Nebulae in the universe are not uncommon, at least much more common than neutron stars or supernovae.

This is a very widely diffused cosmic interstellar matter, and large nebulae can often spread tens of light-years away, for example, the boundaries of the solar system have not yet been detected, so compare the position of Pluto.

The sun's rays from the illumination, and then reach Pluto, it takes about nine hours, that is, the speed of light nine hours of distance, which is enough to make human beings desperate, at least in terms of human current (21st century 30s) technology, to safely go back and forth this distance, it can be described as a fool's dream, even if the fastest unmanned satellite launched to Pluto, it will take eight to nine years!

That's just nine hours at the speed of light, and what about light years? What about walking at the speed of light for a year? Large nebulae tend to be tens of light-years away......

With the speed of space that human beings can achieve with their current technology, it will take tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years to fly a distance of tens of light years, which is already a terrifying number longer than the historical time of human beings since they had civilization!

So when Yao Yuan heard that Hope was in a nebula material, his face immediately became extremely ugly, and now Hope is not said to be in a nebula material in the range of tens of light years, even if it is in the range of several light years, or one hundredth of a light year, or even a thousandth of a light year, it is a certain death!

You must know that the reserve energy on the Hope is no longer possible to make another space jump, and the remaining energy can only allow the Hope to use it at full strength for about twenty-five days at most...... Okay, all the lights that can be turned off are turned off, some of the cabins that are not needed are also turned off the life support system, and some unimportant energy consumption is cut off at the same time, but even so, the Hope always needs some energy to propel forward, right? That's another big energy output.

So to balance, no matter how much energy is saved, the life support system of 120,000 people, plus the basic energy consumption of Hope, plus the energy of Hope's acceleration, and so on...... Thirty days at most! Thirty days later, the Hope will be a cold metal coffin, and none of the 120,000 people on board will survive!

But thirty days ...... At Hope's speed, for the range of a nebula...... That's not even a small step forward for ants on Earth!

"Nebula matter...... Have you detected, or calculated, the boundaries of this nebula's material? Yao Yuan asked after a long time.

The scientists all looked bitter, and Allen first said, "No, it can't be...... Major, let's give you a bottom, although there is a space jump on the Hope, there is also an anti-gravity system, and there is a super liaison that we don't know how it works, but this does not mean that we humans have reached such a level, our scientific and technological level is still the level of earth science and technology in the 21st century, and it is still thousands of years away from the scientific and technological age that really entered the universe! ”

"This kind of condensed nebula-like matter, in fact, is just a kind of inference from the scientific community, that is, the nebula is actually the original substance of the formation of galaxies, such an inference, as for whether it is true, whether it is true, all this is still unknown, for this condensed nebula-like matter, although we can not say that we know nothing, but all the things we know are inferences, calculations, applying known formulas, real close observation and being in it...... We're still the first time we're human. ”

Allen smiled bitterly: "This nebula-like material has some kind of electroparticle layer, and those blue rays are its external manifestation, so our detection methods are basically ineffective, and we can't see through this vast nebula-like material layer, so ...... We don't know exactly how big it is, where we are, how far we are from the boundaries of this nebula, we don't know anything. ”

After these words were spoken, everyone in the conference hall of the captain's room, they were all silent and gloomy, because the people present were basically people who knew the true situation of the Hope, and they also knew that the Hope's reserve energy could last for another month at most, and after a month, the Hope's energy was exhausted, and that was when everyone died together.

"Really?" Yao Yuan muttered, and then there was silence for a while, not knowing what to say, or what he couldn't say.

There was a desperate silence in the entire conference room, and at this moment, among the many scientists, a young man said timidly: "Actually, we still have a chance......

Everyone looked at this young man, Yao Yuan immediately remembered him, this young man was the first person to deduce the truth about alien plants when he was on the desert planet earlier, and it was he who first thought of the principle of mutual restraint in the environment, alien viruses may be peerless viruses to humans, and similarly, earth viruses may also be peerless viruses to alien biological plants.

Yao Yuan suddenly interjected and asked: "I remember you, at that time, on the desert planet, it was all up to your theory, so we could escape, what is your name?" ”

The young man, who seemed to be of Arab descent, was supposed to be of mixed Arab and European and American descent, and he was stunned for a moment, and then immediately said, "My name is Ivan Mohammed Bisch xxx...... Major, my last name is longer, so just call me Ivan. ”

Yao Yuan nodded and said, "Then Ivan, you just said that we still have a chance, I don't know what this opportunity is?" ”

Ivan was still a little restrained at the moment...... In fact, as an experimental student who is only in his twenties, he is a little uncomfortable to be able to appear in such a meeting that decides the fate of 120,000 people, all because of his exploits on the desert planet, and he is not an experimental student at the moment, he has been recognized by his group as a member of the scientist reserve team, and the treatment he enjoys is much stronger than before.

He straightened out his thoughts, and then said cautiously: "Major, I don't know very much about nebulae and nebula-like things, after all, I'm not learning this, so I don't know how big this nebula-like nebula is, but we can't just sit idly by, we hope actually has another reserve energy!" ”

"Oh?"

The people around him were all interested, and they all looked at Yivan, but Yao Yuan's heart moved, he seemed to have experienced a moment of silence around him in a trance, but it was very short, and at that moment, it seemed that a whisper whispered four words in his ear.

"Energy Crystal!"

Ivan happened to say these four words, and he said seriously: "According to our previous experiments, in order for an alien plant to form an energy crystal with a volume of about one-tenth cubic millimeter, it needs to absorb about 10,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity......"

Yao Yuan immediately intercepted his words and said, "Wait, kilowatt hour means...... degrees? That is, one-tenth of a cubic millimeter of energy crystal, which means that it contains 50,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity, is that true? ”

"Degrees?" Ivan and other scientists frowned, because when Yao Yuan said this, he used the sound of "degree" in Mandarin, so these scientists didn't understand it, and they didn't know what it meant.

Baume next to him frowned and whispered an idiot, and then said: "Yes, a kilowatt-hour is a kilowatt-hour of electricity, but kilowatt-hour is an academic term, and a kilowatt-hour is just a folk name." ”

Yao Yuan looked at Bo Li with a smile, and then said to Ivan and the others, "I'm sorry, please continue." ”

Ivan nodded, and continued: "I don't know very well about the energy aspect, but I can still do the conversion calculation, our team has calculated according to the electricity absorption of alien plants, Major, you get back that energy crystal, its volume is about fifteen million cubic millimeters, that is, about the size of a basketball and a half, that is, if the energy contained in this energy crystal is exactly equal to the absorbed energy, then it has an energy of one and five trillion kilowatt hours!" ”

"How much?"

Not only Yao Yuan and the other members of the Black Star Team, but even some other unsuspecting scientists asked in amazement.

"One trillion five trillion kilowatt hours!"

Ivan said with great certainty, and at the same time he took out a lot of data tables and handed them to the various scientists present, Yao Yuan and the members of the Black Star Squad, and then he said: "Of course, this is perfect data, that is, how much energy is absorbed by alien plants, and this energy is 100% formed into energy crystals, of course, we know that 100% non-consumption is impossible, after all, alien plants are not superconductors, and alien plants themselves will consume and use energy, Therefore, after consulting with the relevant energy physics group, the members of our group reduced this data to the lowest value of one percent, that is, for every 100 kilowatt-hours of electrical energy absorbed by plants, they can form energy crystals containing 1 kilowatt-hours. ”

"Even so......"

Ivan said with great certainty: "Even so, the energy crystal you brought back should contain more than one hundred and fifty trillion kilowatt hours!" ”

Yao Yuan only felt a feeling of being hit by gold bricks in a daze, and he muttered, "Wait a minute, let me think about it carefully...... In 2026, China's annual electricity consumption will be 11 trillion kilowatt hours, compared to 8 trillion kilowatt hours in the United States...... Ivan, do you know what you're talking about? That energy crystal, which is the size of a basketball, contains almost the same energy as the average annual electricity consumption of human beings on the whole earth, which is simply ......."

Ivan affirmed again: "I know, Major, everyone, I know this is incredible, but through the data obtained from our several calculations and experiments, the error cannot be too large, and the stored energy of this energy spar cannot be less, but the key problem is ...... How do we use this power crystal? It's already an unknown creation that exceeds the limits of our science, and we can't even analyze it, so how can we use it? ”

Once again, there was silence, but this time the silence did not last long before Polly suddenly spoke.

Polly felt strange, and once again she entered a state of silence around her, an inexplicable voice muttering something in her ear, and she spoke almost involuntarily.

"To untie the bell, you need to tie the bell ......"

Just these seven words, the scientists present and the foreigners did not understand what they meant, and even most of the members of the Black Star Team did not understand, they all looked at Polly blankly, only Yao Yuan's mind flashed, and he immediately understood what Polly meant.

"It's true that our technology is too far away from the energy spar, incalculably far away, but everything is not far from its origin! Everything is always mutually beneficial! ”

Yao Yuan stood up excitedly, and he said loudly: "Since the alien plant can absorb energy to form a spare, then it must be able to absorb a hedron to form energy, yes, this is the only experiment and method that can be seen and carried out!" ”

"We have specimens of alien plants, those alien plants soaked in strong acid, use them carefully in a rigorous experimental environment, and use them to experiment with the energy crystal!"

"Thirty days! Ladies and gentlemen, we only have thirty days! ”

"All the scientists involved, the scientific team is in action, we must find a way to regurgitate the energy hedron from alien plants within thirty days! This is the only way for us to live, folks! Let's do it all! ”

(ps: Whew, today's update is late, the network was very stuck before, and various websites can't be opened, but now it's okay, update it immediately.)

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