Resurrection Empire

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Hearing this, Ding Canghai sighed, "You only know that I am an old minister of Lord Viscount, and I have been with him for a long time. Do you know how I turned to Lord Viscount?"

Seeing that he seemed interested in gossip about the past, Xiao Wang and the others pricked up their ears.

Xiao Wu, who was sitting in the engineering mech, couldn't help interjecting, "Commander Ding, tell me, I want to know."

"I used to be an assassin. I received an order that I could not refuse, and the target of the assassination was Lord Viscount. Of course, the assassination failed. With my skills, I am not even worthy to carry his shoes. But he not only kept He took my life, took me in, trusted me unconditionally every day after that, and never hesitated to promote me."

"Something happened at the top before, it's top secret, I won't tell you. But I want you to know, I still believe in him, and I'm in this position. Years ago, when I was working for a citizen When I was struggling with the number of places and worrying about gain and loss, I never thought that one day in the future I would become the commander of an army commanding 40 scout ships and 400 million people."

"I don't care what others think of Lord Viscount, I just know that he treats me with great kindness. Then I can't live up to his trust. But I always feel ashamed, because whenever I look back, I feel that I have never done anything. It is enough to repay the viscount's achievements."

"That's why I want to come here. I, Ding Canghai, must make a real career here, because I'm fed up with being purely attached to him like an incompetent parasite. I long for a future One day, when he recalls me, he can boast in his heart, Ding Canghai is... not bad."

"Do you understand?"

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Another hour and a half passed, and the scouting ship, which was gradually slowing down, finally passed through the ring-shaped meteorite group, and then quietly attached to the dark side of a super-large meteorite comparable to the source star Dayue.

Xiao Wu, who was sitting in the armor, was making the final preparations before the launch of the mecha.

Considering the super gravity and relatively thin atmosphere on C1915, even if the speed is reduced in advance, the engineering mecha will inevitably encounter a strong impact when it lands. Xiao Wu has already started the injection of buffered deep sea fluid in advance.

With a slight vibration in the reconnaissance ship, the engineering mecha ejected and flew towards the huge C1915.

Subsequently, the reconnaissance ship began to change shape, and after a series of structural changes, it became a small base station.

The high-power array ghost particle communicator was fully activated, and a large network of information flow was quickly spread out.

Nearly 83 reconnaissance ships cruising within a range of 40 billion kilometers have simultaneously connected to this local area network and interwoven into a huge network structure.

A large amount of information began to be fed back to the base station from various scout ships, and then the base station performed fixed-point encryption and sent it to distant places by vertically converging the information flow.

Six hours later, Xiao Wu successfully built a small base station on C1915, and it swayed slowly with the slow surge of magma, just like a flat boat on the lake.

One after another, octopus-like automated machines with independent computing capabilities slipped from the passage inside the support feet of this engineering mecha, first fell to the ground, and then gently floated up using the specially adjusted anti-gravity engine, and plunged into the ground. In the sky full of yellow sand frantically rolling in the thin atmosphere.

Next, these machines, dubbed octopuses by the scouts, will be like tireless ants, constantly sending samples from the surface of the star to the small base station on the ground with engineering mechs as the main body.

At the same time, Ding Canghai had already walked to the small processing warehouse at the rear of the scout ship.

He has received a new design drawing from Sun Ai, and he will lead several other people to assemble a geothermal radiation self-powered screw tunneling machine in the shortest possible time using existing machinery and components.

The C1915 star is too huge, with a radius of 200 kilometers. It is the largest star that the [-] million scout ships of the Fifth Route Army of the Scouting Corps have encountered in the Tenglong Nebula so far. Most of them are high temperature resistant hybrid alloy rocks with very hard structure.

The performance of the original roadheader is no longer enough to deal with this situation, not even the Luoyan roadheader from the empire. The Luoyan roadheader must be disassembled and improved, and a geothermal radiation energy supply device must be added to drill in. Go, and drill through the star core.

After two days of busy work, the improved Luoyan roadheader finally passed the theoretical verification.

The lieutenant Xiao Wang with the best driving skills sat in the cockpit and controlled the mechanical ejection to the surface of C1915.

The intermittent injection of the external medium engine guides the roadheader along the surface of C1915's thin atmosphere like a boulder floating in the water over a distance of more than [-] kilometers, rushing towards a deep valley.

At this time, Xiao Wu has used the resonance scanning of the base station to construct the approximate structure of the 1915-kilometer area below the surface of C2000, and has theoretically calculated the more internal structure.

The location where Xiao Wang's tunneling machine went is exactly the location of the big crack that may lead directly to the star core.

Ding Canghai heaved a sigh of relief after hearing the successful landing message sent back by Xiao Wang, and turned his gaze to the space network composed of the third army's reconnaissance ships.

He breathed a sigh of relief, and secretly thanked that the past two days have been relatively stable, and nothing happened.

Suddenly, his pupils shrank sharply.

Shocking alarms sounded in the command system of the Third Army.

His gaze suddenly turned to the upper left corner of the star map.

Two seconds ago, a scout ship over there lost contact without warning.

Before losing contact, the reconnaissance ship did not give any warning.

Chapter 467 Who defines time, our task

30 seconds before Ding Canghai noticed the abnormality, Ren Zhong was chatting with Sun Ai.

Sun Ai said: "According to your request, I suspended the automatic time synchronization function of Ding Canghai's watch, and focused on monitoring the timeline of the Third Reconnaissance Army, using the time difference when they rebuilt the frontline information flow communication network to calculate a strange The data. There is a problem with the transmission speed of the information flow, and this data does not match."

Ren Zhong: "How do you say?"

"After calculation, the transmission speed of the information flow on the Third Fleet is about ten light-years per second. But when I first set off from the source star, after I tried to communicate with Nanjiuxing, the information fed back to me by Nanjiuxing was 0.404 Arrived in seconds. At that time, the distance between the two sides was about 4 light years. According to the current calculated speed, the time difference should be 0.8 seconds, which is contradictory. There is only one explanation, the information flow between the source star and the southern nine star There are two speeds. One is 10 light-years per second, and the other is 1000 light-years per second. The dividing line between the two speeds is exactly 2 light-years away from the source star."

Ren Zhong frowned and began to think.

The flow of information beyond the speed of light should be deeper than the underlying depth of the basic force of the weak electric interaction.

He couldn't even figure out how the weak electricity interaction was tampered with, let alone what kind of power could quietly change the transmission speed of the information flow. .

The amazing thing is that although he still doesn't know anything, he has conceived such a scene in his mind.

The source star system hangs quietly in space.

A transparent sphere with a radius of 2 light-years covers the galaxy, separating this space from the vast universe outside.

"2 light-years, the radius of the sun's observable gravitational influence range is about 2 light-years. The mass of the source sun is close to the sun, so the gravitational range should be the same. There is a force covering the 2 light-year radius range, It even changed the transmission speed of information flow. What is the power? What is the purpose? What is the meaning? Is it a natural phenomenon of the universe or man-made?"

Ren Zhong pondered this in his heart.

Afterwards, he issued a new order to Sun Ai, "Xiao Ai, you use the regular authority of 'net' to search the public information of the Royal Academy of Sciences for three pieces of information."

"what?"

Ren Zhong gritted his teeth, "Check whether the electron cloud of the entire ancient disk galaxy has an icosahedral structure, and the exact transmission speed of the information flow, as well as the information flow transmission speed in the source star region 30 years ago."

"This... didn't you let me check it before? You said there was a risk of exposing the abnormality. Why did you change your mind now?" Sun Ai was a little surprised.

At this moment, Ren Zhong received an alert from the Third Reconnaissance Army.

Ding Canghai synchronized the front-line information, and in just a few seconds, as many as hundreds of scout ships completely dispersed lost contact for no reason.

Ren Zhong was taken aback for a moment, and then a relieved smile appeared on his face, "It's okay, it was because the time was not yet ripe. Now the investigation is just right. As for the exposure, it doesn't matter. This information is more important."

Anyway, the chasing soldiers have arrived, reopened after death, everything is back to file, check to see if there is nothing wrong.

Although Sun Ai was still puzzled, he carried out the heavy duty order.

Half a second later, Sun Ai said: "All the electron clouds in the entire ancient disk galaxy, no matter what kind of compound they are, do have an icosahedral structure. The standard transmission speed of information flow is 1000 light-years per second, which is the standard The cosmological constant has been like this from ancient times to the present. Whether it is the source star or other regions, it is the same and has never changed."

When Ren Zhong heard this, his shoulders suddenly relaxed.

He breathed a sigh of relief and lay back on the chair.

His heart was like thunder.

He murmured, "I see."

Sun Ai hurriedly asked, "What do you know?"

Ren Zhong's lips moved, "No...it's nothing."

"It's so annoying to hide from me again. Ah! Sure enough, it triggered a chain reaction. The Empire Supernet is trying to break through my defenses through the South Nine Star Node, verifying my timeline, and spying on why I want to query the information flow within the area. Speed ​​of transmission. In the entire history of the empire, no one has ever checked such a question, which is as common sense as one plus one equals two. I will be exposed once I check it!"

Ren Zhong waved his hand, "It's okay, cut off the communication."

"Huh, it's so dangerous, it has been cut off, and I was really broken just a little bit."

Ren Zhong also breathed a sigh of relief, and said again: "Well, let me think about it myself first."

"Hi... Uncle, you..." Sun Ai muttered a few words, but stopped asking.

She knew that Ren Zhong was going to enter the legendary "meditation" state again, so she didn't bother him, but started to mobilize most of the computing power to focus on the situation on the front line of the Third Reconnaissance Army.

When everything around him returned to tranquility, Ren Zhong took out his notebook again.

He put his finger on the number 7640, thinking silently, if nothing unexpected happens, when the fleet leaves the source star 2 light years later, he will very likely lose the ability to revive and reset.

This not only made him breathe a long sigh of relief, but also felt very lonely, and even more frightened in his heart.

He once thought about whether every time he was resurrected and reset, the entire universe would be dragged back for a month.

Then he couldn't imagine how much energy it would take to realize it.

Just thinking about it like that made his scalp tingle and his thinking stagnated.

He even thought it was impossible.

If that's the case, if the whole universe is reset together, he can only explain everything by saying that he actually lives in a virtual world composed of data and information, and then encounters a server rollback.

This will completely collapse his belief in life, so that he will fall into philosophical dilemmas such as "what is the meaning of his existence" and "whether this world is real".

Of course he would run away from such conjectures, it would be too shocking.

However, he verified it with a Turing machine. Although he failed to get a clear answer, he still believed that the possibility of this being the real world was far greater than that of the virtual world.

However, the real world and the time regression that involves the whole universe are contradictory and irreconcilable.

Finally, after receiving new information, Ren Zhong's new conjecture gradually became more reasonable.

That is, the retracement area is not the whole universe, but only the observable influence range of the source star’s gravitational force.

Then the energy that needs to be consumed will suddenly change from infinity to an astronomical number that can be quantified although it is also huge, and can even be expressed in joules, which is nothing more than adding dozens of zeros.

Moreover, based on his own resurrection time and the time axis difference between Yuan Xing and the Empire, Ren Zhong can clearly determine that not only energy will be consumed, but also time will be consumed when going back.

The time consumed by each retracement is exactly one second!

It's also very weird.

Because the definition of seconds is originally a concept created by human beings.

"Second" is not a cosmological constant like the speed of light.

It is the human beings on the earth who first define the time of one revolution of the earth as a day, and then divide this day into 24 equal parts, each of which is 1 hour, and then divide each hour into 60 equal parts, each of which is 60 minutes, and then divide each minute into equal parts For 60 copies, 1 second each.

The earthlings who were born in the Milky Way on a tassel of the Laniakea supercluster obtained this concept of time length only applicable to this civilization through a series of mathematical conversions.

As for the concept of 133 times the energy level transition radiation frequency of cesium-9192631770 atoms and the definition of 1 second, it is just a concept of radish pit that human scientists first determined the length of 1 second, and then followed the gourd. That's all.

The unit of measurement of time, the second, appeared in 1884 A.D. At that time, human beings simply did not have the ability to measure the oscillation period of atomic energy level transition radiation.

Essentially, the concept of the second is derived from the rotation of the earth.

If any planet is randomly changed in the universe, the star it surrounds is different from the sun, its self-weight and density are different, and its internal structure is layered differently, so its rotation period will inevitably be different.

Even on a planet like Yuan Xing, which is highly similar to the Earth, the daily time error still reaches about 0.5 seconds. Although it is so small that it seems to be negligible, it still exists objectively.

Assuming that the mastermind behind the use of quasar superbrains to secretly enslave the four major races of human beings above the ancient disk galaxy is really a high-level alien civilization, then the environment of its birth must be different from that of people on earth, at least it must have Nuance, their concept of time can not be fully consistent with humans.

Ren Zhong couldn't believe such a ridiculous coincidence.

He also does not believe that humans are enslaving the four major races.

Because it's not necessary at all, and the logic doesn't make sense.

If the high-level civilizations above the four countries are really high-level humans, then there is absolutely no need for high-level humans to stay away from the Milky Way and come to this small elliptical galaxy located in the Sloan Great Wall, which is billions of light-years away.

But why does my rollback take 1 second?

Is this coincidence or necessity?

If it is inevitable, then whose handwriting is this?

Who is defining the time?

Ren Zhong scratched his head in pain.

He found helplessly that whenever he seemed to be one step closer to the truth, he often failed to get what he wanted, and instead only had greater doubts.

After a long time, he collapsed powerlessly.

Before he knew it, he was drenched in sweat.

He still can't figure it out.

……

On the dark side of the No. 1915 meteorite satellite of C[-], in the command room of the small reconnaissance and communication base station, Ding Canghai was also pale with nervousness and sweating profusely.

He has ordered the communication base station to turn off all the searchlights, and then opened the physical camouflage armor on the surface of the base station, completely disguised as a dark rock shell.

Now, there are more than [-] reconnaissance ships left in the entire Third Reconnaissance Army, and there are more than [-] million people.

The lives of more than three million people are tied to him alone.

But others in the Third Army were unaware that comrades were disappearing rapidly.