A ray of light flashed in the vast space, and the silver-white spaceship jumped out of hyperspace and entered the universe as if condensed from the light.
"Navigation ended."
Nolan's voice reminded everyone that they had arrived at their destination. Hao Ren immediately raised his head from the dazzling documents and looked at the images from the external monitor of the spaceship. I saw that the spacecraft had reached the edge of a bright nebula, and the state of this nebula was obviously very strange.
It was a lavender gas cloud structure, and the data showed that it was more than twelve light-years across. The entire nebula was radial, and its core was brighter. Judging from the shape, this seems to be a small part of a nebula cluster that was torn apart, and the bright light may be the original matter that failed to evolve into stars. In the thinner, fainter regions of the nebula, bright spots of light are visible, where smaller stars are shining.
"The shape looks a bit weird..." Lily lay in front of the holographic projection and wagged her tail, "It seems like it was distorted by a distorting mirror?"
Hao Ren nodded: "It may be due to gravitational interference. There may be a black hole or something in the sunken place."
What they are talking about is the strange shape of the nebula: the nebula is not regular, and one side of it is obviously "depressed", and all the surrounding matter, including the light, is inclined towards the depression, which makes its entire structure. It's like a canvas being pulled and torn, or a hole in the universe, and this nebula is leaking through the hole into another dimension. If you observe carefully, you can find that the entire lavender nebula is affected by this "skew point", as if a huge gravitational source is slowly pulling it in.
And at one end of the lavender nebula, that is, the side closer to the "skew point", you can also see obvious fracture marks. All the matter disappeared abruptly in that area, leaving a well-defined cutting band, which is the It was as if the otherwise invisible cloud had been slashed by some invisible force—or perhaps some optical phenomenon had blocked the view there.
"It's so strange..." Lily murmured to herself, don't look at her, she is the most educated female schoolmaster in the team, and seeing the scene in front of her is not just as simple as watching the excitement. "The phenomenon of skewed starlight can be explained by black holes. What about the nebula matter that was suddenly broken?"
"No. Even the skewed starlight can't be explained." Hao Ren glanced at the data on the instrument, and suddenly frowned. "There is no black hole there."
"There is no black hole?" Lily's ears twitched, "Then why is the light skewed?"
"It has nothing to do with gravity," before Hao Ren could say anything, the data terminal took the initiative to explain. At the same time, a set of holographic images were produced, which showed the space structure of the lavender nebula, which was full of wrinkles like a torn curtain, "The space itself is skewed, and the starlight is only distorted in our line of sight. But they're still straight in their own space. It's a weird place where there's no strong gravitational source interfering, but the curvature of space itself changes."
Y'zaks muttered gruffly: "It must be the big bang of the God Slaying War, which tore the space structure here."
Hao Ren made the spacecraft approach the skewed point of the nebula at sub-light speed. While connected to the communication with Ganaku - Muru is waiting there: "Muru, I will transfer the screen to you, do you think this is the gate of Suluen?"
He transmits the vision of the "Slanting Nebula" to the Guardian Giant. The latter's voice came only a few seconds later, with a sense of surprise: "This... looks like it is indeed part of the galaxy where Suluen's Gate is located. But how did it become like this?"
"We don't know that there are spatial anomalies in those places where the distortion occurs. The space itself is curved, and it is incompatible with the surrounding universe," Hao Ren explained. "Now we are moving towards the most severely skewed area. You know what the signal is Did it come from which celestial body?"
Mulu suppressed his doubts and uneasiness, and at the same time searched his memory while looking for the structure of the celestial body he was familiar with from the severely distorted nebula: "Skew it... Go a little further, and you will see this one that looks like it has been cut off. Is there a solitary point of light here. It is a star, and there should be a rocky planet around it. That planet is the stronghold of the Gate of Suluen, and its name is Suluen. The signal is From there."
Hao Ren nodded and told Nolan to speed up towards the planet. At the same time, he opened the data link for detecting the drone group and called up the monitoring record of a drone here a few days ago.
A few days ago, a drone flew over this area and turned its camera to the direction of the nebula in front of Hao Ren's eyes. But the video records at that time showed that there was only nothingness here, and the sparse starlight tens of thousands of light-years away dotted this desolate and desolate place.
Hao Ren raised his head, but what he saw was a majestic, crooked and strange lavender nebula.
The Gate of Suluen appeared suddenly, without any warning, and just appeared in the universe out of thin air. The crux of the problem is why does it pop up
Nolan quickly approached the oblique point, and soon the distance was too close to see the whole nebula with an external monitor. Hao Ren only saw that the spaceship was approaching a star that was getting brighter and brighter, and at the place almost close to this star, he could see an obvious "fracture zone". above) extending out to either side of the star.
The fault zone is the boundary seen when observing the lavender nebula in the distance, as if cut by a knife, it neither emits light nor has obvious colors, but because the background of the entire universe is incompatible with the background of the nebula itself , plus the starlight from other places is completely blocked on the fault zone, making this boundary very conspicuous.
"It feels as if the Suluen Gate was cut from something bigger," Lily pointed to the fault zone next to the star, "We are flying towards the edge of the knife!"
Nolan's holographic projection suddenly jumped out of the air, crossed his hips and stared at Lily: "Don't talk about such a scary topic, it's me who is flying over there, and I'm watching from the first angle!"
Hao Ren subconsciously glanced at Nolan, thinking that with the time spent as a ship getting longer, the personality of this once indifferent "mercenary" has become closer and closer to a normal person. But this change should have nothing to do with changing the spaceship. The most important thing is that Nolan finally got in touch with "reality". Now she doesn't have to worry about everything in front of her suddenly disappearing like a big dream, and she doesn't have to worry about the people around her turning into strangers in the blink of an eye. She lives in a credible new environment, so What is released now is probably her true nature.
And just when Hao Ren was thinking about these far-fetched things, Nolan's face suddenly changed slightly, and then the speed of the Giant Turtle Rock Terrace suddenly dropped, and the ship's main engine also sounded an alarm at the same time: "Time and space anomalies, stop pushing detection, spatio-temporal anomaly, push stop detection... ”
Elizabeth immediately jumped up bluffing: "What's going on, what's going on?"
"Time and space distortion ahead," Nolan's image suddenly became thinner, and she was transferring more computing power to the performance of the ship's main engine, "... there is a problem with the time flow at the skewed point."
Elizabeth scratched her horn: "Time flow?"
The little devil doesn't seem to have learned such a profound lesson yet.
The holographic projection on the console presents images of nearby celestial bodies within a certain range, and the planet named "Sulun" is located in the center of the image, it is marked in striking red, and it can be seen around Suluen A red aura that spread out in circles and gradually faded in color. This is a vortex that represents the intensity of a certain phenomenon, and Suluen is at the very center of this vortex.
"Time is distorted along with the space, and Suluen is at the most skewed place," Nolan pointed at the planet Suluen, and explained quickly, "From here, the closer to Suluen Where time passes more slowly."
The scene fell silent immediately, Hao Ren and the others looked at each other in blank dismay.
They knew the place was weird, but they didn't realize that the weirdest part was the flow of time - unlike anything they'd ever solved.
"Close to a black hole can have similar clock-slow effects, or other forms of faster-than-light travel without space-time stabilization," said Nolan, who may not have had this knowledge, but now I have a database, so I know everything, "There is neither black hole nor superluminal motion here, the main reason for the change of time flow rate may be the space skew...or other deeper reasons, such as the battle of killing gods. The laws of the universe and so on.” (to be continued~^~)