Cataclysmic Era: I can unlock the tech tree

After several attempts, Lü Yongchang gradually understood the "switch" of this abnormal spacetime structure.

Simply put, a probe ship can be found in this star system as long as its warp drive output power is between 43.8% and 49.7%.

However, the test results show that the stability of this spacetime structure is highest only when the warp drive output power is at 46.2%.

Too low a value will cause it to become "blurry", while too high a value will cause it to become "distorted".

It has to be said, humans are really lucky!

After discovering this pattern, Lü Yongchang couldn't help but exclaim in amazement.

Needless to say, the 129C probe ship that disappeared for the first time passed through this area when the output power of its warp drive was exactly within this range.

As for the 1531C probe ship that disappeared for the second time, there's no need to even mention it.

The probe ship, which is accelerating at full speed, will cause human civilization to completely miss this amazing spacetime structure, whether it is a second earlier or a second later.

The exploration of this anomalous spacetime structure has officially begun.

One of the probe ships is responsible for stabilizing its existence using warp drives, while the other probe ship is responsible for conducting comprehensive exploration of the spacetime around it.

Lü Yongchang temporarily abandoned the idea of ​​sending a probe ship into the distorted Klein bottle.

After all, judging from the previous two exploration ships, this would only end in a one-way trip.

Before unraveling the mysteries behind this twisted Klein bottle, Lü Yongchang was not prepared to continue this pointless waste.

……

Earth year 4402.

The research and engineering ships that departed from the Kepler 452 system successfully arrived at this desolate star field.

With the combined efforts of the engineering vessel and the robot, a ring-shaped scientific research project surrounding the spatiotemporal anomaly structure was constructed.

Among them are large unified field generation devices with higher control precision, and detection devices with higher precision.

This results in more valuable data and information.

……

The Central Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Two full years of research.

Under Lü Yongchang's leadership, the Dimensional Lab and the Center for Spacetime Theory Research collaborated and, with the support of a large amount of data, finally constructed a partial four-dimensional model of this distorted Klein bottle.

For example.

Place a foam ball on the surface of calm water.

Under sunlight, the projection of this foam ball on the bottom of the water should be a circular shadow.

However, if ripples appear on the water's surface, the shadow of the foam ball will become a constantly distorting, almost circular shadow.

The degree of distortion of this circular shadow will increase as the water surface ripples.

The same applies to Klein bottles.

The stability of this massive Klein bottle structure in front of us should be quite good.

However, the entrance and exit of the Klein bottle are actually its projections in three-dimensional space.

Time and space are the ocean.

Under the influence of the warp drive, the spacetime ocean constantly fluctuates, naturally causing its projection in three-dimensional space to become distorted.

As for the two probe ships that were distorted by the Klein bottle, they have been completely destroyed by the forces of spacetime, barring any unforeseen circumstances.

……

The research has yielded results, which should be a cause for celebration.

But the atmosphere inside the research institute was unusually heavy.

There is no other reason.

The more you study the twisted Klein bottle, the more mysteries emerge.

Why does it only appear under conditions of spacetime fluctuation?

Where is its export market?

Where does this Klein bottle lead?

One question after another kept surfacing in the minds of Lü Yongchang and the other academicians.

To solve the above problems, Lü Yongchang proposed a solution.

They continue to send probes and probe ships to attempt to enter its entrance for deeper exploration.

But unlike the previous two missing exploration ships.

This time, the Academy of Sciences first needs to find a way to prevent the three-dimensional projection of the existing half of the four-dimensional model from being distorted.

Only in this way can the detector pass through the entrance of the Klein bottle smoothly and safely!

To achieve this goal, the Academy of Sciences conducted a variety of experiments in the area where the Klein bottle was located.

Within the ring-shaped research project, gravitational fluctuations caused by the Grand Unified Field are continuously generated.

Under Lü Yongchang's orders, it continuously tried to find a spatiotemporal fluctuation pattern with less impact.

but……

To no avail.

It wasn't until Lü Yongchang re-examined the patterns of the appearance and disappearance of the Klein bottle's entrance that he discovered a problem that had been overlooked by everyone.

It is not caused by fluctuations in spacetime.

To be precise, it was the "bulge" in spacetime that led to the creation of this Klein bottle structure!

As the saying goes, time and space are like the ocean.

The depression in the sea surface, which is also a depression in spacetime, creates gravity.

But spacetime is not only concave.

The warp drive works by making some parts of spacetime bulge and others concave.

The resulting spacetime waves are also like this.

Over the past two years, the warp drive has generated an excessively dense spacetime wave, creating a false impression for the Academy of Sciences that the Klein bottle structure only appears under conditions of spacetime fluctuation.

It wasn't until the scientific research fleet and engineering fleet arrived, the circular scientific research project was completed, and the experiments entered a more refined stage that Lü Yongchang discovered the secrets within.

……

Once the problem is identified, things become simple.

Under the action of the unified field control device within the circular scientific research project, the spacetime of the target area began to slowly bulge.

It no longer fluctuates up and down like before, but instead resembles a small mountain slowly rising on the ocean of time and space!

"An abnormal spatiotemporal structure has been detected."

The moment the electronic synthesized sound of Zero rang out, a magical scene appeared in the holographic projection!

In the central area of ​​the circular scientific research project, a perfectly smooth spherical structure appeared at some unknown time.

The sphere was dark and deep.

The distant starlight was completely swallowed up as it passed by.

This is a standard 3D projection of the entrance to the giant Klein bottle!

It is no longer distorted.

This means that humans can now attempt to send probes into it!

But a sense of confusion arose in Lü Yongchang's heart.

Theoretically speaking, it shouldn't be completely dark.

The Klein bottle has a two-way structure; once the channel is constructed, the "view" of the exit can be seen even from the entrance.

Although he had doubts, the die was cast.

The experiment has come this far, he can't just stop it because of this, can he?

So, Lü Yongchang put his concerns aside and looked down again at the test data transmitted back from the Circular Research Center.

After confirming that there were no problems, he took a deep breath and gave an order.

"Release the probe ship."

"Target: The entrance to the giant Klein bottle!"