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

Chapter 465 Vacuum Zero-Point Energy!
Inside the cockpit of the Investigator starship.

Hongshi frowned slightly as she looked at the giant scorpion larva in the holographic interface. The larva was not moving at all and the black light on its body was gradually fading away.
"It seems that this attack seems to have some effect?"

She turned her head to look at Chen Fan, who had his eyes closed in the main driver's seat next to her. Then, she reached out and entered a line of complex parameters on the holographic interface in front of her, and adjusted the direction of the starship's secondary and main guns.

According to the original plan, she should strike while the iron is hot and launch a third round of attack directly against the giant scorpion larvae.

but……

Seeing that Chen Fan did not wake up as planned, Hongshi fell into hesitation.

"Mr. Hongshi, Chen Fan..."

On the other side, Isa also turned her head and cast a concerned look at Chen Fan who was motionless: "...Why haven't you woken up yet?"

In response to Isa's question, Hongshi shook his head helplessly.

Even Academician Wang Jing couldn't figure out the many conditions of Chen Fan, let alone her.

Outside the porthole, the black light on the giant scorpion's body grew stronger. After a short rest, it opened its two pairs of scarlet vertical pupils again.

Unlike before, it did not attack the investigator starship immediately, but turned its head to look at a strange angle, and the slender scorpion tail that was originally raised high also drooped slightly.

Hongshi quickly noticed this scene and looked in the direction of the giant scorpion's gaze.

Nothing.

Aside from the stellar flares and the bursts of light from the light stone tiles below, there was almost nothing visible to the naked eye in that space.

Redstone's heart moved, and he recalled the abnormal behavior of the giant scorpion just now - when the light stone was detonated for the second time, the giant scorpion suddenly gave up attacking the investigator starship and instead pounced on an empty area.

Now that I think about it, that was exactly the time when Chen Fan's "consciousness left his body".

After some association, Hongshi understood clearly in his mind - where the giant scorpion's gaze was, was where Chen Fan's consciousness was.

After realizing this, she didn't hesitate at all. She reached out and pulled the joystick in front of her, controlling the starship to rush towards that area!
No matter what the situation is, it's always right to provide support.

……

It’s over, it’s over…

Something happened to Lang!

Feeling the waves of weakness coming from inside out, this was the only thought left in Chen Fan's mind.

Just now he was only focused on experiencing his new ability and didn't notice the consumption of this new ability at all.

In retrospect, it is clear that the cost of controlling the flow of information far exceeds many of the previous capabilities.

This is also a normal situation that makes sense - how can conventional means control a technology that even the Human Union has not yet mastered!
The bottoming out of the blue bar is obviously not good news.

As waves of weakness continued to surge up, he felt that his control over the surrounding space had also weakened a lot.

Then, a more fatal situation emerged.

The curvature navigation, which was already intermittent, was directly interrupted!
——He can’t go back!
From his perspective, his own consciousness was like a desk lamp whose battery was about to run out, constantly flickering with a faint fluorescent light.

Just like those Xinalo people whose whole bodies are glowing with fluorescence.

Looking at his constantly flickering body, Chen Fan smiled bitterly, and this magical thought emerged in his mind.

He shook his head, putting this unreasonable association behind him, then looked at the investigator starship which was still quite a distance away and sighed silently.

How should he inform the redstone that controls the starship of this situation?

I can't just float in this space and wait silently for the "blue bar" to recover, right?

You know what, this is indeed a plan.

Even in the absence of a conscious body, the "blue bar" can be restored - Chen Fan experienced this clearly after completely giving up control of the surrounding space.

Rather than calling it a "blue bar", it's better to call it "stamina", or...

energy.

As time passed, almost imperceptible waves seeped out from the surrounding space, making up for the deficit in his body.

Although the whole process is very slow and imperceptible, it is indeed happening continuously.

Chen Fan made a rough estimate.

According to the current progress, he will be able to launch a normal-distance warp flight in about a few hours.

The moment he came to the conclusion, Chen Fan's eyes twitched suddenly.

This horse riding...

It's a bit too slow!!
Just as Chen Fan was feeling helpless and furious, a faint wave of space-time fluctuations came from a distance, interrupting his thoughts.

As the flashing black light from the main guns and secondary guns gradually dissipated, the Investigator Starship seemed to have noticed his presence and headed straight towards him!

Looking at the Investigator Starship getting closer and closer, Chen Fan felt tears welling up in his eyes for the first time from the bottom of his heart!!

……

A few minutes later.

“…Oh my god, I almost couldn’t come back!”

Inside the investigator's starship, Chen Fan suddenly opened his tired eyes and said with some fear.

Beside him, Hongshi was controlling the starship to avoid the giant scorpion's attack, while glancing sideways at Chen Fan who was holding his forehead with his hand.

"What happened?"

She asked hesitantly, "Why do I feel like you...look so haggard?"

Chen Fan's eyes twitched slightly.

How can I not feel haggard?
That wave of operations to control the flow of information almost drained him dry!
"It's a long story."

Chen Fan took the cup of water from Isa with a slightly trembling left hand, and at the same time interrupted Hongshi's action of continuing to detonate the light stone: "Wait a moment, don't waste the light stone."

Hongshi was slightly stunned, then canceled the launch program he had just set up: "Waste?"

She glanced at the giant scorpion that was relentlessly chasing the starship and even took the opportunity to eat two dried scorpion eggs. Her brows knitted slightly. "Is the information storm generated by detonating the light stone ineffective?"

"Yes." Chen Fan swallowed the slightly sweet concentrated nutrient solution in his mouth, took a breath, and handed the cup back to Isa, who looked concerned. "But the information storm generated by the light stones is too dispersed. I estimate that even if all the light stones here are detonated, it will be difficult to have a sufficiently effective impact on the information barrier around the giant scorpion."

As he spoke, Chen Fan roughly depicted the many information flows he had seen previously on the holographic interface in front of him.

Hearing this, Hongshi's face became more and more uneasy: "Then the support fleet is..."

"In theory..." Chen Fan waved his hand, "As long as the problem of power dispersion can be solved, high-intensity information flow can indeed cause a considerable impact on the information barrier, and even break the information barrier."

"Let's not talk about the support fleet for now."

"We don't have the technology right now, and the original information disturbance circuit has been completely destroyed." Hongshi frowned even more deeply, "In this case, don't we have any way to deal with this giant scorpion?"

"Hey!"

Chen Fan shook his head repeatedly: "You can't say that..."

"Do you have any idea?"

Wang Jing's voice suddenly came from the communication link.

Looking at Wang Jing's figure on the communication interface, Chen Fan subconsciously raised his hand and touched the tip of his nose: "There is something I just forgot to say..."

"Just now, I suddenly realized that I seemed to be able to control the flow of information."

"...Huh?" In the communication interface, Wang Jing opened her lips slightly and looked at Chen Fan in surprise, "Do you know what you are saying?"

"of course."

Chen Fan shrugged and recounted his experience after his consciousness left his body in detail: "Although I haven't tried it specifically, I think it's not difficult to build an information circuit to make the power of the information storm a little more concentrated."

"..."

This time, the investigator starship fell into complete silence.

for a long time.

"Then... then what the hell are you waiting for?!" Wang Jing's hoarse voice broke the silence in the cockpit: "Hurry up and do it!!"

"That's right!" Wang Jing was excited on the communication interface, with a blush on both sides of her cheeks. "After the giant scorpion is dealt with, you must come to the research ship immediately."

"I've made up my mind. You will be my experimental assistant. We will work together to perfect the information weapon, and then let the support fleet blast open the door to the anti-universe with one shot..."

"Wait!" Seeing that Wang Jing's words were going off topic, Chen Fan interrupted her and said, "Listen to what I have to say first!"

"You say." Wang Jing took a deep breath and calmed her agitated emotions.

At this moment, the way she looked at Chen Fan was as if she had seen a huge treasure.

How can this be called a dangerous technology investigator?
This is clearly a good omen that will help her and her friends make progress! !
"..." Looking at Wang Jing's strange eyes, Chen Fan raised his hand and touched the tip of his nose again, smiling a little embarrassedly, "I didn't grasp the degree when I was testing just now. Now I feel a little weak. I probably won't be able to control the information flow in a short time."

Wang Jing: “…”

Chen Fan added: "Give me some time. When the mana bar is full, I can..."

Wang Jing interrupted Chen Fan directly: "How long will it take?"

"At least as soon as possible..." Chen Fan carefully stretched out a finger.

"An hour?" Wang Jing breathed a sigh of relief. "That's not a long time. I can wait..."

"Well, I mean...it'll take at least a day."

Wang Jing's voice stopped abruptly: "..."

She stood up slightly, supported herself on the lab table in front of her with both hands, and put her head in front of the camera: "No, buddy?!"

"Take away less time? A day?!"

Wang Jing's expression was a little distorted: "When you recover, those damn giant scorpions will be driven back to the place of creation!!"

"This... I can't do anything about it." Chen Fan spread his hands helplessly, the fatigue in his eyes becoming more and more intense, "The speed of extracting that kind of energy is really too slow, and I reported a day as less than the time!"

"energy?"

With the accomplishments of a Class I academician, Wang Jing's heart moved, and she immediately realized the key point in Chen Fan's words, and her originally distorted expression immediately calmed down:
"What energy? Where do you extract the energy from?"

"I don't know either." Chen Fan scratched his head, his face full of confusion, "It looks like... it's a bit like energy extracted from the surrounding space."

Fearing that Wang Jing would continue to make requests, he hastily added: "This is a bit like instinct. I don't know how to control this process."

Wang Jing didn't pay attention to the second half of Chen Fan's words.

She raised her eyebrows, with a hint of doubt in her eyes: "Energy extracted from the surrounding space out of thin air..."

"Could it be vacuum zero-point energy?" Wang Jing murmured in a voice that only she could hear. "A carbon-based biological consciousness can extract and call upon vacuum zero-point energy... Isn't this a bit too weird?"

Chen Fan: "...Academician Wang?"

I don’t know why, but I always feel that Wang Jing’s eyes are looking at him more and more weirdly.

"You wait."

Wang Jing came back to her senses and looked at Chen Fan with extremely complicated eyes: "Next, I will take over the control of the starship and lift the security restriction agreement of the shipboard main brain."

Chen Fan: “Ah?!”

"What?" Wang Jing glared at Chen Fan anxiously, "The next thing is very important, so cheer up!"

Seeing Chen Fan sitting up straight, Wang Jing continued, "Listen carefully. After the safety restriction agreement is lifted, I will remotely cut off the energy pathway of one of the investigator starships."

"ah?!!"

This time it was not Chen Fan who spoke, but Hongshi who was standing beside him.

She looked eagerly at Wang Jing in the holographic interface: "Wang, Academician Wang, if we cut off the energy pathway, then we will..."

Wang Jing waved her hand: "Don't worry, it's just a branch energy pathway that provides energy to the secondary guns. Theoretically, it won't have much impact on the starship, and the adaptive repair machinery will quickly repair it."

She turned her gaze and looked at the somewhat confused Chen Fan again: "The whole process only took about ten seconds. Take this opportunity to show me clearly."

"Look, what are you looking at?"

Faced with a powerful enemy, Chen Fan became increasingly confused by this self-defeating operation.

"I suspect the energy you mentioned is vacuum zero-point energy, so I need to verify it."

"Pure vacuum zero-point energy flows in the starship's energy pathways." Unlike before, Wang Jing was extra patient this time. "The intensity of vacuum zero-point energy is very high. For most life forms, it is a highly radioactive and highly toxic substance."

"The active leakage of zero-point energy is a major accident that violates the safety protocol, but the situation is urgent and I can't find a channel for you to experience zero-point energy in a short time, so I can only resort to this last resort."

Chen Fan nodded blankly.

Until now, he still feels a little unreal.

Can his consciousness extract vacuum zero-point energy?

So... can he still be considered a human being?
"be prepared."

Wang Jing looked solemn and interrupted Chen Fan's messy thoughts: "I am ready to take over the control of the starship."

……

【Control authority has been successfully transferred. 】

The moment Wang Jing finished speaking, a bright red warning message suddenly popped up on the holographic interface just above the main console.

Chen Fan and Wang Jing beside him also loosened their grip on the joysticks.

Now, the control of the investigator starship has fallen into the hands of Wang Jing - to be precise, in the hands of the onboard mainframe of the TE1571 research vessel.

"Mastermind, begin dismantling security protocols."

Wang Jing gave the order calmly.

next second.

"Drip-drip-drip-"

Along with a bright red pop-up warning, a sharp alarm instantly filled the entire cockpit: "Warning!"

"This operation violates the Human Alliance Starship Driving Safety Act. Please enter your identification code and reconfirm the operation!"

Faced with these glaring warning messages, Wang Jing's expression remained unchanged, and he spoke again, reporting a string of codes mixed with numbers and characters.

"Identity verification passed."

"Authorized by Wang Jing. The authorization information has been automatically uploaded to the superior mainframe."

"Security protocols have been successfully lifted."

The moment the electronic synthesized sound stopped, the endless stream of bright red pop-up windows in the holographic interface suddenly cleared, and the cockpit returned to calm.

Almost at the same time, a violent vibration came from the left deck of the Investigator Starship!
boom! ! !
Accompanied by a deafening explosion, the secondary gun on the left side of the starship exploded!
A huge gap appeared in the hard and dense armor layer, and a stream of azure blue water spurted out from the gap at an extremely high speed!

The moment it touched the light golden barrier, the azure torrent instantly spread out, forming half of an ellipsoidal "eggshell" with irregular edges!
As the value of the energy fluctuation monitor soared instantly, another bright red warning message automatically popped up in front of Chen Fan and others! !
【warn! ! 】

[The energy path is broken! The vacuum zero-point energy has leaked! ! ]

[The adaptive repair program has been activated and the damaged area is being repaired...]

"Hurry!" Wang Jing's urging voice came from the communication channel, "Hurry up!!"

As Wang Jing's voice rang out, the azure energy torrent began to gradually weaken - the adaptive repair machinery had begun to take effect.

On the other side, Chen Fan had already closed his eyes.

He endured the intense feeling of fatigue and controlled his consciousness to stick his head out vaguely.

Just a glance from a distance, and Chen Fan's expression changed drastically!

This is the "energy" he felt earlier!
The so-called "blue bar" was actually vacuum zero-point energy!!

ps: I am spending the holidays with my wife, so there will probably be only one update today.

(End of this chapter)