In the past ten days, the project team used the detector to conduct a number of tests and experiments under existing conditions. We also successfully found the body of the alien creature, successfully measured the physiological age of the skeleton, obtained its life expectancy, summarized its physiological operation method, and gave a rough assessment of its technological level. .
Some technologies, at first glance, are indeed amazing.
For example, the majestic space city, those warships that are often hundreds or thousands of kilometers long, as well as various reactors, weapons depots, etc. that are completely incomprehensible.
But after in-depth research and exploration, everyone realized that the technological level of this civilization would not be more powerful than humans - they had not made a breakthrough in the field of semiconductors, which meant that they had not made any breakthroughs in the human electromagnetic effect framework. There is not much development in the AI field.
In the early detection, no intelligent robot was found. In addition, no breakthroughs in long-distance communication have been found in this civilization.
But there was only one anti-matter weapon, which puzzled Ye Ming.
Because antimatter is a purely consumable resource. Unless it is within easy reach, it is impossible to establish a usable technical system.
According to the current technical level of this civilization, if they want to create a large amount of antimatter, that will not work.
The only explanation is that they have mines.
…
"The detector is currently unable to observe its entire star system as we do the solar system, nor can it find the data left behind." Ye Ming pushed the star map he had built hastily in the past few days to the big screen: "This It’s still data from 2.6 million years ago shared by the United States from the Kepler database.”
The Kepler space telescope stayed in the sky for decades, and after its retirement, it left a large amount of data for people to study. This time, it was also thanks to Kepler's contribution that it was able to accurately locate the position of the Blue Star.
However, due to the upper limit of the speed of light, the information received by Kepler was millions of years ago...
On a cosmic scale, more than two million years is just a blink of an eye, and its data still has extremely high value. But for the activities of civilization...these few million years are a bit too long.
"Even if we don't assume that the civilization that left engine jet traces in the asteroid belt is that civilization, we have to assume that there is a wormhole similar to ye-2024 in the galaxy where the civilization was born, and that similar wormholes are civilizations The only way to enter universe-scale exploration and expansion.”
Ye-2024 wormhole is the official name given to the "unknown celestial body" by the astronomical community in the past two days.
"Then, we need to believe that there must be another wormhole in the space field of Blue Star, which leads to an area rich in antimatter."
After Ye Ming finished speaking, he put down his pen and looked at everyone with burning eyes.
"I reiterate again, I don't think that the current technological foundation of human beings is inferior to that civilization. Therefore, what they can do, we can also do."
His words made everyone in the venue feel a little relieved in their seriousness.
Several experts specializing in high-energy weapons looked at each other: "Does that mean 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 that maybe... a wormhole is actually a network with multiple nodes that covers the entire universe?"
Everyone looked at Ye Ming instantly.
Ye Ming exhaled slowly: "There is a saying that when you find one cockroach, there are already hundreds or thousands of cockroaches."
"I think this sentence is also suitable for the order of magnitude of cosmic civilization."
"In the past, we were limited by the speed of detectors and could only search for extrasolar civilizations by passively receiving and observing information. We even came to the conclusion that human beings are 'lonely' and 'the only darling of the universe.' …”
"But now everyone has seen that when we achieved the crossing of space, we immediately encountered other civilizations - of course, they are gone."
"But they existed, that's the truth."
Ye Ming fell silent again as he spoke.
"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 said to 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 did not believe in an omnipotent God in human form. To put it bluntly, he Don’t believe in a biological God.”
"But he believes that this world has a designer, a creator. Because 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."
“Everything in this universe, it’s hard not to think that it is the result of design—at least, it is also the result of intervention.”
"The intervention here is not limited to having a creator. Perhaps... we civilizations born under rules will subconsciously maintain and interfere with these rules."
Ye Ming said softly, seeing everyone looking at him silently, he smiled slightly: "Of course, this is just my personal idea... But I think it can be used to explain a little bit, what we will do in the future, or even soon In the future, we may encounter more civilizations.”
"As for these civilizations, we certainly cannot guarantee that all of them are aggressive - we don't have to guess at them based on human morality, mission, and emotions."
At this time, Director Zhang added quietly: "The level of science and technology is not necessarily related to the level of morality."
Ye Ming clapped his hands violently: "Yes! The level of science and technology is not linked to morality - the skulls of Indians have proven this."
"Going back to the previous wormhole node - I tend to believe that the currently closest wormhole node to the earth is ye-2024. And there are many nodes where 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 why they will die."
"So finding them and taking precautions at the same time is what we need to do most."
…
After the meeting, Ye Ming and Director Niu returned to the office together.
"It seems like you're a little pessimistic about the future?"
Sitting on the sofa, Director Niu took the teacup handed over by He Mo, but did not drink the tea. He just looked at Ye Ming with a worried look.
"It's not pessimistic, it's just..." Ye Ming rubbed his brows and exhaled slowly.
When He Mo saw this, he winked at Director Niu and signaled Lao Niu not to talk about this topic.
——She is very aware of the pressure Ye Ming has been under these days.
As the most powerful scientist in mankind, Ye Ming has been promoting the advancement of technology, from the fusion era to the space age, and now out of the solar system and reaching the distant Andromeda...
It can be said that his achievements... have become a living legend in the scientific community.
But... Ye Ming is also under great pressure.
No one dares to bet whether what Ye Ming opened is Pandora's box or something else.
Although she was not directly at the meeting, her current authority allowed her to observe the content of the meeting - she had been listening before, and she heard the reason behind Ye Ming's constant emphasis that "this civilization will not be stronger than humans" What.
In the past few days, Ye Ming has been personally staring at the detector, and even personally intervened and controlled the working tasks of the detector. The most important thing was to determine the technical level of the civilization.
Because only by ensuring that humans are not weaker than them can it be possible to escape the "bad luck" of this civilization.
Now it seems that humans are indeed no weaker than them.
At the very least, humans have super-distance communication and strong artificial intelligence.
What mankind lacks now is time.
Logically speaking... time can be handed over to future generations.
But people like Ye Ming...
Put it this way, do you dare to expect that when mankind really encounters a crisis, a talented person like "Ye Ming" will appear?
Obviously, no.
Then...the responsibility of seeking peace for future generations falls on the shoulders of the current genius.
It's just that... this responsibility... is a bit too heavy.
"We haven't deciphered the words of the Blue Civilization yet, and we haven't found the remaining information... What do you think they will be like when they face destruction?" Ye Ming held the tea cup and looked at Director Niu, and then at Director Niu. He Mo: "From the current analysis results, Canlan people are just like us, a civilization formed by individuals. This means that independent individuals have independent wills..."
Director Niu also slowly frowned.
Yes, this thing... I really can't think about it in detail.
Although I have not met the Blue Man face to face, but... when I see the ruins floating in the sky, as an intelligent creature that has created a highly developed civilization, I will subconsciously have the emotion of sadness for the death of rabbits and foxes, and the emotions of harming others.
"So, we must not follow their old path."
"What do you think their old ways are?"
"I now have a rough, immature guess."
Director Niu was slightly startled and immediately said: "What guess?"
"I won't tell you yet."
Seeing that Director Niu immediately looked annoyed, Ye Ming smiled and said, "We'll talk about it after a while, when enough information is collected."
Director Niu: "..."
He Mo: "..."
…
Ye Ming stayed in Xichang for a week before returning to the provincial capital.
In the past week, he used the existing conditions to continuously conduct astronomical scale observations of the entire blue star galaxy, trying to find those "wandering black holes" based on the celestial body movement model.
But unfortunately, the detector is not a professional astronomical telescope after all.
In essence, it is more inclined to be a small multi-functional exploration spacecraft.
But Ye Ming is not in a hurry. Anyway, the new "detector" and detection ship are being built in a hurry - this time the Star Searcher is directly converted into a scientific research spacecraft and sent there.
Well, some people who are not afraid of death even dare to apply for a scientific expedition on board the ship...
Well, Ye Ming can actually understand that this kind of crossing a black hole, traveling through a wormhole, and reaching 2.6 million light-years away... is indeed attractive enough.
This is a feat that will definitely go down in history.
It's just that they think beautifully.
Sending one more person up means preparing more food and health systems, which takes up a lot of space!
The most important thing about the new mission is to find new wormholes.
Because his immature speculation about the collapse of Blue Star civilization is...
It’s a crime to possess a jade!
Blue Star, as a seemingly awesome star civilization, but in fact... they are really not very good.
Although humans cannot even use antimatter now, in terms of the use of dimensions, long-distance communication and strong artificial intelligence, humans have indeed surpassed the Blue Star civilization by one level.
——Ye Ming didn't see any precautions on Blue Star at the exit of the wormhole.
This is either because they are big-hearted, or because they are incapable of building high-dimensional space membrane defense facilities similar to those used by humans.
Therefore, the top priority is to find all the wormhole entrances around Blue Star as soon as possible and establish a space defense system.
…
Time passes quickly in the busyness, and summer comes in a blink of an eye.
The moment the Xunxing 8 exploration spacecraft successfully detected the black hole, it temporarily canceled its Mars exploration mission and began to perform modifications instead. The main part of the modification is to install a high-dimensional space membrane generator covering the entire ship for wormhole traversal.
For the sake of mankind's cause of stars and seas, the United States has also actively participated this time - specifically, they generously provided the Webb telescope.
To achieve space observation, the most powerful infrared telescope in the sky right now is Webb.
After learning that the most important goal of the next phase of the project team's mission was to find all the stars in the star system where Blue Star is located, NASA took the initiative to contact Xichang and expressed that it could hand over the control and modification rights of Webb.
Of course, in return, they will share all of Webb's data.
This suggestion was quickly agreed upon.
The task of the modification project was assigned to the lunar base, and the specific implementation was carried out by Peng Xiaofei - he first recovered the Webb telescope to the moon aboard the Yaoyue, and then added long-distance communication to Webb on the lunar base. Protocol modules and engineering robots.
On June 18, Xunxing 8 set off from the earth, and then stayed at Guanghan Base for two days. After some maintenance and testing, it installed the Webb telescope and other detectors, and then embarked on another journey. Black hole journey.
This time, since there is no need to slow down for the construction of a defensive shield, Xunxing 8 can maintain an accelerated state for a long time. It is expected 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-profile space carrier "Xia" quietly set sail. After a three-hour flight, it stopped steadily in the suborbital orbit.
At the end of July, the probe completed the modeling and detection of the entire inner orbit of the Blue Star and began to prepare for the next mission.
Landing.
