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

Chapter 491 Five-dimensional puzzle (two in one)

The ever-changing starry sky outside the porthole quickly attracted the attention of Chen Fan and others.

The nebula that spans more than eight thousand light years is just a simple number, but for Chen Fan and the other three who are inside the Land of Creation, this is undoubtedly an earth-shaking change - the light red "fog" rolled towards the empty area where the investigator's starship was located.

Like a sandstorm sweeping across the sky and earth, these thin gases and dust seemed to be affected by some force and were running wildly in the starry sky at an astonishing speed of more than 2000km/s.

This is obviously not the speed at which the nebula should move.

Of course, this is not an effect that can be achieved by microgravity alone - how can microgravity make a nebula run at a speed of 2000 kilometers per second?

of course.

If we raise our perspective to the place of creation 8,000 light years away, the movement speed of these nebular materials is still not enough.

Putting aside the question of whether the increasingly sparse nebula matter inside the Place of Creation can cover the entire galaxy, just talking about those "worm-eaten" voids that are more than ten or even dozens of light years in size, relying solely on a moving speed of 2000km/s, it may take thousands of years to complete this large-scale nebula migration.

However, for the Kraken's long lifespan, a thousand years is just a nap.

"This is……"

Looking at the wonderful scene outside the porthole, Hongshi's eyes moved, and a guess suddenly emerged in his mind: "Is the Kraken repairing its own body?"

Hearing Hongshi's words, Chen Fan couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and a little joy flashed in his eyes: "It does look a bit like him."

He couldn't help smacking his lips and sighed, "I didn't expect that the Kraken still had the energy to repair itself even though it was injured like this. The vitality of the nebula life is really tenacious..."

"Is Kraken's injury serious?" Redstone quickly captured the key information in Chen Fan's words.

"This..." Chen Fan didn't know how to explain to Hongshi for a moment.

"The size of the nebula life is too large, and the life form of the Kraken is too abstract for our ordinary life forms, so you may not have any intuitive impression of the Kraken's injuries."

Hongshi nodded thoughtfully.

Chen Fan is right.

In her opinion, even if a huge nebula of 8,000 light years in size has some voids inside, at least its general shape is still there, right?
In fact, not only Hongshi, but also Isa and Gao Yuan cast confused looks at Chen Fan.

"Let me give you a simple analogy."

Chen Fan pondered for a moment, then reached out and called up a human body structure model on the holographic interface in front of him: "If Kraken is regarded as an ordinary human, then the injuries he suffered earlier can be regarded as countless ants devouring his internal organs and muscle tissue, and even devouring most of the basic skeleton, not to mention organs and tissues such as blood vessels."

As he spoke, Chen Fan reached out and removed various organs and tissues from the human body structure model.

After Chen Fan's operation, the model was reduced to a relatively clear outline.

It is like the land of creation which still retains its general shape.

Looking at the picture in the holographic interface, Isa and Gao Yuan's faces turned pale instantly - the picture of Chen Fan reaching out to hollow out the human body model was indeed too bizarre. Except for ruthless people like Chen Fan who went in and out of biological laboratories all year round, most people probably couldn't stand this scene.

Different from Isa and Gao Yuan who were shaking like sieves in fear, Hongshi's face looked quite normal. She even found time to comment on Chen Fan's technique of removing holographic internal organs.

after all……

She is not a human being at all, so naturally she would not find this scene creepy.

As for redstone, instead of using a human model to demonstrate it, it would be more horrifying to find two blood-red gems on a planet and then cut the gems into pieces.

Chen Fan looked at Hongshi, who was standing beside him with great interest, with some helplessness, and a rather surprising thought emerged in his mind: In Hongshi's eyes, gambling on stones should be considered an extremely bloody and violent act, right?

At least it's enough to be considered a dismemberment case.

Perhaps noticing the strangeness in Chen Fan's eyes, Hongshi tilted his head and cast a curious, inquiring look at Chen Fan.

"Cough!" Chen Fan used the cough to cover up the guilt caused by his inappropriate association, and brought the topic back to the topic, "In short, based on this foundation, the previous operation of constructing the macroscopic gravitational ties can only be regarded as perfecting the main skeleton and key organs of the Kraken."

"Forget about muscle tissue, blood vessels, and the like. There's not even a trace of the tiny skeleton!"

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and waved away the badly damaged holographic mannequin in front of him.

As the bizarre scene slowly faded away, Isa and Gao Yuan's pale faces barely recovered a little.

"Academician Wang has made an estimate. Theoretically, even if the peacekeeping fleet is fully deployed, it will probably take several years to perfectly reconstruct the Kraken's body."

Chen Fan shrugged: "Don't look at me with suspicion, these are the original words of Academician Wang."

"The Place of Creation is like a precision instrument, and the microgravity that permeates the starry sky is like the tiniest parts. If you are not careful, it will cause a large area of ​​the nebula to become disordered."

"Has the Kraken awakened now?"

Hongshi seemed to have realized something and finally asked a question that everyone cared about.

"I'm afraid it's not that simple."

Chen Fan shook his head: "At least so far, I haven't felt the Kraken's consciousness fluctuations in this starry sky."

"Then..." Hongshi was a little confused.

It took so much time, the gravitational bond was built, and the nebula of the place of creation began to repair itself, but the Kraken has not woken up yet. Listen, is this reasonable?
"Don't worry." Chen Fan smiled and waved his hand, "This is why Wang Jing asked me to carry out this mission."

"The restoration of the macroscopic gravitational system does not necessarily allow the Kraken to regain consciousness quickly."

"Based on the latest material information theory, Academician Wang believes that consciousness resonance may have a strong stimulating effect on the macroscopic consciousness, thereby allowing the dormant consciousness to..."

"Speak human language." Hongshi's eyes twitched and he interrupted Chen Fan.

Chen Fan said dryly: "...Kraken may be asleep, and we need an alarm clock to wake him up."

"Unfortunately, I am the alarm clock chosen by Wang Jing."

Hongshi: "..."

……

After calming down, the alarm clock... no, Chen Fan slowly closed his eyes.

As soon as he thought about it, his consciousness left this body made of antimatter with great skill.

As an almost imperceptible space-time fluctuation drifted towards the surrounding space-time, he had already passed through the thick shell of the investigator starship and came to the empty starry sky again.

Completely different from the picture observed by the naked eye, from the perspective of the conscious body, the vast starry sky is filled with tiny ripples that look like water waves.

With just one glance, Chen Fan recognized the true identity of these ripples - disturbed information flow.

Different from the information flows I have seen before, the information flows diffused in the starry sky have a distinct sense of "fragmentation".

Whether it is the chaotic information flow released by the light stone or the regular information flow created by the Genesis unit, they are all complete ripples with peaks and troughs.

But the information flows in front of us are different, some have only troughs, and some have only peaks.

In addition, these information flows were randomly running around in the starry sky, which gave Chen Fan an inexplicable sense of "fragmentation".

Chen Fan's heart moved, and he drove his consciousness towards the nearest ripples.

He slowly raised his right hand, which was flashing with a faint fluorescent light, and stretched it towards the broken ripples.

The information flow, which theoretically would not come into contact with external objects, suddenly underwent some unexpected changes the moment it touched Chen Fan's right hand - it was like a ripple spreading on the water surface. When it touched a stone exposed above the water surface, the water wave suddenly rebounded and spread in a completely different direction from before.

At the same time, the information flow that was forced to change direction also had a certain impact on the surrounding information flow, causing the remaining ripples to turn in varying degrees.

But Chen Fan's attention at this time was not on these constantly fluctuating information flows.

He stared blankly at the gradually fading information waves, and a hint of joy appeared in his eyes again - in these "fragmented" information waves, he felt a familiar feeling.

Kraken!
These disturbed information flows diffused in the starry sky come from the Kraken!

Based on the current situation, Chen Fan quickly made a deeper judgment - the reason why Kraken has not awakened after the macroscopic gravitational bond was restored is probably due to this fragmented information flow.

These information flows have not been fully aggregated, just like a person's consciousness is in a discrete state. As a nebula life form, Kraken naturally cannot wake up.

Chen Fan observed the information flow in the starry sky thoughtfully, and a solution already came to his mind:

Since these information flows cannot be aggregated on their own, he will lend a hand to Kraken!
He may not be able to solve other problems, but if there is a problem with the information flow...

Then you have found the right person!
When it comes to manipulating the flow of information, even human connections have to lag behind him!

Chen Fan did it right away. He had an idea and began to try to piece together these fragmented information streams scattered in the starry sky.

but……

This thing is easy to say but not easy to do.

These fragmented information flows are like loaches, running around in the vast starry sky. Even if Chen Fan's consciousness has the ability of curvature navigation, it will take him a lot of time to "catch" these information flows one by one.

That's not even a hassle.

After all, Chen Fan has a very strong control over the flow of information. As long as he can catch up with these scattered information flows, he will have the final say on what happens next.

The biggest difficulty lies in the process of splicing information flow.

These broken information flows have their own characteristics, and each one needs to be "placed" in the correct place.

It's like a puzzle.

But this puzzle is not two-dimensional, but... five-dimensional!

Yes, according to Chen Fan’s observation, all disturbed information flows are in a five-dimensional state. Because of this, they can easily break free from the constraints of the cosmic membrane.

So here comes the question: How to solve a five-dimensional puzzle?
It involves five mutually perpendicular directions, and these information flows are all irregular in shape. He doesn't even have the "original puzzle piece" in his hand...

The difficulty of this is definitely hell level!
Looking at the dense flow of information in front of him, Chen Fan suddenly fell silent.

After a long time, he opened his mouth and uttered a swear word.

"Grass!"

In this world, saving lives requires such advanced technical skills!
……

Inside the investigator starship.

Hongshi and the other two sat in their respective seats, silently looking at the slowly changing starry sky outside the porthole.

Among the three people, Chen Fan closed his eyes tightly, as if he was in a trance.

"I don't know what's going on with the peacekeeping fleet..."

There was a hint of worry between Isa's eyebrows. Ever since she learned that the entire universe bubble was filled with giant star scorpions, she felt a strong sense of uneasiness in her heart.

"It shouldn't be a big problem." Gao Yuan's voice came from behind. Unlike Isa, he waved his hand nonchalantly. "The Human Fleet is so powerful that those giant scorpions can't cause any trouble no matter how many there are."

"That's exactly what she said, but..." Yisha wanted to say something else, but was interrupted by Chen Fan who suddenly opened his eyes and sat up straight beside her, "Chen Fan? Are you awake?"

"Has the Kraken awakened?"

Isa asked hurriedly.

Chen Fan did not answer Isa's words.

His expression looked somewhat grim, and he brought up a holographic interface without even raising his head.

The next second, the holographic interface automatically presented a software interface dedicated to five-dimensional object modeling.

Perhaps she noticed something from Chen Fan's unusual behavior, Isa subconsciously closed her mouth, and at the same time raised her hand to stop Gao Yuan who was about to shout.

Under the gaze of the three people, twisted ripples that seemed to have no pattern and looked like earthworms began to appear in the holographic interface in front of Chen Fan.

As the number of ripples increased, a thin layer of cold sweat broke out on Chen Fan's forehead - it was too difficult to forcibly memorize an object with a five-dimensional structure.

Even though he had already left the category of carbon-based life, he still felt a little bit of difficulty at this moment.

You know, he had previously forced himself to memorize the many structures of a huge star map!

"...Tsk!"

As the speed of the ripples in the holographic interface began to slow down, Chen Fan let out a light click of his tongue, then closed his eyes again and returned to his previous state of being distracted by external objects.

After waiting for a moment, he opened his eyes again, and the stagnant ripple pattern in the holographic interface began to move forward again.

After repeating this process dozens of times, the ripple structure in the holographic interface was finally complete.

"call……"

Chen Fan breathed a sigh of relief, then raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead: "Yi, help me contact Wang Jing."

"Have her use the ship's main brain... no, use the academy's main brain to complete this five-dimensional puzzle as quickly as possible!"

"...Five-dimensional puzzle?" Hongshi frowned and repeated Chen Fan's words, "What is this thing?"

"It should be the consciousness of the Kraken."

Chen Fan smiled weakly: "These broken information flows are scattered throughout the Creation Land. If I'm not mistaken, as long as we piece these information flows together again, Kraken's consciousness will be restored."

Hongshi suddenly realized something and tilted his head to look at the ripple structure diagram that was being rearranged in the holographic interface. "Is this all the five-dimensional structure?"

"Then there's no need for a science academy mastermind."

Redstone hesitated for a moment and said, "Even the main brain of the Investigator Starship has a very powerful five-dimensional structure calculation and deduction ability. Solving this five-dimensional structure should be..."

Chen Fan's lips moved slightly, interrupting Hongshi's words: "This is just a broken information flow within a light-year star field."

"..."

The corner of Hongshi's eye twitched suddenly: "Excuse me."

Even if it is a three-dimensional structure, the gap between an eight thousand light-year star field and a one light-year star field is an astonishing five hundred billion times, not to mention that this little thing is a five-dimensional structure.

According to that...

I'm afraid only the mastermind of the Central Academy of Sciences is capable of completing this headache-inducing task!

……

On the other side, inside the TE1571 research vessel.

"... Seize the Young Master?!"

Wang Jing's eyes suddenly widened, staring straight at the dazzling five-dimensional structure in the holographic interface and Chen Fan's face that had fallen into a trance again.

"Re-assemble and repair the broken information flow in the 8,000-light-year star field..." Wang Jing gritted her teeth and said, "How can Chen Fan say such a thing?"

"Do you know how much work this is?!"

"It's a little clearer." Hongshi looked at Wang Jing with sympathy, "So Chen Fan asked to use the central brain of the Academy of Sciences to perform this calculation."

As if thinking of something, Hongshi added again: "It would be even better if Zero is willing to help."

"……hehe."

Wang Jing's eyes twitched and she rolled her eyes in annoyance.

What a beautiful thought.

Based on her understanding of zero, this kind of fool-proof calculation work would definitely not be possible...

"Don't worry, just leave it to me."

A gentle voice sounded in the laboratory, interrupting Wang Jing's inner complaints.

Along with this gentle male voice, a familiar young man suddenly appeared beside Wang Jing.

"...Zero?" Wang Jing stared at the young man constructed by the holographic projection in a daze, and subconsciously raised her hand to rub her eyes, "Did I hear correctly? Are you willing to take this computing task?!"

"Of course, this is my duty."

Facing Wang Jing's questioning look, Ling answered calmly.

"Don't give me that." Wang Jing glared at him unhappily. "Why didn't you say anything when I asked you to help me simulate the electrical signal model in Gaia's body?"

"Just tell me, did Chief Lu give the order?"

Zero was silent for a moment, and the virtual image in a white research robe slowly disappeared into the research ship.

The moment the virtual image completely disappeared, a holographic interface automatically unfolded in front of Wang Jing.

In the holographic interface, the chaotic five-dimensional structure is piecing together at a speed visible to the naked eye, forming a series of ripples with hidden patterns.

……

The star field of creation.

Chen Fan's consciousness looked at the fragmented information flow surrounding him, and began to replay the "puzzle explanation" provided by Zero in his mind.

As his thought moved, an inexplicable wave spread out from Chen Fan's consciousness, which was flashing with faint fluorescence, and gradually swept into the surrounding broken information flow.

suddenly.

A piece of information fragment mixed in countless broken information streams seemed to be pulled by something, instantly breaking free from the information stream and hovering precisely in front of Chen Fan.

Just like a signal, the second piece, the third piece, the fourth piece...

Countless fragments of information were lined up and pieced together under Chen Fan's control.

Time passes bit by bit.

A complete stream of information containing part of the Kraken's consciousness finally appeared in the starry sky.

【you……】

【finally come. 】

An extremely vague and weak information wave emerged in the starry sky and came towards Chen Fan's consciousness.

At the same time, the light red starlight gradually condensed, as if it was about to transform into the ocean of light that Chen Fan had seen before.

but……

After trying for a while, the ocean of light that had not yet taken shape suddenly collapsed, and the subtle information fluctuations disappeared again, leaving only a long sigh in the starry sky.

【well……】

ps: Damn, this chapter is the most painful (physically speaking) one I have ever written. Tenosynovitis is such a pain.

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