Chapter 544 Mysterious Star

Lily and Vivian stared at the data terminal. The latter was completely unmoved, with a look like "I have the guts to bite me anyway." Hao Ren, on the other hand, never really believed that a husky and a bat could do any scientific research together. He knocked on the table to ask Lily to stop grinding his teeth, and casually took the pentagonal crystal plate in his hand: "Did you find any clues?"

The data terminal activated its own holographic projection: "It's similar to a diary. It was left by a staff member of the observatory. It has been translated by this machine. You can read it yourself."

Hao Ren stared at the diary records on the holographic projection and found that they were diary-like records that recorded work content throughout. The first part was filled with uninteresting information about equipment maintenance, weather, and zodiac signs, but then a concerning event suddenly came up:

"...On the night of the ninth day, it was clear and cloudless, and the atmosphere was extremely stable. An incredible phenomenon was observed in the night sky. The first star of Arcana erupted with a burst of bright light. The outline of the star once expanded to the same size as the sun, and the red bright light It lit up a quarter of the sky. The equipment recorded this magical phenomenon. The instructor speculated that this was a supernova explosion. He believed that this could prove that Arcana Prime was indeed an old star: despite its Various parameters are very different from ordinary stars... It is a pity that everyone could not measure the data of this ancient star before the explosion of Arcana, but we should also be grateful for this explosion. Perhaps we can learn from its spectrum Analyze the composition of this star..."

This log was marked with a special color on the data terminal. Hao Ren asked: "Do you think this 'Arkana Supernova Explosion' is related to the disaster of Tanagus' eldest son?"

"Remember the database you found from Alamanda, which stores all the information about the Tana people. According to the records in the data, the first time the tentacles of the eldest son appeared on the planet was the third day after the supernova explosion. Three days," the data terminal turned off the holographic projection, "In any case, this Arcana supernova explosion is the last large-scale anomaly before the Firstborn Disaster. Regardless of whether there is a real connection between the supernova explosion and the Firstborn, we should pay attention to this. Astronomical Event.”

Hao Ren became serious, sat next to Lily and thought for a moment, then suddenly asked: "Is the database I handed in now connected to the Imperial Data Network?"

"It has been connected for a long time, and the overall translation and backup have been completed. It is currently connected to the third sample library. You can use your censor authority to activate any museum of relics of extinct civilizations, but you can only access the relics of extinct civilizations under your own name. relics of an extinct civilization,”

"Connect to the Tanagus civilization database and retrieve information about Akana...well, as well as all astronomical events on the eve of the Firstborn Catastrophe."

The supernova record in the memory reminded Hao Ren, reminding him that both the eldest son and the goddess of creation actually came from the starry sky - if the world-destroying event that year was really a harbinger, this harbinger would most likely be reflected in someone else's world. an astronomical phenomenon. He should pay attention to this information.

The third sample library is also called the "civilization cemetery" or the "species mausoleum". It is a memory with infinite capacity and is specially used to preserve samples of civilizations that died within the jurisdiction of the Xiling God System. There are hundreds of these samples. Seventy or eighty percent of the points come from the prosecutors: In the process of traveling around the world, prosecutors will always encounter various dead civilizations, and collecting and sorting out the relics of these civilizations is one of the daily tasks of the prosecutors.

Due to the special nature of the third sample library, access to it requires a higher degree of confidentiality and direct mental connection. Hao Ren felt that his mind was split in two, just like the last time he "split" in the Longji Mountains and returned to the outside world. He was looking at his living room with a clear mind, and part of his perspective was taken to a wonderful realm. Part of his spirit traveled through a very empty place, and there were countless hurried figures vaguely passing by him: those figures were censors from other universes, and they were also visiting the third sample library. Some of these prosecutors sensed the arrival of new people, and several figures greeted them friendly, and Hao Ren responded one by one. And soon, the information he was looking for was presented to him.

The First Star of Akana is an ancient star located on the ecliptic plane of the planet Tanagus, and it is also a "strange star" that has troubled Tanagus astronomers for thousands of years.

The astronomers of Tanagus called the first constellation on the ecliptic "Arkana", which means "red arrow" in their language, and the first star of Arkana is located in this triangular constellation. the tip of. It appears dazzling red in all seasons, the brightest among the stars, and has always changed in light and dark at a fixed frequency from the origin of modern astronomy of the Tana people to the Catastrophe of the Firstborn for thousands of years. This change in light and dark is different from ordinary stars and is its first unsolved mystery.

The second unsolved mystery is that the Tana people are not even sure whether this red star is a star.

Logically speaking, except for the planets in the star system, the stars shining in the night sky should all be stars, because planets do not emit light and cannot be observed by surface organisms with the naked eye. However, the astronomers of Tanagus have been studying for thousands of years, but they are still unable to determine what kind of "star" Akana First is. Its various parameters and characteristics are closer to those of a planet. It has low temperature, low radiation, and does not have any spectral characteristics that a star should have. It "undoubtedly exhibits the characteristics of a solid planet," and there are no observations around it. to any starlight distortion: This proves that the mass of the first star of Arcana is also very small, at least far less than the standard of a star.

Yet it hangs just like that in the night sky over Tanagus, clearly visible on any clear night.

The Tana people made a detailed encyclopedia record of the first star of Akana in the Tanagus database, and commented: No matter from which angle you look at it, this red star is a celestial body that should not be observed. , this kind of low-temperature and low-mass planet should be hidden in the dark depths of space, but in fact it is always one of the brightest objects at night, which almost challenges our existing scientific system...

But the biggest unsolved mystery of the first star of Arcana is still behind: its distance cannot be determined.

It hangs majestically in the sky, but Tanagus astronomers cannot measure its specific distance. Because common measurement methods: triangular parallax method, spectroscopic parallax method, Cepheid parallax method and other methods will either always produce completely different data, or they will not be able to measure the data at all. It's like a shadow imprinted on the retina. You can see it, but you can't find it in real space.

It is precisely because of these unsolved mysteries that the Tana people have long debated about the first star of Akana. They have three views on whether this star is a star, a planet, or simply a space mirage. There is no dispute between them.

It was such an almost "supernatural" strange star that had a "supernova explosion" more than 10,000 years ago, and on the third day after that, the first tentacle of the eldest son pierced the surface of the earth.

Hao Ren rubbed his eyes and broke away from the third sample library. Lily immediately waggled her tail and came closer: "How about it?"

"It's a very complex strange star." Hao Ren pinched Lily's ears casually, calming the girl down like a pet, and then briefly explained the information he saw in the database, "In short, it is not in line with the laws of nature. Something, I suspect it might be related to the eldest son..."

While Hao Ren and the others were discussing the issue of the first Akana star, a voice suddenly came from the direction of the back door: "Is everyone talking?"

Hao Ren looked up and saw that the bearded man was pushing through the door carrying a half-drawn roast rabbit. It was already dark outside: before he knew it, it was already night. The bearded man had completed a day of survival in the wild, and now it was time to call it a day and go home. Vivian slapped her forehead: "Hey, I didn't look at the watch... I'm going to cook!"

Lily drooled as she looked at the roasted rabbit in the bearded hand, and her tail slapped the armrests of the sofa like a drumbeat: "Landlord, are you hungry? You must want to eat roasted rabbit, right? But you are alone You definitely can’t finish it, right? So…”

Hao Ren covered his face: "With your little intelligence, don't play around the bush... Brother Beard, I'll let you roast a rabbit."

The bearded man cheerfully handed the rabbit meat to Lily and asked, "What were we discussing just now?"

"What happened in Tanagus," Hao Ren casually told Big Beard about the strange supernova record, "Ten thousand years ago, the night sky in Tanagus exploded instantly..."

The bearded man originally asked casually, but after hearing Hao Ren's description, he frowned: "Wait a minute, I don't know if I'm overthinking it... There are similar records in the ancient books of the Huiyao Sect."

Hao Ren: "...What?!"