Just disappearing into the darkness doesn't mean you're dead.
In fact, none of the stars in this universe have really died, but like the star in the 857 galaxy, the surface or slightly closer outer space is blocked by dusty dark spores. The light and heat are gradually accumulating in the confined space, and it is unknown when they will burst out.
"This is a slow process. You don't need to worry about things like star collapse in a short period of time. In addition, the lack of light from the stars will cause the temperature in the galaxy to drop, which will be troublesome for low-level civilizations. Fortunately, humans don't need it now. Worry about these issues." Shen Yunbu's voice sounded in the battleship.
At this time, the battleship Jiaowei was millions of kilometers away, and relying on the micro-torque hole communication technology, there would be no delay in the conversation.
"It's just spores?" Jing Jiu asked.
The amount of organic matter in the universe is relatively small, so why are there so many spores that are enough to block 857 stars and those stars in front of them
He felt that those black dust particles were strange.
Shen Yunbu said: "The concentration of the sea of dark matter cannot reduce the temperature of the star for the time being, but it slows down the speed of photons and other particles a lot, so it becomes darker."
This explanation made some sense, but it wasn't enough to convince Jing Jiu. He was about to ask more questions when the Lieyang battleship shook slightly and began to slow down.
The point-like warship Jiaowei in the distant universe started to slow down at the same time, and then changed its course in a certain direction.
"Bypassing the big Aries black hole, you will go to the seaside, get ready." After Shen Yunbu said this, he turned off the communicator.
After going through the torsion hole, bypassing the huge Aries black hole, which has an extremely wide influence range and has become a myth in the Galaxy Alliance, it comes to a corner of the local galaxy group.
The universe is still extremely dark, and distant stars are hard to see in the endless void ocean.
In front of the two battleships, there was a brilliant starry sky.
The reconnaissance fleet of the Starlink fleet is performing missions here.
There are more than 7,000 battleships in the universe, facing the dark world far away, looking like countless people holding surfboards and preparing to go to sea.
The spores sprayed by the uninfected life as the medium, the self-diffusion speed of the sea of dark matter can be called extremely slow compared with the speed of cosmic celestial bodies, and there are no waves. Then these battleships are located on the shore, but they don't know how far they are from the front coastline.
It can be seen that the military is very aware of the scope of the Sea of Dark Matters.
The technological level of the Galaxy Alliance has not been able to observe the existence of dark matter until today, let alone capture it. How did humans judge it
An invisible light curtain hangs from above the floor-to-ceiling windows, thickening at a rapid speed, forming an extremely complicated three-dimensional star map.
Those dim dots are stars, those densely packed bright spots are battleships, and those dark spaces are the sea of dark matter.
Jing Jiu looked at the star map quietly, and was not bothered by this question, because he knew the answer when he was at the base.
Human beings cannot observe dark matter, so they cannot know where the boundary of the sea of dark matter is, but they can observe indirectly through the infiltrated life forms.
Those living beings will be released into the universe, and where they start to be infiltrated, it shows where the sea of dark matter has been submerged.
In a sense, this method is very similar to the sonar used by ancient humans, and those living bodies are sound waves.
Of course, these beings can also be understood as scouts, but they perform missions that never return.
Infected lifeforms will become monsters, so the selection criteria for this type of lifeforms are very strict, not only to ensure that they can survive in the vacuum for a long enough period of time, but also to ensure that they will not be too powerful after becoming monsters , otherwise the sea of dark things will expand faster and faster by virtue of these beings.
Of course those life scouts can't be human - again this has nothing to do with humanitarianism, just can't.
These conditions also directly rule out beasts and birds.
Those microbes and viruses are too small, and they are easily killed by cosmic rays, and it is difficult to clean them up after they turn into blood, and it is impossible to be selected.
So it stands to reason that plants have become the best choice. Many experiments in the early days of mankind have proved that living plants can survive in the universe for a period of time, and moss and some algae can survive longer. The problem is that it takes the longest time for plants to be soaked by the sea of dark matter... This is completely inconsistent with the "scout" " needs. Dead organic matter, such as fat, will also be contaminated by the sea of dark matter, and there is no threat, but it has a similar problem with plants, that is, it is difficult to observe its changes in a short period of time. When humans observe that they are infiltrated, the sea of dark matter has already surrounded the battleship, so what's the point
In order to find the most suitable life scouts for detecting the boundary of the sea of dark matter, scientists of all ages and even ordinary people have given full play to their imagination and put forward countless schemes, some of which are extremely weird and whose origin is unknown, such as E. coli, and some schemes It sounds reasonable, but it’s just a stereotype, such as a white mouse, and some solutions are indeed very practical, such as maggots, but they still failed in the experiment. Even the most vigorous maggots cannot withstand the low temperature and high heat. conversion between.
In the end, human beings were forced to choose a species of life that most humans loathe and are unwilling to deal with, that is, the cockroach.
That is cockroaches.
The tenacity and peculiarity of the life of the cockroach need not be repeated here.
Scientists used multiple rounds of experiments to prove that no better candidate could be found, and the military finally selected a cockroach native to a certain planet as a scout.
Sadly, even with official recognition and a more important role in human history than it has for countless millennia, the image of the cockroach has not improved. Even the officers and soldiers on the Starfleet were unwilling to mention this "comrade in arms", and they were transferred to the reconnaissance warship to release the cockroach, which became the strictest military discipline punishment.
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The expansion of the sea of dark matter is smooth, and there is no need to worry about a passage suddenly emerging from it, so in fact, human beings can complete the demarcation work without releasing too many cockroaches. According to the usual third-level defense standard, if one cockroach is dropped every 10,000 kilometers, this universe only needs... 7,000 warships to drop 700 billion cockroaches.
It sounds like a lot, but it’s really not that much. Cockroaches have a strong reproductive ability, which can ensure an easy and continuous supply.
Thank goodness.
The real trouble is the need to implant microchips in each cockroach for remote control, observation and eventual destruction.
This is thanks to the girl in yukata by the hot spring, she is the best at this kind of thing, and it took only a short time to solve the problem.
If 700 billion cockroaches appeared at the same time, it would be the most violent and dense insect rain in the world. Fortunately, the infinite space completely dilutes this possibility.
In the universe, these bugs are the tiniest point, except for the remote monitoring equipment, people on the battleship can't see their existence at all.
Jing Jiu looked through the floor-to-ceiling windows and fell into the depths of the universe, and a very dim flame suddenly flashed in the depths of his eyes.
A cockroach encountered the sea of dark matter, was soon infected, and the microchip exploded.
No one will care about the death of a bug, but the death of this bug is like a super-phase nuclear bomb with the highest yield exploding in the universe, and the invisible shock waves rippling everywhere.
Seven thousand warships withdrew at the same time, as if frightened by the tide, like retreating seaside tourists.
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The retreating battleship maintained a relatively stable speed, like leaves floating in the breeze.
The officers and soldiers on the battleship were used to this process, and they didn't feel nervous, but a little excited.
Most of the monitoring equipment was aimed at the place where the bug was buried, and tens of millions of people were also looking at that place.
There is a very unusual star system in that universe. It was not until the Academy of Sciences deduced its submerged time a few years ago that this star system had its own name—the long-footed galaxy.
The galaxy was fading, and the star was fading, then dimming.
The officers and soldiers of the Starlink Fleet have sailed and lived in the universe all year round, and have seen countless magnificent cosmic scenes, but not many people have seen this specific picture of stars being swallowed by the sea of dark matter. The communication system of the entire fleet fell silent. Scientists from the Alliance Academy of Sciences and various research institutes were nervously preparing to collect data. Tens of millions of officers and soldiers waited for the last moment with mixed emotions.
I don't know how long it took, but the star completely dimmed. It didn't mean that it really stopped emitting light, and it wasn't because of the spores, but that the light was blocked by the strange existence of the sea of dark things.
More than 7,000 warships were as quiet as tourists shocked by the sea, as if countless inaudible sighs were ringing out.
At this moment, a sigh sounded from the fleet's communication system.
Countless monitoring devices are aimed at somewhere in the universe.
Tens of millions of officers and soldiers also looked there.
They can't see there, but they know who's there.
The Lieyang battleship and the Jiaowei battleship faced the sea of dark matter, and there were two people standing in the space where the extension lines of the hulls intersected.
"If there is a Creator, the cockroach must be his greatest work."
Shen Yunbu looked at the sea of dark things in the distance and said: "Although my favorite is the water bear, but that thing is too small to be observed and controlled remotely."
Jing Jiu said, "It's human."
Shen Yunbu thought for a while, and found that what he said made sense.
Since the birth of human beings, I don't know how many disasters, floods, earthquakes, wars, viruses, but they still survived strongly.
This kind of civilization has unimaginable resilience. Every time it seems to be destroyed, it can be reborn from the ashes—the ancient civilization is a new product after a catastrophe.
When the sea of dark matter was about to swallow everything back then, that god ignited countless stars, and the local galaxy group was swept away by an energy storm. The traces of radiation that can still be observed now prove how terrifying that storm was. Regardless of the Stargate, the Advance No. 2 base, or the Topaz No. 3 planet, these hundreds of spare planets are not within the burning range of the stars, and they are still washed by those energy storms. The people who hid in the bottom of these planets and those in the fleet were all dead. Who would have thought that human beings would appear again. Apart from the role played by that person, it has to be said that human beings are really as strong as cockroaches.
Now countless stars are disappearing again, but human beings are still alive, and they can still see these as scenery.
Shen Yunbu flicked out a wine ball from the pot, opened his mouth and bit off half of it, looked at the disappearing star, and said, "It's so beautiful."
Jing Jiu hummed.
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