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

Chapter 587 Activating the Duality of Reality and Virtuality

"captain!"

As soon as Fang Yunsheng finished speaking, an officer's exclamation was heard from the side.

"Something seems to be wrong!"

"what?!"

Fang Yunsheng was shocked and quickly turned to look at the panicked officer not far away.

"What happened?"

Fang Yunsheng stood up from his seat, walked quickly to the officer's side, and asked in a deep voice, "Has the coordinates of that battleship been exposed?"

"Or did the battleship encounter difficulties when leaving the space bubble?"

After successfully establishing contact with the Academy of Sciences, Fang Yunsheng, at the suggestion of the Academy of Sciences, sent a main battleship to try to escape from the cosmic bubble to explore the hyperspace membrane.

the reason is simple.

If you want to destroy the black hole jump channel of the Apophis civilization, it will definitely not work to simply shrink in this remote area that is 10,000 standard spans away from the mother universe.

"neither……"

The officer stared in amazement at the rapidly changing complex parameters on the holographic interface in front of him: "The exploration warship has successfully escaped from the cosmic bubble and officially entered the hyperspace membrane area, but..."

"Just what?"

Fang Yunsheng asked in a somewhat impatient tone.

"It's just that the various parameters sent back by the battleship... are a bit strange." The officer hesitated for a while, and finally added with a strange look, "If these parameters are true, the scale of the universe bubble we are in..."

“It might be a little bigger.”

"A bit big?" Fang Yunsheng was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously asked back, "Isn't it just a cosmic bubble? How big can this thing grow?"

"No matter how big it is, can it be bigger than the artificial main universe bubble of the Human Union?"

The officer suddenly fell silent: "..."

Looking at the increasingly strange expression on the officer's face, Fang Yunsheng finally realized the problem.

"No, it won't, right?"

His tone was a little dry.

"Drip! Drip!"

A slight prompt sound rang out, breaking the brief silence in the command center.

"…The image data has been transmitted back."

The officer raised his hand and operated the holographic interface: "You...you should take a look for yourself."

Swish!
The interface that was originally filled with various complex parameters instantly enlarged, and a strange picture appeared in front of Fang Yunsheng.

The first thing that catches your eye is a huge, yet extremely familiar twisted "net".

That is the hyperspace membrane itself.

Although the quadrants are different and the basic rules are different, the appearance of the hyperspace membrane has not changed much.

Then, as the observation angle changed, a "wall" with no end in sight rose up on the huge hyperspace membrane.

The city wall stretches across the hyperspace membrane area, almost blocking all vision into the distance.

It is also for this reason that the entire picture appears extremely dim - the bizarre scenes in the human universe are simply impossible to see in this area.

But what really shocked Fang Yunsheng were the countless hideous spikes randomly distributed on this "city wall"!
These spikes formed twisted lines extending in all directions near the hyperspace membrane. Just a glance at them made Fang Yunsheng feel a little uncomfortable.

"hiss……"

He took a deep breath and said to the officer beside him who was also in a daze in a tentative tone: "This thing...could it be the bar in the universe we are in?"

"..."

The officer swallowed his saliva. Although he had prepared himself mentally with the support of various data, his voice still trembled a little when he saw the scene that was beyond his normal cognition: "If the exploration data is correct..."

"Damn it! How big is this thing!!" Fang Yunsheng subconsciously used curses to cover up the shock and fear in his heart.

"Wait a moment, the exploration ship has sent back high-precision curvature data..."

The officer frantically adjusted the various parameters in the holographic interface: "The investigation shows that the curvature of the cosmic bubble is uneven. It is not a standard spherical structure, so the shipboard main brain needs some time to calculate..."

"Nonsense!" Fang Yunsheng cursed again, "With so many spikes on it, how can it still be a standard spherical structure!"

"Just tell me the result!"

moment.

"...The ship's main brain can only give a vague calculation result."

The officer stared blankly at the series of numbers that popped up automatically: "According to preliminary estimates, its maximum span exceeds 25,000 standard spans..."

"Even if it's an average span, it's probably 20,000 standard spans."

The moment the words fell, the picture in the holographic interface changed rapidly - a huge, ferocious cosmic bubble that almost covered the entire hyperspace membrane and looked like a sea urchin was quietly embedded in an infinitely extending, undulating web.

This is a simulation of the cosmic bubble where the fleet is located.

But thanks to various precise detection data, this simulation picture is probably not much different from the real picture.

The command center fell into complete silence.

Fang Yunsheng raised his head and stared blankly at the hideous giant wall in the holographic interface. A strange thought suddenly flashed through his mind.

——It turns out that the Ghost Fleet did not irresponsibly abandon the fleet on the edge of the territory of the Apophis civilization.

On the contrary, they acted extremely responsibly and sent their fleet into the interior of the Apophis mother universe.

only……

The scale of this mother universe is a billion times larger than they imagined.

……

the other side.

"More than 25,000 standard span cosmic bubbles..."

In the central laboratory of the Humanities Academy, Chief Lu was also shocked by the latest news.

You know, a standard span covers the entire human universe!
What is this concept?
To use the simplest analogy, in a cosmic bubble of this size, the Human Universe can only be considered a slightly larger galaxy at best!

"This, this is incredible!"

Academician Lin Yang exclaimed: "Even if this cosmic bubble was artificially assembled, this scale is too outrageous!"

"I remember that we spent a lot of energy to expand the main universe. We even put Genesis Fortress into use..."

"and many more!"

Chief Lu's eyes moved, and he interrupted Lin Yang's words hurriedly: "You just said...Genesis Fortress?"

Lin Yang was slightly stunned, as if he had thought of something, and his originally normal expression suddenly became strange.

"Strange."

"The cosmic bubble splicing project involves rule technology. Those giant scorpions who don't have the rule technology..."

Lin Yang frowned and murmured in a low voice: "How did you create such a cosmic bubble?"

Chief Lu didn't say anything, but just raised his hand and gently rubbed his eyebrows.

"We'll consider this question later."

"The first thing to solve now is..."

……

"How can our fleet cross these 10,000 standard spans in a short period of time and reach the central black hole area of ​​the Apophis mother universe?" In the fleet command center, Fang Yunsheng cast his gaze at Chen Fan, who was silent in the holographic interface, and asked the same questions as Chief Lu.

"Wormhole?"

Sensing Fang Yunsheng's gaze, Chen Fan hesitated and replied, "Or try a five-dimensional jump?"

Fang Yunsheng shook his head repeatedly.

"too slow."

"Wormholes and five-dimensional jumps are completely useless on this scale." Fang Yunsheng had a bitter smile on his face. "What's more, according to the current situation, the Pan-Universe can't hold on for much longer."

Chen Fan frowned and sighed softly.

He subconsciously turned his head to look at the holographic porthole beside him. Outside the porthole, a deep darkness was slowly and silently moving towards the depths of the starry sky under the influence of macro-gravity - that was the black hole used by the fleet when returning to the main space from the subspace.

"or……"

"Let's think of a way to go back to the subspace again?"

Chen Fan was slightly distracted, and murmured in a low voice: "Perhaps, only subspace navigation can allow us to quickly cross the 10,000 standard spans."

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"Return to the Warp?"

Recalling the projection space that was constructed entirely of information flow, Fang Yunsheng shuddered subconsciously: "No! Absolutely not!"

"It's too dangerous to do this!"

"Let's not talk about the battle situation between the ghost fleet and the bait. The subspace itself has great uncertainty."

"Without the help of the Ghost Fleet, we may not be able to escape from the subspace. By then, the situation of the Human Union will be even worse!"

"Let's take a step back... Mr. Chen Fan, are you sure we can still return to the subspace?"

Chen Fan was speechless.

Fang Yunsheng was right. The fleet's previous entry into the subspace was completely accidental.

It is too difficult to completely reproduce the original scene!

Thinking of this, Chen Fan sighed silently: "If it really doesn't work, I will go to the central singularity of the Apophis universe alone..."

"That's even worse!" Fang Yunsheng's face changed drastically. "Who knows how many giant scorpions there are near the central singularity? You go there alone..."

"Isn't it obvious that this is just a way to die?"

The proposed plans were rejected one by one, and Chen Fan's face looked ugly.

True.

He naturally understood what Fang Yunsheng said, but...

Judging from the current situation, perhaps only coordinate jump can allow the fleet to cross such a long distance in a short time.

The first element of coordinate transition is that the transition object must have the characteristics of information flow!
in short.

Either the object of the jump is a pure information flow life like Chen Fan and Kraken; or, like the previous expedition fleet, it possesses the dual nature of reality and virtuality.

But the problem is...

When the fleet passed through the singularity and returned to the main space, the strange duality of reality and illusion disappeared abruptly!

No matter how strong Chen Fan’s ability to control information flow is, he will never be able to initiate a coordinate jump when facing a fleet that only has material properties!

"The duality of reality and illusion..."

Chen Fan sat in his seat with a gloomy look, his eyes aimlessly scanning out the holographic window.

Unlike the human universe, the Apophis mother universe is quite chaotic - this chaos is not only reflected in the laws of macroscopic gravity and celestial movement, but also in the internal environment of the universe.

Endless, mottled and complex information flows shuttle freely among the vast starry sky. Among them, a small part is the aftereffect of the Apophis giant scorpion coordinate jump, and more of it is chaotic and complicated cornerstone information flow.

Not bad.

The cornerstone information flow that usually only appears around black hole singularities is as common in this universe as cabbage.

However, compared with the area around the singularity, these cornerstone information flows that can be found everywhere seem extremely trivial, and they contain almost no valuable information.

suddenly.

Chen Fan's gaze swept across an unusually empty star field.

It is not difficult to see from the zero-point ray fluctuations that have not yet dissipated that this is the place where the previous sentinel died.

"Capable of coordinate jumps, these Apophis giant scorpions should have the same dual nature of reality and illusion as the light stones. It's just... how on earth do they do it?" Chen Fan murmured in a low voice, his eyes full of confusion.

He began to recall what happened when the fleet fell into the warp.

The first step was to enter the Singularity Information Bridge. This step was very peaceful, and there seemed to be nothing unusual. The only abnormal change was the moment when the Singularity Information Bridge collapsed...

"wrong."

There was a gleam in Chen Fan's eyes, as if he had thought of something.

"The Singularity Information Bridge is, to put it simply, a large coordinate jump device."

"The expeditionary fleet was able to successfully enter the coordinate jump state, which means..."

"When the fleet entered the Singularity Information Bridge, it actually already possessed the duality of reality and virtuality!"

A hint of enlightenment flashed across Chen Fan's face: "I think I understand a little bit..."

Fang Yunsheng: “???”

"Whether it's entering the singularity information bridge or leaving the subspace, it's actually inseparable from the singularity." Chen Fan took a deep breath and locked his eyes on the small black hole that was moving farther and farther away outside the holographic porthole. "Captain Fang, order the fleet to approach the black hole immediately!"

"I'm going to do a little experiment."

Hearing these words, Fang Yunsheng subconsciously felt his heart skip a beat.

If he remembered correctly, the last time Chen Fan mentioned doing an experiment...

The central black hole exploded.

The Z619 expedition fleet, like a duck being forced into a tree, rushed into the Apophis mother universe.

……

At the same time, the Central Laboratory of the Academy of Sciences.

The atmosphere in the huge laboratory was very solemn, and every academician focused his attention on the data in front of him - these data came from the Z619 expedition fleet, which included almost all the fleet's navigation logs and various detection data.

The research task is also simple.

- From these complex logs and detection data, find a way to jump coordinates for the expedition fleet far away in the Apophis mother universe.

After eliminating several possibilities in succession, Academician Lin Yang's eyes stopped on a guess that seemed outrageous.

"A black hole, or a singularity... has the ability to give reality and illusion?"

Lin Yang shook his head repeatedly: "But this cannot explain the disappearance of the fleet's virtual and real duality. Besides, the fleet did not show any abnormal changes when it approached the singularity."

"It is inconsistent with the facts and is excluded..."

As he said this, he raised his hand and prepared to cross out this unreliable guess.

"and many more!"

Perhaps he thought of something, Chief Lu, who noticed Lin Yang's actions, suddenly shouted to stop him.

"Chief Lu?"

Under Lin Yang's confused gaze, Chief Lu stepped forward, raised his hand and simply modified a few words on the holographic interface in front of Lin Yang.

"…Singularity has the ability to activate the duality of reality and illusion?"

Lin Yang's body trembled and he murmured in a low voice.

(End of this chapter)