Star Empire

"what is that??!!"

In the imaging image of the battleship scanning array, an object marked in red is moving quickly. Compared to the dark space background, this abrupt mark is quite eye-catching - and only a direct information network can finally and stably scan it. it.

The strange feature of this red mark is that it moves faster than the speed of light, but no obvious gravitational wave fluctuations are detected in the nearby background space, and the space structure leaves a circle that is dimmer than the previous explosion. The wake - it seems that after the matter falls into the normal state, it immediately becomes pure energy and is annihilated.

Cavenriel knew very well what it was. It was obvious that he could exist in this area, could survive in such a high-density situation where ultra-high vacuum zero-point energy, and even energy with somewhat strange properties could be gathered into such a high density, and he could survive with physics. There is only one possibility for things to fly faster than light, and that is that the crystal energy that was previously thought to be blown up can be charged into the alloy block.

There was a serious deviation in my expectation - when the super beings from outside the world collided violently with the conventional original world, the various peaks of existence in the old world now seemed simply worth mentioning.

"... Rapid Mobile Team, capture the experimental samples immediately!"

Under Cavinriel's subconscious hesitation, a dozen manned command aircraft and more unmanned working sub-aircraft instantly flew out along several ejection rails. Under the guidance of the flagship host, after a brief acceleration, these small aircraft entered the transition state with bright white flames, crossing the space like shadows without a single ripple.

Being able to physically travel faster than the speed of light without converting the body into pure energy was sensational to most people present. After a short jump, the manned mother machine quickly entered working mode, and the accompanying child machine was in the mother machine. Under the control of the robot, the formation was integrated at an extremely high speed. At the same time, some very dark ripples began to be released around these sub-machine units——

This is a specific manifestation of "space anchoring". Through special vibration ripples, the original device that produces this change will be "rooted" in the current position, and the intensity is extremely high. Judging from the results accumulated so far, when anchored After that, unless the wave generating device is destroyed, no matter how huge the external force is, these "rivets" will not be pulled out at all.

"I hope it can be useful... Just the leakage of such a small amount of decay products has completely exceeded any of our expectations..."

Cavenriel pressed his forehead. Ever since the big whirlpool appeared, a large number of beings that could not be integrated into his original cognitive system, and that could not be trapped by the unified deduction equation, all appeared in an instant. Faced with This overwhelming variety of events, and it was unclear whether they were separate phenomena or new patterns, made Cavinrel, who had long been accustomed to looking at everything with his original knowledge, feel deeply despaired.

"It stands to reason... it exceeds the speed of light, and some inherent readings should become infinite... I don't know if our original method of using concepts to leverage strength is still applicable..."

Hundreds of engineering sub-machine are divided into four echelons, and some are not anchored and serve as backup echelons. After the "rivets" were in place, the pan-energy dispersion force field quickly covered the pattern outlined by these anchor points. In the past, such a defensive level could directly force the III-level star corona level to fly at near-light speed, but this time, Facing this special alloy block racing between stars, Cavinrel himself couldn't say what effect this net would have.

While waiting, the high-speed flying metal block is clearly visible under the capture of the star-level information sensor array. However, if you look directly into the space with your eyes, you will not see any abnormal images, because for conventional means, this metal block The block is outside the light cone, and conventional means, no matter how clever, will be limited by the light cone.

"...Alarm, abnormal impact on the mechanism has been detected, and a suspected impact has arrived."

In response to the warning from the AI ​​system, the energy shield that was originally stationary in space was suddenly punched out of a neat hole by an invisible force.

For protection methods that are compatible with the conventional world, the shield has only two states, either existing or disappearing. When it exists, the intensity will change due to the filling or depletion of the energy pool. But as far as this model is concerned, It definitely doesn't have a "hole in it" state.

After a few seconds, the first layer of the broken shield array flashed violently as if it had reacted. The energy flow state of the shield caused the system to misjudge due to such a "hole", and the energy pool began to Uncontrolled energy is provided to the shield generator on the anchor point, and the dissipated energy flow surges wantonly in the space, forming a dangerous trap.

Fortunately, the final emergency stop module still worked. After detecting the abnormal working status of the shield generator, the energy diversion was immediately started to shut down these overloaded machines.

"A hole in the energy shield? Could it be that this metal block really... broke through the shield without paying attention and then flew over? It seems that the super-light speed affected by crystal energy is indeed faster than jump missiles and space annihilation energy cannons. This pseudo-superlight method of exploiting loopholes is more... practical."

Cavinrel wiped the cold sweat from his head and continued to stay connected to the three-dimensional imaging map. After crossing the first layer of shields, the metal block hit the energy created by the second echelon at almost undiminished high speed. The shield, and also tore a huge hole in the shield's representative light film. After experiencing this physical deceleration, the racing metal block was finally put on the brakes.

In the image, its speed changes significantly. Before hitting the fourth layer of shield, the light finally outran the alloy hollow brick again. Its body and a little bit of red starlight arrived at the same time, hitting the fourth layer of shield with huge waves and violently vibrating light. The membrane layer was violently stirred like a boiling quasar accretion disk, but this time, the energy shield finally did not appear in the third state, and the alloy bricks finally stopped under the successive obstructions of the shield layer.

After being recycled, the surviving alloy brick was brought back into the laboratory. Eskett had determined that after being slipped away, the alloy no longer radiated outward crystal energy radiation, so Kavin For the first time, Riel decided not to go through the monitor, but to enter the laboratory and try to get up close and personal with the sample.

After passing through the heavy protection of the three-layer isolation gate, Cavinrel stood next to the alloy block holding the shield. Although in theory, objects blessed with crystal energy should be higher than all things in the world, it may be that the power of the space annihilation bomb is really amazing - or it may be that the crystal energy foundation of this first successful test item is still too weak. Some.

From the remaining marks on the surface of the material, it can be confirmed that when the space annihilation bomb was detonated, the side of the block facing the explosion impact was still severely damaged. About 37% of the structure was peeled off by the energy burst. It fell off, but even so, the remaining part is still intact, and even the liquid hydrogen that was filled before seems to have become a real solid at this time, without any spillage.

"It seems that we have indeed found a way to utilize crystal energy... It seems that the liquid hydrogen filled in it... it exists in that arrangement and has some connection with the overall structure. This entire The connection ultimately stabilizes its properties of being compatible with crystalline energy... This may be the information structure needed for crystalline energy memory...?"

Faced with this huge achievement, even though there are still some unknowns, Cavinrel is still very excited from the bottom of his heart - although this is still a black box, it is an extension outside the inherent system - even in a certain It can be solved to a certain extent, and there are quite complete omnidirectional unified property equations among these elements. Although the specific constituent substances are much more complicated than simple substances, they are not barriers that cannot be broken through by all means.

"...Calost, Zhai Cahir, you two take a look, we really have materials that can be used now!" Although there was still a sense of final regret, Cavinriel decided to put this together immediately. The results were given simultaneously to two colleagues, especially Zhai Cahill.

Although the method he gave did open up a practical process, the most important work was the efforts of Zhai Cahill. During this period, he continuously monitored tens of thousands of samples. The crystal energy radiation infection process has made a considerable contribution to his current breakthrough for him who is still trying to integrate himself into this cold world.

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"Zhai Cahir? Kalost?" After a period of silence, a slight strange feeling stuck to Cavernrel. He called the two of them again. In this isolated space, although he was currently working The adaptability of the user is increasing, but the interference caused by the crystal energy vortex belt to any equipment pointing in its direction and requiring contact with it is still very strong.

However, during the establishment of the project, according to the inherent strong interference process of stable areas to wide areas, after multiple relay connection enhancements, the communication bandwidth within this range has been strengthened to an acceptable range. Current monitoring shows that The body of the crystal energy vortex is quite stable. There is no reason why the two of them cannot receive their call, and there is no reason not to come.

But just when Cavinriel felt more and more strange, a holographic window suddenly popped up in front of him and squeezed out the experimental data in front of Cavinriel. After a brief white noise snowflake, Calost and Eskett The two figures appeared in the image, and even across the screen, Cavinriel could feel the anxiety on their faces.

"Cavenriel, hurry back to the frontline base and have a look. There is something abnormal with Zhai Cahir's eyes!"

"What?" When he first heard this sentence, Cavinriel didn't even understand what it meant.

"Anyway, come here quickly!" Kalost's consciousness was so anxious that it was a little blurry. In his perception, Cavinriel only felt the urge to return to the frontline base immediately.

"...I'll be there immediately." Although he didn't know what happened, his subconscious decision still took over reality. He immediately activated the teleportation halo. On the outside of the spacecraft, an ejection rail was opened, and the high-speed shuttle was already in place. When starting the shuttle, Cavinrel set the route while continuing to learn about the situation from Caluster.

"We can only say this at the moment...Zhai Cahir's eyes were engulfed by a lavender flame. We are currently unable to determine the cause of this flame, or even whether it is a substance or a phenomenon. Eskett has confirmed , it has nothing to do with crystal energy. Now, Zhai Cahir has suspended most of his senses and life reactions. It can only be said that he was in pain before he fell into coma."

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The propulsion field in the guide rail began to push the shuttle. After rushing out of the arched guide rail connection door, several slender probes quickly stretched out from the stern of the shuttle. In the middle of the probes, an almost perfect blazing white circle. The ring dances in the restraining conductor.

Near the shuttle, the space began to slowly curl up, and those originally nearly transparent spatial fluctuations soon turned into a solid spherical shell-shaped total reflection mirror. After the spherical surfaces were connected and closed, it seemed as if a piece of it had been dug out of thin air. of.

Suddenly, around the star corona level, the space began to distort. The original point-like starlight was pulled into thin lines in the space fluctuations, and then was pulled into a curved surface. Then with a violent rebound, the starry sky suddenly recovered. The world bubble that wrapped the shuttle disappeared into the distance.

Before the shuttle could stop, Cavinriel immediately applied for space teleportation, but soon, in his consciousness, the response to his application was a big red cross from AI.

"What's going on?" Cavinriel was really confused this time. If he wanted to apply for teleportation here, he should be able to go to all places with his authority. Such a quick and systematic rejection, in the end, At least during this period of time, Cavinriel has really never been seen, even when the crystal energy pollution was likely to be maximized.

"I'm sorry, Sir Stratus Cavenriel." The space station's AI responded to Cavinriel's question, "The transfer destination you applied for is a secondary medical experimental module, which prohibits all space. Teleportation behavior—the cabin is now closed, and no one can enter or exit without the authorization of Commander Zhai Cahill. This is determined by the underlying protocol of the federal safety code."

"...What will happen? What's going on?!" Thinking of some unstable memories recently and various practices that might slow down efficiency, Cavinriel suddenly felt angry and helpless, and he punched On the control panel in front of you.

He couldn't figure out why Zhai Cahir's eyes had problems. If it was due to crystal energy, then the crystal energy bodies and their derivatives that he and Kalost had seen, both in terms of types and total gaze time. They are all much stronger than Zhai Cahir, and the "lavender flame" mentioned by Kalost attracted some attention of Cavinriel. This is likely to be Zhai Cahir, or even an information computer. There is another first stable state of information that has been permeating the network but has never been able to be found. However, Cavernel cannot explain the cause of it.

Just as Cavenriel was struggling, a hatch beside him slid open, and Eskett, Torres and Caloust all came.

"This matter is still confidential for the time being. The procedures for Zhai Cahir's activation of the emergency medical experimental module are very strict and obscure, and other staff are not aware of it. Kalost tapped the door with his chin. Indeed, the person who guided the landing A large part of the location is a self-disciplined operation area, and there are quite few soldiers and technicians on duty."

"Did you notice anything before Zhai Cahir's abnormal situation?" Cavinriel asked.

The three of them recalled it carefully, and then shook their heads together, but Kalost suddenly said, "After he came here, I was still curious about why he came back. Just when I wanted to ask him, he suddenly told me about He talked about your material testing, and he also said something at the same time."

"What?"

"What I want to achieve most now is to be able to see the essence of the world clearly with my eyes. How is the alloy block of Cavernrel compatible with crystal energy?"

"He said he'd been thinking about it, and he'd kind of turned it into an obsession," Calouste recalled. "And not long after that... well, not long after that he started having weird things happen."

"Then, can you confirm that before the problem occurred, he had thought about such a thing with a high degree of persistence [hoping that he could use his eyes to see through the reason why the crystal energy and the alloy fuse?]?"

"That's right, we tried our best to filter out all the logs and thread records about him in the system, and summarized all his direct or indirect actions and influences. In addition, all other records have a huge number of times that they can be viewed. Judging, only this idea, or obsession, is "new"." Kaloust nodded.