"Courageous Assault" is the name of the spacecraft responsible for the jump experiment.
As the spacecraft left the port, it quickly flew to the designated jump location, preparing to start the first jump experiment in human history.
The starting point of this jump experiment is the lunar orbit, and the end point is the Mars orbit. The distance between the two points at this time is about 80 million kilometers. If the normal acceleration of the spacecraft is followed, it will take about seven days to fly from here to the end point. time, that is, 168 hours.
However, if you jump to subspace and use subspace navigation technology, you can compress the distance ten thousand times, which means that in theory, you can reach your destination in just one second.
Of course, no matter whether the spacecraft is in reality or subspace, there must be a process that needs to be accelerated, so the actual time required is definitely more than one second.
At this time, in the space observatory, Chen Chen was silently watching the data coming back from the radio telescope. At the same time, the hall was crowded with people, and everyone had solemn faces, preparing for the upcoming first jump.
"Prepare for navigation experiment, start subspace navigation in three minutes!"
On the radio, a cold electronic sound came, and everyone was refreshed. They were busy at their respective posts, constantly testing the accuracy of the data in front of them.
"The fusion reactor is on!"
"The nuclear fusion reactor has been turned on, the temperature is currently rising, and the output power is stable... "
"Liquid helium cooling system is on!"
"It has been turned on, and the pressure is currently stable!"
"The strong magnetic ring starts, and the jump engine starts to warm up!"
Chen Chen nodded secretly, raised his head and glanced at the big screen above his head.
On the big screen, dozens of monitoring screens were separated. Those were all pictures sent by the Courageous Assault spacecraft, but because of the distance, these pictures were slightly delayed.
As early as when humans landed on Mars, the disadvantages of signal delay in communication had already begun to emerge. Due to the distance between the two, the signal delay between the Earth and Mars was as much as two to three hundred seconds. If humans go out of the solar system in the future, I am afraid that Just one phone call can cost years.
It seems that it is time for quantum information transmission technology to be vigorously developed...
Chen Chen thought silently.
This idea flashed through Chen Chen's mind, but at this moment, the core target of this experiment—the jump engine device—was displayed on the screen above his head.
At this time, on the periphery of the engine, three ring-shaped strong magnetic devices were moving wildly around the black sphere in the center, like three blurry afterimages. As they continued to rotate, the black sphere in the center was also spinning. After a while, I don’t know if it was In an illusion, Chen Chen felt that the black ball in the center seemed to be changing into a liquid form little by little...
Of course, Chen Chen was familiar with this scene. This scene appeared in the movie. A member of the rescue team came to the jump engine that turned into liquid, stretched out his hand slightly, and actually put his hand into the black liquid.
It was as if the entire jump engine turned into a space gate at this moment.
However, I didn’t know what was behind this door. The rescue team member was eventually pulled in, and when he came out again, he had turned into a walking zombie without any consciousness.
It's like the soul has been absorbed by the other side of the gate...
This is the danger of subspace. Chen Chen is not unaware of the danger of subspace. If he were willing to choose, he would not choose this way of sailing to contact subspace. However, the universe is too vast after all, and it is vast enough to Any civilization despairs.
At the speed of today's nuclear fusion engines, minus the time required for acceleration, it would take more than half a year to fly out of the solar system.
The diameter of the Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years, which is billions of times that of the solar system. This is an extremely desperate number. Even if fuel is not taken into account, it will take more than 100,000 years to accelerate the spacecraft to sub-light speed from the Milky Way. flying from one side to the other.
Not to mention that the Milky Way is just a grain of sand in the observable universe.
Therefore, conventional flight methods will inevitably be unable to support the rise of civilization. If Chen Chen wants to develop, sooner or later he will need to develop jump engine technology. In this case, there is no room for retreat...
These thoughts flashed through Chen Chen's mind, and the cold mechanical voice continued:
"The jump engine has entered the critical value. The current core of the magnetic field has a pressure of 50 billion atmospheres, and the strong magnetic ring is very stable! Prepare to start the jump operation..."
"One minute countdown to jump engine start..."
During the broadcast, the cold electronic sound suddenly resounded in every corner of the hall, and at the same time, a low warning alarm also sounded, indicating that this experiment had entered the final stage.
Chen Chen had a solemn look on his face. Not only him, but the atmosphere in the entire hall also became solemn in vain. A low and depressing atmosphere weighed heavily on everyone's heart. Everyone was staring at the data stream in front of them, not daring to relax their vigilance for a moment. .
"Thirty seconds to prepare for jump engine start countdown..."
"Ten seconds to prepare..."
"ten!"
"Nine!"
"eight!"
…
"three!"
"two!"
"one!"
"Jump starts!"
As the order was issued, Chen Chen only saw that the jump engine on the screen became brighter and brighter from the darkness at the beginning, and finally turned into a bright light, completely flooding the surveillance camera!
A few seconds later, the delay correction time also reached the time of jumping. At this time, all the monitoring pictures flickered with snowflakes, and the Courageous Assault completely lost contact with the space observatory!
"Lost link!"
The voice echoed, "The jump site is being checked. It has been confirmed that the Courage Assault has not been found. The spacecraft has confirmed that it has entered subspace!"
Chen Chen's eyes suddenly lit up. Since the spacecraft disappeared out of thin air instead of exploding, it naturally meant that the spacecraft had entered subspace.
However, this does not mean that it is time to celebrate. Only the Courageous Assault reappears a minute or two later, and the position it appears is in the orbit of Mars, which represents the success of the experiment.
It takes about a minute for the spacecraft to cross subspace, and it takes about three hundred seconds for the Mars orbit signal to be transmitted to the earth. In other words, if you want to know whether the experiment is successful, you can only wait six or seven minutes to see if the Courage Assault will A signal came from Mars.
Naturally, all the researchers were well aware of these data, and they began to discuss or chat with each other, waiting for the final data together.
For a while, the atmosphere relaxed slightly.
However, as time passed by, the atmosphere in the hall became increasingly solemn. As the expected jump time was reached, everyone kept looking at the computers in front of them, waiting for the Courageous Assault to send back information.
One minute, two minutes, three minutes...
Six minutes passed, and the Courage Assault still did not send back any news, and many people began to look at each other in confusion.
Eight minutes passed, and everyone's foreheads were dripping with sweat. It seemed that the deep space of the universe had turned into a ferocious beast with its mouth wide open, swallowing the Courageous Assault but never spit it out again.
Ten minutes passed, and even Chen Chen frowned and looked at the screen above his head. Could it be said that this first jump experiment really failed
Is subspace really that dangerous
Just when everyone began to feel disappointed, finally, a string of encrypted signals was received by the radio telescope again, and this signal came from the Courageous Assault!
"The message came back!"
In the hall, many researchers shouted excitedly. They wanted to decipher the signal, but they were shocked the next second because they discovered that they had lost the authority to decipher the signal.
"what happened?"
"Why did I lose my authority?"
"Is it a system failure?"
Many researchers were immediately in an uproar. After all, they had participated and waited for so long, and now they couldn't even view the experimental results. Who could bear this
However, the cold electronic voice on the radio sounded again, "All researchers, please stay where you are and calm down. This information is the top secret of Black Light Technology. Please sit where you are and wait for the next order."
As the news spread, Chen Chen had already left the hall and came to another closed room.
This piece of information was naturally intercepted by Little
And the reason why he did this was just because Chen Chen had learned from past mistakes.
When he was in the "Black Hole Surface" plane, the local research institute was instantly destroyed because of the information sent back, and even the entire earth was eventually destroyed. Of course, Chen Chen did not dare to expose the information like this.
Therefore, this information must first be investigated by Xiao
"The encrypted signal has been translated and no memetic properties have been discovered."
At this time, Xiao X's voice came from the headset, and as Chen Chen looked up, a video appeared on the screen in front of him.
In the video, Chen Chen only saw that when the Courage Assault was flying, a huge black hole suddenly appeared in front of it, and then the spacecraft flew into the black hole.
The moment it passed through the black hole, the scenery outside the spacecraft suddenly changed, from a vast darkness to a world filled with dark red.
Obviously, the world in subspace is not as empty and dark as the real universe, but is covered in red mist, as if flying among magnificent nebulae, surrounded by granular red mist.
These mists are rolling rhythmically like ocean waves, but the strange thing is that they do not wash in one direction like ocean waves, but instead continuously impact the hull of the spacecraft from all directions...
Even in the mist, you can clearly see colorful light spots. The light spots are not very bright, but they are particularly conspicuous in the hazy blood-red mist. At a glance, they look like mist. The fireflies in the sky flicker and extinguish as the mist surges.
"What's this?"
Chen Chen squinted his eyes and looked at the scenery silently.
The scene returned from the spaceship was very strange. Chen Chen didn't know how it was different from the subspace he had been to before, because when he entered the subspace before, he had only opened his eyes once, and when he opened his eyes that time, he immediately saw something around him. Countless twisted black shadows.
Then Chen Chen dug out his own eyes.
Of course, Chen Chen didn't need to dig out his eyes when watching these videos, but based on this video alone, he couldn't figure out whether the scene on the screen was the subspace he had been to before.
Just when Chen Chen was a little confused, the spaceship seemed to be gradually leaving the bloody fog area. As the bow of the ship broke through the last fog, the camera in front of Chen Chen suddenly widened, and a vast and strange space completely appeared in front of Chen Chen's eyes!
It is still a dark red world, but in this endless red, strange black airflows are constantly blowing from the shell of the Courageous Assault. These black airflows continue to condense and change, as if they have their own life, and they will change with time. As it brushed against the outer shell of the spacecraft, the Courageous Assault's armor also showed signs of aging and decay...
Chen Chen even saw a trace of black air passing in front of the camera. The moment it passed, Chen Chen's pupils shrank and he immediately said, "Pause!"
Following Chen Chen's order, the images recorded by the spacecraft suddenly paused.
"Go back a few frames."
Chen Chen continued to issue orders, and then the black airflow in front of the camera condensed again and seemed to turn into two strange dark eyes.
This scene made Chen Chen feel cold in his heart.
Then, the video continued to play, and it did not end until three minutes. In these three minutes, Chen Chen saw scenes that he had never seen in his life, those crazy bloody mist, those weirdly colored firefly spots, and these endless The black air flow…
For a moment, Chen Chen felt as if he had fallen into a deep and strange dream. His eyes were filled with incomprehensible and bizarre things, and he could not tell whether he was dreaming or awake...
"The Valorant's armor appears to be slightly corroded."
Little
"The armor of the Courageous Assault has been corroded?"
Chen Chen was suddenly startled. The Courage Assault was already using the best quality aerospace metal. It would not cause any problems even if it sailed in space for tens of millions of years. But now, it only took a few minutes of sailing in subspace and suffered a slight damage. of corrosion
If this speed were followed, wouldn't it take just a few days for the ship's outer shell to be corroded
Thinking of this, Chen Chen couldn't help but frowned. It seemed that in order to sail in subspace in the future, he might need to invent a new type of material.
"Although it seems that there is nothing abnormal about the Courage Assault, don't forget the plot of "The Surface of the Black Hole". What should be tested must still be tested."
Chen Chen crossed his arms and said thoughtfully, "The next task will be much easier. Send Delta-level experimenters, put them in spacesuits, teleport them to Mars through the 'Watcher Transfer Stack', and send them to Mars." Inside the Courageous Assault."
"clear."
Little
Therefore, it was in line with Chen Chen's idea to let this group of people enter the spacecraft to experience it for themselves.
This experiment will only be considered a true success if those Delta-class experimenters are also unscathed after a subspace voyage...