The huge laboratory command center fell into an atmosphere of joy, the faster-than-light experiment was successful, and the next step, the research and development of the curvature-driven engine officially entered the substantive stage, under the leadership of Zhou Xing, within two years, the finished product would almost come out, and everyone was ecstatic.

The birth of the curvature-driven engine, just like the evolution of wooden sailing ships powered by wind to ironclad warships using internal combustion engines in the Age of Discovery, will bring earth-shaking changes to the interstellar age of human civilization.

Zhou Xing looked at everyone and smiled, and continued to instruct Zhou Xiaozhi: "Xiaozhi, continue the experiment, just now I haven't reached the limit of the 'Biak Cup'. ”

"Okay, boss!" Zhou Xiaozhi responded, and immediately, the remote override 'Biak Ball Cup' continued the experiment.

Seeing this, the professors gathered their joy and continued to pay attention to the experiment.

"Mr. Zhou, the difficulty of manufacturing a curvature-driven engine increases with the increase of faster-than-light, and the materials of the spacecraft will become very demanding. Professor Lin Hai looked at Zhou Xing and reminded.

"I know. Zhou Xing nodded with a smile, looked at Lin Hai and explained: "'Curvature' also has other application potential, all kinds of faster-than-light weapons driven by curvature engines, such as faster-than-light kinetic energy weapons, faster-than-light energy bombs, can effectively increase the attack power of warships." ”

Hearing this, everyone nodded in unison and agreed with Zhou Xing's idea.

The universe is vast, and the fastest speed of energy weapons is difficult to exceed the speed of light, and if you can use the 'curvature' technology, it will greatly shorten the attack distance and improve the accuracy and attack power of your skills.

Professor Lin Hai frowned and reminded Zhou Xing: " Mr. Zhou, the principle of this curvature weapon is very simple, it is nothing more than to install a curvature engine in addition to ordinary kinetic weapons or energy bombs, this kind of weapon has great limitations, such as too low power, too much energy consumption, too low safety factor is very easy to damage, the most important point, when the interstellar war breaks out, the gravitational disturbance of the massive star, in the fierce war environment, this weapon will be extremely unstable after entering the curvature navigation stage, the curvature engine is very easy to damage, and the prospect of use is worrying!"

Entering the state of 'curvature' itself requires a huge amount of energy, which will greatly weaken the attack power of 'curvature' itself, and for various reasons, in Lin Hai's view, this weapon basically only has scientific research value, and has no actual combat significance.

After listening to Professor Lin Hai's introduction, the professors glanced at each other, their brows furrowed, and for a moment they also thought of the discomfort of the 'curvature' weapon.

Zhou Xing looked at Professor Lin Hai, smiled with satisfaction, and explained: "Professor Lin, your opinion is worthy of affirmation, but you have overlooked one thing, the linkage of 'curvature', a curvature engine can only cause changes in a certain area, if hundreds of thousands of 'curvature' engines are driven at the same time, it will produce a superposition effect, and it is possible to produce an extreme 'curvature' environment, and the curvature weapon still has a strong combat power." ”

Hearing this, everyone was slightly stunned, and Zhou Xing's description suddenly grasped the key points that they had not paid attention to, and they all frowned and thought about it.

As soon as Zhou Xing's voice fell, Professor Lin Hai couldn't wait to open the operation screen and quickly calculated.

After a while, Professor Lin Hai stared at the holographic screen and nodded excitedly: "|." Y“|/(1+Y')^.. … If the amount can reach ...... , That's right, that's right, Mr. Zhou, you are right, a large number of 'curvature' phenomena occur at the same time, which will have a linkage effect on curvature. ”

"Yes, the more curvature weapons are activated, the faster they will be, and if they are formed, they can suddenly change to thousands of times the speed of light, forming a stable curvature effect area. Zhou Xing smiled and nodded.

"You can do it! You can do it!" Lin Hai nodded excitedly, and suddenly remembered something, he continued to ask Zhou Xingdao: "Mr. Zhou, you said that the curvature has a lot of potential to be tapped, and in terms of attack, is it possible that there are others?"

Hearing this, all the professors looked at Zhou Xing, and they also thought of this possibility.

Zhou Xing nodded with a smile, looked at everyone and introduced, "I think you can also use the 'curvature' effect for defense?"

"How is it possible to defend with 'curvature' efficiency?"

"Mr. Zhou, how to defend it?"

"This ,...... , Mr. Zhou, you are mistaken!"

“……”

After listening to Zhou Xing's introduction, everyone looked at each other and asked one after another.

Using the 'curvature' effect to create a curvature engine, they can understand curvature weapons, but they really can't understand Zhou Xing's idea of defense.

On the 'curvature-driven' track, the structure of space is also changed, and if the same second curvature-driven spacecraft were placed in the range of the first spacecraft's track, it would not be able to move an inch.

In track space, a more powerful curvature engine must be used, and the space curvature drive can still enable the ship to reach the maximum speed of the track space, which is much lower than the maximum speed achieved during the first voyage, in other words, the vacuum speed of light is reduced in track space.

'Curvature' changes the structure of space, but it does not change its core structure, it only affects the speed of matter, and the spacecraft is actually still traveling through space, not the space in which the spacecraft is moving.

"Mr. Zhou, is it ,...... , Do you want to develop a space defense cover?" Lin Hai suddenly remembered something, and asked Zhou Xingdao in disbelief.

"Four-dimensional space?"

"Four-dimensional shields, can this be achieved?"

"This, this,...... Mr. Zhou, you are too whimsical. ”

“……”

Listening to Lin Hai's words, the professors' eyes bulged together, and they looked at Zhou Xing in disbelief, and they were all shocked by his vigorous 'ambition'.

"It's not a four-dimensional space!" Zhou Xing retorted with a smile.

The four-dimensional space only exists in mathematics, and it is basically impossible for human beings, as three-dimensional creatures, to have a relatively intuitive understanding of the four-dimensional space. However, we can use the analogy of two-dimensional space and three-dimensional space to explore the mystery of four-dimensional space.

Dimension is just a concept in mathematics that describes the need for several parameters to locate the position of a point in a space. One parameter is one-dimensional space, and three parameters are three-dimensional space.

Suppose a space is a straight line, and it is clear that it only needs one parameter to locate a point on it, so it is a one-dimensional space. Two-dimensional space is a plane, because on this plane, two coordinates are needed to locate a point, three-dimensional space, three coordinates are needed to locate a point, and four-dimensional space requires four coordinates.

It can be understood in this way, for example, a flat organism has only two dimensions, length and width, and there is no third dimension of height, and suddenly, it has height, and it has evolved from a two-dimensional creature to a three-dimensional creature. However, its evolution is not complete, it cannot leave this plane, it has heightened, but it cannot jump, it cannot crouch and stand up...... Its third dimension is fixed and cannot be changed.

"It's not a four-dimensional defensive cover, Mr. Zhou, how are you going to sit?" Lin Hai was slightly stunned and looked at Zhou Xing puzzled.

"It's the curvature defense cover!" Zhou Xing said with a smile, looking at everyone and asking, "Why, do you all think that the curvature defense cover cannot be realized?"

"Definitely, the curvature effect occurs because the ship's engine changes the curvature of space, which actually distorts the space in which the spacecraft is located, and the spaceship itself has to be considered in this distorted space, and cannot be beyond space, the curvature space is attacked, and the attack only changes in curvature, and the spacecraft cannot use the curvature change to resist this attack at all. Professor Lin Hai described.

"There is curvature in space, and if the curvature engine changes the curvature, it does not mean that the entire dimensional space is isolated, and if the physical space does not change, the four-dimensional defense shield cannot succeed. "The cosmic scientist Lelibert judged with a loud voice.

"That's right, unless the curvature effect reaches the point where it forms a regional 'black hole' and changes the structure of space, it can't be realized,......。 Professor Ouyang, a physical scientist, added.

The professors looked at Zhou Xing with frowns, and they almost unanimously agreed that the development of a four-dimensional defensive shield could not be achieved by using the curvature effect.

"No, even if the black hole does not change the structure of space, the matter from the outside world, and even light, can still enter the black hole and cannot be observed, because the influence of the black hole is too strong. Zhou Xing smiled and retorted.

"The fundamental principle of generating velocity lies in the velocity difference, similar in nature such as voltage difference, gravity difference, pressure difference, etc., will form a velocity difference to drive the corresponding medium to produce velocity, and the space curvature drive is also the same principle, in order to produce space velocity, you first need to create a space difference, the material mass can cause bending in space, in fact, the so-called bending is the formation of space difference, which is the basic principle of realizing the space curvature drive. Zhou Xing looked at the crowd and continued to explain.

Everyone nodded their heads, this is the most basic common sense of space physics.

Zhou Xing smiled slightly, looked at everyone and continued to explain: "The curvature effect really can't achieve the spatial shielding effect, and it is difficult to change the spatial structure, however, we can use the 'spatial difference' to change the opponent's hit rate and skillfully dodge, instead of fighting with it and using the curvature space to change the enemy's attack trajectory, isn't it the same to achieve the defensive effect!"

Hearing this, all the professors were stunned, their mouths opened slightly, and they looked at Zhou Xing dumbfounded, not knowing how to refute for a while.

"Mr. Zhou, you can think of this idea!"

"In this way, will it cause the 'curvature' space to be unstable?"

"Is it possible to use the transformation of the warp space to change the trajectory of the attack?"

“……。 ”

The professors suddenly realized that they were awakened by Zhou Xing, and they started a discussion in the direction provided by Zhou Xing.

Zhou Xing smiled slightly, and his attention continued to be focused on the big screen, the 'curvature' experiment was still ongoing.

……

The mother planet of the earth, sitting on a mysterious base, an institution unknown to the world, the Federation Interstellar Civilization Exchange Center, the entire hall is like a gathering place for aliens, and various forms of aliens and human staff live in harmony in the same room.

Before he knew it, Zhou Yang had been at this base for a month, during which he had seen various forms of alien creatures, either blue-skinned, red-skinned, or dark-skinned, humanoid, beast-like, insect-like, and multi-legged,...... Of all shapes and sizes.

Zhou Yang, who was walking towards the office with a document in his hand, was blocked by an alien with blue skin, a pair of antennae on his head, and angry eyes, and a roar in the ground rushed to Zhou Yang

Zhou Yang stopped, and the electronic synthesized voice on his wrist translated its alien language and said, "Where is your General Du Wen, I must see him today!"

Zhou Yang frowned, and said unceremoniously: "Mr. Belley, this is not a place where you can go wild, please don't make a loud noise." ”

As soon as Zhou Yang's voice fell, the translator worn on Belley's wrist burst out for a while.

"Stinky boy, are you the onion, dare to talk to me like this, take me and me to see General Du Wen, or don't blame me for being rude." Belley's face was furious, and he roared at Zhou Yang.

"General Dowen has no right to interfere with the decisions of the federal government, even if you see it, it is useless, without the approval of the parliament, the fleet of human civilization will never be dispatched. Zhou Yang looked at Bellei expressionlessly and elaborated.

"You,...... , believe it or not, I tore you apart!" Belley was furious, and he was about to make a move towards Zhou Yang as soon as he strode forward.

The attitude of this human kid in front of him was so hateful that Belley couldn't help but move with murderous intent.

"You dare to touch a single hair of his hair!" a figure full of murderous intent came from behind Belleigh.

Hearing this, Belley's hand stiffened, and he quickly turned around and said happily: "General Duwen, I finally saw you, when will you humans be able to determine the time to join the war?

"Are you okay!" Du Wen's superior ignored Bellei's words, walked straight to Zhou Yang, and asked with concern.

"Thank you for the general's relationship, your subordinates are fine!" Zhou Yang gave a military salute to General Du Wen and said gratefully.

Seeing General Duwen's attitude, Belley's face turned angry, and he roared loudly and threatened: "General Duwen, a mere kid is more important than the fate of your human race? This is how you humans treat our Moglo civilization? You must know that the Galactic Alliance is not inferior to your human race!"

General Duwen slowly turned around, looked at Belley, and said calmly: "Belleigh, please dissipate your anger, everyone is the same for us humans, our human civilization does not take the initiative to invade other civilizations, but for any civilization that dares to invade our race, we will definitely let them have no return."

After a pause, General Duwen looked at Belley and said solemnly, "As for whether the human race will join the Galactic Alliance and when to send troops to the battle, everything will wait for the decision of the federal government, I have no right to interfere, please wait patiently for the news!"

Hearing General Du Wen say this, Belley's tone was relieved, and he said helplessly: "Okay! Since you said so, I will continue to wait for news!"