Under Lü Yongchang's orders, the unmanned probe fleet that was carrying out routine patrols in the nearby star system rushed to this desolate star system without stopping.
The fleet consists of three exploration ships.
The reason for dispatching them to the Dead Starfield is simple—to conduct a more detailed exploration of the area where the 129C probe ship disappeared.
The study of the Klein bottle has been ongoing for over three hundred years.
It is no exaggeration to say that the number of Klein bottles manufactured by Dimension Labs and the Spacetime Institute exceeds one hundred thousand.
Although most of them are defective products that last only a few seconds or less.
But all these Klein bottle structures share a common and significant characteristic:
The Klein bottle: where there is an entrance, there must be an exit!
To date, no Klein bottle without an outlet has ever been discovered.
However... its exit might land in some strange and unusual places.
Unlike electromagnetic wave communication and quantum communication, tachyon communication has the advantages of high stability, high speed and low susceptibility to interference.
In addition, the Chinese Academy of Sciences uses the highest precision tachyon signal receiving device.
Lü Yongchang was confident that as long as the 129C probe appeared within a range of 10,000 light-years, the Chinese Academy of Sciences could quickly receive the signal from the 129C probe.
But a problem arose.
The 129C probe ship has been missing for more than 48 hours.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences has not yet received any tachyon signals from the 129C probe ship.
This means that the actual situation may be far more complex than Lü Yongchang and others initially estimated.
Lu Yongchang frowned as he sat in his seat, staring intently at the holographic projection in front of him.
Over the past few days, he and the academicians have repeatedly reviewed the various data transmitted back by the 129C probe ship, trying to find some clues from these otherwise normal data.
The distance between Lü Yongchang's eyebrows easily reveals that the work is not progressing smoothly.
Several simple conjectures were also put forward.
The first possibility is that the Klein bottle structure, formed naturally or as a result of the aftermath of the war, far exceeded Lü Yongchang's imagination.
It can directly teleport the 129C probe ship to a distance of 10,000 light-years!
This exceeds the current maximum distance for quantum communication in human civilization, so it's normal not to receive a signal.
But this...
Is it really possible?
From a probabilistic point of view, it is indeed possible, but the probability is so small that it is almost negligible.
Consider this: even a short-distance space jump within the homeworld fortress of a level-seven peak civilization, the Tenth Empire, only covers a distance of tens of thousands of kilometers. How could a naturally formed Klein bottle structure possibly traverse a distance of tens of thousands of light-years?
Recalling the "accident" footage seen at Dimension Lab a few days ago, a second hypothesis emerged.
The Klein bottle structure was unstable. After the probe entered, its structure collapsed, causing irreparable damage to the probe.
Based on the information currently available, this seems to be the most likely hypothesis to come true.
This is the scene that Lü Yongchang least wanted to see.
The natural Klein bottle structure is almost the only shortcut for human civilization to explore higher dimensions, since the strength of man-made Klein bottle structures is far from meeting the standards.
Furthermore, through the exploration of natural Klein bottles, the Academy of Sciences can also gain more valuable information, such as the structure of more stable Klein bottles and the conditions under which large Klein bottles exist...
However, if the second conjecture comes true, then all of the above will be nothing but a mirage.
Therefore, Lü Yongchang could only place his hopes on the third conjecture—that his previous judgment was wrong, and that the thing was not a Klein bottle structure at all, but another unknown spacetime anomaly.
"drop!"
A crisp reminder interrupted Lü Yongchang's thoughts.
Seeing the line of text that popped up in the holographic projection, Lü Yongchang's expression relaxed slightly.
The exploration fleet, consisting of three exploration ships, successfully reached the area where exploration ship 129C disappeared!
The exploration mission was then launched.
To avoid falling into any potential spacetime anomalies, the three probe ships moved "slowly" in a triangular formation, with a distance of more than one million kilometers between them.
At the same time, all three detection ships pointed their high-precision probes at each other—ensuring that they could capture any “accident” that happened to any of the friendly ships.
...
Time slips away, bit by bit.
Three survey ships conducted repeated, thorough searches of the area where survey ship 129C disappeared.
But... let alone the entrance to the natural Klein bottle structure, the probe ship didn't find a single thing, except for sparse interstellar dust!
With atomic-level detection precision, it didn't even detect any debris from the 129C remnant!
This directly rules out the possibility that the 129C probe ship was attacked by an unknown force.
At the same time, it also seems to rule out the two conjectures put forward by the Academy of Sciences.
At this moment, in this place, there is no Klein bottle structure, nor any unknown spacetime anomaly structure.
The answer seems to have been locked onto the second conjecture that Lü Yongchang least wanted to see—that the natural Klein bottle structure was extremely fragile and, stimulated by the 129C probe, disappeared directly into space.
Seeing reality unfolding in the worst possible way, Lü Yongchang clicked his tongue in frustration and issued another order.
"Conduct a comprehensive search of the entire desolate star field, with the objective of finding the wreckage of Unit 129C!"
Based on the "accident" scenario in the original Dimension Lab, if the second conjecture had indeed occurred, the wreckage of Unit 129C would inevitably have been found nearby.
Under Lü Yongchang's orders, the three probe ships began to slowly increase the power of their warp drives.
Maintaining the original sailing speed is definitely not feasible for such a large-scale search operation.
Although this will inevitably lead to a decrease in detection accuracy, the search for the wreckage of the 129C exploration ship does not require very high detection accuracy.
The immense energy generated by the antimatter reactor flows into the warp drive through the energy pathway.
Even on the calm surface of the ocean, increasingly violent waves began to rise.
Whoosh!
All three probe ships disappeared into the visible universe at the same time, and the search for the wreckage of 129C officially began.
Lü Yongchang also let out a long sigh of relief and leaned back in his chair.
The "shortcut" failed, and he entered a brief state of enlightenment.
Tired, let's destroy it.
It wasn't just Lü Yongchang; researchers at Dimension Labs were also in the same predicament.
The atmosphere at the research center became even more subdued, especially considering that they would have to rely on exhaustive search to find a more stable Klein bottle structure.
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