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Chapter 581 Singularity Information Bridge and Projection Space
Faced with Hongshi's questioning, Chen Fan fell into silence.

"All right……"

Chen Fan sighed helplessly: "I admit that the situation is indeed a bit beyond expectations."

"...The damage to the Gaia planetary fortress exceeds 35%." Redstone ignored Chen Fan's words and quickly called up a series of holographic interfaces filled with various error messages. "More importantly, our hyperspace membrane communication and information flow communication with the main universe have been interrupted."

"Don't mention the hyperspace membrane communication anymore." Chen Fan took over the conversation, "This thing can only be used near the hyperspace membrane. As for the information flow communication..."

"I just tested it and found that the information flow in this space is very normal. I guess it is blocked by something, or the current information flow intensity of the Human Union is insufficient."

"Is there any solution?" Hongshi asked the most critical question, "We can't just sit here and wait for death, right?"

Chen Fan scratched his head again, and after a long pause, he gave an answer: "In short..."

"Let's get in touch with Captain Fang first."

"No matter what needs to be done next, it's always a good idea to reorganize the fleet first."

……

after an hour.

“……失踪主力战舰的数量超过了23万艘，受损程度超过50%的战舰数量超过30万艘，仅有5万余艘主力战舰的受损程度低于20%。”

In the communication interface with faintly flashing red warning information, Fang Yunsheng reported the specific situation of the fleet with a grim expression: "I roughly estimated that the Z619 expeditionary fleet can only exert 40% of its combat capability at most."

"So serious?" Although he had prepared himself mentally, Hongshi was still shocked by the shocking numbers.

40% of the combat capability, rounded off, how is this different from the original peacekeeping fleet?
If a group of Apophis giant scorpions came at this time...

This scene flashed through my mind, and the blood-red marquee began to flicker again.

"?"

Fang Yunsheng looked at the cockpit that looked like a disco with a strange expression. After trying to calm down, he continued, "Although I don't know what happened, the sudden information storm almost burned out the information barrier generation devices of all conventional warships. Only the two Genesis Fortresses with their extremely high redundancy withstood the storm."

"It is for this reason that the damage to the warships is mostly concentrated in the armor layer, engines, and information flow generation and control units. If there is enough time for repairs, the fleet's combat capability can be restored to 70% of its baseline combat capability."

"In addition, the self-inspection results show that although the two Genesis Fortresses had a strong collision in the chaos, their core components did not suffer much damage."

Hearing this, Hongshi's tense expression finally relaxed a bit, and the frequency of the ticker tape also dropped significantly: "This should be the best news."

suddenly.

Chen Fan, who had been silently staring at the endless space outside the holographic porthole and acting as a background, interrupted the conversation without warning: "...I suspect the jump channel collapsed."

"What?" Fang Yunsheng was stunned and didn't understand what Chen Fan meant for a moment.

"You can think of a black hole jump as a larger version of a wormhole." Chen Fan retracted his gaze and muttered to himself thoughtfully, "A wormhole will produce a high-dimensional channel, and a black hole jump should also produce a channel, or a bridge."

“It’s just that this bridge is built by information flow.”

"Perhaps it was because the central singularity was greatly disturbed that the information bridge connecting the Apophis universe collapsed, and the previous information storm of astonishing intensity was formed because of this."

Hearing this, Fang Yunsheng frowned and said, "I have experienced wormhole collapse many times before. Usually, the warship will fall into the low-dimensional space along the way."

"But after the information bridge collapsed..."

"That's the problem." Chen Fan shrugged. "From the perspective of the interruption of communication with the main universe, this space does not belong to the hyperspace membrane, but from the basic coordinate parameters..."

"Except for some special changes in the first parameter, the other five parameters are actually completely consistent with the laws of the hyperspace membrane area."

"This means that this space is still related to the hyperspace membrane."

As if he had thought of something, Chen Fan's eyes lit up slightly: "It's like... a projection?"

"projection?"

"Yes, the projection of the hyperspace membrane!" Chen Fan was a little excited. "High-dimensional objects can form projections in low-dimensional space, so the hyperspace membrane should also be able to form a projection!"

"Correct!"

Thinking that the second coordinate parameter will only change when crossing the universe, Chen Fan became more certain of his guess: "Only when crossing the hyperspace membrane will the first coordinate parameter change!!"

As everyone looked at each other in bewilderment, Chen Fan quickly called up a simulated star map of the hyperspace membrane - except for the interior of the territory, the Human Union's detection of the entire hyperspace membrane was basically based on some indirect observation results.

"If this conjecture is true, we can completely ignore the change in the first coordinate parameter and lock the corresponding position of the fleet on the hyperspace membrane..."

Under Fang Yunsheng's shocked gaze, Chen Fan's fingers swept across the small pale yellow area in the star map that symbolized the territory of the Human Alliance. Without any pause, he crossed the countless gray blocks that symbolized unexplored areas, and finally stopped at the edge of the hyperspace membrane network.

"right here!"

Chen Fan paused, then tapped the gray area hard.

"This is impossible!" Fang Yunsheng jumped up from his seat and looked at Chen Fan in shock. "Do you know how far this place is from the human world?!"

"This... This can't even be measured using the existing distance units of the Human Alliance!!"

"But this is the truth."

Unlike Fang Yunsheng, Chen Fan's expression was quite calm: "From the moment we entered the singularity, the fleet's coordinate parameters underwent extremely drastic changes."

Fang Yunsheng looked at the gray area under Chen Fan's finger with an uncertain expression.

The initial shock gradually faded, and his emotions calmed down: "You mean, in just a few minutes, we crossed a vast star field that is tens of millions times larger than the human universe?"

"If that's the case, then this black hole jump is too..."

"No." Chen Fan interrupted Fang Yunsheng, "Let me correct you. The entire transition process is probably calculated based on Planck time. The few minutes we experienced were partly the time it took to enter the information bridge, and partly the time it took for the information bridge to collapse."

Fang Yunsheng opened his mouth, but couldn't utter a complete sentence.

In the blink of an eye, I arrived at the "edge" of the hyperspace membrane. This experience... was a little too bizarre.

"Then how far are we from the Apophis universe?" Redstone's voice came again from the blood-red ticker. "We've run so far, we should be close to our destination, right?"

A word to awaken the dreamer.

Fang Yunsheng's wandering eyes suddenly became focused, and he looked at Chen Fan expectantly, hoping to hear a positive answer.

but……

Chen Fan silently looked at the [32] at the end of the second digit of the coordinate parameter, which showed no sign of change, and pursed his lips tightly.

"far away."

He dropped his hands helplessly. “Although I don’t know the exact distance, I can tell you that if my guess is correct, we may not even have covered half the distance.”

As soon as the words fell, the communication channel suddenly fell into silence. Fang Yunsheng's Adam's apple moved slightly, and his empty eyes were filled with confusion.

The fleet has arrived at the edge of the hyperspace membrane detected by the Human Union, but it is still far from reaching the target universe. At the same time, the fleet has neither the ability to move forward nor the ability to return. The most critical point is that the location of the fleet is not a standard hyperspace membrane area!

Faced with such a difficult situation, even Fang Yunsheng couldn't help but feel despair.

"…Repair the fleet."

Chen Fan lowered his eyes and said in a hoarse voice: "I'll see if I can find a way to escape from this projection space."

……

Time flies.

A whole week passed, but the surrounding deep space did not change at all.

There are no cosmic bubbles, no celestial structures, and no physical matter of any form. This is pure space.

It seems that the hyperspace membrane has abandoned all macroscopic and microscopic matter and simply projected itself.

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Fortunately.

Vacuum zero-point energy is still highly active in this mysterious projection space, and the Human Fleet will not fall into the situation of energy depletion.

More importantly, for the expedition fleet that possesses the most advanced technology of the Human Union, having energy actually means having everything - although the efficiency is touching, the mass-energy conversion system can indeed solve almost all the difficulties of the fleet.

The golden shield, which was gradually regaining its brightness, enveloped the entire fleet. With countless shipborne robots working day and night, the originally damaged fleet was recovering at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Engines, information flow generation and control units...

All faults are being eliminated one by one.

It seems that everything is moving in the right direction.

but……

Chen Fan did not find a way to escape from the projection space.

He tried to modify the coordinate parameters directly, but even though he extracted enough zero-point energy from the Genesis Fortress to supply a normal fleet with a year of normal sailing, the [32] at the end of the first and second coordinate parameters were still as if welded together, with no signs of change.

He also tried to transmit information flow to the depths of the projection space, which is the direction where the pan-universe is located, but the only response he got was endless silence.

None of the above failed attempts made Chen Fan give up.

What really made Chen Fan feel desperate was the abnormal situation of the fleet itself - the fleet was anchored.

It is not an external breakdown caused by the collapse of the singularity information bridge, but a breakdown in the true sense caused by its own reasons!
Just the day before, the fleet, which had basically completed internal repairs, was preparing to begin repairs on the outer armor.

The battleship itself is extremely large, and the repair work on the outer armor certainly cannot rely on the maintenance machinery inside the battleship. Usually, these works are carried out uniformly by engineering ships - just like laying tiles, engineering ships can repair battleship armor on a large scale.

Just when a large number of engineering ships spent a week to complete the armor preparation, an accident occurred.

Engineering ship, unable to sail.

No matter how the output power of the curvature device and phase engine was increased, each engineering ship remained quietly in place, with no sign of sailing.

This abnormal phenomenon quickly attracted Fang Yunsheng's attention.

He ordered the fleet's main battleships and Genesis Fortress to sail away in an attempt to troubleshoot the malfunction of the engineering ship itself.

then……

Like the engineering ships, all the human-combat ships remained quietly in place, as if they had completely lost the ability to sail.

……

In the communication channel, Fang Yunsheng's eyes were bloodshot.

He looked at the space-time curvature in the holographic interface that did not change at all, and for a moment he even wondered if he was hallucinating.

"All kinds of weapons have been tested."

Fang Yunsheng raised his hand and rubbed his face vigorously: "Just like the curvature engine, any form of weapon does not cause changes in the surrounding space and time."

"Not only that, the moment the particle weapon broke away from the Genesis Fortress's rule field, those microscopic particles directly dissipated in the form of information flow."

"This projection space does not seem to allow the existence of any macroscopic matter."

"I don't understand! Why would this happen?!"

Fang Yunsheng's spirit was almost collapsed. He could tolerate the fleet being trapped, but he could not accept that his fleet did not even have the most basic operational capabilities!

Chen Fan didn't say anything, but just thought about something silently with a gloomy face.

After a long pause, he slowly spoke: "In this week, I left 37 times in total in order to find a way to escape."

The moment the words fell, Fang Yunsheng's pupils instantly dilated: "You..."

"You can move normally?"

"Yes."

Chen Fan nodded: "Not only can you move normally, but you can also leave the rule field and information barrier constructed by the Genesis Fortress at will."

"It's just that I realized the action by modifying the coordinate parameters."

"……I see."

Hearing this, Fang Yunsheng understood, and the bitterness on his face became more intense: "This... belongs to the world of information flow."

Chen Fan nodded in agreement.

The projection of the hyperspace membrane is a pure flow of information.

All anomalies have been explained.

No wonder such a powerful information storm was formed after the collapse of the singularity information bridge - the fleet was equivalent to falling directly into an ocean of information flow, and the splashing "waves" were enough to overturn any conventional warship!

At the same time, the curvature of space-time is projected. Even if the curvature engine is made to smoke, it is impossible to change this "illusory" curvature.

"Now..."

Fang Yunsheng fell into the seat behind him, his tone full of dejection: "We are completely trapped."

(End of this chapter)