Chapter 1228 Light Years Away

The starship on which the Kraken came to this planet...

Hearing the last half of Tyre's muttering, Gawain immediately thought of the interstellar ship that is still stranded in the depths of the endless sea and whose scale is said to be a circle larger than the capital of Gondor back then. Spaceship, in all fairness, even if an advanced cyberpunk civilization like Tarrond has emerged on this planet, the spaceship on which the Krakens are riding is still the style of painting on this planet in Gao Wen's mind. The most outrageous thing—a spaceship! That is a spaceship capable of interstellar colonization!

It's a shame that when I first crawled out of the grave, I thought this was a world of swords and magic...

Gawain shook his head to get those irrelevant associations out of his mind, and at the same time looked at the sea caterpillar lazily resting its upper body on the bench with its tail stretching out for several meters with somewhat curious eyes: "You guys How far has the spaceship been repaired now? I remember you told me not long ago that your engineers have made unprecedented progress in the power core or what core..."

"It's the core fusion tower, which is used to draw energy from the negative space tide and power the jump engine. After it crash-landed on this planet, that thing shut down, and the deep-water technicians tried their best. It can re-ignite its first-level drive furnace," Tire said with a very understanding face, shaking the tip of his tail, "Now we have finally figured out what magic power is, and we have also calculated the core fusion tower during the activation process. The magnitude of the 'deviation' encountered."

Speaking of this, she paused, as if she was seriously thinking about how to explain it next, and then she spoke again: "It is said that the deep-water technicians have given up their plan to restore it as it is - the environment of this world is really similar to our hometown. There are too many deviations, and the key structure of the core fusion tower cannot adapt to the new environment at all, so they decided to directly remove the core area of ​​the core fusion tower, replace the driving part with a rainbow focusing matrix, and then use the force outside the fusion tower to Field coils and phase-change shunts to redistribute the energy flow, in fact they've tried that, swapped out a few... it seems to work fine."

"Rainbow...you just stuffed that thing into the power furnace of the spaceship?!" Gawain was stunned, but he knew that the Kraken was trying to find a way to repair the energy module of the spaceship from Cecil's rainbow light generator. Inspiration, but he didn't expect that group of daring deep-sea salted fish to stuff the rainbow light device directly into the power furnace, and it sounds like they stuffed more than one or two - they stuffed a matrix into it!

That thing is usually a giant cannon used to attack cities! The output power is scary! Those minnows are burning nuclear warheads in the boiler?

Tire was baffled by Gawain's reaction, she looked up lazily, her voice seemed to fall asleep at any moment: "What's the fuss, our deep-water technicians have always had a very open mind—of course, the problem is still There are some, mainly because the energy power output by the Hongguang device is still not enough. Even if the technicians over there try to increase the power density of the focusing matrix, it is only enough to allow the fusion tower to barely operate at the lowest power.

Normally, Antaveen still relies on burning squid as its main energy source...but this is already an incredible improvement for us who have been stagnant for many years. "

Hearing Tire's nonchalant chants, Gawain's originally astonished expression finally gradually turned numb. He looked at the sea caterpillar lying on the bench expressionlessly, and said in his heart that this is really worthy of the Star Wars. Civilization—except that the brains are generally filled with water, this race can only be looked up to on this planet...

Tire didn't know what was going on in Gawain's head, she just yawned, recalled the content of the recent contact with her hometown, and then continued with uncertainty: "By the way, our restoration project over there There is another result recently...you may be interested."

"What am I interested in?" Gao Wen was a little surprised, "What is it?"

"Antaveen's FTL communication array," Till stretched his waist long and long, and seriously coiled himself up next to the chair, "that's the antenna system."

"The superluminal communication array..." Gawain blinked, and finally recalled, "I remember you mentioned it to me... Wait, you guys have already fixed that thing?!"

"It can't be repaired, the resonant crystal of the sending unit is too damaged, and we haven't found a suitable replacement yet, but we have found a way to repair part of its receiving module," Till said, with a sudden emotion in his expression, " We were unable to receive contact information from the other colony ships, but we received signals of the kind you received in the listening post...and managed to pinpoint them."

The news came so suddenly that Gao Wen didn't react for a while. He blinked his eyes a few times before the corresponding information appeared in his mind: He knew about the Kraken's attempt to repair the spacecraft's antenna array. And he also knew that Antaveen was not the only immigrant spaceship launched by the Kraken when they fled from their hometown - it is said that several other spaceships set sail from their home planet, but now they are all lost in the depths of the vast sea of ​​stars.

Although so many years have passed, Tyr's compatriots still seem to believe that their compatriots on other spacecraft are still alive. They hope to repair the communication system of the spacecraft to reconnect with those compatriots who have lost contact millions of years ago. .

On the other hand, he knew better what the "signal" Tire was talking about was the mysterious information from the vast universe that the Thorin hub, the northern hub, and the ancestors' peak hub had all listened to before. With basic mathematical knowledge and language that no one can understand, it seems that he is showing his existence and greetings to other civilizations, and he has confirmed from the Dragon God that those signals come from intelligent creatures on other planets. Due to technical limitations, even Cecil's most advanced magic net hub can only occasionally receive those signals unilaterally, but cannot lock its specific source of emission, nor can it crack the technology used by the other party to transmit signals.

As for the deciphering of those mysterious "alien texts"... Cecil and the Typhon Empire organized a large team of cryptographers and text experts a long time ago, and even delegated the deciphering work to the public for brainstorming. A long time has passed, and there is still little progress in all the work.

He didn't expect that the sudden breaking point would come from those sea monsters who had a close relationship with the alliance.

"The direction of the source of those signals is not far from what you originally speculated." Till saw the change in Gawain's expression, and she didn't give a shit. "It is indeed from the direction of the Frost Sky Constellation. At the bottom of the Frost Sky Constellation, there is a dim star—— There may be some other small celestial bodies, but our observation equipment is damaged, so we can’t confirm it for the time being. After the precise tracking of the Antavien orbiter, the signal came from the vicinity of that star.”

"Does that star have a name?" Gawain asked subconsciously.

"We call it SK-32-A, but in your human world, magicians and astrologers seem to have given it a nice name, 'Green Star'," Tyr shrugged and said, "To confirm This is not easy. I searched through your messy and inaccurate astronomical charts for a long time, and compared them with the astronomers in Antaveen several times before I dared to confirm that our SK-32-A is the same as yours. The 'Cang Xing' in the mouth is a..."

Gawain interrupted immediately before she finished speaking: "From tomorrow, the salt in your pool will be replaced with refined sea salt."

"Okay!" Tyre nodded instantly, and then went on to get down to business, "Then go back to 'Cang Xing' - we measured the distance between it and the planet under our feet, which is about 6.12 light-years, it There should be at least one massive gaseous planet and two solid planets orbiting it, but we have not yet been able to confirm which of the planets the signal is from...

"In addition, our antenna system has tracked the signal for a long time, and confirmed that the signal is continuously sent in a cycle of about 3.35 days. Each time the signal appears and disappears, it will last for 16 hours. This cycle is still uncertain. Is it intentional by the sender or is it affected by the cosmic environment along the way..."

Gawain's expression was unprecedentedly serious, he took every word Tire said seriously in his heart, and softly repeated the special name: "...Cang Xing..."

Tire glanced at Gawain, seemingly hesitant. After thinking for a few seconds, she continued, "There is one last thing..."

"Speak." Gao Wen said immediately, the urgency in his tone even surprised him.

"...Most human beings probably still can't understand what this means, but as far as I know, you should be able to understand what I'm trying to say," Tire shook the tip of his tail slightly, his expression becoming very solemn, "After the analysis of the communication array, we found one thing—the signal... is traveling at super-light speed."

Gawain frowned instantly: Tyre's words were brief, but the amount of information revealed in them was extraordinary.

"Superluminal speed..." He couldn't help muttering softly, "That is to say..."

"Although it is 6.12 light-years away, those signals are not 'outdated information' sent six years ago. What we receive is an instant message from the blue star, and this information transmission technology is very sophisticated—it It can be captured by our FTL communication array, or it can enter a conventional antenna system like the magic web hub, which shows that it is designed to deliver information to as many 'targets' as possible at the beginning of modulation," Tyre said with a nod. "And if we have peer-to-peer signaling technology, we can even realize real-time communication with 'Cang Xing' now... across a distance of 6.12 light-years, and establish communication with intelligent creatures on another planet."

Gao Wen was being shocked by this sudden news, and subconsciously asked after hearing this: "Your FTL communication array can't..."

"No," Tyr shook his head. "As I said just now, we only repaired the receiving module of the array, and only a part of it. The resonant crystal of the entire system is broken, and we haven't found a replacement yet."

Gao Wen realized that he was a little too excited, and immediately forced himself to regain his composure, and said softly thoughtfully: "Anyway, 'Cang Xing' is obviously a more advanced civilization than ours..."

"They at least have advanced communication technology than ours—of course, it won't be so after the Antaveen is repaired," Till said, and then frowned, with a confused expression on his face, "but said When it comes to 'communication technology'... I have a sister who works in the communication technology group and mentioned a suspicious place to me last time."

Gao Wen frowned: "Suspicious place?"

"Compared to the cutting-edge transmission technology like 'super-light communication', the coding method and modulation format of the signal sent by the Cangxing are too simple and outdated," Till said slowly——she seldom talks to the people here. Speaking of this aspect of knowledge, because most of the knowledge she knows is too difficult for human beings to understand, but she knows that this incredible "human being" in front of her can understand what she is saying, "in the same channel Under the width, they could have packed more effective information and clearer graphic content, but they chose the most primitive and inefficient 'coding list'...

"Can you understand the contradiction? To use an analogy that you land people can understand, it's as if they have an extremely sophisticated and advanced magic device from the Gondor Empire that can still be used today, but they Attached a stick to the device and used it to smash walnuts—although the ultimate goal was achieved, but the process..."

Tire spread his hands, and Gawain quickly understood the meaning of her words. He thought of the information he had listened to before at the Sorin Junction. At that time, he didn't think it was a big deal. Transmitted at super-light speed, the sense of disobedience behind the whole incident really came to my mind instantly.

It's like in the age of fiber optics, two people using the most advanced computers and the highest speed fiber optic network... sending telegrams to each other.

"Perhaps this is just to make it easier for 'low-level civilizations' like us to decipher the content of the signals they send." After thinking for a while, Gao Wen thought of a possibility, "A more complex encoding method may be more efficient. High, but obviously it will be more difficult to crack..."

"We have also thought about this possibility, but there is a problem," Till shook his head, "If it is to take care of the 'low-level receivers', then they can send multiple sets of different codes at the same time, with different levels Compilation technology--in this way, no matter what level the 'receiver' is, they will have the opportunity to receive and decipher those signals. If 'Cang Xing' is really an advanced civilization that has mastered superluminal communication, this kind of thing It's absolutely a no-brainer for them."

Gawain's heart has completely calmed down, and his mind is running fast. These questions raised by Tire are obviously worthy of his further thinking: "Perhaps...their signals are only for sending 'low-level civilizations'? Maybe' The senders of Cangxing don't care about the efficiency of information transmission at all, they only need to send those basic "greetings" to the entire star area, and the most primitive and crude coding method can ensure that these information are sent reliably to every star region. In the hands of a civilization capable of 'listening to space'..."

"This is also a possibility," Tyre nodded, "but what's the point of doing this?"

"...I don't know," Gawain hesitated for a moment, then nodded slightly, "In the final analysis, we still know too little about that distant 'sender'."

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