As soon as the lead fleet arrived, they found more surprises.
The third planet in the shadow galaxy not only has an atmospheric structure similar to that of the Earth, but also has the same plate topography.
The surface does have a complete ecosystem, but it is still quite different from the Earth.
In the solar system, the Oort Nebula and the solar wind together form a protective layer.
The main component of the solar wind is the flow of charged particles of ultra-high-speed plasmas, which can partially block and absorb cosmic radiation of energy nature.
However, the solar wind itself is harmful to carbon-based life. Fortunately, the planetary atmosphere can absorb the flow of charged particles in the solar wind.
The solar wind and the planetary atmosphere complement each other and are indispensable, providing favorable preconditions for the birth of early life on Earth.
But in the shadow galaxy, the direction of the stellar wind is affected by the gravity of the black hole and multiple revolutions, and it appears very chaotic and disordered. From time to time, it will even tear holes, and the amount of cosmic background radiation and black hole radiation that penetrate from the outside is not small.
The radiation released by black holes can be divided into two types based on the way it is produced.
One is the Hawking radiation that black holes release all the time, which is mainly composed of real particles converted from virtual particles that escape from black holes using tidal forces.
The other is when a black hole successfully captures cosmic mass and energy. At the same time as the mass and energy enter the horizon, the pure energy rays mainly composed of X-rays are released in the opposite direction, which have a certain directionality.
If the total amount of mass and energy captured is too large, it may even produce gamma rays and even more terrifying gamma-ray bursts.
These energetic radiations sometimes pass through the shielding of stellar winds and have a certain probability of directly irradiating the planets in the shadow galaxy.
The planetary atmosphere has a poor shielding and absorption effect on pure energetic radiation.
From time to time, when a black hole absorbs matter with excessive mass, if the ultra-strong radiation released happens to point to the shadow galaxy and passes through the shadow of the earth, large-scale ecological collapse will always occur in the shadow of the earth from time to time. When
the pilot fleet arrived, the biodiversity in the shadow of the earth was roughly equivalent to that of the earth tens of millions of years ago, and it was also dominated by carbon-based life, but the biological forms showed obvious differences.
For example, the trees on the Earth's Shadow appear particularly short, with almost no trees over five meters tall. The leaves are not in the form of sheets, but rather very thick and blocky. The leaves are more like fruits than leaves, and have a distinct geometric structure.
The animals are also very small, with extremely thick hair and skin.
Some animals look huge with fur, but are only the size of a dog without fur. Their skin is also hard and thick, with a basic scale structure.
Having both fluffy and tall hair and a scale structure does not conform to the rules of biological evolution on Earth.
But in this Earth's Shadow, it is just right.
The surface molecular structure of the hair forms a special coupling, forming a reaction layer like a hydrophobic layer, which has a considerable degree of reflection effect on energy radiation.
It seems that the mechanism is somewhat similar to the frozen whiskers of the spherical battleship, but the core principle and effect are very different.
The oil film on the surface of the scales on the skin will form a special structural layer, which has a strong absorption and energy conversion and storage effect on radiation.
Humans have not completely destroyed the original ecology on the shadow of the earth. They have only temporarily taken root in a continent that was swept by super-strong gamma rays about 100 years ago and still has deadly radiation residues. There is almost no grass on the continent.
With the technological level of the leading fleet at that time, the transformation of the galaxy no longer needs to start from the planetary level, but directly transform the overall environment of the entire galaxy.
It took the Navigator 70 years to build a total of nine Dyson membranes in the Oort Cloud of the Shadow Galaxy.
The nine Dyson membranes are stacked together at a very close distance, and are pulled into a vibrating egg-stuffed pancake shape by the interaction of the gravity of the black hole, the centrifugal force of the first and second orbital motions, the internal star gravity, and the self-structural force.
Since then, the internal environment of the Shadow Galaxy has changed greatly.
The Dyson membrane absorbs the Hawking radiation and intermittent X-ray and gamma-ray radiation emitted by the black hole, and absorbs stellar winds and light energy. The power output is several times that of the solar system, comparable to that of multiple galaxies.
At the same time, the radiation background environment inside the shadow galaxy is basically free of the influence of black hole radiation, becoming highly similar to that in the solar system, and the differences in the stellar rules between the interior and the solar system are smoothed out.
The superposition of nine layers of Dyson membranes has an extremely high absorption efficiency for stellar light, with a transmittance as low as 0.05 to the ninth power, which is only 1.95 trillionths, infinitely close to zero, which means that the light of the shadow sun hardly escapes to the outside.
The multi-layered Dyson membranes also have a very strong light absorption effect to the outside, and no longer reflect yellow light in the universe, but appear inky black.
It absorbs light externally and absorbs it more thoroughly internally, resulting in the planetary system constructed by the nine-layer Dyson membrane being almost perfectly integrated with the black hole background.
The shadow galaxy has since been completely hidden in the black hole environment.
Later, humans improved the Dyson membrane technology and built a tenth layer of Dyson membrane that only absorbs quantum network information in one direction to prevent the leakage of information in the galaxy.
The Shadow Galaxy has truly become the second home of mankind, and it is also the core location of the original world government and salvation. It has begun to develop rapidly, gradually regaining its leadership over mankind, and trying to shape the Orion Arm civilization into what it wants.
In fact, at this stage, it will be difficult for the Shadow Galaxy, which has been "wandering" for more than two hundred years, to successfully take over the power and require all other colonies to cooperate with its actions.
Humanity has a formidable enemy in front of us. It is almost impossible to have an internal war and can only evolve peacefully.
Peaceful evolution is a new model for mankind in the Orion Arm that involves both competition and mutual reinforcement.
Technology competition, knowledge competition, commander simulation, special simulation...
In the fifty years from 2801 to 2851, the above competition mode became the main theme of the Morrowind Empire.
At that time, the Shadow Galaxy, which had not yet closed the information channel, led many other colonies with overwhelming advantages in many competitions.
In 2851, the Morrowind Empire voted with a 99.98% approval rate, determined the guiding line of the Shadow Galaxy's strategy as the highest policy, and announced its obedience to the Shadow Galaxy's overall leadership of the Empire.
The reason is simple. In the past 50 years, the Shadow Galaxy, with the power of a single planetary system, has almost contracted 70% of the major technological innovations in the entire empire, and has achieved overwhelming advantages in many aspects of competition.
Especially after a young scientist named Dong Shan came out of nowhere, the scientific innovation ability of the Shadow Galaxy can be said to be unparalleled.
After that, the Shadow Galaxy closed the channel and changed the communication mode.
The Shadow Galaxy itself will synchronously monitor the external environment and collect information through the communication between the stars and the clones, but its own information is closed and no longer reports information to the outside world in real time.
At the same time, the Shadow Galaxy will also absorb a group of new blood from external personnel every few years, and gather high-awakening, high-IQ and special operations talents born in different star regions.
However, after these people come, they can no longer easily contact the outside world.
At the same time, the Shadow Galaxy sends a group of people every few years, carrying a large amount of information through the star gate, and appears in many other colonies including the Orton Galaxy. They share their scientific and technological achievements with these star systems as "inventors" and propose new plans for the development of civilization.
One of the plans is the DF-711 Fortress Starship.
When the Fortress Starship was first born, it was not actually in that position.
The location of the ultra-small star is further inside.
When the first generation of Fortress Starship was built, it began to slowly sail to the border of the Empire, constantly updating technology while sailing. It took a full 150 years to reach the location when the war broke out in 3020. Now in 3121, it has just reached the border of the Empire.
At this time, the Fortress Starship just formed a straight line with the solar system and the shadow galaxy, and the midpoint was symmetrical.
The total length of the straight line was 5,000 light years, and the midpoint was the solar system.
As for the lines connecting the two major colonies, the Orton Galaxy and the Basalt Galaxy, and the solar system, they were exactly perpendicular to the Fortress solar shadow line at a 90-degree angle.
The distance between the Orton and Basalt galaxies and the solar system was less than 5,000 light years, which was related to the geometry of the Orion Arm itself.
Just as Chen Feng had analyzed the multiple baits before, such a layout was indeed to use all people except the shadow galaxy as bait.
The 14,400 galaxy-level colonies of the entire huge empire, and the total population that gradually grew to 3.5 trillion, were all baits.
The purpose of setting up so many baits is to gain more strategic depth, obtain stronger productivity, explore more rules, and prolong the war.
The hundred-year struggle is not only a struggle for each galaxy member, but also a preparation for the final battle in exchange for more information for the Shadow Galaxy.
But this matter cannot be made public at will, and it is impossible for every citizen to know.
In addition to the people in the Shadow Galaxy, only the second marshals of all generations who came out of the Shadow Galaxy, and the top leaders in the core galaxies such as Orton and Xuanwu are qualified to know.
So far, this cold-blooded plan has been very successful.
The Orion Arm humans used the war outside to win a hundred years of stability for the Shadow.
During these hundred years, the scientific research institutions in Shadow have never stopped providing technical support to the outside world. They have also sent many warriors and commanders to join the meat grinder-like battlefield and played an important role in many battles.
In the end, Shadow also waited for Chen Feng, who was "close at hand" and only 42 light years away.
This was a great success.
After listening to Fanxing's introduction, Chen Feng was completely shocked by this big deal.
After a long pause, he shook his head slightly and commented, "Not a bad idea."
Fanxing: "You shook your head because based on your past worldview, you think this is unfair to the other people in the Orion Arm. But as a leader, you have a global awareness and agree that this is the best solution we can think of."
Chen Feng nodded, "Yes. You have done much better than I imagined and expected. If it were me, I would definitely not be able to do such a big deal."
Fanxing rolled her eyes at him, "Wake up. The original pilot fleet plan is Meng It was you who proposed the idea, and the Salvation Society was originally committed to implementing your will. Without your spiritual guidance, who knows how many variables would appear in the implementation of the entire plan. It's just that you didn't predict at that time that there would be twins of the solar system in the Orion Arm. You just pointed out that we should concentrate our superior forces in one galaxy and let the people with the highest IQ and the most creativity stay together as much as possible. In short, you are the initiator of everything."
Chen Feng was stunned, "Is that so? Ha...haha, then I am quite capable."
"Well, in your later years, you were particularly keen on controlling everything. The entire Salvation Society is just a projection of your spirit."
Chen Feng's old face suddenly turned red, and he secretly thanked God that he didn't give a negative evaluation just now, otherwise it would be a slap in his own face.
Chen Feng thought of another important point and asked, "Then tell me how you made sure I would be in the right place at the right time."
The stars behind the barrier smiled and said, "Have you heard of psychohistory?"
Chen Feng was surprised. "Of course I have heard of it. It originated from Freud's psychoanalysis and was promoted by Asimov in the Foundation series. The core of this discipline is to analyze the distribution of 2 100 billion inhabitants on 10 million planets, summarize the economic, political, social and scientific events of large groups of people in history, in order to find the objective laws that conform to civilization and the universe, and use the laws to predict the development of civilization. Right? Am I remembering correctly? "
Fanxing: "Your summary is basically accurate, and it conforms to the fiction in science fiction."
Chen Feng's heartbeat gradually accelerated, "Have you mastered psychohistory?"
Fanxing shook his head, "It counts and it doesn't count."
"Huh?"
"First of all, our population base is not as large as tens of billions. Secondly, the number of other civilizations in the Milky Way is much greater than the science fiction writers imagined at the time. Civilizations composed of different intelligent life forms will interfere with the psychological history judgment that only applies to humans, so we can't summarize this law. Now we have also discovered more about the impact of stellar quantum storms on the quantum laws of the human brain. Group behavior has become more unpredictable and will inevitably continue to become more complex as the population increases and the number of galaxies we arrive at continues to increase."
"Whether true psychohistory exists or not, and what its relationship is to the quantum nature of the universe, we still don't know. Anyway, that's not important. In this operation, we simplified psychohistory and turned it into a kind of personal behavior probability that is only for you. This is probably just a branch of psychohistory, and we call it ancient philosophy."
Chen Feng: "Huh? For me? Ancient philosophy?"
"Yes. Only studying the ancient philosopher Chen Feng."
"Okay. Tell me what's going on."
"Our historians and psychologists have been studying "The Crisis of the Compound Eyes", "Feng Lei", and your personal life trajectory to deepen their understanding of you. All your life trajectories from childhood to adulthood, including every word you said, every micro-expression of yours, as long as it is recorded, are the research objects of scholars."
Chen Feng imagined it and felt a bit creepy as if he was completely seen through.
Could it be that these descendants even know how many times he wet the bed and how many times he had diarrhea after eating bad food?
"At the same time, scholars have also inferred the behavior patterns of the Compound Eyes by analyzing the Mi people, the Compound Eyes, and the signs of civilizations we have observed in the Orion Arm, the entire galaxy, and even extragalactic galaxies."
Chen Feng nodded, "This is as it should be."
"And then what? Look carefully at our star map." The stars projected the original territorial layout of the Morning Breeze Empire in the control room. The 14,400 colonies before the war and more than 100,000 Dyson membrane energy bases came into view of Chen Feng.
"This is the overall layout of the Morrowind Empire before the war. You will find that the development levels of different star regions and different colonies are different. But in fact, some of these colonies should not be so prosperous, and some colonies should be stronger. We adjusted the technological progress and development trends of each colony to form a large network spanning 5,000 light years. When the war started, the fleet of the Compound Eye was indeed powerful, but in fact, the progress has been moving forward in the direction we planned. There will be some slight differences along the way, but the errors will not be too large." The
next moment, the star map began to change.
The neighboring galaxy first suddenly turned red, indicating that the prism fleet had arrived.
After that, the red circle began to spread outward, and new green and blue dots spread out at the same time, and then turned red again.
Circles of flames representing war started from the core star region, spread in all directions, and finally formed today's pattern.
Fanxing: "This is the evolution of war in the past hundred years. You see, the compound eyes will absorb our art of war, changing from meat grinder tactics to focused strikes, and then disperse our forces or go deep alone, which creates many opportunities for us to capture lone edge ships. At least tens of thousands of times."
Chen Feng nodded, "Although it has not been successfully cracked yet, from the perspective of collecting information alone, it has reached the extreme."
Fanxing: "But the end point of all this is still you. You observe the direction of the compound eye fleet..."
Fanxing marked several different routes on the star map, some of which overlapped with Chen Feng's route in the past hundred years, and some were different.
"Except for not predicting that your crossing anchor point is really the uninhabited solar system, we guessed almost everything correctly. We knew that you would choose to lie in wait and see first, and then use the battle zone layout to create these safe routes that are not likely to encounter the compound eye fleet."
"At the same time, scholars also know that you will definitely visit different star regions through star gates. Although no one thought that you could find a stealth method before, your rules are still calculated. The information about the special star systems that Fredes and you intercepted on the Internet was actually screened. Some special star systems have been blocked by me."
"If you use the screened data as a basis for judgment, then your route will eventually become like this, and ultimately you will have a high chance of appearing near the Shadow Galaxy during this time period. We have prepared so much, it is not surprising that we can achieve this effect. There is about a 33% chance of success. This is the extreme probability calculated by scholars, and there is no way to improve it. However, a one-third chance is already worth a try. After all, we must pick you up to maximize our benefits, right?" After
Fanxing finished speaking, a winding golden route appeared on the star map, which passed through star gates many times. It was exactly all the footprints left by Chen Feng in the territory of the empire in the past hundred years.
Chen Feng was silent for a long time, "Yes, it's a great plan, it was successful."
Fanxing: "But we also made a big mistake. We didn't find the Mi tribe's ships hidden in the lava planet in advance, and we didn't expect the Mi tribe to suddenly intensify their offensive, otherwise we could have delayed it for at least a few more years."
Chen Feng smiled, "There is no such thing as foolproof. If you want to win, you need to find possible variables from the impossible, that is, the X factor."
Fanxing: "You yourself are the biggest X factor."
Chen Feng nodded, "Okay, let's talk about it. I understand the ins and outs of the matter. Now the most important thing is that I still have to find a way to reach the Shadow Galaxy as soon as possible."
Fanxing: "Yes."
"Before that, Fanxing, prepare the list for me."
"What list?"
Chen Feng rolled his eyes, "Don't ask when you already know the answer."
This is the downside of changing from Weixing to Fanxing, it's just naughty.
The next moment, a long list of names began to appear in front of Chen Feng's eyes.
From top to bottom, they were:
Ding Hu, Pang De, Xiao Zhou, Ouyang Zhenhua, Tang Tianxin, Ye Luming, Scott, Ou Qinglan, Lin Bu...
Chen Feng's eyes swept from top to bottom at a very fast speed.
Unconsciously, his heartbeat gradually accelerated.
Yes, all of them are here.
Wait, some people are missing.
"Where is Dong Shan? Where is Emanuel Berto?"
Fanxing: "Some of them have passed away due to old age."
Chen Feng was shocked and sighed, "No more."
Fanxing: "Well, time is the most deadly weapon in the universe after all."
He suddenly felt lost, and couldn't help but think of the old man Dong's sloppy appearance.
The old man was already 170 years old in 3020, and now it is 3121.
The old man's work intensity was so high that it was natural that he couldn't wait for me.
"Here is a video that Mr. Dong left before he passed away. He said that he would only show it to you. Do you want to see it?"
Chen Feng nodded, "Let's take a look."
The projection in front of Chen Feng's eyes turned into an ancient room. An old man with gray hair and wrinkled face was sitting on an armchair with his legs crossed.
The old man's head drooped at an angle, as if he was sleeping.
The voice-over sounded, "Mr. Dong, the filming has started."
The old man shuddered and sat up straight. The eyes that were cloudy a moment ago suddenly became bright and energetic.
The old man was staring at the front, his lips gradually curved, revealing a smile.
Then, he suddenly opened his mouth, his voice was loud and clear, his tongue was like a lotus, and his speech was very fast.
"Grandpa, you have gone too far this time! I have been waiting for you so hard! I can't wait any longer! Hey, you don't know how difficult it is for me this time. From childhood to adulthood, I have been indoctrinated to worship you, respect you, and look up to you. I have tried very hard to learn, but I can't do it. I am just thinking about what is shown in the movies. I have stabbed your butt with a needle, how can I respect you? Look at how well I have prepared this time."
Dong Shan raised his hand and grabbed a huge needle tube as thick as his thigh from the side. The tip of the needle was still shining with a dark light representing space cutting, as if the online game equipment had added particle special effects.
"How is it? Is the big syringe I prepared for you this time strong enough? But if you don't come, I have nowhere to pierce! Okay, okay, I've said so much, brother, I just have one request. Grandfather, you must remember my name. Next time, you can't forget me just because we haven't met, and I will die. But you must not...Grandfather, you must remember me..."
The voice-over sounded again, "Mr. Dong, pay attention to your image! Image! You are two hundred and fifty years old."
Dong Shan glanced to the side, "Image is bullshit! I'm dead, what's the use of image, how can I make it as impressive as possible. Oh, by the way, am I two hundred and fifty years old?"
"Ten seconds to two hundred and fifty-one."
"Oh my god, I must hold on! Otherwise, when people read history books about my age, they will find that old thief Dong Shan died an idiot. Isn't this a trap for me? Ten seconds are gone?"
"Yes, you're 251."
"I've prepared a poem. Grandpa, listen, I'll read it to you..."
In the end, old man Dong couldn't recite this doggerel. He tilted his head while making a noise, and there was no sound.
The voice-over suddenly burst into sobbing.
The video stopped abruptly.
Chen Feng on the opposite side had a smile on his face, but inexplicably, his eyes were wet.
This old guy, he is really trying too hard to get a name, he has no moral integrity.
Even at his age, he still acts like a little brat, still a teenager.
He is quite like me when I was rubbing against Zhong Lei.