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

Chapter 453 Information Disturbance Circuit (Two in One)

The conical hatching tower has more space towards the bottom.

Not only that, the number and size of the spiral columns transporting large amounts of activated dark matter are also much larger.

Of course, the insect eggs attached to the pillars also "expanded" several times.

The atmosphere in the starship cockpit was somewhat solemn, and everyone was silently looking out the porthole at the insect eggs that had "expanded" to a scale of 100 meters.

These insect eggs, which are almost the size of starships, give people a great sense of oppression.

Especially when the black light surged, the insect eggs that kept wriggling due to the impact of activated dark matter not only brought people a strong sense of psychological discomfort, but also added a bit of weird feeling to this claustrophobic world.

The insect eggs are wriggling, and the spiral columns that make up the hatching tower are also "moving" against the backdrop of the surging black light.

Just as Gao Yuan said before, at first glance, the entire incubation tower looks like a living organism that can move!
This disturbing illusion grew stronger as the starship's depth increased.

suddenly!

"drop!!!"

A clear warning sound suddenly sounded, breaking the silence in the cockpit.

A bright red warning icon popped up in the azure holographic interface.

"Warning! Information entropy fluctuations detected!"

As the synthesized voice of the shipboard main brain sounded, the information entropy fluctuation monitoring chart in the holographic interface, which was flat, instantly showed several tiny peaks, just like an electrocardiogram undergoing CPR!

However, as they watched the wave crests continue to spread and eventually form an irregular wave curve, both Chen Fan and Hongshi fell into silence at the same time.

The warning message about the fluctuation of information entropy came a little too late!
You only start to produce milk after your child dies, right?!

Chen Fan couldn't help but complain in his heart. He spread his hands, his face somewhat helpless: "Just watch."

"I said this thing's sensitivity wasn't very good. It only detected the information disturbance now, and didn't even look at how strong the information disturbance outside was..."

On the other side, Hongshi remained silent, but her expression gradually became strange.

She first looked at the intensity of the information entropy fluctuation in the warning information, and then turned to look at Chen Fan, whose face was full of helplessness.

"Do not……"

Hongshi's voice was somewhat hesitant: "I think there is nothing wrong with the sensitivity of the information entropy fluctuation detector..."

"On the contrary, you, Mr. Chen Fan, haven't you discovered that you are becoming more and more sensitive to information disturbances?"

Hearing Hongshi's words, Chen Fan was stunned.

He subconsciously turned his head and cast a questioning look at Gao Yuan and Yi Sha behind him: "Is... is this true?"

"I think Lord Redstone is right..." Isa nodded slightly, and the black hood on her head shook.

As if afraid that Chen Fan would not believe it, Isa raised her hand and pointed at the information entropy fluctuation curve in the holographic interface: "Look, according to the data from the information entropy fluctuation detection device, the current information entropy fluctuation intensity around the starship has just reached the intensity of shattering light stones."

"If I remember correctly, on the planet Xinaluo, even you had to come into direct contact with the light stone fragments to detect information disturbances of this intensity."

"And now..."

Isa didn't finish her words. She just pursed her lips and looked at Chen Fan worriedly.

At Isa's reminder, Chen Fan's expression finally changed.

Theoretically, as long as the information entropy fluctuation detection device does not malfunction, its detection accuracy should be a fixed value.

therefore……

It was actually him who changed!
He subconsciously lowered his head and checked his body.

There didn't seem to be anything unusual.

But Chen Fan knew very well in his heart that his body seemed to be undergoing some unknown changes without his knowledge!
Can……

When did this change begin?
Chen Fan raised his hand to support his chin, frowned and began to recall the many experiences since Xinaluo Star.

Soon, he locked on a very special time point - the prayer ceremony.

Under the traction of the Kraken, his consciousness temporarily separated from his body and arrived at the place of creation tens of thousands of light years away, and was exposed to the space full of radiation and cosmic rays without any cover.

It was also from that time that he became more and more proficient in the use of high-dimensional perspectives, and even mastered the ability of curvature navigation of consciousness!

"…Did the Kraken do something to me?"

Chen Fan murmured in a low voice, but the next second, he threw this idea behind his mind: "No, no, no, it's impossible, it can't be the Kraken..."

Damn it, Kraken can’t even protect himself, how can he have the ability to tamper with his consciousness?
"……What did you say?"

Beside him, Hongshi frowned slightly: "Is this related to the Kraken?"

Involving the mysterious third-party life form, Star God, Hongshi, as a Level III investigator, immediately felt alarmed.

"It's not about Kraken, but... I guess my situation has something to do with the prayer ceremony at that time." Chen Fan explained his guess vaguely, and his face became solemn.

Now that the Kraken was ruled out as a suspect, there seemed to be only one answer left for him.

This ultra-high precision sensing ability of information disturbance should be a manifestation of some kind of ability of his own.

And this ability is not limited to simple sensing!
For example, high-dimensional perspective; for another example, the powerful ability to bear high-dimensional information is likely to be a manifestation of this unknown ability!
The means of "activating" this ability is likely related to the state of consciousness.

Perhaps... the consciousness leaving the body is the so-called prerequisite!

Thinking of this, Chen Fan felt that his originally cramped thoughts suddenly became smooth!

Strictly speaking, the first time the consciousness left the body was on Wang Jing's TE1571 research ship.

It was also at that time that he "changed" the shape of his consciousness and gained a magical high-dimensional perspective.

To put it more broadly, as early as in the node universe, when he was fighting against [Su Zheng], his consciousness had experienced the phenomenon of "partial separation" - the consciousness reading device deployed by the Bray civilization and [Su Zheng] can produce similar effects.

Correspondingly, he has mastered an ability that can be called a suicide truck: with the help of high-dimensional broadcasting that mixes broadcast civilization with private activities, he can transform himself into an information-polluted dirty bomb, thereby launching indiscriminate attacks on the surroundings!
The original [Su Zheng] suffered a great loss because of this!
After mutual verification, Chen Fan became more and more certain of his guess - this unknown ability must be related to his consciousness!
But...what is so special about his consciousness?
A flash of inspiration suddenly came to Chen Fan’s mind.

In the conversation with Kraken, He once mentioned the "life hierarchy". At the same time, He also showed an inexplicable awe of himself!

perhaps……

"Kraken..." The confusion in Chen Fan's eyes gradually dissipated, and his tone became affirmative, "Kraken should know the reason!"

"It seems that after dealing with these giant scorpions, we must find a way to wake up the Kraken..."

Redstone: “??!”

Completely different from Chen Fan, Hongshi's eyes were full of confusion at this moment.

"How... is this related to the Kraken again?"

……

five minutes later.

"...Anyway, that's probably what happened."

Chen Fan picked up the water cup beside him and took a big sip.

It is really not an easy task to explain the many changes in the consciousness body - whether it is Hongshi or Isa and Gao Yuan, they cannot directly feel their own consciousness body.

then……

The entire explanation process is equivalent to a heated discussion between silicon-based organisms and carbon-based organisms on the changes in the strength of high-voltage current in the body and the efficiency of ATP synthesis.

It's purely talking at cross purposes.

Of course, if you don’t understand, you don’t understand.

Both Redstone and the two assistants showed unprecedented curiosity and astonishment about this miraculous change that occurred alone in the conscious body.

In a sense, this is not a good thing.

because……

"Hey hey hey! Hongshi, what are you doing?!"

Seeing an extremely familiar upload interface suddenly appear in front of Hongshi, Chen Fan suddenly had a bad feeling.

"Of course it's to send a mission report." Hongshi looked at Chen Fan in surprise, "Have you never written a mission report?"

As she spoke, she reached out and gently pressed the virtual button to confirm the upload.

"No, you misunderstood." Chen Fan asked again, hoping for the best: "...I mean, to whom did you upload this mission report?"

Hongshi's eyes became more and more surprised: "Of course it's Academician Wang Jing."

"Although it's a little strange, I think it's also a biological problem. Who else can I report it to except Academician Wang?"

All right.

The hanging heart finally died.

Chen Fan could even imagine Wang Jing's mental state after seeing this mission report!
Of course, his ending is predictable.

"Thank you so much..."

"You're welcome." Hongshi pulled the corner of his mouth and showed a standard smile. "Don't worry, the mission report I wrote is very standard."

Perhaps because she was afraid that Chen Fan wouldn't believe her, she added, "I've won an award!"

Chen Fan: "???"

He looked at the red stone beside him in bewilderment. Mission report and award...are there any connections between the two?

"Indeed." Yi's voice came from the right hand side. "In order to urge administrators to upload task reports on time, the management bureau once held corresponding selection competitions. In the first three selection competitions, Hongshi was the champion." Chen Fan's eyes twitched slightly.

Mission Report Selection Contest...

What a niche word.

"What about the fourth session?" Gao Yuan leaned forward and cast a clear and stupid look at Hongshi.

"There is no fourth session." Before Hongshi could speak, Yibian gave an explanation, "The results of the selection competition were not very good, so the Administration cancelled this project."

"I heard that the quality of the prizes is not very good, so no one is willing to bother."

Hongshi's face changed, and he quickly denied it: "Who said that?! I think the prize is pretty good, but it's a pity that this competition has only been held three times..."

"So..." Seeing the undisguised regret on Hongshi's face, Chen Fan's curiosity was also aroused, "What is the prize?"

"A custom-made gem. It was advertised as being made from a portion of a neutron star fortress."

"The co-branded gemstone of Neutron Star Fortress?" Chen Fan was a little surprised when he heard Yi's answer. "This prize shouldn't be bad, right? At least it has some symbolic meaning."

Hearing Chen Fan's words, a deep smile suddenly appeared in Hongshi's eyes.

As if she had met a kindred spirit, she excitedly called up a holographic interface and displayed it in front of Chen Fan: "Look!"

In the deep starry sky, there are three white "gems" floating with strange shapes and sparkling luster.

The gems are arranged in a triangular shape, and under the influence of gravity, they perform irregular three-body motion in the boundless starry sky.

"This thing..."

Looking at the picture in the holographic interface, Chen Fan couldn't help swallowing his saliva: "How big is it?"

"Also, why do the shapes of these gems seem familiar to me?"

Hongshi cheerfully gave the answer: "Because they were carved in my image!"

"The average diameter is close to one kilometer, and in terms of mass... since it is made of neutron star material, it should be heavier than a regular rocky planet."

Chen Fan suddenly fell into silence.

You call this a gem?!

"According to Director Moore's request, the custom-made gemstone will be made to look like the winner." Yi's voice came faintly, "You can imagine the appearance of neutron star fragments made into human shapes floating in the universe."

Chen Fan shuddered and the smile on his face became stiff.

Don't say it, really don't say it.

In a sense, this prize is probably something that only Hongshi can afford - she herself is a crystal stone, so naturally she doesn't worry about social death.

"In addition, this machine checked the information."

"When the first competition was held, a neutron star fortress happened to be allocated to the fleet under the Administration."

Chen Fan: “…Ha, ha, ha.”

"You just said that this was Director Moore's request?"

After getting Yi's affirmation, Chen Fan felt relieved.

If it was Chief Moore...

Then the prizes from QQ and Soso are understandable.

If he remembered correctly, Director Moore was so cruel as to deduct 500 credit points from the shipping cost of the stargate components!
Taking the scraps from building the neutron star fortress as prizes... is indeed a very normal and routine operation.

"Notice!"

"The starship is about to arrive at the designated area at the bottom of the hatchery tower!"

The ship's synthesized voice sounded without warning, drawing Chen Fan and others' attention back to the mysterious world outside the porthole.

"Drip-drip-drip-"

Bright red warning messages continuously flashed in the azure holographic interface.

The information entropy fluctuation curve, which had only slight fluctuations before, began to open and close greatly as the investigator starship arrived at the bottom of the incubation tower - at this moment, the intensity of the information disturbance around the investigator starship had far exceeded the level of a single light stone exploding due to energy stimulation!
But even so, this information disturbance is still not as good as the large phantom that the ghost fleet once created, let alone the core interference source in the large phantom.

Thanks to this, apart from a vague and almost negligible feeling of dizziness, the people on the investigator starship did not feel much unusual.

hum...

A slight tremor came from under my feet, and the starship successfully docked at the bottom of the hatchery tower.

Looking at the fluorescent "light stone tiles" flashing outside the porthole, Chen Fan, who had been prepared, stood up first and reached out to close the visor of the mechanical exoskeleton.

Amid the electronic notification sound of [Armor internal circulation has been successfully activated], Chen Fan said in a deep voice on the communication channel:
"Everyone, it's time for us to get down to business."

……

Very similar to the high-dimensional signal receiving tower built by [Su Zheng], the base at the bottom of the incubation tower is also a flat table top.

However... the base scale of the incubation tower far exceeds that of the receiving tower of [Su Zheng].

This is a circular base with a diameter of nearly 6,000 kilometers, and the entire base is made of dense dark purple material.

Thick pipes made of the same dark purple dense material extend from the base, stretching far into the vast space above like towering trees.

They coiled together at an altitude of 100 kilometers from the base, eventually forming spiral columns that provided growth space for the eggs.

In addition to the "pipeline" for transporting activated dark matter, a large amount of light stones are also laid on the surface of the base.

The twinkling stars that he saw when he first entered the incubation tower were now completely revealed in front of Chen Fan - they were pieces of polished light stone "floor tiles" arranged in a circle.

The diameter of each circular floor tile is more than fifty kilometers. These circular floor tiles are inlaid on a dark purple base, forming a strange and mysterious pattern.

The investigator starship was parked next to one of the light stone "tiles".

Swish!
As the air pressure inside and outside remained constant, the hatch of the starship suddenly opened, and a strange "other world" appeared in front of Chen Fan and others - in the distance, a black light whistled from the inside of the flat dark purple base under their feet, like a surging wave.

As the waves surged past, the light stone floor tiles with a faint luster suddenly became brighter.

"Chen Fan, you are right. It is indeed these light stones that are causing trouble..."

Beside him, Hongshi carefully placed several probes on the constantly flashing light stone tiles, and dutifully recorded the many pieces of information that flashed rapidly in the holographic interface - every time the light stone tiles flashed, the surrounding information entropy fluctuations would increase several times.

Unlike Hongshi, Chen Fan, who walked out of the starship, did not focus his attention on the small piece of light stone floor tile in front of him.

He narrowed his eyes slightly and scanned the flat base that seemed to have no end.

"Strange……"

Chen Fan shook his head and muttered to himself.

"Is there something wrong?" Hongshi's heart trembled. He quickly stopped the investigation and recording work in his hands and cast an inquiring look at Chen Fan.

In this complex and dangerous environment, she would rather trust Chen Fan's sensing ability.

Chen Fan narrowed his eyes and scanned the surrounding environment: "Do you remember what I said when we first entered the incubation tower?"

“I felt that this incubation tower was strangely familiar.”

Hongshi nodded slightly.

Of course she remembered this incident. It was because of the sense of familiarity that Chen Fan mentioned that they discovered the information disturbance inside the incubation tower in advance.

"I thought before that this strange feeling of familiarity was brought by the light stone."

Chen Fan shook his head slowly, his expression becoming more serious: "But now it seems that it is not that simple."

"Rather than the light stone itself, it's the information fluctuation that brings a sense of familiarity to me."

"You..." Hongshi's eyes revealed a hint of doubt. She couldn't experience the information disturbance firsthand, so she naturally couldn't understand the meaning. "What do you mean?"

"For example."

"Information disturbances are like water waves that spread throughout this space. They can overlap and influence each other..."

“These polished stone tiles may look the same, but their functionality is very different.”

Chen Fan raised his hand seemingly casually and pointed to a patch of light stone tiles in the distance: "That is the convergence point of all information disturbances. Although it is not the exact center of the pedestal, it is the strongest area of ​​information disturbance."

Perhaps he felt that this method of pointing fingers was too rough, so Chen Fan frowned slightly and raised his hand to call up a holographic image in front of him.

The projection clearly showed a bird's-eye view of the base taken when the starship landed.

Under Hongshi's gaze, Chen Fan raised his hand and pointed out dozens of light stone tiles in the holographic interface: "These places are the amplification areas of information disturbance. You can think of them as wave pumps. When passing through these blocks, the originally flat information disturbance will be amplified a second time."

"Corresponding to the amplification area, there is also a buffer area."

He pointed out some areas again: "The light stones here can interfere with overly intense information disturbances. Simply put, they can reduce their impact."

"The other light stone tiles are like fuel, which steadily releases the information disturbance contained within under a unique mechanism."

Chen Fan breathed a sigh of relief: "In general, this is a carefully designed information disturbance circuit. It can not only release the information disturbance inside the light stone, but also emit this information disturbance to the target at a specific intensity."

Hongshi nodded thoughtfully, but the next second, she realized the problem: "This doesn't seem to have anything to do with the familiarity you just mentioned, right?"

Chen Fan's eyebrows twitched slightly, and he murmured in a low voice: "I have seen a very similar information disturbance circuit before."

He slowly turned around, looked into Hongshi's uneasy eyes, and said something in a weak voice that shocked her:
"It's in the Xinalo Palace."

"In the place of prayer, there is such an information disturbance circuit."

(End of this chapter)