The new era of chaos begins in the Song Dynasty

Chapter 405: Long-lost Song Dynasty

A wormhole is an objectively existing astronomical phenomenon, also known as an Einstein-Rosen bridge or a space-time hole. It is a "narrow" tunnel in the universe that connects two different time and space.

The existence of a wormhole is very special. It has no intuitive shape, but is a special space-time structure.

The space-time structure of a wormhole can be seen as two gravitational singularities entangled with each other at the space-time level. If the Lagrange point is the gravitational equilibrium point formed by the mutual gravitational traction of celestial bodies in the galaxy, then the space-time singularity of a wormhole can be seen as the opposite of the Lagrange point, that is, a point where the gravitational superposition of various celestial bodies is the strongest.

This gravitational singularity is so powerful that it interacts with another gravitational singularity at an unknown astronomical distance in some way at the space-time level, forming a space-time structure that is either stable or unstable.

In fact, the space-time singularity of the wormhole can be regarded as one at a certain level. The gravitational singularity of the galaxy here and another gravitational singularity at an unknown astronomical distance are just two similar astronomical phenomena caused in different locations in the process of this space-time singularity affecting the material universe.

Of course, not every galaxy's gravitational singularity can form a wormhole.

In most cases, gravitational singularities only exist inside the astronomical body at the core of the galaxy. Such gravitational singularities are filled with real matter (compressed) and cannot have space-time linkage with other gravitational singularities, so wormholes cannot be formed.

However, in some special galaxies, such as linked galaxies consisting of two or three stars, or chaotic galaxies consisting of more and larger planets, the gravitational singularity has a structural deviation and is not inside the star.

Only such astronomical galaxies have the possibility of forming wormholes.

The webway used by the Eldari civilization is a replica of the wormhole phenomenon.

The Webway is a miracle of civilization built in ancient times by a civilization called the Old Ones.

Based on the formation principle of wormholes, the ancient saints carried out special space-time transformation on those gravitational singularities that could not form wormholes, thus forming artificial wormholes.

Countless artificial wormholes are spread throughout the entire starry sky, forming an omnipresent space-time network, which is the webway.

How high is the technological content of Wangdao?
Let's put it this way, if the webway created by the ancient saints is likened to a modern highway, the Aedari civilization, the former overlord of the star sea with a history of 50 million years, at the peak of its civilization and technology, had only deciphered part of the wire mesh material of the isolation fence on the side of the highway.

If the barbed wire is rusted, the Aedari can generally maintain it; if there is a large hole in the barbed wire, the Aedari will have to launch a large-scale battle to tackle the problem and patch it up, and the patches they make are not very durable.

If a large section of the barbed wire fence is missing, the Aedari will have no choice but to close that section of the road permanently.

Due to the particularity of the galaxy where the Lishan star region is located, there is a natural unstable wormhole in this galaxy. Under normal circumstances, this unstable wormhole cannot be used directly to travel through time and space.

Fortunately, the ancient saints of the ancient times transformed it, turning this naturally unstable wormhole into a stable, super-large webway channel, through which even the main battleships of the Eldari, such as the Azure Pearl, can pass.

It is the existence of this super-large webway that makes the Lishan star region the most prosperous star region during the heyday of the Aidari civilization.

However, the super-large webway is also the most precious strategic facility of the Adari civilization, but the relevant information is strictly kept confidential by the Adari people. Even a noble lady from an Adari family like the Fourth Lady is not qualified to know it.

The reason why Chen Shen knew about the existence of the super-large webway in the Lishan star zone was because he redeemed a large number of desecrated high-elf souls on Yujian Star, allowing them to return to the Soul Temple.

In order to thank Chen Shen, the gods in the Soul Temple told him the information about the large-scale network channel.

Of course, it’s not just the location of the webway, but also a series of opening methods and usage procedures.

In a sense, the gods of the Soul Temple gave the Lishan star region's main strategic network channel directly to Chen Shen and the future human forces in the Lishan star region.

Chen Shen spent three days roughly settling the followers of the high elves, at least arranging real accommodation for them according to their gender and personal wishes. After all, it was not a decent thing for the high elves to eat, drink, defecate and urinate on the deck of the warship.

The Azure Pearl has a dedicated crew living area. During the Aidari period, every crew member on the warship could even be allocated an independent living apartment, which included an indoor bedroom, meditation room, storage room, and an independent small flower hall outdoors.

Of course, this is also related to the excellent maneuverability of the Adar people's warships. Not many crew members are needed to operate a warship, which is enough for the crew members to share the precious space on the warship.

But when it comes to Chen Shen, he is not going to let the high elves enjoy the precious independent space of the warship so luxuriously.

When it comes to how to effectively utilize accommodation space, Chen Shen couldn't help but think of the collective dormitories in his previous life.

As long as the configuration is good, it is no problem to cram a dozen people into one room. Besides, the standard bedrooms of the original Adari crew members are much more spacious than the small dormitories in the previous life.

Of course, Chen Shen didn't go that far.

He simply made use of the bedrooms, meditation rooms, and storage rooms in every available crew apartment, and then crammed four high-precision soldiers into each single room.

What? No personal space?

What on earth do you, a poor wretch who was eating raw meat and drinking blood on the snowy plains the day before yesterday, want for a bicycle? !
In fact, with the number of crew apartments on the battleship, even if there were ten times more high-precision ones, it would be more than enough to give one to each person.

The problem is that Chen Shen has to consider the future.

In Chen Shen's plan, on the future [Azure Pearl], except for some positions that require the High Elves, who are of Adar descent, most of the crew will be humans.

Moreover, Chen Shen also planned to learn from the way the invincible army in his previous life trained the navy, and place several times the required number of crew members in the corresponding positions of the "Blue Pearl" in order to train more qualified crew members. After all, who doesn't have a big naval dream - although this "sea" is the sea of ​​stars.

As for where Chen Shen can find more spaceships?

There is no chance of manufacturing it by ourselves, let alone in the classical agricultural era of the Song Dynasty. Even if we develop for another thousand years and enter the large-scale industrial era like in Ergou's previous life, we will not be able to produce an armor plate for such a spaceship.

This is not Chen Shen's self-deprecation, but it is indeed the fact.

For example, in Chen Shen's previous life, even though his clan was united, it still took them nearly seventy years to catch up with the nearly two hundred years of first-mover advantage of other families.

The Aidari civilization has accumulated 50 million years of experience. The people of the Song Dynasty can only use a hammer to catch up. Without hundreds of thousands of years of climbing the technology tree, they may not even be able to see the taillights of the opponent's car!
Part of the source of Chen Shen's expected ships came from the subspace he had been exploring, where countless relics of civilization were scattered.

Any iron ruins, as long as they are cleaned up and brought to the real world, can be a top-notch backup warship. Of course, this can only be regarded as a backup intention plan.

What really made Chen Shen so ambitious was that he learned from the gods in the Soul Temple that in the deepest part of the super-large webway, there were many relics of the Aidari civilization buried, and a large part of these relics might contain many Aidari warships.

Naturally, not just anyone is qualified to open such relics, not even the descendants of Aidari.

But unfortunately, Chen Shen had already obtained authorization from the god-man Aidari.

Therefore, Chen Shen will not be short of warships in the future, what he lacks are qualified crew members.

This cannot be achieved by relying solely on high-precision equipment. Not to mention that the number of high-precision equipment is completely insufficient to meet future demand, the principle that "those who are not of my race must have different hearts" alone determines that Chen Shen can only use humans as the main source of crew in the future.

Especially in the future humans will have to carry out racial integration with the high elves. Chen Shen may be biased in this process, but he must be as fair and just as possible on the surface.

Take the accommodation environment of the crew of the Azure Pearl for example. The high-precision crew can enjoy some preferential treatment and stay in four-person rooms, while the human crew in the future will only have accommodation in "eight-person rooms" or "sixteen-person rooms". Although there is some gap in the treatment of both sides, they are basically on the same level and will not cause any troublesome things like inequality rather than scarcity.

After settling the high-elf crew, Chen Shen repaired the broken limbs of some of the high-elfs every day according to the plan, and received countless gratitude from them.

Chen Shen was able to accept this calmly.

By the way, the transfer of racial authority provided by faith is not actually permanent, but has a certain time limit.

However, Chen Shen has special authorization from the gods of the Soul Temple, and the faith of the high elves can only be icing on the cake for him.

It took Chen Shen nearly half a month to repair all of Gao Jing's injuries.

During this period of time, the fourth lady had been hiding from Chen Shen and contacting the high elves, trying to persuade them to respond to racial justice, abandon Chen Shen and join the Celestial Clan.

It’s a pity that the high elves don’t buy into the fourth lady’s account.

What are you talking about the glory of the Eldar? Can you eat it?
When we were fighting and suffering on the snowfield, there was no glory to save us. Only the Savior saved us from the sea of ​​suffering. It is simply a daydream to want us to betray the Savior!
And, you are a loser who is full of the resentment of countless high elves! A loser who is as weak as a fart spirit (what is a fart spirit), what qualifications do you have to be worthy of our following? !
These high elves are not naturally bred life forms. They have some traces of strange technology on their bodies. For example, they can naturally see things that others cannot see, such as the "high elf savior halo" on Chen Shen, or the "abandoned high elf fugitive halo" on Si Niangzi.

While the high elves were recovering from their injuries, Chen Shen led them to receive training from Ms. Machine Soul and learn how to operate the [Azure Pearl].

What is surprising is that the high elves are learning battleship driving techniques at an incredibly fast speed.

Driving a battleship is not as simple as learning to drive a car. It requires a lot of advanced knowledge and technical capabilities. In Chen Shen's opinion, many things are simply impossible to learn.

For beings like the High Elves, who have just emerged from the Age of Ignorance, to learn these things is like asking an illiterate who has not even attended primary school to learn how to use calculus and celestial mechanics to calculate the trajectory of meteorites. It is totally impossible!

But the high elves can learn. It's as if they have stored countless knowledge in their brains, but it has not been activated. When a certain piece of knowledge is specifically needed, they can quickly activate the corresponding knowledge storage and use it (a similar situation also happens to another plant-based race called Orks).

Any high-elf on any position on the battleship can quickly get the hang of it by learning a few skills under the command of Ms. Machine Soul, and become proficient in just two or three days.

Even every high-elf has the potential to become a warship all-rounder, that is, the so-called first mate or even captain candidate.

This means that if Chen Shen can really get a batch of warships in the future, then these high-elfs will be naturally qualified candidates for captains.

Chen Shen had mixed feelings about this.

From a technical point of view, Chen Shen was naturally overjoyed. At least he didn't have to worry about not being able to operate these advanced space battleships.

But from a political perspective, it's not so great.

But who can tell what will happen in the future?
After all the high elves recovered and took on the role of crew members, Chen Shen ordered the [Azure Pearl] to set sail towards the entrance of the super-large webway.

The gravitational singularity that can form a natural wormhole is not so easy to approach. If a spacecraft wants to approach and enter a wormhole, the first hurdle is whether its own strength can withstand the terrifying gravitational tearing.

Of course, if the material of the ship is to resist this kind of gravitational tearing, the strength of the ship must be at least at the level of white dwarf material.

This material, which exists in normal space environments but is strong enough to rival the material of white dwarfs, does exist in the universe. Some civilizations call it refined gold, some call it immortal divine iron, and some call it uru, mountain copper, orichalcum, and so on.

There are abundant reserves of this precious material in the starry sea, but very little of it can be mined and used.

Even the Aedari usually only use refined gold as the keel when building warships.

If we really want to build a pure adamantium spaceship, let alone whether we can find enough adamantium, even if we build such a spaceship, when entering the wormhole area, the adamantium spaceship may be able to withstand the tearing of gravitational tides, but the crew inside the spaceship may not be able to withstand it.

The real way to make the spacecraft resist the tearing of gravity is to install a force field generator on the spacecraft that can create shielding and adjust the gravitational effect.

This kind of force field generator is not only indispensable when the spacecraft passes through a wormhole, but also for normal void navigation.

It can simulate the gravitational effects of a suitable planet's surface within a spacecraft.

This kind of force field generator can be said to be standard equipment for all long-range spacecraft in the starry sky, and the [Azure Pearl] is no exception.

When the Azure Pearl was activated, Moas, who was appointed by Chen Shen as the temporary first mate of the ship, stood beside Chen Shen and shouted, "Navigator! Mark the course! Coordinates...***, power officer, activate the force field protection! Maximum energy blessing! Thruster half speed!"

Since he was still relatively unfamiliar with commanding warships, Chen Shen could only silently watch the group of highly skilled crew members operating according to his orders.

He looked at the busy crew members, and couldn't help but feel a little excited. He just whispered silently: "My Great Song! Long time no see!"

(End of this chapter)