The universe is too vast and human beings are too small. There may be tens of millions of strange phenomena and processes in the universe, but what humans have mastered may not even be one ten thousandth.
It is completely normal to encounter some unbelievable things. Zhao Changxing has always been mentally prepared for this. But what he encountered at this moment was still somewhat beyond his imagination.
"Did...the entire universe disappear?"
A question flashed in Zhao Changxing's mind. Obviously, this question is in the minds of every official and scientist present.
"It's also possible that it's not that the universe has disappeared, but... we have disappeared."
Zhao Changxing remained silent.
He remembered what he had seen at the beginning. The Lalande 21185 galaxy where the Moyun Litar civilization was located seemed to be shrouded in "black mist" and then disappeared inexplicably.
That incident happened hundreds of years ago, before human civilization reached the Rakai 9352 galaxy. The witnesses of that incident, except for some people with special circumstances, such as those who had been hibernating for a long time, are all dead.
Zhao Changxing is one of the few people who has experienced it.
So now, from the outside world, does our fleet seem to be shrouded in a "black mist" and then disappear from the universe?
If the Moyunli Tar civilization was discovered by a certain super civilization and was "cleaned up", then was our own fleet also discovered and cleaned up?
But if it is "cleaning up", the first thing that can be confirmed is that the super civilization that did all this must have a strength that human civilization cannot resist. They can kill everyone on their side in an instant.
But now, he is still alive.
Could it be that... this is not cleaning up? The original Moyun Litar civilization was not extinct?
At this moment, Zhao Changxing thought of many things and speculated on many things. These things are confusing, and any guess may be true or false. Zhao Changxing could not make follow-up arrangements based on these guesses.
But one thing is never wrong.
"Issue an emergency summons. Order to wake up all military personnel and the Space Force to enter a state of combat readiness. Wake up all experts and scholars from all scientific research institutions and be on standby at any time."
"yes."
The wake-up command was executed immediately. This means that in the next few days, more than 20 million people will wake up from hibernation, which will make all Voyage spacecraft and combat spacecraft crowded.
At this moment, some scientific researchers who are on duty and are awake have already started initial verification and reached some preliminary conclusions in a short period of time.
"Leader, it is basically confirmed that we are the ones who disappeared, not the universe."
Although this conclusion has been expected by people, without actual data and evidence to support it, it can only be a guess.
Now, the data and evidence are coming.
"We measured relevant radiation data of the external environment and concluded that, except for the radiation emitted by the fleet itself, all radiation from the outside world has disappeared. At present, we have verified various types of interstellar radiation, including photons, helium nuclei , proton radiation, heavy nuclear radiation, neutron radiation, and neutrinos, etc.”
If it is the universe that "disappears", then at least some radiation should remain. But now, all types of radiation are gone, and that can only mean one thing.
There is something surrounding this fleet. Or perhaps, the fleet has entered a strange space that must be isolated from the outside world.
Only in this way can we explain what we are experiencing now.
Zhao Changxing nodded and said: "Test the basic laws of physics."
Zhao Changxing wanted to know whether the laws of physics had changed in this strange, isolated space that his fleet had entered. Through this, we might be able to get a glimpse of some truth.
"yes."
At this moment, the emergency wake-up command has been completed. Zhao Changxing saw that a total of 30 combat spacecraft formations of various levels had entered the highest combat readiness state. The space carrier responsible for strategic delivery has been "stretched" at this moment, and the combat spacecraft have left their berths and formed a combat formation.
They came to the front, rear, left, right, top and bottom of the Yuanhang spacecraft formation, tightly protecting these spacecrafts carrying the entire civilization at the core.
Various types and models of battlefield intelligence collection equipment have been turned on at full power. From this moment on, the members of the War Commission are confident that even a particle of interstellar dust that passes through the protective circle can be captured by the instruments and equipment equipped by people.
Many scientific researchers who have awakened from hibernation, those with related majors, are performing verification, research, and exploration tasks under the leadership of the Academy of Civilization Sciences. Those with unrelated majors are temporarily on standby, waiting for calls at any time.
Under this situation, the first conclusion was quickly presented to Zhao Changxing.
"We assigned 63 independent verification teams to take spaceships to various directions to independently perform relevant research and verification experiments on the 'Casimir Effect'. The conclusion is that the vacuum fluctuation effect still exists and is completely different from the past. Consistent.”
Soon after, a second conclusion emerged.
"There is no change in the speed of light in a vacuum."
Then the third, fourth...
"There is no change in the gravitational constant."
"There is no change in the strong, weak, and electromagnetic forces."
"The Hubble constant is unobservable."
"The physical properties and characteristics of each microscopic particle have not changed."
"no change."
One conclusion after another all shows one fact. The space where the human civilization fleet is located at this moment is completely the same as before.
At this moment, 11 days have passed since entering this strange space. During these 11 days, the world outside the fleet was still a thick darkness. No light, no radiation, no everything.
At the same time, there are no changes within the fleet as before. The predicted destruction did not come. It seemed that the fleet really just inadvertently broke into a strange space that was not controlled by any intelligent power.
At this time, another conjecture came up.
"Is this still the remnant of a certain super civilization? Relics? Wrecks? Just like the relics of the fifth-level civilization we encountered back then, and then all the kinetic energy was 'stolen'?"
"Is it a space independent of the three-dimensional universe? A certain super civilization left a space here for some reason, either due to war or defense, and then we inadvertently broke in? "
This guess is somewhat reasonable. And, at this stage, this is the only reasonable guess.
However, since you have inadvertently broken into this space, the next step is very simple and clear.
Find a way to escape.
Regardless of the reason for the emergence of this space, whether it is a legacy of a super civilization or some kind of strange natural phenomenon, human civilization at this moment has no interest in, nor the ability to do anything with it.
People just want to leave as soon as possible, reach their destination as soon as possible, and then continue to develop civilization. Until civilization is strong enough, no one is willing to get involved in things that are beyond their current capabilities.
But...how to escape?
Faced with this problem, relevant experts conducted a lot of discussions and put forward various speculations. There were dozens of suggestions put before Zhao Changxing alone.
But Zhao Changxing soon noticed a fact among these many plans that embarrassed the entire civilization.
——In these many years of study, Zhao Changxing has accumulated considerable knowledge reserves in almost every subject. Although it is still beyond his ability to conduct cutting-edge scientific research, he can still understand these plans in depth.
The truth is that these suggestions are more a matter of chance than suggestions. It's more of a religious ritual than a scientific protocol.
Just like in the original earth age, after an airplane transported some supplies to an isolated aboriginal tribe, the aboriginal tribe developed "aircraft worship" and tried to use religious rituals, sacrifices and the like. It's like letting the plane appear again and deliver supplies again.
At this moment, in Zhao Changxing's opinion, the plan proposed by human scientists is no different from the "aircraft worship" of the native tribe.
It's all a farce that happens when the gap in technological level is too large, and it's a low-level attempt to forcibly understand the high-level.
Among these many plans, only one made Zhao Changxing feel that it had some value.
Accelerate the fleet again and try to see if it can "rush" out of this space.
With Zhao Changxing's approval, the plan was implemented. As a result, the entire huge fleet began to accelerate uniformly again.
Frankly speaking, Zhao Changxing just made this decision with the mentality of "if there are dates but no dates, it will be a three-pole failure". Anyway, even if it fails, there will be no loss. But after implementing this plan, another thing happened that shocked everyone and was beyond everyone's expectations.
After the acceleration continued for a day, when the speed of the fleet increased to about more than one kilometer per second compared to the previous "stationary", people saw a star appear on the horizon.
The appearance of this star seemed to send some kind of signal, and the next moment, another star appeared. Then the third one, the fourth one...
Until the entire cosmic space, up and down, left, right and front, is filled with shining dense stars, and the entire fleet is once again surrounded by thousands of stars.
At this moment, all the people who were awake felt a little confused. Even the scholar who proposed this plan fell into a daze.
"It actually works?"
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