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

Chapter 458 Blocking
“…Has it been resolved?”

Hongshi's weak voice suddenly rang out in the quiet communication channel.

Chen Fan subconsciously looked towards the investigator starship not far behind him.

Redstone, wearing exoskeleton armor, leaned against the hatch of the starship, while Isa accompanied Redstone silently. With the help of the visual assistance system, Chen Fan could even clearly see Redstone's slightly pale face.

Although the overall information disturbance of the incubation tower base is not strong, the information disturbance in the core area will still have a considerable negative impact on the body of ordinary people, not to mention that Redstone has been waiting beside Chen Fan for more than ten minutes!
"Yes."

Chen Fan responded to Hongshi's question and turned to walk towards the starship: "Academician Wang said that in another 32 hours, the first batch of star scorpions will arrive at the place of creation."

"As for the support fleet... there is some hope, but whether it can be accomplished depends on luck."

"We have to speed up anyway."

Hearing Chen Fan's words, Hongshi's face suddenly became serious: "What should we do next? Collect light stones, or..."

She looked up at the dense scorpion eggs above her head and asked: "Can you help Academician Wang catch a few scorpion eggs?"

"..." Chen Fan thought for a moment and shook his head repeatedly, "Neither."

He followed Hongshi's gaze and looked upward. The scorpion eggs that kept wriggling in the black light looked like the eyeballs of a devil, and were particularly creepy.

"I plan to cut off the dark matter transmission channel of the hatching tower first."

Chen Fan said in a deep voice: "Let's not talk about the scorpion eggs near the base. Even if the scorpion eggs on the top floor of the incubation tower are successfully hatched, it will be an extremely troublesome thing."

"Besides... who knows if these scorpion eggs will undergo any weird changes after the giant scorpions arrive at the Land of Creation."

Before traveling through time, he had watched many similar movies.

In line with the principle of stability first, he doesn't want to cause any more trouble.

Hongshi nodded and agreed to Chen Fan's proposal: "We really can't rule out this possibility. What are you going to do?"

Chen Fan didn't say anything, but just silently nodded at the investigator starship next to him.

……

A few minutes later.

As the starship's hatch slowly closed, the starship, which was originally parked on the dark purple base, quickly took off.

Inside the starship cockpit.

Chen Fan carefully observed the holographic interface just above the main console.

It clearly shows the holographic structure of the entire incubation tower, with several bright red emphasis marks clearly marked on the azure background.

"One, are you sure the main pipelines are in these areas?"

"This is the result calculated by this machine based on the flickering law of the light stone. It cannot guarantee 100% accuracy." An electronic synthesized voice sounded in the cockpit.

Chen Fan subconsciously glanced out the porthole.

Just as Yi said, the light flickering on the dark purple base has a very obvious pattern.

The light stone lit up from the source of energy and then spread in all directions like a wave.

There are not many main pipelines. Such a large incubation tower has only five nodes in total.

Chen Fan raised his eyebrows and directly controlled the starship to head towards the nearest node.

Soon, he saw the so-called main pipeline - among the many spiral columns, the huge main pipeline was particularly conspicuous!

A huge pillar with a diameter of more than one kilometer extends from the bottom of the base like a towering tree. After leaving the surface of the base, it quickly branches out and stretches towards the spiral pillars.

A rich black light surged rapidly inside the pillar, causing the surrounding light stones to flash continuously.

The task of cutting off the dark matter transmission channel is not easy.

At least it is not a cut in the conventional sense - once the transmission pipeline is broken, activated dark matter will gush out from the crack.

This thing is truly dangerous!
Once a leak occurs, it will decay rapidly and release extremely huge amounts of energy!

To a certain extent, the activated dark matter in the pipe and the shells of the dark matter cannon are the same thing. If you act rashly on them, the entire incubation tower will be transformed into a huge bomb!
Therefore, after a brief discussion, Chen Fan decided to adopt a special "cut-off" plan.

Rather than cutting off, it is better to call it blocking.

Under the control of the ship's main brain, the investigator starship slowly adjusted its position, and as a white tractor beam lit up, several round pancake-shaped devices slowly flew out of the open belly hatch and fit precisely on the surface of the main pipe. The technological content of these round pancake-shaped devices was not high, they were just the most basic grand unified field generation devices - of course, the output power definitely reached the level of a ninth-level civilization.

Although the diameter of each circle is more than ten meters, for the main pipeline with a diameter of one kilometer, these circles are just a few spots on the surface of the thick tree trunk.

"Start blocking!"

Looking at the round cake that had completely surrounded the main pipeline, Chen Fan gave the order without any hesitation.

hum! ! !
The zero-point energy stored inside the cake suddenly gushed out, activating the grand unified field generating device inside.

Inside the main pipeline wrapped in dark purple armor, a barrier invisible to the naked eye slowly formed around the inside of the pipeline and gradually grew into the inside of the pipeline.

Gradually, the inner diameter of this main pipeline has been reduced to one third of its original size.

The activated dark matter that could originally pass smoothly will suddenly pause when passing through this barrier formed by the grand unified field, and then rush forward like a cannonball.

The most intuitive manifestation is that the black light that was originally surging at a uniform speed has experienced an abnormal rate change - this abnormal phenomenon is becoming more and more obvious as the grand unified field barrier gradually closes!

at last.

With the full operation of the grand unified field generating device, the barrier formed by the grand unified force field was successfully closed. The surging black light seemed to have encountered some powerful resistance, and its forward momentum suddenly stopped, and finally it accumulated silently just below the barrier.

"Blocking success."

Yi's electronic synthesized voice sounded in the cockpit.

Chen Fan looked at the main pipe that was getting brighter and brighter, and couldn't help feeling a chill in his heart.

He couldn't help but ask out loud: "Yi, how long can this thing last?"

To put it bluntly, this barrier formed by the grand unified force field is actually a gate that blocks the flow of water.

If the gate cannot withstand the impact of the activated dark matter, or the main pipeline is not strong enough to withstand the pressure of the dark matter accumulation, the consequences may be...

Unthinkable!

It is no exaggeration to say that the entire incubation tower could very likely be transformed into a giant planet-level firework in an instant! !

"This machine has calculated the impact of activated dark matter. Theoretically, it will not be penetrated before the main pipeline bursts." Yi quickly gave an answer, "As for the problem of the main pipeline bursting, this machine thinks there is no need to worry for the time being."

"Normally, energy transmission pipelines have pressure detection functions. Once a pipeline is found to be blocked, energy transmission will be stopped immediately..."

Before he finished speaking, the half of the main pipe that had been shining brightly began to dim at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The bright light stones around them quickly went out, leaving only a faint white fluorescence - this was the light caused by the energy fluctuations of the investigator starship.

"Look." The electronic synthesized voice continued, "It is estimated that an abnormal pressure inside the pipeline has been detected, and an emergency shutdown has been implemented."

Chen Fan breathed a sigh of relief, and his heart, which had been hanging in the air, fell back to the ground.

He calmed himself down, raised his head and looked at the spiral column connected to it.

On the dark purple pillars, there were still a few faint black lights flashing sporadically inside the densely packed scorpion eggs. Those were the activated dark matter remaining inside the scorpion eggs.

But as time went by, without external energy replenishment for a long time, the frequency of the scorpion eggs' wriggling began to slow down gradually, and the black light inside them began to fade until it disappeared.

Not only that, the originally plump and tough outer membrane of the scorpion eggs also began to dry up at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Just like a bunch of grapes exposed to the sun, after losing water, they become a bunch of shriveled raisins.

"Academician Wang is right."

"The growth process of these scorpion eggs requires a huge amount of energy. Once they lose the external energy supply, they will quickly enter a state of growth stagnation."

Hongshi's voice came from the side: "Based on this trend, it won't be long before these scorpion eggs die from energy exhaustion."

Chen Fan nodded, then retracted his gaze and looked at the other four main pipelines.

"one."

Without any worries, Chen Fan's eyes flashed with ruthlessness: "Speed ​​up!"

"Cut off all the main pipes as soon as possible!"

(End of this chapter)