Earth Era

After hearing Zhao Lan's words, Rodriguez replied: "Of course, Miss Zhao Lan, of course you have this authority. Please come to my office with me, and I will give all the information about that strange space. All to you."

Zhao Lan followed Rodriguez down the stand in the elevator. On the way to the office, Zhao Lan once again experienced the size and advancement of this base. The countless interlaced cables and the countless display screens and buttons made Zhao Lan feel a little dazzled. Although Zhao Lan often conducts related scientific research and calculations, this is the first time Zhao Lan has seen such a scene.

Zhao Lan also saw a fully enclosed building that was very large compared to other buildings. Zhao Lan had already noticed this when he was just above the stand. It is a rectangular box-like building with a length and width of about 200 meters and a height of more than ten meters. Unlike other buildings, its top is also closed by a metal plate, and it cannot be seen from anywhere. internal structure. When passing by the gate of this building, Zhao Lan saw that the heavy metal plate gate was tightly closed, and there was a very advanced and complicated combination lock installed on it, and there was a very conspicuous " If not allowed, no one is allowed to enter” text warning.

If the existence of this base is a secret, then this cuboid building is a secret among secrets. The warning on it is obviously a warning to the staff inside the base, which means that even the staff inside the base probably doesn't have the authority to go here.

Rodriguez noticed Zhao Lan's expression, and also saw Zhao Lan's curiosity about this cuboid building. But Rodriguez just smiled faintly and didn't give any explanation for it.

Walking all the way to Rodriguez's office, Rodriguez picked up the microphone and gave a few words. After a while, a staff member sent a thick document.

"You can watch here slowly, it doesn't matter how long." Rodriguez said, "If you need any help, please ring this alarm bell and I will be here immediately."

"Okay. Thank you." Zhao Lan replied, and Rodriguez left the office, closing the office door by the way.

The office is spacious and furnished with a sense of modern technology. This office belongs to Rodriguez, and from the layout of this office, Zhao Lan can see that the owner of this office must have a very high status in this base.

"Rodriguez probably belongs to the general manager level. When Li Yunfan was away, Rodriguez was probably in charge of the daily operations of the base." Zhao Lan guessed secretly, but didn't think about it. too deep. Zhao Lan didn't want to. Nor is he interested in learning too much about this hidden underground force. Zhao Lan is just an ordinary scientist, and in the foreseeable future, Zhao Lan has no plans to break his living situation.

Zhao Lan picked up the stack of documents, and the prominent headline on the first document entered Zhao Lan's eyes.

Zhao Lan said silently: "The seventh Jupiter scientific expedition logbook."

The document begins with a description of a space voyage that is clearly destined for Jupiter. This document describes in detail the departure and journey of this interstellar spacecraft, as well as the arrival at the destination and the return journey, ranging from the latest scientific research findings of field exploration to the information on the air circulation system during the spacecraft's voyage. All recorded. Zhao Lan wasn't interested in these details, but the overall story of this document surprised Zhao Lan.

The government of human civilization has not yet led manned landings on Jupiter and its satellite systems, and private Jupiter expeditions are strictly prohibited—almost every year, there are media reports of adventurers who encounter unexpected events and end up in space. But according to the records on this document, the founder of the base named Li Yunfan has carried out at least seven Jupiter landings, and has successfully returned each time.

"If even an underground character has the ability to land on Jupiter and its satellite system... It represents the entire human civilization, and the human government that can mobilize the resources of the entire human civilization is of course capable of landing on the Jupiter system, and it is a much larger-scale landing operation. . But the human government has not taken any action in this regard. From this point of view... the government is too conservative, perhaps... the human government has lost the courage and interest to continue to explore space, and only satisfied on the current achievements.”

This situation made Zhao Lan sigh in his heart. But Zhao Lan also didn't dwell too much on this matter. Zhao Lan flipped through these messy records. Directly turned to the most critical record.

This is a record made with Li Yunfan as the first point of view. In this record, Li Yunfan wrote: "On the way back to the seventh Jupiter expedition, I chose a brand new route that no one has ever traveled before. But during the journey, I discovered some Very strange thing."

"I have been observing the river system numbered 23920917BQ1 during this return voyage. This is a very distant river system with a distance of at least seven billion light-years from the earth. This ancient river system seems to be experiencing new A round of star birth. It means a lot of things, so I've always been interested in it. But for some reason, when I was about 70 million kilometers away from the orbit of Mars, in my telescope Suddenly lost the trace of this distant river system."

"The speed of my Yuanwang spacecraft relative to the sun is 220 kilometers per second, and after I continued to sail for about eight hours, this distant place appeared again in my telescope. The traces of the river system. This made me very puzzled. The fuel reserves in the Yuanwang spacecraft were still sufficient, so I controlled the spacecraft to slow down. Then I slowly returned to the area just now, as I expected. In that way, this distant river system once again disappeared from my sight."

"I manipulated the Yuanwang spacecraft to go back and forth in this area. After hundreds of attempts, I finally roughly measured the length, width and height of the area. These three data are 6 million kilometers, respectively. Two million kilometers, 1.3 million kilometers. As long as I am in this area, my telescope cannot observe that distant river system, and as long as I leave this area, that distant river system will reappear."

"Because of the fuel limitations I had, I had to leave this strange area to return to Earth, and after a few months of rest, I drove the spacecraft to this place again. This time I carried out the strange area. More detailed measurements have finally drawn a rough outline of what the region looks like, and determined that it is moving into the inner solar system at about a kilometer per second, and will approach Earth in about four years if there are no surprises Orbit, it may overlap with Earth by then, but what kind of impact it will have on Earth is unknown."

An image is attached to this paragraph. It is an irregular shape, probably like a cloud in the sky, with some long and some short. Obviously, this image is the appearance of the strange space measured by Li Yunfan.

"I led some scientists, and with the help of my reputation in the scientific community, I obtained some help from other scientists on the premise of ensuring that the existence of this strange space is not exposed, and then asked about the nature and origin of this strange space. I started research. I tried to find out why some specific distant celestial objects could not be observed in this space. During the research, I found that in addition to the river system numbered 23920917BQ1, there are other total More than 300 recorded river systems cannot be observed in this space, and the positions of these river systems in the celestial sphere are different. This negates the possibility that it is caused by interstellar dust clouds and other reasons. "

"The team I led made a lot of guesses and conducted a lot of research work, and finally came to the conclusion that "the phenomenon of abnormal disappearance of stars has nothing to do with the stars themselves" and "this phenomenon is an accidental phenomenon, which has never been observed by us before." But it is limited to this. In addition, our research has been fruitless until I accidentally measured the pi in this strange space~www.readwn.com ~There is no doubt that pi is a fixed value, it will not change due to changes in the environment. No matter where you measure pi, it should be the same value. But... I am in this space The measured pi is slightly larger than the pi measured under normal conditions. The eighty-millionth place after the decimal point of the normal pi is two, and the eighty-millionth place after the decimal point of the pi I measured here is not two, and It's three. Immediately after that, I measured the sum of the interior angles of the triangle and concluded that... the sum of the interior angles of the triangle here is less than one hundred and eighty degrees."

A word immediately appeared in Zhao Lan's mind, Lobachevsky space. The situation described in Li Yunfan's data is very consistent with the Lobachevsky space. Only in the Lobachevsky space can the pi be greater than π and the sum of the interior angles of a triangle can be less than 180 Spend.

"However, Lobachevsky space is just a concept in mathematics, how could it appear in the real world..." Zhao Lan's mind was full of questions. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation.)

PS: The second update~

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