Origin of Mars

Chapter 104
A few days passed in a flash, and after a short rest, most of the people in the STH command center have changed their tired and tired appearance, and returned to work with full enthusiasm.

At this moment, Yu Han Dinghai and other scholars and professors were gathering in front of the console. Everyone kept quiet tacitly, but it was still difficult to hide the excitement and anxiety on their faces.

Alpha is standing in front of the console, and the picture displayed on the screen is just a 3D model of a huge flower. Countless data streams are lingering around the model, and tedious processes jump out one after another. The progress bar on the right is located at The middle position, and Alpha is dealing with each matter at an extremely fast speed.

The surrounding scholars have already looked dumbfounded. Where have they seen such a scene? Alpha constructed this huge digital model almost by himself.

It completely integrated the data of this flower of Kassog, and processed it with a deciphering algorithm.

To put it simply, this flower of Kassog has become a tool that STH can manipulate at will.

At this time, the huge information group was completely compiled. Under the intensive work of Alpha and Zero, they tampered with 80.00% of the information content, re-describing Blue Star as a dilapidated planet with extremely scarce mineral resources.

Including the coordinates of the solar system, Alpha has modified it and replaced it with an irrelevant coordinate.

If the Kassog civilization follows this coordinate, it will only reach a star cloud about 36 light-years away from the solar system, where there will only be a large swath of intertwined starlight, which is as ethereal and illusory as a cloud.

This was Fang Liang's first gift to this civilization.

"The integration process has reached 70.00%, and the estimated time is 3 minutes."

Finally, Alpha spoke slowly. This was the first time he spoke in recent days. His usually calm voice had already become the reassurance of every scholar and expert.

"Mr. Alpha, according to your assignment, the surveillance information network covering the world will be formally established tomorrow."

When Alpha was speaking, a professor from country M dared to step forward and speak to it.

"Very well, the second batch of support troops will arrive at Blue Star in three days. It is a batch of maintenance facilities and... high-end composite materials."

Alpha nodded, and replied: "Mr. thinks that the weapons on Blue Star need to be further improved, and this batch of materials will be used for part of the ordnance transformation on Blue Star."

These words made Schiff on the side tremble, and an incredible light flashed in his eyes.

Every scholar and professor present at the scene naturally knew that the most powerful weapon of Blue Star at this time was nothing more than nuclear weapons headed by nuclear bombs. Although such weapons were powerful, their side effects were also extremely terrible, so it was not until the critical moment. Neither can be easily used.

On top of nuclear weapons are precise and powerful plasma weapons, or particle and microwave beam weapons.

Since the electromagnetic beam radiated by plasma weapons propagates at the speed of light, and the flight speed of the missile warhead is at most 15kM/s, for the electromagnetic beam radiated by plasma weapons, it is equivalent to a "slow motion" action or a stationary target.

Compared with such advanced terrorist weapons, even the intercontinental missiles that country M is most proud of are just play toys.

But judging from Blue Star's current level of technology, it is undoubtedly a dream to step into the field of this type of weapon.

Materials and theory are two difficult thresholds to overcome. Even the country M, which has a solid foundation of guided weapons, dare not easily spend extremely expensive costs on this virtual and ethereal field.

At this time, the Martian civilization where Alpha is located actually put forward the idea of ​​helping Blue Star develop new weapons, which made Schiff not excited.

"Yes, Mr. Schiff. It is mainly aimed at some protective weapons, such as the plasma beam radar built outside the atmosphere. It can accurately strike the surface of the Blue Star within a few seconds, with an error of no more than ten centimeters."

Alpha said to Schiff: "This type of weapon will be used for the protection of the Kuroshio and deformed bodies, because we have already seen the appearance of the first type of flying deformed bodies. If they swarm the city like sparrows, then this Such weapons will become your only reliance."

"understand!"

Schiff understood what Alpha meant, and quickly nodded with a serious face.

And as they talked, the process of data integration was nearing completion.

"The integration process reached 90.00%, and all stationed departments began to retreat."

At this moment, all the troops stationed near this giant flower retreated to the periphery in an orderly manner. Law enforcement officers acted as pioneers and led the way, and scientific research vehicles followed behind them, with heavily armed special forces at their sides. Soldiers who respect strength have long admired these steel giants, silently following the tall figures, and the dark helicopter whizzed by from above, casting shadows one after another.

This giant flower does not use any energy as nutrients.

Simply put, it is a one-time device, and its body structure only allows it to send a data signal into space once. After that, its seemingly large and fragile body will completely collapse, just like a giant bubble bursting.
"The integration process reached 90.00% eight."

Alpha's calm pupils are fixed on the screen, and the super high amount of calculation has made it enter an unprecedented overclocking mode.

From the perspective of the helicopter, this huge transparent fleshy flower is raising its huge tentacles. The sunlight scatters in different forms within these tentacles, turning into fragments of shadows on the cracked ground.

This is an unforgettable picture in this life. These tentacles are rising slowly. After reaching a certain angle with the horizontal plane, the ends of the tentacles begin to curl up towards the center of the stamen.

Pieces of giant fleshy petals are emitting a breath-like light.

Inside the flower of Kassogg, all the plants are growing at a speed visible to the naked eye. With countless light spots passing through the transparent colloid, this giant flower is about to reach the most dazzling moment in its life.

Yu Han held his breath and didn't even dare to blink his eyes, for fear of missing this spectacular scene.

Even Alpha doesn't know what form this giant flower will use to send this huge data core into space.

The helicopter located five kilometers away is transmitting this picture to the big screen in the STH center in real time.

"Mr. Alpha, I've always been curious about one thing."

Ding Hai on the side finally couldn't help asking.

"What kind of form does this giant flower provide energy for itself?"

"Is it solar energy?"

"No, its existence itself is not based on the existence of the sun."

Alpha shook his head and explained: "The sun is just a star, and there are billions of stars in the Milky Way. If we explain it according to the current situation, this flower of Kassog is more like using stars able to develop.”

"Stellar energy??"

"Look carefully."

Alpha did not answer Ding Hai's question, because at this time, the process of integrating data has reached [-]%.

All the tentacles have been gathered in the stamens, and the giant petals are closing upwards, but when they are about to close, they suddenly stop in the air.

"Start launching."

Accompanied by Alpha's light words, azure blue energy emerged from the roots of the giant flower like a stream of water, spreading rapidly upwards.

At the same time, there appears to be a noticeable disruption in the helicopter's video communications.

Instruments on the helicopter picked up a strong magnetic field phenomenon that spread like ripples, and electromagnetic interference caused a brief blanking of the picture.

The surge of energy is faster than everyone's imagination. When the picture returns, bright blue has filled every corner of the body of this giant flower. With the sunshine, this beautiful and shocking picture Some scholars even subconsciously stopped breathing.

It only took a few seconds for the blue to rush upwards, and the color on the fleshy petals was the most intense. In an instant, even through the screen, Yu Han could feel an indescribable wave that exploded instantly!
Light blue transparent light bursts upward from the half-closed gaps of all petals!It appeared without any sound, like a ray of light without substance, passing straight through the atmosphere and rushing into the universe at the speed of light.

This beam of light has a radius of about 30 meters. It seems to connect the sky and the earth. The upper end of the giant flower begins to melt, turning into countless fine debris, falling to the ground,

Even after thousands of years of human development, this picture will forever be recorded in history.

Everyone in STH fell silent at this time, and the emission of this ray of light lasted for nearly 3 minutes. The next little by little.

When all the blue light is concentrated and emitted, its life has come to an end.

In the end, only a mutilated torso remained of this huge monster. As the breeze blew, this transparent torso gradually turned into countless debris and fluttered in the wind, like scattered reeds.

After dozens of seconds, Yu Han, who was blushing, recovered from the shock.

He suddenly didn't know what to say, but Alpha on the side showed a slight smile.

When this piece of data successfully entered space, the situation has already undergone subtle changes.

This ray of light will run forward indefinitely, and at the speed of light in the universe, it will take at least a while for these data to leave the solar system.

So this leads to Alpha's second conjecture.

Although the flower of Kassog sent a signal to the universe in a one-way manner, Alpha did not find any information about Kassog's civilization when deciphering it.

In other words, this flower of Kassogg is nothing more than a single-use device with a simple structure, which is equivalent to the most inconspicuous small resistor in a complex circuit.

According to this theory, it can be inferred that the Kassog civilization may be able to sense the existence of this giant flower in some ways, but it is impossible to know exactly what happened to it.

It's like there can't be any kind of control circuitry inside the resistor.

So when the flower of Kassog blooms, or when this light wave of data appears, this civilization will go to collect these data.

It may be a spaceship, or it may be some kind of automatic data collection device.

But no matter what kind of device it is, its trajectory will soon be captured by the detection spacecraft deployed in the universe by the origin base!

"Mr. Alpha, I still can't understand, what exactly do you mean by stellar energy?"

Amid the cheers from the sidelines, Yu Han still couldn't help asking Alpha.

"Mr. Ding Hai, do you know the biggest star in the universe?"

Alpha didn't answer his question directly, but asked rhetorically.

"I'm not very clear about the knowledge in this field, but I just can't understand the energy concept you proposed."

"It is a superstar named UY. This red supergiant star is about to reach the end of its life. It has a diameter of about 23.76 billion kilometers and can accommodate 45 billion suns. The solar energy that the blue star relies on is comparable to it. It's like a drop in the ocean."

Alpha explained slowly, and looked at Yu Han at the same time: "Mr. Yu Han, I'm sorry, there is no detailed answer to this concept in my database, because at this time we are still not qualified to touch this level of knowledge." strength."

Yu Han was silent, he suddenly understood what Alpha meant.

"You mean, even with your level of civilization, you still can't touch this vague concept."

"Yes, as I said, the life of this red giant star is coming to an end, and there are only 1000-5000 million years left. For a star with a life of about 100 billion years, tens of millions of years are just the flick of a finger , but for you, it is a very long time, if you can make perfect use of its power, only one year is enough to be equivalent to the development of the blue star in the solar system for hundreds of millions of years."

Alpha's voice was calm, but it all fell into Yu Han's ears: "You should understand what I mean, Mr. Yu Han, perfect utilization refers to 90.00% nine, that is, an efficiency that is infinitely close to [-]. This may be the The essence of stellar energy, when a civilization evolves to a certain level, it must use such energy to achieve leapfrog progress."

Alpha's words were like a heavy hammer, hitting Yu Han's heart.

Although it is somewhat obscure, Yu Han seems to understand its general meaning.

The lifetime of a star is about 100 billion years.

At the end of its life, it usually has three fates.

A small star will become a white dwarf.

A moderately sized star will become a neutron star.

And a larger star, like a superstar called UY that Alpha previously said would evolve into the dominant black hole in the universe.

The strong will always be the strong, even if life ends, there will be another state of existence of the stronger.

The lifespan of the sun is about 50 billion years.

A billion years from now, the Sun will begin to expand outward, engulfing the orbits of Mercury and Venus.

At that time, the blue star was the closest planet to the sun.The temperature will rise sharply, which means that the blue star will gradually become unlivable, and human beings will have to leave the blue star to find a new future.

In layman's terms, they still have 10 billion years left. This number may only be a very short time in the universe, but for human beings, it may be an insurmountable moat.

"The development of science and technology is natural. When the technological level of a civilization reaches the bottleneck, the only solution is to allow the entire civilization to cross the previous class and reach a new level. When seeing unprecedented new concepts, the technological level Naturally, it will be upgraded accordingly."

Alpha continued to speak.

"The inherent problem of you humans is that you like to think about things that cross levels. This may bring you a very serious setback in the future, so..."

Alpha paused, and suddenly patted Yu Han on the shoulder: "Don't think about some ultimate questions that you can't answer. Do the things right now, and the future will arrive gradually."

(End of this chapter)