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

Chapter 502 Black Box
Anti-universe.

A violent fluctuation of time and space flashed by, and then a silver-white scientific research ship appeared in this high-purity vacuum with almost no matter.

Next to the research vessel, a translucent film that resembles soap bubbles was slightly undulating in the empty starry sky, causing the starlight reflected on it to also fluctuate constantly.

The translucent film continues to extend forward in the starry sky. With the naked eye, the film looks like a towering city wall. However, if it is observed with high-precision instruments, it can be found that there is an extremely subtle curvature on its surface.

It is the existence of this curvature that turns this translucent film into a giant soap bubble spanning tens of thousands of light years!
This is the cosmic membrane of a small universe.

To be more precise, this is a spectacle that occurs when two cosmic bubbles fit together.

Inside the research vessel.

Wang Jing's attention was not on the wonders produced by the overlap of cosmic bubbles. She looked solemnly at the rapidly jumping information entropy fluctuation values ​​on the holographic interface of the main console.

This information flow is very short-lived.

Ever since the information fluctuation was discovered by the shipboard main brain and the research vessel entered the superluminal curvature state, this string of numbers symbolizing the intensity of the information fluctuation has shown signs of attenuation.

By the time the research ship successfully crossed hundreds of light years and arrived in this star field, the intensity of this information jet was only 10% of what it was at the beginning.

Not only that, as time goes by, these tiny information fluctuations are still approaching zero at a very fast rate.

"Damn, I still didn't make it..."

Looking at the information entropy numbers that quickly returned to zero, Wang Jing's face looked a little ugly.

Up to now, apart from the Genesis Fortress in front of him, only Chen Fan in the entire human alliance can release information jets of such intensity.

Therefore, the moment the information jet appeared, Wang Jing had already locked his target on Chen Fan inside the microcosm.

The investigator starship has lost contact again. It is not difficult to judge that this information jet is most likely something Chen Fan created to contact the fleet outside the microcosm.

only……

"Why did this information jet only last for such a short time?"

Wang Jing couldn't help but flash a trace of anxiety on her face: "Did something happen in the microcosm?"

She took a deep breath, tried her best to calm her anxious mood, and fell into deep thought as she looked at the information entropy fluctuation curve recorded in the holographic interface.

If this information jet is a distress signal sent by Chen Fan, then there is a high possibility that certain information is hidden in the fleeting information flow just now.

Thinking of this, Wang Jing issued an urgent order to the ship's main brain: "Main brain, try to deeply analyze the previously recorded information entropy fluctuation data to see if there is any hidden information in it."

As soon as the words fell, the output power of the ship's main computer instantly increased.

After a short wait, the electronic synthesized voice sounded again: "Sorry."

"There is no pattern in the information entropy fluctuation data."

“No valid information has been parsed yet.”

"How could this happen?" Wang Jing couldn't help but frowned. "There is no valid information, and the information fluctuation lasts for such a short time..."

"Hiss... this is weird."

She raised her hand and gently rubbed her temple, then took a deep breath: "What does this kid Chen Fan want to do?"

No one answered her question.

Outside the porthole, the huge soap bubble, which was so huge that it was uncomfortably huge, was still swaying slightly, as if the information jet just now had never appeared.

next second!
"Drip-drip-drip-"

The familiar and shrill alarm sounded again, interrupting Wang Jing's thoughts.

"High-intensity information fluctuations detected!!"

"coordinate:……"

As the voice of the shipboard mainframe sounded, a new coordinate information suddenly popped up on the holographic interface above the main console.

The coordinates of the previous information jet, which is the star field where the research ship is now located, are less than 500 light years away.

"here we go again?"

Wang Jing looked at the rapidly rising information entropy fluctuations in astonishment. She had no time to think and issued another order to the ship's main brain: "Main brain, high-dimensional jump!!"

"We must catch up with this information fluctuation this time!!"

A few minutes later.

"..."

The atmosphere in the driving room of the research vessel was somewhat solemn. Wang Jing pursed her lips tightly and stared at the curve in the holographic interface that had returned to the zero axis.

Missed it again!

This time the information fluctuation is even more outrageous than the first one - the research ship has not officially exited the high-dimensional transition, and the information entropy fluctuation has begun to plummet.

"Drip-drip-"

Before Wang Jing could catch her breath, the alarm sounded again, and a new set of coordinates appeared in the holographic interface again - the information jet returned to the vicinity of the star field where it appeared last time, and the research ship was 629 light years away from it.

hum! !

Before Wang Jing could give the order, the ocean of time and space, which had just been calm, was once again stirred up by turbulent waves, and the research ship once again disappeared into the starry sky.

……

"Drip-drip-"

The silver-white research ship stopped silently in the starry sky. In the cockpit, Wang Jing looked at the holographic interface in front of him with a somewhat numb expression.

"Another new coordinate..."

Wang Jing's eyes twitched slightly, and she sighed heavily: "This is the 29th time!!"

Not bad.

From the time the first information wave appeared, in just over ten minutes, 29 high-intensity information jets had appeared on the surface of the small cosmic bubble.

These information jets only last for a very short time, the longest lasting no more than a few minutes, and the shortest even only a few seconds.

As for the coordinates where information jets appear, they are even more varied.

A huge star map was displayed on the holographic interface in front of Wang Jing, with 29 scattered red dots clearly reflected on it.

These red dots are the coordinates of the information fluctuations recorded by the ship's main brain. The average distance between each red dot reaches 500 light years, and the farthest two red dots are even 5000 light years apart!

"This is fucking..."

Wang Jing cursed through her teeth: "What kind of distress signal is this?!"

Whose distress signal is waving around like a light ball in a disco? !
The holographic interface flashed again, and Wang Jing raised her eyelids to take a look at it in annoyance.

"The 30th coordinate..."

To this day, she couldn't help but have a doubt.

"Master Brain, do you think Chen Fan would be so foolish as to put the information in the coordinates of the information jet transformation?"

After all, the shipboard main brain did not discover any hidden patterns from the intensity fluctuations of the information flow - whether it was the common communication code of the Human Union, the encryption format exclusive to the Dangerous Technology Management Bureau, or the encryption method commonly used by the Academy of Sciences, none of them could be applied to these information fluctuations.

"Feel sorry."

The electronically synthesized voice of the shipboard mainframe gave an answer smoothly without any pause: "No regular information has been found in the information jet coordinates so far."

"So far, the changes in the coordinates have shown an irregular and random tendency."

Listening to the report from the ship's main brain, Wang Jing couldn't help but feel a sharp pain in his head.

Irregular random fluctuations mean that the information jet is like an "uncertain" laser pen in a child's hand. No one knows where it will shine in the next second.

But the range of a laser pointer is only a few meters or tens of meters, while the range of an information jet is...

That’s a fucking cosmic bubble tens of thousands of light years in size!

Even if this "laser pen" only has a small deviation, the displacement projected outside the cosmic membrane will be at least hundreds of light years!
"This kid Chen Fan..."

Wang Jing sighed heavily again: "What on earth is going on in the small universe bubble?!"

Looking at the 31st new coordinates slowly emerging in the holographic interface, Wang Jing suddenly had an absurd idea in his mind -

The small universe before our eyes seems to have become an "uncertain" black box!

Without knowing what's going on inside the black box, I'm afraid no one can find the pattern of this information jet running everywhere!
……

At the same time, inside the microcosm.

The circular acceleration loop composed of information flow continued to operate under Chen Fan's control. Jets of information continuously left the acceleration loop and shot straight towards the cosmic membrane directly ahead.

Next to the information loop, the starry ocean that was originally more than 800 kilometers in size had now shrunk to more than 700 kilometers - a large amount of information fragments had been removed, and the vacuum zero-point energy had been extracted in large quantities, causing the Kraken's newly recovered consciousness to inevitably decline significantly.

"Strange……"

Chen Fan's eyes were filled with increasing doubt: "It's been such a long time, why hasn't there been any response from outside?"

"Could it be that... the Human Fleet has been wiped out by the Broadcasting Civilization?"

As soon as this thought flashed through his mind, Chen Fan shuddered: "No, no, no, no!"

[Your Excellency the Envoy…]

A clear message wave came from the ocean of starlight: [Something seems to be wrong.]

"……what?"

Chen Fan subconsciously stopped firing the information jet and turned to look at the ocean of stars beside him: "What's the problem?"

[I sensed a familiar wave of information in a star field not far away. It seemed...] Kraken hesitantly sent out a message, [It was the information jet you sent.]

Hearing this, Chen Fan frowned immediately: "Is there such a thing?" "Those information jets...shouldn't they have already passed through the cosmic membrane?"

"How is it possible that it would appear inside the microcosm?"

【I should be right. 】

Kraken continued to send out a message: [I can take you to have a look. Also... there seem to be some changes in the information flow.]

Chen Fan turned his head and glanced at the information acceleration circuit that had just been built, then nodded: "Then take me to have a look."

The information loop can be rebuilt if it is lost, but if there is a problem with the information jet...

That’s a big problem!!

With this thought in mind, Chen Fan's mind moved, and the huge acceleration circuit collapsed and turned into a series of fragmented information flows again.

Immediately afterwards, accompanied by a faint information fluctuation, the light red sea of ​​starlight suddenly dissipated, and Chen Fan's consciousness also disappeared in this star field shortly afterwards.

Another star field 1500 light years away.

As the pale red ocean of starlight slowly emerged in the dim starry sky, Chen Fan's consciousness also quickly appeared.

As soon as he arrived at the star field described by Kraken, Chen Fan couldn't help but frown.

Kraken was right.

This star field is indeed filled with various chaotic information flows.

Most of them are polluted information flows that penetrated from outside the cosmic membrane, while a small part is quite familiar information flows - yes, they are fragments of information flows from the place of creation.

only……

Chen Fan's mind moved, and he raised his hand to grab a stream of information floating in front of him.

After just a casual glance, Chen Fan showed a look of surprise on his face:

"The information that I compiled within these streams was disrupted."

"It seems... they have been disturbed by something external?"

[In fact, it is not just this star field.] Kraken added again, [This situation also exists in other star fields around.]

As he spoke, Kraken sent Chen Fan some coordinate information.

"These coordinates..."

With just a casual glance, Chen Fan realized the problem:
Perhaps because of the effect of macroscopic gravity, the microcosm is actually a slightly flattened ellipsoid after being wrapped by the cosmic membrane.

Like some rocky planets in the universe, the whole body is not a standard sphere.

The location where he just released the information jet is actually the "pole" of this ellipsoid, which is equivalent to the South Pole or North Pole of a rocky planet.

The coordinate information sent by Kraken happened to form an intermittent ring structure spanning more than tens of thousands of light years in the "equatorial" region of this ellipsoid.

The reason behind this is actually not difficult to imagine - if the information jet is regarded as a water flow and the cosmic membrane as an eggshell, when the water flow shoots out from the inside of the egg and hits the "pole" of the eggshell, the blocked water flow will inevitably disperse and fall evenly in the "equator" area of ​​the inner shell of the egg.

In other words.

"The information jet sent out earlier did not seem to have successfully penetrated the cosmic membrane, but was blocked by something..."

Chen Fan murmured softly while casting his gaze towards the illusory starry sky reflected by the cosmic membrane in front of him.

"No wonder there has been no response for so long..."

Beside me, the fluctuations of the ocean of starlight became slightly more intense.

【this……】

[If the information jet cannot penetrate the cosmic membrane, what should we do? ]

In response to Kraken's question, Chen Fan stared at the illusory starry sky in front of him, reached out to touch the cosmic membrane that was invisible to the naked eye, and a suicidal idea emerged in his mind.

"Kraken, what do you think..."

"How about drilling a hole in the cosmic membrane first and then sending out an information jet?"

……

【This, this is too dangerous! 】

Kraken refused repeatedly and repeated his previous words: [Emissary, the environment outside the cosmic membrane...]

"I know."

Chen Fan waved his hand: "But that's your experience."

"Maybe... I'm different from you?"

He eagerly touched the cosmic membrane and said half-jokingly, "Didn't you say before that my life class is higher?"

or……

Try?

If successful, he would be able to get in touch with the research ship extremely easily, and at the same time he would be able to personally confirm the "battle situation" outside the space bubble.

Thinking of the huge profits behind it, this idea began to expand uncontrollably.

[This... Your Excellency the Envoy, even if your life class is higher, I don't know if you will...]

On the other side, Kraken tried to dissuade Chen Fan from his suicidal thoughts: [Besides, it takes a huge amount of energy for a consciousness to penetrate the cosmic membrane. Messenger, you...]

"Aren't you here?"

Chen Fan interrupted Kraken's words and turned his head to look at the surging sea of ​​stars beside him: "You should still have a lot of energy reserves now, right?"

【…】

The Kraken fell silent.

Seeing that Kraken acquiesced to his words, Chen Fan made up his mind: "Let's give it a try!"

"This polluted information flow has been seeping in from outside the universe bubble. We have to figure out the reason. Otherwise... wouldn't it be equivalent to a slow death?"

"I'm fine, but you..."

After these words were spoken, Kraken fell completely silent - Chen Fan was right, the biggest beneficiary of these risky moves was actually him.

"Kraken, keep an eye on it for me."

Chen Fan's voice continued: "If anything unusual happens, remember to pull me back."

Kraken cheered up and silently responded to Chen Fan's words.

the other side.

Chen Fan's mind moved, and he began to try to change his coordinates - since he did not have the terrifyingly powerful output power of the Genesis Fortress, he could only choose the relatively tricky solution of modifying the coordinates.

If you want to modify the coordinates, you must first determine your own coordinates.

Chen Fan, who had already had several practical experiences, easily read the corresponding coordinate data from the space around the consciousness body.

It was a rather complicated and irregular string of numbers.

The digital format is somewhat similar to the most common xyz coordinate axis, but it is fundamentally different from the human coordinate system. The numbers of the two are completely different, and even the formats are slightly different.

This string of coordinates is more complicated. In addition to the basic five-dimensional coordinates, there is also a symbol that has never been seen before but has never changed.

It's just like……

The sixth dimension.

In fact, as early as when Chen Fan learned about the coordinate modification technology from Kraken, he became suspicious of this coordinate information that he had never seen before.

Let’s not talk about the strange symbol that has never been seen before and is suspected to be the sixth dimension, let’s just talk about the other five-dimensional coordinates.

Since it is a coordinate format similar to the xyz axis, theoretically, it should have an origin.

For example, in the coordinate system of the Human Union, the origin is the center of the universe of the Human Union, and any coordinates are based on this origin.

So……

Where is the origin of this string of coordinates?
Who determined this set of coordinates?

More importantly, why could he read such a string of numbers from the space around him?

Chen Fan didn't dare to think about it too much and could only focus his attention on the extremely complex string of characters.

From experience, as long as he changes a few numbers at the end of this string of characters, he can directly travel to a star field that is several light years, or even dozens or hundreds of light years away - of course, the closer the number is, the more energy is required for the modification, and the larger the spatial span is.

Chen Fan took a deep breath and carefully shifted his attention to the number at the end of the character. He manipulated the information flow to modify the number in the same way as before.

The moment the information flow came into contact with the coordinate information, Chen Fan's face suddenly changed.

A bottomless energy vortex appeared in his consciousness!

The vacuum zero-point energy from the Kraken was like falling into a bottomless pit, flowing madly along this energy vortex.

at the same time.

In the dim starry sky, the pale red ocean of starlight is shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Seven hundred kilometers.

Six hundred kilometers!

Five hundred kilometers!!
Not only that, at the edge of the pale red ocean of starlight, a human-shaped shadow flickered like a light bulb with poor contact!

In the flashing, violent information fluctuations continuously spread to the surrounding star fields!
(End of this chapter)