Age of Cataclysm: I can light up the technology tree

The vision on Ross 154 left everyone stunned.

"What...what's going on?"

Fang Xu murmured to himself: "Is this the death process of two-dimensional creatures?"

Incomprehensible.

Lu Yongchang frowned, stretched out his hand and moved it twice in the air.

The holographic projection screen instantly enlarges.

The lens focuses on the edge of the gray "scroll".

The fine and dense folds keep increasing.

It looks... like a flat "picture scroll" that is constantly being squeezed by the outside world.

"Zero, call up the real-time detection data of the detector." Lu Yongchang seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly said, "Can you detect the thickness?"

"Data anomaly."

Zero's response made Lu Yongchang frown even deeper.

[Human civilization, have you thought it through? ! 】

【I don’t have much time! ! 】

The information of [Painting] appeared in front of everyone again.

You can clearly feel the other party's anxiety and uneasiness from between the lines.

but……

He still couldn't believe the other person.

"Yongchang?"

Hearing Fang Xu's confused call, he slowly shook his head: "No hurry, just wait!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a piercing alarm sounded in the quiet command center!

"Warning! Warning!"

"The signal of detector No. 1 disappeared!"

The red warning light kept flashing, stimulating the fragile nerves of all scientific researchers.

For a time, the atmosphere in the ground command center became increasingly tense!

Far away in the "Earth" in synchronous orbit, Zhao Zijie was also staring at the several holographic projections in front of him with a pale expression.

"Professor, do you need to issue an evacuation order?"

Zhao Zijie's voice also sounded in the communication channel of the ground command center.

"Wait a minute!"

Lu Yongchang's expression changed slightly and he stopped Zhao Zijie's move: "Don't act rashly!"

"If the other party regards it as provocation or resistance... we will only be greeted by death!"

As he spoke, his brain was working rapidly.

"Zero, call up the records of the other two detectors and see if anything was captured!"

"There are also optical telescopes equipped by the fleet to screen all records!"

"I want to know what happened just now!"

…

The moment the words fell.

The huge holographic image directly in front of the ground command center suddenly split into countless tiny interfaces.

Looking closely, every detailed interface is a separate holographic picture.

These images come from independent optical telescopes orbiting Ross 154.

These finely divided interfaces are rapidly reduced at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Soon, only four holographic images were left in front of everyone.

The four pictures quickly enlarged and occupied the entire space.

Lu Yongchang glanced at it and frowned immediately.

"Is this the only picture?"

"Professor, at that time the trajectory of detector No. 1 happened to be staggered with that of the other two detectors." Zero explained, "These few images were found from the observation records of the optical telescope."

Lu Yongchang raised his eyebrows.

Just right?

coincide?

I'm afraid, there won't be so many coincidences, right?

He said noncommittally: "Play the recorded footage first."

Four holographic images were played simultaneously.

The holographic video is very short, only about thirty seconds.

But these thirty seconds brought unparalleled shock and panic to Lu Yongchang, the Academy of Sciences, and mankind!

…

The "horror events" experienced by Probe No. 1 are clearly reproduced in the holographic images from four different angles!

At the beginning, a small "fragment" quietly appeared on the edge of the thicknessless gray "picture" on the surface of Ross 154.

Like the main body of the painting, this "fragment" is entirely gray.

The only difference is that the surface of this fragment that fell off from the [painting] is more densely wrinkled!

For example, if the wrinkle density on the main body of the painting is 1, then the wrinkle density on this fragment reaches 10!

After the "fragments" separated from the main body, they flew directly towards the No. 1 detector on the side!

More than ten seconds later.

This gray "fragment" hit the No. 1 detector hard.

A moment!

There have been unspeakable changes in Detector No. 1!

Its surface emits a dazzling light!

The moment the debris collided with it, its height seemed to be erased out of thin air!

Under the gaze of everyone, the three-dimensional detector quickly turned into a piece of "paper"!

It successfully transformed into two-dimensional matter!

The two-dimensional detector surface is extremely smooth and flat.

Just like the essence of [painting].

Through a high-precision optical telescope, Lu Yongchang can even directly see the structure inside the detector!

"Zero, do you have any detection data?"

Lu Yongchang suddenly asked.

Zero said nothing, and silently launched a new holographic projection beside him.

In the projection, some basic detection data is beating.

When he saw the instantaneous temperature data on the surface of the detector, Lu Yongchang took a sharp breath!

1 billion degrees Celsius!

What is this concept?

The core temperature of the sun is only 15 million degrees Celsius!

The temperature that triggers nuclear fusion is only a few hundred million degrees Celsius!

It is unimaginable that in that short moment, such extreme high temperatures occurred near the detector!

But the changes are not over yet!

About 0.5 seconds later, endless wrinkles appeared on the flat two-dimensional detector surface!

These wrinkles are exactly the same as the wrinkles on [Painting]!

The two-dimensional detector existed for less than a second before it disappeared silently in the endless universe.

Through slow motion, it can be clearly seen that before disappearing, the detector seemed to have the attribute of "height" again.

Lv Yongchang glanced at the temperature data on the side.

-269.3 degrees Celsius.

Close to absolute zero.

It is only 0.85 degrees Celsius away from the -270.15 degrees Celsius of the cosmic microwave background radiation.

In just a few seconds, the temperature near the No. 1 detector was like a roller coaster!

A flash of enlightenment flashed through Lv Yongchang's mind.

The wrinkles on [Painting]'s body may be a sign that it is about to become three-dimensional.

As for why the death of a two-dimensional creature will become three-dimensional... Lv Yongchang has no clue in his mind.

The only thing that can be determined is

When three-dimensional matter is reduced to two-dimensional, it will release a lot of energy.

And when it is upgraded, it will absorb a lot of energy!

…

In the ground command center, there was a dead silence.

The scene in front of me was too shocking for the current human civilization!

[Sorry, little guys, I seem to have accidentally broken one of your detectors. ]

[I'm sorry, but I can't control my body anymore. ]

[Please give me a reply as soon as possible. ]

In the holographic projection on the side, a line of information from [Painting] flashed.

"This is a threat!"

In the communication channel of the command center, Zhao Zijie slammed the table: "TND!"