Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 698: Biological or Natural Phenomenon
The nebula is very dense, but it is just a nebula after all. Human creations can even penetrate gas planets, so entering the interior of a nebula is naturally no problem.

The radius of this nebula is actually not that large for today's human navigation technology, and there is no need to explore the entire nebula. Human scientists are just curious about what phenomena they have never seen before, so after the exploration spacecraft entered the nebula, it went straight to those twinkling spots.

When getting closer, humans discovered that these flashing spots actually moved. Especially when the detection spacecraft approached, those flashing spots actually moved like flowing water.

At first, humans thought it was a coincidence, but after the probe spacecraft approached, the flashes moved away from the probe spacecraft again and again. Only then did humans realize that these light spots might be able to detect the approach of the probe spacecraft.

To confirm this hypothesis, humans gave the probe spacecraft an order to head straight for those flashes. As expected, the flashes really avoided the probe spacecraft.

"Could it be that those flashing spots are some kind of creatures? Or are they created by some alien civilization?"

The former has aroused great interest in human beings, while the latter has made human beings more cautious. However, no matter which one it is, human beings will not stop exploring. Even if there is a problem, it is just some exploration spacecraft, and humans are plenty of them.

With this in mind, humans then sent out some exploration spacecraft to go deep into the nebula to collect data and observe, especially the bright spots.

However, the deeper they go into the nebula, the more flashing spots humans discover, and even large areas of fluorescent powder appear, as if they are gathering places for flashing spots.

Driven by curiosity, a detection spacecraft traveled across a distance of light years and headed straight for the area where the "fluorescent powder" was located. However, before the detection spacecraft got within one astronomical unit of the area where the "fluorescent powder" was located, humans discovered that this piece of "fluorescent powder" immediately began to move from a quiet state like the previous flashing spots, and then moved away from the detection spacecraft like a swarm of fireflies in the sky avoiding pursuit.

However, the movement speed is very slow, no different from an ant walking in front of the exploration spacecraft.

However, when humans thought that the exploration spacecraft could easily get close to the "fluorescent powder" and catch some for research, the following scene made everyone a little confused, because they saw that when the exploration spacecraft approached them within a few kilometers, the "fluorescent powder" suddenly disappeared.

Of course, it is not disappearing from the naked eye, but it has truly disappeared from human detection means.

Human exploration spacecraft are equipped with more than just optical detection methods. In other words, the "fluorescent powder" formed by these light spots either has some ability to avoid detection, or everything before was caused by the failure of human detectors, or they really left in some way unknown to humans.

After some consideration, humans felt that the first possibility was more likely.

If the detector is broken, the monitoring system will definitely give a prompt, and humans are still very confident in their own creations. As for having some kind of teleportation ability, the possibility is even smaller. After all, if there is such an ability, why wait for human detectors to get close before using it?

However, the sudden disappearance of those sparkling spots made humans doubt their previous judgment.

After a round of observations, human scientists ruled out the possibility that it was an alien creation. They felt that it was most likely some kind of magical natural phenomenon. Of course, some people also believed that it was some kind of space creature.

How could a natural phenomenon avoid human exploration spacecraft? It could only be some kind of space creature. Only living creatures have the instinct to avoid and have some means to hide themselves, just like the camouflage and playing dead skills of some magical creatures on Earth.

However, the information sent back by the probe once again refreshed human's three views, because the probe spacecraft detected that the disappeared "fluorescent powder" actually appeared in an area thousands of kilometers away. It was also at this time that other exploration spacecraft discovered the same phenomenon. They found that these light spots seemed to teleport. Whenever the spacecraft approached, they would disappear in place and then appear thousands of kilometers away.

Seeing this situation, a few big words appeared in the minds of knowledgeable humans: quantum macro tunneling!

However, people soon realized that they were wrong. This phenomenon of disappearing from one place and appearing in another place was completely different from that shown by the pioneers' previous diamond crystals, so it was definitely not quantum macro-tunneling.

So what is it?

More exploration spacecraft were sent out, which enabled humans to explore multiple regions and multiple target locations at the same time. As a result, humans discovered an interesting phenomenon.

That is, when those light spots disappear in one place, another light spot will light up hundreds to thousands of kilometers away. This happens almost instantly. At least, the current detection methods of humans cannot detect the delay. For this reason, many scientists believe that it should not be another light spot, but the same light spot.

Sure enough, after a period of observation, it was discovered that it was indeed the same light spot.

"It might really be some kind of space creature!"

Just when many people thought so, the observation results once again made them deeply doubt their judgment, because a certain exploration spacecraft was lucky enough to capture the details of the so-called "luminous spots", and people were surprised to find that there was nothing at the location of the luminous spots.

And this flickering light seemed to have no source.

Originally, humans thought that the light was emitted by some creature composed of hydrogen ions, but it turned out not to be. Instead, it was more like it was emitted from the void and empty space, and the light source seemed to have no substance.

This result greatly surprised humans, so people began to think that the appearance of this light spot was a natural phenomenon.

At this point, the human opinion on what the light spots are is once again divided into two parts. One part insists that it is some kind of magical natural phenomenon, while the other part believes that it is some kind of magical void creature.

Anyway, I don’t know it or have never seen it, so I just call it "magical".

Humans have also tried to capture these light spots and study them, but they are simply impossible to capture. Not to mention that they will move away like living things avoiding danger once you get close to them, the fact that no physical light source has been found makes it impossible to start.

Scientists would not give up even though the observation and detection had produced no results. So, in order to figure out what these light spots were, a bold experimental plan came up.

(End of this chapter)