Chapter 527: Expanding Planck Time
The bright yellow light outside the porthole suddenly lit up, reflecting on Chen Fan's slightly pale face.
At this moment, Chen Fan felt that the starry sky in the distance seemed to be slightly stuck, and a faint sense of disharmony rose from the bottom of his heart.
"Hmm?"
He exclaimed softly, calmed down and looked at the starry sky again.
The starry sky returned to its usual state, and the previous faint sense of disharmony had disappeared.
Illusion?
Chen Fan didn't think so, especially after he noticed the extremely obscure and special information flow hidden in the starry sky.
"Stuck..."
"Could it be time?"
Chen Fan frowned and murmured in a voice that only he could hear: "But... it seems that nothing unusual has happened..."
The moment the voice fell.
Boom!!!
The flames of the explosion shot up from the core area of the battlefield and spread to the periphery of the battlefield at a very fast speed!
"Fuck!"*4
Watching the explosion in front of them without any warning, the investigators' starship suddenly heard a series of exclamations and warnings.
[Warning!]
[The communication link with the Z619 flagship has been interrupted!]
"This..." Chen Fan looked at the blazing light in the starry sky in shock, "What on earth happened?!"
"Master brain, try to retrieve the warship log remotely!"
Wang Jing's extremely serious voice came from the communication channel: "Retrieve the video footage and replay the explosion process in slow motion!"
"I want to find out what those giant scorpions did!"
Unlike Fang Yunsheng who was at the center of the explosion.
Chen Fan and Wang Jing, who were far behind the battlefield, were not shrouded in the scope of the bright yellow light. Accordingly, they could see more clearly what happened on the front battlefield.
So.
With Wang Jing's command, a holographic interface automatically unfolded in front of Chen Fan and the others, and a slow-motion picture from a high-precision observation instrument quickly appeared on it. With the technical support of the People's Union, these ultra-high-precision and ultra-long-distance observation instruments can even complete Planck time-level observations under ideal conditions.
Undoubtedly, this level of observation equipment is definitely not something that a regular warship can be equipped with. Normally, only the scientific research ships of the Academy of Sciences in the All-People's Union can carry this kind of laboratory-level precision equipment.
Fortunately, there was a scientific research ship at the scene of the "accident".
With this set of extremely expensive observation equipment, Chen Fan easily saw the complete process of this sudden explosion.
The moment before, the huge starry sky was as quiet as usual.
But in the next moment, when the pervasive bright yellow light in the starry sky reached its peak, a touch of azure light suddenly appeared at the tail of the warship!
When the picture jumped again, this azure light had turned into a ball of blazing flames that expanded spontaneously from the inside out.
As a Class I academician, although Wang Jing's research direction is pan-cosmic biology, she can still easily distinguish some common sense issues related to warships.
"Zero-point energy leak..."
In the communication channel, she squeezed out a few words from between her teeth: "This... How is this possible..."
Zero-point energy reactor, as the most important and dangerous part of the warship, the Human Union has spent a lot of effort on it.
As a highly active and highly dangerous energy source that has a strong corrosive and radiation effect on the surrounding objects, no matter what, avoiding leakage is the top priority.
Because of this, in a sense, the zero-point energy reactor is often the safest area in a warship - under extreme tests, even if the warship is hit by the enemy's penetrating attack, the many automated machines equipped with the zero-point energy reactor can complete the emergency treatment plan as soon as it is damaged.
In the database records of the Human Union, there are only a few single-digit incidents of zero-point energy leakage in warships, and they are basically caused by serious operating errors or operators' mistakes.
In other words...
In Wang Jing's cognition, this thing is impossible to leak!
A large-scale batch zero-point energy leakage problem like this...
let alone how small this possibility is!
"Log reading successful." The synthesized voice of the shipboard main brain sounded quietly.
Wang Jing's face was gloomy. She raised her hand and quickly swiped across the holographic interface in front of her. The log information from the damaged warship quickly appeared in front of her.
"......?"
"What the hell?"
"The instantaneous output power of zero-point energy reached 10000%?!"
"The reactor protection barrier was directly penetrated, and the emergency plan didn't even have time to remedy it?"
Wang Jing looked at the log in front of her with a look of astonishment, and she was in a bad mood: "Mastermind, are you kidding me?!" Do
you think this is a hundred times Kaio-ken, and it's all over with a burst of seeds and a shout?
This is real energy output power!
Apart from anything else, according to the data recorded in the log, at that moment, the instantaneous output power of the warship reactor even caught up with the level of the flagship of the peacekeeping fleet.
This is an event that goes against common sense and cognition!
To make an inappropriate analogy.
This is equivalent to using the motor of a shared bicycle to directly achieve the output efficiency of a tank.
Is this possible?
Damn, even if the motor of a shared bicycle is blown up, it can't do this! !
"Academician Wang, is it possible that the giant scorpion tampered with the time?"
Just when Wang Jing was confused, Chen Fan described his "illusion" in a hesitant tone.
However...
judging from the confused expressions of the people around him, no one else present had a similar feeling except him.
Hongshi didn't, Isa didn't, and Wang Jing didn't.
"The whole starry sky froze for a moment?"
Wang Jing frowned and called up the log information from the peacekeeping fleet again.
"There is no such reflection in the timeline of the log record. Even if it is accurate to Planck time, our time is completely synchronized with the peacekeeping fleet..."
Before the voice fell, Wang Jing seemed to have discovered something, and the confused expression on her face suddenly became solemn: "Wait!"
"I seem to have found a problem!"
While speaking, her eyes stayed on an inconspicuous area in the log record-the loss rate of the zero-point reactor.
As a device that can draw energy from the Dirac Sea, the structural strength of the zero-point reactor is naturally needless to say.
But even so, since it needs to come into direct contact with vacuum zero-point energy during operation, this device with amazing structural strength is an absolute consumable item. Normally, after a zero-point energy reactor has been operating at full power for one year, it will show considerable wear and tear.
Since the zero-point energy reactor can output full power for a very short time, and warships usually have several replacement parts inside, and the fleet is also equipped with functional starships such as engineering ships, this kind of wear and tear is usually not taken seriously.
It's just that...
this time the wear and tear inside the reactor is obviously abnormal.
After Wang Jing called up the specific wear and tear data, an extremely exaggerated curve appeared in front of everyone's eyes. After only consuming one Planck time, the wear and tear value inside the zero-point reactor soared by a full 1 percentage point!
This is not the strangest thing.
The really weird thing is that the working efficiency of the zero-point energy reactor has not changed at all before and after this Planck time! !
In other words, this zero-point energy reactor, with the same working efficiency and the same time, not only produced a hundred times of wear and tear, but also sucked a hundred times of vacuum zero-point energy from the Dirac Sea!
"Time! This is definitely time technology!!"
After learning the specific situation, Wang Jing quickly had a guess in his heart:
Apophis Giant Scorpion expanded the short Planck time... In other words, it expanded hundreds or even thousands of times!
Only in this way can the zero-point energy reactor release vacuum zero-point energy far beyond the battleship's tolerance limit in an instant!
"No!" Wang Jing's face was a little bleak, "This is already considered a time weapon!!"
As soon as the voice fell, the holographic interface that recorded various data quietly dissipated without any command, and finally formed a familiar figure beside Wang Jing.
"Academician Wang."
A familiar male voice sounded quietly: "Emergency order from the Academy of Sciences."
"Chief Lu requires you and Chen Fan to evacuate the cosmic bubble immediately."
The voice was gentle, but the order conveyed made everyone in the research ship and the investigator starship fall into silence.
"Retreat?" Chen Fan looked at the figure in the holographic interface in a daze, "Zero Ancestor, the crisis of the collapse of this cosmic bubble, and those Apophis giant scorpions..."
"The Academy of Sciences will find a way to deal with the sequelae of the collapse of the cosmic bubble." Zero interrupted Chen Fan's words, "As for the Apophis giant scorpions, the Z619 peacekeeping fleet will buy you enough time to evacuate."
Chen Fan's face was pale, as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, and a strong sense of meaning rose from behind him.
...
Front battlefield.
The flames of the explosion outside the porthole had spread to every warship in the peacekeeping fleet, and even the flagship fortress could not escape this disaster.
Boom! !
Accompanied by a huge explosion, a violent tremor came from the deck under his feet.
Then, numerous bright red warning messages suddenly popped up in front of Fang Yunsheng.
"... Attention."
"Emergency energy release operation has been completed." As the warning message popped up automatically, the voice of the ship's main brain also sounded quietly, "The current damage rate of this ship is 37.15%."
"The self-repair program is being executed, and the estimated repair time: 426 hours."
Fang Yunsheng glanced at the warning information roughly, and his already bad face became even gloomier.
The protective layer of the zero-point energy reactor was damaged and the zero-point energy leaked; the outer shell of the curvature engine was damaged and the output power dropped sharply; the armor layer of the warship was damaged; the warship's life support system was slightly damaged; the artificial gravity field was slightly damaged; the energy pathways of the entire ship were slightly damaged...
The dense warning messages deeply hurt his eyes.
Fortunately, the quality of the warships of the People's Alliance is excellent.
Even if the zero-point energy reactor suddenly exploded, the warship did not crash directly on the spot-before Fang Yunsheng gave an order, the ship's main brain had already responded to this emergency.
To be more precise, it was Zero who made the most correct choice by supervising the battle remotely.
Actively blasting open the energy pathways and outer armor, using the simplest and crudest method to release vacuum zero-point energy to the outside of the battleship, thereby greatly alleviating the internal pressure of the zero-point energy reactor...
Not bad.
The seemingly vigorous explosions in the starry sky, and the red war-damaged parts that filled the screen, were actually mostly "arm-breaking" operations made by Zero to preserve the battleship.
Looking at Zero, who appeared beside him at some point and was constructed by holographic projection, Fang Yunsheng subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.
But the next second, when Zero spoke, his heart tightened again.
Under Fang Yunsheng's gaze, Zero said solemnly, "I checked Wang Jing's research data. Your guess just now is correct. These Apophis did tamper with the timeline."
"Time technology..." Fang Yunsheng's heart sank, and he turned his head to glance at the communication link that was interrupted at some point. "Does Academician Wang have a plan to deal with it?"
"No."
Zero did not ease up at all, and directly gave a desperate answer: "Not only Academician Wang does not have any, the Academy of Sciences does not have any technical reserves for time attacks."
Looking at the Apophis giant scorpion gradually recovering from the virtual image state in the distant starry sky, Fang Yunsheng fell silent.
The technology that the Human Union is most proud of has been crushed by the other side. How can this battle be fought?
"The other three fleets have completed the wall-breaking work and have now entered the hyperspace membrane."
Without giving Fang Yunsheng time to breathe, Ling continued: "Genesis Fortress has issued a new round of rule strikes. The Academy of Sciences' opinion is to let the Z619 fleet deal with the opponent as much as possible and try to hold on until the friendly forces arrive. The most critical point..."
Ling's gentle voice seemed particularly cold at this moment: "Buy time for Chen Fan and Wang Jing to evacuate."
The moment the voice fell, Fang Yunsheng fell silent.
Not only Fang Yunsheng, but all the officers in the entire command center fell silent.
As a member of the Human Alliance, everyone knew the true meaning of this order.
A moment.
Under Zero's gaze, Fang Yunsheng nodded calmly: "I understand."
Under the reflection of the blazing fire outside the porthole, Fang Yunsheng looked solemn. He slowly raised his right hand and saluted Zero in front of him with a standard Human Alliance salute.
"May the glory of the Human Alliance last forever."
After the voice fell, he turned around without any hesitation and issued the final order to everyone in the command center in a hoarse voice.
"Attention all ships!"
"Start the jump engine immediately, target... Apophis Scorpion Swarm."
Buzz!!!
Violent humming and vibrations came from all around. With the full repair of the ship's main brain, the flagship, which had barely recovered its power, issued a whine that only they could hear.
The stagnant space-time fluctuations reappeared, and the intermittent deep blue light at the ship's guns once again lit up, and a macro electron slowly emerged in the starry sky.
Swish!!!
When the battleship's body became blurred, countless long or short [strings] from the Genesis Fortress also crossed the distant starry sky and officially arrived at this battlefield!
"Charge!!!"
With Fang Yunsheng's roar, the warships with varying degrees of damage to the hull disappeared into the visible universe! !
Not far away.
In the gradually weakening bright yellow light, the illusory figure of the Apophis giant scorpion gradually became solid.
They immediately noticed the space-time fluctuations generated when the fleet entered the jump.
Roar!!
The leader of the largest giant scorpion opened his mouth and let out a hissing sound towards the starry sky in front of him.
At this moment, it also realized a problem.
This will be the final collision between the two sides! !
Either live or die.
No other choice.
[For the glory of the king! ! ]
[For the "ultimate"! ! ! ]
With the roar of the giant scorpion leader, hundreds of other Apophis giant scorpions also became agitated.
They also did not hesitate at all.
The scarlet eyes of each giant scorpion were filled with fanaticism. They followed behind the leader and charged in the direction of the space-time fluctuations! !
(End of this chapter)
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