Chapter 502 Black Box
Anti-Universe.
The violent fluctuations of time and space flashed by, and then a silver-white research ship appeared in this high-purity vacuum with almost no matter.
Next to the research ship, a translucent film that looked like a soap bubble was slightly undulating in the empty starry sky, and the starlight reflected on it was also constantly fluctuating.
The translucent film continued to extend forward in the starry sky. With the naked eye, this film was like a wall that stood tall and straight, but if it was observed with high-precision instruments, it would be found that there was an extremely subtle curvature on its surface.
It was the existence of this curvature that made this translucent film become a super-large soap bubble spanning tens of thousands of light years!
This is the cosmic membrane of a small universe.
To be more precise, this is a wonder that only appears when two cosmic bubbles fit together.
Inside the research ship.
Wang Jing's attention was not on the wonders caused by the overlap of cosmic bubbles. She looked solemnly at the rapidly jumping information entropy fluctuation value in the holographic interface of the main console.
The duration of this information flow was very short.
Since the information fluctuations were discovered by the shipboard main brain and the research ship entered the superluminal curvature state, this string of numbers symbolizing the intensity of the information fluctuations has shown signs of attenuation.
When the research ship successfully crossed hundreds of light years to arrive in this star field, the intensity of this information jet was only 10% of the initial intensity.
Not only that, as time goes by, this little information fluctuation is still approaching zero at a very fast speed.
"Damn, I still didn't catch up..."
Looking at the information entropy numbers that quickly returned to zero, Wang Jing's face was a little ugly.
Up to now, in addition to the Genesis Fortress in front of him, only Chen Fan can release such an intense information jet in the entire human alliance.
Therefore, at the moment the information jet appeared, Wang Jing had already locked his target on Chen Fan inside the microcosm.
The investigator starship fell into a state of loss of contact again. It is not difficult to judge that this information jet is likely to be a thing that Chen Fan made in order to contact the human alliance fleet outside the microcosm.
But...
"Why did this information jet only last for such a short time?"
Wang Jing couldn't help but flash a trace of anxiety on her face: "Did something happen in the microcosm?"
She took a deep breath, tried her best to calm her anxious mood, and fell into deep thought while looking at the information entropy fluctuation curve recorded in the holographic interface.
If this information jet is a distress signal sent by Chen Fan, then there is a high possibility that some information is hidden in the fleeting information flow just now.
Thinking of this, Wang Jing gave an urgent order to the shipboard main brain: "Main brain, try to conduct a deep analysis of the previously recorded information entropy fluctuation data to see if there is any hidden information in it."
As soon as the voice fell, the output power of the shipboard main brain instantly increased.
After a short wait, the electronic synthesized voice sounded again: "Sorry."
"There is no pattern in the information entropy fluctuation data."
"No valid information has been parsed yet."
"How could this happen?" Wang Jing couldn't help but frowned, "There is no valid information, and the information fluctuation lasts for such a short time..."
"Hiss... Strange."
She raised her hand and gently rubbed her temple, and took a breath of cool air: "What does Chen Fan want to do?"
No one answered her question.
Outside the porthole, the huge soap bubble that was so large that it made people uncomfortable was still shaking slightly, as if the information jet just now had not appeared.
The next second!
"Ding-Ding-Ding-"
The familiar and piercing alarm sounded again, interrupting Wang Jing's thoughts.
"High-intensity information fluctuations detected!!"
"Coordinates:..."
As the voice of the shipboard main brain sounded, a brand new coordinate information popped up in the holographic interface above the main console.
The coordinates of the previous information jet, which is the star field where the research ship is now located, are less than 500 light years away.
"Again?"
Wang Jing looked at the rapidly rising information entropy fluctuations in astonishment. She had no time to think and issued another order to the ship's main brain: "Main brain, high-dimensional jump!!"
"This time we must catch up with this information fluctuation!!"
A few minutes later.
"..."
The atmosphere in the research ship's driving room was a little solemn. Wang Jing pursed her lips tightly and stared at the curve in the holographic interface that had fallen back to the zero axis.
I didn't catch up again!
This time was even more outrageous than the first information fluctuation - the research ship had not officially left the high-dimensional jump, and the information entropy fluctuation had begun to decline precipitously.
"Ding-Ding-"
Before Wang Jing could catch her breath, the alarm sounded again, and a new series of coordinates appeared in the holographic interface again - the information jet returned to the vicinity of the star field where it appeared last time, and the distance between the research ship and it was 629 light years.
Buzz! !
Before Wang Jing could give an order, the space-time ocean that had just been calm was once again set off by turbulent waves, and the research ship once again disappeared into the starry sky.
…
“Beep, beep…”
The silver-white research ship stopped silently in the starry sky. In the cockpit, Wang Jing looked at the holographic interface in front of him with a numb expression.
“Another new coordinate…”
Wang Jing’s eyes twitched slightly, and he sighed heavily: “This is the 29th time!!”
Not bad.
From the time the first information wave appeared, in just over ten minutes, 29 high-intensity information jets appeared on the surface of the small universe bubble.
The duration of these information jets was very short, the longest was no more than a few minutes, and the shortest was only a few seconds.
As for the coordinates where the information jets appeared, they were even more varied.
The holographic interface in front of Wang Jing showed a huge star map, on which 29 scattered red dots were clearly reflected.
These red dots were the coordinates of the information waves recorded by the shipboard main brain. The average distance between each red dot reached 500 light years, and the farthest two red dots were even 5,000 light years apart!
"What the hell..."
Wang Jing squeezed out a curse from between her teeth: "What kind of distress signal is this?!"
Whose distress signal is shaking everywhere like a light ball in a disco! !
The holographic interface flashed again, and Wang Jing raised her eyelids and glanced at it in annoyance.
"The 30th coordinate..."
To this day, she couldn't help but have a doubt.
"Mastermind, do you think Chen Fan would be stupid enough to put the information in the coordinates of the information jet?"
After all, the shipboard mastermind did not find any hidden rules in the intensity fluctuations of the information flow - whether it was the universal communication code of the Human Union, the encryption format dedicated to the Dangerous Technology Administration, or the encryption method commonly used by the Academy of Sciences, none of them could be applied to these information fluctuations.
"Sorry."
The electronic synthesis voice of the shipboard mastermind gave an answer very smoothly without any pause: "No regular information has been found in the coordinates of the information jet."
"So far, the change of the coordinates has shown an irregular random tendency."
Listening to the report of the shipboard mastermind, Wang Jing couldn't help but feel a pain in his head.
Irregular random fluctuations mean that the information jet is like an "uncertain" laser pen in the hands of a child. No one knows where it will shine in the next second.
But the illumination range of the laser pen is only a few meters or tens of meters, while the illumination range of the information jet...
that is a universe bubble with a scale of tens of thousands of light years!
Even if this "laser pen" has only a small offset, the displacement mapped outside the cosmic membrane is at least at the level of a hundred light years!
"Chen Fan, this kid..."
Wang Jing sighed heavily again: "What on earth is he doing in the small universe bubble?!"
Looking at the 31st new coordinates slowly emerging in the holographic interface, Wang Jing suddenly had an absurd idea in his mind-
the small universe in front of him seemed to have become an "uncertain" black box!
Without knowing the internal situation of the black box, I am afraid that no one can find the law of this information jet running around!
...
At the same time, inside the small universe.
The circular acceleration loop composed of information flow continued to operate under the control of Chen Fan, and streams of information jets kept leaving the acceleration loop and shooting straight to the cosmic membrane in front.
Next to the information loop, the starlight ocean that was originally more than 800 kilometers has now shrunk to more than 700 kilometers-a large number of information fragments have been removed, and the vacuum zero-point energy has been extracted in large quantities, causing the consciousness body that Kraken had just recovered to inevitably decline significantly.
"Strange..."
Chen Fan's eyes were filled with increasing doubt: "It's been so long, why hasn't there been any response from the outside world?"
"Could it be... that the Human Fleet has been wiped out by the broadcasting civilization?"
As soon as this thought flashed through his mind, Chen Fan shuddered: "No, no, no, it won't be!"
[Your Excellency the Envoy...]
A clear information wave came from the ocean of starlight: [Something seems to be wrong.]
"...What?"
Chen Fan subconsciously stopped the action of launching the information jet, turned his head and looked at the ocean of starlight on the side: "Is there something wrong?"
[I felt a familiar information wave in the star field not far away, it seems...] Kraken hesitated and sent out a message, [It was the information jet sent by you.]
Hearing this, Chen Fan frowned immediately: "Is there such a thing?"
"Shouldn't those information jets... have already passed through the cosmic membrane?"
"How could they still appear inside the microcosm?"
[I shouldn't have seen it wrong.]
Kraken continued to send a message: [I can take you to see it. In addition... there seem to be some changes in those information flows.]
Chen Fan turned his head and glanced at the information acceleration circuit that had just been built, and then nodded: "Then take me to see it."
The information circuit can be rebuilt if it is gone, but if there is a problem with the information jet...
then the problem is huge! !
With this idea in mind, Chen Fan thought about it, and the huge acceleration circuit collapsed and turned into fragmented information flows again.
Then, accompanied by a faint information fluctuation, the pale red starlight ocean suddenly dissipated, and Chen Fan's consciousness body followed and disappeared in this star field.
Another star field 1,500 light years away.
As the pale red starlight ocean slowly emerged in the dim starry sky, Chen Fan's consciousness body also appeared quickly.
As soon as he arrived at the star field described by Kraken, Chen Fan couldn't help but frown.
Kraken was right.
This star field is indeed full of various messy information flows.
Most of them are polluted information flows that penetrated from outside the cosmic membrane, and another small part is quite familiar information flow - yes, it is the information flow fragments from the place of creation.
However...
Chen Fan thought about it and raised his hand to grab a piece of information flow floating in front of him.
Just a casual glance, Chen Fan's face showed surprise:
"The information I compiled in these information flows has been disrupted."
"It seems... they have been disturbed by some external factors?"
[In fact, it is not just this star field. ] Kraken added again, [Other star fields around have such a situation. ]
As he said, Kraken sent Chen Fan some coordinate information.
"These coordinates..."
Just a casual glance, Chen Fan realized the problem:
Perhaps because of the effect of macroscopic gravity, the small universe is actually a slightly flattened ellipsoid after being wrapped by the cosmic membrane.
Just like some rocky planets in the universe, the whole is not a standard sphere.
The location where he just released the information jet is actually the "pole" of this ellipsoid, which is equivalent to the South Pole or North Pole of a rocky planet.
The coordinate information sent by Kraken happened to form an intermittent ring structure spanning more than tens of thousands of light years in the "equatorial" area of this ellipsoid.
The reason behind this is not difficult to imagine - if the information jet is regarded as a water flow and the cosmic membrane is regarded as an eggshell, when the water flow is ejected from the inside of the egg and hits the "pole" of the eggshell, the blocked water flow will inevitably disperse and evenly fall on the "equatorial" area of the eggshell.
In other words.
"The information jet sent earlier does not seem to have successfully penetrated the cosmic membrane, but was blocked by something..."
Chen Fan murmured in a low voice, while casting his eyes on the illusory starry sky reflected by the cosmic membrane in front of him.
"No wonder there has been no response information for so long..."
Beside him, the fluctuations of the starry ocean became a little more intense.
[This...]
[If the information jet cannot penetrate the cosmic membrane, what should we do? ]
Facing Kraken's question, Chen Fan stared at the illusory starry sky in front of him, reached out to touch the invisible cosmic membrane, and a suicidal idea emerged in his mind.
"Kraken, what do you think..."
"How about drilling a hole in the cosmic membrane first, and then sending out an information jet?"
...
[This, this is too dangerous! ]
Kraken, who was once bitten by a snake, refused repeatedly, and repeated his previous words again: [Emissary, the environment outside the cosmic membrane...]
"I know."
Chen Fan waved his hand: "But that's your experience."
"Maybe... I'm different from you?"
He touched the cosmic membrane eagerly, and said half-jokingly: "Didn't you say before that my life class is higher."
How about...
give it a try?
If it succeeds, he can easily get in touch with the research ship, and at the same time he can personally confirm the "battle situation" outside the cosmic bubble.
Thinking of the huge benefits behind it, this idea began to expand uncontrollably.
[This... Your Excellency the Envoy, even if your life class is higher, I don't know if you will...]
On the other side, Kraken tried to dissuade Chen Fan from his suicidal thoughts: [Besides, it takes a huge amount of energy for a consciousness to penetrate the cosmic membrane. Your Excellency the Envoy, you...]
"Aren't you here?"
Chen Fan interrupted Kraken's words, turned his head and looked at the surging sea of stars beside him: "You should still have a lot of energy reserves now, right?"
[...]
Kraken fell silent.
Seeing that Kraken acquiesced to his words, Chen Fan made up his mind: "Let's try it!"
"This polluted information flow has been infiltrating from outside the cosmic bubble. We have to figure out the reason. Otherwise... wouldn't it be equivalent to chronic death?"
"I'm fine, but you..."
After saying this, Kraken stopped talking completely - Chen Fan was right. The biggest beneficiary of these risky measures was actually Him.
"Kraken, help me keep an eye on it."
Chen Fan's voice continued to come: "If there is any abnormal situation, remember to pull me back."
Kraken cheered up and silently responded to Chen Fan's words.
On the other side.
Chen Fan's heart moved and began to try to change his coordinates-since he did not have the terrifyingly powerful output power of the Genesis Fortress, he could only choose to modify the coordinates, which was a relatively tricky solution.
If you want to modify the coordinates, you must first determine your own coordinates.
Chen Fan, who has had several practical experiences, read the corresponding coordinate data from the space around the consciousness body with ease.
It was a string of quite cumbersome and irregular numbers.
The digital format is somewhat similar to the most common xyz coordinate axis, but it is essentially different from the coordinate system of the human connection. The numbers of the two are completely different, and even the format is slightly different.
This string of coordinates is more complicated. In addition to the basic five-dimensional coordinates, it also has a symbol that has never been seen before, but has never changed.
It's like...
the sixth dimension.
In fact, as early as when he learned about the coordinate modification technology from Kraken, Chen Fan became suspicious of this coordinate information that he had never seen before.
Let's not talk about the strange symbol that has never been seen before and is suspected to be the sixth dimension, just talk about the other five-dimensional coordinates.
Since it is a coordinate format similar to the xyz axis, then theoretically, it should have an origin.
For example, in the coordinate system of the Human Union, the origin is the center of the universe of the Human Union main universe, and any coordinate is based on this origin.
So...
where is the origin of this string of coordinates?
Who stipulated this string of coordinates?
More importantly, why can he read such a string of numbers from the surrounding space?
Chen Fan didn't dare to think about it, and could only focus on the extremely complex string of characters.
From experience, as long as he changes the last few numbers of this string of characters, he can go directly to the star field several light years away, or even tens or hundreds of light years away-of course, the closer the number is, the greater the energy required for the modification, and the greater the spatial span.
Chen Fan took a deep breath, carefully moved his attention to the number at the end of the character, and manipulated the information flow to modify this number in the usual way.
At the moment when the information flow came into contact with the coordinate information, Chen Fan's face suddenly changed.
A bottomless energy vortex appeared in his consciousness!
The vacuum zero-point energy from Kraken, like falling into a bottomless pit, flowed madly along this energy vortex.
At the same time.
In the dim starry sky, the pale red starlight ocean was shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Seven hundred kilometers.
Six hundred kilometers!
Five hundred kilometers!!
Not only that, at the edge of the pale red starlight ocean, a human figure flickered like a light bulb with poor contact!
In the flickering, violent information fluctuations continued to spread to the surrounding star fields!
(End of this chapter)
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