(This story is pure fiction, if there is any similarity, please call me a prophet!) )

In the universe, there are countless galaxies, countless stars, and countless civilizations.

The central star region of the universe, the Silverhan Galaxy, the Sunny Galaxy, and the Blue Star. A planet of life like a sapphire, with several landmasses dotted between the blue oceans.

500 years ago, in the year 2164 of the Blue Star Era.

The dark matter research team led by Professor Liu Li, a famous physicist in ancient Huaguo, successfully observed the mysterious dark matter in the universe for the first time at the Jinping Underground Experimental Base, unveiled the tip of the iceberg of dark matter, and shocked the entire physics community at that time!

Since then, the research team led by Professor Liu Li has begun a series of experimental explorations in order to capture dark matter and completely unravel the mystery of dark matter.

Guhua University of Science, Institute of Dark Matter.

"Please evacuate all experimenters urgently! Emergency Evacuation! Rapid but majestic sirens echoed throughout the Institute.

The experimenters, dressed in light yellow hazmat suits, looked frightened and scrambled to flee outside the laboratory. In the laboratory, documents and equipment were scattered all over the place, and the equipment that was usually counted by the old professors blowing their beards and staring at them even if they touched it was also rudely thrown behind by the fleeing experimenters.

The red warning lights flashed wildly, and the sirens were constantly sounding.

"Attention, attention, there is a violent energy reaction in the cage device, and the energy of the gravitational field continues to increase!"

A middle-aged man stood behind a special radiation-proof lens, his eyes staring straight at the experimental field behind the lens, and behind him were rows of monitoring instruments. Behind the instrument is a resolute young man, who is nervously staring at the rapidly rising data on the monitor, symbolizing that the safety line has long been left behind and is going farther and farther!

A huge spherical facility filled the test site, with countless dense pipes and wiring clinging to the metal sphere.

"The cage device has an anomalous gravitational strengthening!!"

The middle-aged man standing in the observation room had a happy face, "Turn on the magnetic restraint and cancel out the gravitational force!" ”

"Warning, warning, the target has a violent energy reaction, and the captured object has entered the countdown to escape, please evacuate immediately, evacuate immediately!"

“30”“29”

"There's no time, Xiao Li, upload the data, our mission has been completed."

The young man standing beside Professor Liu Li gave a military salute to Liu Li seriously.

"Yes, Professor!" Then his hands began to tap quickly on the control panel in front of him, uploading the experimental data.

Professor Liu Li glanced at the young man with regret, then turned his head and stared at the experimental facility that had begun to ripple with visible energy ripples, his gaze was gentle, as if he were looking at his own child.

"Pandora's box has been opened, and as for whether it is the devil or the demon who just came out, it is left to the people who come again."

“……”

10，9，8，7，6，5，4，3，2，1！

“…… Hum~" A crisp hum rang in the ears of everyone in the laboratory.

A dull ripple of water distorts the space, swinging from the core of the laboratory to the surroundings at a speed that is difficult to capture with the naked eye.

Professor Liu Li disappeared, the young experimenters also disappeared, and then the experimenters who fled in a panic, and the entire research institute. Eventually, the lab-centric half of the campus also disappeared......

In the advance of civilization, there will always be a few pathfinders, breaking through the chaos and thorns, and stepping into the vast wilderness.

Professor Liu's experiment was ultimately successful, and after paying a huge price, humanity finally pushed open the last stone door to confront dark matter. In the last ten seconds of the experiment, the young experimenters also uploaded all the experimental data to the cloud database within the Guhua Academy of Sciences.

What drives humanity to move forward is precisely a strong curiosity about the unknown. Curiosity, on the other hand, can lead to progress or destruction.

The impact of the experiment was so great that in the first few years, the officials of the ancient country blocked all information related to the dark matter experiment and closed all the related laboratories. All those in the know sign non-disclosure agreements for up to 50 years and are monitored at all times.

And the disaster at that time was also covered up as a human error in nuclear research.

Later, with the rapid increase in the population of Guhuaguo, the energy on the Blue Star was on the verge of depletion. In order to cope with the coming energy winter, countries have begun their own survival paths. At that time, there were many directions, some developing new energy sources, and some advocating extraterrestrial immigration, but due to the technological level at that time, there was considerable resistance to their realization.

At that time, because of its huge population base, the demand for energy was even more urgent. Forced by the formality, the government of Guhua at that time launched the long-dusted dark matter research, and gathered the strength of the whole country to start a scientific and technological explosion and develop the first generation of dark matter engine.

An experimental spacecraft equipped with a dark matter engine managed to reach the speed limit of 1 light-year per blue star month in a week.

At this point, human beings finally have the ability to get out of the star system where the home star is located, and start the great journey of Yang Fan's sea of stars.

Today, with the continuous progress of science and technology, the speed of human navigation has reached the speed of a blue star can sail a light year, and with the continuous extension of human exploration distance, thousands of terrestrial planets located in the habitable zone of stars have been discovered one after another.

As well as countless mineral planets, resource planets. Mineral energy is no longer a constraint on human civilization, although the scope of human exploration of the universe is still like a cow's hair, but the direction of civilization has never been so clear, and the boundary of the universe is the current limit of human beings.

Today, the boundaries of human civilization cover nearly one-third of the Silverhan galaxy. The Chinese Federation alone occupies three-fifths of them, and the statistical population of the entire human civilization reaches 280 billion, and the population of China is nearly 200 billion, accounting for 70 percent!

At this point, mankind has completely entered the age of interstellar exploration.

Also called the era of space colonization.

Later people called it the Star Sea Era, and some people called it the Voyage Era!

…………

Xinghai Yuan 260 years.

Zheng He Administrative Star.

One of the frontier administrative stars of the Chinese Federation.

Class A branch of the Federal New Energy Research Institute.

It is one of the most important research institutes in the Chinese Federation. The entire institute is a huge complex of buildings consisting of huge pyramid-shaped buildings.

At night, the smooth sides of the pyramids reflect the starlight like a miracle.

Research Project 1949, in the laboratory.

The laboratory is vast, even so vast that you can't see the edge at a glance. Huge and sophisticated instruments fill the laboratory in an orderly manner. In front of each instrument, there are experimenters in white coats stationed, either bowing their heads and using the optical brain in their hands to analyze and process experimental data, or remotely operating experimental instruments.

The optical brain is a product of the wave of new technologies, and the breakthrough of new materials has made the computer driven by human beings achieve epoch-making changes, causing revolutionary progress in quantum computing.

At the same time, with the new material 'Higgin' as the carrier, a quantum chip was developed. The quantum computer has been completely miniaturized, and has been rapidly put into the military market, and rapidly updated, the old products into the civilian market, making the optical brain a new type of personal mobile office tool to replace the smart phone.

Lu Yu, a young researcher wearing experimental protective glasses, is reporting the results of his research to the boss standing in the lounge. The top of the entire lounge is made of transparent crystals, and his boss likes to stay in the lounge, according to himself, so that he can look up and see the brilliant galaxy.

"Boss, according to our structural optimization and redesign of the previous generation of dark matter engines, the energy spillover law of the new generation of dark matter engines has been reduced to 0.006%, but considering the degree of erosion resistance of the materials used, the life of each dark matter engine is still difficult to break through the 50-year mark. Therefore, for safety reasons, it is recommended to encapsulate dark matter energy every 35 years to avoid the spillage of dark matter energy caused by sudden structural damage. ”

The results of the experiment were very successful, but the white-bearded old man who was called the boss by Lu Yu was not interested, smiled a little self-deprecatingly, and said, "After all, it is a symptom but not a cure." Unexpectedly, the help that helped human beings sail to the stars and seas has now become the gravedigger of the entire human civilization and even the entire Ming universe. ”

At present, the scientific community has generally agreed to define the boundaries of the universe based on the Liu Li conjecture proposed by Professor Liu Li at the beginning, which can be regarded as the respect and commemoration of this great man who gave wings to the entire human civilization.

According to Liu Li's conjecture, the universe where dark matter is located is the dark universe, and the universe in which human beings live is called the bright universe!

According to Liu Li's conjecture, the Ming universe in which human beings live is like a bubble floating in water, getting bigger and bigger, and under normal circumstances, the bubble will float out of the water and enter a larger air interface. But Liu Li believes that the dark universe that envelops the bright universe has no boundaries. The Dark Universe is a boundless place of eternal silence. And the ultimate destination of the Ming universe is to drift in this boundless moment, until it expands to the near boundary, and then enters a stable state. However, the dark energy of the dark universe penetrates into the bright universe all the time with the passage of time, and eventually, the dark matter in the bright universe reaches a certain limit, and the bright universe will merge with the dark universe, and finally return to the embrace of eternal silence!

As human beings continue to ask for dark matter, the opening will become bigger and bigger, and the bright universe will continue to move closer to the border. Human beings are like a terminal cancer patient who dies without chemotherapy, and chemotherapy has delayed the length of civilization, but the carrier of civilization has been weakened in the process of chemotherapy.

"When dark matter accumulates enough, the expansion of the universe will intensify, and eventually set off a new round of expansion of the universe. It is like a hydrogen balloon that has expanded to the boundary of the atmosphere, and eventually explodes due to the increasing pressure between the inside and outside. The universe is the same, expanding to the nearest boundary, and the end result is a collapsed, unstoppable return universe to its initial form. ”

"But it's not necessarily, after all, it's just a phenomenon observed at the moment, just like the ancient blue star, although people always say that energy will be exhausted, the blue star ecology will be irreversibly destroyed, and eventually destroyed in the hands of human beings, and civilization will eventually be buried in the dust of history, but, in the end, human beings still found a breakthrough in the field of energy dark matter, as long as it is a problem, there will always be a solution, isn't it?"

Liu Lao stroked his beard and looked at Lu Yu's optimistic appearance as if he had seen his own youthful appearance. Liu Lao smiled kindly: "You are right, after all, it is just the result of calculation, how can you say it accurately in the future, hehehe, there is hope, hope is the foundation of the continuation of civilization." ”

With a few smirks, Lu Yu randomly thought of an ancient poem that was appropriate for the occasion, but he couldn't remember what the content was. When the book is used, he hates less, so he scratches his head in embarrassment and thinks hard. "Liu Lao, you are too pessimistic, the ancients have said it, say, car, what's the car?"

Liu Lao raised his head, his eyes were deep, and he looked at the brilliant starry sky outside the skylight. "There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain!"

After the empowerment, Lu Yu also followed Liu Lao's gaze to look at the starry sky above his head, and said in a firm tone: "Yes, that's it!" Things work themselves out! ”

In the deep darkness, dotted with bright lights, like fireflies floating in the dark wilderness.

Humans' use of dark matter is like devouring an untreated pufferfish, delicious, yet deadly!