Chapter 581 Singularity Information Bridge and Projection Space
Faced with Hongshi’s questioning, Chen Fan fell into silence.
"Okay..."
Chen Fan sighed helplessly: "I admit that the situation is indeed a bit beyond expectations."
"...The damage to the [Gaia] planetary fortress exceeds 35%." Redstone ignored Chen Fan's words, and quickly called up a series of holographic interfaces full of various error messages, "More importantly, our hyperspace membrane communication and information flow communication with the main universe have been interrupted." "
No need to mention the hyperspace membrane communication." Chen Fan took over the conversation, "This thing can only be used near the hyperspace membrane. As for the information flow communication..."
"I just tried it, and the transmission of information flow in this space is very normal. It is estimated that it has been obstructed by some kind of obstacle, or it is caused by the current insufficient information flow intensity of the Human Union." "
Then is there any solution?" Redstone asked the most critical question, "We can't just sit here and wait to die, right?"
Chen Fan scratched his head again, and gave an answer after holding it in for a while: "Anyway..."
"Let's get in touch with Captain Fang first."
"No matter what needs to be done next, it's always right to reintegrate the fleet first."
...
An hour later.
"...More than 230,000 main battleships are missing, more than 300,000 battleships are damaged by more than 50%, and only more than 50,000 main battleships are damaged less than 20%."
In the communication interface with faint red warning information, Fang Yunsheng reported the specific situation of the fleet with a grim face: "I roughly estimated that the Z619 expeditionary fleet can only exert 40% of its combat capability at most."
"So serious?" Although he had been mentally prepared, Hongshi was still shocked by this shocking number.
40% combat capability, rounded off, what is the difference between this and the original peacekeeping fleet?
If a group of Apophis giant scorpions come at this time...
Such a picture flashed through his mind, and the blood-red marquee flickered again.
"?"
Fang Yunsheng looked at the cockpit that looked like a disco with a strange expression. After barely sorting out his emotions, he continued, "Although I don't know what happened, the sudden information storm almost burned the information barrier generation devices of all conventional warships. Only the two Genesis Fortresses with extremely high redundancy withstood the storm." "
It is also for this reason that the damaged areas of the warships are basically concentrated in the armor layer, engine, and information flow generation and control unit. If there is enough repair time, the combat capability of the fleet can be restored to 70% of the baseline combat capability." "
In addition, the self-inspection results show that although the two Genesis Fortresses had a strong collision in the chaos, their core components did not suffer much damage."
Hearing this, Hongshi's tense expression finally relaxed a little, and the frequency of the marquee also decreased a lot: "This should be the best news."
Suddenly.
Chen Fan, who had been silently staring at the endless deep space outside the holographic porthole and acting as a background board, interrupted the conversation without warning: "... I suspect that the jump channel collapsed."
"What?" Fang Yunsheng was stunned and didn't understand what Chen Fan meant for a while.
"You can think of a black hole jump as a larger version of a wormhole." Chen Fan retracted his gaze and muttered to himself thoughtfully, "A wormhole will produce a high-dimensional channel, and a black hole jump should also produce a channel, or a bridge."
"It's just that this bridge is built by information flow."
"Perhaps it is because the central singularity is greatly disordered, causing the information bridge connecting the Apophis mother universe to collapse. The previous information storm of astonishing intensity was formed because of this."
Hearing this, Fang Yunsheng frowned: "I have experienced the collapse of wormholes many times before. Usually, warships will fall into the low-dimensional space along the way."
"But after the information bridge collapses..."
"That's the problem." Chen Fan shrugged, "Judging from the interruption of communication in the main universe, this space does not belong to the hyperspace membrane, but from the basic coordinate parameters..."
"Except for some special changes in the first parameter, the other five parameters are actually completely consistent with the laws of the hyperspace membrane area."
"This means that there is still a certain correlation between this space and the hyperspace membrane."
As if thinking of something, Chen Fan's eyes lit up slightly: "It's like... a projection?"
"Projection?"
"Yes, the projection of the hyperspace membrane!" Chen Fan was a little excited. "High-dimensional objects can form projections in low-dimensional space, so the hyperspace membrane should also be able to form a projection!"
"Yes!"
Thinking that the second coordinate parameter will only change when crossing the universe, Chen Fan became more and more certain of his conjecture: "Only when crossing the hyperspace membrane can the first coordinate parameter change!!"
As everyone looked at each other in bewilderment, Chen Fan quickly called up a simulated star map of the hyperspace membrane-except for the interior of the territory, the human alliance's detection of the entire hyperspace membrane is basically based on some indirect observation results.
"If this conjecture is true, we can completely ignore the changes in the first coordinate parameter, and thus lock the corresponding position of the fleet on the hyperspace membrane..."
In Fang Yunsheng's shocked eyes, Chen Fan's fingers swept across the small yellowish area in the star map that symbolized the territory of the human alliance, and without any pause, crossed countless gray blocks that symbolized unexplored areas, and finally stopped at the edge of the hyperspace membrane network.
"It's here!"
Chen Fan paused, and then tapped the gray block hard.
"This is impossible!" Fang Yunsheng jumped up from his seat and looked at Chen Fan in shock. "Do you know how far this place is from the Human Union?!"
"This... this can't even be measured using the Human Union's existing distance units!"
"But this is the fact."
Unlike Fang Yunsheng, Chen Fan's expression was quite calm: "From the moment we entered the singularity, the fleet's coordinate parameters changed drastically."
Fang Yunsheng looked at the gray area under Chen Fan's finger with an uncertain expression.
The initial shock gradually faded, and his emotions also calmed down: "You mean, we crossed a huge star field that is tens of millions times larger than the human universe in just a few minutes?"
"If that's the case, then this black hole jump is too..."
"No." Chen Fan interrupted Fang Yunsheng's words, "To correct, the entire jump process is probably calculated in Planck time. The few minutes we experienced, part of it is the time to enter the information bridge, and the other part is the time when the information bridge collapses."
Fang Yunsheng opened his mouth, but didn't say a complete sentence.
In the blink of an eye, we arrived at the "edge" of the hyperspace membrane. This experience... is a bit too bizarre.
"Then how far are we from the Apophis universe?" Redstone's voice came again in the blood-red ticker. "We've run so far, we should be close to our destination, right?"
This remark woke Fang Yunsheng up from his dream.
Fang Yunsheng's wandering eyes suddenly became focused. He looked at Chen Fan expectantly, hoping to hear a positive answer.
But...
Chen Fan silently looked at the end of the second digit of the coordinate parameter, which had not changed at all, [32], and pursed his lips.
"Very far."
He lowered his hand somewhat helplessly. "Although I don't know the exact distance, I can tell you that if my guess is correct, we may not even have crossed half the distance." As soon as he
finished speaking, the communication channel suddenly fell into a dead silence.
Fang Yunsheng's Adam's apple moved slightly, and his empty eyes were filled with confusion.
The fleet had arrived at the edge of the hyperspace membrane detected by the Human Union, but it was far from reaching the target universe. At the same time, the fleet had neither the ability to continue moving forward nor the ability to return. The most critical point was that the location of the fleet was not a standard hyperspace membrane area!
Faced with such a difficult situation, even Fang Yunsheng could not help but feel desperate.
"...Repair the fleet."
Chen Fan lowered his eyes and said in a hoarse voice: "I'll see if I can find a way to escape from this projected space."
...
Time passed quickly.
A whole week had passed, but the surrounding deep space had not changed at all.
There were no cosmic bubbles, no celestial structures, and no physical matter of any form. This was a pure space.
It seemed that the hyperspace membrane had abandoned all macroscopic and microscopic matter and only projected itself down.
Fortunately.
The vacuum zero-point energy was still highly active in this mysterious projected space, and the Human Union Fleet would not fall into a situation of energy depletion.
More importantly, for the expeditionary fleet with the top technology of the Human Alliance, having energy actually means having everything. Although the efficiency is touching, the mass-energy conversion system can indeed solve almost all the difficulties of the fleet.
The gradually restored bright golden shield enveloped the entire fleet. With the countless shipborne robots working day and night, the originally broken fleet was recovering at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The engine, information flow generation and control unit...
all the faults were being eliminated one by one.
It seemed that everything was moving in the right direction.
But...
Chen Fan did not find a way to escape from the projection space.
He tried to modify the coordinate parameters directly, but even if he extracted enough zero-point energy from the Genesis Fortress to supply the regular fleet with a normal sailing for a year, the [32] at the end of the first and second coordinate parameters was still welded, without any trace of change.
He also tried to transmit the information flow to the depths of the projection space, that is, the direction of the pan-universe, but all he got in response was endless silence.
None of the above failed attempts made Chen Fan give up.
What really made Chen Fan despair was the abnormal situation of the fleet itself - the fleet was anchored.
It was not an external anchoring caused by the collapse of the singularity information bridge, but an anchoring caused by its own reasons in the true sense!
Just the day before, the fleet, which had basically completed the internal repairs, was preparing to start the repair work on the outer armor.
The warship itself is very large, and this kind of repair work on the outer armor certainly cannot rely on the maintenance machinery inside the warship. Usually, these works are uniformly constructed by engineering ships one by one - just like laying tiles, engineering ships can repair warship armor on a large scale.
At the moment when a large number of engineering ships spent a week to complete the armor preparation, an accident occurred.
The engineering ship could not sail.
No matter how to increase the output power of the curvature device and the phase engine, each engineering ship stayed quietly in place, without any sign of sailing.
This abnormal phenomenon quickly attracted Fang Yunsheng's attention.
He ordered the fleet's main battleships and the Genesis Fortress to sail, trying to use this to troubleshoot the faults of the engineering ships themselves.
Then...
like the engineering ships, all the human-linked warships stayed quietly in place, as if they had completely lost the ability to sail.
...
In the communication channel, Fang Yunsheng's eyes were full of bloodshot.
He looked at the space-time curvature in the holographic interface, which did not change at all, and even wondered if he was hallucinating.
"All kinds of weapons have been tested."
Fang Yunsheng raised his hand and rubbed his face vigorously: "Like the curvature engine, any form of weapon did not cause changes in the surrounding space-time."
"Not only that, the moment the particle weapon broke away from the Genesis Fortress rule field, those microscopic particles directly escaped in the form of information flow."
"This projection space does not seem to allow the existence of any macroscopic matter."
"I don't understand! Why did this happen?!"
Fang Yunsheng's spirit was almost collapsed. He could tolerate the fleet being trapped, but he could not accept that his fleet did not even have the most basic ability to move!
Chen Fan did not speak, but just thought about something silently with a gloomy face.
After a long time, he slowly said: "In this week, I have left 37 times in total to find a way to escape."
The moment the voice fell, Fang Yunsheng's pupils instantly dilated: "You..."
"Can you move normally?"
"Yes."
Chen Fan nodded: "Not only can you move normally, but you can also leave the rule field and information barrier constructed by the Genesis Fortress at will."
"It's just that I rely on modifying the coordinate parameters to achieve the action."
"... I understand."
Hearing this, Fang Yunsheng has already understood, and the bitterness on his face is getting stronger: "Here... belongs to the world of information flow."
Chen Fan nodded and acquiesced to this sentence.
The projection of the hyperspace membrane is a pure information flow.
All abnormal situations have been explained.
No wonder such a powerful information storm will be formed after the collapse of the singularity information bridge-the fleet is equivalent to falling directly into a sea of information flow, and the splashing "waves" are enough to overturn any conventional warship!
At the same time, the curvature of space-time is projected. Even if the curvature engine is smoked, it is impossible to change this "illusory" curvature.
"Now..."
Fang Yunsheng fell into the seat behind him, his tone full of dejection: "We are completely trapped."
(End of this chapter)
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