Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 699: Fruitless Exploration
If the exploration yielded no results, humans could have just left, but they couldn't help their curiosity, so after some discussion, they decided to conduct further exploratory research experiments.

It is also part of a capture research plan by scientists who believe it is some kind of creature.

They originally wanted to use a detection spacecraft to capture it directly, but in subsequent observations, humans discovered that the so-called light source was not a diffuse substance at all. Moreover, it was difficult for human detection spacecraft to capture the light points because once they got close to them, they would disappear and appear in another place.

Although the places where it disappeared and reappeared were not far apart, the speed of the transfer was so fast that it was almost completed instantly, making it difficult for humans to salvage it and observe it.

Therefore, humans had to find other solutions.

First of all, scientists believe that this flickering phenomenon is unique to this nebula. Whether it is caused by some kind of creature or a natural phenomenon, it depends on the nebula to exist.

If this guess is correct, then humans don't have to worry about the dangers of subsequent capture plans. After all, for humans today, these flashing spots of light are unknown things. If you want to study them, you must first have a certain understanding of them, at least to know whether they are dangerous or not.

This is how we determine whether they exist based on nebulae. If they do exist based on nebulae, then humans can use vacuum zone isolation to prevent their spread in subsequent studies, thereby avoiding unknown dangers.

Then the so-called bold plan is very obvious. Humans intend to dispatch a group of engineering ships, and then use the force field generated by the force field generators on the engineering ships to push or cut off part of the nebula to see whether those light spots can still disappear from the cut nebula and run into the big nebula.

Humans acted immediately. They parked the fleet about one light year away from the nebula and began to implement the exploration plan.

A large group of engineering ships were arranged into a specific team, and then they slowly cut into a section of the nebula like snowplows, absorbing the dense nebula into the engineering ships and compressing it, and they dug winding channels in the nebula like a gopher digging a hole, and finally connected all these "channels", thus successfully isolating a part of the nebula from its main body.

Humans have long been able to extract hydrogen, helium and other elements from the surface of gaseous planets, so this nebula clearing work is not difficult. After clearing and isolating a small nebula, humans continue to use this method to reduce the size of this small nebula, further reducing the activity range of the isolated light spot, and finally achieving the purpose of capturing it.

The target has been determined, which is at the edge of the entire nebula, where humans have detected a cluster of light spots. The area that needs to be isolated is not large, probably only a few thousand kilometers in radius, which is easy to achieve with the current technological strength of humans, and does not take too much time.

In less than half a month, humans successfully "cut" out this star field, and then immediately began to "shrink" it. During this process, human exploration spacecraft also surrounded it and aimed all detectors at the spot where the light spots gathered.

This method is as reliable as catching fish by cutting off water.

The effect was also significant, because humans were surprised to find that the clusters of light spots showed the same behavior as before, seeking good fortune and avoiding danger, and tried to stay away from the operating area of ​​human engineering ships, but they did not disappear like before.

This discovery made human scientists very excited because to some extent it has confirmed human speculation that those light spots are actually some kind of unknown creatures and their movement is extremely dependent on the nebula.

As the size of the separated nebula became smaller and smaller, the clusters of sparkling spots were truly "seen" by humans for the first time.

The volume of the segmented nebula has shrunk to a sphere of only a few hundred meters, and the area occupied by this group of glittering light spots is only about a hundred meters. At this distance, the detector can already clearly capture the appearance of the glittering spots.

Humans discovered that the light spots really seemed to appear out of thin air, which puzzled human scientists and was simply unscientific. Because even now, even if we have observed it up close, humans still cannot determine what this thing is, and we don’t understand its luminous mechanism. Human scientists are naturally unwilling to accept this, and even asked the new government to send a research ship to the location of the separated small nebula for a field investigation, but were rejected. Humans do not want to repeat the mistakes of the silver fog incident. Before figuring out what these luminous spots are, humans are absolutely not allowed to get close to them, let alone the personnel going out of the cabin to investigate after the research ship arrives.

Every failure makes one wiser. Humans would rather give up studying this phenomenon than take the risk again.

Science is very dissatisfied with this, but it can only continue to observe it through unmanned exploration spacecraft in the hope of discovering some different phenomena.

Finally, I found it.

After observing the gathering place of the flashing spots in the split part of the nebula for a period of time, humans found that the light in the gathering place of the flashing spots became weaker and weaker, and finally disappeared. After that, the small nebula that was split out no longer showed the phenomenon of flashing.

At the same time, humans did not find that the flashing spots inside were teleporting in space, nor did they find it in the big nebula. This phenomenon gave humans the feeling that the separated spots of light died because of the lack of some element.

This is even more puzzling.

Then, humans continued to observe the area where the light spot disappeared for a long time, but the result was still the same. Humans had no choice but to look at another shining spot on the edge of the nebula again.

This time, after splitting out part of the nebula again, humans did not just wait and observe as they did last time, but instead launched a small detector directly towards the light spot, intending to have close contact with it.

The contact made humans even more confused, because humans saw that the light spots stopped running after they had nowhere to run, but the spatial point where the light spots were located changed with the flow of hydrogen elements in the nebula. After the small probe rushed into it, the light spots did not spread into the inside of the probe without reason, but remained in the hydrogen cloud.

This small detector also swept part of the hydrogen molecular cloud into the storage device as required by humans, but those light spots disappeared after entering the hydrogen storage device of the detector along with the hydrogen molecular cloud, and the hydrogen molecular cloud became a normal hydrogen molecular cloud.

In this regard, human scientists, who are a light-year away, judged that the light spot was some kind of space creature that relied on a hydrogen molecular cloud, and that a series of human operations had caused changes to its environment, leading to its death.

As for what kind of creature it is and what its characteristics are, scientists cannot answer. Of course, there are all kinds of speculations. For example, when in doubt, the quantum mechanics theory says that this creature is some kind of quantum life. This explanation also explains how they move, saying that this quantum creature uses the spatial gravity difference caused by the vacuum mouth hydrogen molecular cloud to achieve instant movement, which is a displacement completed in the quantum world.
This explanation is not mainstream because it is a problem of human cognition and there is no way to further study it. Another is the natural phenomenon theory, which has fewer supporters because there is no way to explain it.

After that, humans continued to observe and study these light spots in various ways, but there was still no more evidence to prove what it was, and subsequent progress was almost zero. Scientists attributed this to the underdeveloped science and technology of humans.

Helplessly, humans had to give up further research and set foot on the star map again.

Before leaving, humans naturally had to record the location of this nebula in the star map, in the hope of finding relevant clues later and then come back to investigate.

(End of this chapter)