In the vast universe, a stream of light disappeared, and Wuheng was speeding through space with a huge red energy shield on its outer layer.
There is no permanent number, the huge conference room has a solemn atmosphere.
"Boss, no pursuers have been found. It's confirmed to be safe." Zhou Xiaozhi's voice suddenly sounded, confirming to Zhou Xing.
One day has passed since the interstellar war was observed. Wuheng has already flown out of the red galaxy and rushed towards the unknown galaxy 3.7 light-years away, avoiding the possibility of being discovered by the Dark Zerg or the Silver Civilization. .
Hearing this, Zhou Xing, who was sitting on the command chair, breathed a sigh of relief. There should be no enemies chasing him. Their actions of observing the war between the Dark Zerg and the unknown civilization should not have been discovered.
"Mr. Zhou, don't we try to contact that alien fleet?" Biological scientist Pless looked at Zhou Xing and asked.
Human civilization has entered the interstellar age and has begun to contact alien civilizations. However, they have only watched from a distance and have not yet made substantial contact.
"No! The technology they master is far more advanced than ours. Once they have malicious intentions towards us, the consequences will be dire. We cannot pin our destiny on the goodwill of alien civilizations." Zhou Xing flatly refused after hearing this.
Although the Silver Fleet defeated the Dark Zerg and is a natural ally of mankind, those who are not our race will have different intentions. Once attacked by the opponent, the ship will be destroyed and everyone will die. We must be careful in everything.
Professor Pless opened his mouth slightly, not knowing how to persuade Zhou Xing.
In fact, as Zhou Xing said, the strength of two civilized species can determine the fate of another civilized species. For example, humans are migrating across star fields, and the fate of the indigenous civilizations on the Blue Pole Star will be determined by humans.
Moreover, the cognitive differences between the two civilizations will inevitably lead to conflicts and contradictions. When this difference is magnified to the level of species, or even dimensions, Zhou Xing's prudent choice is very safe.
The entire conference room fell into immersion and the atmosphere was depressing.
The Wuheng has now lost contact with its home star, and its return to the vast universe is far away. They have just watched the interstellar war between two alien civilizations, which has caused tremendous psychological pressure on them. If it were not for the talented scientist Zhou Xing to rely on, everyone would His heart had long since collapsed.
Zhou Xing looked at Zhou Xiaozhi and broke the silence and asked: "Xiaozhi, what special discovery has been made in the HUIPU001 galaxy!"
The HUIPU001 galaxy is Wu Heng's next destination. Before the problem of "space-time bubble" encountered when traveling through wormholes is not solved, Wu Heng can only approach the destination by sailing. In other words, Wu Heng will need to carry out 6-7 It takes years of long voyage to reach the HUIPU001 galaxy.
"Boss, there are no other abnormalities found. The HUIPU001 galaxy has a star that is 5 times the size of the sun and 55 times the luminosity of the sun. It has 16 planets, of which the ninth planet is located in the life adaptation zone with an orbital period of 3.24 days. It exists where we are. The water resources needed are all water on the surface, no land..." Zhou Xiaozhi watched Zhou Xing report in detail.
Hearing this, Zhou Xing breathed a sigh of relief.
Water is the source of all things. As long as water is found, their survival will not be threatened by the self-circulating supply system of Wuheng. The water resources of Wuheng are enough to support their arrival in the galaxy.
"Except for those who are on task, all other unrelated personnel should go into hibernation!" Zhou Xing looked at everyone and announced.
"As you command!"
Everyone responded in unison. Zhou Xing was the most important person on the Wuheng, and his orders were higher than those of Star Wars Commander Chen Xiaolin.
The "wormhole bubble" phenomenon must be resolved as soon as possible, otherwise Wuheng will likely travel through time and space again to another unknown universe, and the chance of returning to Earth will be even slimmer.
After listening to Zhou Xing's order, the officers who could not help in the scientific field returned to the hibernation room to continue hibernation. Maybe they would have arrived in the HUIPU001 galaxy when they woke up.
Watching the officers and sergeants leave the conference room, Zhou Xing looked at the scientists and ordered: "What should everyone do? Just get busy! Don't think too much!"
Hearing this, the scientists nodded incessantly. If the sky fell, there would be someone taller to hold it up. At this time, Zhou Xing's order made them feel very relieved.
The scientists exited the conference room one after another, some rushed to the physics laboratory, and some rushed to the observation room... to study the scientific research projects assigned by Zhou Xing.
The huge conference room quickly emptied out, leaving only Zhou Xing and Tang Xin.
"Xing, is Xiaoyu also in this universe? Are you sure?" Tang Xin looked at Zhou Xing and asked impatiently.
"The probability is very high. The Wu Heng and the Panshi have the same destination of 'crossing the wormhole'. They may have traveled through the same time and space wormhole, and therefore they have arrived in the same universe." Zhou Xing looked at Tang Xin and nodded in confirmation. .
"That's great. You must find a way to find him. I don't know how Xiaoyu is doing now!" Tang Xin's eyes lit up, and she looked at Zhou Xing and said with joy.
Zhou Xing nodded vigorously and turned to look out the window, with a hint of bitterness on his face. Even in the same universe, finding the Panshi was like finding a needle in a haystack. It was not easy!
Just when Zhou Xing was distracted, Zhou Xiaozhi suddenly said: "Boss, we received an abnormal signal!"
"What did you say?" Zhou Xing's expression changed, and he suddenly turned to look at Zhou Xiaozhi.
"What kind of signal and where does it come from?" Zhou Xing reacted and asked Zhou Xiaozhi one after another.
"Boss, this signal is not sent through a light signal, nor through quantum entanglement's long-distance communication technology, but a method similar to gravitational wave vibration resonance propagation. The signal receiver cannot identify the location where it appears. ." Zhou Xiaozhi replied to Zhou Xing.
"What is the content of this set of signals? Can it be deciphered?" Zhou Xing's expression changed. Could it be the silver fleet civilization.
"Yes, boss, the signal is not encrypted." Zhou Xiaozhi responded, and immediately, several Chinese characters appeared on the holographic screen.
"Hello, strange intelligent civilization!"
"Just these few words? Xiaozhi, can we give him a reply?" Zhou Xing stared at the holographic screen and asked in surprise.
"Boss, I don't know its location!" Zhou Xiaozhi said aggrievedly.
Just as Zhou Xing was about to say something, Zhou Xiaozhi suddenly said: "Boss, I received a second message!"
"Hurry! Translate it quickly." Zhou Xing perked up and said impatiently.
"Strange civilization, you just saw it. Damn bugs are eroding the universe and threatening the survival of intelligent life. Your strength seems to be very weak. You need to become stronger as soon as possible to resist the invasion of bugs. I plan to help you. Do you want to improve your strength quickly?"
This sentence was full of a different kind of temptation. Zhou Xing's mind was racing and he was thinking crazily.
Is it true that the naive will lose the pie!
In order to resist the pressure of the Dark Zerg, high-level civilizations continue to donate technology to low-level civilizations? This is impossible!
Could it be that the Great Scientist's auxiliary system was also created by advanced civilizations and not Xiaoyu
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Suddenly, Zhou Xing had a lot of thoughts in his mind.
The dark universe made Zhou Xing highly wary of all unknown things. Especially when faced with such a huge temptation, he did not dare to be tempted. What's more, he didn't know where these two messages came from. Even if he wanted to respond, There was no way to respond.
"Boss, I received another message." Zhou Xiaozhi continued to report.
As soon as he finished speaking, the holographic screen once again revealed a row of text.
"I know you don't have the ability to communicate in space in real time, so you can't respond. But it doesn't matter. I'm in the Luohe galaxy 172 light years away from you. You are welcome to come and find me."
"172 light years, Xiaozhi, quickly locate its location." Zhou Xing refreshed and reminded Zhou Xiaozhi.
As soon as Zhou Xing finished speaking, Zhou Xiaozhi immediately reported: "Boss, we found it. It's this galaxy. The star is a white dwarf."
Following Zhou Xiaozhi's words, the large holographic screen changed, and a huge star system appeared. A huge star's light was white, slightly dimmer than the fiery red star. However, it was more than 10 times larger than the sun, with a large surrounding area. There are 47 planets around, big and small, rotating at high speed.
Zhou Xing shivered all over.
White dwarf stars, as the name suggests, are white in color and relatively small in size, so they are named white dwarfs.
A white dwarf is one of the few destinations after the death of a star. It can reach a maximum of 1.44 times the mass of the sun. Its extremely high mass and reduced size mean that it has extremely high density and extremely high gravity.
After a star of medium and low mass passes through the main sequence stage of its life and ends the hydrogen fusion reaction, it will undergo helium fusion in its core, burning helium into carbon and oxygen in a three-helium fusion process, and expand into a red giant. .
When the outer region of the red giant expands rapidly, the helium core shrinks strongly inward under the reaction force. The compressed material continues to heat up. Eventually, the core temperature will exceed 100 million degrees, and helium begins to fuse into carbon.
After millions of years, the helium core is burned out, and the outer shell of the star structure is still a mixture mainly composed of hydrogen. There is a helium layer below it, and there is a carbon ball buried inside the helium layer. The nuclear reaction process becomes more complicated. The temperature near the center continues to rise, eventually converting carbon into other elements. The core density inside the star increases to about ten tons per cubic centimeter, and a white dwarf is born.
White dwarfs are one of the most terrifying celestial bodies in the universe. How powerful would a biological civilization that can survive near white dwarfs be
So, now we need to consider a question: Is this advanced civilization well-intentioned or malicious? Is he setting a trap by blowing up his position
Is the power of the Dark Zerg in this universe really so terrifying
172 light-years, such a far distance, if wormhole shuttle technology cannot be used, it will take 350 years to reach that galaxy at an infinite speed.
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Zhou Xing's brain was racing, thinking about the purpose of this advanced civilization suddenly contacting them.
"Xiaozhi turns on the tunnel communicator and prepares to respond to the other party." After weighing for a moment, Zhou Xing suddenly ordered Zhou Xiaozhi.
"Boss, what information do you want to enter? To activate the tunnel meter, you need to slow down." Zhou Xiaozhi reminded Zhou Xingdao.
"Agree to slow down, greet them, and tell them that we are unable to use wormhole technology to reach their galaxy because of the 'wormhole trek' civilization. We hope they can provide technical support." Zhou Xing ordered to Zhou Xiaozhi.
"Okay, boss!" Zhou Xiaozhi responded.
Immediately, the speed of the Wuheng continued to slow down, the wormhole tunnel instrument was activated, and a quantum signal disappeared into the small wormhole at the bow of the Wuheng in an instant.
Zhou Xiaozhi looked at Zhou Xing and said, "Boss, I received a reply message."
"We are an unfamiliar civilization. 'Wormhole shuttle' is a very profound and dangerous navigation technology. Do not use it without thoroughly mastering it. Infinite universes are connected by space-time wormholes. Random space-time wormhole travel can easily affect the universe." The technology is a proliferation-limiting technology and cannot provide support."
Looking at the information displayed on the holographic screen, Zhou Xing was stunned for a moment, and his brain started working rapidly.
What does this mean... does it mean to give up support? Is it because Wuheng is just a lost spaceship
Space-time wormholes are diffusion-limiting technologies. In this way, in addition to the alien civilization in front of us, there are other biological civilizations that have formed an "alliance organization" and customized regulations for the diffusion of wormhole shuttle technology
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Although this civilization does not feel that there is any malicious intent, this kind of show of kindness can't help but make Zhou Xing highly vigilant.
"Xiaozhi, ask the other party if they can provide other technical support." Zhou Xing instructed Zhou Xiaozhi.
"Okay, boss!" Zhou Xiaozhi followed the order.
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Ten minutes passed, three and a half hours passed, an hour passed... The message sent by Zhou Xiaozhi fell into the sea and never came back.
Zhou Xiaozhi, who couldn't wait for a reply to the message for a long time, reminded Zhou Xing: "Boss, the other party has not responded."
Hearing this, Zhou Xing smiled bitterly, looked at Tang Xin and said, "This is how humanity's first exchange with an alien civilization ends."
"Why! They just said they wanted to assist us with technology." Tang Xin looked at Zhou Xing in confusion.
"To be courteous for nothing, to commit adultery or to steal, and to love without reason, it's okay not to have this kind of advantage." Zhou Xing looked at Tang Xin, waved his hand and said.
This civilization has mastered such an almost incredible technology as space communication, and its scientific and technological civilization must be very advanced. It supports the technology of a low-level civilization for no reason. I am afraid that the technology is to achieve some ulterior purpose.
"So, when they learned that the Wuheng was just a lost spaceship, they probably couldn't achieve their desired purpose, so they had no intention of paying attention to the Wuheng." Zhou Xing looked at Tang Xin and continued to add.
After listening to Zhou Xing's analysis, Tang Xin suddenly understood and nodded.
"It's a pity that this is the first time humans have come into contact with extraterrestrial creatures, and we can't get any information about the universe from them." Zhou Xing said with some regret.
The Wuheng is just a lost spaceship, and it can only wander around the universe. Without a strong background support, it is difficult to obtain information about the universe from other channels, let alone looking for the Panshi.
Is it time to develop human civilization in this strange universe
No, it takes too long! Perhaps human civilization may be destroyed before it has grown up.
So…
Zhou Xing's mind was racing, thinking about how to solve Wu Heng's current predicament.