Star Empire

On July 8, 157 Year of the Exiled Year, night has fallen on the 109th year of the Star Ming Civilization.

In the endless void, a small "safety island" protected by the order field is slowly drifting under its own power. After each drift is completed, this small and abrupt area of ​​order will "pause" for a while. After a short "rest", it begins its next journey.

There are no so-called concepts of "movement" and "space" at the physical level in the void. All "movement" needs to be achieved by changing the order representation parameters of the information body itself. In this small area of ​​order, the spaceship at the "front" that looks like a huge elongated pale golden seed is the highest center of the entire safety island. Under its control and coordination, All contact nodes on the entire safety island move forward in the void in a completely unified information migration method.

Before the last lights are completely extinguished, finding a harbor where you can rest and replenish yourself is the highest goal of everyone on this safe island, or in other words, the entire island.

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"Has the target sensing changed, or is there a stronger sensing signal?"

Above the main control hall of the flagship, Cavinrel presided over a crystal energy wave void scan some time ago. Under the command of the anti-trend coordinate driving equation and the "order field" of the information flow, a high-power scan can It swept across a fairly far range for the current star civilization, but judging from Cavinriel's expression, the results of this detection were not very good.

"The situation is not very optimistic." Looking at the weak echoes fed back from the holographic projection, Cavinrel shook his head with some disappointment, "Compared to the results of several scans more than a hundred years ago, our "target" "The feedback is still pretty weak."

"Maybe the target is also staying "relatively stationary" with us in the same "moving way"; or its feedback ability is only so high; or maybe the target is evaporating. Judging from the current scanning situation, it is unlikely to be a complete The order of the universe, and the fragments of the world, it is difficult to resist the erosion of the void."

"I hope it's the middle result." Vidoville said with arms crossed, "Our maximum endurance is currently expected to be maintained until 3741. According to the best-case scenario previously estimated, it will take more than three thousand years to reach this goal. If we really miss the target, then unless we can have another technological explosion in the remaining five or six hundred years, we will really have no way to save the day."

"Your Majesty, this may be difficult."

After some hesitation, Cavinrel decided to tell the absolute truth: "Theory and practice need to work together to make real progress in our scientific and technological level. So far, based on the current equipment, we can The actual equipment we have made has basically reached its limit, no matter how advanced the equipment is. We do have certain technical and theoretical reserves, but we no longer have powerful enough previous-generation equipment and sufficient resources to realize these ideas."

"Don't give up so early. When we are on the verge of life and death, the potential of civilization is much greater than you and I imagined. The power of a single individual may be limited, but the power of hundreds of millions of loyal souls plus the star civilization Where are these four words?" Vidoville tried his best to smile, "This part still requires more efforts from you... Of course, I can only advise you to be a little more active, that's all..."

"Well, Your Majesty, I am a scientist. I am personally skeptical about such mysterious and mysterious ideas that cannot be measured by quantifiable standards. Of course, I will do my best within my responsibilities."

"Well, and about the void." Before Vidoville could finish speaking, a violent shaking suddenly came from under his feet. The huge ark suddenly seemed like a fallen leaf in the torrent. Under the impact of this unknown force, the entire ark The order field supported by the fleet was crumbling, and the information window that popped up in front of the two people showed that the shield generator output power curve was rising continuously and was now approaching the warning threshold.

"What is this?" Vidoville grabbed the chief scientist next to him and jumped hard, barely avoiding the pieces of equipment that shattered and flew out after being disturbed.

With a burst of crackling arcs all around, the stable and redundant units arranged on the outer shell and center of the hull quickly came to work and barely stabilized the hull. However, looking at the circle of consoles in the activated information window With the golden arc dancing on it, Vidoville knew that at least one-tenth of the remaining redundant stabilizers that were still usable this time were scrapped.

"Your Majesty, look at these!" After the ship's condition stabilized slightly, more than a dozen information windows suddenly popped up in front of the two of them. Excluding the few extra pop-ups from the flagship itself, there were still eleven remaining windows - Victorville breathed a small sigh of relief, as he could at least be sure that no existing ark was lost in the unknown big impact just now, but soon, the pictures that appeared in each information window attracted his attention:

Strange galaxies, strange-shaped organisms or fragmented celestial bodies, strangely shaped broken spaceships, vibrant blue-green planets, etc. Victorville even saw a star tens of thousands of kilometers long, similar to Melville's Unidentified creatures that were a combination of whales, jellyfish and soft-bodied finworms slowly swam past the fleet, but what Cavernrill saw was even more surprising than this:

He saw something similar to a diagram of the structure of a galaxy, but the proportions and expressions were far different from the universe he lived in. In that picture that kept disappearing, he saw a burning yellow-white color in the center of the "galaxy". "Sun", around the "sun" are iron-black and withered yellow "rocky planets", and on the periphery of the orbit, huge "gas giant planets" hang slowly and slowly roll on the orbit - yes , it’s really rolling!

All the celestial bodies in this entire galaxy are ring-shaped! These celestial bodies are shaped like the vacuum accelerating tubes of an accelerator, and their movement around the central star is like rolling wheels!

Even with Cavinrel's knowledge, he couldn't match the regular formulas needed to make such a structure operate stably.

"Lil, Isendel, are you watching?" A new screen popped up in front of Vidoville. The screen trembled slightly, and the figures of Weisrifan and Isendel appeared on the screen. , when seeing the screen trembling, Vidoville frowned. Now the communication within the Ark's hull is based on the "physical level" of the still running crystal energy tube network. If this can also be interfered with if

"I'm watching." Behind the two of Weisruifan, some equipment had been overturned, and more equipment was sparkling with golden sparks. Looking at the screen beside him, Weisrui said Fan asked with a serious look, "Is what is rowing outside the ark real or phantom?"

"There is a certain mass response, so it shouldn't be a complete phantom." Just after Cavinriel finished speaking, Zhai Cahill suddenly broke in: "I was scared to death. I don't know if you noticed that it was as big as a wall just now. The wall just ran over the spacecraft!"

"Wall? What wall?" Cavernrel grabbed the incoming man, "Your eyes are special. Tell me, what were those just now? Why can they interfere with communications based on the two levels of crystal energy and continuity? ?”

"The phenomena and pictures just now are directly the massive amounts of external information that invaded our order field. Before entering the order field, they were pure information flows with insufficient levels. They were "assigned" by the laws of order in the order field and then displayed. There are various shapes, which are not necessarily their original appearance, but may also be a simple appearance temporarily generated by assigning values ​​in the order field."

After a pause, Zhai Cahir finally regained his composure, "As for interfering with communications, the intrusion of large-scale information flows will naturally have an impact on our fleet. To be honest, fortunately, there is still a layer outside our spacecraft. Keep an eye on the crystal energy shield, otherwise those strange things are likely to appear directly in our ship... And so far, it seems that what we have encountered... is not a positive wave."

"So, where does this information explosion come from? What is the relative estimate of the scale? What is the scope of the impact?" Vidoville continued to question Zhai Cahill, while assigning tasks to Cavinriel: "Wait until the interference is attenuated to a minimum. Detect when within the allowable range, and check the status of the suspected world fragment we are targeting as quickly as possible!"

"Follow your orders!" Cavernrel responded and turned around and ran to the broadcasting equipment a little further away. Soon, the buzzing sound caused by the increasing charging and operating level of the equipment gradually sounded in this cabin, and Zhai Ka Hill was grabbed by the collar of his clothes and looked a little embarrassed for a moment.

"The direction of the information source is unknown. I can only explain the direction of the information flow in the order field, but in the void they do not follow the physical laws of the order world, so I cannot clearly understand where they come from in terms of the void, and As for the scale, I can only say that it is unimaginable."

"As far as the eye can see, there are majestic ocean waves. We should be in a very borderline area. It may not even be considered a borderline. However, maybe due to our specialness, we may have some... attraction. ?Also, can you let me go?"

"Tsk." Vidoville let go of his hand and rolled his eyes at the various strange objects that were still flashing across the screen around him. Then he connected the communication and called the ships not to worry, as long as the crystal energy shield activates them. So it doesn't pose a threat for the time being - at least that's how it sounds.

Cavinrel, through host calculations and team speculation, tried his best to seize a point with a weaker information flow as a time window to send out the crystal energy detection wave.

After the information wave carrying the counter-trend driving equation, entangled state induction and pseudo-order field was sent, Cavernrel and others immediately felt that the power of this wave of information impact was too great: In the original silent void, such a There is almost no feedback from the sweep of the detection waves. Even if they have shifted quite far, the resulting disturbance is still too weak to cause any significant interference to the information wave itself.

But now, within the sight of the radar scanning range, there is only endless turbulent clutter like waves. Even if this clutter is compared to the information surge caused by the sudden collapse of the target universe, around the fleet, The entire void seems to have turned into a huge copper bell that is constantly echoing, as if everything will sink into the wave-like fluctuations released by this Hong Zhong Da Lu.

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However... a few days later, what can be called "good news" came back to the flagship:

Cavinriel and Zhai Cahir have determined that the feedback intensity of the information aggregate selected as the target has increased. Compared with the original blurry afterimage, the target can now appear in the fleet more clearly. On the way forward, it is like a star guiding the lost.

However, the turbulent wave of information that broke out before has not completely ended. In the embodiment of the information flow that appeared later, Ark captured some strange-style facilities:

Their surfaces are covered with a layer of greasy black armor, and their overall shape is similar to that of celestial bodies that have failed to fuse. The "melted" surfaces of these celestial bodies are also inlaid with small aircraft that look like flying wings. For everyone here, It can be said that this style is not familiar anymore.

The extremely clear Σ pattern outlined by the flashing black and red patterns on their surface further indicates where they come from. Before the end of this wave, in the final roar of the tide rushing in front of the fleet, the original messy and complicated The objects and even styles have been unified, and the blood-red "Σ" has become the final theme of the afterimage.

"It's scary, but why do I feel like it doesn't matter anymore?" Looking at the iron black and blood red that kept flashing across the screen, both Vidoville and Weisrifan looked a little numb - this civilization with the Σ symbol can always bring... There were climaxes of surprise one after another, but in the past two hundred years, they had almost had enough of wonder.