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Chapter 5 Things get serious

Earth Federation.

As usual, Fang Yan had that strange dream again.

But this time the dream was particularly long. Fang Yan not only saw scenes he had seen many times before, but also witnessed a disaster that destroyed the world.

A scorching, dazzling light suddenly erupted from the blue giant star in the center of the galaxy, and then the planets, galaxies, and even the endless night sky outside began to vibrate violently.

In a very short time, the light and heat emitted by the blue giant engulfed the entire galaxy, and all cities and fleets were reduced to ashes in an instant.

Call ~
Fang Yan woke up from his dream. He sat up suddenly, his heart beating violently and his back soaked with cold sweat.

"terrible."

Fang Yan muttered to himself, "Such a powerful civilization was destroyed in an instant."

"Could it be that the mysterious civilization had anticipated this outcome long ago, and so quietly buried a backup database in the universe, and later, due to some strange combination of circumstances, the backup database entered my brain?"

Shaking his head, Fang Yan stopped daydreaming, walked to the desk, picked up the e-cigarette on the table, and took two deep puffs.

The strong coolness of the triple mint made his groggy brain, which had just woken up, become much clearer.

Fang Yan was just about to start the computer when his stomach suddenly growled and he felt extremely hungry.

I glanced at the time on the monitor and it was only 4:15 in the morning. Most of the breakfast shops had not yet opened.

"Only five hours of sleep?"

Fang Yan felt something was wrong. He had clearly slept for a long time and had a particularly long dream, so how could it only take this short time?

He looked carefully again and found that the date was actually two days later.

……

After eating a serving of steamed dumplings on the street, drinking two bowls of soy milk, and two fried dough sticks, Fang Yan returned home contentedly.

After brushing his teeth, Fang Yan sat down at his desk. At this moment, he remembered that he had posted an article on the aerodynamics forum. Two days had passed, and he didn't know if it had been noticed by the administrator.

So Fang Yan, holding on to a glimmer of hope, logged into the Space Power Forum through the Star Network.

As soon as he entered, the astonishing real-time data made him unable to believe his eyes.

Fang Yan remembered that the last time he logged in, there were less than 20,000 people online, but at this moment, there were more than 500,000 official members online!
With so many engineering giants gathered together, the scene was quite explosive.

Every second, hundreds of discussion posts are refreshed, and the entire forum seems to have been completely ignited overnight.

"What happened?"

Fang Yan was confused and entered the main discussion area as a tourist.

I discovered that at some point, my theoretical article on optimizing the spatial disturbance problem during jumps had been highlighted and pinned to the top of the Space Power Forum, at the top of the main area and all partitions.

Almost all members participated in the discussion and praised the content of the article.

In addition, they also tried to find out Fang Yan's true identity, and even suspected that Fang Yan was a big boss who did not want to reveal his name and deliberately disguised himself as a tourist.

Fang Yan was speechless. He never expected that the Space Power Forum would become like this just after he had a nap.

Calming down, Fang Yan carefully read the discussion content.

After all, it is the strongest professional community in the Galactic Alliance jump system. In just two days, the engineers grasped the key point of Fang Yan's theoretical article, which is the nonlinear relationship between magnetic field intensity and particle speed.

Fang Yan felt very happy that the proposal he put forward was unanimously recognized by the alliance experts, which was undoubtedly a great encouragement.

More importantly, this optimized spatial disturbance plan is only a very small part of his brain database.

As time goes by, the database continues to grow, grow wildly, and no one knows how high it will eventually reach.

At this moment, the screen in front of Fang Yan suddenly flashed. It was a private message from the management team.

"Dear visitor from Earth, we are urgently looking for the author of the space perturbation optimization theory. If you are the author of this article, please contact us as soon as possible. Sincerely, the Space Dynamics Community Management Team."

Fang Yan pondered, "Once I contact them, I'm sure they'll ask me a lot of questions. I absolutely can't tell anyone about this mysterious civilization. I have to come up with a suitable explanation."

So Fang Yan closed his eyes and thought carefully. After considering all the details, he gently clicked the button on the screen.

After a moment's wait, the screen showed an image of an elderly man with a serious face and deep eyes. It was Aliat, the director of the Space Power Forum. Aliat was clearly surprised. He had never expected that the man before him would be so young.

In addition, Fang Yan's current environment also made Ariat suspicious.

Optical cameras with shockingly low resolution, LED display panels, white concrete walls, old-looking wooden furniture, and rows of paper books. How did he do research in this backward and primitive environment?

Could it be that the top laboratories in the Milky Way, which cost billions of star coins, are not as good as a small study on Earth?

This unscientific!

Or, is he deliberately hiding something?
Aliat put aside his suspicions and asked tentatively, "Can we speak the universal language of the Galaxy? Or use the real-time translation terminal?"

Fang Yan smiled and said, "No need to go through so much trouble. My common language is passable."

Aliat nodded slightly, he gave his name and identity, and then asked Fang Yan's last name.

"Mr. Fang Yan, since you are the author of the spatial perturbation optimization solution, please tell me that in your article you mentioned that the nonlinear relationship between magnetic field strength and particle velocity can lead to coordinate offset. How does this phenomenon occur?"

Fang Yan didn't hesitate for even a second and directly stated the key point.

"In fact, coordinate shift does not occur in every transition, but only when the particle speed reaches a critical value, a small change in magnetic field strength will cause a significant shift in the spatial coordinates."

Fang Yan spoke very quickly. After all, this was something that already existed in his mind, so he just had to speak it out according to his memory.

On the other side, Aliat's heart was in turmoil.

In actual applications, the spacecraft is indeed like a convulsion of wind, sometimes it deviates and sometimes it does not deviate, causing countless jump system engineers a lot of headaches.

Is it really as Fang Yan said, that the key point lies in a certain critical value of the particle speed?
You should know that Fang Yan did not mention the critical value problem in his theoretical article. It seems that there are many hidden ideas behind this article.

Moreover, Fang Yan's familiarity with the galactic common language also shocked Ariat.

He checked the information and found that Earth had only joined the Galactic Alliance a few years ago, and there were very few people who could speak the Galactic Common Language proficiently.

Fang Yan's vocabulary is not only professional, but his grammar is also perfect, as if he had received professional education in linguistics since childhood.

Fang Yan said frankly, "Actually, I wrote that theoretical article on a whim. Many key points were not carefully considered. I'm afraid it will take some time to fully complete it."

Aliat didn't say anything. He had prepared many questions, but now there was obviously no need to ask any more. Fang Yan's perfect answer just now was so perfect that even a fool could guess that he must be the author.

Aliat chatted with Fang Yan, trying to find out Fang Yan's specific situation.

However, Aliat did not believe Fang Yan's sincere answer.

How could someone who had never left Earth write such profound and groundbreaking theoretical articles? And speak a fluent and perfect universal language of the galaxy?
After thinking for a long time, Aliat finally asked the question in his heart.

"Mr. Fang Yan, you are not a member of any scientific research institution, and from my observation of the environment you are in, you do not have the conditions for big data modeling. I don't know how you got the data in the article?" Ariat asked.

Fang Yan's face suddenly turned red.

How is the data obtained?
Of course it was copied, what else could it be?
Fortunately, Fang Yan had already prepared his speech before opening the connection.

"Actually, I have a teacher." Fang Yan said in a deep voice.

Aliat was startled and asked hurriedly, "Teacher? What kind of teacher? What's his name? Does he live on Earth like you?"

Fang Yan swallowed his saliva and said arrogantly, "About seven years ago, Earth was connected to the Star Network for the first time. Like all Earthlings, I browsed the Star Network every day out of curiosity. Everything about the Galactic Alliance was new and incredible to us."

"That's when my teacher and I met. He felt I had extraordinary talent, so he accepted me as his disciple and taught me cutting-edge knowledge about the Milky Way."

"The current solution to the spatial disturbance was completed by me under the guidance of my teacher."

"As for the teacher's name and which galaxy he lives in, honestly, I don't know either. His whereabouts are extremely mysterious. Unless he contacts me, I won't be able to find him anyway."

If Aliat had read the popular fairy-tale novels on Earth, he would understand what the phrase "gengu jingqi" meant.

But it is obvious that Aliat has no similar experience and can only continue to diverge according to the inertia of his own thinking.

It doesn't matter if his thoughts wander. Aliat couldn't help but think of the major event that shocked the galaxy many years ago. After that major event, many top masters who were indispensable to the galaxy disappeared completely.

The voices and appearances of those big guys and their legendary lives kept appearing in my mind.

Aliat became more and more excited as he thought about it. He looked at Fang Yan with an extremely solemn gaze and asked in a deep voice, "Are you a student of those old people?"

(End of this chapter)