From troll tribes to elf empires

第371章 外星基地

作者： 东阿狸
第371章 外星基地

在小心翼翼中进行了一阵试探后，涅斯塔已大致搞清楚了部分的内外状况

在这些人类之身的躯体内，那些先前侵入之黑雾的实体其实是一种纳米级机械虫，它们于当下锁闭了大脑、脊柱、与躯体神经系统的联系，并利用在短时间就解析而出的模拟讯号、完成了对躯体行动力的管控，并已然开始进行细胞级、遗传基因级的构造分析。
而在所表现的这种行动力中，涅斯塔等学者们至少分析出了两种可能性；

一者，外星人很熟悉‘脊索动物’的躯体结构，它们本身就具备了相关方面丰富的知识与经验，因此才能一击命中的完成这类操作；
二者，或许它们并不熟悉此类躯体，但所具有的技术能力却可以跳过中间的摸索过程，直接达成现有的控制效果。
但对于被涅斯塔所控制的这百多具躯体而言，此番控制还是仅仅只停留在了表象层面

在此时的躯体内，那些属于高阶施法者们的、被纳米虫直接侵入的细胞，也的确正处于一种轻易不敢动弹的状态；

因为思维进行时所发出的电讯号波动，会直接被这些钻入细胞中的机械虫所感知，而它们也会因此向舰体报错并引来不必要的关注。
但属于涅斯塔与尖端施法者们的细胞却不在此列，他们能解构被侵入细胞中的某部分组成结构、以分子液的形态绕过这一层监管，并利用这些分子液完成对某些手段的应用，比如反向侵入纳米虫等等

而与此同时，处于内面视角中的观测者们也在始终注视着飞船，其第一个有用发现便是船中术法类结构的缺失.

也即是说，这艘飞船极可能是一种纯粹的科技造物，并没有去应用任何与术法相关的技术。
于是，涅斯塔的动作也因此而变的更大了一些，他放出了源自于思绪的感知能力、开始一点点的展开对船体的摸索，并随着时间的推移而渐渐掌握了其内的大致的状况；
可以确认的是，这是艘无有智慧生物直接驾驶的机械母舰，其内里能分能合的纳米虫海是作战与干扰的主要方式；

在操控方面，舰内配备有一台基于量子效应而运作的计算机，体积虽然不算太大但功能性却极端强悍，虽在逻辑性上不如共和国的同体积智脑，可在算力方面却相应的超出了很多；

这台量子计算机控制着母舰内的所有设备，比如用来指挥纳米虫的引力波发生器、等离子推进引擎、以及与推进引擎分离的未知跃迁引擎；

此外，船体内外结构中包含有大量的未知金属，从元素周期规律来论它们应当属于非自然造物，是出于应用性目的而被创造的新元素。
正当涅斯塔与内面观测者们探查之时，某种震动感十分轻微的传入了飞船内部，他们俱都明白这是后方要塞的自毁之征，只是没想到所带来的影响居然会这么低.

但这也无妨，他们还是在该干什么继续做什么，继续完成着各自于内于外的不同任务。
少许时间过去，先前那被怀疑具有跃迁能力的设备在缓冲中被逐步启动，而某种基于未知泯灭现象而发生的、技术特点完全不同的，但最终作用方式却还是‘空间扭曲’的跃迁进程也因此被启动；
其后，飞船的行进速度达到了200倍于光的水准，但因尚且还不熟悉这种设备的运作方式，而不能确定这是否为对方技术能力的顶点。
内面视角中的跃迁过程虽然玄奇，但没有躯体支撑的思维在这种扭曲的急速下，几乎无法观测到任何有用的扰动模型，所有的一切都似是板结成块儿般彼此纠葛不休；
所以，这种航行中能留给观测者们的讯息几乎不存在，囚禁着它们的这艘飞船也只跃迁了片刻后，便直接退出了如此的行进模式.

‘怎么回事，是因为抵达目的了？还是说它们无法长时间维持跃迁状态？’
这种思索未能持续太久，因为答案很快就得到了显现.

飞船在低速中进行了某种信号接洽，而远近的学者们也在意识到‘抵达目的地’的同时，很疑惑的开始观察起此方相对熟悉的星域.

所到星域也非是别处，这正是己方一直以来的目标——距离母星900光年外的小质量休眠黑洞。
他们为什么会到这里来？难道这所谓‘集团’的基地便在这附近么？
如此做想着，内面观测者们立刻便开始注视起了‘不远处’的景象，那枚正不断扭曲着时空的黑洞；

这是共和国施法者们的首次抵近观测，但在接连的内外流转与信息分析中，却是发现了数个令他们感到震惊的现象.

其一，黑洞的内面扰动模型，和学者们通过计算与虚境模拟而得来的结论间有着无法被忽视的巨大误差，这几乎让他们对自身的宇宙物理认知产生了怀疑；

其二，在黑洞中观测到了属于文明生物的思绪扰动，且并非一个两个、而是足有数亿之巨的庞大体量堆积；

其三，飞船的信息接驳对象并不在其余方向而位于黑洞当中。
此三者相互结合后，学者们立即便意识到了所代表的某种可能性.

‘这莫非是个假黑洞？’
其实还有另一种可能性存在，那便是‘集团’已强大到他们所无法理解的程度，人家或许改变了某种物理常量、基地或许就被直接建立在了黑洞内也说不定；
但远比预测低了许多的扰动模式，以及‘集团’在其余方面所展现出的技术能力，却是近乎于完全否定了这种可能。
其实也无需他们太过纠结，在信息接驳结束后‘视界面’上就展开一条奇怪通道，并直接了当的给出了定论这的确是一个假黑洞无疑。
所以，己方在做出了大量心理建设、越过无数个亿万里辛苦索求的目标，居然只是个假冒伪劣产品？
直接或间接观测到了这一切的精灵们，在得知这则消息后几乎都感到了上头的恼怒，恨不得发起一次远征给给它直接剿灭了事

但这毕竟只是冲动而已，都无需大执政官和议会出手便被自行压制。
此方‘黑洞’的实质，是一种由无数受控星际尘埃与部分造物节点所共同构成的拟态层，它在表象与部分真实上很有限的模拟了自然特征，并形成了有如引力透镜效应般等等的观测事实；
共和国此前所进行的超远程观测，便在这种相当高仿的拟态能力影响中上当受骗，进而展开了这一段相对漫长的旅程。
但在初时的气愤过后，他们却也发现这其实没什么大不了的，这一行不但让共和国见到了外星文明，还因此见识到了很多新鲜的技术不是？

总而言之，也并非是真的白跑了一趟.

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在得以抵近观测后涅斯塔等人类才发现，这座拟态黑洞的体积要比深空潜望时得出的结论要大了很多，其所囊括的范围甚至要比精灵太阳都更大一些；

当然，其实质就只是一层薄薄的外壳而已，当飞船顺着尘埃云中敞开的甬道进入其中时，顿时就见到了一个与想象完全不同的景色——约等同于太阳体积的空间且内里显得相当热闹。
最中心处是一枚微型恒星体，它的直径约有10万公里左右、比母恒星系内的四轨星都小了许多，但在扰动中所被估测到的质量却足有81倍于四轨星的程度，而这般的质量便已能致使其核心处的聚变反应形成；
因此这的确是一颗实实在在的真正恒星，而非是犹如褐矮星那般的演化失败者，只不过体积太小、表面温度也只有2200摄氏度左右，即便没有黑洞的拟态伪装也很有可能被错认是一颗行星。
在此时，这枚小恒星几乎完全被造物结构所包裹，若非有扰动视觉的辅助、以及结构间隙中所传出的低位光亮，几乎就无法完成对它性质的辨认.

而在这颗恒星与之实体构装壳外，五颗彼此相对位置完全恒定的机械星体同样出现在了内外感知中，它们疑似是一种特殊的武装单位，在内面形成了许多熟悉或不熟悉的扰动结构。
其中最能引起瞩目的，便是这五颗星体似乎正共同施展着某种针对真空环境的波动，在它们彼此所围拢区域的中心处、制造了一种奇怪的未知涟漪；
这层涟漪是透明且无形的、并不带有任何实质性的物质感，但在涅斯塔身体中不断切换内外视野的施法者们，却还是很坚定的认为那里必然存在着些什么；

在扰动模式判断中，他们分别识别出了些许关于引力、关于空间、以及很多还未可知的感觉，并在心头浮现出了某种大致相同的猜想

就似是要帮助他们验证猜测那般，扰动反馈在某一时刻忽然变的更加诡谲与强烈，现实中的那层无形涟漪也实时的发生了巨大的变化，它的透明感在渐渐消失、反倒是空间扭曲感同步的清晰起来；
下一瞬快与慢似乎在变的模糊，在一种似乎是极快、又似是完全静止般的诡谲中，有多达上百艘形态不同的舰体仿是若闯过了无形门扉般，从无到有的自涟漪中显现出了大小各异的身躯。
这一幕虽发生在了遥远的空域，但又通过线程意识间的连接被显现于沿途的百余座基地，又经由虚境领域的思维读取而化作影像资料被更多的精灵们所注视；
而绝非无知的精灵们，自然也在第一时间就明白了其中所代表的含义.

‘这是超空间技术，是比我们的折跃更强悍、比先前所见跃迁跨度更远的真正超空间技术！’
‘或许这就是想象中的‘虫洞’！’
如此想着，便有泪水从精灵们的嘴角处不断淌落了下来。
霎时间，‘技术合该有缘者得之’、‘解救我们的公民’、‘打击宇宙罪恶’等等的言语在共和国内喧嚣尘上，但俱都被艾萨拉以‘不确定性太高’而暂时压制。
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在进入了伪装层后，那数十艘漆黑的梭型护卫船与绝大多数机械母舰，便在人类们的‘目’送下回归了那五座武装星体，此刻就仅剩下了囚禁着人类的母舰在继续航行；
而其内的观测者们，也正好在借着这个机会这查看着这方陌生空间，且依旧是那种发生在内与外两个层面的观察

于内，五颗机械星和恒星外壳上呈现出了源自数亿生命的思绪集合，且有些奇怪的是它们虽不断重复着汇聚与消散的过程，但大半都表现出了特殊的系统性，且似乎构成了一种隐约的、程度未知的受控运行方式。
虽然观测时间尚短，但学者们还是从中看到了些许熟悉的味道

这应当是一种有意识的引导结果，其运行方式还有些智脑的感觉，只不过比较粗糙、溢散速度相对较快、模式相对低效且混沌；
也即是说，对方虽通过某种手段初步进行了对思绪的应用，但并没办法像共和国这般自如且多变的将之利用。
对此，远方的学者们是感到了些沮丧的，己方引以为豪的技术居然并非是独占；
但转念一想，能踏入星河的文明或势力肯定不是傻的，思绪与虚力这般切实存在的现象没有引起注意才更为奇怪。
于是，大家的态度开始转变为好奇，想要去了解对方是如何控制、又对其进行了怎样的应用，并在初步的试探中把握到了部分特征，且又更进一步明确了其‘粗糙性’；

如果以关键词来进行简单的叙说，那大概可以总结为身份势力、效忠趋势、区域内恶意感知，以及与权限等级相挂钩的森严秩序；
而更多更细节的东西，则需要再花费的时间去一点点进行试探了，再怎么粗糙也罢毕竟也存在有一定的控制力，所以将思绪延伸至此的施法者们决定稍微谨慎一些，并不打算去大喇喇的展开更多行动。
与此同时，对外界的观测其实也是颇有成效的

首先，‘虫洞’是处于半开启状态的‘双向车道’，在凑够了近百艘舰船后会完成一次通行，只是不知各船的目的地是否一致、如何进行协调。
此外，五颗武装星中的一颗似乎还起到了星港的作用，时不时就会有飞船从虫洞钻出降落其间，并转乘小型舰前往恒星构装壁垒、进入那里的十数座城市。
再次，这些来客的思绪大多都与‘本地思绪集合体’不兼容，反而时刻都处于一种被包裹的监视状态；

最后，此行虽未有专修心灵的施法者存在，但现存的观测者们还是从各方思绪中察觉了贪婪、暴虐、奸猾。
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人类被囚禁的飞船没有停靠至星港，而是在靠近恒星壁垒后自间隙进入了里层

前行期间偶能见到组件与主体分离并转移的现象，所以这壁垒应当是一种可分离式模块化构造，只是暂时还无法确定其精细程度而已；
在穿越了约莫千多公里的距离后，飞船完全离开壁垒间隙航道抵达最内层区域，从这里看过去恒星表层的火舌都是清晰可见；
在下方，位于等离子焰火与内壁的中间地带，则有许多艘动辄百多公里级别的大型飞船；
它们时不时就被等离子体舔舐而过，有些更似是在岩浆中游泳的蝾螈那般落在了星体表层区域，但并未因此而显露出分毫不妥的状态；

反倒是恒星本身似乎有些不妥，因为这些船体正源源不断的汲取着星体表层物质，使其处于一种持续损失质量的过程中；

当然，这或许也只相当于蚊子吸血的程度，至少现在看上去是这样的没错.

与此同时，还有一艘艘中继飞船来往于这些舰体和壁垒之间，好像是在不断的运输着某种物质？
而恒星上有什么物质是大致确认的，所以学者们很快就意识到了这代表着什么.

或许，这个势力已经掌握了具有经济价值的元素转换能力，能够以十分低廉的成本将一号、二号元素当做物质基底使用，不然也没必要像这样似是采矿般去掘取资源。
所以说，这颗仅仅刚达到‘恒星入门’水准的星体，真的是从一开始就这般微型模样么？

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所发现的事情也还不止如此.

在壁垒内层与微型恒星的间隔中，存在一颗三百公里直径的类星体造物，从其内弥散而出的那些思绪连通了整个‘集合体’的最核心部分，占据着先前所言之‘权限等级’中的最高位结构。
在顺着这些思绪继续观察，类星体内还有着一个强悍者的扰动轮廓，以及数十位比之略有不如、但也同样也很强大的扰动主体；
它们的存在感于视界中拓展出了领域，但与近神不同的是它们本身和信仰没什么关系，与‘思绪集合体’仅只是依靠某种手段交汇、而非完全的交融；

它们和兽王有些相仿，似乎更依赖源自于自己本身的力量，只是不知道强度比之兽王如何.

同时，它们到底有没有虚空能转化属性，也是被精灵们所关注的内容之一。
此外，凡是感知到或听闻到这些现象的精灵们，在当下都是一阵阵的面面相觑.这似乎不是一个纯粹的科技势力，但为何所使用的器具中却并无术法相关的气息呢？

这些容后再想，因为船内的涅斯塔在经过反复试探后成功黑入了纳米虫，然后再经过纳米虫与飞船、飞船与基地的两层跳板，用自己的部分精神侵入了当地网络当中，并相当有节制的读取了部分表层信息。
于是，这些流转在浅层网络的图文影像被回传至了本部，并在后方那庞大的算力支撑下于短时间内完成了解析，而涅斯塔的本体与其余学者们则依照着结果进行着学习

精灵、尤其是其中的施法者们拥有着极端强大的学习能力，特别是在成功凝聚了数据化冥想之躯、具备了总线程与分线程思维能力后，他们就能在庞大的个体算力支撑下利用自由分合的线程思维模式，在同一时间内高速的去学习、并理解大量相关或不相关的知识；

这般学习能力再加上虚境领域对思维的加速后，便导致本部那边仅只是在这一段未尽的航程中，就诞生出了许多的河系语言大师；
其中又尤以分子级施法者们为最，涅斯塔所扒下来、并由智脑完成了解析的语言几乎都被他们所掌握，至少‘读取’方面没有任何障碍可言，而‘表述’方面虽显得会有些麻烦、但借助铭文与术法也能‘说’出其中的绝大多数。
以涅斯塔自身为例

在这短短不到十灯分的时间内，他就已经掌握了仅有的1门‘河系通用语’、许多‘分区通用语’、以及更多其它小类群语言；
在这其中，属于‘震动声波系’的河系通用语是最简单、最好学、也是最便利的；

它所使用的振频振幅相对中庸，无论是精灵、还是母星上的其它种族、亦或者是此时的‘人类’之躯，绝大多数都能用自己的发声器官与音频接受器官，相对方便的完成所对应的说与听；
在某种程度上，这似乎也彰显了‘震动声波系’在宇宙中的泛用性，否则应当也不会将之列为河系级别的通用媒介，且其余‘分区通用语’也大多能被够归属为这一系；

换言之，‘听与说’应当是宇宙中最为普遍的交流方式，绝大多数种族都以此为手段、用各自相同或不尽相同的方式，完成着彼此间的信息交换流程。
当然这也并非绝对，另还有一些在精灵们看来很奇葩的‘语言’，同样也在此次的学习之列.

比如，某些种族的交流就是以‘光谱语言’为媒介进行的，它们或是具备有高频次的肤色转换能力、或是具备有会发光的其它器官，总之同族间的交流和声音基本没有任何关系，完全由对各自种族而言的‘可见·可感知光频段’进行信息交换；

其余，像是热辐射、气味、电磁波、乃至引力波作为媒介的‘小语种’虽然相对较为稀少，但将视野范围扩展至整个河系后也并不算十分鲜见；
而这等等的奇葩‘小语种’，对于精灵们而言在应用上就显得有些繁杂了

‘光谱类’相对还算比较容易，只要其所用的波段与变频速度处于精灵的可感知区间内、且不会超过算力极限，便能够被没有多少障碍的读取；
至少对于新时代的壮年期来说，基因辅助下的电磁波感知范围已能去应对绝大多数‘电磁·光谱类语言’，‘说’方面则还需要借助外力辅助，毕竟精灵并不具备能频繁变色的肌肤、或者其它发光器官。
其余类别则有难有易，但绝大多数都能在铭文术法的辅助下、或繁或简的完成‘听说读写’。
但值得一提的是，同为‘声波系’的语言并不一定就意味着简单.

比如，有些种族会将全身上下都当做发声器官，以超频震动的方式通过层层叠加声波，从而完成对某种宏大情景的完整叙述；

虽然也能学会，但这类语言的学习难度甚至还会高于‘非声波’系许多

但无论如何，在完成了这一系列发生于远方的超速学习后，被困锁于船的这批人类终于对现状有了一个相对直观的了解；
属于涅斯塔的、属于其余合体之躯的细胞意识，便开始了在尽可能的隐蔽中被进行的、对现实世界运行方式的同步观察，大量此前完全看不懂的浅层网络信息，在此时便成为了他们的最佳助力.

(本章完)Chapter 371 Alien Base

Author: Dong Ali

Chapter 371 Alien Base

After a period of cautious testing, Nesta had roughly figured out some of the internal and external conditions.

In the bodies of these human beings, the entities of the black mist that had previously invaded were actually nanoscale mechanical bugs. They now locked the connection between the brain, spine, and the body's nervous system, and used it to analyze in a short time

The simulated signals generated have completed the control of body mobility, and have already begun structural analysis at the cellular and genetic levels.

In this kind of action, Nesta and other scholars have analyzed at least two possibilities;

First, the aliens are very familiar with the body structure of 'chordata', and they themselves have rich knowledge and experience in related aspects, so they can complete such operations with one hit;

For both of them, perhaps they are not familiar with this type of body, but their technical capabilities can skip the intermediate fumbling process and directly achieve the existing control effect.

But for the more than a hundred bodies controlled by Nesta, this control still only remains at the superficial level.

In the body at this time, those cells belonging to high-level spellcasters that were directly invaded by nanoworms were indeed in a state where they dared not move easily;

Because the electrical signal fluctuations emitted when thinking is going on will be directly sensed by these mechanical insects that penetrate into the cells, and they will also report errors to the ship and attract unnecessary attention.

But the cells belonging to Nesta and the cutting-edge spellcasters are not included in this. They can deconstruct certain parts of the structure of the invaded cells, bypass this layer of supervision in the form of molecular fluids, and use these molecular fluids to complete certain tasks.

The application of some methods, such as reverse invasion of nanoworms, etc.

At the same time, the observers from the inside perspective were always watching the spacecraft, and their first useful discovery was the lack of magic structures in the ship.

In other words, this spaceship is most likely a purely technological creation and does not apply any technology related to magic.

As a result, Nesta's movements became larger. He released the perception ability derived from his thoughts, began to explore the hull bit by bit, and gradually mastered its contents as time went by.

the general condition of;

What can be confirmed is that this is a mechanical mothership that is not directly piloted by intelligent creatures. The sea of ​​nano-insects inside that can be divided and combined is the main method of combat and interference;

In terms of control, the ship is equipped with a computer that operates based on quantum effects. Although it is not too large, it is extremely functional. Although it is not as logically as the Republic's brain of the same size, it has comparable computing power.

beyond a lot;

This quantum computer controls all the equipment in the mothership, such as the gravitational wave generator used to command the nanobugs, the plasma propulsion engine, and the unknown jump engine that is separated from the propulsion engine;

In addition, the inner and outer structures of the ship contain a large number of unknown metals. According to the periodic rules of elements, they should be unnatural creations and are new elements created for practical purposes.

While Nesta and the observers inside were exploring, a very slight vibration was transmitted to the interior of the spacecraft. They all understood that this was the self-destruction of the rear fortress, but they did not expect that the impact would actually be.

So low.

But it doesn't matter, they continue to do what they should do, and continue to complete their different tasks, both internally and externally.

A little time passed, and the equipment that was previously suspected of having the ability to jump was gradually activated in the buffer, and some kind of jump process occurred based on an unknown annihilation phenomenon, with completely different technical characteristics, but the final mode of action was still 'space distortion'

It was also activated;

Afterwards, the spacecraft's speed reached 200 times the speed of light, but because we were not yet familiar with the operation of this equipment, we were not sure whether this was the pinnacle of the opponent's technical capabilities.

Although the transition process from the internal perspective is mysterious, the mind without the support of the body can hardly observe any useful disturbance model at such a distorted speed. Everything seems to be entangled with each other like a block;

Therefore, there is almost no information that can be left to observers during this kind of voyage, and the spacecraft that imprisoned them only jumped for a moment and then directly exited such a traveling mode.

'What's going on? Is it because they have reached their destination? Or are they unable to maintain the transition state for a long time?'

This kind of thinking could not last long, because the answer was quickly revealed.

The spacecraft made some kind of signal contact at low speed, and scholars from far and near also realized that they had "arrived at the destination" and began to observe the relatively familiar star field here with confusion.

The star field we visited was nowhere else. This was our goal all along—a small-mass dormant black hole 900 light-years away from the parent star.

Why do they come here? Is the base of this so-called 'group' located nearby?

Thinking of this, the observers inside immediately began to gaze at the scene 'not far away', the black hole that was constantly distorting space and time;

This was the first close observation by the spell casters of the Republic, but during the continuous internal and external circulation and information analysis, they discovered several phenomena that shocked them.

First, there is a huge error that cannot be ignored between the internal disturbance model of the black hole and the conclusions reached by scholars through calculations and virtual simulations, which almost makes them doubt their own understanding of the physics of the universe;

Secondly, disturbances in the thoughts of civilized creatures were observed in the black hole, and not just one or two, but a huge accumulation of hundreds of millions;

Third, the spacecraft’s information connection object is not in other directions but in the black hole.

After these three were combined with each other, scholars immediately realized the possibility they represented.

'Could this be a fake black hole?'

In fact, there is another possibility, that is, the 'group' has become so powerful that they cannot understand it. They may have changed some physical constants, or the base may have been built directly in the black hole;

However, the disturbance pattern that was much lower than predicted, as well as the technical capabilities displayed by the 'group' in other aspects, almost completely negated this possibility.

In fact, there was no need for them to get too entangled. After the information connection was completed, a strange channel opened on the 'view interface', and they directly concluded that this was indeed a false black hole.

So, we have done a lot of psychological construction and surpassed the goals that we have worked hard to achieve for hundreds of millions of miles, but it is actually just a fake and shoddy product?

The elves who directly or indirectly observed all this, almost all felt the anger from above after learning the news, and wished they could launch an expedition to directly eliminate it.

But this is just an impulse after all, and it can be suppressed by itself without the intervention of the Grand Consul and the Parliament.

The essence of this 'black hole' is a mimetic layer composed of countless controlled interstellar dust and some creation nodes. It simulates natural features in appearance and partial reality to a limited extent, and forms a gravitational lens effect.

Observational facts such as general and so on;

The Republic's previous ultra-long-distance observations were deceived by the influence of this highly imitated mimicry ability, and thus began this relatively long journey.

But after the initial anger, they also discovered that it was actually no big deal. This business not only allowed the Republic to see alien civilizations, but also saw a lot of new technologies, right?

All in all, the trip was not really in vain.

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After being able to observe closely, Nesta and other humans discovered that the volume of this simulated black hole was much larger than what was concluded during deep space periscopes, and its area was even larger than the Elf Sun.

;

Of course, its essence is just a thin shell. When the spacecraft enters along the open tunnel in the dust cloud, it immediately sees a completely different scenery than imagined - a space approximately equivalent to the volume of the sun and an interior

It seemed quite lively.

At the center is a miniature star with a diameter of about 100,000 kilometers, which is much smaller than the four-orbit star in the parent star system, but its mass is estimated to be 81 times that of the disturbance.

At the level of a four-orbit star, such a mass can already lead to the formation of fusion reactions at its core;

Therefore, this is indeed a real star, rather than an evolutionary failure like a brown dwarf. It is just too small and the surface temperature is only about 2200 degrees Celsius. It is very possible even without the pseudo-disguise of a black hole.

Was mistaken for a planet.

At this time, this small star is almost completely enveloped by the structure of creation. Without the aid of disturbing vision and the low-level light coming from the gaps in the structure, it is almost impossible to identify its nature.

Outside the star and its physical shell, five mechanical stars with completely constant positions relative to each other also appeared in the internal and external perception. They were suspected to be a special armed unit, forming many familiar or unfamiliar objects inside.

perturbation structure.

The most eye-catching thing among them is that these five stars seem to be jointly exerting some kind of fluctuation in the vacuum environment, creating a strange and unknown ripple in the center of the area surrounding each other;

This layer of ripples is transparent and invisible, and does not have any substantial sense of materiality. However, the casters who constantly switch their internal and external vision in Nesta's body still firmly believe that there must be something there;

In the judgment of disturbance patterns, they identified some aspects about gravity, space, and many unknown feelings, and some roughly the same conjecture emerged in their minds.

As if to help them verify their guesses, the perturbation feedback suddenly became weirder and stronger at a certain moment. The invisible ripples in reality also underwent huge changes in real time. Its transparency gradually disappeared, and instead

The sense of spatial distortion becomes clear simultaneously;

In the next moment, the speed and slowness seemed to become blurred. In a strange situation that seemed to be extremely fast and completely still, as many as hundreds of ships with different shapes seemed to have passed through the invisible door.

Bodies of various sizes appeared from the self-ripples that emerged from nothing.

Although this scene took place in the distant airspace, it was displayed in more than a hundred bases along the way through the connection between thread consciousness, and was turned into image data through the reading of thoughts in the virtual realm, and was watched by more elves.

;

The elves, who were by no means ignorant, naturally understood the meaning immediately.

‘This is hyperspace technology, a true hyperspace technology that is more powerful than our warp jump and has a longer span than the previous jumps we have seen!’

'Maybe this is the imaginary 'wormhole'!'

Thinking like this, tears continued to fall from the corners of the elves' mouths.

In an instant, words such as 'Technology is suitable for those who are destined to get it', 'Rescue our citizens', 'Fight the evil in the universe', etc. were noisy in the Republic, but Azshara dismissed them all as 'the uncertainty is too high'

And temporarily suppressed.

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After entering the camouflage layer, the dozens of pitch-black shuttle frigates and most of the mechanical carriers returned to the five armed stars under the eyes of humans. At this moment, only the imprisoned ones were left.

The mothership of mankind continues to sail;

The observers inside also took this opportunity to observe this strange space, and it was still the kind of observation that occurred at both the internal and external levels.

Inside, the five mechanical stars and star shells present a collection of thoughts originating from hundreds of millions of beings. What is a bit strange is that although they continue to repeat the process of convergence and dissipation, most of them show special systematicity.

And it seems to constitute a vague, controlled operation mode of unknown extent.

Although the observation time is still short, scholars still see some familiar flavors.

This should be the result of conscious guidance, and its operation method still has the feeling of an intelligent brain, but it is rougher, the spillover speed is relatively fast, and the mode is relatively inefficient and chaotic;

In other words, although the other party has initially used thoughts through some means, it is not able to use it as freely and changeably as the Republic.

In this regard, scholars from far away feel a little frustrated. The technology they are proud of is not exclusive;

But then I thought about it, civilizations or forces that can step into the galaxy are definitely not stupid. It is even more strange that such real phenomena as thoughts and virtual power have not attracted attention.

As a result, everyone's attitude began to change to curiosity, wanting to understand how the other party controlled it and how it was applied. They grasped some of the characteristics in the preliminary trial, and further clarified its "roughness"

;

If we make a simple description using keywords, it can be summarized as identity power, allegiance trend, malicious perception in the region, and strict order linked to the authority level;

As for more detailed things, you need to spend more time to test them little by little. No matter how rough it is, there is still a certain degree of control, so the casters who extended their thoughts to this decided to be a little more cautious and not

I plan to go to Dala La for more activities.

At the same time, observation of the outside world is actually quite effective.

First of all, the 'wormhole' is a 'two-way lane' that is in a semi-open state. After nearly a hundred ships are gathered together, a passage will be completed. I just don't know if the destinations of the ships are the same and how to coordinate.

In addition, one of the five armed stars seems to also play the role of a star port. From time to time, a spaceship will emerge from the wormhole and land there, and then transfer to a small ship to the star construction barrier and enter the dozens of cities there.

.

Thirdly, most of these visitors’ thoughts are incompatible with the ‘local collection of thoughts’, and instead are always in a state of wrapped surveillance;

Finally, although there were no spellcasters specializing in spiritual cultivation during this trip, the existing observers still detected greed, cruelty, and cunning from all the thoughts.

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The spaceship where humans were imprisoned did not dock at the star port, but entered the inner layer through the gap after approaching the star barrier.

During the journey, you can occasionally see components being separated and transferred from the main body, so this barrier should be a detachable modular structure, but its precision cannot be determined yet;

After crossing a distance of about a thousand kilometers, the spacecraft completely left the barrier gap channel and reached the innermost region. From here, the tongues of fire on the surface of the star are clearly visible;

Below, in the middle area between the plasma fireworks and the inner wall, there are many large spaceships that can easily reach the level of more than 100 kilometers;

They were licked by the plasma from time to time, and some landed on the surface of the star like salamanders swimming in magma, but they did not appear to be in any inappropriate state because of this;

On the contrary, there seems to be something wrong with the star itself, because these hulls are continuously absorbing the surface material of the star, causing it to be in a process of continuous loss of mass;

Of course, this may only be equivalent to the level of blood-sucking by mosquitoes, at least it seems so right now.

At the same time, there are relay spaceships going back and forth between these ships and the barriers, as if they are constantly transporting some kind of material?

The material on stars was roughly confirmed, so scholars quickly realized what it meant.

Perhaps, this force has already mastered the ability to convert elements with economic value, and can use elements No. 1 and No. 2 as material bases at a very low cost. Otherwise, there is no need to dig out resources like mining.

So, is this star, which has just reached the level of "entry-level star", really so tiny from the beginning?

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That's not all what was discovered.

Between the inner layer of the barrier and the micro-star, there is a quasar creation with a diameter of three hundred kilometers. The thoughts diffused from it connect to the core part of the entire 'collection', occupying the previously mentioned

The highest-order structure in the 'authority level'.

Continuing to observe along these thoughts, there is also the disturbance outline of a powerful person within Quasar, as well as dozens of disturbance subjects that are slightly inferior to it, but equally powerful;

Their sense of existence has expanded the field of vision, but unlike the near gods, they themselves have nothing to do with faith. They only rely on some means to intersect with the 'aggregation of thoughts', rather than completely integrating;

They are somewhat similar to the Beast King, and seem to rely more on their own power, but I don't know how strong they are compared to the Beast King.

At the same time, whether they have void-converting attributes is also one of the things that the elves are paying attention to.

In addition, all the elves who sensed or heard these phenomena looked at each other in confusion at the moment. This does not seem to be a pure technological force, but why is there no magic-related aura in the equipment used?

I will think about this later, because Nesta in the ship successfully hacked into the nanobugs after repeated trials, and then passed through the nanobugs and the spaceship, and the two-layer springboard of the spaceship and the base, and used part of his spirit to invade the local network.

, and read some surface information quite restrainedly.

As a result, these graphic and text images circulating on the shallow network were sent back to the headquarters, and with the support of the huge computing power behind, the analysis was completed in a short time. Nesta's body and other scholars followed the instructions

learning as a result

The elves, especially the casters among them, have extremely powerful learning abilities. Especially after they have successfully condensed the body of data-based meditation and have the ability to think in total threads and sub-threads, they can use the huge individual computing power to support

Utilize the thread thinking mode of free division and combination to learn at high speed and understand a large amount of relevant or irrelevant knowledge at the same time;

This kind of learning ability, coupled with the acceleration of thinking in the virtual realm, has led to the birth of many river system language masters in this headquarters just in this unfinished journey;

Among them, the molecular level spellcasters are the most important. Almost all the languages ​​that Nesta picked up and analyzed by the brain are mastered by them. At least there is no obstacle in 'reading', and in 'expressing'

Although it may seem a little troublesome, most of them can be told with the help of inscriptions and magic.

Take Nesta itself as an example

In this short period of less than ten minutes, he has mastered only one 'river system lingua franca', many 'district lingua francas', and many other small group languages;

Among them, the common language of the river system, which belongs to the "vibrating sound wave system", is the simplest, easiest to learn, and the most convenient;

The vibration frequency and amplitude it uses is relatively moderate. Whether it is elves, other races on the home planet, or the 'human' body at this time, most of them can use their own vocal organs and audio receiving organs, relatively

Conveniently complete the corresponding speaking and listening;

To a certain extent, this also seems to demonstrate the universality of the 'vibrating sound wave system' in the universe, otherwise it would not be classified as a universal medium at the river system level, and most of the other 'zonal lingua franca' can also be used

enough to belong to this series;

In other words, 'listening and speaking' should be the most common way of communication in the universe. Most races use this as a means to complete the information exchange process between each other in the same or different ways.

Of course, this is not absolute. There are also some "languages" that are very strange to the elves, and they are also included in this study.

For example, the communication between certain races is carried out through the medium of "spectral language". They may have the ability to change skin color at high frequencies, or have other organs that can emit light. In short, there is basically no communication and sound among the same race.

Any relationship is entirely based on the exchange of information in the 'visible and perceptible light frequency band' for the respective races;

Others, such as thermal radiation, smell, electromagnetic waves, and even gravitational waves, are relatively rare, but they are not very rare when the scope of vision is extended to the entire river system;

And the application of these weird 'small languages' seems a bit complicated for the elves.

The 'spectral type' is relatively easy. As long as the band and frequency conversion speed used are within the perceptible range of the elf and do not exceed the computing power limit, it can be read without many obstacles;

At least for the prime of life in the new era, the range of electromagnetic wave perception assisted by genes can already deal with most of the 'electromagnetic and spectral languages'. In terms of 'speaking', external assistance is still needed. After all, elves do not have the ability to frequently

Discolored skin or other light-emitting organs.

The remaining categories vary from difficult to easy, but most of them can complete 'listening, speaking, reading and writing' in either traditional or simplified ways with the help of inscription techniques.

But it’s worth mentioning that languages ​​that are both “sonic” do not necessarily mean simple.

For example, some races use their entire body as a vocal organ, superimposing sound waves layer by layer in the form of over-frequency vibrations to complete a complete narration of a certain grand scene;

Although it can be learned, the difficulty of learning this type of language is even much higher than that of the 'non-sonic' language.

But no matter what, after completing this series of super-speed learning that happened in the distance, the group of humans trapped in the ship finally had a relatively intuitive understanding of the current situation;

The cellular consciousness belonging to Nesta and the rest of the combined body began to conduct synchronous observations of the operation of the real world in as concealed a manner as possible. A large amount of shallow network information that was completely incomprehensible before was revealed.

At this time, it became their best help.

(End of chapter)