Chapter 309 The Disappearing Star

"Perhaps this is a natural technological barrier. Only civilizations that have reached a certain level of technology can discover this network and connect to it, and then truly enter the Silver Alliance system?"

Han Yang felt a little uneasy.

Because he found that he had no idea about the situation in the Milky Way.

I thought that everyone didn't know much and was on the same level, which didn't matter. But at this moment, I suddenly realized that it was only me who didn't understand.

It's like an ancient human came to modern society and saw that everyone was in a hurry and everyone didn't communicate much. He mistakenly thought that people in the world were not closely connected and information was not flowing fast.

Most people, like me, have no knowledge of the world as a whole.

But after development, this ancient man suddenly discovered that the truth was not so. The truth is that every modern human has a mobile phone as a terminal, connected to an invisible communication network.

A huge amount of information flows on this network, including national affairs, social hot spots, business information, international situation, and all other information. It is even possible that someone is planning something unfavorable to him through this network.

But I don't have a terminal, I can't connect to this network, and I can't receive any information!

What is the difference between this and being blind?

This means extremely serious information lag and blockade, which also means huge hidden dangers and threats.

"Go all out to figure out this discovery and confirm whether this network exists. If it really exists, then we must go all out to develop a connection terminal as quickly as possible to connect to this network!

We must find out the real way of getting along between civilizations, the current situation in the Milky Way, and the external environment of human civilization as quickly as possible. Only in this way can we ensure the safety of civilization!"

Han Yang made up his mind.

Just as the Academy of Human Sciences organized experts in related disciplines to tackle the problem, another unexpected thing happened.

A detection satellite more than 20 light years away reported some incomprehensible strange things to Han Yang.

That satellite is one of the deep space detection networks of human civilization. Its routine task is to continuously and uninterruptedly photograph the surrounding universe and search for possible suspicious targets.

Han Yang was shocked to see through this satellite that the universe around it began to twist and rotate incomprehensibly at this moment.

Thousands of stars began to flicker, disappearing and appearing from time to time. The light of the stars also changed. The original red stars seemed to turn white at this moment, and some turned blue, yellow, and even green.

Some stars would move very quickly in the sky, so fast that they even left afterimages, like a lightsaber.

Some stars were here the moment before, and appeared in another direction of the sky the next moment, as if they had teleported.

The entire universe was in chaos at this moment. Just like someone was stirring a bucket of water with a stick, all the visible and invisible existences in the bucket were in an indescribable and unimaginable chaos.

However, the universe photographed by a satellite farther away was still calm.

The stars quietly released their light, and there was nothing abnormal in the universe.

The universe and starry sky seen by people still on the earth were also normal.

Han Yang thought for a moment and immediately understood.

This was not an abnormality in the entire universe. Instead, some abnormality occurred more than 20 light years away from the earth. This abnormality changed the propagation path of light, causing unimaginable changes in the starry sky photographed by the satellite.

Light travels at the speed of light. Places too far away, such as the Earth, still see the normal light of the past.

The light carrying those anomalies has not yet reached the Earth.

Therefore, at this moment, only this satellite, which is more than 20 light years away from the Earth, has captured these anomalies. Because it is closest to the place where the anomalies occurred.

Han Yang's heart was full of solemnity.

He didn't know what happened there, and he couldn't know what kind of means were needed to cause this anomaly.

At least he couldn't find such a possibility in the knowledge he had already mastered.

He didn't know what this anomaly meant.

Is it some natural phenomenon that he didn't know about? Natural physical process? Or some powerful existence with super technology conducted an experiment here? A war?

Or... is it a conspiracy against humans?

Han Yang didn't know at all.

He had no way to influence it. The only thing he could do was to wait quietly.

Three days passed slowly when no one was aware of it and only Han Yang knew about it. Occurring in an area covering the Ophiuchus V1054 galaxy more than 20 light years from Earth, the incomprehensible anomaly finally slowly disappeared.

The universe gradually returned to calm.

The stars reappeared and returned to where they were originally. Their light also returned to normal, returning to a color that matched their size and mass.

Everything was exactly the same as before. Except for one thing.

Han Yang saw that the five stars that made up the Ophiuchus V1054 galaxy had disappeared.

This galaxy is a quintuple star system, in which five red dwarf stars revolve around each other. But now, they have disappeared and cannot be seen.

The total mass of these five stars, together with the rest of the matter in the galaxy, is about 1.4 times that of the sun.

But such a large amount of mass has quietly disappeared from the universe at this moment, and no one knows where it has gone.

Is it really gone, or is it just invisible?

Is this abnormal change around the Ophiuchus V1054 galaxy related to humans and the solar system?

A strong sense of crisis emerged in Han Yang's heart.

The human fleet closest to this galaxy at this moment is an interstellar trade fleet heading to the Yuanshan galaxy. It is currently in an inertial navigation state, about 2.3 light years away.

Han Yang decisively issued an order, requiring the main body of the fleet to continue inertial navigation, and a total of 10 warships carrying relevant observation equipment directly adopted the unmanned navigation mode to slow down and turn to Ophiuchus V1054.

After years of deceleration maneuvers, this small fleet finally arrived at the coordinates of the galaxy.

At this moment, the light carrying the changes in this star field has also spread at the speed of light for several years, spread over a distance of several light years, and has been observed by countless detection equipment.

This cannot be concealed, after all, there are too many detection equipment. However, under Han Yang's deliberate control, these changes did not cause too many waves in society. People only regard it as some kind of wonderful natural phenomenon.

Only some high-level people in human civilization really know the true meaning of this change and its potential threat.

At this moment, the first fleet after the incident finally arrived at the scene.

What appeared in front of Han Yang was a pure, dark, and peaceful space.

Thousands of stars shine in the vast space, and everything is no different from other places.

But there should have been five stars here... Surrounding these five stars, there are also a large number of large planets, gas planets, dwarf planets, asteroids, comets, interstellar dust...

At this moment, they all disappeared, as if they had never existed.

Han Yang even doubted whether such a star system had never existed here. Were all previous observation data false?

But... the orbit of another star closest to the Ophiuchus V1054 galaxy around the core of the Milky Way was a little abnormal compared with the past.

This abnormality was very small, but Han Yang still noticed it.

The reason for this abnormality was also very simple, and it was confirmed by Han Yang very quickly.

The gravitational relationship has changed.

Originally, there were five stars in Ophiuchus V1054, with a total mass of up to 1.4 times that of the sun. Affected by this, the orbit of that star was one way. At this moment, these five stars disappeared, and the orbit of that star became another way.

The difference between the two different orbits shows the value of the change in the gravitational relationship. By inferring this value, it can be clearly calculated that not long ago, there were indeed five stars in this star field.

After exploring this star field for several years and confirming that there was really nothing left in this star field, Han Yang gave up the plan of further exploration and took back most of the computing power allocated here, leaving only a little computing power to continue monitoring.

But the doubts and solemnity in his heart never disappeared.

The unknown is the most frightening. At this moment, let alone figuring out what the anomalies here are, he can't even figure out whether these anomalies are malicious to humans.

"After building a super-distance communication network terminal and truly connecting to the network, and having intelligence such as the composition of forces in the Milky Way, maybe I can figure this out."

Han Yang gathered his mind and once again invested in the research and development of super-distance communication terminals.

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, several years passed. On this day, the terminal test model was successfully developed, and human civilization received data from this quantum network for the first time. Although it could not be analyzed, it was confirmed that these data were not naturally formed.

This obviously means that his previous guess is true: the advanced civilizations in the Milky Way are indeed communicating with each other through this quantum network.

After several years, the seventh generation was reached. With the progress of the decoding work, Han Yang finally created a terminal device that can successfully analyze the data in the communication network.

Under the joint gaze of several ruling committee members, the terminal device was activated. Information from other civilizations instantly poured into the device and was displayed in front of the human leaders. (End of this chapter)