Chapter 441 "Ghost Wall"
"The fleet's track..."
Hearing Fang Yunsheng's order, the officer who spoke earlier showed hesitation:
"General Fang, two hours ago, you have already issued a reverse investigation order..."
"Investigate! Keep investigating!" Fang Yunsheng looked a little ugly, and shouted, "We must find the problem!"
"...Yes."
The officer gave a standard Human Union salute and responded to Fang Yunsheng's request.
After waiting for a while, a continuously extending red line slowly emerged in the holographic interface in front of the command center.
This is the trajectory of the fleet's navigation.
It uses the Human Union main universe as a reference system and is drawn by the central mastermind established in the Human Union Academy of Sciences.
In theory, it will not be affected by the surrounding environment of the fleet and is also the most accurate track map.
At first, this red track was moving straight in the direction of the beacon, but when it traveled one-third of the way, a strange phenomenon appeared!
Unconsciously, this bright red track line seemed to be disturbed by some unknown interference and slowly shifted.
Although it cannot be observed by the naked eye, the shipboard main brain has already issued a warning message.
A deflection of one ten-millionth of a degree.
This is a very slight angle deviation, but the faces of Fang Yunsheng and the other officers in the command center have become extremely solemn.
A slight error
can lead to a huge difference. This sentence has a very intuitive manifestation in interstellar navigation - when the advance distance is far enough, even an angle deflection of one ten-millionth of a degree will produce two completely different results in the end.
This is the case for navigation within the universe, not to mention navigation outside the universe.
The macroscopic scale of the hyperspace membrane is much larger than the so-called cosmic bubble.
A cosmic bubble with a diameter of tens of billions of light years can even be regarded as a tiny sesame seed on the scale of the hyperspace membrane!
In this macroscopic level of navigation, an angle deviation of one ten-millionth of a degree is absolutely a major mistake that cannot be tolerated! !
"Stop!"
Looking at the obviously deviated track line, Fang Yunsheng shouted in a deep voice: "Retrieve the fleet's navigation log, I want to know what happened at that time!"
"Also, who was responsible for the route calibration at that time? Step out immediately!"
As soon as the voice fell, an officer with a nervous look stood up from his seat in the command center, facing Fang Yunsheng's gaze: "Fang, General Fang..."
Fang Yunsheng nodded, and the officer's name and various basic information had already appeared in the holographic interface beside him: "Chen Wanqing."
"Yes, it's me."
Looking at Fang Yunsheng with a scrutinizing look, Chen Wanqing became more and more nervous.
Although route calibration is a very important job, the person in charge of this job is just an ordinary officer-this is not difficult to understand. With the current technology of the Human Union, all route calibration work is automatically completed by the ship-borne main brain and the Human Union main brain. The reason for setting up this position is mainly to ensure the safety of the fleet's navigation.
What if the ship-borne main brain fails? Or in other words, what if the Human Union main brain has an accident?
Of course, the probability of this situation is very small.
In the tens of thousands of years of history of the Human Union, only a few such incidents have occurred.
But those incidents have caused quite serious consequences.
Therefore, the Human Union has specially established the position of route calibrator.
Usually, during the voyage of the fleet, the shipboard main brain and the Human Union main brain will calibrate the route separately. Once there is a deviation between the two, the shipboard main brain will issue an early warning, and the route calibrator will perform manual calibration and inspection to accurately determine the route of the fleet.
"What was the situation at that time?" Fang Yunsheng looked at Chen Wanqing in front of him, and at the same time glanced at the fleet's navigation log that appeared beside him, "Tell me about it."
Hearing Fang Yunsheng's words, the bitterness on Chen Wanqing's face became more intense.
In fact, as soon as the fleet route had problems, he, as a route calibrator, was interrogated in all aspects.
But...
"General Fang, apart from the shipborne main brain's active error reporting, I did not find any abnormalities." Chen Wanqing sighed, "At that time, the shipborne main brain performed a total of three route calibration operations, and I double-checked each operation."
"According to the information from the Human Union main brain, the fleet's course has deviated, but from the shipborne main brain's own records, the fleet has been on the scheduled route."
"I was worried that there was a malfunction in the shipborne main brain, and I even manually calibrated the beacon universe, and finally found out..."
Chen Wanqing swallowed hard: "The fleet did not deviate."
"At least, the manual calibration results show that the beacon universe has always been directly in front of the fleet."
Fang Yunsheng frowned and turned his gaze back to the holographic interface directly in front of the command center.
His lips moved slightly, and he said in a slightly hoarse voice: "Continue."
Chen Wanqing's voice continued: "At first, we thought that there was an abnormality in the signal transmission in the hyperspace membrane, which caused problems with the calibration of the Human Alliance main brain."
"So, after discussion, we decided to let the fleet continue to move forward in the original direction."
Along with Chen Wanqing's voice, the bright red route continued to extend forward.
One millionth of a degree, one hundred thousandth of a degree, one ten thousandth of a degree...
Time passed little by little, and the angle of the fleet's deviation became larger and larger. Gradually, under Fang Yunsheng's gaze, the fleet had already turned a big circle in the hyperspace membrane and even began to sail in the opposite direction! !
In the track map drawn by the Human Union mainframe, the fleet has been spinning in place! !
"What about this time?" Fang Yunsheng asked Chen Wanqing in a deep voice, "Is there no abnormal situation yet?"
Chen Wanqing nodded silently: "Even at this time, the results of manual calibration and the calibration results of the shipborne mainframe are the same, and the beacon universe is right in front of the fleet."
"But the calibration results of the Human Union mainframe show that the fleet's course has deviated by nearly 180 degrees."
"General, I know you don't believe it, but this is the fact."
Chen Wanqing took a deep breath: "You can go and see it yourself. According to the calibration results of the Human Union mainframe, the fleet is currently 180 degrees away from the target route, but... you can even see the target universe bubble right in front of the fleet."
Fang Yunsheng didn't speak, but just waved his hand gently.
Swish!
In front of the command center, the armor covering the porthole slowly opened, revealing the bizarre membrane space.
As Chen Wanqing said, in the center of countless twisted light bands and spots, a dim light spot was quietly suspended in the bizarre membrane space.
Even though the fleet was heading in the opposite direction of the target, the light spot was still in front of the fleet!
This strange scene made Fang Yunsheng sweat coldly!
What the hell...
Is this really a ghost?
Fang Yunsheng shook his head and threw this weird thought behind his mind.
"Switch to manual operation mode!"
He calmed down and gave an order in a deep voice: "Based on the calibration results of the Human Union main brain, correct the course of the fleet in real time!"
...
Three hours later.
Looking at the error messages that kept appearing in the holographic interface and the red circles that kept shifting in the track map, the command center fell into a deathly silence.
After switching to manual operation mode, the situation did change.
——From the previous spinning in place, it became a large-scale "revolution" around the beacon universe.
Even in the process of "revolution", the fleet itself still circled in place like a headless fly!
"What the hell is going on?!"
Feeling the dead silence in the command center, Fang Yunsheng punched the console in front of him angrily.
They had clearly corrected every route deviation signal in real time, but the fleet still couldn't get out of this vicious circle!
With the war imminent, the blow to morale caused by this weird situation is unimaginable!
"General Fang, although I don't want to admit it, according to the current situation, there seems to be an invisible wall in front of the fleet, blocking the fleet's progress."
Chen Wanqing, who was called out for questioning earlier, said softly.
"Wall?" Fang Yunsheng frowned slightly and turned his head to look at one side of the command center. "Academician Xu, have you found anything?"
In order to deal with various unexpected situations that may arise during the war, several academicians of the Academy of Sciences are often paired during the fleet's expedition.
This is also an old tradition of the Human Union.
After all... facing an unknown civilization, who knows what strange technology the other party will point out! As soon as
Fang Yunsheng's voice fell, a middle-aged man in a research robe, who was out of tune with the surrounding military uniforms, stood up from his seat.
He frowned and stared straight at the interface in front of him filled with all kinds of complex data. He sighed and shook his head: "No discovery..."
"The fleet's deviation process is very strange, without any signs, it can be said that it appeared out of thin air."
"Even if we manually correct the fleet's sailing direction, but... the surrounding space will still take us to the direction of the deviation target."
"Space?" Fang Yunsheng raised his eyebrows and had an idea, "Could it be that there is a problem with this space?"
"Just like... the distorted space-time around a black hole?"
"No."
Academician Xu shook his head, and the worry between his brows became more and more serious: "At first, I also suspected that there was a problem with the space-time structure around the fleet."
"Since the manual correction of the route, I began to monitor the space-time field around the fleet."
"But... still no abnormalities have been found."
As he said, Academician Xu sighed heavily and burst out with a swear word: "Just like I said before..."
"This is fucking worse than being trapped in a ghost wall!!!"
"General Fang, I suggest that the fleet temporarily stop moving."
Academician Xu calmed down and said solemnly, "I need to report this situation to the Academy of Sciences."
"Maybe..."
"The Academy of Sciences has a way to solve this problem."
(End of this chapter)
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