Information tide was a rather broad term, and many phenomena could be called that. First, we had to understand the Shiring Apostles' "Information Grand Unification" theory and understand the concept that everything was information. Then, it would be easy to understand what an information tide was. In the Void, an information tide was a fluctuation of information that fluctuated violently and had a relatively large range. If the Void was zero, then any information that appeared would be "non-zero" (which was also why everything was lower than the Void). Such violent turbulence of non-zero information was known as an information tide. Genesis, the end of the world, large-scale creation or collapse of Order fields, as well as vaporizing fragments of the world. All of the above phenomena could be categorized as such.
We were now at the edge of a destructive wave, so naturally, we were faced with the last scenario: an extra-large and "vaporizing" fragment of the world had appeared on the fleet's warning radar, and it was about to crash into us.
"Wow, I never thought that the first space fragment we discovered would make its debut in such a high-profile manner." Sandora and I teleported back to the command center of the Admiral of the Empire. Looking at the scale of the world fragment displayed on the central holographic projection, I instantly exclaimed, "… It's almost the size of a galaxy, and it's a substance rich zone. There might be celestial bodies in it. Should we avoid it or …"
"Crash into it," Sandora happily made the decision. "The fleet's defensive capabilities are very strong. With such a large-scale combined shield, a mere world fragment wouldn't be a problem at all. We can take this opportunity to study it up close. Perhaps, we can find out what the true form of the destructive wave is. Tawil, get your team ready. Get all the equipment online. We're ready to start our research. "
Icetis had just fallen out of the teleportation portal (I don't know how she had teleported here, but she had fallen from midair). Hearing Sandora's words, she instantly jumped up. "D * mn, your research spirit is so f * cking crazy!"
"Schilling's specialty, Schilling's specialty." I could only wipe the cold sweat off my forehead and laugh foolishly at Icetis. "Speaking of which, you're here too?"
"Of course, I'm a senior leader." Icetis puffed out her chest. "There are a few people behind us. They're all here to see what the world fragment looks like. Lin Xue said that the scale this time is quite large and interesting."
Icetis's skin was still unbelievably thick. This person who had been wandering around the ecological zone and the ship's city all day and hadn't been on duty for ten days could actually say the words "senior leader" in front of me and Sandora. However, I had gotten used to this female hooligan. It went in one ear and out the other, effectively controlling the secretion of adrenaline. Just as Icetis finished her sentence, a few teleportation portals opened up on the officer's platform. Shallow Shallow, her sister and the others came out of the teleportation portals. Finally, the remaining four of the five Protoss cops … These idlers who had been bored to death for the past few days finally found something to do, right?
"Finally, there's fun! Finally, there's fun! " Shallow Shallow scuttled around me twice as though she had escaped from her leash. Finally, she hung onto my arm. "I've been so bored these past few days. Ah Jun, you've been here all day and yet you haven't spent time with me …"
Shallow Shallow had indeed been bored to death these past few days. I could understand that. It had been ten days since the Royal Fleet left the Empire District. During this time, we hadn't even stopped once. We had traveled through the most desolate part of the void. So far, we had only encountered one underdeveloped Chaosverse. Furthermore, it was a boring world that had already evolved to its twilight phase. In the words of the little crow, it was "too narrow to even drag back and use as a nest." In the past ten days, the basic activity of the Empire Fleet was to set up outposts as they traveled. Occasionally, they would slow down and release some probes. Then, all the experts and scholars would stare blankly at the noises the probes sent back for half an hour before continuing on their way. How could they not get sick from being so bored?
People like Shallow Shallow could only join in on the fun, but the others still had to get down to business. One of Tawil's projections was standing on the officer's platform. This was a mission that combined scientific research and exploration. So, as the chief scientist, Tawil had to stand here as an advisor. She checked the signals from the various radars and reported confidently, "Our course has been confirmed. The fleet will collide with the world fragment head-on. The estimated time of impact is ten minutes from now. This is a research opportunity that we look forward to. We are grateful for Your Majesty's wise decision at this moment. "
Sandora smiled faintly, "I am looking forward to it too."
Only Icetis was still nagging at the side, "Damn it, your research style hasn't changed for billions of years. Is it too late to get off the ship now?"
"If you can still catch up with the main fleet, there is no harm in jumping off now." I patted the female rogue (Speaking of which, she is already my girlfriend. Isn't it a little inappropriate to continue describing her this way?) Then, I looked up at the countdown on the large projection. "Let Little Crow watch from the outside of the Order Field. She might be able to track which direction the world fragment is coming from."
Little Crow was lying on the railing at the side, stretching her neck to look outside. This lady still had the habits of a wild bird. She loved to fly around and didn't want to be confined in a cage. Now that she heard that a 'new and fun toy' was about to appear, she was already eager to try it out. Naturally, she became excited when she heard what I said. 'Caw!' The bird was about to fly out, but I pressed her head down at the last moment. "Don't rush. Go to the Academy of Engineering and put on your 'armor'."
The armor that I was referring to was the external equipment that Little Crow was wearing. Before this silly bird could cure her astigmatism, it was necessary for her to have an external radar. She could carry a few workstations to the outside of the Order Field to take aerial shots of this unprecedented scene of the collision.
Little Crow cawed reluctantly. However, the excitement of being able to 'fly out to play' overcame the unhappiness in her heart. She nodded at me before disappearing from the officers' platform in the blink of an eye.
A few minutes later, a corvette ejection channel at the end of the horizontal arm of the Empire Admiral opened. Little Crow, who looked like a hybrid final boss of science and magic, darted out from the ejection channel with a trail of purple light. This lady really thought that she was a spaceship when she launched herself. When she rushed out of the ejection channel, she purposely created a trail of light behind her tail, pretending to be an afterimage left behind by the spaceship's lights. I reckoned that this bird's cognitive impairment would never be cured in this lifetime. She had already broken through the boundary between living and non-living, and now she thought that she was a spaceship …
Not even a minute after Little Crow left the Order Field, the ship's broadcast sounded the final warning before the collision. "Attention, large scale information has been confirmed to be in contact with this fleet's Order Field. The fusion — impact process has begun. All personnel, prepare for impact."
A resplendent radiance first erupted from the front of the Order Field.
A world fragment was different from a normal space fragment. It wasn't a pure mass of matter or energy. For a world fragment that was large enough and hadn't completely evaporated, its structure was like this: Its core was a normal region that was struggling at death's door. The remnant energy and matter of a certain universe were temporarily maintaining stability in a small stable region. Further out was a turbulent transition region. The collapsed natural laws and the rapidly changing matter, energy, and space were entangled together, forming a chaotic storm that surrounded the fragment. The outermost layer was the 'evaporation layer'. After the universe was destroyed, it was rapidly assimilated in the void, like dry ice that was rapidly sublimating at room temperature. However, we were still used to calling this process' evaporation '. This' evaporation layer 'no longer possessed any stable information structure. It wasn't matter, nor was it energy. Sometimes, it couldn't even be called chaos. It was just a large mass of meaningless information. It was like a flower, but not a flower, like a shadow, but not a shadow. This mass of information was an instantaneous intermediate state between non-zero and zero. It couldn't enter the Order Field.
The resplendent radiance that was currently erupting at the front of the Order Field was caused by the evaporation layer. When the world fragment hit the Order Field, the evaporation layer and the Order Field's mathematical environment collided violently, resulting in a brilliant visual effect. However, this visual effect was mainly caused by the stress reaction of the Order Field itself. The evaporation layer itself was actually invisible to the naked eye in the Order Field. That mass of light could be said to be the last candle that proved its existence.
"Although your research method is crazy, this is indeed spectacular." Icetis shielded her eyes with her hand as she looked at the scene on the holographic projection. Now that the brilliant light curtain was rapidly spreading out, the feeling of being attacked head-on was truly thrilling. The Order Field was a huge egg-shaped space, like an elliptical Bubble floating in the void. Now, the front of this elliptical Bubble was rippling with circles of colorful patterns. The indescribable colors quickly spread along the edge of the Order Field. It was as if the entire fleet was falling into an incomparably huge colorful vortex. However, this scene did not last long. After the world fragment and the Order Field came into contact, the evaporation layer was quickly consumed. In just a few minutes, some phantom-like things appeared in front of us.
They looked like huge meteorites, but their structure and shape were obviously more complicated than meteorites. These phantom-like things that kept surging toward us were as small as a hundred meters, while the big ones were as large as a few kilometers or even a hundred kilometers. They appeared out of nowhere in the Order Field and rushed toward the fleet. Soon, I realized what was going on. They were actually fragments of planets that had been blown up.
A certain planet had been torn apart by the aftermath of the end of the world and turned into a large group of newborn meteorites. This group of meteorites had not even had the time to endure the passage of time before they were swallowed by the torrent of chaotic information. Now, they had lost their physical bodies and became like phantoms. These phantoms recorded the appearance of a certain world at the last moment — but they were still just phantoms.
"Want something more exciting?" Sandora suddenly thought of something and flashed a mischievous smile at me. Then, she ordered the command deck below, "Don't filter these phantoms. Let them hit us directly."
So, in the next second, I knew what Sandora meant by "something more exciting." The overwhelming space meteorites really hit the Empire Fleet without any resistance! Although they did not have physical bodies and thus could not cause any damage to the fleet, these phantoms directly passed through the shields and armor of the spaceship and swept over without any resistance. They passed through the spaceship and naturally passed through each of our bodies. Alright, this scene was really exciting. I felt as if I was rushing toward the Kuiper Belt at sub-light speed. My brakes failed and I failed to make a turn, and I crashed through hundreds of asteroids in a straight line!
In a short period of time, the command deck of the Empire Admiral was swept over again and again by the gigantic phantom meteorites. There were phantom meteorites flying past us everywhere. I didn't see it because I was too far away earlier. So, they were actually so densely packed?
But these things only looked spectacular. Everyone here had been trained in a hail of bullets, and their nerves were as strong as steel. The mere visual impact could only relieve our boredom. Of course, Sandora knew this too. She just wanted to use this glorious collision to clear away the dull atmosphere that had accumulated for the past half a month. Reality proved that her simple and crude method of adjusting the atmosphere was quite effective. Icetis swung her meteor hammer and prepared to pounce on Sandora. "Are you crazy?! Is it fun to scare people?! "
Actually, the female gangster did not show any signs of being scared. Her movement only proved that she had regained her energy.
The tomboy had taken too much medicine and felt that she was fierce! Fierce! Da!
That was more or less what it meant.
But after the phantoms floated past, they could no longer play like that. The collision had entered the middle phase, and the core of the world fragment was about to touch the orderly field of the Empire fleet.
The core was a dimensional space that still maintained its normal order. There were a large number of celestial fragments and chaotic Primordial Energy, and the tremendous power of the end of the universe would often be partially bound in this region. They were the truly dangerous part of the collision, and many trans-dimensional civilizations would view encountering world fragments as the greatest danger when exploring the void, mainly because they might collide with the Primordial Energy. But the Empire fleet's Combined Shield was not afraid of the apocalypse, and naturally wouldn't be afraid of such a level of collision. Sandora ordered to increase the shield's readout, and ordered the warships to make their own judgment to clear away the celestial fragments or energy clumps heading towards them. Meanwhile, Tawil's specialist team stared at the various sensors, preparing to analyze the collision.
Icetis stared at the holographic projection and suddenly said in a low voice, "It's here!"
As her voice trailed off, a storm appeared out of thin air in the orderly field.
This was a violent storm formed from light and heat. The blinding yellow-white "fire" expanded from a single point, instantly forming a dazzling new star in front of the imperial fleet. In this ball of light, a huge amount of celestial body fragments began to rain down on us.
Light and heat could be the power accumulated in the instant of the apocalypse, or the destroyed stars, or even the shockwaves of the Big Bang at the birth of the universe. Anything was possible, for the apocalypse would destroy the dimensional structure of a world, causing all 'events' since its birth to be jumbled together without any order or place, and it would not be unusual for any phenomenon to happen in the end. And while those broken celestial fragments appeared to be ordinary matter, they had mutated in the information torrent of the apocalypse. They could be abnormally fragile, or they could carry the power and incomparable sturdiness of the world's origin, even becoming some sort of Extraordinary substance. In fact, that was how the Empire's first Extraordinary substances came about. The ancient Shiring Apostles had discovered certain powerful products formed by random information amalgamation during the apocalypse, and with inspiration, they kept creating a perfect information structure on a mathematical level, finally creating the Extraordinary alloys, Extraordinary crystals, and Extraordinary XX that were now widely used in various equipment. This was also why Tarver was so excited to study this collision. The end of the world was a calamity, but the fragments of the world after the apocalypse would often bring people surprises. Huge amounts of information would be tangled together due to the apocalypse, and the random combination of macro parameters would often cause the scientists of the Empire to gasp in amazement.
But this time, apart from studying the structure of the world fragment, Tawil had a more important purpose, and that was to determine if the world fragment came from his homeworld. This was an absolutely barren zone, and we had confirmed that it was a hundred times more barren than the other expedition teams had found. There were not many universes here, and the homeworld was in this' direction '. And now, a piece of space fragment was floating towards us … In fact, everyone's hearts were in their mouths, but none of them said it.
Let's hope that the fragment did not come from our homeworld.
A group of workships darted out to intercept some of the fragments, while the energy-harvesting device mounted on the top of the Empire General easily collected samples of the primordial energies, while the other collision objects were reduced to ashes by the cannon fire of the escort fleet. It was a majestic sight.
Looking at this scene, the elder sister couldn't help but mutter, "Oh, so this is what the expedition team reported about the fragments? It's actually so majestic. "
"Err, actually, we should be the only ones who encountered such a majestic sight," Sandora chimed in from the side, her tone a little subtle. "The probability of colliding with a world fragment in the Void … Hehe, the previous expedition teams only managed to find these fragments when their radars were fully activated, but we bumped into them head-on. The probability is very low, and we can't use it as a reference."
"Since there are Void creatures around, any probability event could happen," Icetis patted my shoulder. "Event vortexes, probability beacons, walking halo emitters, magical species that can ward off evil even after death …"
I glared at the female rogue. "No one would think that you're mute if you don't speak."
It seemed that no matter how much our relationship changed, I couldn't place any hope on Big Ice's morals and character.
The collision lasted for a few hours. The world fragment that we encountered was indeed of a huge scale. However, we didn't find any remnants of civilization in the world fragment, nor did we find any other objects of scientific value. So, after collecting a portion of the samples, the fleet cleared the remaining fragments from the Order Field. On the other hand, Tawil and the group of scientists completed the verification of the samples after a period of intense work.
When Tawil passed the verification report to Sandora and me, there was a tinge of excitement on his face. "We have confirmed that this world fragment doesn't come from our home world, but we have discovered a weak remnant of information from our home world. Our course is correct!"
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