Chapter 370 Monster
black hole.
The deepest, darkest and most mysterious things in the universe.
Of course, in this era, the "mystery" of black holes needs to be questioned.
Because the empire's research on black holes was no longer limited to theory a long time ago. Instead, start with practice.
Relying on the super-light speed navigation technology of the spacecraft developed in the early years, the empire's research on black holes has long been feasible, and there are always people conducting research in this area.
Chen Ming has known a lot of people in the past six months.
It’s just that researching black holes is usually done by professionals, and ordinary civilian ships cannot sail faster than the speed of light, they can only sail close to the speed of light.
True faster-than-light sailing can only be achieved by some special ships, which is more troublesome to do.
Therefore, the understanding of black holes themselves is obviously not enough among the people and people who have nothing to do with this aspect of research.
Just like Chen Ming, he has never encountered the existence of any black hole along the way, so his understanding of black holes is not detailed.
And with the discovery of hyperspace and super-light navigation together, hyperspace channel technology has essentially replaced super-light navigation technology.
Whether in terms of practicality, popularity or safety, hyperspace channel technology is better than super-light navigation technology.
But this does not mean that this technology has been completely eliminated, nor does it mean that Chen Ming will miss this important technology in the history of ship development when he is learning ship technology.
The key to this technology still existing today lies in the study of black holes.
In the special occasion of studying black holes, only super-light navigation technology is a technology that must be mastered.
Otherwise, forget about investigating the black hole. What if you accidentally fall into the black hole's event horizon while running near the black hole, that is, within the range where even light cannot escape.
Then it can be said that it is almost a universal method to escape from it.
Not even hyperspace.
Because there are not only hyperspace channel clouds in hyperspace, there are also gravity wells formed by massive celestial bodies.
The hyperlane drive itself also uses gravity wells to enter and exit hyperspace.
The overall concept of black hole can be said to be the most massive celestial body in the universe, and its gravity well in hyperspace will be particularly obvious and huge.
So when the spacecraft fell into the black hole's event horizon.
In the corresponding hyperspace position of the spacecraft, it has already entered the area affected by the depth of the black hole's gravity well.
As long as it enters hyperspace, it will be destroyed by gravity much faster than in the normal universe.
Want to come out alive after entering the black hole's event horizon.
Either use super-light navigation technology or use jump technology.
The jump engine can only be equipped on ships of the cruiser level and above, and the use of the jump engine will damage the basic structure, causing subtle damage to the basic structure that is almost impossible to detect with the naked eye.
It is very troublesome to repair this kind of damage with normal repair methods, and the maintenance cost is extremely high.
Moreover, coupled with high material consumption, the cost is even higher.
Chen Ming was using the jump all day long as if he was free of charge. That was because he had psychic powers. His psychic powers were very easy to repair in the face of this kind of damage. He could jump the spacecraft at a very low cost and at an extremely fast speed. The engine is repaired.
But there were no conditions as good as Chen Ming's in the past.
Therefore, even if the super-light navigation technology is a technology that must be used under specific conditions, it has been preserved in this way.
Although Chen Ming's spacecraft was not equipped with a faster-than-light navigation system, he was in good condition when he passed through the wormhole and arrived at the black hole.
He was only affected by the gravitational pull of the black hole, and had not yet been pulled into the black hole's event horizon.
And the sense of danger that he felt before passing through the wormhole that completely enveloped him happened to come from this black hole.
Explain that the danger is visible and generally unlikely to pose an effective threat to him.
Only after he actually passed through the wormhole, the sharp sense of danger he felt on the way through disappeared.
It's unclear whether the danger actually came from the process of passing through the wormhole, or because the source of the danger that may have caused him left after passing through the wormhole or something else
But it’s not a bad thing now that there’s no danger, right?
Chen Ming looked back and looked behind the highest point. It was not a wormhole that existed in a special galaxy like the wormhole in the origin galaxy, but a wormhole that existed on the trajectory of the black hole.
Although it seems fine so far, it doesn't take much calculation to see that gravity is still attracting the wormhole closer to the black hole.
Sooner or later, the wormhole will fall into the black hole.
Chen Ming didn't know what would happen if the wormhole fell into the black hole, and he didn't want to know.
But he knows how to extract the singularity in the wormhole.
If there are irreversible consequences, he will definitely solve the problem before the consequences occur.
Of course, the premise is to ensure the safety of the surrounding area first.
There should be no danger of a black hole occurring if it is placed there, as long as you don't seek death.
So what Chen Ming has to deal with is the security issues in the surrounding areas.
The first thing you should consider when doing things in an unknown place is of course safety.
He needs to first find out if there are any nearby galaxies or celestial bodies that he can use to settle down, and confirm whether he is in the star field observable by the empire or in the truly unknown star field.
Then he returned to thinking about the wormhole itself.
Chen Ming controlled the spacecraft to turn around and accelerate, preparing to leave the area temporarily, but at the moment the engines of the three spacecraft began to accelerate.
The sharp sense of danger that had disappeared suddenly struck him again.
Chen Ming immediately controlled the battleship and made maneuvers, but a purple-black beam shot from the black hole behind it still swept past the Stardust class, which had no time to open its shield.
And the area on the Stardust-class ship that was swept by the beam seemed to be grasped by some kind of terrifying pressure, and was directly twisted into a circle of steel twists.
Most of the spacecraft's systems were also damaged under this heavy pressure.
Even after the beam disappeared, Chen Ming still felt a spiritual force wrapping around the damaged area of Stardust, continuing to exert tremendous pressure on the interior of the ship.
It is gradually crushing the collapsed Stardust stage into a ball of metal.
The light beam that can escape the black hole is definitely not a normal light beam, it should be the projection of some kind of psychic power.
It's something in the black hole's event horizon that projects its power.
This familiar scene made him seem to have seen the day when he and Yan Xiong had a conflict, and Yan Xiong used the spiritual power to control metal to twist his iron ore into a metal ball.
Chen Ming felt a string tighten in his consciousness.
He decisively controlled the Supreme Point and the remaining Stardust-class ship to make a short jump and put enough distance between it and the black hole behind it.
Then he immediately turned the ship's bow and activated all the sensing devices at full power, trying to find out what was in the black hole's event horizon.
However, Chen Ming's ship did not prepare special equipment to investigate the black hole area.
Although the sensor at the highest point is top-notch, it is not suitable for this situation.
Fortunately, the existence in the black hole did not continue to release the beam of light outside the black hole.
The sense of danger in Chen Ming's perception has gradually disappeared, as if it was just a warning, warning Chen Ming not to get too close to the black hole.
But there was no expression on Chen Ming's face at this time.
He just mentally labeled the things in the black hole as certain to die.
Whether it is to pave the way for the arrival of the subsequent fleet, to nip the danger at the earliest stage, or simply to take revenge.
He must enter the black hole's horizon, and he must completely solve the things in the black hole.
Chen Ming took another look at the deep black hole, and temporarily left the area by driving the highest point and stardust level.
At the same time, he picked up the terminal and found the address list of some people with certain status and abilities in scientific research that he had met in the past six months.
After rummaging through it, he found the phone number of the director of an institute that studies celestial bodies, focusing on black holes.
After a few minutes of successfully borrowing the right device, and a few more minutes of getting the device under my control.
Chen Ming installed these black hole exploration equipment on the remaining two ships.
However, the most effective equipment that can directly pass through the horizon for investigation is currently not available to Chen Ming, and even if he does get it, he will need time and a dedicated place to install it.
It doesn’t mean that you can just find a boat and use it directly.
So Chen Ming needs to pass through the black hole's event horizon to investigate.
But it just met his needs.
He wanted to see what was targeting him within the horizon, and then kill it.
After Chen Ming assigned a robot that he personally controlled, the remaining Stardust-level aircraft began to turn around and approach the black hole's event horizon.
soon.
From the robot's perspective, Chen Ming once again sensed a growing sense of danger.
And at the moment when the robot's sense of danger reached its peak, he started the jump engine and forcibly jumped into the black hole's horizon.
And this time the jump just happened to avoid a purple-black beam of light emitted from the black hole.
In the black hole's horizon, Chen Ming relied on his visual sensors to see only countless distorted lights. It was like a colorful black that made it impossible to distinguish the internal situation through vision.
But after Chen Ming prepared special equipment, the black hole's event horizon is no longer a cage that swallows everything.
With these devices, he was able to intuitively detect conditions within the black hole's event horizon.
But when he looked at the data sent back, he was suddenly stunned.
Because in addition to detecting the black hole itself, the sensor also detected something about the size of a scavenger, a living creature.
Right in the center of that black hole.
There was something like some kind of pitch-black maggot that was crawling hard toward the outside of the black hole.
It's just that it seems to be restricted in this black hole, and it cannot completely escape the control of the black hole no matter what.
The head of this maggot-like thing is not round, but very sharp, and a huge mouth is opened at the tip, which is full of curled sharp teeth. The sides of the half of its body that poked out of the black hole were covered with long, sharp limbs that looked like arthropods.
These limbs are twitching and struggling crazily, but it can't change the current situation of this thing being trapped in the black hole, it can only make it look more frantic.
Judging from these characteristics, it does not seem to be a substantial creature, but the embodiment of existences from other dimensions entering the normal universe.
Because its curly teeth have no ability to chew and tear apart prey, and have no meaning in its existence, it seems to be the embodiment of pure malice.
And its lack of eyes does not prevent it from observing the universe and launching attacks on anything close to this galaxy.
And its actions are obviously to leave the world behind the black hole and truly enter the normal universe.
It's like...the scarlet dimension.
"I didn't expect that guess to be true."
Chen Ming muttered to himself.
His meaning is also very clear, referring to the issue that the Empire has been discussing in the academic field of astronomy about whether there is really a brand new dimension behind the black hole.
A long time ago.
With the development of hyperspace technology, wormholes, and stargate technologies, the Empire has always discussed what kind of things exist behind black holes.
The most discussed thing is, of course, a whole new dimension.
With the mastery of super-light speed technology, the Empire's investigation of black holes has been advancing.
But the exploration of the world behind black holes has been stagnant.
There are many reasons for this.
Hyperspace technology cannot be applied to the investigation of black holes, and the dimensional infection caused by the scarlet dimension makes it difficult not to wonder whether there are equally bad problems in the black hole dimension.
Moreover, the huge gravitational force possessed by a massive celestial body such as a black hole has an immeasurable impact on ships.
Any experiments so far that have explored the world behind black holes have ended in failure.
Exploring the dimensions behind black holes is fraught with difficulties.
But that guess has never changed, that is, there is a high probability that there is a dimension or plane similar to hyperspace behind the black hole.
Of course, from now on, the existing dimensions will definitely be more similar to the phase space and the scarlet dimension.
Whatever it looks like, the dimension behind a black hole is very far away from the normal universe, and traveling through a black hole is far more difficult than traveling to any known discovered dimension.
The dimension behind the black hole is not like the phase space and the scarlet dimension, which have long been in contact with the normal universe.
What's more, Chen Ming has now personally seen the scene where the big black maggot failed to cross the black hole.
However, although it is stuck on the black hole, it does not seem to affect its ability to exert influence on the normal universe by relying on the part that has been drilled out.
It can already use that powerful force near a black hole to easily destroy cruisers.
Even judging from the situation of Chen Ming's Stardust-class ship being crushed into a high-density metal ball by the spiritual force.
Even the strength of the battleship's armor and hull may be difficult to withstand frontal damage from it.
The shield may have some hindrance effect, but unless you really try it, no one can say whether it can be blocked.
But he can test this issue now.
After the Stardust class jumped and dodged according to Chen Ming's order, it avoided getting the deep purple beam, entered the black hole's horizon, and captured the appearance of the monster through the sensor.
The monster suddenly seemed to be going crazy, waving its limbs even more crazily.
At the same time, the crack filled with curved fangs also opened to almost 180 degrees in the direction of the stardust level.
A purple-black ball of light was gradually forming in the center of the crack.
And when the energy of the light ball was condensed to the extreme, the purple-black energy beam burst out and once again shot towards the stardust that entered the horizon.
Chen Ming immediately made the Stardust class perform a short-distance jump again, and once again dodged the gravity energy beam shot by the monster.
But the energy beam did not dissipate directly. Instead, it continued to follow Stardust under the swing of the monster's head.
This second Stardust will be destroyed again soon.
However, Chen Ming's spiritual power was suddenly activated at this moment.
With the help of the scarlet power, the Stardust class was forcibly moved several kilometers, and once again dodged the beam.
At the same time, the short-distance charging of the stardust jump engine was completed, and the monster shook its maggot-like head and threw the purple-black beam over again.
Stardust jumped away again.
And this time the jump allowed Stardust to successfully get close to the core of the black hole, close to the monster's frantically waving limbs.
Countless meteor fighters were released by the stardust and flew into the abyss like countless red meteors.
In the blink of an eye, all these meteors were extinguished.
The Meteor fighter plane was too small and its armor was too weak. The moment it got close enough to the black hole, it was destroyed by a gravitational force on the dark monster that was stronger than the black hole next to it.
And the superposition of the two gravitational forces is still destroying the Stardust-class ship structure.
But Chen Ming had no intention of retreating.
Just to prevent this Stardust class from following in the footsteps of the previous Stardust class, he chose to increase his investment in Stardust's repair psychic energy, constantly supporting Stardust to continue getting closer to the black hole and the things stuck in the black hole. monster.
He wanted to see what this guy was, whether it was a spirit or some kind of powerful creature.
Stardust moved between the flailing limbs.
The only tachyon spear carried on the ship is also trying to launch an attack.
However, those once raging particle torrents lost their former vigor when facing this monster.
The gravity spirit around this monster that can disintegrate everything causes the particles emitted by the tachyon spear to be dispersed.
His cruiser didn't seem to be able to do any effective damage to the monster.
Think about it too.
Scavenger Chen Ming estimated that his combat power could face about a hundred battleships at the same time.
And the combat power of the psychic monster that traveled through the black hole in front of him is definitely not bad.
Just being a cruiser and doing real damage to it is a bit much.
However, Chen Ming's purpose was not to cause harm to it.
His purpose has always been to use the current opportunity to investigate more information about this dark monster.
The dark monster seemed to have discovered that the spacecraft controlled by Chen Ming had extremely exaggerated flexibility, and no longer tried to use it. It turned to lower its head, probably the thing on its head, and opened the blood basin of terrifying size. Big mouth, wanting to eat the Stardust level directly.
Stardust immediately moved towards the lower abdomen of the dark monster, the part where it was stuck in the black hole.
The data in this place may have some special value.
But suddenly, Chen Ming discovered that there seemed to be something wrong in the data transmitted back by the black hole sensor.
He immediately changed the Stardust's original course and took some risks to approach the place where the sensor found something was wrong.
As the distance shortened, the black hole sensor finally captured a clearer piece of data.
What made Chen Ming feel that something was wrong was a limb on the black maggot monster that was hanging down on the side of its body, as if it was dead.
What penetrated into the root of this limb was the wreckage of a spaceship that Chen Ming had never seen before.
Being so close to the black hole, Chen Ming's stardust was on the verge of disintegrating itself, and it was only through the constant maintenance of Chen Ming's psychic energy that it managed to survive.
And this spaceship that penetrated the body of the dark monster did not suffer any damage from being torn apart by gravity.
Some simply show signs of damage over time.
This situation made Chen Ming only think of one possibility.
This is what is left over from the shining civilization.
The Shining Civilization originally planned to develop the Origin Galaxy, and of course the wormhole in the Origin Galaxy would be part of the development. The existence of this wormhole was even the reason why the Shining Civilization developed this place.
Then of course there will be spaceships belonging to the shining civilization that will come here, pass through the wormhole, and conflict with the monsters in the black hole for some unclear reasons.
Finally left here.
Chen Ming suddenly felt hot in his eyes.
Because the design model of that spaceship was something that Chen Ming had never understood after studying ship technology for so long.
He has never heard of any spacecraft that can withstand the gravitational pull of a black hole for 30,000 years and survive.
There must be technology far beyond his level on that spaceship, waiting for him to acquire it.
And at the same time Chen Ming discovered the spacecraft.
Because Chen Ming forcibly changed the direction of travel midway, the Stardust class was caught in the gap in the movement route by the pitch-black monster.
Just for a moment.
Stardust was torn in half by the dark monster.
Chen Ming's eyeliner within the black hole's horizon was also cut off.
The Stardust class was destroyed, but Chen Ming had also obtained enough valuable information.
He already had enough reasons to kill this monster, but now he had another one.
He must find a way to obtain the spaceship that is suspected of shining civilization.
Chen Ming was completely determined to change his plan.
Originally, the black hole was there, and its threat was not timely, so he did not want to deal with the trouble of the black hole at first.
But if there is such an unknown thing in the black hole, even if it is a living thing, it must be questioned whether it is a living thing, it must first get rid of this disgusting-looking thing.
(End of chapter)