Chapter 540 A ray of hope
"..."
Wang Jing was a little absent-minded. With Chen Fan's reminder, the scene that was almost abandoned in the corner of her memory slowly emerged in her mind.
"I seem to have some impression of this matter."
She raised her hand and hesitated to swipe across the holographic interface.
Dense log information quickly appeared in front of everyone's eyes, and then the shipboard main brain marked a row of navigation logs that were pressed at the bottom by countless observation records and mission records.
Wang Jing's fingers moved lightly, and the inconspicuous row of navigation logs also unfolded.
This is a complete star map that encompasses the entire node universe.
In the star map with a pure black background, countless star points gather together to form a macro structure with different shapes, but the whole is like a city wall.
This is the interstellar Great Wall.
Outside the cosmic bubble, it is the only cosmic structure that can be directly observed with the naked eye.
Inside these magnificent Great Wall structures, there are dark holes that look like bubbles.
The scale of the holes varies, some are only millions of light years, while others reach hundreds of millions or even billions of light years.
Under the influence of dark matter and macroscopic gravitational effects, these voids are almost randomly scattered inside the interstellar Great Wall. From the outside, there is almost no difference between them except for the different scales.
The next second.
An orange-yellow light spot slowly lit up in the deep star map.
Chen Fan's heart moved, and he quickly identified the coordinates of the orange light spot - that was the coordinates of the ghost fleet's first jump.
The white dotted line symbolizing the starship's track started from this orange light spot and extended directly to a newly appeared orange light spot in the distance.
One, two, three...
A full 8192 orange light spots appeared in the star map one after another, combined with the white starship route, forming a spherical structure that almost covered the entire universe bubble.
And in the center of this spherical structure is the super-large black hole where Chen Fan and Wang Jing entered the anti-universe.
"...All coordinates should be here." Wang Jing's voice came from the side.
"That's all?"
In the communication interface, Chief Lu carefully examined the star map, and his originally anxious expression relaxed: "There are a total of 8192 targets. Compared with the entire universe bubble before, the scope of investigation has been narrowed a lot."
"The Academy of Sciences will dispatch corresponding ships as soon as possible to carry out investigation and testing."
"If we are lucky... we will be able to see preliminary results within 12 hours."
Listening to Chief Lu's words, Wang Jing's face changed a little: "Chief Lu, there is a situation that you may not be very clear about..."
"What?"
"The node universe once gave birth to a true level II artificial intelligence, [Su Zheng], whose combat power far exceeds that of a conventional level eight civilization."
Wang Jing narrated in a low voice: "In theory, [Su Zheng] should be the first advanced civilization to have a head-on collision with the Apophis Giant Scorpion."
"In fact, the fundamental reason for the appearance of the Apophis Giant Scorpion in the anti-universe is also due to this level II artificial intelligence."
"I remember." Chief Lu thought for a moment, and said suddenly, "I should have seen this mission report, so [Su Zheng] should have been imprisoned in the electronic prison by Zero, right?"
"What do you want to explain?"
"In order to resist the attack of the Apophis giant scorpion, [Su Zheng] has displaced and transformed the black holes in the node universe to a certain extent." Wang Jing's face was full of helplessness, "So, unlike the void structure in the normal universe, these holes..."
"There are black holes in plural form."
"I have conducted preliminary observations, and the number of black holes in these 8192 cosmic void structures..." Wang Jing paused, "Conservatively estimated, it is over 100,000."
"This is still a data sample after eliminating all small and micro black holes."
Listening to Wang Jing's words, the faint smile on Chief Lu's face finally disappeared, and he frowned: "To conduct a comprehensive detection of 100,000 black holes, this is a huge project."
"And it's in the node universe." Wang Jing sighed softly, "Large starships that can quickly complete detection missions can't get into the node universe at all, and small starships..."
"Not only is the detection speed slow, but I estimate that it will be difficult to transfer so many small starships that meet the standards from the surrounding universe in a short period of time."
"This is indeed a big trouble..." Chief Lu frowned and fell into deep thought.
Seeing that things were at a stalemate again, the anxiety that had been lingering in Chen Fan's heart became stronger again.
——The anti-universe bubble and the node universe collapsed at the same time. Not to mention the crisis that the Human Union might face, at least his hometown was completely gone.
As a time traveler, he didn't have any relatives in the real sense. This explosion had to blow his hometown away...
Who can bear this!
So...
After struggling for a long time, Chen Fan still carefully asked Wang Jing, who was also lost in thought.
"Academician Wang, what are the specific standards for small starships that you mentioned just now?"
"There is no specific standard." Wang Jing did not take Chen Fan's question seriously. She just gave a vague answer, "The macro channel is inside the black hole. Therefore, the stimulation of the macro channel, to put it bluntly, is to stimulate the black hole through space-time fluctuations and gravitational fluctuations."
"In theory, at least a small starship of level eight civilization has this ability."
"Space-time fluctuations..." Chen Fan nodded thoughtfully, "What if we use the space-time resonance effect?"
"Then the standard may be lowered a bit. Starships of level six or level seven civilizations may be able to meet the standard, but if so, the number of starships required will be astonishing..." Wang Jing suddenly came back to her senses and paused, "You kid... why are you asking this?"
"What? Can you still conjure up a bunch of level 6 and level 7 starships for me?"
She shook her head and turned her attention back to the holographic interface in front of her.
She didn't notice that the moment she finished speaking, Chen Fan's expression suddenly became serious.
He sat up straight, raised his hand to open the communication interface, and clicked on Mochi's communication number.
After communicating with the round black and white ball in the communication interface, a faint smile suddenly appeared on Chen Fan's face.
"Academician Wang, 20 million small starships that meet the level 7 standards of the Human Union, plus 50 million small starships that meet the level 6 standards, are they enough?"
Chen Fan's voice echoed in the communication channel, and the expressions on the faces of Wang Jing and Chief Lu, who were struggling to think of a solution, froze at the same time.
"Duo, Duo Shao?!"
Wang Jing stood up from the driving seat of the research ship, and even the tone of his voice was a little strange: "Where did you get so many small starships of advanced civilizations?"
"Did you go robbing?"
This was Wang Jing's immediate reaction.
Conventional small starships are nothing. After all, for a slightly stronger interstellar civilization, the number of small starships is basically an astronomical figure.
But if it is a level 7 or 6 small starship, it is different.
The distribution of civilization strength in the pan-universe is arranged in a pyramid. As a standard high-level civilization, considering that the scope is limited to the cosmic bubble around the node universe, the number of all level 6 and level 7 civilizations is actually not that many - the location of the node universe is already considered the frontier area of the human alliance.
At the same time, the territories of these advanced civilizations in the universe are usually quite broad, and accordingly, those starships are also very loose.
Under such conditions, it is not difficult to mobilize tens of millions of small starships that meet the standards in more than ten hours...
It can only be said to be quite difficult!
"Just tell me if it's enough?" Chen Fan asked cheerfully.
"Wait a minute..." Wang Jing's eyes twitched, and she raised her hand to call up a holographic interface, "I have to calculate first... You kid, you'd better not be fooling me..."
"Enough."
Just as Wang Jing began to output a series of complex numbers to the ship's main brain, Chief Lu's voice had already quietly come from the communication channel: "Zero has already calculated that a fleet of this size is enough to rely on the space-time resonance effect to have a strong enough impact on black holes and macro channels."
"Chen Fan, where are those starships?"
Chief Lu looked at Chen Fan with burning eyes: "If they are close to the node universe, maybe we can really catch up..."
"They are in the node universe." Facing Chief Lu's gaze, Chen Fan's mouth corners rose slightly, "To be more precise, they are all in the central black hole star field of the node universe."
"...Are you talking about the fleet left behind by [Su Zheng]?"
Wang Jing seemed to have thought of something. She stopped the calculation in her hands and frowned tightly: "I remember that those battleships were basically destroyed in the war, right?"
"Even if some warships have relatively complete functions, it takes a lot of time to temporarily build the underlying operating system for tens of millions of warships and temporarily test the functions of various warships!"
"Even with Zero's help, this cannot be done in more than ten hours."
Chen Fan looked at Wang Jing in surprise.
After hesitating for a moment, he scratched his head: "But... I didn't say that the warships left by [Su Zheng] were used."
"......?" Wang Jing was stunned, "Then you..."
"Did you really go to rob?"
...
A few minutes later.
"Dena civilization?"
Looking at the Mashu sitting upright in the communication interface, Wang Jing felt that her brain was a little confused: "You mean, just a while ago, the Dena civilization sent a large-scale scrap recycling fleet to enter the node universe through the star gate?"
"Using the identity identification information of this kid Chen Fan?!"
Sensing the gazes of Wang Jing and Chief Lu at the same time, Chen Fan calmly glared at Mashu who had exposed his past, and then coughed lightly: "Academician Wang, I remember... According to convention, the disposal rights of these gadgets should belong to the investigators, right?"
"???"
Wang Jing's eyes widened: "You call the 10 billion scale [Suzheng] fleet a gadget?"
"Cough..."
Chen Fan looked away awkwardly: "All, they are almost the same..."
"Yes, that's right!"
"I asked Academician Song, he said that the management bureau does have this convention!"
Facing the scrutiny of the two big guys, Chen Fan did not hesitate at all and directly threw the blame to Song Ziliang who was far away in the main universe of the human union.
Sorry, Ziliang-san.
Someone has to take the blame.
At most, he can give some of the commission from the Dena civilization to Song Ziliang, as a spiritual compensation for him.
Just give 20%... No, 10%.
Chen Fan made up his mind silently.
"...Wait!" Wang Jing looked at the information in the holographic interface beside him, "I was wondering why this Dena civilization sounds so familiar. Isn't this civilization that recycles waste in the pan-universe only at the level of level five?"
"When did they achieve a technological breakthrough? And they can take out tens of millions of high-level starships at once?"
"Uh..." Chen Fan's smile became more and more stiff, "I heard it, just heard it!"
"Because the warships left by [Su Zheng] are relatively high-end, the Dena civilization temporarily rented the corresponding starships from many high-level civilizations in the pan-universe..."
Wang Jing fell silent again: "..."
A level five civilization rented tens of millions of starships from level six and level seven civilizations. Although they are all small starships, this financial strength is not to be underestimated!
You know, it is difficult for some weak level six and level seven civilizations to have so many starships available for deployment at once!
"Damn..." She stared absentmindedly at the dim starry sky outside the porthole, "The business of recycling waste... is it so profitable?"
Chen Fan's heart skipped a beat, and he said with a stiff face: "I heard that... they completely emptied all the foreign exchange reserves of the Dena civilization for this recycling operation, and they were bankrupt."
"You are quite clear." Wang Jing glanced at Chen Fan coldly, "Okay, since the management bureau has this practice, I will not pursue the responsibility, and I will not say anything about the Dena civilization."
"As for Xiao Song..."
"Just fine him the salary and bonus for the next ten years." In the communication interface, Chief Lu, who was listening happily, said casually, "It can be regarded as an unintentional good deed, a small punishment will be enough."
Wang Jing nodded silently, and looked at Chen Fan again: "Why are you still standing there?"
"Why don't you contact the Dena civilization quickly?"
Chen Fan suddenly came back to his senses, and while responding to Wang Jing's words, he quickly dialed a communication method that had been recorded on the smart terminal a long time ago.
[The first person to suppress the voice of the human connection]
Of course.
This note did not escape the eyes of Wang Jing and Chief Lu.
Looking at the subtle looks of the two, Chen Fan felt that he had completely died socially.
He looked at the communication interface that had not been connected with despair. Since he joined the Administration, he had never hated this waiting interface with deliberately enlarged notes and avatars so much - you TNND, hurry up and answer the phone! !
"Welcome to Dena Waste Recycling Co., Ltd. This is Li Te. May I ask what you can do..."
An extremely deep voice, even with chest resonance, sounded in the cockpit. Then, the waiting interface that made Chen Fan feel extremely anxious slowly dissipated, and was replaced by a humanoid intelligent creature with gray skin, hard shells and fine scales on his back.
"... Mr. Chen Fan!"
The moment he saw the communication interface clearly, Li Te's face suddenly showed a strong surprise: "Long time no see!"
"...The notes are good, very vivid."
At the same time, Chief Lu's teasing voice came from the communication channel.
Chen Fan's face froze.
Tired.
At this moment, he even had the idea of letting the anti-universe bubble and the node universe explode on the spot - this world is indeed better to be destroyed.
(End of this chapter)
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