Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 754 What is the test?

So what is the test of the small universe left by the pioneers? There is no intelligent system to guide, just a maze, what is it?

For a moment, everyone on the Lyra and on other warships were thinking about this question, and everyone was using their imagination to guess what the so-called test was.

Scientists, researchers, and personnel at exploration posts are also doing their best to conduct various observation and detection experiments on these rhombus crystals, and everyone is making his or her own contribution to the progress of mankind.

Unfortunately, although the First Fleet is home to the most advanced talents of humanity, it is not all of humanity. Currently, each planetary battleship has only 8,000 consciousness-linked pilots. Including reserve pilots and other crew members, a planetary battleship can only carry 20,000 people.

This is a pitifully small number in a planetary battleship as big as a treasure island. If it weren't for the extremely high degree of mechanical automation, more than just this few people would be able to operate it.

Of course, as the flagship, the Lyra is the military and political center, so the number of people will be larger, but it is only about tens of thousands.

Although humanity's First Fleet has three million ships, in fact only about three thousand are manned warships, that is, the warships linked by consciousness. Each of the other warships is operated by strong artificial intelligence, and each ship is a combat-type strong artificial intelligence.

Therefore, the entire First Fleet only had a few hundred thousand people, which was too few for a Level 4 civilization. To be honest, if it wasn't for the technology of humans, and the people of the Red Flame Civilization were to operate, the number would at least be several times greater.

However, having fewer people sometimes has advantages, but it is a disadvantage when you have to act alone away from the main body of civilization.

However, things have come to this point, and we can only increase the number of people to make up for it after returning to the main civilization. Now we can only bite the bullet and go on.

In the following years, humans have been trying to find the arrangement pattern of the diamond lattice.

Unlike other attempts, this time the human guess was right. These lattices are indeed divided into virtual and real. Some lattices can even be directly passed through by human warships, just like a shadow. The magical thing is that if you don't touch it personally, human detectors can't tell which ones are real and which ones are virtual.

I don't know what technology the pioneers used to achieve this phenomenon, but just from this point of view, it is many times more advanced than human holographic screen technology. It has surpassed the light and shadow effects and has reached the point where it is difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake.

After confirming the existence of virtual and real bodies, humans continued to follow the previous method and placed locators near each virtual and real body to better identify their arrangement patterns. However, to the disappointment of humans, after several months of work, many diamond lattices were marked, but the arrangement patterns of these virtual and real bodies were not found.

Based on past experience, humans define virtual entities as 0 and real entities as 1, and then input the explored virtual entities and real entity distributions into computers for simulation and deduction. Unfortunately, the resulting image seems to be an irregular digital pattern.

In response, mathematicians insisted that it was because the sample size was too small and hoped to continue to expand the detection range.

There was no other good solution for now, so humans could only continue to move in this direction, continue to expand the detection range, and expand the statistical range. So, the first fleet of humans sailed in one direction, marking the virtual and real diamond lattices along the way.

In this way, marking while sailing can also detect the characteristics of this space. If humans keep moving forward and find a diamond lattice with a mark in front of them, it means that the First Fleet is indeed trapped in a strange space. It also means that this space is limited, just a maze space that may have been built using space folding or other space technologies, rather than the vastness of the universe as observed by humans.

So as long as it is a limited space, humans have the confidence to fully explore it and find the pattern of the rhombus lattice arrangement. Of course, even if such a space is limited, it is very wide. After all, humans have been traveling at ten times the speed of light for so long without encountering the rhombus lattice they marked.

I really don't know how the pioneers built this small universe. However, the more difficult the test is, the more humans look forward to what the pioneers left behind.

It’s a pity that we can’t search leisurely. After all, there are more than just humans entering this maze.

With this sense of urgency, humans continued to explore without stopping. Finally, a year later, humans were surprised to find that the locator they had avoided at the beginning appeared on their front.

This discovery surprised everyone.

It was indeed a maze. If you keep walking forward, you will return to the starting point! This means that humans can fully explore this space and explore every diamond crystal in this space.

The humans who had achieved fruitful results in the exploration were full of energy and immediately divided the entire one million ships into more than 2,900 warship squadrons. Each squadron was led by a warship equipped with a consciousness linking device and advanced in all directions with this place as the origin.

These battleship teams all have their own exploration missions. One year later, everyone gathers here to summarize and analyze their respective exploration results.

Before setting off, everyone was thinking, "Now that we have explored all the rhombus crystals in this strange space, we should be able to find the pattern!"

It has to be said that this tactic was quite effective. Almost two years later, more than 2,000 squadrons returned to the starting point as people expected.

In addition to providing humans with valuable data, such a navigation experiment also verified a hypothesis of mankind, that is, their First Fleet is not in the same space as the dynamic picture civilization and the Orange Star civilization.

After all, in the past two years, humans can be said to have explored this maze space thoroughly, but have not found any trace of these two civilizations.

Perhaps because of the careful arrangement, this small universe seems to be more advanced than the one created by the awakener before. It really uses the space folding technology that only exists in human fantasy.

In other words, the three civilizations were in different spatial regions, which meant that all three civilizations were being tested by the pioneers. From this perspective, the pioneers did not seem to have any intention of giving special treatment to any civilization, not even to the humans who had obtained the key.

Humans do not feel unbalanced about this. After all, if they were pioneers, leaving a small universe for the new generation of civilization billions of years later, they would probably not set up any biased tests.

(End of this chapter)