After receiving the information from the drones, Hao Ren brought his people to CARS.
The space station was no longer just a research center. Its powerful central mainframe and crystal resonant antenna allowed the space station to integrate and process all the information in the Plane of Dreams. Tannagost, as an important "test site," was under the supervision of CARS. Living samples of the First Born and various experiments were also conducted here. It was also the largest spaceport built by Hao Ren in the Plane of Dreams. The two ancient spaceships, the Pattianne and the Asurmen, were docked here. Coupled with the space station's powerful offensive and defensive capabilities, it had become Hao Ren's most important base in the universe.
To facilitate the control of the growing drone empire, not long ago, Hao Ren ordered the installation of the largest "Nest Core" in a tower of the space station. The massive flow of thoughts among the hundreds of millions of drones would be transmitted through this nest core. So, in a sense, CARS was now the "supreme ruling center" of the drone swarm. Of course, structurally, the drone swarm did not have a supreme ruler because it used a distributed thinking network. CARS could only monitor this network with the highest authority.
Hao Ren did not go to the crystal hall where the mainframe of the space station was located. Instead, he went to the nest core of the drone swarm. This device, which was made up of a large number of luminous veins and strange metal capsules, looked like a metal brain magnified thousands of times. The pipes and lines extending from the ceiling and floor were all concentrated on the metal brain, giving the thing a very strange atmosphere. Lily screamed when she saw the thing. "Wow! It's ugly! "
A bunch of messy lines appeared in front of the metal brain, and the lines slowly combined into a human face. The collective consciousness of the drone swarm projected its interactive interface. "I'm sorry to make you feel this way. I don't have much concept of aesthetics."
"The superior nodes of each drone swarm look different. Although their basic units are the same when they leave the factory, as the drone swarm continues to develop, it will absorb all kinds of external knowledge to develop and evolve. In the end, it is often not the same as the original design. The farther the distance between the two drone swarm, the longer the service time, and the wider the proliferation range, the more obvious and significant the difference between them," the MDT explained. "Now it seems that our drone swarm has been greatly inspired by the local environment in the process of exploring the Plane of Dreams. After all, as long as there is a habitable planet, there are a lot of unnameable things with tentacles and flesh …"
Nangong Sanba buried his face in his hands. "Damn it, I'm suddenly starting to miss those square-headed, square-headed motherships that I just released back then. Those things are going all the way down the wrong path."
Hao Ren waved his hand to interrupt these guys who could easily change the topic. He turned to look at the metal brain, which was supported by a large number of pipes in mid-air and constantly releasing a distorted force field. "Tell me about the situation of the probes."
"Yes, sir," the droid swarm said. Its interactive interface then turned into the images sent back by several probes. "Since the star map data you sent is not accurate, the three probes have chosen the three closest warp coordinates to the theoretical value for the warp jump. The coordinates used by probe No. 1 are too far off, causing it to be involved in the space turbulence or high-energy region of the universe during the warp jump. We are still out of contact. Probes No. 2 and No. 3 arrived at the target galaxy almost at the same time, and they sent back this image … "
The first thing that appeared on the holographic projection was a "channel" of distorted starlight. The front and back of this starlight channel showed a very obvious red-blue shift phenomenon, and within a few seconds, the red-blue shift rapidly decreased. This was the phenomenon of the warp jump back to normal space-time. This video should have been sent by the drones when they had just warped to the target galaxy.
Then the starlight on the screen stabilized, and the cold stars seemed to have stopped moving against the dark background of the universe. Occasionally, there were some streams of light on the screen, and some of the nearby celestial bodies also showed signs of elongation. This showed that the drones were not stationary but continued to move forward at sub-light speed. They had left the warp near the final coordinates, and the next few light-seconds had to rely on conventional engines to complete the journey, which was also part of the exploration mission.
Hao Ren watched the seemingly ordinary video attentively until he saw the starry sky suddenly "tremble" in front of him.
All the stars changed positions in an instant.
He rubbed his eyes, thinking that he had seen it wrong or that the video was lagging, but then he realized that this was the strange phenomenon observed by the drone cluster.
The starry sky was almost static. Without atmospheric interference, the stars in the universe would hardly flicker, and their relative positions would never show visible changes to the naked eye. But just now, all the stars had moved positions instantaneously, and some of the stars whose positions did not change much could also see subtle changes in brightness. This scene was like a continuous video that had been cut out, and the originally slow and unobservable changes had been compressed into a flash.
"Rewind the video. What happened just now?"
The video returned to the moment when the "tremble" occurred, and then replayed it. This time, Hao Ren was sure that everything happened in an instant. When the drone crossed a certain "boundary," the stars changed positions.
"The drone observed a boundary. This boundary has no physical body, does not have any obstructive effect, and does not have any tendency to attack or defend. But inside and outside this boundary, the universe observed is different," the cluster consciousness explained. "The drone cluster had two drones observe the same direction inside and outside the boundary at the same time, and confirmed the existence of this phenomenon."
"A different universe?" Hao Ren's brows knit together. "How so?"
"All the celestial bodies are out of position, and light cannot travel continuously on a macroscopic level. The boundary and the outside seem to be directly accessible, but in fact, there is a vast 'jump' zone. On this boundary, space is not continuous."
Hao Ren scratched his chin. "What do you think caused this result?"
"By comparing and analyzing the starlight observed on both sides of the boundary, it is confirmed that there should be a vast space between the two sides of the boundary, but this space has disappeared. The dislocation caused by the lack of space has left behind the phenomenon of 'observation horizon.' Observing the same celestial body inside and outside the horizon, even if the distance between the two observation points is only a few hundred meters, the observation is actually at a distance of millions of light years or even further. By letting the two drones observe each other, the drone cluster has confirmed the existence of this phenomenon. When the drone outside the boundary observes the drone that crosses the boundary, it will instantly lose the signal of the latter. When the signal is reestablished, the distance between the two has reached millions of light years. But due to some kind of spatial distortion, the measurement is inaccurate, and it is currently impossible to determine the specific scale of the lost space on the boundary. "
Nangong Sanba scratched his head. "I don't quite understand."
Nangong Wuyue had just been mocked by her brother two days ago for not studying hard when she was a child, and now she finally found a chance to mock him back. She immediately hugged her shoulders and wagged her tail. "My stupid brother, I don't understand either."
Lily immediately gave her a contemptuous look. A salted fish was a salted fish, after all, there was not much change in her salt content even after turning over.
Hao Ren knew that not everyone was like Lily, who had graduated from Peking University four times, or had a database in their head. So, he explained in a simpler way. "It's like a piece of white paper with a continuous picture drawn on it. Then, we cut off a section from the middle of the white paper, and then forcibly put the white paper together. So, the original continuous picture is dislocated. In three-dimensional space, we can see the cause of the dislocation at a glance, and accurately measure the size of the paper after the cut. But if there is a bug living in two-dimensional space crawling on a piece of white paper, it will only find that when it crawls forward, it suddenly enters a new world, and all the structure in space is no longer continuous. This situation is what we see now from two-dimensional space to three-dimensional space. The difference is that the bug cannot observe the structure of space above two-dimensional, but we can use technology to control higher dimensions. "
The MDT echoed. "See, our partner's technology is not limited to exploding technology, but also non-exploding technology …"
Everyone was speechless.
Hao Ren covered his face and put the MDT in his pocket. Then, he continued to talk to the drone. "Apart from this boundary, what else is there in the target star zone?"
"After the No. 2 detector entered the target star area, it performed a large-scale random jump and discovered an unidentified high-energy aggregate in space."
As the voice of the collective consciousness trailed off, the holographic projection showed another scene of space. In the vast space, large, fog-like luminous clouds gathered together. These luminous clouds had a pale yellow or milky white glow, and in the thinner parts, the starlight on the opposite side could almost be seen. In the thicker parts, they were condensed. They did not have a fixed shape, but basically, they were almost disc-shaped. On the edge of the luminous disc, a large number of eject-like material belts spread out.
"These high-energy aggregates are about the same size, about a thousand kilometers in diameter, and they are distributed in various parts of the target star zone. They emit strong and chaotic electromagnetic waves, but after the drones deciphered these electromagnetic waves, they found that it was meaningless. According to the basic physical rules of the universe in the Plane of Dreams, the drone could not explain the source of these 'space phenomena', but there was no artificial evidence of these high-energy aggregates. "
"Other than that?"
"No more discoveries for the time being. The target star zone contains a large galaxy and several loose galaxy structures. It is vast, and relying on the two probes to complete the full exploration and accurate scan in a short time is not possible. So far, only a rough scan of the galaxy has been done, and a gravitational distribution map has been drawn for subsequent spaceships to jump. "
Hao Ren looked up at the weird luminous clouds and said softly, "It seems to be a place worth going …"
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