"drop!"

"drop!!"

In the silent laboratory, apart from the breathing of the academicians, there was only the buzzing sound coming from the loudspeaker.

Within the holographic projection, the bright white text remained unchanged.

Zero is still trying to re-establish communication with several black hole detectors using electromagnetic waves.

but……

As time passed, the hope in everyone's hearts gradually faded away.

"call……"

After a deep sigh, Lü Yongchang moved his lips and said in a low voice, "It seems these black hole detectors have already been..."

"The first black hole detector has successfully switched to a radio communication module."

Zero's electronic synthesized voice interrupted Lü Yongchang's unfinished words.

Lu Yongchang was stunned for a moment, and before he could react, the synthesized electronic voice came again.

"The second and third black hole detectors have both successfully switched radio modules."

At the same time, on the azure blue holographic projection, the previously dim logos once again became bright.

"Professor! It's a success!" He Bilin's excited voice, mixed with Zero's synthesized voice, came from the side. "The detector wasn't destroyed!"

"The theory of [event format] is correct!"

Lu Yongchang stared blankly at the data slowly jumping byte by byte in the holographic projection, and a complex emotion welled up from the bottom of his heart.

On the one hand, he felt a little fortunate.

The fact that the black hole probe was not destroyed indicates that the human fleet did not encounter the so-called advanced civilization living around the black hole.

This alone is already incredibly fortunate for human civilization!

But on the other hand...

"Yes, the [event form] theory is correct."

He nodded almost imperceptibly, then sighed with relief, "In quantum long-distance communication devices, entangled quantum pairs may be lost probabilistically under the influence of a strong gravitational field."

As he spoke, a faint trace of sorrow appeared deep in his eyes.

"It seems that we still need to develop a new communication technology."

"Otherwise, once warp drive begins, every starship could become a blind man groping his way through the vast universe."

Upon hearing this, the excitement on He Bilin's face gradually faded.

After a moment of silence, he suddenly said in a low voice, "Professor, do you remember those abnormal data from last time?"

"What?" Lü Yongchang's eyes flickered slightly, and he asked softly, "Have you discovered something wrong?"

He Bilin hesitated for a moment: "I do have a guess, but I can't be sure."

"Three sets of data samples are far too few; only more data can verify this hypothesis."

Lu Yongchang nodded towards the progress bar that was slowly advancing in the holographic projection.

"Look, the second set of data has started transmitting."

"Let's wait a little longer."

...

As expected.

The second gravitational field control experiment was also a great success.

With a significant increase in the strength of the artificial gravitational field, the curvature of spacetime also increases rapidly.

While not comparable to the extreme spacetime curvature of a black hole, the Gravitational spacecraft still managed to create a spacetime curvature comparable to that of a medium-sized star in a short period of time.

Thanks to this, under Lü Yongchang's orders, research on the warp drive officially began.

...

Human Alliance Fleet, Warp Drive Laboratory.

Like the Gravitational, in order to minimize the influence of surrounding celestial bodies and ensure the safety of the fleet, the warp drive laboratory was also located in a large starship.

This mobile laboratory, converted from the [Taotie] supply depot, has been given a name with profound meaning.

【Kunpeng】

"The roc rises with the wind in a single day, soaring straight up ninety thousand miles."

As the modified Kunpeng warp engine mobile laboratory, carrying several engineering ships and several Taotie supply ships, slowly sailed away from the Human Alliance Starship Factory, Lü Yongchang murmured to himself with a deep look in his eyes, "I hope that one day it can lead human civilization into a new era."

"It definitely can."

Fang Xu's voice came from the side: "Professor, the artificial gravity laboratory has encountered difficulties."

"The difficulty of generating a gravitational field of consistent strength within the starship's range is beyond our imagination."

"Current gravitational field generating devices cannot achieve such precise control."

"Furthermore, we don't have a good solution to block the propagation of the gravitational field, which means..."

"This means that the gravitational field will dissipate beyond the starship and affect surrounding starships." Lü Yongchang's tone became serious. "If we master gravity shield technology in the future, it will also significantly affect the strength of the gravity shield."

As he spoke, he chuckled self-deprecatingly: "Of course, with the current gravity field generation device, creating a gravity shield is not a simple matter."

Fang Xu remained silent for a moment before speaking again, "Professor, do you have any good suggestions?"

"I?"

“I don’t know either.” Lü Yongchang shook his head decisively, but then nodded hesitantly. “But my intuition tells me…”

"perhaps……"

Lu Yongchang turned his head to look at the almost completely disappeared black hole accretion disk outside the porthole and said softly, "The answer lies in those abnormal data."

A hint of doubt appeared in Fang Xu's eyes: "Professor, do you have the answer?"

"I have a clue."

Lu Yongchang nodded noncommittally: "It's not just me, He Bilin should have thought of that too."

"However, the data sample is too small to make an accurate judgment."

"We'll have to wait until the second set of data transmissions is complete to see the outcome."

Upon hearing this, Fang Xu nodded as if he understood but not quite.