In the past 10 days, the project team has carried out a number of tests and experiments using the detector under the existing conditions. The corpse of the alien creature was also successfully found, and the physiological age of the skeleton was successfully measured, its life expectancy was obtained, its physiological operation was summarized, and a rough assessment of its scientific and technological level was given.

There are some techniques that, at first glance, are really incredible.

For example, the majestic space city, and those warships that are hundreds or thousands of kilometers long, as well as all kinds of completely incomprehensible reactors, weapons depots, and so on.

But after in-depth research and exploration, everyone realized that the technological level of this civilization is not more powerful than that of human beings - they have not made a breakthrough in the field of semiconductors, which means that they have not developed much in the field of AI under the framework of human electromagnetic effects.

In the early detection, no intelligent robots were found. Other than that, no breakthrough in the civilization's over-the-range communications has been found.

But there was only one antimatter weapon, which made Ye Ming a little puzzled.

Because antimatter is a purely expendable resource, and unless it is within reach, there is no way to build a usable technology system.

And according to the current technological level of the civilization, they want to create a large amount of antimatter, which is not possible.

The only explanation is that they have mines.

……

"The probe is not currently able to observe the entire galaxy as we do with the solar system, nor can it find the data left behind." Ye Ming pushed the star map that had been hastily built up in the past few days to the big screen: "This is still the data from 2.6 million years ago that Lao Mei shared from the Kepler database. ”

The Kepler Space Telescope spent decades in the sky, and after its retirement, it left behind a large amount of data for people to study, and this time it was also thanks to Kepler's contribution that it was able to accurately locate the position of the blue star.

It's just that due to the upper limit of the speed of light propagation, Kepler received information millions of years ago......

On a cosmic scale, more than two million years is just a flick of a finger, and its data still has extremely high value. But for the activities of civilization...... These millions of years are a bit too much.

"Even if we don't assume that the civilization that left traces of engine jets in the asteroid belt is the civilization, we should assume that there are wormholes similar to ye-2024 in the galaxy where a civilization was born, and that similar wormholes are the only way for civilizations to enter the cosmic scale of exploration and expansion."

The YE-2024 wormhole is the official name of the "Celestial Body" in the astronomical community in the past two days.

"Then, we need to believe that there must be another wormhole in this space field of Azure Star, which leads to an antimatter-rich region."

After Ye Ming finished speaking in one breath, he put down his pen and looked at everyone with burning eyes.

"I reiterate once again, I don't think that the current technological background of mankind is inferior to that of this civilization, so 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 glanced at each other: "Does that mean that the next exploration mission is to find the entrance to the wormhole that leads to the antimatter mine?" ”

Ye Ming pursed his lips and did not answer directly, but asked rhetorically: "Have you considered it, maybe ...... A wormhole, which is actually a network with multiple nodes covering the entire universe? ”

Everyone looked at Ye Ming instantly.

Ye Ming exhaled slowly: "There is a saying that when you find a cockroach, there are already hundreds of cockroaches. ”

"I think this sentence is also suitable for the order of magnitude of the cosmic civilization."

"In the past, we were limited by the speed of the probe, and we could only find extra-civilizations by passively receiving and observing information, and even came to the conclusion that human beings were 'lonely' and 'the only darling of the universe'......"

"But now you can see that when we crossed space, we immediately encountered other civilizations - of course, they were gone."

"But they existed, that's the truth."

Ye Ming said and fell silent again.

"I remember more than ten years ago, when Mr. Yang Zhenning was answering a question, he put forward his view of the world about God."

Director Niu immediately looked at Ye Ming: "You mean that Elder Yang said to the Creator, right?" ”

Ye Ming nodded: "In that interview, someone asked Elder Yang if he believed in God. Yang Lao's answer is that he does not believe in the human-form, omnipotent God, to put it bluntly, he does not believe in God in the biological sense. ”

But he believed that there was a designer, a creator, in this world. Because the world ...... Everything is everything, and 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'm inclined to believe it."

"It's hard not to think that everything in this universe is the result of design—or at the very least, of intervention."

"The intervention here is not limited to a Creator, perhaps...... We, who were born under the rules, will subconsciously maintain and intervene in these rules. ”

Ye Ming said softly, seeing that everyone was looking at him silently, he smiled slightly: "Of course, this is just my personal thoughts...... But I think it can be used a little bit to explain that we may encounter more civilizations in the future, or even in the near future. ”

"And these civilizations, of course, we can't guarantee that they are all aggressive—we don't have to guess them by human morality and mission and emotion."

At this time, Director Zhang added faintly: "The level of science and technology is not necessarily related to the level of morality. ”

Ye Mingmeng clapped his hands reluctantly: "Yes! The level of technology is not linked to morality - the skulls of the Indians have proven this. ”

"Going back to the previous wormhole node - I tend to think that the closest wormhole node to Earth at the moment is only YE-2024 for the time being. And the node where the blue star is located, there are many of them. ”

"These nodes may be the reason why their technology is tens of thousands of years ahead of us, or they may be the reason for their demise."

"So finding them and being prepared for them is what we need to do the most."

……

After the meeting, Ye Ming and Director Niu returned to the office together.

"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 he didn't drink the tea, just looked at Ye Ming with a worried face.

"It's not pessimistic, it's just ......" Ye Ming rubbed his brows and exhaled slowly.

Seeing this, He Mo glanced at Director Niu and motioned to Lao Niu not to talk about this topic.

- She knows too well the pressure that Ye Ming has been bearing these days.

As the most powerful scientist of mankind at present, Ye Ming has been pushing the progress of technology, from the fusion age to the space age, and then to the current step out of the solar system and reach the distant constellation Andromeda......

It can be said that his achievements ...... It has become a living legend in the scientific community.

But...... Ye Ming's pressure was also extremely great.

No one dared to bet on whether Ye Ming opened a Pandora's box or something.

Although she was not directly at the venue, her current privilege was to observe the content of the meeting—she had been observing it before, and she heard what was behind Ye Ming's constant emphasis that "this civilization will not be stronger than humans".

In the past few days, Ye Ming has been personally staring at the probe, and even personally intervening and controlling the work of the probe, the most important thing is to determine the technological level of the civilization.

Because only by establishing that humanity is not weaker than them will it be possible to get rid of the "doom" of this civilization.

Now it seems that humanity is indeed not weaker than them.

At the very least, human beings have long-distance communication and strong artificial intelligence.

What mankind lacks now is time.

It stands to reason...... Time can be accounted for to future generations.

But people like Ye Ming ......

Let's put it this way, do you dare to expect that when mankind really encounters a crisis, there will still be a genius like "Ye Ming"?

Obviously, no.

So...... The responsibility of seeking peace for future generations falls on the shoulders of today's geniuses.

It's just that...... This responsibility...... It's a little too heavy.

"We have yet to decipher the text of the Blue Civilization, and we have not found any surviving information...... What kind of mindset will they have when they face destruction, you say? Ye Ming held the teacup, looked at Director Niu, and then looked at He Mo: "Judging from the current analysis results, the blue people, like us, are a civilization formed by individuals. This means that independent individuals have independent wills......"

Director Niu also frowned slowly.

Yes, this thing...... I can't really think about it.

Although he did not meet the blue people, he ...... When you see the ruins floating in the air, as an intelligent creature who has created a highly developed civilization, you will subconsciously have emotions such as the death of a rabbit and a fox, and the sadness of things.

"So, we must not follow their old path."

"What do you think their old ways are?"

"I have a rough, premature guess right now."

Director Niu was slightly stunned, and immediately said, "What guess?" ”

"I'll not tell you just yet."

Seeing that Director Niu immediately looked annoyed, Ye Ming smiled: "Wait for a while, and gather enough information." ”

Director Niu: "......"

He Mo: "......"

……

Ye Ming continued to stay in Xichang for a week before returning to the provincial capital.

In the past week, he has been using the existing conditions to continuously observe the entire blue star galaxy on an astronomical scale, trying to find those "wandering black holes" according to the celestial operation model.

But unfortunately, the detector is not a professional astronomical telescope after all.

In essence, it is more inclined to be a small multi-purpose exploration spacecraft.

But Ye Ming is not in a hurry, anyway, the new "probe" and exploration ship are being built in a hurry-this time it is directly converted into a scientific research spacecraft and sent over.

Well, there are even people who are brave and not afraid of death who dare to apply for a scientific expedition with the ship......

Well, in fact, Ye Ming can understand that this kind of crossing a black hole, passing through a wormhole, and reaching two million and six hundred thousand light years away...... Appealing enough, indeed.

This is a feat that will definitely go down in history.

It's just that they want to be beautiful.

If you send one more person up, you will have to prepare a food and sanitation system, which will take up more space!

And the most important task of the new task is to find a new wormhole.

Because his immature speculation about the fall of the Blue Star civilization is......

Guilty of it!

Azure Star, as a seemingly awesome star civilization, is actually ...... They really don't do much.

Don't look at the fact that human beings can't even use antimatter now, but in terms of dimensional utilization, in the use of ultra-distant communication and strong artificial intelligence, human beings have indeed surpassed the Blue Star civilization by one level.

- Ye Ming didn't see any precautions at the exit of the wormhole at all.

Either they have big hearts, or they don't have the ability to make a high-dimensional space membrane defense facility similar to that made by humans.

Therefore, it is important to find all the wormhole entrances around the Azure Star as soon as possible and establish a space defense system.

……

Time passed quickly in the busyness, and in the blink of an eye, it was summer.

The Seeker 8 spacecraft temporarily canceled the Mars exploration mission at the moment of successful black hole exploration and began to carry out modifications. The part of the modification is mainly to install a high-dimensional space membrane generator covering the whole ship for wormhole traversal.

And for the cause of the stars and seas of mankind, Lao Mei also actively participated in this time - the specific manifestation is that they generously provided the Webb telescope.

To achieve space observation, the most powerful infrared telescope in the sky is now none other than Weber.

After learning that the most important goal of the next phase of the project team was to find out all the stars in the star system where the blue star is located, NASA took the initiative to contact Xichang and said that it could hand over Webb's control and modification rights.

In return, of course, they will share all of the Webb data.

This suggestion was quickly agreed.

The task of the modification project was handed over to the lunar base, and the specific implementation was carried out by Peng Xiaofei - he first took the Moon Invitation to recover the Webb telescope to the moon, and then added a super-distance communication protocol module and engineering robots to Weber on the lunar base.

On June 18, the Hunter 8 departed from Earth, then stayed at the Guanghan base for two days, and after some overhaul and testing, it was equipped with the Webb telescope and some other probes, and then embarked on another journey through the black hole.

This time, since there was no need to slow down the construction of the defensive shield, Star-Seeking 8 was able to maintain its acceleration for a long time, and 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 1 July, at the Jiangnan Shipyard, the low-key aerospace carrier "Xia" quietly set sail and came to a steady stop in suborbit after a three-hour flight.

At the end of July, the probe completed the modeling and exploration of the entire orbit within the Azure Star and began to prepare for the next mission.

Landing.