Volume 3: Dance of the Aurora Chapter 18 Dark Energy
Ai Bishui carefully fiddled with the bracelet she had just put on, the joy in her eyes almost overflowing.
This was the first time she had felt this kind of happiness since she grew up. She felt that this experience was just like when she was a child, she came home from school with no homework, her parents were at work and had not come back yet, and she could finally go out and play with her friends.
In fact, she had never done any homework until the third year of junior high school, and she had hardly listened to math classes, but she still got full marks every time. Although her head teacher and subject teachers did not like this, after all, it set a very bad example. Good students taking the lead in not doing homework greatly increased the difficulty of managing the class.
This society has been like this since ancient times. You can't stop being sociable just because you are very smart. Being sociable is sometimes much more important than being smart. After all, Australopithecus had been a social animal for hundreds of thousands of years before evolving into humans. Those who are genetically unable to be sociable should have been eliminated by natural selection long ago.
But overall, the teacher was very tolerant of Ai Bishui. After all, she had been slowly learning how to deal with inexplicable hostility since she was about 10 years old. Since she was the girl whose braids were pulled the most in the class, and various arthropods would appear from time to time in the hole in the desk.
But those little bugs weren’t scary at all, they were cute, much cuter than snakes. The first time she stepped on a snake in her shoe, she almost fainted.
These experiences did have some impact on her worldview, but the impact could not be described as psychological trauma.
She was just a little eccentric because of the harassment she received day after day. Since she was born to be special, she would just stay special. As long as there are too many people around her, all kinds of weird things will happen.
This is why she chose to attend this crazy date in the deserted campus.
Of course, the more important reason was that she didn't want to keep the secret that she was the instigator of everything in front of everyone. This burden was too heavy and could easily crush a twenty-year-old girl.
The living keep their secrets.
The world is silent.
"…Is there anything I can help you with?"
After being stared at for a long time, the bracelet finally spoke again. Fang Cheng vaguely felt that the tone it used when talking to the girl was much gentler than when it was talking to him just now, although this guy had said before that he had no emotions.
"What materials are you made of, and what process do you use?"
"No comment."
"Where is your chip built? How big is it? Has it reached the quantum limit?"
"No, I don't have a chip. I have a complex system circuit inside that can only exercise part of the brain's functions. This circuit can produce rationality but will not produce emotions and desires."
"Yes... He just told me that he has no amygdala."
"Hey, were you really talking to it just now?"
Fang Cheng nodded after being choked. But there is nothing to be shy about. Aren't you talking to the bracelet? It is not strange to talk to a bracelet in this era. You can go to the store and buy an Apple Watch to experience it.
"Is it used for communication? Can you let me chat with the aliens?"
"My main function is transportation, and I can also be used for communication. No, because it is not necessary right now."
"Then can you fly? Can you fly for me?"
The flight that Ai Bishui imagined was probably similar to that of a bamboo dragonfly, where she was lifted up by some tremendous force. As soon as she said that, she began to doubt whether her arms could withstand this pulling force.
But her arm did not feel stretched. The ring on her hand expanded rapidly into a metal tube and wrapped around her whole body. Only then did she realize that her imagination was too poor.
The next moment, the girl's spine was pressed with an acceleration of 5 G. She felt a clear sense of oppression all over her body, blood was pushed from her head to her lower body, and the lack of oxygen in her brain caused the entire field of vision to become dark.
Fang Cheng saw the silver ball in front of him pass through the beam in a straight line. He quickly climbed over the window and went outside, but there was nothing in the sky.
When Ai Bishui's vision and consciousness recovered, she found herself suspended in the air hundreds of meters high.
“Ah, this is…”
Halfway through this sentence she began to feel nauseous, a side effect of being newly overweight.
"I can adjust my reflectivity. Now my inner wall is one-way transparent to human visible light, so your vision will not be blocked."
"Can we be seen from outside?"
"No, all the light will flow along the outer wall to the other side, and people observing from the outside will not be able to see anything. Not only can the human eye not see us through the reflection of visible light, but all other kinds of electromagnetic waves cannot be detected either."
However, gravitational waves can be detected, and this basic aircraft does not have the ability to be invisible to gravitational waves. Of course, this is also related to its propulsion method.
Ai Bishui let out a long sigh. It would be too weird if someone saw her floating in the sky alone.
She turned her head to look around and at her feet. Everywhere she looked were dilapidated buildings. Thick smoke rose from the residential area towards the city center, and broken walls were everywhere.
The whole city was a gray color unique to ruins. She had previously thought that this was a color only found in cities in the Middle East, but now she realized that this was the color of disaster.
"If you are looking for the protozoan, its center of mass is currently about 554,782 meters away from us. It cannot be seen from your position."
"Which direction did it go?"
"Heading towards the coast."
She looked towards the east for a while, but indeed could not see anything. If it was more than 500 kilometers away from here, was it already in the sea?
"How do you fly? Do you rely on recoil like a rocket?"
As she spoke, she involuntarily squatted down and looked at the ground. There seemed to be no trace of the burning airflow on the messy grass. Of course, it might be that she was too far away to see clearly.
She saw Fang Cheng looking around on the ground and waved to him reflexively.
"I am indeed propelled by working fluid, but I do not rely on positive medium."
"Hmm? What do you mean?"
There are anti-mediums in the world. Are they antimatter media? Wouldn’t they explode when they come into contact with the air?
"My working fluid is the cheapest material in the universe. In your language, it seems to be called... dark energy."
More than 60% of the mass in the universe is provided by dark energy. This highly efficient resource is inexhaustible for interstellar civilizations. Before the second technological revolution, all vehicles propelled by metal civilizations used it as propellant.
"I see! Is it based on repulsion?"
"To be precise, it is the negative pressure generated by the thin layer of dense dark energy covering my surface. You can think of it as us being 'squeezed' into the sky by space itself."
