Volume 3 Chapter 54: Chaos Energy
The analysis of the curvature engine is completed the fastest.
After all, this thing also exists on Earth. Even if the technical routes are different, they ultimately lead to the same destination.
So as the autonomous machine disassembled a curvature engine into pieces, it quickly obtained the analysis report.
Although it is not yet known which civilization manufactured this curvature engine, at least their technology for manufacturing curvature engines is not stronger than that of the Earth, and may even be much weaker than that of the current Earth.
Of course, the autonomous machinery has also discovered that there are parts in this curvature engine that have been deliberately castrated. Apparently, this is because it was sold to external parties, so its performance has been reduced.
However, according to the technical route of this curvature engine, even if the castrated part is supplemented, the speed is still much slower than that achieved by the Earth's curvature engine.
The maximum speed that the curvature engine on Earth can reach is ten times the speed of light.
After this curvature engine makes up for the castrated part, the maximum speed is only six times the speed of light.
The reason for this is that this curvature engine had too many unnecessary parts when it was first designed, and it was not simple enough, and many of its designs were completely unnecessary.
So this curvature engine is even slightly larger than the Earth's curvature engine, although not much larger.
But the speed is much lower.
To put it bluntly, it’s because the technological level of that civilization is not good enough.
So Lin Xu became more and more curious. How could the people on Earth ten thousand years ago design and research such a simple and beautiful curvature engine just after leaving the Earth and heading to Proxima Centauri five hundred years ago, when many humans were still in a dormant state?
You should know that according to the records of the Republic of Mali, the advanced civilization that sold them the curvature engine has been using this curvature engine for tens of thousands of years. Although the advanced civilization has also modified the curvature engine, there has not been any major breakthrough.
Have they reached a certain limit in technological development and then stagnated?
As for the Mali civilization, it is even worse than the advanced civilizations. It has not developed a curvature engine in tens of thousands of years.
Is this thing so high-tech?
Lin Xu is not a scientist, and originally didn't quite understand the value of this thing.
But now we see so many civilizations in the universe trapped in the curvature engine, and some of them can even develop the curvature engine, which can be considered advanced civilizations.
With this comparison, Lin Xu felt more and more that the people on Earth were simply awesome.
It's too outrageous.
Are you the Destiny Child?
Listening to Taiyin's investigation report on the alien curvature engine, Lin Xu thought to himself.
Lin Xu suddenly remembered a term he had heard before, called the Great Filter of the Universe.
It refers to some overlooked key nodes in the development of civilization. If intelligent life does not cross them, the development of civilization will stagnate.
For example, controlled nuclear fusion is a very critical node. Only by mastering controlled nuclear fusion can civilization truly get rid of its dependence on the energy of its mother planet and survive away from its mother planet, whether it is migrating to other planets or embarking on a long voyage on a spacecraft.
The curvature engine is likely to be the next key node. Only by mastering the technology of curvature navigation can civilization truly travel freely in interstellar space, rather than flying for hundreds or thousands of years to cover a distance of several light years.
If a civilization cannot cross these nodes, it will stagnate. Even if the existing technology is developed into rich and colorful applications, and the entire civilization appears to be flourishing, it still cannot change the fact that this civilization has essentially stagnated.
It is like the Earth in the early 21st century, where electromagnetic technology has been developed to a certain extreme, and small mobile phones can realize many things that seemed extremely sci-fi a few hundred years ago.
It seems that the entire civilization is developing scientifically at an extremely rapid pace. A large number of new technologies are born every day . Mobile phones are getting thinner and thinner, 3G4G5G, information transmission speeds are getting faster and faster, and treatments have been found for various human diseases.
But this still cannot change the fact that humans in the early 21st century are unable to master controlled nuclear fusion technology and are still firmly trapped on Earth.
It also cannot change the fact that the maximum human life span is still within 100 years.
Technology seems to be constantly developing, but in fact it is only development at the application level, without any essential improvement.
What is the essential improvement? The invention of the steam engine, the electric motor, and the computer are the essential improvements of civilization.
Compared with the curvature engine, the observation of chaotic energy is more cautious.
But soon, Yinghuo, who was responsible for observing chaotic energy, gave Lin Xu a surprise.
"Master, the preliminary test of chaos energy has been completed, and the tested targets can be recorded." Yinghuo's mechanical voice should not have any emotions, but Lin Xu seemed to hear confusion in it.
"Can it be recorded? Are those businessmen really cheating people?" This was Lin Xu's first reaction.
"The test was conducted using our observation equipment and the observation equipment of the Republic of Mali at the same time. We successfully observed the target and the video image was clear. However, the observation equipment of the Republic of Mali only recorded garbled characters, and the video was also left with garbled characters."
"What do you mean?" Lin Xu was a little confused.
"Later, I found an alien who had done many evil things from the caravan and experimented with him. I exposed him to the Chaos Energy. After seeing the Chaos Energy, he immediately went crazy and is now completely crazy."
"So, chaotic energy is real? Then why can our observation equipment record it?" Lin Xu asked puzzled.
"Master, you'd better take a look at the video footage we recorded yourself." Yinghuo replied.
Although I don’t understand why the unobservable chaotic energy was observed.
However, Yinghuo would never let Lin Xu directly touch something like Chaos Energy which was suspected to be dangerous goods. But after watching the video, it should be fine.
Just like that, Lin Xu saw the video transferred by Yinghuo.
So Lin Xu saw, in the holographic image in front of him, the unit of chaotic energy that was tightly sealed in a secret room.
It was a perfect diamond-shaped object, about the size of a sunflower seed.
The interior of the diamond-shaped object seemed to be in chaos, attracting everything around it all the time.
Lin Xu looked at the diamond-shaped object the size of a sunflower seed, then turned his head to look at the three ordinary-looking perfect diamond-shaped objects the size of bottle caps scattered on the corner of the table next to him.
Lin Xu reached out and picked up one, tossing and catching it twice in his hand casually as if he was playing with it normally.
"Yinghuo, how many units do you think this is?"
"One hundred units." Yinghuo calculated the answer based on the sizes of the two in the blink of an eye.
"Oh my god." Lin Xu expressed his strongest emotion.
