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

Chapter 521 Signal Recognition: AAA
There was dead silence inside the investigator starship.

Both Chen Fan and Hongshi, who had extensive experience in investigation, were looking at the hundreds of huge monsters standing beside the black hole with incredible eyes at this moment.

We have to admit that this change happened too quickly. From the initial discovery of the giant scorpions' unusual movements to their collective escape from the constraints of the event horizon, the entire process took only a few minutes!
It is impossible to come up with any good countermeasures in such a short time - the time consumed by the Genesis Fortress to "warm up" is much longer than that!
"This is troublesome..."

Wang Jing's murmurs were heard from the communication interface that had not yet been disconnected.

In just a few dozen seconds, she had barely deduced the truth of the whole incident from the scene in front of her: "I didn't expect that the Genesis Fortress's attack on the black hole would actually accelerate the progress of the giant scorpion's arrival in the anti-universe..."

"Damn it!"

Amid Wang Jing's whispered curses, Chen Fan finally came to his senses.

Looking at those ferocious giant scorpions that were as big as stars and supergiants, a fear of giant creatures that was deeply imprinted in his genes rose up in his heart - in front of this group of giant scorpions, let alone the investigator starship, even the Titan mothership and flagship fortress in the peacekeeping fleet were nothing more than toys that could be manipulated at will!

"Academician Wang, we are now..."

Chen Fan swallowed, suppressed the instinctive fear in his heart and asked.

"Now?"

Wang Jing gritted her teeth and said, "Besides fighting these bugs, what else can we do?!"

Amid Wang Jing's cursing, countless densely arranged dark blue spots suddenly lit up in the dim starry sky in front of the investigator starship!
The light spots went from dim to bright at a speed visible to the naked eye. Even the dazzling light of the high-energy particle jets in the distance could not suppress the deep blue light.

Chen Fan quickly identified the identity of these deep blue lights.

Zero point ray!

At this moment, all the warships started storing energy for the zero-point rays!
Obviously, like Wang Jing's choice, Fang Yunsheng, who commanded the peacekeeping fleet, also chose to take the initiative to declare war on the giant scorpion!
Take advantage of his illness and kill him!
Although the attack of Genesis Fortress indirectly accelerated the opponent's process of breaking free from the event horizon, it also greatly weakened the combat power of the giant scorpions - from more than 50 giant scorpions to less than giant scorpions. This reduction in combat power is definitely more than %!

Why not 90%?

The reason is very simple. The remaining giant scorpions are bigger than each other. Judging from past experience, the combat effectiveness of those super-large giant scorpions cannot be ignored!

Just as the deep blue spots in the starry sky gradually became brighter, Chen Fan couldn't help but sweat.

suddenly!

Without warning, a burst of urgent alarm sounded in the communication channel with the research vessel!

"warn!"

The electronically synthesized voice of the research ship's main brain echoed in the cockpit of the research ship and the investigator starship: "High-intensity tachyon signal detected!"

"Signal recognition: AAA!"

AAA signal?

Wang Jing, who didn't care much about the first half of the warning information, suddenly became serious when he heard the recognition level.

In the signal recognition system of Renlian, the AAAAA signal recognition level means that the signal adopts the data encryption method recorded in the Renlian database, and the AAAA level recognition level means that the information contains a self-decoding system, but it does not adopt the data encryption format of Renlian. As for the AAA level recognition level, it means...

This signal contains 100% intelligent information!
In other words, this is a valid message compiled by highly intelligent creatures!
"Where does the signal come from?!"

Without any hesitation, Wang Jing asked the main brain directly.

"We are currently conducting a reverse tracing of the tachyon signal..."

"The signal source has been located."

Amidst the electronic synthesized sound, a brand new holographic interface automatically unfolded in front of Wang Jing, on which the coordinates of the tachyon signal source were indicated with a bright red mark.

Central black hole.

To be precise, it is the scorpion group in front of the central black hole.

Looking at the result in front of her, Wang Jing's expression froze.

This was the first time she had received a high-resolution signal from a scorpion group since she started fighting against the local scorpion group.

Facing an advanced civilization whose strength surpassed that of the Human Alliance, Wang Jing did not dare to relax at all.

"General Fang, don't fire yet!!"

"There is an emergency!!"

Without any hesitation, she immediately pressed the communication button and urgently stopped Fang Yunsheng who was about to command the fleet to fire the first shot of the war: "These giant scorpions... sent us a highly compiled tachyon signal!"

"They might want to negotiate with us!"

hum...

In the starry sky, the densely packed dark blue spots of light suddenly paused, and then began to dim again at a speed visible to the naked eye.

But they did not go out completely, but maintained a faint brightness.

"...Received." It was only at this moment that Fang Yunsheng's muffled voice came from the communication channel, "The naval gun salvo has been suspended."

Watching the light of the zero-point ray gradually extinguish, Wang Jing breathed a sigh of relief: "General Fang, after all, the other side is a high-level civilization that is no less advanced than the Human Union. If there is a possibility of maneuvering, it is better not to start a war."

"After all... we still have an enemy hiding in the dark."

Fang Yunsheng was silent for a moment, and his tone softened a lot: "I understand."

"But Academician Wang, if these giant scorpions continue to move forward, I will give the order to fire again."

"It's natural!"

Wang Jing nodded repeatedly and gave orders to the ship's mainframe in a hurried tone:
"Mastermind, try to parse this tachyon information."

While the main brain was analyzing the problem, Wang Jing turned her head and looked at the hundreds of giant scorpions that were still standing in front of the black hole, waving their tails arrogantly. She murmured in a low voice: "What do these giant scorpions want to do?"

Perhaps because they noticed that the peacekeeping fleet had temporarily stopped its attack, the hundreds of giant scorpions reduced the amplitude of the swinging of their tails a lot. Not only that, they even took the initiative to retreat half a step towards the black hole behind them that was ejecting high-energy particle streams.

Obviously, this is the sincerity expressed by the giant scorpion using the most straightforward body language.

Looking at this scene, the stone in Wang Jing's heart fell a little more.

In any case, at this juncture, avoiding direct conflict can only be a good thing for the peacekeeping fleet.

Even if there is a fallout later, we have to wait until the other three peacekeeping fleets arrive.

No?
……

Time passes bit by bit.

The atmosphere in this star field became increasingly stagnant.

Due to concerns that the Genesis Fortress' actions would cause unnecessary misunderstandings, the Genesis Fortress has even maintained its full power output state to this day. Correspondingly, the unfortunate central black hole can only continue to spew out the matter it has swallowed in the past under the influence of ultra-high light speed.

Fortunately, the mass of this black hole is large enough to sustain this jet-like photolysis.

But even so, the size of the central black hole has shrunk significantly compared to before.

Even during the photolysis of the central black hole, a hazy nebula appeared in the originally empty starry sky - this is the product of the combination of various basic particles ejected during the black hole photolysis process, most of which are hydrogen atoms. Of course, under the influence of high temperature and high-energy rays, a small number of heavy particles are also generated in this nebula.

The giant scorpion narrowed its bright red eyes slightly and gently shook its long scorpion tail.

The end of the scorpion's tail flew across the sky at high speed, leaving long trails in the misty nebula.

Occasionally, one or two of the giant scorpions would open their mouthparts, revealing zero-point energy that was flickering with a blue-purple luster, but soon, they would close their mouthparts again at the scolding of their leader and return to their positions.

Apparently, this long wait made the scorpions a little impatient.

Wang Jing withdrew her gaze worriedly, looked back at the holographic interface above the console, and urged again:

"Master Brain, haven't you finished deciphering it yet?" "...The current deciphering progress is less than 1%." After waiting for a moment, the synthesized voice of the shipboard master brain sounded quietly, "The signal does not have any self-deciphering or dictionary system, and the sample size is insufficient, so deciphering it is extremely difficult."

"What about the Human Link Dictionary message I asked you to send to the giant scorpion? Haven't received a response yet?"

"Yes, so far, our ship has not received any tachyon signals in similar bands."

Wang Jing frowned deeply.

To be honest, this was the first time she encountered such a situation in communication with a high-level civilization - a random message with no meaning was sent, and there was no response to the reply message, but the other party just stood there and waited quietly...

In Wang Jing's opinion, these giant scorpions were like... like they had never had any experience of communicating with other civilizations!

Thinking of this, a feeling of powerlessness and anxiety instantly surged into her heart.

If this goes on any longer, who knows if those giant scorpions will do something impulsive, and by then, the war will probably break out in an instant!
Just as Wang Jing was feeling uneasy, Fang Yunsheng's vigilant voice suddenly rang out: "Academician Wang!"

"Those giant scorpions are moving!"

Wang Jing's face changed and she quickly turned to look out the porthole.

The giant scorpion in the lead, whose size was comparable to that of a blue superstar, slowly opened its fleshy wings curled up on its back.

Like the five giant scorpions that were previously destroyed by the peacekeeping fleet, a faint white fluorescence appeared on the fleshy wings of this giant scorpion.

This is……

Signs of giant scorpions controlling the flow of information!!
"Damn it!" Fang Yunsheng's tone quickly became anxious in the communication channel, "Everyone pay attention..."

"and many more!!"

Before Fang Yunsheng could issue a new attack order, Chen Fan, who had been listening silently in the communication channel, suddenly said, "This is not an information flow attack!"

Fang Yunsheng looked serious. He ignored Chen Fan's words and continued to give orders to the fleet: "Prepare for the first round of salvos from the naval guns..."

hum! !

The previously dim dark blue light became bright again, and the giant scorpion that was facing the fleet from a distance became agitated again.

"General Fang!"

Seeing that the situation that had been maintained for a long time was about to get out of control again, Wang Jing's voice suddenly became stern: "As a Class I academician of the Academy of Sciences, I order you to stop the attack immediately!!"

Fang Yunsheng's voice stopped abruptly.

He slowly lowered his raised right hand and looked at Wang Jing in disbelief, then looked at Chen Fan who was in the investigator starship: "Academician Wang?"

"Listen patiently to Chen Fan's explanation."

Wang Jing took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "In terms of information flow, Chen Fan has more say than any other academician of the Academy of Sciences!"

Fang Yunsheng was completely stunned.

Admittedly, he knew before that Chen Fan was highly regarded by Wang Jing, but he never expected that in Wang Jing's heart, Chen Fan's importance would reach such an extent!
He suppressed the anger in his heart and ordered the fleet to stay where they were.

"..."

Under the gaze of Fang Yunsheng and Wang Jing, Chen Fan stood up from the main driving seat and slowly walked to the porthole.

He stared at the giant scorpion with fluorescent spots on its back with wide eyes, and whispered: "This is not an information flow attack."

"This is...communication."

"Communication?" Wang Jing was a little confused.

"Yes." Chen Fan took a deep breath and his facial expression became calm. "You can understand that the giant scorpion is sending us a communication request through the information flow."

"My previous communication with Kraken was based on this method."

"This should be a means of communication unique to information technology."

In Chen Fan's eyes, streams of information surged out from the giant scorpion at the head and headed straight towards the direction of the fleet.

A moment later, the information stream reached the fleet and the location of the investigator starship.

boom! ! !
Others might not have noticed it, but in Chen Fan's senses, the moment this stream of information reached the investigator's starship, a vast amount of information instantly flooded into his mind!

Tyranny, devouring, destruction...

One cosmic bubble after another collapsed, and the billions of lives within them all turned into wronged souls...

Countless violent and bloody images appeared in his mind, directly triggering the fear and anxiety hidden deep in his heart.

Then, against this extremely violent background, a string of clear information slowly emerged.

【Hello, unknown civilization. 】

He groaned and subconsciously raised his hands to cover his head. His originally clear eyes also revealed a hint of bloodiness.

"Chen Fan?!"

This sudden change startled Wang Jing, and of course, it also scared the three people from Redstone who were on the investigator starship.

Isa, who was closest to Chen Fan, stood up first, stretched out her hand to support Chen Fan's body, and asked anxiously: "Chen Fan, what's wrong with you?"

Chen Fan didn't say anything, just took rapid, deep breaths.

for a long time.

Chen Fan, whose breathing gradually calmed down, opened his bloodshot eyes, stared at the giant scorpion outside the porthole, and squeezed out a sentence from his clenched teeth:

"General Fang, prepare for an all-out war."

"other side……"

"He is definitely not a good person!"

Fang Yunsheng's expression turned stern.

"What did the other party say!" Unlike Fang Yunsheng, Wang Jing's focus was on the information conveyed by the giant scorpion. "These giant scorpions...what do they want to do?!"

"…At the moment, I'm just saying hello."

Chen Fan took a deep breath and calmed his chaotic emotions: "But... I saw countless cosmic bubbles collapsing from the information stream it sent."

"Hallucination?"

Wang Jing frowned and asked back in a low voice.

"It's definitely not an illusion!"

Chen Fan calmed down and continued, "The information flow conveys information in an extremely comprehensive way. Academician Wang, you can understand it as a certain degree of memory and perspective sharing."

“This sharing can be controlled, but…”

"The other party has no intention of controlling it."

"I suspect this is most likely to intimidate us."

Chen Fan's tone was a little hurried.

"Combined with the images contained in the information stream, this giant scorpion... may have bad intentions!"

(End of this chapter)