Time flies, time flies, and twenty years have passed in a blink of an eye.

No matter how time is lost, for the star field of Aquila constellation, it has not changed for thousands of years.

In this direction, the spiral arms of the Milky Way are intermittent, and here in the constellation Aquila there is a very noticeable area of fracture known as the Aquila Fracture.

This fracture made the Orion Arm look even shorter, and it seems that because of this fracture, the Orion Arm did not grow further.

On this day, a scientific exploration fleet of the Fengshen Empire is conducting scientific expeditions here, a new scientific research ship with a diameter of 30 kilometers, followed by 20 school-level warships, forming the most capable scientific exploration fleet.

This is a new change in the Aeolian Empire in recent years, because the Aeolus Empire has made a breakthrough in the field of energy and matter, and analyzed the mystery of the transformation of energy and matter.

As long as there is energy, any matter can be made, and similarly, as long as there is matter, the corresponding energy can be converted.

This is easy to say, but the problem of energy loss in the conversion process can make this theory only exist in the theoretical stage.

Fortunately, the Storm God Empire had already mastered the inexhaustible supply of dark energy, which made it easy to convert energy into matter, and the reverse process after that was something that humans would have done in history.

The development of energy technology has finally made the energy block possible, and the energy block can greatly improve the attack efficiency and frequency of various energy weapons.

With the further improvement of space technology, especially the progress of folding space technology, the battleships and spaceships of the Aeolian Empire have made use of space folding technology to achieve great space expansion.

The Empire's fleet today is more of a mothership type, and it is actually possible to carry more warships inside the mothership.

This makes the fleet of the Aeolian Empire seem to be less than before when it is dispatched, but in fact it is not as much as before.

Due to the significant improvement of the offensive and defensive capabilities of warships, when the Fengshen Empire carried out space science exploration, its fleet size was no longer in the military's detachment escort mode, but in a squad of 20 colonel-level warships, which was enough to withstand the combat power of the previous 500 captain-class warships.

Of course, in the past twenty years, the smallest warships of the empire's fleet have been replaced with colonel-class warships, and the strength of the fleet is no longer the same.

In the scientific exploration ship in the center of this small fleet, there is not only the commander of the fleet, but also the leading scientist of this scientific exploration, Alyosha, in the command room.

Alyosha is a first-generation immigrant who was rescued from Mingqiu City in E by the Aeolian Empire's rescue fleet during the catastrophe of the Earth's Yellowstone volcanic eruption.

Luckily, she passed the genetic test and was eligible to immigrate to the Aeolus Empire.

After years of hard work, Alyosha is now one of the leading figures in the study of cosmic strings in the Empire.

This time, he led a scientific exploration fleet to the Aquila fracture to test his inference, determine the relationship between the cosmic strings and the star system, and further reveal the mysteries of the universe.

The Führer and several great scientists have done a lot of expansion in the theory of cosmic strings, and have also added many formulas, basically confirming the existence of cosmic strings.

After studying two places of space that had been swept away by the expansion of the local universe, Alyosha formally put forward the theory that there are stars only when there are cosmic strings, and then developed into the theory that there are giant cosmic strings before there are river systems.

The Aquila Fracture is an astronomical phenomenon that has long been observed, in the direction of the constellation Aquila, the Orion spiral arm is disconnected, and from the point of the break, the galaxies in the Orion spiral arm become more and more sparse.

Comparing the star maps of the last 100 years, we will find that the reduction of star systems in the spiral arms of Orion behind the fracture is gradual, not always so rare.

It was through these preliminary studies that Alyosha decided to come here to explore and study in person, hoping to observe the state of the real cosmic strings from here.

"Dr. Alyosha, the probe has been released, if there is anything else that needs to be done, please do not hesitate to do so." Fleet Commander Fang Siyu said.

Alyosha nodded: "Very good, thank you for your hard work." I'd like to send a few reconnaissance ships to these places to survey the surrounding area for several light-years. ”

Since it is already in the fault zone, there are no star systems in the surrounding space, and the nearest star system is 60 light-years away, and the width of this fault gap is 300 light-years, that is, the fleet has penetrated more than 60 light-years into the fault from this end.

Therefore, Alyosha felt that it was necessary to send reconnaissance ships further away, after all, reconnaissance ships had a larger range of observation than the probe.

"Okay, I'll arrange it right away, will I put a reconnaissance ship everywhere?" Fang Siyu agreed.

"Two ships were put into each place, and they were explored from the launch point to the direction of both ends of the fracture opening." Alyosha said.

"No problem." Fang Siyu readily agreed and left.

Alyosha went to ask his assistant Ding Jian again, "The dark energy detector and dark matter detector are all in place, right?" What are the measurements now? ”

Ding Jian looked at the projection in front of him and said, "The current values are normal, exactly the same as the space before we entered. It's just ......"

Looking at Ding Jian's appearance of wanting to speak and stopping, Alyosha was surprised: "It's just what? ”

Ding Jian said: "It's just that Professor Qiu insists on conducting vacuum zero energy and X energy tests, which will delay at least 3 hours. ”

Although Alyosha is the leader of this exploration fleet, there are also other research groups to follow, this Professor Qiu Shengtian is a scientist who studies the field of energy, and he is a scientist who stood out from the Chinese who joined the empire twenty years ago, Alyosha does not want to have a stiff fight with him, and besides, it is not much of a problem to delay the trip for only 3 hours.

"Since we still have 3 hours to leave, let's check the surrounding sine wave again and see if there is anything unusual about the sine wave here."

After listening to Alyosha's instructions, Ding Jian hurriedly agreed: "Okay, I'll go and inform." ”

The interior of the entire scientific exploration ship is like a city, and the internal space has indeed reached the size of a city because of the use of space folding technology.

The entire interior structure and architecture is indeed a city, although there are no amazing skyscrapers, but there are dozens of high-rise buildings, which are finished with special building materials.

Using both simulated gravity technology and energy buffering technology, even if the battleship flips, the people inside the battleship will always feel as if they are on the planet's ground, because no one will feel the world spinning because of the planet's rotation.

The energy buffering technology cancels out all the invisible energy shocks caused by various external accelerations, making people inside the battleship feel comfortable.

Such a scientific exploration ship fully meets all needs, no matter how far the voyage is, there is no need to worry about what people do not have to adapt to.

Now that the Aeolus Empire has ultra-long-range space gate technology, the Academy of Sciences has a number of scientific exploration fleets to explore some special stars or special star fields in the Milky Way, and the farthest is 150,000 light-years away from the Empire's solar system across the silver heart.

It was the scientific exploration ship that ran the farthest along the spiral arm that measured the diameter of the Milky Way galaxy realistically, a full 188,000 light years, exceeding the estimates of previous Earth era scientists.

Alyosha left the command center and went to the laboratory building of his research group through the dimensional teleportation channel, this short-distance transportation method is extremely convenient for activities in a city or a planet, and the Aeolus Empire is very skilled in this area and has a wide range of applications.

Alyosha was in the laboratory, after completing an experiment, he found that more than 3 hours had passed, and after hurriedly eating, he returned to the command center.

When Ding Jian saw Alyosha coming, he immediately greeted him and said, "Professor Qiu's X energy detection equipment has found that there is an anomaly in the X energy in the fault, and the X energy here is obviously higher than in other places. ”

Alyosha was slightly surprised, and then asked, "How much higher than other places?" Have you analyzed the reason? ”

A voice suddenly interjected, "It is 1,200% higher than the usual cosmic space, and it has reached the concentration of the initial establishment of space barriers. I suspect there is some space here, and these X energies are overflowing. ”

Alyosha saw a tall middle-aged man looking at him, this person was Professor Qiu Shengtian, when the Chinese fleet was merged into the empire, Qiu Shengtian happened to be middle-aged, and when he learned that the latest genetic modification technology could control his appearance, he immediately decided to maintain the appearance of a middle-aged person.

After all, his child is already an 18-year-old adult, and it would be very embarrassing if he also looked like a young man, which caused a lot of jokes when the Fengshen Empire launched the genetic modification agent back then.

Later, with the technology to control the state of the face, many people will choose the middle-aged state, which looks more stable and does not look old.

Of course, most of this is the choice of men, and the first choice of women is still to maintain a youthful appearance. For example, Alyosha is already a grandmother, but she still maintains her youthful appearance when she was 25 years old.

"Professor Qiu, can you detect the entrance to the space?" Alyosha did not question Qiu Shengtian's judgment, but directly asked if he had found the entrance to the space.

"We used the Space Energy Anomaly Detector to detect and found that there were space energy anomalies in three places, and the concentration of X energy was also high there.

So, I think all three of these may be some kind of entrance. Qiu Shengtian frowned slightly.

Alyosha smiled and said, "Professor Qiu, didn't you use the spatial locator to locate the possible spatial exits of the three anomalies?" Perhaps all three of these are entrances to some kind of spatial passage, like the entrance to a natural wormhole. ”

Professor Qiu said distressedly: "It has been determined that the nearest export positioning values are all 80,000 light years, and the farthest is 350,000 light years.

I feel that either the locator is miscalculated, or there is some kind of interference here. I haven't heard of a natural wormhole that can connect tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of light-years between the two ends. ”

Alyosha smiled and said: "The Führer said that you must not preset a position for yourself in scientific research, in that case, it is easy to miss major discoveries, because any major discoveries in science are not in line with common sense.

Therefore, I think that if the instrument measures three times and it is this value, or if we change three sets of instruments to measure it and it is all this value, it means that we have made a major discovery. ”

Qiu Shengtian immediately said: "Yes, we must have made a major discovery!" ”