With the support of a ninth-level civilization, do you want me to believe in electronic gods?

Chapter 393 No Man’s Sky
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The order was given, and as soon as the ship's main brain completed the coordinate conversion, tremendous energy instantly poured into the jump engine!

"While most particles in the anti-Universe are antiparticles, there are some exceptions."

Wang Jing's calm voice came from the side: "The antiparticles of some particles are themselves, such as photons."

"In addition, the spatial parameters and basic rules of the anti-universe are basically the same as those of the material universe."

"Therefore, for the high-end starships of the Human Alliance, entering the anti-universe will not cause too much degradation in performance."

"After a certain degree of adaptive adjustment, the Human Alliance starship can even fully restore its performance in the material universe."

"The same is true for wormhole jumps."

As Wang Jing finished speaking, a dazzling light burst out in the dim starry sky, and a distorted hyperspherical structure appeared in the center of the light.

Since there is not much interstellar matter in the surrounding space, there is no dazzling accretion disk outside the wormhole this time.

Time passes bit by bit.

As if affected by some external force, the constantly twisting hypersphere structure finally stabilized.

Swish! !

The research vessel suddenly rushed forward and was the first to rush into the wormhole in front of it!
……

As a powerful space-time fluctuation quietly passed by, ripples also appeared on the calm ocean of space-time.

A ball and a ship appeared extremely abruptly in this quiet starry sky.

To be on the safe side, the research ship's jump destination was not the Anti-Variela star system, but the empty starry sky a full one hundred light years away from it.

"Why does it feel a bit strange..."

Inside the cockpit of the research vessel, Wang Jing frowned and reached out to pull up a large, constantly moving waveform graph.

Chen Fan's heart moved and he quickly recognized the "identity" of this waveform.

The space-time field fluctuation monitoring system and the space-time field fluctuation waveform diagram are considered a basic compulsory course for starship pilots.

It has a wide range of uses, whether it is exploring extreme celestial bodies or searching for traces of starships, it can come in handy.

It is no exaggeration to say that it is used in almost every step, from starship launch to starship docking.

Compared with the Varela, the space-time field fluctuation monitoring system equipped on the research ship is undoubtedly more powerful - greater power, larger monitoring range, higher sensitivity...

but……

A very rare picture appeared on such a powerful space-time field fluctuation map!

On the waveform graph, several wave peaks slowly spread out into the distance, and then, a curve with almost no ups and downs appeared.

Just like the last straight line on an electrocardiogram, it gives people an inexplicable feeling of suffocation.

Seeing this scene, Chen Fan frowned tightly: "How could this happen..."

Under normal circumstances, the waveform of the space-time field fluctuations should be very messy - the larger the detection range, the more civilizations it covers, and the space-time fluctuations generated by the flight of various starships become more and more complex. In addition to intelligent creatures, stars, planets and various large celestial bodies will also produce corresponding space-time fluctuations during their operation.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, the space-time field monitoring system often sets a threshold to directly shield the space-time field fluctuations caused by small-scale celestial bodies, and only retain the space-time fluctuations generated by some supermassive celestial bodies and various starships.

Since there are not many advanced civilizations in the universe, the final result on the waveform chart is a graph with rapid fluctuations at low levels and occasional activity at high levels.

There is only one possibility for a straight line like the one now with no fluctuations - there is no civilization that has mastered curvature navigation within the detection range of the space-time field fluctuation monitoring system!

but……

is it possible?

Chen Fan was shocked, and subconsciously asked Wang Jing who was standing beside him: "Academician Wang, how big is the range of the space-time field monitoring of the research ship?"

"Or... did you adjust the settings incorrectly and raise the threshold for blocking the fluctuation signal?"

Wang Jing's face looked a little grim, and she quickly checked the various settings.

After making sure there were no problems with the settings, she shook her head and replied in a low voice: "The space-time field monitoring range of the research ship is very large. In a three-dimensional state, it can at least cover a star field of a million light years in radius."

"If it is directional detection, the maximum detection distance can even reach hundreds of millions of light years."

"If we ascend to the fifth dimension...with a large number of autonomous probes, a research ship would even be able to monitor a normal-sized cosmic bubble."

"In addition, I have lowered the monitoring threshold. Theoretically, even the lowest level of curvature engine fluctuation can trigger the monitoring system's early warning."

"But so far, the monitoring system has only detected some space-time fluctuations produced by various celestial bodies!"

Hearing the series of data reported by Wang Jing, Chen Fan was even more shocked: "So... there is no civilization that has mastered the curvature engine within a million light years?"

Wang Jing looked serious: "From the detection results, it is indeed the case."

"Damn..."

Chen Fan seemed to have thought of something and cursed in a low voice: "Could it be that the song of the ghost fleet has come true again?" "Song?"

Wang Jing was stunned for a moment, then suddenly raised her head and looked at Chen Fan beside her: "You mean..."

Chen Fan looked gloomy as he pulled up a record on the holographic interface provided by the smart terminal: "Academician Wang, take a closer look. Does this resemble the situation we are facing?"

【We are among the stars, waiting with great anticipation for the birth of new life. 】

【But... things did not go as planned. 】

Looking at the two lines of lyrics in front of her, Wang Jing's expression changed completely.

"If it's really like what these two lyrics say..."

Chen Fan's eyes were filled with fear as he murmured in a low voice, "I'm afraid there are more than just civilizations in this universe that haven't mastered curvature technology!"

"But... there is no civilization at all!!"

This is... a true No Man's Sky!
"This...this is impossible!!"

Wang Jing was shocked and shook her head repeatedly: "Although this universe is very young, it is at least tens of billions of years old, just like the node universe."

"How could there be no civilization in such a large and mature star and galaxy?"

"Generally speaking, the conditions for the birth of life are not harsh." Wang Jing calmed down and continued, "According to the rough statistics of the Human Union, a cosmic bubble of this size can be said to be full of life!"

"Even if only one in ten million life forms can evolve to intelligence, there should be a lot of highly intelligent life forms in this universe bubble!"

Chen Fan smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Academician Wang, I don't know this biological knowledge, but... we can do a simple investigation."

"Randomly select some planets that meet the conditions for the birth of life and see if there are any signs of life on them."

"In addition... we can also take this opportunity to send a probe to conduct a simple survey of the Anti-Varilla star system one hundred light years away."

Wang Jing thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.

"Just do as you say."

"Mastermind, release the detectors to survey the surrounding one thousand..." Wang Jing pondered for a moment and revised his instructions, "No, conduct a rough survey of habitable planets within ten thousand light years that meet the standards of the Human Union!"

The habitable planet according to the standards of the Human Union covers a very large range.

Carbon-based, silicon-based, sulfur-based, amino-based...

All kinds of life and habitable planets are included!
For example, for carbon-based life forms like humans, liquid water and an atmosphere of a specific proportion are essential conditions.

But for silicon-based life forms...

Extremely cold frozen planets and extremely hot magma planets are both perfect environments - under extremely cold conditions, silicon combines with rare earth elements, and silicon-based life can survive in the form of electric current, just like Gaia; under extremely hot conditions, silicon and carbon are interchangeable, and silicon atoms can replace carbon atoms to form long silicon chains, forming life forms similar to carbon-based life forms!
This is the case with silicon-based organisms, not to mention niche life forms such as sulfur-based and amino-based organisms.

According to the Human Union’s investigation, some planets that seem unlikely to have life often give birth to strange life forms!
……

More than ten minutes later.

Under the protection of the light golden shield, the door of the scientific research ship slowly opened, and hundreds of gray-black spherical detectors shot out at a rapid speed.

During the entire process, under the protection of the grand unified field, these gray-black detectors did not touch any structure of the scientific research ship.

The grand unified field that had been surrounding these detectors did not slowly dissipate until they left the pale golden shield surrounding the research ship.

"what?"

Looking at the gray-black spherical detectors outside the porthole, Chen Fan seemed to have noticed something and stood up from his seat with a light exclamation.

There are no shields around these hundreds of detectors. They are exposed to the anti-universe without any cover!

What surprised Chen Fan was that even so, the flames of the annihilation reaction did not appear on the surface of these gray-black detectors!
After a short wait, these gray-black spherical detectors scattered like birds and beasts, rushing away in all directions!

Along with faint space-time fluctuations, all detectors quickly disappeared into the visible universe.

"This is..." Chen Fan's heart moved, and he vaguely guessed the truth.

"Did you notice? These detectors are actually made of antimatter."

Wang Jing's voice came from the side: "For a research ship, simply manufacturing some antimatter technology creations is actually not a difficult task."

"The functions of these probes are very simple. In addition to basic navigation and exploration functions, their most important function is self-replication."

"Like nanomachines, these probes can replicate themselves locally, relying on resources in the universe."

“When exploring new cosmic bubbles, the Human Union often uses this type of detector.”

While explaining, Wang Jing raised her hand and pressed a few virtual buttons on the holographic panel in front of her again.

Whoosh! ! !
More than a dozen light golden rays of light shot out from the hatch on the belly of the research vessel and rushed towards the Anti-Variela star system without hesitation!
"These detectors have more functions and the internal instruments are more precise."

"They will be responsible for the exploration of the Anti-Varilla star system."

(End of this chapter)