Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1548 Pixel Space
From a distance, it would be completely impossible to detect that there is an anomalous area in space.

One reason is that it is too small compared to the entire starry sky. Another reason is that it is located in the void, so there is no chance for a Level 6 civilization here to make contact, let alone for a single ship to pass by.

Therefore, after arriving here, the four civilization fleets no longer needed to hide themselves. They simply stopped in the void and began to organize exploration work such as observation, detection, and scanning.

Preliminary exploration results indicate that this area is not simple, especially after the first batch of probes malfunctioned and broke down upon entering it. The four scientific teams from the Great Voyage Organization were on high alert.

In subsequent explorations, all four civilizations reached a common conclusion: the rules of this region were abnormal, and the space within it no longer seemed to follow classical mechanics.

This is definitely a rule exception zone.

There is an interesting phenomenon.

When the scientific team dropped the object into the target area, they were surprised to find that the object did not continue to drift forward due to its initial inertia, but instead stuck to that space as if it were stuck in a spider web.

It looked as if it had come into contact with transparent glue.

Once the detector, which was not protected by the rules, entered, it immediately suffered damage. The detector itself was not disintegrated, but rather it seemed that the various particles that made up the detector no longer interacted with each other, as if the four fundamental forces had disappeared.

However, when the scientific team of the Great Voyage Organization placed the detector with the rule-protected shield into the target area, they found that the detector was like hitting an invisible wall in a game, and was directly blocked outside the target area.

Unconvinced experimental physicists immediately intensified their experiments. Using their experimental authority, they had various experimental ships circle the target area and launch detectors and experimental objects from all directions to see what the effects would be. They also combined various observation methods to test the shape of this anomalous region.

The results are very gratifying.

All the detectors with their own rule-based shields crashed into the "air wall," and their distribution showed that the so-called spatial anomaly target area was actually a sphere.

Moreover, it is a sphere that seems to defy the laws of physics.

When various civilizations used conventional detection methods to scan it, they found that it should be a sphere with a radius of 0.5 light-years. However, from the third-person observation perspective of humans and the Awakeners, it appears to be a "space mosaic sphere" with no size.

It is called a spatial mosaic sphere not because it is actually a sphere composed of mosaic blocks, but because what humans and the awakeners "see" is that the spatial characteristics of the sphere are completely different from normal space.

This kind of space feels discontinuous, completely opposite to the normal continuous space of the void around it.

It really gives off a "spatial mosaic" feeling.

Its seemingly contradictory property of "having no size" is actually because its radius cannot be measured by normal distance units, as its internal rules no longer apply.

Everyone believed in the observational abilities of humans and the Awakeners, and the Galactic Heart civilization admitted that its own detection methods were far inferior to those of the two in such detailed observations.

Therefore, after both sides reached this conclusion, the exploration and scanning proceeded in a directed manner into the next stage.

Various probes applicable to different physical rules and various creations that stabilize their own rules were created and then thrown into the "space mosaic sphere".

Humans and the Awakeners also reached the edge of the "space mosaic sphere," and then worked day and night using their third-person observation technology in conjunction with their respective physical experiments. It was merely a region of anomalous rules; from a cosmic perspective, it was neither inaccessible nor unexplorable.

As time went by, the true nature of this space was gradually revealed to various civilizations.

First, it can be confirmed that not only classical mechanics does not work in this space, but even general relativity fails in this space.

Gravity can no longer be described using the rules of the universe.

Secondly, scientists from various civilizations have reached the same conclusion: within this space, information cannot be exchanged normally between different points. Information sent from one point in space cannot be smoothly transmitted to another point, even if the distance between the two points is at the microscopic particle level.

If we think about this problem from the perspective of a being in the universe, we can say that these two spatial points do not exist for each other.

Without information exchange, they simply cease to exist for each other, as if they were on different timelines. But this isn't a timeline; it's a stark spatial isolation.

There is a concept of time in the target space, but its time is not a "line" that runs through the entire space. Instead, it consists of unidirectional lines that run through every point in the space. If time can be compared to a line, then these are parallel lines.

When they obtained this result, the scientists from each team felt as if they had found a parallel timeline.

As it turns out, the scientists' intuition was correct, because in subsequent research they found evidence that the timelines in this space were indeed parallel, parallel and curved, and they were arranged neatly like fiber optic signal lines, running through every point in the entire anomalous space.

The reason why the objects launched earlier were blocked by the "air wall" is also related to this "parallel timeline".

Within this system, no object, or even anything that is not an object, can smoothly transition from one spatial point to an adjacent spatial point.

This resulted in the strange phenomenon of objects being stuck to the "invisible wall".

At this point in the research, scientists from various civilizations can basically determine the type of this strange space: it is a discontinuous space.

The space of the universe is continuous, while this space is discontinuous, like a pixel space.

Once this conclusion is reached, the problem becomes much simpler.

To truly explore the interior of the space, the four civilizations only need to meet two more conditions: first, they must possess a rule shield that can withstand the physical rules of the alien species; second, they must find a way to move within the discontinuous space.

The first condition has been met by all four civilizations.

As for the second condition, the solution is quite easy to come up with. When scientists discovered that it is a discontinuous space, they provided a solution: jumping.

In continuous space, moving from one place to another is as simple as a smooth motion, but this is not the case in discontinuous space; it requires jumping from one pixel to another.

However, once the method was provided, another problem arose when it came to actually implementing it—the probes, spaceships, and warships of various civilizations were all enormous and could not possibly jump to a single pixel in discontinuous space.

(End of this chapter)