Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 761 Breaking through the maze
God helps those who work hard, and the hard work of the first fleet of mankind has finally paid off.

In the more than ten years since everyone devoted themselves to scientific research, the First Fleet has achieved achievements that even they themselves find incredible. They have overcome various technical difficulties one after another and finally created the first theoretically feasible third-generation warp engine prototype.

The emergence of the prototype means that mankind has made a technological breakthrough in the grand unified force field.

The theory is still the same, but after the efforts of everyone in the First Fleet, people finally discovered another set of more concise and efficient algorithms. In this way, combined with breakthroughs in engine manufacturing technology and advances in material technology, humans finally obtained a more powerful grand unified force field.

With the support of a more powerful grand unified force field, the third-generation warp engine prototype came into being.

Although the First Fleet is a fleet, it also has various engineering spacecraft and factories. After all, it is the flagship fleet of mankind. The level of productivity is certainly not comparable to that of the main human civilization, but it is still no problem to manufacture some specific creations.

Therefore, the prototype was born in such an environment, and the sea trial was carried out after the prototype appeared and was installed on the warship.

Watching the test spacecraft entering the launch preparation procedure, everyone in the First Fleet was filled with emotion and at the same time felt proud that they had achieved the upgrade of engine technology in such a short time and produced the third-generation engine technology.

If it were placed in the universe, in the rhythm of life in the human civilization cluster, it would be completely impossible. But such a thing that everyone thought was impossible actually happened here.

And it was done by this group of people.

From the perspective of the entire civilization technology tree, the breakthrough in engine technology is only one of the many branch technologies of the fourth-level civilization, but it is a landmark technology.

With great emotion and pride, the people of the First Fleet were looking forward to the third-generation warp engine prototype to complete the experiment perfectly, so that they could produce more engines and install them on the more than 2,900 consciousness-linked warships.

The most important point is that according to the information previously obtained from the diamond lattice maze, 38.941 times the speed of light is the key. Once achieved, you can get out of the maze.

In other words, if this prototype experiment is successful, it may be the first to break through the shackles of the maze and return to the universe.

This is the scene that everyone wants to see, the scene that everyone is looking forward to.

However, not everything goes as planned. The prototype test was successful. According to the feedback data from various instruments, the battleship equipped with the experimental warp engine did reach 38.941 times the speed of light. However, nothing happened in the entire diamond lattice maze space.

The diamond lattices are still the same diamond lattices, some real and some virtual, without any changes. No new roads have been detected in any part of the entire space. Where the human fleet is, there are still endless diamond lattices in all directions. That world is still that world.

At this moment, humans were also confused.

"Is the guess wrong?"

"The so-called 38.941 times the speed of light is just a coincidence? But how can a coincidence be so precise?"

"Yes, but if it's not accurate, how can it be called a coincidence?"

"Could it be that the so-called 38.941 times the speed of light is just a misleading guide? Otherwise, how come we have achieved this speed but still haven't found the way to enter the real microcosm? If we can't find the way in, we can find the way back to the macrocosm!"

The emotion of hope turning into disappointment spread among the crowd. Some people even thought about it and began to despair. They felt that they were really going to be trapped here and die. At the same time, they prayed in their hearts that the main fleet of human civilization would not come to find them.

What's worse, some people have been quietly complaining in private, saying that the small universe left behind by the pioneers is a trap, a trap to destroy the new generation of civilization.

The cosmic background suddenly became extremely dark in their hearts.

Mutual assistance among civilizations is only a temporary illusion. The way to survive is to destroy other civilizations and not believe in any civilization.
Of course, this does not represent everyone's thoughts. After seeing that the experimental warship did not break through the shackles of the diamond lattice maze, most people did not complain helplessly, but calmed down to analyze the reasons.

But the result is self-evident: no cause was found. There was too little information and no solution was available.

In the end, it was Yue Yuan who stopped all the chaotic voices, and then directly ordered the leader of the civilization to produce 2,994 sets of third-generation warp engines first and install them on the warships with consciousness links.

Such an order seems to be like, since we are going to die anyway, we might as well enjoy the peak speed of level 4 civilization before dying.

They have all been built. Even if I am trapped to death, I will die on a warship with the latest technology. Maybe when time passes, it will exceed the time agreed with the main body of civilization, causing the main body of civilization to also fall into this diamond lattice maze. At least I can get the latest engine technology developed by my group, right?

It may not necessarily help, but it's better than nothing.

There are only more than 200,000 people here. Maybe the entire civilization can find a solution with united efforts. By then, at least the successors will be able to bring this third-generation engine technology out!

However, if each batch of fleets enters a different maze space, then there is nothing that can be done. The people of the first fleet are just looking for one possibility.

"We will not give up any opportunity to continue and improve human civilization. Even if we know we will die, we must leave hope for future generations!"

With this belief in mind, the First Fleet began to use its stockpiled resources to build third-generation warp engines, building 2,994 sets, not one more, not one less, just enough to be installed on all the warships with a connection to existence consciousness.

Of the 3,000 sets of equipment given by the Awakener, six are in the Second Fleet and the Third Fleet, installed on the fleet's flagship and two other sister ships respectively, and the rest are in the First Fleet.

But then again, the human experimental warship has reached 38.941 times the speed of light but has not found a way out, nor a way to enter the interior of the microcosm, which means that the Gurgi of the dynamic picture civilization cannot enter either.

This is good news amidst the bad news.

Now humans have finally come to understand the dilemma of animated graphic civilization.

There was actually another reason why Yue Yuan insisted on installing the third-generation warp engine. He suspected that if one ship wasn't enough, a group of ships might be able to do it.

He always felt that humans' judgment on the information of 38.941 times the speed of light was correct, but he didn't know how the pioneers set the identification conditions.

Yes, Yue Yuan believed that the pioneers must have left some kind of surveillance program in this diamond lattice maze, just like the Awakener did back then, but humans did not discover it.

However, this was just his inner thought. He didn't have any basis for it, so he didn't tell anyone else.

Sometimes it's just a coincidence that after Yue Yuan insisted on producing the third-generation warp engine and installed it on 2,994 warships, and started rapid sailing with a glimmer of expectation, the scene they saw actually changed.

Oh no, it should be the image detected by the detector.

What is ahead is no longer an endless lattice, but a space channel similar to the one that humans saw when they came out of the Awakener's microcosm.

The two are exactly the same.

Seeing such a familiar space channel, everyone in the First Fleet was extremely excited. Although they couldn't figure out why for the time being, there was no doubt that they had succeeded.

(End of this chapter)