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

Chapter 382 Mirror
"what?!"

Looking at the live broadcast from Redstone in front of him, Song Ziliang's eyes widened and he couldn't help but question: "Are you sure this is... opening the hatch?"

No.

Who would use an antimatter bomb to open a door? !
In the holographic image in front of Song Ziliang, a mushroom cloud was rising slowly and a violent shock wave spread out in all directions.

When passing by the shuttle-shaped research ship in the distance, the powerful shock wave could not shake it at all.

Relying on its huge and heavy hull, the research vessel easily blocked the oncoming shock wave and perfectly protected the few small figures standing behind the research vessel.

"……Maybe."

There was also some uncertainty and confusion in Hongshi's voice.

At Song Ziliang's urging, Redstone quickly drove the starship through the small mushroom cloud formed by dust and landed steadily on the open space behind the research ship - a huge deep pit had appeared in the open space in front, which was obviously not a good landing point.

As soon as the crystal starship came to a complete stop, Chen Fan and Wang Jing hurriedly ran to the front of the starship, with Chen Fan gesticulating something.

Redstone thought about it and quickly adjusted the starship's radio function.

“…Redstone!”

Chen Fan's extremely anxious voice rang out in the cockpit: "You're just in time!"

"Quick! Help me contact the Administration. Song Ziliang, Moore... It doesn't matter who it is, just help me initiate a cross-universe communication first!"

Hongshi coughed lightly: "In fact, it was the Administration that asked me to come to you."

As she spoke, she took the initiative to open the hatch of the crystal starship: "Come in and talk."

"Academician Song Ziliang and Director Moore are waiting for you."

……

More than ten minutes later.

Under the scrutiny of Song Ziliang and Moore, Wang Jing calmly explained to them the previous loss of contact.

"call……"

After listening to Wang Jing's words, Moore raised his hand to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead, and gave an order while breathing a sigh of relief: "Zero, help me notify the garrison fleets that the combat mission is temporarily canceled and let them return immediately."

"As for the Stargate Universe's garrison fleet... continue to surround the node universe to prevent any subsequent accidents."

Chen Fan huddled aside, listening with fear and trepidation to the commands coming from the inter-universe communication channel.

so close……

Almost, just a little bit, the EL13697101 node universe would completely disappear from this world.

"So, the observation data of the information interference source has been collected?"

Unlike Moore, Song Ziliang's focus is on information interference technology: "Also, can we be sure that the principle of the ghost fleet is information interference?"

Wang Jing nodded seriously: "It's basically confirmed."

“But it is slightly different from the phantom that appeared on Varela. The formation principle of the ghost fleet may be more complicated.”

"As for the observation data of the information interference source..." Wang Jing smiled bitterly and shook his head, "To be honest, I don't know how much valuable information I can collect."

"The main computer of the research ship has crashed. I have been an academician for so long, but this is the first time I have seen such a situation."

"As long as we have the data!" Song Ziliang was excited. "It's better than crossing the river by feeling the stones in the air!"

Wang Jing felt relieved.

This is indeed the truth.

In any case, with these observation data, the research work of the Institute of Information Science and Technology on material informatization theory and information interference technology can get on the right track.

"Academician Wang, come back."

Moore's steady voice came from the side: "Wait until the research ship completes its self-repair, and you should hurry up..."

"Not for now."

Before Moore finished speaking, Wang Jing rejected Moore's request without hesitation: "I have other research projects."

As she spoke, she glanced at Chen Fan standing beside her, hesitated for a moment and said, "The signal reverse tracing experiment has not started yet, give me a little more time."

"Perhaps... I can use this to determine the location of the broadcasting civilization."

Wang Jing lied.

As the person involved, Chen Fan knew better what Wang Jing was thinking - in the Starry Forest, he showed too many abnormalities, whether it was his tolerance to information interference sources or the phantom's peculiar attitude towards him, all of which were worth careful investigation.

At that time, everyone was near the source of information interference and communication links were almost completely interrupted, so only they themselves knew the situation.

only……

I don’t know why Wang Jing didn’t report these abnormal situations immediately, but chose to conceal them for him temporarily.

A series of complicated thoughts flashed through Chen Fan's mind, and the look in his eyes became complicated.

"Ok."

Moore pondered for a moment, and finally nodded: "By the way, let me remind you that Chief Lu already knows that you went to the node universe without permission. When the time comes..."

Wang Jing didn't say anything, just smiled bitterly and nodded.

The misunderstanding was resolved and cross-universe communications were interrupted.

With the help of Redstone and his starship, Chen Fan quickly used the external emergency switch and smart terminal to open the tightly closed door of the Varela.

At the same time, with the help of Redstone, the smart terminal that was in a downtime state also completed the restart.

[Oh my god... is this machine down?] [Wait, why is there a bunch of meaningless junk information in the storage space of this machine?]

[The phantom disappeared? And why was the armor of the Varela damaged? The scars look a bit like the effects of an antimatter weapon attack...]

[Chen Fan, what happened when this machine crashed? Did someone mess with us? ? ]

Listening to the electronic synthesized sound re-ringing in his mind, Chen Fan's uneasiness in his heart subsided a little.

"Stop talking about this nonsense for now."

Chen Fan coughed lightly and calmly changed the embarrassing topic: "It will take some time to repair the ship's main brain. You will take over the work of the ship's main brain and use the traction field to pull up the scientific research ship on the ground."

"If this continues, I think this research ship will sink completely into the ground."

[…What?! The research ship was sunk?! !]

Yi's exclamation came again in my mind.

At the same time, the Varela slowly took off, and in coordination with Redstone's crystal starship, it "clumsily" used the traction field to pull the research ship out of the land - obviously, compared with the onboard mainframe that specialized in controlling starships, Yi was not good at driving starships.

……

A few hours later.

New Varela in synchronous orbit.

"Tell me, what's going on?"

Wang Jing sat down on the passenger seat that belonged to Gao Yuan, raised her eyelids and asked Chen Fan.

"Tell me, what did you say?" Chen Fan's voice was a little dry, and he shook his head subconsciously, "Academician Wang, I really don't know why the phantom made those movements..."

"That's not what I'm talking about." Wang Jing glanced at Chen Fan helplessly, "Don't worry about it for now. I will report it to the Academy of Sciences in person."

Chen Fan breathed a sigh of relief: "Is that... the influence of the information interference source on me?"

"Hmm..." Wang Jing's expression condensed, "This is indeed a big problem. Maybe you are not just a simple carbon-based creature."

"But this is also a problem that we need to consider after returning to the main universe."

"The detection equipment on the research ship is not complete. I will take you to the Academy of Sciences for a thorough inspection."

Wang Jing waved her hand: "What I want to ask is, before the information interference source dissipated, what did it show you?"

Chen Fan suddenly realized: "You are talking about this!"

"That thing looks a bit like a holographic star map, with a star system in the center of the map."

"I suspect that star system is what the Ghost Fleet has been trying to tell us."

Chen Fan paused, he raised his hand, and relying on his powerful memory and the holographic projection provided by Yi, he slowly reconstructed the star map he had seen at the beginning - there was no other way, the smart terminal had crashed at that time, and all the information had to be recorded by Chen Fan himself.

Not long after, a star map made up of tiny and dense light spots appeared in the cockpit of the Varela.

Wang Jing frowned and looked at the star map in front of him: "First, try to search the node universe to see if there are similar star fields."

As soon as the words fell, Yi's electronic synthesized voice sounded: "No similar star field has been found yet."

Wang Jing raised an eyebrow: "Expand the search range, upload the star map to the Human Union main server, use my authority, and conduct a matching search for all universes within the Human Union territory."

The sudden increase in sample data rapidly increases the time consumed for matching searches.

After waiting for a long time, the electronic synthesized voice came again: "I'm sorry, Academician Wang Jing, this machine did not search for similar star fields."

"Comparison with the database shows that the star field with the highest similarity is located in the EL77563 cosmic bubble, with an overall similarity of 54.71%."

Wang Jing couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

A similarity of 54.71% certainly doesn't mean anything.

She murmured in a low voice: "Strange, which star field is this..."

Not only Wang Jing, Chen Fan also frowned as he looked at the star map.

Unlike Wang Jing, he had a strong sense of familiarity with this star map.

However, there is a faint sense of indescribable discomfort mixed with the familiarity.

Chen Fan shook his head and subconsciously looked towards the porthole beside him, trying to observe the situation of the ghost fleet - outside the porthole, lights had already lit up in the cockpit of the research vessel, and farther away, the ghost fleet was still flashing an extremely dim light, hovering silently in the Varela star system.

Suddenly, Chen Fan's eyes fixed.

Amid the surprised gazes of everyone, he stood up from the main driving seat, made way, and turned sideways to look at the smooth porthole again.

"Chen Fan?" Wang Jing frowned. "What are you looking at?"

"I see……"

Chen Fan did not answer Wang Jing's words. He murmured in a low voice: "I know the location of this star map!!"

"It's the New Varela star system! It's the star system we're in!!"

"what?"

Wang Jing was shocked and quickly reached out to pull up the comparison results of Yi: "The comparison shows that the overall similarity between the two is even less than 5%. Apart from the same number of stars, the spatial structure is completely different. These are obviously two different star systems..."

"Academician Wang, you are wrong." Chen Fan smiled, "This star map is reversed."

"To be precise, it is a mirror image."

"If you don't believe me, look at the reflection in the porthole."

Chen Fan pointed to the porthole beside him. In the dim starry sky, the bright and clean porthole was clearly reflecting the scene in the cockpit: "It is the New Varela star system where we are!"

(End of this chapter)