The stars, but they become the gray wind

"You...are the work of that Cabot kid, right?"

"Since Cabot is willing to treat you as his own daughters...you...are also my children." The woman with black hair and red eyes smiled, walked forward and gave Lina a hug.

"Ah?" Lina, who was hugged by the Time Worm, didn't react for a moment.

"Well... since it's Cabot's child, it's time to hand over the things she entrusted me to keep."

"This is a small gift. I wish you a pleasant journey in the future." Feeling the overly plump breasts of the Time Worm, Lina felt a little suffocated.

"Uh... could you explain it in detail? I still don't quite understand." Looking at Lina being held in the arms of the long-haired, red-eyed woman in front of him, Zao Chiqi bravely raised a tentacle and asked.

"You are also a friend prepared by this child, right? Don't worry, the gift outside has been placed where you can easily reach it. Naturally, there is a share for you. As the future friends of these children, remember to help me take good care of these children when I am not around." Hearing Zao Chiqi's question, the Time Worm finally let go of Lina, who was suffocated by him, walked forward, bent down and patted Zao Chiqi's smooth head.

"As for what the gift is? You'll know after you get out."

"Many years ago, that mischievous child, Cabot, suddenly approached me, hoping I could help safeguard a gift stored within the event horizon of the black hole at the center of this galaxy. Now that you've reached the center of the galaxy on your own, it's naturally time to hand over this gift."

"So... that gaze just now, and the fact that we would lose control of our bodies and consciousness, right?"

"I'm sorry... When I asked you to come over, I accidentally lost control of my strength, which made you feel a little uncomfortable. But don't worry, you are all fine."

"Huh...that's good." Lina breathed a sigh of relief.

"Okay...it's about time to send you back. Remember to take your gifts."

When the Worm said this, Lina and Zao Chiqi felt that the other's voice seemed to be gradually moving away from them, and their perception and consciousness were gradually becoming chaotic.

.........

"Ah...ha...hahaha!!!" When her vision and perception abilities were restored, what appeared before Lina's eyes was the holographic display and bridge that were so familiar to her. Feeling her body regain control, she breathed deeply.

"What I just did..." Lina raised her right hand in front of her eyes and spread her five fingers, then clenched them, confirming that she had regained control of her body.

"Are you okay, Lina?" A holographic projection of a white-haired elf lady appeared in front of him. This was the ship's general-purpose strong artificial intelligence.

"You and everyone on board suddenly lost consciousness and the ability to move for 20 seconds. Just in case, I rushed some of the people on board directly to the medical room. Just now, they all suddenly returned to normal."

"It seems that there are more than just our ship?"

"Huh? How do you know that the glass eel has encountered the same situation on the spaceship?" The white-haired elf lady was obviously very surprised.

"I just went to see the cause of our unconsciousness, along with Zao Chiqi on the Glass Eel spaceship..."

"what?"

At this moment, an alarm interrupted the words of the white-haired elf sister.

"What is this? How is it possible!!!" The holographic projection of the white-haired elf lady flashed twice, and she received a series of alarm messages from the special black hole observation equipment outside.

"What's wrong?" Lina was not panicked. She had a hunch that this might be the gift mentioned by the Time Worm.

"The angular momentum and rotational speed of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way are increasing... no... they are increasing rapidly, almost approaching the speed of light!!!"

"It has reached the speed of light! No! Why is this number still increasing?" The white-haired elf looked at the real-time data of the black hole's angular momentum and rotation speed. After the spin speed reached the speed of light, the growing number did not stop, but continued to soar.

"The event horizon of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way has been observed to be collapsing and breaking!!!"

A phenomenon that is absolutely impossible to occur under natural conditions is occurring on the Sagittarius A black hole. The black hole's spin speed reaches and exceeds the speed of light in a very short period of time. After the black hole's spin speed exceeds the speed of light, the event horizon, which originally symbolizes a one-way trip, begins to disintegrate and disappear. A huge artificial creation appears at the location of the original black hole at the center of the Milky Way. In the center of this artificial creation is a stable giant exposed singular ring. A special singularity that originally only exists in a high-speed spinning Kerr black hole and has become ring-shaped due to its excessively high rotation speed is right in the center of this giant artificial creation.

"Is this... a star gate?" Lina was shocked as she looked at this man-made structure as huge as a galaxy that was unfolding from its folded state.

"I received a signal from this device. What is this? The instruction manual?"

[United Prism Warp Gate: Creates a Kerr metric, or exposed odd ring, at the center of the stargate, turning it into a massive spacetime bridge that can lead to other multiverses. Through it, one can travel to other universes.]

[The black hole event horizon has been cleared, the prism warp gate has been activated, the strange ring channel has been opened, and the connection has been confirmed.]

.........

"This is! A space-time bridge created through the exposed strange ring?!"

Seeing the real-time images coming from the center of the Milky Way, Carlisle almost spit out the drink in her mouth, but her future self sitting opposite her seemed very calm, as if she had expected it.

"Sure enough... it started at this point in time..." The purple-haired girl from the future sighed slowly.

"You already knew about this? Why didn't you tell me earlier?"

"It's no use telling me in advance... Cabot asked the Time Worm of the Combined Fleet to keep this thing. It will only automatically activate when the time comes. Otherwise, it will be useless even if you enter the event horizon of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way."

"It's a space-time bridge to other universes. Only with Mother Worm's approval will the event horizon of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way follow the programmed method, increasing the black hole's spin speed to exceed the speed of light, and then disintegrating, exposing the prism warp gate and naked strange ring inside."

"Why is it at this very moment..."

"Because the Sky Star civilization just eliminated the only possible threat to the Milky Way, the interference of the Black Mist. After the Black Mist, this eyesore, disappeared, the Worm of Time probably thought it was time and opened this gateway to other multiverses and handed it over to you."

"This door...was left behind by Cabot, after all?"

"Yes... but she gave it to the Worm Mother for safekeeping, and asked her to choose a time she deems appropriate to hand over this space-time bridge to the multiverse to the Sky Star Civilization and the Glass Eels."

"Congratulations, you are now... officially no longer bound by a single universe." The purple-haired girl from the future sent her blessings to her past self.

Finbawusiliqiqiqiqiqi

Note: The drag caused by the rapid rotation of a Kerr black hole can tear spacetime apart, creating a wormhole that travels through spacetime. Inside the inner event horizon of a Kerr black hole, like a Schwarzschild black hole, lies a region where strange properties converge. However, unlike a Schwarzschild black hole, this region is not a singularity, but a unique singularity ring, a surface imbued with strange quantum effects, lying quietly flat on the black hole's equatorial plane. The strange spacetime properties of this ring might allow objects passing through it to travel back in time, then exit through the white hole on the other side of the black hole, or even directly enter another universe through the ring.

Chapter 172: Prelude to Another Universe

In the center of the prism portal, under the influence of huge gravity, the singularity that was pulled into a ring was spinning at high speed. After the two event horizons inside and outside the black hole at the center of the Milky Way collapsed in the spin exceeding the speed of light, the strange ring that distorted the laws of space-time was exposed in conventional space. The countless strange matter particles around the strange ring caused all kinds of unreasonable phenomena to appear in the space at the center of the Milky Way. Under the anti-gravitational effect of the strange matter particles, the space-time curvature of the area within several astronomical units centered on the star gate became abnormally high.

A detector modified from a relativistic missile passed through the center of the strange ring at a very slow speed and disappeared in the channel in the center of the strange ring. Just a few minutes later, the detector reappeared in the universe on this side and sent the data it collected on the other side back to the mother ship through neutrino communication.

"The laws and physical constants of the other universe are indeed somewhat different from ours... But what's interesting is that the detector didn't collapse due to the difference in fundamental physical constants."

"After passing through the stargate, the material composition of the matter and information on this side is adjusted to the fundamental physical constants of the universe on the other side, allowing the matter and products on this side to exist stably on the other side."

"Interesting..." Lina listened to the report sent back by the detector with great interest.

"When entering the other side of the universe, this portal will cause the probes and other materials we sent there to undergo certain changes in the laws of physics, allowing all the material and information they carry to adapt almost perfectly to the environment of the new universe on the other side. This will allow the things in our universe on the other side to also have... uh, to be more precise, should we call it law-adaptability?"

The physical laws and cosmological constants of the new universe on the other side of the stargate are somewhat different from those of our universe, but the difference is extremely small; some elements and elementary particle samples of the other side of the universe have been obtained, and the properties of the elements in our universe are almost identical. Several glass eel scientists who were also on the communication channel could not hide their doubts and excitement.

"The similarity is so high... Both the Sky Alien and the Glass Eel in the communication channel are extremely excited. A brand new universe, the difference in physical laws between the other side and the current universe is almost negligible. This means a completely new unknown territory and a new world!

"So... both sides are planning to develop the other side together?" Calisi communicated with Kelias on the communication channel.

"I wouldn't call it development... We already have more territory here than we can exploit. As for the other side, we're mainly focusing on exploration..."

"Besides, compared to us... the glass eels, who are geographically closer to the center of the Milky Way, are quite enthusiastic about this."

"What about you?" Kylias asked suddenly.

"I?"

"You must be quite curious about the universe on the other side, right?"

"Yes, I am. I am not so anxious as to rush to the other side to explore."

"The question is, don't you want to go?"

"Of course we'll go, but before that, we have to deal with the fact that we were almost killed by the exhaust gas and missiles from the enemy..."

"Ah...this..." Hearing Kalisi talking about this, Kaliasi on the opposite side couldn't hold it back. Although he knew that he might not be particularly good at fleet combat, he was almost blown up by the black fog twice in a row, which still made Kaliasi feel a little embarrassed. The first time was when he was blown away by the accumulated exhaust gas (huge jets of Hawking radiation) of the opposite scientific research facilities. After he finally repaired the ship, he planned to go to the opposite mother star system to beat the opponent to vent his anger, but he was almost completely overwhelmed by the sea of ​​missiles from the opposite side. If it weren't for the superluminal long-range attack that arrived in time, he would probably be lying in the resurrection chamber with Kalisi.

The enemy's huge numerical advantage of hundreds of billions of relativistic missiles broke through the battleship's protection and air defense, which made Kylias determined to do something - to continue to increase the battleship's firepower output to strengthen the air defense.

As the jump ended, the Ultima Thule and the Salem arrived at the original central black hole at the center of the Milky Way, and found themselves on a ring world still under construction near the Prism Warp Gate.

Although the original central black hole has become a giant stargate leading to another universe, the function of the planned Niven Ring remains unchanged. Due to the continuous release of high-energy exotic matter particles from the strange ring in the center of the stargate, additional collection facilities are now being built here to capture those high-energy exotic matter particles rushing around in the vacuum and store them for other uses.

.........

In the temporary orbital dock of the ring world, the Salem and the Fantasy Light were both undergoing large-scale modifications. A large number of weapons were installed on the wide and spacious hull of the Salem, and on the Fantasy Light next to it, a huge shaft gun was slowly being stuffed into the disassembled front half of the hull of the Fantasy Light under the action of an engineering tractor beam. The X-0 gravitational field accelerated giant shaft gun passed through the nearly 20-kilometer-long gravitational field-driven acceleration track that ran through the entire central axis of the hull. The warhead weighed hundreds of millions to billions of tons, and its speed was infinitely close to the speed of light when it was fired. One shot was enough to blow an entire planet into powder. If this shaft gun was aimed at a star and fired, the entire star would be directly transformed into a supernova in a short period of time under the impact of the relativistic cannon close to the speed of light.

Because it uses a gravitational field accelerator, this gun is not limited to firing live ammunition. The gravitational field can also be used to accelerate various different particle beams or other objects, even a spacecraft that can be stuffed into the acceleration track or a relativistic missile with its own jump function.

Zao Chiqi volunteered to sign up for the first fleet that will go to explore the other side of the universe. Considering the unknown environment of the other side of the universe and the relative lack of experience of the glass eels in ultra-long-distance interstellar navigation and exploration, this exploration fleet will be a joint scientific expedition fleet of the glass eels and the Sky Star civilization.

"Your tendency to rush forward when you see something unknown hasn't changed at all." On the communication screen, Chi Chengsan looked at his old friend.

"It seems to have been like this since I first met you, right?"

"He joined our team without hesitation. When we were rebuilding and exploring the then-ruinous Limai Star, investigating the abandoned Zenglan, and communicating with the Qi'an branch that hadn't returned yet, he rushed in without a second thought."

"I didn't think too much at the time... I was just curious and didn't think about the consequences, so I just kept going. Now think about it... if I had taken a wrong step, it could have been a big problem, and I might even lose my life."

Zao Chiqi in the picture recalled what happened in the past with some guilt.

"What about this time?"

"I want to visit another universe. I think the risk is worth taking. Besides... as the nominal leader back then, you were even faster than me."

"When we were exploring Limai Star before it was rebuilt, you were the first to get off the spacecraft. You were also the one who took the lead during the Min Tritium Centrifuge Project. I feel like we're pretty much on the same page when it comes to this, right?"

"That's right... I'll be busy from now on..."

"Yeah... Whether it's the development and expansion of the Milky Way in this universe, or the exploration of another universe, it feels like there's so much to do."

"It's better to say that after hundreds of years of idleness, I finally have something to do. I'm quite happy about this. Most glass eels are very enthusiastic about exploring our Milky Way galaxy and even the other side of the universe. It's just..."

"only?"

"Based on our total population... and the birth rate, coupled with the fact that a significant proportion of our society's glass eels want to explore new worlds, it won't be long before our society and population distribution become like Sky Star, perhaps even more sparsely populated."

"With the large-scale application of von Neumann self-replicators, we no longer need a human population to support any industrial or scientific research systems. An entire industrial production system can be established and maintained by one person, or even without any human personnel at all. With our current navigation capabilities, the population of our home planet will likely decline significantly within a few hundred years."

"This isn't a big deal, is it? After the widespread adoption of general artificial intelligence and the corresponding fully automated, digitalized industrial production system, the industry and technology needed to sustain civilizational development will no longer require the participation of individuals at the biological level. Perhaps a more dispersed population in the future wouldn't be a bad thing?"

"Maybe that makes sense."

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One by one, the huge starships passed through the strange ring in the center of the prism warp gate and headed for another universe. After the Ultima Thule arrived in another universe, Calisi observed the unfamiliar starry sky in front of her. At first glance, the starry sky on the other side did not seem to be anything special from the original universe. If it were not for the slight changes in some basic cosmic constants displayed on the monitoring instruments of the spacecraft, Calisi would not even feel that she had passed through the star gate and entered the universe on the other side.

"This... is the Milky Way galaxy on the other side of the universe?"

"It doesn't look any different?"

"The speed of light constant has changed a little, and there are also slight differences in some basic physical constants. This universe is also three-dimensional on a macroscopic level, and all dimensions beyond three are curled up in the microscopic level." Renlong checked the data collected by the spacecraft.

"Like Lina said, this universe is really interesting..."

"Our observations comparing the relative positions of celestial bodies on both sides of the Milky Way show that a significant number of celestial bodies can be found on this side. We even often find celestial bodies with exactly the same positions and coordinates on both sides. The composition and types of these celestial bodies are also highly similar."

"Parallel universe?"

"Rather, it's like two universes on the same 11-dimensional space-time membrane, with only the specific details being different, but everything else is highly similar..."

"Wait, then this universe doesn't also exist..."

"If you're referring to Sky Star, unfortunately, it doesn't exist in this universe. Sky Star exists alone, and this was caused by Cabot and the others."

"Because the Sky Star civilization is their creation, among the countless parallel universes, the existence of the Sky Star civilization is quite unique and special. There is no Sky Star civilization in other parallel time and space."

"So...what about the solar system and...the Earth?"

"This is possible... there's a high probability that it exists, but we'll have to wait until we find a solar system in this universe."

"If I remember correctly... this universe, that is, the Milky Way galaxy that corresponds to our own universe, also has a Milky Way arm with a height similar to the Orion Arm, right?"

"Yes, yes... do you want to see it?"

"Of course... If Earth and the solar system also exist in this universe, why not?"

The USS Ultimatum aimed the sky survey array on its hull at the general direction of the Orion Arm of the Milky Way in this universe. After a while of searching, as expected, Calisi and others found several star systems that corresponded to celestial bodies within dozens of light years of the Earth in another universe.

"This is Wolf 359, and the other one is Barnard's Star. Alpha Centauri is in this position, so the solar system should be here!"

On the holographic star map, after Renlong waved his hand to eliminate a large amount of interference, everyone finally saw the familiar yellow dwarf star: the sun, and the eight planets orbiting it, four solid rocky planets, two gas giants, two ice giants, several dwarf planets and millions of asteroids, revolving around the yellow dwarf star in the center of the star system in a very regular orbit.

The third planet from the inside out is the blue and green planet that is very familiar to everyone present, and is called the Earth in their memory.

However, what everyone present does not know is that this little blue-green ball in this parallel universe will bring some unexpected discoveries and surprises to everyone present, and another story that is completely different from the history that Carlisle and others are familiar with.

The earliest literature has a strict scientific definition and abstract von Neumann self-replicating machine model

A structure that can organize from the environment a structure with a function greater than or equal to its own

The weakest Feng machine is the clockwork machine

Its environment is already full of it, and it only needs to be wound up to wake it up

So its entire function is just to put a spring on it that is not awakened in the environment

The strongest Feng Ji can replicate itself in the most chaotic environment, such as a pile of disordered gas.

The reality lies somewhere in between

There is plenty of material, but it needs to be mined and processed