Volume 2 Test Site No. 1 Chapter 26 Norse Civilization
Plasma blue flames were spurting out from the stern of the ship, pushing the Qingfeng to quickly approach the edge of the battlefield.
Standing at the porthole, Lin Xu could even see the pattern on a piece of debris that was close at hand.
The pattern had a unique and complex beauty, and clearly belonged to an alien civilization.
In order to see more clearly, Lin Xu stretched out his hand and made a two-finger zoom gesture on the porthole, just like when operating a touch-screen phone.
The porthole facing Lin Xu responded immediately and magnified the debris not far away so that Lin Xu could see it more clearly.
The command and control room on the Qingfeng is actually located in the core of the warship and is the safest place.
The so-called portholes are actually just holographic interactive screens that can broadcast the scenes in all directions outside the battleship in real time, making people look as if they are really looking outside the battleship through large glass.
But in fact, this is not the case. The command room is not located on the edge of the warship where it is vulnerable and can be equipped with large glass.
Lin Xu stretched out his hand and swiped the porthole, canceling the zoom, and the image on the porthole immediately returned to normal.
The piece of debris that Lin Xu had just been looking at was also collected by a deep space shovel composed of autonomous machines.
At this time, outside Lin Xu's porthole, in addition to the autonomous machines that were guarding the Qingfeng and formed into conical turrets, there were also a large number of tens of thousands of autonomous mechanical aggregates busy on the ruins of the battleship.
They continued to collect scattered fragments and bring them back to Earth for research, and they also continued to advance into the interior of the battleship ruins until they reached a wrecked battleship, and then directly dragged the battleship out and brought it back to Earth for research.
All Lin Xu could do was to watch the autonomous machines outside working busily through the porthole.
As for Lin Xu personally leaving the warehouse to wander around the ruins, that was impossible.
Allowing him to play around at close range is already the limit of quantum computers.
Even if the danger is not great, this is still the ruins of a battlefield.
If he were to go to the front line in person, what would he do if he encountered an unexploded bomb or something like that?
Not far from the Qingfeng, apart from Lin Xu's escort autonomous mechanical aggregate, the only stationary autonomous machine was a dozen autonomous mechanical aggregates floating in space, guarding the core of a curvature engine.
It is the same warp drive that is installed in a planetary engine.
But this curvature engine is now floating in space.
The size of a single curvature engine is about one kilometer, which is almost the same size as Lin Xu's Qingfeng.
It has a single curvature engine as its core, and is wrapped in a shell composed of hundreds of autonomous mechanical aggregates.
In this way, this curvature engine can carry hundreds of autonomous mechanical aggregates and fly at superluminal speeds.
Because it is lightly equipped, its speed can even reach ten times the speed of light, which is close to the limit.
Far exceeds the speed of the earth at this moment.
It can be responsible for forward exploration and surveillance, and provide early warning for the earth.
Previously, when the Earth was flying at twice the speed of light, it was this combination of autonomous mechanical aggregates and curvature engine cores that provided early warnings for the Earth from all directions.
By the way, the ability to maintain communication at superluminal speeds is thanks to quantum communication technology.
Unfortunately, the current quantum communication technology on Earth is still limited by distance and can only be used within a range of one tenth of a light year at most.
It won’t work if it exceeds the range.
But it is enough to provide early warning.
Moreover, one tenth of a light year is already very far, equivalent to several hundred times the distance from the sun to Neptune.
Lin Xu stood by the porthole and watched for a long time, until a large number of autonomous mechanical aggregates stopped collecting samples and turned to explore deeper into the ruins. Only then did Lin Xu return to the captain's seat at the highest point in the command room.
It was not until this time that Lin Xu suddenly realized that even if he came here, he seemed unable to do anything.
I thought that exploring ancient battlefields or interstellar battlefields would be exciting and adventurous, but in reality, it was not my turn to take risks at all. All the tasks were handled by autonomous machines. I was basically just a mascot.
"Human Lin Xu, we found the opponent's core storage device in the damaged warship and read some of its contents." Bai Xing's voice sounded.
"The storage device has not been damaged? Do you understand?" Lin Xu immediately became alert again and asked.
"Some information can still be extracted from some devices. After a large amount of data comparison, although we cannot completely decipher the other party's language, we can still determine some information." Bai Xing explained.
"Tell me in detail." Lin Xu asked.
"This was a civil war between the same civilization. To be exact, the government army pursued the rebels and then annihilated them here. The remaining government troops returned with the bodies of both sides, leaving behind this ruin. This is why we did not find any remains of suspected alien bodies here."
Lin Xu nodded slowly, and then asked the question that he was most concerned about: "Can you determine the current location of the main body of this civilization?"
"The main body of the civilization is in a galaxy thirty light years away from here. Based on the pronunciation of how this civilization calls itself, perhaps we can call them the Noel people." Shirahoshi suggested.
"Then let's call them the Noel people. But looking at their spaceship, it shouldn't be going very fast, right? How long will it take them to fly thirty light years?" Lin Xu said in disbelief.
"According to analysis, the speed of their spacecraft is comparable to that of the long-distance ships that humans set sail for ten thousand years ago, which is about one percent of the speed of light."
"Then it would take them at least three thousand years to fly thirty light years? Just to hunt down a group of rebels for three thousand years? Are they so persistent?" Lin Xu's tone was full of disbelief.
"According to the information we read, the rebels must have seized something vital, so important that we must take it back at all costs. That's why we had to chase them for so long, until we wiped out the rebels and got the item back, and then we can return."
"Can you determine the time when this battle took place?" Lin Xu continued to ask.
"Three thousand years ago."
"Three thousand years ago? That means the returning fleet of the Norsemen may have just returned to their planet? What on earth could be so important to them?" Lin Xu was full of curiosity.
"According to their data, it is an item called Chaos Energy, but there is no video footage. This is because Chaos Energy cannot be described or recorded. Anyone who sees it will go crazy, and even if it is a recording machine, the database will become chaotic and the extracted content will be impossible to understand, so there is no way there will be any video footage."
"What the hell? Cthulhu? It's so unscientific, don't laugh at it." Lin Xu looked incredulous.
"It's not the evil god imagined in novels. Chaos energy itself is not destructive. If it is simply left there, nothing will happen and it will not affect anything. Only when it is observed will it have an impact on the observer. And this impact is not in the physical sense, but only in the mental, data, and information sense."
"An impact on the mind? Mental pollution? Or is there a special electromagnetic wave that interferes with the observer's brain waves? And also interferes with computer data?" Lin Xu guessed.
"Insufficient data for analysis. Human Lin Xu, do we need to change course and head to the Norse civilization for investigation?" Bai Xing asked.
Lin Xu hesitated for a moment and shook his head.
"Forget it. It's thirty light years away, and it will take fifteen ! Besides, this is someone else's treasure. If a fight breaks out, we should avoid unnecessary trouble."
