After receiving the information from the drone, Hao Ren led people to the crystal nucleus research station.Now this space station is no longer a simple research center, its powerful central host and crystal resonant antenna allow the space station to assume the function of integrating and processing all the information of the dream plane, Planet Tanagus as an important "pilot" is under the monitoring of the crystal nucleus research station, and the detection of live samples of the eldest son and various experiments are also carried out here, it is also the largest starport established by Hao Ren in the dream plane, and the two ancient spaceships "Patian" and "Asuman" are docked here, Coupled with the powerful offensive and defensive capabilities of the space station itself, it seems to have become Hao Ren's most important base in this universe.In order to facilitate the control of the increasingly large drone empire, not long ago, Hao Ren ordered the installation of a largest "nest thinking core" into an attached tower of the space station, and the huge thought flow surging between the hundreds of millions of drones will be forwarded through this nest core, so in a sense, the crystal nucleus research station is now also the "supreme ruling center" of the drone swarm - of course, from the structural point of view, the drone swarm does not have a supreme ruler, because it uses a distributed thinking network, The Crystal Nucleus Research Station is only capable of monitoring the network with the highest privilege.Hao Ren did not go to the crystal hall where the main engine of the space station was located, but came to the core of the drone swarm's lair, this device made of a large number of luminous veins and strange metal capsules "piled up" is like a metal brain magnified thousands of times, and those pipes and lines extending from the ceiling and floor are all concentrated on the metal brain, making this thing exude a completely strange atmosphere.The first time Lily saw this thing she exclaimed, "Wow!
It's ugly!
”A bunch of chaotic lines appeared in front of the metal brain, and the lines slowly combined into a human face, and the cluster consciousness of the drone swarm projected its own interactive interface: "I'm sorry to make you feel this way, I don't have much concept of 'aesthetics'. ”"The higher-level nodes of each drone swarm look different, although their basic units are unified at the factory, but as the fleet continues to develop, it will draw on all kinds of external knowledge to develop and evolve, and in the end it is often different from the original design, the farther away the two fleets, the longer the service time, and the wider the proliferation range, the more obvious and huge the difference between them," the data terminal explained next to him.
Now it seems that our fleet has been greatly inspired by the local environment in their exploration of the Dream Plane......
After all, on a habitable planet, you can see a lot of indescribable things with tentacles and pieces of flesh......"
Nangong Sanba covered his face: "Damn, I suddenly miss a little bit of the square-headed and square-headed iron pimple mother machine that was just released back then, and this thing is rushing all the way down the crooked road." ”Hao Ren waved his hand to interrupt these guys who could easily deviate from the topic, and turned his head to look at the metal brain that was supported in mid-air by a large number of pipelines and constantly released a distorted force field around it: "Let's talk about the situation of those detectors." ”"Yes," the drone swarm said, and its interactive interface then changed to a picture sent back by several probes, "Since the star map data you sent is not accurate, the three probes each chose the three transition coordinates closest to the theoretical value to jump."
The coordinates used by the No. 1 probe should be too far off, causing it to be swept into space turbulence or high-energy areas in the universe during the transition, and is still in a state of disconnection, and the No. 2 and No. 3 probes arrived at the target galaxy almost at the same time, and they sent back such a picture......
"The holographic projection first shows a "channel" composed of distorted starlight, and the front and back ends of this starlight channel show a very obvious red and blue shift, And within a few seconds, the red and blue shifts decay rapidly: this is a phenomenon of returning to normal space-time from a faster-than-light state, and this footage is supposed to have been sent by the drone when it first jumped to the target galaxy.The starlight then stabilized, and the cold stars seemed to be stationary against the dark cosmic background, but there were occasional flashes of light on the screen, and some of the objects in close proximity showed signs of being elongated, indicating that the drones were not stationary, but continued to travel at sub-light speeds: they were de-transitioning near the final target, and the next few light-seconds were covered by conventional engines as part of the mission.Hao Ren watched the seemingly unremarkable video intently until he saw the starry sky in front of him suddenly "shake".All the stars changed positions in an instant.He rubbed his eyes, thinking that he had seen something wrong or that the picture was stuck, but then he realized: this is the strange phenomenon observed by the drone swarm.The starry sky was originally almost static, and in the absence of atmospheric interference, the stars in the universe would hardly twinkle, and their relative positions would never show changes visible to the naked eye, but just now, all the stars moved their positions instantaneously, and some of the stars whose positions did not change much could also see subtle changes in brightness, this scene was as if a continuous video had been cut off from it, and the changes that were originally so slow that they could not be observed were compressed to an instantaneous completion."
Rewind that paragraph - what just happened?"
The footage returns to the moment when the "shaking" occurred, and then replays, this time Hao Ren can be sure that everything really happened in an instant: when the drone crossed a certain "boundary", the stars changed positions."
The drone observes a boundary that has no entity, no obstruction, no offensive and defensive tendencies, but the observed universe is different inside and outside this boundary," the swarm consciousness explains, "The swarm confirms the existence of this phenomenon by having two drones observe the same direction at the same time, both inside and outside the boundary." ”"A different universe?"
Hao Ren frowned, "What's the difference?"
”"All celestial bodies are out of position, light rays do not propagate continuously on the macroscopic scale, and it seems that they are directly accessible inside and outside the boundary, but in fact there are vast 'jumping' zones: on this boundary the space is discontinuous."
Hao Ren touched his chin: "What do you think caused this result?"
”"By comparing and analyzing the starlight observed on both sides of the boundary, it was confirmed that there should have been an extremely large space between the two sides of the boundary, but this space disappeared, and the dislocation caused by the lack of space left the phenomenon of 'observation horizon', where the observation of the same object inside and outside the horizon, even if the distance between the two observation points is only a few hundred meters, is actually what is observed when it is seen millions of light-years or more.By having two drones look at each other, the swarm has confirmed the existence of the phenomenon: drones left outside the boundary to observe drones crossing the border will instantly lose the latter's signal - by the time the signal is re-established, they are already millions of light-years away.However, due to the inaccuracy of the measurements caused by some spatial distortion, it is not possible to determine the exact scale of the space that disappeared on the boundary. ”Nangong Sanba scratched his hair: "Why didn't I understand it too much?"
”Nangong was only ridiculed by her brother for not studying seriously when she was a child two days ago, and at this time, she finally found an opportunity to counter-ridicule back, and immediately hugged her shoulders and wagged her tail around: "My stupid brother yo-I didn't understand either." ”Lily immediately looked at her with disdain: salted fish is salted fish, and the salt content has not changed much after turning over.Hao Ren knew that not everyone had graduated from Peking University four times like Lily or had a database in his head like himself, so he explained in a simpler way: "This is equivalent to a blank piece of paper, on which a continuous picture was originally drawn, and then we cut out a section in the middle of the white paper, and then forcibly put the white paper together - so the original continuous picture was misplaced."
We can see the cause of the misalignment at a glance in the three-dimensional space, and we can accurately measure the size of the paper after cutting, but if there is a bug living in the two-dimensional space lying on the white paper, then it can only find itself crawling forward and suddenly entering a new world, and all the structures in the space are no longer continuous - this situation from the two-dimensional space to the three-dimensional space is what we see in front of our eyes.The difference is that insects cannot observe more than two dimensions of spatial structure, but we can control higher dimensions through technical means. ”The data terminal echoed next to him: "See, the partner's technical means are not only explosive, but also ...... that can't explode" Everyone: "......"
Hao Ren covered his face and put the data terminal in his pocket, and then continued to stream with the drone: "In addition to this boundary, what else is there in the target star sector?"
”"The second probe made a wide range of random jumps after entering the target star region, and found high-energy aggregates in space with unknown bodies."
As the words of the cluster consciousness fell, another space scene appeared on the holographic projection, only to see that in the vast cosmic space, a large number of luminous gas clouds like a fog gathered together, these luminous gas clouds have a pale yellow or milky white light, the thin place can almost see the opposite starlight, and the dense place is condensed like an entity, they do not have a fixed and unified shape, but they are basically similar to the disc shape, and there are a large number of jet-like material bands that spread out at the edge of the luminous disk."
These high-energy aggregates are about the same size, about 1,000 kilometers in diameter, distributed in various parts of the target star sector, and they emit strong and chaotic electromagnetic waves, but the drone cracked these electromagnetic waves and found that they were meaningless.According to the basic physical rules of the dream plane universe, it is impossible to explain the origin of these 'space phenomena', but no artificial evidence of these high-energy aggregates has been found. ”"What else?""
There are no more discoveries at this time - the target region contains a large river system and several loose galaxy structures, and the scope is so vast that it is impossible to complete the whole territory detection and accurate scanning in a short period of time with two detectors.Only a rough scan of the entire galaxy has been carried out, and the gravitational distribution has been mapped for subsequent ship jumps. ”Hao Ren looked up at those weird glowing clouds, and said softly, "It seems to be a place worth visiting......"