A ray of light flashed in the vast space, and the silver-white spaceship jumped out of hyperspace and entered the universe as if it had condensed from the light.
"Navigation ended."
Nolan's voice reminded everyone that they had arrived at their destination. Hao Ren immediately looked up from the dazzling information and looked at the picture from the spacecraft's external monitor. He saw that the spacecraft had reached the edge of a bright nebula, and this
The state of the nebula is obviously very strange.
It is a lavender gas cloud structure. The data shows that its scale exceeds twelve light-years. The entire nebula is radial and its core is brighter. Judging from the shape, it seems to be a nebula-making cloud cluster.
The small part that remains after the nebula split, that bright light may be the original material that failed to evolve into stars. Some bright light spots can be seen in the thinner and dim areas of this nebula, which are smaller.
The stars are shining.
"The shape looks a bit weird..." Lily lay in front of the holographic projection and shook her tail, "It seems to be distorted by a magic mirror?"
Hao Ren nodded: "It may be gravitational interference. There is probably a black hole or something in the sunken place."
What they were talking about was the weird shape of the nebula: the nebula was not regular, one side of it was obviously "sunken", and all the surrounding matter, including the light, was tilting toward the sunken point, which made its entire structure
It seems like a canvas that has been pulled and torn, and it also seems like there is a hole in the universe, and this nebula is leaking from the hole into another space. If you observe carefully, you can find that the entire lavender nebula is "skewed" by this
"point" is affected, as if a huge gravitational source is slowly pulling it in.
At one end of the lavender nebula, that is, the side closer to the "skew point", obvious traces of fracture can also be seen. All matter disappears abruptly in that area, leaving a clearly defined cutting strip, just like
It was as if the originally erratic and invisible clouds had been slashed by some invisible force, or it might be some optical phenomenon that blocked the scene there.
"It's so strange..." Lily murmured to herself. Don't look at her. She is the female student with the highest academic qualifications in the team. The scene in front of her is not just a mere spectacle. "The phenomenon of skewed starlight can be used.
Black hole explanation, what about the nebula material that suddenly broke off over there?"
"No. It can't even explain the skewed starlight," 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 displayed, which showed the spatial structure of the lavender nebula, which was like a piece of cloth being pulled.
"The space itself is skewed, and the starlight is only distorted in our sight, but they are still straight in their own space. This is a weird place, there is no strong gravitational source to interfere, but the curvature of the space itself occurs
Changed.”
Yzaks murmured in a rough voice: "It must be the big explosion of the God-killing War that tore apart the space structure here."
Hao Ren let the spacecraft move closer to the skew point of the nebula at sub-light speed. At the same time, he connected the communication with Gnaku. Mulu was waiting there: "Mulu, I will transfer the picture to you. You see, this is Su Luen's
Door?"
He sent the sight of the "Crooked Nebula" to the Guardian Giant. The latter's voice came after a few seconds, with a sense of surprise: "This... does seem to be part of the galaxy where the Sulun Gate is located.
.But how did it come to be like this?”
"We don't know that there are spatial anomalies in those places where distortion occurs. The space itself is curved and is incompatible with the surrounding universe," Hao Ren explained. "Now we are heading towards the most severely distorted area. Do you know what the specific signal is?
Which celestial body did it come from?"
Mulu suppressed the doubts and uneasiness in his heart, and at the same time searched his memory and looked for the familiar celestial structure from the severely distorted nebula: "Crooked point... go a little further, you see this thing that looks like it has been
Is it the cutting place? There is a solitary point of light here. It is a star, and there should be a rocky planet around it. That planet is the fortress of the Sulun Gate, and its name is Sulun. Signal
That’s where it comes from.”
Hao Ren nodded and asked Nolan to speed up towards the planet. At the same time, he opened the data link for the detection drone group and retrieved the monitoring records of a drone here a few days ago.
A few days ago, a drone flew over this area and turned the camera in the direction of the nebula in front of Hao Ren. But the image records at that time showed that there was only nothingness here, tens of thousands of light-years away.
The sparse starlight dotted this desolate and desolate place.
Hao Ren raised his head and saw a magnificent, skewed and strange lavender nebula.
The Suluen Gate appeared suddenly, without any warning, and just appeared out of thin air in the universe. The key to the question is why did it appear?
Nolan quickly approached the skew point, and soon the distance was too close to see the entire nebula with an external monitor. Hao Ren only saw that the spacecraft was approaching an increasingly bright star, and almost
Close to this star, you can see an obvious "fracture zone" that extends to both sides of the star with a momentum that almost runs through the universe (visually speaking).
The fracture zone is the boundary that I saw when I was observing the lavender nebula in the distance. It seems to be cut off by a knife. It itself neither emits light nor has an obvious color, but because the entire cosmic background is incompatible with the background of the nebula itself.
, coupled with the fact that starlight from other places is blocked on the fault zone, making this boundary very conspicuous.
"It feels as if the Suluen Gate was cut off from a bigger piece," Lily pointed to the fracture zone next to the star, "We are flying towards the edge of the knife!"
Nolan's holographic projection suddenly popped out of the air, akimbo and glared at Lily: "Don't talk about such a scary topic, it's me who's flying over there, and I'm watching from the first-person perspective!"
Hao Ren subconsciously glanced at Nolan and said to himself that as the time of being a ship became longer and longer, the character of this once cold and distant "female mercenary" has become closer and closer to a normal person. But this change
It probably has nothing to do with the change of the spaceship. The most important thing is that Nolan finally came into contact with the "reality". Now, she doesn't have to worry about everything in front of her suddenly disappearing like waking up from a dream, nor does she have to worry about the people around her changing in the blink of an eye.
Faced with unfamiliar strangers, she lives in a new environment that is truly believable, so what is being released now is probably her true nature.
And just when Hao Ren was thinking about these nonsensical things in his mind, Nolan's expression suddenly changed slightly, and then the speed of the Giant Turtle Yantai suddenly dropped, and the ship's host computer also sounded an alarm at the same time: "Time and space anomaly, stop pushing.
Elizabeth immediately jumped up and said: "What's going on? What's going on?"
"There is space-time distortion ahead," Nolan's image suddenly became thinner. She was transferring more computing power to the performance of the shipboard host, "...there is a problem with the time flow rate at the skew point."
Elizabeth scratched her horn: "How fast does time flow?"
It seems that the little devil hasn't learned such a profound lesson yet.
The holographic projection on the console shows images of celestial bodies within a certain range nearby, and the planet named "Sulun" is located in the center of the image. It is marked in eye-catching red, and can be seen around Sulun.
A red halo that spreads out in circles with ever-diminishing colors. This is a vortex that represents the intensity of a certain phenomenon, and Su Luen is at the center of this vortex.
"Time is distorted along with space, and Suluen is at the most severely distorted place," Nolan pointed at the planet Suluen and explained quickly, "From here on, the closer you get to Suluen.
Where time passes more slowly.”
The scene suddenly became quiet, and Hao Ren and others looked at each other in confusion.
They knew this place was weird, but they didn't expect that the weirdest part was the flow of time, which was different from any problem they had ever solved.
"Similar clock slowing effects will also occur when approaching a black hole, or other forms of super-light travel without stabilizing space and time will also produce this phenomenon," Nolan said. She may not have had this knowledge originally, but now she
He has a database, so he knows everything. "There is neither a black hole nor super-light movement here. The main reason for the change in the speed of time may be space skew...or other deeper reasons, such as the God-killing War that blew up this place."
The laws of the universe and so on.” (To be continued.)