Li Yao and Ding Ling Dong nodded helplessly. They had never considered the problem from such a perspective before.
On second thought, it was indeed a difficult problem that was hard to circumvent.
"Secondly, the complexity of the space exploration. We have to try our best to increase the odds of discovering a Sector. "
Professor Mo Xuan continued. "For the ordinary people living on the planets, it is often difficult for them to truly understand the vastness of the universe when they are faced with the blue sky above their heads and the ground below their feet!
"How many stars are there exactly in the three-dimensional universe that we can recognize?
"According to the preliminary estimation of generations of astronomers, there are about nine trillion stars, or twenty-two zeros behind '9'!
"90000000000000000000000, what does that mean?"
"Let's put it this way. We are now in the Grand Desolate Plateau in the north of the Heaven's Origin Sector, which is a famous desert in the three Sectors. In the south of the Blood Demon Sector, there is another boundless desert known as the White Silver Death Desert!
"Assuming that every grain of sand in the desert represents a star, the total number of grains of sand on all the planets in the Heaven's Origin Sector, the Flying Star Sector, and the Blood Demon Sector will not be as many as the stars in the universe!
"There are so many stars, but only a few of them can generate stable stellar systems. Of the stable stellar systems, only a few of them are qualified to be called 'Sectors' where spiritual energy is abundant!
"The development of 'Sectors' depends on the ratio of input and output, too. Some of the Sectors may have abundant spiritual energy, but they are too far away from us, and the environment is too harsh. Therefore, they will not be of use to us in the next hundreds of years!
"In the end, there are very few Greater Thousand Worlds that meet our selection criteria, almost none!"
"This is exactly the difficulty of the space exploration. To implement the 'Heavenly Road Plan', we are essentially going to the Grand Desolate Plateau to search for a few grains of sand among billions of grains of sand."
Ding Ling Dong could not help but interject, "Don't we have a lot of star maps?"
"Yes."
Si Koulie added for Professor Mo Xuan with a smile. "It is exactly because we have the star map left by the Pangu civilization and the astronomical observation magical equipment passed on by the Star Ocean Imperium that such a search for a needle in a haystack is possible. Otherwise, we wouldn't have been able to make the first step!"
"However, there is still a very long distance between 'possible' and 'success'."
"On the other hand, the universe is dynamic and changing all the time. Every planet, galaxy, and nebula is moving and rotating nonstop, affecting and interfering with each other, making the universe unpredictable and unpredictable.
"The navigation map of the Pangu civilization that we have is a product from hundreds of thousands of years ago. Not only is it incomplete, and a lot of critical information has been lost, even if we manage to repair it, it will only reflect the sailing route in space from hundreds of thousands of years ago.
"Hundreds of thousands of years may seem like the blink of an eye in the universe, but the relative positions of the various galaxies and worlds will still undergo tremendous changes!"
"Therefore, we have to calculate the trajectories and patterns of most of the galaxies and worlds before we deduce the star map from hundreds of thousands of years ago into what it is today.
"To put it in simpler terms, the star map of the Pangu civilization has' expired ', and we have to' refresh 'it!
"It is not hard to imagine that, with the level of our civilization, there will be all kinds of errors when we try to 'refresh' the star map of the Pangu civilization.
"With the help of the Star Prier's House, the observatory of the Star Ocean Imperium, we have tried to minimize the errors. Also, with the evidence from history and archaeology, we have determined hundreds of space zones where Sectors might exist.
"But it does not mean that we will be able to jump to the core civilization sphere of a Sector just because we have determined a coordinate! The chances of that happening are minuscule. It's basically non-existent! "
"Our explorers in space are destined to jump, drift, and grope in the boundless darkness in order to have a slim chance of finding a new Sector!
"To increase the odds of finding a new Sector, we are planning to send out as many explorers as possible to jump in different directions and distances!
"With every new exploration team, the odds of finding a new world will be slightly higher, and our federation will be more powerful. That is the only way we will be able to resist the invasion of the expedition army of the Imperium in the counterattack a hundred years later!"
"If two Yuanying are put in the same team, and they are unlucky enough to find nothing after drifting in space for decades, not only will they be wasting their own time, but the future and destiny of the new Federation will also be affected!"
"Well …"
Li Yao and Ding Ling Dong both frowned.
The two seniors did have a point. Both from the perspective of risk reduction and the odds of success, it was indeed inappropriate for two Yuanying to be put in the same team.
"In fact, if Ding Ling hadn't advanced into the Yuanying level so quickly, Li Yao in the Yuanying level and Ding Ling in the Jin Dan level would've been a golden team!"
Professor Mo Xuan said. "However, nobody expected that Ding Ling would advance into the Yuanying level so quickly. Right now, the two of you are both 'national treasures' of the Xing Yao Federation. How can you be so reckless?"
"Alright!"
Li Yao held Ding Ling Dong's hand tightly and immediately sensed his wife's concern from the strength of her hand. Thinking for a moment, Li Yao said, "If we have to split up for a while, it doesn't matter. After all, the 'Heavenly Road Plan' is a well-prepared exploration, unlike my random jump to the Flying Star Sector last time. I estimate that there will be results after three to five years of exploration, right? Or maybe, can you arrange the space zones that Ding Ling Dong and I are going to explore to be closer to each other so that we can take care of each other? "
After hearing that, Professor Mo Xuan and Si Koulie both put on weird expressions and fell into weird silence.
Li Yao raised his eyebrow and asked suspiciously, "Is there a problem? Can't we do that?"
"It's not impossible."
Professor Mo Xuan coughed and said, "Li Yao, there is a piece of top secret information that we were planning to announce in the Yuanying Meeting in a few days. Since you asked about it in advance, it makes no difference if we tell you now.
"However, I'll make it clear in advance. We're only informing you of this mission, but the nature of this mission is very special. We don't have the slightest intention of forcing you to do it. After listening to the introduction, it's up to you whether you want to do it or not! Although Li Yao is the best candidate in our eyes, it doesn't mean that you are irreplaceable. Do you understand? "
Professor Mo Xuan sounded so serious that Li Yao's curiosity was completely aroused.
Looking at Ding Ling Dong, he smiled and said, "Isn't it just exploring a brand-new Sector? That's what I'm best at. Is it necessary to be so serious, Professor?"
"You will know after you hear the introduction."
Professor Mo Xuan and Si Koulie talked in a low voice for a while. Si Koulie retrieved a bizarre-looking mini crystal processor from his Cosmos Ring and projected a colorful, complicated star map.
It was a restored and shortened version of the star map of the Pangu civilization that was stored in the escape center deep inside Kunlun.
Infinite, brilliant stars immediately enshrouded the four of them, creating a dark and gloomy atmosphere.
Professor Mo Xuan seemed to be hiding behind a hazy nebula. His voice was unsteady and unpredictable as he said, "Li Yao, you should know that the seemingly cold and empty space is in fact filled with tremendous radiation, cosmic storms, and space-time ripples all the time and everywhere. As long as you listen to them with appropriate magical equipment, you will hear the most noisy noises. We call them 'cosmic noises'!
"However, the so-called 'cosmic noises' are not necessarily meaningless noises. It is very possible that some of the 'noises' contain extremely precious information, except that they are from existences that we cannot understand!
"On Kunlun, the escape capsules of the Pangu civilization have been sending highly penetrative distress signals to the outside world nonstop. Those signals, however, were considered by the Immortal Cultivators to be 'cosmic noises'. Only Tang Qianhe, a member of the Holy League lurking among the Immortal Cultivators, could understand their meaning.
"During the in-depth development of Kunlun, we got in touch with some of the magical equipment that the Pangu civilization used to transmit messages in the universe. Part of the magical equipment that the Pangu civilization used to transmit messages in the universe has been analyzed. It is now possible to distinguish their messages from the 'cosmic noises'!"
Li Yao nodded slowly. He had not understood what Professor Mo Xuan was trying to say yet.
"Let's make a long story short. Five months ago, the monitoring center that we established in the 'Star Prier's House' suddenly received a 'cosmic noise' from the depths of the sea of stars. After analysis and recovery, we found part of the pattern from it, which was somewhat similar to the methods that the Pangu civilization used to transmit messages in the universe!"
Professor Mo Xuan made a gesture. Li Yao and Ding Ling Dong immediately heard a sound that sounded like water dripping on a stone.
"Beep … Beep … Beep … Beep … Beep … Beep … Beep … Beep … Beep … Beep … Beep … Beep … Beep …"
In front of their eyes, soundwaves that were very regular and even rather 'beautiful' appeared, as if a ghostly bouquet was blossoming in the depths of the universe.
"The technique that transmitted the message was very powerful, and it is something that we haven't fully understood yet. We only know that it is very likely to be related to 'gravitational wave communication'. It equaled to a ripple transmitted from the four-dimensional space that ignored the distance in the three-dimensional space and reached our world instantly."
Professor Mo Xuan's voice was like a cold breeze from the depths of the universe. "Not long after the Flying Star Sector received the message, the Tian Yuan Realm received the same message, too. Beep … Beep … Beep, beep, beep!"
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