The Record of Unusual Creatures

Chapter 592: Mystery Star

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Lily and Vivian stared at the data terminal, and the latter was completely unmoved, with a look of "Anyway, I'm hard shelled and you can bite me". And Hao Ren didn't really believe that a husky and a bat could do scientific research from the very beginning. He knocked on the table to tell Lily not to grind her teeth, and casually took the pentagonal crystal plate into his hand: "What clue did you find?"

The data terminal activated its own holographic projection: "It's almost like a diary. It was left by a staff member of the observatory. This machine has already translated it. You can read it yourself."

Hao Ren stared at the log records on the holographic projection, and found that these were diary-like records that recorded work content throughout. The first part is full of unnutritious equipment maintenance, weather, and constellation content, but then suddenly an interesting event is mentioned:

"...Nine days and nights, it was clear and cloudless, the atmosphere was very stable, and an incredible phenomenon was observed in the night sky. The first star of Akanna burst into a burst of light, and the outline of the star once expanded to the size of the sun, and the red light illuminated A quarter of the sky was covered. The equipment recorded this magical phenomenon, and the instructor speculated that it was a supernova explosion. He believed that this could prove that Akanna Prime was indeed an old star: although its various These parameters are very different from ordinary stars... It is a pity that everyone could not measure the data of this ancient star before the explosion of Arcana, but we should also be grateful for this explosion. Perhaps we can analyze it from its spectrum. The ingredients of this star…”

This log was marked with a special color by the data terminal, and Hao Ren asked, "Do you think this 'Acanna Supernova Explosion' is related to the calamity of Tanagus' firstborn son?"

"Remember the database you found from Alamanda, which stores all the data of the Tana people. According to the records in the data, the first tentacles of the eldest son appeared on the planet after the supernova explosion. Three days," the data terminal turned off the holographic projection, "In any case, this Akanna supernova explosion is the last large-scale anomaly before the disaster of the eldest son. Regardless of whether there is any real connection between the supernova explosion and the eldest son, we should pay attention to this astronomical event."

Hao Ren became serious. Sitting next to Lily and thinking for a moment, he suddenly asked: "The database I handed in is now connected to the Imperial Data Network, right?"

"It has been connected for a long time. And the overall translation and backup have been completed, and it is currently connected to the third sample library. You can activate any relic museum of extinct civilizations with your own examiner authority, but you can only view the relics under your own name. modify the relics of extinct civilizations,"

"Connect to the Tanagus Civilization Database, retrieve data on the planet Akana... well, and all the astronomical events on the eve of the Calamity of the Firstborn."

The supernova record in the memory reminded Hao Ren, reminding him that both the eldest son and the goddess of creation actually came from the starry sky—if there were any signs of the annihilation event back then. This harbinger is also very likely to be reflected in some kind of astronomical phenomenon. He should pay attention to the intelligence in this area.

The third sample library is also known as the "civilization cemetery" or "species mausoleum". Seventy-eighty percent are from the censors: the censors will always encounter all kinds of dead civilizations in the process of traveling through the world, and collecting and sorting out the relics of these civilizations is one of the daily tasks of the censors.

Due to the special nature of the third sample library, access to it requires a spiritual direct connection with a higher degree of confidentiality. Hao Ren felt that his mind was split into two, just like the last time he returned to the watch world in the Dragon's Back Mountains. He looked at his living room with a clear mind, and part of his perspective was brought to a certain magical realm. A part of his spirit travels through a very empty place. Indistinctly, countless hurried figures passed by him: those figures were inspectors from other universes, and they were also visiting the third sample library. Some of these inspectors sensed the arrival of newcomers, and several figures greeted them friendly. Hao Ren responded one by one. And soon, the information he was looking for was presented in front of his eyes.

The first star of Arcana. It is an ancient star located on the ecliptic plane of the Tanagus planet, and it is also a "strange star" that has troubled Tanagus astronomers for thousands of years.

The astronomers of Tanagus called the first constellation on the zodiac "Acanna", which means "red arrow" in their language, and the first star of Acanna is located in this triangular constellation tip. It is a brilliant red in all seasons, the most luminous among all stars, and has been changing at a constant frequency since the beginning of modern astronomy by the Tanna until the millennium of the Blight of the Firstborn. This light and dark change is different from ordinary stars and is its first unsolved mystery.

And the second unsolved mystery is that the Tana people can't even determine whether the red star is a star or not.

It stands to reason that apart from the planets in the star system, all the stars shining in the night sky should be stars. Because planets do not emit light, they cannot be observed by surface creatures with the naked eye. Yet Tanagus astronomers have studied it for thousands of years. It is impossible to determine what kind of "star" Akanna's first star is. Its various parameters and characteristics are closer to planets, it has low temperature, low radiation, and does not have any spectral characteristics that a star should have. to any distortion of starlight: this proves that the mass of Akanna Prime is also very small, at least far below the standard of a star.

Yet it just hangs in the night sky over Tanagus, clearly visible on any clear night.

The Tana people made a detailed encyclopedia record on the first star of Akanna in the Tanagus database, and commented: No matter from which angle you look at it, this red star is a celestial body that should not be observed , this low-temperature, low-mass planet should be hidden in the dark depths of space, but in fact it is always one of the brightest celestial bodies at night, which almost challenges our existing scientific system...

But the greatest unsolved mystery of Akanna Prime still lies ahead: the inability to measure its distance.

It hung in the sky so grandly, but the Tanagus astronomers could not measure its specific distance. Because of the usual measurement methods: triangular parallax method, spectroscopic parallax method, Cepheid parallax method, etc., either always get completely different data, or can't measure the data at all. It is like a shadow printed on the retina, you can see it, but you can't find it in real space.

It is precisely because of these unsolved mysteries that the Tana people have been arguing about the first star of Akanna for a long time. They have three views on whether this star is a star or a planet, or simply a space mirage. There is no dispute between them.

It was such an almost "supernatural" strange star that had a "supernova explosion" more than 10,000 years ago, and on the third day after that, the first tentacles of the eldest son pierced the surface.

Hao Ren rubbed his eyes and escaped from the third sample library. Lily immediately came up to him wagging her tail: "How is it?"

"It's a very complicated strange star." Hao Ren pinched Lily's ear casually, calming the girl down like a pet, and then roughly said the information he saw in the database. Something, I suspect it might have something to do with the eldest son..."

While Hao Ren and the others were discussing the issue of Akanna's first star, a voice suddenly came from the direction of the back door: "Is everyone chatting?"

Hao Ren looked up, and it turned out that the bearded man was pushing the door in with a half-pulled roasted rabbit. It turned out that the sky outside had already turned dark: before he knew it, it was already night, and the bearded man had completed a day of survival in the wild, and now it was time to finish his work and go home. Vivian slapped her forehead: "Hey, I didn't look at my watch... I'll go cook!"

Lily was drooling as she looked at the roasted rabbit in the bearded man's hand, and slapped the armrest of the sofa with her tail like beating a drum: "Landlord, are you hungry? You must want to eat roasted rabbit, right? But you are alone Surely you can’t finish it, right? So…”

Hao Ren covered his face: "Don't play around with your IQ...Brother Beard, let me roast a rabbit for you."

The bearded man cheerfully handed the rabbit meat to Lily and asked, "What were you talking about just now?"

"About Tanagus," Hao Ren casually told the bearded man about the strange supernova record, "10,000 years ago, the night sky of Tanagus exploded instantly..."

The bearded man originally asked casually, but after hearing Hao Ren's description, he frowned: "Wait a minute, I don't know if I'm thinking too much... There are similar records in the ancient books of the Huiyao Sect."

Hao Ren: "... what?!" (to be continued~^~)