People's Federation will live forever

However, before getting into the car, Li De took a special look at this huge base built at the bottom of a ring-shaped mountain. It covers an area of ​​tens of hectares and is more than 1 meters high. The metal building is a composite polygonal rectangular facility. It was a wise move to leave a spare space for [-] people at the beginning.In addition to communicating with the Eternal City, the communication radar array on the outside of the building is also equipped with a helium trifusion substation, which continuously delivers the huge and free electricity on the moon to the Eternal City through the frequency conversion radar array.

Yes, the economic value of the moon is energy. There is a shortage of everything here, but even if there is no shortage of electricity.The Ministry of Industry and Research originally planned to build [-] fusion power stations on the lunar surface and experiment with a new laser power transmission to reduce the loss of microwaves, but a series of grand plans were shelved by this war.At present, these power stations have also started their transformation. If anyone sees the towering towers standing on the sides of the fortress, then you guessed it right. The experimental props used for laser power transmission are the focused laser emitters of the Bright Stone Monument. They will be the base's first line of defense.

This trip is like a sightseeing, which makes up for the previous omissions in the description of the Silver Fortress.The highway on the lunar surface has two lanes, and there is a relay station every one kilometer to direct the unmanned vehicles to and from the project site.Most of the trucks transported solid water from the ice at the collection station, and even low-flying drones transported nuclear materials.

Beta is operating on the dark side hundreds of kilometers away, and the question of when they will launch an attack on the base bothers Li De.Since they used four nuclear bombs to flatten the vanguard they were chasing an hour ago, they seem to have temporarily lost interest in chasing and instead went to recover the corpse.

At this moment, the betas are probably busy devouring the remains of the dead individuals on the battlefield. There is nothing left to eat, but they will find them sooner or later.The computers in the base and peripheral facilities are naturally attracted to these biological machines, the only question is how long?

How far do they detect electronics?

Li De was thinking, but the three people in the car were a little uneasy.Finally, after Bud stabbed Cole with his hand and hinted at him with his eyes, the fearless tool man Cole coughed a few times, and actually sang on the public channel——

"Oh~~ the green field, the scorching sun in midsummer, that's where I sweat..."

"!"

"?"

Li De raised his head, and Marcus turned off the communicator.Cole obviously didn't have much talent for singing. Instead of rapping, he yelled. He didn't seem to care about the reactions of the few people. He stood up in the car with his 1.9 meters tall and danced with his helmet on the roof.

"Cole, why are you crazy!"

"Ha, I think the atmosphere is too serious, and I want to cheer everyone up." Cole thumped his chest like a gorilla, "Everyone is frightened by aliens, we need to boost morale !"

"Pull you down, you might as well yell at the betas, I guarantee they will be scared to death by you!"

Marcus yelled, and Bud slapped his mask, feeling embarrassed: "I didn't ask you to do this, idiot..."

But no matter what, Cole's "morale boost" finally broke the deadlock in the car, and Li De was both angry and funny: "You want to ask me, see what I want to tell you."

The three nodded in unison, and at this time the vehicle also turned around, leaving the flat road and heading towards the unknown wilderness.Li De blocked the communication in the car and connected them to a secret channel.

"Some things are not ready to be made public, or if they are made public, they will have incalculable adverse effects. Therefore, any department will set up authority to strictly lock up some information that is not suitable for most people to understand..."

Li De made an opening remark. Suddenly, Bud stood up like an electric shock: "Leader, I don't want to hear this!"

"I hate secrecy. I'm young and I have so much to do. Get me out of the car. I don't want to hear a word!"

Bud yelled in a panic, and Marcus' face became serious. Only Cole, who hadn't turned his head around yet, looked curious: "Bud, what are you afraid of?"

"I'm afraid, of course I'm afraid!" Bud was angry, "From ancient times to the present, until too many people have no good results, can you use your brain, you idiot?"

"Wait!"

Marcus grabbed Bud, his curiosity finally broke out, and he almost questioned Li De: "Is there something that is so shady? Do you even want us to talk about it alone?"

"What do you think it would be?"

Li De was not angry, but asked Marcus: "Is the People's Federation using innocent people for human experiments? Or is this war fabricated by me? Just like Wei An, there are dirty people behind our People's Federation." Conspiracy, you are just a tool for me to complete my plan, and the next step is to silence?"

"If you put your impression of Wei An on me, then I can only say...don't underestimate me, Marcus!"

Chapter 23 The Secret of the Supreme Council

"Don't underestimate me, Marcus!"

The vehicle left the road for a period of time and bumped forward on the potholed lunar surface. However, this kind of progress did not last long. As Li De said, any organization has its own secrets. With a sharp turn of the vehicle, , they rushed into a dark tunnel-yes, a tunnel dug under the crater, which looked like it hadn't been used for a while, and the ruts left on the ground were covered by the current travel.There were no lighting fixtures in the tunnel, but fortunately the tunnel was not long, and soon they reached the bottom of the crater, and found that the space was completely occupied by a strange pot-shaped device.

"This is... a radio telescope."

Bud is no stranger to this, and even suddenly realized that the crater is the best place to install this kind of large-scale equipment, and there is no atmospheric barrier on the moon, so it can undoubtedly receive the most interstellar information.But... As the person in charge of the lunar base, I didn't know when such a huge facility was built!

It stands to reason that the construction of such equipment requires thousands of tons of materials and labor. If the project is completed in recent years, I will never be unaware of it—how much power is hidden in the Supreme Council? ?

"The Human Federation's space program started five years ago when the Orbital Accelerator was completed, but you don't think I'm just waiting until everything is ready to start laying out space?"

Li De said leisurely, his consciousness fell into memory - the orbital accelerator is like a highway to the sky, but human beings build roads for better travel, even if it is a narrow path before that, it should be the same.The giant rockets were all decommissioned after the completion of the orbital accelerator, but just like Li Deneng spared no effort to build the Nibelungen before the end of the Orc War, he let the Watcher make a layout on the moon long before the establishment of the advance base .

And this is to protect human beings, as well as their own future.

"This is the secret you want to tell us. Do you have a large space telescope?"

Marcus obviously doesn't believe it. He has seen too many nasty things, and he doesn't believe in one-sided words so easily. This is also the difference between him and Dom-since he got out of prison, he has been played around by people, He did not save the world, nor did he protect his friends. Although his father, Adam, was to blame, it was indeed the Supreme Council that turned him into an inhuman cyborg, and punished him with lifelong hard labor.

He always felt that something was wrong, that fate seemed to have been tampered with but he couldn't find the reason, and the depression in his heart strengthened his suspicion.But apart from these two, Cole stretched his neck and exclaimed:

"Baby, what a big pot!"

That's right, and this pot that is not a pot, but now I have to recite it - Li De secretly complained.But he didn't make a statement, he just got out of the car first, and warned everyone before going out:

"First of all, I want to make a statement, everyone in the Delta team... this is not a request but an order. You will see the greatest discovery of mankind so far. I don't care what you think, but starting today you will be accepted by the Supreme Council. Surveillance, all your actions will be under my command."

"You mean, we not only have to shut up obediently, but we also have to listen to you completely?"

Marcus frowned, his tone extremely unpleasant.The leader is too lazy to explain and directly uses power to oppress. It seems that he and others have no choice.

Bud was sighing for his fate, and Cole also realized the seriousness, and he lowered his voice and whispered in a low voice: "Why us?"

"Because I believe that you have a potential that will be underestimated by others, and you haven't realized it yourself. You are the protagonists of this world."

Li De said so, full of words that people can't understand at all: "You may be the key to breaking the situation. This influence may not be proven, and it may be possible to show in the distant future."

Yet the leader laughed again, leaving the three of them even more bewildered.

"But maybe I'm overthinking, maybe I just want to form a 'protagonist group'?"

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No one ever doubted that Sira was saved by herself.

Destiny has been changed by outsiders, but its inertial gears are still majestic and powerful. According to some paradoxes, when the world line ends, a new turning point will take place until fate returns to its original track, Scylla, or It is said that human beings will be doomed.

Li De didn't believe in this kind of fatalism at first, but what happened to Dom made him have to think about it.Dom deserved to die but didn't die, so the Grim Reaper came after him.Sira was supposed to be saved by Marcus, but this opportunity was taken away by him, so fate will definitely arrange a new stage for him.

So he assembled the D team again, and let himself be included in it-if it is not clear who is the protagonist, then gather all the protagonists to his side!

But at this time, Li De fell into deep thought again—with the betas appearing, will he gather a lot of "protagonists" by his side in the future?

This question is irrelevant, the radio telescope in front of me is the key.Li De took Marcus and others into this confidential facility—it is all automated, and there is no operator console at all. Since its establishment, it has collected data for seven years, and the Supreme Council It will be reviewed once a month.

In fact, this telescope has been staring at the deep space and ignoring the movement around it, otherwise the People's Federation should have discovered the trace of beta long ago.

"Leader, are you trying to let these soldiers know the secret? Can they afford such a responsibility?"

Before Li De started to move, suddenly, the voice from General Olivia appeared in the secret channel.This frightened Bud again, and he hurriedly said hello to the head of the Black Hand Army.

However, Olivia didn't even bother to respond to him, and only looked for Li De. What's interesting is that it seems that the general has been paying attention to this channel. Generally speaking, she rarely interrupts Li De's deployment:

"Leader, I don't think this will do them any good. The risk of doing so is too great. You should discuss it with us earlier..."

Just as he was speaking, it seemed that the general himself felt that there was something wrong with this sentence - us?Ensig doesn't care about everything, and General Wu Wei...she is not willing to trust this man. Li De and Wu Wei are still a deal, a political compromise, and Olivia is bitter about it Yu Huai.

And just discussing with her seems a little bit... Suddenly, Olivia didn't know how to speak, and her own opinion seemed unreasonable, and a momentary slip of the tongue made herself fall into an embarrassing situation. Why do you look like a complaining girl?

"Ah, you came just in time, General Olivia!"

Li De was surprised for a while. At this time, he didn't realize the general's embarrassment, but suddenly realized that Olivia might be a better commentator—"Maybe you talk about this issue from a purely military point of view, The members of Delta Squad understand it better. I'm not in the military after all, and politics are always annoying."

"?"

Before Olivia could react, the image from the radio telescope was uploaded to the communication channel-this is a breathtaking photo of the river system, all from the 7 years of uninterrupted work of this giant radio telescope and various types of radio telescopes. Long-exposure photos of the Space Telescope of the Ministry of Industry and Research.Seven years of data was digitized into a gigantic 40-billion-pixel photo, so large that a single photo would take up an terabyte of memory, with its shining stars, sandy galaxies and tagged The pulsar that came out was placed in a three-dimensional structure diagram, which made Marcus and others' scalps tingle.

"What the heck, I think I just saw a colored plate."

Bud took a deep breath: "I'm not an astronomy major, leader, is this picture the secret you want to tell us?"

What are you kidding, to make such a big fight is to send a photo to yourself, to fool people?

However, Li De was leisurely and silent, and Olivia sighed, feeling that it was useless to say anything else.

"You guys, take a good look at the picture!"

snapped the General, startling them—

"You count, how many cantilevers are there in the river system we are in, and then recall, how many cantilevers are there in the Milky Way?"

Chapter 24. Compressed biscuit theory

Does the Supreme Council have anything to fear?

Of course there is, and that is the fear of the unknown.I don't think this is too much, we are all afraid of things we don't understand, not to mention the infinitely wide dark area among the vast stars.In the past, we felt that it was far away from us. At that time, we human beings were like infants, and our cries could not travel far in the universe, so small that they would not attract attention.

Such fear is nothing more than a reaction to the fear itself, at best causing some anxiety.However, Li De's fear was different. Ever since he discovered the wreckage of the Hyacinth at the bottom of the sea, the world had changed in his eyes, becoming both familiar and strange.

Now, we can reveal some of the things that the Supreme Council found on the wreckage of the spacecraft. In addition to technology, materials, and the amazing but incomprehensible FTL wormhole generator, what is more important to the Council is that the Hyacinth was in the end. It crashed out of control for some reason, instead of becoming a drifting space hulk as in the plot of "Stars".

"Captain's Log 0031—

Project Ulysses is perhaps the most adventurous project ever undertaken by mankind, and I, as the captain of the Hyacinth, am honored to be a part of this great project.We humans have never lacked the ambition to challenge the unknown. I hope that future colonists can inherit this courage and light the torch of civilization in their new homeland.

Scientists have located the space coordinates 24 light-years away from the solar system. According to the analysis, there is an terrestrial planet that is likely to have a water source.But I am not a person who is willing to block the future in data analysis. I have ordered to bring more environmental adaptation equipment. If we are unlucky, at least we can support the arrival of rescue. "

"Captain's Log 0047—

We successfully traveled through the wormhole, the first time with flesh and blood instead of various test objects.When I went through the wormhole, I felt that the time seemed to be extended infinitely, until I regained consciousness, and my body stayed at the moment before I passed through - my mechanical pocket watch just passed the next second.This is a great victory, praise science, praise Ulysses project. "

"However, there was a little accident. Scientists said that the atomic clock measurement did not match the physical standards. They were anxious like ants on a hot pot. Some people said that when we passed through the wormhole, the time was also disrupted. They are analyzing whether it is the 21st century or AD. Before the 21st century. Are you kidding, we went back 4000 years ago? This is not science fiction!"

This is one of the few electronic logs that can still be completely restored among the important messages. After that, the messages began to become short and broken. I don’t know whether it is the hardware damage, or the captain has no time to record the log——

"Quantum communication is completely ineffective, and we are not arriving at the intended location."

"Although it is very similar, this is not the Milky Way... They are still looking for a reason. I said this is a waste of time. We can't stay in orbit forever."

"...Insufficient power, defrost..."

"The ecosphere in the hydroponic room is out of balance, and I have rationed food."

"Someone has been killed. People are panicking. I must... mobilize the reactor... to repair it and power the gravity stabilization device."

"They want to go home, how come?"

"God bless!"

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The information in the spacecraft log is still being sorted out. Although there are still many unknown places, the general process can be inferred-the Hyacinth has not even arrived at the scheduled location but has arrived at Sira, and this is not only not the Milky Way, but even the concept of time also be confused.They really managed to travel through time and space, but the bad news is that the unstable wormhole generator did damage the spacecraft hardware, and the lack of power caused the crew to wake up early, and when they woke up, they ran into insufficient food.

Maybe the captain finally chose to make a forced landing, and the spacecraft system showed that a few escape pods had successfully escaped before the crash. Maybe they were the ancestors of the Sira natives. It is really rare for them to survive and reproduce without the help of many tools.As for technology—the more advanced a civilization is, the more it depends on a sufficient number of high-quality people and material supplies. The evolution of 4000 years has already caused all of these to be submerged in the sea of ​​Thira.

Hearing this, Marcus and others will inevitably be curious—what you said is indeed shocking, but right now no one is in the mood to miss their ancestors and lament the fall of civilization. What does this have to do with the immediate crisis? ?

"Because the group of scientists found the answer to the time-travel accident, they called it space-time ripples..." the general explained, but seeing the expressions of the three people who didn't understand, he could only sigh, "This matter must be divided into two parts." Only by explaining each part can the cause and effect be connected in series.”

The AR image of General Olivia pointed to the radio telescope station where they were: "The space-time paradox is not a child's play. Their deduction is the same as our guess, the hyacinth, that is, your ancestors were not in the original universe at all. In the middle, but to a new universe, this universe is like the mirror image of the Milky Way where the earth is, with the same physical laws, so the atomic clock on the spacecraft will be different from the physical observation, and will not contradict the space-time paradox.”

It is also the data left by this group of scientists that drives Li De to observe the macroscopic universe.Just imagine, the Tiberium Earth and the Stars Earth cannot exist in the same universe, which is contradictory, which means that Li De has indeed entered a new universe that has nothing to do with the Tiberium Earth.

The river system where Sira is located is similar to the Milky Way where the earth is located, and it also has four cantilevers. Li De only needs to collect information from the Security Alliance and UIR to obtain this. However, the photos obtained by Bard and others are It shows that the river system where Sira is located has suddenly turned into a huge spiral galaxy with dense galaxies that don't even have cantilevers!

What the Scylla people observed before the Pendulum War was still a standard river system with four cantilever arms, but what the People’s Federation observed was indeed a new river system that expanded hundreds of times in volume.

When did this change occur?No one knows.The river system is getting bigger, and the number of galaxies inside it is increasing. They suddenly appear in this river system, but they seem to have been there all the time, which is as confusing as quantum entanglement.But don’t think that this has nothing to do with humans. The expansion of the river system has brought many new variables. For example, the standard pulsars in this photo. Many data prove that the frequency bands of these pulsars are completely consistent, and they are all parameters that humans are familiar with. Su Si.

If there are multiple Betelgeuses, according to the path analysis, Renlian has found multiple galaxies that are consistent with the data of the solar system!What does this mean?This means that there are multiple Earths in this galaxy, and the closest two are only 25 and 32 light-years away from the Syra Galaxy.

On the scale of the universe, they are like hugging each other tightly.

"If you still don't understand, I can explain it to you in another way."

A three-dimensional model of the Milky Way appeared in the AR eyepieces of several people. It has four cantilevers and a stable structure, which is in line with the original understanding of the river system by the people of Sira and Earth.

"But because of the so-called 'ripples in space-time', new galaxies have been dragged into this space-time for thousands of years. In almost ignorance of the laws of physics, one galaxy after another has been superimposed together."

In the picture, one river system is inlaid into another river system, which occupies the space of the cantilever, but remains relatively stable.

Then, like a compressed biscuit, more river systems merged in, and such fusion was always just right without colliding, so this "new galaxy" became bigger and bigger, and its original shape became less and less visible, until it became A huge spiral galaxy cluster.

"It's unreasonable, but it's reality."

Finally, Li De spoke, and he told a few people all the truth, but what he didn't say was that there was no such thing as "ripples in time and space discovered by Hyacinth scientists", that was a lie, and this truth was first discovered by Discovered by watchmen.

"Moreover, our future disasters may also be caused by this."

PS: It is a last resort to write a bunch of settings into one chapter. There are too many settings recently, and we should have a head.