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Chapter 568 This is caused by a black hole

"Ning Chen... I don't know what this threat is, nor do I know if it really exists. But this is the strongest feeling I've ever had, so I still have to tell you about my feelings..."

At this moment, Song Xiyun also seemed very conflicted, because Song Xiyun knew that this feeling of hers might just be an illusion, because there was no other evidence to prove that Song Xiyun's premonition was real.

"It doesn't matter. Regardless of whether these threats really exist or not, we must always remain vigilant. Perhaps our previous monitoring of these potential crises was not enough. I'd better re-examine this information in detail."

Song Xiyun nodded slightly when she heard this. After all, the environment of this universe is so complicated that it is always right to be careful.

Ning Chen first checked all the information about the robot civilization. This time, the level of Ning Chen's detection was much more detailed than usual, but after the inspection, Ning Chen did not notice any abnormal information.

It’s not Ning Chen’s fault that he didn’t check carefully enough. After all, the virtual space is completely isolated from the real space. If he didn’t know about the existence of the virtual space, it would be very difficult to find any trace of this matter.

Next, Ning Chen turned his attention to this alien civilization, but after careful testing, Ning Chen still did not find anything abnormal.

"Song Xiyun, I haven't found any abnormalities with the robot civilization or this alien civilization. Of course, this doesn't completely rule out their threat to us, but we can also expand the detection range a little further."

Seeing Ning Chen shaking his head and saying these words, Song Xiyun suddenly remembered something and said anxiously:

"Ning Chen... do you think it's possible that this alien civilization has leaked the location information of our Blue Star civilization and let other alien civilizations discover it? This may also be the reason why I feel so uncomfortable."

"This possibility does exist, but according to my calculations, the probability of this actually happening is still very small. In the universe, the distance between two civilizations is usually a few light years or even farther. The distance between us and this alien civilization is already very close."

According to Ning Chen's understanding of the universe, even though planets with life are not rare, it is not easy for life to develop into a highly developed civilization. It is more likely that life will die out before evolving to possess intelligence, and it will find it difficult to fully adapt to its current environment.

Although he did not immediately find the reason why Song Xiyun felt uncomfortable, Ning Chen did not give up thinking about this matter, but continued to analyze various situations in the universe.

After a few days had passed, Ning Chen finally sensed something very wrong in the depths of the universe.

"How is it possible... According to the normal laws of electromagnetic wave propagation, the distribution of electromagnetic waves here cannot be like this. But according to the information we searched, this is indeed the data we actually observed..."

Listening to Ning Chen's somewhat incoherent words, Song Xiyun couldn't help but ask in confusion:

"Ning Chen, this kind of electromagnetic wave data does not conform to our existing laws of cosmic physics. But... what is the fundamental reason for this incident?"

Ning Chen frowned and thought for a while, then gave Song Xiyun a very imaginative inference.

"This phenomenon is very difficult to describe. If I use a simpler example, it's like the refraction of light. But the actual situation is even more complicated. If my analysis is correct... I'm afraid there's a scene of space being folded here..."

"Space... is actually folded? Can such a situation really occur in the universe?"

Humans had proposed the concept of space folding many years ago, but such situations mostly appeared in science fiction novels and science fiction movies. In the real universe, humans have never observed similar scenes before, and have never really believed that space can be folded so easily.

"Yes, from the information I have obtained so far, I can basically confirm this. And this phenomenon should not occur naturally, but is deliberately caused by some force..."

After hearing what Ning Chen said, Song Xiyun's brows suddenly frowned, and she knew what Ning Chen meant.

"Ning Chen... Are you saying that in the depths of the universe, there exists a civilization with higher technological capabilities that has already mastered the technology of folding space? If this is true, then our Blue Star civilization is not even on the same level as them!"

Although after years of continuous development, the Blue Star civilization is no longer the "fragile" civilization it used to be. Not only has it broken through the level of first-level civilization, it has also expanded its sphere of influence to multiple planets, defeating the powerful alien civilization that invaded the solar system.

But even so, the Blue Star civilization has never tried such a powerful technology as "space folding", and has only conducted research on improving the speed of space travel.

Ning Chen and Song Xiyun both knew that if there really was an alien civilization with the powerful ability to fold space, then they could reach where they wanted to go in a time faster than the speed of light.

After a moment of silence, Ning Chen took out a piece of white paper and said to Song Xiyun:

"Suppose this piece of white paper is a two-dimensional space. Normally, if you want to get from one place to another, you can only walk along the path on the white paper. The shortest distance is the line segment between the two points..."

As he was talking, Ning Chen suddenly folded the white paper.

"However, if we make some changes to this two-dimensional space, from the perspective of the inside of this two-dimensional space, this two-dimensional space may not change much, but from a higher-dimensional perspective, the distance between the two positions is completely different. This is a simple concept of space folding. As long as we extend this theory to three-dimensional space, we can explain this technology..."

Even so, Ning Chen could only understand the general principle of this technology. As for many details, Ning Chen could not know them immediately. If these things were really as they worried, then when the alien civilization that created the space folding learned about the existence of the Blue Star civilization, they could completely reach the Blue Star at a speed faster than the speed of light, because they could use the ability of space folding to greatly shorten the distance between the two locations.

In this way, the time when Blue Star civilization faces the next crisis will be greatly advanced.

Seeing the worried look on Song Xiyun's face, Ning Chen suddenly smiled and said:
"Of course, there is absolutely no need for us to worry too much about this. All the current signs show that even if this alien civilization really exists, it has not noticed us. Moreover, the space folding technology cannot be used without restrictions. We can use the time now to study this technology carefully."

Ning Chen's comfort did make Song Xiyun feel a little relieved, but Song Xiyun still had some other worries in her heart. It seemed that what originally made Song Xiyun feel worried was not just this one thing.

"Ning Chen... I still feel that we still have some crises that we haven't discovered yet. If possible, you should investigate other situations in the universe."

Song Xiyun's words made Ning Chen feel a little unexpected, because apart from the traces of space folding, Ning Chen did not find any other abnormalities.

"Okay, I will pay more attention to the various situations in the universe. No matter what, we still gained something this time. At least we won't be as confused as before."

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In the following period of time, Ning Chen focused his main energy on the research of space folding technology.

In fact, Ning Chen did not ignore Song Xiyun's words. It was just that without finding any other threats, there would be no point in looking for them deliberately. It would be better to study the technology of space folding first.

After Ning Chen started to study this technology, he realized how complicated it was. Even if Ning Chen used all his brain power, he could not get started with this technology right away.

It was not until several days had passed and Ning Chen had constantly changed his entry point for researching this technology that he finally began to find the key to this technology.

"It turns out that the core of the method of creating space folding is to change the gravity at a certain location. And if you want to create a more obvious space fold, the gravity required will be even greater..."

Thinking of this, Ning Chen has basically guessed how to artificially create the phenomenon of space-time folding.

The most densely populated object known in the universe is the black hole.

Although humans have not had direct contact with black holes so far, black holes have been discovered in multiple universes. The objective existence of black holes is an indisputable fact.

If this alien civilization has the ability to artificially create a black hole, then they can completely achieve the result of folding space by changing the curvature of space.

Ning Chen told Song Xiyun about his ideas, and Song Xiyun was shocked after hearing it. This far exceeded Song Xiyun's original understanding of this technology.

"It's really scary. It's so difficult for us to even discover a naturally existing black hole, but this civilization can actually create a black hole independently. But if they really have created a black hole, why haven't we observed any traces related to black holes?"

"Because this black hole is very small in size, it can even be described as mini. Given that we are far away from here, it is normal that we cannot observe any information related to this small black hole. The black holes we can observe now are mainly extremely huge black holes, and these two are not of the same size at all."

"I see. However, being able to create a small black hole is also a very difficult task. It seems that our Blue Star civilization still has a lot of technology to learn."

"Yes, facing the various technologies that objectively exist in the universe, our understanding is just a drop in the ocean. We found that the location of this trace of space-time folding is about tens of light years away from Blue Star, and the degree of space folding is not very obvious. This means that the civilization of Blue Star is relatively safe and will not be invaded by this civilization immediately..."

Just as Ning Chen had guessed before, space folding technology cannot be used at will. If you want to achieve better space folding effects, you need more resource investment and more powerful technical standards.

With the technological level of the "space civilization" observed by Ning Chen, it can only perform relatively slight space folding, and at most reduce the distance between two locations to a certain extent, and cannot achieve the effect of "instant teleportation".

However, due to the lag in electromagnetic wave information transmission, this also means that this happened decades ago. Ning Chen cannot predict whether this "space civilization" has made great technological progress in the past few decades.

Fortunately, Ning Chen still has relatively ample time to conduct more in-depth research on this technology. With Ning Chen's confidence in his own abilities, he believes that since other alien civilizations can do it, he can do it as well.

"If we want to replicate this technology, the first thing we need to do is to be able to artificially create a black hole. In fact, this technology is not as complicated as we imagine. At least, creating a small or even micro black hole is something that is completely possible in theory."

Although according to the original research of the Blue Star Civilization on black holes, this seems to be something that cannot be done by human power, but after the rapid development of the scientific and technological level of the Blue Star Civilization, many technologies that were originally thought to be impossible have appeared one by one in this world.

Therefore, even with such an extremely difficult goal as creating a black hole, Ning Chen could still think of many methods to try.

After some analysis, Ning Chen felt that relying on the huge energy of antimatter to create a black hole was the most feasible method.

(End of this chapter)