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

Chapter 589 Strange Energy
"so……"

Feeling the atmosphere in the command center return to normal, Fang Yunsheng also straightened his expression and asked, "What on earth happened to the coordinate jump just now?"

As he spoke, he pointed to the holographic interface in front of him and said, "The Academy of Sciences seems to be a little anxious."

Chen Fan's eyes moved and he followed Fang Yunsheng's gaze.

On the azure blue holographic interface, there were densely packed pop-up messages marked with the Human Union Academy of Sciences.

Obviously, the coordinate jump process of the expeditionary fleet just now brought a great shock to the Academy of Sciences far away in the [32] quadrant.

"Just explain it to the Academy of Sciences directly." Seeing Chen Fan preparing to explain, Fang Yunsheng subconsciously waved his hand, "I don't understand that either, and..."

A bitter and helpless smile appeared on his lips: "When approaching the singularity, the fleet suffered considerable damage. I have to arrange for repairs."

Hearing this, Chen Fan subconsciously glanced at the holographic main control panel beside him - when approaching the singularity, the Gaia planetary fortress was at the forefront of the fleet, and it was naturally the most damaged.

Looking at the dangerous areas marked in deep red, Chen Fan laughed awkwardly.

Ever since the expedition fleet stepped onto the singularity information bridge, damage, repair, damage again, and repair again, this series of repeated processes has almost become the norm for the fleet.

Fortunately, the expedition fleet took this aspect into consideration when it was first created, so it was equipped with a considerable number of engineering ships, which avoided the embarrassing situation of running aground halfway.

Seeing Fang Yunsheng turn around and leave, Chen Fan calmed himself down and turned his gaze to the communication information that had already been synchronized to the Gaia planetary fortress.

[Z619, the communication signal is interrupted, what happened just now? ]

[Z619, report your situation immediately! ]

【Z619……】

Looking at the messages that were becoming more and more urgent, Chen Fan took a deep breath, sorted out his thoughts, and began to type his replies on the holographic panel in front of him.

……

[…After entering the event horizon, even if it has not yet reached the singularity, the fleet will show a certain degree of virtuality and reality under its influence.]

[In other words, the virtual-real pendulum will move away from the material side and begin to deviate towards the information side.]

[The degree of deviation is mainly related to the distance between the matter and the singularity. The closer the distance, the greater the degree of deviation.]

[Judging from the fleet's previous jump experience, if there are no buffering measures, when matter reaches the singularity, the virtual-real pendulum will officially reach the information side, and accordingly, matter will also be transformed into a pure information flow by the singularity.]

[As for the Singularity Information Bridge built by the Apophis Giant Scorpion, its main function should be to open up the subspace, thereby opening up a high-speed channel with resistance approaching zero, so as to achieve ultra-long-distance jumps across quadrants. ]

[The purpose of time technology should be to slow down the swing of the pendulum so that the Apophis Scorpion will not be completely transformed into a pure information flow when it reaches the singularity.]

Inside the Academy of Sciences, Lin Yang whispered the information that appeared one by one on the holographic interface, with a look of realization in his eyes.

"I see……"

"As long as the distance between the fleet and the singularity is properly controlled, the fleet will reach a clever balance between the material side and the information side. The fleet can not only retain the properties of the material side, but also present the characteristics of the information side, which is the so-called virtual-real duality..."

"No wonder the Z619 fleet was able to complete this coordinate jump!"

"Unfortunately……"

Lin Yang shook his head with some regret: "The jump distance is less than a hundred standard spans. Considering the fleet repair time and Chen Fan's consciousness recovery time after each jump, it is still quite difficult to reach the central singularity beyond 10,000 standard spans."

At the side, Chief Lu did not speak. He just stared silently at the few lines of text on the holographic interface, seemingly thinking about something.

"chief?"

After noticing this, Lin Yang's heart moved, and he turned to ask: "Did you see anything?"

“…I didn’t see anything.”

Chief Lu frowned and murmured in a low voice: "I just feel that there is something wrong here."

As he spoke, he raised his hand and tapped lightly on the line of text that explained the function of the singularity information bridge.

"question?"

Lin Yang was slightly stunned: "The singularity information bridge opens up the subspace to reduce the resistance of the jump, thereby obtaining a longer jump distance... Is there any problem with this?"

"It is consistent with the report sent back by the fleet earlier."

"No, no, no, that's not what I meant." Chief Lu frowned even deeper, "What I meant is... the Singularity Information Bridge, or the Singularity may have more than one function."

Lin Yang: “?”

"When the Academy of Sciences was testing, what was the farthest distance that Chen Fan could perform a coordinate jump in the universe alone if there was sufficient energy?" Seeing that Lin Yang did not understand what he meant, Chief Lu could only make his words a little clearer.

"It seems to be..." Lin Yang thought for a moment and gave an answer, "451.8 billion light years."

The moment the words fell, Lin Yang's eyes widened instantly.

451.8 billion light-years, this number seems to be very large, even exceeding the maximum size of most cosmic bubbles.

But if you compare it with a hundred standard spans, it's probably not even a fraction - strictly speaking, for a hundred standard spans, 10 billion light years can only be considered an error range.

"This... this gap is too big..."

Lin Yang swallowed hard: "So, you think the problem lies in the singularity?"

"Isn't it obvious?"

Chief Lu shrugged: "Chen Fan is still the same Chen Fan, and the Genesis Fortress is still the same Genesis Fortress. The only difference is those singularities."

"I have reason to suspect that the singularity also acts as a booster during the coordinate transition."

"It is for this reason that the Apophis Giant Scorpion took a huge risk and placed the jump channel on the singularity!"

"Not only that, I have reason to suspect that the boosting effect will be different depending on the size of the black hole and the singularity."

"Then...what about energy? Where does the energy for singularity boost come from?" Lin Yang asked the most crucial question.

"Good question."

Chief Lu happily spread his hands and said, "I don't know either."

“But that’s not important!”

"Such a powerful energy source, either it is the vacuum zero-point energy from the subspace, which means that the efficiency of the singularity in extracting zero-point energy is far beyond our imagination, or..."

He paused and said meaningfully: "This is a strange energy source that we have not yet come into contact with."

Lin Yang subconsciously held his breath.

A strange energy that has not yet been touched.

In just a short sentence, the amount of information contained is extremely huge.

For a civilization, energy is the source of all technology.

Since the promotion to the ninth level of civilization, vacuum zero-point energy has always been the perfect energy source discovered by the Human Union. It is efficient enough to support the operation of all giant structures and even the Genesis Fortress. The most important thing is...

It was almost limitless, literally inexhaustible. But now, things seem to be changing.

Human Union came into contact with information flow technology and time technology, and the fleet's mileage requirements increased from a small pan-universe to a cross-quadrant...

The explosive increase in demand has naturally greatly pushed up the demand for energy - vacuum zero-point energy can certainly meet all of this, but it is already showing signs of being unable to do so.

In such circumstances, a new and more efficient energy source seems to be a life-saving straw.

Lin Yang subconsciously lowered his voice: "Chief, what you mean is..."

"We must do our best to capture the black hole." Chief Lu's eyes flashed, "No matter which possibility it is, it may bring us a breakthrough!"

"correct."

As if thinking of something, Chief Lu added to Lin Yang who was standing there in a daze: "Tell Chen Fan to try to find a bigger black hole to jump to next time."

"maybe……"

“There will be surprises.”

……

Five days later.

A large black hole silently shuttles through the bizarre starry sky, wantonly devouring the surrounding interstellar matter and some unlucky celestial bodies.

Wandering black holes are an extremely common phenomenon in the Apophis mother universe.

The super-large cosmic bubble composed of a large number of cosmic bubbles has multiple giant attractors, and its internal macroscopic gravitational structure is also extremely complex. It has long evolved into a standard chaotic system. It is for this reason that more than 80% of the celestial bodies in the Apophis mother universe have been in a wandering state.

suddenly.

A strong information flow wave spread out from the inside of the black hole, and then disappeared into the chaotic star field in a very short time - the cornerstone information flow fragments that filled the entire universe became a perfect protective color, easily covering up this abnormal wave.

Almost at the same time.

1430 standard spans away, accompanied by a roaring information storm, a huge fleet with obvious signs of battle damage on its surface suddenly appeared in the starry sky.

Several wandering planets that were originally in this star field exploded under the impact of a deep blue beam of light at the moment the fleet was formed, and turned into part of the countless interstellar dust.

"Oh my god, 1430 standard spans, this is too much!"

Chen Fan, who had just returned to the Gaia Planetary Fortress from the Genesis Fortress, finally couldn't help but exclaimed after calculating the distance of this coordinate jump: "I didn't expect that Chief Lu was right..."

Not bad.

After receiving the reminder from the Academy of Sciences, Fang Yunsheng began to search for a large black hole that met the standards while the fleet was repairing.

Perhaps it was because of good luck, or perhaps it was because the Apophis mother universe was relatively special, black holes were quite common here, and even super-large black holes comparable in size to the central black holes of the conventional universe could be easily observed.

But considering the habits of the Apophis giant scorpion and the relatively far locations of those supermassive black holes, the fleet ultimately chose the next-largest black hole.

But even so, the effect of this coordinate jump still far exceeded Chen Fan's expectations.

Of course, the damage to the fleet also reached a new level - the gravitational force of a large black hole is stronger, and the damage caused to the fleet is naturally greater.

"Great!"

In the communication channel, Fang Yunsheng quickly sent the excellent results of the second jump in the form of text to the people far away in the main universe, while looking at the holographic interface with a screen full of red.

"The next springboard has been locked."

"The scale is larger than this black hole. Perhaps... we can increase the distance of a single jump to more than three thousand spans!"

"With three more jumps, we can launch a surprise attack on the central singularity!"

Chen Fan nodded with a pale face and subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Only the last three leaps remain.

This is much better than the hundred jumps at the beginning!!
"but……"

Fang Yunsheng lightly pressed the button to send the message, frowned, and looked around at the empty star field: "Except when we just left the subspace, the fleet has hardly encountered the Apophis giant scorpion. This situation... why does it feel a bit scary?"

Hearing this, Chen Fan's heart suddenly skipped a beat, and his originally pale face became even uglier.

"Maybe... I'm just lucky."

"Or maybe this universe is too big, so the density of Apophis scorpions is relatively sparse."

A disturbing thought flashed through Fang Yunsheng's mind, and then he murmured to himself in a low voice.

"...I hope so."

……

Apophis mother universe, central black hole star field.

A black hole larger than the conventional universe was spinning rapidly in the starry sky, violently tearing apart the fragile space-time around it - even hideous, deep, jagged cracks appeared in the starry sky around it.

That is the space and time torn apart by the central black hole!

Surrounding this supermassive central black hole are tens of thousands of relatively normal-sized supermassive black holes.

Covered by the faint yellow light, there are "dark clouds" of varying sizes floating around almost every black hole.

If you zoom in, you can easily see the true appearance of those "dark clouds" - they are giant Apophis scorpions with sturdy bodies!

Long and tough filaments of information flow extend out from the interiors of tens of thousands of supermassive black holes, eventually converging into strands and all flowing into the Apophis central black hole located in the core area.

To be more precise, it is the [Royal Court] that merges into the central black hole of Apophis.

Among them, nearly two thousand filaments are particularly solid, while the remaining eight thousand filaments are looming and look like they will break at any time.

【Faster, faster! 】

In the bright white glow, the information storm from the Apophis Scorpion Queen shuttled back and forth in the vast [Royal Court].

On the throne that symbolizes the queen's power, the bloated queen insect narrowed her scarlet eyes slightly and cast her gaze towards the starry sky in the distance: [The progress of the main universe coordinate analysis is already halfway through. ]

[Human Union...their resistance can no longer be maintained for much longer. 】

Amid the queen insect's hissing, weak filaments of information flow are becoming solid at a speed visible to the naked eye!

[Battlefields 1802, 1897, and 1913 have completed their coordinates and are deploying troops! ]

In the distance, a faint stream of information was whistling towards them.

Almost at the same time.

Outside the central black hole, inside the black hole cluster composed of tens of thousands of sub-black holes, groups of Apophis giant scorpions rushed into the corresponding three black holes.

It was like a swarm of locusts attacking a wheat field.

(End of this chapter)