Chapter 382 Mirror Image
"Ah?!"
Looking at the real-time broadcast from Redstone in front of him, Song Ziliang's eyes widened and he couldn't help but questioned: "Are you sure this is... opening the hatch?"
No.
Who would use an antimatter bomb to open a door? !
In the holographic image in front of Song Ziliang, a mushroom cloud rose slowly, and the violent shock wave spread out in all directions.
When passing the shuttle-shaped research ship in the distance, the powerful shock wave could not shake it at all.
With its huge and heavy body, the research ship easily blocked the oncoming shock wave and perfectly protected the few small figures standing behind the research ship.
"...I think so."
Redstone's voice also revealed some uncertainty and confusion.
Under Song Ziliang's urging, Redstone quickly drove the starship through the small mushroom cloud formed by dust, and landed steadily on the open space behind the research ship-a huge deep pit had appeared in the open space in front, which was obviously not a good landing point.
As soon as the crystal starship came to a stop, Chen Fan and Wang Jing hurriedly ran to the front of the starship, and Chen Fan was gesturing with his hands.
Hongshi thought and quickly adjusted the radio function of the starship.
"... Hongshi!"
Chen Fan's extremely anxious voice sounded in the cockpit: "You came just in time!"
"Quick! Help me contact the Administration, Song Ziliang, Moore... It doesn't matter who it is, just help me initiate a cross-universe communication first!"
Hongshi coughed lightly: "In fact, it was the Administration that asked me to come to you."
While speaking, she took the initiative to open the hatch of the crystal starship: "Come in and talk."
"Academician Song Ziliang and Director Moore are waiting for you."
...
More than ten minutes later.
Under the scrutiny of Song Ziliang and Moore, Wang Jing calmly explained to the two the previous loss of contact.
"Huh..."
After listening to Wang Jing's words, Moore raised his hand to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead, and gave an order while heaving a sigh of relief: "Zero, help me notify those garrison fleets that the combat mission is temporarily canceled and let them return immediately."
"As for the garrison fleets of the Stargate Universe... continue to surround the node universe to prevent any accidents from happening later."
Chen Fan huddled aside, listening to the orders coming from the inter-universe communication channel with fear.
It was so close...
Almost, just a little bit, the EL13697101 node universe would be completely destroyed in this world.
"So, the observation data of the information interference source has been collected?"
Unlike Moore, Song Ziliang's focus is on information interference technology: "Also, can we confirm that the principle of the ghost fleet is information interference?"
Wang Jing nodded seriously: "Basically, it can be confirmed."
"But it is slightly different from the phantom that appeared on Varela. The formation principle of the ghost fleet may be more complicated."
"As for the observation data of the information interference source..." Wang Jing smiled bitterly and shook his head, "To be honest, I don't know how much valuable information can be collected."
"The onboard main brain of the research ship has crashed. I have been an academician for so long, but this is the first time I have seen such a situation."
"As long as there is data!" Song Ziliang was refreshed, "It's better than crossing the river by feeling the stones in the air!"
Wang Jing was relieved.
This is indeed the truth.
In any case, with these observation data, the research work of the Human Union on the theory of material informatization and information interference technology can also be put on the right track.
"Academician Wang, come back."
Moore's steady voice came from the side: "Wait until the research ship completes self-repair, you as soon as possible..."
"Not for the time being."
Before Moore finished speaking, Wang Jing rejected Moore's request without hesitation: "I have other research projects."
As she said, she glanced at Chen Fan standing beside her, hesitated for a moment and said: "The signal reverse tracing experiment has not started yet, give me a little more time."
"Maybe... I can use this to determine the location of the broadcasting civilization."
Wang Jing lied.
As the person involved, Chen Fan knew more about what Wang Jing was thinking in his heart-in the Starlight Forest, he showed too many abnormalities, whether it was his tolerance to the source of information interference or the strange attitude of the phantom towards him, it was worth investigating carefully.
At that time, everyone was near the source of information interference, and the communication links were almost all interrupted, so these situations were only known to them.
It's just...
I don't know why Wang Jing didn't report these abnormal situations in the first time, but chose to conceal them for him temporarily.
A series of complicated thoughts flashed through Chen Fan's mind quickly, and the look in his eyes became complicated.
"Okay."
Moore pondered for a moment, and finally nodded: "By the way, let me remind you that Chief Lu already knows that you went to the node universe without authorization. When the time comes..."
Wang Jing did not speak, but nodded with a wry smile.
The misunderstanding was resolved, and the cross-universe communication was also interrupted.
With the help of Redstone and his starship, Chen Fan quickly relied on the external emergency switch and the smart terminal to open the tightly closed hatch of the [Varilla].
At the same time, with the help of Redstone, the smart terminal that was in a downtime state also completed the restart.
[Oh my god... Is this machine down? ]
[Wait, why is there a bunch of meaningless garbage information in the storage space of this machine? ]
[The phantom disappeared? And why is the armor of the Varela damaged? This scar looks a bit like the attack effect of antimatter weapons...]
[Chen Fan, what happened when this machine was down? Did someone do something to us? ? ]
Listening to the electronic synthesis sound in his mind again, Chen Fan's uneasiness was slightly relieved.
"Don't talk nonsense for now."
Chen Fan coughed lightly and calmly changed this embarrassing topic: "It will take some time to repair the shipboard main brain. You take over the work of the shipboard main brain and use the traction field to pull up the scientific research ship on the ground."
"If it drags on like this, I estimate that this scientific research ship will sink completely underground."
[...What? ! The scientific research ship was sunk? ! ! ]
Yi's exclamation came again in his mind.
At the same time, the Varela slowly took off, cooperating with Redstone's crystal starship, and "unfamiliarly" used the traction field to pull the research ship out of the land - obviously, compared with the ship-borne main brain that specializes in controlling starships, Yi is not good at driving starships.
...
A few hours later.
New Varela star synchronous orbit.
"Tell me, what's going on?"
Wang Jing sat down on Gao Yuan's co-pilot seat, raised his eyelids and asked Chen Fan.
"Tell me, what?" Chen Fan's voice was a little dry, and he shook his head subconsciously, "Academician Wang, I really don't know why the phantom made those movements..."
"I'm not talking about this." Wang Jing glanced at Chen Fan helplessly, "Don't take it to heart, I will report it to the Academy of Sciences in person."
Chen Fan breathed a sigh of relief: "That is... the influence of the information interference source on me?"
"Well..." Wang Jing's expression condensed, "This is indeed a big problem. Maybe you are not a simple carbon-based creature."
"But this is also a problem to be considered when we return to the main universe." "
The detection equipment on the research ship is not complete. I will take you to the Academy of Sciences for a thorough inspection."
Wang Jing waved his hand: "What I want to ask is, what did the information interference source show you before it dissipated?"
Chen Fan suddenly realized: "You are talking about this!"
"That thing looks a bit like a holographic star map, with a star system in the center of the star map."
"I suspect that star system is what the ghost fleet has been trying to tell us."
Chen Fan paused, raised his hand, and with his powerful memory, he slowly constructed the star map he had seen at the time with the holographic projection provided by Yi. There was no other way, the smart terminal had crashed at the time, and all the information had to be recorded by Chen Fan himself.
Not long after, a star map made up of fine and dense light spots appeared in the cockpit of the Varela.
Wang Jing frowned and looked at the star map in front of him: "Yi, try to search the node universe to see if there are similar star fields."
As soon as the voice fell, Yi's electronic synthesized voice sounded: "No similar star fields have been found yet."
Wang Jing raised his eyebrows: "Expand the search range, upload the star map to the main server of the Human Union, call my authority, and conduct a matching search for all universes within the territory of the Human Union."
The sudden increase in sample data quickly increased the time consumed by the matching search.
After waiting for a long time, the electronic synthesized voice came again: "I'm sorry, Academician Wang Jing, this machine has not searched for similar star fields."
"The database comparison shows that the star field with the highest similarity is located in the EL77563 cosmic bubble, with an overall similarity of 54.71%."
Wang Jing couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
54.71% similarity certainly doesn't mean anything.
She murmured in a low voice: "Strange, where is this star field..."
Not only Wang Jing, Chen Fan also frowned as he looked at the star map.
Unlike Wang Jing, he had a strong sense of familiarity with this star map.
However, there was a little sense of disobedience in the familiarity.
Chen Fan shook his head and subconsciously looked at the porthole on his side, trying to observe the situation of the ghost fleet-outside the porthole, the cockpit of the scientific research ship had lit up a little light, and farther away, the ghost fleet was still flashing an extremely dim light, quietly hovering in the Varela star system.
Suddenly, Chen Fan's eyes condensed.
In the surprised eyes of everyone, he stood up from the main driving seat, made way, and looked sideways at the bright porthole again.
"Chen Fan?" Wang Jing frowned, "What are you looking at?"
"I know..."
Chen Fan did not answer Wang Jing's words, he murmured in a low voice: "I know the location of this star map!!"
"It is the New Varela star system! It is the star system we are in!!"
"What?"
Wang Jing was shocked and quickly reached out to call up the comparison result of Yi: "The comparison shows that the overall similarity between the two is even less than 5%. In addition to the same number of stars, the spatial structure is completely different. It is obvious that they are two different star systems..."
"Academician Wang, you are wrong." Chen Fan smiled, "This star map is reversed."
"To be precise, it is a mirror image."
"If you don't believe it, come and look at the reflection in the porthole."
Chen Fan pointed to the porthole on the side. In the dim starry sky, the bright and beautiful porthole was clearly reflecting the scene in the cockpit: "It is the New Varela star system we are in!"
(End of this chapter)
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