After receiving the information from the drone, Hao Ren led his people to the Crystal Nucleus Research Station.
Today, this space station is no longer a simple research center. Its powerful central host and crystal resonant antenna allow the space station to undertake the function of integrating and processing all information in the dream plane. The planet Tanagus is an important "pilot "It is under the monitoring of the Crystal Nucleus Research Station. The living sample testing and various experiments on the eldest son are also carried out here. It is also the largest starport established by Hao Ren in the Dream Plane. The two ancient spaceships "Mann" are moored here, coupled with the strong 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 the largest "nest thinking core" in an attached tower of the space station, where hundreds of millions of drones The huge flow of thoughts surging between will be forwarded through the core of this lair, so in a sense, the crystal nucleus research station is now also the "supreme ruling center" of the drone group—of course, from a structural point of view, the drone group does not have a single The supreme ruler, because it uses a distributed thinking network, the crystal nucleus research station can only monitor this network with the highest authority.
Hao Ren did not go to the crystal hall where the host computer of the space station is located, but came to the core of the drone swarm's lair. This device made up of a large pile of glowing veins and strange metal sacs was like a device magnified thousands of times. The metal brain, the pipes and lines extending from the ceiling and the floor are all concentrated on the metal brain, making this thing exude a completely weird atmosphere. Lily yelled when she saw this thing for the first time: "Wow! It's so ugly!"
A bunch of messy lines emerged in front of the metal brain, and the lines slowly combined to form a human face, and the cluster consciousness of the drone group projected its own interface: "I'm sorry for making you feel this way, I don't like the 'aesthetic' Not much concept."
"The upper-level nodes of each drone group look different. Although their basic units are unified when they leave the factory, as the fleet continues to develop, it will absorb various external knowledge to develop and evolve. In the end, it often follows the The original design is not the same, the farther the distance between the two fleets, the longer the service time, and the wider the proliferation range, the more obvious the difference between them will be, and the bigger it will be," the data terminal explained next to it, "Now it seems Our fleet was greatly inspired by the local environment in the process of exploring the dream plane... After all, on any habitable planet, you can see a lot of indescribable things with tentacles and pieces of meat... "
Nangong Sanba covered his face: "Damn, I suddenly miss those square-headed and square-brained iron bump mother machines that were just released back then. These things are flying all the way on the long and crooked road."
Hao Ren waved his hand to interrupt these guys who could casually divert 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 continuously released a twisting force field around it: "Take Let’s take a look at the situation of those detectors.”
"Yes," said the drone swarm, and its interactive interface then changed to images sent back by several detectors, "Since the star map data you sent is not accurate, the three detectors have selected three Jump at the jump coordinates closest to the theoretical value. The coordinates used by the No. 1 detector should be too large, causing it to be involved in space turbulence or high-energy areas in the universe during the jump process, and it is still out of contact state, 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 presents a "channel" composed of distorted starlight. The front and rear ends of this starlight channel show a very obvious red-blue shift phenomenon, and the red-blue shift decays rapidly within a few seconds: this is from The phenomenon of returning to normal time and space from the state of superluminal transition, this video should be sent when the drone just jumped to the target galaxy.
Then the starlight on the screen stabilized, and the cold stars seemed to have stopped on the dark cosmic background, but occasionally some streamers appeared on the screen, and some close-range celestial bodies also showed signs of being elongated, which showed no The man-machine is not stationary, but continues to sail forward at sub-light speed: they leave the transition near the final landmark, and the next few light seconds need to be completed by conventional engines, which is also part of the detection mission.
Hao Ren watched this seemingly ordinary video attentively, until he saw the starry sky in front of him suddenly "shaking".
All the stars changed positions in an instant.
He rubbed his eyes, thinking that he was wrong or the picture was stuck, but then he realized: this is the strange phenomenon observed by the drone swarm.
The starry sky was originally nearly static. In the absence of atmospheric interference, the stars in the universe would hardly flicker, and their relative positions would never show changes visible to the naked eye. However, just now, all the stars moved instantly. , some of the stars whose positions do not change much can also see subtle changes in brightness. This scene is like a continuous video that has been cut off by someone, and the changes that were originally too slow to be observed are compressed to complete in an instant.
"Rewind that paragraph—what just happened?"
The screen returned to the moment when the "jitter" occurred, and then played it again. This time, Hao Ren was sure that everything did happen instantaneously: when the drone crossed a certain "boundary", the stars changed positions.
"The UAV observes a boundary, which has no entity, does not have a blocking effect, and does not have any tendency to attack and defend, but inside and outside this boundary, the observed universe is different," explained the cluster consciousness , "The fleet allowed two drones to observe the same direction at the same time inside and outside the boundary, confirming the existence of this phenomenon."
"A different universe?" Hao Ren frowned, "How is it different?"
"The position of all celestial bodies is abnormal, and the light cannot be transmitted continuously at the macroscopic level. It seems that the inside and outside of the boundary can be directly reached, but in fact there is a wide 'jump' area: on this boundary, space is discontinuous."
Hao Ren stroked 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 wide space between the two sides of the boundary, but this space disappeared, and the dislocation problem caused by the lack of space left behind The phenomenon of "observing the event horizon", observing the same celestial body inside and outside the event horizon, even if the distance between two observation points is only a few hundred meters, what you observe is actually what you see when you are separated by millions of light years or even farther away The fleet has confirmed the existence of this phenomenon by having two drones observe each other: a drone remaining outside the boundary observing a drone crossing the boundary will momentarily lose the signal of the latter—when the signal is re-established At the time, the distance between them had reached millions of light-years. However, due to measurement inaccuracies caused by some kind of spatial distortion, it is currently impossible to determine the scale of the disappearing space on the boundary."
Nangong Sanba scratched her hair: "Why didn't I understand it?"
Nangong Wuyue was only teased by her brother for not studying seriously when she was a child two days ago. At this time, she finally found a chance to taunt back, and immediately hugged her shoulders and wagged her tail: "My stupid brother—I didn't understand."
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 stuffed in his head like himself, so he explained in a simpler way: "This is equivalent to a piece of white paper, on which the original Draw a continuous picture, then we cut off a section of the white paper, and then put the white paper together forcibly—then the original continuous picture is dislocated. We can see the cause of the dislocation at a glance in the three-dimensional space, and we can also measure it accurately The size of the paper after cutting, but if there is a bug living in two-dimensional space lying on the white paper, then it can only find that when it crawls forward, it suddenly enters a new world. All the structures are no longer continuous—this situation is what we see from the two-dimensional space to the three-dimensional space. The difference is that bugs cannot observe the spatial structure above two dimensions, but we can control it through technical means. dimension."
The data terminal at the side echoed: "See, your partner's technical means are not only capable of exploding, but also non-explosive..."
Everyone: "..."
Hao Ren covered his face and put the data terminal in his pocket, and then continued to communicate with the drone: "Besides this border, what else is there in the target star area?"
"The No. 2 probe made a large-scale random jump after entering the target star area, and discovered an unknown high-energy aggregate in the universe."
As the voice of the collective consciousness fell, another space scene appeared on the holographic projection. In the vast space, large luminous gas clouds like fog clusters gathered together. These luminous gas clouds had a light yellow or milky white color. The starlight on the opposite side can be seen in the thin part, and the dense part is condensed like a solid. They do not have a fixed and uniform shape, but they are basically approximately disc-shaped, and there are a large number of spreading out on the edge of the luminous disc. Bands of jet-like material.
"These high-energy aggregates are all about the same size, with a diameter of about a thousand kilometers, and they are distributed in various places in the target star area. They emit strong and chaotic electromagnetic waves, but after the drone deciphered these electromagnetic waves, it was found that they were not It doesn't make sense. According to the deduction of the basic physical rules of the dream plane universe, the source of these 'space phenomena' cannot be explained, but no artificial evidence of these high-energy aggregates has been found."
"Other than that?"
"There are no more discoveries yet—the target star area contains a large-scale galaxy and several loose galaxy structures. The scope is vast, and it is impossible to complete the full-scale detection and precise scanning in a short period of time by relying on two detectors. Currently only A rough scan of the entire galaxy has drawn a map of the gravitational distribution for subsequent ship jumps."
Hao Ren looked up at the strange glowing gas clouds, and said softly, "It seems like a place worth visiting..."