Chapter 418: Escape From the Federation (1/2)

Chapter 418 Escape from the Federation

"Wormhole?"

Yan Xia looked at Ella in disbelief, even doubting the authenticity of the news she gave her.

A broken spaceship arrived at Gaia BH1 through a wormhole. This seemed to him like a fantasy.

As the level of civilization increased, he gradually understood the difficulty of creating wormholes.

Not to mention the wormhole tunnels in science fiction movies that can be opened at any time, even if you want to open a wormhole passage in a black hole, it is as difficult as climbing to the sky.

After all, it is the ultimate power of the universe. Even now, the Federation does not have the ability to destroy a normal black hole.

It is actually not that difficult technically to open a wormhole. After generations of wormhole simulations, the Federation now has at least a 5% probability of creating a wormhole. The only thing holding the Federation back is the acquisition of negative energy. .

Opening a wormhole requires a huge amount of negative energy, and the Federation's ability to produce negative energy needs to be improved.

The negative energy produced by the federation is about 680 mi every year, and this number will increase by about 0.5~0.8 mi every year.

Most of this negative energy is supplied to the gravitational energy device of the black hole. After all, the gravitational energy device needs to directly oppose the gravitational pull of the black hole, and they need to restrain the black hole itself.

The black hole is very stable 99.99% of the time, but it is difficult to guarantee that there is an abnormality of 0.01%, and its power far exceeds all the current long-distance weapons of the Federation.

Moreover, the closer the gravitational energy device is to the black hole, the greater the gravitational force it receives, which means the greater the gravitational energy it can obtain.

In order to resist the super gravity of a black hole, negative energy is also necessary.

In addition to this big head, the exploration of dimensional channels also consumes a huge amount of negative energy. The remaining negative energy has to be dispersed throughout the federation to maintain some devices that require gravity control, or for some research.

For the Federation, there is too little of this negative energy, and it will take many years to squeeze out some of it and save it.

To open a wormhole, according to the federation's calculations, at least 400 million meters of negative energy would be needed, and it would take the entire federation hundreds of thousands of years to make a wormhole attempt.

The wormhole is too far away for the current Federation.

But now a spaceship can come across the wormhole, and it is the Federation's own spacecraft. This probability is too low.

"Have you checked those people?" Yan Xia felt that this matter was a bit unusual.

Ella nodded.

"Only two people were awake on the spacecraft at the time, and the rest were in a dormant state."

"According to what these two people said, they were sucked into an ultra-small black hole. They didn't have much energy. The main engine of the spacecraft was not turned on. They could only use their naked eyes to judge the surroundings, and they couldn't detect the black hole at all. "

"They thought they would die after being sucked into the black hole, but they didn't expect that in just an instant they reached a starry sky and appeared in Gaia BH1."

"I called their data directly, and the situation is similar to what they said."

In other words, coincidence!

Yan Xia doesn't believe in coincidences. Even if this is indeed a coincidence, Yan Xia doesn't mind proving her ideas.

"Pay attention to them and transmit the data of Gaia BH1 at the same time."

In any case, the occurrence of wormholes was a very good experience. Through this research, Yan Xia expected to improve their understanding of wormholes by several percentage points.

While Yan Xia was talking to Ella, Giotto noticed that they had been released on the other side.

"We're really back in the Federation, and it feels no different than the Federation before."

Everyone on the ship was very excited.

The 130,000-year journey has made them exhausted. Not only Giotto, but Duma K and the people in his faction also dream of returning to the Federation.

After they leave the Federation, they can have an almost eternal lifespan, so what?

130,000 years of wandering in the universe is no different from working in a factory for 130,000 years. I'm afraid some people would agree that working in a factory for 130,000 years in exchange for one day's rest.

That was too much torture.

Not even the torture of day after day, but the torture of being completely confused about the future.

"Phew, I finally got rid of that damn journey. Everyone, I'm afraid I have to leave this spaceship and find a star city to live, get married, have children, and live a complete life."

The original leader of the Giotto faction of the spaceship spoke first.

If others are tired, he will only be more tired than others. He needs to think about many more things than the average crew member.

The distribution of benefits and the emotional stability of each crew member made him physically and mentally exhausted.

He had long wanted to leave.

Power may be good sometimes, but if you are not crazy about power, in a small spaceship, without anyone touting it, and without any promotion, what is the use of that kind of power?

But the crew members were very surprised. They could not understand the pain of those who managed them.

Is this group just disbanded?

Everyone seemed to be in a dream.

Giotto said at this moment: "What will happen to this spaceship after we separate?"

Others saw everything in the spacecraft that was old, and some places even started to rust. This was the place where they had lived together for 130,000 years, and they really couldn't bear to part with it.

"The host has been connected to the federal network. I just asked the host about the price of this spaceship."

"The host gives 1 energy coin."

Everyone was silent.

This spaceship is too old and outdated.

Even so, it is not actually worth only 1 energy coin. The reason why it is only worth so little is because the post-maintenance cost of the spacecraft itself is relatively high. If you buy this junk ship back, the buyer will have to waste thousands of energy coins to repair it, and Replacing equipment requires a lot of money for maintenance every year.

This is just like people in some countries in the 21st century are willing to sell their houses for 1 yuan. If the house is kept there and they have to pay property tax every year, it is still a good deal to sell it for 1 yuan.

"What the host gives is only the value of the spacecraft itself, but this spacecraft has additional value."

"Don't forget, this is a spacecraft that has experienced a wormhole, and it is probably the only spacecraft in the Federation that has passed through a wormhole. With this gimmick, we may be able to sell it for a high price." Someone said.

But opposition soon arose.

"This spaceship carries too many memories for us, so just sell it like this? I don't agree."

Duma K stood up and said: "I agree to sell it."

"After all, we can't maintain this spaceship ourselves. We're just leaving it there to wait for it to slowly break down."

"And sell it to some institutions, and they will save the spacecraft for us."

"After all, we have just returned to the Federation. We are penniless now. Although it is not difficult to find a job in the Federation to support ourselves, do you really want to be ordinary? Just keep that salary for the rest of your life?"

Everyone was silent, but Giotto gave Duma K a thumbs up.

They had already discussed that they could not stay in the Federation.

After the host connected to the federal system, they already knew that there were many star nations outside the federation. If they wanted to complete their plan, they needed to leave the federal system.

And to secede from the Federation, they naturally need a sum of money.

"Duma K is right. We don't have the ability to maintain this spacecraft. If it is sold, this spacecraft will most likely become an exhibit. It may be preserved for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years. We will just go and see it then." ”

In the end, everyone agreed with the decision and put the spacecraft online.

Sure enough, about 20 years later, a buyer offered a high price of 100,000 energy coins.

But they decided to wait. About 500 years later, the price was raised to 700,000 energy coins, and 3,000 years later, it was raised to 4.2 million energy coins.

After 10,000 years, they finally took the spaceship from Gaia BH1 to the edge star field of the Federation. At this time, the price of the spacecraft had increased to 6 million energy coins.

They sold it at this high price.

The current median salary in the federation is 182 energy coins, which is more than 7 times higher than when the new federation was first established tens of thousands of years ago. 6 million energy coins is almost the amount of money two people earn in a lifetime of work, which is not a small amount. Not too much.

There are a total of 31 people on the spacecraft. Originally, there were 1,887 people in the entire spaceship 130,000 years ago. Internal fighting and suicide reduced the number of people on the spacecraft to 31 of them.

Everyone received 193,000 energy coins.

At this time, they all separated.

Only Giotto and Duma K met in a bar and felt the excitement in the bar. Giotto and Duma K felt very relaxed.

"The combined money between the two of us should be able to buy a cheaper second-hand spaceship." Duma K glanced at a beauty from the Kate tribe.

Giotto nodded.

"The cheapest energy coin is 310,000. The spaceships of this era are more expensive than those of our time."

With the advancement of equipment carried on the spacecraft, the relative price of the spacecraft is not low.

It is true that there are some old spaceships that are very cheap, but basically no one can use them. Just like in the era of smartphones, who will use the old mobile phones?

Now the speed of federal spacecraft has generally been increased to 60,000 km/s. Although it is only twice as fast as the spacecraft they drive, there are many upgrades in other aspects.

For example, the energy problem that troubles them is that today's spacecraft are generally equipped with energy absorption conversion devices. Basically, digging a shovel of soil into the device can generate a large amount of antimatter energy supply. The price of fuel has now been reduced to 40 energy per acceleration. The price of fuel for one acceleration of their old spaceship is several thousand energy coins.

Seeing the spaceship information distributed by Giotto, Duma K wanted to cry. There had been such a spaceship a long time ago, so they wouldn't be like this.

Today's spaceships are more than that. In terms of energy consumption, compared with their old spaceships, the new spacecraft not only does not increase the energy consumption, but even reduces it. Especially the energy-producing host of the spacecraft has 30 billion times more computing power than the original host. At the same time, energy consumption is reduced by 9.4 times.

Especially with the widespread deployment of micro-factories, if you have a micro-factory, you can find a planet and develop a level 2 civilization from scratch within 300 years.

"The progress of technology."

Both Giotto and Dumas were deeply attracted by modern technology.

They bought the second-hand spaceship. When the transaction was made, the previous owner of the spacecraft looked at them as if to say, thank you for taking a fancy to this piece of junk.

This spaceship is indeed junk now, it is an old thing from more than 4,000 years ago.

But for the two of them, it was terrifyingly advanced.

The workmanship, defense system, powertrain, attack platform, and hibernation cabin on the spacecraft are all extremely exquisite, and even have an ejection function, so that when encountering a strong enemy, it can escape directly at a speed of more than 100,000 km/s.

What's more shameless is that this spacecraft also has a small biological cabin, which can be used as a breeding room for insect eggs and cultivate Zerg units.

It seems to be said that although most of the Zerg in the Federation are still exclusive to brain worms, a considerable number of Zerg have become combat pets, and these pets have special implanted crystals for control.

There are even similar Zerg fighting arenas in the Federation, and all kinds of Zerg are for sale. It is said that there are as many as 4.7 billion species of Zerg alone, and the number of species is still increasing through inducing genetic mutations.

In addition to these, there are also improvements in detection devices, which are simply crushing.

The two were stunned like bumpkins.

They registered the information of the spacecraft on the explorer network and recruited some explorers to leave the Federation secretly.

"Old man, do you think we are being monitored?"

It is easy for the Federation to monitor them.

Duma K asked this question to get another answer.

"Although we are just insignificant pawns, those guys must want us to play a role, so they should have left some means on us, otherwise we would not pass the first investigation by the Federation."

"You should know that the memories in our secondary brains have not been deleted. It is very easy for the Federation to read our memories, but we are fine now, which proves that there may be something in our bodies that the Federation cannot detect."

"Do it, if we don't do it, we will die, and our death will be meaningless."

"Maybe what we do can really add a little hope to human civilization? According to the current information, we are actually in the same situation as when we faced the Olive Branch civilization."

"It just so happens that there is such a thing as a micro-factory, and we can also pull out a force. These explorers on the spacecraft, let's test them once later. If they fight with us, then stay. If..."

Giotto didn't continue to speak, they were naturally not good men and women.

What they didn't notice at this time was that in a corner of the spacecraft, a pair of eyes were staring at them.

The owner of those eyes was muttering to himself at this time.

"The mission this time is a bit vague. I was asked to protect those two people. Are they important people? There is no information at all."

"But the reward for the mission is very generous..."