Chapter 503 The Third Type of Life
Outside the Microcosmic Bubble.
"Mastermind, record."
Wang Jing's calm voice sounded in the cabin of the research ship: "The 51st information flow fluctuation, lasting 1.07 seconds, the fluctuation frequency..."
She glanced at the holographic interface beside her and continued: "3.79EHz-5.17EHz, compared with the 50th information fluctuation, the average frequency increased by 5%."
"The interval between two information flow fluctuations has been shortened to 15.19 seconds, 4.01% shorter than the previous one."
"The record has been completed." The electronic synthesis voice of the shipborne mastermind sounded quickly, "Trying to perform the 36774th data analysis, the next information fluctuation is expected to appear in 14.2-14.8 seconds, please be prepared for observation..."
Wang Jing's face did not fluctuate at all for the reminder of the shipborne mastermind, but just silently stared at the azure holographic interface in front of her-from the frequency and intensity changes of the information jet itself, to the location, maintenance time and interval time of the information jet... It is no exaggeration to say that she has conducted an extreme data analysis of these 51 information jets.
But!
Until now, both the shipboard mainframe and she have only discovered a very superficial pattern.
The frequency of information fluctuations is constantly increasing, and the intervals between them are constantly shortening.
Apart from this, there is no gain.
Even the coordinates of the occurrence of information fluctuations cannot be predicted!
"Ah..."
Looking at the Genesis Fortress outside the porthole, which is still sticking to the film on the surface of this ten thousand light-year "soap bubble", Wang Jing sighed helplessly: "I don't know what happened here..."
The azure holographic interface suddenly flashed a faint red light, and a string of bright red countdowns flashed quickly on it
.
According to the experience summarized previously, the 52nd information fluctuation is about to appear.
Wang Jing cheered up and stared at the many monitoring data that had been cleared in the holographic interface.
3, 2, 1...
The countdown ended quietly, and the red light that flashed rapidly before also became a red star hanging above Wang Jing's head.
There was no change in the azure holographic interface with a background color of azure blue. Those numbers and curves were still lying quietly on the zero axis, as if waiting for something.
Five seconds.
Ten seconds.
Twenty seconds.
The red-glowing cabin of the research ship fell into a deathly silence.
"This..."
Wang Jing stared blankly at the working status of the information entropy fluctuation monitoring instrument, and then stared blankly at the giant soap bubble outside the porthole that was slightly undulating under the action of macro gravity: "...Where is the information jet?"
Under the starlight, the surface of the giant soap bubble suddenly reflected a distorted light spot, like an ugly ghost face, unscrupulously mocking Wang Jing who was in the research ship.
Failed!
The law that lasted for fifty-one rounds of information fluctuations actually failed!
In research work, the failure of the law is definitely a big deal, which often means that an unknown and uncontrollable situation has occurred.
Of course.
If it was in the laboratory, Wang Jing might be excited about the phenomenon of the failure of this law, because it may mean a new discovery.
But now...
Wang Jing didn't have the slightest excitement in her heart, only a deep fear from the heart - whether it was any abnormality in the small universe itself, or any accident in Chen Fan and others in the small universe, it was not the picture she wanted to see!
...
At the same time, inside the small universe.
"Oh my god..."
Chen Fan's face turned pale as he felt the growing emptiness in his body.
"This thing consumes too much energy, doesn't it?!"
The huge energy consumption is not a big problem, after all, there is the external battery of Kraken.
As a nebula life, Kraken can even slowly absorb vacuum zero-point energy from the surrounding space. Although the efficiency is relatively low, considering that his body covers a star field of 8,000 light years, the speed of absorbing vacuum zero-point energy is not too slow.
The real problem lies in the string of extremely complex coordinate numbers.
The information flow that acts as a "modifier" is like a crowbar stuck in a heavy rock wall. No matter how hard Chen Fan tries, it can't play a role.
Correspondingly, the string of coordinate numbers...
naturally did not change at all.
The number that Chen Fan tried to modify was firmly rooted at the end of the coordinate string, which gave him a feeling of being as solid as a rock.
A faint information wave came from the starlight ocean that shrank by half beside him.
[Sir, this is why I don't agree with your attempt...]
Compared with the previous time, Kraken's voice became weak again due to excessive energy consumption: [According to my past experience, even in the same universe, the difficulty of modifying coordinate information is completely different. ]
[Although I don't know the reason behind it, I know that the greater the gravity and the more serious the distortion of space-time in the star field, the more difficult it is to modify the coordinates. ]
[Not to mention the cosmic membrane. ]
[I estimate...] Kraken said weakly, [If I want to make a hole in this cosmic membrane, I have to consume at least 90% of my energy reserves. ]
Listening to the information from Kraken, Chen Fan couldn't help but twitch his eyes twice.
90% of the energy reserves are only enough to change the last digit of the coordinate information?
Isn't this consumption a bit too scary? !
Compared with the conventional coordinate modification, this is simply an exponential growth!
Just as Chen Fan and Kraken were talking, the rock-hard number finally showed a slight change - in Chen Fan's perception, the last digit of the coordinate information showed a slight blur.
This is the second step of coordinate modification, "erasing" the original coordinates!
[How come it's so fast? ! ]
Kraken obviously also noticed this change, and the information he sent out was full of surprise: [In my impression, it takes at least ten times more time to get to this step, worthy of the existence of the third class of life...]
"Third class?"
Chen Fan's eyes moved, and the idea of Kraken's life class appeared in his mind again.
"Kraken."
He straightened his face and interrupted Kraken's chattering: "While I have some free time now, there is something I want to ask clearly, what exactly is the life class you mentioned earlier?"
"How much do you know about my life form?"
As soon as the voice fell, the severely shrunken starlight ocean suddenly fluctuated violently: [You...you don't know these things? ]
[But the concept of life class...is what they told me! 】
They?
Chen Fan was stunned for a moment, then reacted.
The "they" Kraken was talking about should be the ghost fleet.
Thinking of this, Chen Fan immediately recalled the lie he had told before.
His face turned bitter.
He never expected that the boomerang would hit him again.
"Cough!"
Chen Fan endured the feeling of emptiness brought by the rapid loss of energy in his body, and coughed awkwardly: "This question may be a bit complicated to explain."
He said seriously: "Theoretically, the ghost fleet is not my colleague now, but after a while, it should be."
Kraken: [? ]
Chen Fan did not pause at all. While Kraken's brain had not yet reacted, he told him the relationship between the ghost fleet and the Xinaluo civilization.
Kraken: [? ? ? ]
The pale red starlight ocean fluctuated violently, and countless blue light spots appeared in it, and then quickly merged into Chen Fan's consciousness.
After a long silence, Kraken seemed to have figured something out, and sighed: [Forget it. 】
【As long as you are the messenger mentioned in the prophecy, I don't want to care about anything else. 】
Kraken sighed again, and then explained in a low voice: 【Life class is the division of the ghost fleet. They divide the life in the universe into three categories based on the basic structure of life. 】
【The first category, material structure life, is also the most common life in the universe. 】
【Carbon-based, silicon-based, even the relatively rare sulfur-based and amino-based life, actually belong to this category of life. 】
【Of course, so far, I have only seen carbon-based life. 】 Kraken's tone was a little helpless, 【Besides me, there is only one Xinalo civilization in this universe... By the way, there are also those bugs. I am not very clear about their body structure, but they don't look like carbon-based life. 】
"Those bugs are between silicon-based and carbon-based, but they are more silicon-based, and can be considered silicon-carbon life forms." Chen Fan casually mentioned Wang Jing's previous research results. "In addition to the strong interaction force armor on the surface of the body, their skeletons are constructed of some high-strength silicon-based materials, but their body fluids are carbon-based, and their organs are substances formed by the combination of carbon and silicon."
Kraken was stunned: [Also, there is such a thing? ]
"Yes." Chen Fan shrugged and adjusted the intensity of the information flow by feel. "In short, the body structure of these bugs is quite rare. I remember Academician Wang seemed to say that no naturally formed silicon-carbon life forms have been found in the human union so far."
Kraken responded thoughtfully and continued to send out a vague message: [The second category, life based on non-material structures such as space, dimension, mathematical laws, and quantum. ]
[For example, I belong to the second category of life. ]
[I heard that there are also dimensional creatures and digital life, which are actually considered this kind of life. ]
[According to the ghost fleet, this kind of life is relatively rare, and the life class is also higher than the first category. 】
Chen Fan's face was a little pale, but his eyes were extremely bright.
He had heard Wang Jing mention dimensional creatures. Creatures based on dimensional architecture are born with the ability to control dimensions. They
can be said to be the true darlings of the universe. Civilizations below level eight that have not yet mastered dimensional technology can hardly cause any harm to them!
Digital life based on mathematical laws...
No need to think too much, this should be the Zero Ancestor.
As for quantum life...
Chen Fan's eyes flashed with confusion. What is this?
"What about the third type?" Chen Fan asked Kraken.
[...I don't know.]
Kraken was silent for a moment, and honestly gave an answer that Chen Fan did not expect.
"Ah??" Chen Fan's eyes widened, and he almost couldn't breathe. The information flow used to modify the coordinates also became disordered for a moment. "Didn't you say that the ghost fleet told you..."
[Yes.] Kraken's tone was a little helpless, [But they did not explain the third type of life form in detail, but only mentioned that there is a third type of life form in the universe, and this life form is far more advanced than the first two life forms. 】
【When I asked, they still brought out the same old excuse. 】
"Deviation again?" Chen Fan's heart moved, and he asked back.
Kraken confirmed Chen Fan's guess.
"Hiss, this is not right..."
Chen Fan took a breath of cold air, and then realized: "Since the ghost fleet didn't say it clearly, why did you know that my life class was higher than yours?"
【Instinct. 】
Kraken hesitated slightly: 【Although I don't know what kind of life you belong to, when I first met you, I felt a strong sense of threat from you. 】
【Subsequent contact also made me confirm this sudden feeling. 】
Listening to the riddle man's speech, Chen Fan sighed heavily.
It must be said that dealing with the ghost fleet is indeed a worrying thing.
Just when he wanted to continue to get some information from Kraken, a strong information wave attracted his attention.
——Under the continuous output of Kraken's external battery, the rock-solid coordinates finally loosened to a greater extent!
The numbers at the end of the coordinate string almost disappeared, and as the information flow continued to "erode", a new number appeared seamlessly at the end of the coordinate string.
"It's going to succeed!"
Chen Fan was a little excited as he watched the scenery around him gradually become illusory and blurred.
He did not hesitate and once again increased the "etching" strength of the information flow. Correspondingly, the energy output speed also suddenly increased!
On the other side, the undulating fluctuations on the surface of the pale red starlight ocean were basically smoothed out, and the light sea, which was originally hundreds of kilometers in size, began to fall below 100 kilometers at a speed visible to the naked eye!
Swish!!!
When the information fluctuations climbed to the extreme, the blurred starry sky around him suddenly disappeared, replaced by a barren land.
The bizarre five-dimensional space that he had seen several times before appeared in front of Chen Fan again.
Compared with the single picture seen in the starship, the consciousness directly exposed to the five-dimensional space can better experience some information that others cannot perceive.
Desolate and dead.
Let alone the breath of life, just by looking at it, Chen Fan felt a sense of suffocation from the inside out.
If the inside of the cosmic bubble is a vibrant oasis, then the five-dimensional space outside the cosmic bubble is a vast ocean of sand with no end in sight!
Compared with the five-dimensional space that Chen Fan usually sees, the five-dimensional space in front of Chen Fan is quite different - a huge, endless circular barrier is floating in the barren five-dimensional space, and the edge of the barrier extends to the surroundings with an endless film, and the film is flashing with bizarre light.
After a short moment of daze, Chen Fan simply outlined the outline of this giant in his mind.
This is a bubble, a bubble with a small pit on the surface, and he is in this small pit.
Yes.
This is the anti-universe, or more accurately, a small part of the anti-universe bubble.
And the place where he stayed was the small cosmic bubble cut out around the place of creation.
Between the two cosmic bubbles, there is a huge isolation belt composed of five-dimensional space, which is like a natural moat.
Before Chen Fan could recover from the shocking scene in front of him, a very familiar wave of information rushed towards him -
information pollution!!!
"Shit!"
Chen Fan exclaimed, and hurriedly built an information barrier next to his consciousness to resist the pervasive polluting information.
Good luck.
High-dimensional broadcasting had already helped him to fill up the relevant resistance, and with the means of information flow manipulation, this thing did not have a substantial impact on Chen Fan.
After ensuring his own safety, Chen Fan immediately turned his attention to these polluted information flows, trying to reverse their source from the flow direction of the information flow.
He looked into the distance.
It was a floating film that looked like a bubble and had no end in sight.
This was the cosmic membrane of the small universe bubble.
His consciousness was embedded on this film.
Considering the danger of consciousness collapse mentioned by Kraken, Chen Fan did not completely modify the coordinates to outside the cosmic membrane.
Just a glance, Chen Fan couldn't help but frown.
Those extremely familiar polluted information flows, like a layer of light water vapor, lingered on the surface of the small universe bubble, and continuously penetrated into the small universe along the cosmic membrane.
As for the five-dimensional space outside the small universe membrane... It
was so refreshing that there was no trace of polluted information flow at all!
"This..."
Looking at the scene in front of him, Chen Fan was completely stunned.
This is completely different from what he thought at the beginning!
The polluted information did not come from outside the cosmic membrane, but from the cosmic membrane around the consciousness body and the microcosm!
In other words, this polluted information was not the aftermath of the broadcasting civilization's attack on the human fleet! !
Wow...
an inexplicable wave came from a distance along the cosmic membrane around him, and Chen Fan subconsciously looked in the direction of the wave.
It was a double-pyramid starship. Because of the distance, it was as small as an ant in Chen Fan's eyes.
Genesis Fortress!
Chen Fan quickly recognized the identity of the starship.
Under his gaze, the Genesis Fortress was like a low-flying fighter, slowly passing over the undulating surface of the cosmic membrane. It
was not just a coincidence or something, it did not come into contact with the polluted information flow lingering on the surface of the cosmic membrane.
As the Genesis Fortress passed by, the weak space wave drifted past, and a layer of fine and dense material that looked like a gauze net also fell on the surface of the cosmic membrane.
The originally weak cosmic membrane quickly became tough after coming into contact with this layer of material specially made by the Genesis Fortress.
This should have been a good thing.
Until Chen Fan felt a strong sense of contraction and tension and an extremely dense flow of polluted information rushing towards him along the cosmic membrane in the distance!
At this moment, Chen Fan's originally calm expression completely changed!
(End of this chapter)
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