Chapter 611: The Prison of Curvature

Unexpectedly, the starship, covered in scars, returned to the planetary headquarters again.

The sound of the huge starship landing instantly attracted the attention of almost everyone in the world.

The people on the planet who heard the news were extremely surprised, "Why did it come back so soon?"

According to the plan, even if nothing was found at the target location, it might take two years to go back and forth.

However, now, it seems that only a year has passed, and this familiar starship has returned again, and it is even in this scarred appearance.

I don’t know what kind of encounters they encountered on the way.

…

After more than a year away, the planet has not changed much.

For this starship, the entire planet can be said to have tightened its belt.

After the starship left, there was no visible significant crisis on the planet. What they needed most was to recuperate.

Helen and others, who learned of the return of the starship through global monitoring methods, immediately felt the vast plain where the starship landed.

Looking at the miserable appearance of the ship, which was so hot on the surface and even had many damaged parts emitting white steam due to crossing the atmosphere, Helen looked at Bai'e who walked out of the open starship door calmly and asked curiously, "What happened on the way?"

Bai'e pointed behind him with a tired face, "They will tell you."

After that, he continued to walk forward, and then his eyes went black, and he fell to the ground with a "thump".

Only a dark shadow caught his body in an instant, so that he didn't really fall to the ground.

"What's wrong with him?" Helen was worried.

In her impression, she had never seen Bai'e show such a degree of fatigue.

Did they encounter some terrible enemy on their way.

Although they won the victory with difficulty under Bai'e's leadership, they had to turn back?

Helen's mind instantly filled in the complete "course of events".

However, Yueying, who caught Bai'e's body, just shook her head, "It's okay."

She could feel the fatigue of Bai'e's will now. This sign of excessive use of psychic energy was not uncommon in her life.

"He just consumed too much spiritual energy and it's temporarily exhausted. He will be fine after recuperating for a while."

"Yeah." Helen nodded, and then looked at the group of people who got off the ship behind Bai'e. Her narrow and charming eyes easily locked on the crew leader among the group, "What happened?"

The leader had a bitter face, "We overlooked the most important thing... space curvature! After leaving the planet a certain distance, the starship... disintegrated. It was only thanks to Lord Bai'e's use of spiritual energy to wrap the starship that we were able to return safely."

"Space curvature?" Helen frowned, and her agile mind turned quickly.

Zhou Wenjie, who was following the person in charge, explained excitedly, "Our planet is most likely within the influence of a massive black hole, so the curvature of space here is very different from the curvature of normal flat spacetime. The starship built with our rules cannot travel normally throughout the universe. If we want to fly out again, we must redesign the starship!"

For some reason, in Wenjie's opinion, the scientific level in the game world may even be higher than that in the real world.

How can they solve this fatal problem now that they have encountered such a problem?

Now their spacecraft is destined to move only within a certain area affected by the black hole, then this world... is really dark and boring.

Wenjie's simple explanation instantly made Helen realize the core problem.

The black hole distorts the space.

Within a large area of ​​​​the universe with the black hole to their own planet as a ring, the curvature of the space remains almost the same. The starship they designed can travel freely in this ring space without worrying about the starship disintegrating from the inside.

But if it is closer to the black hole, the distortion of space will become more serious.

The farther away from the black hole, the closer the space will be to normal.

The mass of an ordinary planet is not enough to cause such a great distortion of space.

So, the world within the influence of the black hole... will never be able to explore the outside world?

Is this the reason why their planet has never encountered other intelligent life since the golden age or even before?

The universe within the influence of the black hole and the universe not affected by the black hole have always been two distinct worlds.

Just like the shore and the ocean...

Only alien monsters like Zerg and Orcs, whose vitality is ridiculously strong, can cross the barriers in the universe and come to the planet.

Helen squinted her eyes and her brain turned rapidly.

The new topic instantly aroused all her passion. Facing challenges is always the lifelong destiny of these scientific researchers.

...

"Is he okay?"

Looking at the face of the man lying on the bed who had been unconscious for several days, Yueying asked with some concern.

In her long life, she had indeed met many psychics who had experienced psychic exhaustion, and the time it took for these people to recover to normal was indeed different. Some woke up in half a day or a day, while some were in a coma for ten days, half a month, or even a year and a half.

However... this is Bai'e!

From the beginning to the end, he was like an invincible superman.

He has been in a coma for two days now, and he hasn't woken up yet?

It was precisely because of this worry that the people of Blackwater City, whose relationship with the elves has become increasingly sweet in the past two years, were willing to put Bai'e here with the elf prophet.

After all, on this planet, apart from Bai'e, an unreasonable existence, only the elf prophet is the one who knows the highest level of psychic cultivation.

If Bai'e needs any psychic help, she may be the only one who has this ability.

Feng Ling, who was quietly painting on the side, smiled and shook his head, "If such a level of consumption cannot put him into this situation after taking a whole starship across a distance of hundreds of light years, I really have to doubt the reality of this world..."

It's not that there are no fourth-level psychics among humans and elves, but how can their fourth-level psychics compare to a terrifying monster like Bai'e?

Now that he has fallen into such a deep coma, it makes people feel a little relieved.

At least... this guy is not the real body of the evil god who has been pretending.

But Yueying is still not at ease. Will a being like Bai'e be in more trouble than ordinary people after falling into spiritual energy exhaustion?

In the past cases, there are very few examples of psychics who have exhausted their spiritual energy and can recover their spiritual energy. Even if there are, it is difficult to recover to the peak level in a short time.

If this happened to Bai'e...

"Don't worry..." Feeling Bai'e's calm breath, Feng Ling shook his head and smiled, "This blow is nothing to him."

Just like the speed of this guy's spiritual energy growth exceeds any historical records, it is probably not difficult to recover.

The only thing to consider now is... can they find a way to leave this "cage"?

His eyelids flickered slightly, and his breathing became a little heavy.

Yueying and Feng Ling, who are also several strong men on this planet, looked at the sleeping figure on the bed at the same time.

Soft light came into view through the gap.

A faint fragrance lingered on the bridge of the nose.

Bai'e opened his eyes and saw two picturesque faces.

"Awake?" Feng Ling smiled gently.

"Yeah." Bai'e sat up slowly, and his thoughts returned to before he fell into a coma.

Realizing that he had successfully brought the starship back to the planet and completed the handover in front of Helen, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"I've heard about everything. Your operation this time doesn't seem to be going smoothly..." Feng Ling smiled gently, as if she had never been troubled by these obvious problems.

"Well." Bai'e smiled bitterly, lowering his head, "The technology is not enough... I don't know if Helen can solve it."

If we have to wait for the development of technology on the planet to slowly overcome this problem, who knows how long it will take?

Or just drive a mecha to the universe by yourself... But at the speed of a single soldier, how many years will it take to fly the distance that the curvature spacecraft has flown?

"Sure~" Feng Ling smiled generously and gently at Bai'e, "With your current accumulation, there is a way to solve this problem."

'Are you so sure? '

Bai'e's eyes lit up.

The prophet of the elves would not speak without purpose, and she would not need to say such words to comfort herself.

His face lit up immediately, and he asked happily, "Is there really a way?"

"I don't know~" Feng Ling smiled mysteriously, "I can only see the vague 'answer', but I can't see the detailed process. The specific method needs you to find it yourself."

"..." Bai E was stunned, and instantly jumped up and ran straight outside.

Yue Ying hurriedly followed, "Don't you want to rest after waking up?"

"I don't want to."

He suffered a setback in his first step out of the universe. He couldn't find a solution, and Bai E couldn't sleep peacefully.

He hurriedly found Helen, and asked, "Is there a way?"

Helen, who had been awake for two days and two nights, looked a little pale and haggard. Facing Bai E's question, Helen smiled bitterly and shook her head, "I can't find it."

I can't find it at all.

"According to your experience this time, adaptive repair metal can indeed counteract the tearing of the starship caused by the change of rules to a certain extent. But the thirty-two-element alloy used on the starship is already our top alloy material at present. Even it can't help you completely get out of the influence range of the black hole. With our current level... there is no possibility of getting out of this cage in the short term."

"Is there no compromise? For example, our starship can be designed with the median between the normal curvature environment and the curvature here as the core? In that case, maybe our starship can be in an extreme state to sail in flat space and time?"

"Too idealistic..." Helen shook her head, "A slight error can lead to a huge difference. In the field of astronomy, even if the accuracy is only 1% at the beginning, it will eventually produce a huge gap that cannot be made up. In our position, there is no way to produce a starship with the so-called median curvature. Not to mention that even if it is successfully built, who knows whether there will be any more different space distortions in the place you are about to go? When the starship disintegrates again, how will you come back?"

Distance is the coldest judgment of this universe on intelligent life.

They finally solved the problems of lifespan and speed, but the different curvatures between the regions of the universe locked them in cages.

"Is there no feasible solution?" Bai E asked unwillingly.

The elves' prophets have said that they must have a solution with their current technology. It's not just a lie.

"There is a solution, but it's definitely not the one you want." Helen hung her head, also a little discouraged, "I call it the 'springboard plan'. We can use the current maximum sailing distance as a limit and search for habitable planets within the range. Then we can use local materials on the planet and continue to manufacture second-generation starships with local curvature. However, within the maximum sailing distance of the second-generation starship, we will continue to search for habitable planets and use local materials to manufacture third-generation starships. By analogy, the entire universe can be divided into 'star regions' divided by space curvature. At that time, we can spread our human footsteps to any corner of the universe. It's just that this time..."

It can only be said to be a great expedition for human beings to branch out, not a short-term plan that can see results in their generation.

"..." Bai Er pursed his lips, somewhat doubting whether the vague "result" seen by the elf prophet was this kind of plan that sounded like it would take a long time.

Given the vague nature of the prophecy of their elves, this possibility is not impossible.

If that's the case, what does it have to do with me?

The universe can't be so dark and cold that they can only be trapped in a "ring" of the universe, right?

"No! I don't believe it. There must be another way!"

Bai'e stared, unwilling to admit defeat.

"Crossing space shouldn't be so difficult."

After all, in the game promotional articles or pictures that he had seen and heard, the moment of stepping out of the universe was the moment when the player officially started the game.

The name of "Galaxy OL" should at least not be just a pie.

"Space..."

"Space..."

Space should not be such a sacred and insurmountable thing.

At a moment of lightning, a bright picture suddenly popped up in Bai'e's dark mind-

The dark space radiated a twisted purple, exuding a mysterious and dangerous deadly breath.

High-dimensional space!

"High-dimensional space!" Bai'e suddenly said.

"What?" Helen was stunned, obviously not aware of Bai'e's plan.

"High-dimensional space!" Bai'e's eyes were burning. "Do you remember how the elf delegation came to our Blackwater City?" (End of this chapter)