High Above

  Chapter 278 Warp Speed ​​Navigation and Aether Engine (23)

  Of course, when the silver chip was recording the data, the boy still took a little look at the relationship between the warp drive and the Tinder design.

   Immediately afterwards, he was slightly taken aback.

   "Hey, it really has the same design idea as the ether core."

The ether furnace core and the true ether furnace are indeed designed in the same line. They both use ultra-high-purity, or even 100% absolute purity source quality, to create an ether space bubble that is independent of the natural psionic field. Natural spiritual energy is naturally attracted.

   To make an analogy, if the natural spiritual energy field of the entire universe is a membrane that is roughly evenly distributed in all time and space, then the core of the etheric furnace is to create a deep 'well' on this membrane.

The mouth of the well will naturally gather the surrounding natural spiritual energy, which is inexhaustible and inexhaustible. The difference between the ether furnace and the real ether furnace is that the design of the former is flawed, and the space bubble is unstable. It will cause a load on the furnace core and the body, and it needs to continuously input resources to maintain it, and it cannot maintain the existence of cavitation for a long time.

  The latter not only does not need it, but can even transfer the load of natural psionic energy to the perfect space bubble, and use natural power to load nature itself, so it can accumulate power almost infinitely.

  The fire core is actually not much different from the real ether furnace armed by Apocalypse.

   It's just that it can have more influence on the "space bubble", and then build extraordinary abilities like "zero inertia maneuver", "phase shift shield" and "hyperspace communication".

   And most importantly.

  'Warp speed sailing'.

Yes, warp speed navigation is a technology derived from the Obra civilization using the huge amount of natural spiritual energy accumulated in space bubbles to distort time and space. The warp speed engine will create a layer of space around the spaceship that is independent of the original universe. The space-time bubble, which does not have any information interaction with the universe, then uses the indirect operation of the "space bubble" to shrink the space-time in front and expand the space-time behind, and then generate an "asymmetric peristaltic field" to propel the spacecraft.

  Simply speaking, it is a superluminal engine, and there is no need for such dangerous and limited things as subspace and hyperspace passages.

  This is similar to the technology of the ether furnace. Rather, it is precisely because of the development of the ether furnace that the technology of the warp speed engine can be mastered.

"So, the nations of Terra with Apocalypse Arms... As long as they can independently manufacture a brand new Apocalypse Armament that is not modified with the ether furnace in the ruins...then they are only one step away from traveling at super-light speed?! "

  After realizing this, it was difficult for Ian to hold back—although he also knew that the so-called one step away from this kind of key technological progress is often the inspiration of the entire civilization for an unknown number of years.

   But from the perspective of the technology tree, the distance between the Terra civilization in the pre-epoch and the real interstellar civilization that can travel faster than the speed of light is really only a little film distance!

   And the current Terra civilization is not far from the interstellar civilization.

   It's just a pity that most of them can only use, not manufacture.

  Although there are countries that want to do research, the war between them makes them hinder each other, and it is impossible to gather the population of the entire planet and the wisdom of scientific researchers for research.

  Of course, if it is the original earth, if the original earth also has source matter and ether, then it is estimated that the earth has already become a real interstellar civilization-there is no such extraordinary thing as ether source matter on the earth there.

Pity.

  Thinking so in his heart, Ian continued to consult the database after satisfying his curiosity.

   And this time, what he consulted was the star map of Terra.

  1,600 years ago, before the darkness blinded the stars, the original star map!

  The original star map has always been a doubt in Ian's mind.

  Since his birth, no matter whether he has not awakened the memory of the past life or after awakening the memory of the past life, he has not seen the bright starry sky on the land of Terra.

  Different from being unable to see stars due to too much light pollution, Terra’s invisibility is simply ‘nothing’.

  The stars disappeared, leaving only a bleak bleakness.

  Of course, just because there is no bright starry sky doesn’t mean you can’t see any of them.

  In the past few years, Ian has still found a few visible stars that are not outside the planet Terra.

  However, just as the boy described on the star map in his alchemy workshop, some of these stars are disappearing one after another.

  These stars have actually disappeared long ago, and I just saw their light completely dissipate.

   "If there are really some natural disasters in the universe that keep destroying distant stars, then it is easy to understand why the Obra Starfield sends a fireship..."

  Ian let out a breath, he calmed down for a moment, and opened the ruins star map.

  Accompanied by the boy's instructions, the darkness in front of his eyes was like a handful of dazzling fireworks suddenly ignited.

  Endless starlight was shining, and bright stars lit up one by one in front of his eyes.

At this moment, Ian seemed to have an illusion that those civilizations swallowed by darkness went back in time and returned to the sea of ​​stars from the endless dark and vast universe. On the star map 1,600 years ago, they Still burning flames with life heat, weaving dreams belonging to each world, full of hope and future.

  Maybe it's not a delusion... Prophets don't have delusion.

  Close your eyes and be silent for a while, Ian seems unwilling to look at these too bright starry sky.

   Then he opened his eyes again, staring at the star map in front of him.

  After a period of time, he found what he wanted to find among these overcrowded stars.

"right here."

Looking away, Ian looked at an unnaturally dark void in the starry sky, and said softly: "Sure enough, in the pre-epoch 1,600 years ago, some stars had already been extinguished, and a large void area was even formed. "

   "Let me see... Well, there is also a record of the time when the stars disappeared one by one... Sure enough."

   "It disappears at the uniform speed of light according to the distance one by one."

  Ian's voice was calm like himself, and he himself never thought that when he saw the long-awaited picture of the stars in the past, he could be so calm.

  Is it the reason why I have fantasized countless times? Or is he actually not as excited and expectant as he thought?

   Ian doesn't know.

  He just felt a kind of coldness... A kind of dark coldness was approaching his spine, lungs and even heart, which made the young man have to calm down and calm down.

   Then, you can breathe.

  The large void area has long been discovered by Terra researchers, but because it is too difficult to explain, it is believed that this area is obscured by "interstellar dust".

  This can barely explain why the stars in this direction dim one after another, but it cannot explain how big the interstellar dust area is to cover the distant galaxy calculated tens of thousands of light years.

   This also cannot explain why there is a dark and opaque cloud that moves uniformly at the speed of light, cutting off the brilliance of all the stars.

  So some people also suggested that some kind of cosmic disaster may be approaching... But the information in this area is very incomplete, and it seems that someone has deliberately deleted it.

"It's not that Terra was obscured by something—it's true, that the distant stars gradually disappeared one by one, from few to many, from existence to nothing, and the overlapping constellations dimmed one by one... instead of disappearing at the same time. "

   "Besides, someone deliberately deleted it? Why is that? Even if there is really some cosmic natural disaster that is destroying the stars one by one, it is not a shameful thing—at most, it needs to be concealed from the public."

Keeping these conclusions in mind, Ian frowned, and continued to observe the complete spherical star map: "In any case, it cannot be ruled out that Terra is also covered by something. After all, there is a gap of 1,600 years. Nobody knows what happened."

   "For the universe, 1,600 light-years is not too much, but it is not too little, but after all the surrounding stars are dimmed, the next target must be Terra."

   "Maybe..."

  Thinking of this, Ian suddenly understood why Inaiga II was so urgent.

   That’s right, if Inaiga II also saw the star map of the civilization of the previous era, and then compared it with the current starry sky...

   No matter who it is, there will be an uncontrollable fear, right?

  A person's lifespan of dozens or hundreds of years is considered long, but on the scale of the universe, it is only a moment.

  It is precisely because decades and hundreds of years are a moment for the universe, so humans feel anxious about it.

  —Whether it is decades, hundreds of years or thousands of years, or the next moment, destruction may come.

  Ordinary people can comfort themselves that tomorrow the sun will rise as usual, but those who know the truth know that every second may be the moment before the end of the world.

  Therefore, it is impossible to endure, unable to stop, unable to carry out reforms slowly.

   Only by constantly moving forward, can you feel at ease.

   can comfort myself... Before the destruction comes, I have at least tried my best.

  At this moment, in Ian's mind, the scene when he looked up at the sky last time could not help reappearing again.

  The dark universe, the almost lightless night sky, the broken new moon, and the only moonlight...

  All of these seem to be declaring a fact to all living beings on the continent of Terra.

  —The next one is you.

  (end of this chapter)