In the direction of Scorpio, the communications department of the Ninth Fleet of the Star Alliance once again received information from the solar system.

This is the third time that information has been received, the first time was eight minutes ago, and of course, this is with the ship as a frame of reference.

They have been on sail for more than forty years, with the goal of reaching Nayakuria, about 800 light-years near the center of the Milky Way.

The center of the Milky Way is very densely populated, with a star density of up to 289,000 per cubic light-year.

The radius of the solar system is about 1 light-year, that is, it occupies 4.2 cubic light-years of cosmic space.

What is the concept of a cosmic space the size of the solar system densely packed with more than 1.2 million stars?

That's about one star every 270 light hours.

This area is almost entirely multi-star system, and interstellar space is extremely hot and hostile.

Affected by gravitational tides, stars are basically bare stars, and without planets, it is almost impossible to give birth to life.

But civilization is universal, and there must be a lot of civilization hiding in the center of the galaxy, and so many resources can't be occupied by no one.

The environment there is harsh, and it is likely that only the advanced civilization that has descended from the high dimension has high enough technology to adapt to it.

Some of the fleets of the Star Federation plan to find a base in the outer area of the center of the galaxy as a springboard to advance into the center of the galaxy, with the ultimate goal of finding those hidden civilizations, communicating or destroying, and being destroyed, the risk is unimaginable.

There are also fleets that sail to the surrounding galaxies, traveling hundreds of thousands of years.

The seed must spread far enough to continue.

……

This time, the information received was unusually large, and Aina read it lightly and found that it was related to the dimensionality reduction strike.

She said in the communication channel: "The solar system has been hit by dimensionality reduction, and some physicists can be awakened. ”

On the fleet, most of the people are hibernating, and only a few thousand people are on daily duty, but well, with the spaceship as a reference system, 800 years is only more than 100 hours for the people on the ship.

"Is it finally here? How many years have passed outside? "People communicate in the quantum communication channel.

Dawn Seven: "Pay attention to the calendar, I have marked it, today is October of the 68th year of the Stellar Era, it is now November, and it will be December soon." ”

The captain sighed: "Time flies so fast, how many fleets can be contacted?" Send them the information. ”

Aina glanced at the terminal and replied, "I can still contact 6,742 fleets, and 492 fleets have lost contact. ”

"Tsk, the universe is so big, but there are dangers everywhere, good luck to them, I hope I just ran into the blind spot of Zhizi."

The officer of the radar department worried: "I wish they did not encounter the black domain, or the spread of two-dimensional space." ”

"The black field that is enough to make the fleet mired and difficult to move an inch should not be encountered, this thing has a high probability of appearing near the star system, and before reaching the destination, our route is around the star system."

"As for the two-dimensional space, we have input the gravitational field characteristics of the encapsulated two-way foil into the gravitational wave radar, the gravitational wave will not attenuate, we can retrieve it from a long distance, and the warning range is more than 100 light years, so if you are careful, you will not be hit."

This information is the second time that Dawn has transmitted to the fleet, and it is very important information.

The commander-in-chief of the fleet spoke, and he told everyone some secrets: "Actually, there has always been contact between the fleets, and only the 171st fleet has really lost contact at the moment. ”

"They're supposed to have run into something."

The real loss of contact was probably destroyed, and everyone mourned for a moment of silence for their compatriots.

Someone asked, "Do we have any other means of communication?" Non-quantum means of over-distance communication. ”

"Yes, but I can't tell you yet."

Everyone doesn't know if the Trisolaran has sent Tomoko to monitor the fleet, and there are some secrets that they can't know.

Then, the commander-in-chief instructed: "Correspondent Aina, reply to the solar system, the content is: do your best to continue yourself, and hope to see you again in the future." ”

The first message Dawn sent was to ask the fleet what they should do after the mission of observing the dimensionality reduction data was over.

For the dawn this was decades ago, for the fleet it was only a few minutes ago.

After not receiving a reply for a long time, Shuguang carried out the order of citizen Cheng Xin: do what he wants.

But in fact, the results of the two may not be different, they just can't save the planet.

After all, when you get an order at this time, it's too late to start the Wandering Earth Project.

In a sense, Cheng Xin kept Mother Earth.

……

Thousands of fleets, a large number of physicists woke up and began to study the information transmitted by the dawn.

Fleet No. 5679, on the flagship of the Doji, Ding Yi awoke from hibernation.

He felt something crawling around on his body in a daze, and his eyes were open, silver-white nanoworms.

The insects weave special pajamas into everyday clothing, and some of them go directly into the body, and they don't know what to do.

Seeing Ding Yi wake up, the doctor said, "Doctor, the matter is urgent, efficiency is paramount, I hope you don't mind." ”

Ding Yi asked suspiciously, "What happened?" ”

"The solar system has been reduced in dimension, and the dawn has data that you need to study."

"You know, time flies fast outside the ship due to the relativistic effect, so hurry up."

"But we can't slow down, it's too energy-intensive, and we have to save enough energy for emergencies."

The answer appeared directly in his thoughts, feeling Ding Yi's doubtful emotions, and the doctor continued to explain:

"These nanoworms have replaced part of your cerebrospinal fluid, they will affect the nervous system of the brain, to achieve the results of virtual reality, the commander-in-chief wants you to log in and set sail for your dreams."

Ding Yi blinked, signaled that he understood, and then asked worriedly, "Is this thing safe?" ”

He feared that the nanoworm would devour him, or that he would be controlled, after all, this thing could directly affect the brain.

He thinks that the old version of the source boundary system and optical tweezers virtual reality equipment are safer and more realistic.

With nanobots, it's too bells and whistles and overkill.

The doctor replied: "At least it is safe for now, please rest assured, this is just an emergency, we will not apply this technology to the human body on a large scale, it is too precise, so precise that a slight change in the speed of light rule will become useless waste." ”

"The nanoworm will help you with your calculations and keep your brain running overclocked for long periods of time."

Ding Yi nodded, signaled understanding, and then closed his eyes and landed to pursue his dream and set sail.

Dawning 5679 took the initiative to send Ding Yi to a certain copy, and after a moment's delay, he saw the solar system.

"Teacher, come here! There are amazing discoveries that we may have gotten a model of the collapse of the universe! ”

(End of chapter)