Voyage of the Stars

So what is the small universe left by the pioneers testing? There is no intelligent system to guide, just a maze, what is it!

For a while, whether it is the people on the Tianqin or the people on other warships, they are all thinking about this question, and everyone is using their imagination to guess what the so-called test is.

Scientists, researchers and personnel in detection positions are also doing their best to conduct various observation and detection experiments on these rhombus crystals, and everyone is making their own contributions to the progress of mankind.

Unfortunately, although the first fleet has gathered the most cutting-edge talents of mankind, it is not all of mankind. Now there are only 8,000 consciousness-linked drivers on each planetary battleship. Counting the reserve drivers and other crew members, the number of people on a planetary battleship is only 20,000.

This is pitifully small in a planetary battleship as big as a treasure island. If it were not for the extremely high degree of mechanical automation, more than just these few people could operate it.

Of course, as the flagship Tianqin, because it is a military and political center, the number of people will be larger, but only more than 100,000 people.

Although the first fleet of mankind has three million ships, in fact, only about three thousand are manned warships, that is, the batch of warships linked to consciousness. Each of the other warships is operated by strong artificial intelligence, one combat-type strong artificial intelligence.

So the number of people in the entire first fleet is only more than 200,000. Such a number is indeed too small for a level 4 civilization. To be honest, if it were not for the technology of humans, and the people of the Red Flame Civilization were to operate, the number would at least be several times larger.

However, having fewer people sometimes has advantages, but it is a disadvantage when leaving the main body of the civilization to act alone.

However, things have come to this point, and we can only increase the number of people after returning to the main civilization. Now we can only bite the bullet.

In the following time, humans have been trying to find the arrangement pattern of the diamond lattice.

Unlike other attempts, this time humans’ guess was right. These lattices do have virtual and real bodies. Some lattices can even be directly passed through by human warships, just like a shadow. The magical thing is that if you don’t touch it in person, human detectors can’t find out which ones are real and which ones are virtual.

It is not known what technology the pioneers used to achieve this phenomenon, but from this point of view, it is many times more advanced than human holographic screen technology, and has surpassed the light and shadow special effects, to the point where it is difficult to distinguish between true and false.

After confirming the existence of virtual bodies and real bodies, humans continued to place locators near each virtual body and real body in the previous way to allow themselves to better identify their arrangement rules. However, what disappointed humans was that after several months of work, many rhombus lattices were marked, but the arrangement rules of these virtual bodies and real bodies were not found.

According to past experience, humans defined virtual bodies as 0 and real bodies as 1, and then input the distribution of virtual bodies and real bodies explored into the computer for simulation and deduction. Unfortunately, the image obtained seemed to be an irregular digital pattern.

In this regard, mathematicians insisted that it was because of too few samples and hoped to continue to expand the detection range.

There is no other good way for now, so humans can only continue to move in this direction, continue to expand the detection range, and expand the statistical range. So, the first fleet of humans sailed in one direction all the way, marking virtual bodies and real rhombus lattices all the way.

In this way, while sailing and marking, the characteristics of this space can be tested. If humans keep going forward and find a diamond lattice with a mark in front of them, it means that the First Fleet is now trapped in a strange space.

It also means that this space is limited, just a maze space that may be built using space folding or other space technologies, rather than the vastness of the universe as observed by humans.

Then as long as it is a limited space, humans have the confidence to fully explore it and find the pattern of the arrangement of the diamond lattice. Of course, even if such a space is limited, it is very wide. After all, humans have been sailing at ten times the speed of light for so long without encountering the diamond lattice they marked.

I really don’t know how the pioneers built this small universe. However, the more difficult the test is, the more humans look forward to what the pioneers left behind.

It’s a pity that we can’t search leisurely, after all, there are more than humans entering this maze.

Based on this sense of urgency, humans explore without stopping. Finally, a year later, humans were surprised to find that the locator that they had originally avoided appeared in front of them.

This discovery surprised everyone.

It was indeed a maze. If you keep going forward, you will return to the starting point again! This means that humans can fully explore this space and explore every rhombus crystal in this space.

The humans who have made effective explorations are full of energy and immediately divide the entire one million ships into more than 2,900 warship divisions. Each division is led by a warship equipped with a consciousness link device and moves in all directions with this place as the origin.

These warship divisions have their own exploration tasks. After a year, everyone gathered here to summarize their respective exploration results and then analyze them.

Before setting off, everyone was thinking, "After exploring all the rhombus crystals in the entire strange space, we should find the pattern this time!"

It has to be said that this trick was quite effective. Almost two years later, more than 2,000 fleets returned to the starting point as people thought.

In addition to providing humans with valuable data, such a navigation experiment also verified a conjecture of humans, that is, their first fleet was not in the same space as the dynamic picture civilization and the orange star civilization.

After all, in the past two years, humans can be said to have visited this maze space, but did not find any trace of these two civilizations.

Perhaps because of the careful arrangement, this small universe looks better than the small universe that the awakener had created before. The space folding technology that only exists in human fantasy is indeed used here.

In other words, the three civilizations are in different space areas, that is, the three civilizations are accepting the test of the pioneers. From this perspective, the pioneers do not seem to have any special treatment for any civilization, even the humans who have obtained the key.

In this regard, humans do not have any imbalanced feelings. After all, if you put yourself in their shoes, if you are a pioneer, leaving a small universe for the new generation civilization billions of years later, it is highly likely that you will not set up any partial tests.