Road to science and technology

When Sophon malfunctioned, Yue Yuanzhou's first reaction was that it was impossible, but he immediately thought of the four-dimensional space.

Even the original Trisolaran Sophon can be put back together after being broken into pieces. For example, when a sophon attempts to lock down the opponent's basic science, it runs to the particle collider to collide with the target particles. During this collision, the sophon will be shattered, but its system will automatically heal it and start again. Become a sophon.

In other words, Tomoko's thing is indestructible.

Only when you enter the sophon blind spot of the four-dimensional space will you lose contact.

But the current situation is not as simple as just losing contact. Judging from the fault message sent just before Sophon lost contact, it can be seen that Sophon malfunctioned first and then lost contact.

"Why did you turn it off!" Seeing the sudden disappearance of the projection, He Xi thought it was Yue Yuanzhou who turned it off on purpose.

"Am I so bored?" Yue Yuanzhou spread his hands, sighed, stood up and walked slowly around the command hall: "I must have received some weird attack."

"The kind on the Doutian Zhou?" He Xi said, holding his chin: "That kind of mutation doesn't seem to be as simple as it appears. Why didn't your detector detect it?"

"Some." Yue Yuanzhou replied.

The main function of sophons is actually to covertly detect and open up map vision. Of course, it can also lock the basic science of certain levels of civilization. But after all, it is just a microscopic detector, and it cannot completely replace traditional detectors with various functions in the microscopic state.

For example, if you want to detect gravitational waves, a sophon must be expanded in two dimensions. The surface of a two-dimensional expanded sophon is larger than the surface of the planet. Only at this scale can it detect the slight deformation of space caused by gravitational waves from the depths of the universe. .

So now if he wants to know what happened, Yue Yuanzhou has two choices.

One is to continue to send sophon and neutron detectors there to carry out expansion in various dimensions and carry out targeted detection of the on-site situation. The second is to directly drive the battleship over, rescue Reina, and learn from her what happened. This must be done if Reina can insist that he arrives.

But this second step is very risky, because only based on the current limited detection data, Yue Yuanzhou cannot determine what kind of attack it is.

Facing the unknown, Yue Yuanzhou didn't want to take risks.

So under Yue Yuanzhou's order, a group of sophons and neutrons turned around from the nearest star field.

"The new batch of detectors won't arrive so soon. You can go and do whatever you want. There's no need to stay here and wait." After saying this, Yue Yuanzhou left the command room, leaving the three kings here and ignoring them.

But he did not leave the infrastructure ship. He just went to another room and held a meeting with the Shenzhou Academy of Civilization and Science through illusory projection.

There were not many attendees, only eighteen people, twelve men and six women. Most of them are researchers of the Academy of Sciences, ranging in age from more than 500 to more than 20,000 years old.

"Elements mutate and transform. Not only do they turn into all kinds of messy isotopes but they also turn into other elements? How can this happen and be used on the battlefield?" said a researcher.

"The biggest common point of these attacks is that the range of elemental mutation is not large, and more of it changes into its isotopes. For example, most of the carbon elements in those Lieyang people become its isotopes." Another researcher also discussed got up.

The meeting using illusory projections began to have heated discussions, and time passed by like this.

"I think this thing is not as simple as it seems. There may be deeper reasons, deeper microscopic reasons. Judging from the sophon failure, this kind of thing can act on the microscopic particles themselves and can also essentially destroy them. Structure."

"Yes, if it is destroyed by a normal impact, the sophon can be restored to its original state. In other words, this kind of attack turns the proton into another kind of particle, such as a neutron, and the neutron may also turn into a proton. Only in this way can it appear This situation."

"Well, you are right, so I think this is a kind of positive and negative beta decay." The person who spoke was Gongsun Xing, a researcher dedicated to the study of fundamental forces.

"You mean this attack works on quarks?"

Gongsun Xing replied: "Yes, I think it is a quark flavor change! But it is impossible for the unknown civilization to open a laboratory there and bring the Lieyang Fleet to the laboratory to make in-depth microscopic modifications one by one. So I guess this kind of attack should It emits a particle or electromagnetic wave through a certain emission source."

"It makes sense, and the electroweak unified theory does make this approach possible."

Everyone in the venue started talking word by word. Although there was not much information, there was considerable progress.

"It's either driven by electromagnetic force or gravity. These are the only long-range forces in the universe. But judging from the woman named Lena, this attack should not be driven by gravitational waves, otherwise she would definitely not survive."

At this time, Yue Yuanzhou nodded to signal everyone to be quiet, and then said: "The detector will arrive at the scene in half a month, and targeted detection will be carried out at that time. Based on the judgment of this technical seminar, the main focus of this detection will be on various In terms of rays, if a large number of related rays such as beta, gamma and so on are detected, then our guess should be correct."

The meeting lasted for three whole days without rest.

After the meeting, Yue Yuanzhou went through the previous detection data in detail, and occasionally talked with some experts in related fields.

Time came to the moment when the detector arrived at the scene.

Half a month has passed, and from a distance, the Lieyang Fleet is still hovering there quietly. The star had entered the unstable stage but did not explode, but Reina disappeared. I don't know if she ran away or was captured by the unknown civilization.

When Zhizi entered the Doutianzhou where Pan Zhen was located again, he found that Pan Zhen's body was also missing, and there was a big hole in the wall of the Doutianzhou.

"Could it be that this unknown civilization used Pan Zhen's body to study it? So Reina ran away?" Yue Yuanzhou couldn't help but wonder after seeing such a result.

If Lieyang equips Reina with the stellar leapfrog function, she can indeed run away.

So this civilization couldn’t catch Reina, so it took Pan Zhen to study? There was a possibility that a woman who couldn't even be killed by such a weapon would be of great interest to them.

However, Yue Yuanzhou believed that Lena should have defended against the ray that launched this attack, rather than being attacked to death.

This time neither Sophon nor Neutron went close to the source of the attack, which was the strange place where they were discovered before.

So not long after, through targeted detection, Yue Yuanzhou finally discovered various rays permeating the entire fleet. To be precise, most of them were particles released by beta decay, which directly confirmed the speculation at the meeting.

Now Yue Yuanzhou was basically sure what kind of attack it was, but he still summoned the previous group of researchers to hold another seminar.

This meeting was not long ago, but the conclusion of the meeting added another known attack method to the Shenzhou Civilization database.

After the meeting, Yue Yuanzhou came to the command hall of the Infrastructure again, followed by Karl.

There was no one in the command hall now, so He Xi was just dazing there, looking like he had nothing to do. As for Kesha and Liang Bing, they were still in the room assigned to her by Yue Yuanzhou, wondering what they were doing.

"It's been half a month, are there any results?" He Xi looked up and saw Yue Yuanzhou walking over, and asked immediately.

She has been thinking about this matter these days, but due to lack of information, she has no clue.

"Huh, Carl?"

"Tianji King Hexi, long time no see." Karl responded with a gentle smile.

"How about you guys catch up on old times first?" Yue Yuanzhou said as he walked away.

"There's nothing to talk about." He Xi immediately shook his head, then left his seat and looked at Yue Yuanzhou hopefully. She originally thought she couldn't tell. After all, Yue Yuanzhou had disappeared for half a month, so she thought it was some kind of secret.

"Well, sit down."

Yue Yuanzhou nodded and He Xi sat down. He also found a seat and sat down. At this time, he said solemnly: "Weak interaction force!"