From black technology to super engineering

In the past ten days, the project team has carried out a number of detections and experiments with the detector under the existing conditions. We also successfully found the corpse of the alien creature, and successfully measured the physiological age of the bone, obtained its life expectancy, summarized its physiological operation mode, and gave a rough assessment of its technological level .

Some technologies, at first glance, are really amazing.

For example, the majestic space city, and those battleships that are hundreds of kilometers long, as well as various reactors, weapon arsenals, etc. that are completely incomprehensible.

But after in-depth research and exploration, everyone realized that the technological level of this civilization will not be stronger than that of human beings—they have not made breakthroughs in the field of semiconductors, which means that they are in the framework of human electromagnetic effects. There is not much development in the field of AI below.

In the early detection, no intelligent robot was found. In addition, no breakthroughs in long-distance communication have been found for this civilization.

But there is only one anti-matter weapon, which makes Ye Ming a little puzzled.

Because antimatter is a purely consumable resource, unless it is within easy reach, it is impossible to establish a usable technological system.

According to the current technical level of this civilization, it is impossible for them to create a large amount of antimatter.

The only explanation is that they have mines.

...

"The probe is not yet able to observe its entire star system like we do to our solar system, nor can it find its leftover data." Ye Ming pushed the star map that he had hastily built in the past few days to the big screen: "This It is the data from 2.6 million years ago that Lao Mei shared from the Kepler database."

The Kepler space telescope has been in the sky for decades, and left behind a large amount of data for human research after retirement. This time it is also thanks to Kepler's contribution that it can accurately locate the position of the blue star.

It's just that due to the upper limit of the speed of light propagation, the information received by Kepler is millions of years ago...

On the scale of the universe, more than two million years is just a flick of a finger, and its data still has extremely high value. But for the activities of civilization... these few million years are a bit too much.

"Even if we don't assume that the civilization that left the engine jet trail in the asteroid belt is the civilization, we have to assume that in the galaxy where the civilization was born, there is a wormhole similar to YE-2024, and the similar wormhole is the civilization. It is the only way to enter the universe-scale exploration and expansion."

The YE-2024 wormhole is the official name given to that "unknown object" by the astronomical community in the past two days.

"Then, we need to believe that in the space field of Canglan Star, there must be another wormhole, which leads to a region rich in antimatter."

After Ye Ming finished speaking in one breath, he put down his pen and looked at everyone with burning eyes.

"I reiterate again that I don't think that the current technological background of human beings is inferior to that civilization. Therefore, if they can do it, we can do it too."

His words reassured everyone in the venue.

Several experts specializing in high-energy weapons looked at each other: "Does that mean that the next detection mission is to find the entrance to the wormhole leading to the antimatter mine?"

Ye Ming pursed his lips, and did not answer directly, but asked instead: "Have you ever considered, maybe... a wormhole, which is actually a network with multiple nodes covering the entire universe?"

Everyone looked at Ye Ming instantly.

Ye Ming breathed out slowly: "There is a saying that when you find one cockroach, there are already hundreds or thousands of cockroaches."

"This sentence, I think it is also suitable for the order of magnitude of the civilization of the universe."

"In the past, we were limited by the speed of the detectors, and we could only passively accept and observe information to find extraterrestrial civilizations, and even came to the conclusion that human beings are 'lonely' and 'the only darling of the universe' ..."

"But now everyone can see that when we achieved space-crossing, we immediately encountered other civilizations—of course, they were gone."

"But they existed, that's the fact."

Ye Ming fell silent again after speaking.

"I remember that more than ten years ago, Mr. Yang Zhenning put forward his views on God in this world when answering a question."

Director Niu immediately looked at Ye Ming: "You mean Mr. Yang told the Creator, right?"

Ye Ming nodded: "In that interview, someone asked Mr. Yang whether he believed in God. Mr. Yang's answer was that he didn't believe in an omnipotent God in human form. To put it bluntly, he Do not believe in a biological God."

"But he believes that there is a designer, a creator, in this world. Because in this world...everything, the laws of the universe are so wonderful and perfect. It's hard to believe that it wasn't deliberately designed."

Ye Ming was silent again.

"Actually, I tend to believe it too."

"Everything in this universe is hard not to think that it is the result of design—at least, it is also the result of interference."

"The intervention here is not limited to having a creator, perhaps...our civilizations born under the rules will subconsciously maintain and interfere with these rules."

Ye Ming said softly, seeing that everyone was looking at him in silence, he smiled slightly: "Of course, this is just my personal thought... But I think it can be used to explain a little bit, we will be in the future, or even soon In the future, we may encounter more civilizations."

"As for these civilizations, we certainly cannot guarantee that they are all aggressive—we don't have to use human morality, mission, and emotion to guess them."

At this time, Director Zhang quietly added: "The level of technology is not necessarily related to the level of morality."

Ye Ming clapped his hands violently: "Yes! The level of technology has nothing to do with morality - the Indian skulls have proved it."

"Back to the previous wormhole node - I tend to think that the wormhole node closest to the earth is currently only YE-2024. There are many nodes where the blue star is located."

"These nodes may be the reason why their technology is tens of thousands of years ahead of ours, or they may be the reason for their demise."

"So finding them and taking precautions is what we need to do most."

...

After the meeting, Ye Ming and Director Niu returned to the office together.

"It seems that you are a little pessimistic about the future?"

Sitting on the sofa, Director Niu took the tea cup handed over by He Mo, but didn't drink the tea, but just looked at Ye Ming worriedly.

"It's not exactly pessimistic, it's just..." Ye Ming rubbed his brows and let out a breath.

Seeing this, He Mo winked at Director Niu, signaling Lao Niu not to talk about this topic.

——She is too aware of the pressure Ye Ming has been under these days.

As the most powerful scientist in human beings, Ye Ming has been promoting the advancement of technology, from the fusion age to the space age, and now out of the solar system to the distant Andromeda...

It can be said that his achievements... have become a living legend in the scientific community.

But... Ye Ming's pressure is also great.

No one dared to bet whether what Ye Ming opened was Pandora's Box or what.

Although she was not directly at the meeting place, her current authority allows her to observe the content of the meeting—she had been listening in before, and she heard the reason behind Ye Ming's constant emphasis on "this civilization will not be stronger than human beings" What.

In the past few days, Ye Ming has been staring at the detector in person, and even personally intervened and manipulated the detector's tasks. The most important thing is to determine the technological level of the civilization.

Because only by confirming that human beings are not weaker than them, can it be possible to get rid of the "bad luck" of this civilization.

Now it seems that humans are indeed no weaker than them.

At the very least, human beings have long-distance communication and strong artificial intelligence.

What humans lack now is time.

It stands to reason... Time can be passed on to future generations.

But people like Ye Ming...

Let's put it this way, do you dare to expect that when human beings really encounter a crisis, there will be a talent like "Ye Ming"?

Obviously, no.

Then... the responsibility of seeking peace for future generations falls on the shoulders of today's geniuses.

It's just... this responsibility... is a bit too heavy.

"We haven't deciphered the text of Canglan Civilization yet, nor have we found any remaining information... Tell me, what will be their mentality when they face extinction?" Ye Ming held his teacup, looked at Director Niu, and then at He Mo: "From the current analysis results, the Canglan people, like us, are a civilization of individuals. This means that independent individuals have independent wills..."

Director Niu also slowly frowned.

Yes, this thing... I really can't think about it.

Although I didn't meet the blue man, but... when I saw the ruins floating in the air, as an intelligent creature that created a highly developed civilization, I would subconsciously feel sad for the death of the rabbit and the fox, and the emotion of hurting others.

"So, we must not follow their old ways."

"What do you say their old ways are?"

"I have a rough, immature guess right now."

Director Niu was slightly taken aback, and immediately said, "What guess?"

"I won't tell you for now."

Seeing that Director Niu was immediately annoyed, Ye Ming smiled: "After a while, we can collect enough information."

Director Niu: "..."

He Mo: "..."

...

Ye Ming continued to stay in Xichang for a week before returning to the provincial capital.

In the past week, he used the existing conditions to continuously observe the entire Canglan galaxy on an astronomical scale, trying to find out those "wandering black holes" based on the model of celestial bodies.

But unfortunately, the detector is not a professional astronomical telescope after all.

In essence, it is more inclined to be a small multifunctional detection spacecraft.

But Ye Ming is not in a hurry. Anyway, the new "detector" and the exploration ship are being built in a hurry-this time, the Xun Xing was directly converted into a scientific research spacecraft and sent there.

Well, there are even brave and fearless people who dare to apply for scientific research on board...

Well, in fact, Ye Ming can understand that this kind of crossing a black hole, passing through a wormhole, and reaching 2.6 million light-years away... is really attractive enough.

This is a feat that will definitely go down in history.

It's just that they have a good idea.

If one more person is sent up, one more food and sanitation system will be prepared, which takes up a lot of land!

As for the new mission, the most important thing is to find new wormholes.

Because his immature guess about the collapse of the Canglan Star civilization is...

It's a crime to conceive Bi!

Canglan Star, as a seemingly awesome star civilization, but in fact...they are really not very good at it.

Regardless of the fact that human beings can't even use antimatter now, but in terms of the use of dimensions, long-distance communication and strong artificial intelligence, human beings have indeed surpassed the blue star civilization by a level.

——Ye Ming didn't see Canglanxing's defense at the exit of the wormhole at all.

This is either because they are big-hearted, or they are not capable of making a high-dimensional space membrane defense facility similar to the one made by humans.

Therefore, finding all the wormhole entrances around Canglan Star as soon as possible and establishing a space defense system is the most important thing.

...

Time passed quickly in the busyness, and it was summer in a blink of an eye.

The Xunxing 8 exploration spacecraft temporarily canceled the Mars exploration mission at the moment it successfully detected the black hole, and began to carry out the modification instead. The modified part is mainly to install a high-dimensional space membrane generator covering the whole ship for wormhole travel.

For the cause of human beings, Lao Mei also actively participated in this time-the specific performance is that they generously provided the Webb telescope.

To achieve space observation, the most powerful infrared telescope in the sky is Webb.

After learning that the most important goal of the project team's next phase of the mission is to find out all the stars in the star system where the Canglan Star is located, NASA contacted Xichang on its own initiative, saying that it could hand over Weber's control and modification rights.

In return, of course, they'll share all of Weber's data.

This suggestion was quickly accepted.

The task of the modification project was given to the moon base, and the specific implementation was carried out by Peng Xiaofei. He first took the Yaoyue to recover the Webb telescope to the moon, and then added the long-distance communication to Weber on the moon base. Protocol modules and engineering robots.

On June 18th, Xunxing-8 set off from the earth, and then stayed at the Guanghan base for two days. After some overhauls and tests, it installed the Webb telescope and other detectors, and then set foot on the journey again. Black hole tour.

This time, since there is no need to slow down for the construction of the defensive shield, Xunxing 8 can maintain a long-term acceleration state. It is estimated that it will arrive at the entrance of the black hole in five months.

At that time, its only problem is how to accurately pass through the high-dimensional space membrane generator device with a diameter of more than 100 meters.

On July 1st, at the Jiangnan Shipyard, the low-key space carrier "Xia" quietly set sail, and after a three-hour flight, it came to a stable stop on the suborbital.

At the end of July, the probe completed the modeling and detection of the entire Canglan star's inner orbit, and began to prepare for the next mission.

landing.