Chapter 387 Negative Matter
Chen Ming and the Ministry of Climate Change borrowed dozens of equipment for monitoring the status of stars around stars.
They are installed evenly around the stars in the three star systems where Leviathan exists, ensuring that the monitoring of these devices will not miss any corner of the star.
As long as the Leviathan hiding inside makes any move to reveal itself, these devices will immediately transmit the news to his mind.
The radiation level in the galaxy keeps getting lower every day, and the threat of the three-color Leviathan hovers over his head every day.
He must make early warning and take measures to respond at any time.
It's a pity that he really can't do anything with those three Leviathans for the time being.
We can only hope that the project team studying Astrophage will make faster progress.
Completely understand the structure of Astrophage as soon as possible and reproduce it.
As long as this technology comes out, it will no longer be impossible for Chen Ming to directly enter the interior of the star. The Leviathan hidden inside the star must die.
So Chen Ming was wondering whether it was necessary for him to go to the Star Eater project team to urge him.
After all, if he wants to deal with Leviathan hiding in the star in advance now, the key lies in the projects of Astrophag.
But after thinking about it, Chen Ming felt that he should forget it.
The project team is currently on a space station in close orbit to the stars of the Gaia galaxy.
Chen Ming had never been there before when he was wandering around, but he knew that there were thousands of people working on different sophisticated projects under the Astrophage project team on that space station, and they also worked part-time to provide real-time stellar data to the Climate Modification Department.
He made a special trip to speed up the progress. He didn't know how many people would be busy.
And more importantly, he doesn't have any targeted weapons.
Chen Ming prefers not to do it himself unless there is direct danger.
He was worried that Leviathan might directly go to the Gaia galaxy to cause trouble, so he wanted to solve it himself.
But since Leviathan chose to hide for some reason, it might as well wait and see.
Let's see if Leviathan will make any moves in the near future, and see if he can take advantage of these few days to get some new weapons and equipment adapted to the jellyfish-shaped Leviathan.
After waiting for the same three hours as before, it was confirmed that the three Leviathans had no intention of coming out of the star.
Chen Ming quickly summarized what just happened.
Then the news of the emergence of the new Leviathan was spread back to the empire.
To be honest, besides worrying that Leviathan might cause unexpected losses to him, Chen Ming was actually quite looking forward to what kind of benefits Leviathan's body could bring him.
He had encountered a total of three Leviathan before.
Scavenger Robot, Planar Nightmare, Planet Eater, or Star Eater according to the Remnants, are all pretty much the same.
The scavenger robot gave him a broken nano-forge, a nano-robot self-optimization program, and a behemoth with a combat power of at least Leviathan level.
Although the nano-forge was not dismantled by Chen Ming, it can still play its due role.
Chen Ming's industrial buildings on the non-habitable planets in the Origin System and Gaia System all relied on it.
The self-optimization program is still on the research list as before.
As for the scavenger's own combat effectiveness, Chen Ming didn't expect much.
The things pulled from the plane nightmare were more in line with Chen Ming's own needs.
He learned new space abilities from the Plane Nightmare, including two different methods of maintaining space stability and forcibly tearing apart space.
And he also got half of the corpse of the Nightmare of the Planes that can be used to research other technologies.
For example, the psychic shield technology that he is most concerned about has already achieved practical theoretical results.
It may take time to technically create a psychic shield generator, but from the perspective of a psyker, replicating a psychic shield is not difficult.
Chen Ming has now mastered the psychic shield technology that he can use personally, which is one of the sources that gives him the confidence to challenge Leviathan alone.
Astrophage was the last Leviathan that Chen Ming solved, and its technology was slightly less developed.
But just seeing that the existence of Astrophagous Liquid can create Dyson spheres and provide an extra layer of protection for the Zerg fleet is already very good.
If he didn't return the stellar material in the egg sheath, he might still be able to use more "star-devouring" methods.
Plus those projects that are still ongoing...
Chen Minggang planned to think about what kind of things those three jellyfish-shaped Leviathans might bring to him after being dealt with.
The person in charge of Fanchao took the initiative to contact him and said, "Mr. Chen Ming, our researcher has just read the information you sent."
"So?"
"So in their opinion, the jellyfish-type Leviathan may be some kind of electromagnetic or radiation life form, so the arc weapons carried by the Zerg fleet will be ineffective."
"Judging from the information you sent back, only live ammunition caused real damage."
"Live ammunition weapons may be the best choice to deal with such a life form, but I am afraid that there are currently no live ammunition weapons to deal with such a size of Leviathan."
"On the contrary, one of the project teams we are working on with you about Plane Nightmare may have some effect."
Chen Ming immediately recalled the subdivided projects on the Nightmare Space Station and asked: "Psychic gravity weapons?"
The person in charge of Fan Chao said: "Yes, our researchers analyzed from your video and believe that large-volume and high-mass physical attacks may be effective."
"Psychic gravity weapons can also give live ammunition additional gravity, which is a very obvious improvement to live ammunition weapons."
"With the high-precision video you brought back, we can use the data in the video to conduct simulations to confirm whether those weapons can really cause damage to Leviathan."
"I have no objection."
After Chen Ming agreed to Fan Chao's cooperation invitation.
He stayed in Fanchao's research institute for five days in a row.
I have to admit that the research environment here at the Fanchao Research Institute is indeed much better than that there.
After all, it is also a research institute directly under the empire, and it has been operated for who knows how many years. It does not have a more academic atmosphere than Chen Ming's scientific research center, which has only been open for half a month.
But Chen Ming has nothing to be discouraged. He always believes that he can build his colony.
However, something happened during the collaborative research process that surprised both Chen Ming and Fan Chao.
On the first day of cooperation.
Chen Ming spent some time with a research team from Fan Chao to conduct an in-depth analysis of the videos and various data he brought back.
Combined with Chen Ming's own direct perception of fighting Leviathan, he combined the judgment and came to a conclusion.
That is, although this Leviathan does have an entity, its entity is more similar to the nightmare of the plane, an entity transformed from other levels of existence.
It sounds a bit abstract.
But if you think about it carefully, you will find that this conclusion is most likely correct.
The reason lies in the earliest appearance of the Leviathan recorded by Chen Ming.
The birthplace of the blue jellyfish Leviathan is a pulsar.
Pulsars are a type of neutron star, with a terrifying density close to that of a black hole.
How could a Leviathan born on such a planet be harmed by ordinary live ammunition? Why should live ammunition cause harm to a Leviathan that was born from a neutron star with a density close to that of a black hole?
But the fact is that the live ammunition fired by Chen Ming's Zerg fleet really caused some visible damage to the body of the blue jellyfish Leviathan.
Although the damage healed quickly, it was obvious that its body density and strength were not that high.
Is this reasonable?
This is completely unreasonable.
It's just that both Chen Ming and the top researchers at Fanchao Research Institute subconsciously ignored this point before.
After all, Leviathan like Plane Nightmare can cause damage with live ammunition, so no one thinks there is anything wrong with live ammunition weapons hurting this Leviathan.
But the situation of the Plane Nightmare is very special. It is the product of the existence of the black hole dimension that materialized after entering the normal universe. It is not a black hole itself.
Even if its body can be transformed into black hole matter, it is actually only related to the black hole dimension and does not have the density of a black hole.
Therefore, the difference in existence between the Plane Nightmare and the new Jellyfish Leviathan may only be that one is from another dimension and the other is something in an existing dimension.
So after synthesizing this information, both Chen Ming and Fan Chao believed that the entity of Leviathan was not important.
That's just its physical form.
It may actually be some kind of electromagnetic or radiation or optical type of creature.
After all, two similar species with different colors were born behind it. At present, the only difference between them is the color of light, that is, the difference in frequency of light.
If you want to harm it in a real sense, you cannot start from its entity, but from its essence.
So the next day, Chen Ming and Fan Chao's people worked together to completely overturn the research direction they had set at the beginning, and changed the direction of what kind of weapons were suitable for attacking Leviathan.
After a few days, I already have a general direction.
It starts from three aspects: interrupting the electromagnetic frequency band, absorbing the radiation band and forcibly changing the frequency of light.
Fan Chao originally wanted to say that large-scale energy hedging might be effective, but judging from Chen Ming's subsequent actual results of thousands of battleships self-destructing for free, this approach did not seem to work.
It may be that there is some kind of special protection method or simply some special properties that allow Leviathan to ignore the damage caused by self-destruction.
We still have to use several newly speculated methods to target Leviathan.
Although this makes previous research basically worthless, the value of research that is meaningless itself is gone.
At most, Chen Ming would have to spend a few more days on research.
Fortunately, there has been no movement from Jellyfish Leviathan in the past few days. Otherwise, Chen Ming would not have developed the targeted technology yet, so he would have to play in person.
Chen Ming, who was in Fanchao, still planned to continue working on targeted weapons.
Some of Fanchao's researchers are not psychic and need sleep.
But he can go for quite some time without taking a break when the need arises.
After all, he is not physically tired, only his spirit is really tired.
As long as you can bear it mentally, it won't be a problem to be sober until the end of the world.
But just before Chen Ming did this.
He suddenly received news from the Afterglow Core, which was responsible for controlling the Plane Nightmare space station.
There was an application from a research group that needed to be submitted to him for his personal approval.
Sent with their application was an abbreviated version of their research report.
After seeing the contents of the research report, Chen Ming had already noticed that it was the application of the group that had applied for research facilities with him a few days ago.
And judging from the content of their research reports. They conducted several batches of experiments on the space station with the help of previously applied equipment.
Finally, they successfully analyzed a special substance that existed objectively in the corpse of the Plane Nightmare but had not been discovered until now. The team called it negative matter.
Judging from the report, this research team believes that negative matter can be regarded as a special kind of antimatter.
But it will not be annihilated when it comes into contact with normal matter, but will merge.
The nature of the things being fused will change. There will be no structural changes, but the whole will become tougher. It is the same as almost everything, and it is very valuable for research.
Chen Ming immediately found this thing very interesting. It happened that most of the members of the research team he was working with had gone to rest, and only a few who worked the night shift were still processing the data that should have been left during the day.
Chen Ming can go there in person if he has time.
Anyway, no results have come out here yet, and it won’t take long to go to the space station.
After Chen Ming greeted the people, he directly used his spiritual energy to arrive at the Nightmare Space Station.
I went to the newly expanded area of the space station and found the research team working in the laboratory separated in this area.
The team that had been notified of Chen Ming's arrival were already waiting at the entrance of the laboratory.
After Chen Ming said there was no need to be so solemn, the team leader asked the team members to do their own thing, while he took Chen Ming to their usual place of work and showed the results of their research.
Some materials fused with negative matter stored in the vacuum isolation layer include a piece of pure iron with a mass of one kilogram, soil of the same mass, other materials of the same mass, etc.
and a control group with identical materials that was also stored in a vacuum isolation layer.
Through the data left on the console next to it, Chen Ming could easily see that the properties of the materials in the experimental group and the same materials in the control group had changed in quality. Although it was extremely subtle, there were indeed changes.
And next to the console is a detection device that the team built with the help of Afterglow that can be used to detect negative matter.
The object of detection is the entire space station.
Judging from the results displayed by the equipment, the entire space station has been completely saturated with negative matter.
But Chen Ming was unable to specifically perceive this substance. No matter how much he tried with his own perception, he could not perceive the existence of this negative substance.
And if it's just data on paper, it can't explain anything.
So Chen Ming turned to the team leader and asked, "How did you find out?"
The team leader shook his head and said: "We didn't discover it, it was this substance that took the initiative to find us."
"We just applied for a batch of materials a few days ago, and found that the materials changed within a few days after being transported from other places."
"We originally thought it was a material problem, but we applied for a new batch of applications and the results were still the same except for the problem."
"Then there is the third batch of materials. This time we asked the cargo spacecraft to wait outside the space station. We went up to test it in person and there was no problem before sending it... No, we asked Yuhui to send the things up, but..."
"So we wonder if the Plane Nightmare may have an unobservable substance similar to antimatter."
"Then we borrowed some equipment from other groups and tested it more, and the results confirmed that this substance does exist."
Chen Ming lowered his head and looked at the floor of the space station under his feet, stimulating his spiritual energy and personally feeling the quality of the materials that made up the structure of the space station.
It turned out that, as the team leader said, the physical strength of all materials existing on the space station had changed.
This kind of negative matter really exists, and it has been integrated into the entire space station.
Even though he cannot directly feel this negative substance, this substance does exist.
Chen Ming's eyes suddenly turned to look at the control group in the vacuum isolation layer next to him.
"Negative matter cannot propagate in a vacuum, right?"
"Yes, that's why we put these things here for comparison."
"Okay."
Chen Ming was slightly relieved.
Because so far, the Nightmare Space Station has only transported things from the outside in, and has never taken things out.
Therefore, the negative matter contained in the Plane Nightmare should only be found on this space station.
At most, there may be some left on the shining civilization spaceship that Chen Ming pulled out of the Plane Nightmare.
However, the spaceship Chen Ming did not fly everywhere, and it was also left on the Nightmare Space Station as a research object.
"So your application..."
The team leader immediately said: "We hope to reach the ground and conduct larger-scale experiments."
"You see, since the space station has been fully integrated with this negative material for so long, but nothing has happened, so we think we can temporarily treat this material as not very dangerous."
"We want to conduct larger-scale experiments, and based on the conclusions drawn from the experiments, we can conduct stable detection and follow-up research on negative substances."
Chen Ming confirmed: "Are you sure it is safe?"
"Yes, look at our experiment log."
The team leader clicked a few times on the console next to him and released a densely written log with hundreds of pages.
The contents are all the results of various fusion experiments.
It was obvious that none of the experiments had problems.
It can only be said that Chen Ming created a large amount of remaining space when he expanded the space station, and because this group was the first to apply, Chen Ming deliberately gave them too much space.
As a result, this group has ample experimental space, and almost all places are used by them.
And it seems from these experimental logs.
This group also has some more detailed results that are not written down in a simple research report.
For example, they judged that negative matter is most likely a medium in the black hole dimension, similar to the medium in phase space that blocks the dissipation of radiant energy.
Human beings are currently unable to explore the dimensions of black holes, but they can indirectly explore the dimensions of black holes through negative matter and study black holes indirectly.
And after matter is fused with negative matter, in addition to changes in physical properties.
These substances also exhibit a unique stability in the spatial dimension.
A kind of stability that is more difficult to be affected by jump fluctuations, like being stabilized in place by some force.
They also found out through research that negative matter has no direct effect on living beings.
They can only fuse dead objects, and currently there seems to be no disadvantages, only benefits.
Such valuable negative matter forced Chen Ming to consider setting up an experimental site on the planet.
But the relationship between the negative matter and the black hole dimension studied by this group is still a bit too dangerous.
It was unlikely that Chen Ming would directly arrange them into the No. 1 scientific research center area.
But Chen Ming also immediately thought of an alternative.
He could place the group on a satellite of Gaia.
Gaia's satellite is also a habitable planet, and Chen Ming has not yet thought of any use for it.
Since there is demand, why not just create a new experimental site specifically for this group to test.
Chen Ming has no shortage of resources and has no problem setting up a separate testing ground.
So Chen Ming agreed.
But he also gave very strict conditions.
That is to say, the entire security transportation process of experimental materials is handed over to the Afterglow Center. The entire experiment also needs to be carried out under supervision. It is forbidden to take out the Nightmare of the Plane Substances and other things that may lead to a larger-than-expected leakage of negative substances. Situation statements are restricted.
And Chen Ming also said that it would maintain close surveillance of the team, both for the safety of the experiment and their safety.
The team leader had no objection.
So Chen Ming turned around and left the space station, and began to prepare to study the environment of negative matter.
The team leader quickly summoned about twenty team members and said, "Director Chen agreed, and we can proceed with the next step of research."
After a small burst of cheers, the team leader explained: "Take safety measures and don't let those substances leak out for no reason."
The team members agreed without hesitation.
Although the negative matter produced by the body of the Plane Nightmare in their research is not dangerous, but is very stable.
But no one knows whether there will be other impacts later, so this is the safest way.
"Pack it up, we will go to the ground tomorrow."
The next day came in a blink of an eye.
The team leader and team members have arrived on the surface of the Gaia satellite.
Here Chen Ming specially prepared a complete and safe experimental place for them, a double-layered dome.
This is the building that Chen Ming often stayed in before, and it has very good isolation between the inside and outside.
This double layer is Chen Ming's transformation of creating a vacuum between the two layers of domes.
After all, it seems that vacuum is a very effective means of isolating negative matter. Otherwise, the plane nightmare in the black hole would have spread negative matter throughout the universe.
The team leader was currently standing on a hill near the dome observing the dome environment.
At the same time, he was also watching an extremely heavy spacecraft slowly descend to the ground.
And under the protection of a large number of mechanical bodies, a fragment of the corpse of the Nightmare of the Plane stored in the vacuum isolation chamber was transported into the laboratory in the dome.
"What are you looking at?"
A team member's voice suddenly sounded behind the team leader.
The team leader responded without looking back: "I'm looking at where the safety measures may not have been done well. If the negative material leaks out, we will be doomed even if nothing happens."
"If a problem is found, I plan to apply for additional reinforcement from the above."
The team member said indifferently: "Team leader, you are really too worried. I have never seen you like this on the space station."
"With such a big corpse placed there, I don't know how much negative matter is usually emitted. If something happened, it would have happened a long time ago. How can we wait until we are on the planet?"
The team leader's eyes suddenly became a little confused, but soon returned to normal.
"Indeed, but safety measures must be taken, and it is best to be more strict."
The team member shrugged: "As long as you like it."
It shouldn't hurt to have a safe layout.
(End of chapter)