Star Empire

"...How does success come about?"

Both Zhai Cahir and Cavinriel were so shocked by the sudden successful experiment that they could only say this sentence. Any level of inexplicability was not enough to express their current mood and full of questions.

The most clueless and chaotic link, which was originally thought to take a long time, finally ended successfully - the success was unclear.

Although the two of them did have some hunch that it was likely to succeed before this experiment was successful, but watching the crystal energy being slowly "absorbed" by the metal cubes of indescribable colors, the two of them felt that this was simply... It's like a child's play.

"This... I can only say that this alloy structure is indeed very resistant to the mutation of crystal energy, but it is not certain that it can be fully compatible with crystal energy, right?" Faced with this kind of result that can be called a quick result, Zhai Cahir still didn't believe it.

"But...this is the phenomenon...we can't directly test it yet...the sensors are all messed up. What we need to do next is to verify." Cavinriel patted Zhai Cahir hard on the shoulder. "Where's Eskett? Drag him here! Use the fastest shuttle!"

In the middle of the corona stage, a square hatch slid open silently, and the shuttle slowly left the spacecraft under the action of the ejection force field. With a blur of light and shadow, the shuttle quickly left and rushed to the frontline base.

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Everything is proceeding as usual, including the people and objects that have been integrated with the unknown source attribute of crystal energy. They still continue to operate according to the existing rules without any distortion.

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Although the distance is far away, as a very economical method of exploiting loopholes, the shuttle's world bubble engine can directly travel to and from the space vibration hub at an ultra-high speed that is more than ten orders of magnitude faster than the speed of light, guided by the strong fluctuations of the star's coronal-level central antenna. Next, soon, the shuttle, which was almost covered with a crystal shell, flew back with a red light, and by the way, the two Esketts were also loaded into the spacecraft.

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"Reporting to you." After getting off the plane, the two of them saluted.

"The work is important. Now we have created materials with unknown properties in an unknown state. At present, we lack any quantifiable methods to predict it. At present, we can only use your power to explore practical control and utilization methods." Cavinrel raised his hand and pointed at the monitor, "Did you see that metal block in the display?"

"...Of course, Science Officer, that's..."

"This is an alloy we made that is compatible with crystal energy. Of course, the structure is probably inspired by the changes in your body. I have to say that we are very lucky."

"This...how do you say this?" As witnesses, the two people who survived the crystal energy radiation have seen how strong the almost irresistible super energy is, which is only possessed by the abnormal crystals produced after being contaminated by it. The lethality is enough to easily kill life with a high degree of modification, but in such a short period of time, this group of scholars found a substance that is compatible with crystal energy?

"It's very baffling... but it does exist like that, and the elements that make it up are indeed life elements that conform to the original structure of our human body." Cavinrel also shook his head at this, "We can only Judging from pragmatism, it can indeed fulfill part of our current design requirements and goals, but as for why... we don't know."

After suppressing his surprise, Eskett entered the experimental cabin through the isolation door under Cavernrel's instructions. On the platform in the middle of the cabin, a black "iron lump" lay quietly.

Eskett first sensed the crystal energy radiation that he could emit, then closed his eyes and transferred all his perceptions to the experimental subject. In the darkness, an extremely thin and pale golden vortex was flowing in Eskett. It slowly rotated within the range of perception, but when Eskett stretched out his hand to try to transfer the remaining crystal energy out, he failed.

"Huh?" Faced with this situation that she had never seen before, Eskett hesitated for a moment, and then strengthened her perception, allowing her soul activities to connect with the crystal energy, some dim golden light that was not there. The light was slowly "stripped" out of the metal structure - but this process seemed to be much more difficult than when he used his ability before.

"Esket, please report what you encountered and how you felt."

"Science officer, I don't know how I should explain this phenomenon... Intuitively, the amount of crystal energy I can feel in this experimental body is the same as that of a general sample... the degree of stability and self-consistent circulation It is much higher. I cannot easily extract this part of the crystal energy from the metal block..."

"Okay, I understand, you are on standby first." After saying that, Cavinriel, half excited and half puzzled, bumped Zhai Cahill with his shoulder as if to take credit: "Although the suggestion seems a bit strange, But it was still successful, right?”

"Okay, it did work, and it's really strange." Zhai Cahir shrugged helplessly and spread his hands.

"Your unique idea that came out of nowhere is indeed very useful, but how do you explain it? In the past, crystal energy would first act on the soul. According to our current observations, crystal energy has certain effects on conventional matter. A degree of irreversible damage is unavoidable in all current processes, but why is this alloy block so easily compatible with crystal energy?

After a while, the chief control technician gently poked Cavinrel, "In addition, during this period of time, we have given less orders to them... I feel... Although Eskett and Torres are still trying their best to cooperate with us, , but they are still a little... concerned about the death of their companions."

"...Okay, but...why do they care so much about this...They are now looking for reasons for the death of their companions. This is a subjective emotional factor...objective...in the existing emotional system of the Federation, such a perceptual phenomenon It shouldn't be so obvious..." Cavinriel stared at the entire test area and thought for a moment before shaking his head.

"Forget it... Let's go back to our test samples. What kind of explanation do you want to hear? Is it absolutely based on the current situation, or does it contain my additional speculations?"

"Tell me everything...shouldn't these two appear together..."

"It's realistically possible... In fact, I can't be sure. We have no way to judge the compatible structure of crystal energy based on existing technical inferences. This may be an accidental collision."

"?? Is this a separate consequentialism? It may even be a non-replicable result? You... forget it, what about force?"

"The forced explanation is that there is no essential difference between soul and matter. They are both information combinations. They have their own methods to be compatible with higher-level information. The methods for compatibility between these two different beings may also be different."

"The soul adapts to the introduced crystal energy through its own stability margin, and matter, after being combined, this information combination already has the properties to absorb crystal energy. As for those who are unlucky and have not woken up, Their souls have probably experienced strong fluctuations in radiation intensity when exposed to crystal energy. Therefore, the stability margin of the soul is not enough for adaptive transformation. The connection between the soul and the body is still relatively close to the body, and the soul fails to adapt. ...Perhaps the actual connection between the soul and the body is deeper than we imagine...Maybe there is some common ground between them, some common compatible structure..."

Cavinrel paused, "In addition, perhaps the crystal energy we are now exposed to is actually quite stable... Inertization definitely exists, but it is still difficult for us to measure the possible relationship between them..."

"I should have said that crystal energy is the first stable state of information existence, transcending all conventional matter, the laws of space and time, etc. But do you think that the ones we use extracted from the remains of the probe can already be used by some physics The light golden smoke that can be transported in safe deposit boxes guided by means is the crystal energy body?"

"Isn't it?" When asked this question, Zhai Cahir suddenly choked.

"Of course not, it has already been reflected in the first moment when the crystal energy vortex exploded. As the first stable state of information, crystal energy's propagation speed should be truly infinite, and it can travel in the universe in the smallest unit of time. After traveling back and forth countless times, after the vortex appeared, although it was very fast, it still took a few days for its light to be noticed by the entire federation."

As Cavenriel said, he also passed a mass focus distribution structure diagram to Zhai Cahill:

"Look at this, before my spaceship was used for experiments, I used the enhanced induction array on the ship to simulate the image. The crystal energy vortex part was garbled, and the black round hole in the center was unrecognizable, while in the crystal energy vortex On the periphery is a large area of ​​chaotic matter with extremely high density and high speed. After we retrieved these samples, they have begun to decay into ordinary matter. We have extracted tetranuclear hydrogen from the decay products of chaotic matter. Obviously, even for that large whirlpool, the possible properties of the crystal energy that constitutes it are not in the state of the crystal energy itself, and they have been somewhat inert."

"Inerting..." Zhai Cahir summoned a chair and sat down slowly. "I always feel that it's not that simple. Maybe there are other factors... The more I explain now, the more paradoxes there are..."

"My database is all open. If you have any questions, you can't look through them yourself?" Cavernelle finally started to get crazy - "If you ask me again, did you see the vacuum zero-point bomb above your head?"

"I - calm down!" Zhai Cahir closed his mouth instantly, and then slipped out of this dangerous place like a ray of light - "Okay, okay, I'll go back first and sort out what I brought. Data structure—you continue to stare at this..."

"...vacuum zero-point energy bomb? How can he run so fast? Just a joke...the efficiency will be reduced...strange."

Cavinrel shook his head and threw away the metal pillar that he had suddenly pinched out of his hand. After falling to the ground, the smooth metal pillar fell into a puddle like a liquid. This pool of silver-gray metal The liquid slowly gathered into a ball under the traction of the center, and then melted on a wall of the space station.

"Wait, you're kidding...what is that?" Cavernrel reached out and pointed, and the black square on the roof fell instantly along the attraction of the gravity floor, making a crisp "ding" sound, "...Thirty Six days ago, combination sample No. 6250... seemed to be the closest to successful sample before... how could it be embedded in the roof...?!"

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The next step is to test and see what changes will happen to the object after the crystal energy is absorbed by the object.

With the help of multi-functional general-purpose mechanical modules, the plan to "ravage" this black iron block was officially launched. A lot of equipment such as rolling machines, drills, hardness testers, radiation pressure sensors, etc. were all surrounding the experimental body. All around, the sound of knocks, impacts and even explosions bounced through the air along the walls and pipes in the laboratory, like a symphony.

After a lot of fussing, Cavinrel summarized the experimental data, and with just one glance, he discovered the variation of this "iron block": the physical and chemical properties of this experimental body have undergone obvious changes, and the crystal energy reaction has decreased. After that, some properties such as the hardness of the metal block and resistance to conventional physical/chemical erosion suddenly became much higher. However, from the most superficial microscopic observation, at the atomic level, every element atom that makes up this alloy is No visible mutation has occurred, but the properties they manifest have undergone quite obvious changes.

It's like a more advanced alloy - by uniformly mixing different components together to form a mixture, the original independent properties of the original different components are greatly improved. However, the current test piece is somewhat similar in structure. While being an alloy, it also has certain properties of energy storage/charging materials.

"Strange... this seems... very direct?"

As for the resistance to pseudo-laws, Cavinriel was struggling for a while. The federation is currently able to really shake the laws, or it can be said to be a method that can create a law area that is different from the normal world in the macro. One is the four-dimensional All that is left of the passage is the vacuum zero-point energy caused by the space annihilation bomb.

However, this kind of entanglement really didn't bother Cavenriel for too long. In the spirit of justice, there is still Kalost as logistics and explosion, so he completely exploded all difficulties with the highest yield, in the most direct and efficient way. Approaching the goal, Cavinrel quickly arranged this big firework that could illuminate all the planets in half of the star system.

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"The alarm began to be broadcast, the venue became quiet, and protective restraints began to be imposed..."

"Clock system docking completed...detonate!"

Under the silent explosion of blazing white light, the impact caused by the first energy release and the second impact caused by virtual and real annihilation swept across the test site one after another, destroying several aging stars along the way, and a bunch of others in the process of development. Among the planets that have been burned with glass, there are also several test planets arranged by Cavernrel. They have a considerable number of hadron-level accumulation components inside them to verify that the power of destruction has not mutated.

Obviously, the multi-axial force spillover caused by high-dimensional space and the extremely high-density vacuum zero-point energy explosion are extremely powerful. It is also very difficult for the chromatic nuclear force armor to withstand such an impact. After the violent explosion, these are used as tests The components of the prop were basically burned into powder by the powerful impact, and no trace of the main body of iron was found in the designated area.

"Probably the power of the space annihilation bomb is too strong." For this result, Cavinriel was not surprised. After all, most of the soldiers of the powerful federation of the space annihilation bomb could even be said to have witnessed it, and the test body Although there is crystal energy blessing, the amount of crystal energy is too small after all, and it is normal for it to be destroyed.

After Cavinriel finished doing this and was about to see what Zhai Cahir, who had escaped before, was doing, a rapidly moving paradox light spot on the holographic screen caught his attention. After he connected to the battleship After commanding the system and directing the focus of the scanner array to the area where the light point moving at true super-light speed is located...

"??!!"