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

Chapter 503 The Third Type of Life

Outside the microcosm bubble.

"Mastermind, record."

Wang Jing's calm voice rang out in the cabin of the research ship: "The fifty-first information flow fluctuation lasted for 1.07 seconds, and the fluctuation frequency..."

She glanced at the holographic interface beside her and continued, "3.79EHz-5.17EHz, compared to the fiftieth information fluctuation, the average frequency has increased by 5%."

"The interval between two information flow fluctuations was shortened to 15.19 seconds, 4.01% shorter than the previous one."

"Recording completed." The electronic synthesized voice of the ship's main computer sounded quickly, "Attempting to conduct the 36774th data analysis. The next information fluctuation is expected to occur in 14.2-14.8 seconds. Please prepare for observation..."

Wang Jing's face did not fluctuate at all in response to the prompt from the shipboard main brain. She just stared silently at the azure holographic interface in front of her - from the frequency and intensity changes of the information jet itself, to the location, duration and interval of the information jet... It is no exaggeration to say that she has conducted an extreme data analysis of these fifty-one information jets.

but!

Until now, both the ship's main brain and she have only discovered some extremely superficial rules.

The frequency of information fluctuations is increasing, and the intervals between them are shortening.

Other than that, there is no gain.

Even the coordinates of where information fluctuations will occur cannot be predicted!
"Hey……"

Looking out the window at the Genesis Fortress that was still sticking to applying film on the surface of this ten thousand light year "soap bubble", Wang Jing sighed helplessly: "I don't know what happened here..."

The azure holographic interface suddenly flashed a faint red light, and a string of bright red countdowns flashed rapidly on it.
coming.

According to previous experience, the fifty-second information wave is about to appear.

Wang Jing perked up and stared at the many monitoring data that had long been cleared in the holographic interface.

3, 2, 1...

The countdown ended quietly, and the red light that had been flashing rapidly before turned into a red star hanging above Wang Jing's head.

There was no change in the holographic interface with a deep blue background. The numbers and curves were still lying quietly on the zero axis, as if waiting for something.

Five seconds.

ten seconds.

Twenty seconds.

Shrouded in red light, the cockpit of the scientific research vessel fell into deathly silence.

"This……"

Wang Jing stared blankly at the working status of the information entropy fluctuation monitoring instrument, and then stared blankly at the giant soap bubble outside the porthole that was slightly undulating under the influence of macroscopic gravity: "...Where is the information jet?"

Under the starlight, a distorted spot of light suddenly appeared on the surface of the giant soap bubble, like an ugly ghost face, unscrupulously mocking Wang Jing who was in the research ship.

failed!
The law of information fluctuations that lasted for fifty-one rounds suddenly became invalid!
In research work, the failure of a rule is definitely a big deal, which often means that something unknown and beyond control has occurred.

of course.

If it were in the laboratory, Wang Jing might be excited about the phenomenon that this law is invalid, because it may mean a new discovery.

but now……

Wang Jing did not feel the slightest bit of excitement in her heart, only a deep fear from the bottom of her heart - whether there was any abnormality in the small universe itself, or there was any accident happening to Chen Fan and others in the small universe, it was not the scene she wanted to see!
……

At the same time, inside the microcosm.

"What the hell……"

Feeling the growing sense of emptiness in his body, Chen Fan's face turned pale.

"This thing consumes too much energy, doesn't it?!"

The huge energy consumption is not a big problem, after all, there is the external battery called Kraken.

As a nebula life form, Kraken can even slowly absorb vacuum zero-point energy from the surrounding space. Although the efficiency is relatively low, considering that his body covers a star field of 8,000 light years, the speed of absorbing vacuum zero-point energy is not too slow after accumulating little by little.

The real problem lies in the extremely complex string of coordinate numbers.

The information flow that acted as a "modifier" was like a crowbar stuck into a heavy rock wall. No matter how hard Chen Fan tried, it couldn't have the slightest effect.

Correspondingly, that string of coordinate numbers...

Naturally, no changes occurred.

The number that Chen Fan tried to modify was firmly rooted at the very end of the coordinate string, giving him a rock-solid feeling.

A faint wave of information came from the ocean of starlight beside him which had shrunk by half.

[Your Excellency the Envoy, this is why I do not agree with your attempt...]

Compared with before, Kraken's voice became weak again due to excessive energy consumption: [Based on my past experience, even in the same universe, the difficulty of modifying coordinate information is completely different. ]

[Although I don't know the reason behind this, I know that the greater the gravity and the more serious the space-time distortion in the star field, the more difficult it is to modify the coordinates. ]

[Not to mention the cosmic membrane. ]

[I estimate...] Kraken said weakly, [To make a hole in this cosmic membrane, I would have to consume at least 90% of my energy reserves.]

Listening to the information from Kraken, Chen Fan couldn't help but twitching his eyes twice.

90% of the energy reserve is only enough to change the last digit of the coordinate information?
Isn't this consumption too horrible? !
Compared with conventional coordinate modifications, this is an exponential growth!

Just as Chen Fan and Kraken were talking, the rock-solid number finally showed a slight change - in Chen Fan's perception, the last digit of the coordinate information showed some signs of blur.

This is the second step of coordinate modification, "erasing" the original coordinates!
【Why so fast?! 】

Kraken obviously noticed this change, and the message he sent out was filled with surprise: [In my impression, it would take at least ten times longer to reach this point. It is indeed a third-class existence...]

"The third type?"

Chen Fan's eyes moved, and the idea of ​​the Kraken life class appeared in his mind again.

"Kraken."

He straightened his expression and interrupted Kraken's chattering: "I have some free time now, there is something I want to ask you clearly, what is the life class you mentioned earlier?"

"How much do you know about my life form?"

As soon as the words fell, the severely shrunken starlight ocean suddenly fluctuated violently: [You...you don't know these things? ]

[But the concept of life class... they told me! ]

they?

Chen Fan was stunned for a moment, then he reacted.

The "" that Kraken was talking about should be the ghost fleet.

Thinking of this, Chen Fan suddenly recalled the lie he had told earlier.

His face turned bitter.

Unexpectedly, the boomerang hit him.

"cough!"

Chen Fan endured the feeling of emptiness brought about by the rapid loss of energy in his body and coughed awkwardly: "This question may be a bit complicated to explain."

He said seriously: "Theoretically, the ghost fleet is not my colleague now, but after a while, it should be."

Kraken: [? ]

Without any pause, Chen Fan told Kraken the relationship between the ghost fleet and the Xinalo civilization while the Kraken's brain was still not able to react.

Kraken: [???]

The light red ocean of starlight fluctuated violently, and countless azure blue light spots appeared in it, and then quickly merged into Chen Fan's consciousness.

After a long silence, Kraken seemed to have figured something out and sighed deeply: [Forget it.]

[As long as you are the messenger mentioned in the prophecy, I don’t want to care about anything else.]

Kraken sighed again, and then explained in a low voice: [Life class is the division of the Ghost Fleet. They divide the life in the universe into three categories based on the basic structure of life.]

[The first type, life with material structure, is also the most common life in the universe. ]

[Whether carbon-based or silicon-based, even the relatively rare sulfur-based and amino-based life actually belong to this category of life.]

[Of course, so far, I have only seen carbon-based life.] Kraken said helplessly, [Besides me, there is only one Xinalo civilization in this universe... Oh, and those bugs, I am not very clear about their body structure, but they don't look like carbon-based life.] "Those bugs are between silicon-based and carbon-based, but more silicon-based, so they are silicon-carbon life forms." Chen Fan casually mentioned Wang Jing's previous research results, "Except for the strong interaction force armor on the surface of the body, their skeleton is constructed of some high-strength silicon-based materials, but their body fluids are carbon-based, and their organs are substances formed by the combination of carbon and silicon."

Kraken was stunned: [There is such a thing? ]

"Yeah." Chen Fan shrugged and adjusted the intensity of the information flow by feel. "In short, the body structure of these insects is quite rare. I remember Academician Wang seemed to have said that no naturally formed silicon-carbon life forms have been found in the Human Union so far."

Kraken responded thoughtfully, and continued to send out a vague message: [The second type is life based on non-material structures such as space, dimension, mathematical laws, and quantum. ]

【For example, I belong to the second type of life. 】

[I heard that there are also dimensional creatures and digital life, which are actually considered this kind of life. ]

[According to the Ghost Fleet, this kind of life is relatively rare, and its life class is also higher than the first class.]

Chen Fan's face was a little pale, but his eyes were extremely bright.

Dimensional creatures, he had heard Wang Jing mention them before. Creatures based on dimensional architecture were born with the ability to control dimensions.

They can be said to be the true darlings of the universe - civilizations below level eight that have not yet mastered dimensional technology can hardly cause any harm to them!

Digital life based on mathematical laws...

No need to think too much, this should be referring to Lingzu.

As for quantum life...

A trace of confusion flashed across Chen Fan's eyes. What the hell was this?

"What about the third category?" Chen Fan asked Kraken.

【……I am not sure. 】

Kraken was silent for a moment, and honestly gave an answer that Chen Fan did not expect.

"Ah?" Chen Fan's eyes widened, and he almost couldn't breathe. The information flow used to modify the coordinates also became disordered for a moment. "Didn't you say before that the ghost fleet told you..."

[Yes.] Kraken's tone was somewhat helpless, [But they did not elaborate on the third life form, they just mentioned that there is a third life form in the universe, and this life form is far more advanced than the first two life forms.]

[When I asked, they used the same old excuse.]

"Deviation again?" Chen Fan's heart moved and he asked back.

Kraken confirmed Chen Fan's guess.

"Hiss, this isn't right..."

Chen Fan took a deep breath and said belatedly, "Since the Ghost Fleet didn't say it explicitly, why did you know that my life level was higher than yours?"

【instinct.】

Kraken hesitated for a moment: "Although I don't know what kind of life you are, when I first saw you, I felt a strong sense of threat from you."

[Subsequent contact also confirmed this sudden feeling.]

Listening to the Riddler's speech, Chen Fan sighed heavily.

I have to say, dealing with the ghost fleet is indeed a worrying thing.

Just as he was about to continue extracting some information from Kraken, a strong wave of information attracted his attention.

——Under the continuous output of the Kraken, the external battery, the rock-solid coordinates finally became looser to a greater extent!

The numbers at the end of the coordinate string almost disappeared, and as the information flow continued to "erode", a new number appeared seamlessly at the end of the coordinate string.

“It’s going to be successful!!”

Looking at the scenery around him that was gradually becoming unreal and blurred, Chen Fan felt a little excited.

Without hesitation, he increased the "etching" intensity of the information flow again. Correspondingly, the energy output speed also suddenly increased!
On the other side, the undulations on the surface of the light red starlight ocean were basically smoothed out, and the sea of ​​light, which was originally hundreds of kilometers in size, began to fall below a hundred kilometers at a speed visible to the naked eye!
Swish! ! !
When the information fluctuations reached their peak, the blurry starry sky around them suddenly disappeared, replaced by a barren land.

The bizarre five-dimensional space that he had seen several times appeared before Chen Fan again.

Compared with the single picture seen inside the starship, the conscious body directly exposed to the five-dimensional space can better perceive some information that others cannot perceive.

Desolate and dead silent.

Not to mention the breath of life, just by taking a look at it, Chen Fan felt a sense of suffocation from the inside out.

If the inside of the cosmic bubble is a vibrant oasis, then the five-dimensional space outside the cosmic bubble is a vast ocean of sand with no end in sight!

Compared with the five-dimensional space he had seen before, the five-dimensional space in front of Chen Fan was quite different - a huge, endless circular barrier was floating in the desolate five-dimensional space, and an endless film extended from the edge of the barrier to the surrounding areas, with bizarre light flashing on the film.

After a brief moment of daze, Chen Fan roughly sketched out the outline of this giant in his mind.

This is a bubble, a bubble with a small pit on the surface, and he is inside this small pit.

Not bad.

This is the anti-universe, or more precisely, a small part of the anti-universe bubble.

The place where he was staying was the small universe bubble cut out around the place of creation.

Between the two cosmic bubbles, there is a huge isolation zone composed of five-dimensional space, which is like a natural moat.

Before Chen Fan could recover from the shocking scene before his eyes, an extremely familiar wave of information came towards him——

Information pollution!!!

"Fuck!"

Chen Fan exclaimed and hurriedly built an information barrier next to his consciousness body to block the pervasive polluting information.

Good luck.

High-dimensional broadcasting had already helped him to max out the relevant resistances, and coupled with the means of information flow manipulation, this thing did not have any substantial impact on Chen Fan.

After ensuring his own safety, Chen Fan immediately turned his attention to these polluted information flows, trying to reversely deduce their sources from the direction of the information flow.

He looked off into the distance.

It was a floating film that looked like bubbles and had no end in sight.

This is the cosmic membrane of the microcosmic bubble.

His consciousness is embedded in this thin film.

Considering the danger of consciousness collapse mentioned by Kraken, Chen Fan did not completely modify the coordinates outside the cosmic membrane.

After just a glance, Chen Fan couldn't help but frown.

Those extremely familiar polluted information flows are like a layer of light water vapor, lingering on the surface of the small universe bubble and continuously seeping into the interior of the small universe along the cosmic membrane.

As for the five-dimensional space outside the microcosmic membrane...

It's so refreshing that you can't find any trace of polluting information at all!
"This……"

Looking at the scene in front of him, Chen Fan was completely stunned.

This is completely different from what he thought at first!

The polluted information does not come from outside the cosmic membrane, but from the cosmic membrane surrounding the consciousness body and the microcosm!

In other words, this polluted information is not the aftermath of the broadcasting civilization's attack on the human fleet! !

wow...

An inexplicable wave came from afar along the cosmic membrane around him, and Chen Fan subconsciously looked in the direction where the wave came from.

It was a bi-pyramid starship. Because of the distance, it looked as small as an ant in Chen Fan's eyes.

Genesis Fortress!
Chen Fan quickly recognized the identity of the starship.

Under his gaze, the Genesis Fortress was like a low-flying fighter plane, slowly passing over the undulating surface of the cosmic membrane.

Not just a coincidence or something, it did not come into contact with the polluted information flow lingering on the surface of the cosmic membrane.

As the Genesis Fortress passed by, faint space fluctuations drifted away, and a layer of fine and dense material that looked like gauze also fell on the surface of the cosmic membrane.

The originally weak cosmic membrane quickly became tough after coming into contact with this layer of material specially made by the Genesis Fortress.

This should be a good thing.

It was not until Chen Fan sensed a strong sense of contraction and tension and an extremely dense flow of polluted information that came crashing towards him along the layer of cosmic membrane in the distance!
At this moment, Chen Fan's originally calm expression changed completely!

(End of this chapter)