Chapter 402 Xinaluo Star System
The outer area of the Xinaluo star system.
The star field that was originally full of fixed turrets has been cleared to form a vast open area.
Hundreds of Xinaluo starships of different sizes and similar construction styles quietly hovered in this star field, as if waiting for something.
Suddenly.
A strong space-time fluctuation suddenly appeared, and at the same time, a rapidly spinning wormhole was quickly generated in the starry sky without any warning.
Witnessing such a gorgeous scene, the hundreds of starships hovering in the starry sky seemed to have seen something shocking, and the originally neat queue became chaotic at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The next second.
A round starship with small ends and a large middle, and an overall olive shape, jumped out of the wormhole with flowing light.
"The starship has arrived at the preset destination."
As the familiar electronic synthesis sounded in the cockpit of this khaki starship, the constantly rotating wormhole began to dissipate rapidly, and the surrounding accretion disk with overflowing light also returned to dimness, and finally turned into an inconspicuous dust in the starry sky.
Chen Fan sat in the main driving seat, took a deep breath, and tried to calm his uneasy mood. Although he was quite successful in interstellar diplomacy every time, he was quite aware of the dangers of interstellar diplomacy.
Especially communicating with a civilization that he had never met and had no idea about the Human Union, this was a dangerous act comparable to walking on a tightrope at high altitude.
Although the two sides had already had simple communication in text form, offline communication still made Chen Fan feel a little worried.
After all...
who knows the true nature of this civilization?
In the database of the Human Union, there are many vicious races that feed on highly intelligent life forms!
"... What are these Xinaluo people doing?"
Just as Chen Fan calmed down, Hongshi's confused question came from the co-pilot next to him.
Chen Fan subconsciously followed Hongshi's gaze and looked out the porthole.
Hundreds of flat-shaped starships kept retreating, and the neat formation became chaotic, as if... they saw something dangerous.
"What's going on..."
Faced with this sudden abnormal situation, Chen Fan couldn't help but frowned.
This is not a good sign for the upcoming investigation!
We must ask as soon as possible to avoid any unnecessary misunderstandings!
Thinking of this, Chen Fan stretched out his hand to operate the main console in front of him.
Since he was not sure about the specific technological level of the other party, Chen Fan still adopted the most reliable electromagnetic wave communication plan.
After adjusting the electromagnetic wave communication frequency band, Chen Fan quickly compiled a message and sent it to the fleet in front.
The distance between the two sides is not far, even the electromagnetic waves propagating at the speed of light can quickly reach the other party's fleet.
Thirty seconds after the message was sent, the fleet that was constantly retreating suddenly stopped its original retreat, but they did not return to their original position, but just looked at the [Anti-Varilla] where Chen Fan was.
"They seem... afraid of this investigator starship?"
Looking at the picture in front of him, Chen Fan's heart faintly emerged with a hint of enlightenment.
Beside him, Hongshi nodded slightly, agreeing with Chen Fan's guess: "But... why should we be afraid of the investigator starship?"
"Before heading to the Xinaluo star system, Academician Wang Jing had already informed the Xinaluo civilization of the appearance of the investigator starship."
"Logically speaking, they should be clear about the identity of the investigator starship..."
"Wait, I guess the other party should give us an explanation." Chen Fan shrugged, leaned back on the back of the chair behind him, and patiently waited for the response information from the Xinaluo fleet.
In order to avoid the situation from getting worse again, the investigator starship did not move towards the Xinaluo star system after leaving the wormhole, but quietly hovered at the original position. Because of this, the response of the Xinaluo civilization would take at least thirty seconds to be transmitted to the location of the investigator starship.
Based on his usual habit of driving a starship, he subconsciously glanced at the space-time fluctuation instrument displayed on the main console interface.
After shielding the space-time fluctuations of various celestial bodies, a standard straight line appeared on the instrument-after the wormhole dissipated, the surrounding space-time ocean returned to calm again.
"It seems that the Xinaluo civilization has not mastered the curvature technology..." Chen Fan raised his eyebrows and murmured in a low voice.
"Ding."
Along with the crisp prompt sound, Yi's voice also sounded in the cockpit: "Received the electromagnetic wave communication from the Xinaluo civilization, and is conducting a security check on the information..."
"Here it comes!"
Chen Fan was refreshed and stood up to look at the holographic interface above the main console.
[Dear Human Alliance, please forgive our rudeness. ]
[...]
[Because your starship brought a strong space-time fluctuation, we misunderstood your identity. Here, we sincerely apologize to you. ]
[In addition, I would like to ask, are you not afraid of attacks from alien life forms when you rashly use such a powerful space-time technology? ]
Looking at the words slowly emerging in the holographic interface, Chen Fan frowned immediately.
There are not many words, but the amount of information contained in them is very huge.
"What the Xinaluo people are afraid of... is not the investigator starship, but the wormhole opened by the investigator starship!" Chen Fan suddenly realized.
His eyes stayed on the last line of the text, and he murmured in a low voice: "Rashly using space-time technology..."
"It seems that powerful space-time fluctuations are likely to attract attacks from alien life forms." Hongshi added softly, "In addition..."
A trace of confusion flashed across her delicate face: "Looking at these words, why do I feel that the Xinaluo civilization has a very deep understanding of space-time technology?"
Chen Fan nodded repeatedly: "Coincidentally, I have this feeling too."
He turned his head and looked at Hongshi, whispering to himself: "If it is really as we guessed... Xinaluo civilization does not use curvature technology to conceal itself?"
"Perhaps, it is not just Xinaluo civilization." Isha, who had remained silent, also interrupted, "The reason why this universe lacks space-time fluctuations... is likely here."
Chen Fan was shocked, and his expression suddenly became ugly.
If this is true...
then wouldn't their previous actions be... lighting a pile of bright bonfires in the pitch-black night? !
What is this called?
The investigation has not officially started yet, and they have stepped accurately into a bottomless tiankeng!
Maybe...
the so-called alien life forms are already on their way? !
"Damn it..." Chen Fan cursed in a low voice while informing Wang Jing, who was a hundred light years away, of his guess.
Whether it was true or not, we couldn't wait for the alien life forms to arrive at our doorstep before starting combat preparations, right?
In the co-pilot seat, Hongshi skillfully shut down the curvature engine of the investigator starship - with the help of Isa, she can now skillfully control this human body.
...
All the way in silence.
After the initial apology, the Xinaluo civilization fell into silence, just silently leading the way for the investigator starship.
- This was reflected in the initial communication.
Even though the Human Union was the first advanced civilization that the Xinaluo civilization encountered, the other party's desire for communication was still not as good as that of normal civilizations.
At first, Chen Fan thought this might be because the Xinaluo civilization was too cautious.
After all, it was the first time to deal with a strange civilization, so it was understandable.
But as time went on, until now, Chen Fan finally realized a problem - silence seemed to be the norm of the Xinaluo civilization.
Not to mention the investigator starship, there are very few electromagnetic wave communications within the Xinaluo fleet!
In order not to arouse the disgust of the Xinaluo civilization and to better carry out the subsequent investigation tasks, Chen Fan suppressed his curiosity and respected this special "custom" of the Xinaluo civilization.
More than an hour later.
In the flames and discrete gamma rays emitted by the antimatter engine, the Xinaluo fleet rearranged the previous array and escorted Chen Fan's investigator starship into this star system surrounded by countless turrets.
As shown in the star map of the ghost fleet, the internal structure of the Xinaluo star system is very similar to the Varela star system in the node universe.
The only difference is that the planet's rotation, revolution and space structure show a mirror relationship.
Like Varela, Xinaluo is also the second planet in this star system.
It's just that...
the development level of Xinaluo is obviously beyond Varela in the node universe.
In the star field around this rocky planet, there are starships of various shapes and huge space factories everywhere.
To be precise, these technological creations are distributed throughout the Xinaluo star system. They are close to each other and almost occupy all the star fields except the orbits of the planets.
Because of this, the entire Xinaluo star system is like a small room full of various sundries, which seems extremely crowded and messy.
Along the way, Chen Fan frowned and looked at the large mechanical equipment that was still working, and shook his head secretly.
The resources controlled by the Xinaluo civilization are indeed quite rich, but this space planning...
is really a bit poor!
To exaggerate, if the Xinaluo civilization had not sent out a fleet to lead the way, it is estimated that the ship-borne main brain would have to send out corresponding detectors to find a way to the Xinaluo star among these messy mechanical equipment!
"This is too abnormal."
"As an interstellar civilization, why do you have to lock your range of activities in this small star system?"
Let's not talk about the far away, just talk about the Xinaluo star system.
Why not transport these mechanical devices to the vast interstellar space around?
That would free up a lot of space for the Xinaluo star system!
"It's a bit strange indeed." As soon as Chen Fan's questioning voice fell, Hongshi reached out and called up a holographic interface, "I just used the smart terminal to roughly estimate the total amount of these mechanical equipment." "
The calculation results show that if all the mechanical equipment is counted, the total mass of the Xinaluo star system is thousands of times that of the Varela star system!"
Chen Fan was shocked and exclaimed in surprise: "There are so many?!"
"Yeah..."
Hongshi shook his head lightly, and the wisp of blood-red slightly curly hair hanging in front of his chest also shook with it: "I really don't know where these Xinaluo people moved so many supplies from..."
(End of this chapter)
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