Volume 3 Chapter 80 Dyson Sphere Civilization
The Earthlings left Earth in the first year of the Creation Calendar and arrived at White Star in the 500th year of the Creation Calendar.
It left White Star in the 600th year of the voyage and arrived at the Test Site Planet No. 1 in the 660th year of the voyage.
It left the test site Planet No. 1 in the 700th year of the voyage, arrived at the asteroid belt in the 767th year of the voyage, and began conducting experiments on antimatter energy and vacuum zero-point energy.
In the 772nd year of the Creation Era, there was a breakthrough in antimatter research, and antimatter exploded, forming the asteroid belt.
The antimatter annihilation bomb was developed first, and then the theoretical basis of the antimatter reactor was completed.
774 years after the voyage began, they arrived at the Black Hole Galaxy.
Antimatter reactor factories were built, antimatter reactors were installed for the fleet, and more warp engines were built.
When the fleet set sail again in 820 years of the Departure Calendar, its speed had reached ten times the speed of light, which is the current limit of human curvature engine speed.
Previously, because the human fleet was huge and the number of curvature engines was limited, the speed of the curvature engines was slowed down, making the fleet's speed only three times the speed of light.
But now with the antimatter reactor as a better power source, and more curvature engines built, the speed of the fleet suddenly jumped to ten times the speed of light.
The next step is to improve the curvature engine and upgrade it to make it faster.
Or research new engine methods.
But that's for the future.
The next destination for Earthlings is five hundred light years away.
Lin Xu had confirmed this by checking the database with Yinghuo just after he gained control of the antimatter factory cluster.
Although we had already obtained the navigation map planned by humans on the Test Site Planet No. 1, who knows if the plan will be changed.
Like this temporary transfer to the black hole galaxy, isn't that just a change?
Therefore, it is also very important to get the latest route information and confirm that the scheduled plan has not changed.
Otherwise, if you follow the planned navigation map and find that humans have changed their route halfway, that would be really annoying.
But this time, after repeatedly confirming that humanity’s target was indeed five hundred light years away, Lin Xu felt even more frustrated.
Because according to observations from the space telescope, there is no star light at that target point at all.
However, according to the human route data obtained by Lin Xu, it was accurately recorded that there should be a galaxy there.
So, is it that the route data is wrong, or has something changed in the target galaxy during the past ten thousand years?
But no matter how much it changes, it is impossible for an entire galaxy to disappear.
For example, humans once blew up an Earth-like planet into an asteroid belt. At least we can still see the asteroid belt after the explosion.
This time, the star's light has completely disappeared.
But no matter what, human route data should not be wrong, so if there are any problems, you still have to go to the site to take a look.
In this way, in the 10994th year of the Departure Calendar, the Earth left the black hole galaxy and embarked on a journey to the next destination, 500 light years away, at five times the speed of light. It is expected to arrive at the destination in a hundred years.
Time is 11,744 years behind that of humans, but Lin Xu is not in a hurry. He now has a lifespan of 5,000 years, not to mention that there may be newer life extension programs developed by humans in the future, and he may live longer then, so he has plenty of patience now.
But there is one person who obviously can no longer live as long as him.
That is Lu Yao, the Master Weiyang, who lives in the courtyard next to Lin Xu and plays the game day and night.
He left his own yard and walked a few steps to the side, and arrived at the gate of Lu Yao's yard in the same alley.
Passing by a convenience store, Lin Xu also picked up a bottle of Coke and two bags of potato chips, of course without paying.
This also fulfilled Lin Xu's childhood dream, that he could take anything he wanted from the convenience store without spending any money.
Then he drank a Coke and asked Miss Qiu to hold the potato chips for him, and knocked on Lu Yao's door.
After hearing "Come in", I walked in, crossed the doorway, turned around the screen wall, entered the yard, and saw a room with the door open. Inside was Weiyang Zhenren Lu Yao, still wearing bright clothes, sitting in front of the computer playing Sekiro.
From time to time, he would pick up the wine gourd at hand and take a sip.
It seems that after the novelty of the fat house happy water wears off, she still likes to drink.
"Are you sure you don't want to hibernate?" Lin Xu came to the door, stood there leaning against the door frame, and watched Master Weiyang skillfully avoid the enemy.
"No, rather than dying in my sleep, I'd rather die in front of the computer." Master Wei Yang said straightforwardly.
"I am going to hibernate, and it will be a hundred years before I wake up again." Lin Xu knew how she would answer. This time he came here more to say goodbye than to give her a final persuasion.
"A hundred years later. With the speed at which my demonization spreads, I'm afraid I won't be able to hold on until then. When you wake up and see the bones in front of the computer, remember to help me clean them up." Master Weiyang said as carefree as ever.
"Are you sure you still have bones?" Lin Xu said with a smile.
"Yes, maybe my bones have also been demonized and corroded. This is good, I can come and go cleanly, and you don't have to burn my bones to ashes. With you, I don't have to worry about my demonized body causing trouble to the world of immortal cultivation after I die."
"I'm leaving." Lin Xu didn't say anything else, turned around and prepared to say goodbye and leave.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, Master Weiyang suddenly threw the wine gourd at hand over.
Lin Xu took it, somewhat confused.
"Try it."
Lin Xu hesitated for a moment, after all, this was what she had just drunk, but then she felt that she was really pretentious. We are all people of the world, there is no need for so many twists and turns.
So he tilted his head back and took a sip.
"Yeah, good wine."
"Like it? Then this pot is for you."
"Are you still enough?"
"Haha, I found the machine man you arranged for me and asked him if he could make this wine. It turned out he could. So don't worry, I'll give you enough. I'm just offering you something for your benefit."
"Okay, then I'll accept it." Lin Xu nodded.
"If I'm still alive in a hundred years, I'll treat you to a drink and we'll drink together slowly. Forget it now. I need to hurry up and play games. I can play as much as I can. I can't waste time."
"Okay, it's a deal." Lin Xu didn't really like drinking, but if he could really see her again a hundred years later, then he would drink, no matter how much he drank.
Just like that, Lin Xu turned around and left first. Before leaving, he patted Miss Qiu on the shoulder and kept her.
Ten minutes later, Lin Xu, who had returned to his yard, waited for Miss Qiu, who had also said goodbye, to come back.
The two of them then took the elevator down and entered the hibernation chamber deep underground.
Then there will be a period of dormancy that lasts for a hundred years.
Lin Xu seemed to have just taken a nap. When he slowly opened his eyes, he saw Miss Qiu, who had woken up ten minutes earlier and was waiting for him next to the hibernation chamber.
"Master, the current time is 11094 in the starting calendar. Your hibernation period has ended. After a hundred years of sailing, the Earth will soon reach the target star system. The on-duty intelligent computer will report the latest intelligence to you later."
Miss Qiu welcomed Lin Xu's awakening as usual.
As soon as Lin Xu left the hibernation chamber, he asked about the situation at the destination.
"Zhenxing, the space telescope couldn't see the light of the stars here from 500 light years away. What's going on? Did humans blow up the stars here ten thousand years ago?" Lin Xu said a little worriedly.
After all, humans have already blown up an Earth-like planet this time, so it seems reasonable to blow up a star again.
"Master, I was just about to report the latest situation to you. We have arrived very close to the target galaxy. Based on the forward reconnaissance of the autonomous mechanical aggregate, we can confirm that the target galaxy still exists and the stars have not been blown up." Zhenxing's voice reassured Lin Xu.
"What's going on? Why can't we observe the light of stars?" Lin Xu felt relieved but even more confused.
"Because the civilization in this galaxy built a Dyson sphere that completely wraps the entire star and prevents any sunlight from leaking out, that's why space telescopes cannot observe any light," Zhenxing replied.
"Dyson sphere? Completely enveloping a star? Since no light can be observed five hundred light years away, it at least means that this civilization completed the Dyson sphere five hundred years ago and completely locked up the light from the star." Lin Xu made a quick judgment.
"Yes, although we don't know when this civilization completed the Dyson sphere, a civilization that can build a Dyson sphere should not be an ordinary civilization. But why did they choose the Dyson sphere? This is a bit unreasonable." Zhenxing was unable to give an answer.
"It's indeed unreasonable. With this level of technology, instead of spending a lot of time and resources building a Dyson sphere, it is better to expand outward and seek more extensive resources from more galaxies. Unless, this civilization has not developed the curvature engine technology, and has never had contact with advanced civilizations, and cannot trade for curvature engines. Unable to expand outward, it can only go inward in a crazy way." Lin Xu thought for a while and expressed his guess.
After discussing the newly discovered Dyson sphere civilization with Zhenxing, Lin Xu and Miss Qiu took the elevator back to their small courtyard.
The situation of the galaxy not far away was holographically projected in the yard.
There was a completely enclosed star in the middle, with nine planets orbiting around it.
Because the light of the star is completely blocked, even on the planet closest to the star, it is dead silent. Without sunlight, there is naturally no life to reproduce.
"Where do these civilized people live?" Lin Xu asked puzzledly.
"There are several raised areas on the Dyson sphere, and each of them is about the size of the surface area of an Earth-like planet. That should be the living space they have built for themselves." Zhenxing enlarged the Dyson sphere and explained it to Lin Xu.
