Doomsday: I Build an Infinite Train.

Chapter 404 Previous Second

Lin Xian didn't know how hard life was for seafarers, but he thought this tradition was good.

Thank you, sailor.

Since the dinner in Silent City, Monica's judgment of the situation has made him realize that she is not just a queen who can only rule men, but also has a wisdom that should not be underestimated.

Lin Xian does indeed believe this is a kind of wisdom, although he has indeed fallen for Monica's cheongsam.

But in the latter half of the night, Lin Xian did feel that his devouring speed seemed to have increased. He didn't know if it was just psychological or if Queen Mo's offensive was truly shocking.

[Current Mechanical Heart Level: LV.6 (6720/50000)]

Mechanical Devouring: 6 (1100/5000) Increases devouring efficiency

"This efficiency is acceptable."

By 4 a.m., Lin Xian had almost devoured all the abandoned cars in half of the port. Although the mechanical source points and devouring proficiency he gained from devouring cars were not high at the moment, the sheer number of cars made up for it. Moreover, Lin Xian was operating remotely, covering a large area simply by sitting on the top of the port machine.

After dealing with a large number of cars, Lin Xian looked down at the zombies below and then focused his attention on a nearly capsized ship in the harbor, on which were several carriages of the Ring Star Train.

"This thing probably has a displacement of tens of thousands of tons, let's give it a try..."

Without hesitation, Lin Xian activated the mechanical devouring mechanism. In an instant, he seemed to hear a hollow 'hollow' sound coming from the huge ship. Immediately afterward, Lin Xian felt his mental energy being continuously drained away as the scan covered the area.

rub rub!
At this moment, the three superstring reactor phase rings lit up behind Lin Xian and began to operate at full power. Lin Xian's eyes shone brightly. With the support of the superstring reactor, he had an almost inexhaustible source of power.

"As long as there's enough time, I don't care how many tons you have, I'm a nuclear-powered bull now!"

[Consuming progress 1%]

Finally, the progress bar for the devouring appeared before Lin Xian's eyes. Based on the progress bar, he immediately estimated that it would take at least 10 hours to devour this 10,000-ton ship.

This was actually beyond Lin Xian's expectations. He originally thought that the mechanical structure of this ship could not be as complicated as the Dragon-type transport ship or the Dreadnought-class, and since his Devouring level had been raised to level 6, it should not take that long. However, he found that it would still take about 10 hours after the Devouring began.

"Could it be because it has never swallowed a ship?"

Lin Xian frowned slightly, hesitating for a moment, since the ship looked like a lump of iron. But since it had already started, he gritted his teeth and began to devour it.

Wow!

The waves churned and surged in the harbor, as if Lin Xian's action had triggered a violent reaction.

Meanwhile, on the Zhentian Ship, in the Starry Sky Research Laboratory, a research team of over a hundred people, including astronomical experts, engineers in the fields of information, radio astronomy, and interstellar molecular astrochemistry, has been formed. The team leader, Yang Xu, is 47 years old, tall and thin, and is an academician of the former National Astronomical Observatories of China and an expert in the field of astrophysics.

"Deep Space Monitoring Station reports: Target: Nantianmen Near-Earth Defense Platform. Orbital data locked. Geostationary orbit position: Longitude 15.5°W, Latitude 51.6°N, Altitude 52660 km (error ±2 km). Orbital inclination: 51.64°, drift rate 0.02°/day, consistent with the prediction model."

"Optical tracking shows that the main structure of the Nantianmen platform is normal. It autonomously deployed all 12 sets of photovoltaic wings 6 hours and 41 minutes ago and is now stable in the observation orbit position."

Yang Xu frowned and led his group to the command center, where Chu Yan was dictating information transmitted back by Grace to the others.

"Captain Chu," Yang Xu said as he walked over, "Have you contacted Captain Lin? Have you confirmed that the photovoltaic wing deployment was his operation?"

Chu Yan responded, "Chief Engineer Yang, I confirmed with Grace that this was Lin Xian's operation. His purpose in shutting down the nuclear power center was to prevent nuclear radiation from attracting the strange entities in the deep space dark energy storm region. We have encountered this situation many times in the Star Abyss, so there is no mistake."

“However, if the nuclear power center is shut down, Nantianmen will be unable to launch an offensive in a short period of time,” another engineer surnamed Chen said with a puzzled look.

Chu Yan explained, "Grace discovered a large number of microbial invasions on the platform, and there may be some kind of deep-space anomaly on the outer platform. We are currently investigating, and this issue is definitely a priority to resolve."

Yang Xu nodded upon hearing this: "Indeed, have you obtained any results regarding the dark matter information decoded from the gravitational waves?"

"soon."

Chu Yan took a deep breath: "That information is placed in the fourth deep-level secret code, which needs to be cracked."

"The Fourth Deep-Level Secret Order?"

The speaker was a slightly overweight middle-aged man, Wu Junping, a former information engineer at Nantianmen. He looked puzzled and asked, "How could information be put in a black box?"

"Is there a problem?" Chu Yan asked.

Wu Junping immediately replied, "The Fourth Deep Code, commonly known as the crash black box, is a storage device mainly used for physical extraction after a spacecraft crashes or malfunctions. All the platform's information is synchronized in it, and it is generally not stored separately. If it is in the Fourth Deep Code, then the other parent storage units should also have it."

“That’s right, the existence of a separate black box is indeed very strange…” other engineers chimed in.

“That doesn’t make sense either. Decoding a black box shouldn’t be that complicated. Grace’s computing power should be able to decode it in seconds,” another engineer said.

“This is the key point I want to make.” Chu Yan’s expression turned slightly serious: “According to the logs that Grace checked, this dark matter information was captured at 0:1 on the day of the apocalypse, but when Grace was decoding it, she found that the information that was decoded by the gravitational waves was recorded in the previous second.”

"The previous second? What does that mean, 0 minutes and 0 seconds into the Apocalypse?" Wu Junping adjusted his glasses, looking completely puzzled.

"what do you mean……"

Chief Engineer Yang frowned, pointed to the clock above the command center hall, and asked Chu Yan.

"The present moment, or the previous second?"

Chu Yan nodded.

Quiet.

At that moment, all the engineers fell silent, and a collective gasp of shock rang out.

Chief Engineer Yang looked astonished: "So, this information cannot be extracted?"

"That seems to be the case so far."

"What's going on? Mechanical failure?" an engineer exclaimed.

“Probably not.” Wu Junping immediately shook his head: “A smart brain of Grace’s calibrated with its own optical clock system wouldn’t have an error of more than one second in 300 years, so this situation shouldn’t just be a matter of storage time…”

"Could it be that the South Heavenly Gate platform, like Xingyuan, has also fallen into the time dilation effect?"

“That’s possible, but time dilation shouldn’t result in such a cycle.” Chief Engineer Yang frowned in thought, then looked at Chu Yan and said, “The only way now is to use the PandaX-4T liquid xenon detector to re-decode that dark matter information.”

Chu Yan said helplessly, "Grace just made the same suggestion."

Yang Xu immediately said, "Could it be..."

“Yes, that dark matter message was also sent a second ago,” Chu Yan said in a deep voice.

hiss……

In an instant, the air in the command center became incredibly eerie, and countless people felt a chill run down their spines.

"Time loop?" someone exclaimed.

"That's strange, how could this be?"

Yang Xu said with a serious expression, "Colleagues, please don't rush, this issue..." At this moment, he stopped speaking and his eyes suddenly caught sight of a hand raised high in the crowd not far away.

"Liu Shijie, what suggestions do you have?"

The person Yang Xu stopped was a young man who looked quite young, about thirty years old, wearing large black-rimmed glasses.

As soon as Yang Xu spoke, everyone's eyes turned to him. Liu Shijie, whose main field was radio astronomy technology and methods, was also pale with nervousness. He swallowed hard twice and spoke cautiously.
"I'm wondering if this information is caught in an 'observation paradox' where it can't be obtained."

"What are you trying to say?" Yang Xu asked him.

"I...I mean, if we don't need to communicate through information, is it possible to get the result of this information directly?"

Yang Xu's gaze sharpened: "Continue."

Liu Shijie slowly stood up: "For example, in the famous double-slit experiment in quantum mechanics, the final result depends on whether it is observed or not. When not observed, the particle is in a quantum superposition state, but the act of observation causes the wave function to collapse, and the particle is forced to 'choose' a path and lose its wave nature. I'm thinking that this dark matter information might be similar to this..."

“That’s one explanation,” Wu Junping said. “But the problem is, this decoded information exists in a storage medium. If even the AI ​​can’t obtain or acquire it, how can we observe it?”

"That's what I wanted to say..."

Liu Shijie walked over, his face covered in sweat, picked up a notebook from the table, and began to draw.

"Neither we nor Grace can observe it because this information is stored in a medium that cannot be read; it remains stuck in the previous second. Grace's processing speed is very fast, but even so, she cannot read the content from the previous second. Unless, our processing mechanism is slower than time, wouldn't that be possible...?"

"For example, the 12 photovoltaic panels on the Nantianmen space station have a total of 14976 movable panels. The angle and rotation of the panels are adjusted by servo motors. The servo motors of the photovoltaic panels have an anti-fault mechanism. Every time the panel is adjusted more than 180 degrees, there will be more than 2 seconds for the control surface parameters to be calibrated. If we prepare a program to compile this information into binary code and then input it into the control center of the photovoltaic panels for observation and calculation, then as long as this information exists, it will definitely be able to control the photovoltaic panels to rotate. Then we can use this delay to see this information..."

He spoke at length, but Chu Yan, being an outsider, didn't understand a word he said, while Chief Engineer Yang and Wu Junping, standing to the side, were shocked.

"what do you mean……"

"Using the photovoltaic panels of Nantianmen as an observation display screen?" Wu Junping replied in surprise.

“This…” The researchers all turned their heads in surprise.

"Will it work?"

"do not know……"

"Chief Engineer Yang." Chu Yan looked at Yang Xu, whose face was solemn.

Yang Xu responded, "Theoretically it is indeed feasible, but we are completely unfamiliar with this kind of time collapse."

"Then let's decipher it."

Chu Yan nodded: "I'll communicate with Professor Ye and Lin Xian right away."

With a whoosh, the entire Moon Gazing Group erupted in chaos. Wu Junping, Liu Shijie, and the others immediately sprang into action, preparing to outline the operational logic and command procedures before handing them over to Chu Yan.

……

"What? The previous second?"

Within the Black Star Forge's consciousness space, Lin Xian heard Chu Yan's voice and his expression was one of great shock: "So this information is very likely about the Dark Civilization?"

"That's our opinion," Chu Yan's voice came through:

"So now they're preparing to decipher it?"

"Yes."

Lin Xian exited the consciousness space. At this moment, the elite team was on the roof of the Infinite vehicle and were quite surprised to hear what Lin Xian said.

"How can you be sure it's information from the Dark Civilization?" Ning Jing asked.

“It was sent at 0:1 on Apocalypse Day, but we can’t be completely sure.” KIKI crossed her arms and looked up at the sky: “But this solution using photovoltaic panels is pretty brilliant.”

"So our deep space platform received the information on Apocalypse Day?" Qian Dele asked with curiosity.

Ding Junyi, Xiao Yuan, Monica, Lou Da Huo Ge, Lu Xingchen, and the others also looked on with curiosity.

Chen Sixuan looked at the night sky and asked Lin Xian, "How long will it take them?"

"Soon, it won't take long," Lin Xian said in a deep voice, then called Viola over.
"Viola!"

【I am here. 】

Viola flew in from a distance. Lin Xian took out a large astronomical telescope and said to her, "Capture the location of the South Heavenly Gate, observe the flipping of the photovoltaic wing surface, and project real-time images to us."

【OK. 】

Meanwhile, at the Zhen Tian Ship's command center, Ye Lan arrived with a group of Phoenix Society executives, and Chu Yan was issuing commands to Grace.

Grace quickly completed the input and linking of the instruction code.

[Compilation complete. The binary code has been translated into text and will loop through the photovoltaic fins. Please confirm whether to connect the black box.]

"Deep space monitoring station calibration complete, awaiting information entry."

"The radio observatory has been calibrated."

"The current angle of the photovoltaic wing surface of the Nantianmen near-ground defense platform is 35 degrees, which is set as the 0 reference point."

Chu Yan looked at the Phoenix Society's high-ranking members and the Star Gazing Group, and then slowly closed her eyes.

[Grace, connect.]

Grace understands.

5:25 AM

High in space, Grace slowly pressed the start button. Almost instantly, the information captured from the black box was transformed into operating commands for the photovoltaic wing control motors.

In an instant, countless motors quietly turned in the uninhabited deep space on the huge photovoltaic wings of Nantianmen, and the photovoltaic wings began to rotate.

At this moment, the entire photovoltaic panel at Nantianmen seemed to transform into an old-fashioned mechanical display screen, with countless solar panels on the sunny side beginning to turn towards the Blue Star.

At this moment, the Phoenix Society on the Zhen Tian Ship and the Infinite on the Yongcheng Port dock were all staring intently at the defense platform in the vast deep space.

Two seconds later, the tens of thousands of photovoltaic wing surfaces completed their rotation and then converged into four characters in all the observation windows.

Four words that sent chills down everyone's spines.

No resistance allowed.

(End of this chapter)