Earth Era

"Sixteen thousand years? How could this be?"

This number obviously means that Wang Hao's speculation is wrong.

As early as 16,000 years ago, the Phoenix Galaxy had already come into contact with the Bread Nebula, and humans had only been here for a few hundred years. Human beings have been completely active within the coverage of the Bread Nebula for hundreds of years. If Wang Hao's speculation is true, then human beings should have been troubled by this atypical genetic mutation syndrome for a long time, and it will definitely not be until Only discovered now.

This discovery has basically ruled out the possibility that the Bread Nebula contains some kind of deadly radiation.

This last idea was also proven false, and Wang Hao once again lost his direction.

"Perhaps we will never find the real cause of this disease. The universe is so vast that it is impossible for us to understand all the wonders and mysteries."

Wang Hao shook his head and threw the Bread Nebula thing out of his mind.

Time is still passing quietly. Although two spacecraft will return in the near future and come to the laboratory for inspection, Wang Hao's mind is no longer on this. What if I'm diagnosed with the disease? So what if you are not sick? Rather than finding the cause of the disease, it may be more important to find a way to treat it.

Time passed in this calmness for a few days, until a phone call came here.

"Wang Hao, hello, we are the management team of Space Survival Base No. 7. Following notification from our superiors, our survival base will begin its orbital transfer at three o'clock tomorrow afternoon, from the orbit of New Saturn to the orbit of Phoenix, to migrate with civilization. The fleets are converging. During the orbital transfer of the survival base, there may be some vibrations and noises. The specific intensity cannot be determined for the time being. If possible, please stop work in your department temporarily and take precautions in advance to avoid unnecessary losses. "

"Are we going to start transferring? Time flies so fast..."

Wang Hao murmured to himself and gently put down the phone. Next to the table, on the old-fashioned calendar, the number has changed from one hundred and thirty-five a few days ago to one hundred and twenty-nine.

Wang Hao knows that not only Space Survival Base No. 7, but also all spaceships and bases widely distributed in the Phoenix Galaxy, as well as people scattered on different planets, will all converge on the civilization migration in the next four months or so. Come among the fleet. The total number of various aircraft that need to change their orbits will reach nearly ten million.

Wang Hao raised his head, and the metallic-colored ceiling on the top floor of the room came into view, blocking all Wang Hao's sight. But Wang Hao's gaze seemed to penetrate the infinite obstacles in front of him and travel into the vast space.

Wang Hao saw that countless spaceships and space bases seemed to be controlled by an invisible big hand, and they were gathering in a seemingly chaotic but orderly manner. Driven by countless firelights, they left the place where they had stayed for hundreds of years. place, converging towards a certain point in the void. There is nothing there, but there seems to be some huge and irresistible attraction, attracting all the creations of human civilization to gather here.

Wang Hao opened the news interface and saw a young and beautiful host narrating in a high-pitched and full voice: "The head of state has ordered that the fleet assembly will officially begin tomorrow and be completed within four months. By then, we will Will set off to the place where we were born..."

Behind the host is a huge display screen, which is full of dense light spots, so dense that they are almost connected into one. Wang Hao looked carefully and saw that there was a galaxy map on the screen, and those light spots were spaceships one after another.

Obviously, this is the command center for the entire assembly operation. Every spacecraft participating in the migration will be displayed on it, and the staff here will track the coordinates and heading in real time, and issue relevant orders.

The screen switched, and the figure of the head of state, full of majesty and power, who seemed to be always as tough as steel and could never be knocked down, appeared in the screen, followed by the head of state's powerful words: "No one can Can block our progress. After hundreds of years away from our hometown, we will once again..."

The migration of nearly 100 billion people, from wandering abroad to returning to their hometown, is undoubtedly a major event that can affect the fate of the entire civilization. Everyone is a participant in this matter, including Wang Hao.

Anyone deserves to be excited about this matter, but this does not include Wang Hao.

Because there is always a layer of haze shrouding Wang Hao's heart, like the scorching sun in summer, making the joy and encouragement that should have been there quietly melt like ice and snow.

Wang Hao turned off the live broadcast screen a little upset, turned around and left the room.

Even at the core of the laboratory, Wang Hao seemed to be able to hear cheers coming from the outside world. But all the staff in the laboratory were just like Wang Hao, not showing any excitement.

"Wang Hao, these are the physical examination results of a total of thirty-nine crew members of the "Pacific" ore carrier and the "Will Price" scientific research vessel. The results show that the crew of the Pacific spacecraft are safe and sound, but the crew of the scientific research vessel Then he has been infected with atypical genetic mutation syndrome, and the development stage is stage two..."

Wang Hao whispered: "I understand."

After receiving these inspection results, Wang Hao came to the analysis room and planned to conduct further inspection on the data. Although I know that there is a high probability that these inspections will have no results, it is part of the job after all.

A display screen next to it was open, showing a large-scale interstellar map. With just one glance, Wang Hao could see that the core of the map was the Phoenix Galaxy, and next to it were several stars near the Phoenix Star.

There are two thin lines extending from two stars respectively, connecting to the Phoenix Galaxy in the form of arcs that vary in detail but are very smooth overall. This seems to be a schematic diagram of the orbit of a certain spacecraft.

In the past, Wang Hao and his colleagues have conducted many spacecraft orbit analyses, so they are very familiar with this schematic diagram. At the same time, I also know that this is actually of no use.

After just one glance, Wang Hao withdrew his gaze and shifted it to the data analysis equipment in front of him. But I don't know why, but there is always a vague, inexplicable familiar feeling in my mind, and I feel like I have forgotten something.

This feeling made Wang Hao turn his attention to the orbit diagram again. After looking at it for a moment, something suddenly came to mind: "How come the position of one of the arcs coincides with a cavity in the Bread Nebula?"

The Bread Nebula has covered the Phoenix Galaxy for more than 10,000 years. Because of this, Wang Hao has basically ruled out the connection between the Bread Nebula and this disease. Although he knew that his discovery was most likely just a coincidence, Wang Hao once again called up the picture of the Bread Nebula, adjusted it to the same scale as the orbital diagram, and then overlapped the two pictures.

The newly generated image clearly shows that the Pacific cargo spacecraft happened to pass through a crack in the Bread Nebula and barely touched the Bread Nebula during the entire voyage. The Will Price scientific research spacecraft is different. Although it was within the rift for some time, at least one-third of its journey was within the Loaf Nebula.

This could mean any number of things, but it could also just be a simple coincidence. But this inspired Wang Hao. Wang Hao thought for a moment and made another attempt.

So far, Wang Hao's laboratory has inspected tens of thousands of astronauts, involving more than 40 interstellar long-range spacecraft of various models. And their route is not a secret, even the laboratory also stores this information.

So Wang Hao retrieved all the information, used the time when the first case appeared as the dividing line, and displayed all subsequent routes of the time ship on an interstellar map with the Bread Nebula as the background. The routes of the spacecraft that are not affected by the disease are shown in green, while those that are affected by the disease are shown in red.

This is a simple operation and only takes a few minutes to complete. The final pictures generated were just ordinary pictures with alternating light and dark colors, mixed with many messy lines, and nothing unusual could be seen at all. But Wang Hao looked at it for a moment and suddenly stood up, his eyes full of shock.

"How could this happen? How could this happen?"

The picture clearly shows that all the green lines are located in the cracks or holes of the Bread Nebula. Occasionally, some parts slightly overlap with the Bread Nebula, but it can be considered that the position of the Bread Nebula has changed in the past period of time. The reason for the change does not affect the essence. All the red lines are more or less in contact with the Bread Nebula.

If what happened to the Pacific spaceship and the Will Price spacecraft was a coincidence, then so many spaceships... are they all coincidences?

Could it be that the Bread Nebula really caused the emergence of atypical genetic mutation syndrome? But why were there no cases at all three years ago?

After recovering from the shock and calming down slightly, Wang Hao began to observe again, and discovered more details.

This image not only indicates the location of the Bread Nebula, but also its density. The darker the color, the higher the density, and vice versa. Wang Hao found the route of the Nimbus spacecraft from more than 20 routes, and found that after the first case appeared, the spacecraft's route was all in the area with higher density of the Bread Nebula. The spacecraft with milder disease are sometimes located in cracks and voids, and sometimes are located within stardust. Moreover, even if they are located within stardust, they are places with lower stardust density.