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

Chapter 243 Folds
In a sense, this is Chen Fan's first exploration of the four-dimensional universe.

——When rescuing Varela's small universe, he also entered the four-dimensional universe, but the starship quickly ascended to the fifth dimension. The whole process and duration were so short that he did not see the four-dimensional universe clearly at all. real scene.

The universe outside the porthole window was exceptionally vast, giving Chen Fan an unprecedented novel experience.

This is a feeling that is difficult to describe in words.

Although the three-dimensional universe is already very vast, after ascending to the fourth dimension, he still has the feeling of entering a vast body of water from a small, cramped pond.

This is an illusion caused by the influx of information into the brain - just like the five-dimensional universe, the four-dimensional universe also contains an extremely large amount of information.

As the power of the high-dimensional information filtering barrier gradually increased, this illusion of spaciousness gradually dissipated, and a slight sense of loss and confinement also arose in Chen Fan's heart.

Like Chen Fan, Isha and Gao Yuan beside them also showed some abnormal expressions on their faces.

“Claustrophobic Syndrome in High Dimensional Spaces.”

An electronic synthesized voice sounded in the cockpit: "Compared with three-dimensional space-time, high-dimensional space-time is broader, and the amount of information contained in it is also greater."

Because of this, [Varilla] did not successfully enter the curvature navigation state.

But when Chen Fan moved his eyes and slightly changed his perspective, a magical phenomenon happened.

"One, what's going on?"

"Therefore, when intelligent creatures fall from high-dimensional space and time into low-dimensional space and time, they will have an extremely strong sense of claustrophobia."

"drop!!"

Chen Fan didn't pay attention, but looked at the planet below with novel eyes.

Chen Fan asked Yi urgently, and at the same time reached out to the main console in front of him to call up the log information of the ship's main brain.

"The curvature engine is working abnormally!"

The entire planet is like an onion that has been peeled layer by layer. The planet's crust, the meridian-like mineral veins in the rock formations, and the hot magma deep in the crust... all the internal structures of this planet are clearly displayed. In front of his eyes!
[Starting the curvature engine...]

"In the early days of the Human League, this disease killed many intelligent beings."

……

The piercing sirens echoed in the cab, and Chen Fan quickly retracted his attention, and the look on his face became serious.

At first glance, this is just an ordinary frozen planet.

"warn!"

Chen Fan nodded, lowered his head and looked at the planet below the starship that gave birth to planet-level silicon-based life.

“Until the emergence of high-dimensional information filtering barriers, high-dimensional space claustrophobic syndrome becomes a thing of the past.”

Yi explained seriously: "This slight feeling will naturally occur when the power of the high-dimensional information filtering barrier is increased, but it has been weakened too much and will not cause substantial harm."

"Abnormal space-time fluctuations detected!!"

The log shows that the output power of the curvature engine suddenly dropped off a cliff during the process of improvement.

A slightly harsh tone sounded in the cockpit, and at the same time there was a rapid report.

A line of prompt information flashed across the holographic projection on the main console.

Looking at the dense error codes in the log, Chen Fan couldn't help but frown.

He had seen these error codes before, before he left Varela.

"Space-time trap?"

Chen Fan murmured in a low voice: "Or is it a space-time trap targeting the four-dimensional universe?"

Yes, whether it was the familiar error codes or the abnormal output power of the curvature engine, Chen Fan was reminded of the Lorca civilization [Space-time Trap] he encountered.

"It's indeed a bit like a time trap, but..."

Yi rejected Chen Fan's guess: "This machine has just checked all the detection data and found no traces of [Space-time Trap]."

"That is how the matter?"

Chen Fan's frown deepened.

"It should be a problem with the four-dimensional space-time itself." Yi quickly replied, "The disappearance of the scientific research ship may also be related to this strange space-time phenomenon."

"Wait a moment, this machine will conduct a B-ultrasound examination of this space and time."

As soon as the words fell, the hatch in the belly of the [Varilla] quickly opened, and familiar cone-like devices flew out of the hatch and drove automatically into the distance.

"[The Imprisoned]?"

Chen Fan's eyes moved and he recognized these space-time weapons that had made great contributions in the battle of Luoka Planet Fortress: "This thing..."

Chen Fan hesitated again and again, but finally chose to follow Yi's statement: "...can I still do a B-ultrasound?"

"...B-ultrasound is just a rhetoric, not a real B-ultrasound." Seeing that there was a misunderstanding, Yi quickly explained, "To be precise, it is wide-area space-time field scanning technology, but those at the Academy of Sciences like to call it It’s called B-ultrasound.”

"Theoretically, wide-area space-time field scanning requires the use of professional detection equipment, which is usually only available on the research ships of the Academy of Sciences."

"But that doesn't mean there aren't solutions. There are some tricks that can be used."

Chen Fan raised his eyebrows: "Can the [Imprisoner] still do this job?"

"of course."

Yi happily explained: "[The Imprisoner]'s full name is the space-time field resonance device. In order to find key nodes in the space-time field, each [The Imprisoner] is equipped with a very high-precision space-time field sensing device." "Rely on These devices can perform basic space-time field scanning work.”

"Although the accuracy is not as good as professional scientific research equipment, it is enough."

Along with the electronic synthesized sound, a strange space-time field model appeared in the holographic panel on the main console.

"really."

"The judgment of this machine is not wrong. There is a problem in this space and time itself."

Under Chen Fan's gaze, Yi called up a normal space-time field model diagram: "Normally, the space-time field should be flat. Although massive celestial bodies will distort the space-time field, relative to the whole, It’s still pretty flat.”

With the comparison, Chen Fan quickly realized the anomalies in the space-time field in front of him.

——It's like a burrito, with layers of thick wrinkles on the surface.

Looking around, within the detection range of [The Imprisoned], there are deep or shallow wrinkles everywhere.

These folds are stacked on top of each other, making the space-time rugged.

"It looks like it was affected by some external force."

There was a bit of confusion in Yi's voice: "But... what level of external force is required to cause such a large area of ​​anomalies in the space-time field?"

"It stands to reason that the small scientific research ships of the People's Federation do not have this ability..."

Chen Fan thought carefully. Suddenly, his eyes lit up, as if he thought of something.

"First, there should be no abnormalities in the space-time field of the three-dimensional universe, right?"

The answer is of course yes - otherwise the warp drive of the Varela would not have been able to operate normally for such a long time.

"I understand……"

Chen Fan reached out to hold his chin, stared at the holographic interface in front of him and expressed his guess: "It's the hyperspace membrane."

"This area is the virtual abyss area formed by the large cosmic bubble and the hyperspace membrane."

"Unlike conventional hyperspace membranes and cosmic bubbles, the hyperspace membrane here has swallowed up almost half of the cosmic bubble."

"I understand."

Speaking of this, Yi also understood what Chen Fan meant: "The strong gravity of the hyperspace membrane has a certain impact on the bubble structure of the universe."

"This impact first affects the four-dimensional space-time field, and the three-dimensional space-time field...at least the three-dimensional space-time field in this area has not been affected yet."

"This resulted in a strange phenomenon."

As Yi's voice continued to sound in the cockpit, the space-time field model in the holographic panel also changed.

"The three-dimensional space-time field still remains flat, while the four-dimensional space-time field has experienced extremely serious distortions and folds."

"It's like two pieces of paper that were originally overlapping. The lower one is relatively flat, but the upper one is squeezed by external forces, forming layers of wrinkles, and some gaps are formed between the two papers."

"These folds and gaps in four-dimensional space-time have become the most perfect hiding places!"

"So..." Chen Fan showed a hint of excitement in his eyes, "The scientific research ship is hidden in these gaps?"

Yi gave an affirmative answer: "Theoretically, that's the case."

"After the crash, the scientific research ship TE913 first fell into the fourth dimension and was captured by the large cosmic bubble."

"Then……"

"It is stuck in the four-dimensional space-time by the space-time folds in the cosmic bubble."

"The whole process lasted for an unknown amount of time until it completely fell into the space-time gap between the folds, and the three-dimensional projection of the scientific research ship completely disappeared."

……

Knowing the traces of the scientific research ship, the next task becomes simple.

The high-end point is to search in the folds and gaps of the four-dimensional space-time field.

To put it lightly, it is actually just looking for a grain of sand in a carpet full of wrinkles.

There is actually not much difference in the working process between the two. They both smooth out the folds first and then see if there is anything hidden inside.

Fortunately, the range of the black box signal is relatively accurate, and [Varela] only needs to look for a few small wrinkles.

But even so, this is not an easy task - the wrinkles in the four-dimensional space-time are caused by the huge hyperspace membrane in the void.

Even if it is temporarily equalized, the energy consumed is still an extremely huge number.

[Varilla] The output power of the internal vacuum zero-point energy reactor has reached 99%. Under the majestic energy supply, the layers of space-time folds slowly unfold like blooming flowers, revealing its internal contents. of "gadgets."

It was a shuttle-shaped spacecraft without any signs of damage on its exterior.

Seeing the prompt message that the black box signal strength suddenly increased, Chen Fan let out a long sigh of relief.

"I finally found this guy..."

He sighed and issued a new command.

"One, pull it out!"

(End of this chapter)