Chapter 465 Vacuum Zero-Point Energy!
In the cockpit of the Investigator Starship.
Hongshi frowned slightly, looking at the giant scorpion larva in the holographic interface, which had no movement and the black light on its body gradually calmed down:
"It seems that this attack seems to have some effect?"
She turned her head to look at Chen Fan, who had his eyes closed in the main driving seat beside her, and then reached out to input a line of complex parameters on the holographic interface in front of her, and adjusted the direction of the starship's secondary guns and main guns.
According to the original plan, she should strike while the iron is hot and directly launch a third round of offensive against the giant scorpion larva.
But...
Looking at Chen Fan who did not wake up as planned, Hongshi fell into hesitation.
"Mr. Hongshi, Chen Fan..."
On the other side, Isa also turned her head and cast a concerned look at Chen Fan who did not move at all: "...Why haven't you woken up yet?"
Facing Isa's question, Hongshi shook his head helplessly.
Even Academician Wang Jing couldn't figure out the many conditions of Chen Fan, let alone her.
Outside the porthole, the black light on the giant scorpion turned from dark to strong. After a short rest, it opened its two pairs of scarlet vertical pupils again.
Unlike before, it did not attack the investigator starship at the first time, but turned its head to look at a strange angle, and the slender scorpion tail that was originally raised high also drooped slightly.
Hongshi quickly noticed this scene, and she looked in the direction of the giant scorpion's gaze.
There was nothing.
Except for the bursts of light from the stellar flares and the light stone floor tiles below, there was almost nothing visible to the naked eye in that space.
Hongshi's heart moved, and she recalled the abnormal behavior of the giant scorpion just now in her mind-when the light stone was detonated for the second time, the giant scorpion suddenly gave up attacking the investigator starship and turned to pounce on an empty area.
Now think about it, that was exactly when Chen Fan's "consciousness left his body".
After some association, Hongshi already understood in her heart-where the giant scorpion's eyes were, that was where Chen Fan's consciousness was.
After realizing this, she didn't hesitate at all, and directly reached out to pull the joystick in front of her, controlling the starship to rush to that area!
No matter what happened, it's always right to respond.
...
It's over, it's over...
Lang is in trouble!
Feeling the waves of weakness coming from the inside out, Chen Fan only had this thought in his mind.
Just now, he was only concerned with experiencing his new ability and didn't notice the consumption of this new ability at all.
Now thinking back, the consumption of controlling the information flow is obviously far beyond the many previous abilities.
This is also a normal situation that is reasonable-the technology that the Human Union has not yet mastered, can it be controlled by conventional means!
The bottom of the blue bar is obviously not good news.
With the continuous surge of weakness, he felt that his control over the surrounding space has also weakened a lot.
So, a more fatal situation appeared.
The intermittent curvature navigation was directly interrupted!
——He can't go back!
From his perspective, his consciousness is like a desk lamp that is about to run out of power, constantly flashing a faint fluorescence.
Just like those Xinaro people whose bodies were glowing with fluorescence.
Looking at his own body that was constantly flashing, Chen Fan smiled bitterly, and this magical idea came to his mind.
He shook his head and threw this unreasonable association behind him, then looked at the investigator starship that was still quite far away and sighed silently.
How should he inform the redstone that controls the starship of this situation?
He couldn't just float in this space and wait silently for the "blue bar" to recover, right?
You really don't say, this is indeed a plan.
Even in the case of an empty consciousness, the "blue bar" can be restored-after completely giving up control of the surrounding space, Chen Fan realized this for sure.
Rather than calling it a "blue bar", it is better to call it "physical strength", or...
energy.
As time went on, waves of almost imperceptible fluctuations permeated from the surrounding space, making up for the deficit in his body.
Although the whole process was very slow and difficult to detect, it was indeed happening continuously.
Chen Fan roughly estimated.
According to the current progress, in about a few hours, he would be able to initiate a normal distance curvature voyage.
The moment he came to the conclusion, Chen Fan's eyes twitched.
This... is
too slow! !
Just when Chen Fan was in a state of impotence and rage, a faint wave of time and space came from a distance, interrupting his thoughts.
As the black light flashing from the main gun and the secondary gun gradually dissipated, the investigator starship seemed to have seen his existence and drove straight towards him!
Looking at the investigator starship getting closer and closer, Chen Fan felt tears welling up in his eyes for the first time from the bottom of his heart! !
...
A few minutes later.
"... Oh my god, I almost couldn't come back!"
Chen Fan suddenly opened his tired eyes in the investigator starship and said with some fear.
Beside him, Hongshi controlled the starship to avoid the giant scorpion's attack while looking at Chen Fan who was holding his forehead with his hand.
"What happened?"
She asked hesitantly: "Why do I feel that you... look haggard?"
Chen Fan's eyes twitched slightly.
How could he not be haggard?
That wave of information flow control operations almost drained him dry!
"It's a long story."
Chen Fan took the water cup handed by Isa with a trembling left hand, and interrupted Hongshi's action of continuing to detonate the light stone: "Wait a minute, don't waste the light stone."
Hongshi was slightly stunned, and then canceled the launch program just set: "Waste?"
She glanced at the giant scorpion that was chasing the starship relentlessly and even stole the time to eat two dried scorpion eggs, and frowned slightly: "Is the information storm generated by detonating the light stone ineffective?"
"Yes." Chen Fan swallowed the concentrated nutrient solution with a little sweetness in his mouth, took a breath, and handed the water cup to Isa with a concerned face again, "But the information storm generated by the light stone is too dispersed. I estimate that even if all the light stones here are detonated, it is difficult to produce a sufficiently effective attack on the information barrier around the giant scorpion."
As he said, Chen Fan roughly depicted the many information flows he had seen before on the holographic interface in front of him.
Hearing this, the uneasiness on Redstone's face became more intense: "Then the support fleet..."
"In theory..." Chen Fan waved his hand, "as long as the problem of power dispersion can be solved, high-intensity information flow can indeed cause a considerable impact on the information barrier, and even break the information barrier."
"Let's not talk about the support fleet first."
"We don't have the technology at all now, and the original information disturbance circuit has been completely destroyed." Redstone frowned even deeper, "In this way, don't we have any way to deal with this giant scorpion?"
"Hey!"
Chen Fan shook his head repeatedly: "You can't say that..."
"Do you have a way?"
Wang Jing's voice suddenly came from the communication link.
Looking at Wang Jing's figure in the communication interface, Chen Fan subconsciously raised his hand and touched the tip of his nose: "There is something I just forgot to say..."
"Just now, I suddenly found that I seem to be able to control the flow of information."
"...Huh?" In the communication interface, Wang Jing slightly opened her lips and looked at Chen Fan in surprise, "Do you know what you are talking about?"
"Of course."
Chen Fan shrugged and briefly recounted his experience after his consciousness left his body: "Although I haven't tried it specifically, I think it's not difficult to build an information circuit to make the power of the information storm a little more concentrated."
"..."
This time, the investigator starship fell into complete silence.
For a long time.
"Then...then what the hell are you waiting for?!"
Wang Jing's hoarse voice broke the silence in the cockpit: "Hurry up and do it!!"
"That's right!" In the communication interface, Wang Jing was excited, with a blush on both sides of her cheeks, "After the giant scorpion is dealt with, you come to the research ship immediately."
"I've thought about it. You will be my experimental assistant. Let's perfect the information weapon together, and then let the support fleet blow open the door to the anti-universe with one shot..."
"Wait!" Seeing that Wang Jing's words were getting farther and farther away, Chen Fan hurriedly interrupted, "Listen to me first!"
"You say." Wang Jing took a deep breath and calmed down her excited mood.
At this moment, she looked at Chen Fan as if she had seen a huge treasure.
How could this be a dangerous technology investigator?
This is clearly an auspicious sign that helps her and the human alliance progress! !
"..." Looking at Wang Jing's weird eyes, Chen Fan raised his hand and touched his nose again, smiling embarrassedly, "I didn't grasp the degree when I was testing just now, and now I feel a little exhausted. I probably won't be able to control the information flow in a short time."
Wang Jing: "..."
Chen Fan added: "Give me some time, when the blue bar is full, I can..."
Wang Jing interrupted Chen Fan directly: "How long will it take?"
"At least the fastest..." Chen Fan carefully stretched out a finger.
"An hour?" Wang Jing breathed a sigh of relief, "This time is not long, I can wait..."
"Uh, I mean... at least one day."
Wang Jing's voice stopped abruptly: "..."
She stood up slightly, supported her hands on the experimental table in front of her, and put her head in front of the camera: "No, buddy?!"
"Take less time? One day?!"
Wang Jing's expression was a little distorted: "When you recover, those damn giant scorpions will rush back to the place of creation!!"
"This... I can't do anything about it." Chen Fan spread his hands helplessly, and the fatigue in his eyes became more intense, "The speed of extracting that kind of energy is really too slow, one day is still reported as less!"
"Energy?"
Relying on the qualities of a Class I academician, Wang Jing's heart moved, and she immediately noticed the key point in Chen Fan's words, and her originally distorted expression immediately smoothed down:
"What energy? Where do you extract the energy from?"
"I don't know either." Chen Fan scratched his head, his face full of confusion, "It looks... a bit like energy extracted from the surrounding space."
Fearing that Wang Jing would continue to make requests, he hurriedly added: "It's a bit like instinct, and I don't know how to control this process."
Wang Jing didn't pay attention to the second half of Chen Fan's words.
She raised her eyebrows, and there was a little doubt in her eyes: "Energy extracted from the surrounding space out of thin air..."
"Could it be vacuum zero-point energy?" Wang Jing murmured in a voice that only she could hear, "A carbon-based biological consciousness can extract and call on vacuum zero-point energy... Isn't this a bit too weird?"
Chen Fan: "...Academician Wang?"
For some reason, I always felt that Wang Jing's eyes were looking at him more and more weird.
"Wait a moment."
Wang Jing came back to her senses and looked at Chen Fan with extremely complicated eyes: "Next, I will take over the control of the starship and lift the security restriction agreement of the ship's main brain."
Chen Fan: "Ah?!"
"Ah what?" Wang Jing glared at Chen Fan anxiously, "The next thing is very important, you kid, cheer up!"
Seeing Chen Fan sit up straight, Wang Jing continued: "Listen carefully, after lifting the security restriction agreement, I will remotely cut off an energy channel of the investigator starship."
"Ah?!!"
This time it was not Chen Fan who spoke, but Hongshi next to him.
She stared at Wang Jing in the holographic interface eagerly: "Wang, Academician Wang, if the energy pathway is cut off, then we will..."
Wang Jing waved her hand: "Don't worry, it's just a branch energy pathway that provides energy to the secondary guns. Theoretically, it won't have much impact on the starship, and the adaptive repair machinery will repair it quickly."
She turned her eyes and looked at Chen Fan, who was a little confused, again: "The whole process will only take about ten seconds. You kid should take this opportunity to see it clearly for me."
"Look, what are you looking at?"
Faced with a powerful enemy, Chen Fan was increasingly confused by this self-defeating operation.
"I suspect that the energy you mentioned is vacuum zero-point energy, so I need to verify it."
"Pure vacuum zero-point energy flows in the starship's energy pathway." Unlike before, Wang Jing was particularly patient this time. "The intensity of vacuum zero-point energy is very high. For most life forms, it is a highly radioactive and highly toxic substance."
"The active leakage of zero-point energy is a major accident that violates the safety protocol, but the situation is urgent. I can't find a channel for you to experience zero-point energy in a short time, so I can only resort to this last resort."
Chen Fan nodded blankly.
Until now, he still felt a little unreal.
His consciousness can extract vacuum zero-point energy?
Then is he... still considered a human?
"Be prepared."
Wang Jing looked solemn and interrupted Chen Fan's somewhat messy thoughts: "I am ready to take over the control of the starship."
...
[Control authority has been successfully transferred. ]
The moment Wang Jing's voice fell, a bright red warning message popped up in the holographic interface just above the main console.
Chen Fan and Wang Jing beside him also loosened their tightly gripped joysticks.
Now, the control of the investigator starship has fallen into the hands of Wang Jing - to be precise, in the hands of the onboard mainframe of the TE1571 research vessel.
"Mastermind, start to release the security protocol."
Wang Jing calmly gave the order.
The next second.
"Beep-beep-beep--"
accompanied by a bright red top pop-up warning, the sharp alarm instantly filled the entire cockpit: "Warning!"
"This operation violates the Human Alliance Starship Driving Safety Act. Please enter the identity identification code and reconfirm the operation!"
Facing these dazzling warning messages, Wang Jing's expression did not fluctuate at all, and he spoke again with a string of codes mixed with numbers and characters.
"Authentication passed."
"Authorized person, Wang Jing, the authorization information has been automatically uploaded to the superior mastermind."
"The security protocol has been successfully released."
The moment the electronic synthetic voice fell, the endless bright red pop-up windows in the holographic interface suddenly cleared, and the cockpit returned to calm.
Almost at the same time, a violent vibration came from the left deck of the investigator starship!
Boom!!!
Accompanied by a deafening explosion, the left secondary gun of the starship exploded!
A huge gap appeared in the hard and dense armor layer, and a deep blue torrent spurted out from the gap at a very high speed!
The moment it touched the light golden barrier, the deep blue torrent instantly spread out, forming half of an ellipsoidal "eggshell" with irregular edges!
At the same time as the value of the energy fluctuation monitor soared instantly, another bright red warning message automatically popped up in front of Chen Fan and others! !
[Warning! ! ]
[Energy path is damaged! Vacuum zero-point energy has leaked! ! ]
[Adaptive repair program has been started, and the damaged part is being repaired...]
"Quick!" Wang Jing's urging voice came from the communication channel, "Hurry up!!"
As Wang Jing's voice sounded, the deep blue energy torrent began to gradually decay-the adaptive repair machine has begun to work.
On the other side, Chen Fan had already closed his eyes.
He endured the strong sense of fatigue and controlled his consciousness to stick his head out vaguely.
Just a glance from a distance, Chen Fan's expression changed dramatically!
This is the "energy" he felt before!
The so-called "blue bar" is actually vacuum zero-point energy!!
PS: I'm spending the holidays with my wife, so there should be only one update today.
(End of this chapter)
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