The central region of the M87 galaxy.
It is 100,000 light-years away from the neutral faction's safe zone.
A spacetime fluctuation occurred, and a dozen distorted, spherical, gray shadow structures appeared in the visible universe.
The gray shadow structure floated slowly, transmitting encrypted tachyon information to all directions.
Quark Fortress has been destroyed, and the Sweeper M87 division is on the verge of collapse.
But we also paid a heavy price...
This price is acceptable for the successful implementation of the Annihilation Plan.
[...]
After a long silence, new tachyon messages continued to arrive.
Not long ago, the starships of the Sekel civilization left the safe zone.
[They left the safe zone? Where did they go?]
According to our reconnaissance, those starships briefly left the M87 system.
[Having left the M87 system... Could the Silicon Alliance be up to something?]
[A while ago, we received a high-priority assistance request from Andromeda. Could this be related to this?]
[It's possible... Just to be on the safe side, let's go check it out.]
However, the war with the cleaners is not completely over yet, we...
We have established a significant enough advantage, and reinforcements from surrounding smaller star systems are constantly arriving; nothing will go wrong.
The spacetime that had just returned to calm began to fluctuate again.
Those dozen or so gray shadow structures disappeared again into the visible universe.
...
On the other side.
Human Alliance Fleet, inside the microcosm.
Sitting in his office, Lü Yongchang continued to repeat the tedious data verification work.
Completely clueless.
There are absolutely no phenomena related to dimensional changes within the structure of quasars!
Lu Yongchang frowned, and a rare look of frustration appeared on his face.
Could it be that the research direction has gone astray?
Is the cornerstone technology of an eighth-level civilization not dimensional technology?
After countless failures, this idea popped into his mind.
As time passed, this thought grew stronger and stronger.
Wrong! You're definitely going in the wrong direction!
Lu Yongchang subconsciously stood up and waved his hand to "throw" the holographic projections filled with formulas that were piled up in the office into a corner.
He needs to change his way of thinking!
This sounds easy, but in reality... it's very difficult.
A series of brand-new holographic projections unfolded one after another, with hundreds of years of observational data constantly emerging within them.
Lü Yongchang raised his hand and began to recalculate in front of him.
At first, his movements appeared very stiff and slow.
This is normal; it's not easy to change one's mindset after a long period of ingrained habits.
But as time went on, his movements became increasingly fluid!
...
"A little too much..."
A murmur tinged with doubt and confusion rang out in the office.
The deep blue light of the holographic projection shone on Lü Yongchang's face.
His face looked haggard, but his eyes shone with an unprecedented excitement!
"A little too much!"
Lu Yongchang repeated in a low, hoarse voice.
This time, his voice was absolutely certain, and all his previous hesitation and confusion had vanished!
Just now, during the data verification process, Lü Yongchang suddenly discovered an extremely exaggerated "error"!
The energy released in the quasar jet was a full 5% more than the theoretical amount!
Moreover, as the mass of quasars increases, the rate of increase in "error" also increases rapidly!
This can no longer be called an error; it's a revolutionary discovery!
As for why it wasn't discovered earlier...
On the one hand, due to past thinking habits, just like studying the collision of two black holes, everyone's attention has been focused on the spacetime changes around the quasar structure.
On the other hand, the mass of quasars has been increasing due to the battle between the sweepers and the pastoralists near quasars, which has greatly affected the research process.
The increased quality comes partly from the wreckage of the Sweeper warships and partly from the large amount of three-dimensional matter released when dimensional beings return to three dimensions.
Lü Yongchang must take this irregularly increasing mass into account—which is possible through observation and calculation of the surrounding spacetime distortion phenomena.
Looking at the two curves in front of him, whose distance was constantly increasing, Lü Yongchang took a deep breath and calmed his turbulent emotions.
The mysteries hidden within quasars have been unveiled to him!
only……
Where does this energy, which appears out of nowhere, come from?!
This is a quasar!
Today, the energy it releases every second is enough to destroy a galaxy!
How could such immense energy appear in the universe so silently?!
For a moment, Lü Yongchang even doubted whether there was a problem with the law of conservation of energy.
Just as Lü Yongchang was about to continue studying its mysteries, a slight fluctuation came from the depths of his mind.
There's been a change in the tech tree!
...
Technology Tree Space.
The first thing that catches the eye is that mottled, eerie background space.
Although there was no text in it and it had no connection to the technology tree itself, his intuition told him that the mottled background space definitely contained an extremely large amount of information!
Just like a photo of blue sky and white clouds, the amount of information hidden behind it is unimaginable!
The purpose of entering the technology tree space this time was not this background structure, so Lü Yongchang's gaze only lingered on this mottled background for a short moment.
He looked up and gazed at the top of the technology tree.
A deep joy welled up in his heart!
The fog at the top of the technology tree is still dissipating!
The cornerstone technology, symbolizing an eighth-level civilization, was shimmering faintly, barely illuminating the dim tech tree around it.
[Endless Energy: Preliminary Understanding of Vacuum Zero-Point Energy]
Lü Yongchang instinctively held his breath.
Vacuum zero-point energy!
It's actually vacuum zero-point energy!
This ideal, inexhaustible energy source was proposed as early as Earth's time.
If we compare the vacuum to a turbulent sea of energy, then positive and negative particles are like ripples on that sea of energy.
Even in a completely empty vacuum, virtual particle pairs and virtual photons are constantly being generated.
Simply put, in a vacuum, a pair of positive and negative electrons might suddenly appear. Then, these two electrons would annihilate each other to form virtual photons, which would then generate more electrons and positive electrons, and so on in a continuous cycle...
This is the vacuum fluctuation phenomenon caused by the Casimir effect!
(The Casimir effect experiment: Two parallel, uncharged metal plates are placed in a vacuum. According to classical mechanics, there should be no interaction between these two plates except for gravity. However, in a gap of ten nanometers, the Casimir effect can generate a pressure of one atmosphere, or 101.3 kilopascals.)
Vacuum fluctuations also prove the existence of vacuum zero-point energy!
Because research in this area has not made much progress, it has gradually been abandoned and forgotten by the Academy of Sciences.
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