After receiving the information from the drone, Hao Ren led people to the Crystal Core Research Station.
Nowadays, this space station is no longer a simple research center. Its powerful central host and crystal resonance antenna allow the space station to assume the function of integrating and processing all information in the dream plane. The planet Tanagus serves as an important "pilot"
"Under the supervision of the Crystal Core Research Station, physical sample testing and various experiments on the eldest son are also carried out here. It is also the largest star port established by Hao Ren in the Dream Plane, with the "Patian" and "Ah
The two ancient spaceships "Suman" are parked here, and coupled with the powerful offensive and defensive capabilities of the space station itself, it has become Hao Ren's most important base in the universe.
In order to facilitate the control of the increasingly large drone empire, Hao Ren not long ago 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 them will be forwarded through the core of this nest. Therefore, in a sense, the Crystal Core Research Station is now also the "supreme ruling center" of the drone swarm. Of course, structurally speaking, the drone swarm does not have a highest authority.
The ruler, because it uses a distributed thinking network, the Crystal Core Research Station can only monitor this network with the highest authority.
Hao Ren did not go to the crystal hall where the main engine of the space station was located, but came to the core of the drone swarm's lair. This device, which was "accumulated" by a large number of luminous veins and strange metal capsules, was like a device magnified thousands of times.
The metal brain, the pipes and lines extending from the ceiling and floor were all concentrated on the metal brain, making this thing exude a completely weird atmosphere. Lily shouted when she saw this thing the first time:
"Wow! So ugly!"
A bunch of messy lines appeared in front of the metal brain, and the lines slowly combined into a human face. The cluster consciousness of the drone swarm projected its own interactive interface: "I'm sorry to make you feel this way. I am not interested in 'aesthetics'
I don’t have much idea.”
"The upper-level nodes of each drone fleet look different. Although their basic units are unified when leaving the factory, as the drone fleet continues to develop, it will absorb various external knowledge to develop and evolve. In the end, it often ends up with the same
The original design was different. The farther apart the two fleets are, the longer they have been in service, and the wider their proliferation range, the more obvious and huge the differences between them will be," the data terminal explained beside him, "now this fleet
In the process of exploring the dream plane, I was greatly inspired by the local environment... After all, on any habitable planet, you can see a lot of indescribable things with tentacles and pieces of flesh..."
Nangong Sanba covered his face: "Damn it, I suddenly miss those iron mother machines with square heads and square heads that were just released back then. These things were flying all the way down the long and crooked road."
Hao Ren waved his hand to interrupt these guys who could easily stray from the topic. He turned to look at the metal brain that was supported in mid-air by a lot of pipelines and was constantly releasing distortion force fields around it: "Bring it on
Let’s take a look at the situation of those detectors.”
"Yes," the drone group said, and its interactive interface changed into the pictures sent back by several detectors. "Since the star map data you sent is not accurate, the three detectors selected three
The jump coordinates closest to the theoretical values are used to jump. The coordinates used by the No. 1 detector should be too deviated, 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.
Status, probes No. 2 and No. 3 arrived at the target galaxy almost at the same time, and they sent back this picture..."
The first thing that appears on the holographic projection is a "channel" composed of distorted starlight. The front and rear ends of this starlight channel show a very obvious red and blue shift phenomenon, and the red and blue shifts rapidly decay within a few seconds: this is from
The phenomenon of superluminal jump state back to normal space and time. This video should have been sent by the drone just after it jumped to the target galaxy.
Then the starlight on the screen stabilized, and the cold stars seemed to be stationary on the dark background of the universe. However, occasionally some streams of light appeared on the screen, and some close-up celestial bodies also showed signs of being stretched, which showed that there was no
The man and the machine are not stationary, but continue to sail forward at sub-light speed: they break away from the jump near the final position mark, and the next few light-second distances need to be completed by conventional engines, which is also part of the detection mission.
Hao Ren watched this video attentively, which seemed ordinary at first glance, until he saw the starry sky in front of him suddenly "shake".
All the stars changed their positions in an instant.
He rubbed his eyes, thinking he had seen it wrong or the screen was stuck, but then he realized: this was the strange phenomenon observed by the drone swarm.
The starry sky was originally almost static. Without atmospheric interference, the stars in the universe would hardly flicker, and their relative positions would never change visible to the naked eye. However, just now, all the stars moved instantly.
, subtle changes in brightness can also be seen on some stars whose positions have not changed much. This scene is like a continuous video that has been cut off, and the changes that were originally too slow to be observed are compressed to be completed in an instant.
"Rewind that paragraph. What just happened?"
The picture returned to the moment when the "jitter" occurred, and then played it again. This time Hao Ren was sure that everything happened instantly: when the drone crossed a certain "border", the stars changed positions.
"The drone observes a boundary. This boundary has no entity, no blocking effect, and no tendency to attack or defend. However, the observed universe is different inside and outside this boundary," explained the swarm consciousness.
, "The fleet allowed two drones to observe the same direction at the same time inside and outside the border, confirming the existence of this phenomenon."
"A different universe?" Hao Ren frowned, "How is it different?"
"The positions of all celestial bodies are abnormal, and light cannot propagate continuously on a macro scale. It seems that the inside and outside of the boundary can be directly reached, but in fact there is a broad 'jump' area: on this boundary, space is discontinuous."
Hao Ren touched his chin: "What do you think caused this result?"
"By comparing and analyzing the starlight observed on both sides of the border, it was confirmed that there should have been an extremely broad space between both sides of the border. However, this space disappeared, leaving the dislocation problem caused by the lack of space.
The phenomenon of 'observation horizon' means observing the same celestial body inside and outside the horizon. Even if the distance between the two observation points is only a few hundred meters, what is observed is actually what is seen when it is millions of light-years or even farther away.
The scene. By letting two drones observe each other, the fleet has confirmed the existence of this phenomenon: the drone that stays outside the border observes the drone that crosses the border, and will momentarily lose the latter's signal when the signal is re-established.
At that 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 specific scale of the space that disappeared on the boundary."
Nangong Sanba scratched his hair: "Why didn't I understand it well?"
Nangong Wuyue was ridiculed by her brother two days ago for not studying seriously when she was a child. Now she finally found an opportunity to ridicule him back. She immediately hugged her shoulders and wagged her tail: "My stupid brother, I don't understand either."
Lily immediately looked at her with contempt: Salted fish is salted fish, and the salt content will not change after turning over.
Hao Ren knew that not everyone graduated from Peking University four times like Lily or had a database in their head like him, so he explained in a simpler way: "This is equivalent to a blank piece of paper.
Draw a continuous picture, then we cut a section out of the middle of the white paper, and then forcibly put the white paper back together, so that the original continuous picture is misaligned. We can see the cause of the misalignment at a glance in the three-dimensional space, and we can also accurately measure it.
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 crawling forward, it suddenly enters a new world, in the space
All structures are no longer continuous. This situation is moved from two-dimensional space to three-dimensional space. This is what we see in front of us. The difference is that bugs cannot observe spatial structures above two dimensions, but we can control higher dimensions through technical means.
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The data terminal echoed from the side: "You see, my partner's technical means are not only explosive, 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 boundary, what else is there in the target star area?"
"After entering the target star area, Probe No. 2 made a large-scale random jump and discovered an unknown high-energy aggregate in the universe."
As the words of the cluster consciousness fell, another space scene appeared on the holographic projection. In the vast space, large luminous gas clouds like fog gathered together. These luminous gas clouds were light yellow or milky white.
The light is thin, you can almost see the starlight on the opposite side, and the thick part is condensed like a solid body. They have no fixed and unified shape, but they are basically approximately disk-shaped, with a large amount of light spreading out from the edge of the luminous disk.
A belt of ejecta-like material.
"These high-energy aggregates are all about the same size, with a diameter of about a thousand kilometers, and are distributed in various places in the target star area. They will emit strong and chaotic electromagnetic waves, but after the drone deciphered these electromagnetic waves, it was found that they were not
It makes no sense. According to 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."
"What about other than that?"
"No more discoveries have been made yet. The target star area contains a large-scale river system and several loose galaxy structures. The area is vast. It is impossible to complete the entire area detection and precise scanning in a short time with two detectors. At present, only a rough survey has been carried out.
Scan the entire galaxy and draw a gravity distribution map for subsequent ship jumps."
Hao Ren looked up at those weird glowing gas clouds and said softly: "It seems like a place worth visiting..."