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

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"……fail?"

Listening to Wang Jing's sigh-like murmurs in the communication channel, Chen Fan and the others fell into silence.

As powerful as the Human Union...

Will it fail too?
The answer is of course yes.

Not to mention this time, in the history of the Human Rights League, the Human Rights League has suffered no less than a handful of major defeats.

It’s just that the Human League always stands up again from failure and stands till the end.

That's it.

So……

Is there any way out for today’s peacekeeping fleet?

Chen Fan stared at the starry sky outside the porthole, and the fear and horror in his eyes gradually faded away.

He racked his brains, trying to find the last bit of hope -

The black light released by the naked singularity has thrown time and space, dimensions, information flow and basic rules into a state of chaos.

The Genesis Fortress may be able to sort out some of the basic rules of the star field.

The chaotic information flow can be left to him to solve.

In terms of time and space...

If the remaining peacekeeping fleets work together at key space-time nodes to create corresponding space-time fluctuations and trigger high-intensity space-time resonance, hedging operations can theoretically be completed.

but……

What about dimensions?
Who will correct the disordered dimensions in the starry sky?

More importantly, who will stabilize the cosmic membrane that has begun to collapse on a large scale?

The crisis caused by the naked singularity itself, coupled with the impact force when the cosmic bubble collapses, the two are nested in each other and have formed a complete deadlock!

To untie this knot, relying solely on internal strength is obviously far from enough.

that……

Ghost Fleet?

The image of the broken fleet suddenly disintegrating in the starry sky flashed through his mind, and Chen Fan's mood fell to the bottom again - the Ghost Fleet itself might have big problems, how could it continue to help?
"Current starship speed: 0.5c."

Yi's voice was as calm as ever, which eased the atmosphere in the cockpit a little.

As the broadcast sounded, the starry sky outside the porthole gradually became blurred, and the starlight coming from afar also showed an increasingly obvious blue tendency - the continuous operation of the dark matter working fluid propulsion engine made the speed of the investigator starship closer and closer to the speed of light, and the blue shift phenomenon became more and more obvious.

Chen Fan raised his head in silence and glanced at the holographic interface in front of him. Although the output power of the dark matter working fluid propulsion engine did not decrease at all, the acceleration of the starship began to gradually decrease, as if it encountered some strong resistance.

This is the shackles of conventional navigation.

When the speed of a starship exceeds 0.5c, its energy consumption for acceleration will become more and more exaggerated.

Yi's broadcasting voice quietly dissipated, and the investigator's starship returned to silence. Chen Fan could even clearly hear the sound of his own heart beating in his chest.

Boom, boom, boom...

With every heartbeat, the gap that runs through the entire starry sky will expand a little.

The feeling of trying your best to escape but only waiting for death is really not a pleasant one.

The sound of his heart beating echoed in his ears, and Chen Fan's eyes were completely focused on the porthole in front of him.

One second, two seconds, three seconds.

Time seemed to slow down at this moment. Even the crack that ran through the entire starry sky had slightly slowed down its expansion speed...

No, that's not right!

It's not that time has slowed down!
But...

The speed at which the cracks expand has really changed!!

After a brief moment of daze, Chen Fan suddenly came back to his senses. He opened his eyes wide and stared intently at the huge crack in the starry sky caused by the collapse of the cosmic membrane: "First, calculate the expansion speed of the cosmic membrane crack and compare it with the expansion speed ten minutes ago!"

After a short wait, a data comparison chart popped up in the holographic interface.

"The expansion speed remains the same as ten minutes ago..."

Chen Fan quickly glanced at the data chart: "This is definitely not normal!!"

"Academician Wang, can you please tell me what is going on?"

Hearing her name, Wang Jing, who had been slumped in the chair with a look of despair, raised her head slowly and asked, "Is there something wrong with your calculation process?"

"impossible!"

"This machine guarantees this with its machine frame." One's electronic synthesized voice sounded again, "As long as there is no problem with the observation equipment of this starship, the calculation results of this machine will definitely not be wrong."

the other side.

Wang Jing, who had just raised his head, glanced absentmindedly at the data comparison chart uploaded by Chen Fan.

"……what?"

She uttered a sigh, then changed her confused look, sat up straight, and operated the control panel in front of her with a serious expression: "How could this happen?"

She tried to explain the abnormal phenomenon: "Maybe the vibration just now destroyed the observation equipment of the starship, so..."

But before she could finish her words, her voice stopped abruptly - in front of her, an identical data comparison chart appeared.

"This...how is this possible?!"

Wang Jing looked at the data in front of her in disbelief: "Once the cosmic bubble begins to collapse, the speed of its collapse will only continue to accelerate."

"According to the mathematical model of cosmic membrane collapse mastered by the Academy of Sciences, the current collapse rate is at least twice that of ten minutes ago!"

"Could it be that... the Academy of Sciences' understanding of the cosmic membrane is also wrong?"

The moment she said this, Wang Jing became dazed.

It would be fine if the understanding of the hyperspace membrane was wrong, but if even the understanding of the cosmic bubble was wrong, then the physics edifice that the Academy of Sciences had built with so much difficulty would probably collapse completely.

The next second, the expansion rate of the crack dropped by another percentage point.

It was this one percentage point that completely shattered the last bit of persistence in Wang Jing's heart - the expansion rate of the crack at this moment was already lower than the expansion rate of the crack ten minutes ago.

"I don't know any mathematical model for the collapse of the cosmic membrane."

Unlike Wang Jing, Chen Fan's eyes flashed with a hint of hidden joy: "In short, the collapse of the cosmic membrane is slowing down, isn't this correct?"

"..."

Wang Jing stared blankly at the data in front of her. After seeing that the data had dropped by a few percentage points again, she nodded in a daze: "From, from the observation data... you are indeed right."

[Current starship speed: 0.55c.]

A reminder message popped up in the holographic interface, but at this moment, neither Chen Fan nor Wang Jing had the heart to pay attention to this insignificant data.

Under the gaze of the two, the numbers in the holographic interface jumped again.

[Current expansion rate: 0. ]

"The cosmic bubble... has stopped collapsing?"

Wang Jing couldn't believe her eyes. She even cursed: "Mastermind! Are you kidding me?!"

suddenly.

"drop!"

A crisp prompt sounded in the communication link, followed by the synthesized voice of the research ship's onboard main brain: "Hyperspace membrane communication signal detected."

"Signal strength: Very low."

"Are you connected?"

Still immersed in shock, Wang Jing nodded subconsciously.

Swish!
An image filled with dense noise instantly appeared in front of Wang Jing: "Tsk... Z810... Fleet."

"Academician Wang Jing... we have successfully arrived..."

Perhaps due to the influence of the naked singularity, the entire communication process was intermittent, but this did not prevent Chen Fan and Wang Jing from hearing several key pieces of information clearly.

Z810 Fleet! This is...

The Human Union's support fleet!!

Chen Fan shuddered suddenly. He hurriedly stood up from the driving seat and staggered to the porthole.

An extremely gorgeous band of light stretches across the dim starry sky, with black light surging inside the band and still continuing to spread out in all directions.

At the edge of the black light, less than five thousand human-alliance warships were struggling to escape the "pursuit" of the black light by relying on working fluid engines - the naked singularity plus the polluted information flow generated by the collapse of the cosmic membrane directly took away 619% of the main warships of the Z90 fleet.

But Chen Fan's attention was not on these things.

His gaze passed through the black light, across the fleet, and finally stopped at the edge of the jagged band of light.

"Tsk... We have detected a rupture in the cosmic membrane... We are repairing it..."

The unclear reports continued on the communication link.

The moment the voice fell, Chen Fan suddenly widened his eyes - five extremely huge gray shadows suddenly appeared at the edge of the crack! !

With the five-dimensional perspective, he could clearly see the true structure of the huge gray shadow.

The silvery-white surface sparkles with a faint luster, and the overall structure is a double cone. The bases of the two four-sided pyramids in the front and back correspond to each other and slowly rotate in the bizarre space inside the membrane.

With just one glance, Chen Fan recognized the true identities of these gray shadows based on their extremely obvious features.

Genesis Fortress!!

Five Genesis Fortresses! !

and……

After comparing the scene of the Genesis Fortress's landing with his memory, Chen Fan quickly realized a more critical point - the scale of these five Genesis Fortresses is far larger than the Genesis Fortress of the Z619 fleet!

Conservative estimate...

The difference is at least ten times! !
Under Chen Fan's gaze, the five Genesis Fortresses were spaced a certain distance apart from each other and arranged in order on both sides of the cosmic membrane crack.

They are like nails, firmly nailing the cracks in the cosmic membrane that are constantly expanding in all directions!
"Academician Wang!"

"Five! There are five Genesis Fortresses outside!"

Chen Fan turned around and shouted excitedly into the communication channel: "It was them who prevented the collapse of the cosmic membrane!"

"……call."

The moment she learned that the physics building had barely been saved, Wang Jing let out a long breath.

She pulled the corners of her mouth with difficulty, revealing a smile that was uglier than crying: "It seems that our luck..."

"It's really good."

……

The collapse of the cosmic membrane stopped, and the sword of Damocles hanging over the Z619 fleet and Chen Fan and his group temporarily fell to the ground.

The research vessel and investigator starship slowly changed direction and headed back towards the Genesis Fortress - in order to resolve the interference of the residual information flow, Chen Fan had to drill into the external energy interface of the Genesis Fortress again.

Fortunately, there was no influence from the Apophis giant scorpion this time, and with the help of the first-generation information barrier generated by the Genesis Fortress, Chen Fan did not spend too much energy on this.

On the other side, without the interference of polluted information flow, relying on the working fluid propulsion engine, the remaining 619 or so main battleships of the Z fleet finally broke free from the pursuit of the black man and successfully arrived near the Genesis Fortress.

According to Chen Fan's proposal, these more than 5,000 warships were quickly dispersed to the surrounding space-time nodes under Fang Yunsheng's command. Then, under the precise control of the shipboard main brain, they launched an ultra-high-intensity space-time shock at full power.

The shock wave spread out and quickly produced a resonance effect under the influence of the space-time nodes.

A space-time tsunami initiated by the Human Union then emerged.

The tsunami, with its overwhelming force, briefly overwhelmed the impact of the naked singularity and temporarily smoothed out the abnormal space-time fluctuations around it. The principle of the whole process, to put it bluntly, is actually an oversized [space-time well].

However, this [space-time well] is used to provide a relatively stable curvature space for the main battleships and the Genesis Fortress.

Combined with the movement of the Human Alliance's main battleships, this disguised [space-time trap] was also able to move continuously.

In this way, a rough curvature channel was completed.

of course.

The reason why this plan was successful was mainly due to the long distance between the fleet and the naked singularity, which limited its influence. In addition, the collapse of the cosmic membrane was restrained by the supporting fleet, and the violent space-time fluctuations caused by the collapse of the universe were also calmed down.

But even so, this ultra-high-power [space-time well], which is theoretically large enough to cover a star field with a radius of one thousand light years, ultimately only affects a range of 1.1 light years.

The range is not large, but it just covers the Genesis Fortress.

In a strong fluctuation of time and space, the Genesis Fortress and the dilapidated warships around it disappeared into the starry sky one after another.

……

It is five million light-years away from the original central black hole.

The space-time tsunami roared in, stirring up ripples again in the space-time ocean that had just returned to tranquility from the collapse of the cosmic bubble.

"It's safe for now..."

Looking at the data whose fluctuations in the holographic interface were gradually converging, Wang Jing finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The range of influence of the naked singularity is too huge. Even if the fleet comes five million light years away, it can still detect some abnormal data in the surrounding space - slight space-time and dimensional anomalies still exist, but their intensity is low and basically cannot affect the warships of the Human Alliance.

"drop!"

A prompt sounded quietly, and the hyperspace membrane communication that had been interrupted due to signal problems popped up again.

Wang Jing's heart moved and she quickly answered the communication request.

"Academician Wang Jing."

In stark contrast to the previous noisy images, this time the holographic communication interface is exceptionally clear - to put it simply, it is directly transformed from mosaic image quality to 8K ultra-clear code-free image quality.

"It's me." Wang Jing nodded with a smile, "Captain Han, thank you for your help."

"Thanks to the Z810 fleet, we are now out of danger for the time being."

"Not only the Z810 fleet, but also the Z629 and Z771 fleets. Currently, all three fleets have arrived at the target universe."

The officer called Captain Han did not smile at all. He corrected Wang Jing's words in a serious manner and asked her, "Also, Academician Wang Jing, what is the situation of investigator Chen Fan?"

Wang Jing: “……?”

hey hey?
What does this mean? !

What is the situation of investigator Chen Fan?

Could it be that this fleet is not here to rescue her?
Since when did investigators become more important than Class I academicians?

This is simply, simply the opposite of Tiangang!

...Okay, she admitted that to some extent, Chen Fan was indeed a little more important.

Wang Jing coughed lightly, and with a strange look on her face, she pulled over a holographic communication interface that had not yet been disconnected from her side: "Here, do you see it?"

"I feel good, I enjoy everything I eat, and I feel healthy."

Looking at the strange officer who suddenly appeared in front of him with a stern face, Chen Fan, whose face was still a little pale, slowly typed a question mark.

"...?"

After successively dealing with the two information flow shocks of the Apophis giant scorpion and the collapse of the cosmic membrane, he almost died of exhaustion.

You call this being in great shape?
and also……

What's with this unique accent?

the other side.

The moment he saw Chen Fan, the officer in the Human Alliance uniform on the communication interface first looked Chen Fan's body up and down. After confirming that he was not missing any limbs, he visibly breathed a sigh of relief, and a slightly awkward smile appeared on his face.

"Academician Wang, this is a death order from the Academy of Sciences."

"Protect investigator Chen Fan's safety at all costs."

"You... forgive me."

Hearing that the other party had moved out of the Academy of Sciences, Wang Jing could only nod helplessly.

——The order that could make the coalition fleet ignore the identity of a Class I academician, probably only Chief Lu is qualified to issue such an order.

(End of this chapter)