Age of Cataclysm: I can light up the technology tree

Half a year later.

A huge fleet from the black hole area quietly passed through the deep space driven by antimatter engines.

Several asteroids "coming from afar" came towards the fleet.

The next second.

Before they could touch the starship armor, they were blocked by an invisible barrier.

Their own inertia, coupled with several distorted gravitational fields, directly tore their fragile bodies apart.

The asteroids turned into countless fragments, drew a graceful arc, and slid towards the rear of the fleet.

"Professor, the gravitational influence of the black hole has been reduced to below the standard value."

The electronic synthesized sound sounded in the command center of [Earth].

Lu Yongchang nodded and checked and confirmed the space-time curvature value sent back by the detector again.

After confirming that the values ​​had returned to normal, he took a deep breath and said in a deep voice.

"Attention, all units!"

"Fleet, prepare to enter the curvature navigation state!!"

...

The moment the voice fell, the originally quiet command center suddenly became lively.

"The output power of the antimatter engine begins to increase, 20%, 35%..."

"The curvature bubble begins to be generated, and the current space-time curvature is 0.167."

This is the space-time distortion phenomenon caused by the fleet's own mass and gravitational shield.

As the intensity of the curvature bubble gradually increases, the space-time curvature value begins to fall rapidly.

"Correction, the current space-time curvature is 0, and the curvature bubble is working normally!"

"Prepare to start the curvature engine."

After the report, He Bilin "pressed" the virtual button in the holographic projection with a serious look.

"The positive and negative gravitational fields are being generated..."

As Zero's electronic synthesized sound sounded, a slight tremor came from the deck under his feet.

A light and weak sense of weightlessness followed.

This is normal.

Due to the "old age" of the starship and the backwardness of some devices, there are some flaws in the antimatter engine power supply.

"This ship is about to enter the curvature navigation state, please be prepared, passengers."

"Curvature navigation countdown: 30, 29, 28..."

A series of bright red countdowns with warning meanings appeared in front of everyone accompanied by electronic synthesized sounds.

Lv Yongchang took cautious steps and half floated and half walked to the porthole of the command center.

Unlike conventional driving methods, during curvature navigation, the crew members on board do not need to lie in the deep-sea cabin, and can even walk around at will.

During curvature navigation, it is the surrounding space-time that moves the starship.

The starship itself remains relatively still with space-time.

Therefore, a starship entering the curvature state will not feel any acceleration.

Similarly, under the wrapping of the curvature bubble, the starship can also avoid the slow clock and length contraction effects brought about by the special theory of relativity.

Lv Yongchang cast his eyes to the front of the starship.

The slightly distorted starlight indicates that an extremely strong gravitational field is being generated in front of the starship!

"...3,2,1!"

"Curvature navigation officially started!"

"Current navigation speed of this ship: 1.1c."

"The quantum long-distance communication device is self-checking... Information transmission status is normal."

"Current navigation speed: 2c."

The moment the countdown ended, the faint feeling of weightlessness disappeared, and Lu Yongchang only felt his body sink, and his feet stepped firmly on the deck again.

He didn't care about these small details.

At this moment, all his attention was attracted by the scene outside the porthole.

In the curvature state, the universe outside the porthole presents an extremely strange phenomenon!

As the starship's navigation speed continues to increase, the starlight in front gradually becomes stronger!

At the same time, these lights gradually show a faint blue.

The wavelength of light becomes shorter and moves to the blue section of the spectrum. This is the blue shift in the Doppler effect.

This means that these light sources are approaching them rapidly!

In other words, they are approaching these infinitely distant stars at a very fast speed!

Lu Yongchang turned his head and looked at the back of the starship.

Unlike the brilliant light curtain in front of the starship, there is a thick black darkness!

Starlight can no longer catch up with this wild horse!

"Zero, how is the black hole tractor?"

Lu Yongchang retracted his amazed gaze and turned to ask.

The black hole tractor, as the name suggests, is used to pull the micro black hole that humans have spent a lot of effort to create.

As for why it is necessary to take it on an interstellar voyage...

As time goes by, "anti-gravitons" will gradually lose their characteristics and transform into gravitons again.

Therefore, in order to ensure the normal operation of the curvature engine, a stable "anti-graviton" mining source is needed.

And the micro black hole has become this mineral source.

The way to take it on a long voyage... is actually not complicated.

First of all, the micro black hole needs to be "starved" a little.

When its mass and gravitational influence range are reduced to a certain extent, it is pulled into the black hole tractor with the help of the gravitational field.

Similarly, with the help of the internal gravitational field, the black hole, the tractor and the surrounding space and time remain relatively still.

The last step is to start the curvature engine and let this micro black hole enter the curvature navigation state!

It sounds simple, but when it is actually done, it brings a lot of trouble and difficulties to the human fleet.

Most of Lu Yongchang's work in the past period of time was also to solve this difficulty.

Although after various rigorous calculations and several tests, it is almost certain that there will be no accidents.

But it is a black hole after all.

Even if it is a micro black hole, its essence is still the most powerful celestial body in the universe.

"The black hole tractor has successfully entered the curvature navigation state."

"The micro black hole is currently in good condition, and the black hole traction field is operating well!"

Hearing Zero's response, Lv Yongchang breathed a sigh of relief, and then turned his head again to look at the porthole on his side.

His eyes flashed with an intoxicated and obsessed look.

Similar to Lv Yongchang, after confirming that all starships had successfully entered the curvature state, each academician stood up from his seat and walked quickly to the porthole of the command center.

"Hey, hey, hey, Lao Cao, tell me how long you have been watching?"

"Quickly make room for me and let me see too."

Fang Xu's shouting came from not far behind him.

"Go away, there's nothing to see. The real-time camera footage is on the holographic projection. You can see it's the same."

"How can it be the same? Besides, if there's nothing to see, why are you occupying this seat?!"

Fang Xu naturally wouldn't believe Cao Liangcai's nonsense. His eyebrows were raised and his voice suddenly became louder: "Look, there are still so many people waiting to see it!"

"..."

"Current navigation speed: 10c."

Listening to the bustling voices in the command center, Lv Yongchang showed a faint smile at the corner of his mouth.

It seems that the development of human civilization has begun to go smoothly?