Chapter 584 Quadrant and Bait
Although the other party's identity has been authenticated, this sudden change still caused a big commotion in the expedition fleet.
This is normal.
Anyone who sees warships of similar size crashing into them will probably not be too calm.
Fortunately, Fang Yunsheng issued an urgent order, and the commotion in the fleet quickly subsided. Each warship hovered steadily in its original position, silently waiting for the situation to change.
The ghost fleet moved very quickly.
After only a few dozen seconds, those warships with dilapidated appearances were evenly distributed inside the expedition fleet. The two fleets of similar styles merged into one at this moment and blended with each other.
"This..."
Inside the flagship fortress, Fang Yunsheng looked out the porthole at a warship that was almost missing one-fifth of its hull. For a moment, he found it difficult to understand the meaning of the ghost fleet's behavior: "What do they want to do?"
Chen Fan also watched the changes outside the holographic porthole. Unlike Fang Yunsheng, he could use some weak changes in information flow to spy on the ghost fleet's intentions in advance.
When he felt a familiar information fluctuation emerging from the fleet and quickly enveloping the entire fleet, Chen Fan's eyes suddenly revealed a look of enlightenment.
"Guide."
Chen Fan murmured in a low voice, saying a word that was exactly the same as the ghost fleet.
"Guide?" Fang Yunsheng was stunned, and the confusion on his face became more and more intense, "Where to go?"
"If nothing unexpected happens, it should be to cross this macro barrier."
"As for the final destination..." Looking at the information entropy fluctuation value that began to slowly rise again in the holographic interface, Chen Fan gave a positive answer, "Apophis Mother Universe."
The moment the voice fell, the information entropy fluctuation value suddenly rose, and the world in front of him once again switched to the abstract sketch style.
In Chen Fan's perception, the string of coordinate parameters that had almost stagnated began to change rapidly again.
More importantly,
the suffix [32] at the end of the second coordinate parameter gradually dimmed under his gaze! When the abstract pixel-style image in front of him returned to normal, the coordinate suffix that had troubled Chen Fan for a long time finally made a qualitative leap! [31]!
The invisible macro barrier was completely left behind at this moment! Chen Fan subconsciously raised his head and looked at the holographic porthole beside him. Except for the ghost fleet that was shining with a white luster and the super-large-scale golden composite shield from the Genesis Fortress, the porthole was still a deep darkness. The projection space did not change at all. Like the expedition fleet, the ghost fleet also quietly docked in this empty projection space. Compared with before, the white light on them was obviously dimmed. Obviously, even for the ghost fleet, it was quite difficult to "guide" the expedition fleet across the macro barrier. "What exactly is this place?" Taking advantage of the moment when the ghost fleet paused its coordinate jump, Chen Fan quickly asked the other party: "This question won't cause the so-called deviation, right?" As before, the ghost fleet did not give an immediate answer. The fluorescent light outside the holographic porthole flickered slightly, as if this mysterious fleet was having a fierce discussion on this issue. After a long time, a stream of information came. [We call it subspace.] [Of course, a long time ago, it was also called projection space.] "Information state projection of the hyperspace membrane?" Chen Fan's heart moved and he continued to ask. [Yes.] "Then what does the suffix [32] at the end of the second coordinate parameter mean?" Finding that the ghost fleet's willingness to answer was quite good, Chen Fan did not have time to think carefully and hurriedly asked the second question: "Why couldn't our fleet move forward before? Was it because of some invisible macro barrier?" The ghost fleet was silent for even longer. [We call it quadrant.] [There is a rule barrier between quadrants, and projecting it into the subspace is an invisible barrier that is difficult to cross.] "Quadrant..." Chen Fan's mind was greatly shocked. Although the Ghost Fleet's explanation was very sloppy, he still read some deep information from the word "quadrant". According to the standard definition, the word "quadrant" is usually only used in the plane rectangular coordinate system. The four areas divided by the horizontal and vertical axes of the coordinate system are the four quadrants. But if the plane rectangular coordinate system is substituted into the hyperspace membrane itself... then the so-called horizontal and vertical axes are probably the rule barriers mentioned by the Ghost Fleet, and [32] and [28] are different areas of the hyperspace membrane. As for what the rule barriers are... this is not difficult to understand - Song Ziliang once briefly observed that the hyperspace membrane was not uniform, which actually proved that there may be multiple rule-different blocks on the hyperspace membrane. And the partitions between these rule-different blocks are the so-called rule barriers. "...How many quadrants are there in the hyperspace membrane?" Chen Fan's eyes moved and he asked again. [32. ] There are only 32 quadrants... That means that the pan-universe where the Human Union is located is the last quadrant! Before Chen Fan could continue to ask, the ghost fleet once again emitted a dazzling white light, interrupting his intention: [The second coordinate jump is about to begin, Your Majesty, please be prepared. ]
Swish! !
I don't know if it was Chen Fan's illusion or something, but the ghost fleet seemed to be afraid that Chen Fan would continue to ask questions. They didn't even wait for Chen Fan to reply. With a strong wave of information, the high-definition world fell into an abstract sketch style again.
The next second.
Chen Fan's attention was attracted by the rapidly changing coordinate parameters.
The coordinate area that was originally engraved with [31] was fading at a speed visible to the naked eye, and gradually showed the word [30].
After noticing this, Chen Fan was completely stunned.
A jump span of a whole quadrant! !
This is much more powerful than his jump span of 100,000 pan-universe spans! !
In addition to being shocked, Chen Fan also keenly noticed a strange phenomenon - the distance the fleet crossed in the 32nd quadrant and the 31st quadrant was completely different, and the gap between the two was even several times!
After a little thought, he had a vague understanding in his heart.
Just like the plane rectangular coordinate system, from the first quadrant to the third quadrant, although it needs to pass through the second or fourth quadrant, the distance it crosses will also change dramatically as the angle of travel changes.
I think the same is true for the hyperspace membrane.
The ghost fleet must have chosen the shortest and fastest route.
But in the next moment.
Looking at the word [30] that was almost completely formed in the coordinate parameters, a shocking idea suddenly flashed through Chen Fan's mind.
You know, the plane rectangular coordinate system has an origin. From the first quadrant to the third quadrant, if you choose to pass through the origin, you don't need to pass through the second or fourth quadrant!
Then... where is the origin of the hyperspace membrane?
More importantly...
this extremely precise coordinate parameter system that has been running for who knows how long, is it naturally formed or artificially set?
Chen Fan shuddered.
After the second coordinate jump was over, Chen Fan hurriedly asked the ghost fleet these shocking questions.
But…
no matter how long Chen Fan waited, even if the Ghost Fleet began its third coordinate jump, even if the string of suffix numbers representing the quadrant gradually changed from [30] to [29], Chen Fan did not wait for the Ghost Fleet's answer.
Obviously,
in the Ghost Fleet's view, these sensitive questions were bound to cause deviations.
Of course, there is another possibility.
That is, the Ghost Fleet itself is not aware of these secrets.
...
The [29th] quadrant of the hyperspace membrane.
Just like the previous jumps, after successfully crossing the rule barrier, the Ghost Fleet began a short rest.
As for the Expedition Fleet, it took advantage of this gap to get busy.
Although there is no matter in the subspace, because it is an information state projection of the hyperspace membrane, the fleet can still observe the rule information of the corresponding area from it.
The rule information spanning three quadrants is undoubtedly a priceless research material for the Human Alliance that has not yet stepped out of the quadrant!
Therefore.
Whenever the Ghost Fleet entered a rest period, the Expedition Fleet turned on all active and passive detection equipment to complete the exploration work with the highest possible efficiency.
"Ding-Ding-Ding-"
At the moment when the Expedition Fleet turned on the detection equipment as before, a piercing alarm suddenly sounded, attracting Fang Yunsheng's attention.
"Another high-intensity information flow?"
Looking at the prompt information in the holographic interface, Fang Yunsheng was stunned: "And it's an information flow with a recognition level of AAAAA?"
"How the hell is this possible?"
AAAAA recognition, this almost means that the other party is a member of the Human Alliance! !
On the other side.
At the moment when the alarm sounded in the flagship command center, Chen Fan, who was in the [Gaia] planetary fortress, also turned his head and looked at the holographic porthole on the left side of the cockpit with a puzzled look.
"That is..."
There was a puzzled light in his eyes: "The Human Alliance Expedition Fleet?"
Chen Fan's heart moved, and a thin stream of information shot out, tracing back to the source of the high-intensity information flow!
In just a blink of an eye, a picture that shook his mind violently came back from the detection information flow and appeared in his mind.
It was a fleet that Chen Fan was extremely familiar with.
Two Genesis Fortresses, hundreds of thousands of conventional warships, and... a planetary fortress that was all khaki and had a very different style!
"Z619 Expeditionary Fleet?!"
Looking at the words engraved on the side of the warship, Chen Fan finally couldn't help but let out a cry of surprise: "What the hell is going on?!"
"Sir Chen Fan, have you also discovered it?"
The communication channel automatically opened, and Fang Yunsheng's extremely serious voice came from it: "Signal recognition shows that the other party is very likely a human fleet."
"But this doesn't make sense. How can there be a human fleet in the [29th] quadrant..."
"No..." Chen Fan shook his head with difficulty and described the scene he saw with the help of the information flow. "The warship model is the same, the fleet configuration is the same, and even the damaged parts of the warships are exactly the same. That is definitely the Z619 fleet, our fleet!!"
Listening to Chen Fan's description, Fang Yunsheng suddenly felt a strong chill on his back.
"If that is the Z619 fleet, then..."
He swallowed hard, his pupils trembling slightly: "Who are we?"
The moment the voice fell, a sudden change occurred!
Perhaps it noticed Chen Fan's prying, and the clone fleet quietly hovering in the subspace slowly changed its direction.
The next second.
It rushed straight towards the Z619 fleet! !
Almost at the same time, a dazzling white light lit up outside the holographic porthole.
The ghost fleet, which was still resting, quickly triggered a stream of information flow and began to modify the fleet's coordinate parameters again!
Faced with this sudden and unreasonable change, Chen Fan felt unwell.
Why is there a Z619 fleet in the subspace of the [29th] quadrant?
What does that Z619 fleet have to do with them?
Why did the ghost fleet run away in a hurry?
"What the hell is going on?!"
Seeing the world in front of him begin to change into a sketch style, Chen Fan suddenly stood up from his seat and asked the ghost fleet outside the holographic porthole: "Who are they?!"
"Who are you?!"
There was no response.
...
Swish...
The fourth coordinate jump was completed, and the world in front of him returned to color.
Of course, the clone fleet that had a "first encounter" also completely disappeared from Chen Fan's sight.
"I need an explanation!!"
Chen Fan continued to ask the ghost fleet with a sullen face.
At the same time, under Fang Yunsheng's order, the Genesis Fortress in the center of the fleet also began to prepare a new wave of information flow attacks.
As for the conventional warships, they aimed their guns at the ghost warships around them as if they were facing a formidable enemy.
[…That's bait.]
After a moment, the dimly lit ghost fleet gave a simple answer.
"Bait?"
Hearing this word appear for the second time, Chen Fan was stunned.
Whose bait
is it? Who released the bait?
Thinking of the ghost fleet's hasty escape, and then thinking of the appearance that was exactly the same as the Z619 fleet, as well as the highly similar information flow frequency and fluctuations, Chen Fan suddenly had an astonishing guess in his mind.
This bait seemed to be released against the ghost fleet.
As for the person who released the bait...
Chen Fan also had a vague guess in his mind.
He swallowed his saliva and asked in a trembling voice: "Then, was it done by the broadcast civilization?"
After all, according to Kraken's description, 310 million years ago, the ghost fleet had a war in the anti-universe.
And the opponent of that war was most likely the broadcast civilization!
[Time is running out, Your Majesty, I will start the last coordinate jump as soon as possible and open the channel to the main space for you. ]
The ghost fleet did not respond to Chen Fan's words, but after a short rest, it re-triggered a stream of information.
Swish!!!
As the world in front of him fell into change again, the number representing the quadrant began to jump from [29] to [28].
The quadrant where the Apophis mother universe is located has arrived.
(End of this chapter)
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