.

"Capacity 2, Capacity 3, Capacity 4, the consciousness extraction has been successful, and the consciousness injection is in progress..."

The electronic synthesis voice of the shipboard main brain sounded quietly, breaking the tranquility of the core laboratory.

At the same time, the holographic control interface in front of Wang Jing began to rapidly display various chaotic data and parameters.

"...Success."

Looking at the three capsules with green indicator lights on one after another, Wang Jing's tense expression relaxed a little - lucky, there were no unexpected situations in the consciousness return experiment of the three people in Hongshi.

Unlike Chen Fan at the beginning, it was a thrilling experience.

"Shh..."

Accompanied by a slight airflow sound from the side, the hatches of the No. 2 and No. 3 cabins opened one after another, and Isa and Gao Yuan, whose consciousness returned to their original bodies, staggered out from the inside of the capsule cabin, and accidentally bumped into the edge of the open hatch of the capsule cabin, causing a slight alarm.

"Don't worry about it."

Looking at Isa and Gao Yuan standing in front of the capsule at a loss, Wang Jing waved her hand nonchalantly: "This body has been lying in the capsule for so long, and the transmission of consciousness will inevitably cause some mild disorder, so all this is normal."

"It will be completely back to normal in a few minutes."

As Wang Jing spoke, the dark red crystal in front of the semi-open No. 4 cabin gradually became brighter.

As beams of bright red light flashed across its surface, the blood-colored crystal gradually floated up from the ground.

"Redstone?"

Isa, who had just stood firm, shouted carefully.

"..."

No response.

Suddenly.

A stream of blood-colored light flashed randomly on the surface of the crystal like a marquee.

The crystal suspended in the air by the anti-gravity field also shook violently under the reflection of the "marquee".

The light reflected in the cold-toned laboratory, strangely adding a unique disco atmosphere to it.

"Wang, Academician Wang..."

Isa stared at the blood-colored crystal that was twitching and dancing in the air in amazement: "Is this also... the sequelae of consciousness transfer?"

"This..."

Wang Jing raised her hand and wiped the cold sweat from her forehead: "Should, should be..."

For a long time.

Under the gaze of everyone, the mixed stream of light gradually became stable, and the shaking crystal itself also tended to calm down.

"Huh..."

A familiar and soft synthetic female voice came quietly from the blood-colored crystal: "Finally I found the feeling..."

"After such a long time, I almost forgot how I spoke."

Compared with Isa and Gao Yuan, Hongshi was undoubtedly the most affected - her original body was a crystal life, and it had nothing to do with carbon-based creatures.

"Ahem!"

Wang Jing selectively ignored the strange looks that Isa and Gao Yuan cast at her: "Since you have recovered, then follow me back to the cockpit."

Isa hesitated again and again, and finally made up her mind. She carefully raised her head, and the mechanical prosthetic eyes under the black hood flashed a light blue light:

"Academician Wang... Is there no detection result for Chen Fan yet?"

The moment Chen Fan was mentioned, the originally relaxed atmosphere in the core laboratory suddenly became heavy, and the faint smile that had just appeared on Wang Jing's face also disappeared instantly.

"...It's a pity." Wang Jing shook her head with a heavy expression.

"The fleet is conducting a deep detection of the last star field, which happens to be the edge of the black hole's event horizon. If Chen Fan's consciousness is still there..."

She paused slightly: "It can only be in that star field."

As soon as the voice fell, the azure holographic projection automatically unfolded and constructed a familiar figure by itself.

"Zero?"

Looking at Zero's expressionless face, Wang Jing felt her heart skip a beat: "Detection..."

"It's over."

Zero responded in a deep voice: "The carpet search of the central black hole star field has been completed, and we have not detected any form of information entropy fluctuations."

"From the current point of view..."

Zero paused, and with difficulty said a conclusion that no one wanted to hear: "Chen Fan's consciousness body is very likely to have collapsed under the impact of the central singularity."

"As for the Kraken, I think it's the same situation."

"...Is it really the collapse of the consciousness body?"

Wang Jing was a little dazed: "Didn't the Kraken say that the collapse of the consciousness body was not fatal and that it could be recovered after a good sleep?"

"It's been three days, why hasn't Chen Fan shown any signs of recovery?!"

"Yeah..." Red Stone's soft voice came from the side, "It's been three days, no matter how collapsed it is, there should be some improvement, right?"

Isa nodded repeatedly, and asked tentatively: "Is it possible... that the accuracy of the Human Union's information entropy detection is not enough, so Chen Fan's consciousness body was not discovered?"

"Yes! Isa is right! This is indeed possible!" A stream of light flashed across Hongshi's body, and he quickly spoke out to express his agreement.

Ling did not speak, but just listened silently to the questions of Wang Jing and others.

When the arguments in the laboratory gradually subsided, Ling raised his eyelids and said in a faint tone: "I say, have you forgotten something?"

"Kraken is not a carbon-based life form. What do you think the sleep he mentioned is... How long do you think it should be?"

Swish!

The core laboratory fell into silence in an instant.

Not to mention Isa and Gao Yuan, even Wang Jing, who was standing beside him, was stunned after hearing Ling's words.

They seemed to have...

collectively fallen into a misunderstanding caused by the inertia of thinking.

For humans, sleeping is just a matter of a few hours.

But for Kraken...

Wang Jing silently retrieved some basic information about the Xinaluo civilization and turned to the column about the Star God.

"During the Star God's sleep, the Xinaluo royal family could not establish contact with the Star God. Such a communication vacuum period is not uncommon. Usually, the Star God sleeps for ten years to..."

Wang Jing swallowed hard: "... thousands of years, the specific time cannot be determined. According to historical records, the longest sleep time of the Star God is 9714 years."

It's over!

At this moment, Wang Jing only had this thought in her mind.

Let alone decades, the Human Union can't wait even for a year!

Not to mention hundreds or thousands of years!

This, this is not going to kill her! !

If something goes wrong because of this kind of thing, then she will become... the sinner of the Human Union?

When Isa and the other two heard the string of shocking numbers, they couldn't help but feel dizzy.

"Now, what should we do now..."

Isa's face was pale, and she cast a look of help to Zero who looked serious.

"The Academy of Sciences suggests that the fleet return to the main universe first."

Ling thought for a moment: "Like you said just now, perhaps the current detection technology of the Human Union is not advanced enough to detect more subtle information flow fluctuations. When the technology improves,..."

"Besides..."

"Since the collapse of the consciousness body will not lead to death, perhaps the Academy of Sciences can find a way to help Chen Fan's consciousness body recover quickly."

Wang Jing was silent for a moment, and nodded hesitantly: "Now it seems..."

"This may be the only remedy."

She took a deep breath, calmed down her complicated emotions, and gave an order in a deep voice:

"Target, the Human Union main universe."

"Full speed forward!"

...

The order was issued.

Accompanied by a strong space-time fluctuation soaring into the sky, the huge fleet suddenly disappeared in the visible universe.

At the same time, a colorful and gorgeous light band appeared without warning in the starry sky far away - it was a crack on the surface of the universe membrane that had not been completely sealed, and it was also the only way for the Human Union fleet to safely leave the anti-universe bubble.

Wow!

The surging space-time fluctuations gradually calmed down, and the gorgeous light band gradually shrank and dimmed, and finally disappeared again in the visible universe.

In the starry sky that had returned to silence, apart from the countless black holes of varying sizes running at high speed, there were only a few scattered starlights coming from the edge of the universe.

Near the central black hole, a figure with a cracked surface and even gradually disintegrating quietly floated in the deep starry sky.

That was Chen Fan's consciousness.

To be precise, it was the "corpse" of Chen Fan's consciousness.

After being hit by the information torrent of the central singularity, Chen Fan's consciousness directly entered an irreversible disintegration process, and his autonomous consciousness almost completely dissipated, leaving only a little subconsciousness that could faintly perceive the external situation.

A few hours ago.

As the detectors and human-union warships arranged in neat formations passed by, this subconsciousness jumped slightly -

"That is..."

"The human-union fleet?"

...

There was no light, no matter, and even the existence of the familiar three-dimensional space needed to be questioned - the reason was simple, no matter how hard Chen Fan tried, he could not feel any trace of movement.

There was no fluctuation in the information flow, and no fluctuation in time and space caused by space distortion.

This was the environment Chen Fan was in after the collapse of his consciousness.

Nothingness.

Except for himself, Chen Fan could not sense the existence of anything around him...

Oh, except for the human fleet that just passed by.

In fact, Chen Fan could not see the existence of the fleet, but could only vaguely sense that a fleet with an extremely familiar style passed by him - judging from the number, scale and style of behavior, it was undoubtedly the human fleet.

But he had to admit that it was the many fluctuations brought by the fleet that woke him up from his unconscious state.

It's just...

"You're just leaving like that?"

"Take me with you! Hey!!"

It's a pity.

The fleet did not hear Chen Fan's call, nor did they detect the existence of Chen Fan's consciousness.

They whizzed past and finally disappeared outside Chen Fan's sensing range.

For a long time.

Chen Fan stared at the gray world in front of him in a daze. Although he had been "awakened" for quite some time, he still couldn't accept his current situation -

"Fuck your uncle, what am I..."

"What?"

"I'm not that fragile, am I?"

While talking to himself, he raised his hand and looked around.

Looking at the sporadic light points that continuously escaped from his body, Chen Fan suddenly had a very reliable guess in his mind: "Is this... the consciousness body collapse that Kraken mentioned?"

But in the next second, he realized the problem.

"Wait..."

"Didn't Kraken say that after the consciousness body collapses, all you have to do is sleep and it will be over?"

"I was thinking... I don't look like I'm sleeping now?!!"

"Woke up?"

"But... Kraken didn't say what to do if he gets woken up!!!"

Puzzled, Chen Fan simply gave up thinking.

He decided to change the direction of his efforts - he opened his hands, trying to catch the scattered light spots that escaped from his body.

According to his usual experience, if this thing leaked out, he would probably be close to complete death.

"Why the hell are you running..."

"Come back!"

Chen Fan shouted, grabbing those light spots fiercely.

Then...

the light spots escaped more happily.

Obviously, such "violent" exercise was not something he could bear at this time.

Looking at his body that was gradually evolving into a sieve, Chen Fan could only silently hug his knees and squat down. He's

honest.

He's completely honest now.

(End of this chapter)