Chapter 589 Strange Energy
"So..."
Feeling the atmosphere in the command center return to normal, Fang Yunsheng also straightened his face. "What happened to the coordinate jump just now?"
As he spoke, he pointed to the holographic interface in front of him: "The Academy of Sciences seems to be a little anxious."
Chen Fan's eyes moved, and he looked in the direction of Fang Yunsheng's gaze.
On the azure holographic interface, there were densely packed pop-up information marked with the Human Union Academy of Sciences.
Obviously, the coordinate jump process of the expedition fleet just now brought a great shock to the Academy of Sciences far away in the [32] quadrant.
"Just explain it to the Academy of Sciences." Seeing Chen Fan about to explain, Fang Yunsheng subconsciously waved his hand, "I don't understand that either, and..."
A bitter and helpless smile appeared on his lips: "When approaching the singularity, the fleet suffered considerable damage, and I have to arrange for repairs."
Hearing this, Chen Fan subconsciously glanced at the holographic main control panel beside him - when approaching the singularity, the [Gaia] planetary fortress rushed to the front of the fleet, and it was naturally the most damaged.
Looking at the dangerous blocks marked in crimson, Chen Fan laughed awkwardly.
Since the expedition fleet entered the singularity information bridge, damage, repair, damage again, and repair again, this series of repeated processes has almost become the norm for the fleet.
Fortunately, the expedition fleet took this aspect into consideration at the beginning of its creation, so it was equipped with a considerable number of engineering ships, which avoided the embarrassing situation of anchoring halfway.
Seeing Fang Yunsheng turn around and leave, Chen Fan calmed down and cast his eyes on the communication information that had long been synchronized to the [Gaia] planetary fortress.
【Z619, the communication signal is interrupted. What happened just now? 】
【Z619, report your situation immediately! 】
【Z619...】
Looking at the increasingly urgent messages, Chen Fan took a deep breath, sorted out his thoughts, and began to type the reply content on the holographic panel in front of him.
……
【...After entering the event horizon, even if it has not yet reached the singularity, the fleet will show a certain degree of virtual-real duality under its influence. 】
【In other words, the virtual-real pendulum will break away from the material side and begin to deviate to the information side. 】
【The degree of deviation is mainly related to the distance between the matter and the singularity. The closer the distance, the greater the degree of deviation. 】
【Judging from the fleet's previous jump experience, if there is no buffering measure, when the matter reaches the singularity, the virtual-real pendulum will officially reach the information side, and accordingly, the matter will be converted into a pure information flow by the singularity. 】
【As for the singularity information bridge built by the Apophis Giant Scorpion, its main function should be to open up the subspace, thereby opening up a high-speed channel with resistance approaching zero, so as to achieve ultra-long-distance jumps across quadrants. 】
【And the purpose of time technology should be to slow down the swing of the pendulum, so that the Apophis giant scorpion will not be completely transformed into a pure information flow when it reaches the singularity. 】
In the Academy of Sciences, Lin Yang whispered the information that emerged one by one in the holographic interface, and his eyes showed a look of sudden realization.
"So that's it..."
"As long as the distance between the fleet and the singularity is controlled well, the fleet will reach a clever balance between the material side and the information side. The fleet can not only retain the properties of the material side, but also present the characteristics of the information side, which is the so-called virtual and real duality..."
"No wonder the Z619 fleet can complete this coordinate jump!"
"It's a pity..."
Lin Yang shook his head with some regret: "The jump distance is less than 100 standard spans. Considering the fleet repair time and Chen Fan's consciousness recovery time after each jump, it is still quite difficult to reach the central singularity beyond 10,000 standard spans."
On the side, Chief Lu did not speak. He just stared at the few lines of text in the holographic interface silently, as if thinking about something.
"Chief?"
After noticing this, Lin Yang's heart moved, and he turned to ask him: "Did you see anything?"
"...I didn't see anything."
Chief Lu frowned and whispered: "I just feel that there is something wrong here."
As he said, he raised his hand and gently tapped the line of text that explained the function of the singularity information bridge.
"Problem?"
Lin Yang was slightly stunned: "The singularity information bridge opens up the subspace to reduce the resistance of the jump, so as to obtain a longer jump distance... There is no problem with this?" "
It is very consistent with the report sent back by the fleet before."
"No, no, no, that's not what I mean." Chief Lu frowned even deeper, "I mean... the singularity information bridge, or the singularity may have more than one function."
Lin Yang: "?"
"When the Academy of Sciences tested it, what was the farthest distance that Chen Fan could jump to the coordinates in the universe alone when there was sufficient energy?" Seeing that Lin Yang did not understand what he meant, Chief Lu could only make his words a little clearer.
"It seems so..." Lin Yang thought for a moment and gave an answer, "45.18 billion light years."
The moment the words fell, Lin Yang's eyes widened instantly.
45.18 billion light years, it seems that this number is very large, even exceeding the maximum size of most cosmic bubbles.
But if it is compared with a hundred standard spans, it may not even be a fraction - strictly speaking, for a hundred standard spans, 10 billion light years can only be regarded as the range of error.
"This... this gap is too big..."
Lin Yang swallowed hard: "So, you think the problem lies in the singularity?"
"Isn't it obvious?"
Chief Lu shrugged: "Chen Fan is still the same Chen Fan, and the Genesis Fortress is still the same Genesis Fortress. The only difference is those singularities."
"I have reason to suspect that the singularity also acts as a booster in the process of coordinate jump."
"It is for this reason that the Apophis Giant Scorpion took a huge risk and placed the jump channel on the singularity!"
"Not only that, I also have reason to suspect that the boost effect will be different due to the different scales of black holes and singularities."
"Then...what about energy? Where does the energy boosted by the singularity come from?" Lin Yang asked the most critical question.
"Good question."
Chief Lu spread his hands happily: "I don't know either."
"But it doesn't matter!"
"Such a powerful energy, either it is the vacuum zero-point energy from the subspace, which means that the efficiency of the singularity in extracting zero-point energy is far beyond our imagination, or..."
He paused and said meaningfully: "This is a kind of exotic energy that we have not yet come into contact with."
Lin Yang subconsciously held his breath.
Exotic energy that has not yet been touched.
In just a short sentence, the amount of information contained in it is extremely huge.
For a civilization, energy is the source of all technology.
Since being promoted to the ninth-level civilization, vacuum zero-point energy has been the perfect energy source discovered by the Human Union. It is efficient enough to support the operation of all megastructures and even the Genesis Fortress. The most important thing is...
it can almost be said to be infinite, truly inexhaustible.
But now, the situation seems to have changed.
Human Union has come into contact with information flow technology and time technology, and the fleet's mileage requirements have increased from a small pan-universe to a cross-quadrant...
The explosive increase in demand has naturally greatly increased the demand for energy - vacuum zero-point energy can certainly meet all of this, but it has already shown a trend of being unable to do so.
In this case, a new and more efficient energy source seems to have become a "life-saving straw".
Lin Yang subconsciously lowered his voice: "Chief, what do you mean..."
"Try to capture the black hole with all your strength." Chief Lu's eyes flashed, "No matter which possibility it is, it may bring us a breakthrough!" "That's
right."
As if thinking of something, Chief Lu added to Lin Yang who was standing there in a daze: "Tell Chen Fan to try to find a larger black hole for transition next time."
"Maybe..."
"There will be a surprise."
...
Five days later.
A large black hole quietly shuttled between the bizarre starry sky, wantonly devouring the surrounding interstellar matter and some unlucky celestial bodies.
Wandering black holes are an extremely common phenomenon in the Apophis mother universe.
The super-large cosmic bubble composed of a large number of cosmic bubbles has multiple giant attractors, and its internal macroscopic gravitational structure is also extremely complex. It has long evolved into a standard chaotic system. It is for this reason that more than 80% of the celestial bodies in the Apophis mother universe have been in a wandering state without a fixed place to stay.
Suddenly.
A strong information flow wave spread out from the inside of this black hole, and disappeared in this chaotic star field in a very short time. The foundation information flow fragments that filled the entire universe became a perfect protective color, which easily covered up this abnormal wave.
Almost at the same time.
1430 standard spans away, accompanied by a roaring information storm, a large-scale fleet with obvious signs of war damage on the surface appeared in the starry sky very abruptly.
Several wandering planets originally in this star field burst under the impact of a deep blue beam at the moment when the fleet solidified, and turned into a part of countless interstellar dust.
"Oh my god, 1430 standard spans, this is too much!"
Chen Fan, who had just returned to the Gaia planetary fortress from the Genesis Fortress, finally couldn't help but exclaimed after calculating the distance spanned by this coordinate jump: "I didn't expect that Chief Lu really said it..."
Yes.
After receiving the reminder information from the Academy of Sciences, Fang Yunsheng began to look for large black holes that met the standards while the fleet was repairing.
Perhaps it was because of good luck, or perhaps it was because the Apophis mother universe was relatively special, black holes were quite common here, and even super-large black holes comparable in size to the central black holes of the conventional universe could be easily observed.
But considering the habits of the Apophis giant scorpion and the relatively far location of those super-large black holes, the fleet finally chose the next-level large black hole.
But even so, the effect of this coordinate jump still far exceeded Chen Fan's expectations.
Of course, the degree of damage to the fleet has also reached a new height-the gravity of the large black hole is stronger, and the damage to the fleet is naturally greater.
"Great!"
In the communication channel, Fang Yunsheng quickly sent the excellent effect of the second jump to the faraway Human Union Main Universe in the form of text, while looking at the holographic interface with a full screen of red.
"The next springboard has been locked."
"The scale is larger than this black hole, maybe... we can increase the single jump distance to more than 3,000 spans!"
"Three more jumps, we can surprise the central singularity!"
Chen Fan nodded with a pale face, and subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
Only the last three jumps are left.
This is much better than the hundred jumps at the beginning! !
"But..."
Fang Yunsheng gently pressed the button to send the message, frowned and looked around the empty star field: "Except when we just left the subspace, the fleet has hardly encountered the Apophis giant scorpion. This situation... why do I feel a little scared?"
Hearing this, Chen Fan's heart suddenly skipped a beat, and his originally pale face became even uglier.
"It should be... just luck."
"Or maybe this universe is too big, so the density of Apophis giant scorpions is relatively sparse."
An unsettling thought flashed through Fang Yunsheng's mind, and then he whispered to himself.
"...I hope so."
...
Apophis mother universe, central black hole star field.
A black hole larger than the conventional universe is spinning rapidly in the starry sky, violently tearing apart the fragile time and space around it - there are even hideous, deep jagged cracks in the starry sky around it.
That is the time and space torn apart by the central black hole!
And around this super-large central black hole, there are tens of thousands of relatively normal super-large black holes.
Under the looming light of pale yellow, there are "dark clouds" of varying sizes floating next to almost every black hole.
If you zoom in, you can easily see the true appearance of those "dark clouds" - they are sturdy Apophis giant scorpions!
Thin and tough filaments of information flow extended from the inside of tens of thousands of supermassive black holes, and finally gathered into strands, all of which flowed into the Apophis central black hole in the core area.
More precisely, they flowed into the [Royal Court] inside the Apophis central black hole.
Among them, nearly two thousand filaments were particularly solid, while the remaining eight thousand filaments were looming and looked like they would break at any time.
[Faster, faster! ]
In the bright white glow, the information storm from the Apophis Giant Scorpion Queen shuttled back and forth in the vast [Royal Court].
On the throne that symbolizes the Queen's power, the bloated queen insect narrowed her scarlet eyes slightly, and cast her gaze towards the starry sky in the distance: [The progress of the main universe coordinate analysis is more than halfway.] [
Human Union... Their resistance can no longer be maintained for much longer.]
Amid the queen insect's hissing, weak filaments of information flow are becoming solid at a speed visible to the naked eye!
[Battlefields 1802, 1897, and 1913 have completed coordinate positioning and have begun to deploy troops!]
In the distance, a faint stream of information whistled in.
Almost at the same time.
Outside the central black hole, inside the black hole cluster composed of tens of thousands of sub-black holes, groups of Apophis giant scorpions rushed into the corresponding three black holes.
Like a swarm of locusts attacking a wheat field.
(End of this chapter)
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