With the support of a ninth-level civilization, do you want me to believe in electronic gods?

Chapter 237 Conjecture
"Since nanomachinery clusters are not considered dangerous technology..."

Isa's soft voice came from the right: "Is it possible that we were attacked by another advanced civilization?"

Seeing Chen Fan and Song Ziliang looking at her at the same time, Isa's expression became visibly flustered.

She waved her hands repeatedly, and her originally soft voice became hesitant: "I, I just said casually..."

"Do not."

Chen Fan's eyes lit up, and he interrupted Isa's words: "This is not something just said casually!"

Song Ziliang in the holographic projection also nodded slightly: "If a third-party civilization is introduced, it will make sense."

"The harm caused by the nanomachines cluster to the eighth-level civilization is limited, but if there is an accident on the battlefield, the harm will be instantly amplified."

Chen Fan nodded thoughtfully, reached out and wrote down the code names of civilizations on the holographic panel beside him.

The first is the broadcast civilization that has mastered cross-universe broadcast technology.

According to Song Ziliang's guess, this hostile civilization took advantage of the backlash of the black tide to launch an attack on the Luoka civilization, which led to the demise of the Luoka civilization.

Until now, the People's Academy of Sciences has not even successfully deciphered the text transmitted by the broadcast civilization, let alone revealed the true face of the broadcast civilization.

[Accessible channel: 017, current queue: 158716, estimated waiting time: 15 minutes. 】

The situation is clear.

He pondered for a moment, then turned and glanced at the holographic panel beside him: "Are you almost at the EL001 star gate now?"

Finally, there is the supposed hostile civilization of Loka.

[Priority channel permission detected, channel has been changed to: 01, current queue: 0]

Then there is the Loka civilization.

"I prefer to connect this imaginary hostile civilization with Civilization 42."

Song Ziliang nodded slightly: "What you said makes sense."

"Let's go back."

"Don't add entities if it's not necessary."

Civilization 42, which is closely related to the birth of [Source], is most likely to be within the cosmic bubble. The basis for this judgment is very simple - the other party is still using electromagnetic waves and tachyon broadcasting, two relatively low-level communication methods.

Whether it is the Broadcasting Civilization, the 42 Civilization, or the suspected hostile civilization, all three have a shallow or deep connection with the Loka Civilization!

Chen Fan frowned and looked at the holographic panel filled with text in front of him.

but……

Whether it is the artificial intelligence crisis or the black tide, in the final analysis, it is actually related to the Lorca civilization.

In the holographic projection, Song Ziliang chuckled and reached out to operate the panel beside him.

As a suspected ninth-level civilization, there is a high probability that the other party is not within this universe.

It's like a line of cars lining up to enter the highway.

"What are you..."

"Let me open a priority channel for you."

"All three civilizations are related to the Lorca Civilization, and one of them was imaginary without any basis."

In order to survive, the Loka civilization had to send a large number of civilization fire ships to the universe.

As soon as he finished speaking, the familiar Star Gate notification sound appeared beside Chen Fan.

Even the tachyon broadcast calling the 42 civilization was transmitted from the tachyon broadcast tower of the Loka civilization.

The second is the 42-second signal civilization.

Song Ziliang seemed to realize something: "Do you think Civilization 42 is the hostile civilization?"

Chen Fan cast his gaze further away. Starships of ten thousand meters, one hundred thousand meters, or even larger were all lining up and heading slowly towards the huge star gate ahead.

[Stargate boot program has been activated, jump destination: EL13697101 universe. 】

Seeing Chen Fan nodding in affirmation, Song Ziliang took a deep breath.

Under Song Ziliang's gaze, Chen Fan hesitantly stretched out his hand and drew a big cross on the sign of the hostile civilization, and at the same time put a question mark on the sign of Civilization 42.

"Your investigation mission has been updated. Investigate the truth about the TE913 research ship as soon as possible."

Under the control of the shipboard computer, the [Varilla] quietly sailed into a virtual channel constructed of light. In the channel, starships with a scale of less than 500 meters were lined up row after row and moved forward slowly.

[Identity verification passed: Official investigator Chen Fan. 】

Next to this channel, there are a large number of starships ranging in size from 500 to 1000 meters - the channels are arranged according to the size of the starships.

Chen Fan subconsciously raised his head and glanced out the porthole.

"In addition, the text deciphering work at the Academy of Social Sciences has made considerable progress. It is estimated that it will not take long to complete the first batch of text deciphering work."

Not to mention Chen Fan, even the Academy of Sciences cannot currently find the specific location of this civilization - ever since the broadcast civilization came to prominence, the Academy of Humanities and Sciences has launched a comprehensive search and tracking of it.

"We will then be able to figure out what message that broadcasting civilization is trying to convey."

Chen Fan nodded hesitantly: "Don't you think it's a coincidence?"

As the holographic prompt information above the main console changed, [Varilla] also began to evacuate Channel 017.

Under the "watching" of starships one after another, this conspicuous earth-yellow starship sailed straight towards the empty Channel 01, and sailed unimpeded all the way to the stargate directly ahead.

……

[Stargate jump has ended. 】

[Current coordinates: EL13697101 star gate. 】

After passing through the familiar star gate passage, Chen Fan finally saw the miniature star gate that was only 200 light years away in front of his house.

"Brother Fan!"

As soon as the Varela left the preset course of the stargate, Mochi's voice sounded in the cockpit: "How was it? Did the report go well?"

Upon hearing the word "debrief", Chen Fan's originally calm expression suddenly became strange.

Whose debriefing work is carried out on a sample scanning instrument in a biological laboratory? !

It was said to be a work report, but in fact it was just an excuse to trick him into doing research! "cough!"

Chen Fan calmed down his expression and replied in a quite natural tone: "It went smoothly."

"The evaluation of the first investigation mission is quite good. I can repay you the credits I owed you before."

As he spoke, Chen Fan operated on the smart terminal interface in front of him.

The moment he pressed the transfer button, Chen Fan felt his heart suddenly twitch.

This is his hard-earned money! !

"I really envy you investigators..." Mochi looked at Chen Fan transferring money easily, with envy written all over his face, "It's so easy to get this credit."

"It's not like us who are paid dead wages and sit here every day and don't know how to pass the time..."

Chen Fan's eyes twitched sharply.

pass!

This is a bit hurtful! !
"Help me open a wormhole."

Chen Fan calmly changed the subject: "The coordinates have been sent to you. I have to find the missing scientific research ship."

Mochi looked solemn and quickly started operating on the console in front of him: "Yes, yes, the investigation mission is more important."

……

EL13697101 universe, nameless void area.

The space-time fluctuations generated by the wormhole slowly float in the vast universe, and eventually dissipate in the fine waves of the space-time ocean.

An earth-yellow starship appeared extremely suddenly in this extremely deserted and bleak universe.

This is an empty structure in the universe.

What is a void?

Quite simply, it is an empty area with almost no galactic structures.

In the vast universe, this phenomenon is very common - there are dense areas of galaxies, and naturally there are also empty areas of galaxies.

"One, have you found the research ship signal?"

As soon as the starship left the wormhole, Chen Fan couldn't wait to ask Yi.

He couldn't wait to get rid of this serious problem that had been weighing on his mind for nearly half a year.

Compared with the investigation mission on Varela, this investigation mission is too simple - with clear signal coordinates, he only needs to find the crashed scientific research ship, and then let Yi complete the work of reading and summarizing the black box data That's it.

This is the task that investigators should do!

In that previous task, what was a normal investigator supposed to do?
Fighting wits and courage with artificial intelligence while being unarmed...

Looking back now, Chen Fan still feels a little scared.

"Already retrieved."

An electronic synthesized voice sounded in the cockpit: "But..."

"The signal strength is quite weak, even weaker than the signal received in Xuyuan."

"We believe this is not a normal phenomenon."

The relaxed expression on Chen Fan's face changed slightly.

Signal strength unusually weak?

Won't……

What went wrong again? !

Chen Fan shook his head and put away the worries in his mind: "Just go and have a look."

"Since the signal can still be detected, a good scientific research ship cannot disappear, right?"

"receive."

[Varilla] quickly entered the curvature state and sped towards the true coordinates of the signal.

……

"It's a bit too spacious here..."

Chen Fan looked at the scenery outside the porthole and murmured subconsciously.

From the time it emerged from the wormhole to now, [Varilla] has traveled thousands of light years across domains.

During the journey that lasted thousands of light years, Chen Fan didn't encounter a single galaxy.

Even if it's just a small star system or a star.

Not to mention stars, except for some scattered and solitary meteorites, not even a decent planet can be seen.

"In the macroscopic void structure of the universe, this is considered a normal phenomenon."

An electronic synthesized voice sounded in the cockpit: "The size of most cosmic voids will exceed 100 million light-years, and there will be no galaxies in them. If you are lucky, you may encounter a few wandering stars or planets."

"Because of this, this hollow structure has become a forbidden area for civilization."

Chen Fan didn't speak, just stared silently in front of the porthole.

Silence returned to the cockpit, and Isa and Gao Yuan, who were still chatting and joking, fell into silence involuntarily.

As the source of the signal got closer and closer, Chen Fan's mood gradually changed from excitement at the beginning to anxiety.

What crisis did the scientific research ship TE913 encounter?
Will the next investigation work be dangerous?
Questions emerged in Chen Fan's mind.

"There's a planet ahead."

Electronic synthesized sounds sounded, breaking the silence in the cockpit.

"A solid rocky planet."

Yi added again: "The signal source is near this rocky planet."

(End of this chapter)