Three days later, the collider was finally installed.
This installation is like a delicate work of art, with every detail meticulously designed and calculated, leaving no room for error.
Ye Chen, Li Muyue, and Chen Ziqiao, who had followed them, stood in the control room, watching the metal house through the camera.
There, the stone statue stood quietly in the center, waiting to be struck.
"Are you ready?" he asked.
“Yes, Master,” Tomoko replied.
Ye Chen took a deep breath and then gave the order to activate the device.
The entire control room fell silent instantly, with only the soft hum of various instruments.
The high-energy particles from the nuclear fusion reaction are continuously accelerated within the magnetic confinement ring, reaching near the speed of light in an instant.
Ye Chen and the other two kept their eyes glued to the video screen, not blinking an eye.
Suddenly, a faint light shot out and struck the surface of the stone statue.
As the particles collided, the atoms tightly packed on the surface of the stone statue produced a momentary fluctuation.
High-energy particles, traveling at near the speed of light, bombarded the surface of the stone statue, generating tremendous impact force.
This impact force shattered some of the stone statue's atoms, much like shards of broken glass scattered by a heavy blow.
The impact lasted for less than a microsecond, but in that brief moment, a large number of atomic fragments were ejected.
All of this was immediately captured by the sophisticated detectors installed in the metal house.
"It's working! Keep hitting it!"
Seeing the changes in the instrument data in front of him, Ye Chen gave an excited command.
As the impacts continued, the instrument captured more and more atomic fragments. These atomic fragments were like broken pieces of information, each of which might hold the key to unlocking the mystery of the stone statue.
Ye Chen stopped when the device started issuing overload warnings. He knew that continuing might cause irreversible damage to the device.
"I hope the information in these atoms can give me some answers," Ye Chen murmured, his eyes filled with anticipation and hope.
He had a premonition that these atomic fragments would provide him with more information about the mysterious stone statue, and that the mystery of this ancient civilization could be solved.
Soon, these captured atomic fragments were transferred to Ye Chen's private laboratory.
He threw himself into the decryption without stopping for a moment.
Li Muyue and Chen Ziqiao didn't dare to disturb him, so they said goodbye and left.
They can't help with the lab's declassification research by staying here; they should just wait for the results.
One day later.
The information from an atomic fragment was finally extracted.
"Sure enough, this civilization has mastered this method, storing vast amounts of information in tiny atoms."
Ye Chen stared in amazement at the several gigabytes of data that had been extracted.
Although it is unknown how this seemingly primitive ancient civilization managed to do it, it is clear that they have succeeded.
This shows that their civilization level is not low; they are just evolving in a different direction!
However, the universe is so vast that technological civilization cannot be the only form of civilization.
However, using atoms to store information is essentially about storing the most information in the smallest unit.
Even the ancient people on Earth would find it hard to understand how they could store all the books in a library on a small USB drive.
They saw it, and they probably worshipped it as a god!
Even modern humans possess such technology, albeit at a very rudimentary level.
The nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (NMR) technique commonly used by humans can be considered the initial stage of this technology.
In nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technology, atomic nuclei are used as information carriers. Researchers use radio frequency pulses of specific frequencies to manipulate atomic nuclei, causing them to enter different quantum states, thereby encoding and storing information.
When reading information, the atomic nuclei are restored to their original state by applying a radio frequency pulse again, and the stored information is read using magnetic field detection technology.
With this in mind, Ye Chen felt relieved!
"Zhizi, decrypt this information," he ordered directly.
This chaotic information ultimately needs to be decrypted and transcoded into a human information carrier before it can be understood.
One minute later.
Zhi Zi's voice rang out: "Master, the current information is too limited. We need more data for comparison, preferably data from ancient civilizations excavated on Earth."
Ye Chen frowned, thought for a moment, took out his phone, and dialed Wang Yuxi's number.
Soon, Wang Yuxi arrived at the laboratory.
Ye Chen handed her his Hidden Dragon Commander's token and said solemnly, "Take my token and, as quickly as possible, gather all the top-secret files on ancient civilizations across the country!"
"Yes, sir."
Upon seeing Ye Chen use his identity as the Hidden Dragon Commander, Wang Yuxi dared not be negligent. After leaving the laboratory, she immediately led her people straight to the confidential archives room of the Internal Affairs Department.
All the top-secret archives in the country are stored here.
In less than half a day, Wang Yuxi returned to the laboratory.
Ye Chen took the file from her hand, said only "Don't let anyone know," and then hurriedly turned and went into the laboratory.
Time passed day by day.
As more and more data becomes available, the decryption process is accelerating.
During this time, Li Muyue came several times. Seeing that Ye Chen stayed in the laboratory, she did not disturb him, but only instructed Wang Yuxi to bring food regularly.
In the blink of an eye, seven days have passed.
The information from all the atomic fragments was extracted and the initial transformation was completed.
Ye Chen finally gained some understanding of this ancient civilization.
Based on the declassified information, this civilization is an ancient civilization that existed on Earth, and its existence was contemporaneous with that of the dinosaurs.
Because these materials all mention the existence of dinosaur-like creatures.
Based on this, Ye Chen roughly speculated that this ancient civilization existed in the late Cretaceous period and may have disappeared along with the fifth mass extinction on Earth.
According to current archaeological discoveries, in the 4.6 billion-year history of Earth, it can be confirmed that there have been five mass extinctions, each of which led to the extinction of the vast majority of species at the time.
These five mass extinctions are known as the Ordovician-Devonian extinction, the Permian-Triassic extinction, the Jurassic-Cretaceous extinction, and the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction.
The earliest Ordovician mass extinction occurred about 500 million years ago. As for whether similar mass extinction events occurred in the previous 4.1 billion years of history, we do not know!
After obtaining this information from the atomic fragments, Ye Chen became even more interested.
For the next month, he devoted almost all his energy to deciphering the ancient civilization.
What I especially want to figure out is the mystery of the destruction of this civilization!
Because many scientists now believe that Earth is currently undergoing its sixth mass extinction!
As more and more information was deciphered, Ye Chen gained a deeper understanding of this ancient civilization.
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