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The huge human fleet set sail again. At the same time, pre-research on the dark force theory, which determines whether a civilization becomes a level five civilization, has also begun.

When humans were still in the solar system, they attempted a preliminary study on the dark force theory. However, that time it was hindered by external forces and could not continue. Therefore, until now, the technological level of human civilization still falls at about level 4.7.

Fortunately, this time the dark force theory is once again attacked, and no external forces will interfere.

Some initial research is actually not located around neutron stars, and can even be carried out without the need for large scientific research equipment. It is nothing more than some purely theoretical explorations. In extreme cases, it can be carried out by a scientist, a pen and a piece of paper.

What human civilization is doing at this moment is purely theoretical forward-looking research, exploring the theoretical existence forms and possibilities of dark matter and dark energy, and how to unify the existing four fundamental forces.

More than 10 billion scientists have participated in this theoretical research. In addition, scientists in other disciplines are not idle either.

Under Han Yang's unified arrangement, they also carried out a large number of applied research.

After all, even if there is no progress in basic science and technology, there is still a lot of applied research that can be carried out, such as more advanced materials, more reasonable mechanical structures, and thrusters with more advanced performance.

However, it is still a bit inconvenient to conduct various research while traveling at super-light speed.

The most important point is that during super-light navigation, materials and personnel cannot flow between spaceships.

Hundreds of years passed in the blink of an eye. During these hundreds of years, both dark force theory and other applied research have accumulated a large amount of results, which are urgently needed to be verified by large-scale scientific experiments.

Therefore, the ruling committee made a decision again. The next time it docks, it will park around the galaxy and stay there for about a hundred years. While completing supplies, all the experiments that need to be performed will be completed.

Countless small spaceships shuttled back and forth between the more than one million large spaceships. People happily took advantage of the holidays to leave the spacecraft where they lived and go to other spaceships to appreciate the beautiful scenery of other spaceships.

A large number of spaceship specialties, handicrafts, delicacies, etc. also take advantage of this time window to circulate. Later, the Parking Month became a carnival month that swept the entire civilization.

During this month, channels for the flow of materials and personnel have been opened. Not only can scientists move freely, but ordinary civilians can also use this time window to complete things such as traveling, visiting relatives and friends, and moving.

Many spaceships also took advantage of this period to carry out some inspections and maintenance.

On this day, the ruling committee finally made a judgment after careful study and judgment, combined with the opinions of many top scientists from the Academy of Sciences.

Every Spring Festival, in addition to holidays, reunions, and celebrations, people generally hold large-scale memorial and commemorative actions. During this period, the newly born children will also learn from their parents, elders and teachers that our civilization originated from a beautiful planet, but was later forced to leave because of some things.

At this time, due to the recovery of the entire human race and a large-scale increase in resource consumption, the original reserves of supplies were reduced to about half of their peak levels.

Therefore, whenever the anchoring month comes, the entire human fleet will really become lively.

People who have worked hard for a year just take advantage of this month to have some rest and fun. People who had been working on other ships away from their families for a year also took this opportunity to go home and visit relatives.

Some scientists have some temporary ideas or needs and need to use equipment on another spacecraft, or some scientists need to form a team in reality, etc. Because they are traveling at faster than light speed at the moment, they cannot make the trip. I had to postpone it temporarily.

Although it began to berth and break away from the super-light navigation state, and materials can be circulated between spaceships at any time, the "Spring Festival" custom formed by the previous hundreds of years of sailing has been retained and has become a fixed festival.

After discussion, the members of the ruling committee simply set the time of the "Spring Festival" in the mooring month, which happened to take advantage of this festival that originated from ancient times to give people an annual holiday.

Faced with this situation, Han Yang and the ruling committee members immediately made adjustments to the current navigation mode and decided that every year, the human fleet would depart from super-light sailing and stay in interstellar space for a month.

Although Han Yang has tried his best to gather scientists from the same discipline on one spacecraft, and then built special scientific research facilities for scientists to use on this residential spacecraft, such as materials laboratory, stamping laboratory, metallurgy laboratory, etc. Laboratory type, but there is still a situation that cannot be avoided.

At that time, the earth would still have four seasons. In winter, the earth was frozen, and in spring, everything revived. In order to celebrate the arrival of spring and the recovery of all things, the Spring Festival was born and continues to this day.

Elders will also encourage children to study hard, master scientific knowledge as early as possible, and contribute to the development of civilization. Only when civilization becomes stronger can those things lost be regained.

The human fleet, which had transformed into a starship civilization, kept going like this, moving all the way to the edge of the galaxy.

Under this voyage mode of alternating long-term anchorage and short-term anchorage, thousands of years have passed in the blink of an eye.

After such a long period of pre-research and preliminary theoretical preparation, the time has finally come to launch a real charge towards the dark force theory.

Therefore, Han Yang plans to recruit millions of relevant scientific researchers within the civilization, coupled with more than tens of millions of dummies controlled by himself, as well as millions of dummy soldiers and battleships, and then deploy three large space carriers. The ship, fully loaded with personnel, supplies, and equipment, headed for the selected nearby neutron star.

According to Han Yang's estimate, at the current stage, the number of neutron stars in the entire galaxy is about one billion.

The Milky Way is vast, and even with the technological strength of the founder civilization, it is impossible to bring all of the approximately one billion neutron stars under control. However, this time, Han Yang still responded with the highest level of alert.

After these scientific researchers set off on the space carrier to the vicinity of the neutron star, a huge human fleet also set sail at the same time. And the sailing direction will not be informed to those scientists.

If the scientific research fleet is attacked by an external force and the approximately 10,000 warships it brings are unable to resist, then these scientists will have no choice but to accept the fate of death.

Because the main fleet is too far away, it is impossible to come to rescue them. And...even if it can be rescued, the main fleet will not rescue them.

Also, unless the civilization level is raised to level six, the scientific research fleet will never return to the main fleet. According to the most optimistic estimates, it will take at least tens of thousands of years for human civilization to advance to the sixth level of civilization.

The reason for this is that Han Yang must rule out the possibility of the scientific research fleet being targeted by potential threats, and follow the clues to eventually find the human main fleet.

The main goal of this scientific research fleet is to conduct research related to dark force theory. When there is a breakthrough in the research on dark force theory, human civilization is promoted to level five civilization, and their mission is completed, Han Yang will destroy all the dummies and arrange for all real scientists to enter hibernation, waiting for the civilization to one day become a level six civilization, and never return to it. When not afraid of any external threats.

Only then will Han Yang wake them up and welcome them back to civilization.

Humans have never tried hibernating for tens of thousands of years. It is foreseeable that there must be too many risks and unknowns. It is really impossible to predict how many people will eventually wake up successfully. Maybe once you fall asleep, you will never wake up again.

But...for the safety of civilization, this group of scientific researchers are destined to make sacrifices.

Before setting off, Han Yang announced all the consequences. But even so, the number of scientific researchers who came to sign up still exceeded Han Yang's expectations.

There are a total of about 105 million places, and tens of millions of people have signed up. Han Yang had to conduct further screening and eliminate most people before finally finalizing the list.

When all personnel, materials, equipment, aerospace carriers and various spacecraft were all prepared, all the ruling members came forward and personally came to the edge of the fleet to see off the people participating in this scientific research mission.

A total of more than one million scientists, scattered in thousands of venues, saw the figure of President Liu Yuan with their own eyes and heard the voice of President Liu Yuan with their own ears.

The figures of more than a million scientists have also appeared in front of almost every human being through ubiquitous camera equipment.

"Based on the needs of civilization and security, we all know that this separation will be a permanent farewell in a sense.

But even though they knew this, these brave people in our civilization still stood up without hesitation, chose to shoulder the burden of civilization development, and bravely rushed to the battlefield of technological advancement.

I, Liu Yuan, on behalf of the entire civilization, pay tribute to you. "

All ruling members bowed simultaneously.

At this moment, countless viewers burst into tears.

Liu Yuan straightened up, and Han Yang looked at the solemn, solemn and sacred people in front of him through Liu Yuan's eyes.

His heart was filled with emotion.

There are faces, old and young, male and female, all different. But no matter tall or short, fat or thin, no matter men, women, old or young, at this moment, everyone's heart is the same.

For the sake of civilization, no matter the cost, we are not afraid of sacrifice.

"If you can be replaced by dummies controlled by me, even if it slows down the progress of scientific research tasks, I will not exchange for the advancement of civilization at the expense of your sacrifices.

Unfortunately, for intelligent life, remote observation cannot replace in-person visits. Although I do not have this limitation myself, I cannot complete the breakthrough of the dark force theory by myself.

The improvement of civilization requires not only me, but also all of us to go all out.

I hereby promise you that I will do my best to lead human civilization to a sixth-level civilization. Once promoted, no matter how difficult and dangerous it is, even if you don't survive tens of thousands of years of hibernation, I will bring you all back and welcome you... home. "

Han Yang secretly made up his mind.

"I order the scientific research fleet to set off and set sail!"

Following Han Yang's order, the three large space carriers slowly separated from the human main fleet, and then simultaneously entered a state of super-light navigation.

The human fleet also set sail at the same time, heading towards unknown distances.

Decades passed in the blink of an eye. At this moment, the scientific research fleet is nearly a thousand light years away from the human main fleet.

In the vast starry sky, around an extremely small, yet extremely bright and extremely powerful star, with a change of light and shadow, three huge space carriers appeared.

In the hibernation room, under Han Yang's control, more than one million real-life scientists and engineers who were in hibernation slowly opened their eyes.

Then they knew that the testing ground to determine whether human civilization could be promoted to level five civilization had arrived.

This is a starry sky that looks unremarkable to the naked eye, the same as anywhere else. There are not some extremely bright stars among them that can even break away from the point structure and have a disk structure.

Everything shows that it is still far away from any macroscopic stars at this moment. But the powerful radiation that filled the entire space let people know that the real situation was not what they saw.

At this distance, a star that appears extremely dim in the visible light band, but whose overall radiation is unusually powerful, and is only a few tenths of a light-year away, is our destination.

Switching to the regular propulsion stage, the three space carriers advanced at the same time, and preliminary preparations began.

Just like the soldiers who are about to embark on the battlefield, every human member of the scientific research fleet is full of high morale and confidence.

Here we will personally uncover the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy that have puzzled mankind for tens of thousands of years. And by solving this mystery, he personally helped human civilization reach the peak of level five civilization and laid the foundation for subsequent climbing to another peak.

To this end, no matter what price we pay, no matter how huge the risks we take, we will move forward and never stop.

Withstanding the intense radiation, the three space carriers finally advanced to a distance of only 36 million kilometers from the previously unnumbered star, which was now numbered TG-A.

A large number of special scientific research ships and engineering ships transported many people wearing special space suits and began to build the facilities needed for subsequent experiments under the fierce baking of the neutron star.

These facilities mainly include two bases in the early stage. Each of the two bases is powered by an independent quark fission power station, and the most important equipment is two extremely high-precision clocks.

The accuracy of this kind of clock has even reached the point where it can continuously measure time for 50 billion years with an error of no more than one second.

In the current theoretical research system of dark matter and dark energy conducted by human scientists, this kind of clock will become the most powerful weapon to explore the mysteries of dark force. (End of chapter)