High Above

Of course, when the silver chip was recording the data, the boy still took a little look at the relationship between the warp drive and the Tinder design.

Immediately afterwards, he was slightly taken aback.

"Hey, it really has the same design idea as the ether core."

The ether furnace core and the true ether furnace are indeed designed in the same line. They both use ultra-high-purity, or even 100% absolute purity source quality, to create an ether space bubble that is independent of the natural psionic field. Natural spiritual energy is naturally attracted.

For example, if the natural psionic field of the entire universe is a membrane that is roughly evenly distributed in all time and space, then the core of the etheric furnace is to create a deep 'well' on this membrane.

The mouth of the well will naturally gather the surrounding natural spiritual energy, which is inexhaustible and inexhaustible. The difference between the ether furnace and the real ether furnace is that the design of the former is flawed, and the space bubble is unstable. It will cause a load on the furnace core and the body, and it needs to continuously input resources to maintain it, and it cannot maintain the existence of cavitation for a long time.

And the latter not only does not need it, but can even transfer the load of natural psionic energy to the perfect etheric bubble, and use natural power to load nature itself, so it can accumulate power almost infinitely.

Compared with the true ether furnace armed by Tianqi, the fire core is not much different.

It's just that it can have more influence on the "space bubble", and then build extraordinary capabilities such as "zero inertia maneuver", "phase shift shield" and "hyperspace communication".

and most importantly.

'Warp speed sailing'.

Yes, warp speed navigation is a technology derived from the Obra civilization using the huge amount of natural psionic energy accumulated in space bubbles to distort time and space. The warp speed engine will create a layer of space around the spacecraft that is independent of the original universe. The space-time bubble, which does not have any information interaction with the universe, and then uses the indirect operation of the "space bubble" to make the front space-time shrink and the rear space-time expand, and then generate an "asymmetric peristaltic field" to propel the spaceship.

To put it simply, it is a super-light engine, and there is no need for such dangerous and limited things as subspace and hyperspace passages.

This is similar to the technology of the ether furnace. Rather, it is precisely because of the development of the ether furnace that the technology of the warp speed engine can be mastered.

"In other words, the countries with Apocalypse weapons on Terra...as long as they can independently manufacture a brand new Apocalypse weapon that is not modified from the ether furnace in the ruins...then they are only one step away from traveling faster than the speed of light ?!"

After realizing this, it was difficult for Ian to hold back—although he also knew that the so-called one step away from this kind of key technological progress is often the inspiration of the entire civilization for an unknown number of years.

But from the perspective of the technology tree, the distance between the Terra civilization in the pre-epoch and the real interstellar civilization that can travel faster than light is really only a little film distance!

And the current Terra civilization is not far from the interstellar civilization.

It's just a pity that most of them can only use, not manufacture.

Although there are also countries that want to study, but the war between them makes them hinder each other, and it is impossible to gather the population of the entire planet and the wisdom of scientific researchers for research.

Of course, if it was the original earth, if the original earth also had source matter and ether, then it is estimated that the earth would have become a real interstellar civilization long ago—there is no such extraordinary thing as ether source matter on the earth there.

Pity.

Thinking this way in his heart, Ian continued to consult the database after satisfying his curiosity.

But this time, what he consulted was the star map of Terra.

1,600 years ago, when the darkness had not yet blinded the stars, the original star map!

The original star map has always been a doubt in Ian's mind.

Since his birth, no matter whether he had not awakened the memory of his past life or after awakening the memory of his previous life, he could not see the bright starry sky on the land of Terra.

Unlike the fact that the light pollution is too severe and the stars cannot be seen, Terra's invisibility is simply 'nothing'.

The stars disappeared, leaving only a bleak bleakness.

Of course, there is no bright starry sky, but it doesn't mean you can't see any of them.

In the past few years, Ian has still found a few visible stars that are not outside the planet Terra.

However, just as the boy described on the star map in his alchemy workshop, some of these stars are disappearing one after another.

These stars have actually disappeared long ago, and I just saw their light completely dissipate.

"If there are really some natural disasters in the universe that keep destroying the stars in the distance, then it is easy to understand why the Obra star field sends the fireship..."

Ian let out a breath, he calmed down for a moment, and opened the ruins star map.

Accompanied by the boy's instruction, the dark curtain in front of his eyes was like a handful of dazzling fireworks suddenly ignited.

The endless starlight was shining, and bright stars lit up one by one in front of his eyes.

At this moment, Ian seemed to have an illusion that those civilizations swallowed by darkness went back in time and returned to the sea of ​​stars from the endless dark and vast universe. On the star map 1,600 years ago, they Still burning flames with life heat, weaving dreams belonging to each world, full of hope and future.

Maybe it's not an illusion... Prophets don't have illusions.

Closing his eyes, he was silent for a while, as if Ian didn't want to look at these too bright starry sky.

Then he opened his eyes again, staring at the star map in front of him.

After a period of time, he found what he wanted to find among these overcrowded stars.

"right here."

Looking away, Ian looked at an unnaturally dark void in the starry sky, and said softly: "Sure enough, in the pre-epoch 1,600 years ago, some stars had already been extinguished, and a large void area was even formed. "

"Let me see... well, there is also a record of the time when the stars disappeared one by one... Sure enough."

"It disappears at a uniform speed of light according to the distance one by one."

Ian's voice was so calm that he didn't look like himself, and he never thought that when he saw the long-awaited picture of the stars in the past, he could be so calm.

Is it because I have fantasized about it countless times? Or is he actually not as excited and expectant as he thought?

Ian didn't know.

He just felt a kind of coldness... a kind of dark coldness was approaching his spine, lungs and even heart, which made the young man have to calm down and calm down.

Then, you can breathe.

The large void region has long been discovered by Terra researchers, but because it is too difficult to explain, it is believed that this region is obscured by "interstellar dust".

This can barely explain why the stars in this direction dim one after another, but it can't explain how big the interstellar dust area is to cover the distant galaxy calculated tens of thousands of light years.

This also cannot explain why there is a dark and opaque cloud that moves uniformly at the speed of light, cutting off the brilliance of all the stars.

Therefore, some people also suggested that some kind of cosmic disaster may be approaching gradually... But the information in this regard is very incomplete, and it seems that someone has deliberately deleted it.

"It's not that Terra is covered by something—it's true, that the distant stars are gradually disappearing one by one, from few to many, from existence to nothing, and the overlapping constellations dim one by one...not disappear at the same time not see."

"Besides, someone deliberately deleted it? Why is that? Even if there is really some cosmic disaster that is destroying the stars one by one, it is not a shameful thing-at best, it needs to be concealed from the public."

Keeping these conclusions in mind, Ian frowned, and continued to observe the complete spherical star map: "In any case, it cannot be ruled out that Terra is also covered by something. After all, there is a gap of 1,600 years. Nobody knows what happened."

"For the universe, 1,600 light years is not too much, but it is not too little, but after all the surrounding stars are dimmed, the next target must be Terra."

"perhaps……"

Thinking of this, Ian suddenly understood why Inaiga II was so urgent.

Yes, if Inaiga II had also seen the star map of the pre-epoch civilization, and compared it with the current starry sky...

No matter who it is, there will be an uncontrollable fear, right?

A person's lifespan of dozens or hundreds of years is considered long, but on the scale of the universe, it is only a moment.

It is precisely because decades and hundreds of years are also a moment for the universe, so human beings feel anxious about it.

——Whether it is decades, hundreds of years or thousands of years, or the next moment, destruction may come.

Ordinary people can comfort themselves that tomorrow the sun will rise as usual, but those who know the truth know that every second may be the moment before the end of the world.

Therefore, there is no patience, no way to stop, no way to slowly carry out reforms.

You can only keep moving and moving forward, so that you can feel at ease.

Only then can I comfort myself... Before the destruction came, I had at least tried my best.

At this moment, in Ian's mind, the scene when he looked up at the sky last time could not help reappearing again.

The pitch-black universe, the almost lightless night sky, the fragmented new moon, and the only moonlight...

All of these seem to be declaring a fact to all living beings on the continent of Terra.

——The next one is you.