(ps: A new episode, as usual, a change, starting tomorrow to take advantage of this period of depression dormancy, I try to change as much as possible.) ）

Lu Yuanming returned to the material world from the personal reward space, and at this moment, the Blue Star and the escort fleet were still stretching in the special perspective, obviously the third coordinate position to be reached this time was extremely far away, and it was the cosmic high-speed passage created by this golden race, which could not be reached in an instant.

At the same time, there was an urgent report that eight huge containers suddenly appeared in one of the warehouses that the Blue Star had deliberately vacant.

This is clearly the reward that belongs to the human race.

Tang Zhe'an looked at Lu Yuanming and said, "What reward did you get?" ”

Lu Yuanming spread his hands and said: "I haven't got it yet, but if the prediction is correct, it should be a small world similar to the gold creation clan once lived, and it is estimated that there is still a certain degree of sterilization curse weakening ability." ”

Hearing this, the people around them opened their mouths wide, and then they were all pleasantly surprised.

It's a small world.

This is something that the sixth-level cosmic civilization can't make, and it must really involve the information layer before it can be manufactured, and the characteristic of the ninth-level cosmic civilization that crosses over to the god-level cosmic civilization is to obtain a universe that belongs to its own civilization race, and although this small universe is certainly not as unique to the civilization of the god-level cosmic civilization, it can also be regarded as a minimalist version, and the rules of the universe inside are determined by the controller, although it is still subject to most of the rules of the real material universe, but fine-tuning the sterilization curse can definitely be done, At least a large part of it can be immune.

If there is such a small world and a small universe, then to be honest, there is really no need to rush to the first coordinates, if you want to go, you must go, but at least there can be hundreds of thousands of millions of civilization development time.

At that time, the population multiplied, to the limit of the cycle of life and death, there were tens of billions of people, and then there was a completely precipitated fourth-level or even fifth-level cosmic civilization, this volume, this technology, could completely crush hundreds of thousands of times the civilization of the same level of the silver species, and it was really safe to go to the first coordinate position.

It can be said that the meaning of a small world is simply the difference between life and death of the race!

Although I haven't gotten it yet, since it's a reward, this naturally has a clue, right?

At this time, everyone followed Lu Yuanming to the warehouse, which was controlled by the military early, although they knew that it was a reward, but the weapons of the high-level cosmic civilization were likely to be a catastrophe for the low-level cosmic civilization, so all of this had to wait for Lu Yuanming to come and start it himself.

Lu Yuanming also knew this, he asked people to open the warehouse door, and then walked in directly, and sure enough, he saw eight containers with the same reward as the last time, but this time the words on the container were not the four words of miracle reward, but the four words of mythical reward.

"Miracle...... Mythology? Does that mean we've done what the golden race setup mechanic would consider incredible? Lu Yuanming was happy, this is a kind of recognition, and it is a reward for the golden race to recognize the human race.

At that moment, Lu Yuanming touched the container with his hand, and the container was immediately unfolded, and the eight items were revealed.

"Dark Matter Temporary Field Maker."

"Dark Matter Technology Stabilization Device."

"Dark Energy Wide Area Reconnaissance Radar."

"Dark matter ladder."

Of the four container rewards, three are related to dark matter, and one is related to dark energy, which in the end does not belong to the material world.

Lu Yuanming immediately turned his head and glanced at everyone, obviously seeing caution and conduit in their eyes.

Although it is a big deal for the human world tree to descend into the dark matter world, the reason why it is done is actually to salvage the civilization condensate.

But apparently they are all a little misfocused, as if the descent of civilization condensation into the dark matter world into a world tree is not a trivial matter, but some kind of more impactful event.

The rewards given at the time of the fifth coordinate were undoubtedly the most useful and urgently needed things in the fourth coordinate area, and almost all of them were to enhance the absolute power of human beings to deal with the dangers of the fourth coordinate area at that time, especially the decisive battle mecha.

And now there are four rewards for the fourth coordinate involving dark matter and dark energy, and the implication is really too obvious.

The danger of the third coordinate region comes from dark matter or dark energy?

Lu Yuanming's face was calm, and he looked at the other four containers.

"Decisive Battle for the Energy Core (Non-High-Dimensional Vision)."

"All time and space are at ease."

"Dimensional Staggered Energy Filling Device."

"Zero-point engine prototype."

Lu Yuanming looked at the four containers with satisfaction, and the final shortcomings of the decisive mecha were made up, although there was no energy supplement from the high-dimensional vision, which was a minor flaw, as for other things, it seemed to be very high-...... Wait a minute, something weird seems to be mixed in there?

Lu Yuanming looked at one of the containers, there was a golden paper five or six inches long and two or three inches wide, and there was a ghost drawing on the paper, but judging from the description, this thing seemed to be very awesome.

"All time and space are at ease."

That's the name.

Compared to everything else, this is a little strange.

The other seven items, even if they are dark matter and dark energy, are all things on the technology side, but this one is really weird...... This is already a fantasy, right?

Lu Yuanming took this talisman and pondered, but the scientists accompanying him didn't pay attention to this, they kept pointing around the zero-point engine prototype, and the excitement on their faces couldn't stop.

Everything else is just that, at first glance, they are all tools in the field of applied science, that is, about a specific thing, but this zero-point engine prototype is amazing.

Zero point engine!

The full name should be Vacuum Zero Point Energy!

This is the next stage of energy sources that scientists predict!

From the perspective of scientific development, the first is all kinds of chemical energy, and then the application of atomic energy, whether it is nuclear fission, nuclear fusion, or even the tall Dyson sphere, all of which are the application and acquisition of atomic energy.

This series of energy sources ranges from nuclear fission, stable nuclear fusion, and heavy nuclear fusion, all of which are energy sources for low-level cosmic civilizations.

And when it reaches the low-level top, it will touch the middle-level energy source of the cosmic civilization, antimatter!

The biggest limitation of the antimatter energy source is the environment required to obtain antimatter stably, which can only be achieved at a very high curvature of space-time, otherwise the energy required to obtain antimatter may be more than the energy at the time of antimatter annihilation, which will outweigh the losses.

Therefore, the power of the antimatter reactor is limited by its size, the smaller the antimatter reactor, the greater the energy output power per unit time and unit volume, but there is also a limit, so the antimatter reactor is used until the middle and lower levels of the intermediate cosmic civilization, and when it reaches the advanced stage of the intermediate cosmic civilization, the antimatter reactor cannot bear its huge energy consumption.

This is also the main goal of human scientists now.

Energy, energy, energy!

The standard of obtaining and using energy determines the level of the civilization, and the more advanced the cosmic civilization, the more huge the source of energy it obtains, even almost endless.

And this zero-point vacuum energy is a bit of a meaning.

In the void space of the entire material universe, in fact, there has always been a majestic energy that human beings cannot imagine, and on a very small spatial scale, there are a pair of positive and negative ions that appear instantaneously at every moment, and then annihilate each other in a very short time, so the total energy remains unchanged overall.

The conjecture of zero-point vacuum energy has existed since the age of the earth, but this is a conjecture in theoretical physics, and it is the most cutting-edge conjecture that does not even have a theory.

Science has progressed to the fourth level of cosmic civilization, through space technology, stretching the curvature of space-time in local areas to the maximum, human scientists for the first time really observed the birth and annihilation of virtual particles, the time is so short that it is almost negligible, but this miracle that occurs in the sea of extremely microscopic cosmic energy still shocked every scientist who saw it.

However, with the technology of a fourth-level cosmic civilization, it is still impossible to extract this almost endless energy.

Because there's a fatal paradox in this.

That is, the birth and annihilation of energy in the extremely microscopic space is in dynamic equilibrium, which is a kind of basic conservation between the universes, and the energy to be consumed to extract the energy in it is theoretically the same, but in practice, due to problems such as process technology, it is necessary to consume more energy to be able to extract.

In fact, just like the original antimatter, the energy annihilated by the extracted antimatter is not as much as the energy consumed to produce the antimatter.

So far, scientists have only theoretically come up with the idea of allowing inert matter particles to replace virtual particles to achieve zero-point vacuum energy development.

This idea was inspired by Hawking Radiation.

Black holes are constantly evaporating.

Theoretically speaking, black holes will absorb all material energy, is the most extreme celestial body in the universe, even light can not escape the attraction of black holes, from this point of view, early scientists have predicted that at the end of the universe, the entire universe will only be left with black holes, and even will form a super black hole that collects the matter of the whole universe, and then eventually this black hole will produce a big bang again, and then make the universe repeat.

This hypothesis of black holes was not until a scientist named Stephen Hawking proposed the concept of Hawking radiation, which proved that even black holes in the universe can evaporate and disappear, and nothing can last forever.

When a pair of virtual particles are generated in the void, if this pair of virtual particles happens to appear at the edge of the event horizon of the black hole, and one of the virtual particles is sucked into the black hole, then the other virtual particle cannot be annihilated with the relative virtual particle, and will turn into a real particle to escape, thus gaining mass, and the virtual particle will fall into the black hole, and this part of the virtual particles will have negative mass, resulting in the black hole mass will continue to evaporate over time.

In order to extract the zero-point vacuum energy, it is necessary to solve the problem of the mass loss of virtual particles converted into real particles.

To put it simply, scientists have found that the real zero-point vacuum energy is not a source of energy like a perpetual motion machine, this energy also needs to consume matter to obtain energy, but compared with antimatter, any matter can be turned into energy, rather than only being able to achieve mass-energy conversion with antimatter, which is similar to ordinary fusion reactions and refusion reactions, but this is countless times more convenient than antimatter reactions, and the energy power that can be extracted is immediately increased by more than 100 times. Because there is no need to be limited to antimatter, as long as the technology is up to standard, any matter, even scrap iron, can be turned into vast energy!

It's just a pity that the technology of the fourth-level cosmic civilization is far from reaching this point.

“…… This is the stepping stone to the fifth-level cosmic civilization! Some scientists shouted with a frenzied face.

At this time, Tang Zhe'an was also mixed in the group of scientists, and only then would people remember that he was actually a scientist, although he was a scientist on the mathematical side.

"But mathematically speaking, in order to reach the extraction limit of zero vacuum energy, it is necessary to have an ultra-high level of mass to achieve it, such a small one, like the size of a car engine, this has exceeded the minimum engineering quality limit calculated by Schwarzel radius, right? And more than at least millions of times the size. Tang Zhe'an also said in the group of scientists.

At this time, Schiller Rodriguez immediately said fiercely: "I thought from the beginning that your calculation was wrong!" Don, you're also a scientist, and you're a very gifted scientist, you shouldn't care about those political things, it's not the Earth Age anymore! Make it clear, those despicable politicians, those filthy plutocracy, they are already the rubbish of history, they are no longer the general trend, on the contrary, now we are studying science is the real general trend, you should come back and become a pure and qualified scientist! ”

At this time, Liu Yan, another great scientist, was not happy, and he immediately retorted: "It's not up to you to make the final say!" We need to be scientifically verified to be able to reach conclusions, and what does a so-called pure scientist look like? You also make it clear that the so-called scientist must first be an individual, to serve human civilization, not to abandon human civilization and human identity for the sake of a one-day epiphany, if you are a pure scientist in your mouth, is there a higher cosmic civilization beckoning to you, you don't care about anything, even human civilization can be betrayed!? ”

Schiller Rodrigeston's face turned blue with anger, and he shouted: "You are quibbling, when did I say that a pure scientist should ignore human ethics?" I mean......"

In short, the two big scientists began their daily quarrel again.

On the other side, Tang Zhe'an returned to Lu Yuanming's side thoughtfully, and he immediately said: "Maybe we guessed wrong, the zero-point vacuum energy is not the energy source of the fifth-level cosmic civilization, but the energy of the sixth-level cosmic civilization, maybe the fifth-level top-level cosmic civilization can meet the extraction requirements of zero-point vacuum energy, but it must be at the level of the sixth-level cosmic civilization before it can be effectively used, so ...... This zero-point engine prototype is a sixth-level cosmic civilization level creation, and the other seven items must also be sixth-level cosmic civilization level creations...... Maybe it's a seventh-level cosmic civilization level creation, after all, there are four creations that involve dark matter and dark energy. ”

What can involve dark matter and dark energy is at least the top-level civilization-level creation of the sixth level, and only when it reaches the seventh level of cosmic civilization or above can it truly use dark matter and dark energy.

Lu Yuanming trusted Tang Zhe'an's statement, and he thought for a while: "The legendary reward is a creation that is one or two civilization levels higher, while the mythic reward is two to three civilization levels higher...... Right? Anyway, it's a great harvest, and you can take a look at this. ”

Lu Yuanming handed all the time and space great freedom talismans to Tang Zhe'an.

Tang Zhe'an took this Fulu and looked at it for a long time, and then said, "It looks like this thing seems to be a piece of paper?" ”

Lu Yuanming immediately said angrily: "That's right! This is a piece of paper, do you need me to compliment you on how smart you are!? ”

Tang Zhe'an spread his hands and said, "Please, what do you think I am?" Is it a universal wisher? Or a tanuki that can pull anything out of its pocket? ”

“…… That's not a tanuki. Lu Yuanming also felt that he seemed to be a little unreasonable, so he reluctantly defended.

"Yes, yes, that's not a tanuki, it's a blue cat without ears, and three thousand questions are okay, right?" Tang Zhe'an teased, then took this Fu Lu and said: "This thing is obviously not a technology-side creation, even if it is a technology-side creation, do you remember what we often say?" When the leap of technology is so large that it is impossible to calculate, then there is no difference between science and magic, and this thing is obviously like this, whether it is the scientific side or the magic side, if there is magic in this world...... This thing is beyond our expectations, and I think that instead of asking me what it is and what it is for, you should think about it for yourself, and it is clear that this thing may have been given to you by an old friend, or at least a friend of an old friend. ”

Lu Yuanming took Fu Lu and said, "What do you mean...... Buddha? Or is it the Tao? ”

"Buddhism and Taoism are just the names of us human beings, they are actually the golden gods." Tang Zhe'an laughed, but there was some coldness in this smile, and he said: "To be a chess piece, you must have the consciousness of being a chess piece, right?" This thing is for you to use at some point in the future, so guess what you're doing with all this and just grab your gear now. ”

Lu Yuanming nodded silently, although he was a little unhappy with the so-called chess piece, but he and Tang Zhe'an were different after all, although he was not happy to be a chess piece, but the Buddha did help him a lot, and he was a senior with a golden concept, as long as what he wanted to do in the future did not violate his concept and did not harm the interests of mankind, then what did he do?

These eight rewards are all in charge of the scientists, the military system, the government personnel, their storage, testing, and security are all carried out in an orderly manner, and Lu Yuanming took the core person to the information center, where there is an observation and scan of the star field where the Blue Star is located, and now the results have come out.

It's just that this result obviously makes everyone's face unsightly.

"No stars have been found in the surrounding 180 million light-years!"

"In terms of observations, we are now in a cosmic void."

"A dark void in the universe with a diameter of at least 180 million light-years!"

"Here...... Nothing! ”