Age of Cataclysm: I can light up the technology tree

Earth calendar year 3258.

337 years after the implementation of the black hole observation plan.

The originally huge and gorgeous black hole accretion disk has now shrunk into a pitiful small disk, emitting insignificant light to the cold and dark universe.

Several black hole detectors are located in the central area of ​​this small disk.

The antimatter engines at their tails are running at full capacity.

The huge thrust drives these black hole detectors to make slow circular motions around the black hole in the center of the accretion disk.

But even the antimatter engine still cannot overcome the strong gravity from the black hole!

The radius of the detector's orbit is getting shorter and shorter, and the antimatter it carries is getting less and less over time.

Finally, one day in the future, these detectors will fall to its event horizon under the gravity of the black hole.

This is an extremely rapid process.

It is also an extremely long process.

It sounds contradictory, but it is actually not difficult to understand.

In the event horizon of a black hole, the gravity of the black hole is extremely strong, and the degree of distortion of space-time is unimaginable. Even light cannot escape from the event horizon.

Around the event horizon, because of its huge gravity, the flow of time becomes extremely slow.

Therefore, the detector will pass through the event horizon in a limited time and fall into the black hole, but to outside observers, it will take an infinite amount of time to keep approaching the event horizon.

Farther away from the black hole, a planet quietly orbits the black hole.

Under the extremely weak light of the accretion disk, the whole body of the planet is a decaying yellow-brown.

In the large amount of yellow-brown, there is a little inconspicuous green.

As the latitude increases, the green gradually becomes richer and occupies more and more areas-all the way to the North Pole.

Like hundreds of years ago, the Arctic region of the Lost Star is still covered by lush forests-as the core area of ​​civilization of the Lost Giant Tree, the core area of ​​the Mind Network naturally has sufficient nutrition supply.

The abandoned giant tree, as high as 10,000 meters, stood quietly between heaven and earth, absorbing as much radiation energy as possible from the black hole accretion disk.

Not far away, on the slightly sunken ground, lay a huge "giant egg" wrapped by countless thick tree roots.

Countless ship-borne drones and robots are tying carbon nanotube ropes firmly to the "giant egg".

As the drone slowly took off, the "giant egg" shook its heavy body and gradually left the familiar ground.

Under the "surrounding" of countless leaves, the "giant egg" gradually disappeared in the distant sky.

A series of bioelectric currents and quantum signals flashed in the remaining network of the abandoned giant tree.

[Nus] retracted his "gaze" looking at the sky, and a faint reluctance and regret flashed in his consciousness.

The seeds of the continuation of civilization have set off, and it is time to prepare for the last sunset - at the horizon, the disk with a diameter reduced countless times slowly sank into the horizon.

The camera zoomed out.

Further away, there was a huge silent fleet.

The antimatter engine at the rear of the fleet worked intermittently, providing the fleet with the necessary power.

Suddenly.

A little light shone through the porthole of the fleet flagship, breaking the original silence of the fleet.

…

A string of signals from the black hole detector, after hundreds of years of arduous journey, finally reached the fleet that had been silent for hundreds of years.

The signal was quickly analyzed and various comparisons were performed.

In less than a second, this simple process was repeated tens of thousands of times.

The next moment.

A slightly harsh beeping sound sounded, and at the same time, a blue holographic projection suddenly appeared in the air, and a line of faint white Chinese characters slowly emerged on it.

[Abnormal signal detected, signal source: Black Hole Detector No. 1. ]

[Start to execute the awakening plan...]

…

"Data abnormality!"

In the [Earth] laboratory, a strange red flashed across Lv Yongchang's face, which was slightly white due to long-term hibernation.

He shouted in his hoarse voice: "He Bilin! Quick! Compare the received data!"

"Quick!"

"Everyone, get moving!"

"Hey, who! Are you fooled by the deep-sea bubble? The data is in front of you, why are you still standing there!!"

"..."

In the laboratory, the sound of researchers' discussions and Lv Yongchang's shouts formed an unusually beautiful duet.

Suddenly.

A shout that was a little broken because of excessive excitement overwhelmed all the noise in the laboratory.

"Professor!"

"Found it!"

He Bilin's cheeks were abnormally red, and there were faint red bloodshot in the whites of his eyes.

He panted quickly, trying to suppress his extremely excited mood: "Find it, found it!"

Hearing this, Lv Yongchang felt that his heart skipped a beat at that moment.

He didn't care about the work in front of him and ran straight to He Bilin's direction.

"You, what did you find?!"

He looked at the holographic image in front of He Bilin and asked in a hurried tone: "Tell me, what did you find!"

"Gravitational force!"

He Bilin's face flushed red and he said three words with difficulty.

As if his strength had been drained, he forcefully exhaled the breath accumulated in his chest, and explained with a slightly trembling voice: "The No. 1 Black Hole Detector successfully found the graviton!"

"According to the preset program, it should be trying to capture and observe its behavior."

"Maybe, maybe in a little while, we will be able to receive information from the black hole detector!"

Lu Yongchang said nothing and ignored He Bilin's words.

His hands were trembling slightly as he slid the holographic projection in front of him, observing the various data presented on it.

When he saw those key abnormal data, he subconsciously held his breath.

Then, a line of hot tears suddenly slid down both sides of his cheeks!

"Found it!"

"Found it!!"

Lu Yongchang stared at this line of data and murmured in a low voice: "Finally found you!"

The discovery of graviton means that the grand unified theory is about to achieve a breakthrough.

Since the beginning of the Earth Age, scientists of human civilization have begun to pursue this mountain top hidden in the clouds and mist.

Wangshan is a dead horse.

From the first-level civilization, we have been pursuing it to the fourth-level civilization; from the earth, we have been pursuing it to the black hole...

finally!

At this moment, Lu Yongchang saw the dawn of hope for completing the Grand Unification Theory and human civilization becoming a fifth-level civilization!