"Courage Advance" is the name of the spacecraft responsible for the jump experiment.

As the spacecraft left the port, it soon flew to the designated jump location, preparing to start the first jump experiment in human history.

The starting point of this jump experiment is the orbit of the moon, and the end point is the orbit of Mars. At this time, the distance between the two points is about 80 million kilometers. If the acceleration of the usual spacecraft is used, it will take about seven days to fly from here to the end point. Time, which is 168 hours.

However, if you jump to subspace and use subspace navigation technology, you can compress the distance ten thousand times, that is to say, it only takes one second to reach the destination in theory.

Of course, whether the spacecraft is in reality or in subspace, there must be a process that needs to be accelerated, so the actual time it takes is definitely more than one second.

At this time, in the space observatory, Chen Chen was watching the data from the radio telescope silently. At the same time, the crowd was surging in the hall, and everyone was full of solemn expressions, preparing for the upcoming first leap.

"Preparation for sailing experiment, start subspace sailing in three minutes!"

During the broadcast, a cold electronic sound came, and everyone was even more energetic, getting busy in their respective posts, constantly testing the accuracy of the data in front of them.

"The nuclear fusion reactor is on!"

"The nuclear fusion reactor has been turned on, the temperature is currently rising, and the output power is stable..."

"The liquid helium cooling system is on!"

"It has been activated, and the pressure is stable now!"

"The strong magnetic ring starts, and the jump engine starts to warm up!"

Chen Chen nodded secretly, he raised his head and glanced at the big screen above his head.

I saw dozens of monitoring screens separated on the big screen. Those were all images sent by the Spaceship Courage Into, but because of the distance, these images were slightly delayed.

As early as when humans landed on Mars, the signal delay of communication had already begun to show signs. Because of the distance between the two, the signal delay between Earth and Mars was as much as two to three hundred seconds. If humans walk out of the solar system in the future, I am afraid Just a phone call will cost in units of years.

It seems that the time for quantum information transmission technology has also come to need vigorous development...

Chen Chen thought silently.

This thought flashed through Chen Chen's mind, but at this moment, the screen above his head showed the core goal of this experiment-the jump engine device.

At this time, on the periphery of the engine, three ring-shaped strong magnetic devices drive crazily around the black sphere in the center, like three blurry afterimages. As they continue to rotate, the black sphere in the center also rotates unceasingly. After a while, I don’t know if it is. In an illusion, Chen Chen felt that the black sphere in the center seemed to change slightly towards the liquid form...

Of course, Chen Chen is familiar with this scene. This scene has appeared in the movie. A member of the rescue team came to the liquid-transition engine, slightly extended his hand, and actually reached into the black liquid.

It is as if the entire jump engine becomes a space gate at this moment.

It's just that, I don't know what's behind this door, the rescue team member was finally pulled in, and when he came out again, he had become a walking dead without any consciousness.

It's like being absorbed by the soul across the door...

This is the danger of subspace. Chen Chen is not ignorant of the danger of subspace. If he is willing to choose, he would not choose this way of sailing in contact with subspace. Any civilization is desperate.

If you subtract the time required for acceleration at the speed of today's nuclear fusion engine, it will take more than half a year to fly out of the solar system.

The Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years in diameter, which is billions of times that of the Solar System. This is an extremely desperate number. Even if you don’t count the fuel, it will take more than 100,000 years to accelerate the spacecraft to sub-light speed. Flies from one side to the other.

Not to mention the Milky Way is just a grain of sand in the observable universe.

Therefore, conventional flying methods will inevitably not be able to support the rise of civilization. If Chen Chen wants to develop, sooner or later he still needs to develop jump engine technology. If this is the case, then he cannot afford to shrink...

These thoughts flashed through Chen Chen's mind. At this time, the cold mechanical voice continued:

"The transition engine has entered a critical value. The core of the magnetic field is currently at 50 billion atmospheres, and the strong magnetic ring is very stable! Ready to start the transition operation..."

"The start of the jump engine will count down for one minute..."

During the broadcast, cold electronic sounds immediately resounded in every corner of the hall, and at the same time, a low warning sound followed, indicating that the experiment had entered the final stage.

Chen Chen looked solemn, not only him, but the atmosphere in the entire hall became solemn in vain. The low and depressive aura weighed heavily on everyone's heart. Everyone was staring at the data stream in front of him, not daring to relax his vigilance for a moment. .

"The 30-second countdown to start the jump engine is ready..."

"Ten seconds to count down..."

"ten!"

"nine!"

"Eight!"

...

"three!"

"two!"

"One!"

"The jump starts!"

As the order was given, Chen Chen only saw that the jump engine on the screen became brighter and brighter from the black pressure at the beginning, and finally turned into a strong light, completely flooding the surveillance camera!

A few seconds later, that is, the delay correction time also reached the time of the jump. At this time, all the monitoring screens flickered with snowflakes, and the Courage Enter and the space observatory completely lost contact!

"Lost link!"

The voice reverberated, "I am checking the jump location. It has been confirmed that the Courage Drift has not been found, and the spacecraft has confirmed that it has entered the subspace!"

Chen Chen's eyes suddenly brightened. Since the spacecraft disappeared out of thin air, instead of exploding, it naturally means that the spacecraft has entered the subspace.

However, this does not mean that it is time to celebrate. Only the Courage Intruder reappears in a minute or two and appears in the orbit of Mars, which represents the success of the experiment.

It takes about one minute for the spacecraft to cross subspace, and it takes about three hundred seconds for the Mars orbit signal to be transmitted to the earth. In other words, if you want to know whether the experiment is successful, you have to wait six or seven minutes to see if the Courage Enter A signal came from Mars.

For these data, all researchers are naturally aware of it, and they began to discuss or chat with each other, waiting for the final data together.

For a while, the atmosphere relaxed slightly.

However, as time passed by, the atmosphere in the hall gradually became more serious. As the expected transition time reached more and more, everyone kept looking at the computer in front of them, waiting for the courage to advance back. news.

One minute, two minutes, three minutes...

Six minutes later, there was still no news from the Courage Dashboard, and many people began to look at each other.

Eight minutes passed, everyone's foreheads were sweating, and it seemed that the deep space of the universe had become a ferocious behemoth with a big mouth, swallowing Courage Dashing in, but never vomiting it out again.

Ten minutes later, even Chen Chen frowned and looked at the screen above his head. Could it be that this first jump experiment really failed?

Is subspace really that dangerous?

Just when everyone was disappointed in their hearts, finally, a string of encrypted signals was received by the radio telescope again, and this signal was derived from the Courage Enter!

"Passed it back!"

In the hall, many researchers shouted in excitement, they wanted to decipher this signal, but the next second they were astonished because they discovered that they had lost the authority to decipher the signal.

"what happened?"

"How did I lose permission?"

"Is it a system failure?"

Many researchers were in an uproar. After all, they had been involved and had been looking forward to it for so long before, and now they can't even check the results of the experiment. Who can stand this?

However, the cold electronic tone on the radio sounded again, "All researchers, please stay where they are. This information belongs to the top secret of Blacklight Technology. Please sit in the same place and wait for the next order to come."

Following the news, Chen Chen had already left the hall and came to another closed room.

The information sent back was naturally intercepted by Xiao X, and the purpose was not because of any secrets. The researchers here are all members of God's forbidden zone and shouldn't be kept secret.

The reason for doing this is only because Chen Chen has learned from the past.

When I was on the plane of "Black Hole Surface", the local research institutes were instantly destroyed because of the information returned, and even the entire earth was eventually destroyed. Of course, Chen Chen did not dare to expose the information in this way.

Therefore, these information must first be inspected by Xiao X and confirmed that there is no problem before they dared to publish it completely.

"The encrypted signal has been translated, and no memetic properties have been found."

At this time, Xiao X's voice came from the headset, and as Chen Chen looked up, a video appeared on the screen in front of him.

In the video, Chen Chen only saw that when the Courage Advance was flying, a huge black hole suddenly appeared in front of it, and then the spacecraft flew into the black hole.

At the moment of passing through the black hole, the scenery outside the spacecraft suddenly changed, from a vast darkness to a world full of dark red.

Obviously, the world in the subspace is not as empty and pitch-black as the real universe, but a patch of red, like flying in a magnificent nebula, surrounded by granular red mist.

These mists are tumbling rhythmically like ocean waves, but strangely, they do not rush in one direction like ocean waves, but constantly impact the hull of the spacecraft from all directions...

Even in the fog, you can clearly see the colorful spots of light. The spots are not bright, but in the misty blood-red fog, they appear to be particularly conspicuous. At first glance, they look like fog. The fireflies flashed and extinguished, surging continuously with the fog.

"what is this?"

Chen Chen squinted his eyes and looked at the scenery silently.

The scene sent back by the spacecraft was very strange. Chen Chen didn’t know how it was different from the subspace he had been to, because when he entered the subspace before, he only opened his eyes once, and when he opened his eyes, he immediately saw Countless twisted shadows.

Then Chen Chen dug out his eyes.

Of course, when watching these videos, Chen Chen naturally doesn't need to goug his eyes, but with this video alone, he can't figure out whether the scene on the screen is the subspace he has been to.

Just when Chen Chen was a little puzzled, the spacecraft seemed to have gradually moved away from the **** fog area. As the bow broke through the final fog, the lens in front of Chen Chen suddenly widened, and a vast and strange space completely appeared in front of Chen Chen's eyes!

It is still a dark red world, but in this endless piece of red, a trace of strange black air flow constantly blows from the shell of Courage Into, these black air currents continue to condense and transform, as if they have their own lives, and follow As it brushed over the hull of the spacecraft, the armor of the Courageous Advance also showed signs of aging and decay...

Even, Chen Chen saw a black air current swaying in front of the camera. At the moment it passed, Chen Chen's pupils suddenly shrank, and he immediately said, "Pause!"

Following Chen Chen's order, the video recorded by the spacecraft suddenly paused.

"Go back a few frames."

Chen Chen continued to give orders, and then the black airflow in front of the camera condensed again, seeming to turn into two weird dark eyes.

This scene made Chen Chen feel cold.

Then, the video continued to be shown until three minutes before it completely ended. During these three minutes, Chen Chen saw scenes that he hadn't seen in his entire life, the frantic **** fog, the strangely colored fireflies, and these endless The black airflow...

For a moment, Chen Chen felt as if he had fallen into a deep and strange dream. There was an incomprehensible strangeness in front of him, and he couldn't detect whether he was waking up from the dream...

"The armor of the Brave Advance appears to have been slightly corroded."

Little X's voice continued, and she showed the spacecraft's data to Chen Chen little by little, "Other than that, everything is normal. Even the passengers of the five black knights are all normal, and there is no change in physiological characteristics."

"The armor of the Courage Dashboard has been corroded?"

Chen Chen was stunned. The Courage Advance was already made of the best quality aerospace metal. Even if it has traveled in space for tens of thousands of years, it will not cause any problems, but now it has only traveled in subspace for a few minutes. Of corrosion?

At this speed ~lightnovelpub.net~ wouldn't it mean that the hull of the spacecraft will be completely corroded after a few days of sailing?

Thinking of this, Chen Chen couldn't help frowning. It seems that in order to sail in the subspace in the future, I am afraid it will be necessary to invent a new type of material.

"Although it seems that there is nothing unusual about the Courage Dashboard, don't forget the plot of "Black Hole Surface."

Chen Chen hugged his arms and said in thought, "The next mission will be much easier. Send Delta-level experimenters, put them in spacesuits, and teleport them to Mars through the Watcher Teleportation Pile to send them to Mars. Courage rushed into the interior of the ship."

"understand."

Xiao X replied that she also understood Chen Chen's caution. After all, the black knight is not a normal person. Maybe some strange reactions in the subspace will not affect the black knight, but it does not mean that it will not affect ordinary people.

So let these people enter the spacecraft to experience it for themselves, which is in line with Chen Chen's idea.

If those Delta-level experimenters can survive a subspace voyage without injury, this experiment will be considered a real success...